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But Cæsar fails*.
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BATURDAY MAY.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
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DAVIS CUP TENNIS,
AUSTRALIAN TEAM. LEAVING.
SYDNEY, May 4. The Council of the Lawn Tennis Association has decided to despatch the team mentioned on April 21 to compete for the Davis Cup. The players will sail on May
York,
[Norman Brookes, who was the
selected. Anderson, Hawkes, sole selector, announced that he had Schlesinger and McInnes, to repres sent Australia in the Davis Cup matches.]
اجيد
HOME GOLF RESULT.
LONDON, May 4 The golf decider was won by
[Francis Quimet and Dr. Willing ·
HEAVENLY EMPRESS."
YESTERDAY'S PILGRIMAGE
KIDNAPPING A GODDESS.,
been the cause of ruining many replied the statesman with k'ámile. young fellows." With one little "Pair bairn!" sighed the Scots- bill for $3,000 down in Malaya and man, “puir baira 1 Ye've lost your several here that have not been made public, Mr. Haynes certainly
Here was a field for thought, 2nd Battalion King's Regiment ***Tradition⠀⠀⠀ relates
varied as humanity itself. What is still an absentee. It is, however, possessed confidence in his own But, as our old friend belief.
that an Egyptian reck our Napoleons of commerce, now rumoured that the Police have (Reider's Service to the Ching Mall):
received information, which may Rabelais says, debts and lies gen-
king who reigned of finance, of the press, of politics; erally go together, 'Debt out East
about B. C. 6gb hit what reck they And I found lead to locating him. myself wondering (petulantly) | is worse than crime; It is treason.
A Chinese was seat to hospital upon an idea for why the buses-I had first read the You know why.
Ralph Chaplin, an discovering the world's earliest poof on a bus-why the buses, yesterday, suffering from slight American Labour language. Under his orders two like our visiting theatre shows, poisoning caused by eating pigs PRISON. leader who has spent infants were brought up in the usually run in droves. Scarcely feet with some herbs.
had begun to speculate on the
On Thursday at midnight, a five years in a prison cell, has written some closest seclusion. Never once military lands folly-the bus passes rather fine verse. He has publish- were they allowed to hear a single the mule lines-reflecting that, like Chinese sitting in the Tin Hau 31. It is suggested that a match ed the following which I take from word uttered. When they had been the famous Chancery, suit, Jarndyce temple at Causeway Bay was sud-against Hawaii be played at New
He was removed a Japan paper:-
tim'secluded for two years, they and Jarndyce, it would not be denly stabbed several times by an- Mourn not the dead that in the bot's 1 day called out "Becos1 finished until the sky rained other Chinese.
cool earth lie-
Bocos!"-Phrygian for bread, potatoes; scarcely, had these and to hospital after his assailant, whom Tradition, also relates that similar twenty more equally profitless he says he recognised, had escap Dust unto dust- The calm sweet earth that experiments were tried by thoughts fitted through my mind,
mothers all who die,
Frederick II of Sweden, James IV than the brutal awakening came. As all men must.
of Scotland, and one of the Mogul Hair oil-cheap, every day hair oil emperors of India, with results not is the cause. Taking silence morning after the attempt to pirate HOME COUNTY CRICKET. stated. Should anyone try, this for assent, the solicitons barber who must dwell-
here, I would hot care to predict had added this his proudest touch the Aberdeen ferry had been
FIRST MATCH RESULT. Too strong to strive-- Within each steel-bound coffin of what language would greet his ears That London writer whose skilful nipped in the bud through Sub- when the secluded youngsters essay I had read but six days be- Inspector MacWalters' raid on' a a cell.
CARDIFF, May 4, Buried alive,
learned to use their tongues, but fore and until now forgotten, had ink. They appeared before Mr.
