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chapel lecture, he was called upon
to pray. He prayed. The explana tion of course may be that the man is young, and not like that one if he were saved," replied-"No, who when asked by General Booth To a reporter."
(Triolet)
And there is but one sound As of a bird, singing. The wood is spell-bound,
Out of the still ground And there is but this one sound.
Seven gaudy flowers are spring-
nake ragged paths smooth-and being asked to say grace. He said To-day's Foom. in that endeavour, most right-it. At his next engagement, a minded men will wish it well, So far it has done well, it is, strange as it may seem, idealistic. It holds, seemingly, that life without ideals, is nothing, and is prepared to live by its own conception of true Ideals. That at least 1 honest
Unexciting and uneventful has been the week end? We hardly think so.
Flowers and Music.
-Honor F. Leske.
TUESDAY MAROH - 25
CHINA'S YOUNG IDEA.
WHAT THE "CHIN WOO" IS DOING.
UNIQUE SHOW AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
SHARE BOOM,
BIG BUSINESS DONE
RECORD. MARCH SETTLEMENT.
Despite dolorous predictions to the contrary, the March settlement appears so far to have passed off Small Chinese boys whirling without any sensational happen huge swords around their headsings on the Rialto and the rumours and, grotesquely costumed in that certain brokers were likely to clownish rigs, performing a quaint be badly hit do not seem to have ballet, Chinese flappers swinging been justified Having met a week an equally nimble blade and then on so ago to arrange set offs, the dancing a graceful, pas a deux brokers were. well prepared those were some of the sights scoa and most of them seemed. in the hall of Queen's College quite happy about the way. yesterday afternoon, wher pro- things were going th A mild morning. William Athletic Association gave a demotis a fairly heavy one and this year it minent members of the Chin Woo The March settlement is usually worked at the Cuckoo poem.stration of the form of physical cul- has been complicated by the I sewed beside him ture which it is their purpose to issue of new capital involved in I hear nothing gave the persuade the young Idea of China breathing of my Beloved-to take up. Dorothy Wordsworth.
WEATHER CALENDAR.*
MARCH 26,
What are we to And there is but one sound DRINK Finsbury padra re- DRINK make of this A As of a bird, singing. cently appealed to the licensing bench to extend the time for closing public houses from 9 to 10 pm on Sundays. He thought 9 p.m. kept men away from church, whereas if it was 10 p.m. they could go to church in comfort and obtain refreshment afterwards. This seems crudely If humorously 1802. put. A dry sermon would produce "wet" evening evidently. But we cannot imagine any "pub” In Finsbury full of church-goers dis- cusing the sermon over a pint of four half.
ACTORS
TO HUMANITY.
the case of several of the com panies managed by Messrs.Shewan It was altogether a unique show. Tomes and Company. Ice House The hall was filled with scholars Street was a scene of much activity from Queen's College, who ap- this moming, brokers and broker's plauded the performances. with clerks scudding up and down with much warmth, and members of the bundles of cheques and scrip like teaching staff, who looked on with ants on an antheap
What is great, what is inspir-evident Interest. Under the One hroker” who was interv ing to the actions of public men genial supervision of Mr. Tang, a lewed this afternoon. declar belongs not to parties, not to squad of boys kept the small fry ed that the settlement was nations, but to the whole of occupying the front stalls" in a maslly a record for Hongkong. permanent state of apprehension He estimated that in Ice House by their smartly performed évolu street alone the business done in- manity.
tlons with a sort of Chinese, wolyed $50,000.000 and that the claymore and following this came firms who handled it would share a vimful exhibition of kung fu, or somewhere about $1,000,000 in Chinese boxing brokerage.
Ramsay MacDonald.
The correspondent whose letter appears in this leave broaches a subject which has interested our pen on more than one occasion. Briefly, it is open-air music. But his suggestion is somewhat more attractive than ours and deserves more support than it is likely to receive. Briefly he urges that there should be. Sunday Music 'in
Day by day is the the Botanical Gardens during the
profession of the coming summer. It is an idea
Actor being recognis which commands our whole-heart-ed as that of a high calling. Our ed support. The situation of the awn Colonial Secretary-the one gardens is ideal. There is space in London-has just been paying and there is colour-the colour of his tribute to their work. It is SALE the flowers which grace the Interesting to know that there is botanical gardens. Instead of the an Actors' Church Union and that visiting theatrical companies to few Europeans who evidently.
