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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1921.
THE "WELSH WIZARD.”
NOTES & COMMENTS.
“Wait a Minute.”
SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
AN AGE WHICH HAS CEASED JUDGMENT, WILL SOON CRASE TO TO VALUE IMPARTIALITY or VALUE ACCURACY OF MENT-Lecky.
STATE-
Charles
two or three days we have been Seguin Strahan, resigned. subjected to quite a deal of this
His Excellency the Governor very annoying discourtesy. On has appointed Dr. J. C, Dalmahoy Thursday there was quite a crop Allan to be a Member of the of them. Now, it is time that Medical Board, sice Dr. Stuart kind of thing finished. When Seguin Strahan, resigned.
a busy man is called to the 'phone
The "Cup,"
this morning,
ROBBIE'S RUMINATIONS.
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me that
1896.
HONGKONG TWENTY- FIVE YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong
Telegraph" files for week- ending April and 1896.).
THE DOLLAR. March 27th. The rate of the
2.1/24.
variation
March 28th. We publish to day Mr. C. P. Chater's letters of November 1894 and September 1895 to the Governor, pressing
cellency the urgent need that
notice of the Colonial Office.
March 29th.-In an article.
the
the after this we'll be able poorer classes of Chinese.
VISITOR.
some one moving his shop to new promises. A tele-a-tete is having tea twice, to his mind, while strychinne might be a German post for all be knows or cares. But We noticed in one of our con-
Being Extracts from Home mention golf and his eyes take tomporaries a short while ago an
Letters to his Nephew. new life and he cannot for the article taking to task, the type
life of him keep his wrists from Aye, as I was saying, it's waggling. If ye remain blind to of business man who will make
mighty dangerous thing for the signs and keep harping on the telephone calls by 'deputy-who
Intention to strike off the Re-man to take home a home paper subject it's a pinch of salt to a will instructa Chinese boy to gister the Kwong Hung Insurance from the office wi' a hole in the wizened orange that he'll tell ye ring somebody up and then lei Co., Ltd., the Victoria Cafe, Ltd., middle of it. As sure as fate, the his best drives this year, their surely go to the 'phone when the and the Wing. Loong Co., Ltd., is wife's bound to get her eye on it fight and distance in yards to nollar, on demand, to-day is 28.
gazetted.
right away and want to know all within six inches. If ye can stand desired person is at the other oud.
the whys and wherefors. The wee half an hour of that ye rise con- We bad hoped that our contem- His Excellency the Governor hit that's amissing means more siderable in his estimation even if PHILHARMONIO SOCIETY. porary's little note would have has
to her than the rest of the paper, ye do happen to get fifty dollara a appointed Dr.
March 27th.The second con- made some of those people change Forsyth to be a Member of the advertisements as well, age, than month less than he does; stand it cert of the Philharmonie Society their waya, but within the past Dental Board, vice Dr. Stuart all the news that's coming to ye for fifteen minutes longer and yeight, proved to be, as we pre- given in St. George's Hall last from a yearly subscription to the can count on being asked in to Lennox Herald if it was all put taka pot-luck and if it so happens dicted, the musical treat of the together.
that Mr. Mac has set that even-season. The orchestra was un- What was it ye cut out here?" ing apart for the pictures (she usually well-balanced, and evid- says she.
suffers from serial hemmorhage) opced the great care that had been thing," saya I.
"Oh it wasna' much of any then ye can count on going home given to ensure success.......The "Just a para-wi' one more disagreeable enemy chorus was magnificent, every graph I took a fancy to."'
on your visiting list. That's why
being clearly and But do you think that sort of I argue golf wi' Mao through distinctly delineated, and the he doesn't want to be told by a The China Mail 8.8. Co. is in answer was of any use? Man, the medium of the
orchestra likewise showed its per- office Chinese to "Wait a minuta, receipt of a cable from ite Manila ye may as well try and keep & coolie and the cause of the faction by responding to every
Agency, advising, that the s.s.mad dog off wi' a joely piece as gaping hole in my home paper. alteration of tempo. please," eventually having to Nanking" left that port on the to turn a woman aside that's As things turned out I'd better CESSION OF KOWLOON. wait, possibly, for more than & morning of Friday, 25th inst., and stricken to the corset bones wi' have been hored stiff wi' Mac minute. We have many things she is due here between 10 and 11 curiosity. Mind yo, your aunt's than riskin' my reputation wi to do far more urgent than to
a.m. on Sunday.
