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GREMINGER.—To Mr. and Mrs. H. Greminger of 95-2, Thom- son Road Singapore. om March 27, 1926, a son. STUBBS.-On March 17, 1926, as.
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MARRIAGES.
SMULLEN THOMAS, -The marriage took place оп February 15, at St. James the Apostle, Montreal Caninda of Florence Nina, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Thomas, of; Hongkong and Vancouver, to Mr. C. Kenneth Smullen, of New York, U.S.A., son of the i lute Mr R H. Smullen, and Mrs. Smullen, of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. MCMICHAEL-DICK.
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TUESDAY, APRIL 6,
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Even
the $7,000
by a rich Brazilian
The head of Hong-
concerned
tho
ed sufficiently acute, to warrant even Treasury Department departing from precedent and practice and producing without delay money the payment. of which has been approved by the Easter Pearls. Easter egg ordered Good alu, Kong's Volunteers in competent authorities, and the at the Savoy Hotel will hardly com quality of local beer. Queen BoNK need of which is so urgent to paro, perhaps, with a similar herself, when staying at the famous The grantees. Surely the Tree Enster offering once received by home of the Cecfin, was very con- sury Department of the Hong-Queen Victoria from Alexander corned about good ute. "There is kong Government is not so over of Russia. The Tsar's gift, now at not one drop of good drink for her.
Windsor, took the form of a neat of here," wrote Leicester, plaintively... burdened with labour that it frosted silver, every fragment of to Burleigh when staying with his - takes weeks to issue money for twig, straw, and hedther being a Royal mistress at Hatfeld, "and we grants to some of the Colony's separate and perfect piece of work, were, fain to send to London and best non-official public ser- In the nest, by way of eggs, wore Kenilworth and divers other places... vants. If it is then some throat pearls, identical in size. where ple was her own, beer was
lustre and condition..
so strong as there was no man able other method should be devised,
to drink it," and quickly, whereby the pay- ments approved by the Grants Spring Aspiration, land
Committee will reach these for whom they are intended in a reasonable time....
Our northern contemporary has been quoted so fully not with any desire to "ing mud" at the Hong- kong Government, but to show the great amount of interest taken in the subject of these grants out- side this Colony. When a journal of the standing of Shipping and Engineering gives prominence to
Either the
April's there,
O to be in Foc-
Now that
With the sunshine gleaming Through ita balmy air; Hongkong. nought shall stay me
In your bleak abodes, Where I must array mo
In the Eskimodes.
A
further
extract
Queen's from the letters of
Queen Victorlai
Letters.
가
Disrael (at the time
of the purchase of the Suez Canal
Outside Information,
Outsiders ses more. of the game. Or it. seems necessary to go outside our borders to learn something wo never knew Rouding a book of short stories having a Chinese at- mosphere, the Shrede man comes across the following of a humble riesha puller plying his calling in Hongkong:
"Leaping" as usual down the cobbled slope of the waterfront, his ricksha
to be secured for the night beneath a nearby
dock."
will also be amazed to read tha Those who know Queen's College following:
៧
"Plum Blossom, the loveliest girl Queen's College, Hongkong, had turned out for a long time.""
The Eng-
an alleged grievance of this shares) The news of to-day must be a source of groat satisfaction nature even though it rests on and pride to every British heart the usually flimsy base of 'private It is entirely the doing of Mr. Dis- hás. very large investigation into cases of hard-information-it is time for some-raal who
ideas and very lofty view's hip occasioned through the strike thing to be done.
of the position this coun- and the boycott. Amongst those allegation of undue delays in pay-try should hold. His mind is so most concerned there has been no ing out these grants is beside the much greater, larger, and his appre- great rush to participate in the mark (in which event they can behension of things great and small grant. Many have been idle for officially denied) or there is Rome so much quicker than that of The Englishwoman's Hshwoman's months; the 15ttle capital has foundation for it (in which event. been well eaten into in scme the local authorities should be cases of married officers doubt trusted to remedy the defect im- less melted away by now-butmediately). The good name of they shrink from what some are the Colony is at stake. And the inclined to look upon as a dole community requires official en that hateful word begotten of the lightenment of the true position unentployed problem at Home. It of affairs!
has never been intended that the grants here should smack either of doles or charity; and it is a great pity that such an unfortun- ate misconception ever arose. As
our Shanghai contemporary right y puts it
FENG'S FUTURE.
The initial difficulty in following
Chinese militarism is the number
www.w
Glacatone..
