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DEATH.
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PATH OF PEACE.
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Secession a National
Disaster,
SOUTH AFRICA'S FUTURE.
PREMIER EXPOUNDS NOTABLE OPINIONS,
(Reuter's Service)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
St. George's drama, people demand a singla BANKETTES." Day seems to piece that occupies the night. Nevertheless, in detail and in form, be coming into "Trial by Jury" was very noar
its own; and if there is to be added perfection. It has done good to it the fact of Shakespeare's service in "benefit" performances. birthday, and the anniversary of It was on the programme of the benefit at Drury Lane In 1877 for the operations against Ostend and Mr. Compton, the father of Mr. Zeebrugge there is no saying what Edward Compton and grandfather Capetown, April 28. Amid an impressive silence in can be made of the day. St. of Mias Fay Compton, and at the..
benefit to Miss Nellie Farren An the Assembly, the Premier, George's Day Was formerly General Hertzog expounded his calebrated by feasts of cities and occasions the Prince of Wales was 1898 nt Drury Lane. On both views on secession.
corporations, which excited the present. It is interesting to re- wrath of one John, Bale, who, call that at the latter performance speaking of the neglect of public Mr. Rutland Barrington was the libraries, gave vent to the follow-judge. Mr. Courtice Pounds the Ing
defendant, Mr. Eric Lewis the counsel for plaintiff, and Mr. W. S. Gilbert the associate, while the bridesmaids included Miss Phyllis Broughton, Miss Ellis Jeffreys, and Miss Ruth Vincent, and Mr. Harry Lytton was the foreman, with Mr. Arthur Roberts as one of the jury-
GENDIT. HERZOG.
He said that personally he held the opinion that in so riz vs South *Africa was goneumed" gecession would be a flagrant mistake and a national disaster if caused by one section, either the British the Dutch, imposing its will on the ither.
He did not fear soccasion would
Cil.
"OCytles of Englande, whose glory standeth more in bellye chere then in the serche of wysdome godlys. How cometh it that neyther you, oor ydell | masmongers, have regarded thys most worthy commodyte of your countrey? I mean the conser- vacyon of your antiquytees and of the worthy labours of your lerned men. I thynke the re 'nowne of suche a notable acte
THE SUN, or versifiers, are wolde have muche longer wonders to perform. Subjects slow to move, their dured than of all your belly perhaps may be lacking. What bankettes and table tryumphes, cyther yet of your newly purchased hawles to kepe St. Georges feast in."
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Hongkong's poets
about the Sun? We are beginning to talk about it whilst here is a Mr. George Dickson who has been Belly hankettes and table moved that way. His effort is trvumples" is rather biting. I perhaps inartistically called-it will probably not affect the has certainly been suggested by holling of fürcher · tiin
seeing"Fat cattle in trucks near "rimphes" in connection wiThe opening verse is by no means the Fairfield crane (Glasgow)." Hogkong's St. Georges Society inartistic. Here it is.
table
The fight for the FOOTBALL, English Cup re
minds us of the
I hope the sun will shine to-day To put this dreariness in tune. Shine, Sun, and flash the grey
away!
I hope the sun shines soon. To cheer the walting brutes and
grace
The stiffness of this dreary
place.
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game of football as practised on different occasions. For instance 1862 there was a perambulation at Dorking on Shrove Tuesday in. of the streets by the football retinue composed of grotesquely. dressed persons, to the sounds of music and in the afternoon by the kicking of the ball up and dowa has excited paty. The truer fact arise so long as each (section re-the principal thoroughfares of the may be that women voters in Ruined from asserting
The usual number of men Germany have yet to learn the superiority to command the other, and boys joined in the sport and He urged that no attempt played, especially towards the power and the meaning of a vote-hould be made by either section end of the game, with a roughness Onen they have learned the to use the British connection to extremely dangerous to the limbs the successful one run in Shanghai. lesson, things may alter.
establish such superiority.
of the competitors. As 6 o'clock But the Yarn Market is dead-at drew near the struggle for victory least a firm who issue market re- became mora
Beggars.
It is quite clear that a new POUND STERLING BILLS.
