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TAIPO TOPICS.-
ANOPHELES MATERNITY HOME GROWS,
The
THE NEW BRIDGE..
[By the Mayor.]
I hear that the coastal
I think the matter. has shipping companies are
been raised before, but now paying their deck Concerts. I am going to commence and engineer officers en-
Magitating for the furn< gaged on the Upper Yangtsze a Ishing of public concerts by some bonya of Afty per cent, of of the military bands, we have in salary. It used to be forty the Colony. King's Park, Murray
coat.
co It may be Parade ground and the cricket
Talpo, Friday. taken that danger has increased in ground provide the sites; we have
Anopheles Maternity* this stretch of water, where. It is the bands; all that is wanted is Home has been increased in size: a common occurrence for a British for someone to get busy with the by the addition of a series of swamps in the vicinity of the ship to be sniped at from both stage-managing, such as is requir-rails of the siding on S.W. side banks. Despite the risk, however, ed-aceing to the supply of chairs, of the station. The old timers there is never, I understand, any admission tickets (if any) and so in the home are not taking readt- lack of applicants for vacancies on on. If the Commanding Officers ly to the swamp, because it may these river boats.
consider the band should be paid dry up, or be drained some day.
by some silly person. for its services, a small entrance At all danger points in the Col- fee, covering the use of a chair or ony, there are always two sign a seat of some kind, could be charg-posts up to warn persons ap- proaching the danger from either od. Tientsin and Shanghai
direction. No so the new Bridge have these open-air concerts why at Taipo which is marked as hav not Hong Hong? We just want to ing a dangerous crossing from push ourselves a little out of our the Taipo Market or N.E. ap accustomed shell of indifference.proach only, whilst from the S.W. or Kowloon approach there is no Two concerts, at least, a week, pro- sign up. It appears the sign was viding the weather behaved itself. put up on the old rond which, of What about it? Here might lie course, is no longer used, and useful practice for that whilst it would certainly be dan gerous to cross the railway in a Tattoo they are talking about.
car, from the old road more par ticularly, as there is no road at all on the N.E. or Taipo Market: It has long been conside, we really think the sign post should be erected in its correct Would Upset sidered that a good
position. The Men. looking girl could ‘go We learn, however, that a good: far in any office, but deal of controversy has arisen be-- I see that such is not always the tween the Road Opening and Culinary Department of the cass, From Home instances are PW.D. the Fahwong's Depart The last statement. elted where feminine form and fes-ment and the Medical Department. Rotten Lives unfortunately, I mures beyond the merely passable as to the location of this sign; abundantly obvious, variety have proved a handicap to but the Medical Department won We see around us on all sides how a young woman in the pursuit of on the plea that the sign was re- quired in its present position.on. one case, the old road in order to mark the human nature is being warped, her living. There was
Thanks to according to the organiser of the S. Western extremity of the gradually eliminated.
Engineering the rotten lives we are compelled to Women's
Anopheles Maternity. Home, and Society,
that as anyone getting on to the: live we are losing the primal ins-when a girl was put forward for a crossing at the wrong time would tincts. As Sir Arthur suggests, we drawing office appointment. Her be sure to be killed; it would only- Now, however, what are tamed, uninspired. So live dan- qualifications were excellent, but make a job of work for the Police Times Have change. Instead of a gerously, brothers, live dangerous- the director said quite frankly that to remove a few dead bodies and would not affect the Medical De- "dump" we have 11
she was too good looking for a job partment who deal solely with and would probably upast the men "Live Ones." in their work.
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JONES.-On June 4, at Liverpool,
to Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Jones, a daughter. CUMMING-On June 9, to the wife of Clarence W. Cuntming, Shanghai, a 801.
MARRIAGE.
Hats.
slons, I learned enough to classify that particular bar in Hong Kong when I first BEW it.
Changed.
The famous medico- Too Relized scientist Sir Arthur Keith, goes from one startling atatement to another. After restarting the Darwinian ball a-rolling, when a lot of people, in- cluding many of the clergy, thought the Theory was comfortably forgot ten, Sir Arthur now tells us that the real danger which besete the future of civilisation is excesa in some sentimentality-a sentimentality that denies man the right to attack life in any form. We can become too refined, opines the medico-scien- tist, for life in a mortal world, and civilisation, he asserts, can warp human naturo.
