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THURSDAY, MAY 14,
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Personal self-castiga
Health Hear, heart At. Eton there is a cricket pitch for every thirty boys. Aldershot has 126 grounds and pitches, 71 tennis courts and 80, running tracks. The children of the Dockyard' Settlement play on Beckton Marshes when the ground is not too godden. Southwark, with
A FOOL. tion may or may not
do good. It all de 25,000 inhabitants, has one acre penda. Readers must judge for of playing fields. Hongkong? themselves. If Mr. Ramsay Mac- The place has two valleys Donald helps himself in calling crammed with playing pitches, himself a fool as he did in a speech and one in the centre of the town. at Bradford. Here is the quota- Kowloon has its quota... But alltional
for people who have raised a I could tell myself a thousand voice for them and who hold those times better than any one of the pitches on the most. favoured critics what an awful fool I was terms imaginable. The Chinese and how many opportunities I members of the Legislative Coun-missed. The trouble about the cil should be up and doing; the critic is that his criticism is so poor. various Chinese Clubs should also It sounds like someone emerging be evident; whilst those estim- from an experience in Ice Housa able gentlemen who seek to cur- Street. tail expenditure on lavish dis- plays, might well turn their attention to the formation of a Hongkong Playing Fields Asso- ciation. Not for those who have them, but for the thousands who have them not...
Children's Outings.
It is strange that SHIP ALLEY. Hongkong whose are told is the sea, has no distinc life blood we tive thoroughfare redolent of the sea. It has a Broker's Alloy, whilst in 'China Town" there is an alley devoted to piece goods, But no Sea Alley, "In every sea- Forty London County Council port, great or small" says Miss school children spent an enjoy Fox Smith who has written a book able Easter Holiday on the-
called: "Sailor Town Days" there Riviera. The outing cost six is Ship Alley: the street that leads guineas per head, and represented to the sea. It is a street of many.
not charity-but 5s. each per beautiful-
names, and can be sordid or week saved for half a year by parents. "All honour to teachera who conceived the idea and worked it out,'
19H says the London "Daily Chronicle," and those who take an interest in education and children generally, will agree.
Local teachers are not behindhand in the interest they evince in their charges either inside or outside of school. There may not be many spots of safety with peculiar interest attaching to them to which children could be: taken; but is there any argument against holiday trips to such places as Foochow, Shanghai and evan Peking? Parents, we imagine, would welcome any. scheme aimed at giving their children that wider outlook which even a short trip can give, and we doubt not that teachers would be found willing to undertake so responsible yet agreeable a duty as that which would be involved.
TO-DAY'S VOTES. -
WHERE OUR MONEY GOES.
P.S. By the way-in strictest confidence, of course-did you really do it or not? Hilda and I have got a bet on about It, and We we should like to know. know how to keep a secret.
3 barkers court:
Hoxton
Dere Enery, So the ole Benk as let yer orf arter all at the laeds Ersizes i saw all erbout the Trile In the evenin-noos larst night,. wot er stroke of luck for yer gawd Blimey ses i to the misses. wen i fust red erbout yore Kase in the noos' of the Werld one sunday mournin is numbers up ses its the Rope for ole enery- this time or write sea but that was erfor i red all the Detales of the Kase, the misses alwis'sed an ow yer was Innercont but i noo better yer carat Kid me Enery. wot are yer agoin to do now yer out i supose wo shell be seein yer down Hoxton way one day leads will be no plaice. for yer arter this little job
yore sincere Freind
JOE SMITH
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has been said about it. by, or a bustling tug, or the stained funnel of a steamer'... or a street of tall Georgian houses with peeling stucco andj blistered doors, and the words "Seamen's Lodging House" her literary husband's habit of here and there over a cracked throwing discarded papers about and grimy fanlight.... It leads the floor of his room, went out and. interminably-limy and foul bought him a waste paper basket. when it rains, gritty with "coal A few days later she penetrated dust in dry, weather-between into his den and found the floor- endless rows of small shabby covered with the usual balls of: dwellings and dingy shops on paper. Beside his chair was the "
The China Mail the Colonial Office, report
belittle the organisation of sufficient naval "patrol system on the grounds of cost or expediency or time required. And even more farcical is the "satisfaction" of the Committee responsible for the Colonial Office report that "the situation is not so serious as to justify them in recommending any such expansion of the Naval forces in these waters." That, in a word, is toying with the whole question. In effect, it says: "There have been a few piracies: there may be a few more piracies: some British lives have been lost: more may still be lost; damage has been caused to British trade, which may suffer some more-butable Services, Local
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NOT THE LAST WORD.
