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FRIDAY OCTOBER 23,
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
ALPHABETICAL CRICKET:
I have often Douglas, Durston, Dennett, and wanted to see a either Dolphin or Duckworth as series of matches keeper-a largar amateur team. between the lot-And this B.'s would give a pretty
My money, however, is on the with the M.'s na runners up.
NCH
Amarkot feature of the Courts at present is the absence of serious crimes which all the daily register in normal times. Prior to the strike armed robberies, unlawful arms possession and bag-snatching occurred almost daily, and the work the Magis brates were enfiad upon to per forat increased with the pro- tracted nature of the proceedingsters of the alphabet. At the pre-good account of themselves in these cases. Casus of violence sont moment, the championship Bowley, the two Bryans," J. R.. have also naturally dropped out would most probably go to the Barnes and Brown ought to make of the Courts. In the absence of latter H. The team might be some runs, and Barratt, J. J. crimes of a serious nature, there Hobbs, Holmes, Heurne, Hallows, Beldres, Boyes and old Bastwick have boon to committal to the Hendren, Hardinge. E. R. would take some wickets. Criminal Sessions over a long Holmes, N. Haig, Unbble, H. P This period: Uniteansed hawking ruled, Hewetson. and Howell
a tremendous batting rampant during the early days of would be
Not long since atten- the strike, and the measures have team, and it would be fairly again had to be enforced with the strong in bowling, with Hearne SwANK. tion was called in Lon- don to # copy of return of the licence holders and and Howell as the opening pair, the re-opening of the stalla. The and Haig, Howatson, Holmus and Quality Street," by Sir James Barrie, which it appears was one cases still continue to be more Hardinge as changes. than in normaal times as the offen- The next best team would prob- of the volumes auctioned by the dors in many instances protend to ably be the M's, with F. T. Manu Bed Cross-during the war, when be unaware that the privilege na captain, Makepeace, J. C. W. authors were asked to autograph secorded to them during the MacBryan and Mead as its star books and manuscripts that they difficult period has been with-bats, Murrell as keeper, Macaulay might be sold for the benefit of Prosecutions for build-and Macdonald as a terrifying the soldiers. This particular one ing offenech, with most of the first pair of, bowlers, and C. S. or rather the inscription in it--- contructors' men being still away, Marriott, Murdin and Mercer as had a moral, though, which many continue to come before the changes. The M's would be a might ponder to advantage Here Courte with more frequency, and better bowling team, though is what was penned on the title with sanitary cases, illicit wood-much weaker batting, team chan page: eutters, and the usual routine of the H'M.. minor casos the Magistrates buve The 3's also would be pretty sufficient to do, Compared with strong, with J. Sharp as captain.. normal times, however, their task Sutcliffe and Sandham as the appears to be a light one with the opening pair, Strudwick as keep- elimination of the rowdy element. or..
Sibbles. Staples, Sadler: The results of the efficient man-Santall, Shepherd, and Skelding. · sures taken by the Police to sup press crine will doubtless be seen when the atutistica of this department come to be published.
drawn.
A “LYING CAMPAIGN”
COMBATTING BOLSHEVIK
4
CASLUMNY.
SUR 19. POREDOK'S vubars."
Pho perdiak eo-operation so long! Foviding betwest the British and
And the W's would be strong too-a better balanced team than the S's, with Whywall, the two Woolleys, Watson and Walker as the backbone of the batting, and J. C. White. Waddington and Wells us bowlers.
But the D's would take sothé beating-1 L. Dales, Dappor, K. S. Duleepsinhjt, E. W. Dawson, R. L. V. Day. J. W. H. T
"
At six 'twas thus I wrote, my
name:
"J. Barrie."
At swelve it was not quite the
sume,
"James M. Barrie."
At twenty, thus, with a caress, "James Matthew Barrie."
At thirty i admired it less:
"J. M. Barrie."
At forty-five it became so':
"J. M. B."
And soon I think the "M" will,
"J. B."
One tour for twenty's youthful
swank, And how the name becomes a
.blank.
