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HONGKONG CIGAR STORE,
BIRTHS.
MEYER.--On March 29, 1923, at Shameen, Canton, to Mr. and Mrs: C. E. Meyer, a daughter (Phyllis Christine.).
HAMPSON. On March 24, 1923,
at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hampson, a daughter, (Mary Angela)
Alexandra Buildings.
THE CHINA MAILR
the
BATURDAY, MARCH 31 128
HONGKONG TRADE.
PIECE GOODS SLACKER.
CATHEDRAL ORATORIO.
MR. DENMAN FULLER'S
SUCCESS. Y
ages of and in said orange, togethe race almost extravagantly gener withall Its rind.juice,pulp and pips, ous. However, since they take
For many years andallrights and advantages there these joker in such good part-1]^2=
TENNIS, Hongkong had only Ja, with full power to bite, cut, suck really believe they invent some of tennis enthusiasts in the Colony. one event' open to all and otherwise to eat the same or then-Fll make so bold as to That was give the same away with or with-etall one now going round the championship played on the men's open out the rind, skin, juice, pulp or Colony. The Scot and the Jew cricket ground
The fortnightly trade report pips, anything hereinbefore or were both broke. (That the latter with the HKCC, tournament Chamber of Commerce states: Denman Fuller to see such a large. Bimultaneously issued by the Hongkong General It must surely have pleised Mr. herinafter o in any other means of should find himself in this Then some broad-minded sports Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy congregation as attended the or- whatever nature or kind what plight, you will say, Prima facie man had a brain-wave and the Cotton Goods: In the last fort- soever to the contrary in any wise stamps the story untrue, as indeed; H,K,C.C, ever interested in the night demand has slackened some ral last night. For months past he notwithstanding."...
the it is.) With not one cent between development of sport, adopted his what, and only moderate sales of has worked untiringly in training .. Cathed- Our world tourists them, they conspired to slake their suggestion, with the result that we Dyed and Fancy goods are report a chorus of fifty voices and last TALES have provided many parched throats. They chose a bar now have a doubles championship. ed. Some small sales of Whitenight's performance was an unmis a laugh. Such, of where trade was very brisk. It was one of the happiest things the Shirtings are mentioned. Clea-takable success not only in the
· THE
course, was inevit Moses entered and called for a Cricket Club ever did, for not only rances are better. TOURISTS. able. This past week drink. When the barmaid, affer has it helped to develop the bud
chorus work but in quarter trio, Cotton Yarn.-Market continues duets and individual items as well,
OF
nominal.
..
atorio
for an been
a
call
I heard two good serving several other customers, ding talent of the various clube and dull with very little business As the oratorio took place in the stories, one where the laugh is demanded payment, he protested the various nationalities, but it has passing. Prices are sagging in Cathedral it would have been in against the travellers and the other that he had already paid. Half provided splendid entertainment sympathy with the decline in the decorous to applaud although at where the Hongkong resident came convinced from his plausible to hundreds of jaded citizens who off second best (though some may manner, she allowed him to depart. look forward to witnessing these raw material. Quotations are times the inclination to think otherwise.
Moses related his adventure to the contests. It is evidently a welcome The good lady from Kansas City Scot who then entered and like break, too, in the ennul of some of
encore must have. Quotations are:- was explaining, in self-satisfied wiso had his drink. When the the fair sex. In short it is wholly 192. No. 165. $100/200. No. 206. its sweetness of rythm, or its No 10s. $165/190, No. 128. $170 Never once did the oratorio lose much felt desire. accennts, how she had taught a barmaid came for payment, before good. Might the Chinese boy a severe lesson. The she could open her mouth, the make bold to suggest something Shipments nil. Sales 200 bales.
China Mail $172/200. Arrivals 4,600 bales. right blend of harmony. budding Chinese Anancier had canny one demanded: brought her a few dollars change, miss! Whaur's ma change?" ".
