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gaidens of Greenock or the pavemente of Kelvingrove-(Applause.) Not a man of them will deny my soft impeachment. All will agree that ingenium perfervidum which is anid to possess our race flads other expral, Thin Fear,, now arrangements are Binna thau the thrifty, the bring made for the Chico New Year wetspligsical, and the matter of fact, Bazaar. Last year, stalls ware nɔ* and that apcer of its manifestation allowed ontoid the old Fire Blation was incarnate in Robert Burns." in Queen'e Road, re difficulty was encountered in getting cut the engines. This year, no alalle will be permitted on either side of Queen's Road from Wancupi to Saisongpun,
FOOTBALL
NOTES AND COMMENT.
TO-MORROW'S GAMES.
INTERIORT TRIAL.
Club ground 4 p.m.
BLUE V. WHITES.
LEAGUE SECOND DIVISION,
Police v. Titania, Sookumpoo "B"
The ardour, the speaker went on, accounted for murb in Burns' writing that bad puzzled, and even offended the fort enthusiastic, natureė, Ho bad the art's power to project himself This minus that practically the into varied situations, and in them to whole of Queen's Roa 1-will be clear ground. was wear to utter himuli with an in- for traffic. With this exception there i
St. Joseph's South China tershy of which few were capable, will be no change, the fair being", St. Joseph's ground. which was often misunderstood, and located in Jervois Street, Bonbam United v. Warders, United which it had to be admitted, often Strand East and the ride-streefs in ground. bore him bercnd brunds. But happily, the vicinity, of recent years he had come to be better unda stood in that re- spect and in many others. It was putting it mildly to say that the
poet was unfortunate in many of his early bingraphers who were too busy drawing soberaided wardings from his career to wit with sufficient care the accumplated grip which came to their cars, much of it unfriendly in spirit and unfound
QUEEN'S COLLEGF.
PROJPECTUS FOR 1929.
From the Headmaster has arrived
ebow that even before they can read Scottiah bairns learn to take Burns's words upon their lips. That was up in the bleak North, but as a youth of 16 I became a dweller in bonnie Dumfries, where the impression of our national post gathers intensity frein local colour recollection.
Mr. Maconachie referred to the memorable tributa paid to the dead was carried from the Courthone to hal it be a repeated that Burns bai the progressive policy of a well know St. Michael's Kirkgard, the band of 93 par for music, and could scarcey stimulaat twice its age. The pros. the Cinque Ports Cavalry preceding til one tune from another. It was pectus furnishes much information of with the Dead March of Handel's possible to beli ve that the man interest to parents as to the equip hero, the men of, but reg meat and who met some of the loveliest lyrics in ment of the College, it system ic
Kowloon v. Durban, Navy “A ground.
University v. South China. "A,” Sookumpoo "A" ground.
Kick-off at 2.30 p.m. sharp.
The following to the teams for the Interport trial.
Blues Hill; Gerrard and Chan a copy of the prospectus for 1923 of; Hudson, Stewart and Barlow; Queen's College which is now 60 yeara Chu Kwong Yeung, Forsyth, Begg, cid and is, to judge from the outline De Valentine and Chan Kwong Yiu. Whites-Swan: Wynno arid
it, who are temporarily exited from Poet in Dumfries when Burns' bier el in fact. For instance how often of activities given. will emulating Groot: McLaren, Forbes and Lang
Yuk Ting: Omar, Ip Kau, Burnett, Vakatine and England.
The Song of "Scotlaid my auld re- spected mitler," as the menu brased their native feather here in lengkong did not allow Burns Night to pats last evening without a Siting celebrativa To the longkang Hotel about 130 of then din d together and with song and
Owing to the second Interport speech and story paid appropriate the Angusshire Fencibles lining teist me to words from which they regard to esamination, prizes aniral taking place to-morrow there tribute to the memory of the immortal street, and the poet's fellow members could n, ver Lerted could be what ecolarships, the syllabi, adopted and will not be any First Division
of the Volunteer Corps bearing the Stx called timmer.” So it was the institution's doings in the realm matches. *bard.
