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To the Communist Party must be assigned the sensation of the moment. To have smuggled into Britain two of its most noted continental lenders to attend a Conference at Glasgow, in defiance of the Government's PAIGNTON FAIR. of N. & Q. (1st WOULD SHE? went on playing restriction, speaks itself of the strength of the movement; and p. 66) quotes from an old news- while the distressed wife worked
S. vol. vill.
golf until dark, the power and determination of paper (June 7th, 1809) the fol- herself up into a state of frantic those who control It. How this lowing account of Paignton Fair, excitement at his non-appear feat of smuggling has been done, held at Exeter. At this fair, says ance: Mummy," said the golfer's will doubtless soon be revealed the writer, the ancient custom of little girl, aged seven, "if daddy That smuggling into Britain has drawing through the town been going on of Communista plum-pudding of immense size you marry again?"
A doesn't come home to-night, shall generally has been known for and afterwards of distributing it sometime. It is alleged that, the to the populace, was revived on whole weight of the second Inter-Tuesday last nationale. has been transferred which composed this enormous The ingredients- from Germany to England. Not pudding were four hundred only are the Bolsheviks sending pounds of flour, one hundred and their own countrymen to Britain, seventy pounds of beef auet, one but they are pressing into their hundred and forty pounds of service people who arrive from raisins, and two hundred and America travelling with United forty eggs. It was kept con- States passporta. It has been stantly boiling in a brewer's found that these people are copper from Saturday morning to Russians naturalised as United the Tuesday following, when, it States subjecta.. The incident, under review is perhaps the most direct challenge which has been made to British authority-an authority which distinctly ordered. that no foreign" Communist was to be allowed admittance to the NEW BANK SPONSOR. past few country to attend the Glasgow Conference. The Communist peril signature of Sir Ernest Harvey years the is directed at undermining the has become familiar to all who Constitution of the Empire at all costs.
British have been fortunate enough to costs include red revolution cashier of the Bank of England a These possess a banknote, for us chief which the heart and soul of the reproduction of "E. M. Harvey" Empire detests and is determined appeared on every one as a to subdue. Nowhere under the proof of its genuineness. Now sun is there a more just constitu- Sir Edward has received promo SLAVES. have had a more stirring Few parts of the world. tion than that under which tion, and has become Comptroller British subjects live. There is in Threadneedle Street, and a and evil, than the West Coast' of history, both for good freedom and liberty for all and new name right means. of redressing known banknotes.
will appear on our Africa, which the. Prince of grievances. It is not likely that C. P. Mahon, who has been deputy Sierra Leone, Drake put in on his His successor is Mr. Wales has explored. Here, at the present Government will sit cashier for the past two years, homeward voyage round the down lightly in face of the chal-and whose signature will soon be world; lenge now issued to it. It may as well known
here: too, be childish to think that a Home Ernest, and his predecessor, Sir slaves in the "Jesus"-oddly as that of Sir Hawklus shipped his first.cargo of Sir John Secretary in his own person can John Gordon Nairne. stop a British revolution by pre-
named vessel for such a trade; venting the Communists of
and here Wilberforce tried his different countries from meeting;
A solemn festival in the famous experiment. in colonisa but it is not childish to believe
JUNE I Scotch metropolis in that a Home Secretary with a of George Heriot's Hospital (cap..
tion with repatriated American: ordained by the Statutes negroes and prostitutes from the free Government behind him.) in the following words:" But Coast Castle the alaves were Haymaket in London. At Cape and better still a free people will especially upon the first Monday branded with the initials "D. Y." the proverbial cat, and children any undermining of such a Con- a solemn commemoration
effectively take measures to stop in June, every year, shall be kept for the Duke of York, patron of are crowded to the gutter," the stitution as the British people thanksgiving unto God, in this Addison was once offered one of and the famous Africa Company- prey of passing vehicles. The possess, by means of anarchy. It form which followeth: In the its shares as matter should not be allowed to Communist Party at any rate has clock of that day, the Lord pro- French, and Dutch fought each.
looks very much as if the British morning, about
a bribe; and for eight of the three hundred years. English, rest with the Government's voluntarily committed suicide. "regret"; nor at Dr. MacGown's
vost, all the ministers, magistrates, other up and down the whole West observation that there is very
and ordinary Council of the city Coast for the trade in gold and of Edinburgh; shall assemble ivory as well as slaves. little to be said about the matter
themselves In the Committee. I wore often great, but losses were Profits chamber of the said hospital; from heavy, for settlers had to fight thence, all the scholars and officers disease and death as well as the of the said hospital going be- rival trader; graves were kept fore them two by two, they dug ready for use, and there used shall go, wtb all the solemnity that to be a grim jest in one of the may be, to the Grey-Friars' Church West Coast colonies that the best. of the said city, where they shall religion was Wesleyanism, be the said ministers, avery one yearly sect that had a portable hearse... hear a sermon preached by one of cause the Wesleyans were the only in their courses, according to the Tropical medicine, of course, has antiquity of their ministry in the changed things a good deal for said city the founders ofancy the better, but it is not very long statue of the founder is fancifully since there was still point in the decorated with flowers. Each of the boys receives a new salt of assemble, and the citizens, old and clothes; their relations and friends young, being admitted to view the mar-highly gratifying.
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Hongkong, Wednesday, June 3, 1925.
EMPTY "REGRET."
in the light of the Government's letter. There is much to be said; and it is for Kowloon parents to say it.
Gentlemen-The King!
If there is a fixed pomp about|
D
THEY SAY THAT--
Teachers, to be effective, must not lecture.--Mr. S. W. Rider.
