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THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
COLONY'S LOSS.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL
TRIBUTES.
how closely His Majesty kept in touch with altairs during the re- cont regrettable, general strike in the Old Country, the eventuat calling off of which was yet an- other proof that the people at The Colony had a clean bill of to the late Hon. Mr. P. HL Holyoak
WHEN FAITH IS LOST, WHEN MONOUR DIES, THE MAN IS DEAD
Whittier,
Home have no sympathy with re-health on Tuesday.
volutionary ideas and that they are today more firmly attached to the Throne than ever before. Even the leaders of that great up hoaval were always at pains to make it clear that they desired no change in the country's form of Government.
Ia consequence of the King's Birthday, there worn no sittlugs of the Supreme Police or Marine Courts this morning.
In this month's Cathedral. Notes. the following references are made
GOLD HOARD IN GARDEN.
FORTUNE OF AN "EX-LAUNDRESS.
Judgment was given by tho Judicial Committee of the Privy and the late Sir Paul Chater Council recently in a caso in
"Just as we go to press therevolving a fortune made in Aus- comes newa of the death of Mr.tralia by a woman who had boon: PH. Holyoak. It is a sad blow Inundress, beauty specialist and to his many friends who were hop clairvoyante. ing that the voyage home would re-
Mrs. Mary Scales had appealed store him to health and strength from the judgment of the Supremo He was a man of great energy and Court of New South Wales, dis- thoroughly respected us one who missing her claim against two. bad high ideals of life and' civil
executors of her late husband to duty. As a churchman he was property alleged to have been held regular communicant and constant in trust for her. The value of A wise and beneficent ruler,
attendant at public worship in the the estate was £50,000, and during" King George V. to-day has the seized large quantity Tottery Cathedral and ns District Gread the case it was mentioned that Master of English Freemasonry he Mrs. Scales hid largo sums of was zealous to raise and malataia money in her garden, from which the highest ideals of freemasonry. she had dug up £12,000 in gold,
The Committee upheld the judg
happy knowledge that not only is his position unassailed, but that it is being made even
bis responsibilities, he conforme to, and encourages the best and highest aspiration of his people in
During a gambling raid carried out, at No. 8, Stanton Street, yes tordny evening, Inspector Shaftain tickets. Three nien were arrested.
of the Sanitary Department is being charged with obtaining money by false pretences, was adjourned by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill
all parts of the Empire. By rule. yesterday afternoon, till. Monday takes from the Colony, one of its whether any of the properties:
he has engendered a loyalty and a ünity that assure the continu- anee of a form of government peculiarly suited to his subjects, all of whom will to-day with 15-17, Connaught Road, Central fervour and sincerity unite in the exclamation: Long Live the King!"
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Incorporated, under the Companies Ordinances 11ongkang.
The Telegraph
THURS AY. JUNE 3, 1926.
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THE KING.
Distorting the Facts,
afternoon.
The ease in wiffch Hung Ping His death will be generally felt as more secure because in the exercise off eheung, a probationary Interprefer a sad blow to the Colony. Our ment of the Australian Court, is with his except in the case of £4,000 hand- sincerest sympathy widow and daughters in theirled over by the appellant to hér -bereavement.
husband in 1907 to invest for her. The death of Sir Paul Chater An inquiry is to be held as to oldest and most public spirited standing in the name of Mr. Scales citizens, .He has contributed mach at the time of his death represent- to the growth and progress of
ed Investments of any part of the Hongkong, and has been a man of
$4,000, and any balance of the A Shantung constable who was
many interests. His great wealth 4,000, with interest from her hus caught sleeping while on duty in
was freely used for the benefit of band's death, ls to be refunded to the Deportee Shed at Yuumation others. He endowed the Cathe- Mrs. Scales, Tuesday was fined $15. by Mr. dral with a sum of two hundred J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon and fifty, thousand dollars, and Magistracy yesterday afternoon.though not usually worshipping in made, he most generously, and The defendant was stated to have the Cathedral since he built St. without any request sent a cheque byen.
fined departmentally on Andrew's Church, Kowloon, he was for $0,000 to the Chaplain to put three previous occasions.
astatholder and subscriber to the the pecount straight. He was Cathedral When the Cathedral, therefore practically the donor of Hall was proposed and the late Mr. the roof of the Cathedral and as Owing to the indisposition. of M. J. D. Stephens, who gave it was appropriate that his body Now and again China's repré- sentatives on international bodies Mr. M. K. Lo, who represents Mr. $20,000, insisted that his donation should be brought under that roof of various kinds have an unfor- and Mrs. J. S. Gill who are involv- should not be published, Sir Pant for the first part of the funeral tunate precipitancy of speeched in a number of summonses aris Chator very kindly headed the sub service, which was held on May.
