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COLONEL DRURY'S
DREAM.
HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 23rd, 1928.
FAMOUS C.I.D. MAN RETIRES.
安拜禮
DIARY OF EVENTS.
WEEKS DAYS.
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Shatin
Dep. 7.01
Tipo
Dep Dap
7.15
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0.01 5.38
7.
VISION OF SCHOOL 300 YEARS HENCE.
7.15
4,42 5,50
7.23
4.54 18.02
7,35
6.07 15
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51 6.19
7,58
52 8.80
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Tanmati...Dep. 6.49
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Saranghai.Dep 7.35-
Shamahar Art. 7,41 8.45 Caston Art. 11.50
Shamches. Dep. 7:38 8.05
Sheengshai „Dep.
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12.00 8.21 3.09
8.10
12.06 3.28
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8.15
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11.31 11,49
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THE AUTHOR OF THE FLAG LIEUTENANT.
When Plymouth College celebrat- ed its jubilee a series of events in- cluded a special service of com-" memoration in the morning at St. Andrew's Church, followed, by a Lieut.-Col W P. luncheon!
Drury gave a reption in the evenire.
luncheon Lieut. Col. deughtful forecast
At the Drury gave 11 of what Plymouth College might be like in 300 years time, when in ventions used to-day and some din ly imagine may be used for reaching school and for the dis- Kemnation of knowledgs...
World On Top Gear.
It is not of the past, bit of the future that we think to-day,' said Lieut. Col. W. P. Drury, him- seban old pupil of the school, in a speech at the luncheon, in the course of which he drew a futuris the picture from his imagination of the effects of the advance of science upon the college and its students of the future.
NOTABLE MATS.
Losnes, Dec. 27th. The Criminal Investigation De- New Scotland-yard parment will lose, on the last day of this year, the services of Superinten dent Arthur Neil, who has served longer in the department than any other officer, and has earned the distinction of being one of the most skilful detectives of modern times
He is retiring after completing thirty-one and a half years' 'ect- vice, thirty-five of which have been spent in the detective force. Dur ing that long perind he has never boca absent a single day on sick leave."
Arthur Nel was famous long be fore he became one of the Big Four "the superintendents who have charge of the four areas in which the Metropolitan Police dis trict is divided for detective pur- poses."
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日廿月袞年八廿百九仟痘英 PRıcË: <3 PEk MONTH
China New Year Day. Shanghai and Manila Interport Golf Teams due.
Golf: China New Year Meeting. Fanling,
Fanling Hunt: China New Year Paper Hunt (January Cup), meet at Kwanti Stables, 11 a.m.
Cricket League:-Division II.:
Eniversity 2nd XI. R.E.
Friendly Cricket: H.K.C.C. United Services (second dag); Kowloon C.C. Inter-Club match: Married t. Single at Police R.C.; Craigengewer C.C.. Club de Recreio
Football: Taikoo Club . Talkoo Chinese Club, Hik.F.C. grout. p.m.: S.C.A.A. r. Royal Navy, Caroline Hill, 4 p.m.
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Telegraphic Addresoji
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HOTELS,
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Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; Edward Hotel, p.m.; Crawford's Restaurant, p.m.; Cafe Regent, -8.30 p.m.
Hockey: Navy r. Army (5m In 'sacation with the GRAND HOT Shield).
"Dm Wagons Lita, Pyxiko.
Cale Regent dinner dance, 9 p.m. All Queen's Theatre: "Out Night."
Worki Theatre: "The Bat" (3.15 p.m. and 9.16 p.m.); "The Trus Love, Chinese Drama (12.00, 230 p.m. and 1.15 p.m.).
Scar Theatre: "The Winning of Barbara Worth."
Principal Mails:-Inward:
Cleveland),
He has received during his career no fewer than 51 awards and commendations from judges.S.A., Canada, ete. (President and magistrades, but even this praiseworthy record fails to reflect the full measure of his work.
No Grudge.
Col. Drury, who responded to the toast.P.MM. Club," said he had the uncomfortable, conviction that he was the oldest ma pre- kent who was educated at the Fly
the mouth High School, which was Innisio namo
of the Plymouth College before it was married to He had al- Mannanead School. ready been at a carter-school, were inseparably and, the two bleaded in his mind, both with an affections, equal share
intenste in each were though his in his of a widely different character.
"My interest in Plymouth Col lege lies, perform, in the opposite who direction.
Tuesday,
Golf: China New Year Meeting. Annual Ceremony at the HK. af criminals Chinese Chamber of Commnerct, 3 All <LARYS burglars, housebrakers, pickpor kets, horse thieves, ocofidence trick-m sters and murderers have passed be through his hands, and it can said that not one bag over borte
grudge. n
him
++ Urited Cricket; H.K.C.C. Serviers (third day).
S.C.AA. Football:
V. H.IS. Titania, Caroline Hill, 4 p.m.
Tea Dances HK Hotel and Among the nobbe murderers
Hotel Savoy. 4.30 p.33. King this great detective arrested were
Edward Hotel. 3 p.m.
"Lane, Restaurant, the Ruin publicas Crawford'e
4.30-8.30
Cafe Regent dinner danes, 8 p.m.
