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and no prosperity in England until you have the masses of your people at work, and work- ing with a prospect of good wages and of bettering their conditions.
the street below, or the washing of them at odd times, often again to the discomfort of pedestrians. Observers, also notice that the space of verandahs is given up to all manner of uses-principally to This has been described as those for which they were never "encommon frankness"-uncom mon probably because politicians intended-the stacking of them of certain grades of thought have, with household goods, or mer in the past, not been went to speak chandise, to a considerable extent so directly, and, shall we say ?, so It does not need the export to sympathetically. But this is the know that verandahs add coolth, head of the Government knows age of the cloth cap, when the and properly used should be the what poverty means, and the men, most inviting part of houses anilor most of them, who surround premises. These somewhat dis-end support him, know what it cursive reniarks may not add very when there is no work waiting to is to inbour and what, it means much to what seems likely to be done, and consequently nothing become a "burning" question. We with which to replenish the larder must "wait and 'sec"-wait until ás a result. An agreement, with the Authorities make known the Russia opening up markets for some years closed; the adoption reasons that prompt them to with of the draw what the looker-on seems to think has been an immemorial
custom--and see if the reasons are
adequate. There seems no ques- tion that in some of our congested äreas, more space is sadly needed. If verandahs obstruct in this direction, then verandahs must go.
Mosquitoes.
The Sanitary Board, with com- mendable promptitude, is issuing, to European residents a little booklet of live pages "concerning mosquitoes and malaria" which we trust will be carefully read, digested, and its hints acted upon. The matter of the reprint is some fourteen years old, having been compiled by a former Medica! Officer of Health, and has not been
cultured and a keen student, whe had devoloped bibliomania, His appetite for literature could not be satisfied. He had read books of i very advanced character, and most of those stolen he had put on his shelves for the sheer joy of gloat Ing over them.
It may sound very wicked, but have a great deal of sympathy for Charles Henry Alien.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1924,
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
FROM AULD REEKIE. Godown No. 18, West Point, 2,963 LETTER FOR SCOTS ABROAD.
April 25.-Lammert Bros., at
sacks flour, 11 am.
April 28.-Lammert Bros., la, Armand Bldgs., Kimberley Road, Kowloon, household furniture, 2.45 p.m.
HOME RULE.
Hitherto home rule has been June 11-Lammert. Bron. at associated with Ireland's age-old the premises of the F.K. Tramway wrongs, but Irishmen now have Co., Ltd, Bowrington Canal Rd., their affairs in their own hards Flderly Golfing East, steam driven electric generat-and this leaves the British Partin- MORDANT, Father: I beating plant, 8 p.m. hole-just by the skin of my teeth,
ment free to give its attention to Jones at the last
COMPANY MEETINGS.
-Scotch home rule. Whilst the The Enfant Terrible: You can't mual meeting of shareholders of the to having Parliament as the Irish April · 30,-Twenty-seventh an-†Scotch are not in a frame of mind say that, father,
E.G.F.: Why, my son?
China Provident Tonn & Mortgage Nationalists did, they certainly ones.
Co. Ltd., at St. George's Building, long for quicker action in certain E.T.: Because yours are false Connaught Rong, 11a.m. affairs relating to Scotland. But May 6-Forty-third meeting of just as the Irish could never the I.C.S.N. Co., Ltd, at Messrs, agree among themselves on what Jardine Matheson's Offices, 11 a.m. they wanted, so there is nothing like unnnlinity among the Scots either, in a demand for home rule. A bill to give Scotland home rule is to be introduced in Parliament The master of the Dutch this spring by George Buchanan, steamer"Overshale" reports that 3 one of Glasgow's Labour members.
(The E.T.'s pocket money ceases for a fortnight)
Reparations Experts' To-day's Poem. Report--these amongst other things will add to a solution of the
difficulty which all, irrespective of party, will wish to see speedily settled.
(A Poison Tree.)
