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DISABILITIES.
On the former there can possibly be no exception taken to a very reasonable proposal Controversy may very well arise on the latter, and we content ourselves here, for the time being with the view that |a: correct proposal would be that on British ships registered in the Colony one but British officers should be engaged.
A, JUNK'S FATE,
ASCERTAINED AFTER A
MONTH
I
A GRIM STORY,
The fate of a junk which left Yaumati of January 27, and had not since been heard of has now been ascertained.
OFFENSIVE WORDS.
IN ITALY
BRITISH SUBJECTS" RISKS
TUESDAY FARCH
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The advent of Hong, treats his father not to leave his
QUESTION IN THE COMMONS. Tattersalls, kong's annual" races dying mother for the society of
»(Router's Service,)
London, March 1. Questioned regarding the case
dear
Think, oh think how gad 'twill-
brings to mind. Tatter- his friends in the tavern, and the sall's Committee and an idea as pathetic refrain la to how it works may not be out | of place. This is the highest Don't go out tonight, authority on betting disputes in father; the racing world, and its decisions of William Ellison, Sir Austen are accepted without question Chamberlain, Secretary of State The chairman is Lord Dalmony. for Foreign Affairs, said that who is supported by half a dozen Ellison had lodged an appeal. The other men of knowledge eandre British Consul was watching the putations including Jending bookmaker. They sit at one end
саме.
&
be
When the angels come to take
beri
Pupa won't be there to see.
But where are auch immortal
to
Sir A. Chamberlain added that of a large room, partitioned off ballads as "The Old Kent Road the time for British Government from the portion where the parties played as the tune for the coster intervention had not arrived if to the various cases wait their dance at Mise D. O'Keefe's recent
turn. The variety of types re-exhibition of dancing and,. ever it did arrive.
minds one of a Dickens ilustration. come back to fathers, "When In the House of Commons, on Case by case, the parties are Father Laid the Carpet on the February 25, the Labour MP., Mr. called in and given chairs The Stairs?" Perhaps Mr. Scott has T. Cape (Workington Cumber: plaintiff states his case. The de-been faced with copyright diffeul- land), asked whether the Foreign fendant answers it, and the chair ties but such omissions as these Under Secretary was aware that
man and other members of the com-gravely impaly the quality of his. Mr. William Ellison, a British mittee put questions to them otherwise delightful volume. subject employed in the chemical Then the disputants are ushered industry, had been sentenced in out. A minute or so later they go Florence to five months' imprison-in again, and the chairman says, ment and a fine of $15 on a charge We find plaintiff is entitled of using offensive words about or vice versa, and the matter is Signor Mussolini; whether Mr. at an endi.
Scale and Music
A writer to a Home paper contributes the following which proves
that music is capable
of doing more than "soothe the savage breast. (or is it beast?");
Ellison was defended by counsel; | and whether representations to mitigate the sentence could be
It was a good idea of Some friends and had a made to the Italian authorities, Old Songs. Mr. Harold Scott to curious experience with seals the
qú Dut seeing that this was the first case
together another day, while we were going in
(10s. Bd.), since the passing of the new "English, Song Book"
a motor-boat down a small sea- Itakan Act The Conservative containing the most genuinely lock on the west coast of Inver-
eighteenthness-shire M.F., Capt. "H. Dixon, said that popular songs of the Mr. Ellison was a reputable con- musie on the opposite page. Every Mrs. Kennedy-Fraser of an in- and nineteenth centuries, with, the stituent of his.
Remembering a story told by Mr. Locker Lampson replied that his informa-sonal repertoire will realise that Hebrides, we stopped the boat, one acquainted with Mr. Scott's per cident which befel her in the tion was confined to Press his choice is catholic, including and one of our party stood up and counts, but the Ambassador at Rome had been instructed to fur nish a report.]|
CAPË FLIGHT,
FIRST LAP BY ROYAL AIR FORCE.
ARRIVAL AT ASSUIT.
o (Reuter's Service.)
Chiro, March 1.. The first stage in the 11,000 miles flight by the Royal Air
th
anything from "Lillibulero to:
"A favourite in the book, leaving out of account certain familiar masterpieces; la the beautiful song' of which the chorus runs follows:-
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Please sell no more drink to my
father,
"She Does the Fandango All Over sang that old Hebridean song, the Place."
which Mrs. Kennedy-Fraser, has given to the public under the title of "The Seal Woman's Sea Joy" The effect was amazing ostend of.diving or moving away. the. seals immediately showed the keenest interest. They barked in chorus, and one of them began to approach the boat. Thereupon, we all began to sing seal motifs." Greatly excited,, the seal swam so close to our boat that we could almost have touched it with the boat hook. He then circled round ug with frequent barks, gazing at us the whole time as if fascinated, until we stopped singing and
It makes him so strange and as
wild,..
