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Hiterature on hospitals seems exceeding scant. W E Henley has written in verse that deserves to live all about a hospital from the "Enter Patient" right down Lo "Clinical" And Henley knew what he was writing about, for Was he not an inmate of one for a considerable time? He speaks of it as a place-
Where life and death" like friendly chafferers meet. He is in the waiting room and there are two dressers:—
One has a probe-it feels to me
a crowbar..
A small boy snuff's and shud-
ders after bluestone...
A poor old tramp explains his " poor old ulcers.
Life is (I think) a blunder and
a shame.
In Interior":
The patients yawn,
Or le as in training for shroud
and coffin.
A nurse in the corridor scolds
and wrangles.
It's grim and strange. "Operation" moves Henley to Fsix verses; two'must sufficeș---
You are carried in a basket, Like a carcase from the sham-
bles;
To the theatre, ptockpit Where they stretch you on
Lable.
Then they bid you close your
eyelids,
And they mask you with
napkin...
And the anesthetię reaches Hot and subtle through your
being.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925.
SILENT ENVOY,
MR. HOUGHTON STILL RETICENT
NO" NEW ARMS PACT.
(Reuter's Service.),
LONDON, April 23. Mr. A. B. Houghton, the new American Ambassador to Britain, accompanied by his daughter Miss Matilda Houghton, arrived at Plymouth.
AB FIQUGH
come.
A GOOD YEAR.
CONSTRUCTION COMPANY'S.
MEETING.
PROGRESS OF NEW JAIL..
A very large increase capital which had enabled Company to increase its scope of activity, also a profitable year's working enabling a 16 per cent.. dividend to be declared on the ordinary shares, was reported at the fourth annual meeting to-day of the Hongkong Excavation, Pile Driving and Construction Co., Ltd.
The following were present- Messrs. C. B. Shank (Chairman), E. D. Shank, W. E. L. Shenton, C. L. Shank, Chan Pek-chun, Ho War-tong, Chau Yucteng, Chan - Kwong-tai, and Gee Chuck-mann,
The Chairman said:-Gentle- men, The report of the directors and statement of accounts for the year 1924 have been in your pos- session for some time, and I will, with your permission, take them as read.
The result of the year's work- ing is again exceedingly satisfac tory. You will notice from the " balance sheet that at the close of, the preceding fiscal year ending March 31, 1921, $119,873.03 was carried forward after a dividend of 10 per cent. on the ordinary shares had been paid. As this year's working has proved even. more satisfactory, your directors have decided to declare a 15 per cent. dividend on the ordinary shares. After this dividend and the bonus to the staff is paid, there will be $107,022.40 carried forward to the next year's account, which, when added to the
He was accorded a civic wel- Henley's lines were written in connection with the Old Infirmary Interviewed, he confined himself profit carried forward last year,. Edinburgh, 1873-75. Hospital to discussing his voyage and will make the total sum to be car- Padministration has moved since American associations with ried forward this year amount to
them but substantially his pic-Plymouth."
$226,895.43. With these sub-
tures of hospital life are the same. He denied that he had a scheme stantial earning, our shares, if to-day. We do well to place the for the limitation of armaments in listed on the local share market, twin services of medicine and his pocket.
should be quoted considerably nursing so high and to pay willing He declined to discuss the above par. tribute to hospitals which are funding of the French and Italian such havens of hope and ministra debts.
tion, teaching us humility and [Before leaving New York, Mr. demonstrating anew that we are Houghton declined to be interview "such things as dreams are madeed, merely stating that he realised the necessity of maintaining cn."
friendly relations among the English Speaking peoples.)
Collars.
Curiously enough. looking to the controversy in our correspon- dence .columns, this year we are to celebrate the centenary of the male collur. Manifold "are its shapes and sizes, but it has had only 100 years of development, and every species of it, soft and starched, plain or coloured, single or double, is sprung from one example... In 1825 Mrs. Hannah
LABOUR TROUBLES.