I was angry with my friend
Hold my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: Hold it not, my wrath did grow,
And I watered it in fears,
The earthquake EARTHQUAKES, shocks reported at Home are not likely to cause such a panic as was.crcated by similar shocks 150 years ago, In February and And it grew both day and night, March, 1750, violent earth tremors Till it bore an apple bright; shook. London, causing the bells | And my foe beheld it shine of Westminster and other churches | And he knew that it was mine, to ring, and throwing people into
Night and morning with my tears: And I sunned it with my smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
sailor was drowned while the vessel was on her way to Hong kong from Swatow.
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Closely associated with him is another Glasgow Labour member, the Rev. Campbell Stephen, a Free Church clergyman. There is in
A Reuter cable from Shanghai reports that in the Shanghai existence a Scottish Home Rule Billiards Championship Final, Association of sufficient import- Captain, Barrett scored 1,200 and ance to enlist the Marquess of Mr. Gordon Morriss 1015.
Graham as president, and Scottish home-rulers insist that there is a In connection with the Lin- very general demand for self- cheng claims, state's a Reuter cable determination in their country. from Peking, the Waichiaupo has We shall soon see how the House asked the Diplomats to confer with of Commons views the matter and it on that subject.
if the words of Dr. Archibald For carrying seven passengers Scottish Presbyterian Church, in Fleming, Minister of St. Columba's in excess of his licensed number, London, are true when he says: Kong Kan, the master of the motor Scotsmen are so busy running
.
In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the boat "Leung, I was fined $10 at
trec.
a panic. Thousands went ten And into my garden stole miles out of London, and hundreds When the night had veiled the of thousands refused to live in pole; houses, sleeping out at night in specially designed earthquake gowns," a sort of specially warm dressing-gown. The shocks con- tinued at intervals all through the summer until September, and so the subject of revision, presum-come that they were prepared to terror-stricken had the folks be- ably because there is nothing new
turn to anything for safety, and
to say on a very biting topic, and quacks made fortunes from the residents, as ever, are slow to take sale of
GRACE DARLING
The Farne Is- Iands, happily preserved from . spoliation, have
earthquake pills," which the elementary precautions of were supposed to render folks either ridding themselves of immune from danger in earth nuisance, or taking steps to pre- tremors. vent it. That must be so for the pamphlet informs U19 that "Malarial Fever alone is responsi- ble for between 400 and 500 deaths a year in Hongkong." The Sanitary Board cannot be expected to do wonders. Its last piece of legislation will do a lot towards CHONGKONG||Q||Q||Q|||||||||where building operations are preventing the breeding of insects
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APRIL 21.
It fell a-raining and thun- dering and lightening as I have not seen it do for some years.---Pepys.
WORK AND WASTE.
the Marine Court this morning. His the British Empire, that they explanation was that the extra pas-haven't time to bother about home sengers were workmen,
rule."
Haggis. The Shanghal Bowling Club, the oldest club in the Far East, hastiated. Hitherto Scottish mem- A crisis has safely been hego-*
been sold, states a Daily Bulletin
cable. The club, which has stood bers of the House of Commons in its present position since its could obtain anything from a piece seek new premises. formation 70 years ago, must now of toast up to a tremendous course dinner and the choicest wines-- but no haggis. But all that is now Dr. Greig, the League, offended and once a week at least, Nations delegate for the repatria-those who want it may obtain this tion of Russians, has written a letter delectable Scotch dish from the to the N. C. Daily News urgently Parliamentary kitchen for it is on appealing on behalf of the Russian the menu on Tuesday-which is refugees in Manchuda, among the day for Scottish questions in whom there is acute distress, states the House. The haggis is obtained! "Daily Bulletin cable from specially from Edinburgh, and Shanghal.
