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The question is, whether tarn ideas of music are undar going a permanent change. know there will always large host who have souls enough to appreciate the best melodies, operas, and other beautiful com
DAY BY DAY.
THE IDEAL WORLD WOULD BE A WORLD IN WHICH EVERY MAN CONTINUED TO GO TO SEBOOL TILL THE DAY OF HIS DEATH.- Mr. Robert Lynd
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts,
We have been anthorised to... A Californian husbi contradict the rumour that for a divorce beɑk officers attending St. Andrew's 'kapt six dogs. Hall have been forbidden to wear one of them.
spars.
his: wife he was
Seems to na, film attire is most-
After Manila's experience this ly filmy. [week, we are inclined to agree
with the view of a former Dir
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Football is better than golf.
ball
| positions "bequeatbed to follow Mr. Andrew Forbes, is on a
ing, generations by the master visit to the Colony. composers. There are millions["
Mr. F. Mason, the new organist of people who may not be able to distinguish and interpret the of St. John's Cathedral, has
arrived from Home. detailed movaments of some in- volved classical piece, but who Captain E. F. Cunningham, of tor of the Hongkong Observatory
that the typhoon season begins Everybody knows can appreciate melody when they the 1st Bn The Loyal Ragton January 1st. and ends an is
December 31st. hear it, who feel sad when the was admitted to hospital on the arrival of the troopship Braemar
One of the eggs we had for skilled hand draws sobbing notes Castle..
A cable which came to hand a breakfast this morning must have from a violin, and go into dreams
Regulations in regard to Wong couple of days ago made mention bean laid by a dinosaur's
of the Clown Colonies" We're "mothar. of purple, misty mountains,
Nei Cheong, Queen's, King's placid lakes, quiet woods, and Park and Sookunpoo Recreation now beginning to understand gurgling streams through wide Grounda ara contained in the Why the Colonial Office so often. With the mafi jongg season now locks upon Hongkong as a joke, in full swing, increasing numbers meadows The modern jazz Gazette.
of the population are suffering craze might be just a passing A Court of Enquiry into the had a better run in America cessive chowing."
Lloyd George seems to have from indigestion, caused by ex- phase of the hectic times in circumstances attending the
than Papyrus which we live: let us hope so. death. et Gunner Woodhouse is But, remembering how easily to be held at the Military
It's rumoured that quite The only excuse for having number of Pear Tram reason girl on your lap when motoring ticket holders now walk down to - the receptive child mind has its Hospital on Monday, MUSTARD & Co. prejudices formed by environ-
is that she would go through the It is notified that all pas-windscreen first.
office on Monday mornings. ment, we almost tremble at the sengers, Europeas or Asiatic, Indo-China from thought of the coming generation arriving in growing up amidst a medley of Hongkong must produce a cert-
ficate of vaccination. sound, and possibly to be harden- ad against choice of the truly divine in music.
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BIRTH.
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A. J. Wilkie, a son.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 24th Nov, 1923.
MUSICAL TENDENCIES,
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In the Courts.
Five men entered a Chinese tenement at Portland Street las: night and held up the inmates with daggers and revolvers. They escaped with $190 worth of pro- perty.
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Altitude records are eo fre The other day we read of a man who handed his brother. quently getting broken that an aviator will soon have a girl on. over to the police in return for a said to be "his brother's keeper." £50 reward. He could hardly be every planet.
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If you're feeling downhearted Hongkong sail-makers are on you may be cheered to know that strike. The junk people have fifteen landlords were recently
fined in London. got the wind up.
If the "Dog-Faced Man" visit-
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A former prize fighter has be-
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Can anybody explain to us how The most popular item broad- casted in Hongkong this week such beautiful complexions come seems to have been chewing-gum. out of such sloppy vanity cases?
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Tip to Hongkong wives: A Rather futile to send it to
Strange things happen in
Injuries received by being Hongkong Courts. That thought knocked down by a car at the come a person. Bet nobody sleeps ed Hongkong, he'd probably be occurred to us a couple of days junction of Centra Street within his oburch.
during 2 8go when,
Court Queen's Road West resulted in a Martial, one of the three mem-Chinese being taken to hospital bars of Court left the Bench, went
yesterday. into the witness-box and gave evidence on behalf of the accused.
