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even in the preface and the gen arul observations.
ntions that canfiot excite
te much comment owing to the late date of publication, A plain and unadorned record of the Colony's progress, however, it has a high value. It reveals by means of impassive statements
those?
there: are
order nothing of getti means of silk
DAY
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
18
1746
1818
Captain Oate
Sh Robert Walpo
ince
and will not be able a year. I think Til ret born, walk
you to run out to the hospital with me and toll her all about it
19 Fri David Livingstone 20 Sat., Sir Isano Newton died,
1727
we are told, costs a pretty penny. We would add to the cost Edgar Wallace has written one or two engrossing detective stories abounding in tips and examples of 21) the deductive methods of the
modern
Why not ina few volumes for our Criminal
Investigation Department?
NEW CRUISERS.
TWO LAUNCHINGS IN ONE DAY
KENT AND CUMBERLAND,
(British Wireless Service.)
Rugby, March 16.: and cold figures what was the Two new cruisers were launched
The patient proved to be a bright flapper of about 17. She studied the Mustrations carefully, and then looked severely at the expectant salesman.
Bun, Giordano Bruno borm, 1548
The heroism of Captain A Great Oates was great, because
Hero, it was without haroles How can you be so untruth ult
Hardly ever has a more she asked indignantly. moving story been told of the way is quite an old model, in which, during the Scott Antare driving it has long hair tic Expedition, he met his death. Yet it was not words which made the story moving it was the simple fact,
girl
Lady Troubridge has come Personal to the rescue of those. Charm who wish to learn the secrat of personal charm.
The expedition had got to the It 18 the small mistakes in etiquettá gian and Womens South Pole, but found that that cost Amundsen had got there frat embarrassment and lost friend- Then, on the long, hard way home, ship Those with social, sapira- when food had altapet vanished, tione, as well as those who merely and Oates was weak, he felt that wish to live their lives pleasantly It would give the others a batter will thank Lady Troubridge for chance if he were out of the way...
The Book of Etiquette" (two volumes, the Associated - Book-
on woman, show a disregard for the feelings of the mourners, a lack of respect for oneself, and a distinct Ignorance of the laws: of good conduct.o
On such an occasion levity of Eny sort la atrociously bed form
Similarly, the guest at dinner is warned that
So he just walked out into the buyers Company 15. 6d. Such a. book necessarily contains much position of affairs in 1924 in relato-day-the Keat at Chatham and blizzard, and was never seen sign that is obvious to most mortals. tion to the activities of the Goy the Cumberland at Barrow. Both Well might Scott, In that tragicFor instance when attending a
are of 10,000 tons and will carry diary of his, relating the deed, say funera ernment. To many such reports eight-inch guns in conformity with of Captain Oates that he was vivid colours, either on n man and statistics may appear the Washington Naval Agreement.very gallant gentleman. To beas uninviting; but the official history They will have'd speed of 36 knots. n. gentleman of such a sort is a of the Colony cannot, perhaps, be They are, of course, part of the great ideal up to which to live.
Admiralty's programme of replace more accurately set forth than by
ment.
The splendid settings of means of such a comprehensive The February issue of the Navy, "I Lord Dunsany's play at the and official volume as this collec- the organ of the Navy League, "has Theatre Royal, calla to mind tion of Departmental ports: this note The cruiser Cornwall the time when Stephen Phillips which was add down at Devonport wrote his poetical drawn Ulyssen. is true that the newspapers afford backyard on October 11, 1924, 18 He and Tres were one afternoon at an insight into the trend of pure to be launched on March 12, when the back of the dress circle of His ly focal events, but a half yearly Lady Clinton will perform the nam-Majesty's, vataning the scenery, or yearly file of a daily newspapering ceremony. The Cornwall is that had been arranged for the pro- one of five cruisers laid down induction. The scene-painter from would be too cumbersome for 1924 to replace vessels of the the Haymarket strolled in, and was MARRIAGE.
ready reference, and, besides; "County" class which had become invited to give an opinion. would lack that "official" impri- obsolete. The other four are All I can is this, gentlemen," he to DOGGART. At matur common to Government re- HMS. Kont" (Chatham Dock announced, frankly impressed. 16. yard), H.M.S. "Cumberland" (Vic will want some uncommon good Kulangsu, Amoy, on March ports in regard to purely adminis kera Ltc Barrow-in Furness),words written up to it!" 12, James McKie Atkinson Lowson, M.A., M.B., Ch.B.trative questions. The volume H.M.S. "Barvick (Fairhold Ship
"Administrative (St. And), of Forfar, Scotlof
Mr. Irving Berlin Reports building and Engineering Co., Ltd.