The Chielinin of the oriety, Ion.collin and following be ind. I surprise when it was later learned of sport.
view that he had a-fing car form In ly, and Mr A. G. Stephen pr sited over thecalled-os with any
at the invidious comparison-that three and pick a tune out on the fil gathering, and with bus principal table were the fellowin years earlier bie great musical ean- The Hon. Mr. Chand, Sevan, 0.3.temporary, W. A. Mozart, was buried Mr. A. O. Lang, the Rev. J. Kirk at a similar age, also after a life of Maconschie, Jr. H. M. Iyer Mr. J.-rewaided struggle, and splendid W. C. Boshar, Mr. P. B Marshall, Vienna seat but two followers to the Dr. C. Forsyth, Dr. U. D. R. Black, unknown grave which no mau could {{~v~H~÷lMe Nicholson identify to this day. Mr. J. Reid Mr. B. Wyine, Mr. D. K
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On last Saturday's play the United are not likely to win against the Warders, where team last week showed marvellous improvement. -Not only did they draw with the On paper the trial teams look King's, but, they had hard lines in The direcks' report for the yea nich more even than the last ones not winning for they bombarded the ending December 31, 1922, states: were. Blues are slightly the Soldier's gad for the best ten The profit for the year including inio such coarse pleasures as were to stronger. but the Whites will have minutes of the game. I had. All work and 10 play mikeWynne at right back and Swan in
$77.521.77 brought forward from last year and after deducting (all Jack a dull boy, but such as Rob goil. The latter is likely to have The Tinada will annex two more expenses amounts to $931,172.91 they undoubtedly tempt into the more work to do day he had a fort points at the extens of the Police, which the directors propose to deal
the Durban will beat the Kowloon with as follows:- rating and roving with which he night ago.
boys, and South Ching “A”” should charg & himself. Think of him;
of sympathy, we must surdy hold, better befits the bret of us than dos the phrase of censure over the life and lot of a great, a loving and mash tried man.
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U. A. C. v. WARDERS. free into the stands to-morrow. One Wonders why in view of the Associa
The following will reprezent the "I 803" said Mr. Masonichi that
ton's decision at their last meeting some-one has just published a book to
that all should pay.
United Athletic Club in above recand division league fixture, on Saturday prove that Burns was on educated I havı nos 100ched upon the wider man. There may be some need for fields auggested by the ardear social, the Shanghai team will be here but pm rharp. Bench (Capt). ackson There is no definite news of when on United Grouni.. Kick off 230 such a document, but it can only be sympathies of our Scottial bard, for it is sincerely hoped they will arrive Chilen, Urquhart, Mackenzie, Leon- among those who have acceptal upon one can ot touch on every expression in time to play the Tuterport match and Botello, Derry, Brown, Payne' hearsay the notion that he was an of his many sided per coality. But on Chinese New Year Day. autaught country yokel. No ignorant hero, in a Colony were men of all,
and Chubb.
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The accounts have been audited by Mears. Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming who retire, but being eligi ble, offer themselves for re-election.
Chamberlain's Tablets.
man could have written such a style races feet in the intercourse of com There are only five Second Divi- as his, or used with such precision merce is fitting to remember that sion games down for to-morrow. such a vocabulary. It is true that our Satish bar i had a heart for all. That between the College and Chi- " Caro That Cough. was Bora into a home mbers know, mankind and a vision fór its future nese "B" should be interesting. When you have a troublesome e ugh, edge had to be acquired with a book which alines with hope.athwart all. The former have still a chance to be it does not mean that you have consump runners up in this Division but they tion or that you are going to have it,
but it does mean that your lungs are These Tablets are inte-ded eapreially difficult time.
Then let us pray that come it may, anced team and they will have to go the safe side and take Chamberlain's bowels. If you are troubled with heart- As come it will for a' that
all out to win. I expect to see the Cough Remedy before it is too late.burn, indigestion or constipation they : For sale by all Chemists and Storekee will do you good. For sala by all Chem. Than men to man the world o'er gano end in a draw,"
pers.
ists and Storekeepers, Shall brothers bu an' a' that." The toast was then houdured.
aturally a sunset pr doing humilin- ing Buros' lifetime his place as a great in one hand and a spoon in the other, the manifold uncertainties of out will find the Chinese are a woli bal, threatenici, and it is just as well to be on, for disorders of the stomach, liver and"
WAS
"A set o' dull conceited haules, Confus their brains in colleg
classes
They gang in stirke and come out
08:05,
Plain truth to speak; And then they think to climb
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SCOTTISH LITIBATURE.
