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New Haggis Theory Reference recently regarding the possible French or Irish origin of the haggis, has given rise to a theory which one can describe only as startling.
The native home of the haggis, according to the theory is the Ab- |ruzzi, and it was introduced to the
Picts by
the Roman legionarică from that district who served with Agricola in his Caledonian CRM- paiga.
If this is so, we must suppose that the Picts originsted the habit of drinking with the haggis a small
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933.
ENGLAND PLAYS A
"MUG'S
GAME"
IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
CANDID CRITICISM OF RECENT ADMINISTRATIONS
(By A. A. B.)
Surely Christmas Day 1982 mark-jthe ignoble rage of the democrat.
For Π
glass of neat whisky-which must, ed the peak triumph of mechanical Is he satisfied with his handiwerk
to-day? of course, bo a straight Highland (over theoretical science!
The question is particularly ad malt whisky. Perhaps it is this whole hour, between two and three dressed to the Americans, who are valuable addition which has made o'clock, the air crackied and re-the authors of the world's em- all the world regard haggis ns an sounded with hearty British voices barrassments and their own. They essentially Scottish dainty.
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sent their President to the Peace from every quarter of the globe, Conference as a plenipotentiary, shouting good cheer to one another, knowing that as a professor turned
Mr. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, who asking how the other was keeping politician his views on European conducting the all-important Christmas, and sending messages of politics were likely to be those of negotiations between General
is
a Harvard baseball player. When Sinute and Mr. Tielman Roos, is an greating to the King.
they saw what he had done, the outstanding personality in South
From the Atlantic, from the Paci- treaty with its joint guarantee of African politics.
fic, from Canada, South Africa, security to France and the Covenant He is 100 per cent. South Afri- Australia, the Mediterranean, the of the League of Nations, the can; a nephew of the great Onze
Senaté promptly repudiated his
friend of Cecil Rhodes.
crossing, now telling us the time, in its own juice. Scandalous as I
Jan, the first Boer Imperialiat and jolly cries kept crossing and re-signature and left Europe to atew
Yet England and Oxford have a now explaining how this or that hold such conduct to have been, if warm place in his heart. A gradu-Dominion grew the best fruits and the Americans had even stuck to ate of Balliol and an ex-Rhodes flowers. Talk of materialism! that policy, the dangers in which scholar, he took a first in Mods and What are the discoveries of all the Europe now wallows would have a first in Greats. Then, returning jologies and onomies that ever were, been less. home, he was appointed Principal of psychology biology, phrenology; Not understanding European of the University of Witwatersrand jastronomy, anatomy, geology, com- diplomacy, and being debarred by at the age of 25.
pared to this girdle that Marconi distance from learning it, the Five years later he became Ad- and others have literally put round United States conceived the un- ministrator of the Transvaal.
the earth?
happy idea of ruling Europe by its purse. All very well, perhaps, so. · long as the purse is full: but when By the time that I had sailed past it is empty? America pitched upon Malta, and through the Straits, England as the most convenient con-
Your Daily Smile.
OUGH!
A Perfect Mesange
"What do you do with old razor confess that I was emotionally ex-dult pipe, and lent her credits to blades?" asks a correspondent. I hausted, and perhaps slightly supply the wants of the Allies. hysterical when I hear "Silence After the. war America lent Ger- for his Majesty the King!" But many money continuously, secretly, on reading King George's Message publicly, and in large amounts. At
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It has been a common reflection of travellers returning to their own from foreign lands that the lan- guage they hear around them is unrefined in intonation and loose in shave with them. structure. Such travellers have been immune from similar coarse- Don't Take Any Notice. The Headmaster of the Cen-ness in the foreign countries because trying to signal to us. It is
An astronomer says that Mars is in cold print I declare it to be simp- this moment America has more ly perfect; ia thought, in phrase, in money invested in Germany than in tral British School, Mr. G. F. they do not know foreign languages bably just some one who wants to dignity, and in heart-reaching sim- all other foreign countries. Nightingale, stated in his report sufficiently well. Their sufferings borrow money for his income tax, highest order. King George should loans, partly in paying reparations plicity. It was eloquence of the. The Germans used the American on the over-crowded conditions give them a partial glimpse of what,
rest his fame as an orator on that. prevailing at the School, that alon reflection, they realise is a state
The Eyes Have It.
