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· ADVERSARIA.
"Without fear, favour or malice.”
An incident perhaps rarely
An Incident, at the Races, experienced in sporting circles.
The
Adversarian annoyed many adults-since he limped into print and hurled his ink at the mediocrities, but the children still call him "Uncle." Not everybody is called “Uncle." It is something to be proud of if you have the-confidence of chil dren, who are without hypocrisy and see the world as peopled by good and kind, or by dour and ill- tempered
A Budding has
Agatha Christle?
ቤ
The Stare:
For fourteen years our lampa
have shone
Where foolish carnage rent
the land;
Yet in the Halls where they
have gone
In view of Save Those idrop in Old Shirts, doliar, we
should
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1930.
[The follow Odes for ing rhymes Author Lovers are written
by Adver Have You Heard?— earian for friends of the famous.) Mr. Osbert Sitwell. Mr. Osbert Sitwell
We think they grimly under-Has written another book.
stand.
Oh, Mr. Osbert Sitwell, Please let us have a look! But Mr. Osbert Sitwell the Thus angrily replies; the With flushing cheeks
all He crossly speaks econo- And fuming, flashing eyes: mise. So don't give away your "You think becuase I sit well, old collar, but show some enter-That I can also write wall; prise. Just wear it till it wilts "But does a boxer hit well away; for collars will soon cost "So long as he can fight well,?” a dollar a day. Shirts are ex- pensive, too, it is said, so don't be afraid of frayed cuffs; wear each one to a positive shred------ your blues; your pinks, your etriped and your buffs. The tailor you know: won't keep down hia prices; the of Mr. This and Mrs. That Government tax is soon due; and And Lady So-and-So? Adversarian's advice is -- Make They say you stayed upon the the laundry keep using their | Peak; Blue.
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The Oxford
#
Mr. Somerset Maugham.
Oh, Mr. Mang- ham, how can you write
Of people that
Then came "The Painted Veil." And Mr. Maugham, they tell me
here
Oxford's New University Ex-It's such a naughty tale.
Movement. ploration Club's But I have read it and I think expedition for It was a shocking waste of ink. the investigation of the flora and fauna of British Guiana recently climbed trees 133 feet high and secured more than 10,000 in- sects.]
Not midst the spires of Oxford
groy
The entymologists perform, But on the tree tops gravely
sway
Where clammy coleoptera
Bwarm.
And there the savant tribe
survey
News in Brief.
His Excellency the Governor in Council has appointed Staturday, December 27, to be observed as a general holiday.
Bathing Beauty: "Good grac ious! I have not enough hooks on may bathing suit!"
Her Friend: "Never mind, dear, you will have lots of eyes."
*
**
"Why have you come to prison?... "Competition brought me here." "Competition?”
"Yes, I made the same sort of bank note as the Government."
*
"It is extraordinary that Mrs. Janka can never see any faults in bor children," observed Mrs. Smith. "Mothers never can," remarked her husband.
"What an absurd Iden, James! So like a man, I'm sure. I should see
faults in our children at once-f they had any."
•
"The authorities ought to take action against these swindlers.” said Robson, as he tore up a letter. "What's the matter 7" said Spindle.
"I saw an advert, that cald that`. for five shillings they would tell me how to make butter from grass," replied Robson, "so I sent five shillings and got a card that says: 'After you get the gross ready, give it to the cow and then chura. the milk.'"
The name of Dr. Philip Singly. M.B., B.S., (Dublin), St. Stephen's shop smiled happily as his custom- The young assistant in the boot- College, has been added to the er departed from the establish- register of medical practitioners.ment.
The marvels of the insect form. His Excellency the Governor has Perspiring and in language re-appointed Dr. Wong Taz-chuen
quite
to be a member of the Midwives Removed from Queen's or plous Board for a further term of three
Caius,' They curse the jaws that
roundly bite
More flercely than the Fresh-
man's fleas.
years.
The names of the
Company, Limited, and the Wo Seen Seen Fat Steamship Company, Limited,
Yet their reward shall be have been struck off the Register
renown
In dimmer archives of the Bl
Ological Institute in Town;
of Companies.
"What are you looking so pleased about?" asked a fellow fitter.
"I've had my revenge," replied the other,
"That girl I've just finished ser-
"Revenge for what?”“queried his colleague, in surprise.
I gave her the wrong ving was a telephone operator, and shoes, came the reply.
*
+
number in
Scribber dashed into the editor's
"Can I have ten bob advance on
The total output of the Kallance, Far nobler than the lesser fry, Mining Administration's mines for the story I'm writing?" he asked. They justify the swarthy gown. the week ended November 29, The "Oxford Movement" now amounted to 129,658 tons, and the
is seen
To bear the fruit of Darwin's
seed,
sales 144,892 tons.
