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DAY BY DAY,
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TURE
said to indicats: * PAINTED ON TIME.
over the recent attempte
zve been made on Royalty,
movement against Im-Danes.
alim. But to state that thesë
DOCILITENDUS Are causing an even greater pensation than the recent
H. E. Governor is to diatribula
earthquake is, we should be in-the, prizes at Queen's College an clined to say, rathar over-painting the 26th. instant, the picture. In that terrible up- heaval of nature, thousands were
CRICKET NOTES
THE ARMCHAIR
CRITIC
Very sorry about it, but it procession one sometimes thes Messrs. A. B. Moulder and Co. couldn't be helped. Merely a from the wicket to the pavilion | killed, whola arena devasted, and tremendous losses suffered. The send us an effective calendar very bad sold with a nasty off- might attain dignity through break, and while I was contem Tannhanser's Grand Marly; and memory of that awful visitation issued to advertise Lipton's tea.
plating "retired hort" against will live for many long years and
my name, it came off the pitch a centuries hence will be found
Captain and Mrs. Robert bit too quickly and bowled me out. recorded in the history of the Dollar, accompanied by Mr. and Even the Armchair became a bed nation. Such B catastrophe, Mrs. J. Harold Dollar. left for of thorns. |which will long leave its soars on Manila by the
the country and which has caused Madison. So much grief and suffering,
is a far more tangible and sen-
President 8.5.
Nevertheless, I bore up long
sational occurrance than the ̧tise From Wanchai a robbery has enough to see the Last Interport of any anti-monarchical feeling, been reported as having been Team versus The Rest, and whether it be in Japan or else carried out by armed men at Yee mighty glad I was that I managed where. There may be good rea-Wo Street. Details are at the me-it. "Vindication" (borrowed from sons for fearing further harm tajment lacking. members of the Japanese Royal House, but it can obviously only come from individual fanatics or
"Cover Point ") is the only word. although there are quite a number of people who have bean kind The silk shipped per as. Presi- enough to dig me in the ribs and
a mere handful of anarchists.dent Jackson, which sailed from assure me that, despite every- Royalty everywhere is liable to this port at 10 am. on December thing, the Shanghai effort was "a be made the victims of such evil-2, arrived in New York at 10 jossy business." I could have just-
23 calendar days in
a few of them, and recommended the remainder to have a nica hot
MUSTARD & CO. doers, and we do not know that am on January 4, having been ly retorted "sour grapes" to quite
17, Connaught Road, Central,
Tel. C. 1180.
BIRTH.
BAILEY.-On Sunday, the] 6th. inst. at Government Civil Hospital, the wife of Mr. W. S. Bailey of a daughter.
DEATH.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 8th Jan, 1924.
WAITING.
conditions in Japan are any worse in this regard than in . other countries where the mon. There is considerable interest cup of tea and a good sleep. Prob archical system prevails. Welina
ably then. when they woke up case coming before the they wouldn't have known must all view with horror and Magistrate shortly in which three there had been anything the disgust the machinations of the suspects will be charged with matter with them. assassin, whether against Royal participation in a recent piracy. ty or not. But really we cannot The witnesses have arrived from see that the two recent attempts Amoy for the purpose of identi in Japan are anything to get fication. unduly excited about.
Looking Ahead.
fugue from Bach might attune our minds to your over-careful batsman. Finally, for those beyond earthly hope we could always fall back on Chopin's Funeral March, or even dispense with the services of most of the
· band, and simply toll a bell
...
My main recollection of the Army and Navy match is of Paffard looking sorry when, after the Army had been sent in to bat for the last five minutes of the
LOOKING SORRY
And, while we're at it, let's get right down to it and have it out once and for all. Admittedly they The scheme of amalgamation were a team of rabbits, and not We live in wonderful times.by the Shanghai Life Insurance the best collection the Selection The other day we were told Co. Ld. and the China Mutual Committee .could have got to be prepared for the day when Life Insurance Co with the Sun together had the match been television will be an actuality. Life Assurance Co. of Canada played in this colony. All that. REIN.-On January 3, at Dr. Now we read of a prediction that was sanctioned by his Honour my masters, is an paper. In reality, it was a lucky thing for Bina Johanne, beloved wife of from town to town their furniture H.M. Supreme Court, Shanghai, the Selection Committee that they were limited to players who: Berat O. F. Rein, aged 40 years.will be transported by aeroplanes on January 3.
The prophet responsible for this
could get away; otherwise we forecast is a pioneer in motor,
should have beard Sir Roderick Jones, managing dreadful wail "We can't very the last ball!. He (Paffard, not that day, Q.M.S. Stripp was bowled by truck transportation of household
and Chairman of affects, and he points out that director there is a limit to the utility and Reuters, Ltd.. entertained to well leave him out" (I cannot Stripp) was quite bowed with grief speed of that type of vehicle. "As tiffin at the Hongkong Hotel remember the composition of the for a considerable time. people move faster, their belong-to-day the editors of the local Selection Committee, so don't ings must move faster in their newspapers, being accompanied accuse me of personal animus). wake." he says. "In years to by Mr. William Turner, generals it was, they got a team-not series of individuals-and come, a man will give his new manager in the Far East of
therein lies the secret. address to the movers, and with- Reuter's News Agency.