to France, partly in paying interest I renicmber when the President on loans, public and private, and crisis in the lack of accommoda-of affairs as shocking as it is wide-
Chapter 1 ..... Glad eye;
of the United States,, Roosevelt, partly in re-equipping herself indus Chapter 2
Green eye; tion appears to be inevitable in spread.. People everywhere take
Hoover, or another, was called upon trially. The consequence is that Chapter 9
Black eye;..
to deliver his Independence Day America cannot afford to let Ger- the near future. That crisis is gross liberties with their native)
·Chapter 4
Nioi.
Message, and these words were many down. But if America In ncar at hand and matters have tongues, and the Mayer of Santiago,
fashed round the world: FAIRY TALE.
"Asists on her War Debts, Germany been aggravated by the further for one, means that this shall stop,
a square meall" will suspend payments on both pub There was once a humorist who square deal and delay of one year before work on and that, whatever may be the con- said nothing about the safes.
Poor man,
lic and private debts, and openly While hatred is glooming across declare herself a defaulter. the new school will be commenc-dition of the rest of the world, one
Europe, the groundnotes of this. German Re-armament. ed. This delay has been imposed part of Chile at least all face the "Tame Heavy-weight Contest."
The old, hold story.
Empire jubilation were love and
The more ignorant purveyors of by the Government decision to sun clear of the taint of grum-
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claptrap in the American Press are convert the selected site for thematical impurity. Like many mayors
It is well to modify our admira-trying to make disarmament all FAIR'S FAIR
tion for the wisdom of our ances-fround a condition of revision School into a site for the new in many good works, he has had to
never. give secrets
tors by recalling the fact that all the cancellation of debts. But. France Mental Hospital. Little justifica-be egged on to this, and it is the away. They exchange them.
leading statesmen of the last cen-depends for half her revenue upon tion exists for this amazing local education department which;
tury wished that our colonies would the big armament firms. Financial- separate themselves change of policy, the principal first demanded that advertisers and
the ly the re-armament of Germany mother country, on which they reason given being "that it is publishers who split infinitives and
(Continued on Page 11.) would only be an incumbrance. essential for administrative and in other ways put grammatically in-
In June, 1870, Lord Clarendon other reasons that such Hospital correct notices before the public of 50,000 or more population, acor- wrote to Lord Lyons, then our Am- should be alongside the ordinary should be haled before the Courts. ly 80 per cent of its inhabitants bassador at Washington, "I agree in
Those whose announcements Government Hospital, in order to
every word you say about our pos- Bessions in North America, and wish already published, with all their tricts. ensure a greater economy."
that they would propose to be in- Practice in other countries does
errore, are to be given a month to
A pocket range finder has been dependent, and to annex themselves: make the necessary corrections. invented to enable n golf player to We can't throw them off, and it is not suggest that it is better to
After that the dock and the cells. estimate his distance to the hole very desirable we should part as The tram service was disorganis- have a Mental Asylum adjoining a hospital and, in any case, the
It is the young, whose eyes are at which he is aiming if its flag friends." (Newton's Life of Lord ed for about 15 minutes about 6.45 Lyons, Vol. I., p. 292). Bright un-p.m. yesterday, as the result of an sharpest and whose vialon reaches is visible. site, situated in locality
doubtedly looked forward to the electric light wire breaking and farthest, who read moffrom hoard- which is now undergoing de-ings, and grammatical howlers
Dublin, Cork, Limerick and 24 absorption of Canada by the United falling across the tram wires op- velopment and which is likely preached thus authoritatively in country towns in Ireland are now States; and even Disraeli, in a posite the Hong Kong and Shanghai to be congested within a few carly youth will very likely never being supplied with light and moment of irritation, exclaimed, Banking Corporation.
The darkness hindered the repair afterwards be eradicated, but will power from the River Channon "those wretched colonies!"
