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DEATH.
HUTCHISON.-On December 27. 1927, in London, Helen. Mary Hutchison (née Chalmers), wife of the late John D
Hutchison.
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 1928.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1928.
SNOBS & SNOBBERY. LATE MRS. WILSON.
A MAN A GENTLEMAN OR NOT.
IDEAL OF NOBLY BORN.
Even in the early eighteenth, century a man was either a gentle
FUNERAL OF INSPECTOR'S WIFE.
LARGE ATTENDANCE.
PRAPS PRAPS NOTIĮ
Story for Burns's Dinner to- night:
Robble Burns on the new Lord
Iveagh:
"The rank is but the Guinness
stamp:
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A man's a man for a' that.”
"Policeman, that ruffian took my
"All right, sir, we'll search him
A large number of friends were present at the funeral of Mrs. Helen Wilson, wife of Inspect man or he was not. Henry Field-or W. E. Wilson, at the Protestant Valley, on Cemetery, Happy Ing set his Tom Jones In a world Monday. They included:--Mr. T of assured social values, where H. King, D.C.I, Mr. W. Kent, gentlemen could kick rude fellows AS.P., Mr. P. Grant, A.C.I., In-wife's armin
spectors Spear and D. MacDonald, with impunity, chuck pretty ser and many other members of the at the station." vant girls under the chin, and ex-Hong Kong Police Force and civilians. The Rev. Mr. W. R.
"Bobby, I'm surprised. pect the reverence which their Cannell officiated.
note from your teacher Floral tributes were sent by the you're the last boy in a class of station merited.
Nous avons changé tout cela. following:-
Sorrowing Husband, William; The Industrial Revolution made Mother, Sister Blanche and Bro- manufacturers as powerful and ther Tom; Nan; Colin and Bessie; picturesque as baronets; the Margaret Mary Logan.
European Officers, No. 2 Station; {ger class.". French Revolution not men talk-Interpreters and Detectives, No. 2
What's ing about human equality; the pro- Station; European Officers, No. 7
the idea of racing fifcer's daughter, lying upon silk Station: Inspectora Mess, Water through this town at sixty miles an mattresses bought with the spoils ice; The Lance-Sergts. Mess, hour?" asked the policeman.
Water Police Station; Lance-
Central Police
twenty-five!" sald his mother. "Well, I could be worze.” "I don't see how."
This
Jays
"Well, it might have been a big-
"Well, you see," said the motor
of the Napoleonic Wars, felt her Sergta. Mess, skin as delicate as that of the real Station; Sergis. Mong Kok Taui cycllet, I've got something the Police Station; Lai Chi Kok Branch matter with my brakes, and I want Princess who was agonised by a Prison: European Revenue Of to get home, before I have an ac pea. Between upper dog and un- cera Mess; Royal Naval Yard cident." der dog, middle dog, uncertain, Police,
Mrs. Kirby; Two Friends at 61A, A rag and bone man was trudg- sensitive, and apprehensive, Was Wong Net Cheng Road; Francia ing wearily along a road carrying creeping in.
Waters
a bag of old iron, lead pipe and Respectability of birth, wealth Inspector P. Grant; Mr. Spear; brass.
Inspector Lannigan, Sergt. Kellett and manners became the ideal not and Sergt. O'Connell (New - Fire
Suddenly a
woman at a fifth- merely of the nobly horn, but of Station); Sergta, Feely and Baker floor window managed to attract the common man. The soldier of (Praya East Police Station); Sergt. his attention..
R. McFall; B. Oxberry; A. A. "Hit Come up hore1% she shout- fortune carried + field-marshal'e Crestejo and family; Mr. H. G. ed. baton in his haversack. Gentle Blackford; C. Greenwood; E. D. The man climbed slowly up the Jane, who was good as gold, and Shank; D. Reid; C. Harman; C. A. five flights of stairs with his heavy always did as she was told, as a Goldenberg: M. Mc. Carthy: R. A. bag. When at last, puffing and
Smith; T. Williams and J. I. Roas, blowing, ho got to the fifth floor. final reward of virtue,
that a business man, preferably.
