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'ECHO OF THE THIRTY- 'GHOSTS' OF WINDSOR
SEVEN RONINS.
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T MEETING will be held (wer- DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS ther permitting) at Happy Valley of the Sale by Public Auction on SATURDAY, 2nd May, 1931, be held t
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"WHITE TIGER” BAND,
that the historic
An historic incident of Japan's Many are the ghost stories told sor of English in the University of civil war, the struggle that led to about Windsor Castle. Peoplo Chicago, joint editor of the Oxford the overthrow of feudalism and the have declared that they have seer English Dictionary since 1901, and emergence of Japan as a World and heard things there that have author of "The Pronunciation of Power, is recalled by the death of convinced them English, English Spelling," and Sadao linuma, who was the last Castle is haunted. "The Study of American English," survivor of the Byakkotai, or Perhaps one of the strange.it No one without a budge will be writing in the Saturday Review of "White Tiger" Band. After rul-ghost stories connected with the admitted to the Members' Encios- Literature of New York, on English ing Japan for two and a half con- Caatle is that in which a sentry
Badges ure.
admitting non-as spoken and written on both sides turies, the Tokugawa Shogunate of the Coldstream Guarde was in- members to the Members Enclos- of the Atlantic, says:—
was overthrown in 1868 and the volved, in 1906, ure and Club Rooms at $5 for "It is cany to begin to enumerate Emperor restored to power. Isolat- The sentry declared that whilst between ed groups, loyal to the old Shogun, on duty on the historic East Ter- Gentlemen and $3 for Ladies (both outstanding differences Including tax) are
obtainable; American and English usage. Any continued, however, to offer resis-race, one Saturday night, he saw through the Secretary upon Intro- one familiar with the everyday tance, one of the last being the the figure of a "ghost" glide up duction by a member, such member speech of the two countries
Lord of Aizu. Many, even of his the steps.
followers, were to be responsible for payment of without much thought put down a own personal
No Reply. all chits, &c.
"I challenged it," said the score or two of words or phrases, urging him to give in, but a group Badges admitting to Members' the choice of which would at once of boys, all of Samurai birth, who Guardsman, and it made no reply.
members Enclosure will not be on sale at reveal the nationality of the speak were
of his fencing The thing came to a standstill the Race Course.
school, pledged themselves to fight only a few yards from me, and I to the last. Some Sample Differences.
Organising into a fired. But, apparently the first plfention to the Secretary badges "The use of the sidewalk in place band under the name of Byakkotal, shot made no impression, so I fir- (limited to ONE) for the free ad- of the pavements, the carrying of they made a terrific onslaught,ed the other four. mission to the Members' Enclosure a grip in place of a bag, travelling and though most of them were no "The bullets must have gone of wives, lady relatives and by a street car,
or surface car, or more than 16 or 17 years of age, clean through the ghost, but they friends. Names must be stated trolley instead of by a tram, using no less than seventeen out of the left it unharmed. And then it when applying.
an elevator and not a lift, taking a thirty-seven composing the band disappeared." On no pretext will children be round trip as the equivalent of a fell fighting. The twenty Bur- In the meantime, the sentry's permitted in either Enclosure dur-return ticket, commuting instead of vivors, most of them wounded, comrade had heard the shots, and thereupon withdrew to a neigh-hastened to his friend's assistance. ing the Meeting.
halding a season ticket, making a reservation instead of booking a bouring hill to re-form and make Ile found him dazed and in a con- The Price of admission to the seat or place, having baggage rather a final onslaught, but seeing their dition that Indicated he had had a
and being looked Lord's castle in flames realised that very great fright. PUBLIC AUCTION,
$2 includ-than luggage,
nothing more could be done. The scared man related his ing tax, for all persons includ-after on the train by a conductor Rather than surrender, they de-story, but the second sentry coul
instead of a guard-all of these ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS ing ladies and is payable at the will inevitably stamp the American cided to die in accordance with not find any trace of the ghost. PRIVATE LESSONS 1 English PAR
Gate.
Samural tradition, and all com- The Castle guard was then call- French, Shorthand, Typewriting and of the Sale by Public Auction
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform tourist with the place of his origin. held
Ined out, and to the officer in com- MONDAY, the In Music for Ladies and Children. Terma to be
are admitted half price.
"In keeping with these modes of mitted hara-kiri on the spot. moderate. 5. Aimai Vilns, Austin 4th day of May, 1931, at
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c., speech he may also be expected to one case, a lad of 16, the wounds mand the story was retold. Rond, Kowloon.
3 p.m. at the Offices of the
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ask for candy and crackers when did not prove fatal, and when the sentry described the "ghost" as Public Works
Imperial troops arrived and found"a man Department, hy
with piercing eyes and to Order of His Excellency the Goy within the precincts of the Hon he means sweets, and biscuits, to him still breathing, so greatly im-long flowing robes."
ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land Kong Jockey Club during the Ratulk of drug stores and book stores pressed were they by such extra-į But his commanding officer took
schedules (with Meeting. at Shamshuipo, in the Colony
Tin will be obtainable in the sk), and may cause some bewilder ordinary loyalty, that they nursed an unsympathetic view, and when By the time the man was taken before Major years, commencing from 1st July. Restaurant in the Public Enclos- ment by saying that his second class he recovered the civil war was at Lambton at the Victoria Barracks
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to be held од MONDAY. the 4th day of May, 1931, 3 p... at the Offices of Publie Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Gov- ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land at Tai Kok Tsal, in the Colony ef Hong Kong, for a term of 75 vears, with the option of renewal at 1 Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King. for one further term of 75 years. PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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of editorials and
new
The
'him back to health.
mail need not be forwarded. Con- !
