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NOTES & COMMENTS.
THE AERIAL DERBY.
MONDAY. JANUARY 26.-1920;
DAY BY DAY.
GET YOUR HAPPINESS OUT OF
WILL The visit to Hongkong of the YOUR WORK. OR YOU
KNOW WHAT REAL special Commission which is NEVER organising the first Aerial Derby HAPPINESS IS.-Elbert Hubbard. around the world is an interest- ing sign of the times. If, say five years ago, anyone had talked about the possibility of flying around the world, he would most likely Have been written down the fit candidate for nearest lunatic asylum. Yet in the interica we have had the double aerial cruise across the
A cable has been received in Atlantic by a British dirigible as well as the flight from England the Colony stating that the s.s. to Australia. clear that there should be no
25 A
THE LATE MR. N.G. NOLAN.
FUNERAL AT HAPPY
VALLEY...
The funeral of the late Mr.
AERIAL DERBY.
COMMISSION VISITS
MACAO.
We have been asked to publish
advantages it would be to Macao to have an aerial service and informed members of the Com- mission of the work he has al- ready done in the direction of installing the desired service.
The Far East Aviation Com. pany has ordered to Macao seven Saturday's health return shows N. G. Nolan, Chief Interpreter the following
planes, and ten American pilots Mr. C. E. W. Ricou, a leading and mechanicians, and more will fever, the victim being a Chinese, lamented death we recorded on citizen and business man of be added to the staff as soon as one fatal case of cerebro-spinal at the Supreme Court, whose
Saturday, took place at Happy Macao, owner of the electric they can be secured. Mr. Ricou H. E. the Governor is to Valley on Saturday afternoon.
lighting plant and interested in organised the Company and is the The service was conducted by the developement of one of the leading spirit in putting it into present the prizes at the Victoria
office at most progressive points on the operation. having an sisted by the British Sebool on Wednesday at the Rev. Father Bianchie, as-
China Sea, received the Commiss- Hongkong, where, in connection Augustine and the Rev. Father on organising the first Aerial with Hongkong citizens, the
the Derby around world on policy of the Company is to be There was a large attendance,
their arrival at Macso on executed,
The routes flight planned for William Rees Davies, K.C., Mr.
the great the present are as follows:-- Kemp, C.B.E. (Attorney-General). Justice Gompertz, the Hon. J. H. the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, E.C.. The Bishop of Victoria Hong- many representatives of the local kong presided over a very success-legal profession and the whole of Between ful session of the Synod of the the Supreme Court staff.
The deceased was laid to rest Macao Chinese Church in the Diocese.
11 a.m.
Maria...
Rev.
Father
It thus becomes/Eastern has sailed from Syoner among those present being Sir Sunday, and discussed with them!
difficulty about dying around the globe. All that is needed is the planning of proper routes and the provision of a sufficient number of landing places. That, together
with creating
many
the
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on
for Hongkong with non-Unionists whether engineers or officers is not stated.
Victoria
at
his home,
Present time transportation
and
Time esti- mated by air
Hongkong
30 Miles Boat Four Hours
30 Minutes
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$5
Rail
.60
12
31
Hongkong Shanghai
Manila
$16
1200
Two and half days
8 Hours
Three days
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that
the
DEACON.Victor Hobart Deacon, at Weymouth, England, on american airmen in France.ters on the wall in Seymour Road morning, before the business of can be established at Kowloon, any assistance he hoped his ser-
15th January 1920. (by cable).
Nicholas George Nolan, aged 44 years.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1920.
work in the States.
