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WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT.
The marriage of Mr. Robert Lythgoe Read, of Shanghai, and Miss Jenn Vallance Fleming, will
SATURDAY, DECEMBER
1926.
DAY BY
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as unnecessary. The scheme was later taken up, on the return to power of the Conservatives under
HUMILITY 18 THE SOLID FOUNDA- Mr. Stanley Baldwin, and AustraTION OF ALL THE VIRTUES.-Con-
I now finds itself with approval | Juscips,
in its heart but with no money left
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. S., Russ and in its pocket for such a purpose. Family returned to the Colony on That was, In effect, what Mr.the s.a. Yorck. Bruce, told the Imperial Confer
AFTER THE BALL: The Importance of Being Impertinent.
"It is only too evident," sighs while Hongkong reels, must be a Mr. Beyerley Nichols, "that the mean-spirited churt. One does not British public has never paid to wish to be critical; but my own impertinence the esteem which, as private and particular bugbear is The Ambulance Corps "Field ence last month, but he added that Day" is being held to-morrow at mankind. it so obviously merits. It frat dispirits me and then fills one of the brightest qualities of that I cannot put up with waste. he would bring the matter before Stanley, not at Shek 0.
We have relegated the word to theme with a blaze of economic fury! the Commonwealth Parliament on
nurseries of the Empire, where it And St. Andrew's Night and the One thousand guineas has beenis occasionally uttered, with awful samo can be said of the St. his return. He took great pains, given by the City Corporation to resonance, by ill-tempered gover- George's celebrations is not only however, to warn against optim-wards the 1927 centenary fund of
nesses. Yet, if it had its due. It wantonly wasteful; it is also a ism. The attitude of New Zealand the University College of London. would be one of the most respected grievous strain on the digestive words in the English language, en-capacity of the Colony. Practical- is frankly one of support, and Mr.
His Excellency the Governor has graved in a thousand compliment ly all the overfed of Hongkong- Contes has promised that the ques-roappointed Dr. A.D. Hickling, ary scrolls, dignified to the rank and their name is legion start M.B.E., to be a Member of the of civic virtue, even exalted to the this night of doubt and sorrow, Board of Education for a further melancholy eminence of those few almost
8 o'clock with period of two years.
substantives which we see fit to dinner of all-subduing gravity engrave on the stones of the de-at the Hongkong · Hotels parted."..
Then to the dance to faco Impertinence is constructive, at 11 o'clock a gargantuan supper! ;
purely destructive. And, there is whisky all the way
tion of that country making a de finite annual contribution in aid of cost will be submitted to Parlia ment at an early date. He thought
His Excellency the Governor has that the New Zealand Government | accepted the resignation by Lieut- would be prepared to increase enunt J. T. Smalley of his Commals.
Defence Corps.
rudeness
their share of the burden Britain sion in the Hongkong Volunteer When Disraeli referred to Peel as The supper is mostly left untouch-
had to bear to enable sea supre- macy to be maintained in that
quarter. That will be heartening news for the British taxpayer, who is mostly inclined to think crow of 15 were rescued. that his burden of the Imperial
an extinct volocano, he was noted, to be collected and carried merely being impertinent. He was away whence. It came. Hospitality The Admiralty drifter Levanter, actually tickling the volcano into is splendid but waste is unforgiv- tender ship to the battleship Iron action. But when a member bawl-able!
The suggestion is, of course, im- Duke, has been in Peterhead Har-ed out from his back bench in the bour during a severe storm. The House of Commons that Mr. Bild: pertinent; but why not cut the win is a cad, he was merely being dinners, and begin the Ball at 8! rude. And rudeness, in spite of. Then would the Chieftain's spor A Chinese rent collector has ab-widespread belief to the contrary, ron be heapier, but the bodies and. or any heads of his guests would be light- thing. The member aided nothing er. How they would leap and either to the debate or to his own frolic and what a supper reputation; simply because he hail should all eat! blunted the fine weapon of imper- tinence into a form of bludgeon which destroys nothing, unless it!
his own deplorable head.
bill is a little disproportionate.sconded with $2,700 which he was never advances anyone Hongkong has made its modest to have paid, in part, into the offertory, Malaya has come for- Treasury, remitting to Shanghai ward with a splendid contribution, reported to the police.
the balance. The affair has been
and it is only just that the big
be celebrated ut. St. John's Cathe-southern Dominions which are also
we
It is a far cry from revels to
dral, on Saturday, 18th December, to share in the benefits of the 142 Square Street took an overdose eventually rebounds and knocks reverends, but the Lord Bishop of
at 2.30 pm. Following the ser- vice, a reception will be held at the residence of Mr. John Fleming,
105, The Peak. Friends of Mr.
Read and Miss Fleming will be cordially welcomed both at the Cathedral and at the Reception, and they are asked to accept this as the only intimation, as no other Invitations are being issued.
scheme should contribute if possir ble.
