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SHREDS AND PATCHES.
A Nursery Catalogue For them, the polish and the NURSERY is probably the last brilliancy of Jade represent the TALE) + place in the world in whole of purity; its perfect com- which to look for fize pactness and its effèffle hardness The plucky action of a boy who when threatened by armed rob ritad writing. The illustrations represent the sureness of the bera who were after his em- may be coloured, but not neces.telligence: tty angles which do n
sarlly the descriptions. But here cut, although they seem sharin ployer's safe, rushed away, gave is an exception taken from a re represent Justice; the pure and the alarm and headed the chasecent issue of a Home paper. prolonged sound which it gives led to the appearance at the Kow- Nurseryman's Catalogue
forth when one strikes it, repre- cants music.
loon Magistracy yesterday of Bi man who is alleged to be one of the robbers.
The attempted robbery, took place at a Chinese shipyard at. Cheung Sha Wan
In his evidence,.. the Boy,"
"in answer to questions by the Bench, said that the prisoner discharged two rounds from a revolver during
the chase. The revolver, which was found the following day, wasi produced and showed no signs of having been fired although the cartridges were marked.
The case was adjourned.
FUNERAL.
THE LATE, SERGEANT BLACKMAN.
The funeral took place aË Happy Valley yesterday of the late Police Sergt. A. H. Blackman of the Sai Kung Police Station whose death occurred on Thurs- day. Many of his colleagues at tended sad among these present [ were MF. P. P. J. Wodehouse. (Captain Superintendent .of Police), Messrs. T. H. King, Scott
Next to the Rose, there is nothing that can equal the
"Its colour represents loyalty Proty for regal splendour its interier flaws; always showing It is a luxurious flower, putting themselves through the trans- one in mind of quantities of parency, call to mind sincerity its velvety rose petals brought to ridescent brightness represents gether to form a single majes-the heaven; Its admirable sub- tle bloom Folk who grow a stance, born of mountain and of few old-fashioned Peonies in kouy or in tháng, to be used water, represents the earth: Cut huge bushes occupying several square yards of ground, which alone without ornamentation, It seldom produce more than two represents chastity.
The price or three second or third-rate which all the world attaches to it, flowers have simply no idea represents the truth. To support What our Fatonies, which have these comparisons, the Book of bees selected from the Anesti Merse says When I think of a varieties in the word, bra like like Jade, and that is why th
wise man, his merita uppear to nis The delicious fragrance of these wise set so great storé by fade Promies, together with their Lynn Translated from splendid form and colour, make the Chinese by Toussaint and therm absolutely irresistible.
:
Joertasen
Sealandia. If flowers ANOTHER can be judged by the
Not far from Cheyne SPECIMEN, same standards 29 CARLYLE. Walk, Chelsea, there
feminine beauty, it
used to be a small not- is to this exquisite repre-conformist meeting house, and on sentative of the Larkspur one occasion Carlyle was a main- family that the prize should go. ber of the congregation. At the Words could never be found to end of the service the young faithfully portray its delicate preacher-be was a layman-fol Joveliness or perfect grace of lowed the custom of, bis time by form. The broad spikes taper shaking hands with each member
of
and W. Gerrard (Assistanting towards the top are sheath-of the congregation at the door. Superintendents of Police). Chief
ed with parma violet. flowers, Frequently he inquired after the Inspector Keat..
tinted sky Blue. In the centre soul's health. Sometimes he re- each petal is a small dark peated the text, which on this eye. A valuable late-flowering Sunday was: Sariety..
"I have placed before thee life and death."
The service was conducted byt the Rev. T. B. Powell. The de ceased was an ex-Royal Marine and a firing party of Marines attended the funeral.
Tae-Kong said to
At last Carlyle approached with
The coffin, draped in a Union JADE. 'Kong-Feu-Tue: Jack, was drawn on a gun car- riage to the cemetery by a party men value jade and scorn the to this excessive sociability. of Police: The Last Post was ouer stone? Is it because jade "I have placed before thee life fired over the grave. sounded, and three volleys were a rare and the houen stone island death," said the preacher, piously, as he took the Saga's hand.
