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The death of the late Mr. Jamen Cald-· well, who was a notable, Parliamentariau in his day, recalls to ine the days and EDINBURGH. April 9th.
nights when 1 sat up the Gallery of the tilasgow and Lanarkshire bid fair to Hous. Mr. Caldwell was then a man of be the cockpit for the dispute over the
aome notoriety. One of my memories of steel houses The Endings of the Chim is that when he represented Mid- ernment Court of Inquiry, in favour of Lanark, he was known as a ruthless ob the construction of this type of house structur of Government business opens the way for Glasgow Corporation most famous fout was his single-handed" to go ahead with its scheme for the erre obstruction of the Musical Copyright tion of experimental Weir steel dwellings Bill, against the sentiment of almost the But the operatives are adamant in their whole House. With ingenuity derived attitude that building trade wages shall from his legal training he suggested be paid and a union. ennditions ob- amendments to early every word and erved in the construction of the houses, line in the Bill. Mr. T. F. O'Connor, and they have the yapathetic support who had sponsored it, had to see his aur of a large body of building, employers, seling perish. There was an odd sequel. Should a start be made with these steel Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, dwellings without the operatives de achieving a Liberal majority, made Mr. mands being met, therefore, there will be Caldwell a Deputy Chairman of Comi a stoppage af work as all the Glasgow mitte The obstructionist was now still. Corporation housing schemes. The crisis, ed and the Bill passed comfortably. This of course, will rapidly affect all the seat passage was mile easier since, in the quaint of Scotlarid, and is. cortain to spread to function of chairman, he bad England.
nethod of disregarding would-be speak- The Court of Inquiry supports the coders when in his opinion the discussion tention of Lord Weir that the work is had lasted long enough. It was a high- ant building work in the ordinary handed manner that aroused much laugh-
In Scotland the League Championship sense of the term, and that consequently for when members reailed Mr. Caldwell's
had just been decided, in England the the claim that building trades' rat's own career, but expedited business
last tie in the Cup has been played, and aust be paid and building trade di CLADSTONE'S SPOOK AND PROHIBITION.
the end of the "footer" Mason has come. this obarrved is inadmissible. They des
Ardent Pro Association football is not yerybody's ribe the Wein scheme is
Mr Serymgeour, the a serious at tempt, conceived an scientifis fines to hibitionist sent to Parliament by the
is a kind of rough-and-ready "eireus organise pridurtive power to meet the City of Dundee, has come to the front in Fane. There are many who think of
and they see a new role as a dreamer of dreams. He for democracy. Certainly the game is pon Dock "Co., Ltd., was held yester- present emergency.
OD day morning under the chairmanship reason why it should not be fully deve has just told a meeting of his constitu- democratic, and, if it were extermed Cloped as an auxiliary and emergency ruts that he bad bada visit from Mr. no other score, would be entitled to gratiof Mr. D. G. M. Bernard. Others present
sehene side by side with the present. There was no doubt about it, he can
Gladstone the other night,-in a druntade as marking a great upward strp
in the popular use of leisures. That it were:-Mr. Allan Cameron. Mr. T. G.." development of the building industry. The Court gives striking examples to right into the house and sat down." He has been the redemption of urban Satur Weal, Mr. A. H. White (Directors), Mr. illustrate their view. They say they ena- added that Mr. Gladstone looked, just sider that Lord Weir has devised a way they knew him in his later days. The day afternoons is a commonplace of RM. Dyer (chief; manager). Jir. R. F. rest upon such limited pleas as thar Mattingly" (solicitor). Mr. E. L. Hasio of supplementing the supply of houses by Grand Old Man took a seat as if he had social history. Bet it has no need to utilising the methods of the engineering been in the habit of visiting the house Soccer is in itself a highly developed (aeretary), Messrs. ti, P. Lamnert, N. trade much as the latter in the prodve-And as he sat he said- tive me a glass game with plenty of scope for musculary. A. Crocher, H. Birkett, A. A. Alves
Prohibitionists artistry. It has fallen behind its rival! tion of motor vehicles and steel bridges of clear cold water."
A
get Prohibition " Mr.
