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G÷1482— (a) Jock The Fiddler (b) The Ballad-Monger
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C-1659- The Bandolero (Stuart)
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The Band of H. M. Coldstream Guards. C-1881-"The Maid of the Mountains"-Selection (1st. Record) "The Maid of the Mountains"--Selection (2nd Record)
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C-1917-Potpourri of Waltzes (1st Record)
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ADVERSARIA.
With trembling lips young Mark
began
To praise her as the sweetest rose That e'er engaged the heart of man; But soon he sniffed his Roman rose While Clea waved her little fan Eating an onion wan.
"Oh, don't eat onions, dear," he said,
They always make me cry, "Try aniseed or cloves instead, "Or take some ginger dry." But Cleo shook her dainty head For she was going to dis "So scatter onions on my bed "That I may easier lie."
(Moral: If Cleopatra had
ed cachous the tide of history might have been "turned)."
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1931.
IN THE
SOCIAL SWIM
by
AUDAX
there be troublous times ahend, surely! To make matters worse, it won't be possible to send a strong cordon of Police to the St. Patrick's Ball (Och, pwhat a dance that will be!) for, phwat doj ye think, nearly all the Police are Irishmen 1 One consolation we have is that the Irish in Hong Kong are a quiet, peaceable lot, not like those hooligans in Liver- pool, where recently bricks and railings were torn up by the Pro-Smith, who is a Clerk in the Land bronchitis, and Mrs. Harris testants and thrown at the Parish Office, is going Home on leave on
them. January 17, when he intends to sit priest, Father
Denis O'Shea, or the Intermediate and Final Law whose hat was knocked off.
examinations. He has been read- In Erin's fale island men do pwhat ing for the former for the past two
they like,
years, so should find little difficulty Thero's never a happier darlint than in obtaining a Solicitorship..
Mike.
I hear that Mr. W. J. Lockhart fish died. apparently
in these
Yo may love, ye may taugh, and spite of the fact that
examinations are becoming increas- to have one Ingly stiff. Mr. Lockhart Smith, who is 28 years of age and entered the Government service in 1924, is
there's no one to think Its a little Indacent
more drink.
There are taxes, tis true, but bless
me, who pays 'em? And Erss lessons at School, but no-
body says 'em. In fact, its a land where yo do as ye
like,
An' there's niver a happier dariint
than, Mike.
le may be the Pope's puppet or a
Protestant foine, (The Kirk's a grand hobby, it truly
ain't molne).
Yo may call yerself Orange,
Ulsterman true,
J
ог
son of Mr. Norman Lockhart Smith, B.A., Second Assistant Colonial Secretary and Deputy Clark of Council in addition: -He is at present residing in May Road,
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His Honour Sir Joseph Kemp, Kt., B.A., (Capa University), who was 57 last month, is returning to the Colony on the s.6. Rajputana in
of
April, when he will relleve Mr Eut pwhat ever ye are and pwhat Justles J. Wood, Puinne Judge,
ever yo do.
as Chief Justice. Ii Erin's fair Island ye do pwhat ye
his duties liko,
The Colonial Treasurer the With
"and Hon. C. Mcl. Messer, M.A., is due to retire also In April, having been in the Service since 1897.
Patrick, Murphy, and Casoy, and Mike.
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The
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following! A Romance of little
romance Dr. G. A. C. Herklats, D.Ph., St. George's owes its in B.Sc., the genial young lecturer in Ball. spiration to the Biology in the University, is a firm
dance pro-bellever that one should buy objets, gramme at St. George's Ball on d'art for their beauty alone. Tuesday night, and we trust none rather despises the attitude of the of the charming dancers took the curio hunter to whom age and bon mots to heart.