WHAT OF HONGKONG?
we
that all know
it had been
these
Nolan.
for
to
be
re.
at
met
object world interest
his late father and Hongkong Canton in aeronautics and air travel, is It was held at Canton from in the Roman Catholic Cemetery the aim of the Commission at January 22 to 24. Most of the next to
clergy were present, and lay mother. It might here be men- present visiting the Colony. It is interesting to note that Com-delegates came from nearly all tioned that the deceased's parents The came to Hongkong from Wex- modore Beaumont, who heads pastorates in the Diocese. the Commission. has displayed a Bishop goes to-night to Kongmoon ford, Ireland, over fifty years
Principal Warder at very lively interest in aerial and Hokshan to hold confrmago, and that his father was Shanghai matters, amongst bis numerous ations and he is announced to
There was a very large num-
them GORDON-LEITH-On the 24th January at St. Joseph's benefactions being the establish- preach twice at Canton on Sunday Gaol for many years.
bers of floral tributes, including Many important cities are on assuring
from members of the these routes and the flying boat Furtuguese people mould give Church Alexandra Stopani Gordon 3rd daughter of a. G. Gordoning of an Aviation Officers Club next. February 1st.
Convicted under an ordinance any
will be used exclusively, although a strong support to the movement. Esq. of Hongkong to Alister Cameron Leith, son of the late Alexan- in Paris for Allied aviators,
the equipping of a Club
there are good field landings at He thanked the Commission for SUPREME COURT'S TRIBÜTE. der Leith Esq. of Bedford.
the American lines for aviators which was no longer in force, the official and legal communities.
Ar the Supreme Court this Shanghai and Canton and one calling and said if he could be of at the Front, and the provision of Chinese who was fined $10 recent- ofly for inscribing Chinese charac- other necessities
vices would be speedily com- Mr. Ricou is an expert aviator|manded, and that some time in Besides being well-known in urging his countrymen to boycott the day commenced, the Chief opposite Hongkong.
the local Sincere. Wing On and Justice (Sir William Rees Davies, business circles he has evinced a
to his capital city, Lisbon, in NOLAN-On January 23. at the Government Civil Hospital practical interest in charitable Sun Companies because they soldK.C.) and the Puisne Judge (Mr. and was in charge of aviation in the near future he hoped to travel being Japanese goods, was to-day given Justice Gompertz) sat together to Indo China during the war, being by the air service from Macio to
While it is probable at present Portugal. Mr. J. R. Wood
Macao is the pioneer settle- amongst other things a director back his fine on the discovery of pay tribute to the late Mr. N. G. located at Saigon.
may not be There were also present in that Macao of the National Hospital for the mistake.
said that the conviction was now Consumptives in Denver.
withdrawn on the ground that the Court the Hon. Attorney General presented in the Aerial Derby ment in the Far East and dates
likely quite defendant was charged under an Mr. J. H. Kemp. K... the around the world. the colony back to 1557. It is a wide awake progressive Colony and worthy aviators of a visit from travellers. A new Ordinance which was no longer Crown Solicitor (Mr. G. H. Wake- is
man). the Assistant Crown stopping place
or west and hotel would offer additional in- We shall all be deeply in-in existence, as terested in the outcome of the suspended by proclamation in Solicitor (Mr. Leo Longinotto), travelling east
the Hon. Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C.. to encourage. the good work ducements to visitors who would Mission's vis so far as Hong-1913.
the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, in aviation going on. the Commis-prolong their stay did ample kong is concerned. Other places |
0. B. E.. Mr. F. Eldon Potter. sion appointed Mr. C. E. W. Ricou accommodations exist.
While at Macao the Commis- The Russian Grand Opera in the Far East are taking up
were presented to His J H. Gardiner, Mr. Leo Macan, which Mr. Ricou accept-sion the question of aviation with a Company gave two performances Mr. E. C. Jenkin, C. B. E.. Mr. their Special Commissioner for very marked enthusiasm: Aero on Saturday. producing "Madame Clubs have been established in Butterfly" a: a matinee and "The D'Alamada, Mr.W. E L. Shen-ed, essuring the Commission his Excellency Lew Yuk Lin, LL.D., and Barber of Seville" at night. Both ton, Mr. D. J. Lewis. Mr. G. hearty co-operation in assisting in formerly Minister from China to Peking and Shanghai,
his daughter, Miss Lin, who was Canton operas were much enjoyed, the Hayward, Mr. Agassiz and Mr.the organisation and in conduct-the Court of St. James, and to Mr. Ricou presented the Com-educated in Boston.. Dr. Lin is COMMERCIAL TRAINING AT UNIVERSITIES. is becoming increasingly interest latter especially. The Company's Arculli, representing the legal ing the Derby.
