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MEETINGS.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3; 1928.
CONTEST RESULT.
HONGKONG'S POPULAR. PLEASURES
HOW THE $50 TRIM WAS 'WON.
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A WINNER.
:PROGRAMME WORTH FIVE":
DOLLARS!
Rol THOW. They have been over-the soccer coup, that the spirit of
October 5. Twenty-sevonth present, but the minds that will the crowd alters, and passions are
lat 30000, tongneu Wang, and ordinary, annual meeting of the now be brought to bear, upon them demonstrations take place that arul Dairy Farm, Ico & Cold Storage from the angle of view indicated can seemly a disgrice to true sport Co., Ltd. at Co.'s Town Office, 3, result in nothing but good. The and reflect nothing that is good on Lower Albert Road, moon, mezoberie of the Conference meet 20th century civilisation, Bir October D.-Hongkong Hockey
The holder of the following together on an equal.footing, gach Ernest Jardine, the chairman of a Club, annual meeting in the Hang-
theatre programme is requested to seeking not how to relieve the professional club, does not kong Cricket Club Pavilion, 5:30
need to remind us that the only prin
“A splendid response was made to forward same to the China Mail difficulties of the places they repro-blot au football is the genometober 15.-Extraordinary goa- our voting competition in which we office when a coupon to the value sent, but those of the distracted unfairness of the spectators" but oral meetings at Hongkong Hotel, asked for a poll on Hongkong' of $5 will be issued which may be world." "The British Empire can- bis reference to the "noisy and ill Pedder Stroot, of the Hongkong popular pleasures. The number of charged for goods to the same not live for itself alone;
Bra Hotel Co., Ltd., and the Shanghai votes sent in is a sign that the a commonwealth of pestilential" is to the point and Hotels, Ltd., at 11 a.m. and 11.80 strength 19
perhaps reflects the real truth of the a.mm, respectively. tions will grow so far as they matter. Football is a more vigorous amite to bear the burdens of those gone than either tennis or cricket weaker and less fortmate thanand it is likely that the passions are the more readily excited by a game themselves," This thought kept which, whilst it requires skill,
that the R.M.S. "Empress of submitted by the China Mail. labours are bound to achieve success vigour and strength. Players often Russia" will sail from here at
The winner is:- making us all proud and privileged get excited, and that is only natural. 10 a.a. to-morrow instead of at
But it is remarkable that in the main noon.
its
disciplined
minorites who
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Colony does not take its pleasures value with any of the advertisers in Badly. Commopolitan can be the the China Mail. only fitting description of the voters' Star Theatre Programine No. tastes and the judges were afforded 333 issued of Sunday to Tuesday an opportunity of accing, what September 30, to October 2. different people believe to be the
Istendily before the Conference, its 129quires also a certain amount of those interested are reminded most popular of the items in the list Theatres, the Coronet, Star and
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There is nothing more hideously untrue than the slatemont that football crowd, A-great many of!
spectators APU here is omething ennobling in the
obviously! The total output of the Ad- suffering. No man is better for partisans, enger and anxious that ministration's mines for the week- September 22, 1923. safering, though some may be able their particular side shall win, and ending
to stand it without any serious loss. in this their desire is but natural, amounted to 79,068 tons and the But the normal consergence of but it does seen, Hay such partisan-sales during the period to 88,587 suffering is to lower resistance and ship very often overrides the bounds tons.
deterionte character. The of good taste and sees no good in experience of almost anyone will opposing players, linesmen und!
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To-day's Poem.
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(A Road Song.) Where are you going?" he said
Where are you going?" waid-I--| Then he said. "Where the dawn
throws red
The Superintendent of the
To-morrow will be Budget Day
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. '
Miss F. Macgill has joined the staff of the Diocesan Girls School, as natron.
Mr. L. Forster of the University has accepted the Chairmanship of the local branch of the Church of England Men's Society,
the sad experience of watebing Stadium, the stignin, which can he ment reports that 6.9 inches of Botrebe afflicted with a lengthy applied with a certain amount of rainfall, were recorded at the perlups incunble--illness, and they truth to Hongkong, will be removed. Botanic Gardens during the month will have noticed how the patient and spectators of all varieties will of September. hervanes almost daily ore exact-be enabled to watch a gune in ing, more self-cenind, with only feamfort-probably seated, and free! their own sympathy at the sight of from those electric currents which at the Legislative Council, when pain keeping alive solicitude for the set to promote a series of cat-calls, the yearly Finance. Bill will be sufferer. It is ridiculous to imagine vile and valger remarks, and introduced, and a speech on the Colony's programme for the com- that physical disease can make for demustrations of ignorance.