Hongkong are early Informed spend some time amongst the where St. John's Cathedral is and the flowers, crowds would fore the hours of the Services. gather to drink in the music and to gain refreshment from the riot
It must be a of colour which the gardens give.
EDUCATION source of con It only needs a little energy and
siderable salis, enterprise on the part of some faction to those interested-in what public spirited persons
may be described as the "From Surrey Band Committee might be Log Cabin to White House induced to reduce their fee and so movement.to bear that of the 249"Pair Lady make it possible for the experi-London County Council school- ment to be tried. Our memory children, sons and daughters of The Abysmal Brute, 5.30 p.m. recalla the visit of the Manila artisan parents who want Police Band of a hundred strong universities during the preceding who filled the gardens with music four years, eighty per cent passed of a surpassing quality and with first or second class honours enchanted a delighted and “a` diverse crowd of residents. Since then the only open-air music is that provided each Tuesday at the bottom of Garden Road to a very fortunate officers mess.
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Coming Events Adve
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ENTERTAINMENTS,
March 25-Coronet Theatre;
March 25-Star Theatre
TAI LEE PIRACY.
·FURTHER EVIDENCE
Mr. Lo Wei-tsong, one of the Shares showed a tendency to directors in Shanghai of the Chinrise during the morning › but: Woo, who had earlier explained to mostly went back to their normal the gathering the objects aimed level... atby the system of physical culture the association teaches, proceeded to practise what he had preached by demonstrating, with the help of Mr. Yao Shur-pao a number of useful holds and grips which might be used in self-defence Kaai's Royal Hawalian Troubad Clad only in tiger skins they look ed a picturesque pair and certainly March 25-World Theatre proved themselves exceedingly Herbert Rawlinson in "The capable exponents of their art
Royal,
ours, 9.15 p.m. pant
Clean-Up."
SOCIAL
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Those who desire #
March 29.-Theatre GERMANY. glimpse of condiGrand Concert, 9.15 p.m.
tions in Germany, might very well spend an hour or April 12-Public Dinner to Sir two over a book of short stories William Rees Davies st Hongkong called "Defeat" written by Hotel, 8.p.m.ANDA Geoffrey Moss, Moss is an English
SPORT.
HEARD....
THE PILOT'S STORY.
Further evidence was taken at the inquiry this afternoon into But the piece de resistance, as far the death of Captain Willox of as the audience was concerned, the "Tai Lce" when that ship was was unquestionably the comic pirated. As at previous sittings, ballet in which half a dozen Mr. R. E. Lindsell conducted the Queen's College boys participated, inquiry and the jury comprised Dressed as clowns, they wore Messrs. H. B. B. Hancock, F. A. absurd masks and their antics.
April 28t Andrew's Fete in made them appear for all the Perry and AF. B. Silva-Neto, Mr. Major who knows conditions. He the Church Hall and grounds, world like a collection of mechani W. B. Hind appeared on behalf of has not written in any spirt of Kowloon, 2.30 p.m.
cal toys The basic principle the Coast Officers' and Marine vindictiveness or as an act of
underlying this performance is Engineers Guilds and Mr. C. G. propaganda. He would probably Marah 27-28Royal Artillery that it must be done to music andit Perdue, Assistant Director of say he has just written a series of Athletic Meeting at U.S.R.C. said much for the training of Criminal Intelligence, represented short stories. Those who, In.
the addition to liking a good story, Ground, Kowloon.
youngsters that, owing the Police. Lieut. R. R. Beau-M
the desire also style in writing, will Sanders and officers of the Royal lost the key of the cabinet Coroner.
March 28-Licnt. Col. W. 0: 8.to the fact that someone had champ, R.Neat with not be disappointed in the book.
Artillery at home" to their containing the musician's Instru At the outset His Worship an
ments, they did their "tum" nounced that a letter had been friends, 3 and 6 p.m..
March 21-HK Jockey Club remarkably well without other received from the hospital at Pak- accompaniment than a sort of kal to the effect that Captain extra race meeting...
sing song chant by their Instructor. Willox made no statement there swords had been requisitioned to and consented to an operation by break open the music box, and the a nod of his head. The doctor was March 25-Lammert Bros at musicians had fished out their of the opinion that Captain Will- No. 8 Gascoigne Road. Kowloon instruments, clamorous demands cox could not have made n state-
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to be intimidated by Snap divisions: Business only is meant and only where the fraue is of national im- portance will an adverse vote in Bence the Government in its decision either to carry on or resign.
