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the genlus and daring with which all this, in his easy, gossipy. for a quarter of a century he had brotherly way, Felix adds, that the fought the city's firea.
Queen has a charming, soprano Then the Fire Director brighten-volce, that only needs a little cul- d the proceedings with a new tivation and practice to make hor idea, propounding a dilemma to fit to take a leading part in Elijah. the admiring orators. If his ser- This was no joke to Felix-ho
The Honorary Treasurer desires vices had been so useful why had only regretted that Victoria's off to acknowledge with thanks the they never paid him a fair price cial position was such that she receipt of the following dona-. for his services all these many could not spare enough time for tions:- years. Manchester Guardian.
A 56 Hours' Queue.
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Previously acknowledged: . $4,139.10 Albert did not appear upon the "Winkle" scene until Mendelssohn had ex- Hon. Dr. W. B. A. Moore. tended his call to an hour, and Dr. D; J. Valentine
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Doctor's. Laugh "
The queue habit outside theatres was. just ready to leave. Is developing to the pitch almost Prince Consort was too perfect a Dr. K H. Ulley of absurdity. Crowda began to gentleman, to obtrude when his Dr. P. Fohfly assemble outside Drury Lane wife was entertaining callers, but Dr. A. V. 'Greaves Thentre yesterday morning for to-now he apologised for not know-Major P. S. Stewart morrow night's premiere, which ing that the Meister had honoured A. McElney means that some people will have them-which we hope was a white J. A. Davis had, with Intervals, a wait of 50lie. But, anyway, Fellx consented Miss L. M. Siggins hours.
to remain and play a few bars of Admirable as is such keenness the oratorfo they had heard him on the theatre, the position is conduct the night before. Then Whon really preposterous. Even though Albert sang a little ... periods of rest and refreshment he went away, Albert and Victorin are snatched, those who have both walked with him down the spent more than a couple of days hall, and as be bade them good- in this fashion are not, I think, bye, Victoria spoke the kindly In a position to judge fairly or to "Auf Wiedersehn." Jenjoy any play..
An action brought against Dr. They are tired In her story of her life, Victoria montally and physically, and their has in spirit corroborated this ac- Ma Yung-yao, a well-known Chinese nerves are on edge; sometimes count of her meeting with Men physician, for a damage of $8,000,
She refers to him they are
as was heard in the criminal division verging on hysteria, delssohn. which accounts for many gallery her dear friend and the friend of of the first District Court, Shang- her husband, and pays, incidental-hai, by Judge Shen, says the China How so many people can affordly, a gentle tribute to his memory. Press of November 13. the time and the money for this Elbert Hubbard in "Little Jour Complainant was Mr. Woo Fab- sort of thing, and yet do not, orneys to the Homes of Great Musi-yue, employee of the Hung Fong cannot, buy reserved seats will al-eians." ways be for me an insoluble mys- tery-Londoner in the Evening Standard.
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THE STORY OF CINDERELLA.
tao, who stated that on October 21, at about 8 pm, he went to the office of the accused at 1787 Haining Road to invite the accused to call for treatment of a certain patient at his
The com-
Victory Complex.
As a seed is floated over land and shop. Scarcely had he entered the Even Reuter has caught the over sen, far from the place of its office than he was attacked by a election victory complex. A tele-origin, so the old tales of folklore fierce dog which bit him seriously gram recording Canadian opinion have wandered round the earth. on his legs and care. on the result is dated not "Vic-Like a rose may blossom, drifted off plainant also charged that the toria, British Colurphin," but "Vic- the tree, is the story of Cinderella, accused, looking out from inside torious, British Columbia."---A.H.Lthe oldest folk tale in the world yet the house, laughed and was highly in Pinang Gazette.
ever young, like the recurring
amused when he saw him being at- spring. Where does it come from? tacked by the dog, Where does the spring firat begin-- The Judge ruled that judgment
News in Brief.
can any say? On what cold land
actual and potential. Their trade with Britain is mainly comple- mentary, both in its amount (as export and import figures are more nearly balanced than is the
doca she first set her welcome feet? of the case will be rendered later, So Cinderella, in her trailing robes and in the meantime the accused case with foreign countries) and In a report to the Police, Yeung
of $50 'cash. in its nature, for (even with the Yun, a timber merchant, of the Leo of glory, flits across the scene and was ordered to be balled on a bond Yik Timberyard. Canton Road, disappears when the clock strikes natural development of a manu-
states that yesterday he entrusted midsummer. facturing policy in some of the a man with $200 to purchase empty Dominions) the overseas Empire ell drums from the A.P.C. as a whole sends Britain chief-man, he alleges, has absconded.
the foodstuffs and primary products that she needs and takes from her chiefly the manufactur-
ly
pends.
