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THE
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TURSDAY, OCTOBER SL, 1949.
US. SAILORS ENTERTAIN-
MENT.
RANDOM REFLECTIONS." “Bays, I had much rather you made The representatives of the Press sta these occasions an opportunity for exer- grateful to the Hon. Mr. A. R. Lowe-forcise, in extempore speaking; it would be anggrating that the punkah in the so good for you, if you aspire to rival] H.E. MR. CLAUD SEVERN SPEAKS
FOR THE COLONY. Council Chamber should be extended a
the giants of the past' (and, inci- Fow feet so as to waft gentle breezes over dentally, wouldn't be bad for us, for "what His Excellency the Officer Administer- shem. They may reasonably claim a
we might lose ir Anish we should gaining the Government, Mr. Claud Severn. abare in the benefits of the punkab, for a in brevity); these remirks, however, do C.M.C., attended the last tiffin given by Legislative Council sometimes means an not apply to our practical man,' who the Colony to the United States suilorx sighteen-hour day for the devoted Press. could hardly be expected to reply to in port held at the City Hall yesterday, Jy and taking shorthand everybody's questions without extensive His Excellency was accompanied by the depecially in a
He might have put less water Colonial Secretary (the room 30 unanitably notes,
Πρι Mr. arranged for a debating, chamber, is a with it, however; what with waterworks, A. M. Fletcher, C.M.G.) and his vory severe strain.
water-bouls, water-boring and water A.D.C. (Captain Neville) The visitors were received at the entrance to the City Hall by Commodors H. E. Gejce, R.N.. the Harbour Master (Commander Beck with, R.N.), the Hon. Mr. A. E. Lowe. Captain Watkins, Lieut. Comdr. Gil- christ and Lieut-Comdr. Worthington, and the Secretary of the Chamber of Com merce (Mr. D. K. Blair).,
wells, one could hardly taste the ether
to ་ ་་
The junior masters who addressed you will hat be publicly) butchered by me to niske a Romian holiday. Anything I have to say to them will be said in an other place. At least, they have showo what is possible in lucid extempore speech. But I will allow myself to sympathise with you a so far as the pedagogue immediately beneath me rather over-stressed the view, that 'all is for the best in this best of all possible Colonies. I could see you found it trying. You doubtles wish you had the right of re joinder, as he has of reply. And so you have, if you only knew it, but it int my business to 'put you wish', as our re- cent visitors would say."
It is necessary, too, the morning after, ingredients. for the wearied newspaper H summon up, his reserves of philosophy, He is sure to encounter the individual who says,
Don't your printers know there is only one 'm' in 'concomitant' i” or, "I found several misprints in my
• this morning." Considering that Chinese linotype operators set the columns of Legislative "Council matter in Friday's Daily Preen-equal (owing to more compact type and wider columns) to 30 volumes of any other local paper I regard the achievement as a remarkable one, and newspaper experts from any -country-1, have no hesitation in saying would endorse that opinion. "But why do you publish it all the reader may say. One can only put up to answer him thow other readers who ask. did you leave anything out?'
Why
BALL AT GOVERNMENT
HOUSE.
FIVE HUNDRED GUESTS ENTER- TAINED LAST NIGHT.
F. E. the Officer Administering the Government (Mr. Claud Severn, C.M.G.) and Mrs. Severa invited a large number of guests, including Admiral Anderson and the officers of the-United States war- ships in port, to a dance at Government House last night.. Nearly 300 guesta attended. The ball-room, with its new lighting effects and hanging baskets of flowers-white and pink Honolul creeper was used on this occasion-looked very charming but was, of course, rither crowded, The Band of the 102nd, Grenadiers played for the daners and was accommodated in the alcove. The pro- Bramme of the dances was;---
1.-Waltz
-Fox Trit 3.-Que Step 4.-Waltz
Alubowa Moan. Salome.
Oh by Jingos Beautiful Ohio.
