QUEEN'S COLLEGE
GOVERNOR DISTRIBUTES
PRIZES
EXAMINATION SYSTEM UPHELD HIS Excellency the Governor, Sir Andrew Caldecott, G.M.G., C.BE, presented the prizes at the annual prize-giving ceremony held at Queen's College this morning, a large gathering of friends and relations of the students being present.
Pointed reference was made in the Headmaster's speech to the declaration of the last Governor, Sir William Peel, that he hoped the Government would find it possible to provide a new Queen's College in the not too distant future.
of
́ ́THE CHIRA' MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1936
former
A training school in public ad- In asking His Excellency to to you a hearty welcome.
'ministration will be set up at distribute the prizes the Head- "I regret I cannot welcome you
Harvard with $2,000,000 donated br to more congenial surroundings: master said:
Laciun...N. Littaner, of Gloversvile. New York, a retire "May I first of all, sir, express we are all very proud of this
ed manufacturer building
and our great appreciation the stately and historic
Republican Congressman. honour you have conferred upon (once destined, I understand, to us by your presence here so soon be the Supreme Court) and parti- after your arrival in the Colony?cularly of this magnificent hall. On behalf of the school I extend Admittedly, the neighbourhood is salubrious than somewhat more
GRAVE-YARD CHARMS
New Fad For Paris Women
Today's Short Story
HIDEAWAY
By Stewart Robertson
ANY a time in after years,cottage on Meeting-street laid itx Mame in to him fail to hearts upon him, when
self that the Chief was the one duty, conservatism and habit gIEW to blame, but with his new and a bit frayed around the edges, he miraculously enlarged viewpoint would get out an atlas, tampa he could never bring himself to pipeful of tobacco, and dream- hold it against him. At any "Anywhere," he would say posi rate, it was not the legacy.tively, anywhere at all-Sura- The news of the windfall had baya, Mozambique. La Paz-what arrived at breakfast time, and places for a hideaway to forget had been carefully discussed by about the world. And some day the frugal Mrs. Bywater, the
Jupshot being that her husband Just now the continued office- had left for the office lacking ward through the crisp New Bag- the elastic quality of step suit-land autum, dragging. himself able to a man who has just with Guadaloupe, Mandalay and æquired five thousand easy dol- Capetown until he reached the great lars.
insurance office at" which he was "I know perfectly well,"
Mrs. a deskbound executive in the loss Bywater had said, bridling, "that department. For an hour he bent you would like to use it as an ex- keenly over claims and settlements. cuse to go gallivanting all over the and then came the summons which
AUSTRIA'S NEW, and in a way I wish you placed responsibility squarely
POLICY
Co-operation In The Danubian Basin
CLOSER RELATIONS WITH. LITTLE ENTENTE
could, but five thousand isn't the Chief fortune and we must think of a rainy day."
Being a householder and a men
of the completest common
Mr. Bywater bad agreed.
sease Whet
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The First Point To Point," by Grosvenor Reeves.
for twenty years you have thrown loan. sops to the building and kept sundry policies in force, and otherwise carried on a programme of consistent canniness, with the "Bywater," said that worthy, "I occasional - exception of putting wish you'd break a rule and run
dollars two
so-called over to see the Selby people h
it was a few years ago, but even so you will readily perceive, sir, that we are not ideally situated, nor is the building suited to the requirements of a modern school. We still stand within 50-yards of our original foundation in 1862. It gave us great satisfaction. JEWELLER'S INGENUITY
therefore, when your predecessor, Sir William Peel, announced pub-i Paris-Grave-yard charms liely, shortly before his depart- are being eagerly bought by ure, that he hoped Government,
The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. thoroughbred to come in third, explain how the adjusters arrived They seem smart women in Paris.
would find it possible to provide Schuschnigg, arrived here yester-Jou have no argument to the con- at their loss figures. These include:-
So he went on one of those little streets next
CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Prague, To-day-
wo
wifely examination.