Hey, further? Could other two open Unsold stock 13,000 bales. Bargains gramme with the organ aolo "Goort Mr. Fuller opened the pro- mostly in ten cent pieces, and she
items be added, 1 mixed
9,000 bales.. had tipped him the liberal sum of
The Yokohama Amateur doubles championship · and· a
Woollens. The market is very chorus was then called upon to sing Friday music" (Wagner) and the fifty cents. Like chair coolies when
A. D. C. Dramatic Club, we are ladies singles championship quiet owing to the unsettled feeling Saviour they children Keep" (Sull
told, plans to produce There are a lot of good arguments prevailing as to the future trend of ivan). With equal success they over paid, the boy, trying to trade two more pieces before the close of in favour of this and no really things in Canton. on the ignorance of the bird of the season, these being Clothes serious objections. Perhaps some
rendered the other chorusen: Cross passage, asked for one dollar. and the Woman, which is due China Mail readers may have quotations are purely nominal: thou that sleepest" (Stainer). Raw Cotton. Stocks are nil, and ing the bar" (Baby) and "Awake, And just to teach that boy a early in May, and about one month views on the subject?. lesson," exclamed the lady, "T
Indian staple at $36/41. Chinese In addition there took twenty cents out of his hand And Hongkong-when does, our later, "The Young Person in Pink!
Home papers grades at $39/46...
was the and left him only thirty, cents."
duet and chorus "I waited for the YO-HO-HO -record that Metals-Business during the last Lord" (Mendelssohn), the duct Poor boy.
A. D. C move its next wonder to
Newcastle ex-fortnight has been quiet. Small being taken by Mrs. Collett and perform?
soldiers who are sales of wire nail are reported at Mrs. Goldsmith who formed a members of the higher prices. Local prices firmer perfect combination Mrs. D. J. SODA-WATER City branch of Flour Market Report, Stock: Brown gave pleasure with her the British Legion estimated ·at. 400,000 sacks. solos in the chorus "No shadows Brave," which a will in future have to follow in the Quotations American Patent yonder" (Gaul). The solo "He Dover China.Mail wake at that eminent temperance $3.00 per sack, American Straight was despiced" (Handel) by Mrs. Weekly reader suggested for our, reformer, "Mr. Pussyfoot," or
emotional
our
TRIUMPH AND
THE BRAVE.
Regarding the line Triumph Weeps Above the
Force Gazette, that the passage was from Byron's "Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Baronet, R.N., the first stanza of which is
There is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest
grave; But nations swell the funeral
cry,
And Triumph weeps above the
5
brave.
AND
A BOTTLE OF
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
reports that Mr. R. H. Clive, the Reuter's Roking correspondent British Counsellor of Legation, has received a telegram from the For eign Office informing him of his appointment as British Consul General at Munich
One of the large touring parties was sub-divided into smaller groups, each of which was provid- Ltd. ed with a European guide. One of these guides took his lot up the Peak to view the landscape: About noon, when he had brought Road he was surprised to find one copy of the Army, Navy, and Air one," as their club has gone." dry $3.10 per sack, Shanghai Flour 3.15 and the quartet God is a spirit" them to see the shops in Queen's war memorial, I now learn from a sneak round the corner to "have $3.15 per sack, Shangrian Cut off T. L. Perkins was most De Mrs. per sack, Australian No. 1 $3.15 per (Sterndale. Bennett) did credit to of his brother guides all on his
This, it is explained, is not because sack. lonesome, face flushed and gait
the brewers are unable, to supply Window Glass.-Local Stocks Best, H. Anniss, S.Collett and W. the quartet party: Messrs. H. J. unsteady. The lonely wight
the necessary stimulant, but be running low. approached the more conscientious
cause the members are of the
J. Haggar, Mrs. Clements, Miss. cicerone and said huskily "I shay,
opinion that it was in the interests
Willmott and Mrs. T. L. Perkins X, I've lost my d-party."