A VENERABLE
MYTH.
reu-
no
Chi em in the Colony was the sub-
kovidwing. Altands in negde arguments employed in the jext of comment by Firency c by rows Spencu, "Viator Story of Atlantis, a book by, Mr. Pollbakal the Budget dibato yos-when i too "Observera The bed khing, mened in 1800 by the terday, bis remarks referring rust-worn legend of a great cap-Thosophical Publishing Society *** [ moru . partiearly plans for nont ce occupying the Ablauwe This work bus one immense a
funro, education of Chiness in the bat, ad suadenty submergede vantage over Mr. Spanico's in being (Colony.
nenthat. wrth suli les indabslands, * piece of historical research by
of teatral clairvoyance, come in any case when a general Queting amx-blovernor of" Hong, | vas sob adrift by Pato 2,500 years pies. slump in the market would have long (Sir Williams Des Yeux) who go. Arter centuries of controversy illustrated by maps of the world i deputed to the Secretary of the trade hus ruled of planes. based on to uss mmptions or cou had very serious consequences?
States in 1880 referred to the de-In this above-nated voltime Mjecture." These charts compiled." And how-eiste to construe the velopment of Honglong even miswis Spec. plausibly and with with meridians reckoned" from ut-Thomwich and handed down statement that "in many cases time. Sir, Henry Pollock sud that cousiderable literary, tant,
(1) depict, prices of shares hut risen beyond the Hongkong Government might pa to resurrved the fiction. He through the ages"
cheruta the belief dust, Ptado's supernaturally we suppose, the ter- a figure justified"! All this has makes it dls bessions for teach in best frushes a reasonable tre restrial changes between the yours. Refer- its schools and in the University.in veut of is authenticity." Thus 1,000,000 and 9544-B.G. Seen coramon knowledge for!
the wonderful growth and prosperi-based. he is ai ardent unce to them might have saved Mr. mouths--if not for years. There hay of this Colony, owing to its agending its favour, as his Spones an aunt of spendation Will be rejoicing in those place überal institutions in equitable articles, in the "Deultand and many chapters of his book. where stocks and shares are tradiment of and justice to'ndi nuts, Quarterly Reviews for let April He tronki have found, mortaver, hought and sold-but nowhere and starting onward from Governorex paided into the present book this let's inspired charta reveal Į Des Vanx's dospadeh to the present testify in a previous contribute, a Pacific Ocena existing na to-day
Mrainee 200,000 -3.0. ote we imagine that Govern-day to show how that gume fair the Prabhyn of Atlantis, ment legislation is only foretreatment of the Chinese has re- Spency has tried to euzen us into "taries !.. shulowed under extreme neces solted in the immensely greater crediting geology and geographical
Mr. Spence even accepts Brown's sity. Opinion, was fairly conclu-proofs of prosperity which are now distribution as favouring a one sive that legislation would be the before today, and which are abited Atlantis and its splitting assumption that South Aui rica...
the result of the cordial co-operation at the end of the Miocene, wel de first culture to Polynes a, oalcome of the Commission's re- which has for so long exist d and we main portions. the western of who settled at Grand China us
which, Antilla fa rasmcidated
the result of a definite quest''; but port, but this is not the case. still exista betwewon the British, and
endunud
thuen longer
neither author explains how that Instead there is what we may Chines in this Colony.
Allantia, the venstern moiety... which Perhaps in the recent Bolshevist disappeared finally in 10,000 BC. et accord with the ancient Antillian migration. The professor seriously describe as a moral docu- ment. The evils of the past--not in which has been angin-Mr. Spence, writing in the plain argues that these navigators who
Gerad from Casitage (and perhaps is tanguage of fact," says on the pre-of alt Pacific peoples make necessarily of June only-have wold be more aurate to say froment noension to establish that. been due to unsound brokers with Moscow) nothing has mon, innoys in Europe with reference to try must alone have built and while pottery, abounds unsound clients: dealing by un-led old residents who have a real Atlant's, a widely credited tradition cupied that celebrated adobe city,.. sound brokers with sound clients. affertion for this Colony and a firm was anciently current in Amarinaverywhere along the Pornvina belief in British fairplay than the regarding Antillia, whos alinttered- Cont "Hot a singtechard"— and over-financing by native
lying campaign of calumny which remnants he seen in the West astounding santion is found at banks. There is a clear call to the has misrepresented time British Antilles, and that" through let- A Cabinet member in the recent share-broking community to clean officials and the British business restrial and cultural connections Chima, which is the very centre of Finn caramics. This stops kind Labour Government gave it as his its own stables-and the call men of this Colony as riding rough with Atlantis, beam then the famous and abundant. Truxil pluzas, he could have waded ankle- considered opinion that it was should not go unheeded. We have shod over the rights of the Chinese wing-stone to the American main-bern but guided into one of us deep in waster-shards lying, sinca, for that is the favourite word used; tre this suggested that all brokers and brutally, or imperialistically, and for Atlantean eulture.