..... Somewhere in Naples, 6.- Waltz
making Myaming. 7.- Fax Trot
Sučak. 3-One Step All the boge lore Mary, D-Fox Trot
Humming. 10.—Waltz.. Little old toy Calin in the west, 12.-Waltz 11-Fox Trot...Do you ever think of met Destiny. The Sheik of Araby.
was introduced to the men by Commodor
O entering the hull, "His Excellency
Grace and received with enthusiastic-Fox Trot cheers. Mr., Severn, spoke front a posi- tion wear the bandstand and was easily heard in both halls. He said: ---Men of the American Fleet, ha glad this opportunity of mying a few words to to have
you. na this is the Ingt occasion on which British and American sailors will mert in this hall for lunch during the present visit of the American Fleet.
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Extra
A ladies buffet was arranged on the case leading to it being tastefully arrang halcony overlooking the harbour, the stair-) 1ted with Angs and coloured electric lights. in On arrival, the guests found the gentle
men's cloakroom on the right and tho
fadies' cloak-reen on the left. The stair case leading to the bail-room was taste- fully decorated with palme und maiden- hair fern. In the supper room was the general buffet, again decorated with hang-
...
1 make the imaginary speech end here in-order angive myself the cue to take has been a great pleasure to us here The most aggravating subscriber and the stage again with my next point, Hongkong to welcome successive segna onds subscribers cam be aggravating which is that our unofficial legislators | sirot of your Eastern Fleet and to do Sometimes-is the one, who complains, on are under no obligation to save up their our best to enable the personnel to se the morning after a Budget Day, that ebullitions for one day in the year and something of the Colony. The weather other items of news in his paper are not mounder, in one awful afternoon, over has been kind throughout the whole afing baskets of Honolulu, creeper and a hall as usual. "You should print the the whole legislative field, from Danven the time the friendly relations emented dining room was. converted into a card furnished with bccasional tables, The Council report as a supplement to the unto Beersheba. It is hardly fair to the during your visit have been most gratify room and the gentlemen's bar was placed ordinary paper," he says. (It is a publie to provide such a Gargantuan ing, and we much regret your departure.' in the billiard room. The verandahs curious phenomenon that almost everyone feast,pt one sitting No one can possibly how you will enjoy your liuch to dny,
were furnished for sitting-out.. who buys a newspaper thinks he could digest it, and few can ven face it, with (Chours). produs it better than the people who the result that most of it is wasted." make alifework of doing so). If such a critic is
They know a trick worth two of that 1 commercial nianTM 00: can generally since him by asking how he London. On the LC.C. the party would care, in his own business, to manin. whips take a hand in arranging the tag all the year round an establishment programme for each week's meeting and adequate for an eventuality," that arises see to it that there is one subject of only two or three times a year.
public interest for discussion each meet ing and that it is reached in time to, get into the evening papers. "Sweet are the uses of advertisement," as Shakespeare nearly wrote. In the days 1 refer to, the F. Anstey story and play "Vice Versa" L.C.C. went in frankly for party politics which had such a vogue 33 years ago for so. In that story" solenia and rather and no one in the world is more dever prosy old boy who has forgotten that he at getting free publicity than the was young once, finds himself compelled, politician.
"Adverting (as the business man would say to the Legislative Council Jast Thursday, I could not help being remind ed, whilst watching the proceedings, of
here is no reason whatever (unless it i
by enchantment, to change places with a schoolboy and be whipped ang disciplined į and talked
to by preceptors, nown although his ideas and mentality are still be the climate, or the local passion for thay of n man of fifty-only his out-sport, which rather interferes with any ward "semblance having changed. seemed, on Thursday, as though our thing, beyond a minimum of concentration henurable Councillors had suffered a on the realities of life) why our pressing shallár fate, and were reading over their needs should not be urged one after the refully-prepared essays in class to the other, all through the year, over and Headmaster sitting at the top of the zable. One or two of the boys were over and over again, antil, like the un- excused essay-writing and were able to just judge in the parable, the authorities snatch forty winks now and then, One are wentied into getting soinething done. essayist, used his MSS, with a degree of skill which conveyed the illusion that he It is only by the constam dropping of the sometimes spoke extempore. Another water that the "stone is worn away, as had taken the trouble to learn "bis piece" by heart, and recited it with
great aplomb.
