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AND. THE VOLUNTEERS. AN OFFICIAL DIAGNOSIS.
At Army Headquarters yester
really need one after that historic public. meeting? Ask the next
Although Hongkong Professor Caparets writes from mummies of the Pharaohs, were ANCIENT was duly official you meet.
startled Luxor.: EGYPT'S when it became known "Some people are seized with by their own subjects more than plundered and grossly maltreated Latest news from
CURSES. here that Lord pity for the hapless fate of poor thirty centuries ago; and, except HEIRLOOMS. Egypt relates that
Carnarvon was dead, King Tutankhamen, who finds in two or three instances, were un Lord Carnarvon's having been bitten by an insect, himself disturbed in his earthly ceremoniously removed from their remarkable discoveries have rous Luxor must have taken the news rost by ed a genealogical fervour in a without surprise, for "had not the archaeologists. To hear them one any place that happoned to be con- the curiosity of own tombs and hidden away in certain. Copt living in Calro who natives predicted misfortune when ought immediately to restore the ventent. asserts he is a direct descendant of a cobra, the royal symbol of protective walls behind which he such considerations, the fact has But, apart from Tutankhamnon, and who is prepar ancient Egypt, devoured a canary has ing to go into the law courts to belonging to one of the tomb's treasure. I readily admit that if that the archaeologists who are in day, while the authorities were per-
escaped the seekers for not received due acknowledgment claim the property now being re-explorers? And had not moved from Luxor as. family heir history of Egyptian archaeology hitherto known to the world it men are clearly not engaged in a of a robome to boost volunteering the this tomb brought nothing not vestigating the tons of Tutankha-fectly willing to discuss the matter looms. After that-well, after that already provided queer incidents would be useless to explore it and work of destruction or of desecra- Hongkong will have someone without number? Surely everyone devote a minute study to its con- tion, but are striving to preserve u the Colony, the statement was claiming our museum exhibits. But had heard the curious story told tents, but it has been said that the his remains and his treasured pos- made that it is not the business of perhaps you are right. They are by Mr. A. B. Welgall, well-known advantage which man has over the sessions, and to secure his name "regular officers" to start a recruit- very ancient-indeed, much too Egyptologist, how an explorer had brute is his faculty of retaining a and his record from the oblivion ancient:
come upon a tomb. containing the memory of his past To-day,how which he himself and his repre Now that women have lid of the sarcophagus had held a first completely lost and then And, anyway, you all know the the China Mail representative was
body of an Egyptian prfect, how the ever, the splendour of a past at sentatives strove so hard to avert."
ing campaign. MOVING invaded many realms
The officers of the regular army, WITH
curse for whosoever should disturb resuscitated in uncertain manner famous lines over Shakespeare's told, are perfectly willing to act as men had always THE thought Bacred-latest
the body. This misguided prison TIMES! statistics show that violent death, and his body should groans of neurasthenics and luna-
should thus the curse-die appears again before our dazzled tomb-
eyes. Something more than the Good Friend, for Jesvs Sake instructors, but they cannot be only thirty-three possi- ble occupations out of the 678 list be washed down by great waters tics is necessary to convince me To digg Y-E dyst Enclo-Ased geants.
forbeare.
expected to act as recruiting sur ed in America have escaped knew how this curse had been
into the sea. Surely, too, everyone that Egyptologists are violating
The question of keeping their toils-now that women are literally fulfilled, how the explorer, sacrilegious manner.
the secret of death in everywhere asserting their equality after sending the mummy to funerary texts of ancient Egypt And curst be He T-Y moves my "Though we furnish an adjutant Blest be Y-E Man T-Y'spares T-hs the ranks up to normal numbers lies with men, how comes it that Hong England, had been killed, during give evidence of the anxiety which
entirely with the civil community, Kong's Legistative Council still lacks a woman member? Come, bearers had temporarily interred should cause their name to live. It a journey in the south, how his the dead displayed that posterity
bones.
and a drill instructor, high now, ladies, you have wide in his body in a dried-up nullah, was said that he lives whose nume thought that the MS. of another the Corps."
Yet as one shrewd critic notes placed officer said, "wo cannot be terests in this Colony. Make the how a terrific storm had broken
we should soon be digging if we held responsible for the efflefency of ext public meeting your own and out, how the corpse had been Tutankhamen's name was com is proclaimed. A few weeks ago show our medieval Goverament
"Hamlet" was buried with them, that times have changed. Show it, washed out of its grave and swept if need be, that Hongkong hath no away into the sca, never, as the pletely forgotten outside of a small circle of specialists; today he is furics like women legislatively curse had said, to rest.
