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Comparison of Great Writers.
pictured guff which the cocksure The atcereman of a trading junk THE ESSAY youngster controlling fourth pages was charged this morning before presents to his unadmiring publje | Constr. J. B. Newill, in the Marine to-duy, Unhappily both front Caurt, with leaving port without pages and sports pages.to-day are clearance from the Harbour Office. fust coming under the same cate- | In admitting the offence, the ac gory.
sused 'said that as it happened to be Sunday he was unable to get, a clearance. He was fined $15.
Personal Pars.
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Sea-Sickness Remedios.
New ons are constantly being proclaimed, and as constantly dis- credited by many who have beon
GRACE OF STYLE.
Every now and then somebody | expresses a cheerful opinion that there is a revival of interest in the eassy; but, so far as one can
induced to try them out. On the Mr. W. R. Mansfield, of the other hand, there are those who Union Insurance Co.; returned by swear by this, that or the other the ga. President Wilson after see, the essay has never fallen out remedy. It is, we suppoet, a case fortnight's holiday and business of one man's poison being another trip to Manilla. man's meat." Here is the latest
mal de mer.
of
favour since Addison and Steele made It popular by broaden- Ing its scope and deftly shorten- we have come across: it may Inter- The Governor of Macao paid a inx it to a familiar entertaining est those in the Colony who, when visit to the Chungshan District re-ten-minutes' gossip. Sume they go out to seu, fall victims to cently, being greatly impressed at Bacon's essays are short enough, the work executed- on the Model but they do not seek to be merry It is barley sugar, and has, village. Flix Excellency and as well as wise; Cowley's have a therefore, the adyantage of being party were the guests of Mr. cultured, leisured charm that. both simple and cheap. The clear Tang Shao-yi. Mr. Tang being makes' no particular appeal to the amber variety is said to be the district magistrate at Chungshamn in the street. but Steele "and most effective. But, 2. оле IA
Addison brought the essay home expected to suck at it continuously Mr. Ivan Marshall, the famous to every man by simplifying it throughout the voyage, the remedy tener, who has been retained by into a brief and easily readable appear to be worse than the "Alphonse" of the St. Francis article about his own affairs- malady.
Hotel, for an indefinite period, dealing with current problems, met with a tremendous reception} with fashions of the moment; on Saturday night and was ap-sketching a character, telling a plauded most enthusiastically.
a book. describ story, criticising ing, London scenes and events. chronicling excursions into the country,.. handling the grav- est or most trivial themes, so long and doing. It all, seriously or as they were of common interest.
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Castles in the Air.
An, enterprising London builder is said to be advertising a housing, estate by balloon,
леш The
balloon is constructed in the form of a house, and can be seen for
NEWS IN ADVTS.
The President Wilson sails miles around. It understood, for New York to-morrow at 2 pm
that he has done very good business
n direct result of his novel! advertising method.
An idea for
the Peak Tramway Company!
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Sunspots and Bad Tempers.
That there is a connection be tween sunspots and bad weather is to-day firmly believed. It has so often been asserted that It has come to be necefited as a. truth. | And truth it may yery well be. We Now a French by an opponent of municipalities don't dispute it.
scientist announces that there is in this Colony that newcomer also a connection between sunspots corresponding to the "sturdy mid- and bad behaviour. When the sun die class" in Great Britain, 'com-is troubled by spots, the argument plain that "their needs have been is, the human race is troubled by tempers; the crime-rate goes up and neglected by the Government" suicides become more frequent. and that "not a few social slights But, Is It not possible
race
that
extra
Draft programmes for the eighth humorousts, with a grace of style
and simplicity of dlecion .Happy niecting at
he- Valley on September 26 and for the pleased all sorts of readers
dause. a3 all good terature first, race meeting in Macao October 21 are now available..
should, it satisfied the require. ments of persons of taste without heing above the heads of average
RANGOON'S NEW HEALTH OFFICER.
Dr. J. Hormasjï's Career.
OK
men.
Addison's Tatler and Spectator, with nothing in each insuc but one of those. ten-minute essays, were to the breakfast tables of the oighteenth contury very much... what the newspapers have been on the breakfast tables and in the Dr. J. Hormasji, who win take railway trains of the centuries, over the duties of Health Officer of that followed.