In the courat of an interesting ad- dress on "Scottish- Literature' Mr. B. Wylie said:
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"Oh wert thon in the invld b'art On yonder Iru ou yonder in, My plaidis to the angry air'a, I'd shelter thee, I'd shulter Hbgs, sethe pronounced furni the first lyrica, and his weighty judgment hul never been reversed, Ilad Barus 1-ft us nothing else his place among the starved in mind and not over-well-expect-the-Selection-Committee he too good for the University Blair, Mr. A. K. Bendetson, Mr. D., Buros was of the people and from immortale.would have to assurd gourished in Lody, conscious of great, will practically decide on their team
The Association will meet on Arthur firat to las the people loved him. His by the copious flow of perfect song gifts and the ntir of high ambitions, 'to-nurrow night but it is diffent to Durag damer the baggis and the first published volume was rapidly saskrining every em tion known to the groping, as he says, like a b'iad know law they can, in view of Monday xi at 5.30 p.m. in the that when matters respecting the Inter- kompanite we are in to the and eagerly bought up, by all classes gentle pathos of Jim Anderson try that with this ca lived on the composition, and views on its Reensation loom, Victorin Barracks, paste the bing ti pipa ai when everly was men and maid servants, who, it was dires-ed to Mary in Heaven" and whole-a life of toilsome-duty, and --nothing further. has been heard from. port and Leagues will_be_iliscussed.To pay a bonus to direc-.- accompanied a ptering skirt of of the community, including plough Joe! to the heart wringiaz lament that with it all he the the fnet ready to bi pon the foule said, would oven go short of muel while men and wone, had learned to sought contentment amid all aberra. then since. on the rata u dom galore," needed new garments to possess them sing, they would always ast only stag tions in its hourly round. The tenx I see that Indies will be admitted the Rev. J. Kirk Mestanie was aves of a copy. That first venture Bucas, but they would love him. "calued sipati ta på synse the chef tous, jouly put some £20 in his pocket but of 1.00 Cretang - Te Jeannetal] it was twire as much as Milton over Rob Burgst for Paradise Lost" and few first Memory His response to the revitation was volumes by an unknown poet had an excellent apres win was very per pail the costs of publication warmly planted. Mr. Macun.chi More to the purpose, the sum was allicient to keep the young writer to the Fay al 2 St: George's ball from flying in despair to the West Inalina Pies report that is very | India as he had planned, which would big-gathering incluried all the pro-have been a calamity indend. mineet peple in the folcny and n
It has been claimed," Mr. number of Seurs* Not having my. | Maconae'de continued, "that it was self made one of that prominent com frerved for William Pitt, an English pany, even as à Seit, t experienced man of the English, to recognisa dur
tion. Arrived bard this evening fellow pot, and that then the Scottish a spoon mark you, for they were per på close upon that store I should critics stopped halling him as a rustic forced vegetarians at they knew ant have felt in to address this die prodigy. Let the great statesman b. chopsticks. But knowledge tinquished company of fellow country, given his honour doc, but the article acquired. Buras detested aukolastic men as Mellow abscurities, "plugahi bad in the Esanger in which Henry pretentiousness. He often chafed the courage to miles at all. How-Mackenzie introduced Burns to the under the patronising air of men Ever, & sufficient tavaf has elapsel literary world shows that Pitt's whom he know_to_be_his_intellectual, to enable me to rusover a modico perception was not unique. Mackenzie inferiers As usual be over-expressed. of that routeen which is suppose, is said to have been for long the liimself on the subject. erroneously, to be inherent in our Nestor of literary. Edinburgh, and race. So Sir, when your commands, he wrote there of Burns: "It I am
To the man in the street, Scottish * comtrously exnoullaged as a request, not greatly deceived, I think ́I
literatura is often, summed up in Sir were laid upon in 1 pluckenyafely protounen himo
Walter Scott and Robert Burns. up hent as a loyal clustoon, how-genius of no ordinary rank." Hẹ
These two were transcendent geniuses eser humble tuby, heartened by goes on to disclaim explicitly the idea
far apart from other literary Scots. betuinking me that"the toast I have ¦ of commending the poet chiefly on the
Pan-They were both great writers bat they the ham ur to submit is to the memory | ground of his lowly circumstances, and
were both very much indebted to the of one who was something al un expe.tį affirms that his work on its own mer By dint o' Greek,
earlier Scottish poets and prese at puʻling down the mighty from their its is fully entitled to command our Gie me ae epark o' Nature's Gira!
writers. Mr. Wylie interestingly out- seat and wine did more than any feeling and to obtain our applause." That's a' the learnin' I destre."