an end and he was taken into the he was charged with "firing with versely the British traveller in the
Government.out sufficient cause." United States must famillarise him. service of the
The name of the youth "The gentry stoutly defended self with these differences, or run
thus saved
Was Sadao inuma, himself. "I gave the challenge the risk of not understanding and
and it is the same Iinuma Halt? and 'Who goes there'?" he being himself misunderstood.
whose death, at the age of 78, is said, "and on receiving no answer "Whenever a long list of such
now recorded. Here it may be re- I had to use my rifle." variants is produced, there are
called that on July 7, 1884, an Im- After the Major had carefully usually expressions of dissent from perial Rescript rehabilitated the considered the case, the sentry one side to the other, showing that nobility, whose rank and power had was sentenced to three days' con- the differences are by no means so disappeared with the Shogunate, finement to racks. absolute as has been assumed. The and the Government has never had fact that the English of Great Bri-occasion to regret this act of gen- tain is far from uniform is apt to erosity. be overlooked in such comparisons. The ordinary American term, while strange to the southern Briton may be perfectly well known to the Briton of the North or to the Scot.
"BIG THREE.”
Queen Elizabeth.
The firing took place under the windows of King Edward VII.'s apartments, and it was thought that the sentry mus have mis- taken a stone elephant for a man In the dim light of early dawn.
When the elephant was examin-
"It is legitimate, no doubt, to give TO SPEAK IN ALBERT HALL ON ed marks of bullets were discover- railway" as typically
British in
contrast to the American "rail-
JULY 11.
WORLD DISARMAMENT.
ed, the atone being chipped in five places.
com-
This elephant, and its panion on the other side of the steps looking down to the East Terrace were shortly afterwards removed.
the Offices of the Undersigned on | TUESDAY, the 19th May, 1931, at Neon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Agents, road," but the fact is that railroad together with a Statement of Achas from the beginning been the familiar term in the North of Eng- counts for the year ended the 31st land and Scotland, and that railway
Rugby, Yesterday. December, 1980.
is far from unknown in the United The Prime Minister, Mr. Bald- States. Similar modifying notes win, and Mr. Lloyd George have
The two elephants, by the way, A national would have to be added to many of promised to speak at
were selected for Queen Victoria If strict demonstration in favour Buch pairs of variants.
of world from the Kaiserborgh of Lucknow accuracy 18 desired. Parallel disarmament, which will be held at by Lord Canning In 1858. columns cannot always convey the the Albert Hall on July 11.
Queen Elizabeth, Henry VIII, This will be the first occasion on Charles I., some of the Georges,
The SHARE REGISTER
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entire truth.
"To set down without comment, which the leaders of the three Nell Gwynne, and Anne Boleyn as has been done, pitcher and jug, political parties have spoken on a have all been reported to haunt mantelpiece and chimneypiece, rare common platform, to urge disarma- the Castle.
and underdone, shoe and boot, ment-British Wireless Service. shoemaker and bootmaker. 23 de-
finite contrasts between the usage
An officer of the Foot Guards
Was
once sitting in the Royal Library reading, in the gloaming, of the two countries, is to leave a tween the American and the English when (so he said) he heard a considerable part of the tale untold. idiom at the present day would be rustle of silken dress, and, look- A drug store may answer to amore numerous and obvious than ing up, saw the ghost of Queen chemist's shop, but the ordinary they are..
Elizabeth glide across the room, chemist's shop in Britain bears "The tendency to separate, which He did not fire a rifle as he little resemblance to a drug store off has seemed as inevitable to many, had not one with him-but he the usual type.
is being counteracted in other ways, buckled on his sword and report- "What would naturally be a shop The very growth of the population ed the matter. in any part of Great Britain may in the United States and Canada, The Dean's Good Turn, '
as naturally be a store all over the which will bring about in time B One of the most humorous United States, but this bald con-shifting of the centre of English, stories connected with Windsor trast does not imply that there are will also act as a uniting force, Castle "ghosts" concerned the late LOVELY SILK STORE no stores in London, or shops in affecting Britain and the British Dean Wellesley, who was Dean of The Colonies on the one hand, and on the Windsor for many years during Now York and Chicago. United States have even preferred other that large section of the Queen Victoria's reign, shop in some applications where it world which is steadily acquiring One bitter Winter night a gen-| le not usual in English:
English as a second 'tongue.
was on duty try
in the Dean's Some Differences by no Means "Prophecy in regard to languages] Cloisters a rather eerie place
Permanent.
is no more to be depended on than after dark-when "a thin bony "Another important factor is that in any other line. If the prophets hand" suddenly appeared through even the unquestioned differences had been right, some languages u slit in the wall near the sentry's are not permanent. Some of them now fourishing in Europe would head. In the hood was a glass of are already being effaced by closer, have been extinct several genera-steaming hot grog. contact between the two countries, tions ago. Looking forward, how. The sentry took to his heels and familiarising the natives of the one ever, with the tendencies of the ran down the hill to the guard- with the speech of the other... Some-1 present time to guide us, it may be room, where he told his comrades time it is English use that affects auggcated that the steady expan-that he had seen a ghost. American; ́more frequently, per- aion of English as a world langu- It was afterwards found that haps, the influence is the other way age may bring with it the solution the Dean, taking pity on the son- The effect of American-English on of the question with which we try, had prepared a glass of hot that of Britain and on the English-* started.
whisky and water for him, and speaking world at large, has yet to "A distinct American language, was in the act of handing it be traced in detail, but some of the clearly marked off from other forms through a small window when the main facts are clear enough.
of English, in the same way as onoj sentry made off." "The growth of American litera-, Germanic or Romanic language is ture in the nineteenth century, and from another, is less likely to arise PURIFICATION OF LANGUAGE. especially the rise of a real Ameri- then seemed possible a century ago. can school of writers, not afraid to The Great American, Novel, we are
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