Keenness and pulling together in twenty-four hours he should be able to walk in the new A sum of $8,000 is said to have beget intensity, and this and a front door with his wife and been involved in a case heard by that extremely vulgar but very few other qualities go to make'up One of the most remarkable family and find everything almost Mr. J. R. Wood, at the Police useful expression
guts". The characteristics of the human as he left them yesterday three Court this morning, in which a man who coined "it's dogged as race is its capacity to wait. With thousand miles away. The idea Chinese woman, living at Jar-does it apparently had never does not seem so very fantastic dine's bazaar, was charged with this is bound up the faculty of after all. It is not so improbable fraudulently converting to her hope, by which, probe bly. Nature as our present speed of moving WD use securities and bank- prevents universal self-destruc-from city, to city, by trains and notes entrusted to her by a rola- tion. We humans are always motors, would have appeared to tive. The case was remanded,
-So, my betters, next time you former generations who moved Mr. A. E. Hall being retained for are tempted to bore holes in my waiting for something to happen. slowly by wagons drawn by oxen the prosecution and Mr. Corbett waist coat with your forefinger, and if an occurrence does not or horses. The point naturally for the detence. quite meet with our expectations, occurs as to whether it will really be worth while, and whether the
we look to better luck next time.human race is any better off by!
B
heard of it.
remember what Barrett said in 23 to one of his henchmen who suggested that 300 would be quite Where bargains were being sufficient to set Hongkong in the It is a form of optimism which reason of all this speed and so carried on, thieves were found fourth innings. I overheard the we all possess: so that even the called efficiency. We may possibly to congregate, according to the remark, so can vouch for its
answer the suggested query in prosecution in a
case heard by accuracy. cynic, the confirmed pessimist, the negative, but, all the same. Mr. C. D. Melbourne, this morn slowly and deliberately) "will "That team" (very are waiting for a change, though the march of science and the ing, in which a shoplifter was make four hundred if necessary, unawares. Of lesser import, but general development of new charged operating at the Wing and don't you forget it". not unrelated, is the manner of a sources of energy will go on just On stores. This man was endeav patient queue, standing for hours the same. whether we regret it ouring to work some magic on a
at a theatre entrance, the "cam- "who wait perhaps over- pers night to see a Royal procession: go by, and the crowd which collects when there has been an accident and awaits the arrival
or not...
SMALL-POX.
HUNDRED CASES LAST WEEK
The health return for the past of the police and ambulance. week shows 100 cases of small-
roll of satin valued at $100, but! bungled badly just at the point
I hope you won't.
when it was disappearing within At the Army and Navy match the recesses of his jacket. Sent we had the Band (by kind permis ence of three months" hard laboursion etc.) and again at the Club was passed by his Worship, who y. the Regiment. was told that the prisoner's record dated as far back as 1906.
TRICKS EXPOSED.
We re
It is the great expectation that pox, all of which were Chinese exception of one something, possibly something with the
Indian and one Japanese case. exciting is going to happen. Fifty-five of the cases that keeps our minds bent on the from Victoria, 42 from Kowloon
IN BAIRD FILM. the future. It is therefore just asjand
remaining three
"The Heart Line," in which well that we cannot read the from Shaukiwan. During the
week there were 73 deaths from Leah Baird is starred at the future accurately.
this disease.
World Theatre to-day, is a vivid,
told On Monday, there were 26 gripping story
in the This capacity to keep on wait-
further Cases of small-pox atmosphere of & palmist's ing is all for the good of ordered notified, of which four were velvet-draped studio in the gpvernment, and a big factor in Japanese and the rest Chinese, seance room and behind the the world's affairs. It is indicated three of the casos being imported scenes of a spiritualistic medium; Sixteen further cases of small-in gay Bohemia where good
of
POLICE RAID.
SEARCH FOR UNDESIRABLES.
homes and gardens of wealth and aristocracy.
THE
BAND"
in the spirit of a community that pox, all Chinese, were notified fellows get together; and in the frets against hardships and yesterday, demands reforms-whether taxes, bousing, or public utility
Gelett Burgess' novel, "The services-and goes on, possibly
Heart Line," created quite a furore
I must say that I heartily because of its daring expose of approve of it, and so did some of from one generation to another,
fake mediums and clairvoyants, the players as far as I could judge. critical, impatient, yet always
and its photoplay version, pres-I saw at least one gentleman waiting for the better times that
With a view to clearing all fented by Arthur F. Beck through with the wild London Scottish might never be coming. And so undesirables from the business Paths, will prove equally enter blood coursing through his veins (accompanied perhaps by some it is with the nations of the quarter of the town, the police taining and diverting.
Miss Baird is happily cast in other Scotch) dancing a jig in the world. Wars come, the people made a daylight raid this morn-
ing on Queen's Building. A the role of Fancy Cray, a girl middle of the playing area to the wait for the end of the conflict; number of men who had taken who could rule the destiny of her lilting strains of
North" peace is signed, and they wait up their sleeping quarters in the sympathetic heart
building, in some cases with the sensible head.
with her
for the fruits of victory. Things connivance of the office coolies, The supporting cast is beaded
Cock o' the
The Married went down rather badly to the Single last Saturday. Youth will be served, although Youth, in this instance, took, rather a long time to make 181.
"MARRIED"
So said the married men, who, when their turn came, could not make the necessary number.. quickly, so preferred to get out. It is good to see Owen Hughes
SINGLE
are shorn of their glamour, were taken into custody. It was by Jerome Patrick, popular lead- A clean square cut may be all bowling well again after a very triumph is shor of much of its stated later that about fifty men ing man of stage, and screen, right in itself, but when it is bad spell. He kept an excellent original promise, but we still were captured in this way, and a that lovable youngster, Ben made to a blast from the trumpet length, and his analysis would number are being detained pend- Alexander; Frederick Vroom, (and another from the bowler) it, have been better but for the wait for whatever there might being fuller enquiries into their Ruth Sinclair, Mrs. Charles C. becomes at once something more absolute respect with which the left to us. And so it will be to respective cases. It is understood Craig, and others. Frederick A. than a more stroke. The dreary batsmen treated him. the very end..
that no arms wore seized.
Thomson directed.