On and after December 1st This may be a way they have wireless telegrams for transmis in the Army," but we have neversion to the Philippine Islands vis P.W.D. cffcials, though. They've successful way of making hobby Basco will be accepted at the already bitten off more that they stay at home is to stay there General Post Office. The fuzette can chew! contains the rates.
before encountered such unusual
occurrence.
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We understand that in order
sach unscrupulous individuals for brokers, the gentlemen of: Ice House Street are considering the adoption of a badge of distinction to be worn in front of the crownL
Ô... A local contemporary refers in
'fabled" a leading article to the pie of the equally, fabled Tom Thumb." This somehow recalls the aqually fabled occasion when Jack Horner sat on a tuffet.
D According to a local contem- porary
the Peking Cabinet has voted $10,000 a month to the pro- posed railway guards for heir expenses." There's nothing like being prepared for the worst.
with him. admire the anxiety of this officer
We notice that the horse My to see that everything possible
Several important: Kowloon should be said for the accused.
The service at St. Andrew's curtain lectures were unavoidably Own is to race My Dear. My We do not claim to be able The tribute he paid him wash to-morrow evening, when postponed owing to an outbreak goodness L
altogether admirable and obvious- discuss musical matters in any sincere, but the procedure the Rev. G. E. Arrowsmith of partial paralysis of the jaw expert manner.
We prefer to appears to have been somewhat will be licensed by the Bishop, resulting from contraction of the
commences at 6 pm, and not at gums. take the place of the ordinary, irregular, put it mildly.
Then we had a case in the Police 6.30, as advertised yesterday.
They must work hard in Shang- average Hongkong citizen with
Court. on the previous day, in appreciation of
It is notified that information hai! The locomotion department Western which a Magistrate gave express-
- Henry Ford may accept the which we
has been received from H.B.M. of the police there have been forms of music, and as such ex-ion to sentiments press an opinion on the musical hardly expect to come from such Consul-General, Shanghai, to the authorised to sell "seven Ford cars prohibition nomination: for the
a great evil to Fords. s quarter. After speaking of the effect that quarantine has been which are no longer serviceable." Presidency. Bottles are, of course, tendencies of the day. Drop into
necessity of being long-suffering imposed on.arrivals from Hong-
The Moros have been giving any hotel, cinema
Indignation was caused yester or theatre to certain classes of Chinese, he kong on account of small-por.
trouble in the Philipines. Morose day in certain exclusive circles here, or hover outside any gram- is reported to hare delivered
hicaself thae:--"I know there are Tenders are being invited for people.
when a heavily-laden coolie was Q ophone store, and one can hear times when I should like kick the erection of chair coolie shel-
observed wearing a bowler hât, ` Blinded by headlights, an owl
Q the whole range of tunes. meled them." That may have been a per-ters at the junction of Garden
-- les and songs that find a market fectly truthful reflection of his per-and Bowen Roads; in Macdonald damaged a motorist's face, in the to-day. There is classical music sonal feeling on occasions, for we Road to west of Calder Fath: and New Forest. England. Suppose that the public shall not mistake
all know how exasperating some in Glenealy opposite the Dairy it will swear it blow its horn. for one to listen to occasionally, types of Chinese can be, but, all Farm Office. and it might be properly render- the same. the Bench is the very
Lloyd George has proved him- ed or but indifferently: there are last place from which one expects simple melodies with
to hear outbursts of this nature, injured man. an apprentice at self a great diplomat. He left В very which are characterised by any-Bailey's Yard, who is stated to America without getting a hair pretty cadence and perhaps such thing but magisterial dignity or a have caused a fatal injury to s was charged with as bring back old memories, and judicial outlook. Still, as we say. carpenter,
Political enemies of Viscount can be enjoyed: and there is a strange things happen in Hong-murder at the Police Court this
morning. He was remanded. Gato say his name is unfinished. great deal of "stuff" which con-kong Courts,
Viola Dana, in the pretty The man who had his ear comedy "Cinderella's Twin" will bitten off the other day in London It is In Canton Now.
be shown for the last time to-day will probably beware of those regrettable to find that so-called, Whoever may be winning or at the Coronet. Next week,
confidential whispering friends in popular taste i said to appreciate losing in Canton, there can be no "Orphans of the Storm,” D. W.
future. some of the alleged tunes which question that the hapless inhabi-Griffith's masterpiece, is to be one has to endure nowadays. We tants of that city are suffering presented. with special musical
Prices setting.