Theatre: Out All Queen's
When I was a boy it & Veson shrod women in the
had no past at all.
and George Smith, who three brides in a Even to-day drowned his
were sho has only seen two-score years of bath Both these men
lutely devoid of any sense of history pass. I can imagine the spirit of my old school standing be- shame, and died on the gallows
without a word of remorse. side me in rough trunk hose whis
When Smith was arrested he peringWhy this pather about a
You're a
a blithering paltry 50 years. I think only in raid to Neil,
"convict me, so venturies, to which I reply: It-fool. You'll never co is not of the past but of the future that we are mainly thinking to- day
T Visualize Plymouth College 300 youts leace it almost paralyse the imagination. The wond already seems to be racing on is top gear, what it will have attained when the milestones and progress of 50 years been pas sremis almost impossible to conjec- ture.
"hear in my dreams the schoo! bell ringing, and see the sky dárk with hurrying boys. For the schoolboy of 1977 no longer crawle like snail uw Ringly to school.' He flies, unwillingly it may be, yot dies-not in un aeroplane, but. with his own wings propelled by the last word in pocket motors Ax- ed between Jin shoulders.
"Park Wings In Aviary." "I see the negelic host, a little gray perhaps, alight before the now completed block of buildings: I watch them detach and park their wings in the aviary; dein- ble for prayers-selected from a Prayer book revised out of recog
ition, and broadcast to all schools by the Archbishop of Canterbury - before dispersing to the classrooIns. But I see no masters: they have discarded the old cap and gown for dungaree suits, and are con eraled within fireproot iron boxes, Control the from which they modern forces of education.
The kinen, the loud. speaker. the microphone, the dictaphone, television, and a dozen other in- ventions of a mechanical age have rendered the presence of the form master unnecessary, and iders are caned by an eletrie switch operat ed by an omniscient head master from his eyrie on the roof.
get on with " Neil did get on with it, ari by shwer hard work he established the guilt of this most dangerous and callous eri- mil.
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Neil looks like a jovial British farmer. He has a rugged, sony face with twinkling eyes, token ing a keen sense of humour, and thick curly hair envers his head. He rides a home with the gareness of a yeoman.
FAMOUS ALBERTA RANCH
SOLD.'
THE PRINCE AND THE
CATTLE BARON."
p.m.
Night."
World Theatre: "Volcano" (5.15 pm and 9.15 p.m. The Truc Love." Chinese Drama (12.00, 230 p.in. and 7.15 p.m.).
Star Theatre: "Fine Manners.” Principal. Mails:- Outward: Canada, America, etc., Europe ria Victoria, B.C., and ria Siberia (Persident Lincoli), noon.
Wednesday.
Interport Golf: Hong Kong Shanghai (Foursomes).
Fanling Hans: Meet Mr. Souza's Bungalow, 2.45pm.
Sanitary Board Meeting, 415
H.E. the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M,G.) inspects Boy Scouts, and presents Prises of Wales' Banner, Government House, 4.30.p.in.
Lane,
H.K. Hots and Tea Dances: Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.; Crawford's Restaurant. 4.30-0.30
Cafe Regent, ----5.30 p.m. p.m.;
Honkey: Club . R.A.F. (Sim Shield).
Burn's Nicht" Dinner, Volun teer Headquarters, 8 pan.
St. Peter's Church Young Men's
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World Theatre: "Volcano" (5.13. "The True p.m. and 9.13 p.m.); Love," Chinese Drama (12.00, 2.30 p.m. and 7.15 p.m.),
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The famous Bar Uranch in
Alberta,
where
the
Extraordinary General Meeting Southern Prince of Wales stayed with the H.K. Philharmome Society, Cathe- late owner, Mr. George Lane, instdral Hall, 5.30 p.m.... of the pictaresque "eattle barons' of the departs West of the old cattle ranching days, has been sold. The price, £180,000, makes this one of the largest land deals in the history of Southern Alberta. The 80,000 acres of dreded and dinand, in the linngest private- ly owned nanch in the Province.
It was in 1910 that the Prince of Wales, in his first visit to Western Canada, stayed as the late Mr. Lane's gaest, at Bar U." Visitors always enjoyed the cattle- man's bluff Hey! Prince when le wished to call anything to the notice of his guest. On the ranch at the time of its sale were 4,000 head of cattle and a herd of 300 pure-bred Perderon harees-one of
i Perteron, herda the finest Camidui.
Coming to Alberta behind a herd of Montana steers and Texas long-horns" in the early days, the young cow-punchen, George Lane, determined that he would one day own a ranch in Western Canada. Later the dream became and young Late built n reality.
tremendous, entile and horse Since his death business there. the ranch has been managed by Mr. A. C. MacLean; a former Minister of Public Works in the Alberta Government, himself one of the old-timers" of the West. The Tarich and stock have bera by another "Western bought "character," "Pat" Burn, mil- lionaire meat packer, of Calgary, a life-long friend of the late owner.
But, however wildly one may speculate on the means by which i will be attained, I ata convinced that my old school has a great future before it. I should like to The Hotel where you will be happy.
think that fifty years hence some subject of Edward IX. or George a churchyard, VL, rambling in HOTEL GLENEALY
Dy point to a Weatherbenten up stone and say,
*I gather from old newspapen files that the fellow ly. ing there wrote a number of long- forgotten works and plays in his time.
But his one claim to dis- tinction is that he was one of the fir handful of boys to be suested at that famous old school founded in Victoria's reign, and now one of the glories of the West-Ply mouth. College?
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