Highland Ishmaelites.
an historical as well as an ornithological interest. The keeper of the lighthouse in 1838
Consider how few of those that was William Darling, who on daughter Grace, aged twenty- are of real service; for we who September 7 rowed out with his work are employed in labours that
about 12. of it is consumed on going on but the great trouble is three, to the rescue of the passen measure all things by money give Ltd, who are the sole agents for bers are said to be acquiring an Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., the appointed day. English mem- where building operations have gers of the wrecked steamer rise to many trades that are both Hongkong and South China for appelite for it. The triumph of ceased and people live on in pain Forfarshire, and saved nine of vain and superfluous, and serve the celebrated Cow and Gate" the Scottish members will not be and discomfort, complaining and them, at great personal risk. only to support riot and luxury brand of milk, have received a complete until they can demand suffering, when, with a little extra The exploit brought immediate For if those who work were wire stating that the product has and obtain it every day in the exertion, they might well reduce fame to the lighthouse-keeper and employed only in such things as been awarded a gold medal at the week. "An' we wull, mon, och the mosquito pest to a minimum. his daughter. The Humane Society the conveniences of life require. Calcutta Exhibition, beating all aye," said one member with fierce We are not certain if copies of this voted a gold medal to each; the there would be such an abundance competitors. This particular emphasia. pamphlet in the vernacular are Treasury made Grace a grant of of them that the prices of them brand of milk is an English distributed to Chinese residents, £50; and over £1,000 was raised would so sink that tradesmen product. and particularly to Chinese ser- by public subscription. The pro- could not be maintained by their
The Duchess of Atholl has vants,
but
prietor of
recently been holding forth on the imagine the we
tried to engage her, but without gains; if all those who labour Sanitary Board has not lost sight
SOCIAL. AND PERSONAL. lot of the "travelling folk,” or "inkers." These are the Scottish of this necessary addition to the success; the father is described about useless things were set to work of publicity. But this work conviction, objecting
a man of strong religious more profitable employments, and
equivalent to the English gypsies. light if all they that languish out their A wedding at Welhaiwoi is a They are on a lower plane than the ! will be of no avail if householders literature," and unlikely to be lives in sloth and idleness, every rare occurrence, and the marriage will not assist. Surely it should sympathetic to the circus life. He one of whom consumes as much as on April 12 of Lieut. G. P. Claridge, rue Romany folk. They have no not take much time once a week even wrote to the papers complain- any two of the men that are at of H. M. Submarine Fotilla, to Miss caravan, but usually own a ram to make a survey of the premises ing that he and his daughter had work, were forced to labour, you Margaret E. Beer, daughter of Mr. shackle pony cart, on which is ccupied and to see what can be had to sit for their portrait seven may easily imagine that a small and Mrs. H. L. Beer, well-known piled a small black tent, three to done to prevent stagnant water times in twelve days. Moreover. proportion of time would serve for as among the oldest residents of four feet high, a quantity of grimy and unnecessary scrub.
applications for locks of hair doing all that is either necessary, the port was an event that excited bedding, cooking utensils, and came in till Grace was in danger profitable, or pleasant to mankind, was conducted by the Rev. C. R. encrusted. The rest of the family, much local interest. The ceremony nearly always a baby, dirt- of baldness." Fame did not turn specially while pleasure is kept Burnett, M. A. at St. John's Church, if there is any, and there generally her bead. "She remained," within its due bounds. are told, a "hardworking sensible
Port Edward, which had been is, walk. girl"; and died of consumption
tastefully decorated by the ladies four years later.
Unemployment..
It
25
to
make an effort to do so, but so services rendered to her son. The
in recognition of the far, nothing has eventuated, and institution benefits thus to the the question remains one in which extent of £688. Mr. Baldwin's proposed panacea the position is "as you were."
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-Sir T. More ("Utopia").
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
· ENTERTAINMENTS.
April 24-Coronet Theatre; Pola Negri:in "Passion."
April 24.-Star Theatre, Kowloon;! Classical and Character tic.
dances.
