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character expanding in strength and tenderness till the cruel final. Mr.
Mandy once related that as a very young man many of the countryside naidens used to dictate him letters
thair soldigg swethearts, and to this he escribe his unique insight into girlhood and womanhood.
In his Wessex novels Me Han Dy portrays few mrsonalities beyond the class of peasants, farmers and small tradersion. Outside of these his interest wanes and his hand falters. His entrymen are rival fed only by Bottom's mechanicals" Misanimer Night's Prram." Joseph Poorgrass and The aged malster in. Far Fron the Madding Crowd." Granfer Canet and Christian, the village idior, in The Return of the
the
JANUARY 13th, 1928.
Three Chinese cases of diphtheria. ROUND THE POLICE
one of cerebro spinal fever and one Portuguese cases of enteric were re- ported on Wednesday.
The annual meeting of the Hong Song, St. David's Society will he held to-day in the office of MF, D. J. Lewis, More. Johnson, Stokua and Master, at 3.30 p.m.
A twenty-three years old Chinese was removed to the Government Civil Hospital on Wednesday from the Talkoo Dockyard having sum tained a fractured leg, caused by a large pulley falling on him, ·
COURTS.
RAISING FUNDS FOR THE
NEW YEAR.
PETTY THIEVES ACTIVE.
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SIR H. BUTLER'S FAREWELL.
1.
PROGRESS OF BURMA.
仆
CLOSE OF REMARKABLE -
CAREER
RANGOON, December 4th, In his farewell address to the That certain men would steal any-Legislative Council Sir Harcourt, thing just before Chinese New Your Butler, the retiring Governor of was evident from the number of Hurma, said that the first years of which the his tenure of office had bevä dever- Petty larceny Magistrates had to
den! with ed to dealing with political agita tion. suppressing the dangerous A twenty-three years old Chinese į yesterday.
One indiscreet Chinese forfeited agitation against the payment of was removed to the Government Civil Hospital on Wednesday suf his liberty for the sake of a paltry | tasra, and organizing" a campaign fering from a fractured loss caused ten conts and he is to remain in against the widespread outbreak, of by an iron gate falling on him in | quot until the festive season is over crime. Now people had a greater- the grounds of Murray Barracks.
Another man caught five fish. hat An Indian soldier, nard Yar since he deviated from the lawful Native, are of the very broath and Mahammed, was sent to the Govern. / Waithod it was an expensive han.
nature of the English countryside.ment Civil Hospital on Wednesday One sees them at every cortage door. suffering from [4 Fractured leg Mr. Hanny himself considered The Return of the Native "his master picer. It is a terrible story af man battling with the forces of nature,
caused by an iron gate falling ou him in the grounds of Murray Barracks
The annual distribution of prizes The spirit of Eden Heath broods at Queen's College will take place this morning, the awards being over the drama-it dominates alike distributed by H. E. the Clowner
who will als address the students. Mr. A. H. Crook, the Headmaster, will presens his annual report.
Among passengers arriving here yesterday by the Blue Funnel liner
A MOTLEY GANG.
An array of felt hats on a cotti- ter at the Sidere Company's shop peared very tempting to a Chinese who had nothing with which to cover his head. Placing one of the hats on fils head he walked away.
The man received in sentence of three weeks.
Another man who visited the market carried away five fish, but met with no mere sucres. The Magistrate fined him at the rate of
for each fish.
A third man who walked about touching articles at the entrances to shops in Queen's Road attracted the attention of a detective. The
respect for law and order, and Burma was prosperous and content. ed. Progress had been made in the commercial and industrial deve. lopment of Barma: slavery had been abrilished: new railways und reads und improved communications; and the establishment of a first-class university would help the people along the path of progress. Party, who walked out at the last The members of the People's
several months age, remained absent meeting of the Legislative Council
to-day,
37 Years In India.
Butler from the Governor of Burma The retirement of Sir, Harcourt
closes, an official career in India which is in some respects without cords of the Indian Civil Service." parallel even in the remarkable re-
He has been 37 years, in India, and for the past two decades has held one grent position after another. For more than a dozen years he has been ruling Indian provinces.
those who lòve and hate its loneli-| (Sir Coeil Clementi, K.C.M.G.) t n minate later he was arrested.
ss and those who accept it, having known no other world. All phases of the Wx countryside pass before the render of Taoni's HARDY: the hill farm, the pasture, theertar, from the United Kingdom,
rii porta, were:-Mr, G. H. Allen, | orchard, the heath and forest: hn Mr. and Mrs. H. Birkett, Mrs. H. knew every mood of them all. He Caldwell, Col. J. M. Boyd, Capt. E. Prigent, Mr. and Mrs. G. knew too the small English town Rushton, Cal and Mrs. A. Dugdale, of which Casterbridge is the Mrs. E. W. Fearon and Dr. and eternal type. "He tells of that world, Mrs. J. W. H. Grier, which most of us have seen pass | The forthcoming weddings are map paused before & fruit stall. away before our eyes, before matore announced of:-Mr. Aleksei Alek. I took a ten-cent bit from the tray,wards Lord) UncDonnell As De- No. 566. Nathan Road, Kowloom. and as quickly tendered it to the and
Petrovna stallholder address: and of Acting Sub-Inspec-detective, and on his appearance Grunberg, residing at the same oranges. He was caught by the tor James Cargill, Hong Kong before the Magistrate he received Police Force, and Miss Isobel Keith Wallace, residing at No a sentence of one mouth's hard
and modernism had altered Eng- land. But for all its benutý it was n, world of hardship and grinding poverty. Mr. Haney worked in his awn slow indirect manner for the revival of the countryside. lived to see a new, interesting life spring up from the sad apathy of which he wrote.
