THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARI -18, 10
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES ROMANCE OF
Gazetiz”, notification, states
TOP HAT AT THE C. M. Brytank, Acting Consul General for the Nether lands it Hong Kong, restaned charge of the Netherlands Con-
ALHAMBRA
Hong Kong Residents Can Book At Gloucester
salate General on January 10.
Latest transfers in the Hong Kong Police Force include those
STEAM
Bicentenary Of James Watt
SPECIAL BROADCAST BY B.B.C. ARRANGED
chay's Short
The First Point By Grosvenor
To Point
Reeves
ELDON opened his eyes ride well to hounds. John had
Wis visible world, a mass usten him up on that, offered hims
of rotating dark grey with a his second string, Messmate," to The James Watt bicentenary light grey patch, slowed down ride in the open race at Odding Due to the exclusive Kowloon of Sergeant D, Clark from Central showings of the latest Astaire-to Sheung Shui, rice Sergeant W. will be fittingly observed in the and stopped. It was his bed- to next Saturday, and bet him a two room at Oxford, a high cold cup-la fiver he wouldn't finish, and fif- five he wouldn't Rogers picture Top Hat" at Groves from Sheung Shui to BBC programmes by the Alhambra Theatre and the Shaukiwan, rice Sergeant W. G. special broadcasts: a relay of a board of a room with a shit of teen pounds
a Gothic window.
be placed. He was to have zidžen this that
sensational Scots from Shaukiwan to Central, religious service from the Town fact
Weldon smiled complacently, s gallop out at Bicester this attraction will not be screened prior to proceeding on Home leave Hall, Greenock, at which the
Rev. Charles 1 Warr, D.D., of the smile of one to whom hang-morning.
Weldon became deaf to the in any other theatre for some
A Retreat will be held at the St. Giles Cathedral, will deliver overs had ceased to be a novelty, time, arrangements have been
at an address, and a special fea-but who is not old enough to find sound of John's voice and the made with the Gloucester Hotel Tao Fong Shan monastery whereby Hong Kong residents Shatin, next Saturday, afternoon ture arranged by Alastair Dun-them a burden. He searched his noise made by Harald Larkin sat- will have the convenience and from 2.15 p. when Rex F. Short nett, a Glasgow journalist, and muddied brain for a recollection ing sausages. It was all vers patent safeties inherited} facility of booking their seats has kindy promised to speak. The John Gough. The programme of the previous evening. Five well to hunt, as he did, on two: all intent on from his father But a point-to-] at the hotel reception counter new guest house will be opened will be so designed as to indi- had died at the Ballingdon old
Tea will be provided through the cate the romante of steam from rooms; five men in Gloucester Arcade.
The picture is being released kind hospitality of Mrs. Beichelt Watt's discoveries to the latest working after doner. Curiously point, and an open race at that, miracles of achievement by enough all five had gone to a with proably 20 starters! Weldon steam on land and sea. during the Chinese New Year and Mrs Thelle.
cinema. Ten o'clock was the felt sick. holidays.
UNPARALLELED FEAT dacing an original Christmas play,
BY DRAKE
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MONDAY'S STORY
Monday's story will be *The
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of buses, similar cars, and flash
speed cars (the latter down from London for the days). Weldon addled with the gear-lever and,
continued to feel sick.
He had ridden Messmate in a
___Tunes? - Thanks a Million” is just popping with them, and Dick Powell leads the star-studd..... ed cast in 20th Century's latest musical comedy, which opens at the King's Theatre next Friday.
AUSTRALIA DAY
Special Broadcast By Mr. S. M. Bruce
VESTMENT FOR QUEEN MARY
Of Disabled
FITTINGS FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL
London-A group of disabled ex-Servicemen have been.com. missioned to make all the vest- {ments for the Roman Catholic chapel in the new liner, Queen
Mary
This announcement was made here by Mr. Ernest Thesiger, the actor whose hobby is petit- point (embroidery) work, when speaking at the 80th annal meeting of the Friends of the Poor.