The art of writing these short the Rangoon Corporation from Dr. Dalal when the latter retires in essays is not so easy as it may November was educated in Edin seem, and when they are rathered
As the dog days are still not at an end here, it is not surprising
He also qualified as a spe- years ago, to dismiss them alight- that last week's address on that "this section of
the com- the bad weather which the spots on cinlist in eye diseases and held ingly as "reprinted articles." Municipal Socialism
the If. It might be taken for granted, by Mrmunity is, thoroughly dissatis- the sun are said to bring about? posts as Clinical Assistant at
Opthalmic Hospital they were In August, 1914, the sun must have Royal London Bellamy and the Hou. Mr. Shen-fied." It might have been anti-been suffering from a severe attack (Moorfield) and at the Royal West newspapers in which they first ap- ns ephemeral as the
ton's complementary remarks cipated that such a shocking af spots and those spots must have minster Opthalmic Hospital. peared. So much good literature should form the basis of more state of affairs would have given remained in epidemic form for four Returning to Burma in 1903 he of this kind has arrived in books editorial comment than is usually rise to a plea for a Municipal sure that the sun has been able to ment, Government of Burma and press that nobody except the very yeare at least. We are not so joined the Civil Medical/Depart by way of the daily or weekly given to a Rotary Club talk. Od Council-bat, no! All that is rid itself of spots to-day.
are imposed on them." We are that such deplorable results are burgh, London and Dublin and took into n. volume it is no longer cus- asked to swallow the assertion but the immediate reaction from burgh.
not the direct result of the spots, his medical qualifications at Edin- tomary, as it was down to a few
cipal
88.
How
ま
News in Brief.
cnded
During the 48 hours yesterday one non-Chinese case of Chinese case of typhoid fever. diphtheria was notified, also one
received internal injuries and had defatigable efforts. to be removed to the Government Civil Hospital.‚'
composed body of an unknown Chinese hanging on a tree near the Talpo Road, opposite the Cheung Uk village.
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WEDDING."
Ceremony in Rosary Church.
PINNA GUTIERREZ.
Dr. Hormasji was recently elect ed as a Fellow of the Society of The wedding took place in the Health Officers of Great Britain, Rosary Church, Chatham Road.
being the only public Health Officer Kowloon, on Saturday afternoon, of the East to be so honoinen In of Maria Luiza Gutierrez, eldest addition, he is a member of many daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. learned societies.
Gutierrez, and Germano Augusto Dr. Hormasji counts twenty- de Pinna, eldest son of Mr. and three years' service in the Rangoon Mrs. S. Pinna. Corporation and his appointment to the responsible post of Health Officer has been welcomed by the Public.
AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER'S
The Very Rev. Fr. G. M. Spada, Rector of the Church, officiated, and appropriate music was render- ed by Mr. Dick d'Almada (organ- ist), and Mesars. F. Abraham and R. Gutierrez (violinists).
worked for three years, during superior, who are of no conse- a day or days when the parish sought is the giving of these new
which period he was posted as afquence. think any the worse of it pump handle is stiff or refuses to residents — "who
Civil Surgeon in various districte.now, for doing so. Particularly would be
Dr. Hormaaji entered the service as the periodien essayists of our respond to an effort to operate it, Mayors and Aldermen at Home"! and when even the Manchester "the consideration and the yesterday was 79.
The lowest open air temperature Assistant Health Oficer in
of the Rangoon Corporation as 'an day, include some of the most bril- 1908 liant of contemporary authors.. The humidity and was continuously in charge of most of whom are also poets, or Guardian
not available, share in public affairs which they at 10 am, was 78 and at 4 pm the Western division of the town. novelists, or biographers, or alt the localisation of a topic such as would enjoy at Home."
He acted Health Officer on eight three.--St. John Adcock, in "The Municipal Socialism must be that mighty purpose is to be
occasions to the great, satisfaction Glory That Was Grub Street." of the Corporation and four dif- trably welcomed by these in daty achieved under existing condi-
When the bound to fill the editorial column tions the Government and the
ferent Commissioners. Conservancy Department Was somehow. The discussion during public in general are not told.
separated from the Health Depart the week was kept well within The critic descends to the usual Whilst asleep in a cock-loft at 44 chosen to be its head and the clean ment recently. Dr. Hormasji was the limits of orthodox argument level of destructive and not con-accidentally fell to the ground. He state of the town is due to his in-
Tai Yuen Street, Liu Hing, (32). and reasoning, which may be re-structive criticism. All that has sponsible for the utter lack of been achieved is the filling of his response, for or against, by such requisite space on a day when old friends or bores of the type in spite of a certain section be- Wong Shun (44), a woman living of "Constant Reader," "Vox ing "thoroughly dissatisfied" at 220 Hollywood Road. was ad. Populi," "Fro
Bono Publico," burning local topics are conspicu-mitted to the Government Civil and so forth. The fact is-be ous by their absence.
