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ADVERSARIA.
"Without fear, favour or malice."
So, who,
Is likely to blame us . Deride us or shame us For barring this kangaroo?
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930.
News in Brief.
as
FOR THE POOR.
PAULS
SCOPE AND ORIGIN.
[Contributed.]
The annual Bazaar of the St.
titles. You need not be afraid of being seen entering the place (if}
The Talkoo Club will hold its SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE you find it) for several taipans!annual ball on Friday, January and at least one high Government | 16. - official frequent it. Aa Mr.
From December 2, the price of Punch sald recently (abstracting P. and O. mail leisureliness), to go Kamahan opium la $60 for 3 taels.
the prepared oplum known there would not be "outray" and
The name of the Yuet On Steam at the same time quite "dis. tangay." In case Adversarian is ship Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register of Com accused by some juvenile con- temporary of having a financial panie. Interest in "Dirty Dick's," he The name of Mr. Pang Hocks its acope and what work is it do purposely refrains from telling koo, M.B., B.S., (Hong Kong This readers where it may be University) has been added to the that it is not a mere philanthropie
found. This paragraph was Iucullian merely inspired by a tiffin.
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register of medical practitioners,
Vincent de Paul's Society, which is to be held to-morrow, raises the which appeals to us so forcibly for question: What is this Society
support; whence did it come; what
ing in our midst?
In the first place, it must be noted
soclety, distributing so much' alma It is not a Benevolent The Hong Kong University Medi. to the poor. eal Society Annual Dinner anil Society, aiming only at relief of Dance will take place at 7.80 p.m. distress, but a Society which has a two-fold aim (the one dovetailing There is and to-day and not at 8.30 p.m. as pre-into the other and incapable of be
viously advertised. Slack never can be any
ing extricated from it)-the uplift- Methods of excuse for slack-
The total output of the Kallan ing of the poor on the one hand- Secretaries. ñess, which Mining Administration's mines for morally and spiritually even mora week-ended November 22 than materially-and the sanctifica- amounts to dog- the
amounted to 125,885 tons, and the tion of its members through visita gone laziness.
Yet how fresales to 115,189 tons.
tion of the poor.
The Founder. quently do the secretaries of Clubs and other bodies His Majesty the King has not The founder of the Society was exhibit this slothful habit. The been advised to exercise his power a remarkable Frenchman, Frederick After a of disallowance with respect to Ozanam, born in 1813. Adversariau has known of many Ordinance No. 10 of 1930-An brilliant career at school he early instances where his letter has Ordinance to Amend the Fire left his home in Lyons to go to Paris to study law and literature, been returned with a reply Brigade Ordinance, 1929,
afterwards becoming a famous scrawled in ink or pencil on the
II.M.S. Medway and the 4th Sub-lecturer at the Sorbonne. bottom of the page. In other marine Flotilla are holding a Grand At the very early age of 17 he It was then cases, important noticea are Dance at the Garrison Lecture Hall, founded the Society. scribbled in pencil on any old Wellington
to-night. that a little band of students-only piece of paper that comes to hand Dancing is from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. eight in number-met together In The "Medway Band" will be in private and asked each other. Yes, and then put up. Any member attendance
what are we doing? we talk but who tore them in pieces and re.
what do we do? ported his action, giving the "Calorimetry in Relation to And they resolved forthwith to reasons for it, should receive the Pulverised Coal" was the subject of do as well as to argue, and by visit Efficiency and Accuracy Medal, an interesting paper read by Mr. ing the poor in their homes, bring- G. Buchanan to members of the In- ing relief to them in personal ser which, Adversarian understands, stitute of Engineers and Ship vice, and endeavouring not only to the Government contemplate builders yesterday afteroon," Mr. ameliorate their hard lot material. awarding to members of the Re.R. M. Dyer, C.B.E., presiding. ly, but to uplift them, morally and
spiritually. trenchment Committee. A secre-
Mr. J. Stewart Smith, a director. They were ignorant as to how to tary who gets a job should do his of the Distillers Co. Ltd., who has set about their newly imposed task, best to render capable service, been a visitor to Shanghai for some but one of their number came to and not take advantage of friend-time paat, has left for Hong Kong their help, by introducing to them pidgin to degenerate into slacker.
