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"Hear you were judge at n baby show, yet if I have heard you say once, I have heard you say fifty times that all babies look alike to you."
"They do.".
"Then how could you tell which was the prettiest baby?"
"I judged by the mothers."
expression at the news of Mr. more stupidly childish, than this An abstract noun is something Montague Ede's pending retire-last example of spleen it would be you can't see when you are looking
hard to fint for if as Mr. Eugene at it. ment, it is, because. Mr. Eda Chen claims, Dr. Sun Yat-sen wili i appeals to us as the model citizen. not suffer the indignity of an If, outside his intense devotion to done." what point can there be in Interview, the damage being business which has made the persecuting an Editor for accept- Union Insurance Society ofing news which was sufficiently Canton, Ltd. one of the greatest circumstantial to deceive responsi- concerns in the world, there is one ble English journals, which was quality of his that needs to be sufficiently circumstantial, indeed, to have left doubt in many minds emphasised and largely copied, it is that of modesty:
even now after all the belated It might official statements have been almost be termed a sense of issued? The Canton Government, humility that sense which leads as we have said before, has only many-to attempt tasks which need itself to blame for the reports of to be done, and to do them without ground at all, and its otherwise Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death gaining that glare of publicity, which inexplicable harshness towards beats about the actions of our the Evening Star Editor suggests great ones. We trust that the that it realises the truth of this, guiding of a huge concern will not it is ready to vent its chagrin on realises it so much, in fact, that be the only thing that Mr. Ede anyone within its power. will be remembered by. Some of remember bis honorary organisation of the War Thrift Association; hie devotion to higher educational interests, and above all to his interest in helping to solve the biggest and bitterest
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RAGO-GOH.On May 10, 1924,
Horozovo Monday, May
10,
1994.
MR. MONTAGUE EDE.
Colony. Mr. Ede knows best if his Kowlong Tong scheme has brought in its train disillusion, and that the path of benefactors is not always one of roses. But we regard that scheme as monument of kindly thought and endeavour, Honours may come to Mr. Ede as sphereserves but we can think of no greater honour than to be regarded with affection by those amongst whom he has lived; with confidence by those who have been daily associated with him: and with admiration by those who applaud public spirited service of the highest possible order, given as it seems to us in that spirit of humility which is the best example a somewhat blatant age so sadly needs.
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The Riesha Coolie."
Two correspondents to the China Mail have urged us to take. pity on Hongkong's most familiari figure the ricsha'' coolie, one urging the authorities to put up "some sort of a building or club for these poor creatures-where they could have some of the amenities of life-where they could bathe, wash their clothes, and dry them in wet weather."
Mr: Reid, the South African astronomer, CENSORED who has just
COMET.
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To-day's Poem.
(Home, They Brought Her Warrior Dead.}
Home they brought her warrior
dead:
She nor swoon'd, nor uttered
cry:
All her maidens, watching, said,
"She must weep or she will die."
Then they praised him, soft and
low,
dis-Truest friend and noblest foe: Call'd him worthy to be lov'd
covere.d a new five comets to his credit." He dis-
comet, has
now covered his first six years ago, during the wat, which is a reminder that soon after the war broke out a comet and duly cabled the news colleague of Mr. Reid found a to the Astronomer Royal at Green- which. The fact was verified and
a cable sent to the head of an American observatory, giving, in code, details of its position in the sky. But the British Censor, like another who-deleted the phrage
the expressa kys depart." was taking no chance, and all the American astronomer was" permitted to know was that a comet had been discovered, "fur- ther details," it was added, “being forbidden for" military reasons." Probably the Censor half suspected that the comer might be on a bomb, dropping expedition.
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Who saidTM Res THE LIMPETS.» signation”? (After a famous Not " said model.) Mr. Wheatley,-- "That would spofl things completely,
I didn't say Resignation!"
Who made such a suggestion?
Not I," said Mr. Clynes, "He's a coward who resigns. I didn't make the suggestion."
Who thinks we ought to go!
"Not " said Mr. Jowett, "Not if I know it!
I don't think we ought to gol"
Who says our time's up!
I don't think our time's up."
Not I" said Mr. Shaw,
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Yet she neither spoke nor
moved.
Stole a maiden from her place
Lightly to the warrior stept. Yet she neither moved nor wept. Took the face-cloth from the face
tears-
"Sweet, my child, I live
Tennyson.'
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So my wife walking and singing upon the leads till very late, it being pleasant and moonshine, and so to bed.-Pepys.
THE LEADING MINORITY.
MONDAY, MAY 19, 1924.
CARGO MOTORSHIP,
BLUE FUNNEL LINER'S TRIALS.
NEW TYPE OF DIESEL..
J!
HONGKONG'S FAME
STILL
SPREADING THE WORLD,
OVER
FAMOUS FISK AT ZOO.