Govan, Glasgow) A few days Golden Songs. is probably the first land, to Winifred Norah for the Year 1924 ought after the Cornwall is launched the Doggart, M.B., ChB (St. to find a place in the reference heal plate of another cruiser will Andy, of St. Andrew's, Scot land
library of all concerned in the be laid. All the new vessels were welfare of the Colony, although designed by Sir EF Tennyson there is nothing to indicate the
d'Eynicourt.]
price or where it is obtainable. These, however, are petty de- tails-insignificant when compar ed with the great book as a whole.
LOWSON wwww
DEATH.
FLESHNER-F. R. Fleshner, on March 13, 1926, at Matilda Hospital, American, citizen, late of Canton:
Hongkong, Wednesday, March 17, 1928.
1924 IN RETROSPECT.
of the
UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES.
WALKED OUT.
SWARAJISTS LEAVE THE MADRAS COUNCIL."
PASSIVE RESISTANCE.
(Reuters Service.)
Madras, March 18,
man to make a
To take large mouthfuls, eat too fast or too slow and to eat and drink noisily, are unfor givable awkwardnesses... Young men and girls are asked
note that it is incorrect to
Borrow even the smallest sum - of money!
Use the pocket-handkerciet in public unless absolutely neces sary:
Lounge about, le on sofas or put feet on chairs in publie. million by song writing, but some
Tuck the dinner napkin under composers of the past, who were chin or wave it about. shrewd enough to retain rights Well-bred people, it is point- have had little reason to complained out, do not say Right-o of the financial rewards "Her Emily to a servant or Cheerio, Golden Hair Was Hanging Down old thing or whatever may be Her Back carned £20,000 for the expression of the day, to a author and publisher: "My Mother dignitary of the Church Was a Lady" cleared an equal sum
One shall know genius
in royalibles in a single yoar "Queen of My Heart, it is said A Burns by its capacity for rewarded its composer to the tune Biography. inspiring the new point. of $40,000; and on many other
of view in those who world-famous dittles, like "Ta-ra- follow after No Scotsman will ra-boom-de-ag, the returns must need to be told that Burns has have been still greater. Even this quality in excelsis, and we songs of a much higher, type have make no apology for quoting from So far as can be recalled at the.
occasionally proved fortune-makers, a recent essay by a Scottish moment, all the various Depart- We have it on the authority of
aa, for instance, "The Lost Chord.student.. He was young," but” he` The Swarajiet and United Na-from which Sullivan derived over wrote Burns was once asked mental reports for the Colony for an experienced police officer that tionalist members of the add $10,000, and "My Pretty Jane. to join a whist drive; but being a 1924 have already been published the criminal element in Hongkong walked out of the Council to-day which yielded its composer 22,000 sensible man he preferred to Legislative Council, numbering 28, in separate form and, after being is no worse than it is in other in accordance with the recent de-
per line
emigrate to the West Indies, Re nid on the table of the Legisia parts of the world that it is cision of the All India Congress
got a job as an excise man, and The motor salesman worked himself up till he was able tive Council extracts and com- probably more "docile and bears Committee calling on the Swarajiets She knew, had been for some days to write postry. He was a very, merts have appeared in the local no comparison with that of the
to withdraw from the Assemblies. Press. It was rather unfortunate European element. There is at ment's attitude toward the demand as a protest against the Govern that the labour troubles of last least, a crumb of satisfaction in for constitutional reforme. year prevented the earlier, publi-all this and we shall try and look A Cawnpore cable of December cation of the reports for 1924 at it in that light the next time 20 reported: The Subjpete Com- which do seem rather belated; but our presentation old cuff links gress, by a vote of 185 to 21, has mittee of the Indian National Con- thie was unavoidable.
disappears, or a store in the cen adopted the resolution of boycot
nocturnal visit by band of the mands already made by the disciples of Autolycus. It is the constitutional progress are not con- Arizen in the Times" concerning at hie Stratford home. So was
Legislative Assembly in regard to smallness of our community or ceded. The resolution laid down
All these reports have now tre of the town, receives ating Legislative Councile if the de
The
brought before the Congress.].