ing year will be delivered by H. E. [moral or intellectual strength, and bad had conditions become in this the Governor. The Budget Bill is the arutyunining power of mental respect in the youth of the Colony to provide for an expenditure of disease is one of the commonplaces that we believe the Schools Football $19,890,302 to cover the public of medical practics. Or if we burn Teague has been abandoned as one services for the year 1974. to sociology we sea the sume lesson. way of getting at of a position What is the naming of the demand which did not reflect happily on! for better housing, better care, and young school boys. If this is true; better training of the young, if it is we should like to question very not that it is as the growing nuch the wisdom of such a course. organism is guarded from the An evil is not to be cured by run neverties of existence that a henithyning away from it. and reliable character is formed? Some struggle and some effort on the part of The individand is always necessary to development, but between that and suffering there is two wide and easily distinguish
able gap. Here the consequence of suffering is again to brutaline fur more than to elevate. With such as
And silver over the sky: survive there may be certain ixrdi-Somewhere the boughs are swing ness exhibited, but it is often at the crifice of the higher qualities, and that is what any student of evolu: tion would expect to fit. For it is by shielding the plant and the animal from the severities of the strugg for existence, and by sur-or what are you drentning?" he 'reading it with such conditions as?
said. minister in its well-being that the of what are you dreaming?" Economie Catiference.
The open-
finer specimens of both nie brought | into existence. Suffering and ing of the Conference as will be;) Captain Henrik Bull desires to
struggle did not bring the finer And he said, "Of camp-fires red was wholly taken up by the specimens of plints or animals into of waking to find that the singing
And a woof of starry sky: express his sincere thanks to all
British Premier's introductory existence, nor does it keep them in a boughs above me swinging friends for sympathy extended in
Teft alone there is not as not a dream of springing Mr. Baldwin has in being. his end bereavement, and especially address. to the Sisters of the French Hospital pressed the members with the of the Euer cultivated To enter winds inughing by."
kinds of pluts or animals that for their attendance during, his lucidity and comprehensiveness of it. would not quickly degenerale. And
And I shouted, "So am I *' and thus an agreeable atmosphere, with altered terus that is true of →→GLENN WARD PRESBACH, fus been created at the commence- Than. It is the shelter from the (struggle which social life gives him inetit.. Very few if any, will what develops his finer qualities, and The China Mail inngine, cavil either at the impres with its withdrawal he soon loses sten, thús vreated or the treatment the qualities which entitle him to be Borokorn, Wroxray, Oct. 2, 1922. meted to the atters touched upon called a civilised being. Finally, if
it be not true that suffering ennobtes |
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ing, Somewhere a thrush is singing, Somewhere the winds are winging
Through places wild and high." And I shouted, "So am I!**
said 1.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
by Mr. Baldwin. Conditions which character, then it follows that every have brought us to the present stuge step towards a genuine civilisation 1769. Įm Europan affairs have norded is an advance towards the ultimate
Patient and careful hunding; and i demoralisation of 'trankind,
and
fis this policy which has been that, as the old Greek romarked, in
absurd. adopted by the Imperial Govern-||
the British Empire as an accident,ment and which we believe hus and in reading the cabled accounte
Presulted in a lessoring of the tension
of the opening of the Imporia! Con-; ference it is only possible to arrive which at times seus almost to have Spectators.
able accident. The fact of the Con-
the members of it have
OCTOBER 3.
A Reuter message states that Mr. Chao Hsui-chu, Chinese to London from Geneva. Chargé d'Affaires, has returned
The Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Victoria (Rev. C. R. Duppuy D.D.) hopes to leave his diocese for England in May next and to return in November or December.
Mr. Frederick Mason, who has been appointed organist to St. John's Cathedral, expects to leave England on October 20, and to arrive here' about a month later.
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CORRECT SOLUTION.
1. DANCING,
2.-SPORT
3. CINEMAS.. 4.MAH JONG. 5.-MOTORING.
6.-PICNICS. 7.-CARDS.
8.—THEATRE.
9.---RACING,
10. READING.
COMPETITION EXPLAINED.
rule will be rigidly enforced in the interest of cinema patrons.
Employees of the three civemas are expressly debamed from claim- Jing the prize.
!
JAZZ INVASION.
PLANNED FOR THE WINTER
Hongkong is due for a jazz invasion this winter. The offensive" has, already begun with the arrival here of the University of Colorado Orchestra abeard the "President & Jackson" and each "President" boat that comes to Hongkong will bring a fresh batch of syncopa- tionists to renew the attack.
An Admiral Line. official who was induced to divulge plans of the campaign this morning explained that arrangements had been made for some of America's most famous jazz orchestras to play aboard the "President" boats on the Far East run. Some of them, he indic- ated had already been heard locally on gramophone rècords and Hong- kong's dancing enthusiasts will doubtless hope that someone will be enterprising enough to give them the opportunity of fox- trotting to the real thing.
