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The
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Hongkang.. Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1925.
NEW CONTACTS.
Opinions will differ as to the ideal-line of approach towards better understanding. between peoples of different race and out- look. The truth is that there is no ideal line but that such an object must lie in different chamels. Be far as Hongkong is concerned it is evident that in the pursuit of sport many find a means of friend ly contact leading to a healthy and a sane outlook. It is not only that such societies as the Society of St. George and St. Andrew's come into agreeable rivalry in such
SELLING A PASSPORT.
ALLEGED TRICK ON A CHINESE.
PERUVIAN CHARGED.
As the Central Magistracy Exeterthy. A Poruvian manaudi
Augusto Gonzales.
was charged with obtaining a sum of $710 by Inlad protonces.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES
A boatload of Scotsmen Nor By in a gate, and feeling a HARRY. bit religious.
We remember poignantly our last Christmas; in London; a London with its shops brilliantly. lighted, the guy crowds of laugh- offering people who fitted in and out
"Will soma, o' ye up a bit prayer?" suggested one.
There was no responso, "Will some of ye sing a psalm or gang ower a paraphrase?"
Still no reply. "Then we maun due something religious-FI tak" a collection."
NOBEL
PRIZE.
Į
For the Arist time no Nobel prizes will be given for the current year. But inasmuch as the 1024
of them; the schoolboys, wide- oyed and marvelling: Gamages- the Mecca of children of all ages, with its crowded slowly moving throng, its Fairyland, its Engine- land and Conjuring-trickland, cach packed with worshippers, amall boys who ary,. "Don't go yet, Daddy. I've not seen the trains, or the wireless, or the Meccano, or the" but Daddy ly adamant and the small boy" is dragger, protesting vehemently,
Christmas is the time wher for a few brief,, but golden days; when the spirit of peace and goodwill is abroad in the land, and happiness is the keynote, e all that we do..
It was averred in Court that the defendant sold to the complain- ant, a Chinesp, about one year ago,, a passport to enable the litter to enter America, for which la part payment of $710 was made, it having been agreed to make a further payment bringing the fotal to over $3,000 when the man had actually entered the States. The effort failed and the Chinese Prize in physics is awarded at the away. had to undergo six months' im-nouncement is made at Stock-the world becomes young again same time that this negative an- Frisonment for attempting to holm, it may be that a year hence Enter by means of a false passport, the directors of the fund will see following which he was sent back at to make a bestowall in one or to Hongkong.. The Chinese had more of the five classes into the defendant arrested when he which the awards are divided accidentally mat him in the street It might be conceded that the Jon Saturday.
Christmas east of Suez ia a year now passing records few different thing somehow, for Defendant was remanded for great constructive accomplish though the same spirit is pre one week at the request ofments in the advancement of Detective Sub-Inspector Dorling science or the creation of abiding which" lacks that exhilaration
sent, there is an atmosphere. who has charge of the case, literature or the furtherance of
that, characterises # London peace. And yet many will urge thoroughfare in Christmas week. the claim of Barnard and Gye to it the fact that the shops have recognition on the basis of their such an Eastern air about them? cancer research, which has gone Is it that there are so few English so far toward the isolation of the folk about?
Perhaps that is malignant. bacillus. Their the reason, for London without achievement might be assumed as its crowds would be the loneliest of equal importance with the place on earth, as indeed it is on discovery of insulin, for which Banting and McLeod two years
a Sunday evening in winter. ago received a prize.
BLIND GIRLS,
INTERESTING CAROL RECITAL.
Those who made the journey to Kowloon City Rout yesterday to the CM.S. Blind Home were amply rewarded by the efforts of the inmates who rendered a pleas- ing programme of carols. The
Here is a variation of
loss of sight has not prevented EPITAPTH. what is to be seen on these girls from being adepts at knitting, and the character of Stanley.
a tombstone out at
Here once I stood as thou
dost now,
And viewed the dead, as thou
dost me.
Ere long thou'll lie as low as I And others stand, and look at
thee..
.
