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THE CHINA MAIL.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1923
PRESIDENT.
of French DEATH OF MR. G. TAYLOR
"Custom lica upon thee with a
You can never kiss and throbbing beauty. Later on WAGONBOY wadght:
KISSING. ari unexpectedly, we may expect to see similar signs Heavy, as frost and deep almost is to kiss her a little sooner than banat
The best you can do in English and Chinese, for the
af course as life."
she expected.
passengers.
There are many who have the fortitude to pay the price; but, there are fewer who can keep what they have bought. As Mr. Kipling
SKYLARKING."
FUN WITH A RICSHA..
"KING'S" PRIVATES' CAUTIONED.
If we rond and bear
A postage to Lord Robert The American Flag, draped in Skylarking" with a private BRNOH all we believe, we CHOIL, Cecil is relieved from the crape, was flown at half-mast toricsha in Queen's Road Central a HUMOUR.“must conclude there
Dewa-unexciting by rea-day-outside the offices of the about midnight last night by two nto no Darlinga sit-son of the fact that it will free him American Express Co., in Queen's privates of the King's Regiment, observed, a man “may be festoqueding on our local bench-or benchès. [from much political work and give Road, out of respect for the formed the basis of a case at the We mean those given to quips and him more time for the work of the memory of the late Mr. George Magistracy this morning, taken by jokes that enliven the proceedings Logue of Nations. This is all to Taylor, whose death occurred on Mr. B. W. Hamilton. and broaden the smile on the face the good. The League is appar- Sunday morning. A brief cable
Privates E. Hart (21) and E..
with the whole haberdashery of success, and go to his grave a cast away. Some hold that the risk
is
it is to these latter that Mr. Kipling has spoken.
"At any price that I can pay, let me own myself."
died from heart disease. Nr.
40
of policemen for it in policy antly the only hope for Europe and despatch, received this morning, Cottell (29) were charged with caut worth taking. Others do not" and always to laugh at the jokes of the the world-Mussolinis and Poin- announced that Mr. Taylor hading damage to a Mr. Pang's ricsha
providing magistrate. We are in. cares, notwithstanding. able to keep track of those who
Taylor, who was 55 years of age, to the extent of about $10. I dispenso justice. One day a men is
Patrons of the Hongkong had been President of the Company appears that one of them had ridden compiling Harbour returna, plant BAND. Hotel, will we imagine for 10 years. He joined the firm in the vehicle as passenger, the olhar
wagon-boy appreciate the latest im-as ing goods in the New Territory,
years acting as puller and vice versa until.. packing off snakes to the London provement made by the manage ago and had worked his way the footrest broke through being. And the price is worth paying Zoo; selling postage stamps, or ment. The band of the Hotel has to the top of the ladder, an stamped upon.
After Sergeant Kirkby had given- vaccinating people and the next now bean moved to the head of the achievement of which he was if you koop what you have lo and bebold his entries are great-man staircase.
This is all to the justly proud. Mr. Taylor was well evidence, defendants declined to His Worship bought. For the eternal questioned with the cry of "silence in good. Hitherto the Lounge was not known in business circles through make a statement. still is whether the profit of any Court." Under these devastating quite big enough, but now the out the United States and at the then asked a sergeant of the defend
time of his death was alsoPresident ants' company ("C") if they would comosssion that a man makes to conditions it is too much to expect music "filters" through in his Tribe, against the light that our great Paide to atter the joke pleasant manner, making it we of the American Railway Express be dealt with by the military convulsiva, They deal in sentences imagine more enjoyable. We hope Company which is affiliated with authorities after being punished by is in him, outweighs or justifies and they atter them without the the management will adopt our own the American Express Company. him (tho Magistrate.) The ser hie disregard of that light. A option of a witticism. They are oft-repeated suggestion and make ́LOONGSANG" WRECK.
very
man may apply his. independence however all Fine, men with an known the names of the pieces to what is called worldly advait-imposing nature. Age does not played, in printed form. tage, and discover too late that he wither, nor custom stale their laboriously has made himself infinite variety. They are all men
dependent on a mass of external of judgment and hold the scales of To-day's Poem. conditions for the maintenance of justice to the manner born.
of which he sacrificed himself."
Manuscripts.
The average child of to. JAZZ. day does not seem satis- fied unless he or she can The news that Joseph Conrad's manuscripts had brought such high ait down and thump out some Jazz. prices at auction in America was I know when I ask my own girls interesting. Some wondered if the to play some Bach or Beethoven, hugo suus obtained would go to be they say: "Mother, are you crazy? Polish-English writer, but is Why Bach? Now I admit. Bach, is evident that nat one cent will find for the pedagogues, but Beethoven ils way into the novelist's pockets. is different. Julia Claussen. The manuscripts in question went the property of an American a Mr.