"When she grew up was given
in marriage
To a noble carl who kept
carriage."
Capt. F. C. Norvik; Mr. W. S. Cuff.
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The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. C the woman exclaimed:-- Wolfe; Mr. and Mrs. W. Kent and "Say, mister, won't you put my his family; Mr. and Mrs, W. Mac-little Tommy in your bag if he
Donald (No. 2 Police Station); Mr. Isn't a good boy?" Stranger things have and Mrs. Lane; Mr. and Mrs. A. a Postal expert, should be given Why not?
"It is impossible for N. Reynolds and family; Inspector "Can you spare a copper, kind the job instead of a Civil Servant happened.
any Briton, porhaps, not to be a and Mrs. Marks; Mr. and Mrs. Flady, to a fellow who hasn't got a more or less automatically step snob in
some degree," wrote Lannigan; Mr. and Mrs. Hunt and penny in the world?TM
"Certainly. Have you change for ping into it. In no way, we would Thackeray, and know well what he family; Mr. and Mrs. Hynes; Mr. and Mrs. Beattle; Mr. and Mrs.
a shilling?" add, is the ability of Government wrote. Mr. Marrowfat, "a man of Fowler; Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Cole- great powers, excellent heart and man; Mr. and Mrs. A. Palmer; Mr. officials questioned. The journal varied information," damned him- and Mrs. Fankhurst; Mr. and Mrs. "You n-never seem to t-take any making the plea for the appoint-solf socially by eating peas with Murphy; Mr. and Mrs. Grimmitt interest in anything I do," nobbed ment of an outsider, in fact, his knife. That pea again! With and family; Mr. and Mrs. B. the bride.
what virtue has Nature endowed it Thorpe: Mr. and Mrs. Wiltshire "Don't be unreasonable, my pauses at sufficient length to give that it should be repeatedly the and family; Mr. and Mrs. George dear," remonstrated her husband. the Civil Servant a handsome pat teat of breeding? Commoners and family; Mr. and Mrs. Hopkina; "I remained awake all last night on the back. What is felt, appar- cringed bofore peers; Mrs. Ellis of Mr. and Mrs. Carey; Mr. and Mrs, and wondered what you put in that
report of T. Brooks; Mr. and Mrs. Harry
cake you made." ently, is that the Postal Depart Clapham, devoured the
C. Langley; Mr. and Mrs. G. Č. Miss Snobky's dress in the Court Moss; Mr. and Mrs. C. Bennett: ment is so intimately connected Circular; the "private plushes" Mr. and Mrs. McMahon; Mr.
and A small boy found the following with the business life of the slunk away before the Royal Mrs. Guimgani; Inspector and sentence in his grammar examina- Colony that nothing short of an flunkeys; the Don left on his table Mrs. Murphy; Inspector and Mrs. tion: "The horse and the cow is in expert in Postal matters would be a letter addressed to "My Dear Phells; Mr. and Mrs. E. Bloor; the field." He was told to correct Duke" there were clerical anobs, Mr. and Mrs. Glendinning and it and give his reason for the cor- able efficiently to fill the bill. A Continental anobe, country snobs, family; Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Foster; rection. He wrote:— Civil Servant, of course, would club, snobs, university anobs, and Mr. and Mrs. M. Blake; Mr. and "The cow and horse is in the take over the post with all that respectable snobs, and Thackeray Mrs. R. G. Watt; Mr. and Mrs. A. fold. Ladies should always come chastised them all. "I am sick of J. Wadmore; Mr. and Mrs. Ben- self assurance. about which we
Court Circulars. I loathe the nett; Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Lowman; Mr. and Mrs. Winyard; Mr. and have spoken and carry on his haut-ton intelligence," he cried. Mrs. R. A. Coleman; Mr. and Mrs. duties without incurring dis- Well, any Intelligence, high or low- Sorby; Sergt. and Mrs. Goodlace; satisfaction. The point, it seems, toned, is welcome nowadays..