The Christmas
are
We shall make merry with the rest; we shall have our puddings, even though they may not be so round as depicted on the cover of the Strand Magazine, and we shall drink a solemn toast to "Absent Frienda" and "Home.” What does it matter if our eyes are a triffe misty? It is only the cigar smoke in our eyes. Come on! Fill up again! No heel-taps! "To England, Home, and Beauty!"-Some ass has started "The Girl I left behind me"-Curse this cigar-Ah! That's better "Auld Lang Syne" Come on," all together, let her rip!
heir singing-to say nothing of the violin quartettes-proves they have an ear and a soul for music. Verily God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." The pro- possible to do.. How far,
gramme included the favourite for instance, has the tastWhile Shepherds watched" and for music been exploited? It is Unto us a Child is born." There interesting to note how, in the was a story in actior, and a read- productions of operas and theng (braille) of scripture by a performance of concert music, by gave an extempore speech of wel-
blind girl One of the girls also CHRISTMAS EAST numbers
O' SUEZ. coming in, em- the Philharmonic Society, mem-come, in Chinese, which was inter-}"
bellished with |bers of the Portuguese community preted by Miss Barber who had all the usual Christmas adjuncts such as coy maidens standing are to the fore in helping these charge of the programme.
Miss K. Beswick, Suptd. wel expectantly under the mistletoe ventures. ""Iolanthe" Agured comed the visitors and spoke of large steaming puddings of a amongst its helpers in the orchesthe work being done. She mergeometrically circular shape, tra, quite a number of Portuguese tioned how an Australian, himself puddings that never came out of any basin that I have ever seen! ladies and gentlemen who play for the work, as to send the financial
folind had become so interested in Holly of course, in abundance the sheer love of playing. The support of one of the girls..
for whoever saw a Christmas Number without holly. Chinese are rapidly becoming The visitors included the Rt.
Somehow the arrival of these little Holy of Holies, into which efficient in the ura of Western Rev. the Bishop of Victoria and papers bring with them a feel only we have right of access. music. We see no reason why T. Arnott, Rev. and Mrs. G. of what once was, and is not now. Mrs. Duppuy, Lady Pollock, Mrs.
Let us then dream on. ing akin to sadness; a memory
OBITUARY.
that much longed-for local orches- Lindsey, and Rev. C. B. Shann. tra should not be representative of all sections of the community, find- ing a common basis, in the beauti- ful and ennoblinig appeal of music. There are other lines of appeal--- books, art and debate-all having their devotees. The sharpness of
MR. JOAD JERONYMO.
HOMES.
And she rips; but mingled with our mirth is that feeling of sad- ness and exile, and the laugh and little longing for the clear, cold, jest hides in everyone of us that starlit right; and the homely Christmas fireside that we love, and as the evening advances we fal silent--we are dreaming of the Christmas that we remember. most vividly, and in the cigar smoke we build, each of us, a
ABOUT DRAGONS.
L. E. SABLE.
Milton writes in one of hising power-and Christian evi- most harmonious numbers :—
1
There passed away at his re The old Dragon under ground the weather suggests that in such |sidence, No. 8 Humphrey's Avenue, In straiter limits bound, things as walking clubs there is Kowloon, in the forenoon yester Not half so far casts his unsurpéd another idea which could be usedlar, Mr. Juno Jeronymu "Gomes to promote what is called "better very old member of the Portuguese understanding." All these maywhom the deceased counted a great community in Hongkong, among
suggest an unreasonable number of societies. But better this than
that visionaries should dwell in isolation, feeling that Hongkong, in its corporate life, is very dull, and adding to the idea which should be exploded without delay, that many of us have no soul above "peif" and pasition.
THEY SAY THAT
things as golf and yachting; but All people believe that foreigners that representatives of the Chin-work eat thein if they could ese and European communities | Joseph. Cuillaux... meet in the spirit of true sports-
many friends.
The late Mr. Gomes had been. iu
Hway,
And wroth to see his kingdom
fail
I
"..