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COMPANY MEETING. HONGKONG AND WHAṀPOA DOĆK COMPANY, LTD.
"An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Hongkong and Wham-
After, the General Manager had read" the notice convening the meeting,
The CHAIRSAx said:-Gentlemen,-Thes
as an amateur sport only because few Chu Wan-man, Tang Shiu-kin, P. M. N. are doing work that was formerly done an always give such a drink, Mr. on a smaller scale and by different Serymgeour added, so he gave his noc-
skill of the professional. The profesKew (shareholders). methods by wheelwrights and masons res turnal visitor the water as requested.teurs can keep up with the pace and da Silva, Tang Chi-ngon, and Dr. F. H. pectively. The component parts of the After drinking it. Mr. Gladstone fritional has his good and his bad side. Bas Mr.niess strictly supervised, he would new-type house are to be produced in better, and lay down to rest. Factories on mass production principles, Semgeour did not want his visitor to lower the ends of the gant, but the gov- and they can be assembled without the go to sleep, so he walked up to him, ernment of Association football is very employment of building trade labour un and softly, whispered in his ear-Are eient, as well as very powerful; when fess in an incidental capacity. Arened we going to
referee's eyes cannot be everywhere at special resolutions the resolutions which ingly the conclusion is that Lord Weir Gladstone made no reply. If the Phsychoffences go unpunished, it is because object of this meeting is to confirm as
once and that holds equally true of ether is justified in his contention that neither cal Research Society takes up the matter their production nor their erection is we may learn whether there is another, pastinies. The League systent may lender passed as extraordinary resolutions
building work
in the ordinary sense case of a really good ghost asking for in exaggeration of local partisanship, at the meeting of the Company held on. The attitude of the building operatives water. Twenty years ago there were still but there are industrial towns which, if May isth.. last. As I then explained, the purpose of the resolutions is to raise far- may be given in a couple of sentences many extant who would have draw the they were not proud of their football elubs, would be very hard up for Home- uttered by their own leader The cost worst inferences,
thing to cherish. Football is quite the ther capital for "the objects specified in most romanstic thing they possess. 3s the chairman's speech at the annual in stimulus to social cirenlation is is general meeting held on the 30th March. last, and in order to give effect to this it is the first rank.
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THOSE CONDEMNED BOOTS.
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of labour in putting up a weir house, . . BALLANTYNE, BOYS" STORY-TELLER. was, as Lord Weir had himself admitted.
Boys the world" cver owe gratitude to ly, £75, while in constructing brick and stone house the cost was Robert Michael Ballantyn, the centenary They would thus see what plunder Lord of whose birth has just been celebrated. Weir got out of it. When he sait plunder, He was born in Edinburgh, and was a
member of the famous family who pub It is only when abroad that one relisreecessary to alter Article 17, which The meant profit-it came. to the suished Scott's novels. His father, in how many Scotsmen there are in the present limits the extent of a member's
thing. The reply to this groes. tisrepre sentation is that the difference between order to preserve the secret of the author; world. A passenger returning to Africa holding of shares. Sixty thousand of the £75 and £160 does not go into the pocket ship of the earlier Waverley books, copied by one of the newest liners writes: new shares will be offered at once to the Ballantyne This is a must beautifully clean abit, present shareholders at a premium of $10 of Lord Weir or of any other engineer them out for the printers.
went to Cannda as 'n clerk in the service no coal burns crude oil. in natural course it passes on to the of the Hudson Bay Company, and W-1 officers nce Scottish, esplain un Aber. per share, in the manner indicated in the future owners, the Town Councils or
nan: doctor. Glasgow chief resolutions, and the remaining unissued County Councils who have ordered the hem. Nilson, the Edinburgh publisher, deen houses, and ultimately benefits the fun reading the letters he sent home, said engineer halis from Tobermory, and all shares will be subsequently dealt with as
I suspect that they contained first-class material the others, from their accents,
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for a boys' story. This started him on come from Glasgow or Uambarton. Me directors think fit.
