TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1931.
THE CHINA
UNIVERSITY HOSTEL WHEN LONDON HAD THE “BALUN ́ BIDAI” BARRIE'S MEMORIES
CLOSED.
Sequel to Ragging of a Student.
DEVELOPMENTS ANTICIPATED.
SORE EYES.
Roman Trade-Mark Discovered.
"CAIUS'S SCENTED UNGUENT."
At a meeting of the Council of (By Walter G. Bell). the Hong Kong University holl Long ago, in Roman London, was resolved that there practised a certain Caius recently it Lugard fall will be closed on Sep-Elvius Tetricus, who sold to all tember 10 until further notice.
needing them medicines to re- This dastic step taken by the lieve troubles of the eyes. Council is a sequel to an alleged "assaul" on Teo Ban Hln. fourth year medical student, on the night of August 26, when he was sleeping in his cubicle. Medi-
cal evidence is said to show that Ten was roughly handled. marks of attempted strangulation being found on his neck, it is alleged.
It may be noted
that Lagard Hall. Built in 1913, is one of the three hasfels under the direct contrul of the University. closing will inconvenience a front number of students, as most of the ather hostels are full,
His stamp, with which he marked the remedies with his own name and their purpose, has just been turned out of the soil near London Bridge, at a depth
of 15ft, below the surface.
OF THE POOLS:
Monster Which Has the
Form of a Mat,
OF NOTTINGHAM.
hundred miles due north, It might have been the subject of your lecture,
I liked it well enough" is faint praise, and yet Nottingham might
An Uncouth Strangers Wanders Round Castle.
"APPEARANCE UNIMPRESSIVE.”
·re-.
placed second only to Kirrie- muir and Margaret - Ogilvy's stories of her youth as a forma tive force in the early literary career of the novelist. who, by the way, was never strong st pleasant old-world air that
There was about the Journal antes and periods of time, as he flected perfectly the antique at- Nottingham, going
was nourer two years than one in there in mosphere of the tow, itself.
January, 1883, and leaving in the late Autumn of 1884. His Tinker Bell was when he came to Nottingham. ringing her louriest
Had he been called to Birming ham, or Leeds, or Manchester, Tinker Bell would have been Nottingham was the place for heard but faintly. Old-world him at that time and the old Journal the best of all papers in England for him to write in- From "Barrie: the Story of a Genius," by J. A. Hammerton.
GUESTS OF REPULSE BAY
HOTEL.
While employed on excavation work near Kuala Kyong on the Tembeling River, Pahans, sonic of my locally recruited coolies told me of a curious mythical animal which is, or was, suppos-
up to the close of last century none of the large towns of Eng- ed to live in a deep pool in the land was so charming. In the Tembeling, named Lubok Remities it was in some ways an pah, situated nearly opposite the ideal pince for a literary man, site of our camp, the said camp resenting, as it did so many being some little way above Kam-student of character could not interesting phases of life, that a pong Padang and on the same fail to profit by a stay in it. side of the river, writes Ivor Neither a great city nor yet a Evans in the Journal of the sleepy town, it was something of F.M.S. Museums.
beth. The bustle of commerce was seen in its thronging streets end its many factories; yet it re thined much of the old-fahioned village life.
It is a little slab of greenish, slate-like stone, two inches square and three-eighths of an inch in thickness. On each of its four edges is an inscription of two lines, deeply engraved in re-
The Balun Bal for that is Itstrograde, in well-formed capital the name of the animal as given letters: Its recovery and identi- to me by the Pahang Malays, is fication is due to Mr. Quintin | mentioned in Clifford and Swet. Waddington, assistant curator oftenham's uncompleted Dictionary the Guidhall Museum. who nain of the Malay Language under tains a constant wetch on all City the name of Balong Bidai and they are followed by Wilkinson. excavations.
Caius made up his preparations. They give the following explanu as did other oculists of his day. tion of the term "The name of into little solid sticks not un- an evil spirit supposed to live in like shortened sticks of sealing-rivers and to have the form of ar. wax-and, before these dried, open mat which cuvelopes and impressed then with his stamp drowns its victims." the legend going right_round. For use, picces were broken off and beaten in a mortar into an The following notice was post-ointment with oil honey, or "ed up in Lugard Hall on Septem-witter.
Information from reliable sources indicates that the students are indignant over the decision of the Council · and certain · steps taken by the Vice-Chancellor in investigating the matter. It is probable that the undergraduates will lodge a strong protest to the highest authority. Le.. the Univers -sity Court, against the decision of
the Council.
Oficial Notice.
ber 5:
1. That the Council has learn ed with alarm, and Indignation of the cowardly, asanult perpetrated on the sight of August 26. 1931, by certain students of Lugard Hal upon Mr. Teo Ban Hin, a 4th year medical student, who was re- siding at Lugard Hall during the long, vacation.
