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Temporarily the old China hand | The programme at the Heleda enjoys a slight advantage because May Musicale to-day, at 5.30 p. (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5) his part of the world happens to will consist of French. Modern be in the picture or pictures, and Music." he is likely to have some slightly
The extraordinary general meet ing of the Hong Kong Philhar monic Society, held last evening, private, being for members only. at St. John's Cathedral Hall, was
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the week ending January 7th amounted to 97,600 tone, and the sales during the period to 33,857
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Brevet Col. F. 8. Montague- Bates, who commended the Surreys Talons house has ben appointed to command the 141st. (5th Lon- don) Infantry Brigade, Territorial Army,
Among passengers leaving the later knowledge than is possessed Colony yesterday.by the Blue Fun- by those at Home, but the mere fact) vel us. Antenor were Mr. and Mre Grown, Bottled and Shipped by of having resided in or near China R. Mein Austen:"
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These post war conditions make life hard for the easterner, who is no longer a curiosity or a public figure. He cannet now pose as a bearer of the white man's burden, especially when he has to admit he pays no income tax, for that is regarded as the great bürden. Nor ense has be the temerity to speak of the hardships of his life as the price of Empire. for he has been found out. Too many people know. An other sorrow that weighs heavily -upon-him-is-that-his own interests, are of slight importance to English people who think they are concerned with bigger thing the price of petrol, the result of the next rugger match and such matters. Moreover, his friend clearly shows that he is interrupting his really serious work in order to listen to an exordium on China. It may be all very interesting and that sort of thing but after all England only gets, or
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IN ENGLAND- NOW,
As old Hong Kong resident, now at Hume on holiday, is having a rather disappointing experienc judging from the tone of a recent Jetter In England twenty years ago, he write, it was quite sufficient to take a ticket to Paris or Switzer. land and then return, wettle down in one's own native, village or town and for the next ten years or more
accept the homage due to one who
had accomplished something really remarkable in the way of adventure. or trail. Distinction was then SHADKIWAN-STANLEY quite easily earned by the average
LOSTAD OF JANGAIWAN TANZ
TI
"THE LASSIES.'
A COMPLIMENT TO THE FAIR SET.
sentiments of Spring married to ROUND THE POLICE
Winter
What can young lasise, what
shall a young lassie.
What can a young laaste 'do
wi' an. muld man Bad luck on the pennis that
tempted my Minnie To sell her poor Jenny for
siller en lan! He may find, that, instead of be ing rejoiced by the wife of his
He's peevish and jealous of a' when I tell him thi I think I na. the young fellows"
in every sense of the phrase, an arring for the lassies. I hope I wavering for the Inssies when I quote again
A man may drink and no be
The toast to "The Lassies" was bosom, entrusted to Mr. W. Kay.
In submitting this toast, Mr. Ray said he did not suppose there was a man in the room who knew less about them (the lassies) than he did. (Laughter.) That was Scotch modesty, (Laughter.)
humorous vein, that he had been Mr. Kay went on to relate, in lured into proposing this toast. The invitation came at Christmas, he said, and like his bills, remained un- attended to. When it was too late to retract he had to accept the responsibility of submitting the toast.
drunk
A man may fight and no be
Blain;
A maa nay kiss a boɑng lass,
And ay be welcome, back
again."
תות
after
on the Ill he
on
COURTS.
AN ORDERLY NEW YEAR.
MAGISTRATE'S "LENIENCY.
Chinese New Year cases figured in the police courts yesterday, but they were mostly of A very innocuous brand relating to i- timed letting off of crackers, alt offence which the Magistrate view- ed with a paternally lenient eye, Mr. Lindsell remarking that dr vers should be on the look out for sudden burstings of orackers and he himself had driven through several Chinese streets without experiencing sny discomfort.
time for gambling for joss" be No more gamblers appeared-the
ing over-and there were no serious offences,
Not His Best Ass Bachelor. Mr. Kay has spoken well; for bachelor. But it was not as a Why, he asked, was this toast bachelor, that Burns said his best
CRACKER FIRING CASES. always given to a bachelor to pro things about the lastics. He M-
When a number of Chinese were pose, especially disappointed cene a married anun very old singistrsey yesterday for Baring summoned to appear at the Central bachelor like himsel Why should in life and became 26 good it not be given to a married man
that. His verses Crackers to the danger of the public with more experience of the lassies 7 DC The Tarbolton Lusses, The or without permits, Mr. R. E Was it because they had not enough Mauchline Belles, on Clarinen, on Lindself remarked that he was not admiration of the sex?