AUSTRALIA'S LATEST SET BACK.
`(Reuter's Service.)
SYDNEY, April 23.
Lord Montague, the wife of a In connection with their demand blacksmith in Troy, washed for increased wages, the engine shirts, all of which had a collar drivers have declared Walsh annexed. There were millions of Island "black."
The decision is likely to involve other women in the world strug other unions, and result in the gling with collared shirts, but to abandonment of the proposal to only Mrs. Montagu did it peeur
Still the spirit that made the that the shirt kept clean longer construct a floating dock at Walah
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to
priate action and soon proved that
'THE SAMARITAN.
DOCTOR."
Island.
BACK TO GOLD.
(Reuter's Service,) ̈ ̧·
In November last, the Com- pany's capital was increased from $300,000 to $1,000,000, the additional shares being subscrib ed by local British interests which has already proven bene- ficial by bringing the Company into touch with certain helpful influences.
! This additional capital has enabled the Company to consider- ably increase its scope of activity. During the year, a complete Ray- mond Concrete Pile Driving Equipment, together with com- plete machinery for the manufac- turing of the steel shells have been purchased and installed at Ngau Shi Wan, where the Com- pany is at the present time driv- ing approximately 2,500 piles for the foundations of the new Gov- ernment Jail.
the
The Raymond System of piling has many special merits and ad- vantages over the systems of con- crete piling, which advantages were recognised by the Govern ment authorities when they select- ed Raymond piling for the new jail' foundations. As this method is exceedingly economical, efficient spurring British subjects
clean collar provided ample
and many times more rapid than stirring deeds of peace, such as respectability for every man. The
other systems of piling, we feel Captain Scott's great epic of the value of the reform was quickly
sure that we will always secure a Antarctic and the recent attack recognised, and in a very short
proportion of the available piling time Mrs. Montagu was selling
work in the Colony. on Mount Everest, and to death-detachable collars to other ladies
Regarding
Company's less deeds of war, such as the with males in their care. In a
LONDON, April 23,
future prospects, I will say that "the classic exploit" of Zeebrugge, dozen years collar factories were
The Times City Editor says do construction work of every the Company is now organized to which we celebrated yesterday.
needed to meet the demand. For
that the rise in sterling is attributed the first 60 years or so of the
nature and with the Company' Whether St. George's Day was nineteenth century every genteel the expectation that Mr. Churchill present very conservative policy.
on the foreign exchange market to selected for the Zeebrugge exploit man wore about his neck a sort of in his Budget will announce the your directors can assure you that solely for strategic reasons, or bandage, white or black, above Government's decision, not to re. what construction work is under- whether sentimental considera-
which rose more or less of the new the embargo on gold exports, taken by the Company will usual- points of a shirt collar.
ly prove remunerative. At the expiring at the end of the year. : tions played a part in the decision, end of that time the detachable Some members of the market I think I have now touched all. is still a secret of the Admiralty, collar was common.
appear to be very confident that the points upon which you, re- but the fact stands out that no
the announcement of such decision quire information, and I now beg better day than the great national
will be followed by a rise in the to propose that the report and rate above parity,
accounts, as presented, be adopted anniversary could have been
Sweden. returned to the gold and passed. When this has been chosen, since „St. George's Day is
standard over a year ago and her seconded, 1 shall be pleased to also the day generally accepted- THE SURREY'S "PRIVATE experience, is therefore unusually answer questions from share- interesting, Professor Gustav holders to the best of my ability. for there is some doubt about the
Cassel, eminent Swedish econo Mr. Chan Pek-chun, seconded actual dates as the 'anniversary
mist, concluding a review of the the resolution which was carried of two of the greatest events in
many Into a crowd which had gathered situation, says
countries unanimously. restore the "gold opposite the market in Des Voeux hesitated to
After the declaration by the our history. These are the birth Road last night a " Nosey Parker" standard, fearing that they would Chairman of a dividend of 15 per und death of Shakespeare. of a newspaper man plunged. He thereby be exposed to enormous cent. to be payable on April 24
demands. Sweden's, St. George's Day therefore has was awarded with an interesting gold
the following retiring directors sight.