Personal Pars.
For she is a tale told in the The spring-time of the world. All win- ter she sits by the fire and tends it, the hearth-child, the maiden of the cindera. Is she a lovely myth, told
GRIM FIND.
Mutilated Body of a Chinese.
by the story-tellers, or was there' The discovery of the body of a once a Cinderella, long ago? It is male Chinese, with its lower limbs a story which has been told to every hacked off, on Nanyang Road, ed goods upon the production of Mr. A. E. Silkstone, manager of child, in every land beneath the Shanghai, at 7.15 o'clock on the which her prosperity largely de-Messra S. Moutrle & Co., Limited, sun, for ages without counting night of November 12, has set de- loft for Shanghai by the liner Et-There is no way of knowing how tectives of Bubbling Well police press of Asia.
it has come to be everywhere, nor station working on a case the like In addition to substantial tariff
what strange winds blew it from of which has seldom, if ever, come preferences in most Empire coun- Professor and Mrs. K. H. Digby shore to shore. The gypsies, the their way before, says the China trics, which preferences have and Miss Digby left for Shanghal world's wanderers, brought it, per Press. proved of inestimable value, the by the 8.8. Empress of Asia to-day.chance, or it was carried by slaves While walking his beat along
citizens of the Empire have by tradition and custom a natural desire for the goods of Great Bri- tain which renders sales-organ- isation and marketing much
MENDELSSOHN CALLS ON QUEEN VICTORIA.
His nature
To-day's Thought.
British trade, and there has been a plethora of pleas for Empire economic unity. The ideal, of course, is free trade within the whole Empire. Until the shib- boleths of the advocates of Pre- ference and of Protection are
across continents. There are al-Nanyang Road at a section between licard no more at Home and in
most as many varieties in its tell-Ferry and Seymour Roads, the Donfinions and Colonies,
ing as there are days to a year, yet Chinese constable came across two there is no hope of attaining such
its. coro always remains the same. large parcela. They looked too an ideal. The next best thing,
Sir Walter Scott used to say that, bulky to the policeman to have when he told a story, he could never been dropped on the pavement by therefore, is assuredly a much
Mendelssohn made five visits to resist "giving it a new hat and chance so he opened one of them more elastic form of preferential
England, where his success was stick." So Cinderella has had as and found the trunk of a male tariffs.
In a circular addressed easier in those countries.
One of the 'direct results of even greater than it was at home. many embellishments as the num-human being and in unwrapping
He learned to express himself well ber of countries she has passed the other package, the legs. to candidates at the recent Gen- eral Election, the British Em-the present depression is that in English, but always spoke with through, one adding this, another
Though the body was dressed in foreign countries have again and the precision and care that marks that. It is the cinder maid who coolie clothes,, detectives believe
So the turns into a princess that is most that the person aguin increased their tariffs, the educated foreigner.
was murdered, result was that he spoke really dear to us, but in some variations hacked and wrapped up and then until in many cases a virtual em-better "English" than the English. she is a princess already who has dumped on the Municipal thorough- producers associated in this bargo is placed on the entry of The case with which the Hebrew become a kitchen maid. Sometimes fare from an automobile. Working British goods. Where they have learns a language has been often she disgulpes herself as a shepher- on this clue, the police began their organisation have always acted
a cloak of fur. colonial or protectorate systems noted and commented upon. Men-dess or in
Her investigation by questioning vari- delssohn spoke German by prefer helper, too, is different in differing ous hire car garages but they have is that in all primary products
at a loss to lands, and the familiar fairy god-not yet made any arrests nor come capable of development in Great, for example, France and ence, but was not
America, ̈respectively their carry on conversation in French,mother, is an invention of Per-to a solution of the crime. Home producer Britain, the
colonies are included within the Italian, or English.
