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We regret to announce the death Dr. Loo Haing-yuan, ex-President of Miss Beatrice Elizabeth Stokes, of the Provisional Court at Shang-who passed away suddenly at the hal, has arrived from Canton and Matilda Hospital on Sunday after-
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P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
"Fust time you've ever milked a cow, is it?" said Uncle Josh to his visiting nephew. "Well, you do it. a sight better'n most city fellera do."
"It seems to come natural some--
is now staying in the King Edward noon, Miss Stokes was 20 years of how," said the youth, flushing with age and arrived in the Colony early pleasure. "I've had a good deal of this year. For five years she was practice with a fountain pen." nurse companion to Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Bowkett, 12th Heavy Battery, Lvemun..
Mr. J. F. Brenan, C.M.G., H.B.M.'s acting Consul General at Cantan, spent the week-end in Hong Kong and is a visitor at 'Govern- ment House.
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Mrs. Mishaw::"You praise your- self too much, my dear. People would appreciate you more, and cultivate a little modest reticence." would tell you..so, if you were to
Mr. Mishaw: "There's where you
Miss Stokes, whose home is in West Turrock, Essex, will be great ly missed by a large circle of Central British School, Kowloon, friends in the Rastery at Lyemun. re-opers for the new term on The funeral will take place to-day are out. I did that for years, but Monday, Sept. 17. The entrance at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy nobody took any notice of me but examination for new pupils will be Valley, the cortege passing the you." held at the School at 9.30 a.m. this Monument at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14.
At the Union Church yesterday, the Rev. Kirk Maconachic preached his last two sermona prior to his departure from Hong Kong at a very early date.
A report has been made to the police that a brooch containing five diamonds and one sapphire set in gold was lost on Thursday between No. 372, Peak, and the Ming Yuen Studio.
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"Is it possible," gasped the In-
dishonour my name on the boards of a theatre?" "But father," re- turned the stage-struck youth, "I would take an assumed name!" "Indeed! And supposing your were to succeed, much credit I should get if no one knew that was your father!"
COCKNEY SPEECH. dignant parent, "that you would
PROFESSOR DISCOVERS VIR-
TUES IN DIALECTS.
[By Professor Daniel Jones, Pro- fessor of Phonetics at Univer- sity College, London.] There is only one real influence upon the speech of a nation, and Two spiders met in a dusty that is the home influence. the home language that sticks are you getting on?"
It Is corner. "Well," asked one, “how
throughout life, and
compared
"Terribly," replied the other. with it the influence of such out-"Everything is impossible now- Mr. Foo Pingaheung, a former Bide agencies as school or the
mechanical Superintendent of Customs at Can- B.B.C. is comparatively super-sweepers and energetic housemaids, ton, who accompanied Mr. Hu Han-ficial..
And how," I'm always disturbed. min back from Europe, is leaving
This is all to the good because he inquired, "are you?" for. Shanghai by the "President the home language is invariably a McKinley" to-morrow.
"Oh, very well," said the spider beautiful language. It fulls all No. 1. 've made my home in an the functions of speech-that is to offertory box in a church in Aber- were say, it is a perfect medium of un deen."
The three Chinese, who of bringing something approxim-arrested in a restaurant in Kowloon derstanding between the child and
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its own rules was walking in the same direction. of grammar and pronunciation-as "Have you lost half-a-crown?** charged a Chinese before Mr. R. E. spoken by the languld young
Inspector Clark this morning rigidly as the English, which is he asked. Lindsell with the
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"Yes, yes, I believe I have!" said. theft at the people of Oxford University.
the stranger, feeling his pocket.. Kennedy Town bathing beach of ais, moreover, a peculiarly rich and "Have you found one?" pair of crepe soled shoes, the pro-picturesque language, and it is a "Oh, no," sald the boy. "I just perty of a Portuguese youth named pity that it should be so largely want to find out how many have Delgado. Mr. Lindsell imposed a overlooked by students of philo. been lost to-day. Yours makes. fine of $10 or, in default, 14 days' logy. hard labour.