"the real thing" are of para- "Blue is the night, rolling down the river
little white mount value. If one is to be satis lies.... mistakes! My dreamfled by articles which please the eye memory says my heart belongs to the and not to consider their girl who belongs to somebody else. renuinenese, then he will Bad In So lover, come back to me; have a Kat Street sufficient imitation little faith in me! Though I'm just a
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taking them down below to match As they appeared to be all alike she seems to have been suc cessful! But this, nothing to the menagerie that usually accompanies Dr. Herklots on his journeya.
of course,
One of the Colony's keenest yachtsmen is Mr. Artbur George Tickle, F.R.L.B.A., Technical Secre- tary to the Director of Public Works, who is going Home on leave in March, having been in the Colony since 1913. Mr. Tickle is the proud half-owner of the Irene, a. smart ten-tonnor, which has, won, several races here. Built about build ships, she is about 36 feet in.. fifteen years ago, when they could length and has a beam of over ten Speedy feet, being yawl-rigged. and graceful, she ja one
of the smartest racing yachts
on local waters.
The Hon. Michael Breen, B.A., Postmaster-General, owns the other half-share, but being more interested In retrenchment, ot which unpopular Commission he is Chairman, he seldom it over emulates that Tommy Lipton..
Irishman,
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great
*
the
The Senior Chaplain to Forces in Hong Kong (Church of who replaced the late England), the Rev. Scott Little, Crosthwait in October last year, Rev. C.
told me an amusing story the other day which will probably
now be related in every Mess Room. On one occasion he had to attend a
metal polish being rather unplea- Levee at Buckingham Palace, and want to handle, even for batmen, thoughtfully purchased a pair of cotton gloves at Woolworth's, price six pence, for the purpose. Im- agine his amused astonishment when, on the morning of the Levee, be found, laid upon bis neatly. creased dress clothes, a pair of It beautifully clean Woolworth's
vagabond lover, my heart beats for "Sung" and "T’ching" to satisfy you, and some day. I'll find you sing the greediest collectorl ing a song to the stars. - Ah, I love you so much (the kiss waltz)... body and socl. If I had a girl I hope I am not giving the like you swinging in the hammock, "secret" away too soon when I state or pickin' petals of the daisies, she'd that Dr. Herklots, who is co-Editor be such a comfort to me. Rolling of the Hong Kong Naturalist, con-
deep night."
down the river.
Utter piffle, isn't it? Yet templates in the near future bring
tunes such as these lure
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ouring out another periodica).
Scotsman!
*
young hopefuls to wear out their will bear the modest title "Oc-gloves. But perhaps "Bill" was a suck-soles (souls) when they should be casional Notes," and will deal prin in bed, and to keep their arts up cipally with matters of horticol
tural interest and should be popular their sleeves (the heart trick).
with those who take an interest in Adversarian reor who are lucky enough to possess cently heard gardens in the Colony. Dr. Herk from a woman at lats, who has thus thrust upon him. Home whose hus-self a double journalistic burden, is band has been one of the most hard-working men
In days of yore The Humour the soldier was of a Soldier., popularly suppos
ed to be some- what heavy-handed with the
Wives Who Stay at Home.
*
Dr. Isaac Newton, M.R.C.S... Medical Officer at the Government Civil Hospital, apends his spare time in sculpture and his exhibits at the Hong Kong Art Society's show last month attracted consider able attention." He uses a special kind of clay, known as dentists" stone, the peculiar virtue of which is extreme bardness, although it takes longer to set and is just as pllable as the ordinary modelling clay. Dr. Newton, who seems to favour classical figures, often tints. bis modele after the drying process, occasionally using bronze powder and stove black, which gives a re- alistic metallic effect. One of the finest specimene of his work, how- ever, is a clay medallion of his son, a pencil drawing copy of which was made by Mr. E. T. Nash, of the P.W.D., and also exhibited by the Art Society,
All communications should boladies, and when Chaucer's gentle ordered out East. She said that in the Colony. When he is not addressed to the Newspaper Ep-Knight went off to the Crusades she was terprise, Ltd., to whom all remit-
torn between leaving lecturing he is writing, editing, or he was wont to secure his darling her two small children at home scouring the hills for flora and tances should be made payable.
in a contraption of armour, so and accompanying him, or stay fauna, Ha collection" of the that the locksmith was very popu-ing with them and letting him latter has already roached consider lar with philanderers in that age. make the best life for himself able dimensions and his fat in But the era of Sandhurst pro- that he could. One is inclined to Peak Mansions is quite a night- duced the nervous subaltern type, feel sorry for her. It is the old, mare of slimy wild life, both in the who flushed in the presence of old story, and the price woman quick and the dead.