saloon but as a restful place for
sang splendidly, the trio "In! of the club to run it, not as a beer
the sight Great
of the argument CREDIBILITY. has
unwise" (Ouseley) and local
recreation and comfort. The club,
the recit Morning Post seen
tive, "And Jesus then" (Gounod) mes down and out, and a club run it was stated, was intended for this week, about it and about.
by Mrs. N. Mathieson was also Spiritualism, of course. Now, I
A demonstration in life-saving keenly appreciated. The quartet the profits of drink descended will be included in the programme and chorus" Beside the cross" to the morale of the lowest drinker at the Hongkong Boy Scouts' (Gounod) was a melodious effort, have, never met anyone who has seen a spook but I have met
Only six voted against 'a
dry" The correspondent who gives club. What Easma members will Jamboree in the City Hall on April the members or the quarter being scores some whose integrity was this information adds that Byron say about this, you must guess above question-who have seen, was a first consin of. Sir Peter, yourself, since their club is not
13 and 14.
Mrs, D. J. Brown, Mrs. N. with their own eyes, trainloads of whose sister, Margaret, was the primarily for men " down and out."
Mathieson, Mr. H. Annis and Mr. The Freight Agent of the G. H. Piercy, Stainer's "My hope Russian troops journeying south poet's boyish love and inspired his But one fact stands clear. If a club Pacific Mail 5.s. Co. Mr. L. Dis in the everlasting" was given as from Scottish ports before the
first dash into poetry." Further run on the peace broke out. Some, before
profits of drink Higgins, accompanied by his wife duet by Mrs. Clements and Mr.
PresiH. Annis. more, Parker had a Parliamentary descends to the morale of the and child, left by the s.s. the war's greatest myth was ex- career in addition to his naval one, lowest drinker, little hope exists dent Cleveland," on Thursday. ploded, even averred that they had as he represented Wexford, at for a Government which derives
THE CHORUS. 2 spoken with these (then) gallant Westminster for a time. In Aug considerable revenue from liquor
The chorus was composed of the Mrs. Mathieson, Mr. Harry Ore following Mrs, Balear, Mrs. D. J. Russians, had heard their "guttural ust, 1814, in his 29th year, he fell taxation. Likewise, how about chur and Mr. Eric Rice will contribute Brown, Mrs. Clements, Mrs. Collet, voices" and had seen their beard- whilst leading a party from his ship, ches which accept bequests from to the programme at the concert Miss R. Mow Fung, Miss Green, ed faces." However, you must un- the "Menelaus," at the storming of wealthy brewers? Again, What organised by Lady Stubbs in aid Miss Grosvenor, Miss Hansen, Mrs. derstand that I am not being in the American camp near Baltimore, But like the young man in Shaw's of London welfare work, which is Lay, Mrs. Luck, Misa Marsh, Miss veigled into a credibility controv The first Baronet was his grand-"Widowers Houses," I'm getting to take place at Government House Russell, Mrs. Stark, Miss Willmott, ersy least of all about spooks. father, Sir Peter Parker, Admiral into deep water. And, anyway, on April 5. (Though, quite incidentally, I share of the Fleet, who was not only the what is a club out here unless it
Miss M Cooper, Mrs. Goldsmith, the opinion of that eminent carly patron of Nelson, but also, offers some little some little
Mrs. Griggs, Mrs. Löckhart, Mrs. scientist, Sir Ray Lankester, that as senior officer in the Navy, chief some Yes that's the word. In