Any absent minded John Quinn. It is not quite clear
LIBRARY. Artist might say with
reference to whether Mr. Quinn anticipated, or
our was influenced by Mr. Conrad's Museum and Library, rub it out If there is any yoga, to buy up all the manu-and do another." scripts there were to buy. In any more depressing place in Hongkong caso it my be doubted if the manu- in the evening, we don't want to scripts of any author have been hear of it. Pay a visit soine even- collected with the same success as ing-especially when you are in the that which hns attended Mr. full bloom of optimism and the Quino's efforts with regard to world's outlook is roses, roses all Conrad 88. The interest of the the way." and come away Conrad munuscripts is greatly bopes and ideals shuttered. The enhanced by the personal and other place is a travesty. A slum district details which the author has added at Home would be ashamed to own to each-details which could be such a place and would cry "away Is there no possibility of known only to the author bigself. with it." To many the purchase of what may brightening the one spot which is be regarded unproductive stuff, an outward evidence of someone's valulegs in some respects, will be interest in the cause of the babit of
reading? regarded with surprise, and people will wonder wherein lice the attrac tion in collecting and purchasing 16 In the present instance.
We can only repeat the closing sentence of a recent note on "Collecting" which may sum up the matter :-
"It is not beauty nor utility nor rendition which stimulates the collector: it is the chase."
with
(Scythe Song.) Mowers, weary and brown
blithe, What is the word methinks
know-
and
+
WARNING TO SHIPPING.
The Harbour Office warns ship
ping to keep a hundred yards clear of the "Loongsang" wreck while explosions in connection with the ye breaking up of the vessel are in!
progress. When explosions are taking place a black ball under a red flag will be hoisted on the "Loongsang" and a bell sounded continuously during the day time. At night the bell will be sounded and three red lights hoisted.
Endless over-word that the scythe
Bings to the blades of grass below? Scythes that swing in grass and
clover,
Bomething, still they say me they
pass;
What is the word that, over and
over,
Sings the scythe to the flowers
and grass. Hush, oly kush, the scythes are 50y-
ing, Hush, and heed not, and fall
asleep,
Hush, they say to the grasses sway-
ing
Hush, they sing to the clover
deep!
Hushtia the lullaby Time is sing
ing
Hush, and heed not, for all things
pass, Hush, oh hush! and the ecythes are
swinging Over the clover, over the grass. -ANDREW LANG.
What happens to riders Ripes. which Juries append to
their verdicta? Who 1787. sends them on to their right dee- tination, and are thess in turn ever dealt with? Has anyone ever heard of a rider being sent or even considered? We should like to know.
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LOGAL AND GENERÁL. '
Will Iron Bux kindly forward his address to this office.
The annual Golf match Andrews versus St. George's be played on December 9.
geant's reply was not audible but be wae haard to give the privatem good characters as soldiers. Hi Worship ultimately decided to order 19 payment of $6 compensation be
tween the two men and discharged them with a caution.
TWO PAIRS OF TROUSERS.
CONTRABAND FOUND IN
BOTH..
Possession of an autoristic piitok and 144 rounds of ammunition was the charge preferred in Mr. J. B. Wood's court this morning against a Chinese stoker employed on the 8.8. "Ouderkerk."
At the outset Acting Inspector Spear banded in a document to His Worship. Outlining the case, be St. said that the ship arrived from will Amsterdaan on a round trip to Japan, and back end left last night Yesterday, defendant was seen to leave the nook-house of the ship with a pair of blao dungared trousera in his nem. On being searched, the ammunition found hidden inside the trousers, in six boxes. The pistol was conceal- ed in the pair of trousers defendant actually wore.
There will be a Tea-Dance at the Helena May Institute on Thurs day, November 22nd, at 5.30 p.m. Tickets, to be obtained from the
Secretary, $1 each-Adot.
J
Wid
The following telegram dated 19th November has been received from His Britannic Majesty's His Worship at this stage said to Consul General Shanghai Inspector Spear: "Tell the C.8.P... "Quarantine imposed on arrivals that this document does not appear from Hongkong and Canton 17th to be in order and ordered defend- November on account of small ant to stand down.
DOX."
.
GETTING, IN FIRST.
MÜRDER TRIAL PLEA.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
The Reverend Father Louis NOVEMBER 20.