[Clamu's hey-day, around the apot u hut. The Shure Enquiry Com are not as black as the wintering roughshod over the rights of
Tradition-obviously nood not be where they were baked thereby are because it is widely credited. Josaning his misguidance of a ton mission abundantly prove the headgear they affect. It is from the Chinese here.
A MISTAKE.
The statement, lowever, thus the truating disiple. Of little better assertion. The Commission was this class that a lead will be
His Excellency, in reply to: Antillean archipelago formed ut qulity are many of the assumptions, asked to enquire into the circum-expected and doubtlese given. The Henry Pollock, thought that had different opocius part of a large added for the uplift and down.
the Commission has deftly suggested Ktances connected with
mistake that vernaculer land-muse may be accepted general throw, during the human period. of collapse, principally of the June ways and means and the sugges-ednication had not been proceded by geographers. Whether on, mythical: Atlantic and Pacific land settlement, and to make a report. tions should not be ignored. Much with ne fully as it might have been dat conclusion has no bearing on This has been done but not to an more might be said on this part-the Calony. It mire be omit what Mr. Spence propounds thist extent that will give general cular subject. It is now up to the said, that something has the civilisation of America, us of gone wrong with education as apEurope and Africa, originated, ou satisfaction. The public has been these who comprise the Exchanges led to the Chinese ong Western the divided, Atlantis, to whose with, Cicology-Suces, Sur Charice Fires, and the put which students. Antillian segment the authorities yell and cur Wyville Thomson expecting rabbits but the only lo act-and to act at once.
who should be supposed to have who may they but are at one in hold that the present forin of the thing that has evolved is the same
equired an intelligence beyond that attributing the Maya culture of Atlantic basin fures from the old hat plus a moral document:
of their uneducated countrymen Central America. If Mr. Spence Secondary-Period, and that its bod which may be, worth the paper on
Whatever evils the strike may have shown that they peces should establish this contention, hellus hud, an unbroken continuity of M. Kivet's views are entirely cor which it is written. The Com
have brought in its train, then than the heart that perisheth would overcrow the school of Pro life from the cretaceous till now mission, it must be admitted, had measures which were taken to Our mistake has been in taching for Elliot-Smith and its dogna roborative Unite Mr. Spence c a difficult task. The June ron-combat it have resulted in a too much importance to Westen Egypt the Universal Provider, of settlement we submit was only an marked decrease in the number aducation, from wheh, if you come civilation. The author before las otrovert these authorities by ad
Tertiary, his reasonings STS- item-but an item of which due of serious crimes as is evident to exame the inster very clowly problem by many irelevant, though ducing sure proof of a populat
from the lists of cases which it is not clear that all Gouduntals interesting enough), disquisitions, Atlantia enduring far o
asso weed being a float over frown with the ancient Atianud notice had to be taken. If the come up for hearing before the soft. I may tell you that the such as the probability of the und the venerabili nyilt uiet area history of share dealings in this Central and Kowloon Magistrates Director of Education is devoting
ing the foundered continent, Colony had only the June and As will be seen from the princh time, to the discuation of this
ons might deduce an under for mankind does not yet July incidents to their debit, son statistics given elsewhere, mubjects with my entire sympathy lying ve yard from a corpse the pliocena, nor did zueri, sa
larger number of prisoners had to and support, and I hope that in die ding within the Niagara Whirltured as the Maya evolve till marry strictures of any kind would have be cared for during last year:
for the Atlantic been tempered with, a little Figures, however, would be mis orgse it will be possible to provide pool; nor does he boneft by enim, sympathy, - History in this case leading, de large number of chain of Chinese education from gu
vernacular schools for Clunose elrondrements from analogy of the án duvalldly porin- Chinese faculty in the Uni-extensive,
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