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The third Sunday
Etiquette is a nasty MRYCARVALHO'S FUNERAL
Hickish sort of crea formerly Ted
ture; even with a The funeral took place yesterday
Sunday when the bone of rules it if not always eBLY" afternoon of the late Mr. G. E. de farmer's surplus livestock was to cope with its farious exactions.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
London.
ETIQUETTE.
During its heyday in mid-Vic- torian times it absorbed its de- voted followers shamefully long afternoon hours. ware wasted
Carvalho, Chief, Portuguese clerk killed and salted downwilfer of the Shanghai Bank who on the use. completion of 40 years service: Salt in the old days was obtain with the Bank was at the time ofed by evaporation alone, and as it his death spending a holiday in was indispensable it commanded leaving cards, and hostesses were a high price, two bushels being driven distracted over dinner The remains; which were valued ordinarily at the same lists. Thank goodness' It is an brought to the Colony by the ss. cost as a sheep.
abuse which has disappeared "Glenbeg," were laid to rest in the The price varied, however, from almost entirely from social life. family tomb at the Catholic year to year, according to the It is, however, still securely en- Cemetery. The graveside cere amount of solar heat. When trenched in the official circles mony was performed by the Rev.there was plenty of sunshine to which gave it birth; where it is With- Father Spada and there was a dry up "the saltings, leaving the treated with due respect. large attendance. Among those coveted white crystals exposed, out it official life would almost
salt was plentiful and cheap, but cease to exist. present were:--
Diplomatic etiquette is the
Mr. P. J. and Mr. J. Rodrigues, a dear year for salt Betokened a (nephews of the deceased) as bad harvest: Hence the old say-easiest to understand; Ambassa-
dors, Ministers, first, second and third secretaries, no matter how powerful or how insignificant the" The killing of Powers they represent, all take
chief mourners, and Messrs. J. P.ing: Dear salt, dear corn1" Braga, E Abraham, P: Tester, AF B. Silva-Netto, F. X D'Almada, J. M. Noronha, J. M. da Rocha, C. A. da Roza, J. M. V. Remedios. A. E. S. Alves, E. J. Figueiredo, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. N. the Cheater Curzon Park golf-links of the Diplomatic Corps in any reminds a correspondent how he country is the Ambassador or de Silva, Bros. Casian and Richard, and another Tommy witnessed a Minister who has been there the the Sisters and Students of the two-bird short at a desart outpost longest, and so on down to a Italian Convent and several others,
in Mesopotamis. For several simple attaché. Floral tributes were sent by the
days un officer tried to add inter-i There is a story of a young un- following: Messrs. A. H. Barlowat to the menu of bully-iced, but paid attaché, the son of a marquis, A. C. Hynes J. H. Ramsay, Howithout success. He condemned who was sent to St. Petersburg. Fook, W. J. Clark, F, M. Ellis, C. T. the ammunition. On ChristmasAt a dinner party at the English Edwards, A. J. Edgar, O. Skinner, Eve he had another try-and with Embassy he was rather dis- FX V. Ribeiro and J. F. Gross, one shot he brought down a wild gruntled at having to take into P. Tester, G. Travers, R. H. Chap-duck and a wild goose. The dinner some very insignificant pell, V. R. Jones, T. W. Doyle, Tommies had the former and the person. The Ambassador, him- FM. P. da Graca, R. L. Moncrieff, officer the latter and all praised self the son of a marquis, heard F. G. Walker, J. A. D. Morrison, the Services ammunition!
A LUCKY SHOT, two birds with precedence according to the date ore golf-ball on of their appointments; the doyen.
D. E. G. Nicholson, J. Joseph, G. P. Lammert, J. Walker, D.. B. Peat.. M. J. Prata and P: F. Prata. G. E Towns, and Ho Leung..
CHEMICAL CROSS-WORDS.
about it, and said to the boy next
day, "My dear So-and-So, when will you learn that an unpaid
A chemical cross-attaché is the meanest of God's word just printed creatures.?” by an authorita- tive American
chemical journal is a comparative.