N. Mathieson, Mr T. L. Perkins, Mackenzie, Mrs-N. Mathieson, Mrs. hope, love, hate, wonder-have of Trafalgar.
conditions fear, mourner at the funeral of the victor deed what would many things.be
Mrs: D. W. Salter, Mrs. Stubbings, direct physiological activity upon
come without this same magic bowl
Miss Taylor, Mr. H. I. Best, Mr. H the brain, arresting "the full and
Having last Sunday which M
Anniss, Mr. M. R. Bell, Mr. E. Cater, impartial exercise of the powers of
FELLOW denounced the un-can with logic absolute
Mr. W. Gill, Mr. G. Griggs, Eng. attention, observation, judgment,
FEELING. regulated traffic hi The two-and-seventy jarring
Gindr. Hocken, RN, Mr. A. W. "Three vigorous girls once went tion of beliefs i
and reason, and lead to the registra one of the root causes of Hong-and vastly
housing property, as
sects confute"
King, Mr. Y. C. Teh, Mr. T. A for a tramp in a wood. The tramp by, or in accord with this emotion kong's housing problem, the Rev journey through this vale of sent to prison for three months' W. J. Haggar, Mr. S. Paul. Mr. H. For being found with a dagger Bersey, Mr. S. Collett, Mr. W. H. dictated
brighten one's in his possession a Chinese was Edmonds, Mr. A. P. Glanville, Mr. died 1"
Kirk Maconachie will feel gratified tears. What, for instance, naming hard labour when brought before Tenny, Mr. G. H. Piercy, Mr. E.C. without the intervention of those Much tosh was writ higher intellectual
to learn that Home Churchmen, are but one drab pursuit, what would Mr. J. R. Wood at the Magistracy Thomas. Mr. B. Trafford, Mr. W. K THOMAS ten about London's When you've got your breath back housing problem there, the Bishop think that query frivolous, fatuous was that he found the dagger in a Smith, Rev. G. E. Upsdell, MA,
powers.")
also gravely concerned about the the old bottle irade become? You this morning. Prisoner's defence Reynolds, Mr. W. Sampson, Mr. F. HARDY recent sensational after that little aside, I'll continue. PUZZLED, murder trial. Many Since this question of credibility of Southwark, in mail week, even the court was definitely wrong in wish to quote from Clifford's valu with the dificulty. There wore, he dozen lamp chimneys out of twelve left by the "Suwa Maru" for Lon-Fund.
Have you never heard latrine. people believed that has been raisell locally, I merely proclaiming it a duty of the Church about Mrs. Dogan, how she dis-
Mr Y. H. Wong. to take convicting the prisoners, Bywaters able, essay, "The Ethics of Be
a part in dealing covered a method of making six
The collection was take was oft CLARKE On March 24, 1923, to and Mrs. Thompson. Many more lief," several extracts I happened said, over 200,000 houses in En- old bottles? Years ago, in. Good don, being accompanied by their
Mr. and Mrs. Montague Edie behalf of the Cathedral Organ Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Clarke, 50 felt that the murder was a crime upon the other day, always worth gland and Wales which ought to Housekeeping, Ellis Parker Butler daughter, Mrs. Rotheram and her Kinnear Road, Shanghai, a son passione which should be treated remembering and specially appro- sanitary, unhealthy, and unsafe to bottles were found in the cellar, Amongst the other Hongkong pas Cathedral. At 10 am, there was
*** GOOD FRIDAY MORNING: be condemned, instantly, as in- told the story. The twelve "old" as different from
On Good Friday moraing murder. Both sections petitioned they are:
an ordinary priate for spook discussions. Here live In Home housing conditions and they happened to be full of sengers were Mr. and Mrs J. H. litany and ante-communion which husband, Major Rotheram. special services were held at the for reprieve. These petitions were organised by “stunt" papers, and, and for anyone to believe anything Christianity, Hongkong's housing Dugan. Oi laid the cork t'wan
It is wrong always everywhere were a caudal to civilisation, and champagne. The preliminary steps Seth and Mr. P: A. Dixon.
their toleration was a disgrace to were as I have said, much tosh got into upon insufficient evidence.
thus explained by Mrs.
was conducted by the Rev. H. Copley, Moyle and the Rev. J. T. The Marquis and Marchioness Holman, the latter also taking out of the fact Yarra
Church, Melbourne, Thompson was the first woman, wored by means of the inquiry Mrs for either it can be honestly an-
as that Happily.
the bottle down the drain, excint "President Cleveland" The Mar-3 p.m. was meditation of the Australia, Wilfred for fourteen years, to be sentenced already made or else it proves that Manthei, formerly of the 4th to death. However, it now seems the inquiry was not complete."