At the expiration of three And up they climb into the months from date the Victoria
green
Food Products Company, Limited; And, Simian-like, give bugs a will, unless cause ie shown to the
feed.
+
The editor looked up from his desk.
"That is a very unusual re- quest," he murmured.
Scribber gave an appealing look. "I know," he returned, "but it's like this. I've got to a point in contrary, be struck off the Regis the story where the hero sits down ter of Companies and be dissolv- to a square meal, and I want to get
the right atmosphere."
genii. Оде little girl; whom he would like to meet, wrote 1 Most Mysteriousest Adventure Story called "Treasure Trove," which ber father - (who is popular resident, of Hong Kong) had published last year. She is ten, yet her sense of the dramatic narrative is already keenly de- veloped, and if she writes in the years, to come she may find
Chau Hing, coxswain of the "Why don't you send in your ac- herself famous as a "best seller"
the un-Yaumati Ferry launch Man Shing, count every month?" asked Brown in line with Agatha Christie. or
pleasantness of reported to the Police yesterday of his newaagent. "If you Icave the Baroness Orszy. Here is a ment occurred to me on reading way in the
Retrench-that whilst the vessel was on it it over too long the amount comCA sample from "Treasure Trove" the Christmas number of Punch. collided with the Kowloon Godown's
Central Fairway, it as a bit of a blow." for your judgment:
"Well, you see," explained the
Why Not Try
"General Past"
An excellent way of avoid- ing
ed.
*
The London Charivari gives a launch Comeron, causing damage newsagent, "I never ask a gentle- "I called, several times but could number of sketches of famous to the ferry's stern to the extent man to pay his account."
get no answer at last I heard a rustle
what do you think it was a great bearen and women in the characters of $400.
I came down the pathway and I got which, according to Mr. Punch,
half way down I fell in a hole when would suit them better than the
"Never nak him?" echoed Brown wonderingly. "But what happens
went towards it and made a cup positions they now hold. For may be maintained for record pur-de?"
In order that a complete Hat if he doesn't pay what do you
To the Men
of New Zealand.
*
of my hands, just as I was going to example Dean Inge is shown as poses, it is requested that those That's easy" came the answer. drink I saw something coming to wards me, I jumped towards a gloomy comedian, Mr. Arnold ladies and gentlemen resident In "I he doesn't pay, I concludo rock
(To be continued in our Bennett as a Bishop, Miss Amy Hong Kong, other than those now that he isn't a gentleman, so I ask next!)
Johnson as a nursemaid (with serving In His Majesty's Forces, hin for it." glad eye), and Mr. Bernard Shaw who have had any decoration con- [Before joining as a street vendor (with apple ferred upon them by His Majesty his liner to re- cart). Surely this suggestion the King, will inform the Chie: Will it take much to feather * Prospective Bridegroom (gaily) ;, retura to New should be taken up quite serious-Clark, Colonial Secretariat, unless nest?" "Zealand, thely by the Hong Kong Govern- this has already been done, within urniture Dealer: "Oh, no; only Premier, the ment? We can suggest quite a 14 days from the date of this notia litle down." Hon. G. W. Forbes, paid a visit to number of changes that might fication. the battlefields of France and Bel-revive the administration. Here gium, on Sunday last. We com- are a few: the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Valley on Saturday when, during memorate his visit, and the Wolfe as usher in the Theatre TWO PILOTS KILLED. Po Rate! What's that?" the progress of the third race, thoughts it may Have engender- Royal; Mr. T. H. King as Dean of the band suddenly struck up which, in the manner
ed, in the following lines, in St. John's Cathedral: the Hon. THREE AEROPLANES CRASH
of the Mr. C. Mcl. Messer as driver of "God Save the King." Backera Greek oracles, the dissertation is the 1.18 (Saturday) train to and officials, of course, alike turn. made by the elements.]
at Home or abroad occurred at
the extra race meeting at Happy
INTO TREES.
Three Royal Air Force Bulldog
*
Brown: "You've called for the
Rate Collector: "It's for the benefit of people without means.”
Blown: "Abt Then you mean you're called with it-not for it? Fanling; Mr. A. H. Ferguson as
Bown: They say Jones Was Under the Starry Sky.
Harbour Master: Dean Swann The Poppies
as Public Prosecutor; the Hon.aeroplanes crashed into trees on a singing at the concert last nigh
hillside in Arundel Pork. Sussex, just like a professional. Do you Mr. WE L. Shenton as New Zealand's limbs are Baron Shekko, et cetera." In
recently and flight Lieutenant know who brought him out?” - lying here.