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LEAP INTO FAME.
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Known he is alright, for he is now the inan of the hour. "Almost
HERE
Stones
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LOCAL AND GENERAL,
After a fairly long discusioji an official statement was handed outf with the proviso that it was only, to be taken as a rough outline of what the military authorities considered a and con.
The total output of the Kailanfair presentating of the case pro
The Official Viow.
The oficial statement was follows:
Then every native had MUSEUM long ago heard about MYSTERY. the mystery surround- This paragram
ing *ነ‧1 Egyptian
overnight he has ob Mining Administration's mines for PRACTICAL you will assur-priestess, formerly in the British
rained a position of the week ending March 241 MECHANICS. edly disbelieve. Maseum, where many Hongkong eminence surpassing that of the amounted to 84.799 tons and the
Therefore"
residents have doubtless seen the President of the United States, or sales during the period to 77,175 reading now-I hate to be doubted. ©upty case. Here
again the Premier of Great Britain, or toas. Well, since you persist, she was a grim curses awaited the
Charlie Chaplin, or Jack Dempsey tipan's wife in the upper strata of sacrilegious disturbers of the dead, Hongkong's elite, and had as the What happened to the actual fia- even more spectacular than that of "Empress of Canada to-day are Mran cadntial part of the defence His leap into fame has been Among those departing on the H.K.V.D.C; that the Carpa formed, story will show, a very kind heart. ders of the body is not knowa, hat D. Cout." The paper from which and Mrs. Frank Smyth, Mr. and forces of the Colony, and therefore She was goi le topside in her eftir, it is a fact that the ship which this is quoted reports that "Tu-tank- Mrs. H. A. Lammert, Miss Jean in time of emergency, they will ba and I wondered why she held in carried it to England later sankhamen" silks have been patented; Lowson, Mr. John Rodger, Mr. W called on to take their place. her hand a heavy parcel. Way with all hands. Displayed in the poems galore have been written L. Leask and Mr. E. J. Chapman.
This Colony is an outpost of the
do you not put that parcel on the
"The General stated in his speech at the annual inspection of the
rauseum, the mummy soon acquir about him, a whole act of a New floor of the chair?" I querial. ed uncanny notoriety. Sinister York musical comedy has been
You are just tiring yourself." "Oh, accidents befell attendants who cut out for a new Titankhamen March 30 reports: The German from which troops might be sent.
The Singapore Free Press of Empiro nel distant from garrisons well," she answered brightly, "it handled the case, and a photo episode to be inserted, Margot steamer is such a hot day and I do feel grapher, called in to photograph Asquith has appeared in London arrived yesterday, brought the
'Havelland," which required. sorry for these poor coolies. There the mummy, swore that on develop wearing a gowa "draped, at least news of the death of the ship's the garrison might be ordered away, It is not impossible that part of Core l'ay just taking the parcel'sing the plate he saw, not the in part, after the manner of the Commander, Capt. Deinat, who temporarily to other points of the weight off their shoulders." Fact! mummy, but the portrait of a popular young king's kilts," and it passed away on Monday, while the command.
beautiful woman glaring at him is confidently predicted that there vessel was at sea, Bismarck, you'll
Hongkong is, a tiny settlement. with angry eyes. Shortly after will soon be a King Tut cigar! ANOTHER agree, was a hard wards he went had, and died Indeed is Tutankhamen known
among an enormous population, HONGKONG man. Never would
The late Sir Henry Conway towards us now, but with a capacity. raving. Actually the mummy's
friendly and peacefully inclined GROUSE. you have caught reputation became so bail that the Throughout the world. This Belfield (67), KC.M.G., of 4, Rox-
himuttering either.
popular interest which half sentiment or platitude. Likewise, take action. After withdrawing edhe York Times by and of the Junior Carlton Club, potence as was shown by the strike
museum authorities were forced to Hongkong shares is ably defend-burgh-mansions, South Kensington, to reduce the Colony almost to in never would you have found him the mummy from public exhibition, Frances Wilson whose clever formerly Governor of British East last year, slow to act upon his avowed rule, they decided to send it to Ameri-verses I shall now quote and then | Africa and the Foderated Malay In spite of the above facts, the
If I have an enemy in my power
I must destroy him." You would the other side, going down with not, I think, have cared to test his the ill-fated boast, that he always kept his hand doom, indeed, some say it sealed.