Froc, S.J., Director of Siccawei Observatory, has been awarded the The weather is taking up and Henri d'Orleans Medal by the the ground drying very fast, French Société de Géographie Pleading that he killed the ma which is much wanted in this Commerciale, for his valuable work because he had been threatened and part of Ireland, as I onder in connection with the collation was in fear of his life, a Chine stand in the memory of man and dissemination of meteorologi- named Lam In faced Mr. Justice there has not been more cal Information on the China Coast. Gomperts and
a jury at the damage dope by rain and
Criminal Sessions to-day o2 * flood. I thank God wo A serious accident occurred charge of murder. He was defend- escaped all the whole burri- yesterday at No. 490, Queen's Roaded by Mr. N. 1. Brewer and the cane, though the water rose West in the West Point district, Crown case was conducted by the three feet in the cellar where where a coolie fell from the second Attorney-General (the Hon. Mr. the beer stands.-The Ste-oor of the building into the road ward at Dawson Court.
and was severely injured. The. H. Kemp, K.0.). bullding was in course of demolit lon and the coolie was employed by the firm of contractors respons ible for the work.
IGNORANCE.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mall
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Good is at least done in, one direction, by the news of the sale of
We do not know these manuscripts, and the award A SOLOMON. Sub-Inspector Hot- of the Nobel prize for literature to
china, but would such men as W. B. Yeats. It like to write him down a Solomon. serves to draw attention to these Two Sikhs were before the "beak" writers and to attract readers to the the other day charged with dis According to the speaker inde works of the men whose names have orderly conduct due to a row over pendence means, "Let overy, hor now became so prominent. If there a question of each owing the other ring bang by its own head:** It are any or many such, happy and $5. Our gallant sub suggested that
fortunate are they likely to be in the matter might be met by a fine While our neglect of the great- signifies the blessed state of haug-coming into the glory and glamour of $5 each, the Government gaining books of the warld comes from our St. Andrew's University has for ing on to as few persons and things of fertile and beautiful minde as and the disputant feeling that each not reading at all, or from an in- two years in succession installed a
as possible, and it leads up to the represented in prose and verse of had discharged his debt honourably, corrigible habit of reading the little literary man as its Rector, and for angular privilege of a man owning surpassing quality,
The presiding magistrate refused book, it ends in just the stime two years it has been treated to timeolf. The desire fur indepen
the suggestion,why is not made thing. And that thing is ignorance discourse that makes high in the dence has been up to the present, Write A Memo.
clear. Perhaps our police are not of all the greater literature of the expected to show signs of intelli-world. opinion of those best qualified to Mr. Kipling said, an ineradicable Those who have followed the genoo. The Sub-Inspector may not
-FREDERIC HARRISON, judge of those things. Why humar instruct, antedating even course of the Coroner's enquiry into like it, although we wish to be com literary man should be selected for the social instinct. Independence is Amburg cannot fail to have noticed would make a fine lawyer. In days the death, on November 6, of Mr. plimentary, but it appears to us he this high honour is not quite
s theme to catch the imagination, the slack manner in which com of old he would certainly have been apparent, unless we consider the and a reading of the dress cou-manications are carried on between
a Bolomon. names of those so signully honoured vincas one that the newly-installed the Civil Hospital Authorities and Last year it was Sir James Hurrie, Rector did it ful! justice.
Police Headquarters. The unfor
Demsgagne is a vessel Mrtante Mr. Amburg met his death
that holds beer, gin,{ and if it ever became our lot to Kipling admitted it was akin to by jumping from the verandah of
wine, whisky, or any attain ta a Dictatorship of the carrying coals to Newcastle to speak the Central Police Station to the
other intoxicating King's realms, our first duty of thrift and independence at Bt. court-yard below, when his nerves liquor. privilege rather, would be to broad-
were at high tension through the Andrews. Why did be, do it? For Knowledge that his wife was lying Capidity means a greedy lover.
Garniahpe is an Irish ghost. cast his Roctorial address оп
the very good reason, as The Times at denth's door in the Civil Hospital "Courage" Nothing like it las
Batbos was a drunken king of the over been uttered or panned, and points out that he had something through a does of poison self-Groska.
administered. From the evidence it should live as long as spoken fresh, to say on a subject specially adduced, it appears that the Medical
A Scotsman· WGS language holds away. A text can interesting to his hearers-and not Officer who had mat up the previous
A LIGHT travelling, and after easily be made for the address is only to his hearers, but, to that night with Amburg (at Mrs.
