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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1921.
THE HEAVY BURDEN.
THE HONGKONG
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER
TELEGRAPH.
DAY BY DAY.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
Chinese Exchanges.
TAX CONDUCT OF
WISK {POLITICIAN 19 IVES SUITED TO THE PRESENT POSTURE OF
The mania for promoting ax changes which has been so much in evidence at Shanghai and AFFAIRS, OFTER BY FOREGOING other parts of China has evident 4 PART HK SAVES THE WHOLE, ly spread to the Colony. Thai
AND BY YIELDING IN A SMALL tha Chloese should desire to have stock exchange of their own was not astonishing, but no sOGDET There was a clean bill of health had one bean projected than another appeared upon the scene, in the Colony yesterday, And now five bars been register-
ed.
MATTER SECURES A GREATER,— Plaforck.
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All these have been formed To-day's Volunteer Orders stats within a period of a few weeks that the King's Park Range has Now what is the purpose of such been closed..
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DANTE LECTURE.
Sixth Centenary Celebration.
1921
santed a source of international lated the panishment which be inspiration.
fall people who gave up thair
The lecturer proceeded to com-Rives to songual pleasures and pare Dante with such great men who were trattore to their country as Carlyle, Napoleon, Shakes-ar friends. He did not prescribe peare, Julius Caesar and Nalson the form of punishment but and said that Danto's name was portrayed the effects of aril as widely-known and honoured deads. as any. To the Chinese student Various notabla scanes pro certain aspects in the life of Dante trayed in Dante's great work A notable address on the life recalled a similarity with those were explained
with great poet Dante, whose sixth centenary had to make their own bead cause Dante had contributed all and works of the great Italian of Confucius. Both were chil- lucidity by the lecturer, who in
dren born of old age; and conclusion, said that it was be in celebrated this year, was giren |
A TRIBUTE TO ITALY'S GREAT POET.
by Professor Simpson, of the way in their earlier years; both these great works and had in- Faculty of Arts, in the Great Hallere men of great aradi ton, fused his knowledge as he lived of the Hongkong University last both were fired with political am- his life with passion and avening to a large and represent-bitions and availed themselves of imagination as well as reason A number? Have they been
ativa andience. The Italian flag opportunities to put their ideas that they assembled to celebrate established to meet a demand jo A burglar entered No. 28A very appropriately occupied of statesmanship into practice his fame, not as a mere scholar respect of bona fide business, or Caine Road yesterday morning prominent position at the end of Both had a downfall. Whereas or original post, but as so are they opt to stimulate through an open fan light on the the ball, being flanked on either Confucius had to resign, Dante Italian. speculation, as the exchanges are verandab, and stole 30 pieces of side by the British and Chinese was exilad, fined, and condemned doing at Shanghai, already with clothing valued at $180.
At the conclusion of the lecture, national flags. In the absence of so be burnt Confucius went forth M. Petrucci expressed the thanks disastrous results? The matter)
the Chancellor, (His Excellency wander for 13 years and Dante of the Italian community to the engaged preliminary attention
The SL Andrew's Church the Governor), Professor Brown for 19 years.
Arts Association at the recent meeting of the Men's Association bold their took the chair, and associated with The lecturer went on to trace organised that gathering. Pro- for having Legislative Council, so we may annual Service on Sunday sex: him on the platform were the the wanderings of Dante from fessor Simpson's able illustration assume that the authorities in St. Andrew's Church at 11am. Vice-Chancellor (Sir William the time of his exile from his of Dante's life and his works did Five sets of The Lord Bishop will be the Brunyatek, the Bishop of Victoria native city of Flerance, to bisnot need other comment. Daste observing. promoters, however, bare obtain-preacher.
(Dr. Dappuy) Mr.