The full schedule arranged, with the expected dates of arrival, is as follows:-
October 14, "President Jeffer- son."-Strouts Military Academy, “Sedalia, Mo.
October 26, President Grant.” -Glacier Hotel Orchestra, Glacier Park, Mont,
November 7, "President Madi- son-University of Pennsylvania Orchestra
25,
December
"President Grant."---Anderson's Orchestra,
For the benefit of competitor:, it would not be amiss to explain once
November 19, "President Mc- more how the result is arrived at. Kinley."-Sear's Orchestra, Seat We give a list of twenty items, tle, Wash.
December 1, "President Jack- Readers are asked to pick ten in, order. The votes registered are son."-Reemer's Inland Empire entered into a comprehensive chart Orchestra, Spokane, Wash. and when this is completed the poll December 15, "President is counted. The item with the Jefferson."--Carmody's Orchestra, highest number of votes is first, the Taconia. next second, and so on. This is what is meant by "decided by the general vote". Then each coupon is checked individually with the correct solution," otherwise the choice of all the voters. coupon with the highest number of itoms tallying in correct order with the solution, wins the prize. Mr. Li Tsze-fong, manager of In the event of two or more com the Bank of East Asia in Hong-petitors having the same (highest) kong, had a narrow escape from number of correct items, the prize death when a railway bridge under goes to the reader who sent in the which he had just passed in a coupon with his or her correct motor car collapsed into
items higher up the list than heap of ruins in the recent big those placed correctly by earthquake in Japan.
Additions to the ranks of the Church Missionary Society in South China include Rev. R. D. Shaw for Canton, Miss L. Tracey for Pakhoi, and Mr. C. R. Beecher for Hongkong
Troutdale Hotel, Evergreen, Colo.
January 6, 1924, Madison."-Detroit Orchestra, The
President University
January 18, 1924, "President Mc- Kinley."Garland's Californians, Waldorf Hotel, San Diego, Calif.
January 30, 1924, President Jackson."H. F. Alexander"
Orchestra.
The Health Returns to-day A heavenly day.
Rose at
other competitors. For example, report six cases of small-pox and. seven, and walked out under
if the highest number placed one of typhoid. All the sufferers Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carl have correctly is six and
there are Chinese, the conduct of my Landlord left Europe for Feking. They will are two competitors who have this to Borradale. The grass was arrive there at the end of October number to their credits. A has cover' with a hoar-frost, and will spend the winter at the numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 10 correct which som melted, and Hotel de Peking. Mr. Cari is one and B. has 1,3,5,7,8, and 9 correct. coupons. One or two were careless oxhaled in a thin blewish of the oldest American Commis A wins because, in order of merit with their spelling while one voler smoke. Crossed the meadowssioners of Chinese Customs, having he has items 1,3 and 5, the same did not give an address. obliquely catching a diver-served 40 years when he retired, as. B. bet he has No. 6 while B. sity of views among the hilla under the compulsory age regula has as, his next one No. 7. By over the lake and islands, sodtions, five years ago.
virtue of having placed correctly changing prospect at overy
an item higher up, A's list is ten paces.
adjudicated to be of more merit. But if another competitor has seven items correctly placed, even if they are only numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
Gray.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS,
CHINESE EDUCATION.
IMPORTANT DELEGATION.
THE RUNNING.
There never seemed any doubt when a fair portion of the votes were registered, that the first ten were placed although towards the
9 and 10, he or she would win as end, Photography, which finished seven is a higher number than six. eleventh, threatened to displace HOW THE VOTERS VOTED. Reading. The first five were al-
at the fact that it was a very agree-reached breaking-quint. Naturally It does not follow that those who the Conference 31 the outact indulge in sports, or games which ference creates a mild excitement expressed its sorrow with Japan and bring into oposition the powers, physical or mental, of opposing the words of the resolution in their parties, are necessarily sportsmen-| and the imagination is agreeably kindled, for it is good to note that restraint and truth will find general that is possess or acquire those not approval. The whole-hearted tri-virtues which mean fair-play, the Assembled in any vainglorious and bute given to the work of the wants of a desire to take a mean
There is at the moment a body jadvantage, and the power to keep in
of Chinese gentlemen in the braggart spirit, but in that spirit of League of Nations is well-merited control tongue and temper. Many
None of the competitors sont in ways assured of occupying the top Colony, twenty in all who are the correct solution. Where most of half and there was a rare struggle humility which the bearing of everal members of the Conference instances local and otherwise orald
passing through on their way to the voters went wrong was in place between them for supremacy. Only weighty responsibility brings with notably General Simats of Sonthe brought to prove this simple
Yunnanfu to attend the ninth ing Dancing which turned out to be thirty-one votes separated Dancing Convention of the China Educa- the surprise item. A good many and Motoring at the end. Sport. it. It is indeed a Family Council Africa, and Mr. S. 31. Bruce oftement. But here, as elsewhers, the principal bugbear in the matter
tional Board. They are headed placed too much faith in Ma Jongheld the lead at the beginning, was in which the younger inembers of a Australia are out and out supporters of true sport appears to be the
October 3-Coronet Theatre;by the ex-Minister of Educa probably on account of the recent displaced by Cinemas and Dancing spectator. 3d again, instances Charles Ray in "A Tailor Madetion in China, ánd widely scattered family have joined of the Lenguh, and the one
are catching.on of the game. Cards and regained the lead only to spending their time before was also another difficulty. Compe- lose it again towards the end. · to take counsel one with the other veteran almost in the field of politics could be supplied to prove this also Man
The nature of October, 3.