آمد
The ex-servicemen sre em- ployed by the Disabled Soldiers' Embroidery Industry, which is a branch of the Friends of the Poor.
Mr. Thesiger announced that these ex-servicemen had also been given the order for the Haig banner for the Ypres Memorial Chapel.
Valuable Work
Princess Marie Louise, Presd- dent of the Friends of the Poor, who presided, spoke of the value of the Society's work in
helping to bridge the gap be- tween the poor and those who
The scenes represented will right time for work But at tes "All right, John," he said. Miss Hermione Beauclerk is pro-
probably include Watt working o'clock they had gone to JohnDouble the side bets? And lay Glasgow University Portlaw's rooms for a last drink me 25 to 1 against my. winning.* written for, and acted by children
workshop about 1762 This is And at three o'clock, after con- Five days later Weldon was on Thursday, January 30
approximately the date when versation that ranged from hunt sitting in his old car in the lane Saturday, February 1,
he completed his famous pipeling to Beverley Nichols and back that leads up to Oddington Farm. Helena May Institute.
organ, which, it is hoped, may again, they had gone to bed. The car was stationary in a queue
Weldon tumed over again and "Are we Civilised?" was the be heard during the
Sramine. was to lessen the severity of com-title of the lecture given on
Mechanical Side petition and the fear that every Thursday evening by Mr. K. B.
Watt was only interested in club feels whenever there is Vaidya at the public meeting of threat that they may lose their the Manuk Lodge of the Theoso- the mechanical side of organs phical Society, the President of and was not in the least in- place.
of
gallop two days before; a great As Australia Day this year wished to help them, but who "It is this." he said, "which is the Lodge. Mr. J. P. Way, being terested in the romance
music. He said: "I see no choir
raw-boned Roman-nosed chestnut falls on a Sunday it will be were lacking in the necessary the real trouble and which causes
in the chair.
of angels. I see an instrument,
who, even with a curb, put his
observed in the BBC. Empire knowledge and experience. She head down and went like a train. clubs to pour out their money on
programmes on Monday, Jana described the sufferings of many elderly gentlepeople who, Miss Vera Volkova, the talented a thing of angles and sides,
Weldon had ridden him in a mile players. We are all frightened of
ary-27. levers, joints, valves, strains, relegation to a lower grade of principal of the Volkova School of and stresses. I build according
gallop. He had gone a mile and The principal event of the through no fault of their own, football and will do anything: Dancing, is leaving for England
to the laws of science. You
It was eleven when he tottered a quarter before he pulled up To-day will be the broadcast of a found themselves with barely avoid it
on Friday next by the Norddeuts-
may talk about the heavenly out into his sitting-room. The day Messmate would have only a special message by the Right enough to live upon
It wring the heart to think "Extend the system to four ap cher Lloyd steamer
tones of flutes. For my part, are burned brightly, and breakfast light racing state. Well Mess- Hon. Stanley M. Bruce, CEL the tension Professor Goncharoff will be in I measure with this foot rule was in front of it still warm. Oh, mate never refused, anyway. At MC, High Commissioner in of the suffering among many of would at once be relieved. A First charge of the school in
London for the Commonwealth these old gentlefolk. It was an ber and with this caliper and I draw Lord. Ee ought to see his tutor least, so they said. Division club who lost their place absence.