Swings the scaly horror of his
folded tail,
the employ of the Hongkeng & and St. John speaks of "the Whump Dock Ca for the pust 48 Dragon, the old Serpent, which years and practically saw service in the Devil and Satan," while this lending industrius establishment the Serpent: that tempted Eve in
Hongkong almost from its in-
any.
dence is undivided in associating the dragon with the powers of darkness. And what could be more natural than a should take up its abode in or dragon
near Glastonbury, this region of hills and swamps? For it is universally admitted that dragons are to be found on the tops of mountains or in the
dence that what has been believed depths of marshes, and it is a
by all men everywhere in every, generally accepted test of evi-
age is true--absurd, perhaps, but not more and then the modern
opinion that what one man has once believed is true.
When he first joined the Paradise has been familiar to us Dock Co. he was engaged in the all since our earliest childhood; clerical, atuff in Aberdeen and though commentators differ as to passed through several departments whether it appeared with forefathers and so delight our Inntil the head office of the Company virgin's head (as some say), and
aioved over to Kowloon, Mr.
how it was enabled to speak, and Gomes was an old and trusted ser
We need not pause long over those other meanings of "Dragon" which so confused our contemporary compilers of dies tionaries; we do not propose, to and of the Company and worked in Eve's own language; and why study that Dragon (Draco) who under successive Chief Managers the event excited no surprise in gave stringent laws to the ancient Athenians, nor the variety of from whom he earned the highest her. (Milton tells us Paradise carrier-pigeon known to natural opinion as u zeit!ous servant and one Lost, Ex, 550, and what follows history under that name, nor the who placed his duty before anything that it did, and that, "not un-star called Dragon, nor quick. amazed," he took up the matter silver, nor (directly) the sea. Mr. Gomes had an attack some with the Serpent, which explain- nor have we any concern with serpent, nor the flying lizard; months ago which necessitated his being confined to bed. Although ed that it had been elevated above the dragoons, who take their unhe rallied on several occasions, all the "other beasts that graze name either from the dragon complications set in about a foot by tasting of the tree of know from the fact that they were wrought upon their guns or uight ago, and no hope had been ledge. This answer at once originally mounted infantry, and We are all in one bout, to sink, held out for several days."; satisfied Eve and lured her on toto a kind of fabulous monster or
manship in such games as tennis, on the" murch; but it is marching The whole modern proletariat is cricket, football, water polo and nowhere. Chesterton. the like. As time goes on those activities will be extended til the whole field of sport has been covered. One line of contact has thus been covered, and peaking
As for Einstein's view of space, I regard it as relatively important.-Isrief Züngwill.
else.
of the Chinese and Portuguese, or swim You can't have economio! The late Mr. Gomes, was one of her fall. The whole account is popular mystery," Our subject they are regarded sa skilful expon-clavs in one locality and economic the, founders of the Club de Recreio ents of the game they espouse world. Raymund D. Fosdick.
dability in any other part of the of Kowloon in frie activities of circumstantial but undocument the common, for garden) dragon, one of the major verte- showing the true qualities which
which he took a leading interest. ed.) Some say that Five was brates, blood-red or chameleon- The deceased leaves a widow and a inexperienced with animals, not hued, with huge snake-colls, web. the pursuit of healthy games
Ligoht is like drink, the more you large family of nine children for having been present when Adam feet, bat-wings and the head of brings in their train. But after have the morg, you want.
ady whom much sympathy will be felt nemed them: Eugubinus suggest
a lion or an eagle, capable of all, this only affects a number, and Frances Balfour
in their bereavement,
The funeral will take place at the
not all those who live in the
that the serpent was a basilisk,
I would rather trust the fate of Roman Catlustic Cemetery today at that time harmless, and the
snuffing up the wind (Jeremiah, xiv. 6) and holding companion ship with owls (Joh, 20 intended is the ostrich. It dwelt of old in manntain caves
Colony. Happy the person who the nation to a genuine roughneck and the cortège will pass the moon Emperor Julián said roundly that though some say that the bird
so to speak, le Jack of all things than to highbrow-Desin J. B. men at 5.80 p.m. that go to make up life and Who-Finley or
can find interest and pleasure in
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