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CARGO OF RICE LOST.
A large junk, containing 1,300 bags of rice, was destroyed by are at the Junc Atcherage off West Point on Sunday night.
The men they fell to" and "Mr.JUNK DESTROYED BY FIRE. Severn's hope was manifestly realised. Soup, beef (and Yorkshire, two veg, as the culinary experts would 'say), followed by apple pie, disappeared with great rapidity and afterwards the sailors enter. tained themselves to an impromptu can. cert which was highly entertaining. They then travelled in apecial trams to the World Theatres to nnish the afternoon
at the pictures."
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ALLEGATIONS OF AN UNUSUAL FRAUD, PORTUGUESE CHARGED., Allegations of a remarkable series of frauds on the American Consulate were laid against a young Portuguese named Nicola da Roza at the Magistracy who was charged with having used the Ameri- can-Consul's name in issuing forged orders on a Japanese tailor at the Praya East for supplies of clothing for distress- ed American-seamen.
The fire is said to have been started by the sparks from a chatty in the stern of the junk. It spread with great rapidity and by the time one of the fire feats bad been brought to the scene there was little, hope of saving either the junk or ita carga. The efforts of the firemen were concentrated in saving another junk whose fortmast had been set alight by aparka. A second fire float was requisi- tioned and with one float on either side of the craft they continued to pour water upon her until, at 1:48 am, vessel listed to one side and sauk. two hours after the" commencement the The crew made good their escape before the blaze had got a strong hold on the junk
ARMS SEIZURE ON A STEAMER.
POLICE OFFICER'S ENCOUNTER
WITH SMUGGLERS.
on the ya Kwang Ying early yesterday
Sub-Inspector Fallon conducted a raid;
53 Hauser pistols and 5,000 rounds of morning and seized in the engine room ammunition. A feature of the raid was Inspector Fallon's entry into the engine room by himself. He was armed with a have revolver. Directly he entered seven protect himself he was knocked down, Chinese rushed at him and before he could
before he recovered from the blow. They, and bis assailants made their escape however, left the arms behind.
Sub-Inspector Shaftain in outlising the case said the tailor's name was Nakamotd Counsel one reminded a Judge who tried and he held a standing order from the to atem the torrent of his cloqueace, American Consul to supply distressed and an anual deluge has little or ne The majority, however, unblushingly downpour un Budget Day had in local apparel.
effect."
What results has this torrential American seamen with articles of wearing red their "gompositions, usually monotonous tones, without any striving affairs? I was looking up -some old after gratorical effect. They certainly records, the other day, and found that failed to reach the standard of reading the Constitutional Reform question was aloud set by the Headmaster himself, first brought before Parliament in 1849 who unburdened himself of his eight and the first attempt to shake off the columns or be, a fortnight previously, clutching hand" of the tailitary upon with a skill born of much practice in ur economie life was made in 1884. An reading the lessons in Church. If Hiy annual debate is worse than useless if it Excellency had really been the head. Wastes steam by allowing it to escape in master of my imagination, and it had a cloud instead of utilising it as a driving fallen to him to criticise the manner, force.
The tailor is alleged to To those seamen who could be found devised a scheme for getting rich quickly.
responsive to his overtures, he arranged that they should receive a sum of money much less than the value of the clot ng they required-instead of the clothing. ordered for them by the America Consil. He would usually get them to endorse the orders they brought from the Consul, and would later present them to the Con sulate and chtain the value of the cloth- ing which they had not receivel.