(Reuter's American Service)
Washington, April 28, Treasury, is of the opinion that thei „Mr. Mellon, the Secretary of a purchasing of pound sterling bills
It
town.
vehement; the
Mention of poetry is a
Empire Poetry Society." An effort POETRY reminder that there is in existence a" British
Hongkong, but without result. was made to form a branch in There was also talk of forming a Short Story Club on the lines of
palm. however, was obtained, for ports recently said sol the west end of the town. This is the fifth year, by the players from
somewhat different from the English Cup contest at which we read 90,000 people were present and the scenes were, as usual, mildly exciting.
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Mr. Stanley "CAN THEY Lupino näs one
Do IT?" of the best comic'
songs heard for many a long day-a delicious piece of nonsense-in the new London Hippodrome revue "Better Days,"
If Hongkong does BUDGET DAY, not get madly Do It?" and it is
The song is called "Can They excited aver its fashioned comic dity of a type real old
Winston
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The first verse and chorus are as
Sits her down and lays an egg.
That's all.
Ordinance needs to be added to the Colony's Statute Book and that Ordinance should' deal with beggars, Five hundred and eighty beggars have been "returned" to Canton and a great umber have come back again to a field that evidently is worth in then market is a desirable cultivating. The difficulty of means of stabilising exchange. dealing with the menace has is denied that Me. Mellon was voown Budget Day, it certainly is a seidon heard nowadays, Written been admitted; but there is a sulted in regard to the verbal ttie interested. suspicion that something more agrevanemis said
Budget Day to have been at Home on April 28, is a much the inability of various celebrated by Mr. Lupino himself, it concerns might be done than paying macht between the New York more important affair and pro people to do certain simple things. steerage passages to Canton. The Federal Reserve Baak and the bably of greater import. gendine beggar is the one who Bank of England, but Treasury Churchill may be expected to get follows: begs because he tamat get work, Loficials explained that he wanted all he can out of his opportunity, We must leave out those who such Angle-American financial co- but as he bangs the.dispatch box. There are lots of clever men,. cannot work air they would. The operation as a progressive step. in front of him, he will probably But the ordinary hen biblical injunction must hold While it is generally believed that think for a fleeting moment of the Can take them down a peg. good. If a man will not work, Britain will seek trait here to great ones who have preceded. Whilst they're laying down the neither shall be live. Add to the off the hills taken up. by
thehim in the great task of presenting The old chicken in the straw
law. word live, in Hongkong" and Fedemt Reserve Brok. It is de, the country's ́ ́budget. Take STEPHENS. - Matthew John adopt. means to carry out the flared, that Mr. Mellon is maare William Ewart Gladstone for Denman Stephens, at his injunction and the activities of the plans for a loan plthough he instance. It is said that the Grand residence, No. 5. Penk Road, of our police can be directedgarded sich a move as an obvious old man's "Budget speech of 1860 at 6 p.m. yesterday evening, in other channels. What e
was his first really great speech." aged 80 years. Funeral means can be adopted? Whilst It is reported that the British aro It was "a sort of revelation of the passes the Monument. at the men hoggars are mainly blind,contemplating a cau of between genius which can make a complex 5.15 pm-to-day.
derrepit. Lazarus-like (covered and fire quarters of a billion and difficult question clear to even with sores) the women
allinars,
Mr. Melon believed this what is called the meanest under. children in the main are lively and could be used to steady matters instanding" On that occasion the the appearance It is the female of the emergency and would probably historian tells us," species that is the ma: cause since he did not believe sterling ex-
e kept intact rest of the time of Gladstone was almost sublimely of the trouble, although it is likely change would suffer more than temeyes seemed to light on every one A hen lays an egg and nobody
impressive. His burning dark That a parisitie rype of "man" may somewhere in the bucky flurries after attaining par never merely talked at the House: Said that its wonderful or mar ground. Industrial homes are needed-not necessarily charit- The woman vote is said to haveable homes-managed somewhat beel the main factor in the return on the lines of the late Eyre of Hindenburg as Germany's first Refuge homes turning out popular President. It had a lot
things of a useful character that will bring in a reasonable return. to do with the re-election of The problem needs careful President Coolidge and not a few thought. It also needs an Ordin-
Hongkong, Wednesday, April 29. 1925. lusty.
THE WOMAN'S VOTE
Hazardous.
and
FAMOUS ACTOR DEAD.
(Reuter's Service.)