-Star Theatre departing for the Convention titors either setting. it the high or Cinemas never went lower than under the parental eye of the Mother whose visionary apesches during the simple statement.
the game seems to bayc a lot to do "An Accidental Honey-Moon" in visiting the Hongkong Uni- too low in their estimation.
third although Mah Jong only Country These Conferences, at war stumped him as an outstanding with it. One never, or rarely over, 5.30 p.m.
versity, Queen's College and other. A few competitors still write out required three more votes to beat October 3-World Theatre; educational Centres. The Chinese their lists to alphabetical order. it Motoring was fourth for the ano period held every four years, but and wise personality, and the other, witnessen a demonstration on the
Soldiers of Forture"
Y.M.C.A., is dispensing hospitality The explanation given above major part of the contest but Ma interrupted by the war, are now younger in years and experience, tennis courts in the course of a
tournainent_that is unything but October 3-Stair
Theatre; and generally seeing that the brief should readily prove the futility of Jong gradually overhauled it and resupied, and the present, Con- but flushed with the ideal of pouce sporting. The finer points of the Forbes-Russell Comedy, Co, pre-stay in the Colony is made interes- this.
forged ahead Picnics was always Terence if it mesta under the and prosperity, are more thou over game ого watched with intenso sents "Romance," 9 15 pẩn.. ting. Whilst China figures largely One competitor filed in two of a fair sixth. Theatre and Cards
at likely to emphasise that if
October interest and plaudits are awarded A
4-Str
Theatre; in political matters, strifes, and his coupons by taking the first ten were at a respectable distanca happiest auspices, doos. no
when the air is full of closer binding of the Dominions with equal partiality. It is the play Forbes-Russell Comedy Co pre- civil wars, it is seldom that promin of our list in our alphabetical order further back, but Cards boat that matters and secondarily the sents "Blubeard's Eighth Wife." ence is given to news which for one coupon, and the second Theatre for seventh place by a
October Country 14 player. Siuilicly with cricket. pressing problems which affect with
Theatre; reflects the greatest credit on some half for the other!
close margin. Racing was a poor not merely Great Britain and essential, a Commonwealth of all Barracking has been known to take Forbes-Russell Comedy Co., pre of China's leaders of light and
Competitors who sent in more ninth and Reading а bad the Nations of the world in one place on some of our more famous sents "Prg O' My Heart," 9.15 p.m. leading, as in the case of the De- than one compon will be well teath. Of the non-winners, her dominions, but the world
legation mentioned. well. It is admitted that the Con-League is more and more a desireda- cricket pitches, where the crowd bin
advised to vary their choice as this Photography only seemed likely October 6-8.-Hongkong Jockey become tired with the stone-wall Club's fourth Gymkbens.
increases their chances. One to get in. Much further back and Lorenos is not likely to yield serious tum and must become an actual and taction of certain of the players, but
choice throughout means that they strung out In the order given were will have decisions beyond the very valuable living reality if civilisation is not we imagine that the terms of con
October 4. Lammert Bros., at
only one chance Concerts, Shopping, Walking Why lot the children rack their little irrespective of the number of Singing and Radio, Amateur work of framing a common policy merely to continue but to perfect tent have been more ironic than the premises of the Hongkong Stoel boiler is such diste saint mangor when coupons. Vary your selections in Theatricals and Gardening were in regard to pending international itself and become a forgo for world is abole ricket crowd whilst ally Foundry Co. Ltd. (Shaukiwan you can so sully a rather coll with a future,
of Chamberlain's Cough Rem dy 1;
disappointing while Painting and questions. -- Dalinito, decisioniTM will righteousness. The inrious matter penting cricket crowds whilst see Road)-the-complete-foundry placky" for sie by all "Chemiata and lore: The judges would, appreciate Sketchingy were, decidedly not:
probably
from emanate
tho Mother
ing cricket, et encket. It is when 10:80.2. the touched upon by Mr. Baldwin are we come to football-principally |
5-Star
BPORT.
AUCTIONS.
Children's Colds,
typewritten or blook lettored ink popular.