MALES V. FEMALES
Amil 3-Amul Athletic Sports of the University of Hongkong
p.m.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
valuable household furniture, 280 An interesting March 25-At No. 6 Catchick topic of debate has Street, Kennedy Town, a large as been raised by the sortment of hardware, 10.30a.m. late Mrs E. J. Tweedy of Truro
Later when one of the "property??
ment
for an encore were yielded to and they repeated their quaint per Chan Ng, No. 1 pilot of the "Tai formance with added gusto. Lee for the past three years, How far the modern young testified, that he was on board on woman of China has succeeded the might of January 20. (the date COMPANY MEETINGS.
in overstepping the bounds of the piracy) and went on the March 27 Fifty-fifth reeking of previously imposed upon her by bridge at midnight to relieve the shareholders of the E.K. Fire In- prejudice and tradition may be No. 2 pilot. The ship was then at strance Co., Ltd. at Mesas gauged from the fact that anchor at Whangmoon. She got Jardine Matheson's offices, noon.
three Chinese girls from Canton under weigh at 12:30 but no pas- March 29 Further extraordin- took part in the programme and sangers came on board. When males, who have their profes-ary general meeting of the Hong followed an exhibition of sword the ship got under weigh, the sional income, so the share of kong Land Reclamation Co., Ltd., dancing and kung fu with some Captain went off duty, witness each niece shall be double the at Messrs. Jardine Matheson's thing rather less martial in the took charge of the bridge with the
Offices, 11 am. shape of an elegant minuet with
"I feel that females are the 'more in need of assistance than
share of each nephew.”
HONGKONG CIGAR the Medical Faculty of the Univer- sity. The gift has at least one interesting feature about it. We do not know what are the guiding principles covering these gifts gifts which have been made in other parts of China--and whe. ther they are bestowed on medical | objects, which seems to be the case. Carnegie endowed Libraries and assisted to build Church organe during his lifetime and who in leaving a mere £14,000 could see whether benefits accrued said as the result of his gifts. John Rockefeller bestows a part of his great wealth in these princely gifts to Universities in further ance of medical: ameliorative *** effort amongst Chinese, when, one
would have thought the advance
March 29-Ordinary Meeting of which their juvenile audience was quartermaster at the wheel. Wit ment of, say, engineering, would..cerned agree.
We wonder if the nephews con- Donglas Steamship Co. Ltd. a obviously, as one of the lady tea- ness noticed a man standing near the past, and the hope for the have been his first thought. It
Company's offices 20, Des Voeux chers put it, “tickled to death the dodger on the starboard side Rond 11 s.m. the l future-a distinctly pleasant seems to hinge on the question of
Lank in London March 31-Forty-sixth annual As an exhibition of Chinese and three men climbed up to the MELLOWS.On March 21, 1924, horizon. The afternoon is perhaps teeming millions of Chinese,, or what really is the first need of the
has a male voice meeting of shareholders of the Calisthenics the performance was bridge. At this time the chief Kate Chiko, wife of Mr. T.
choir which sings China Sugar Refining Co. extremely interesting and the Chin officer was on the side of the Mellows, ex-Superintendent no different from the many that of the things that are most at the Lenten Services arranged Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Offices, Woo Association whose motto bridge, having come up to relieve appears to be something like our the captainTwo of these three of the River Police, aged 50 have spelled a brief release from a pressing. We imagine most by a padre for business houses. 11a.m.
own hens and in corpore sano men pointed firearms at me while week's tedium of routine work, or people will applaud these gifts in No-one has ever heard of a service OTHER MEETINGS deserve high praise for their the third went to the port dodger.