Alling his pipe says to now in book form and worthy a larger constituency beyond the con- Amburg's bed-side), and formed the A., "Can you obloge me with a
impression that Amburg was in match ?" high place in any library. This fines of St. Andrew's, for it must such distress that he might do
He appeals to B., who replies, year the Rector appointed is fud-be admitted that independence, anything to himself. The Medi-Just used my laat one Handy 9.15 p.m. yard Kipling and his address to material and spiritual, was never so cal Officer thoughts or turns to C., who shakes his head. studente has been on the privileges necessary is in these difficult days, about the matter that he was D. is moozing in a corner of the December
anxious to get Amburg off the pre- of Independence. Given a thought The text is a familiar one to Mr.miges and to give him in charge of Caringe Bandy rouses him and to the occasion, to those before Kipling, for its doctrine runs like the police. Dr. Smalley stated at asks for a match. D. feels in all his whom he was speaking-in. the a connecting thread through all his the enquiry that he rang up the packets and searches his handbag in main Scottish students in the first work. In 1914 it was his inesenge Police Department, giving doqnite vain, flush of their manhood, the speaker to our race:~~
himself, and it is perhaps not diffi cult to realise that the theme was The old Commandments stand worthy the occasion, the speaker In courage koop your heart, and the audience. Mr. KiplingIn strength lift up your hand. quoted-Robert-Burns and the lineath by
themselves are worth engraving on. To the young man whom the minds of every mari :---
-Ta ostob-Dame-Forttine's gol
iduous wait upert bisz
gold by every Justified by
Kipling addressed, the exho
to own themselves,, us
mentar
rould ba sco
SCHOOL'S
IN.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
By the Crown it was alleged that Lam killed a man named WanLeang with an axe in a lane at Shaukiwan West. The prisoner admitted this when he was charged with murder but mid that Wan had assaulted him several times because be bad refused to join a triad socioty. Later on, at the Police Court, be Mr., Mrs, and Miss M. Denison alleged that the dead man had tried returned to the Colony from to squeeze him for $80 and had England on Saturday.
threatened to about him. L naerted that if his had not killed, the deceased that night the latter would have killed him.
The Colonial Official announcos that H. R. H. the Prince of Wales will visit South Africa next year.
This was, according to the Attor- Mrs. W. J. Carroll, Mr. and Mrs.oy-General's submission to the Chan Siu-ki, and Mr. U. Sze-wing jury, a clear confession of acta were passengers on the incoming amounting in law to murder. "President McKisley." -
There was no suggestion in the prisoner's statements that he acted Mr. Frank William Nalder, who immediate defence of his 'own' has joined the firm of Messrs.lifa and there was not sufficient November 20-Coronet Theatre; Deacon, Shenton and Harston, justification in law for the accused Jack Pickford : in "Garrison's applied at the Supreme Court taking the law into his own hands Finish."
yesterday, to be admitted as a and killing the man who threatened November 20-Star Theatre: solicitor, the motion for his admits him. The Crown were, however, Allee Terry in "The Prisoner of sion being moved by the Attorney prepared to accept the prisoner's- Zenda"
general (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp statements that he was threatened." November 20-World Theatre: KC) In granting the application and, though this was not sufficient ** The Midnight Guest.” *::
and wishing him every success, the to reduce the crime below murdere, November 20-The Grand Theatre: Chief Justice (Sir William Rees Mr. Kemp thought he might pro Mary Pickford in "Little Lord Davies KC) commented on Mr. perly tell the jury that they were
Nalder's exceptional height he is at liberty to add any recommenda Fauntleroy
December 3-Theatre Royal; Gft 4ins. That," said His Worship, time they might think fit to their Piano Recital by Mr. Harry Ore, should be a very excellent point verdict, ligh
in your favour amongst ftigants
The case had not been. concluded: In Hongkong."
when this edition went to prom. :
SPORT/
1-Next Tourne-
ment of the Hongkong Boring December 1.Hongkong Jockey Assen, at the Theatre Royal Club's extra gymkhana.
SOCIAL.
November 20-27--Hoog-kong St. Andrew's Society Practice Dance
November 26-Lantern Lecture at Helena May Institute by Dr. J. L Shellshear, D.SO. 15.30 pm.buried Novamber -27 — The Hongkong A Educational effort Lin, Male, 1650 Chair, Cathedral Häli,
dire
information that this man's mind A lang pause, Sandy looks wist was such that he might commit fully round at all the occupants of suicide. He also said in evidence the carriage, and then, taking a box that be give Bergeant Murphy the of matches out of his pocket, says same information when be escorted Weel, gentlemen, I fust must use Amborg from the Hospital en route one of my sin." to the Central Police Station... Bergeant Murphy seems to have Milderstood the purport of DevPAKU
Bradley's statement--and there la récord of the mceengé bavi heen sent over the teles
BEAUTY.
!
Besutry is that ephemeral and frail delight. That in cupped blossoms trembles, and is gone, The willowed, still reflection of a swin Before the mirror ripples Into light, The whispered wind that whern, in the night Upon the scented air of Calydon,
TIMON