The Chief Justice said that mission to His Excellency Gor-now Salt Commissioner at Canton ed in aviation, being or the route Season here is drawing to a close, Profession.
Correia da Silva, who and said the Cantonese were of the projected flight from Rome but there are still some enjoyable before proceeding with the busi-ernor
much interested in aviation and to Tokyo. Of course, Hongkong evenings promised. To-night
Governor Correia da Silva was that a warm welcome awaited refer to the loss that the Court and al- It was no mean accomplishment fora youth in his twenties to being an island whose marked "Rigoletto" is to staged, in place ness of the Court he desired to received them in the palace.
there. leave his University and to become, in four years of warfare, a physical peculiarities would make of "The Huguenots,"
Chief Interpreter. Mr. Nolan Naval station in the Azores.
The movements of. the Com- The qualities of courage, it extremely difficult for airships though the public is likely to be had suffered by the death of its formerly Admiral in charge of the the Commission on their arrival general in command of a brigade.
The Governor welcomed the frequent
has been connected with the abnormal intelligence, and that intangible gift of commanding men, to land on it, it would seem to the confused by were essential in the highest degree. Britain had many young layman doubtful whether it could changes at short notice, to-night's
knowledge of the Chinese pressed a desire to know more Canton, and it is quite probable generals serving with distinction in the war, and quite a number of ever become a stopping place in play is one of the best in the Court all his official life and his Commission to the Colony and ex-mission were well known
language and various Chinese of their work which he had read an Aero Club will be formed in them were undergraduates in 1914. But it is perhaps more remark- a world Derby, though if an Company's repertoire.
dialects was great. He might about through the columns of that city, which will be the third The old, old tale of the arms
Club organised in China. able still to see. now the war is over, these young generals go back aerodrome and flying grounds.
The Commission also Details of the route of the that To their books, take up the thread of their studies where it was were laid down in the New Ter-
Chinese interpreter. In "a friend broken, and set about equipping themselves for civil careers with as ritories there is no reason why and ammunition being given him attingly be described as an ideal the press.
to carry was Court his assistance in the ad- Derby, its object, and benefit to Captain D. R. Warl and Mr. at the Police much zeal as they showed when they were called, as amateur the Colony should not display an by
ministration of justice had been the world were made known to Luther Nelson, prominent re- soldiers, to face the greatest military power in the world. This is interest equal to that of Canton again revived
The defendant Court to-day.
The next stopping place of the has had to settle. When war was declared. her universities emptied perhaps
Chief Justicel had been in close preciated its great value to the is rung of us think, when travel by air America. worth $25.000, and be matter to replace him. He (the work of the Commission and ap interested in aviation. as speedily as a theatre empties when the
the final
could will be quite common, and it had no intention of concealing personal contact with him for Colony the establishing of an Commission will be at Saigon in All act.
who students down upon persuade the recruiting authorities to accept them got into would be obviously to Hong-the
his co-operation in the heavy hoped the Commission would Canton. and from Saigon they 크 Chinese constable to khaki and went to learn a different lesson in a sterner school, kong's benefit to see what can be Evidence was, however, given over eight years and he valued aerial service would produce. He Indo-China, after their visit to found litigation that had engaged the visit his native country, Portugal will proceed to Singapore, which is a point from which visits are effect that he A terribly large proportion of these young men gave their lives, done to secure a recognition of by
attention of the Court. Personal- and inform the people of the pro- ammunition. Some gave limbs and health. The least these students gave were the Colony's claims to considera- the
amounting) Eve years at the must important period of their lives--the years in tion when it comes to laying the
premature death and it was in organisation of the Derby, Sumatra, Celebes, and Siam. which they were to equip themselves for the careers which they down the regular transportation to 12 rounds, and two parts of he greatly deplored his gress the Commission had made contemplated to Java, Borneo,
lines. We wish the Commission revolver, carefully concealed in al had chosen.