$28,000 FOR QUEEN'S PIER,
The following, financial minutes recommended by H. E. the Gover- Bor were considered by this after- noon's meeting of the Legislative Council
the Committee (and with it. the Charities, Kwong Wah Hospital. Colonial Office) do not intend to $8,000 in aid of the vote Public lose a night's sleep over it: throwBuildings, Police Married Quarters, Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon. the whole thing on to the Hong-Mougkok. kong Government to make the best of the situation as it appeals to us in Downing Street."
$38,000 in aid of the vote Fublic. Buildings, 20, new architectural Works. Extraordinary, Hongkong
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BREAKING IT GENTLY.
TWO SAILOR SUITS.
the tidy wife, exacerbated by:
the one hand, and on the other waste paper basket, and carefully a dreary network of railway deposited therein were a number sidings and forlorn bits of of cleanly typed sheets. "What tidal creek, and derelict cindery on earth are you doing with your cabbage patches that look as if script?" she demanded. "Oh," he a gasometer had at some time explained, mildly; "They'rr going tried its hand at gardenlag and to an editor to-morrow, and I'm- given it up as a bad job. ... It just breaking them in, poor things.""" straggles, along the shore of a famous west country harbour of the olden time, where artists-
By the time Prince- of the Cornish school paint
George has completed/ their pictures in the sail lofts
his holiday in the and rigging lofts which re-
Mediterranean and has. travelled out to China," "member the old days when a change will have taken place in hundred windjammers
were the command of the station, and: driven by stress of weather to his Royal Highness will have as anchorage in the Roads. It his chief an officer who remembers. takes sudden plunges into the him as a boy is another kind of blue channel between huddles of odd-shaped cottages, clinging, Admiral David M. Anderson, who sailor suit. This is Rear- like barnacles, to the hull of a is succeeding Vice-Admiral Allan ship, to the steep sides of the F. Everett in the Far East. He hill, where ling is drying in the has fought African natives and sun and nets festoon the walls Germans under conditions whic like some kind of queer leafless the novelist would describe us growth. It goes between stately "romantic." At one time he was houses of forgotten merchant
romance.
TACTFUL ly
an
TOO MANY PUFFS?
Perhaps the philo. sophic observer of life will not be very surprised to.
princes... by forsaken whar commander of the Royal Yacht, ves where grass grows between. the cobbles, and the wind pipes mournful ditties in the empty sheds, and all its ships are the Nor will the recommendations $10,300 on account of Public
ghosts of ships.... And when- ever and wherever you shall hear it said that women are smok. regarding interior defence pre-Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, Much has been made at Home, cautions by means of grilles and
buildings,alterations and additions
find it, it is the street of ing less. Probably the truth is to the Hongkong Volunteer apparently, of a report, issued-by Indian guards carry much weight Defence Corps Headquarters.
that, when the right of woman to the cigarette was a little. In doubt, the Colonial Office, of a conference in view of the considered opinion
$8,000 aid of the vote Kowloon-Canton Railway, special
A Home paper recent every woman who wanted to be on piracy in the waters near Hong- of the Minority, Committee that
expenditure," quarters for traffic
instituted
considered modern, felt that she kong. The very fact that this internal protection is to all intents staff.
interesting com all costs.
must make a parade of smoking at report was "the outcome of and purposes valueless; that the
Now that it is more or; $15,000 in aid of the vote Public submit letters of congratulation to
petition. Readers were asked to lers a matter of course, and no one representations made. by the enly solution is adequate Naval Works Extraordinary, Hongkong a gentleman who has just been pretends to be shocked, those organisations of shipmasters and patrols; and that "once pirates Shaukiwan Road, widening near Here are two of the wins to drop it. The fact is that few Communications. 28, Roads: (v) acquitted on a charge of murder, many women who never readily
enjoyed, smoking have been able- navigating and engineer officers" know that even though able to Taikoo Dock.