April 24-World Theatre; "A Chapter in Her Life."
Representing the King. of the port with marguerites and I hear that Mr. James Brown, daffodils, mainly contributed by M.P., the Labour member for Mr. Russell Brown from Govern.
RECORD TIME:
RUSHING SILK TO NEW YORK.
The cabled accounts of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's address'nt the annual conference of the
A striking example Independent Labour Party con- A L'ONG of remembrance is
ment House gardens. The church South Ayrshire, is likely to be tains not a single word on the MEMORY. forthcoming from the
Was well filled with friends appointed Lord High Commis. question of Unemployment.
Royal London Oph-
of the bride and bridegroom, in-sioner to the Assembly of the does not follow that the matter thalmic Hospital. Just 42 years
cluding a number of officers of Assembly of the Church of Scot H.M.S."Diomede" the only ship band. Usually some Scottish was not touched upon, but the ago a poor patient received treat-
at present at Weihaiwel
noblernan has been appointed, and *** [absence of any reference to it is, ment at the hospital, and in that to say the least, remarkable. It Recently his mother died at a ripe way had his eyesight saved.
if this appointment takes place it will be the first for over 250 years. is one of the subjects that the
old age in New York, and
The Lord High Commissioner property in recent years." This Socialists Government might be bequeathed to the hospital 3,000
expected to solve, or at least to dollars
represents the King and resideś had better been left unsaid. It is
|for a fortnight in Holyrood Palace ALABASTER.At Boscombe, on
from which he drives every day. the 23rd April, Laura Abbie, not likely that our Public Works
necompanied by a mounted escort widow of the late Sir officials are moved by any such
The New York Journal of Com-of cavalry. He also holds Levees. Chaloner Alabaster, K.C.M.G. idea. The argument in favour of
April 28.-Last Concert of the merce notes an unusually fast trip £2,000 a year is paid towards the and daughter of the late Dr. the retention of verandahs that having
Carpentier's visit to season, the Hongkong Male Voice made by a silk cargo from Yoka- D. J. MacGowan, M.D., of will appeal to most people is that obscurity, those who helped to relegated to
Berlin was not his Choir, in St. Andrew's Hall, Kow. hama to New York via Vancouver High Commissioner's salary. first appearnce in loon, 9.15 p.m.
over the Canadian Pacific by rail New York and China.
BOXERS. the German capital.
and steamer. This shipment was verandahs afford shelter in the banish it are faced with the duty of providing another, and prob-
His previous mis-
that which arrived in Vancouver on the Empress of Russia," having | times of very trying weather that ably finding by this, that it is slon, had nothing to do with
the
left Yokohama at 3.40 p.m., Mon-
CLEVER ARTISTE. we have to endure. We are think- easier to criticise destructively, Carpentier's association with a Ring." It was connected with
day, February 16, and docked at, PIANO AND VOCAL RECITAL. Vancouver. 8.15 p.m., Monday, business it is daily to attempt tively. It is not a new topic or aluminium boxes and other
February 25. subject and the remedies proposed utensils to which the champion
Last night's recital was memor- Songkong - THURSDAY, Aran 25, 1924 shopping or whose avocations are perhaps not either new or old had lent the prestige of his name: Tournament: Ng Sze-kwong and couver via the Canadian Pacific for the future shown by Mies April 24.--H. K. C. C: Tennis A special train of silk left Van-able if only for the great promise take them along the shopping either. It is good that the matter Carpentier was then the first C. Choa v B. E. Worthington and and New York Central in two Maria Margarida «Gomes, who thoroughfares. These are invari-is not to be treated solely as one
enemy" subject of fame who had F. A Redmond, 4,30 p.m.
hours and thirty minutes after the possesses inborn traits of artistry of party politics, but that, it is vestured to Berlin since the war. April 25.-Billiards Champion steamer docked and the silk was seemingly beyond the ordinary. danger to attempt to walk in the brains the country possesses, for their national sentiments to Palace Hotel, Kowloon, 9 p.m., on March I. streets; besides which directors of with it goes hand in hand the con- feelings of sportsmanship. Car
been
BOXING AND
SOCIAL.