The Highland Lassic, on The Lass at all in sympathy with such
pro Ballochmyle One Chinese case of all-pox he spoke to his "boy"
Lovely cutions just because a man Mr. Kay went on to reinte how Daises"Bonny woe thing, canne
of
thrown some crackers into the was reported from Kowloon during subject of the fair sex. and said thou
lovely
street. wee thing, wert the four days, eadeil on Tuesday that when his "boy" asked him fect in their kind. But deeper in
etu."-these are all and there was also one Chinese why he did not take a wife be
(Mr. Kay) retorted "Would I be national influence, is what he wrote Its sweetness, more potent in its of diphtheria from Victoria
more comfortable if I did (" Whereupon his Mongolian philoso during that period.
pher returned an emphatic aega The is ordinary annual meet in explanation, the "buy" told him. Live reply. Laughter:) Further, ing of the China Provident Lona that when an Englishman, which & Mortgage Co., Ltd. will be held probably included Scots, catches at the office of the Company, thishman-No (Laughter.)
wife, wife inakee No. 1, and Eng. Hoor, Pedder Building, on Monday, February 6th, at noon
after marriage, now inscribed on monument in the Square of Dumfries.
me.
To make a happy reside
For weans, and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime
Of human life." a-Chose To Return To Jean-
Armour."
Poetry, continued the apeaker, spoke both complimentarily and in terms of cynicism of the lassics. Shakespeare had it Frailty thy A Chinese woman was removed to
name Woman, and again
Men the Governinezo Civil Hospital on were deceivers ever."
The Poet they were celebrating Port of Tuesday suffering from severe scalp that night was
ladies' man no wounds received when she doubt, and he showered compliments knocked down by a tram-car in Des on them. The speaker thought the Verux Road
Another finest lines Robert Burns had writ- ten in this respect were in Green admiftance to hospital was a coolie Grow the Rasbes O," in which he who was injured by getting in the wrote:-
Central.
way of a motor-car al Aberdeen.
1
"
uned to get, tin. and silk, from
There will be a side of Crown China, neither of which seems to Lard at the Public Works Depart he lacking now, judging by the ment Offices to-day, at 3 p.m. The enormous number of ten shops all tot in question is situated at over the country and the latest Frinen Edward Road, adjoining ladies' fashions. If he has any view | New Kowloon Inland Lot No. on Chine he agrees heartily "with | 1906. The los for sale known as the toast that is drunk by the New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1118, has an area of 3,350 square feet, Defence Force every night.
and the upset price is $3,380, this is China! then China for auuual Crown rental is 816. «
The
the Chinese" He simply cannot understand why any reasonable person wants to go to China when
"So
London is such a pleasant place
There was a very large atten- dance last evening at Lane, Craw ford's Restaurant for the fancy
+
Auld Nature swears the lovely
dears,
Her neblest work she classes D. Her 'prentice hand she tried on And then she made the lasses O."
mo,
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The majority of those summoned failed to appear and had their bail eatreated, in dealing with those who were present, his Worship im posed faes of 81 in four cases and another was fined 82. The defen dants were cautioned and die In supporting the charge against charged in other cases
Chinese who threw crackers into the street from a verandah at Wan- chai, a police offers painted-out- the denger to motor traffic with crackers barating in front of the cars. His Worship said that in view of the Chinese New Year, every car driver would naturally take the precaution to have his, hood up. He had himself driven through Wanghai several times dur enced no trouble. ing the holidays and had experi-
Before he was able to write that, Burns had given up much. A famous critic, not always favour able to Burna, has said that the three things necessary to the up
genius
prosperity, social acquaintance, and appla Burns found these in Edinburgh in 1767 He might have enjoyed them In the case of a Chinese from his life. With their support bei West Point who was summoned for right have risen to even greater ring crackers dung prohibited he is now established. But he chore prosecution as bad. He said that heighta than the pinnacle on which hours, Mr. Lindsel termed the
to return to Jean Armour. He it had Lemn held before that the thought that a small farm, or £50 Guvernment notification only cover a year as an Exciseman, in the ed the firing of strings of crackery country with a wife and family from houses, and not the little was worth social acquaintance, or growing the prohibited hours. The defen- more than prosperity, squibs, which did not come under
is usually instanced as the symbol charged. Jame. The Roman Mark Antony dant in this case was also dis- of the world well lost for love. But the Roman is an ignoble example, as compared with the Scottish Robbie Burns.
That Sit, is why the tonst is so this universary.