Only 27th, and was very largely attend- they resint some more or lessing out of an incident which scription list with $5,000. Hongkong joins heartily with justized criticism and then blurs occurred in the Star Theatre on loyal Britons in all parts of the out an entirely unfair accusation April 25, the case was adjourned by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kow world in the hope that is Most against somebody cise. A
in noint was that which happened leon Magistracy yesterday after Gracious Majesty the King, who at Geneva two days ago, when Mr. noon till to-morrow afternoon. to-day celebrates his 61st birth-Chu excitedly exclaimed" al
Passengers departing for Eur day, will long he spared to reign meeting of the League of Nations' Advisory Committed on the oplum over his, people. Time passes true that Britain was poisoning pe yesterday by s.5. Antenor in- quickly, and it is hard to realise the world with its drugs. That is cluded Mr. G. H. Stitt, the retir that King George has passed his statement utterly at variance ing manager of the Shanghai with all the known facts, for it is branch of the Hongkong and three-score years, for he still
the avowed and practiced policy Shanghai Bank, Professor Hinton figures in the minds of most of of Britain to discourage the use of the II. K. University, Mr. and his subjects as an essentially of craps every where. Efforts to Mrs. O. H. Blackburn, Mr. and active and energetic monarch, secure the suppression of the Mrs. H. Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. J. W opium tree have been made by Humphries, the Rt. Revd. Bishop. always to the fore in dischargingitain on a much more serious Trollope, and Mra. A. und Miss the onerous, duties and respon- scale than have the efforts of any Pearl Ogilvie, sibilities which attach to his high other country exercising govern- mental powers over peoples, to position in the State. Some little whom the use of opium is now a time back, there was, a consider normality, and it is
able degree of anxiety felt for His Majesty's health, but it is Comforting to know that today, he has completely recovered from the set-back which he suffered, and
a
informed
012 the of the Burial Service in the cere last year Eaving read of the deed. The Bishop took the last part. ficit which accumulated Cathedral General Fund,. owing to try. Much sympathy is felt for the expense of the new roof for Lady Chaten and Mr. Bagram in. which no special appen! had been their loss. May he rest in peace."
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Women are more irritable than men, decides a medien man, be- cause their knee jork is more in: For all that she was worth.
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Once again the New World steps the Servers Guild which was form that little stunt of the doctor's in to redress the balance of the notorious ed in 1919, says Cathedral Notes. hitting you below the knee and Old.. In Berlin Herr Jolly has hat China is still producing verr Members are required to attend watching you kick. It seems that just ended a fast of forty days. large quantities of the drug in Holy Communion every Sunday that tabulates the work of the And in Kentville' (Nova Scotia). attempted to eat eighty Easter violation of former agreements. and Holy Days if possible) and spinal cord, and the higher kick says Reuter, "James Macaskill eggs for a wager, but gave up Mr. Chu's outburat was provokedo Communicate at least once a significs extreme nervousness.
Communicants desiring
Those who persistently think after the fortieth." Perhaps be by the British delegate's exposure nonth of a very serious case of drug to join are reported to give their traile evasion under the cloak of Fames to Mr. A. Quarrell, about themselves don't understand will try again later on with eggs it is the unanimous 'wish of his medical needs, and it was an en-Public Works Department. In the that it's foolish to worry about in dess holiday mood.
unde- near future the Guild, hopes to ar- trifles.
Some men fish and lie about- many subjects that he will be tirely unwarranted and
A Scottish minister was walking and others lie about their fish. spared to see many more birth-served accusation No-one knows range for addresses on subjects better than must Mr. Chu the wide such as "How to Serve at Holy
traffic Communion" and "The Duties of a through a street in a village one
misty evening when he fell into a . A famous.diva, giving a concert days as Ruler of the great Empire ramifications of the drug
deep hole: There was no ladder recently to a packed house, wan over whose destinies he presides.in the Far East, and how traffic- Server,"
theby which he could make his escape not in particularly good "voice. Mr. Spencer
"Her lower regiators are posi In an age when the spirit of kere in many European countries are shipping to China and Japan
A passing labourer heard his cries tively bad," a critic was heard to democracy is everywhere assert-large quantities of drugs for Speaker recently that a valuable and he began to shout for help. ing itself, it is reassuring to re- "dope", purposes. Britain is in volume on agriculture was miss-
atoping from the library of the House and looking down, asked who he remark during the intermission.
The minister told him, "But her cash registers, arn- alise that time leaves the British the van of those trying to
that traffic, and this is borne out of Commons. He suggested that was. Constitution very largely untouch-
by the seizures which are every the Sperker should give instruc- whereupon the labourer remarked: still good," came back a wag, lock
You'll ne be needed ed. Democracy and Monarchy now and again made on ships in tions that if the book was return "Weel, weel, ye needna kick up sic ing at the big crowd.
British ed no questions would be asked. a noise.
on a soap box, her lunch in a big, are not incompatible, an is shown British ports en route.
shippers and ships are more The Speaker;, I hope the honour-afore Sawbath, an' this is only
Wednesday nicht."
before the closed door of the office by the history of the British Em-closely watched than are those of able member's hidden menning.