LOCAL WEDDING.
MR. K. S. ROBERTSON AND MISS C. B. RUSSELL
first."
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"Please, teacher, 'cos the tide was out," was the reply.
Mistress "Why don't you Hght the fire1"
Maid: "Because there's no coal." Mistress: "Why didn't you let me know: before?”
Tommy had done a map for homework, and was proudly show- Mr. and Mrs. S. Kelly, Mr. and ing it to the teacher next morning. Jane Austen's quiet glance rest-Mrs. Millington and family; Mr. "But, Tommy," she asked, "why the Straits journal seeks to make ed on similar people. Sir Walter and Mrs. J. S. Wick; Mr. and Mrs. have you left a space between the is that this department is one that Elliot of Kellynch Hall, was a man Jacobson: Mr. and Mrs. H. Ching; sea and the land along the East
Coast?" will function at its best under the who, for his own. amusement, never Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Alexander. guidance of an outsider rather took up any book but the Baronet- age. It was a anobbery concern- than in the hands of a local ed only with birth and property. official.
Mrs. John Dashwood, in "Sense) and Sensibility," saw her sister- This particular problem, of in-law's packages depart with a course, is one that concerns us sigh. "She could not help feeling! not at all, and our neighbours income would be sa trifling in com- it hard that; as, Mrs. Dashwood's must be left to accomplish their parison with her own, she should own governmental salvation. It have any handsome article of furni- It has been said that the Colon- does, however, open up the ques-ture."-Winifred Holtby, in "Eve," ial Civil Servant is one of the tion of the apparently indie- most self assured individuals in criminate pitchforking that pre- the world and that as a class in vails in the Colonial Civil Service, this respect they are all alike. a practice full of bad points, not This is so, but the critics, instead the least of which is that as 6000 OBSERVATIONS MADE SINCE ciated, whilst Mr. G. E. Longyear of utilising the truism as a sneer, as an official has been in a position would do well to pause and con- long enough to understand his sider why the Colonial Servant work, he is invariably shunted to really possesses this self assur- another
THE CIVIL SERVANT.
department. The
of
THE WEATHER,
1887.
SUNSPOT. PERIOD.
"Weather Forecasts," Mr. March.
Mald: "Because we had some be fore."
Witty Partner: "Well, you must remember the undergrad has al- ways had a weakness for raga."
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his beard on, but, you see, mother's
A pretty wedding took place at the Union Church, yesterday after- noon, when Miss Catherine Freshman, to witty partner: Buchannan Russell, daughter of "Why do so many men at the Mr. W. Russell, Government Marine Varsity wear torn and shabby Surveyor, and of the late Mrs. Russell, became the bride of Mr. Bowne ?" - Kenneth Struan Robertson; of theị Public Works Department,
The Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie off
presided at the organ.
"I hardly knew your father to Lohengrin's March was played as day," said the district visitor plea- the bridal couple entered the santly to the little girl of the Church and during the ceremony house; "he has cut his beard again. the hymns "The Voice That Breath-That's the third time in a year. Addressing members of le cd O'er Eden" and "0 Perfect ance. The fact of the matter is exigencies of life in the Far East Brisbane Grammar School Old Love." The service was concluded explained the child. "Father likes "It ain't father what's done It," Mendelssohn's Wodding that the people we are discussing to a great extent, of course, ac-Boys' Association on the subject with simply have to be self assured. count for this undesirable pro- Inigo Jones said that since start- The bride, who was given away stuffing the sofa!” They must have that sublime cedure. If an official falls sick or ing his solar observations in 1887 by her father, was charmingly at faith in themselves which will goes on leave someone from some he had noticed a number of retired in a dress of ivory charmeuse, Rector: "How is it I never see move mountains. They must be other pigeon hole of the service every 4de the weather changes designed on period lines. She wore you in church on Sundays, Mr.