amos
Ja new Queen's College in the no-day afternoon for a visit which trary which will stand up under to be in a fog about it. They're } Tiny silver coins lined with too distant future.
it is widely believed, will mark downtown without any particular the waterfront--Divisadero, I white satin,
"I will not trouble you with the the beginning of a new orientation resentment, and to make the jour think it is” Miniature guillotines made!
usual school statistics, which arrin Austrian foreign policy to-
Divisadero! Mr. Eywater reach- ney bearable gave himself up to of platinum, gibbets, and Charms showing the Devil much the same from year to year. wards closer co-operation with the the least expensive and most com- ed it, cradled in a network of
Mortable of vices.
others bearing prosaic, clipped jumping out of a box.. There seems no limit to the (round about 600), although there The Czech papers wax almost
For Mr. Bywater was enthralled Yankee names, and resolatily shut invention of jewellers or to the has been evidence the last year lyrical in welcoming the Austrian by the magic of names. When his mind to its lifting sound until
in the statesman, the semi-official Pragererer life at his cosy, well-run he number of charms and bracelets or two of a falling off
by their customers in number of applicants to our low- Press saying that "the forthcom- This year, ing discussions are bound to con- order not to be outdone by other est class. Class 8.
Wor
Women
Something Newer
Our numbers have kept steady Little Entente
1935-36. we have had a record firm the conviction of the good FRENCH CONSUL forgotten there was such a street
number of entries, to the Senioriprovided Czechoslovakia with Aus- Some wear four or five brace-School; Class 3, from the various tria as a zeighbour, for which it lets-ali clinking with several Government District Schools..
charms on their wrists- Every day the cry is for some- thing newer.
life"
KILLED IN MINE
School Certificate
is, absolutely necessary to come to a complete understanding this neighbour..
with"
"In the School Certificate Exam-
"The Czech Government," so the
GENERAL
Arrival Of China Veteran
ination which was held for the paper continues, "is willing to
sets his
Mr.
had attended to "business.” Then he sauntered into the am- shine, dreaming. He had quite
as Divisadero; hadn't seen it since: he was a boy, and now it sang to him of kohl-rimmed eyes and soft. ¡Andalusian winds, and the swirl of a silken shawl. He was happy. and so he strayed to the left, Other charms, în vogue
which brought him inte dockland are first time last June in place of the examine all suggestions which my M. G. A. Leurquin, accompanied Take a man from the well-printed scissors cutting the "ribbon of Hong Kong University Matricula-be made and for its own part to by Mme. Leurquin, arrived here path on which custom
(made of enamel), 3 dancer, a frog climbing a ladderition Examination, 29 passed out make suggestions for regulating to-day by the RM. S. Empress feet, and the turning of a corner and a policeman's baton in gold cent, against an average of 36 per Basin.
of 64, nine with Honours per the conditions in the Danubian of Canada to take charge of the may reveal enchantment Same-
Czechoslovakia adheres to French Consulate and relieve Mthing like that happened to and ivory.--Reuter.
cent. for the Colony (Boys) the principle of the equality of C. Renner, Vice-Consul, who has Bywater after half an hour's wan- Shun Eung gained six Distincall nations. She wil however been acting Consul since M. Soudering before a backdrop of masts, tions out of a possible nine, one oppose say political adventures as lange Teissier left some months rigging and gandily striped being the only Distinction given well as any attempt to put back ago.
smokestacks, but the details of his Patrick Hines was idled, and in Chinese. He was awarded a directly or indirectly, the wheel of The new Consal was accom-remarkable behaviour are not im George Naylor seriously injured Government Education Scholar-tate to an order of things which panied by his wife and two portant. What he said to the mas in the Bradford Colliery, Man- ship to the University of Hong has had its day in the Danubian children. Born in 1585, M. Leurter of the tramp Flora McKay, of chester, when part of the roof fell Kong.