April 25-Ball in Aid of St. Dunstan's, at City Hall, 9.15 pm
The China Mailing particularly of those whose thun it is to initiate, construc- business for the manufacture of 9.15 p.m,
April 26-Dance at Peak Club,
VERANDAH'S.
"Architect"; has stated the case
both for and against verandahs.
SPORTS.
ably crowded and it is a matter of receiving the attention of the beat But the Berliners subordinated ship for Ho Kom-tong Cups at/delivered in New York at 1 pm: Miss Gomes, who is a pupil of Mr.
traffic urge us to use the limited tentment of the British people boxing contest, and the crowd Theatre Royal, 9.16 p.m.
pentier attended an important the Hongkong Boxing Assen. at Yokohama to New York of thirteen from the works of Bach, Chopin,
with such lawyer-like precision
space of the sidewalks."
and the peace and prosperity of cheered the boxer, however they In the the country. Mr. Baldwin, for that it would probably be best to hours of pitiless sun-shine and the instance, is particularly clear on may have felt towards the French Toumament: T. Honda v. H. D. cord for silk transportation, how also submitted songs by Gounod,
It does not matter what pro-
man.
April 25~H._K. C. C. Tennis
Rumjaho.
Wo
April 26-Sixth tournament of This makes a through time from Harry Ore, submitted piano items days, twenty one hours and Schumann, and Liszt, and revealed twenty minutes, calendar time. a delightful touch and a perfect This did not constitute a re-command of her instrument, She
ever, as the fastest time, which has Delibes, Rachmaninoff, and A story bearing a April 26-R.HY.C. closing ever been made by any combina-Rimsky-Korsakoff the latter's fits are made by the middleman, BOOTS. certain resemblance cruise of the season and Ladies' tion of railway and steamship haunting Hindoo chant. the banks and the railway com-
to that of the young day at the Club-house, North lines via any route, was that made understand Mine Gomes is an panies, so long as you have this railway porter in Barrie's "What Point, 3 p.m.
on silk shipped on the Canadian untrained singer, which makes her masa of unemployment in the Every Woman Knows," who broke April 26-H. K. C. C. Tennis Pacific. Steamer
"Empress of country. Unless we can into a bouse in order to study Tournament: semi-final doubles. improve the conditions through told at Nottingham. Charles Henry Tournament: semi-final singles.
the books in the library, is being April 28.-H. K. C. C. Tennis out the country the whole edi- Allen, aged 21, has been charged April 30-H. R. CC Teans with stealing during the past five years books to the value of £185 Tournament final doubles. from a leading local bookseller. He was described as being highly
leave the matter where it is and often-times long periods of heavy the matter:- await the reasons of the Authori-downpoura, these verandahs prove. ties for the suggested change a haven.The shade and coolness before launching out either in they provide are at all times. favour of them or in opposition to welcome. Where verandahs prove them. "Architect" spoila an an objection-and we think of excellent letter by a suggestion those particularly in side streets that there "seems to be a general is the use made of them by a desire to get even with the land- certain type of servant to fing lords who have done so well out from them. household refuss, of the general rise in value of taking no account of passers-by in
fice will crumble and fall,
I
I am convinced of this, and want you all to be convinced of it, that you can have no pence
May 2-H KO. C. Tennis Tournament! final singles.
Canada in June last year. The performance all the more remark-
twenty one hours and forty-nine and study should make her an actual time from Yokohama to able. Her voice is of great range
minutes. This was six hours and artiste of note, She delighted a New York was twelve days, and purity and a period of training
fifty-six minutes faster than any large audience in St. John's Cathe time ever made through anydral Hall who gave her every Pacific ports.
encouragement.