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nations. It is particularly inter- esting to note, as we do in one of Reuter's telegrams to hand, that "important reorganisation pro- blems" have been under con- sidération and that "a solution has been found, the essentials, of which will lead to the formation of an
Administrative Council similar to a Cabinet." This will be for about three hours. The Portu- language of the slums and the told me you have been misbehaving- led by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, guese police launch, "Commandante gutter of any city, be it Glasgow I shall have to punish you to-night." and we are told that Mr. Hu Han- Talone," which was cruising at the or London,
Doris (age 9): "Not to-night, vicinity unsuccessfully attempted No doubt there min will head the Legislative to refloat the vessel. After the associations in our
are pleasanter father. I shall be too busy with my minds where dancing lessons, but speak to me Council. There will also be three lapse of two hours and a half. the the dialects of the country are again to-morrow regarding an ap- other Councils-Judicial, Super-police landed the saloon passengers concerned. We have heard the pointment."
in sampans.
Illogical Attitude. Probably we are willing to ad- The effect of listening to ultra- yesterday the s. "Sul An" stuck of Yorkshire are
While entering Macro harbourmit that the dialects of Dorset or fashionable parents is shown in the
attractive, but following conversation:- in the aud and was not refloated we are inclined to despise the Father: "Doris, your mother has
speech of Cornish or Irish peasants
amid beautiful surroundings, there- Blundell was suffering from
This attitude is
her father.
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visory and Civil Service-and all will conform to Sun Yat-sen's
A Chinese, in regular employ-fore we find pleasure in remem-digestive trouble and the doctor "five-power form of government" | ment at the Dockyard, was this bering it. But the language which told him that if he laughed fifteen-
the ideal of the Kuomintang. morning charged before Mr. R. E. is inevitably associated with all minutes before each meal his con-
Lindsell with the No doubt the various groups pieces of metal worth 50 cents. He et alum is repugnant to us.
theft. of two the offending characteristics of adition would improve. One day of the Kuomintang will take some told the Magistrate that he was not
in a city restaurant Blundell was. completely having his little laugh, when a man time before they are able to weld | earning enough money, but a Dock-wrong and illogical. Any estab- from an opposite table walked over themselves into a National Party yard representative said that ac-lished form of speech adequately to him. "What the dickens are worthy of the name; but so long as cused's pay was 60 cents a day. fulfilling Its function as a medium you laughing at, sir, he inquired'
Ha Worship imposed a fine of $10 of communication is beautiful. there is evidence of an authentic or 14 days hard labour.
angrily. "I'm laughing for my There is undoubtedly need for liver," declared Blundell. "H'm1"" desire for unity, in which there
a standardised form of speech, said the stranger. "I'd better will be no 'room for individual or Re-sealing of the letters of and it is necessary to teach chil- start, too, because I ordered mine- collective bickering over non-administration, with wil annexed, dren in schools the rules of such twenty minutes ago."
of the estate of Dorabjee Edalji speech, but, they ought to be essentials the prospects of the Dhawar, who died at No. 31, taught to regard it as being mere- Party may be regarded as bright: Kensington Hall-gardens, Kensing-ly different from their home las-on at a breakfast table between a A conversation was being carried. "Rome" was not built in "a day" ton, on Dec. 26, 1927, and left guage and not superior to it in any mother and a small child. nor will China's new capital of £2,4-18-16-3 In England and $2,700 way.
was reprimanding ↑ in Hong Kong to his widow, Edith I have used the term "stand-mother Nanking or Peking, even though Ardeshir Dharwar, has been grant- ardised form of speech" relatively. daughter for speaking unkindly to unity should be attained sooner ed to Mr. D. V. Stevenson, lawful We have not yet achieved a stan- "You never hear me speak In. than it is likely to. The Kuomin-attorney of the widow, who is sole dardisation of English, but there
such are hopeful signs that we are on
a disrespectful manner of the way to it. STOKES-At the Matilda Hostang and their leaders in parti- administratrix and beneficiary.
The influence of your father," she contended. "Well, pital, suddenly, on the 9th Sep-cular and the Chinese in general. Able Seaman H. Bounden, of the B.B.C. is at work, and though mamma, but you choosed him, I
didn't," tember, 1928. Beatrice Eliza- may depend upon it that in the H.M.S. "Berwick," reported to the the effects are at present very beth Stokes, only daughter of
Elsie remarked to her friend: Mrs. Dawkins, Essex, in her supreme effort that they are now police yesterday that on Saturday slight they are measurable.
When the announcers first lift- making or seem about to be be engaged a room in the Victoria twentieth year.
Hotel, Hankow-road, Kowloon, for ed up their voices, complains "Yea, dear, my husband is a doctor, making that they have the cordial two nights. When he returned to poured in to. Savoy Hill from all and a lovely fellow, but he
awfully absent-minded." Ada good will, of all foreigners. It the hotel at 11 am, yesterday, he parts of the country complaining Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 10, 1928. is especially gratifying to note missed from his rooms suitcase of the strangeness of this speech "Indeed!" Elsie: "Only fancy. ears. Gradually During the marriage ceremony, that the Kuomintang's proposed Hong Kong, netes, a camera, a
containing two 1 notes, three $10 to provincial.
these complaints have become less when he gave me the ring, he felt new Government will conform to bathing suit and a towel. The and less as the ears of the people my pulse and asked me to put out those generally Identified with total value of his loss is placed at have become attuned to "Southern my tongue."
English." the best western political prin- $59.
Scottish Standardised. ciples and that the spurious ideas
Scotland has made great strides. The open space was crowded with With the return of Mr. Hu of the Soviet will be eschewed.
in the standardisation of its lan-young cricketers pracitising for |guage.
the coming season. At least á Han-min to the Kuomintang fold
China,. It is devoutly to be and conferences taking place hoped, has done all the experi-
Tweny-five years ago so numer-dozen pairs of stumps were pitched The second days proceedings of ous were its dialects that a teach-in a space of a hundred square between him Marshal Chiang menting in Communism with its téry case was heard at the Kowloon ject of ridicule and unintelli-ball which sent the middle stump the "Ever-Ready," torch and bater from one district was an ob-yards. One youth smashed down a Kai-shek, and Marshal Li Chai-class-hatred absurdities that
Magistracy this morning. Mr. W. gibility is another district. So flying yards away sum there seems at last sound she is ever likely to do. So far, Schofield, the magistrate, informed Scotland introduced compulsory "Good," said a bystander.. "That reason for believing that har- we see no sign of such extremists the Court that Mr. Leo d'Almada e phonetics into all its training was a splendid delivery." mony will soon prevall in the as Wang Ching-wei, George Hau Castro had received no further in- colleges and finally set up a stan "M"yes," said the bowler. "Dut ranks of the Kuomintang. As or Eugene Chen again coming for which he appeared at the pre- "Polite Scottish. The same kind at."
structions from the Pak Hing Co dard of pronunciation known as those weren't the wickets I nimed has been often pointed out in our into prominence, and if the Kuo-vious hearing and saked for a re- of thing might be done for Eng- columns, unless the Kuomintang mintang wish to base their new mand. show unmistakably that they are Government on solid foundations in every respect united, there is they will do well to see that these little use of them posing as a notorious Individuals, who were National Party and saying that fast bringing Chinato very they are working for the unifica dangerous and deplorable state, tion of the country, They them- are kept well out of the way. At Mr. Mackenzia King,, the Cana-
A cot cover, worked and pre-plied the husband, who knew selves must first be united. The present there seems to be fair dian Premier, who is attending the sented by the Queen, was the thing or two and preferred to an above-mentioned leaders working prospect of a united China League Assembly meetings, yester principal prize at a baby competertain his pale at restaurants. together amicably and with a under a united Kuomintang and day visited the British Premier, tion at the Royal Orphan Asylum: You dislike him, don't you!” was Mr. S. Baldwin, who is recuperat Wanstead, Eat a fete in aid of Mrs. Johnson's next query, A fixed aim, firstly, of putting their in the efforts that are now ing at Aix-les-Baius, --- British the Connaught Hospital, Waltham, little," Answerer husband, "but- own house in order and, secondly, being made in that direction by Wireless Service.
ot enough for
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The case was adjourned Thursday.
Ada: "Well, he won't do the latter again."
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land. In this way a universal 'cur- Johnson never dared ask any one: until rency of speech would be evolv- to his home. He had a wife, and ed for commercial and educational she was not popular with visitors." purposes, while the "home" lan "Aren't you going to ask your guage would remain unharmed.friend Tompkins and his flances to "Daily News,"
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