Recently the fair sex and stammered be has to pay for the privilege of be cobra escaped from its filmay pri Hong Kong, Saturday, Jan. 10, 1931. fore the Colonel. But the typical longing to the greatest Empire in son and was found quite uncon-
warrior, scarred in many engage- the world. (Cheers.):
cernedly taking a nap under his ments, quick to.oath and action, But surely there can be no ques- bed! I understand that Dr. has never been a satisfactory tion as to who has the greater Herklots has made a discovery "ladies' man," and is often clumsy claim upon a woman her hus-which is likely to set the geologists with his endearments." Thus it band or her children? The man at Home agog with excitement, but is amusin to read how must win in that struggle, for he am absolutely forbidden to dis- soldier-author, in terror lest he has the greater need of her, and close the nature of this until the should be thought "romantic," he would feel her loss far more British Museum has made its the writes of a young woman who is Onions and liver s a bit supposed to be the heroine. This acutely than would the children.
report. the Muse. crochety, perhaps, extraordinary passage appears in He came first in her life and he
and go the Muse "The Fly-By-Nights," a rattling should remain first until "death the Peak Tram on Thursday by the
good mystery story by Major-do them part.", was able to give us only one General Charles Ross, C.B., The children belong to them presence of a bowl of gold fish jingle; we hesitate to call it a D.S.O.::
both, but they belong only to each which Mrs. Harris, the charming
Major young wife of "poem." Albeit, the more face-
“She yawned-and-stretched horsekt other. when she got to her room; it was a Many people can look after the RA.M.C., was taking back to the he would have little difficulty in re tious of
our quill-nibbling prodigious yawn and a prodigious children admirably, but who
Peak Hotel. Recently five of the ducing it if he played up to scratch. brethren find poetry In Life,
stretch, and there was an ominous whether dithyrambic meter, Even the modest sausage has been known to inspire a lyric:
"Without fear, favour or malles.”
Last week
or gas
Oh, Savaloy, thy beauty Is deeper than the skin Which hides thy brown and fruity Mysteriousness within.
(After Nietzsche).
crack. "Oh, bother, she said, I would wish her husband to be wonder if Nelly has gone to bed. looked after by another woman?. She rang the bell, and then com-(Ah, who, indeed?) menced her search for the breakage.
In a few minutes Nelly arrived, and together they examined the article of attire which had displayed such lamentable Lack of staying power. said
'I think I must be getting fat
News in Brief.
The lowest temperature yester-
Miss Troubridge. Oh, no, Mian, yon day was 49 degrees, the highest on Are Just answered the maid." - Thursday being 69 degroes,
“Just right" may be the Gen-
Dr. Newton, apart from his artistic proclivities, is a first-rate golfer and represented Hong Kong. Mild consternation was caused to during the recent Inter-Port golf
declares
He
that ble.
championship in Shanghal. modestly handicap is about 16, which le good Harris, enough for most of us, but I think
It is notified htat the name of the Canton Navigation Company, Limited, has been struck off the Re- gister of Companies,
The name: of Miss Kathleen Naomat Grneson, of Messra, A. B. Watson & Co., Limited, has been
As for the onion-but speak not of the onion, that translucent enemy of lovers, fouler of tete-a-eral's ideal of womanhood, but he The preacher In: St. Andrew's added to the Register of Chemists tetes, and co-conspirator of the seems to have no illusions about Church, Kowloon at the 11 o'clock and Druggists.
the battle of sex. Beside litera-service to-morrow will be the Dean weeping movie "star" How could ture of this type Keats becomes of St. John's Cathedral (the Very one yearn to capture "the last
a pale shade! fine careless rapture" of the odious onion, whether of the Spanish variety, so loved by the gentlemen with the barrel organs, or that alabaster-white, deceptive Spring genus which decorates the luncheon tables. of
Clubs? Even Vergil, respectable
Rev. A. Swann, MA., D.S.C.). In the same book The St. Andrew's Branch of the Seeing The Fly-By-Scriptero Union, will meet in the Through Nights") Major Church Hall on Monday at 6 pm. Teeth. General Ross makes when the "speaker will be the Rev.
mark: this astonishing re- N. V. Halward, M.G, M
Did you speak?" asked the Cherubim, his teeth gleaming
(Diocesan Chaplain).