TRANSPORT'S
MISHAPS.
(Reuter's Service.)
in the House în turn.” Gladstone
She lays us a large new-laid'egg
CHORUS:
Bar
Could Lloyd George do it? Could Winston do it? Could Baldwin do it?
Why, no. Could Ramsay Mac and other
clever men Do the same as the poor old hen ?
has ever
vellous or clever.
But
Why ... NO,
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he talked directly to it, and during his most complicated statements, and arguments he at Could Lloyd George do it? every other moment looked at the † Could Winston do it? House full in the face in order to Could Baldwin do it? find out whether it was carrying his meaning with it or not." H had the supeme advantage of
Certain of the having a most magnificient voice- half-shades, tones and semi-tones a. voice which had shades and
RED. engaged in the reclama- tion work at Wanchai now wear bright red jackets as a of expression, so that he could warning sign in connection with give to every single word its the trucks that carry the earth. It precise degree of meaning.
Amsterdamn. Aprit 28. feminine votes returned the Conance if only to strengthen the famas ontogenarian agter Lonis The death has overred of that servatives, to power in Britain amis.of the police whose position
Bouwmeester. It is easier to analyse the voting
is admittedly difficult. in such places as America and Germany were the issues are not ro localised as they are in Eritain split up into constituencies where the influence of a candidate, more often than not, is beyond the issues before the electorate. The comes under the latter or not.. German women-if their votes facilities it must surely be extra, port
With the absence of brigade have turned the scale-have re for this is the second fire un the East stopped will broken down late Lord Goschen? turned to power a soldier-one Peak within recent memory that machinery near Cape Pelord. She who led in victory and defeat has razed a house to ruins. The was towed into Messina by an but one, the greater part of whose opening of roads has already been Italian sleamer.
Insurance companies speak of risks, and quote rates accordingly. hazardous and extra-hazardous It is unknown to us if the Peak
justified; and if such can mean
life has been devoted to the art that on the call of an outbreak, and science of war. What can be the brigade can get itę appliances
A
men
is not quite clear why the colour red should, almost universally, be
In connection used to denote danger. Ked has THOSE DOTS with the Bad- always been known as a fortunate get, who was colour, although the saying "a red that Chancellor who, when a mass rag to a buil" has a deeper signi- of figures was submitted to him, ficance than the mere annoyance including many with decimal of the animal. In the East red The French Government transpoints, querously asked" What are has always been the colour, of Rhonic" going to the Far those d...d dots?" Was it the magic. When the Chinese word pigtails we are assured they wove red threads into the plaits to keep
Messina, April 28.
A JUBILEE.
Many of those away evil influences, and fabrics who crowded the with red stripes interwoven are Theatre Royal to favourite garments for Chinese listen to "the Gondollers" and children because red has power to. "The Yeomen of the Guard" will prevent illness. For the same.
adjuged from this? That the immediately to it, justification should leave them uninsured be appalled to hear that on March reason rad is used as the lining of German woman is far from war will become an undisputable fact. The relationship between Insur-Jubilee of the first of the Gilbert meats. The lore of the red is 25 last there was observed the the pockets in many Chinese There was no loss of human life ance Companies and the Fire and Sullivan operas. weary or yearns for a return of in yesterday's catastrophe and Brigade needs to be mude known. Jury was produced on March 25; customs and beliefs in New "Trial by certainly interesting embracing a monarchy that revelled in on this account there will be a Do Companies pay any aum 1875, at the Royalty Theatre, Zealand, Southern India, Africa...... exhibitions of might and power? general sense of thankfulness towards the Brigade's upkeep without awakening Britannia to and even lo Scotland where, in the Let the psycho-analysts decide, he report also assures us that whenever it la called upon to do the fact that a new in west at any rate, it is common to The simple explanation may be There may be good reasone for at Home, with the result that Fire theatres. The folia! operetta has the neck, of a child in order to "the house was not insured." service? We think this is adopted fluence had come into her gran a piece of red flannel, round that the greater sentiment of the this; but the trite observation Brigades are numerous, and as been more popular since then with and whooping cough-the female has been touched and the may be permitted us that no one capably mained as they are amateur societies than on the pro virtue belak out in the flaugel buk sight of a war scarred veteran owning possessions
fessional stage, for in music, as in in the red colour.
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