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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1926.
part, We mourn for entertain ment and proceed to bush on the head anybody who tride to provide. It. That is rather a remarkable procceding, to say the least of it. The newspapers aro generally ac cused of saying that everything is One and bekutiful whether it really
DAY BY DAY.
WE ADVOCATE EDUCATION, Nor MERELY TO MAKE THE MAN THE BETTER WORKMAN, BUT THE WORK MAN THE BETTER MAN. Lord Avebury.
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Five British vessels arrived in port and a similar number departed during the 24 hours up to nine o'clock this morning. The total arrivals were nine and departures fourteen. The total number of ships in harbour was seventy-one.
PRETTY WEDDING.
WELL-KNOWN CHINESE
MARRIED.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
ANOTHER VARIED PROGRAMME
An interesting and extremely The management of the Queen's pretty wedding took place this Theatre still continues its policy afternoon at the Church of Christ of offering attractively varied pro- There was a clean bill of health in China, Bonham Road, when Missgrammes. At present, in addition Is so or not, and although there is in the Colohy yesterday.
Ruby H. Y. To, daughter of Mr. to an interesting news reel, there un occasional use of extravagante B.I. steamer Talma is, to
D. Jackman, manager of the Wing is being show "The Snob," a very language by a reporter striving to leave Amoy to-morrow and is due Williah W1 Ma, eldest son of all-star cast, the leading parts On Co., Ltd., was married to Mr. powerfal story with a practically say something which will please, wo here on the following day,
Mr. Mit Wing Chan, managing dir being taken by John Gilbert and would like to know what it would
ector of Messrs. Sincere and Normu Shearer. There is plenty "Wake Up Hongkong."-This Company's Chiness department of action in this picture, which profit us, or our readers, or those, subject has been sufficiently well The Bridegroom has been in charge makes a strong appeal by reason of whom we would wilto, if we ventilated; and correspondence of Mesers. Sincere's buying office of its all-round excelloneó-and-n condemned and damned all that was thereon is now closed.
in London recently, returning to well-contrived romhace. the Colony in April, After the A further attraction is provided not absolutely perfect. These deo, The forthcoming wedding in ple who crave for the bare, announced of Mr. Walter Shillito Chinese New Year, the newly-wed by Dick, Norton and his clover ungarolshed and naked truth gen Vaughan Curtis, electrical on-couple expect to return to England- little band of "Globe Trotters," gineer, 23 A, Cameron Rond, Kow- The bride, who was given away who give some new Items which erally do the craving, as regards loon, bo Miss Mercer of the Italih by her father, was attired in a supply a happy mixture of mirth other people, and to them we would Convent Chine Road.
gown of flesh pink satin, embroider- and muste. ed in pastel colours, with a not voil Something really good is say that they are not more original,
and pearl bandeaux and orange promised for the three days from more disdérning, or better qualified
blossom, and carried a bouquet, of to-morrow to Saturday, when to judge then are others. They
white chrysanthemums and white Gloria Swanson will be seen in are only more churlish and snob
roses. She had as her brides-The Humming Bird." maids Misses Ada Kwok, Llly Pb, bish. We are not going to pretend,
Elale. Ma and Annie Ma, whilst the service, was choral, Dr. S. W. in this column that the "Pirates of
Miss Mary Lee attended as matron Pun beleg at the organ. of Honour and Miss. Kum Of na Penzance" is a perfectly produced
flower girl. The bridesmaids were opera and that its principals,
attired in dresses of pale mauve, chorus and orchestra could not be
pale orange and pale green geor improved upon, but we do maintain
gette, trimmed with silver den and beads, and they carried bouquets that the production is an ominently
of pink and white roses.
The bride's gift to the bride worthy one, that it can be thorough
Mr. Ma Hin-wing, cousin of the groom was a gold pocket watch ly enjoyed and that all concerned
bridegroom, was the "best man"whilst the bridegroom give the are deserving of compliments and
and Mr. Ma Wai-man attended as bride a diamond and platinum, wrist groomsman.