1t
Foot.
foot was a Bore polit
Apropos the comparison ex- pressed in the last sentence, the with Anatole France In his student of human nature will find biography By Jean Jacques
an enthralling subject of ironical Brousson, we read how the great study in the letters and memorandaman was walking one day in the. frem Disraelt to the, Queen. They park, when he saw a beetle lying compose the most perfect exercise on its back in the path He held in the art of subtle flattery over out his umbrella to it, and the beetle practised And, perhaps, the most was just crawling away to safety, successful!
"when suddenly an Englishwoman
As a footnote, here is a little made her appearance in the path: entry from the Queen's Journal re, | How did I recognise her ferring to an occasion when she had nationality to Everything proclaim-
the arch-flatterer received
ined it her mannish figure; her audience: "He knelt down and strangely, coloured hair, her vinous kissed hands, saying, 'I plight my complexion, and her teeth ke the of leaders who figure in the troth to the kindest of Mistresses key-board of a piano-her whole strife they create and recreate. A And Mistresses is underlined in chapter of blemislies... Her nose stuck in a Baedeker, she It should not be forgotten more important: one is the dif-the Queen's entry Surely if any that these officers are actually ficulty foreigners find in seeing had risked that, little "double Down came her foot-and what a one other than her Majesty herself marched like a hussar of parade. an asset to the Colony (we are reason in all that is done in the entendre: Queen Victoria would foot on my unluck beetle.".. referring entirely to those who cause of China's reunification. have uttered the rebuke, "We are have been thrown out of em Reunification, it might be said. not amused!!!!
The "Tene ployment through the boycott what sins are committed in thy
Ten Commandments. ment House name Marshal Fang Yu-hsiang and whose services, if the boy-
Young students of
Committee get of the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities cott were fully lifted, would be will go down in Chinese history as New Light on history, still
History. thetr knowledge has issued on a little card, printed in immediate demand for the "the Christian General." His
beautifully mixed in Old English type, these ten "braves" have been known to sing Here are a few howlers from recent commandments: benefit of the Colony's trade),
1. Thou shalt, honour thy neigh- they have probably school examination papers. and that the Hongkong Govern-hymns ment, in deciding to make them entered into "battle" with the Coventry with nothing on, and
"Queen Elizabeth rode through bourhood and keep it clean. grants from public funds, is tune of "Onward Christian Sol-Raleigh offered her his cloak." doing nothing more than is just, diers" ringing in their ears- while a Methodist clergyman is These men are respectable: members of an honourable pro- said to have been engaged to fession, many of them having minister to the spiritual wants of families to support, and it was the General's troops. Feng's an obvious necessity, if their publicity department is beyond services were to be kept avail-criticism. Like consistent, well- able in the event of a full re- arranged advertisements, "be sumption of shipping services, sticks in the memory. His ex- that the Government should ploits-Christian and otherwise-ocean, which is known as the Pil take steps to keep them are always likely to receive first! "Charles I was going to marry "going."
consideration: His latest inten- the Infants of Spain. He went to tion is to pawn-by pawn we mean put in safe keeping his Marshala baton, and hie him, not to a
The grants range from two dollars a day in the case of single men to a maximum of five dollars
me.” All this savours of a nice
"Account of the feudal system: William the Conqueror was thrown from his horse and wounded in the feudal system and died of it.
"The trade of Spain is small owing to the insolence of the people."
"In Holland the people make use. of water power to drive: their windmills."
"In 1620 the Pilgrims crossed the
grim's Progress.”
ses her, and Shakespeare says he paver smiled again." writer that ever lived, wrote the "Tennyson, the greatest prose