Among the famous species of fish exhibited in the view aquarium which WAS opened in the The twin-screw cargo motor ship London Zoo on April 8, is the "Dolius," built by Scott's Ship- one from Hongkong, which is building and Engineering Co. described by The Observer as Ltd., Greenock, for Messza. Alfred "famous in the world" It was Holt & Co, Liverpool has just found in the gardens at Hongkong concluded a series of trials, em after the burst of some water pipes, inently satisfactory on the Clyde. It was given to the Zoo, and was. The vessel is 423 feet in length, held to be an ordinary salamander. 52 feet moulded breadth, and of But it grew and grew, and has 11,370 tons displacement." She now proved Itself a new species has been constructed for classi-hitherto unknown to science. poration and Lloyd's Register, may see an assemblage of fish in fication with the British Cor- In this new aquarium the public
the new Scott-Still type of heavy scarcely creditable wonders of her propelling machinery being model haunts comparable with the
oil engine. Thoughout the trials the aquarium at Honolulu and the engines worked with the | Florida. And to show the 'ex- utmost smoothness, "a mean pressions of admiration is a fish speed of 12.17. knots being from Hongkong ! attained.
In the Scott-Stilt engine steam is
used instead of compressed air to" MELAMPUS " effect the starting, reversing, and
LAUNCHED.
manoeuvring. The steam is sup- There was successfully launched plied from a regenerator or boiler from the Hebburn Shipyard of burning oil in the usual way, and Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron at the "sanie time the steam sup: Co, Ltd., on April 4 the steam ply issupplemented from the waste-screw cargo and passenger steamer
ted from the waste heat of combus the first of a new cast for the ship is under way steam is genera-Messrs. Alfred Holt and Co., and heat of combustion, but when the "Melampus," built to the order of
tion alone and is used in the engine Nederlandsche Stroomvart-Maät- Rose a nurse of ninety years, to augment the total power deliver schappij "Oceaan," of Amsterdam
Set his child upon her knee-ed to the propellers. In the "Dalius" for the Holland Indian trade Like summer tempest came her there are two main engines each
having four cylinders, 22in. in two deck type, with poop, brigde The "Melampus, which is of the for diameter, with a stroke of 36in. and forecastle, has an overall and of 2.500 brake horse pawet Jongirof48ft, her breater being combined. At this power the 54ft. gin., and her depth to upper engines are very conservatively deck 3zft. gin. She has six clear rated and run at about 120 revoluhoids, two of which are adapted tions per minute. The main engines for the carriage of liquid cargoes are of the two-stroke cycle or water ballast; the double bottom type, arranged for port scaveng extends all fore and aft and is ing. Scavenging air is supplied to ased for oil fuel or water driven by a low pressure turbine, are berthed in spacious rooms both engines by one turbo tlower ballast. The officers and engineers supplied with the exhaust steam
on the bridge deck, the master's from the main engines, and exc
quarters are on the upper bridge. hausing to the condenser
As a and accommodation for the sea. stand-by an electric motor is men and firemen is provided in coupled to the other side of the the poop. An efficient system of blower. In the main engines the cargo handling appliances is fitted, steam is expanded in two stages including a derrick for lifting a and so there is reproduced on a 40-ton load at the foremast, and amall scale the familiar combina- generally the vessel complies with Aristocracy and fashion are tion of reciprocating and turbine the requirements of the Dutch and certain inevitable results. These engines working together, which British Boards of Trade For passen- mutual selections are indestructi-installations about the time when
was a feature of marine machineryger and cargo service. ble. If they provoke anger in the the turbine was being introduced by a single-screw actuated by The steamer is to be propelled least favoured class, and the into the Mercantile Marino. excluded majority revenge them-
double-reduction geared turbines. selves on the excluding minority cylinders are surrounded by jacket double-ended cylindrical boilers. On the combustion side, the steam being generated by two by the strong hand, and kill them, water, which is in direct com- An auxillary boiler for the deck at once a new class finds itself atmunication. with the regenerator, machinery is situated above the. the top, as certainly as cream and is consequently at regenerator main boiler room on the upper rises in a bowl of milk; and if the temperature and pressure. All the deck. The boilers are arranged people should destroy class after heat, therefore, which passes to burn either coal or ofl. and the class, until two men only were left, the jacket water goes to the main boilers are fitted-with-How- one of these would be the leader, generation of steam, instead of den's system of forced draught. and copied by the other. You may is usual in internal combustion Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron and would be involuntarily served being discharged overboard, as The machinery has been built by keep this minority out of sight engines. "The combustion exhaust Co., Ltd., at their Jarrow Works. and out of mind, but it is tenacious gases are led to the regenerator,
Proposing the toast of "Success of life, and is one of the estates of where they part with a considerable to the "Melampus," her owners, and the realm.