$62,500 in aid of the vote Public is sufficient to render it almost take a ship they cannot escape,
A letter of congratulation talk, and fewer cared to smoke in Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong, out-of-date by reason of the fact piracy will cease." Once remove miscellaneous, 40, compensation
women, knew how, to smoke and. from a young lady of Afteen or silence. the possibility of gain, and the and resumptions, that the conference was, held a
sixteen to a gentleman who has incentive is gone. Much has happened year ago.
just been acquitted on a charge Apparently we have to possess
of murder. since then, as witness the publica- tion of the Minority Report and our souls in patience until the The subsequent representations representations entrusted to the late Admiral Admiral Sir A. F. Everett are Commanding the China Squadron, Carefully examined and studied Admiral Sir A. F. Everett, before both by the Admiralty and
he left for Home. As the report Published on a conference last Summer is, in a sense, worthless, ro is any criticism of it.
by the
entrusted to
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For a varlant to St. Kathleen's College, Eghili.
THE HORSE. the usual run of Dear Mr. Puckeridge,
schoolboy "how- lers," or to pdigin English, the I hope you won't think it too world is indebted to the Chicago awfully thick of me to write to Board of Education, which has you like this, but you see Hilda caused a classical essay to be and I-Hilda's my friend-have immortalised in type. It is about been tremendously thrilled frogs, and was written by a young about your trial and we Norwegian, "What a wonder- were so glad to see in to ful bird the frogare!! day's paper that you had When he stand, he sit almost got off. Ie must be fare. When he hop, he fly almost. fully exciting to be in any He aint got no sense hardly. He thing like that, I should think- ain't got no tafl hardly either. to become really famous, I mean. When he sit, on what he ain't got. Of course, Hilda and I thought almost" This smells strongly of all along you would get off fish. It seems a variant of the side of the dangerous goods anchorfended you could get anybody ft angry it will not do so."
And Mr. Pratt-he's the gardener essay on the Horse: The horse go. A launch coxswain was fined
here said that the man who de is a fourfooted animal, but when it
$10 for being under way without a certificated engineer on board. For tot exhibiting regalation navigation lights, a junk master was fined $15. Six. passengers in excess of the umber permitted by licence cost another man $5.
Colonial Office in the light, of the Minority Report. Then, both the higher All the defendanta appearing be authorities at Home and out here foro Lieut. Com. G. F. Hole, R.N., will require to be told that there this morning tendered pleas of (Magistrate) at the Marine Court This, of course, cannot be taken to imply and deprecation of the Tected directly or indirectly by us.
a limit to the patience of those "guilty" and wore finod. varying views expressed at that, confer-
piracy; that: piracy must cease, fined $100 for leading bengine out Two cargo-boat owners were cach ence by the Officers' Guilds. Far regardless of the cost; and that it from it. Their suggestions were must be the Navy's chief business valuable a year ago. They are to ensure adequate, protection for still worthy of every considera-British lives and British trade. tion. What is unfortunate, and what renders the report behind the times, is that it only sees the light of day now--twelve months later.
Playgrounds' Again.
At Home there is à movement afoot to procure playgrounds or If those who constituted playing fields for the children of "the personnel of that conference towns and the endeavour is to On the Desember-14–1924 could have foreseen the recom- make it a national concern, there was 505 companies on the mendations of the Minority Thirty distinguished people have Hongkong Register, of which 59 National Playing Fields Associating the year 97 new companies proposed the formation of a were in course of liquidation. Dure. tion because they feel that there put on the Register and 30 gallant struggles of local societies ferred from Shanghai to the
[iri ev: off/O company trans against the horrible constriction Hongkong Register, and one of slums should have the backing of all men of goodwill and the many from Hongkong to the active interest of the Minister of
Shanghai Register.
Report and learned of the deep feeling prevalent in Hongkong on the subject of these recommenda- tions, the report now issued might have been differently worded in some important respects:
off.
I am really writing to ask you if you will sign your name in my Autograph Book. You will see that I have got all sorts of famous people including Owen Nares, Lloyd George, and the Cambridge Rugger
captain. Please, write on a pink page as am going to keep that colour for people like you. And will you kindly return the book to Egħill Post Office, as old Crow-the Head sometimes opens our parcels and there'd be a fearful to a murderer! She's so stupid Plans "row if it leaked out I'd writen
and old-fashioned,
Yours admiringly,
OLIVE WALTERS,
he after
clase
Pass Sho