Titanic," whose on the buit end of a loaded re- volver in his pocket when he walk- ed abroad, in order to ensure that he did not take the long journey into-eternity-alone Yet this iron man, this pitlless bureaucrat held
ever.
When a Body, long deserted Remarkably circum- E'en when Cleopatra flirted GAZING staptial, though these With Mark Antony upon the
sluggish Nile, stories are, they do not, AWHILE.Of course, imply any Is brought back to human know
ledge
JUST
reflection on the late
awhile!
Fain I'd stand beside it, gazing.
was life full of love and scandal
at
it
ruled as King;
that far-off day in which he had Did he find it worth the candle-
his fling?
that a country must now be ruted Lord Carnarvon, who was merely By some high-brow trained
college with the aid of public opinion, knowledge of the past and his I, for one, would like to gaze at
inspired by zeal to increase our naming the Press as one of the thrown a flood of light on an necessary adjncts.of government said the master, "I see through this on the ground that even #he China Mail, dodge." "And waving his arms greatest absolute monarch could breaks arvon and Mr. Carter, Overwhelmed by thoughts amazing
ancient civilisation. Indeed, in the about his head he cried: Hosh no longer manage the complicated Lord Ciraarvon and Mr Of the days when Tutankhamen Hoosh1" How now, my friendy machinery of the modern State have quoting the Observer- he added as the cock flapped his alone. That, unless you have seen it broken the seal of an historical wings and showed the second leg. Bismarck-yes, but how traci profound, truth, as aveyed to our In
before, will doubtless surprise you. Į
document quite unparalleled, for a Your Excellency knows every- thing," said the cook. Some mathematician but made your magic noise together its limited Council representation, It is that ideas alone are permanent "Had you Now my point. Hongkong, with paper has said, is conveyed to our minds by the discoveries of Luxor. SIMPLE. has figured that if the with your wonderful handplay, by must depend, more than any place and the external trappings of £3,000,000 which is the God's will you would have prudus- with full popular suffrage, upon civilisation are transitory. This estimated value of the treasure ed the other leg on the dish last the press as one of the necessary reflection inspired Shelley's verses
adjuncts of government. Yet here
on 'Ozymandias.' After describ- the press is under severe and
ing the shattered statue found in home, and then only ticular handicaps I now have in when you have
mind are the delays which it seems appear:
found in Tutankhamea's tomb had | night." been put out at six per cent. com- pound interest it would now be worth a sun with more than sixteen ciphers, Which recalls the estimate
THE BURNING TOPIC.
Surely Fancy is a laggard Nowadays in Rider Haggard When he dubs this disentombing
dire disgrace. After centuries of zero
Don't read this par mostly quite needless handicaps the desert he pointed the, moral:- Tutankhamen's now a hero agram until you get in fulfilling this role. The par" And on the pedestal these words Having won the Marathon endur-
I quoted the other day that had locked yourself in the attic. You must attend the publication of re- My name is Ozymandias; King of Methusaleh invested $1 at six per see, I shouldn't like this news to ports, Government or otherwise.
Tutankhamen surely recks it
'ance race! Having graced a splendid exit,
space!
gloomy
of the Federated Malay States," left unsettled estate of the value of £4153 (net personalty £3,925),
usual
paya & military contribution towards the upkeep of the garrison and that it is thus the job of the trips and the Navy to protect the Colony. Mr. A. H. Ford, general secret- This, of course, is an insurance, ary and director of the Pan-Pacific and it must be granted the preanum Union, is expected to arrive in a low compared with the annual- Shanghai shortly, according to a turnover of trade in the Colony, message received by Mr. G. A but to continue the analogy, tho Pan-Pacific Association. Mr. Ford against risks but they themselves or Fitch, the local secretary of the merchants insure their goods left Honolulu on March 26 and their employees take every precan- the local association will be held If the Britons of Hongkong were after visiting Japan will come to tion against possible loss or damage Shanghai. Several meetings of in spite of their insurance policies. during Mr. Ford's stay.
ground that she was a widow. As "Three years ago, this woman came up for a free licence on the
to regard the Volunteers us an additional and necessary insurance,
bute his share of service in tins of they would create a public opinion. that required every man to contri-
soon as it was granted she married again and has been a nuisance The present topid interest.
emergency. ever since. Her stall is not only the H.K.V.D.C. is due to suvarl spread across the roadway, but
obstructs the staircase," said Ser-
geant Elson to Mr. R. E. Lindsell in an obstruction case this mor- ning. The woman was find $.
causes:
(0) Ex-service men are tired of oldiering and dislike the thought of returning to barrack-square work.