2. The Council condemns in the strongest possible terma the dis- graceful and cowardly conduct of the studenta "who were responsible for the assault on Mr. Teo Ban Hin,
Each of the four faces of the
stamp served for a different medicament. Thus three of them, when translated, rond:--
eyes."
:
The name of the monster. how ever, as I obtained it in Pahang, is certainly Balun Ridat and I find that the word balun has a secondary meaning, of which I was previously unaware, to roll up, as a mat or cigarette."..
Four Mouths.
My Pahang Malays told me "Caius Silvius Tetricus's
that the Balun Bidai is rectangu- scented unguent for crapulalar like a mat, has a mouth at tion of the eyelids."
every corner, is scaly like a snake "Caius Silvius Tetricus's and is perang (ginger-coloured) lotion for inflammation of the in hue. It used to attack boats on the river by wrapping itself "Caius Silvius Tetricus's pre-round them. It lives in deep paration for removing weals pools in rivers and brings (of the eyeball)."
great masses of rubbish (sam-. On the fourth face the letters nah) "as big as a house." These imperfect bevond the name, are dry when they come to the surface. Nobody claimed to have at Lugar Halt on the night of and the reading is doubtful. August 28.
Been a Balun Bidal, but one man said that he had seen the great masses of rubbish brought up by Another informant, from the Bata Kurzu açighbourhood of Latit. Perak, calls this inythical
while he was asleep in his cubicle
3-That the Council has learned with great disappointment that no assistance, whatever was given to the Vice-Chancellor who conducted The inquiry into the maller by any
bl the students who were in Lugard
First Ognlist's Stamp,
This is the firs find in London of the stamp of a Retan oculist, though I recorded in The Daily Telegraph of November 12, 1929, the discovery at Moorgate of a little pot of red "Samiar" ware
one,
September 9, 1931. Dr. M. E. Asger.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Bakker, Mrs. M. Mrs. N. C. Barber. W. G. 'Bree.
Bird, Mrs. WA. Stratton Brown, Cook, Miss R. Cook.
Mr. W. G. Cameron, Miss J.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Drouth. Mr. D. D. Edgar, Mr. and Mrs.
gon.
Old Nottingham was really a congeries of large villages that had put their arms around each other's, necks and made a great thriving town. The new and the gaudy mingled with the old and the historic, the fude rustic lin gered beside the smart "city" man, the factory and the ware- house fought an unequal battlo with the orchard, and the garden. even to the very heart of the J. Edwards, Miss M. Edmond- town. Its Market Place' was one
Mr. A. H. Gordon, Mrs. Wm. M. of the largest in England and the Goose Fair held there for Gray, Mrs. L. H. Garlington, Miss generations was famed through-
B. Gordon. out the land like that of Beau- caire in France. There was some show of intellectual activity, al place was distinctly lower than though the moral tone of the
that of any town in which the Young man from Kirriemuir had sojourned. All is now changed: gone is the rue in urbe: grents: C. W. Langley and child, buildings with cinemas on their ground floors flaunt themselves big railway stations have taken where quaint old hostelries stood:
the places of small ones where infrequent trains used to pull leisurely in and out,
Hemsworth, Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Messrs. W. D. Harris, G. M. Hollyer and two children, Mrs, and Miss Heath, Miss S. Higgins.
Mr. P. Jester, Miss D. A. John-.
son.
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. D. Kirby. Mr. and Mrs. J. Landau, Mr. and
Mr. W. J. Manning.
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Parsons. Nr. R. R. Roxburgh, Mrs. M. 9. Roge.
Blessrs. P. Smart, J. L. Sharps,
afr. and Mrs. E. Stone, Mr. and. fra. E. H. Staber and family, Mr. and Mrs. P. Sykes, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Starling and children, Mrs. C. E. Sandstrom.
My cwn memories of Notting ham date ten years after Barrie's are still full of fragrance: the delicious scent of the haw J. Tully, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. W. Mr. H. J. Tebbutt, Mr. and Mrs. thorne in Maytime wafted downThomson and child, Mr. and Mrs. the leafy groves about the Forest G. B. S. Thomson, Mrs. E. J. with me as I write. There is no througliout the city streets is
Tebbutt.
Messrs. S. M.. West, A. Wheelor
Hall on the night in question. itself stamped with the words, snimal Gulont Bidai and says marked enthusiasm for Notting and children. There is evidence to show that in. "Lucius Julius Senlis's saffron that, when it has killed, a man by ham in anything that Barrie hos
formation was systematically with held from the investigating officers. The Council considers that this attitude of the members of the
hostel as a whole, in a case which
involves the fair name of the University, calls for severe con- demnation. It is therefore die- cided that Lugard Hall shall be elosed as a ball of residence for the
Autumn Session or until further
orders if necessary.