Mr. Bruce very rightly pointed out that Britain's larger per capita payment on the score of defence was inevitable because of Britain's lion share in the benefits, but it is
A Chinese woman living at No.
of opium yesterday, and died some hours after removal to the Govern ment Civil Hospital. The police reported that it was a case of sui-
cide.
:
London arrives soon. He is said
charge of his Lordship's recrca-
There are rude persons in plenty to be inspecting the Church of in Hongkong, but the ranily imper. England in partibus infidelium but. tinent man (or woman) has yet to my beller is that he is really com arise. I feel certain that he ing to Hongkong, as a second St. exists but is filled with o pro- Augustine, bringing the gift of There will be a Whist Drive at found & contempt of our local higher Anglicanism to focal Scpts. the Helena May. Institute on De-Society and its idols, that he is not This should lead to some fine then- cember the 16th, at 3.30. p.m. if going to trouble himsel to knock logical sparring, but I would, as sufficient members and their them down. It is a pity, a very another act of impertinence, ven- a moot question as to what should friends-are forthcoming Tickets great pity! He could do so muchture to remind those who are in
the 9th here, but I shall never see him.. be considered fair ratio. It must be booked before
There is the St. Andrew's An- tions of the old social thesis, that Dec. at the Secretary's Office.--| would seem that Britain's $13 Advt.
nual Ball. Excellent in idea and at a dinner it is poor diplomacy to in intention. A local gentleman put together two clergymen of dresses himself up as a Highland slightly differing shades of belief. Chieftain. (The Chieftain of last whereas a bishop and a fockey will Tuseday's rout, who is believed to get on famously. But I forgot hail from Glasgow, declined to don that most of our Hongkong jockies the strange garb of his hereditary elther are, or will be, taipans, and enemies and presided in trousers.) that many of them are Cathedral The bagpipes skirt and there is a sidesmen. Well, this ought to great deal of capering and cater-make it all the easier to effect here wauling. It is a poor heart that the much-desired bringing to- never rejoices, and the man or gether of turf and lawn.
who remains unmoy.d
The Telegraph SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 4, 116 pence per head per year is execs-
THE COST OF SINGAPORE.
Bankruptcy notifications state that" a Arst and final dividend of $4.50 per cent. has been declared in the matter. of the Lee Ching Firm, of 5, Wah Hing Lane, and a irst and final dividend of $15:48 in the matter of the Wing Shing Shun Firm, of 38, Ko Sing Street.
Will members of the Helena there will be a Musicale, on Thurs- May Institute please note that woman
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sive when compared with the figures of the Dominions, with the possible exception of Australia. This question of proportionally bearing the cost of Imperial de- Although the project was un- fence is a very important one, but nounced on a very unkind public one can rest assured in the cordial and even suffered rejection at the spirit of goodwill which animated hands of the Labour Government the sessions and characterised the under Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, work of the Imperial Conference, there can now be little doubt that the Dominions will strive to re- the Singapore Base scheme is one lieve the over-burdened Mother of the most essential ideas in the Country of the heavy strain she co-ordination of Empire defence is now called upon to beur. In the very long speeches which Reuter telegraphed yesterday, ro
Two more round-the-world,cy-
Messrs. Komer and Komer are It is notified in the Gazette that. ference to the scheme was made
clists arrived here to-day by the s.s.holding an exhibition of Vienna commencing from 1600 G.M.T. The publication of the corres- Atsuta Maru, from Japan. They Fyances and Bronzes which should December 4th, and until further by Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mr.
pondence which resulted in the are M. Evangeli Moleas, of Greece, he seen by all lovers of art. There notice, the 600 metre service for Bruce, the Australian Premier, raising of the rates to patients at and M. Julius Vilnits, of Riga, is a wide variety of the most exqui-ships at sea will be taken over by both of them characterising the the Government Civil Hospital Lativa. They have been 16 months site parcelains. the gracefulness the Royal Observatory, Hongkong. project as being absolutely essen-throws no new light on the subject. on their travels and have already and colourings of which are ox- Details Until other call letters What is more, it fails to supply visited most of the countries of the tremely beautiful. A porcelain tial. The programme` of work is
are allotted the call-sign V.P.5. any convincing reason why the in- world.
figure entitled "The Butterfly Dan-will be used. The transmitter in- going to be limited, for the pro-creases should be put into effect as
cer" i ane of the outstanding The League of Nations health piece while there are many quin valve type and will use I.C.W. very stalled at the Observatory is of the sent, to what is necessary to make it is intended that they should as effective use of the big floating from the beginning of the new bulletin for the week ended Nov; figures, and statuettes which can- sharply tuned..
year. There is far too much made dock after its arrival, but Mr by the British Medical Association Baldwin intimated that "the cost of the use of the hospital by tour will be must heavy, even after al-ists and other non-residents of the Colony, this creating the wrongful lowing for the reductions," and, he impression that the institution is more or less flooded by patients coming within this particular cate- gory. In point of fact, of course,
Hospital Charges.
eber 27 reports three cases of not fail to evoke an exclamation of plague at Rangoon and one at surprise and admiration. Amour Position Latitude 22-18-13.2 Colombo; 32 cases of cholera at these may be mentioned "Mme North; Longitude 114-10-18.7 East, Haiphong, one anch at Rangoon, Singapore and Tourane; one case
Pompadour." and "The Cellol of small-pox each at Madras, Player," white a bronze representa- Vizagapatan, Singapore, Bangkok tion of "The Mosque" is a wonder- and Fusan.
ful little masterpiece and a tribute to the genius of the artist.