servich. Tramoitzky, merchant, "of
Miss Valentine
He Albion Terrace, Kowloon Dock,
Two persons recovered after first
labour.
in
Sir Harcourt Butter first came into prominence in 1901 on aerount of the speed and skill with which he accomplished his work as seete- tary of the Famine Commission presided over by Bir Antony (after- puty Commission of Lucknow he exchange for inspired and guided many improve-
statue. Lord Minto moved him to ants, and his work is commemorat- ed by a recently unveiled equestrian simla at an exceptionally early age to be his Foreign Scer:tary, 1910 Lord Morley made him the first Education Member of the Govern- ment of India, and his five years in this office were marked by re- adaptation of educational policy.
Roused A New Spirit In Burmah.
Towards the end of 1915 Sir Har court Buch went to Buring us Lieutenant Governor, and did most output of wolfram concentrates from valuable work in developing the the Tavay fields for the use of the Allies.
A young Chinese was given two months hard labour for stealing clothing, with an additional eight months and twelve strokes for re turading from banishment.
A fifth, defendant was a Chinese
On Wednesday night the Kow loom Fire Brigade received a call from No. 98, Catton Road, but on arrival found that their assistance It was a long ago as 1805 that was not required in a fire. On Mr. HARDY wrote Jude the Ohntering the ground floor it was ex-policeman who was farged with found that five inmates were lying returning from banishment. His scure the last of his Wessex unconscious as the result of his family and had previously noti excuse was that he was looking for Atoris, and the bitter criticisms leakage of gas from a dhaused pified the S.C.A. of his intention, aroused by that book led him to aid had been applied and the The man' was remanded for verk declare he would write no more
others were sent to the Kowloon fication of his story. novels, and nothing could turn him
Hospital
from his resolve. It was a terrible honk. It touchel men on the raw. It castigated an ancient institution
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THOMAS HARDY." "
ancient universities have been seek-
student and scholar harred only by ing to open their gates to the
lack of means, Jude, too, lay bare the horror of stumdom. The tragedy of Tess is at least in the open air, under the sky and amid nature, but Jude perishes in a forted alley.
But having turned from fiction Mr. HARDY gave us "The Dynasts," that epic in dramatic form of the
and
Napoleonic wars, with all their waste, cruelty and useless heroism. Here are lyrica notably in the
who has seen war can read un Albers battle scene, which no one
moved. The tragedy of George III. is made to rival that of Lear,
despite n
few historical inalies no such picture has heer presented of every phase of Napaleon
and his times. Recog- nition came slowly to the genius of HARDY but for years he has been regarded as the greatest figure in English literature, perhaps, in world literature since the death of
KOWLOON 'BUS ROUTES.
"No. 10" TO LINK UP YAU
MATH AND MONGKOK
the harbour
A
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Before the War they were In German monopoly.) He did much to rouse a new spirit in Burma. but befor: ide term had run haft its ecurse he was chosen to go bark to the United Provinces Lieutenant-Governor, though at the time he stood only 31st in the seniority list of the United Pro- vinces. He ruled with a firm but judicious and sympathetic hand, and the serious troubles which broke out, in the Punjab in the spring of 1919 were happily kept out of the ad- incent Agra province,
young Chinese appeared before the Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lindsell) on serious charges of attempting to swindle by presenting a document purporting to be the last will and testament of his father, who was A new us route in Knowloon, found to be alive and well in the thickly crowded districts of Yaulated to a false statements at cath, known as No. 10, will link up the country. One of the charges re
It fell to him to introduce the nay and Mongkok, the Chinese] and another of attempting to business and residential localities. obtain $1,500 by false pretences. reformed system of government in
No. 10" route is to be main-
Another Chinese was charged two provinces. He was half through tained by the Kowloon Motor Bus with stealing letters from private his term in the United Provinces Loxes at the Post Office and at- Co. It runs parallel to Nathan tempting to obtain money by false effect; and he was sent to Burma Road. but is nearer
when the dyarchial system tonk and therefore more convenient to pretences. From enquiries made to take charge two years inter, a by the police it was found that the few days before that province came the Chinese. The route is:-"
Post Office officials did not desire into the new scheme of things. The Erom the Star" ferry. wharf, to prosecute as the the its did not to Canton Road, Jordan Road, occur while the letters were in their much agitation against provisional two years' delay, accompanied by Shanghai Street (to its eud). custody." Prince Edward Road, Kowloon City-and return the same way, From the route named, it will be seen that the 'buses, will go to the off to Kowloon City. It can also edge of Samahuipo before turning
the train stream Nathan Road. be considered as an alternativa
of traffic
on
A further charge of alleged faise pretences is to be heard on Monday
"SPURIOUS COINS.