In the first match of the county would have no hesitation whatever he not, among other things, men- R. Lindsell this morning on a
Surrey beát But rather mourn the apathetic in naming the word they would cry tioned hair oil?-all the perfumes charge of conspiring to commit a
wickets. by ten out. HOUSES" And after that of Arabia," Resisting the Siren piracy, Mr Leo d'Almada defended championship,
lure of the word "Arabia,' I fought the third prisoner..and Detective Glamorgan
was in Glamorgan in the second innings "Under rent control!"
the matter out. Truly, he had set Were Hong-
and Fender four for seven. SNIP-SNAP-SNIP, Kong's hair down his thoughts while having charge of the case. The men were made 35. Lowe took five for 15-
dressing his hair cut, very cultured thoughts Temanded till next Wednesday. What with our child
Acting Inspector R. Lanigan between barber and customer; but slaves and our wicked saloons now.supplied with radio too, lamenting the mental gulf
Hongkong
listening-in sets for the use of
fascinating query:
Docs the men before Mr. J. R. Wood this COLONY. has had some fiar pb customers, (as they doubtless soon he assuredly, had not explored the of Yaumati Station prosecuted two licity these last few will be) this paragram had never brain sleep, under the barber's moming on a charge of intimida
by scissors?" Dismissing Oscar tion and demanding $100 Ltd months. However it is now con-been-written. As you shall duly see.
forting to learn that all is not yef Even now it should not be here, for Wilde's typical remark that the menaces from Lam Hing chee, Ouimet with 77. Dr. Willing took lost. One good word has gone it begins with my firm resolve not forth and our name benefits accord-to jot it down. Naturally I could only way to get rid of temptation 361, Reclamation Street, on April 78, ingly. For this our thanks are due not, I had said, write anything to yield to it, I decided, weakly, 29. According to the police, to-But have a guess! Doubtless at all. Much too like plagiary, to bow down before the great god defendants visited complainant's tied for first place with 153 in play you remember the address he gave Still, it was really too bad. And Compromise. Briefly, I decided to house several times and told him for the St. George's Cup at to the students here when he came all just because, after the bright jot down for you here these few that if the money was not forth Sandwich down from the North after Canton idea had come, I suddenly remem-thoughts but also to admit, quite coming, he would be killed. Oa had fallen under his sway again. bered having read something frankly, that I was not the first in one occasion complainant was out similar, something slightly similar, the field. And now, having done and his sister received the verbal Having praised the good governe; ment of the city and called atten- in a Home literary paper. You see, that, it only remains for me to make message. A trap was laid and tion to its wonderful achievements it fell out thus. Having hied me one thing clear. Max Beerbohm when the two men were arrested in the past eighty years, he appeal into the barber's for my annual confessed that he composed his two $5 notes and a $10 note, the ed to the students to copy its Eng, haircut, I was gazing into the charming essay about walking dur numbers of which had been pre- lish example of government myopic fog which enshroudsing a walk. Similarly, I must con-viously noted, were found on them,
Sometimes the wildest rumours throughout China, for he said, there everything when I remove or fess that I composed this unwield- Accused were remanded for a
get associated with anything out is nothing in China comparable to more commonly, break-my spectly paragram-even this part, too-week.
of the ordinary in Chinese life. Ia it, despite the country's 4000 years acles. The vast mirror before me during a haircut. Heace, you will
connection with the annual observ of civilization. Well, these words was a misty shape, more nebulous agree, I think, that the brain, if it
ances at the Tin Hau, ("Heavenly have found their way all over the than a Conan Doyle spook. The does not actually stop, clearly docs world, and they have been acclaim-bottle labels, always quaint read not work its best under the barber's
Mr. R. N. Truman has left Shang-Empress") Temple at Chek Wan, ed "a sincere and worth while conting, I could not now decipher. scissors. You will also agree that Indeed, I was more mentally exile it is lucky, alike for myself and my
border near Deep Bay, it has pliment." For this our thanks are then the fugitive Bruce, for I could paly "constant" reader the one hai for Home having retired from which is not far beyond the British always been the practice due (as you say) to Sun Yat-sen.
Quaint-was it not?-not have studied the antics of a fly who never misses my "copy," even active work in the Far East. WHERE that our Director of had one essayed to climb the wall. when it does not appear that it is ANGELS Education, after ac- Thuis I was forced to seek within lucky, indeed, for all concerned. The name of Mr. Eric Sutton FEAR TO Cusing the Education mine own mind, an arid field (save only the barber) that I Dickin, dental surgeon, has been district magistrate of Sun On for a TREAD., Board of having been admit, for some idle theme that am fast-fast-going-BALD. added to the Dental Register.
slack, should hotly would feet the tonsorial moment. deny any change had since taken Then it that I recalled, with place. However, Mr. Irving is not out visible reason, a alone to blame here. Members, it very happy essay, seems, had the right to call meet the many charming things Max
Pursuing Company has been struck off the ings, but they left it to the Director Beerbohm Has written. to call the only three held last year an ingenious fancy, after walking Register. From this he could only conclude out with the typical friend who had
The total output of the Kailan
Another story went round that that they had nothing to discuss insisted upon vapidly reading
the far-famed goddess had been Nothing to discuss! And how aloud every notice board they
kidnapped from the temple and many hours did that recent public PassedUxminister, 11 Miles," Mining Administration's mines for "Drive the week ending April 21, 1923, The King's Arms,"
During the Hon. Sir Paul Chater's would only be released in time for meeting last? I'give it up.