Justice subsequent death and burial st, wAS to them as Italians the ed official cognizance, and
Gomperts, the Hon. Director of Ravenna. It was interesting to father of their people, and the apparently there are roore In our picture page to-morrow Education (Mr. Irving): Mr. G.N.note, he said, that amongst the highest incarnation applicants for registration. Five will be reproduced six photographs Orme. Dr. Pearse, the Italian great contemporaries of Dante genius. He was the founder of of Latin sounds quite enough to go on illustrating camp life at Lown, Vice__ Consul (Mr. Petrucai) were such well-known characters their language which he raised to
the Lanaigan-Stonham" wedding and Professor Robertson. Among in history as
Regar Bacon, the rank of literary languages. group and the H.S. University those also present were the Hon. Thomas D'Aquinas, Sadi and Those, who fought in the Great Physical Culture Clasa
Mr. J. H. Kemp, the Hon. Direc-Joinville. There was also the great War, had their thoughts directed tor of Public Works and Mrs traveller Marco Polo and it was towards Dante and his status Perkins, the Rev. J. Kirk Macon- rather surprising that speculative erected in Trento by his un- achie, and the Professors and critics who had tried to prove redeemed sons, and his name Registrar of the University. that Dante Aligheizi was of Gertogether with that of Italy, was
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Mr. Rasmussen.
It looks as if we shall have to wait until Mr. Rasmussen
Six months hard labour and gets back to civilisation before
four hours' stocks
the baring our curiosity satisfied as sentence passed on a Chinese this to bow he has been faring all morning at the Police Court. The these weeks. There is a singular chargo was one of snatching raguaness about the reports dismond earring from a woman The latest, emanating from in Claverley street Canton, is that he recently
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The Chairman mentioned the man origin, bad not established often on the lips of those who inability of the Hon. Colonial connection between the Great fell. Every Italian was justly Secretary to attend, and also read Traveller and the Great Poet. proud of Dante, and the arta letter from His Excellency the One might look for internal evid- Association, in honouring in this Governor who expressed Eisence that the information about part of the world the memory of Birth.
wrote to the Chinese officer who A Chinese woman living at Na regrets that owing to an acciden: Cbina displayed in the Paradis this great man, was honouring has the task of tracking him Spring Garden Lane was yester- the invitation had reached him probably, was the result of Dante Italians, and they were deeply URQUHART—A Vancouver on November 23. to Dr. and informing that functionary of day removed to the Government very late and after he had meeting arco Polo.
grateful. He hoped that as & Mrs. J. A. Urqubart, a 950.
bis present condition." ApCivil Hospital as the result of arranged for an engagement Commenting on the works of result of that ceremony the name parently Mr. Rasmussen is ticjuries sustained by being knock-which would take up the whole Dante, the lecturer said that and personality of Dante would least in safety, if not in comfort. ed down by motor car No. 373 in afternoon and the best part of the many might understand the remain impressed on the minds How he contrived to forward the Queen's Road East
evening. His Excellency added beauty of italisa prose, yet have of the young students at the communication is not disclosed.
that be hoped to have the pleasure not sufficient scquaintance University so that in China also The report adds that the Chinese At 6 o'clock last evening a fire of attending the Arts Association with the spoken language to there might soon be students of anthorities have now decided to occurred in a stack of grass at meeting next year.
sppreciate the music of Italian Dante to the greater glory of despatch military force to haukiwan and quickly spread. In introducing the lecturer, the words arranged in the Italian Western civilization. the rescue. We hope their to other stacks in the vicinity. Chairman said that the occasion Terza Rima. The remarkable A vote of thanks to the lecturer despatch will follow speedily. The firemen were called out and formed a notable event in the achievement of Daate in forming for his able address was called for they extinguished the conflagra- history of the University, and the language of modern Italians by Mr. Justice Gompertz and lon though not before consider-was of particular interest to the and thus providing a factor heartily responded to. Unlike bis father the Emperorable damage was caused. Arts Association, as being the in the unification of the Meiji (the first modera Mikado),
sixth centenary of the great poet | various States into which who reigned from 1868 to 1912.