a determined woman when she Janet. wait upon the convenience of
likes, Botween ourselves, about someone who wants our co-opera-
Amongst the passengers who the only sure way to keep a Mr. Alfred John Braifield-Bagg wishes to return sinceration in getting something done, left for Home to-day by the 8.8. secret is no' to have one. So I But all the game yon Bishop upon the attention of His Ex- thanks to the many friends for kind expressions of sympathy and and if anyone wishes to speak to Kashmir were Mr. and
Mre. up and tells her the truth or as got my goat. Some solemn folke then existed, and still exists, for floral tributes received in my sad bereavement,
us they should have energy and Maitland, Mr. and Mrs. Leith, near to it as makes no matter, there are who would aye have the manners enough to ring us up Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Robson, In- "Look here Janet", says 1,
nation wondering wearily on "the enlargement of the boundaries of the Colony-north, south, east direct. Apart from the question spector and Mrs. Kont, Lieut. "that paragraph was a bit about things that matter" to the ex- and west-and urging him to of discourtesy and waste
clusion of all. more frivolous Comdr. Kilgour. Mr. A.W. Gibb, Peycho-Analysis" She waited a personal time, there in the
affairs. Of course we must all bring the matter as spoedily and public waste of
Mr. Hollingsworth and Mr. Jupp. bit to let this steep in. time from
"Aye", says she, "I thought as agree that there are more importas effectively as possible to the the Telephone Company's point On Thursday Inspector Fallon much. You men folks are all Bat all the same what they are
ant things in life than golf balls. SANITARY BOARD REFORM. · of view, and the man who will! indulge in the practice we are affected the seizure of a quantity the same. Now if it were a bit of made of and their size are of this morning the Daily Press
of ammunition on board the On news about the Kirk or the way much more concern to lots of refers to now condemning is of the type Lee and Kong Ning. The owners the Government's mishandling folks than the constitution of most prone to grumble at being were Chinese returned emigrants sonte of yon pensions, I don't Saturn or Sirius or even the con- Board on Thursday anent the correspondence lald beforo the Sanitary told that someone's line is from Australia. Fines amounting suppose you'd have noticed it but stitution of the Church itself. exodus of Chinese from the engaged. Telephone users should in the aggregate to $170 wers the first time a man sets his eyes I'll no' say that the followers of Colony in connection with the appreciate the fact that there is inflicted on the defendants by Mr. on something about a naked one are more numerous than the A parvenu millionaire, thinking to be in the fashion as much need for personal by patronising literature, gave a firm of booksellers an courtesy when using the phone. Lindeell at the Police Court wuman, he just naturally stret-followers of the other because the plague and the measures taken to order for all the books that had been published upon chat. If one could secure a as when engaged in a face-to-face)
ches out his hand for the shears would be comparing things bo-stamp it out. It approves of the and before ye can say Eatle Oatio
Sanitary Board and its officers, On the instructions of His that smutty paragraph's inside/tween which there should be no thinks there is no foundation for Napoleon. After some delay a loaded pantechnicon pulled recognision of that, then a great up in front of the millionaire's mansion, whereupon the deal would have been done to Majesty the King, received the outside case of his watch and comparison, but by the Hokey the reports made against them,
this year's Hongkong Census firm's representative explained to the dismayed plutocrat eliminate the cause of much local through the Secretary of State for every man body of his friends has the four Mr. Lloyd had added to and calls attention to Mt. He's that, as his esteemed order would take months, if not years,
remarks on the necessity, and irritability.
the Colonies, His Excellency the to have a look at it, aye, even if
paper the question Are you the immediate necessity, of mak Governor has appointed the Hon. it's in the middle of Queen's Road addicted to Golf?" that particuing some provisison for the ex- to fulfil, the firm had sent "a preliminary instalment as
Mr. Henry Edward Pollock, K.C., on a rainy day."