That noise you just Slowly," and Trespassers-Will Be amounted to 90,748 tons and the
in-sales during the period to 86,699 absence from the Colony the Hon. the worship on payment of $800, Mr. P. H. Halynak will act Happily for the devout, a number BLASTING. heard was made by Prosecuted pursuing an.
as an unofficial member of the of elders came into Hongkong on a piece of coal, a genious fancy, Max had come to the tons.
conclusion that walking for walk-
Thursday and announced to The soccer players in the Executive Council. Which is not likely." With a con-piece of perfectly good coal being
the principal excursion syndi exemplary holds one fatal objection King's Regiment are now busily
The following deaths are an vulsive start I became aware that thrown into the street. But before ing's sake, however laudable and
and Tongs (fellowships my friend was, still talking. He you read further I must warn you it stops the brain. "Just what engaged in playing, off matches in
my guilty confusion. that this paragram is not written
Fly women noticed
You for you at all. It is written solely happens?" I recalled him asking. the Platoon League. There are nounced:-The academician Bea of worship comprising most
had finished 20 teams entered and, weather per-amin Leader, the boxing expert "Why!" he exclaimed. haven't heard one word. You've for myself. Unless I thus relieve dove-tailing the fragments of half-mitting, two matches will be play- Frank Bradley and Major Thomas the rumours were unfounded. All
Crean, V.C., D.S.O...
that had happened was that the been listening to that silly kinema my feelings I shall bust. Where I
troops had demanded a higher tune." And so I had. Strangely live there are many dogs. They remembered phrases, it suddenly ed off each afternoon.
Rev. Dr. John Alexander Hutten, um this year for the protection bark half the night, mostly struck me that a similar query
might well arise with the man: un
Owing to the anniversary of H. to the brain-
entirely without excuse. Were der the barber's hand. That portly M. the King's accession falling on D.D., minister of Belhaven Church on the ground that their pay Very rightly, you
I Д Pythagorean
person yonder, for example, what Sunday the. celebration will take Glasgow, has been called agree, the
the possessed they
had already, been paid and PITY THE must
Had it place on Monday, May 7th. H. M. succeed the Rev. Dr. J. H, Jowett was in arrears. A sum of $2,500 POOR Hon. Mr. H. E. say
wrapped itself up in its own ships will bo dressed overall at 8 as minister of Westminster Chapel, there would be adequate protect
London. LANDLORD. Pollock, K.C., holds souls of the damned. Especially was his brain doing?
a.m, and the royal salute fired at convolutions" and gone to sleep?
ion. Negotiations to secure the that landlords who the souls of the damned who
services of a Chinese gunboat had invented collars, motor hooters,
The death is announced of Mr. fallen through owing to the ships. Bank of India, Australia and attempt to displace tenants or to work and other evils. One dog, Or was it busy with thoughts aeons noon by H. M. ships and, the
away from the scissors' click? Who
| military.
W. A. Strong, assessor of the being busily engaged on the West China, to Millicent Aurelia, evade rent control through bluff,
Rangoon Corporation. Deceased, River. second daughter of Mr. P. E should come under the criminal far away the worst, makes more should say but himself. Since he
The following decorations who belonged to na old Calcutta
Yesterday, no river steamer ran O'Brien-Butler, formerly H. B. law. Naturally that view does not noise than six coolie fights. His however, was the last person I could
depressing whine suggests that he M. Consul-General at Mukden.meet with favour among landlords. possesses the soul of the mystical / ask, I must needs analyse mine own have been awarded by the Chinese family, was 54 years of age. He excursions but there was an in-
mind."Must!" Thear you exclaim,
creased number of launches One of themeven describes it, in a Philosopher himself, agonised by with fine scom. "Why must? Government: Mr. A. L. Lyall rejoined the Municipality in 1904
ceives the second class Paoknang letter to the Daily Press the discovery that his precious Well, like the unfortunate satiricial Chiaho (Excellent Crop with Sash); Mr. and Mrs. A. Eberwein, of
towing junks. On landing at and unfair
unjudicial,
transmigration theory is-wrong!