. "Dare I ask you why wise steely eyes and fuming objections
every common;?” »
There were a large number c wreaths, the Mist being as follows: Mum and Dad, Winnie, Harry, Tug" Mr. and Mrs P. P. J. Wodehouse, Mr. and Mrs. Gerrard, Mr. and Mrs. A. Grant,
Kong-Fou-Teè answered:
Fentellectual
because, since very olden times, life and death!" ejaculated Car-
"If jade, is highly valued it is "Aye-humph! the wise have likened it to virtue. tyle as he grunted and passed out.
ROUND ABOUT A MAORI VILLAGE
twin
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.:|| could do with some society that would take to its bosom the better type of professional entertainer who visits our often seemingly inhospitable shores. Most of us ren, Mr. and Mrs. E. 1. Wynne- Mr. and Mrs. Everest and child- Fare one-sided enthusiasts, seeing Jones, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ellis, Eno good in any but our own: Mrs. Angus and family, Mr. and pursuits, hobbies; and kings. Mrs. Stoll, Sub-Inspector and Mrs.
A southward journey of seven plain the fantastic phenomena little of the Bobbie Burns gift and
[Bloor Insp. and Mrs. Cashman
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hore, hours by rail from Auckland of nature, but also to prevent you we would see ourselves as we real- Mr. and Mrs. Andrew, Mr. and brings you to a region unparallek from taking a path that may lead ly are. Christians may be abs. Mrs. Langley, Mr. and Mrs. C. F.ed for its array of weird wonders, to some hidden crater or innocent- lutely certain the necessity there Mrs. John Murphy, Sub-Inspector thermal springs, of boiling foun- famous guides are the
Alexander, Sub-Inspector and it is a region of geysers and looking pool. The two most is in the place to create a higher, and Mrs. H. Phillips, Mr. and tains and bubbling pools, of men- sisters, Georgina and Eileer, who Saner and more Christian public Mrs. A. Reynolds, Mr. and Mrs.acing craters and hot fissured soil, are exactly alike, not only in their opinion. We are quite certain W E. Hollands, Sergeant and set amidst placid lakes and frown features and their raven locks, there is a need to create a higher John Craig, Sergeant. T. Feely, where once existed the eighth disfigure their mouth and chin. Mrs. Chester-Woods, Sergeant ing mountains. It is the region but also in the tattoo-marks that and Vaner intellectual opinion. Sergeant D. Brown, Sergeants wonder of the world, the Pink Thy speak English, as indeed do The strike and boycott paralysed Taylor, McLeod. Edwards, Lam- and White Terraces of Rotoma all educated Maoris, with a free- There is something in that trade. Have they paralysed wine. W. Merton, Whant and Char- and symmetrical alabaster form- elegance. The guide who
pril Tyler, Richie, P. Barnicle, hana, those beautiful, spacious dom from accent and a surprising phrase "the winter of our dis-ter intellectual effort? content." The word winter aug- gests bleakness and dreariness and of course coldness. There is in iti the distinct call to affort to the physical as well as the spiritual or intellectual sides of our natures.
Hongkong, Saturday, Dec. 3, 1925,
PARALYSED?
THEY SAY THAT— The housewife has no trade union.-Lord Bradbury,
Pessimism is a poor weapon
!
con-
min, Butcher and Madgwick, Mrs.ations that drew throngs of ad- ducted me, Bella, was free from Bond and Sub-Inspector Moody, mirers from all parts of the world, tattoo-marks, and might have Mesara. Denny-Reidy, C. Halt, T.The Terraces, now lie buried been taken for an English woman Collin, P. Grant and J. Moss, F. beneath the water of the Lake with a strain of Southern blood. Brott.
Rotomahana.