Seeing so much of the Mayfair variety, it is truly refreshing when a Colonial Bishop custa aside his airs and graces and talks like a man. The Rev. W. G. Hardie, Vicar of St. Luke's, Finchley, North London, who has just been appoint
modern hotel. The old bar has apparently been swept away, by, the P. W. D. and, serving Bishop in a somewhat similar though perhaps Jail better purpose, le a discreet cham- ber on the first floor, supplying liquor and free lunches. There is no brass rall and there are no-spit- toons, but the wicker chairs are the last word in comfort. Who, now adaya, wants? brass rall when they can sit at sase2.
I wish that m05-
we
From the Mayor quito expert
of Talpo have been pro
mised and whose
appointment has upset one or two ed assistant Bishop of Jamaica, ezer now. I have in front of me a of the local medical goatry, was lated to a farewell gathering of here now. parishioners how he spent a night bottle containing a splendid collec
CORRESPONDENCE.
OFFICIAL NEST THIEVES.
To the Editor at the "China Mall") Sir-Is it a practice of the Forestry department. to allow the purpose of robbing neata... their employees to climb trees for
This morning a coolle was noticed
in the cells as the result of a "rag" tion of specimens from the Ano-to-climb a tree and later when
Still, there is a lot to be during his Cambridge days. The The Old said for things as they event being celebrated was the re- were before it became lief of Ladysmith, and the Bishop fashionable and, owing with a crowd of other young row
Tavern.
pheles Maternity Home, kindly sup stopped he had in his possession. two young doves. When asked why plied, bottle and all, by our friend he had robbed the nest he pro- the Mayor of Taips. They are jolly duced a Forestry Department, pass, Needless to say I made him climb beggars and do not appear to miss to our effete way of living, profit- dies decided to attack a police sta- their mothers one little bit. The up the tree and replace the birds.
Had there been a policeman in able to turn a "pub" into some- tion. For his pains he, with the Mayor, in his accompanying chit, the vicinity I would have handed thing resembling a club. I need others, stayed the night in the warned me to give 'em plenty of him over. I think this is a prac-
"CURIOUS." only call on the poets for subatan- building, and had to pay a fine of air, otherwise they would, in his tice that should be stopped.
own language, "peg out," tiation. You may have your odes £1 in the morning. Quite a num-
Let
be chewed by a mosquito it is not going to be one of my home-trained collection.
to nightingales, and so forth but ber of those arrested, he added; them "peg out!" I am keeping the when Keats wrote the following he like himself, subsequently became stopper in the bottle. If I have to knew what he was talking about, if parsons. So they cannot be such you know what I mean:
a poor collection of mortals after Souls of Poets dead and gone, all, can they? What Elysium have ye known Happy field or messy Cavern RUSSELL MASON-On June 9 Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
at H.B.M. Consulato-General, Shanghai, and at Union: Church, Ruth Evelyn, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I.
Mason, of Shanghai, to Walter' James, youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Russell, of
London,
DEATH.
HALL-On Sunday, June 10, in Shanghai, John Henderson
Hall, aged 10 years, dearly be- loved son of Dr. and Mrs. Edward L Hall.
Hong Kong, Baturday, June 16, 1928.
Matters 2
Talking of Bishops
OUTSIDE WORK.
LOCAL UNIVERSITY RULES.
11. Profressors and Lecturers
Today's "Gazette" states:- The Court of the University of So Pung Chow, is the | Hong Kong, on the 7th day of May, Once a Big and things, it is not Royal Pekes, champion Pekingese 1928, in exercise of the power in
Bug. generally known that
dog in Britain, run- that behalf contained in section 14 of the University Ordinance, 1911, Sir Hugh Clifford,
ning just ahead in popular fancy Ordinance No. 10 of 1911, amended Sir Basil Thompson, who govern the
whose name was in the cables dur- of Champion Yu Chuan. The lat the Statutes of the University by Malaya And Colonial possessions ing the week is the son of the late ter is "worth" £2,000, so Pung must the rescission of paragraph 11 of
Conrad. south .. of Hong
These statute 3 and the substitution of the Archbishop of York. Sir Basil has be a valuable pet indeed, Kong, has an Inter secured the billet of reorganising two animals are the descendants following paragraph: esting article in the June number of the police force of go-ahead of two of the five Pekingese which the Empire Review dealing in the Stam. At Home, his police were found in the Imperial Palace activities best remember at Peking after the Boxer Rebel- tauceship with the late Joseph ed,
an im-lion. The five were taken to Eng- but he was" once Conrad and dealing incidentally portant personage in foreign aer land and carefully kept by an or- with the land Sir Hugh knows 80 vice-nothing else less than Prima ganisation known as the Poking well and in which he must have Minister of Tongs. It may be re Palace Dog Association." spent most of his official career-membered-he has a keen sense to, wit, Malaya. It appears that twenty or so years ago the pair were reviewing each other's books
main with the writer's acquain-
H.C.-His Column. Clifford a Singapore paper and
! ནོ"
are
of humour that he subsequently published a book entitled either the "experiences" or the "confessions of a Prime Minister"'!..