Laules In Competition. Continuing, Mr. Kay said that whereas the lassies "had formerly been a slave to man they were now in competition with him, on an importanty on equal basis. lawyers, doctors, and yes,
They bad to-day And that is why I am glad to be even able to say on behalf of the Lassith, schoolmasters among the lassies. that I thank Mr. Kay for what he Scotland had not been behind in has so admirably said, and thank this. For instance, he noticed that you for the spirit with which you only one 1st class football club in have honoured the toast Great Britain had a woman on the
Mr. Kay has orstwhile given ex Board of Directors, and that was preavion to
in Suranga Bachelor's Philosophy
Dominic's Doggerel." But what he has said
dress carrived duck Young adam's and appinuse.)
Peter's Church Men's Club. Prizes were given for the
After continuing in humorous best fancy dress costumes and for vein, Mr. Kay paid further tribute the most original costumes. The to the fair sex. Referring to mother
Titania Melodians supplied the hood he spoke of environment and music, and the programme was early training, especially in the thoroughly enjoyed.
years of adolescence, when the mother was responsible for the most part with regard to the building of character. Any man, he said, who deserved and earned respect, owed it to his womenfolk.
Sines the great war there in a tired attitude towards adventure; the arent aim is to settle down snugly in England, buy a car and travel about the country which is full of historic interest and offers all that
Members are reminded that the annual meeting of St. Peter's a rational creature could wish.
Church Young Men's Club will be The motto recently suggested for held to-morrow (Friday) at the the London County Council is "He when The Bishop of Victoria (the of the toast to "The Lassies" with Club House, at 8,30 p.m. prompt Mr. Kay concluded his submission that is tired of London is tired of
Rev. C. R. Duppus) will the following quotation from Sir Life" and this is about the key Hun. Secretaries and the Hon.
The reports of the joint Walter Scott
nole of Home life at present. Of Treasurer, will be presented an course, 'to appreciate the advantages Executive Committee for the en- the election of officers and an of English life it is necessary to suring year carried out.
The ques- tion of holding an annual dinner miss it occasionally for
in February will also be discussed. periods. That appears to be the
short
reason why holidays are o casionally taken on the continent.
The theft of a gold chain worth $100 was reported by Capt. De la
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or the Far East was an achieve
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FLATS ΤΟ LET
ment.
!!
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"A
tonight is worthier expression of the more typically Scottish creed which Burns versed when he wrote I has been blythe wi' comrades
dear;
That happy night was worth
them a,.
PORE SELLER FINED.
A charge of exposing for sale. wholesome pork WAS proved against a Chinese before" Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday.
Mr. Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, des
Reidy assistant, cribed the pork as patrid and unft for human consumption.
Worship remarked that defendant's In imposing a fine of $25, his statement that his only son had a mi e Chiese New Year Eve was .: a mitigating circumstance: CAUGHT ON STAIRCASE.
A Chinese who was found on the staircase of No. 21, Leighton Hill
has been merry drinking; | Road at 1 am. on Monday was I had been joyful gath'rin gear; charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell hae been happy thinking: as the Central Magistracy with be- But a' the pleasures ere I saw.
there for an unlawful purpose. The three times doubl'd
The man pleaded guilty and fairly,
admitted that he had stolen jewel- lery, worth over 82,000 on three previous occasions from the same house. The police said that the defendant was formerly employed. by the complainant's husband: aerated water factory and visited the house on various occasions to do
some carpentry work. It was alleged that he stole the jewellery during such visits.
Defendant was remanded until Saturday"
Amang the rigs of barley On behalf of the lassies I thank
you.
Professor Simpson's Speech was punctuated with much laughter and applause throughout.
THE MUSICAL PROGRAMME.
"O Woman in our hours of ease, "Uncertain, coy, and hard to
please; And variable as the shadic By the light quivering aspen
made; When pain and anguish wring thetish in charseter,
brow:
A befitted the evening, were given by Mr. G. McLeod, Mr. J:W. Blackley, Mr.
A ministering angel thou."
Loud applause.)
THE REPLY,
THE JOKE IS ON THE
BACHELOR
During the evening songs, Scot
Mr. G. Grimble accompanied as the piano for the vocalists.
Ma
zz an
TWO CHARGES DROPPED. The Chinese who had been before Stewart and Mr. Butcher, while Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central others present also contributed to Magistracy on a previous occasion the enjoyment of the evening on when he was charged with stealing the entertainment side.
letters from, a private box in the staircase of a house at West Point At yesterday afternoon's meeting
and with obtaining money by false WI' MR. MACONACHIE.
was discharged by the Braga suggested that the monthly
As usual, the Row, J. Kirk
yesterday. Replying to the toast of "The Maconachie was immensely popular fendant was lucky in that there' return made to members of the
His Worship remarked that de. The Hospital Comforts Commit Board of the number of cattle
Lassies,' Professor R. K. when he gave his usual interlude (of was not sufficient evidence to con- the fatted calf, as well as long years toe begs to acknowledge, with many swine imported into the Colony, SIMPSON aid:Mr. President. Mr. halt an hour) of instances of Beotvict him on, the original charge..
nod of honourable and respectful retire-thanks, receipt of parcels of litera Pk He thought they would toast is for me a great honour and pany laughing all the time with his
should also be sent to the local Kay, Gentlemen, replying to this tish humour. He kept the com- of stealing letters. ture froh Mr. Langston and Mrs. prove of much interest to the pleasure. To answer for the lassies humorous sallies. -How different it all in now-a-days, | Pryde.
