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when a really good one comes along. The cinema gets all the kicks and none of the "ha pence The next thing to aim at is the opening of the museum and library on Sundays. The Botani cal Gardens are free to all who
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The nation's mourning But St. Pator femtined with YELLOW for the Queen-Mother the keys and as long as so holda care to climb to their beautyMOURNING, is naturally being ex-them never another lawyer will get
why not the inammate things of
pressed in black. In into Heaven: books? The comparison is not at Brittany widows weur special yellow
all a happy one, for the Colony
caps for mouning, and yellow
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The Rey
cannot pride itself on Its also obtains in Egypt and through- PRISON STORIES Bustace Jervis,
posedly cultural adjuncts. The
at one time or
recent summer aanw no band con-out Bizma. The significaneg is, certs of any description, either apparently, that it representanto old another chaplain at some of the in England, indoors or out.. The Surreys and and dead-leaves after they have largest prisona
has apme human inter- the "Hawkins bande play de-chopped from the tree of life. Pale fightfally. But only the favour-ben, to represent withered leaves, in "Twenty-Ave
est stories to tell of his patients"
Years in Six: ed few hear them. There should is also worn in Persia, while Abys-Prisons." Here are a couple: be some effort to organise thlasinians wear a grayish brown, to, re- branch of dull dispelling. Shang-present earth, China favours white, sad looking doctor at one prison. hai boasts its Sunday concerts and typical of hope, and some countries A man who was ander sentence is all the beter for them. It is favour hire. Scarlet has been worn of death complained of tooth- not entirely given over to cabarets for French kings, but purple is more ache.....He asked the doctor if and cocktails and has a mind for
There was a very refined but.
him. The doctor looked at "him sadly for a moment or two, and saidų... £1
"Do you really think that it is worth while?"
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the enduring things of life. Some general for representing royalty, and he would take the tooth out for of these things would undoubtedly
red occasionally for cardinals. help to muke Hongkong a brighter place than it is at the moment.
There is only one lawyer in Some of us do not need them. ONLY Heaven and there are not ONE likely to be any more. Judge which as the Colony saw Inst "My mind to me a Kingdom is
operates in many directions; Parry recibes the following Friday will be gladly conceded. whilst the eye and mind have story by a Bishop:-
A wife whose husband was Once on the scene, however, we probably been trained to see the Remember it's the truth" I'm would have nothing to do with doing three years wrote that she think the Navy and Army, as no beauties there are around us, and telling you. He was a Tipperary him when he came out. She said doubt was the case last Friday.to appreciate them in silence and man, that lawyer. I never heard she had met a very nice gentle.
in sincerity. should automatically become unitso happily situated. The stress to Heaven, and St. Peter let him three children to live with him But many are not his name. But, anyhow, he went man, who had taken her and the in the operations in the same and turmoil of life is such that in. There was great surprise about They had dinner for tea every way as the police and the Fire there are no opportunities to it at the time. Now. no sooner night. He took them to the pic- develop latent spiritual powers. had he settled down than the like tures, and had bought the children Brigade itself, orders being Dame fortune scatters her
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Issued through the respective favours indiscriminately and the of him couldn't keep quiet, but he new clothes and boots. She had superior officers to the men ünder few rejoice in world possessions be stirring up ill blood and never been so happy and comfort- their command. This should) and leisure time, whilst the many strife, as all of you do to earn your able and cared for in her life. apply also to the police, the scouts find it difficult even to glimpse the living on earth. And no one liked After bidding him farewell, she
material paradise which plays the fellow,
signed herself : and any
other organized Body such a large part in most lives.
Your broken-hearted wife, "But St. John out of pure kind-
Clara." that may be assisting. The There is then a duty. Cinema neas used to let him come and talki system may not permit it at pre-theatres may not be an ideal place to him. And he was for ever telling
in which to spend part of a Sun-St. John that he had great condemned man with the tooth- Mr. Jervis story about the sent, but the Superintendent of day; but there are many worse,grievince, and if justice were done ache recalls an experience related the Fire Brigade should be the and it is possible to get a vision of it was per t. Puter that would love by Berry, at one time chief hang- supreme authority when the call "fresh woods and pastures new, Phe Eays of Heaver, but St. John man of England. He was help- to action has been given. Free a new inspiration and a new hope, himself. To make a long storying on the road to eternity a man from purely mechanical tasks. ernment probably recognises this.
inside the walls of one. The Gov-short, the lawyer got a retainer to named Fowler-convicted of an the Superintendent, as the chief fact-hence its permission already bung the mutter before the Tribunal infamous murder. expert and leading practical man recorded. It may be argued that and argue it. For sure, he made a While placing the nocse around Hongkong, Wednesday, January 6, 1926. present, should be able to conduct the concession falls hardly on em-grand, speech; everyone was con- the convict's neck. Berry had to
the strategy of the fight. respon- and a
ployees who desire consideration vind by his plausibility, and poor use a little more force than usual, rest from their labours. St. Peter was fairly puzzled what owing to Fowler being a very tal FIRE FIGHTING NEEDS. sible naval, military, police, Public We may safely leave this to the to reply.
"Don't be so rough," complain- "And when he was called upon Works Department and other employees themselves. Employers, When a big fire breaks out who oficials being grouped around to we feel sure, will do what is ex- he kept firm hold of his kaya is the person in supreme charge of give advice and to issue instruc-pected of employers in this asked the Tribunal to adjourn the the operations to get it under con- tions to their respective follow-
enlightened age.
case. 'For,' said he, 'I have no trol? Most people would answerings. When a big fire is raging. Fighting the Pirates.
lawyer, to speak for me and it offhand why the Superintendent the Superintendent, in short.
I would be only fair that the case
Emen:
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anded Fowler, “you hurt."""
H. G. Wells. A LAMPOON. After
given birth
having
to a new heaven, and a new
earth,
Thinking out new sorts of
Hella,
here lies Mr. H: G. Wells.
LANDSCAPE ART.
never see,
Shanghai exchanges bring re-should stand by until another of the Fire Brigade, who else?" should be in much the same posi-ports of the Naval Court of lawyer comes to Heaven to plead Doubtless that reply would be cor- tion as the master of a ship in Enquiry into the circumstances of for me. This was clear justice, audi rect for nearly every city of any peril - armed with absolute the piracy on the steamer "Tung- the case stood adjourned." size in other parts of the world. authority over all present.
chow," the findings of which were We published in our columns yester- But from what was seen last do not suggest that the parallel be day. The facts of the outrage, as Friday it certainly does not ap carried to the point where a cap-reported locally on the ship's pear to be true of Hongkong.tain can order anybody to the arrival here from Bias Bay, Mr. H. T. Brooks was to all ap-stokehold if he considers the need the Court seeing no ground for naturally prepared our readers for
Goldsmith, who in his essays None more admires--the painter's pearances nominally in charge.so critical, but we do suggest that blaming the conduct of the ship's makes slighting remarks on bath magic skill,... and for all we know his authority the Superintendent, within rea- officers or crew conduct that unsur and artiste, stea Who shows me that which I ahuil was absolute. We should like to son and among those who are pre-restrained under exceedingly try unions, as "A westry waste expand-Conveys a distant country into mine,
indeed was admirable and Compania's plain with no ill think so. But apart from the sent for the avowed purpose of amount of mechanical work he fighting the fire, should speak thermore, only to be anticipated does "Lock downward where a hi-
ing circumstances. It was, fur- ing to the skies." And though he And throws Italian light on Englisti
walls: was called upon to perform-such with the authority, not of a re- that the Court would express dead realms appeur," he gives no But mative strokes can do po as Hinking hoses and driving fire quest but of a command. While decided views in favour of wire-intimation of seeing the Lakes, " more engines he was surrounded by soit may be said that the absence less installations acting as deter-forests, cities, pisins extending Thon please the
of this authority last Friday in norenta to pirates contemplating a wide" as a pictorial landscape, many officials higher in the public way diminished the success of the seizure of this nature. Another though one reviewer calls his de- service that it is difficult to be efforts to quench the flames, each point raised during the enquiry ription of Italy "picturesque and lieve there was not some over-
arm of the attack being directed and referred to in the findings of harmonious. He is nearer the lapping of authority. These with fullest energy and skill, pos- the Court is no less important picturesque in
sibly, too, with complete co that of exercising care in the words are written in no churlish ordination, it can be stated that matter of Chinese passengers. In Woods over woods, in gay theatric spirit.