story goes, anyway.
Short and Bweet,
So the
whose services are exclusively at, the disposal of, the University shall not, during the tenure of their appointment engage in pro-. fessional practice except in a consultative capacity. and with the approval of the University Council.
The said amendment having been allowed by the Governor in Coung!! on June 7, 1928, the same becomes These days, by law, valid and operative br the publica- newspapers may pub- tion of this notification. Conrad In The Academy Clifford
lish but little of what
London, Yesterday, Drastic attacked faithfully, not to say
transpires in the financial reconstruction of the big The Kingdom of Divorce Court. Here is my version, iron, cost and steel enterprise, savagely" Conrad's ignorance of -Just as I paid a
Killed the Tongs comprises a Two officers who met while on ser Baldwins Limited, is recommended Looking Back visit to St. John's men and things Malayan, and
Cathedral after Conrad, writing of Clifford's Missionaries, string of islets noi vice in Hong Kong have been con by the Advisory Committee appoint- ed by the Board. It proposes a the Studice in Brown Humanity, said;
far from the Aus cerned. In proceedings. They be reduction. by £8,000,000 of the, four years absence-from the Colony-so did I the other day look One cannot expect to be at the same traiian coast. It is now a British came very friendly but not as capital to £4,213,508 by writing in again at what was known as the time a ruler of men and an irre Protectorate, but time was when - friendly as did the wife of one with down the £1 Preference shares to. the inhabitants were out-and-out the other officer. In court, com- 10/- and the £1 Ordinary Shares Astor House Hotel. At the time of proachable player on the fluto:""
to 4/--Reuter. savages and very resentful of inter- plete admission, also a hotel regio my previous movings around and
However, they met ference by the white man. Captain ter. Decree nist." about Hong Kong the Astor har was
A Warm afterwards
Cook at first called the lalets the Mand a fair example of a third-rate "Bucket of Blood" the like of which Friendship, warm friendship even Friendly Isles, but soon had occa tuated and lasted un- sion to change his mind. Lieuten adorned the fringe of the Barbary
Coast when I was a very young man til the
A Chinese girl, residing at No. | 851 Des Voeux-road, West,reports. to the police the theft of her hand. Modesty, the name is bag, which she states was snatch-
ed from her hand by some unknown" great man a death. ant. Bligh, of the old Bounty, was Modest Woman Says Mrsperson, who came up from behind
and did not know rauch about these In the late autumn of 1001 murdered there. Then the men of Women Stanley Baldwin: "I am While she was walking along not a speaker. I am only Whitty street last night. at 12.80 matters. And then it was that Clifford was invalided to England Tonga killed the missionaries who
me from that part of the Call: In my fornian sea line which, these days, perienced in
rolonged s0%
where he remained unG1-Ser ber were sent to evangelise them and a very moderate talker." Says Mrs, Pl. The stolen purse contained parental mandate calling for deeper.
then killed everybody else; Includ- Walter Runciman, at the same tea rather than wider education took 1908-
log party of forty-fo bue fight have always thought that
HE the Officer Administering caneers who landed on their shores. the solution of the mystery of the the Government has appointed Mr. The present ruler is Queen Salote, authorship of Homer's works is to V. Grayburn, to be a member of wake kume ka the Advisory Committee of the fakindly inay)
dlsposed! be found in the fact that Homer seems, towards "missi
Was Woman,
so eminently respectable Bo forty years
the wider education finished. But, pica
in the course of the limited ereur pair frequently.n
Hong Kong Volunteer Defences Corps, vice Mr. H. GI. Hegarty: