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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1929.
AGENDA FOR ANGLICAN CONFERENCE
BISHOP TO PRESIDE
PRAPS-
PRAPS NOT!
existed for many months past, VICTORIA DIOCESE both in Hong Kong and in Kow- loon makes it. Imperative that it should be the subject of com- ment from time to time. Accord- ing to the latest official returns only a slight drop was shown in the number of cases for the week
The Bishop of Victoria (the "Lawyer: "If you expected to ended March 2, and so long as the Rt. Rev. C. R. Duppu, D.D.) is be acquitted, your wife will have dry weather continues we sup to deliver the presidential ad- to pitifully weep and moan dur- pose that the epidemic will per dress this evening at the church ing the trial." sist. A good few hours of pelting of England Diocesan Conference, The accused (a ne'er do well): rain, which is the best of antisep-which was referred to in yeater-"Well, that's easily arranged, ties, would do more than most of day's "China Mail."
[guv'nor. Just tell her I'm going the remedies. Vaccination,
Both sessions to-day and to-to be acquitted."* thanks to the excellent work be-
morrow are preceded by Holy ing done in many quarters, espeCommunion in the Cathedral at cially by the St. John Ambulance 7.45 am, and Evensong at 5 kitten tightly in her arms, and Little Elaio was holding the Brigade, is the best of all re o'clock. The conference then fol- talking to it as children are fond. medies or rather preventives. lows in the Cathedral Hall. The of doing.
And
It is therefore still very agenda follows:- necessary that the good work
To-day
20
that is being done should be con-
5.00 p.m. Evensong. tinued with unabated zest. The
5.16 p.m.-7.15 p.m. First Ses- number of eases notified during jaion in the Cathedral Hall.
the past three weeks show a
1-Intercession.
A thoughtful pause caused her mother, who was sitting behind her, to pay some attention to what was coming next.
Kitten, said Elsie, "I know all your little brothers and sis-
considerable drop compared with 2-Opening Address by the ters, an' I know your mamma, the previous ten weeks, when President.
but I ain't never see your papa..
the figures were formidable and 3-Resolution:That the new I spect he must be a commercial the deaths, as well as the number constitution of the Church of Eng-traveller."
of cases, very numerous. There land Diocesan
Conference as
is, however, still a large number circulated be adopted."
of victims, which makes impera- tive the utmost vigilance on the part of the authorities. ..
Sir Richard Gregory told the members of the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science that it would be far
The tram had stopped, and re- fused to budge for several ·
To-morrow 7.45 a.m. Holy Communion in minutes. the Cathedral.
,
""That the
"I believe we aball get on bot- 5.00 p.m. Evensong.
ter if we got off," said one pas- 5.15-7.15 p.m. Second Session senger to his neighbour, So in the Cathedral Hall
they alighted and walked on 1.-Intercession.
ahead. 2.-Resolution:
Fifty yards farther on the better if the bishops, instead of Conference approve the Church of tram passed them.
England Trust Ordinance. 1929, | "Well," said one of the devoting all their time in prepara-
as circulated.”
walkers, "I thought we'd get on tion for a life on the other side!
3.-Elect Standing Committee better if we got off, but we'd of the Jordan, would themselves-According to clause 7 of the pre- have been better off if we had give particular attention to means sent constitution twelve persons stayed on."
new
of producing a new heaven and a
Names for are to be elected. earth here below New nomination to the Standing The great business man was York Herald Tribune."
Committee should have been asked how to become rich. sent beforehand to the Secretary The rafe for a five-seater of Conference (Dean Swann).
"Work hard and set yourself the to buy a gold watch," was to Buick motor car will be drawn in
4.-If the new constitution for reply. Kowloon's way of thinking in the office of the "China Mail" on the Conference is passed, approve
"Yes," querled a listener; "and date for extraordinary meeting when you've bought a
gold. for organising along the lines of watch?" the new constitution.
Governmental authorities)
March 15.
matters affecting the common
Five fresh cases of small-pox weal of that part of the Colony. "All dwellers of Kowloon can and were notified yesterday four from the Victoria district and one should exercise their right to a from Kowloon. All were Chinese.
Overland China Mail.free kick," says Mr. Braga. It is
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decidedly a sign of life and vigour Mrs. Railton, wife of Mr. N. L. H. Railton, of Messrs. when a community, or a portion Jardine. Matheson & Co., has re- ATTRACTIVE PERFORMANCE of a community, realise not only turned to the Colony by the a..
that they have a right to kick "Antenor." when things go agley, but that.
Mrs. L. Forster, wife of Pro- they have a duty to themselves fessor L. Forster, Professor of
"You don't buy a gold watch," replied the magnate; "you buy a gun-metal ticker and start all over again for a motor car.'
"And when you've got the money for the motor car?"
"Well, you remember the watch, if you're not a fool, and go on riding to the bank on A 'bus."
*
"Yes," replied Jones" "I've de- cided to call my little 'bus "The Guiding Star.
IN "TEMPEST"
MARSHAL LI'S 'PRAISE.
Jones had recently bought Marshal Li Chai-sum, chairman
"I understand. second-hand car. and their fellow-citizens to exer- Education, University of Hong of the Canton branch of the Poll that giving pet names to cars is cise that right-and kick as Kong, arrived by the "Antenor" tical Council of the Nationalist straight and as hard as the parti- from Home with her two children. Government, commander-in-chief the fashion just now," remarked a friend, "By the way, have of the Nationalist troops in cular occasion any warrant. The Notice has been given at the Kwangtung and Kwangai and you bestowed a name upon yours authorities are unlike the referee Registry of the forthcoming mar Chief of Nationalist General yet?" on the football field to whom and riage of Mr. W. F. Foole, of the Chinese Maritime Customs re- to whom alone is vested the venue cruiser "Yeung Shing," to authority to concede that right to Miss B. Geldart, No. 8, William- a free kick. But he would be an street, Thornaby-on-Tees, York-
shire. with unpopular referee both players and spectators, if he Mr. J. W. Blakely, of the but- department of the atolidly withheld a free kick when chering
Dairy Farm Co., left yesterday Hong Kong, Thursday, Mar. 7, 1929. it was legitimately called for in on Home leave. He will be great- accordance with the laws of the ly missed in the Kowloon branch game. The authorities may often of his firm, whilst the Volunteer like to have the powers to restrain Corps will regret his absence for
some months. the community or its representa-
London Offices: The Far East- ern Advertising Agency (London), Ltd., 36-38, Southampton. Street, Strand, W.C.2.
"THE RIGHT TO A KICK "
At the happy gathering last night when the two new Unofficial
mernbers of the Legislative Council were honoured in Kow-
* Septe
P
tives from indulging in a free The annual dinner of the mem- kick-but they are helpless to bers of the Institution of En- gineers and Shipbuilders of Hong loon, the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga Prevent that free kick being Kong will take place on Friday, taken. There are, to be sure, March 22, at 8 p.m. The Hon. Mr. other occasions when even the W. T. Southorn, C.M.G., Hon. Vice-President, has intimated his authorities are not averse to the intention of being present. community taking a free kick-
exercising a right that undoubted- In regard to the case affecting an alleged forged draft for $80,
found.
John Barrymore
"A jolly good name, too!" com- mented the other.
"I suppose you call it that because it takes you everywhere you want to 807"
"Well, not exactly." replied Jones. "The reason is I always seem to be underneath it?"
A: ཤ-
Brown: "There goes my old day school teacher."
Jones: "But, surely-it cannot bel You are as old as he is."
Brown: "Quite right. He was once the bright boy who sat next to me and did all my lessons for me."
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The head master put up Д notice that on the following day he would lecture on "Our Eyes and How We See Through Them."
Shortly afterwards he Was of astonished to find an alternative
*
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ascended into the realm of metaphor. There was a decided "kick" in some of his comments. But it is a moot point whether these comments were inspired by
ly is theirs. They do sometimes reported yesterday, it may be Staff in Nanking, was present at the prevailing football mania or wake up to the fact that they are stated, in fairness to the parties the 9.20 performance by the antics of a certain equine but the servants of the community (concerned, that the case for the "Tempest" at the Queen's Thea:title written underneath: "Our animal. Certainly he chose to
and that they must do their ut-defence should not be regarded as tre last night when he highly Pupils, and How They Bee
actually having come before the praised John Barrymore's por Through Us." "forget" his Scripture, where a most to make the community as Court, being reported merely as traiture of the character of the noted apostle enjoins us "not to healthy and as contented with an item of news.
Mr. and Mrs. Browne had been hero, a Sergeant. in the Russian kick against the pricks"in their lot as it is possible to be la
Imperial Army, then a commis discussing an arrangement which more modern phraseology, not to
At the Central Magistracy this aloned officer for a day or two, implied the exercise of the “give a Colony where the mass of the morning, Major C. Willson, O.B.E. a prisoner in solitary confinement and take" theory. knock
"You know,” declared Mr. our head up against a populace are inarticulate. Even sentenced a Chinese boy to re- and finally as a revolutionary
Browne, "that it takes | brick wall. He is indeed a poor
two some ceive 12 strokes of the birch for leader... footballer who has not a kick left among their number are
the theft of three trays of foun* Barrymore is as great as ever. to make a bargain."
"Yes," returned Mrs. Browne, occasionally to
tain pens, worth over $200, from Camilla Horn, the leading lady, in him when it comes to a critical dulge in a little kick of their own Messre. Kelly, and Walsh's pre- is very charming and impressive. "but only one of them gets it!" portion of an exciting match.
Fora!" shouted the golfer, Likewise is it a poor old mule who against a system that is found in mises. Two of the trays were re-Louis Wolheim has little to do but practice to be no system at all. covered. It was stated that the does it exceedingly well. George!
But cannot raise enough energy to
firm had lost four trays of pens Fawcett, as the typically sympa preparing for a big drive. kick out when he is being goaded They can, then, afford a smile altogether, one having been missthetic "old" General of the the woman who was crossing the when they see some of the public ed some time last month. screen, maintains his reputation. links paid no heel. "Fore!" to earn his little bit of corn:
kicking at the same ball in the
The story is about the Russo- yelled the man with the clubs And, he is not much of a citizen
The Chinese arrested on sus-Austrian frontier.in 1914. As a again, angrily. Still she took no same direction. One kick often picion of having been concerned piece of entertainment it should notice. Try her with three- who cannot indulge in a good
inspires another and yet another, in the murder of an aged care be seen. Final performances are and-eleven, suggested a friend. "kick" when he fears, justifiably
"Perhaps she's one of those bar- until both teams, the community taker of the Botanical and Fores on Saturday.
gain-hunting fiends!" or otherwise, that the bed of roses he expects from a paternal after all they are both kicking New Year Eve, was again before and the Government, realise that try Department in a lonely store- house in Kenffedy-road on China
A lady was travelling in a Government in return for good
Yesterday afternoon. the tramcer with one troublesome for the same goal--the improve Major C. Willson, 0.B.E.. at the Harmston circus and royal mena-little dog that kept constantly dollars in the shape of rates and
Central Magistracy, this morn ment and betterment of the place ing. The police stated that they gerie presented a matinee as barking. A man complained of the taxes threatens to be but a bar-
in which they live. That is the had no evidence to offer against their last performance on their annoyance. Dear me," exclaim ran plot.
best kind of kick, after all, and it the man, and his Worship accord-Praya East reclamation site, Toed: the lady, with astonishment; The community fully expects its
matters little whether it is fratingly ordered his discharge, day they move over to the main everybody admires my dog. It land, where a short season will be is a real Peruvian, "Excuss Unofficial representatives on the
aimed directly at t Government
Yesterday afternoon Mr. E. W. opened to-night at Mongkoktaut me, ma'am, I don't complain of Legislative Council and the Sani-
or indirectly through the people's Hamilton heard further evidence prior to the troupe, procesding to your Peruvian dog, but I wish he tary Board to be "full of kick"
Shanghai.
would give us less of his Peruvian representatives on the Sanitary at the Central Magistracy in con-
bark." in season, of course. There may
Following a minor dispute over be times when to kick would be Board and the legislative Coun. nection with the case in which five Chinese men and a woman are injudicious and impolitic. There cil. If the kick is a good, healthy, charged in connection with the re- the right to use some cocking im "David, you're a fool!”-
bound to be cent armed robbery at No. 18, plements, a free fight broke out David: "Well, air, I can't help is a decided art in knowing when strong kick points for the go
High-street, West Point. The among 40 Chinese labourers at it. When you engaged me you ralds at No. 12 Gough-street the Shing On Cheung contractor's told me to imitate you, and I've
Tan: done the best I could... where all the accused were workshop at Wood-r
It is the right time to kick The good folks of Kowloon are remind-
rese
fed two day. ter the rob
chai esterday Polico arrived the mob.
One an, se
pulling