Her hut was like a museum of Sergeants' Mess. Water Police:
But though the Terraces are dental souvenirs, for side by side Antipodean curiosities and Occi- European Officers' Mess. Laichi-gone, the region to which they with grotesque wooden carvings kok Prison; Comrades in Yau- brought renown is still richly en- and the "piupiu" or dancing-skirt December is well upon us with the with which to organise a trade mati Police Station; No. 4 Police dowed enough with attractions to of flaxen reeds, it contained photo- Launch; Sergeants Mess, Sham draw visitors from the other end graphs and gifts of various kinda distinct remindder of the neces-revival-Sir Harold Bower,
Sui Po Police Station; Sergeants" of the globe. For its hot geysers from Englishmen and Americane,. sity to see to such mundane things Without strong leadership the Mese, No. 7 Police Station: Ser-and springs are repeatedly in whom she had conducted over her as coal, and woolens! Societies who party of order is helpless, just be. geants Mess, No. 2 Police Station; action; it is the home of thousands native heath. The entrance to her cater for the indoor needs of their Dat it is the party of order. Policer, pectora Mesa, Central; of Maoris, who still cling to many habitation was adorned to her Officers, No. 3 Launch: Comrades of the customs and superstitions forbidding figures carved in rata members are, as a rule, well on
of the School; Inspector and Ser- of their forefathers; and It boasts wood, who, I understood, repro- with their arranged programme by must be great hearers. No man No. 2 Police Launch: Lok Ma
To make great preachers there geants, Shaukiwan Police Station of the modern town of Rotorua sented some of her ancestors. She this time of the year. If we are can preach with passion and fer- Chau Police Station: Lance-Ser-village is Whakarewarewa, which that underlies the grim, barbaric .... The most interesting Maori explained some of the symbolism, right in our surmise some sort of your to a chilly congregation.geants Mess Central Members is conveniently shortened to designs in Maori, art, such as the paralysis seems to have set in.Rev. J. D. Jones.
of the United' Service Lodge 1841 Whaka. It is only two miles The English tongue, when well Police; Revenue Officers: Euro-ply frequently during the day bed at more than she elasidated, (East China); Royal Naval Yard away from Rotorua, and coaches that marks the warrior, but hin- outstretched tongue of defiance spoken or well written, is the pean Officers' Mess, Victoria Gaol; tween town and village. dignity, its subtlety, its music, and Marines; Ex-Active Service Men's richest tongue in the world for its European Staff, KC.B.; Ex-Royal its power-John Galsworthy, Association Sergeants'
Dean Inge.
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Water Police.
Mess,
We have not yet given up hope that ere long those University Extension Lectures will be as com
eerie scene, probably without She led me through this Maori parrying the curiosity of the 'Whaka presenta a strange and stranger with a graceful shyness. mon as they will be an acceptable feature of our everday life. The
equal throughout the world. There doin with an air of pride, It is intolerable that people whe Cathedral Chaplain suggests that have grossly broken the marriage
are clusters of wooden huts built showing me how here people-cook- we are apt to take more interest in lawe should be allowed to pass in
on the sandy or stony soil, in ed their food over the hot springs which the natives live, clad in and washed their clothes in the our race meetings than we do in Society without any stigma being attached to them-Bishop of
modern garb, and all around are hot pools, in which, at night or at our University. There is half a Durham
Rigs, December 4-A message geysers and hot springe from dawn they aho bathed from Moscow mys that M. Rykol, which truth in the suggestion-not a
anow-white clouda, of One evening I saw a dancing President of the Council of Peoples vapour arise or jets of boiling display in a bal in Botorua, in whole one; but, in idiomatic par of prejudices in the cataclysm of Bey the Turice Minister of reeks of sulphur. Every reyder women took part, but in whe Nothing but the breaking down Commissaries, has received Babri water aboot alot whilst the air which about a dosen girl and Lance "it is up to the University the Great War would have been to take some interest in the people sufficient to carry the Supergriculture. M. Rykoff destared has its own particular character onts two could be induced by who are willing to take some in generation Chancellor of the Locarno tresties
Time Act at any rate in this at the League of Nations and the latics and significant name, the local impresoras
were equally Robutu, "the splasher, and the was a father black hall opp terest in it, if the way is only Exchequer.
directed against Soviet Russia and Prince of Wales Feather being only one ne shown. So far the University re- What a pity that Earl Haig, that the Soviet entirely agreed with
Turkey, and secured Sehri Bey of the most popular impresario, who expisjudo muing a "lighthouse. We arouk Ear-Beatty the Lord Chief Tarkoy's views of the Mosul ques casionally requiring a little soup event on the programme Pokutu plays only at intervale the platform the charact like it to be Kanwn as "the lecture tice, Lord Inchcape, Lord, Brad-tion and monteed the Boxo's to coax it, and a Moari, keeper scanded to the wheezy house" and to do something to bury, the Eat of Reading, the
2log shrill whistle some time which he inkled to lighten Hongkong's winter dis- Weir should confined in what
Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord mori) suppo
beforehand so that visitors in the
ance, content of intellectual dullness. almost might be called a lethal
town aan burriedly boteke then- Sright
to the scene. There they are piu, The Holena May Institute has chamber Lord Ullwater.
An impressive specta- nobly done ita 'shara, in the past,
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Boems to be
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