Ilairdressers say the bob is à of director of the Metropolitan pire. They can be, and are, made other countries and it must be a will be observed by the honour-
What women Opera House, waiting for a chance illicit ble member who may the studying
permanent thing." very real adjuncts one to another. comparative rarity
would like to have is a permanent to tell him about "my daughter who has a voice just like Marion All great nations have their cen-drugs, to travel via British ton- that book in private.
be There will doubtless
permanent wave.
Talley's." Penchester, or "the castle on tral Inspiring points; the country some official protest against Mr.
the hill," is now known as Pens- without some definite visualisa-Chu's unfair assertion.
hurst Place, where the "Sidney" tion of the people's love and
forged documents have come to loyalty can never go far. From
"English tea and Scotch whiskylight, Little is known of the the purely idealistic standpoint, are perhaps the two things I find Penchester family, who came over the Republican farm of Govern-most delightful,President of with the Normans and held the ment many appear the best, but the Swiss Society of Hoteliers, castle for two centuries, Buck- who have been visiting this
nage.
with the example of British his. country.
for
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He married her for money.
"Then
He found it was no joke. She had as much as he had,
and
The both of them were,
broke.
"You didn't subscribe to the collection?"
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An old woman camped all day
Perhaps she has! That's the tragedy of this world! Arafllion" voices "just as good," but a long complex chain of luck and circum Does stance gets only one in! anyone really believe any mor that talent, even genius, always manages to make itself heard?
The members of the famous Henpecked Club, which has its tory before us it can surely be
headquarters near Halifax, in- claimed that, the Constitutional
Mr. Justice McKinnon has been
dulged in high jinks to-day when Monarchy has yet to be excelled, re-reading "Pickwick" with the
Girl students, of New York Uni- they assembled at Cragg Vale, for Applying these thoughts to His object of analysing the chronlogy of the book. "Dickens certainly
versity are ordered to cease their their 5,908th annual outing- Another daughter an almanac," he Majesty the King, it can, be said did not use
to Sir Henry Bunbury, boxing bouts till the faculty de- Manchester Guardian. « that he has, over since he came writes, in the Cornhill. Magazine, K.C.R., the seventh since his cides whether or no such pastimes. So the Cavemen knew the prob to the Throne, upheld the tradi- "Indeed, he dashed off his master-marringe in 1911 to Miss Dorothea are altogether ûlting and proper lem, too...
ingham, Warwick, and later the Sidneys held possession in turn Enlargements in the 14th century made the place more palace than Cantle, without robbing it of Its
old romance.
born
hns bien
"I did. Did you see '20 francs, Anonymous? That was me!"
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Harry: "I understand Gertrude married a man who made a for- tune by lucky speculation.
Grace: "Yes, and he disgraced her while they were on their honey-.
for young damsels. Perhaps, who piece in the exuberance of youth, Merrivale. tions of Constitutional Monar- with a fine disregard of dates and
This remarkable sequence of knows, this modern woman stuff
is to be curbed!. chism in a manner altogether be with a fair sprinkling of actual daughters is:
anachronisms. Let no one sup-
1912-Elizabeth Marion..
Jacob: "Vot ith the matter. yond reproach. Necessarily cir-
pose," he concludes, "that if I
191-Katharine Littleton,
Abe?" cumscribed as his activities are compare the greater accuracy
1916 Judith Shirley.
Abe: Oi Oi! My shop is onmoon under the Constitution, he has of Jane Austen it is a comparison
1917-Patricia Merrivale.
fire 1920-Janet Dorothene nevertheless ever displayed the of merit rather than of method. No one ever derived more delight
1922-Penelope Frances. keenest and most practical in-from Pickwick than I "If the
1920-Tho new baby daughter:
Abe: "Yeth, but my wife terest and concern in the well-ald hypothesis-the nightmare of
Sir Henry, who is 50, is Comp inatdel": being of the country and the Em-a single book upon a desert roller-General of the National
laland were to be propounded, Tealth Insurance Commission, Aured ?! pire, and, on more than one occa-
and the choice limited to either Accountant-General of the Minis sion, he has exercised his influence Pickwick or Pride and Pre-ty of Shipping, and Comptroller In the direction of moderation judice, I think I hhould have to and Account-General of the Post and sand counsel. We all know toss up"
ed
Offeo.
Jacob: "Voll, vot. about that, it's insured, ain't it?"
Jacob: "Vot Ain't sho in
The heiress and her lover fair, Sat talking, by the hearth,
is
Harry: "How did he do it?" "Grace: "Gertrude wanted the other passengers to think that an ocean voyage was an bid history to them, when her husband, almost as soon as they were on board, pointed to a row of lifebuoys, and asked the captain what was the idea of so many extra tyres.,