Grện: "No, but I knew the fact, in order to test the guit. Gerald Christopher Allan Arm Where countless thousands ability of the above to their new strong, plot of one of them, was two caps who threw the chairs at
bled.pn
posta, would it not be wise to hold killed, and another pilot, Sergeant him." It took no meed of hate or a fancy dress parade in one of Wilfred Birkishaw, died in Arundel
ed aside and raised their hata and attention was for the moment distracted from the race. The reason of the interruption was the arrival of His Excellency the Governor, accompanied by his Aide-de-Camp and his Private Secretary, Mr. Tufton. Appar- ently the party, arriving late, had not realised that a race was in progress. This could never hap The pen at Home, of course, because His Majesty always is among the first to arrive and enter the Royal box.
It may not. Nephew of be generally Lord Hothfield known that
To die our petals: red;
die our po Mad Within our clammy, tawny Your dead are mouldering
And-Flanders clay has form
ed the moulds Where legions made their
kill.
Mr. Tufton is The Plough
My iron share rips, up the
earthS
blood-man's
"let a super-optimist to-day,"
the local hotels? We hope to see Hospital a few hours later.
The pilot of the third machine, said he.solleitor on his retura this suggestion brought before the Legislative Council in the Pot Officer Geoffrey John Pawson, home, near future.
was slightly injuredite
"Whe did he do?” asked his The men and machines, belonged wife. to No. 17 Fighter Squadron, of "He led to do me," said her Upavon, Wiltshire, and were taking husband "After 'I had successful- part in the air exercises now being ly deferted him on a charge of
PT(WÙh: Apologies Sweet, Helen to Homer).
of Kowloon. The face that held in Sussex atverers passing worthless, notes,⠀⠀⠀ he pro-
Taunched' av A man named Hoare, who works ceeded tipay me with them.”
on the Arundel Castle estate, was
thousand chits
Was Helen's, of Kowloon, The prettiest of all the "bita," But like the child's balloon, She has a way" of "going up"
*
the only witness of the accident. It was a lovely morning. The I was at work in the park this train stopedrat a village station, morning," he said, “and suddenly and an athusiastic tourist leaned the three machines came out of the out of the carriage window. thick mist over my head and s little "Isn't its exhilarating?" he ex- farther on crashed into the tops claimed, he rubbed his hands. of some trees."
*“No," it in't,” replied a passing ⠀⠀⠀ One of the first men on the scene porter, wis a glare, “It's Ecking-
was Mr. L. G. Hare; of the Norfolk ton."; Hotel, Arundel
And hidden bones bare In prices when we sometimes sup, For earth that gave the child- Hors d'oeuvres will never satisfy,
man birth
The caviar's too thin; Became the
A light malaga she will try snarexerc
And after that a ging Raini pallet linko
She has no taste, but appetite My tears fall gently on the Tremendous she possesses.
And when she knows my purse is
a nephew of Baron Hothield, and a first cousin of the Hon. Henry Sackville Hastings Thanet Tufton He was educated at Oxford, and prior to his appointment in Hong Kong was employed in a London Bank. The appointment is a purely private one and Mr. Tufton | The is not, as is sometimes supposed,
Cadet. The custom of appoint inga Government Servantas Private Secretary varies in some of the Colonies and Protectorates, however, and Sir William's Pri- Vate Secretary in the F.M.S., Mr. The Wind French Sheppard, was a member
of the Malayan Civil Service and
A former District Officer He
was a climming, young man, and the success of the garden parties
"It was too misty to see the ma chines clearly, as they passed over,” He said, "but just after they had gone someone told me that, they,
And as I scatter these,light
sight for those who met My hand she gently presses,
their dooms For Baying:"Robert, what a beast I had crashed in Arundel Park From the Antipodes Ayam,
How horribly expensive.
cross the barren fields 1"But may I have a piece of ham?
fling
"Oh aren't too expensive
messɛgo
fimmediately went there by car
Apparently the pilots had not bean the trees In the mist, for they seemed to have Howa straight into
the dead Yet though her hunger, gives me them. They had all crashed with
In a short distance of each other
can hear I cantaziingəhər-
Bed to aid
year
Sweet Helen
Kowlood
1923
kiled in
Ten Years Ago,
̈tFrom: te","China. Mall”
Decuber 18, 1920.14
To-day's day is worth 3/11/16
Tonight Bishop of Victorias: will be at St.
Church Hall: the young men of Invitations have been andi to hoped that