rault's, three hundred years ago. was especially cosmopolitan, and, in Sweden a white bear comes to madnen should have the first right in
almost impassable tariff wall. like the true aristocrat that he the rescue, in Italy a fish, in this market, but that the Em-1 pire producer should have the Naturally our Empire must coun-was, he was also a democrat, and Hungary a toad. Sometimes it is)
ter such a. tariff wall, and, more at home in any society.
a cat or a mouse, and in one ac-i
Some people are for you only When invited by the Queen to count it is an apple tree from over, ban wholesale dumping
call upon her at Buckingham whether by the Soviet, Germany, Palace, he went alone, in his the dresses of sun and moon and
whose beneficent boughs descend when you are with them.. Japan, or any other country not afternoon dress, and sent in his
Ten Years Ago. alone in Britain but right card as a gentleman does when he stars, to bewitch the Prince's eye: "Apple tree, beautiful apple tree, calla" upon a lady. Her Majesty
Despoll your branches now for of her "In fact it may be urged that throughout the Empire. If we greeted him at the door
cannot as a family of nations sitting-room, and dismissed the
mo; the prosperity of the primary give to each other free trade, we servants. They met as equals.
Make me a lady fair to seo, To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%. Dress me a splendidly as can! producers overseas, to which
'be." can at least ensure that the pre-In compliment to her guest Vic
Heavy squalls and choppy sea toria apoke only in German. The this country can contribute so
ferences we concede to our own Queen, seeing the music rack was "The glittering of her robes was interfered to some extent with the of the first championship greatly, will mean a correspond-
kith and kin are on a generous not in order, apologised, woman-like the curling of a stream in the success ing prosperity to the manufac-
scale.
like, for the appearanes of the sun," says the old Irish version; race for Racing Yatchs, sailed an turers of Great Britain through
room and began to dust things in and those shining garments, like Saturday afternoon, but there was the usual: housewifely fashion.. the lights of day and night, are the some good racing all the same. The the export of goods which the
Mendelssohn, with that fine same in every story, beautiful and course was Stonecutters Island (S); A strong north- oversens producers will then be
grace that never forsook him, as unchanging. And in every place it distance 9 miles.
wind · · blew... anything able to purchase from them.”.
sisted her in putting things to is always and always the lost slip-easterly
to 20 miles per hour, rights, and when the piano was per that finds her, the little shoo, up It is emphasised that the
What the Fireman Sald.
opened, he proceeded to carry out for the tiny tool; "that no one else and the men at the tiller uction which Britain may take
Testimonial ere always an an- two pot parrots, laughingly ex- can wear, try they ever so hard: had hard work to keep the in redressing her trade balxious business. But I never be plaining that if they were to have It is a goldon shoe, a silver shoe, rigging intact. Not all of them ance is vital to the interests of fore heard of such dreadful con- music, it was well to insure a "pantoufle en vair" or verre, if succeeded, the Diana having a stay the Empire overseas, Apart sequences as have just exploded against competition. He sat down you please,, and once, in some un-carried away: The Bonito's main
and the upon Frankfort.
at the piano and played, without poetical and rainy land, galoshes! sall was badlyftorn from
of considerations
The chief of the fire brigade being asked, and sang a little But, to the lovers of (Cinderella, it Dorothy's mast went overboard. sentiment the economic advan was due to retire,,The fathers of song in English in graceful but must ever be the glass slipper In the handicap class the Diana tages of Empire trade to Great the city, prepared to celebrate the unobtrusive compliment to the that is the genuine one, that, being had to retire for the reason men- event with oratory and a piece of hostess. Then the Queen sang in found and fitted, brings her to the toned above, while the Dorothea Britain are very clear: The coun silver. Fire Director Schenker German, he playing the accom Frince, and leaves her "happy ever lost several minutes through getting tles of the Empire are incompar-was led to the chair of state, and paniment. And in his letter to after in the country of an ever mixed up with one of the vessels moored at the Western "Anchorage. ably Britain's best market, both many speeches explained to him his sister Fanny, telling her. Tasting spring.
next préference over the foreign- er, to which preferenco, his economic value as a purchaser from Great Britain gives, him e just claim.
nny
From Other Pens.
[From the "Chiua Mall" of November 20, 1921.)
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