Man, Aleck, if ye would dis-be as empty na
lar column in the return wouldna tension of the city itself and for an earnest of their endeavours. It has been said that more
to be an Unofficial Member of the
Bome of our the erection by the Government, books have been or will be written about Mr. Lloyd George The cable is in the Association five years, with effect from the keep still ange, Jane
The cable giving the results of Executive Council for a period of cover a woman's weakness, just churches are of a Sunday, than upon any other man except Napolcon. The efforts Football Cup comes as a reminder 9th March, 1921.
aud under its auspices, of cheaper "Look bere, Janet my lass" reminds
Talking of the Census Paper and healthier dwellings for the that have already appeared give an idea of what wide that 1921 is already well under
says I, "Ye're sitting on
maybe divergencies of view may be expected. As one example we way. After the successful somi- There should be a crowded wrong eggs this time,"
to understand batter how it is LI HUNG CHANG A POSSIBLE may take a picture presented by the writer who caused finalists have fought their duel, house at the Theatre Royal to-
Robert MacWhirter," says that some Brittish folks in this
· Mar. 30th.-There seems to be some stir a little while previously with an anonymous the big ball will give place to the night, to bid farewell to the she, "I'll have no more of that Colony manage to get invitations voluine, The Mirrors of Downing Street." It transpires that Country, where King Willow is pany, which has been delighting off she wont again worse than an
little leathern sphere in the Old Banvard Musical Comedy Com-Loose kind of talk from you" and to both St. Andrew's and St some doubt about Li Hung Chang landing here to-morrow. If "A Gentleman with a Duster" is Mr. Harold Begbie, usually likely to draw some big crowds Hongkong audiences for the past engine w' its main drive belt George's Balls. There must be there is no risk of the Ernest
lots more Irish and Welshmen in a critic of the more amiable kind, but he waxes mordant to witness the triumphant Austra three weeks. A grand vaudeville tangled round your neck, It
Simons being.detained in quaran- over the Premier. Another well-known producer of politicians. For the present, Soccer show to be given, when all took me the best part of half anthis place than I ever thought tine at Singapore owing to the
possible. al pen-portraits, again, Mr. E. T.Raymond, who made a hit holds sway and, with a Southern the best numbers of the Com-bour to get her to understand Now if the Thunderer in its old plague here, then he will prob two or three years ago with a similar publication, has the final, the usual high pitch cf be presented.
Club again assured of a place in pany's extensive repertoire will that the Peycho I was talking age takes to giving & ably land at 10 a.m. call on the about had no connection wi' the column on its leading page (and Governor and be entertained at recently painted Mr. Lloyd George in glowing colours. excitement is sure to be main-
Payche she was thinking of Croydon's Bishop says it does)!
Mount Austin Hotel, subsequent- The Premier is Superman, the one statesman who did, and tained, As has so often beon
Tenders are being invited for language and the mind-twisted-
That's the worst of our English then there's some hope for is and witness a grand naval and mil- the only one who could, win the war and steer us through the case, the Clubs its aftermath. Truth is not generally found at the extremes, of the Cup have not been ing the existing filter beds near mind to practise on at a seance ference of Bishops take to look-
fight out the later
the construction of two new filter curiosity of our womenfolks. If life in the old dog yet. The sub-lary review at Happy Valley, and possibly be present at the City stages beds and subsidiary works, adjoin- a psycho analyst ever got Janet's ject doesna' call for apology even Hall at a banquet in the evening. so we may opine that neither Mr. Begbie's nor Mr particularly distinguished in the the fifth mile store, Taipo Road, he'd throw up bis job and take toing down their nose at it. Raymond's verdiet is likely to be the final one. The years, League. None of the four semi-and for the construction of an selling fruit for an honest living. as has often been seen, have a remarkable way of changing finalists is specially high up in earth embankment protected by
After all Aleck, my lad, life is League the stature of men, some dwindling to dwarfish dimensions, the
"What was she onyhow?" except, building debris at Cheung Sha quoth Janet. Well now when ye Hok-(there I nearly said it made up of little things but by the while others do not attain their full altitude in the eyes of Cardiff, and they belong to the wan and the supply of second- come to think of it that's a bit of again and I'm only allowed one a their fellows until long after is just has been inscribed having reached the final, havo an bs. rails and sleepore.