Our present spelling was purely Irrational-Mr. W. Bennett.
The ideal nursery school is a garden with a house attached. Mr. W. Ballard.
There are very few snobs
the ceremony of observing the among the clergy-Rev. E. L. King's birthday. it is but to Macassey, remind us of the majesty that hedge in the office of king-all, mental development. Dr. J.
Handwork is a fundamental of ship It has been, so' from time Strong. immemorial. The ritual of the observance does not however cloak the inherent simplicity and grandeur of the kingly office. Kings
are like stare-they rise, they set, they have The worship of the world.....
To senses young enough vels are never unnatural-Lady Margaret Sackville,
Few stars are nearer the earth than a million times the distance of the aun-The Astronomer Royal:
Never do I expect such a tea again as thirty years ago, all for a shilling. Lady Drummond Fraser.
THAT D
sailor's couplet, once famous all, over the world:
Beware, oh, beware of the Bight
of Benin
Where few come out though.
many go in.
D INDIA HOUSE.”.
The Government cannot be con-
An unusual. Charles Lamb'cen- solitary weakness of a strong gratulated on the terms of its of their own people set and But if they have not the worship
tenary was celebrated by a dis-man, had the impertinence to letter to the Head of the Sanitary securely fixed in affection, and
tinguished company at dinner at speak of him compassionately and the Board regarding the request for a devotion, they are as nothing universal language would tend to manship The use of Esperanto as recently
Inner Temple Hall regretfully. "I could no more children's playground for Kow-worth. It is in the hearts of the the elimination of war. Mr. Birrell, writes the London corres clared Mr. Birrell, "and as for under the chair- feel compassionate of him than I of... Mr. Augustine could claim to be his equal," de- loon. The letter is tergenase itself. people of Britain that the King W. II. Page.
indeed reigns by right of a con-
pondent of the A business House could not be quest, simple, and unaffected. perfect man when you have got a 480 "Elia." after 33 years as an to thank heaven for it.
"Manchester regret, I feel none. You are more likely to get a
Guardian."
He had one more cold, precise, or seemingly achieved with no apparent effort, perfect woman somewhere in the India House clerk, became "a wise I would have found him, to One hundred years frailty, and I am almost prepared indifferent, even if it tried. The but with that spirit that under-
Other English language is not so poor into the lives of subjects, with a stands appreciates, and enters
neighbourhood-Misa Burrows. superannuated man." On his way misquote Wordsworth, A crea- that it cannot be plumbed for perfect understanding of their State Socialism in the sense of Crabb Robinson's Chambers in
The IL.P. does not believe in upon his last day he stopped at human nature's daily food."**
home from Leadenhall Street: ture all too bright and good for words to express a semblance of own peculiar difficulties and industry being run from White- the Temple to slip into the letter, spoke. of. Lamb's "slender" writ- real regret in a matter which con- desires To-day's celebrations hall-Mr. A. Fenner Brockway. box a
There were those, too, who cerns the welfare and well being of their own. His Majesty has outside the class room. Tackle India House for ever! Give me well speak of Gibbon's "atout"
will certainly take on a distinction
note consisting of these ings: of quite young people. A request but recently recovered from an them on the things in the news appropriate by some of the most was that Lamb's writings were Get your boys in their last year words: have left the dd they meant. They might just as Heaven only knew what for a playground came from a illness that but reminds us that paper, the problems of the world, distinguished of London'a literary. "unimportant." "What nonsense great joy." It was considered writings. What they really meant medical man; a representative of pay tribute to the unseen. The ation well, so much the worse this conspicuous incident in "How many booke described as ever Kings are human and must and if they don't pass the examix-men to celebrate the centenary of all this is," declared Mr. Birrell- Kowloon interests on the Sanitary King's birthday this year comes for the examination. Mr. Board; and the request was at a time when the heir apparent Fairgrieve. backed up by facts of an undie- has concluded a visit to the South puted kind known to all who have that has been triumphal in Ita African Dominion, of the Crown Leven but 8 faint knowledge of progress and the results of which Kowloon and its needs. Yet in a are as apparent as later on they letter of 38 words-some devoted will be real. A younger son also returns from a visit to another
to the usual cliches of letter writ- part of the empire, whilst a sailor ing, the Government "regrets" prince of still younger years that "It has no
site available for remains abroad to cement the a children's playground in Kow- reigning house and the people of fealing that exists between the loon." The Government found a a great empire, Kings have no site for a religious building; it repose, the poet Shelley tells us. found a site for a golf course; sites Very true is this of our own King, for playing pitches for adults: it so far as it indicates no shirking should have no difficulty in finding in all that pertains to the of duties, and no lack of Bomething for
ldren of his subjects. In-Kowl
Hongkong Tess than other
Empires
ing law shows the "ers
MILE.
Lamb's life, notable, for one rea important at their birth now have son, because it formed the theme the ground floor of the pit of of one of his finest essays. "The oblivion, while how, many unim- superannuated man."
portant books may be found a hundred years after, shining in.. the canopy of heaven with an affulgence all their own?
The company included some of the best-known men of letters and the chairmanship of Mr. Birrell, the doyen of living essayist, was The writings of Charles Lamb appropriate, The Inner Temple have instilled since 1923, and to- Hall is adjacent to Lamb's birth, day the world over are instilling, place at Crown Office Row into the minds of young and im-...
Proposing The Immortal Memory My Birrell said that it exqu enraged him beyond description: to hear people speak of the ger Elia Gentleness suggest cessive
prasalonsbla-readers; good taste, ely fine feeling and de-. humour No young man
has ever