TRAFFIC OFFENCES. must be a pleasure for any man, general public.
instance, went on Mr. Braga, and I shouldn't mention it; but it tion, he recalled the many previous and few offences against traffic re-
At the conclusion of his contribu
There were no serious accidents how hard is the lot of the mere
Mr. Don Tinling, Traffic Man- that imnis were imported, special reason. Burns once visited attended, and remarked that he Year holidays, and Mujer C. Will-
the figures for November showed gives me special pleasure for a
16 Burns Nicht" traveller or dweller in the Far
Eger for the Orient for the Dollar while in December a month later my native place. He liked it so well, i had eaid something" at each fune son had very few cases to deal. Dinners he had gulations during the Chinese New East. The hairdresser enters into
and Admiral Oriental Lines, sailed this figure went up to 31,000.
that he wrote a poem asking ation, even at the first, when he was with casual conversation with him by for Shanghai on Tuesday by 3.8
The President agrece to supply honny isnie to go courting with
yesterday #t the Central the Press with the figures in future, him there. That poem, The Birks taken by surprise when called upon Magistracy.
to "speak by Mr. G. M. Young, A Chinese named Tee Kb Fo was but commented that the dealers did Of Aberfeldy, da still a popular not wish the prices to be made song. It was, along with the Auld the chair on that memorable occa-signal at Garden Hond.
whom he remembered as being in summoned for disobeying a traffic on top. The world-wide traveller,
Hundred, the first poetry I or Hong Kong resident, entering
ever read.
Traffic Sub-Inspector Alexander said thas But six, into the spirit of the thing attri-
Mr. Maconachio also mentioned the defendant was a learner and sir, it must often have struck. WEATHER REPORT.
you that there is something odd that this would probably be the had a trained driver sented beside butes the present state of his hair
about this toast being proposed by last occasion on which he would him. Instead of putting on the to tropiest under growth, hoping in
SOME RAIN.
a bachelor. I know it is a attend a "Burns Nicht" "aner brakes when he was signalled to tradition. I 12spect it ia in Hong Kong, but added that hel that subtle way to impress the"
Yesterday's weather report, fore- tradition meant to lend to a joke would, in the years he hoped were clutch The Inspecter added tha
defendant
stepped on barber with his importance. But
cast arx remarks, issued by the And the joke is on the bachalar yet left to him, look back and the report was made by Captain Sanitary Inspectors T. W. H. Royal Observatory at & most annoyingly the barber refuses King, G. Frost, A. C. Sinton, and stated:-
p.m., Because, really, for a bachelor to remember there happy gatherings.Whyte, of Government House
In conclusion, Mr. Maconachie,. The Magistrate fined the defen- referring to Mr. R. G. Shewan, dant 85, remarking that it was t spoke of him as the "Grand Old technical offence due to inex- OM Man of the Scottish Community in perience..
Hong Kong." Not old in years, perhaps, as years went, but old for the East, where the population was constantly changing, and of short duration generally in the Colony-
KOWLOON. pointing out that he is getting thin President Cleveland.
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public.
talk about lassien, is like a blind.
to be duly impressed and the mere S. G.. Poole have been authorised churia is moving eastward. A de discoursing op steamships, or
The anti-cyclone over S. Man man talking of beauty, a farmer
mection of the tropics is sufficient to enter premises and inspect and to send him off into somo, hair seize unwholesome food in accord raising account of his own exploita anco with secution as of the Public while he was with the expeditionary Health and Buildings Ordinance, force in East Africa or elsewhere. 1903.
pression is approaching Shanghai London journalist writing from the westward. Moderate mon- China. Perhaps Mr. Kay is wait 2008 may be expected over the ing till he is ten years richer, marry someone twenty years Local Forecast-East winds, younger. If so let him take warn moderate; overcast; some rain. ing from Burns expression of the
Narth Chins. Sea.
*ion.
A fine of $20 was imposed. on Chinese who was found guilty of travelling at 30 miles an hour n Queen's Road East on January 16th at 9.30 p.m.