Newspapers, jourwan small tumblerful, which Of quis was formerly a Captain in the Passion and Evensong at 5.30 p.m. THREE nalists,
drank P.A.V. Rajputs, LA, eldest that her execution, which speedily Further:
shipping THOUSAND companies
Army and saw service in Afghan- and son of Mr. J. L. Manthei, ended popular interest, strongly greatness of a man la Conan Doyle
There were also special services She repeated the process with istan in 1879-80. Other passengers at most of the other churches in the "The goodness and
AHEAD. agents, fashion de- the next five bottles, and then included Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Gold- Colony. Shanghal, to Isabel Sinclair, moved some of our thinkers, for we or an Oliver Lodge, say] do not and professors are but a few of dotle an-Oi mean Oi drunkled a Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn
signers, museums, "Oi tankled a bump from 'nother ring, Gol, and Mrs. Simmons and eldest daughter on Mr. and now find this in the London Mercury justify us in accepting a belief those who have made profit out of tump: from nother copple-you Mrs. A. M. Henderson, from Thomas Hardy's pen: Aberdeen, Scotland.
upon the warrant of his Tutankhamen, dead these three see me friend, Oi mean Oi drankl ¡BING-ROWLAND. On March Fair and capable one of our race, authority unless there are thousand years and more. But ed a kump Oi mean Oi cackled a to be absent from the Colony from The Bishop of Victoria expects 24, 1923, at Shanghai, Frederick
reasonable grounds for supposingTooting Common" (as the Oi mean, Ol conkled-Of-O-March 10th to about April 1st. After Ernest Hudson Bing, of Coun-
that he knew the truth of what he Cockney humorists have agreed to well annyhow, Oi'did it tall thim taking Easter services at Swatow, ty of Kent, to Bertha Ida Row-
was saying. And there can be no call him) will yet have his revenge, twilye bottles. Thim bottles was he proceeds to Shanghai for land.
grounds for supposing that a man apart from the discord attempts to now, all impty, an' Of stedied th meetings of the House of Bishops that the Company has decided to knows that which we, without pronounce his name are everywhere house wid, wan hand and counted of the Chinese Church (Chung quote, operative forthwith, the fol ceasing to be men, could not be creating, for one writer in a Home th' bottles wid th' other. There was Hwa Sheng Kung Ooi), of the lowing reduced through fares from supposed to verify
We paper, now points out that three twinty-siven left out a th dozen Church Missionary Society Adir the Orient to Europe via America may believe what goes beyond our thousand years. hence Egypt may Thin Ol got me scrubbin' brusch sory Council for China and for and vice versa Would that you Causer, ere knoll experience only when it is inferred rule the world, and Britain mry and a pall av wather 1 clane ith other Committee worke your knell &
from that which we know. We have elapsed into a desert of forest bottles, but t'me surprise Of found may believe the statement of an and swamp, inhabited by a few Ol'eu'd not git th' brush inta" th other person when there is stunted savages: Egyptian anti nook av th bottles Oi there impresario who has alreadyo Manila, Hongkong, Shang
Mr. A Strok, the well known class Trans-Altantic Steamer reasonable ground for supposing quarians will then come he says, fore turned th' twinty-siven bottles brought to the Far East so many
1st Class (G$205) accommodation). that he knows the matter of which and excavate the ruins of the wrong side out, an scrubbed artistes of the first fank, has re-hal Eastward US, G-$500.00 West- It sent a wormą. Several weeks ago
he speaks, and that he is speaking Abbey, incidentally noting nearby thim well, an turned thim turned from America, a Shangha To madden Its handiwork, when It the truth so far as he knows it. It with surprise, the remains of an roight side out agin. Be this toime paper says, with another wonderful
ward £107 08:0 I reprinted from
might well