(b) There is no public opinion to urge the younger men t join.
(c) Only a few of the hangs en- courage their employees to join.
(d) The spirit of laissez faire so.
cent. compound interest when he get about, lest it reach the ears of only last week, for instance, the Look on my works, ye mighty, and Great to occupy such journalistic r. Kret, third engineer of the prevalent in the younger genera-
was twenty-one years old his certain folk here-education folk, Chamber of Commerce published been $977,157,903,000,000,000,000. as you'll see. The London Ten- And suggests that compound in-chers' Association held its annual topics of vital local interest. Most
wealth when he died would have you know? Quite clear the reason, an annual report covering many Nothing beside remains. Round And since tombs are dark and
to very
one
brut
When our present
And museums light and roomy.
Kings:.
despair!'
the decay
and bare,
far away."
I suspect that in a chorus True, many not- Rescued mummies praise great) SACRILEGE? able people have Horus,
protested against Who restores them once again to
sun and sky.
place.
A five-chambered revolver, a gold wrist-watch and an ammeter were stolen from the cabin of Mr. "Tjiliboer" when the ship lay alongside the Taikoo Dock. tion.
(e) The rival attraction of sport Chinese was arrested by an Indian watchman when leaving the dock and games.
R E. Lindsell this morning, he and a misconception of the duties was sentenced to six months' hard and training of volunteers, labour.
Constructive. The Archbishop of Canterbury best met by a large, reserve of train on March 4 consecrated the Reved men who could, be called upon The needs of the Colony could be
Leonard Stanley Kempthorne, late
terest on the' rental value of Hong-conference in mail week, and cur of the letters reprinted could, with Of that colossal wreck, boundless He will certainly prefer the latter gate. Pleading guilty before Mr. J. () The long hours of office work · kong's military lands would have ing the debate it was stated that months ago soon after they were The loose and level sands stretch
out doubt, have been published almost provided enough money by even London is now beginning to written. Then the papers could now to pay for all the ink that has indulge in the retrograde and have commented upon them, help- been spilt over this dreary folly. extravagant policy" of appointing ing both Chamber and Govera Almost,.. !
unqualified teachers. This newsment (where both were concerned) will doubtless leave many people to reach the right conclusion. Also-Sir H, Rider Haggard's words SEEMINGLY, very able Director cold, helieving with Bertrand the general public would have the exposure of the old king to Tutankhamen will be happy- of Public Works, Russell that our moders State known what was going forward the vulgar gaze" of curious crowds, Yea, and find it pretty snappy Mr. T. L. Perkins, retires, next education, any way, is mainly des- and could have, if it desired, made and a question has even been put When he occupies once more the succession to Bishop Twitchell, taught what they are required to ly of Singapore and the. Malay in an emergency, and an active month, who will succeed him? igned to produce convenient
States, as Bishop in Polynesia, in training caure where men could bg Seckig the answer, the China Mait citizens,, and therefore dare not its voice heard through the papers. in the House of Commons, as lo earsed during the week that his encourage spontaneity, since all eighteen), reports have little value ceived from Egyptian citizens to Twelve months late (sometimes whether any requests have been re-
public eyels
who was in office for 12 years. The kuow and then be passed to this successor had not yet been spontaneity interferes with
Since the above was writ- Bishop of Salisbury and the Bishop Reserve. appointed However, contrary system.
But many
and the journalist expected to ransack the tombs of British Kings more will
ONE ten the Home mail has of Lichfield (who preached the ser Tha Reserve ahould be divided clothe their dead bones with topical and Queens in Westminster Abbey: WORD. talning
LAST arrived with papers con mioa) presented the new Bishop, into two parts those required to strong rumour, it assuredly agice with the is extremely unlikely that any London speaker who said that the interest feels more inclined to and elsewhere." Punch's Editor
the following and the other assistant Bishops bring the setive units up to strength heave them into his capacious has asked, too,mayn't a Polynesian Carnarvon:
statement from a qualified engineer teacher co-operates with the forces
Lord were Bishop King, Secretary of the and those who might be called upon. will be selected for the post" of the Crown in establishing State Waste paper basket. But perhaps,
Come here and ask the Dean.