A coolie employed by the Sang Dante whose influence on the the country was then divided the present Sovereign of Japan iskee firm of contractors
literature of the present day was was given prominence to by the It has been well said that one half of the world doesn't afflicted with indifferent health, construction work
C. S. INCOME TAX. remarkable. Dante died in 1321, lecturer. Dante, he said, divided Conferees of the U. S. House of know how the other half lives and it can equally well be and the Tokyo papers intimate
Kowloos Docks Jesterday just air centuries ago, and his life his principal work into three Representatives have agreed to said of Hongkong We each of us go about our own that Regency
near as written in European literatura sections, the Inferno, Purgatorio the Sensto amendment, deleting affairs gazing at other things about us with unseeing eyes, Price's Europeas tour H. I. H.He sustained serious injuries to/commentators of the civilised author described his meeting bill under which foreign traders expected. Before the Crown the pumping house at No-2 Dock. W still an inspiration to the and Paradiso. In these the the provision in the tax revision almost ignorant and mainly unconcerned with what is bad several times depatised for the bead and was taken to the which Signor Petrucci had given alities and contemporary people, on their net income derived from
world. For the kind assistance with various old-time transpiring in the immediate life around us. The writer his father, and it is understood Kwong Wah Hospital.
person-have been exempted from taxation must plead as guilty the rest-though perhaps not quite that the question of bis appoint
in the organization of that meet-and in an allegorical manner resources outside the United States. so. seeing that it is expected of those who write for the ment as Regent is ander dis Yosemite Park, one of the so return their thanks. In hon- ing the speaker took opportunity public that they shall observe. And for to-day's Leader
Prince Hirohito is infamous wonder spots of America,ouring the name of Dante they he would like to tell of what he saw on our Praya early was born in August 1979, and is Robert Thornby for the scenes in honour the lines which he had his twenty-first year. The Mikado is the location selected by director desired at the same time to one recent morning.
thus forty-two. On May, 10, 1900, The Magnificent Brute," depics given to the world. Civilization We are all supposed to have had our sympathies he married Princess Saxado, is the north woods of Canada, owed much to the genius which affected by the spectacle of women and young children fourth daughter of the late Prince The giant pines, the majestic the nations of the old world were toiling under heavy loads of earth and stone up the steep their first-bora.
Kujo, and Prince Hirohito was crags and the abundant snow able to produce. Greece, Roms and hill roads of the Colony, yet if we could but follow these three brothers. According to all which comes to the Hongkong heads of knowledge
The heir has give this Frank Mayo picture. Pale-tine had been the fountain of Hermiston" said, "God! here's no of concealing thought, but of As the sardonic poet in "Weir written for the express purpose, same people through the life they have to live for the full the reports, the Crown Prince Theatre to-morrow, Saturday, a intellectual and spiritual life of Joe handed me this morning.
of the fame." Just look at the letter camouflaging the poverty twenty-four hours of a day, we might find cause for a little took kindly to Western ideas, most wonderful background. more activity on their behalf that to which hitherto we and on his returo counselled bis
the world. In the progress "bonny fechter" right enough. self leta the words flow at times A ideas." But Mr. MacWhirter him- which civilization had since made Let him have his crow on my own without saying a deal. Lave been inspired. It was just after seven o'clock in the countrymen to study Occidental culture while retaining the best
CHRISTMAS PARCELS
they must take into account the midden top.- morning when the writer saw them. There were seemingly features of their own.
He has great contribution of Italy whose
moments, indeed, when he is the hundreds of them, crowding around the big bins of sand
A Big Mail
Renius was well-represented by me, to have a tilta: your esteemed a look at the last part of bis I should like, if you will allow complete platitudiosrisa. Have and line which a present disfigure our waterfront. “Ranji's" Gift.