proportion of their heat to the good luck to all who sall in the water side, thence they pass ship." Mr. Ritchie remarked that through the feed water heater to the "Melampus" was the first of a the atmosphere, which they reach new class for the Nederlandsche at a temperature of a little over Stoomvaart-Maatschappij Oceaan 200 degrees F. Small primary re for their Holland-Indian trade, and generators have been introduced had been built to the order of to take the first blast of the exhaust Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co. He gases, before passing them to the expressed his pleasure at the pre- main regenerators, of which there sence of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian, and, is one to each main engine. The proceeding, gave some particulars whole combination of regenerator of the Melampus." He said Palmers and feed water heater, in addition were very pleased to have built the to fulfilling the function of extract, vessel, and he hoped that she ing heat from the outgoing gases, would prove successful in every acts also as a very effective silencer. respect. It had been their pleasure A group of pumps is driven by to be associated with Messrs. a rocking lever from the forward Holt during the last few years in end of each engine, and comprises the construction of several large an air pump, feed pump, forced vessels for their lines, which were lubrication pump, bilge pump, and so well known throughout the other pumps usually found on a world, and their relationships steam engine. They are all very throughout had been most happy. May 31-Dance at Peak Clab, smell, as the power developed by It might be interesting, he 9.16 p.m.
the steam is only about 15 per said, to note by the way.
the total power of that the June 12-Mr. William Heughan, cat. of
Blue Funnel Line well known Basso-Baritone, will the engines. Since starting is by which name Messrs. Holt's
effected by steam no expensive boats were known, was founded. sing at the Peak Club, 9.30 p.m.
air compressors, storage bottles, so far back as 1852 by Mr. Alfred May 24.-Third extra Race Meet or auxiliary engines are to be Holt, and that on the 10th June of ing of the Fongkong Jockey Club.
found in the ship. A standby feed the same year Sir Charles. Mark Jime 7-9.-Fourth Extra Race pump and a strandby forced Palmer, the founder of the Palmer Meeting of the H.K. Jockey Club.
jubrication pump, steam driven, Company launched his first iron PUBLIC AUCTION.
are provided for port use. The screw collier, the "John Bowes," main condenser has a surface of which was still afloat. A further mention, but the estate offered for & Leighton Hill Road, household 1.000 square feet; and is designed coincidence also which might
May 23. Lammert Bros., sale is a large one, including the manor house and the advowson of furnituro, 2.46 p.m...
Anot be without interest was the Hving,
May 28, Lammert Bros. at 6.motor-driven centrifugal circulate that the Ocean, Steam Ship Co., Catchick Street. Kennedy Town, ing pump supplies, the cooling Ltd., which was Messrs. Holt's"
water to the condenser, machinery, 3 p.m.
principal company, was formed in COMPANY MEETINGS,
Her elaborate equipment in 1865, and that it was also in the the Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., boat turning-out gear. Amongst formed his Jarrow works into a May 23-Forty-third meeting of cludes, the Turnbull patent life-same year that Sir Charles Palmer. at Jardine Matheson's offices, at those on board the trials were Mr. Jimited company under its present R. L. Scott, Mr. James Brown, Mr. designation. And yet one more
money!
us;
our
Of course we're earning our
money !"
Who talks of the "ebbing tide"?
"Not I," said Mr. Webb,
And I don't care if it does Ebb. Blow the ebbing tidel."
Thus the Premier's faithful
colleagues,
With loud cheers and acclama-
tion,
Did persuade him not to think of Such a thing as Resignation, Not to think-of-a-horrid
thing like Resignation |
--W. H. B.
In Shanghai, as we have pre- Who says we're not earning viously pointed out. ricsha' men are the care of a special mission, "Not I," say Mr. Thomas, organised on humanitarian and "And they shan't take it from religious lines. The men are cared for educated in different directions, instructed in traffic regulations; urged to bé exemplars; have their medical wants attended to, etc., etc. In Hongkong? Hongkong is rightly concerned through its. organised Society with the question of cruelty to animals; with charity through its Benevolent and Ministering League, Societies, but in the humans with the outlines of men who drag human freight -200-pounders" some of them- no one apparently is concerned. We should like to see something done for all the workers engaged in the lowest forms of labour in the Colony. For the quay-side
A whole village coolies, as well as for chair and
is included in the ricsha coolie.We published an
forthcoming sale Investigation made during the
of the Hon. winter of the number of men Henry Neville Gladstone's Che- forced to sleep in the open-air-shire estate, the manor and "village calling them derelicts. Hong- of Burton. The property is part of kong, with all its wealth, should the Hawarden estate. Barton also find a moment of consideration for remembers its military hero, Gen- these seeming outcasts should eral Sir William Congreve, who consider if a building or to o Is such a bijou village that in
favented the war rocket. Barton' the Rowton principle is not fairly comprehensive digest of the possible for this place and hav- 1911 census of Cheshire towns and ing decided that it is-get on with villages it is not thought worthy of it as soon as possible.