to a rigorous search and as one The Hon. Mr. Pollock, he says: The coal? Oh, yes, the coal. That author reproached with the infarmy. Mr. J.W.H. Ferguson, second class Kuala Lumpur, have just celebrats Chek Wan, visitors are subjected wants to make it "a criminal was forced to use, having no other of his calling, I must live, even Chisho; Mr. H. E. Prettejohn, thirded the 25th anniversary of their worshipper puts it, the place was
though you make the grandee's
the Brand's class Chiaho; and Mr. Ting Ymarriage Mr. Eberwein, who is a teeming with soldiers. The bam missile handy.
frigid answer,
Justice of the Peace, lately retired boo-paved arcade leading to the business.
the necessity." And to live I must Hsien, third class Chiaho.
from the Government service after temple was also well guarded while Now, if the landlord knows he has no right to give the notice
The Chinese foreman who was a long record of useful and faithful the temple itself was crowded with write. And to write must- brutal fact-fill space. Well, but gives it mala fide, then Sec tion 20 already subjects him to
under .the barber's week, with wilfully damaging a porarily attached to the Treasury, bad characters were few and far between yesterday, the search on to make. However, pay your
Among the departures by the landing evidently deterring pick- other hand, the landlord in giving riesha coolie half his legal fare and scissors, I was pondering this number of knitting machines at a such notice was under an honest
the locks above are being clipped; threats to his employer and another "Empress of Australia" yesterday pockets and snatchers from going but mistaken view of the law you'll get some notion of what matter of what the brain does while knitting factory and with using
how the cold-shiver shears, man, was discharged yesterday by were Str Paul and Lady Chater, there that he was entitled so to do, then feel. Specially heed the bit about two positions will arise: (1) the bolling oil. The owners are more recall through association, the Mr. J. R. Wood on all counts, the Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Dyer, Mr. and memory of sheep being shorn; how Magisgrate holding that the charges Mrs. H. L. Dennys, Mr. E. Des Voeux, Mr. M.S. Sassoon, Mr. and tenant knows of the invalidity of culpable than the dogs....
Onc of the best this again suggests perversely had not been proved.
Mrs. E. Howard, Lieut. Col. M. the notice and does not act on it,
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On April 23, 1923. at Hankow, by the Rev. A. C. S. Trivett, George Alexander Finniss Wemyss, of the Chartered
The China Mail.
“TAUTO, JUSTICE, PUBLIU SERVICE"
BORGKONG, Saturday, May 5, 1923.
recent
as
offence" for a landlord to give a faulty. notice to quit.
I
would
And now
to
•
Fearing that you might read this (as you have) I have omitted, under
And then, before
certain
опе of
1 LOCAL AND GENERAL.
www.
The name of W. Charleson and
Mr. E. J. Wynne-Jones will act as District officer, North, during Mr. D. W. Tratman's absence ob leave.
Lieut. Leland Pearson Lovette, U.S.N has been appointed to the command of the US. Gunboat "Pampanga" of the South China Patrol.
.
to
to make arrangements with the of the Elders of the temple
number of military guards which must necessarily be in return for payment rendered. This year a story was circulated to the effect that the military had, demanded $20,000 "squeeze" otherwise prot- ection would be withdrawn and other soldiers would be sent to terroriso-visitors and make the celebrations impossible.
cates:
members)
that
Strangely to the brain criminal liability. If, on the protest, the only remarks I wanted/back (with your leave) once charged at the Magistracy this work. He has since been teme the hired." protectors." "Arrests of
MUSIC'S asleep, music comes!
SPELL.
POTENT Not more strangely, my young poet, than to the brain bemused.
more
O.H.M.S." ONIONS.
CHINESE SCHOOLBOY'S
PRODUCE.
A bulky "OHM.S." envelope to which a decidedly pungent odour- clung found its way into the China Mail Office this morning An
Here was I sipping tea and gossip ing while the band played merrily!
"Shanghai champions. away. really!". Some clever potpourri. (2) the tenant, too, shares the HOWLERS,, schoolboy "howlers" enough-beef; how beef naturally..