is wrong in all cases to believe on Egyptian obelisk belonging to the th house was revolving rapid, an' list of musical, stars whowilama, Eastward U. S. G.$475.00 From Nagasaki, Kobe Yoko- memoirs, Adiven Not have assayed you,
insufficient evidence, and where it dynasty of Cleopatra, They will Ol set on th' floor an counted th shortly shine on the hemisphere: Westward £102. 08. 04. vestigate, there it is worse than Sub-Kings or Viceroys of the was sixty-four av thim. Of clumb Kreister, the world famous is presumption to doubt and to in discover the sarcophag!" of " two boitier és they wint by. Ther First and foremost Is. presumption to believe Georgianar fast period of British th Kitchen isble an produced violinist who will give two recitals Trans-Atlantic Steamer Cal
Really, Kowloon supremacy, Lloydo Georgio and out av th drawer the can-opener, in Shanghat during the last week class (US G130 accommoda SCOOTERS parents who allow Esquidd, who, in later times, seem on th hind legs av which was a of next month His accompanist tian)
de their children to to have usurped most of the powera glass-cutter, Ol crept back care will be Rancherson, who possibly From Manila, Hongkong, Shar And a thing of symmetry to the scooters are asking for trouble. hunger for power, these Sub-Kings mysilf In the centre av thim, and Then Halfotz, whose violi
roam Nathan Road armed with of the State. Yet, in spite of their fully the bottles, and seated is the best accompanist living. hal, Eastward U.S.G. $450 W viowe w
Very strone have. En for the lascriptions continually By pritiodin Indifférence & thimented Fur Only yesterday a motor bus. must have been very worthy men, thim goin' round me continuous has Euro Even shorter than this, I now
A lawyer thus illus tirely the child's fault, refer to their sense of duty (which an spring in at thim w find is a story which a Home week- ly paper reader culls from Mr. J. LEGAL his craft: "If a man LIBELLOUS, they are telling purity of conduct (BAH) The catch thim, wan
THE trates, the language of MAN The latest story may be translated FOH) and their off their guard, W. Marriott's A Year's Work in WAY were to give another about the Scot up excavators from Egypt then record Ol had this caught
TOTALGROUND, an orange, he would pears in the London Morning the finding of the tomb of Lord it firmly down women were travelling in an simply say Have nn Post
don't believe Grange.But when the transaction"Why have Scotsmen a sense of that in a few hours we may hope bottom an the
Carnarvon um gleefully annome: wid the passe Don't you is intrusted to a lawyer to be put in humour ?RZELMER] to gaze upon the desecrator of the Of putt war Vanished. E
writing he adopts this form: "Because it is a gift. les of thereby give and convey to you, all
tombs of the Pharohs, and ofthe mained This removes one libel and man whoitole the obelisk from of the and singular, my estate and inter repeats another, Scotsmen pozess Alexandria to
ests, right, title, claim, and advant
(Brian Harry).
MARRIAGES.
MANTHEI-HENDERSON.-'On
"January 17, 1923, at South print. Great capital was made It is never lawful to stifle a doubt problein is bad but it is not as bad: soïde an' emptied the contints av of Sligo left Hongkong by the as. Mattins át,I am. From noon to
The China Mail.
that
Posing there in your gown of grace,
Plain yet becoming,
Could subtlest breast Ever have guessed" What was behind that innocent
facé, Drumming, drumming!
"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE
For thus riot of passion, might HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1923 deign to tell
Why since It made you
THE SHORTEST Douglas Ainslie's
GHOST
•
Good in the germ,
fures Social and Not have implanted, to your deep Literary" what was said to be the shortest ghost story in the world
"A lady awoke from sleep feel-
ing frightened it was pitch dark:
she was about to reach out for a
match box, but before she could do
so the box was placed in her hand!
The Clytemnestra spirit in you,
rue,
And with purblind vision,
Sowed a tare
In a garden fair,
Brought to derision!
very keen humour, and they are a banks of
they
Schawrz, the) gre
Dec
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