The Home Christmas parcels first woke the world from the Whirter, I presume that he is He took just on half a columa to was Italy which contributor, Mr. Robert Mac- article in last Saturday's issue. Women-sune old, some middle-aged, some with children, A present has been made to the mail was unusually heavy io slumber it fell into altor the highly esteemed since strapped on their backs jostled with young boys and Zoologia Society of Loudon-in velure to bear to less turmoil of the earlier centuries, "screed" appears every day. For Scotland is the white St. Andrew's his state that the national flag of girls in a perfect medley of bamboo poles; string and "230"-of a lion-tizer."
rests the ever-popular 2 parcels being sent away by sad it was Italy which introduced my part, I have no quarrel with Cross on baskets, seeking to fill up the receptacles which they were donor is
The the three steamers advertised the new age of inspiration and his appearing daily because I am would have occupied less space Geld of blue. He in due time to deliver at some building site on the upper Princes of India, being nose other 99 parcels and the Mentor and inspirer of the Western world in cept when I feel that I can stand done with it. He said it three times one of the Native The Rhesus left on the 8th. with reason. She had been the not forced to read his efforts ex- if he had said this once and been levels. Shouting, scrambling and a seeming pandemonium than the Jam of Nawansgar, so Karmala took up the remainder literature, in law, in music, la dose of Lowland Scots. More and only then, it seemed to me, it all was. Some of the fortunate ones were already under long familiar to the cricket world when they left here on the 12th science, in painting, in sculpture, power to his wrist, I say; but was stopped by the end of the way toddling up the slope of Queen Victoria Street-al as Prince Ranjitsiobj. The For the greater part these parcels in architecture, in the methods more power only if he takes a last column on the page. In the little foretaste as it were of the stiffer climbs to come. And located very near to the site of curios, drawnwork, grasscloth, shipping, and in international We shall all be the better able poverty of ideas" Mr. Muc-
curious quadruped will thus be contained tes, sugar, ginger. of business, such as banking thought and mends his manners, matter of this lowly collection of humanity was an unpremeditated many of his Highness triumphs porcelain and cigars.
camouflaging the nuisance. Baskets and poles were dumped on the Praya, with the willow, for Lur la cricket,
scholarship. She gave birth to then to appreciate (or tolerate, as Whirter in just as clever such notable men as the grest the case may be) his mannerisms. the next one. loaded baskets were deposited all along the gutterways, round is just round the corner." BIG OPIUM SEIZURES. trav.ller Marco Polo, the great The truth is that Mr. Mac- idiom,
Remove the the ricksba coolies shouted loudly and mostly in vain to This is got the first occasion on
painter Michael Angelo, and built Whirter, who began as a pawky phrase in which, I admit he
the Scots turn get through the crowd and some Sanitary Board coolies offered the opportunity of seeing
of were obviously annoyed at the mess being made. It alla hybrid of the two monster cata.
Two Steamers Boarded.
such beautiful cities as Florence, and genial commentator and shows a certain knack) and there Venice, and Rome. The Univer- critic, has outgrown that stage. is at times very watery gruel left. Revenue Officers made made a picturesque if a somewhat saddening scene.
two sities of Italy were the first He has become just a little too He is all for solid matter from Here Several years ago the Crystal valuable hauls of opium on outgo institutions of the kind in Europe, fond of himself. were men, women and children out to do the work of Palace had a pair on show. They ing steamers yesterday. Just as and when later other countries man is the more swiftly be tosses depends for his own
The bigger & other people, but he greatly beasts of burden at rates of pay almost below subsistence like other hybrids, proved infertile. weigh anchor Ravenae Officers and thought they looked to Italy tramples it into the small thing discuss the question of whether
were fine-looking specimens, but, the "Soochow "* was about to established their seats of learning success beneath his feet and on level. And if we could have gone into the homes (save the giace his accession to the prin- bastded her and after a search for precepts and example. It it
manner. I AIT! not ta mark) they had just left and into which they would cipality of Nawanazar the one-came across 8.600 teels of raw would be difficult to estimate the on to a greater success. wearily return at nightfall we should possibly have been a time premier batsman has become opium contained in five sacks great influence which Italy had smaller men wears it in his hat, Hokey-Fly" is sheer mechanism) marches the dialect be employs ot
The manufactures (bis deity great deal wiser. The question forced itself upon one, a student of politica, as befits and carefully secreted in a venti- exerted on the civilization of the like a cock's comb, and cock-s is or is not a proper medium for "the Why should these things be when the inventive genius of gressive tendency, doubtless barn was made. The value of the of
& ruler. "Resji" exhibits a prolator at the forepeak. No arrest world, but in the representation doodle-doos. man has given us means of hauling sand, stones and earth to some extent of his Western seizure is $7,200.