1 do not think there is anything further his lifework of boys story-teller on his stewardess is delightfully Highland. The Au interesting study of Scotland and return to Scotland, the first of his books! food is not very good, but the captain wih which I need deal, but if any share Along says the cooks are Scottish too-Lasers holder, would like to ask questions or seek the Scots has come from the pen of Dr. being "The Young Fur Traders,
. Bulloch, a distinguished Scut and with Henty and Kingston, he has re-from Greenock!"
well-known journalist, Quoting Mr. mained a-favourite on the boy's bock Belloc, that the works of men are mys. shelf to the present day, and if Henty terinasly consonant with the soil from produced more works that are remember- which they spring," Dr. Bulloch says that d, the best of Ballantine's are first fav this is steely true of Scotland. The ourites.
soil. hardly anywhere or to any extent OLYMPIC VICTOR'S CAMPAIGN.
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and the Seat has made the soil, the inter-
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The service at Streatham Congrega-
HOME PEOPLE AED NEVER SATISFIED,
Aprilie says that Scots are becoming stack.
When "bluntly criticised like this It's best to study what's amiss, Although, no matter what we do, We shan't please everyone, it's true. stack; The Scot, they say, is now too Well, look a generation back, And you will find, if am right, They said he was too often tight! DEMENTED MONKEYS.
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any explanation, I shall be pleased to en- deavour to answer auch questions woul give such explanation to the best of my ability.. If no questions are asked or ex- planation sought, I shall assume that you approve of ce alterations in the Articles of Association as presented, and will thereupon propose the resolutions regard ing the same, which are set out in the notice evening this meeting.
1 Kew referred to the last of the ro solutions, namely That any of the and 60,000 new shares. which shall not he
80,000 unissued new shares may be issued
and disposed of in such manner at such
Company's Directors sball- in their time ur times and upon such terms as t ranking for dividend and otherwise as the absolute discretion think fit. He suggest- ed that shareholders should have the prior i claim. He presumed shareholders would
them. get the first option
Mr BERNARD said this was entirely a matter for the directors. They night sele them in the market for the benefit of the Company.
Dr. Kew said the issue of the shares should be for the benefit of the share
be nu hakders: It was only fair that this shoakt MP. BERNARD: Oh! "I see, you mea the unissued shares. Yes, I think so; bas we cannot bind our successors.
D. Kzw suggested an amendment, hut The CHAIRMAN said if the resolution it was pointed out that it was too late. was objected to, the only course wouhl be to go right black and have their meet- dramaticing over again.
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action forming, and continuing to conditional Church was conducted by Mr. Eric tion, the very foundations of the national H. Liddell, the Olympic Games Cham character. The Scot has not only had to piva and Scottish international Rugby conquer the soil; he had always to go on three-quarter back, who, with Mr. D. T
"Manbood keeping it in conquest by reason of the Thomson, is conducting a climate. for nature is perpetually at Campaign." in London prior to taking tempting, to thwart all his art, and he up missionary work in China. Address
A Glasgow man, who bas had his first taken up by the Company's Shareholders must never relax his vigilance to defeating the younger members of the con experience of London night clubs, desin manter aforesaid and the remaining that project, so that the necessity for tion, Mr. Liddell urged them to play up cribes them thus: Men and women of
In a tean," he and play the game. industry, and for the exercise of
very alert brains remains a constant factor in aid, "There are one or two who play the chattering species, dancing the dances the struggle for the existence of those the game in a way you don't like. They of avages, to music written by American who still live in Scotland, while the are very good, perhaps the finest in the Jews zad played by coloured men with exercise of both qualities for many cen team, but when they draw near the goal the actions of demented monkeys." turies remains part of the mental equip. they want to get the ball into the goal ment of those who have left their native themselves instead of passing it out to hauth. Thus, in facing the climate and some one else to shoot it in. We have cultivating the difficult soil, the Scot has absolutely no use for the player who is himself and pot for the developed many his outstanding working for Pharacteristics notably his remarkable team. Then there are players who are
A character new to fiction, the stage power if resistance and the hardiness willing to do some dirty trick in order and the screra is the crime deflector which has fitted him to face almost any that they may get on. That is not what who makes his bow to the public in a pieturiza climate in the world as a pioneer settler. We ask today. We ask them to play the Goldwyn's Bed Lights, He has had to use not only brawn hut game if i had a man like that on my tion of Edward Rose's mystery melo brains. He has learned how to labour, side I would rather shoat him off drama The Rear Car. The screen but the perpetual demand for initiative although he was the best man, because version is the attraction for four days has removed him from the status of the he was not playing the game."
at the World Theatre commencing to-day, slave. All these qualities call for inter eos IN NORTH CHINA.