There is also an imposing solec-
woman, who
CADETS PENSIONS.
LOCAL MINUTE AMENDED.
The Gazette notifles that Pen-
followed up this statement with a Plain-language invitation to any of the Dominions interested in the Farby far the larger proportion of No. 216, Temple Street, Yaumati, tion of modern Japanese art con-
An armed robbery occurred at East to consider the question of cases are those of local people. yesterday afternoon. 'A Chinese sisting of multi-coloured fankard! contributing. He said there could The suggestion that the hospital
was living on the sets, water carafes, vases, etc. In be no more valuable contribution to afford to pay higher rates is also that, men armed with daggers rush-ouring is most daring, but the inletion of Paragraph 8 of Clause is fredly used by those who could second floor, reported to the police the majority of examples, the col-sion Minute is amended by the de- the defence of the Empire. Re-without foundation, for the avered into the premises, and stole a dividual effects are most attractive. No. 11 and the substitution there- sponse was made by Mr. Bruce onage resident, especially if his firm cash box containing money and It might be mentioned that the for of the following:- 2 bohalf of Australia and by Mr. does not contribute anything to jewellery to the value of $518. No prites of these are most reason-
hia medical expenses, finds $8 arrests have been made..
"Service will be deemed to com-. able, ranging from as low as $4.50 Coutes, on behalf of New Zealand. day a decidedly heavy burden o
mence for pension purposes, in the Another section is devoted to case of Cadets as well as of other Australia's position is rather the bear. It is on the grounds of un-
In the case before the Marine Japanese prints, and, here again officers, at the date on which they more interesting, because, al- fair competition that the doctora
have pressed for a revision of Magistrate, Lieut. Commdr. G. F. are many colourful and pleasing commence to draw salary, provid though that country views the rates, but with so few hospitals as Hole, at the Marine Court when examples of art at prices-ranging ed that if a Dadet-without cause Singapore Base as being vitally the Colony possesses this is scarce Captain C. Mutton, of the 8.8. from 50 cents.
which the Governor in his discre summoned for The display is well worth a visit, tion considers adequate falls to necessary for the protection of ly convincing. There is one other Wing On, was oversens trade routes with which point which is worth stressing and working Sunday cargo without a but this should be made early as pass the final examination in the that is that the doctors are now permit, his Worship held that the many of the outstanding examples native language within the pres she is concerned, there is little to be the determining parties in prosecution had not proved their are finding ready buyers. prospect of a contribution being the situation. They have their case, and the summons was dia Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones own fixed rates, and the Govern." missed. made towards the high cost. ment is expected to keep as near was for the defendant.
*.*
XMAS AVENUE."
STRIKING DISPLAY AT WHITEAWAY'S.
cribed period, the period by which the date of his passing his final examination is overdue will be de- ducted from his term of service when his claims, to pension are considered."!
undoubtedly capture the imagina Messra Whiteaway, Laidlaw &tion of the "kiddies." Co. have again opened their {**** "Christmas Avenue" which presents
Australia has laid down a five them as possible--an arrangement yehra' programme of military ex- which appears to us to be inequit-Charged on remand before Mr. penditure amounting to about able to the public. Monopolies R. E. Lindsell this morning with 16,000,000 per year, and in addi: are bad, whether in regard to the refusing to pay his fare and with terms of medical services or any assaulting the conductor, whilst tion has committed itself to cer- thing else.. On the last change of travelling on a tram on Thursday, tain special expenditure. It Governors, the Medical Association a Japanese, described as a broker, took up the matter afresh, but they was fined $10 on the first charge,
For adults, also, there are many laid down this programme at a brought forward no new grounds and bound over in the sum of $50 time when there was little pro- for a revision of the heapital charon the second charge. The case had a wonderful display of toys and gift suggestions, the general ar spect of the Singapore Base be-ges. In view of that fact, we fail been remanded from yesterday in other articles suitable for Christ-rangement of which creates quite coming an actuality when Mr. to understand why our present order to enable him to bring up a mas presents. There appears to a seasonable effect. The window Governor adopted a policy in di-witness, but, this was not done and be an even larger selection than displays are also most attractive, Ramsay MacDonald's Government rect conflict with that of Sir Ed-convictions on the two charges were other years, and many attractive especially that devoted to gifts for
recorded.
novelties are on show which will the children. hud definitely rejected the scheme ward Stubbs.