On the whole,
the West of Africa. His life was despaired of. and as funerals have to take place 24 hours after An answer 'given to the death his coffin was ordered. To question, "What do the everyone's surprise and joy he re- letters S. 0. S. stand covered. "Save Our Souls." This Before his convalescence was lia. not quite the case. The dio-complete he received à demand
►
Inspector and Mrs. A. R. Clark. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. de Figueiredo, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Hegarty, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. y small square, but it is said to THE OFFICIAL etiquette sits Leo D'Almada Mr. and Mrs. LI. M. have taken a well-known profes COFFINS. easily and plea- Xavier, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. dos sor of chemistry at a leading
santly on diplo Remedios, Mrs. M. de Jesus and university two hours to solve it. matic shoulders: not so with family. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. da In view of some of the definitions officials in the Colonial Service. Rozs. Mr. and Mrs. C. A, da Roza.it would probably take a layman Though Colonial Office regulations Mr. and Mrs. Dalgety, Mrs. Carroll two years, for these are some are lengthy and explicit, feuds are. and Tootsie, Mr. and Mrs. F Xof them-methyl-3-oxy-4, 5-frequent and bitter.
"Man who One official, however, emerged D'Amada, Mr. and Mrs. H. Wing, methoxy benzene." Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Cookes, Mr. and studied action of light on AgCl triumphant from a fray. He had standing proof that the ordinary Mrs. J. A, dos Remedios & family, and anthracene." "Monoethereal," a post on the Gold Coast. The laws of economics do not neces. Mr. and Mrs. E. Abraham Mr. "Plural of a prefix used to denote poor man fell ill with black-water The E. A Remedios and family, Mrs. stereo-isomerism," and "Several fever, she most deadly scourge of sarily apply to Hongkong.
I. Carvalho and family, Mr. and benzoyl glycocolls." Government might or might not, Mira, A. R. Souza, Mr. and Mrs of course, have made more, out P. V. Botelho. Mr. and Mrs. F. G of its land sales than it adore, Carroll, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Greem, had there been some such scheme Mrs. M. J. R. Damond and Ellaline, S.-0.8
this attached to it; that in all Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Dunnett, Mrs; for was
P. M. N da Silva, Natalik-and re-sales of land and property the Remats Alvares and Yvanovich. Government should come in on The Hongkong and Shanghaitress signal was chosen without from the Treasury for the price what is idiomatically described Banking Corporation, the Junior any regard to a definite verbal of his coffin. He refused, because
wireless the distress signal was and (2) he'd not used it. as a Rfty-fifty basis-half profit Mess, the Portuguese and Chinese aning. In the early days of he said (1) he'd not ordered it.
staffs, Noronha & Co., Kayamally
C.Q.D., but as the letters Cacrimonious correspondence fol on the sale for Government coffers. & Co., Messrs. Ellis & Co., Botelho were used for other abbreviated lowed, during the course of which Such a scheme would, we believe, & Co., Yokohama Specie Bank, signals it was decided to use ahe suggested to the Treasury they never have affected land sales. It Carroll Brothers. Mitsui Bussan distinctive signal that could easily might recoup themselves by sell- Hence 8.0.S. Fing the coffin as a good second- would merely have affected re- Kaisha, the Club Lusitano and be picked up.
many others.
(three short, hand one. venue. This may not sound very
three long, three short), S.0.9. is He emerged as successfully beneficial. But the moral effect
an international signal used by all from this bout with his official would have been enormous. Rents
The "China Mail learns with nations, so we can hardly claim it superiors as he had done from ais
attack of fever. stands for any English words. are high not necessarily because building costs are higher, but be-regret that Mrs. R. H. Kotewall is
seriously indisposed.: cause the initial cost of land has been extremely big. This, coupled Mr. William Heughan gave a with increased cost of mater-concert at the Peak Club last even-1 ials and labour, has meant that in ing. He will appear again at the
Theatre Royal to-night.
order to obtain adéquate returns!
ม
THE THIRD DEGREE.
An
It is proverbially dificult for one mitted to steep for two hours, but Mr. L. Forster, Mr. and Mrs.tion to understand the processes at sean he was roughly awakened, Hendry and Bishop, and Mrs.of the criminal law of another, but the inquisition was resumed. Then he colapsed, and bit by bit Molony are passengers in the wo find it hard to believe that gave the information desired." "Morea", which left yesterday.
Fexlocated opinion is America wir That is to say, he confessed that he
on the capital used, heavy rents have had to be levied, resulting in Nothing much is heard these
a considerable amount of hard- days of Mr. Fletcher's excellent ship. There are difficulties in forty years lease scheme. Is it plenty surrounding the question
An enjoyable dance arranged by approve the methods of the police of lnd murdered the child and led dead? Have any taken advantage of land reform in Hongkong, but the ship's company of HMS, Now Jersey in the case of Mary electives to her body, though he of a scheme, somewhat utopian, the question should be discussed "Ambrose" was held at the Royal Duly, says Home paper. The has subsequently declared that he designed to help a way out of ex-from all possible points. We urge Naval Canteen Theatre last night. story of that horrible erime and its only made the confession "to secure detection must seem to English little peace," and now denies the cessive land speculation? What again that some tangible effort
"Three acres and a cow!"