Jined the history of Scottish literature otver of his century to impress the The article, which is a really valuable As a fact that was not all the learn from the 13th century up to the time, trenchant and far-reaching trath that and discriminating piece of criticism, ing he desired, nor indeed by a long of Robert Fergusson the Edinburgh "a nu a man for a' that,” Alnus concludes with the confident hope that way possessed. But be is writing in poet, whom Burn regarded as his antor wretch, destitute of ailler or Scotland will "stretch out her hand mood and carried away on his own fererunter in Scottish verse. al seal importance, has drawn an to cherish and retain this native poet" Pegasus' back, as a poet ought to be. "And so we come to Burns and iran tanis for his soul from that inant not see him compelled to seek For true learning Burns hud all due Scott," Mr. Wylie continued. "In emang aphorism. I am content to be support and shelter "under West In- respect, and wished he had bad more Sir Walter Scott, we bave our greatest et their murales, and though exuded dian skies." In that expectation of it. Tha game is to be said as to Scottish prosa writer, although he was from the haug dy legion of the dragon-Mackenzie proved right. Scotland religion, and having said that I will at the same time po mean hand at slayers to be enrolled with you in the, not only stretched out her hand to her not enlarge on the well worn theme of poetry. Using ne his main background homely order of the thistle (Laugh-illustrious son, but took him to her Barus' fierce quarrel with the ungo' the stirring history of his native land, ter and applause) Full eight score heart and there has cherished him orthodox of bis day. It is a pity the bis pietur.s of past times were truer years have run their course einco the with ever growing warmth.
quarrel Was so fierce for than the ponderous efforts of the lad was hon in Kylo whose name
it left much ill blood behind, which prosy historians. As Carlyle has said, sod fame kring us exilea together hern "We Scots," proceeded Mr. Macon- has not even yet wholly disappearol. he taught all men this truth, that the on the verge of tar Callmy. To achie, "find i Borns a procentmont Burna knew and admitted that he bygonengesel the world were actually
Januar' wid" gave him but a rough of ourselves in aspects which we know went too far, and no one decies that filled with living men.... hansel. It blew in one gable of the authentie though greatly differing he had provocation. But the Burns' work for Scotland was two ro med biggin which Williams from the conventional conception publican thanking God that he is not primarily to revivify and concentrate Burns bad reared with his own hands which have been adopted concerning as this Pharisee is not an edifying the Lational sentiment. At a period to shelter wits and bairns, so the babe. What these are we are never allow sight, and while Burns's worde may when the feeling of nationality was in and his mother had to be moved fored long to forget. The most recent ra- sometimes make him appear to pre danger of extinction, has not only arty to the house of a neighbour. minder I happen to have seen is from sont-it the thing itself is far rom his saved it but succeeded in glorifying Maty another bitter blanc fell pu the Dean Inge: Cauny, thailty, fond of spirit. life whing was thus begun, er its metaphysics and slow to understand a Social pretentiousness again was at National Bard and posterity has sua and idealising it. Họ mai truly the short conves was finished. We my joke'; auch, says the Doop, is the cur- least as obnoxious to Burns as the tained this verdict. (Applause.) bel innved in regret that his lot was reat conception of the Scot-sabalartic or religions. His scorn of not more email, bat a divinty (Laughter.) Whether he adopte it or the merely titled, rioh or powerful is auid Scotch songs were sung by Messrs. During the evening some of the which shapes our ends may be believed not he does not say, nor does it unmitigated, and only explicable in MeLeod and Paterson and Mr. Grey's to konw its own business bus, and it matter: there is another side to light of the fact that in those days quartetto, Capital stories enhanced is not likely had Burns been cradled Scottish character, in which calcula. the great held the small vary much the reputations as raconteurs of the in Pas and bred in comfort. that he tion makes way for glorious abandon in their power, and power anob as Rev. Mr. Rorison and the Hon. Mr would ever have apo'ten or he did and and colonoss disappears in the warm that is bound to be much abuse. Severn: The latter at the con dose to the heart of Scottish folk and glow of romanos. To confim my
BURNS VICES.
olusion, remarked that he was la My mamry covets something not table. Those scrious taipans, soucy much is said it is fair at least to say and he wished to thank the Chiefain As t› Burns' vices, of which so tall probability the only guest prosent, 7 much is than half the con- sugar-bail-Is, a haunted doctors, as in other things his verses on that for presiding, Mr. Maconachie for s alfersbl period slace It bert acased case. hardened engineers; they're subjent make the worst of him. It is delightful address, and Mr. Wylio for tely, but I don't recnil a time men of sentiment every one, and you not fair to dwell upon his lapsos and his synopsis of Scottish literature. He when I anuid not sing "Soats who need but sing them one of Robert's say nothing of his remorses, which called for the health of the Chieftain. hse." I remember I used to thick love lifts to send them back to the war hitter and sincera Formy part. The toast was drunk with gu the last line of the verse was alt cao days when they used to go linking I think it is too often overlooked that "Auld Lang Syne," waarredared in. word and wondered what it meant with their jose by the banks of Doon, the grievous and constant overtail of the time-honoured fashion before the "Or to viot ny—which jur goes to the rays of Balguidder, the palm his early youth prompted a rosotion gathering dispersed.
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