perience. shows that certain a double significance for the
were re-elected upon the proposi- The actors in a little piece of extraordinary
gbld: demands tion of Mr. E. D. Shank Empire; it is at once the anniver-humanity were four Chinese girls occurred in 1924, but there is no seconded by Mr. C. L. Shank sary of our greatest triumph in and a member of the Surrey reason why they should continue. Hon. Mr. C. Montague Edé,
All demands Regiment. The audience was the There are two types of people the realm of peace and the usual conglomeration of coolies, liberally by the United States, W. E. L. Shenton, C. B. Shank, were supplied Messrs. E. D. Shank, C.-L. Shank, who are always telling us that the anniversary of one of the very indifferent except to satisfying the and it is always possible to nation is in the decline. One of greatest of our exploits in the sense of curiosity which is inherent preserve a gold reserve la the Chau Yue-teng Chan Pek-chun.
Mr. C. B. Shank'moved that One of the country which returned to the gold Messrs. Lowe, Binghama and fu most people. these types is to be found in such
sphere of arms. What more girls, limp and almost unconscious, standard, by the relatively simple august haunts as the Carlton could any nation ask for its was in the arms of a friend. The device of keeping the currency a Matthews, Chartered Account- Club, and is comprised chinfy, of national day? Pride is "the vice soldier, evidently a student of first trifle above the parity of gold. It ants, be re-elected as Auditors of peppery old gentlemen who
aid, was busily massaging the girl's cannot in any way be said that the Company; Mr. Ho War-tong of fools," the sin of the fallen head and face. Heat?" said the Sweden has been exposed to such seconded.--Carried, angrily inform you, sir, that the angels Shakespeare himself has "Nosey one."Tram" replied the difficulties by the restoration of the Mr. CL Shank moved that country, sir, is going to the dogs, said that it is pride "that pulls the soldier, from which the former de gold standard as reasonably to $970.37 be paid as bonus to staff; egad. The other type is usually to be found outside the local public country down," but surely the duced that the girl had attemp. deter, by her experience, any Mr. Chan Pek-chun seconded the
led to alight from a car whilst other country following suit, British subject who fails, to feel it was in motion and had met the house, watery of eye and maudlin of voice, bemoaning the times the glow of pride in his breast on earth with a bang. The ministra
itions of the Surrey Samaritan soon with no more spirit than a bilious St. George's Day is unworthy of bore good fruit, for the girl his heritage, is false to the heroes showed signs of reviving and ere pigeon.
They have been doing this theof Zeebrugge.
In a few montants the little party gouty old colonels and the whining
Saves the babies, helps the: grown! moved on without "a sign of street loafers, for the past
gratitude to the soldier bos, who ups, comforts elderly people Chamberlain'g Colle and Dis Like prison, the best side of a perhaps may remember the now, Used for infantils Ch hundred years perhaps for the hospital, is the outside. But the paper man's friendly tap of the sudden pala, in stomac
very good" to cramps, past three centuries. But still the time comes perhaps when the shoulder with a 77 country refuses to go to the dogs. Inside is indeed the beat. The choor him on.
Hongkong, Friday, April 24, 1925.
GOING TO THE DOGS ?- NEVER 1
A Hospital
long joined in the general chatter.
TAKE WITH SWEETENED WATER
"I diarrices. For sala
i
resolution-Carried.
BRONCHIAL COUGHS.
Bronchial coughs are not triding. They are even managing if allowed her hang on and weaken the system. Cla berlain's Conga, Ramedy is just what Byung-oughtly to take "for @bronchial, mfinenza and la grippe courka.. It comm tains no opiates and a pleasant feeling fwannth' and comfort follows the fak dose, Bold erscywhere..