Heed the prayer of my heart
broken mother.
And pity the poor drunkard's
child.
AN EXILE'S SONG.
Force to Cape Town, under the "Don't Go Out Tonight. Dear leadership of Wing Commander Father," is another gem of a simbrought him to a sense of his peril Pulford, comprising five officers lar type. In it Little Wie en by re-starting the engine and two mechanics, has been com- ploted by their arrival at Assuit From a relative of the master from Heliopolis in four Fairey the police have been informed seaplanes fitted with undercar- that the junky which bore a cargo tiages instead of floats, each one. of tobacco leaves, was pirated of which has a Napier Lion 450 Everyone knows the lines about "that a. degenerate lord might when in Chinese waters,, the mag-p, engine.
"The lone shieling on the misty boast bis, sheep, of which John- ter and ohe passenger being kill The flight is following the route
the master's wife and mapped out by the Royal Airisland." The so-called "Canadian with fierce indignation. One of sor, as Boswell recorded spoke ed; daughter being wounded, the Force at the end of the war, when Boat Song" which contains them the results of this visit was "The junk taken possession of and dense bush and tropical jungles is one of those few lyrics which Lament of MacKrimmon," which other passengers kidnapped. were cleared, and aerodromes have become part of the common is printed with Scott's other The manner in which the police were established 200 miles apart. feeling of the British race all the poems. Plainly, says Lord Francis were communicated with was in
The trip and return are expect world round. Men and women Hervay, "The Canadian. Boat rather a roundabout manner.
There who have no Highland blood or Song" ought to be printed there ed to occupy ten weeks. A young Chinese woman, of wil be no attempts at record loyalty, who never think of them-too. But why was it not publish. No. 110, Woo Sung
Street, breaking.
selves as exiles, find the verse ed till 1829, and then anonymous- Yaumati, received a letter ad- dressed to her father, a relative
throbs and haunts them. Yet no-ly 7 (asks a London daily paper). body knows who, wrote it It In 1829, the theory runs, Scott of the master, giving the in-
has been ascribed more or less was annotating Boswell's "Tour" formation. She opened it as her
wildly to half a dozen authors, for Croker this reminded him of father was away and on the ad-
some capable of poetry, some nct. the poem 1814, and he handed it local police ae the junk was vice of friends reported it to the
New Lord Francis Hervey has to Lockhart for conveyance to written, in a slender volume pub- Blackwood. But why? In 1829 registered here
lished by Mr John Murray, an Scott was labouring in weak ingenious thesis to prove that it health, under his load of debt. was. Walter: Scott's. The certain Lockhart was settled in London. facts of its origin are few. It was It seems very odd that Scott published in "Blackwood's Maga- should have bothered to arrange September, 1829 such a hoax. When he thought of zine in described as a translation just Lockhart in that year he was, as received from a gentleman in his journal shows, apt to think of Canada of a boatman's song in Lockhart's dying child. Lord Gaelic which he had heard on the Francis can see no objection to his St: Lawrence, The manuscript theory but "the supposition of a was in Lockhart's handwriting want of resemblance to Scott's. Now Lockhart, though in 1829 he habitual manner and rhythms." was a sadder and wiser man than Let anyone compare the avowed in the days of his first dealing Mackrimmon's Lament, with "Blackwood's," was quite
Ai Assouan..
Cairo, later. The Royal Air Force fliers have arrived at Assouan. One machine on landing. was apparently slightly damaged
TRIP DELAYED BY TROPICAL RAINS.