S.PG and Bishop Twitchell. The to carry out the essential duties in Thus does the Colony learn once security, and one of the funds after all, that is why reports are
"At the present moment King ceremony took place in Lambeth connection with the administrative for leave more that while our rulers: fully mental duties of the State, which held over so long. Certainly, other
Tutankhamen rests, to the best of Palace Chapel, where 420 Bishops work of the Colony in times To.. penetrate our Abbey's our belief, where he was originally have now been consecrated The emergency (ie, a 'strike). realize the head of the P.W.D. the Board of Education should reasons-if there are any are not
gloom. apparent must possess.
placed. When the time comes to diocese in Polynesia consists of earnestly endeavour to fulfil, is to
And hoick Queen Anne from ascertain whether it is the raummy Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and adjacents whole time job and too much for a
The running of the corps is qualifications, they see no reason give to the children such an educa-
London critics, we
out her tomb. for our police and education chiefs; tion as will be a sound investment
DRAMATIC pre told, have no Likewise the Bishop of Chelmsford those associated with me, are most
of the King, I; personally, and islands.
regular adjutant in addition to his having previous experience, But, enabling them to take their place
CRITICISM, use for Good has protested in the Times, asking anxious that arrangements should
Lieut. D. M. Lees, RN. having What is wanted now is aately.
reguldr datios. then, is the Latin has it, no mortal affairs, and to carry on the work of le," the play in which Miss Marie that, three or four thousand years sarcophagus in its present resting- HMS. "Bee" on the China Station, young men under thirty should jou
Gracious Annabel whether it is a pleasant thought be made to leave the body in the completed his term of service with is wise at all times.
the Empire in a manner befitting Tempest made her London hence, the imperial race who are place. This certainly will be done, left for Home by the P&G and overy youth arriving in the Stream of recruits. Energetić The latest story of an its leading position, and to com- reappearance. The Morning Post then in possession of Windsor will unless, in the most improbable COOKIE. Indian cook comes pete successfully with the citizens declares it is a naive and inapt extract what is left of Queen contingency, the Egyptian Gavern popular officer, the Shanghai com-
Dongola Besides losing a very Colony. would enrol. from Bombay, and is of every other country. Therefore, mixture of sweepings of a score of Victoria from her mausoleum and ment insist on its removal to Cairo, munity will regret the loss from A Fresa campaign could so in worth repeating: A certain cook everyone must agree that unquali- American farces that have failed to transfer her late Majesty to a 1 may say that I have not et ita midst of a fine cricketers. Oauce public opinion that the one day served a fowl for dianer.fied teachers, either in the Home amuse and of as many American museum. Assuredly it is not. But discussed the point; nor do Ivy three or four occasions during nuove schoma could easily be
Cook said the master looking at land or out here, are not well, not sentimental nieces that have failed with the ancient Egyptians it seems with favour the sorhewhat unwhole the past two seasons he adhered it, this time I have you. The assets. Everyone holds this tonove." The Daily News critic things are different, for we now some and morbil taste, which has made centuries, most of them The thanks of the community are fowl had two legs and you have everyone except the education de is even stronger: The play is have a distinguished Belgian some people seem to enjoy, of compiled in evening matches and due to the Ching Maidor its efforts served only one." Your Excel partments. But even these must beneath criticism and I do not pro scientist, Professor R. Jean looking at munnies exposed in one of them in a regular fixture to stir up public opimon in favour Jency," replied the cook, this bird capitulate some day, the Home one pose to waste space on it."Blunt Caparets, who attended the Queen glass cases in museums, He also came to Hongkong last of keeping the Volunteer Corps up is a'cock, and cocks have only one seoa mayhap, for the London though these romarks are, they of the Belgians on her recent visit Professor G. Elliot Smith, Litt. November with the successful to full intranet!
Teachers Association over 15,000 silll fall below Bernard Shawn Finanziamentomby anymang Tricks well known Egypto Shanght guter part telingandr recrdingly next morning he too strong, has sworn, pillless war famous critique, perhans the very strongly that it is good, gist, has also pointed out that those well-known figure on the cricket tee his master to the farm and showed against the Board's "retrogressive" shortest ever penned. The play both for the Pharahh and for the who write about leaving the royal fieid to travel by the him a cock standing on one leg as pally Hongkong lacks any was called An Awful Night rest of the world, that the mummies in their own tombs over Mr. A H Lealle they are accustomed to do Ah similar body, but does the Colony Shaw merely added: "It was mummy should have been found look the fact that in every case the leave
the
necessary
leg, I can show you to-morrow.
as competent men and women of
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