The names of Mr. Tool Taz 'Shok,” M.BB.S (Hong Kong), 87 Des Voux Road Central, and Mr. Mok Hing Fai, M.B., E.S. (Hong Kong) have been added to the Register of Medical Practitioners.
The street commencing at Peking Road, 180 feet, west of Nathan Chu Sook-mel, charged with the direction parallel to Nathan Road, Road and running in a northerly for an instant in a slight smile alleged murder of Ka Bau-hel, terminating at the North side of under those blank spectacles." house-boy in the employment of M.
next Assizes, by Mr. Lindsell at
being bitten by a brown mongrel dog, owned by Mrs. Wiltshire, of 1, Yue Kwong Terrace.
TROOPSHIP IN COLONY.
The troopship Nevassa arrived in port soon after 8 o'clock this morn 1pg and went alongside Holt's wharf. She has on board the Wor cester Regiment from Chinwengtao which is on its way to the India station.
The Nevassa, which is expected to leave Hong Kong this afternoon, will take away from here a few de talls from the local garrison who have completed their termi of sor vice and are returning Home.
Ten Years Ago,
From the "China. Maf?"""
January 10, 1921.3.
ter of the art of cataloguing vegetables and fruits, would surely have paused before sinking his stilo into the waxen tablet to paen the praises of Allium Copa Yet, looking through his eye-teeth. It was committed for trial at the
The Cherubim must have been Obl, at 0 Fellz Villas, last month, KL 406, has been called Lock
Road. we are told, the oniot is repre-seems very dens, doesn't it? cented on ancient Egyptian monui
the Central Magistracy yesterday Water Police, pleaded not gulity at Hong Hing, a seaman of the ments and one variety cultivated
To-day's dollar is worth 3/--15/16. in Egypt was accorded divine"
Hong Kong has afternoon.. St Patrick always been con-a
the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday, honours. There is a legend
When entering the harbour yes- Comes Into sidered a reason Her friends in Hong Kong, with assaulting the manager of the sengers on board from Shanghai, when charged, before Mr. Buttersterday, with about 200 Chinese paa- (handed down in our family) that Cleopatra wooed the asp to her
His Own a bly peaceful pecially at Taikoo, will be Inter-go. Hing Theatre on December 8 the China Navigation Co's steamer
corner of the Far ested to learn that Misa Jónn bosom by the odour of her breath, East, removed from wars and Stewart, daughter of the late Mr. Defendant denied assaulting the Sunning struck the rocks near. Cape ecented by the precious onions of daily political troubles and Butherland Stewart and Mrs. ed and imposed a fine of $20 or to anchor near Talkoo Docks for an manager, but Mr. Butters convict-d'Aguilar, but was able to proceed Alexandria. But men are more seldom in this generation do we Stewart has been married to Mr. three weeks' imprisonment examination which revealed that no fastidious than snakes, so that is hear of a sailor being knocked out John Johnston Wallace, son of Mr. nerhaps why Caesar turned her in the bar Now that we and Mr David Wallace, of New A girl named Y. Shoesmith, aged The Vessel is proceeding to Can-
damage had been done. down
have a St. Patrick's Society here, York The bride's younger sister however, vd Sassenach had bestia Ellen Stewart, is also marri
years, and resi
ton as usual and will be docked hers look out for your påfesz. We hear and har
Block,, Kennedy. Ro was yester In the ordinary course for her that one
hate Falready Josh and
ant to
nment: Civil: kiduakove suẳng which was dus Injuries to In any cass on her return to Hong
When Qiso, fairest of her race du The land of Ptolemy did fly
oung Anthony soun pulled ÷2¬TACK.
And looked obrIT WIT whit Cleo with gulity
Aaked why?