The Colonial Government in- variably reflects Home legislation in its various Ordinances. In this way we get a replica of Home thought and action. There is not necessarily one line of action for institutions and people at Home, and another for the different possessions of the Empire. Whilst punishment was enacted for the late enemies of the crown and extended to. exclude certain hitherto enjoyed privileges in the The incidents in question are various "outposts" of Empire reported to have taken place near the period of such punishment is Man Kwing Shu, in the Sun Tak COBHAM'S FLIGHT. drawing to a close. The Treaty district, alia e of Versailles has been adhered to Germany has had to pay and hag hud her possessions taken from her, and seen part of her own country in occupation of foreign troups. In Hongkong, exclusion has been rigidly enforced, banks and other businesses also coming The present AD:C. season under an exclusion ban. All this should prove one of the most. is to be abolished. The Locarno, I" on last night's successful successful in its long history. spirit is not to be confined only to dress rehearsal reveals itself as a Evrope, but to the world-cer-colourful phantasy, in which there tainly to the Crown colonies of the is humour, tragedy and music
Opinton will be inanimous that Empire. The prosperity of Hong-
the producer Lt. Commander kong has been spread over nuemroue agencies. A free port has been one and free trading has
LAST NIGHTS DRESS
REHEARSAL.
Fe Hole has every reason to be proud of his darts, the re- Cults of which are self-evident. Whilst the cast numbers some old
(Reuters Service.)
Capetown, March 1. Mr. Alan Cobham has reached Mdola (Rhodeals). He is delay ing his departure from Mdola owing to tropical rains.
IN FIVE DAYS.
FLIGHT. FROM KARACHI TO BRITAIN.
(Reuter's Service.)
Karachi, March 1, Flight Lieut. Oliver and Flying Officer Brooks have departed in an
capable of a literary hoax, and Too oft shall the notes of Mac- certainly in 1829 the song had been long in Scotland. A copy of Be
been another. It would be very favourites, there are new comers attempt to fly to England in five that it was written at least, more.
with abundant acting talent. The days. singing and dancing are alike superb, and the same, can con- scientiously be said of the dresses and scenery.
FELIX?
(British Wireless Service.)
with
we
Krimmon's bewailing
heard when the Gael on their
exile are sailing
ne'er shall tread the fancy- haunted valley
Where tween the dark hilla creeps the small clear stream.
write the second? It is not only Did the man who wrote the first
it has been found in the writing of the twelfth Lord Eglinton, who died in 1819. The conclusion is not that he wrote it he was a peer of musical tastes, who played the cello and composed many popular airs but that Lockhart did not get it as he pretended, and than ten years before its publica- nice to have nothing but British products entering the port. This
tion. It has been ascribed to the novelist Galt for the inadequate matter of style. Scott had no is impossible. Instead we have
reasons that he wrote poetry and more illusions than that other the representatives of many
good Tory; Johnson, about High- lived in Canada, to Wilson, to and landlords. But was he the nationalities carrying on their
Hogg, and to Lockhart himself. "lawful occasions". promoting
Rugby, March 1 Lockhart seems to have denied man to put in a ballad scorn of " the trade and commerce of their
The two British airmen, Flight paternity, but the evidence is not degenerate lord? We cannot. Lieutenant Oliver and Flying clear. No cause can be found for think that sound criticism will own countries and Incidentally
"I'm quta ready now Officer Brooks, who left Karachi imputing it to Hogs or Wilson but accept the attribution to Scort. helping not a little in the material
"Well, must wait in India at two o'clock this morn- that both were poets in different Who, then, did write it? Wa progress of the Colony. Having until
shave again.
ing on a flight to London, hope degrees and both contributed to have little doubt that the hand of to reach the Croydon Aerodrome "Blackwood'a." "From the lane Lockhart is in it. The rhythms, penalised a country for its sins,
An Englishman and his wife five days and thus establish a shieling on the misty Island" is the peculiar tone of sombre cour- da, age, are much in his way. But we it is only right that opportunities mot
record. Their aeroplane bears the not in the least like either cannot think he would have let Eymour, stopped should be given that country to to ask the way
name of Felix.
Lord Francis Hervey's argu, the last two rhetorical stanIZAN ""foot the bill.” The Colonial Gdv.; "A" grizzled
ment is that the post must have about the "degenerate lord and been a Scotsman,that very few foreign rage and dia
said,
stopped an
ernment proposes to repeat two Having covered
fenactments directed against for the
mer enemy allena-restrictions on banking business and the pro-
hibition against the employmen
of former enemy aliens on Bri ships-registered in the Colony told
stion to another
Ten miles on
said we're
Little Johnny (at concert): Scotsmen in the carly years of the in
hat's that man shading
stick at her for !!!
is
Mother "Sh-h! He's not shak- ing his stick at her
Johnny (still unconvinced) Then what is she hollering so
nineteenth century were capable-
of producing a poem of such the transcendent, merit," and that one verres &
of those very few did in 1814 visit sing the "misty falands of the Hebrides, interest himself in the like
Banishing
the clansmen John Gib
at 1