There are 1,500 ex-officers at Oxford alone. Many of them have all success here, and trust that trunk belonging to the defendant fitting that they should express been helped by the experiment made by the British Government its visit will have all the happy After Mr. Farebrother Mason sympathy with the widow and The Puisne Judge said:-- who set aside six million pounds to enable demobilised officers to results that its members look for, had made known the statement children in their surrow.
of the defendant to the Magistr te Mr. Attorney General. Having
RESOURCES. Take a university education. That experiment has been more than
His Worship imposed a fine of known the late Mr. Nolan ever
Heavy seas at Dunwich, in justified by its results. The promotors of the Government's scheme!
$25.
since the year 1897, I desire to COMMITTEE MEETS TO-DAY.
have no doubt anticipated the advantages "they would confer on those who received their grants, but they can hardly have foreseen the
Quantities of broken rice which say a few words. His knowledge
The inaugural meeting of the Suffolk, are reported to of Chinese was accurate and pro- great benefit to the universities as a whole which has resulted from athletics. we are glad to hear that the example of application to work set by the ex-officer students, there is every prospect of a fine the Dairy Farm people had found. In addition to this he Committee appointed to enquire brought down half the tower of in the forthcoming intended for consumption by also spoke fluently Spanish into and report on the economic Dunwich Church, which fell into They felt, when the scheme was first started, that men who had contest been on active service would not easily recover the habit of study, and Marathon Race which is being their cattle at the Pokfulum Portuguese and Talaga. He was resources of the Colony was held the sea.
the Hongkong Farm had from time to time mys a great interpreter, but I think he at the Council Chamber this after old edifice is doomed, as the cliffe are falling on either side of it- that, being older than the normal undergraduate, they would not fall organised by readily into the restrictions of university life and its discipline. Boxing Association. A few days teriously disappeared in small was more than this-he was an noon, there being a full attend- What bas actually happened is that these older ex-service men ago we published a list of some handfuls. Asuspicion arose that artist in interpretation. He took ance of members.
His Excellency the Governor The tale of the East realise very fully that they will soon have to turn to the business of the entries and from what we some of the farm hands might a great personal pride in his work
and he was always anxious to find briefly addressed the Committee, churches which have vanished in a Daily Chronicle of their lives, and this has produced a genuine keenness to learn and have heard since it is clear have
no lack of their congee by making off with a fitting phrase and the proper offering a few words of advice. He the sea is a long and romantic and has given a sense of reality to their studies. Economics seem that there will be to. have the first claim on their interests, for most of them have competitors. It will be recalled the rice. This turned out as word. And he was never satisfied pointed out that a similar Commit-one (58
and in ia the last Hongkong suspected,
many until be had done so. I desire to tee was appointed in Ceylon in writer.) Buton many other parts decided on business careers as the best way in which to help their that
responsible join the Chief Justice in an ex-1915 and that it had then been of the English coast the constant
often too
라 neglected mat- country in its task of reconstruction. All the British Universities Marathon the winner was froin cases the coolies
thefts were pression of deep sympathy with found better to publish interim erosion is serious, and, one fears,
To ter.
deal satisfactorily are co-operating in the very thorough measures taken by the one of the Indian regiments, and for
reports from time to time instead The com- we learn that on this occasion the fined by the Manager. A further his family.
with it of Course presents Government in preparing men for commercial careers.
The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp. of waiting for a full report. He that should
many difficulties and demands prehensive scheme of the University of London is more or less Indian Army will again be re-example was made of one of typical of those taken by other universities. Its details, incidentally, presented by a number of natives them at the Police Court to-day, Attorney General, said: Will suggested that
That old church of Dunwich have been framed with the advice and approval of leading business who are by no means novices at when Mr. N. L. Smith imposed your Lordships allow me to add be done here. He also suggested the spending of a lot of money.