Mr. MacWhirter literature or even for respectable 'the life and works does not crow, to be sure, but he speech. I have no wish to have wherever we want them!"
of the outstanding figure When the Hon. Colonial Secretary stated at the sympathy with disruptive mave searched and $600 worth of the idea of the nature and extent of who is able to put the world right English Mr. MacWhirter's ideas
experiences, but be shows
The "Hozui Marn" was also Dante, they could obtain ansats bimself up as the one mad But I do claim that expressed in of regards himself far too seriously, brawny Scots after my blood, Council meeting at which the Budget proposals were dis-meats. His Highness succeeded drug was taken from the engine such ад influence. He (thejand has grown unkind in his are quite ordinary. I have no cussed that be justified the expected expenditure on the to the title in a fortuitous way room and confiscated. Wanchai Gap Tramway because it would provide means previous. Jam.
speaker) had much pleasure in commenta.. There is not room in objection to ordinary ideas. through being adopted by the
fatroducing his friend Professor the Empire for two men who prefer them to of hauling building materials to the Peak we wonder jast
Simpson as a speaker on the believe that they cannot blunder." ideas as being less mentally extraordinary how many of our readers realised all the poignancy that
subject.
God knows Mr. Lloyd George trying. But I protest against: could have been found in that remark. We don't mind if TYPHOON WARNING.
Professor Simpson said that was enough to "thole," as Mr. very ordinary ideas masquerade mechanical baulage costs twice as much. as the present
those who had asked him to MacWhirter would say, without ing as extraordinary ideas. I A national relief fund, on an undertake that lecture bad ima rival happening along. As an protest against a man by implica method and we don't very much care; we only know that
insurance basis, with equal con-posed a great responsibility upon example of what I mean, let me tion setting himself up A the present method is damnable and inhuman. Most of The telegram quoted below was and the State, is one of the subject by bim would fall far article on Wednesday. Referring not to know when we remember tributions by employers, workers him. Pronouncements on such a take this from Mr. MacWhirter's superior person whom we prefer us come out of our comfortable houses when the streets are received at the American Con- schemes proposed by the Cabinet short of what they ought to be to the leader in a contemporary him as a homely person whom it well-aired and, in the full possession of civilisation's alte General, Hongkong, from Committee on Unemployment. blessings, have the effrootery to discuss academically the Manila Olwervatory at 10.00
His responsibility was increased be said. "Truly there was a lot was good to know. I write not Local committers would be set that night by reason of the many mental pap yonder that would in anger but in sorrow. I writs whether there should be legislation controlling the employ a.m. to-day
up. A levy of 21, in respect of nations represented in the audio be hard to digest Wi' so for Mr. MacWhirter's own good. A theme for sarcastic Long. E. 12 deg. Lat. N. moving the insurance Acts would raise placed it above all considerations be discussed it's terrible to see many Scotsmen they cannot Typhoon in about 125 deg.teach worker in trades now under ence. The great genius of Dante many subjects fairly bursting to His failing is the failing of too
£300,000 a week.
of time, rece or creed, as it pre- such a flow o' words evidently grow without swelling.
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