every 84 years, and at prosent a voll trimmed with orange blos- Shooter?" prepared, at a moment's notice, to has to take his place. And while there seemed to be very strong evi som and carried a bouquet of cream Gamekeeper: "Well, air, I don't undertake any of the multitudin-appreciating these and other difdence of such repetition. In fact, want to make your congregation
the storm which had occurred that Miss Bertha Tarrant was the one tasks that fall to the lot of a ficulties that beset the path of night most probably followed in bridesmaid. She wore a dress of Entaller!"
Rector: "Make it smaller; what- Colonial Government, or if not Colonial administration we may, cycle a storm which had occurred blue and pink tulle with a Leghorn
on October 11, 1873. If sunspots blossom and carried a bouquet of ever do you mean?!!! prepared they must face the world perhaps with profit, ponder over were not the cause of such repeti- Sweet Peas
Gamekeeper: "Why, sir, if I came as if they were: A Police Magis- the contention advanced by our tions, it became necessary for us The duties of Matron of Honour to church half the others would be
to find out what those spots were, were discharged by Mrs. A: Tout poachin'." trate on
one day and a Fire Brigade Singapore contemporary.
and what caused them; and in that Hamilton who was attired in a chief the next, or perhaps sud- denly thrown into the secretary- ship of a department full of tech- nicalities and intricacies, they must, very early in their career, Lee Yung, a coolla employed by years. The present was,per- Impress upon themselves their the Wong Chun-han firm of con. haps, the most active sunspot couple left for Repulse Bay, the Magistrate (about to commit for perfod since 1893 When a spot bride's going away dress being of trial): "You certainly affected the lasting_ability,- Heaven sent or tractors was yesterday removed to was particularly active in pro- beige charmeuse with coat match robbery in remarkably ingenious otherwise, to do anything that the Government Civil Hospital auf ducing weather, changes, ita Colony to-day on board the 8.5 Monal cunnlag."
and a lace hat. They leave the way in fact, with quite excep Anetic propensity was very high, comes along. If not, they would fering from injuries received it could be arranged to have dia "Empress of Asle for their honey rank as failures.
KNOCKED DOWN.
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connection a great deal of work dress of Bola de Rose wih a velvet Mistress: "Have you finished had been done with strong instru- hat to match, She carried a boucleaning the brasses, yet?" ments in America. The sunspot quet of pink rosso.
Maid (under notice):
period was about 11 years, and it The best man was Mr. J. H
had been shown by some observa Bottomleyman madam-sil except the rings and tions to be as long as 11.86 held at the Hong Kong Hotel, the
After, the reception, which was bracelets!"
through belog knocked down in patched daily to Australia from moon which will be spent in Canada Prisoner (deprecatingly): "No Honour-no fattory, 1
Reflections such as the above Aberdeen by motor car. No. Z own-
own Mount Wilson (America) Observa and Europe.
on the Colonial Civil Service are ed by the Dragon Garage, prompted by a Press agitation
which is taking place in the
Straits Settlements. There, it
appears, the chief of the Postal teo:
Departments retiring, and it B parcals of-
Comforts Commit owledge rece iture from
felt in some quarters down there Langaton and Mis. Pryde.
tory, by cable code, the magnetic correlation, it would be possible in
this way to give weather forecast a presen
flatt
for Queensland and Australia, The Mr R. W. Grant, who has been town speaker did not agree with the sup- Resident of Labuan since August, position that heat was necessarily 1825, has not been transfered followed by rain. Whereas the Klang as Assistant District Of rain was caused by a group of sun- as originally arranged, but is now spots, the heat might be caused attached to the Colonial Secretariat
only one drowsze
In Singapore
man one day. In the
“Well, Pat,
the street. ought Iraw
thought he saw me,
got close together, it was beltbi