A Shawshuipo Chinese was charged at the Kowloon Magis tracy with possession of 325 coun: The Kowloon Motor 'Bus Co. also terfeit tercent pieces. He stated announces a change in the No. that be received the coins from
man in Hong Kong and he intend route, as follows:
Instead of going straight into ed to take them to Mneno and age Taipo Road from Nathan Road, them there. The case was adjourn. the buses will turn into Prince ed for police investigations. Edward Road and Laichikök Road (Samshuipo), thence Namcheong Street and Taipė Road to Cheungshawan and Lai chikok.
to
A STOLEN MASCOT.
Mr. W. J. Smith was the com- Instead of going straight along plainant at the Kowloon Magis to Laichikok, No. " will con- tracy. when
T
Chinese
woman
schemes falling short of what had been secured in India proper, creat ed great dificulties. But Sir Har court Butler weathered "the storm, and appled with good effect the principle he had followed in the United Provinces of encouraging joint consultation between the two halves of "Government,
The outstanding feature of the past five years in Burma has been the energetic and successful steps of the Governor to stamp out slave trading and human sacrifice in the unadministered northern wilds of the provinca-Timer.
WHILE THE MASTER WAS -
AWAY.
ME. THOMAS HARDY, whose death was announces yesterday, could 46/52, NATHAN ROAD, 22/28,CARNARVON ROADry truly be described as the last CHINESE GENERAL CHAMBER FLATS OF TWO OR THREE ROOMS of the great Victorians. When his tret:-novel of outstanding merit, Far from the Madding Crowd appeared anonymously in the righties, critics of that time declared that GEORGE ELLIOTT alone of living writers could have produced a work of such power and imagination. 3. THOMAS. HARDY was trained as
an architect, and there is in bis
The Chinese who is wid to have Wessex novels planning and
robbed Mr. and Mi.. Grant in Palance suggestive of the mind that
nect up Samshuipo as well. There hawker' was charked with receiving Kowloon City on December 24th, is no change in the number or a motor car mascot, valued at $26, while the master and mistress of TO LET. From FIAT FEBRUARY, sees the interdependence of detail
position of stopping places on knowing same to have been stolen the house were away, was yester- No. 2. KELLETT BOUSE,
TOLSTOY, who gave a not dis similar and the significance of the finished
that part of Taipo Road which is The woman's defence was that she day committed for trial at the PEAR. Four Rooms, Flush System,
to Russia. message
now avoided by reason of the bought the article from a small boy February Sessions by Separata Kitchen, Servants Quarters, structure. He was a master story
change, and additional localities six months before and old "it to Conveniences. --- Apply - All Modera
Schofield Tragedy, though relieved by
at the Kowloon Magis teller, incident following incident,
will he served.
the complainant's river. The Matracy. DEACONS, PRINCE'S BUILDING, 1298
till the final serne completed his comedy and idyllic love, scenes,
gistrate fined the woman $15, and Mr. M. A. Grant said that on also ordered her to return the the night in question, he went to presentation of the drama. It was dominates the Wessex novels too
WEATHER REPORT.
dollar ahe had received from the Mongkak with his wife leaving the purchaser. "Tres of the D'Urbevilles" that much to please the reader who
He house in the care of the ninah. had never asked anyone to call only wishes to amused," and placed Mr. HARDY among the great
SOME DRIZZLE !',
there while he was away. Hore- igures of English literature. Since the author's supposed atheism
turned home at about 11 p.. and Yesterday's weather report, fore-
found the house in 'disorder. His Shakespeare there has been no such antagonised the churches and many
At the Kowloon Magistracy, nämnh's face was cut and emeared religious people. But his influence cast and remarks, issued by the Chinese was fined 295 for stealing with blood. portrayal of ideal womanhocd.
On the floor was Royal Observatory at 6.30 p.m., bricks, a number of which were pieces of glass. He also found Thackeray might produce a Becky and popularity have been growing, stated
and the entirely English quality of
found to belong to the Kowloon that one ten dollar note, one bag Sharp-a lively marionette, GEORGE
The anti-cyclone has weakened Tong Development Company, and and a notebook were missing. his work tells. If one wishes to slightly but strong monsoon will a woman was fined $15 for receiving MERIDITH could give "rogues in
The man called at Mr. Grant's continue along the SE..cost of stolen property. It was stated residence on the pretext of getting Porgelain," but Tem is the idral return to the scenes and the people; Chine and fresh monson over the that they took the bricks to a house a Bible. He told the amah that of unspoiled womanhood. For Teamoat typical of our race, it is in N. China Son
in Kowloon Tong where they were Local Forecast:-N.E. winds, building a fish pond. despite the cruel sport of "The the pages of HARDY's novels that fresh
generally Overcast. BOIAO
(Oontinued on next Column.) HONG KONG DAILY TAKES OFFICE, Immortals" remains unspoiled, her they can be found.
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