Canton's Spleen.
Whatever sympathy, one might
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wich, London,to Florence to characterise. affairs in Canton next in maintaining the secrecy/quest from the gallery. Obedient the Hongkong Hotel, 11 a.m.
Maude
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She Chim Miil. have felt disposed to extend to the WHAT THE the stories told Here is one of Canton Government concerning GODS ORDER. by James Agate; the damage it, claims to have
when he spoke at Shanghai," Joe Joseph de
suffered through the reports that on Shaw's "Back to Methuselah Dr. Sun Yat-sen was dead, is at the Sesame Club. Rago to Agnes Goh, COOPER-WHITE-On May 12,
largely alienated owing to the
May 26-Second meeting of J. B. Hutchison, and Mr. Cedric interesting circumstance might be A new farce was going drearily shareholders of Lane, Crawford S. Scott (directors of Scotts' Com-mentioned namely, 1924, at Shanghai, Thomas
attitude of the Canton Govern- on, the actors, through sheer dis-Ltd., at the Hongkong Hotel, noon pany); Major Cozalet, Major Glynn, granddaughter of Sir Charles Austin Cooper, younger son
It is refreshing to turn fromment itself, first in failing to issue couragement, gradually dropping
May 28-Meeting of shareholders Mr. William Denny, Mr. Jantes Palmer was the wife of Mr. Philip of Mrs. A. Cooper, of Dul the doubts and evasions that seem the prompt official statement that their voices.
of the Peak Tramway Co., Ltd., Esplen, and Mr. W. G. Still Holt. would have discounted the news;: Louder, please!" came a rc-
(directors of the Still Engine Proceeding, Mr. Ritchie said (Lollie), second to the somewhat calmer and more which has, enshrouded the Gen-y the voices were raised, only to of the Star Ferry Co., Ltd., a G. W. Barr, superintendent fore, been running over the same May 30-Twenty-sixth mooting Co.); Mr. S. B. Freeman and Mr. that the two companies had, there- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. honest atmosphere of a great eralissime since his indisposiccome again inaudible. William Augustus White, of business concern that is world- tion" began, and finally in banish with the same result...
Louder!" the command came,
Messrs, Jardine'a, noon.
engineer and naval architect period of time, and both remained Shanghai.
respectively for Messrs Alfred to-day larger than over in their wide in its ramifications; that has ing for ten years the Editor of the
Then again the gallery spoke,
Holt and Co; Sir Hugh activities monuments to the Reld, Bart, Captain F. E. originality, inventive genius, stood the test of time and com- new Canton English paper, the Louder and funnier!
Evening Star, ostensibly for
Johanncaburg. May 17-The Acland, Mr. Robert Tralli, Mr. C. and enterprise petition and is as form as the very "aprcading false rumoura Any
Chinese Nationalist Party has Randolph Smith Mr Archibald pioneers, the Inte Me Alfred- of two great The-Meditor received a cante from party head Gilchrist, Mr. Harold E. Yarrow, Holt and the fate Sir Charles mountains. Annual meetings can one of these actions would have SCHOOL'S IN. Tranean and the quarters at Canton, stating that GBB MAS MLellan Mr Mark Palmer. PICHON On April 18, 1924 ta be very prosaic things, bure boon sufficient in itself to place
Red Sea are Dr. Sun Yat-sen has recovered and John Macintyre, Mr. JR. Rich- they might long see the two com-
He trusted that" Paris, Dr. Louis Pichon a time of retirement that the more dubious light, but taken altogether us
the Canton Government in a veryJained by the Sewage Canal
is working as smal, Router (formerly of Shanghai), aged than human element entera and they represent an indictment Much butler is imported from Simla, May 174 party of Colonel Kitson Clark, D.S.Oeteamers and the development of mond, Engineer-Rear Admiral pantes closely associated it the Whittinghame, C.B. Lieutenant business of building and owning PEARSON.On May 12, 1924, at the touch of nature makes every which reads strangely, beside Mr. Denmark because Danish cows Scouts Intercepted the Mabaud Mr. G. L. Weir, Mr. Willam Tock the industry and trade of the Shanghai, Eulalia Collaco one kin. If we join our wishes Eugene Chen's passionate, claim hare. Freater: enterprise and gang on the 16th May at Tormand Mr. Alexander, Storrar, Mr. C. S. Empire. He bed great pleasure Pearson, aged 68 years. with those which have found that the Canton officials are not superior techinical education to Two Malisuds were killed and one Douglas D.Sc. Br. Arthur Spyer, in proposing the toast, which was
children. Anything more childish,oure
and Mr. Bruce Thompson.
DEATHS.
84 years.
|wounded.--Reuter.
duly honoured.