How the defendant got to know of this under- The first essay was somewhat marred way, year after year The Unoficials standing the police could not say, but, by eyer-indulgence in sentences cast in most together in solemn conclave each at any rate, he did hear of it, and on question form. I noted $1 and then lost October and expend much time and his own part: devised a scheme for mak count. The essayist is positively a time in framing their annual indicting money as well. Roza is alleged to bumaa mark of interrogation. (School. I ment.. The Government listen with have presented from time to timey at the masters make weak jokes like that at the exemplary patience and courtesy-re-tailor's shop, orders bearing forged sigon expose of their unhappy pupils, if you garding this, no doubt, as adequate tures by which the tailor was sucessfully remember.)
penance, for their sins of emission and defaded into belief than they had come
a mixture from the American Consul. "The second writer is to bo con- commission and reply with
Sums of gratulated on his narrow escape from of unconvincing excuses and vague pro money obtained from Naomoto in that Being the well-known phrase which en The Supply Bill is then carried manner am alleged to have amounted to have such a horror of repeating that I unanimously, and the Government are 420, though the actual amount of the will paraphrase it as, abipping is the free to follow the dictates of their own orden came to much more this this sanguinaceous/ corpuscular fluid of the pet will undisturbed for another When the counter-fraud, as practised by Colony. He was commendably brief, twelve months,
the defendant came to be exposed, a trap but should try not to look as though
was laid for the defendant, who was
instead of the matter, pi the addresses presented, I imagine he would have said: The members of the Government must something like this:-
chuckle, at getting things all their own
public speaking is agony to him.
'I shall hear.!
SPORT.
INTERPORT » CRICKET,
HUNGKONG, SHANGHAI,
The following have been chosen up, to date by the Selection Committee to re present Hongkong: Hancock T. E Peares, Capt. Daries, Capt. Oliver, E Beed, L. J. Davies, C. R. Sayer, C.
after next Saturday's game.
The remaining throw places will be filled
The Interport mitch will be played on the 10th, 11th and 13th November.
Stapleton..
* SUNSHINE ALLEY."
QUAINT CORONET PICTURE
Described as the quaintest play in arrated one night in Spring Garden which that quaint little, actress. Mab Lane by Sub-Inspector Shaftain himself. Marsh (for whom it was specially written). The defendant told Mr. Lindsell that has ever appeared. Surebino Alley"
You see, by proposing the Supply Biti I have much pleasure in assuring the the Government are entitled under the reader of the third say that my bearing rules of debate to the last word, and the
in no way impaired, it was not, before unofficials, having unburdened their over. man med Burton asked him if he wish is being screened at the Coronet for the his kind efforte, bor-I am relieved to charged hearts, en only sit and writhe ed to make money; if so he was to present last time to day.. Most of the story is End-after them. To him I would say in while the official spekemen wriggle. If an order at the Japanese tailor's, in reenacted in a queer little bird and animal the words of the old song, Whisper, and only they knew it, the unoficials turn for which he would get a fee of store in the poor quarter of a great city could get level by tabling resolutions out of the money he would give and the song of a bulloch is the key note of the pics. One gathers, indeed, that it is the happy trilling of the bullfinch that giron the alley is nome
"Sunshine Alley will go out, if no Burton suggested that they should get with a clash of trumpets, at any rate an American sang to carry out the with a blare of saxophones for the ordi- trick Inetesdavom
nary Coronet orchestra is to be specially His Worship: Why did not Barton augmented to-night by the talented little hime if take the order to the shop band which the management of, Hong Defendant replied that Burton told him kong Amusements On. brought up here that the tailor" knew him.
last week from Manila. They will play At this stage thy can wae remanded for the very latout in the way of jazz swa dies.
mélodien,
no
Our mathematical student shall be at subsequent meetings on the points return from the tailor Who be dis Drovided with a blackboard the next ralied; this would give them the covered the way he had been duped, do time he wishes to juggle with millions opportunity of re-opening matters and fendant said, he refused to execute fur "I do not think his sums add up, but that enjoying the right of reply. Finally, ther commissions of this obaracter, and may only be because I cannot visualise the way to speed matters up when by Aguros without mechanical aids, little or no progress his been made with The next speaker spoke of boring, any undertaking is for the Unowinl had was not He read well and his Mombers to rate solidly against the metophora (without prejudice to my dis Supply Bill. It won't break the Govern agreement with him), wore apt. The rement, of course, but it may make them citution was amellent, and might, with|bend, for the authorities at Home would "akiratage, bare Beck, langer (provided, want to know the reason why, jahat, always, that the others had been aborter),
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