Second Division. The Spurs hand Decauville wagons and 14a poser, especially when it'e pat week). (And enough too, until Reynolds, in succession to the The appointment of Mr. Frank upon their records. Prophecy is proverbially a hazardous opportunity of repeating their
to ye by an angry wife that thinks we know what it means. Ed. late F. H. Townsend, as art editor undertaking. If one might venture to anticipate posterity's success of exactly twenty years
she's being made a fool of. Owing to the dislocation caused
H.K.T.]. As I was saying, it's of Punoh brings an enthusiastic "Well", aaye I, "it's this way. judgment regarding the Welsh Wizard, the kind of verdict ago, when they won the Cup for by the holidays, we regret that It's no feminine at all. Ita aye the little things that as a rule cricketer into the editorial chair. that rises in the mind is that which Carlyle passes upon the North or Midlands since the the photographs of the Hongkong between a doctor and a moral never chased the wee white ba' his own lifelong interest in it
London after it had remained in we are unable to publish to-day business; something
cause the most fuss. The Bishop Mr. Reynolds knows the great Voltaire-viz, that he was not a great, only a dexterous, early days of the competition. Defence Corps rifle team, the detective. The analyst asks ye or he would never have dared to that no cricketer can ever find a cross of What's its Name clearly has English game so intimately by Their opponents will be other students Just now the Premier is engaging in another flirtation Cardiff or the Wolves, who have School who took part in the named a subject. He then says in the affections of mankind.
of Victoria British to think of a word after he has question its title to a first place blunder in his cricket pictures. with the Centre Party idea. Ostensibly the project does to replay. Should the former recent fancy dress dance, the "bottle", you say "whisky" and
And he has a delightful sense of not emanate from himself, but from a body bearing the teams (the term usually embrac- the group taken at the wedding that ye're no' a strict teetotaler. round that way and had a look at
prove successful, two Southern Saiyingpun School athletes and he then deducts from your answer
fan, as has often bean shown in curious title of "The New Member's Coalition Group," whose ing the West) will clash in the of Mr. de Rhodes and Miss That's paycho-anal..
......So Mac and I daundered depicting rural cricket matches. spokesman appears to be Sir Ernest Wild. In 1919 Lord grand finale for the first time Clark. We hope, however, to
You would hardly 'think it, but Birkenhead launched the idea in an interview with a since professionalism appeared.
"Hmph" says she, "I thought the parade. Some parade you be Harmsworth organ, This ballon d'essai met with a mixed
reproduce theso in our issue of as much. If a man's no thinking lieve muh! From the way Bird the London Zoological Gardens next Saturday.
of women, it's drink" which only was acting he must have thought have a population-furred, feath reception, and was officially disclaimed. Since then the The Church & the Cinema.
goes to show ye that some married he had Salisbury Plain or allered, and scaled-of nearly three same sort of thing has been mooted more than once without We see from papers to hand The subscription dance on be-women no only have the last France to turn in. And what's thousand, and in these days of giving definite signs of crystallising. Recent developments are that the cinema is being adopted half of Earl Haig's Fund for Ex-word but the rest of the sentence more forbye, he's got te stop high prices the bill for feeding boggling over bia words these three thousand creatures is probably responsible for bringing the proposal up again.by various churches in the United Service Men arranged by Mrs. as well.
of command and no' get a very serious matter for the The new body boasts of 112 menbers drawn from both sermon and in others to interest a great financial success. The States-in some as an aid to the Harry Woods and daughters was wings of the Coalition, and Sir Ernest Wild hopes that it the children in
Now all this pother was about And the old trick of ticking off done out of the sixpences and his men hopelessly balled up. society, especially as it has to be the Sunday tickets realised $3,072 and the something entirely different will develop into a great National Centre Party pledged schools. The films are of a sale of programmes $314, whilst altogether. The bit I cut out of his own sloppiness is no half an animal like the elephant. An men who went wrong beause of shillings of the visitors. Take to say to Mr. Lloyd George, Whither thou goest, we will religious type, of course, In donations totalled $1.403. This the Times Supplement was on the good enough nowadays. There elephant weighs as much as seven go Evidently the Premier is waiting upon events. The these churches it is realised that brought the grand total to $4,788 standardisation of golf balls. Aye, were lots of them there eager dray-horses, and eats about three strength of the new body is considerable, but at present it often at the expense of church sum of $4,587 was left for the it was a letter from the Bishop they'd gotten half a chance. What daily. With bay at £15 a ton, as people will go to the "movies" and after deducting expenses a faith it was even more than that and willing to do things right if hundredweight of provender does not represent a very large proportion of the 472 attendance and that,, therefore, Fund. This was converted at 28. of Croyden on the subject. The members who were returned at the General Election as the church can well make use of 5d., and a draft for £554 58. 3d reason Janet didna
it has boon, the cost of keeping supporters of the Coalition.