Barracks,
wers
a on his way to Australia. He is bea Soaur Rosalie, & Sister of Charity. ing accompanied as far as Hong who taught them how to proceed in She be Kong by his nephew, Mr. H. S. their visits to the poor. The end of the Lindsay, exchange broker, who will longed to that great institute of The End month was like a spend a short holiday at Fanling charity founded by the celebrated St. Vincent de Paul, who in the of the dream. The boys before returning to Shanghai.
brilliant reign of Louis XIV, used Month. bowed one in and
A report was made to the to go about, the sordid streets of We have a faw.
bowed one out. Yaumati Police Station by Flying Paris at night and pick up the poor Women very affected wo-They waved one to one's chair Officer Hervey, .of Kal Tack orphans and children who Who Are men here who ac-with the courtly servility of the Aerodrome, to the effect that his often there abandoned. Affected tually "pose" be-stage family retainer, and poised from its parking place near the Star
Mon Salint of. Charity. Ford car had been spirited away
Inspired by her teaching and ex- fore the local the menu before one with an air Ferry Pier. The car was found ample, Ozanam and his companions tradesmen, forgetting that there of apologetic concern. They later, at the spot from where it was placed the Title Society under the arched their brows in curves like taken, but of the person who had name and patronage of the great is usually in such shops some question-marks, as if to indicate: managed to steal a joy-ride there Saint of Charity. young man who has waited upon "Everything satisfactory, sir?" was no aign.
Kindred spirits were attracted to them. real ladies at Home and knows and generally betrayed a flatter-
Their influence was ir- resistible; they spread rapidly; and by the time Ozanam died in 1859-
STREET SHOP.
the difference. I heard one such ing interest in one's little fade IVORY CARVINGS.
and fancies. There is only one naming two or three of these answer to their assiduity. Out parvenu dames the other day, must come the pocket book, and NOW ON DISPLAY IN ARSENAL and was considerably surprised. with it the greasy bank note, So would their husbands be, no "good" for as much or as little as you dare to present. And ear-to- doubt, if they knew.
ear, smile, a bow, and "Tank you velly much, master," seem almost adequate.
So Bad.
I don't think that Hong Kong we have any men Men Not like that. At least Tve met none myself. H
Oddities of auction there are any, they are probably young boys newly out.. I remem-
Playing
Corse.
while? ·
пар.
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Do you play goif, or do you just
literally worn out by his labours, intellectual, literary and charitable he was at the head of a Society which had spread beyond the con Curio and antique lovera will fines of France to almost every have a treat if they visit the shop country of Europe, and was de of Messra. Matsumura & Nikko at stined to be world-wide.
5, Arsenal Street, Wanchai, and see In Hong Kong itself, so far away the delightful collection of Japan from the parent stem, it was ex- that they tablished as far back as 1868, only ese ivory carvinge have on view for five days only 10 years after Ozanam's death. These Ivory Carvings belong to Nor has it with Its spread lost night on the Old Play ping-pong the collection of Mr. Nakamura of of its first ideals, but is everywhere with a wanderlust; Tokyo, a famous collector, who is faithful to the "Eulo" of its founder, That is to say, you here for a few days prior to an framed shortly after its coming A Well- bridge
extensive tour of Europe. He has into existence. coll- are
walk a mile - ber a happy incident at the And pat the ball cach little taken some forty years to get to It is in the best sense of the Balanced stantly being re-
Down
gether this famous collection of word a "social" institution, for Rubber. ported to us. Here Selangor Club, FM.S.
while it visits the poor wherever there, they are more sensible If so you have no right to play carvings. First score is one.
On the Old Course, on any day.
The collection is valued oven at there is need, irrespective of class, (A) was three in no trumpa, aces about hot weather clothes and And if you play a four-ball game, the present rate of exchange as nationality, or creed, its member
two in no the buttoned-up tunic, with only Keeping the plus four men an being worth over £500. It is of ship is open to all classes of easy, Second was
tap,
great variety from very small pieces Catholics alike, no distinction of trumps for B, honours again a singlet underneath, is still worn easy. The B side got the leg next by occasional taipans. One even-You should be filled with manly to some quite large pieces, the total class being permitted in its con-
shame——.
number of pieces in the collection ferences. call with the thumping score of ing a bank manager, who had Go home to simple things like being around one thousand.
Shining Lights. One of the largest and most in seventy, 100 for grand slam and been playing billiards, sat back
Of this the example may be quot- teresting pieces is that of theed of an Irish bank clerk, who was "Goddess of Mercy." This piece is fond of relating how in his confer exquisitely carved out of one plecsence in London the member who sat of ivory and stands twenty at their meatigs beside him, and Inches high, a truly remarkable who accompanied him in his visits. piece of work.:
to the poor was the Marquis of There are too many pieces of noto Ripon, a Minister of the Crown. in this collection to describe them Here in Hong Kong, too, some of and the best advice we can give is the early and most active membera, to make a visit in the next still well remembered, were Mr. B0 for aces Then A went out perspiring bank manager and "Watch Mr. A. H. Ferguson"
five days to the shop of Messrs. M. de Bovis, at one time acting with three hearts, getting simple said, pointedly: "Jolly nice Club.
