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INTROSPECTION.
The Passing Show, Calm-eyed; serean, and very still
she sits,
The watcher on the wall. She marks each movement of the
crowd that fits
She hears the happy voices, and Far, far beneath her; reads the
hearts of all.
tha sad:
The careless jest, the sudden complex medley of the good catch of pain;
and bad
That go to make life's wonder-
ful refrain.
She
sees the miser's clutch; be seeching bands.
Of hunger driven
open palm
- Caraful observations taken of The new ship of British India conditions prevailing on the local, Steam Navigation Company, the Rialto during the course of the as. Talms, which came into port week have provided me with on Monday on her maiden trip to fresh notes with which to add to the Far East, is an addition to the interest contained in a study the B.I. fleet of which the Com- of the Hongkong broker. Saldom pany may well be proud. A party have brokers baan so busy na of press representatives were during the period under review. entertained on board yesterday which witnessed a great rise in and had opportunity of inspecting the price of local stocks. The The the vessel, discovering that the more fortunate ones have emerg passenger accommodation, in both ed from the scramble with flying. the first and second classes, is not colours and with their pockets! only exceedingly comfortable but comfortably lined. Others wear a almost lavish There are single, somewhat dejected appearance. double and three berth cabins in which fact has contributed to the the first class, the fittings and discovery that, in common with, conveniences being of the latest other species, the broker is sus- pattern. Each barth is fitted coptible to benefal influences and with a reading light, there is a flourishes best when on
a rich wardrobe and armchair in every soil. The quality of this has cabin and they all give on to somewhat deteriorated within the main passage-ways, an arrange-last two days, and a fertilizer is, ment studiously convenient. The now urgently needed, in the form first-class smoking room is de-of a happy rumour or two, to send corated with oak panelling and is up the prices again. Those who fitted up in the Jacobean styje, have exhausted all the richness electric heater with reof the original field and have semblance of a real fire adding transplanted themselves in time a cheerness so often lacking to other areas are still known as in ship's rooms. The dining Brokers. Othors, who have shot saloon, giving accommodation for up from the ground too late in 60 passengers, is simply but at the day and find only sterile soil tractively treated, plenty of fresh to exist upon, air and light being the feature. familiarly, as Suckers. Above this is the music and draw-
ing room, the furnishings here being tasteful and inviting. There
Are
known.
poor: the
of spendthrift merry; wisdom's
fingers all
She sees, and understands. This quiet one who watches on
the wall
With steadfast gaze and calm. She weighs each motive truly:
neither blame
Of
Nor praise she gives. But hush!)
sometimes a sigh
Stirs faintly from her lips; sudden tears has dimmed that
sometimes a gleam-
level beam.
Or. for a little space,
A radiant smile has lit that
sombre face.
Who are the crowd in the street,
and what the name
of the silent watcher on the city!
wall?
if you would pierce the truth, to
Heaven call,
A report is current that some is a well-stocked ship's library in brokers have done extremely well addition of deck space the de-four the week's speculations and signers have been liberal, in fact are now richer to the tune of the whole ship bospeaks careful any lakbs. It is said that this And echo will make answer, '1. thought regarding what is most sudden access to riches has pro- And I' desirable on a tropical run likeduced in one a restless feelingHelen that from Calcutta to Japan, on that is best described as Fran- Chamber's Juarnal which run the ship will ply. conian. In other words, he is.
B. Cruickshank
in
The second class accommoda-contemplating a world trip, it RELICS OF PHARAOHS. tion is distinctly above the being suddenly discovered that average, the cabins varying but Hongkong has nat sufficien:
little from those in the facilities for the expenditure of
first class, whilst there
During the tiffin yesterday, the
his wad of surplus money.
It is
of
Egyptian Finds in Syria.
Is February, 1922, a landslide
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¿Lane, Crawford, Limited,
WAS
•
may
fitly
is a combined lounge and music
at Jebeil Castle Cliff revealed a room and ample deck space at
hypogeum containing a colossal the after and of the midships-ducive to the preservation of of which was an obsidian fase It may not be a thought con-sarcophagus, among the contents The dining saloon is spacious and tranquillity of the mind to con- bearing the surname of Amen- no means meanly furnished.
Bath-room and lavatory ac-recent annual meeting of the was described in the Times in jecture what took place at the embat 11. (1850-1800 8.c.), which commodation is up-to-date, League of Hongkong Amabs. May last. whilst pantries and galleys beid at the headquarters of the Montet.