Presumably people who object considerable hardships.
to Sunday golf take exception to shall not refer to the already of the main necessities are rising. infamous song about fruit and and all manner of means are ap There will be a Lantern Lec- the "lie" aspect of the game. 1.50 vegetables-at least this has aparently being devised by Official-ture at the Helens May Institute
dom for the rising of more on Monday, November 26th, at Butterfly Chase: Young Etymo practice on certain days of this melody, which has obviously money with which to meet the 5.30 pm given by Dr. J. Llogist Robbed," says a contempor- and next month. Unfortunately
of the Shellshear, D.S.O.[Subject:~~~The ary. Presumably he was cut our police cannot do the same. 1.50been based in part on a well-insatiable demands
known Italian opera. We refer militarists. To expect pawnbro- Tombs of the Egyptian Kings". hunting for the right word. 1.50 in particular to the "latest"kers to pay taxes in advance up All are welcome. (The lantern to 1927, tenants to hand over used on this occasion will be the
News from Kowloon-rents will lition of likin next year. music one sometimes hears at month's rent and owners of land Pathe University kindly leat go up. We've made a mistake: bope they'll get fine weather for local dances and so forth. It is to pay for the return of their by the Pathe Orient Co.-Adet. This isn't news.
own property deeds-well, all that easy enough to dance to rhythm,
smacks
Coming Shadows: & cafe in of 119
asking We have been informed that as
A Yaumati man shot his land town hands you a chit headed even if noise be the main rather too much. The worst.
the St. Vincent de Paul Society's feature of the "tune." so that of it is that these things are being Fete has been postponed to the lord thinking he was a robber. A "The Blue Bile". anything nowadays seems to be done by people who glory in the 16th December, the motor-car mistake which might easily be
self-assumed named of "Consti-draw will take place on that date, made. But tutionalists." Anything more and not, as already announced, good enough to jazz to. what we are, perhaps cynically, unconstitutional than some of on the 2nd December. Tickets "Clubs Suggested for Saxo interested in, is the loss of in- the rfficial doings in Canton will be on sale at the Hongkong phonists," says a beadline. Per
during the past year we
can Hotel Company's motor show-sonally we think it would be less dependence of thought which scarcely imagine. Expediency urges the local public to accept holde sway: principles go by the rooms, and at various Clubs, etc., trouble to shoot them.
until the 10th December.
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A lady coming down from "top- side this morning was overheard to remark: "What a lot of weird people travel in these trams on Saturday mornings!" Her Histen- ers thoroughly agreed.
local demands fira "1. have their origin its Fussy foot Johnson ma en visit the Colony
Some people, of course, never A London Judge has ruled that Amongst those arriving by the kissing a girl in a motor-car is all feel at home in what I obviously to this tendency only the other have been "up against it for troopship-Braemar Castle, who right. We should say it was their own offcle, day. It is amusing to watch many long months, but the whole have been taken on the strength better the th some worthy resident of this origin of most of these irregular of the Command, areRGA- Captain (Bt-Major) T. C. Green-
After last Sunday's Golf Cham doings is to be found in the fact wood and wife, Captain W. A place shimmying to a conglomer that militarists have to be pan-Faussett, and wife, Liest, J. H. pionship, we overheard the remark ation of rattles, groaning sounds, dered to. The military rules, and wails of a most agonising and, once again, necessity knows Smith and wife, Lieut. R. C. Cob that golf needs a mid-iron norvel
bold, Lieut. H. G. Gould, Lieut. (D.O.) P. W. N. Gainber, Lieut.. A Birmingham man was fined type, so-called dance music, and no laws.
HL-C. Hall, Laut J. R. for flirting with a telephone then listen to him next day.
Chinese cursing a
funeral INMATE'S £154 BANK ACCOUNT Jillings, Lieut. H. H. Cottier, wife operator. Evidently got the
A man who died in Lambeth of Major W PA Hattersley wrong number. orchestra which disturbed bis Guardians' infirmary had a Post Smith, RAS.C. Captain & Qr.“ early morning slumber. At times Office Saving Bank account for Mr. W.-J. Thompson and wife The Government- we have failed to distinguish be£154. It has been decided to RAM.CWife of Captain T.D.drastic steps, tween the two forms of musical claim some of the money for the Conway RAP.C Captain A.
man's maintenance and burial, WM. C. Skinner and wife performance!
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