Hospital yesterday after she had However, taken a dose of opium in an nt- the creation of £ Muni- that one object has been achieved tempt. It is alleged, to end her life.
Council desirable or for which, mayhap, we our- ] otherwise at the present stage selves ought really to be grateful been brought to the notice of the A case of apparent suicide has of the Colony's development as it has enabled us to perform a Police by the discovery of the de- the community is not in the least similar feat! interested and refuses to become Interested during a season like the present with its long con- tinued rains, heat, and humidity. Hence the absolute lack of public | opinion. If nobody cares,' what is
What New York did yesterday to be gained by flogging a dead Hong Kong need not do today, horse even for the sake of filling although there is apparent a cer space? To borrow an overwork- the Newspaper World says:
tain tendency that way. A writer in
An
Australian life which that century Following the ceremony, a "re- ed and ugly word, there is no old fashioned friend told me yester
has seen. The selection has been ception was held in the Club de urge for a Municipal Council or day that in his considered opinion The Troop of Boy Scouts attach admirably made. The development Recreto and was largely attended.. ommission. The pyschological the fourth page of to-day is noted to St. Andrew's Church, Kow of Sydney from a thy community Music was supplied by the Syred
to be compared with the fourth loon, propose holding an "At on the shore of an incomparable pators' Dance Orchestra. moment for the creation of a page of twenty years ago, either, Home" during the present month harbour to a world-famous city is movement in favour of such has la presentation or in quality of The function will be held in order graphically recounted in a Its not arrived yet and there are stuff He declared, and I agree to allow parents and friends to aspects social, political, aduca with him, that the Editors have view the Scouts at their work and tional, and artist. Whether the no signs of any agitation Obeen larracked into allowing a lot recreation. The date and pince files are plundered for records of clamour arising in the very near of high falutin display stuff which have not yet been fixed.
the settlers' first encounters with future. That may be deeply is made to look big because "tho
the aborigines, for contemporary To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%. Members of the local branch of news of the bushrangers, or for regretted by the advocates of printing is big. This jazz method
of presenting a story is killing the League of Nations' Society messages from the newly discovered The great gallantry of Capt. Municipalities, who, incidentally, Journalem," he said, and I agree will be pleased to learn that a goldfelds; whether they are used E.R.G.R. Evans, his fellow officers have ever so much more in their with him. Some of the finest small amount of literature relat to recall the issues that divided and men of the light cruiser. favour than what their opponents fourth-page stories ever written ing to the League is now avall Australian opinion in the wax, or "Carlisls" and the coop "Foxglove" were put into a plain column with able. Current and back numbers to convey in brief the factors that who. In China water last March, imagine.
no trimmings. Sidney Dark, new of "Headway," the official organ have led to the present economie rescued a large nurabar of survivors: In a stilted and disconnected the Editor of the Church Times, of the League, are on sale at the situation, the tale is graphically from the wrecked steamer "Hong effort to sustain public interest in has passed hundreds of stories Bible Book Depot in Wyndham told, with a sound sense of proper Moh" has been recognized by the into the quiet column which out Street or can be purchased from tion. A number of well-chosen Committes of Lloyd's, who have de- the topic, we are asked to believe shone much of the displayed and the Hon. Secretary."
Illustrations in colour and half cided to bestow six Lloyds medali tone greatly help the text.
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Mail Commentary.
High Falutin....
CENTENARY.
The bride was given away by her father and was attended by four bridesmaids, the Misses Solin The Sydney Morning Herald, and Myra A married woman
Gutierrez (sisters). named Chol founded in 1831. is the first Aus-
Leonar Xavier, and Christina Yuk-lam (22), of 17 Hollywood tralian núwspaper to reach its Road, was taken to the hospital by centenary. It has marked theter, Therese Gutierrez, was attir
Jorge. The bride's youngest sis- her husband yesterday in an un- event in a massive and handsomely ed as Cupid. conscious condition, after, it is produced volume of some 800 pages,
The best men were Messrs. alleged, she had attempted to com- which recounts from the files of the G. M. Gutierrez (bride's uncle) mit suicide by hanging herself: No paper the astonishing changes in and F. Sequeira. reason was given for her attempt.
Ten Years Ago,
[From the "China" Mall" of
September 14, 1921.3
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