Since then M. and all service arrangements organization in Hollywood Road Academie des luscriptions et TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY. forces were known as Ameri-
behalf of the are of a superior type. These ladies have been known to Belles Lettres and the French feature for the convenience of gossip freely on matters which Government, has
can and British, and Britisher] deck passengers is that the only concern the privacy of the clearing the subterranean gallery. assisted in
the natural tween deck are fitted with sleep-family circle. As one of the pleas and a second tomb was discover wickerwork hall blind people antiquity. It may be found in at substan tive from the latter. So at any ing platforms a comfort that ant iterus at this function was the ed, of which the most valuable will be enabled to play cricketleast one of Captain Marryat's It is claimed that by means of rate the word has a respectable deck passengers will greatly giving of a appreciate. The provision for of chatter which, together with presenting a hawk. the peculiar tains a bell, by the sound of which of it in the "New Arabian Nights." spread." the amount object was a gold pectoral re- Made of plaited willow, it con-novels, and Stevenson wakes' use. life-boats and rafis is of the tea and cakes stand for sociabi- feature of which was its Egyptian the players can follow its more. Moreover, it is a very useful word latest pattern, whilst steering lity amongst these ladies on inspiration but Phoenician work-ments. This ball was one of the with a and general navigation equipment these occasions, must have been manship, as evidenced in the exhibits at the Basketmakers Briton. A Canadian or Austia lisa incorporates all that is most considerable. modern.
wider meaning than Fitted with wireless, feared that notes were compared symbolic details.
to be form of the outspread wings and Exhibits, opened in the Cloth- ten steam winches for the rapid amongst the member.. chiedy
or South African handling of
Makers' There has just been unearthed
Hall, Mincing-lane, cargo. isolation concerning the hospital and many other in-shortcomings
describe himself as a Britisher. virtues and a third tomb of supreme interest. the case of a grandfather clock. recently. Another novelty was dividual features, the ship is and "missy." Let's hope that cious contents are two objects exhibits had been made hy solve a very considerable finan-
master" for among the variety of its pre-considerable portion of the easily in the premier class of we shan't in due course be ex-which
Nowadays nomination day in boats on the run and should pected to perform our "kowtow
bear the names of the blind. succeed in attracting her full to this most estimable of Labour B.C.) leading to the deduction of disabled ex-Service men than dates are taken into account, and
Amenemhat IV. (1800
The industry icial operation when the deposits! share of the passenger and cargo guilds.
to 1792 employing a greater proportion of the many hundreds of candi- trade.
that the King of Byblos was the recipient of presents from
a good deal of money is locked to the Eing who received presents! Amenemhat IV. and successo:
op accordingly till the election is The latest charge at present over. When the deposit idea was and Co., here, proposed the health pect to see a large increase in from Amenembat III.
only projected in the familiar stated it was calculated that it of Captain J. R. O'Sullivan and the number of beggars, with others, consists of a pit hewn in down of the Pepiniere Barracks, number of candidates and elimi The third tomb. like the suspect of Paris, is the pulling would decrease considerably the the future prosperity of the ship, consequent increase of the re-the rock and ending in a cham- which stand opposite the Church ate the "freaks," but it is not to which the Captain suitably sponsibilities of the police officer ber. After the interment the of Saint Augustin, and responded.
ware yet quite certain how far this aim Yesterday afternoon & recep- pests are kept within bounds. It pit closed at the top by a Pave on leave in Paris during the war. the last two elections there have whose daty it is to see that these chamber was walled up and the familiar to many British soldiers has been achieved. Certainly in tion was held on board for does certainly Chinese clients of the Company. Hongkong, in the estimation of meat on which a chapel was both because they were military been quite a number of "no the hand of the East Surrey these mendicants, ofers a happy appeared. The pavement afforded no architectural beauty to make forfeiture rule may press hardly built, which has since dis police headquarters. They have earthly" candidates, though the Regiment providice an excellent hunting ground for obtaining an admirable protection for the them regretted on any other on a genuine candidate in a very
money with
the minimum of chairber, but the porous rock has ground but that of old familiarity: large electorate. work and discomfort. Almost every night a batch, collected which now forms a layer 20in much more handsome building allowed the italtration of mud.jand probably there will be a together in the course of the day, deep and covers the objects. The put up by the Cercle Militaire.
A recent decision in the Ameri- is sent back to Canton, whence coffin is supposed to consist. like which is to be turred out of it can courts that a golfer hit by most of them
come, but the the others, of gilded wood with present house in the Avenue de hind him is not competent to re- the ball of a person playing be trouble does not.end there. Some faience plates. Only poor frag-Opera in 1925, and by the Lycee cover damages for injury touches BAIL OF $5,000 ESTREATED. have been known to return on ments are left. together with Condorcet, which will occupy the
Bail of $5,000 which he repeated occasions, and one beg badly-preserved bones, earthen- rest of the site instead of its pre-never come into an English court. a point which, one believes, has deposited with the police sub-gar recently sentenced to gaol ware plates and jars, and bronze sent very crowded and superan-There are various ways in which sequent to a charge preferred offers an interesting instance of
with subsequent deportation vages. against him lascany of sixty
doggedness.