films for its own good ends. has
have a G. G. promoted in one act from the grass-eating creatures is enor beon вель Home. On opportunity of reading the privato to a three star merchant, mous Of bay and clover alone Mr. Lloyd George used the occasion of a dinner given After all, there is really nothing such a magnificent result Mrs. paragraph in question was two- to pull the whole bunch together. nearly three hundred loads are to him by this new body for a wholesale attack upon for religious instruction. Jesus be warmly congratulated.
new in the use of pictures Woods and her daughters are to fold. In the first place I diana"}
Some o' yon kilts need trim-required in a twelvemonth. The Labour as a party of destruction. This sounds a different Himself spoke in parables—
believe in one supplying the ming badly into the bargain and Desh-eaters, which include the enemy wi' ammunition which I note from the Premier's Limehouse days. Mr. Lloyd story-pictures of the lessons He The athletic meeting had under would have done, had Janet a few census papers among them lions, tigers, wolves, and the showing nationality returbe like, must have raw meat. George was wont then to speak of the intelligence of desired to convey, whilst the New the auspices of the South China read a real bishop's tirade on wouldne come amiss either, I'm They are fed chiefly on horse- democracy. It is only too true that disruptive influences Testament is a series of stories Athletic Association took place golf; and secondly, I thought it
flosh, and between them eat over... thinking. are to be found in the Old Country, but the Premier's faculty. Sculpture and painting a large number of competitors the very opposite reason.
making appeal to the imaginative at Race Course yesterday when might do MacPherson good for
300 carcases in a year, Monkeys attack upon the Labour Party as a whole does not present have been the handmaiden of the entered for the events, several of Mac,
WIREORGANBING US. DEMOCRATIC require fruit. They and the other. stymies, rough-ribbed
fruit-eaters eat more than two a balanced view-it carries us from one extreme to another. church from the earliest times. which were designed with a view mashies and standard balls is Mr. William J. Bryan has thousand bananas a week, an It is surely high time that the Premier's own position In fact, the aid masters often to testing the form of likely corn in Egypt. Outside of golf, issued a statement, outlining pro-well as large quantities of nuke, was more clearly defined. Time was when anything employed their art for the purpose athletes to represent China in the stamp collecting and the office, possis for a legislative programme Some birds cannot exist without Bavouring of Protection was anathema to him. In relation accepting the cinema, churches The arrangements were well appear to
of exalting the faith, So that by forthcoming Far East Olympiad. all other subjecte naturally for the proposed reorganised insect food, and for these “ meal- to Home Rule he was prone to be in the van. During the are adopting the newest form of carried out for which great credit also rans. Since he's got back me comprises measures intended from Belgium. As an example him among the Democratic party. The program-worms" are provided, which comes war a coalition was not merely justifiable but practically pictorial art to an age-old purpose, is due to the Committee respon I think he's worse than ever. to accomplish the work of peace, of the way in which prives, have s inevitable. A sufficient period has elapsed since the is just possible that an active sible, and to Mrs. Mok Kong Catch Mac on the Peak Car and to eliminate profiteering, to risen, it may be mentioned that Armistice for legislators to make up their minds as to what eineina may make for better and the winners at the copclusion of Disestablishment and as sure as ance and to restore the rule of be priced at 38. Bd., now cost 16
interest by the church in the Sang who presented the prizes to ask him something onsusily about prevent governmental extravag- these meal-worms, which used to, polours they intend to sail under for the future.
cleaner pictures.
the sports.
gune ho thinks you're referring to the people.
pounds
mai.
tables,
ů.
whole
should a whole. Lambeth Con-
yon parade needed most was a
PARTY.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.