In its fullest form the scheme gives four years training, the game. They will make a big on him a fine of $23. or in the a few words on behalf of the the appointment of sub-commit- beginning with a grounding in general business methods and in effort to win the Telegraph cup, alternative, one month's hard legal profession? .We desire to re-tees to consider the different mat- such subjects as modern languages, geography in relation to com- but they will not have matters labour. Evidence was given to spectfully associate ourselves with ters which came up and whilst he represents all that remains of the merce, and economics. The final period is devoted to specialsed all their own way, for there are the effect that defendant was our Lordships, expressions of would be willing to appointfurther once noble seven churches that training in the particular industry which the student proposes to some good men amongst the seen leaving the cowshed with appreciation, regret and sympathy members of Committee if found made the ancient port a solid, re- enter. The course culminates in the award of a Degree of Commerce, naval nominees. The training the rice. Full provision is made under the scheme for young men and work has already begun and the boys who cannot devote four years. to taking their Degree. They public is beginning to eagerly are enabled to study after business hours or even at a distance. still await the date of the race. It obtaining the same advantages of skilled help and advice available will be a fine test of endurance. HONGKONG DEFENCE to those with more meane and leisure at their disposal; and they But it's early yet to attempt to can ultimately sit for and obtain the same degree with the status which that degree will confer in the commercial world. The scheme also provides for those who have already entered business but who
one of the phases of the post-war problem of education which Britain in aviation. The day is comine said he had been s merchant in rast and it would be no easy His Excellency, who approved the sidents of Canton, who
men.
the
curtain
sooner
THE MARATHON.
than some
To pass from aeronautics to
spo: the winner.
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arms and
deprived the
the
CORPS.
ammunition.
Cows of
COLONY'S ECONOMICE
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
are
The remainder of the
Coast
Really first class interpreters necessary, he suggested that ex-spectable town. We should know are bora not made, and Mr. Nolan perts should be called in to give very little of the bravery of the for the lucky discovery of a great was a born interpreter. My own evidence. He would always be city under the sea if it had not been from a wreck. This box contain. for his abilities are based on an needed. respect for him and my admiration happy to give any assistance fron box washed up on the beach Under the presidency of Sired the records of Dunwich from: acquaintanceship of over twenty years, and I think that respect Paul Chater, C.LG., the Chairman the year 1595, and very curious
then
and miscellaneous reading they and admiration are shared by all on the Committee, it was Reference Order dated 14. 1. who knew him and had to work decided to hold weekly meet-make. What one chiefly admires in the Board Room of Messrs.of the Jacobean days is their require special instruction in individual subjects such as a foreign CHINA REFLUATED. 20, all former members of the with him. I desire to Dressings on Thursdays of Mare about the Dunwich Magistracy
Corps are required. to return own sense of the loss the Court language to enable the learner to take charge of a foreign branch.
their arms, ammunition and has sustained and to offer our Jardine, Matheson and Co., the unfailing kindness to strangers, Scotsmen. All the British universities are now very full. Moka accommoda-
first meeting to be held on and especially to Thursday. tion is required than ever before, and large and important develop- Mr. O. H. Ritter, the agent of equipment to store immediately. sympathy to his family.
James, it seems, brought many of ments are taking place to meet the ever-increasing demand for the China Mail Steamship Com-Those who intend to join the new
Some discussion then took his countrymen with him, and university training. The trend of Britain's whole system of education pany, received a telegram last Corps may have the same rifle is to move forward more rapidly than it has ever done before. The night from Nagasaki stating that and equipment back again if they
Vienna-Eighty per cent of place on what matters the "Com- some got stranded in Dunwich. universities will also incidentally tend to become more consmopolitan. the 8.5. China, which went wish when the new Corps is
the children in Vienna, the short mittee should consider, and Sir One item reads, "Given to a Foreign students were always welcomed, but many more facilities aground at the mouth of the formed.
Officers and Warrant Officers est of all the food-short spots in Paul Chater promised to ask the Scottishman being sicke in the are now being offered to men from other countries who have attain- barbour, was refloated on Sunday
please. ed a certain standard in scholarship and who wish to complete their and is going into into dry dock are required to return their re- Europe, have rickets or some Government for a written state-towne, to send him bence, its."
investigated. education and to obtain a degree from one of the British seats of for preliminary examination to-volvers and ammunition to store other serious disease from mal- ment of the questions it wished Which you may interpret as your us
learring
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immediately.
SHORT OF FOOD IN VIENNA.
nutrition.