Mr. Bateman, you are Matsumara and Nikko and see and Chief Manager of the Hong Kong honours and the 260 for rubber. Not half bad, at all. But the
Golf wanted! I would perhaps purchase some of this fine & Shanghal Banking Corporation; collection of Japancée Ivory Sir Francia Fleming, formerly the If you tot up the scores you will company seems a bit mixed, don't
as it is like you to draw for
cervinga. Pada
Colonial Secretary bore; the late find they come to exactly 870 you think?" The bank manager.
Played. me оде of your
Mr Francis, Q.C, a distinguished each side.
roared across the billiard table.
inimitable cartoons, and the valuable work which is be-member of the Bar. "Damn it all Tell your young entitled the man who missed ing done by its members. I notice A striking testimony to the The grasshoppers friend that we cannot all afford the ball on the first tee at Fan Conference have paid 46,638 visits delivered at the 69th annual meet- that the members of the Glasgow splendid work of the Society was Un-Natural, hep and so do the to be junior shipping clerks."
History. fleau
sen,
100 for accs. Points 290 to 50. to rest, and left his tunic unbut For golf's a game for men, my A got two no trumps and 30 for toned. Somebody brought a pink for bankers, "Civils," such aces. Score, leg all, and A 20 griffin in, the newest recruit to As play to handicaps of one, below, but 210 points to the bad. the local P. and O. agents' office. Can you do that not much! B. took another 80 points from "What do you think of our little The moral of this little verse
Is simple, candid, clear and terse them next call, getting them one Club?" he was asked. He stared "If you can't make the green in down on a no trumper and taking over his starched collar at the
And so does the
kangaroo, Its leaps so astounding
We speak of as bounding
For its leaps are much longer
than these,
That it isn't a whopper
Has it ever occurred to you,
To speak of a hopper
That hops in Hong Kong an
do?
With logic much sounder
We call him a bounder
A bounder from Woollamaloo,
He isn't from there, it is true;
But it happens to thyme And it fant a crime The bound here from Carli
one,
ling What a subject! We see to the poor in their homes during ing of the Glasgow Council some the crestfallen countenance of the the year. I do not know any other years ago, by Baille Graham, the Have you been to tyro, who has just duffed his shot charitable organisation in Glasgow Senior Magistrate of the city of Visit to "Dirty Dick's?"" after a magnificent Fergusonian which takes such a practical futer Glasgow. "I have," : he said, "an
Dirty
ishment swing and glaring at him from est in the poor they are looking intimate knowledge of the work of An
the waiting-bench a row of sar after. The work of the Bociety to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and Dick's with
donie, grim faces, belonging to not confined to members of your I appreciate it very much. It -brious a sobriquet some of the best golfers in the own denomination; the Protestant gives me particular pleasure, to at- may have escaped your otice, Colony Well, well, we have all poor also come within the scope of tend this meeting, because I know but if you are anything of an experienced that, and are fully your beneficient work. That is that there is not in the city of fustified in explaining that it was one of the reasons why I admite Glasgow a Society which does auch epicire, you should pay
[simply due to "nerves." But you so much and why I am here good, 'usostentatious, and charit- don't we work that word "tem- to-night You are governed by no able work as yours. Your method perament” just a trifle too hard narrow sectarian principlen. Xon of giving, does not tend to under- in golf? After all, there must be are broadminded men, extending a mine the receivers deise of per- players as well as good helping hand to all who need assis: sonal dignity; you give in that vers, although Adversarian tance, Brotherly spirit which makes a man cuisine is excellent, and the flah has seen one of the reputed four Such is the Society, and such its feel that he is being helped out of
players in the Colony hit a aim and nciples, which is difficult position by friends, #far better cooked that at ma
antly ball which landed in Pehling few support from all be congratulate the Society on the When he emerged he was tons of the community – at ita flourishing condition of its funds Mother, the Violets were annual Bazaars, to * be held 19(Continued, at foot of preceding? He ain't a bit pleased mor
Column)
It is an inconspicuous little place
with more of the Scho
aspect than the elegant air of our roccoco "pala
But
uprve