Basin."
quia had his first experience in Dundee, for Barranquilla, Fer- and briried them recently.
(Continued on Pozo 10) This obviously is meant to throw China when attached to the Lambreo and points south, and
cold water on the aspirations of gation at Peiping in 1909.
what the master said to him, is Austrian
mozarchist circles, of He then went to Cheasta (1909 nobody's concern but their own. which Vice-Chancellor Prince von 16), Makden (1918-20); Peiping Before leaving he wrote. two! Starhemberg is one of the leading | (1920-21). Chengtu, (1921-22); letters. One to his wife, whom hel
Shanghai (1922), Heibow (1922-affectionately advised to (24), Canton (1925-26), Hofhow legacy for running expenses until (1927-30), Swatow (1930-33), and his return; the other to the Chief, stating that he was in urgent M. Leurquin holds the follow-need of a rest and was hereby ing French decorations; Chevalier
Fis back was stub. taking it of the Legion of Honour; Officer bornly to the shore as the Fiora d'Academie; Medal of Honour of McKay stood out to sea in s French Foreign Affairs..
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
lights-Trans-Ocean Service.
HALS. Medway and five sub-}| Among the passengers by the marines are due in the Colony RMS. Empress of Canada who this afternoon from Singapore. disembarked here this morning
ENGLISH GIVING were Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Cooper,
UP TEA Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Ott, Mr. C. B. Yan Luk-wah, student, late of Robertson. Mr. P. Shaw, Mr. Po Kut, Kwangtung, who died and Mrs. R. M. Pidgeon, Mr. G. More Coffee Parties the age of 23 years on August T. Bridgman, Mr. and Mrs. C. L.f
Now Held 18, 1935. left local estate to the McWhorter," Mr. M. Shorter, Mr. value of $2,500. Probate of the A. Cheapparo, Mr. F. Marshall,
Cleveland-Famous for their Will has been granted to Las Mr. and Mrs. V. G. Fremr, M7 Leung-shi, widow.
P. T. W. Remnant, Mr. and Mrs. fondness for tea, the English 14. Cameron and Mr. J. Conrad. are now giving it up and tak ing to coffee instead, Miss Beth Among the passengers dix-
Atwater, an American diet ex- Young Yin, late of Tai Au, nert, told a meeting of the embarking yesterday from the s.s. President Jefferson were Mr. L Kwangtung, who died intestate American Dietetic Association. Courville, Mr. R. J. Crowe, Mr.on December 12, 1935, left-local
"Of course, they still have Stanley Crum, Mr. Claude D. estate to the value of $2,700, for tea for breakfast," she said: Gardner, Mr. F. W. Kendall, Mr. which Letters of Administration "But they have coffee later în and Mrs. TF Melntyre, Mr Ghare heen granted to Young Shia-the morning." H. Newman, Mrs. Julia. Wagner lam and Mr. and Mrs. James Walker.
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FALSE TEETH SMUGGLED
Customs Officers:
Watching
which
„3A, Wyndham Street.
HILL GIVEN TO NATION
rises
Engines For Chinese thinking, and faced each day with fen zogsz zsertiveness. Precisely, Railway
Mr. Bywater conseratusted "ame?"