March 25-Thirty-eighth yearly some piece of work accomplished the lifetime of the man able to for business men in Hongkong.
make them, and the nature of It has never been tried. meeting of Members of the Hong efforts in this way to advance the Meanwhile I heard shots fired. that has engaged our earnest them as in the case of the Rocks Perhaps the Bank might help by keng Cinb, in the Club House, 6.30 physical development of China's I could not see the chief officer attention. That the Club won its feller Foundation. It not only are willing to do our bit and as an medinary General Meeting immedia-Headmaster (Mr. B. T. Tanner the men around me as It was The China Mail, engagement, and thereby the strengthens the University on its evidence of that offer as a sample, tely after se
forming a male Voice Choir, Wenm to be followed by an extra youth, Thanks expressed by the then Neither could I recognise
to Mr. Lo Wei-tsong and cheers medical side but at once becomes the first verse in our quartette for March 27-Third annual general entertaining afternoon called bad names and threatened for all concerned ended a highly dark and raining." Witness was League may not have been worth a source of benefit to mankind to Broker, Merchant Depositor and meeting of the British Legion in the HONGKONG TUESDAY, MAR. 26, 14. cabling home as a piece of news, which the future will abundantly Bink manager. It is in four bars, Board mom of Meere Jardine
but it brought its satisfaction its testify.
36 time (fluctuating) and is in the Matheson Ltd 5.80 p.m. congratulations and its comment,
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Sultan March 23 ---Amial meeting of Members of the Association of ex- and thereby achieved a fleeting
porters and dealers of Hongkong, Uneventful and anexciting may fame. We are not
Chatered Bank Building, 4 p.m.
LOGAL AND GENERAL ›
yeurs.
-'
A WEEK END.
probably be applied to the period about it but not quite sure
BARCLAY'S
Sing us a song of an overdraft And Bills and Cheques galore Of Exchange rates that send
men daft.
And sigh for the Golden shore.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Alighting from a moving tram in Des Voeux Road West yester day, a young Chinese, was so badly injured in the head, that he school later died at the Government Civil
Hospital without regaining cogs Marchcingsness,
with being shat unless he kept a clear look-out ahead and obeyed all orders: Witness saw none of the crew about. The boatswain was not on the bridge and witness did not see him. Two armed men, who were strangers to him, re-
"A new season of seems all to the IOLANTHE Gilbert and Sullivan
guard over him opera in London Is of a brief respite lasting from good that whilst we buy plots of
course in the meeting with the usual success. It Saturday until Monday. But can earth, known as Military Lands opened with Iolantho. For over
direct of Kongmoon. The it be said that any day or period for not insignificant sums, we are 40 years the sentry in his famous
instructed him to make wo dubba'd athletic, sports will be
stra of time is either uneventful or content to let a Club given over Every boy and every gal, that's
song in this opera has declared that CISSY SHIRTS them last sum- Happy Valley on Frids
for West Ma Ling, he navigated the ship ingly and gave the inexciting. The moments as they to healthy sports keep possession born into this world alive, is eithering what the correct name was sent the shield and trophies at i
mer cot know- 28 H E The Governor will
Manila March 24-The Gon necessary orders to the quarter- pass have something momentous of quite the best p
best plece of valuable a little Liberal, or else a little Now we have discovered it. Our conclusion of the sports, f stabulary have received
asterAt the place indicated; he was ordered to slow down and for someone or other; something land in the whole Island. A policy disputed, and sightly so for bave Clay Shirt should be penerally A Concert will be given by land, mostly sherm
Conservative. The claim is now idea was that the adoption of the tower tow that ther inhabitants".
then go astearn. Witnessy' was to think about probably some of "lungs in such a community we not a Labour party? There is adopted by men during the the Hongkong Male Voice Choir Heved to laye been
told to stop the ship and the thing to act upon. Saturday saw and place as ours is very desirable, work here for a versifier to recast summer. We argued that it was at the Helena May Institute on volcano eruption on March 1. The anchora dropped,
the the departure of not a few of But that is a passing thought and The nearest we can get our the hotness of tight collar, and Tickets it cach to be obtained lies in the Nor
bited and; the lines to bring in the third party cool freed the neck from Tuesday, April 8, at 5.30 pm. Island Te sparsel
Whistle those who have spent the best quite apart from the free from prentice hand to it is in a sense added to the appearance, from the Secretary of the Institute, the Luzon, yolc
from the shore when there would part of their lives in Hongkong, business-ogres of a Saturday and either a little
al, or else We said that if only one of our and from Members of Committee volcano whicit & Lab; or Conservative.
Ho did not sed leaving the place doubtless with a week end. The visit of fourteen It is not so eat as Gill
unonicials would come to hir office The entire proceede
"be diz.known as Stith's but in a Clusy Shirt, word, would go devoted to "the many sighs and not a few fears, Bishops may have been reflected – then we have had so it i
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