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trying to secure the kind-hearted mat Once he wrote mopped his perspiring brow he felt Ted He ended his life a3 rather difficult buyer, and as he a poem on a mouse, after he had
that he had fhally managed to abruptly as he began it." Teree: make the sale.
but how true.
A SECOND BEST BED,
"An interesting controversy has was written, so we are informed,
been issued in book form with the comprehensive title of "Adminis- trative Reports for the Year 1924. The volume throws an in the restricted sense of its life that Swarailsts should only attend the authenticity of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, that terrible teresting light on the. Colony's
often enough to provent their seats will, particularly that part of the history and again, it is signi affairs for the year in question, which places a strong light on from being vacated and that the Poet's testament which leaves as ficant, that in his old age he wrote
acts of depredations as they should throw out the Budges, alao, a legacy to his wife, his second The Tempest in which he por and as a local "Year Book" ough occur or rather as they are No office should be accepted as best bed. It appears that Mrtrayed the exquisite character of to be of inestimable value for re-published for many a theft is give anything like a satisfactory has arrived at the conclusion, gested, is a portrait of the girl.
long as the Government did not Addy, the well-known scholar, Miranda, who, it has been sug ference purposes, with the passing never reported to the police and reply. The resolution was after studying contemporary whom he desired to marry, but of the years. The only comment
become merely topied of conver carried by a large majority when documents, that, after all, he left could not, owing to his me take in called for is that there is no fnder
his best bed to his wife, which early life. But, this is all con- sation at afternoon teas. to the subjects reviewed, For
puts a totally different com jecture and theory. After all we example, there are constant refer police were wont to lay all our
plexion on things. Indeed, if this can prove, by playing cross-word criminal troubles to the present
theory is proved to be authentic, puzzles with the sonnets, that ences in more than one report to
chaos in the adjoining province..
our conception of the Stratford Shakespeare was the Earl of malaria, but the reader has first
Bard will need drastic revision | Oxford, Lord Bacon, or Fletcher, Itsmacked somewhat of the to search for the usual Depart
(observes the “Times of Ceylon) whom we know wrote part of excuse which a certain Govern
Volumes of controversy have been Beury VIIL and mental reports, occupy consider
PROTEST AGAINST SPANISH written about this second best ship is discernible rtment used during the able time in Hghting on the exact
attended, uncom places and statistics, and then conclude that somewhere else pleted Put strike, within the pages of this volume
that must be found other allusions to the question. It may be that in future years an effort will be at it in the made to compile a detailed alphabetical index, and thus en- hance the value of the volume.as as of
a whole to the busy man seeking that
for information and enlighten ment on local affairs.
Over 80 pages of the book are devoted to a preface, general ob servations, and qu
arious
Borts the last
mselves
re due to the
course
per way. But can erous thefts- of ze
bear the same excusa
We can well
“of Bails and..
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tageous
DECREES,
DOPTED.
Service,)
this in- are
bed It is one of the moat im Again, there is t portant pieces of furniture in mystery of the Da history Why second best? Many Miranda a port eminent scholars, including Sir triguing female These Samuel Gollanz, have formed the questions which revolve ar not unnatural conclusion that the four corners of a dusty, sec Shakespeare was unhappily mar best bed. If Shakespeare left his March 16,- tied. And this view is supported wife his second best bed, It was a by the few facts which hitherto touch of bitter Irony On the the interwe have presumed to be correct other hand, it he left her his best about the Poet, and which now bed, we are faced with a dilemmin. disadvan are upset if this theory is true. The sonnets are ardent and yet so porta The records show that Shake Impersonal that they tell us no
apson, speare married when a lad, thing.
sithe
es his wife was an ill-educated lecture arant girl some see in her in love wit
drey inAs you like it and if she was
sible to ceive a man of The
Intellect content with
is perhaps
haps, and them con- pleasing the Poet was
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