· Lady Rhondda's Gift self, as he had imagined from the:
For Jubilee 200-TON LOCOMOTIVES
depths of his wing chair Life- was a quiet, rhythmic flow. Bxx>]
Paris False teeth
London Sugar Loaf Hill, London A new burst of ranquilla came floating towards prosperity has come to the en-him as though out of the vast in-were fitted in Belgium and won beauty spot near Abergavenny "Coffee parties in the evening gineering industry in the North ponderable distances of a dream by three persons who crossed are becoming more numerous in lof England partly stimulated by and he went forward to meet it the border to their homes in Monmouthshire, which Yeung Lam-kie, late of Kn Tin. England. The English fuss big Indian and Chinese orders with the awe of a worshipper. France, have caused them to bei
the French steeply to a height of nearly The Hon. Sir Henry Edward Kwangtung, who died on June 22-bout their coffee as much as The Vulcan Foundry at New- Barranquilla, the first of many summoned by Pullock, KL, K. C., whose term of 1935, left local estate to the value we do." Reuter
ton-le-Willows, Lancashire, is mistresses, lay utterly tranquil in authorities. The three persons 2,000 feet, has been given to office as the representative of the of $4,900. for which Letters of
working at full pressure on an the topaz glow of early morning unthinkingly broke the custom's Justices of the Peace upon the Administration have been grant-
order for 24 huge steam loco-Long and low against the water, law by visiting a Belgian-den- the nation by Viscountess Legislative Council expired yes-ed to Leung Shi; widow.
motives for the Canton-Hankow the town seemed bathed in pastel tist and then returning with Rhondda and the Dowager Vis-
in Railway. Each will weigh 200 loveliness, a place where rest "dutiable goods" their countess Rhondda as a Silver terday, has been renominated to
tons, and will be 100 feet long meant not a sprawl, but dignity. mouths
(Jubilee memorial gift: The Stamp Rarity Sold
Customs They are the biggest ever made Not great, not majestic, but enough
officers UD the total acreage is 2,130." This is In London
at Newton-le-Willows,
that it was Barranquila, a word Franco-Belgian -- frontier are the second largest gift of land Bach engine has 10 wheels, to be repeated softly, one that accustomed to tobacco, - meat, made to the National
Trust London The letter T has the eight driving wheels being should be set to music. This upal shoes, fars and even bre
The Sugar Loaf is well- Members and friends who have natrons attending the Dinner proved worth $100 at Harmers, six feet in diameter and the incredibly was the Carib being smuggled, particularly bought tickets for the first an-Dances, in addition to the ordin London's famous stamp auc- bogeys little less A mechani-bean; that twisting russet ribbas since the fall of the Belgian known in Wales and Monmouth- niversary dinner dance of the y fixe-table, as follows: tioneers. D
cal stooker is being fitted to was the Magdalena, born in the exchange, and now they are shire. It is at the south end *RET|HK.H-. 8.00 pm, 250 pm, 9.00 Hong Kong English Forum
Because a French Levent each locomotive-
Cordilleras Place names!" Mr. closely watching people's teeth of the Black Mountains and advised to book their tables at the BEE 100 2. 1.15 am, one pastre stamp of 1885 was At Cheadle Heath near Man Bywater went ashore-end be it seems. They visited an old commands an monterrupted
ul view in all directions:- 130
printed as "1885," it has fetch chester, Messrs Simon Carves never went back to the Flora Mejlady at a village near Bai ed £100 when auctioned there have received a contract for Kay. He stayed a month, then and to her astonishment inter- It is an folated region, her false approached only by tracks The place of ME FB. Jones, The RMS. Exapreas of Japan Only three copies are known to $100,000 worth of boiler plant drifted on learning what a ten- rogated her about
for the big extension to the dollar bill and a willingness to help teeth
he-National
ider. manager of Beuters Limited, Sto-Teff Shanghai for Kobe and Tok exist
the gift of pazi
alna in gapore, who is going on leave for "ama to-day, and sails from the During the day's sale a total Cawnpore Power station. The at checking, cargo would accom-Two other ter months soon, is being taken last-named port on Thursday next of $4,500 was paid for fre
that there are few trust pro- by Mr. JE Henry from Hong for Eononia, Victoria and Van French Colonial stan
perties in the neighbo
A
this office, or the proposition of A dinner dance will be held at the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow, no-the Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow, conded by the Hon. Sir William and a tea dance on Sunday.
special extra bus service has been arranged for the convenience of
Shenton.
Hong Kong Hotel
Kong:
conver
Reuter
"
Cawnpore Electric Supply Com-plish with friendly skippers who bany have placed the order.
needed someone to talk to
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