I have heard recently leads to England and a very host. The steam launch plying be- Greer, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Bennett, "Another record this year..." landlord's Ignorance and acts on Cavalleria Rusti-"How many the notice. In case (1)obviously was when a budding Dempsey of thoughts. How, yet again, the tween Samshul and Shiuhing turn-Mr. TE. Pearce, Mr. R. F. Matting no harm is done to anybody; in described Psyche as a black boxer razor glinting above the skywarded turtle about noon May 1, on the ly, Mr. T. G. Weall, Mrs. T. Petrie, Jakhs did you say?"-cana. Ever
case (2), why, in the name of who defeated Carpentier, Another chin of the man two chairs away West, River, drowning more than Mr. and Mrs. P. M. da Silva, Mr. charming Yeoman. "Some lucky devil, I suppose. Well, you never faliness and fairplay, should the famous one that lately come to sends the mind searching history 40 passengers, says the Canion Ho Fook, Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kom know. Maritana. Scenes that are Landlord be made criminally light was the anwer to the question for the first records of shaving: Daily News, The launch was going Tong, Mr. Ng Sze Kwong, Mr. J.
liable? Retired didn't he?"-Brightest
re Latimer's words to Ridley Where had I seen that vivid to Shiuhing and, when firing was Joseph, Cof. Alex. Reiss, and Mr. Tum-ti-tum. Elusive name. Very Why in the name of fairness and when going to the place of execu picture, painted specially for this heard in the neighbourhood, it was. M. Massey. familiar too. Where Saturday fairplay should he not be made tion. The exact words I do not rework showing ancient Sumerians decided to return to Samshui. There impossible. Sorry. Swimming criminally liable? The tenant member but they are something shaved cleaner than the smartest you know and That note again. losing his home-pays for his like this. To-day we shall light Tommy? Where, also, had I read was a panic during the excitement
20, years ago, M. Leyte, with his English Schools (Mr. E. Ralphs) Strangely to the brain! Tint Ignorance Why should not the a flame in England that shall never that story of the kaave who tried to and, when the passengers ran over in China M. and Mme. Fred Leyte accompanying chit disclosed that wife, left Belgium for China, and and that it contained a sample of a note, that fatal note Shudder landlord also pay for his? What be extinguished. In reply to the pall the Cid's beard when the great to one side of the launch, she cap- have left Amoy for Home. Some it came from the Inspector of soon afterwards went to Amoy, large crop of onions, grown by the ing I recalled when I had is more, have you ever heard question Who said that?" one warrior, was dead and the swift sized and later sank, heard it last. Should I ever forget ignorance accepted as no excuse in lad, whose logical faculties were vengeance that had followed
greater than his knowledge of Beard beaver Starcely had The crew of a fishing boat where M. Leyte represented the pupils at the Tai Wai School the dumb terror with which he died, a court of law? You have not!
history, wrote down These I begun to marvel at this strange lying at anchor in one of the bays Shanghai Life Insurance Co. Soon out in the New Territories. the last agonised look he gave me } r
The Mr.Leslie Haynes words were, sald by Sir Walter modera craze than imperial Cessar of Lantau Island on Thursday afterwards, he took over the agency Gardening is being encouraged who is now serving Raleigh to Sir Philip Sydney, strode into my mind with his night, planned and carried out of Douglas Espralk & Co., and as much as possible six months in the when he introduced tobacco pathetic laurel wreath failing to surprise hitack on the master of the later that of Jardine, Matheson & schools, especially in
rompeat the boldness which unkind junk-hlawild and younger brother, Co. also,, with all the subsidiary Territories, and whoret
THE
WHITE
Even now I could see the purple streach, almost feel its thick, warm How- Murati, mier fonti Muthukes Macbeth, ever dodge some hideous phantom? Must this
lody become my Banquoi ? abosti Must Aanah! The music reached frenzy pitch Hence, hence,hórri»
course he finds it befor
tradition ayers, caused him much; Choppers Wertonutsed, and--tho- bitter anguish. And, thinking employers overpowered after about this once proud man, long struggle. The mutinous crew put off bsince dead and turned to clay, dinghy to Lantau taking with Ona report being made what were those lines which took them fancy only this week) Oni to the
After a residence of many years
achtofthese rare big enough.faiy
money, goes (0- fund for the ben
Invited to
coolie) devour