Mr. Bruce may important part of the society's these things upon this squared at twelve with an essay on the part Ta-To-Ra-To-Ra He looked be of Australia. would feel that they had a good
played by Boniface VILL in the hand him. As he thought. That be in Geneva at the time, in work to help them. opportunity to regain it if there
E. L The technical achievements
League of value of the Society in the way were four chances open to themwynne Jones at the Kowloon Mag of Watt, of course, do not read evolution of the Papacy. What a flamboyant horn could belong only his capacity as President of the] - Lord Sankey emphasised the
subject The only fact about to Nick and Tong Guevara's Council of the They would know, too, that unless stracy yesterday for speedingly lend themselves to broadcast Boniface vill one need know was aluminium car. There they were, Nations. If so, he will broad-in which it co-operated with the they could fill one of these they through the controlled area from ing, but an attempt will be that he rode backwards on an ass wo brothers nicknamed the cast his message from a studio public bodies in getting assis- Itance. Now that the State were not worthy of promotion.”
Jordan Road to Gascoigne Road made to indicate the difference to Anagni. That was history. A Chilean Cavalry," who in Nathan Boad at a speed between which Watt has made to the
Two eminent - Australian offered so much, it was most series of catchwords. Henry neither fear nor the rudiments off 28 and 23 mph. at 11:55 am a world in the last 200 years. Quatre said "Paris is worth a horsemanship. Each bad a dazz artists in London, Arthur Ben- necessary, he said, for some December 26 last, Mr. E. Like most great men Watt was mass Palmerston always sent a ling blonde beside him Weldon jamin and Evelyn Scotney, will "friend" to see, that people in pro-need knew what they could get Ee Dixon, of No. 278 Prince Edward
a man of rare modesty; he was gunboat. James the First was the rather wished he had a dazzling also contribute to the re-Road, the driver of private car continually under the tempta-wisest fool in Christendom
(Continued on F. 10) No. 2003, was fined $10. Trafiction of under-estimating his Sergeant J. Scrim was the cozzabilities and achievements. plainset
and four down and
.. + This, as Mr. Jobey views for situation. is the CATE grotesque fees of to-day. would also introduce another form
the
the
"Stop Bons System" "Stop the bonus system," he "It has always been bar, and it has never operated in the way that was intended.
BRYN.
Stuttgart
Summoned before Mr.
place I would increase the wages with
paper."
Early Days James Watt was born in
He sat dow at his desk and wrote a note to his tutor. This was easily done. He wrote the same note six times a year. It ex-
The Hong Kong English Forum Greenock on January 19, 1736-plained how sorry he was to cat In its celebrated their first anniversary Like many mer who subse-his tutorial, but he had had a bad & most sucessful dinner quently achieved fame he was fall hunting and was suffering of the players to £10 a week, and dance held at the Hong Kong Hotel an indifferent scholar and was from slight concussion It was a then you would get rid of that Roof Garden last night There considered by his school mates good note: it always worked. If nastiness which sometimes enters was a large attendance, and an to be a dull, uninspiring fellow he had said that he had been hit enjoyable time was spent by all. This was probably due to his over the head with a hockey stick Dancing was continued until 1 feeble health; but there was it would not have worked.
into the game.
•
"What is the position to-day? am to music supplied by the one exception in his list of de- Just as he finished it Job
If one or two men on the side do Revellers Band. not play with the winning of the bonus always in mind they
soon told about it by their leagues.
*
*
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fects as a scholar-even at an Portlaw and Harold Larkin burst early age he showed a high in, boisterous in jodhpurs and The annual ball of the Taikoo aptitude for mathematics and high-necked sweaters. col-Clab, which took place last night, he was at all times extremely
are
room
"I told yor he'd forget, Joan
"Well, old boy," said Harold, was largely attended and proved, deft with his fingers. This eating Weldor's sausages with his *Do away with bonuses and welas usual, a highly successful func-mathematical aptitude and his sngers, we thought you wouldn't should beyond all doubt get bet-tion. The ball
was gally cleverness with his hands was
make i ter football. There would be no decorated and the large number of inherited from his father and “Make what?" more talk about two referees. A guests, assisted by the music of grandfather. referee would in fact have a soft M. Andres and his orchestra, spent! After a short spell of busi-Don't you remember your bet last job, and spectators would sit back a most enjoyable time until long ness in London, Watt tried to
night? Messmate was ready this? and get far more enjoyment from after midnight.