"Doldrums are army rations of
2. Remember thy cleaning day, and keep it wholly..
3. Thou shalt take care of thy rubbish-heap, else thy neighbour will bear witness against thee..
4. Thou shalt keep in order thy alley, thy back yard, thy hall, and thy stairway.
5. Thou shalt not let the wicked"; fly breedt
6. Thou shalt not kill thy neigh- » bour by ignoring fire menaces or by poisoning the air with rubbish and garbage.
7. Thou shalt not keep the win- dows closed day and night.
8. Thou shalt covet all the air and sunshine. thou canst obtain.
2. Because of the love thou
provide clean homes for them. bearest thy children; thou shalt
10. Thou shalt not stealthy children's right to health and happiness.
tortion of the facts does not uppear. particular In Greece there are regulations about editors which we
At the Presbyterian Church, Singa pore on March 27, 1926, the in the case of married men, due nunnery, as the poet would have Iliad and Paradise Lost."" Rev. G. H. Douglas officiating, regard being paid to the circum-it, but to a Moscow factory, there John James, elder son of Mr. stances of each particular case. to study politico-economic condi-spirits.". and Mrs. J. McMichael; of Duldowie, Montfeith, to Mary Were these grants-not too gentions. This must be an ideal fac- Duncan (May).. second erous by any means to be taken tory for workmen--unless work-
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS. daughter of Mr. and Mrs advantage of by all (and not men would rather work than J. T. Dick, of Langside, Glas-merely a few) whom they are study. And Feng is going to use
It has seemed good to the SAVAGE → FLETCHER. On designed to aid in the Colony's the result of his study on his re-
March 27, 1926, at Singapore, own interests and also paid turn to his native land, The Foreign Office to collect and lay by the Rev. Archdeacon promptly, the community would change, he says, "does not disturb before us a mass of information
ure bound to call unkind, (observes. Swindell, Leonard W. feel that the Government was little holiday. How the know concerning the freedom of the
a London, dally paper An editor Savage, of Kuantan, to Hilda:
must be able to prove that he "has C. Fletcher, second daughter doing something of which to be ledge acquired in Russia of econo. Press in other lands. Whether we
mic conditions there, is going to are intended to "read and envy and been taught at least, ancient Greek of Mr. and Mrs. F. Cjustly proud: But-and why benefit conditions in China, ie not pine and die, or to give thanks by some teacher he must have Fletcher, of Hoylake, Che- there should always be a but we quite apparent. Some of China's that we are not as others are, is some unmortgaged landed pro shire.
know not our, Shanghai contem-troubles-economic and otherwise not clear. There is much variety perty, he must not have been con- porary refers to a local report of are of her own seeking. And in the restrictions placed upon domned even once for any crime"
these troubles include militarists writers, from the extremity of though the law will wink at delays in paying out grants Christian or otherwise: Per- despotism in Russia, where each three convictions "for an offence already passed by the Board of haps the good marshal seeks to manuscript, before being set up in connected with the Fress." But, Investigation. It continues: become China's Mussolini.
type, must be passed by the State the most unkindest cut of all are Publishing Department, to the the specifications that your editor From private information We must hope for the best-
untrammelled liberty of Abyssinia, must be, first, physically capable which we have received from
where there is no legislation of his duties, and, secondly, res- Hongkong the regrettable and The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak pro specially affecting the Presa." In ponsible for his duties. The most unnecessary delay in making ceads on leave to-morrow by the China it is forbidden to publish not uncomfortable amendment to the only misrepresentations of the law of libel is suggested by the. payment may be placed wholly 8. "Sarpedon."
Government, but "any attack upon Netherlands. Thare the embar at the doors of the Hongkong The Civil Service C. C. is hold the private character of an indivi- russed publicist can libel not only Treasury Department. Whilst ing the annual dinner at Volun- dual which tends to injure his re- the living, but the dead. Let him It has come generally to be ad teer Headquarters at 8 p.m. putation. Whether the attack is write of the deceased anything ASSETS TO THE COLONY,
Saturday, April 10.
"justidéd or not seems to be of no which if it were written of the mitted that only in the most
Importance in China. In Hungary,iving "would be regarded as de- The Hongkong Government's
exceptional circumstances will
ft a newspaper publishės "elther famation or libel," "and" fine and grants to unemployed officers of any Department of any Govern-
opauly or furtively untrue facts or | ¡mprisonment are the penalty. true facts in a distorted form about This must gravely restrict the the British Mercantile Marine are
ment do anything quickly and THE way to gain a good reputation anybody, the editor has to publish publication of the diaries and touched upon in the latest issue of
is to be what you appear That In the next number such rectifica memoirs highly spiced with the in a business-like manner, it is
li predialy how Chamberlain's Cough
tion as the offended party chopsos scandal of yesterday, such as wa Shipping and
submitted that the present Remedy has gained its reputation de s Engineering
circumstances are sufficiently bronchial trouble Every bottle of this run to greater length than the banum" is an excellent principle, Cursor conghu Cenids, croup and to supply, provided that it does not delight in. De mortuis nil nisi
Mr. A. D. Humphreys tenders his sincere thanks to all who have forwarded to him messages of condolence" in his recent bereave- ment, and most deeply appreciates the numerous floral tributes of sympathy sent by friends.
Hongkong, Tuesday, April 6, 1928,
(Shanghai). Locally, of course, It is known that the grants offer- ed were the outcome of a Board of
HOW IT GAINED A GOOD
REPUTATION
on
valued medicine is fully up to the high
exceptional and the need of
standard of excellence claimed for it attack Whether the offended one but it seems stern to enforce it by monetary relief by those affect- For, als everywhere.
Judg thovtruth and dis-