Rev. W. H. Murray Walton is to people too fantastic to be rell. Acharge of murder. The polide, we the Colony needs. is a very de- should be made to populate the take some special services over the little girl of six years old was playe, informed, consider the coil- finite land policy. It has never district beyond Kowloon well into week-end of Sunday, Novembering on the lawn of arousa in New fession strong justification of the had one. The Government had the New Territories either by free 22, at St. Andrew's, Kowloon. Mr Jersey, when she was, matched up methods of the Third Degree. We land to sell. Syndicates, speculaor on equitable. terme, grants of Murray Walton is a member of and carried off in a taxicab. There shule be much surprised if this claim.
the Church Missionary Society,
was parsnit in a motor-caribit the admitted by educated, América. tors and rich refugees had money and, with mortgages at reason- in plenty. The result is well
Sir Henry Gollan, Chief Justice kidnapper shot the pursuer and It obviously incontestable that known. The earth is the Lord's,able rates of interest. The Gov-
of Hongkong, who has been taking nude of. Au fust the crime was the methods applied to this wretched some of us sing on Sundays. Iternment should aim at something part in the judicial enquiry into put down to the negre who usually boy we them of the ages of torture, which does not press hardly on the the accurrences at Shanghai on drove the tax. But he was found the very jane methods by which is of course all wrong. The earth
vast numbers of working-class May 20, returned from that port mindered. Then there was talk of herotica were inade, according to the Mr. Lloyd is the landlord's.
one Philip Knapp, who appears to taste and fancy of the inquirer to bena Adonis und a Hercules famous confess or abjura, witches to George is said to be staging a Chinese in their care, whilst the by the Mantua yesterday. ploitical "come back." Many who foreigners should be encouraged Sir Henry Gollan-imself and for a dormen, for sport usinowledge themselves farailints of remember his ninepence for four to have an interest in the Colony old Carthusian was entertained Menuwhile, the New Jersey porce the devil. The New Jersey police. pence, and his "refreshing fruit" represented by what we may call at luncheon in the Shanghak Club laid bands on a lad of 20, the son would reply that the end justifies the by the old Carthusians of the port. of a New York lawyer, and subject-ments. A sounder knowledge of will probably hope it will be a set-
Those present were Sir Edward e him to the Third Degree: As human nature would plonounce back. Mr. Lloyd George's latest
Pearce, Mr. Duncan McNelif Mr.we have met this in American playa that the method is equally brutal The police had a ET. Maitland, Mr. A.M. Preston, ziovels, it has seemed incredible, and fallacious. torch is a Land Reform Cam
Mr. B. G. Herbert, Mr. JH-but apparently the authors erred by shrewal suspicion that this boy was paign. The first point in this
Chapple, Mr. D: C. Burn and Mrophanism. The half has not been guilty before he said a word. Sure- particular programme is: "The
C. Trenchard Davis...
The New Jerany policly their resources were equal to State to resume its ownership of land." We do not advocate Mr.
Passengers due to arrive on the having in their hand this lad, who arching for the vanished child and Simplicity is another note of a City of Cairo on November, 2738 they know was let out, of, an filing the gaps in a case which can."- George's programme for Hong Greek art.
nsylurn last June Include: Major E. J. Bone Man Inquie kong, but, if it is not too late,
and Mrs. FA. Britton, Capt. and Mra. N. Cameron, Dr. and Mrs, bons, in the cou there should be some sort of re-
A. Cameron, Major and Mrs. Egrilled by farm in the method by which land
Hogy Lieut. H. Jacob-Larcom, xained hun ce 28 dealt lir here. The Governmen has hitherto neglected the moral alde connected with land dealing Only
GREEK SIMPLICITY.
Like the however, its simplicity torm in a long series of wwwy all dist
knew
told us
Major and tie. sloop.
brought to him, at ing and beggu VB know the
obild was sotto af five in the martia
him; not have been very obscure. It is One that American jurice attach an importance to confentions which But mon in this country, basons are to be extorted by mach methods, the juryman will soon