jopen a shop in Glasgow but was
morning, and Murphy splitting the game."
prevented by the Incorporation is sides with laughter at the iden Among the passengers who pass of Hammermen on the ground of you riding him.” For several years in backing the ed through Hong Kong yesterday that he had not served a pro-
Oh, Jord That was it. More four up and four down scheme on the NY.K. liner Hakone Mart, per apprenticeship. Fortunate detached memories of the pre- have used the same argument, and was the famous Russian Bass ly some of the professors at vious evening flooded back to
Feodor Chaliapin. I hope that when Mr. Bendle W singer
Glasgow University were more Weldon's brain and did things to Moore, the Derby County chair Chaliapin is en route to Japan, far-seeing than the hammer his stomach. He had said that man, again brings his proposal where he will give a series of men and they secured Watt's point-to-points were easy. That it
maker Of forward at the annual meeting of concerts in various cities before appointment
needed more skill and courage to the League, as he will surely do returning for a season in Shang-mathematical instruments to he will emphasise the points made hai.
the University. In the course of by Mr. Jobey.
his duties he had a model of EX-KAISER GIVES After an absence of several Newcomer's engine to repair years, Mr. C. A. & Russ, the well-and was at once struck with its pected that Sunderland were to be known scliciter, has returned to possibilities and its defects. He He
The Way Is Hard
One esclcgaly have
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LECTURE
Entertained
allowed to run away with the the Colony. Mr. Bass was for noted in particular its enormous Working Community
firm consumption of steam championship. The way of the merly connected with the Dacemakers is always hard, and the which bears his me, Russ and then entered upon a period of forces arrayed against them at Co, but he has now set up his intense scientific investigation Huddersfield, gallantly led by own practice in Hong Kong... of the properties of steara
- Dramatic Moment
Doorn A lecture on the Temple of the Gorgons in Corful Young, the sternest fighter in the!
The Street Sleepers Shelter So- Perhaps the most dramatic) was given here by the ex-Kaiser game, were more than they could overcome. With their makeshift ciely acknowledge with grateful moment of his career was one to the member and guests of the forward line it was a great per-thanks the following donations-Sunday afternoon early in 1765 working community" at Doorn, formance on the part of the York-St. John's Cathedral Carol Concer: He was walking on Glasgow of which he is president.
The lecture was based on the shire club, and one may fairly real Broadcast $40, Miss Mary Cooper Green brooding upon his peren- into this a tribute to Sunderland$50, Fer S. C. M. Post $13, Mramal problem of the properties ex-Kaiser's personal investiga Even though they have come A. Baymond $20-D.P.-55, Mrs. W. of steam, when the idea flashed tions on the Island, where he back a little to their rivals the J. Tutcher (Royalties: on "Gar-upon him that if the steam formerly had a summer resi position of Sunderland is still an dening for Hong Kong") $18.54, were condensed in a vessel dis dence, and on the results of the extremely strong one Next Per Miss Mosis-Proceeds of Con- tinct from the cylinder it would work and excavations of various Saturday they are set another big cert by 1st Kowloon Guides $55, be possible to make the tem archaeologists
ap task in meeting Derby County and bringing the total to $2,420.05.4perature of condensation low The ex-Kaiser, who is the hope of the Arsenal will be ANT
and still keep the cylinder hot peared in the best
hat while their challengers are The RMS, Empress of Canada That moment was probably the despite
ling part in a series of hard (from Manila) is due haze at- 7 birth of the modern era of been" current cita, they will continue to pros-am next Wednesday, and
berth at the Kowloon WEKEZA
steam and all that it has mest edilizess. for the industrial prosperity ad
wil leave the wharf at 9 am, the the wo same day for Taikoo Dock for her
reported no less than auzinal overhaul (of smalindi and Shan during week
we
ealth
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