Lesson of Two Wars, years, is not altogether desirable. reappear in the last wil-and teata-hydro-electric plant.
work and rendered it a dangerous While the need for a new asylum ment and be left in the epitaph this
It needed the South African war Job, Each time the wire touched and the Great War to bring us to the live tram wirs it caused a fu our senses. It was with the experi-sion, with sparks dancing along the
Women
Facts You Did Not Know,
Switzerland has only seven cities
are living in small towns or rural dia-
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TRAM SERVICE
Last Night's Incident
In City.
is undoubted residents agree is directed to be carved upon the Cariridges of gunpowder arg tombstone. A whole life, in short, used to supply the power to a new with the decision of the Legisla-is made less beautiful than it might welding and riveting, gun that also ence of those two events, and not wires. Live Council last year that the be because advertisers in their can be used to drill holes in heavy new Central British School is one thirst for sales have despised letters steel plates...
of the three most pressing needs and the dignity of grammar. The
in the Colony, and it is to be de-Mayor of Santiago go so far as to
say that advertisements with gram-
or
Lord Balfour closed his introduction obstructing wire was cut off and with any prescient wisdom, that After a quarter of an hour the
to the 1927 edition of Bagehot's taken away, and the service re English Constitution with these sumed. words: "The Empire in its modern
Onitsauccess expert. So, too, writers can use the very novel one.
plored that the Government hasmatical errors do more than offend contracts or libel, but pays, the shape is a bold experiment and a
caused
News In Brief.
a postponement of the public taste, and actually proniote new legislation in Chile to frighten hangs the assurance of peace, hap- work which will eventually lead illiteracy, because people who are business men off the iden that they piness, and prosperity, over до The Prison Authorities have no- to the provision of a clean, roomy nauseated by a howler on a hoard- can judge about split infinitives and small portion of the world, and when tifled the Police that Attavia Brai- and healthy school.
ing will envy the village idiot who the view the jury will take, or that we reflect that without the Crown covich, a native of Trieste, is miss- room for improvement in other seeing a pretty arrangement of for themselves or save money bythave been tried, we cannot doubt since 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon,
There is grins happily at such howlers, only they can write their own praises the experiment could never evening from the House of Detention educational matters, but it is be-colours. From envy will come the themselves painfully composing ap that among the transformations yond dispute that the educational resolve to save the children, which peals to the public to at once buy which by insensible degrees have While cleaning a chimney at 4 facilities for British children in letting them out of dors or by not of their kind and warnings to in-moest venerable Institutions to the as cook, fell to the yard below and can only be done eliber by never their lovely goods which is the best converted our most ancient and Cameron Road, Chol Kam, employed the Colony is not only totally in- teaching them how to read. So dignantly refuse all substitutes and most modern uses, not the lost injured his knee. He was sent to adequate but is also such as to many powerful Interests in these insist to have the only real best. fortunate and successful Ins bean the Kowloon Hospital. constitute a reflection on the ad-days are vitally concerned to main For the business man who goes on the transformation of the British that a pomba mng ministration.
tain and Increase. the literacy of file that, there will be long months monarchy has lack of official
An exhibition of water colours, mankind that the Mayer must be with the prison schoolmaster, which The spectacle of the barmony and drawings, and sculpture from Ball, sympatry and understanding adjudged very astute to make this may enable him to earn his living as goodwill of our Eupra may well Java and China, held by two Ger- with this problem is apparent charge. Business men have been a copywriter when he eventually [cause the peacemakera of Versailles man prtiste, Mrs. Tina Halm and it is most unfortunate that reduced by the legal profession to a emerges, crestfallen and small, to to ask themselves how have they Wantscher and Mr. J. Wentscher, the regrettable conditions at the terror, so that the business man wiser competitors who never, in to suit the doctrine of self-deter Hotel, was opened yesterday by state of extreme- depondence and find his business all captured by improved the world by carving it up on the first floor of the Hong Kong DAVIE, BOAG & Co Ltd present School should be prolong-who was once a law student does their fiercest selling moments. Jat gemination? To abolish three am-Mes. W. T. Southern, wife of the
not presume boetenst himself on the dictionary and the grammar pires it as many montia gratifies Colonial Secretary.
ed for yet another year.