The crime deflector is a new type of de- sive individualism; but the drawbacks of thant hard equipment have been largely, Mr. W. J. Entwhistle, M., Aberdeen, tective he does not track criminals after is the first to fill the new Stevenson Chair, the crian baa been committed, hut pre- remedied by the mutual helpfulness which of Spanish in the University of Glasgow,vents or deflects the crime. peoples faced by a common difficulty or He was born in North China, received danger often develop, whether in congifer his early education at a China Inland ing the soil or the invader The Mission school in Chefoo, North Chine
Dr. Kew then proposed that note should In be taken of his suggestion that registered munal combinations took many fous Later he was a student at Robert Gor- triumph, The White. Sister." in now from the clachan to the clan, long es Jon's College Aberdeen, and at the showing at the Queen's Theatre. for the synthesis of a qution was cach University in that City. He graduati spiration pictures determined to bring shareholdere should have the first option ed, and they persist in the Seats clan with honours it Aberdeen in 1916, Sere the fascinating beauty of Italy back to on these unissued shares. It could he nishness as people, whether Highland g with, the Artillery and with the America by means of the screen. The put in the minutes and handed down to
White Sister" was chosen as the first the incoming directors, or Lowlind two very different type Scottish Hißer during the war," he wasfilm to be reproduced' entirely overseas. Dr. Kew: If they go up to a preinfun The communal ideal comes out in the wounded in action. Taking up post-It has been the outstanding artistic we might not have a look in at all. Per- charming friendliness of the
(Laughter). darg," that is to say, 'n day's ploughing graduate studies in 1919 he attended triumph of the present motion picture hape the directors would get, then courses at the Central University, sson and the work of Lillian Gish, the given "gratuitous to one's neighbour Madrid, and in May, 1021; he became
hinding service, which, like many other forms of
role, has been characterized as better altruisto, has a long strain of self-preser lecturer in Spanish in the Victoria Uni-screen's greatest artiet, in the leading Mr. BERNARD: No minute would he
versity, Machester. Mr. Entwhistic vation if it, by extending the general area of cultivation and also keeping at bay Posscases & Working knowledge of Latin than anything she has over done in the but to jog their minds
and Greek, Benantie languages (Preach, past all sorts of enemies from marauding Italing, Provebeni), the modern Ger deer to thistles, from one's own parti manic (German Dutch, Danish, and At the Marine, Court yesterday, "he- cular kailyard. These hard physical con Swedish), and Arabic, and also before Lieut.-Comunander C. F. Tole, R.N., tors the chairman added: The thing to ditions have fundamentally affected the Chinese.
six masters and mistress of boats were do would be for the directors to make a Scotsman's politics and his religion, mak-
rach fined $5, with five days hard minute of this, and record, that it is the ing him choose in the alter a creed oBITUARY. which recognises the smallness of man as
Mr. DA BILVA: Will it be binding? At 7, Montgomerie Terrace, Mount labour in default for mooring isshore expressed wish of shareholders.
ME: BERNARD: We cannot bind our against the remorseless forces of nature, Florida, Glasgow, on April 22nd, Agues within 100 yards of low water mark. At for all men must anthropomorphine their Shearer, widow of Rev. Wm Cooper, the same Court, five junk maaters were
The resolutions were then put to the God. In short, the Scot is Scot be. China Inland Mission, and daughter of each ned $15, with the alternative of successors.
meeting and carried unanimously. cause Beatland is what it is as a physical the late John Shearer, Glasgow and two weeks' hard labour for failing to
exhibit the regulation lights fact, and that fact is so persistent that Gourock.
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Dr. Kew: I don't want to bind them,
Mr. BERNARDI don't think the direc tors would need that.
After consultation with the other diree-
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