Everyone acknowledges the danger of confusion and over-the words of the Court, "if the immense debt due to those lapping will always remain until, possible some record should be White of some temple's mould'ring Pictures, he criticises Salvator and
pride; who assisted the Fire Brigade, has the supreme authority by whom tickets are sold, and they with venerable grandeur mark the during a fire, the Superintendent kept of the Chinese passengers to
tops between especially to the Navy and right of his position, and is 50 should be searched for Army. But if the lesson free from mere coolie work" that before the ship leaves the port: of this help is not to be lost he car exercise that authority to In the case of ships carrying The graphic details in The Deserted bullion or speele, it might be viilage are such as belong to Crome advisable, at all events as a tem- rather than to Claude; and Gold- porary measure, either to take smith sees in the rich man's park She then displayed her knowledge, no Chinese passengers or else to
"That, my dear,
there should be some better under- standing as to the occasions when' such aid can be invoked. "The Navy would not be what it is, nor
the fullest advantage.
HONGKONG DULL?
arms
седе.
ev'ry sense..
sweet Nature
Burns and Blake are, of course, free from the artificial conception of landscape... Crabbe reproduces fidelity of a Dutch a ist. In one of what in before his eyes; with the
his last poems, Selford Hall, or The
sophisticated country boy, viering a Clande through the words of an un-
grand house on an errand, and faden Natura?" is his exclamation at a to the picture gallery. But is this scene of bandit.
the trees;
the Army either, if the officeration offered to the request--which to the crew" One of the witnesses supplied.
No protess was made or opposi, carry an armed guard in addition chiefly space that many poor Ta called a Titian, this Guido and men failed to respond to an has been granted that cinema considered that a search of the As for Cowper, the favourite, podi hege. urgent call for help. From an
theatres be allowed to open on passengers, besides taking too of Constable he dabbled in those And you a Claude you see that incident witnessed in Pedder do on week-days.
Sundays at the same hours as they long, would be resented by the little landscapes in India ink, about
love light,
Street the "China Mall is in- there is a feeling in religious that such action was in their own fukcions. He did not like
Presumably Chinese, even though they knew the merits of which he had no de So soft, and solemn, neither day nor
the night." Your old clothes will take. clined to believe that one of the circles that the request was interests. It was, furthermore, grandiose and vast in landscape; on a new lease of-life
Services came into action as early reasonable and that the churches stated that searching could not be even such an approach to as "Yes!" quith the Boy and "there
as such have no desire to stand in carried out on British ships alone Eurtham, Hayley's estate in Sussex, is just the breeze. if you send them to uscircumstance of
as it did solely through the casual the way of people spending their or they would not be patronised. made him uneasy... When he has enris the water and that fans
A self-reliant Sundays as they think reasonably But surely the history of piracy cries for "a lodge in some va for dry cleaning, May we
officer happening to be present at fit. It may be a concession to the in Chinese waters should impel wilderness, it mentis only a desire the ships that anchor in that plene the time. Doubtless individual fact that to a great many-devout all ship owners to combine in such to chcape the cruelty of civilization. have an opportunity "of members of both services could adherents to their particular, de a measure, without waiting as His pictures are of "Ouse, slow All look so safe and quie-Clau
nomination Sunday is not re-suggested at the Court of Enquiry winding through a level plain, convincing you?"
always be found to give a hand in garded in the same rigid and puri-for the Customs people to hodge-row beauties numberless, time of emergency, But that is tanical way as it is by a few search whom they could in the Green balks and furrow'd larida,! not what we mean. Civilians, Sunday is popularly regarded as limited time available and trustDowns the almond excap thea-we escape entirely from the conven
time when that day is either potential pirates. Agreement will quiring sys a day of rest, and it will be a sad to the moral effect of such on allowed to cease as a holiday or to also be found with the Court's Scenes must be beautiful, be used in such a way as to make conviction that the only satis
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Churches in the Colony are not another. When in the case of the open all day on Sundays and, so prate menace is to destroy the Navy and Army may this official far as we know, offer no induce which attacks such as that on the pirate bases on shore, without. aid be solicited? And how ment to their members, to spend Tungchow would be impossible." the afternoon within sacred These are questions the public are walls. Whether the Cinema thea As the most notorious of the asking and they ought to figure in tres will thank us for the sugge Province of Kwangtung, it is to be pirate bases is Bias Bay in the any inquiry that may be instituted tion or not, we should like to see into the whole me
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tional landscape forms; though in spite of their freedom from the Italinn away, it is clear that thes poems are not wholly new and spontaneous growths in poetry but connected with Thomson and Dyer..
he grints that demultery back in a long line of mediocre may find pleasures for & time topographers, and observers of forests or the savage rock,
Fantore through the meik um of, wt. return more happily to Even Wordsworth did n
ures in the shelter'd wholy the obsce
the min