But the most remarkable inde Magasins du Printempe." He had returned tons
coal forfeited by a
here nine times, and statements are a marble rase of beautiful partner in the firma of Wingtai and Com-frequently returned by the same Servant of God, God. Son of the Whitehead? His name is recalled took his brassie, solemnly ad- made in Court showed that he bears the hieroglyphic inscription. 18th century laureate. William having been hit in this way, bo workmanship--the-lid-of-whieh Does anyone remember the old method WAS summary, for. pany on failure to appear before boat on which he made the trip Sun, Amenemhat, may he live for by the breaking up of Haling dressed the offending ball, and
Hoa. Mr. A. O Lang, bead of With the near approach of the Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackobie, Chinese New Year, we may ex-
programme of music.
COAL CONSPIRACY?
for
of
was
appears.
Mr. G. N. Deme, at the Police Court this morning, when the out under police compulsion.
Case
Was due to be heard.
Statements by the police revealed!
the defendant,
"
CAT FOR VIOLENCE.
that
nuated building at the back of the
•
A
a golfer, so offended, avenges himself in this country. There. was an old Scots player whose:
The latest section to be issued
ever" and also a jewel casket of obsidian, gold-mounted, and shap
Park, South Croydon, for a hit it far from the cliff top out to g
This is effective, but it ed like a sarcophagus. The lid Whitgift school extension and sea. an alleged conspiracy for the spiriting away of a large con- Twenty strokes with the cat mirably engraved:
bears a hieroglyphic legend ad- housing scheme. In response to needs certainty. To attempt so
Long live!
an epistle on a grove in Darby spacious a gesture and to foozle signment of coal, and a warrant accompanied a sentence of six the good God. Master of the Two shire," Whitehead wrote one on the ball might turn the laugh on is now issued for the arrest of moths hard labour passed at Lands, King of Upper and Lower "A Grove in Surrey," inspired by the wrong side.”
Warwick Assizes recently on Egypt, Maa Kheron Ra, be Grove, which still exists on the
the ever-green beauties of Haling | ». Other persons implicated in Alfred Bucknall, a young Foles- loved of Tum. Lord of the case have since absconded, bill miner, for robbery with Heliopolis, to whom he has border of the present greatly of the 1921 census--Suffolk-bas and it is claimed that a con- violence.
given eternal life." The casket reduced park. Once part of the revealed two more persons to be spiracy has been unearthed. The
was broken open by the fall of a used by Sir Nicholas Carew as a Crusoes, who live on lonely is- estate, the "Waldrona" area was allegation is that the missing
added to the list of modern stone and probably contained man has been acting as the of vacant ground near the Water jewels, for near by were found Preserve for conies. In honour lands round the coasts of Great receiver for coal diverted, from Police basin at Yaumati, of gold medallions and a pectora trustees might wall associate East Suffolk, has a total popula of the old laureate, the Whitgift Britain. Havergate, an isist off lighters whilst on the way to which sirty tons was again and a chain with two represents- the coalyard of Messrs. Mac- removed to another coalyard near tions of the king seated before Whitehead's name with the new tion of two kinnon, Mackenzie Bnd Co. the Yaumati Ferry wharf: the emblematic bawk, a gold ring
Two is also the at Taikoktsui. Another Chinese: Mr.
Inumber of the inhabitants of T. G. Bennett, who set in amethyst, a scarab, pearls firm is said to be implicated represented Messrs. Mackinnon, and amethysts forming a neck Doubt is expressed whether Harbour. Hunds, south of Kirk- Holm, in the month of Strombess In view of the fact that they are Mackenzie and Company, applied lace. responsible for the delivery of for the return of coal, amounting jewels, arms and insignia, a merely alang. Professor Free can be said to be almost over- A little further were Britisher Is literary English or wall, has three, while Copinshay Hongay cost to the yard. About to 260 tons, to the complainanta, papyrus, a stem of wood and gold man, in his "Impressions of the crowded, for it has seven. Three 220 tons aro stated to have been which was granted on an order supporting a silver solar disc, U.S.," thinks it W&5 diverted and stored on a piece made by Mr. G. Ñ. Orme.
and various other articles.
coined island lighthouse stations have during the War of Indepen-three, four, and six inhabitants dence, when the opposition respectively.
school.
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