4. In conclusion, the Council authorise the Vice-Chancellor to take such further steps to trace and deal with those students who were directly concerned in the assault on Mr. Teo Ban in, as be may deem ·necessary for ex-. pedient.
(Signed) W. B. FINNIGAN
Registrar, University of
Hong Kong).
GRAF ZEPPELIN.
Returns Home from Pernambuco.
Friedrichshafen. Yesterday. The Graf Zeppelin has arrived here from Pernambuco-Reuter.
MORE SPENT ON GOLF THAN EDUCATION.
Speaking on the development of British schools and univer- Hitles, Mr. Frank Roscue, secre- tary of the Royal Society of Teacher, speaking to tenchers at- tending the Olty of London Vack- tion Course, said that even the most enlightened people disliked -spending money on education, l
"There are many nien I know fo-day he said, who are paying less to have their boys and girls taught this they re favingato; “play gultan Securday and Sun- day after icons. If these men would only pay, as much to have their children taught as they pay for the privilege of falling to put a little ball into in hole, the "standard of education would be
much higher, qui auro
wish our rich men would take the motion into their heads
thing to that it is i ver
their native town.
salve for roughness of the eyes or eyelids."
enwrapping and drowning him, it sucke all the blood out of his It is known from Latin litera-hody without leaving any wound. ture that eye trouble
war pre- It lives in deep holes and is like It has been attributed, probably the floating pulal tree (pulai ber valent in the Roman provinces.
a casting not. There is one at correctly, to the immoderate use layer) at. Redang Dahakim, near in Londinium, as elsewhere the 20th milestone Taiping-Batu Kurau Road. The Gulong Bidni of the popular hot-air baths.
said to sun itself on the wide- spread roots of the tree.
Mr. Waddington cannot give » date for this relic, but "Tetricus" Ens recalled to him the Emperor of that name, who in the trou bled period sometimes called that of "The Trinity Tyrante." ruled Waddington for puzzling out the and his are the very effectively over Gan and inscriptions, Britain from A.D. 267 to 2741. translations given above. Many If this Londer practitioner, or a good Latinist might break lis perhaps his father, adonted the teeth against the first in the Pame in compliment, to the ven- order given, which actually crated roer that would place reals:--- live about A.D. 300.
. CSILVITETRICIEVODES
ADASPRITVDINTS.
Much credit is due to Mr.
lod
RIDING IN THE CLOUDS
The pictures showr typiónk" trailrida, camp doesfording i vrteer,and thøsterling type of cowboy, who deti galde, filjad, and ..... coumotor có thai lại. sciples of theäiddles
werd be way hotels at thing renowned holiday places. Carefully planned ridos, of varying durations to adit JP, out and away from the cares albicotiers, experienced guides, Uw and limitations of modern life; cooks and borse wranglera; a pack sharing the of long days in the train always ahead to welcome the saddle in Lower-studded Alplanda riders at the evening meal, witho ¿and stately, panser. With a goodly the night's camp ali ready for "Cotaping of kiadridspiritus happy sure-footed as gosta.all
occupation;horses that ard an: (27) cowaniaya Yound the campfires and contribute to making cncrrentful, health-giving nights in the this formet holiday on p
Nottingham clergyman was lec- written. Thirty-two years ago a turing on the Thrums books and drew from their author this avowal:-
REMARKABLE WHIST.
Four Complete-Suits Dealt.
I thank you for your letter and wish you had a better saub. fect for your lecture. I don't know of any personal article about myself that is not ima ginary and largely erroneous. The same phenomenon occur- But there is really nothing to red at the United Berkeley Club, tell that would interest anyone. Knightsbridge, in July of 1928. Yes. I was in Nottingham for a "Slam" in The Daily Telegraph year, and liked it well, though described it as one chance in I was known to scarce anyone, 685,018,559,600, a combination If you ever met an uneonth which should occur only once in stranger wandering in the dark 44,098,164 years. around the custle, ten or twelve. A hand of thirteen trumps was years ago, his appearance an-reported from Bosworth, Mis- impressive, a book in each souri, in February, 1980, and oc- pocket, and his thoughts three ensioned a long and interesting correspondence in The Daily Telegraph.
A deal at a Reading whist drive resulted in each of four players having in his hand thir-! teen cards of the same wilt.
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And grant Canadian Pacific. Rall: This vow the ondal four-day rich by a 10-day rifle of reater inliler
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A common jury in the King's Bench Division awarded £910 damages to Gwendoline Lydia Williams, aged 11, suing by her father, Gilbert Williams, of Grove Vale, East Dulwich, in respect of the loss of her right arm through being. run over by a London, General Omnibus Com- pany's bus
Mr Justice Hawke entered judgment for plaintiff, with Costs, I
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