Other gifts Included:- encouragement. Gratuitous and self-appointed critics who fail to keep before them a keen realisation of the real difficulties, the hard work cheerfully performed and the unselfish purpose of those who en- gage in amateur theatre produc- tions can well be ignored as just so many unkindly churls who do nothing but darken our social
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1926,
UNKINDLY CHURLS. gloom.
Puck was wiser than most of us realise when he exclaimed "Lord, what fools these mortals be," for If he could sit up aloft and look at this littis Colony of Hongkong and note the doings and sayings of people in connection with the Phil- harmonic Society's presentation of "The Pirates of Penzance" he would perforce have to hold his sides in spasms of satirical yet saddening laughter. Here we are a little for eign community almost marooned
The Strike Weapon.
Mr. H. W. Stevenson, the world famous billiard player, passed through Hongkong, yesterday en route to Shanghai and Japan on the s.s. Takliwa. Mr. Stevenson expects to return to the Colony about January 6th, and will play at several local Clubs.
a
From Mossra. Holyoak, Massey
we have received and Co. handy little diary containing many facts in regard to electrical equip- ment as well as a comprehensive map of China. It is issued by the Westinghouse Electric Interna- tional Company.,
Awakened by the flash of an electric torch, the inmates of a mat- shed near No. 99, Wongneichong Road, were robbed of money, cloth- ing and jewellery valued at $120 in the early hours of this morning. The robber was armed with a re volver. -
If we are to judge from a recent
A workman at the University, statement by Mr. J. R. Clynes, whilst eleaning one of the win- Labourites at Home have come to dows of the Great Hall yesterday the conclusion that there are better afternoon, fell and was killed. and more effective means of secur-Some of the students who were ing industrial rights, than by the preparing to take their examina- use of the general strike weapon. tions examined the man with a Whilst the coal strike was still in view to rendering first ald, but progress, Mr. Clynes asserted that found that life was extinct. another general stoppage would end, in disaster. He admitted that
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Subsequent to the ceremony a re- ception was held at No. 3, Kennedy Road, the home of the bridegroom, and to-morrow night a dinner party is to take place at the Yes Wo Restaurant, West Point.
walch.
The officiating clergyman was Bridegroom's father to bride, the Rev. E. W. L. Martin, assisted cheque; bridegroom's mother to by the Rev. Lee Kau-yan, whilst bride, diamond bracelet.
The Very Idea!
At the recent British motor were stolen, and when the thief show, the cars which attracted was captured, Rippin identified his most comment were those with a property. body designed by the son of H. G. Wells, noted novelist and thinker.
Rajah 6. M. Saadat Ali Khan,
It was not because of the name of of Nanpara, India, has just had an the designer but because of the automobile built especially for cars themselves with their dia- tiger hunting: A. British firm tinguished lines that crowds made the machine. The autom gathered. A second son of the bile has a 50-horsepower motor great writer is making a name for and accommodates six passengers. himself in the film industry of There is a. special light to dazzle America. Many fathers, who the tigers. Turned on at night, wonder why the heavens cursed this bewilders and fascinates the them with such a ne'er-do-well son beasts of the jungle. The car is who won't come into the business, equipped with a plant for cooling carry on for them, and be a bless water, and special ammunition
upon the case of Mr. Wells and his It is said the machine cost
320,000 (gold),
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The return of the number of the strike weapon in reserve had occurred in the Colony during the cases of notifiable disease, which been invaluable, but said it should week ended Saturday last, shows be sparingly used, and, when em-two Chinese cases of diphtheria, played, it should be against the one of which was fatal, and cight particular parties against whom Chinese cases of enteric fever, of
One Chinese case of diph a far-away isle, longing for taste the nation. "In most cases," he fatal.
two sons. ful and educational diversion and added, "a substitute for the strike theria was reported on Monday,
Mr. Wells is a great writer. generally full of lament at the star-marks which Mr. Clynes made, it Affairs will be removed during the The other a great film executive. ed by
The Secretariat for Chinese One son is a great motor designer. When Joseph Conrad, consider- vation we suffer so far as social is clear that Labour now realises Christmas holidays from the pre- Wells never asked his sons to greatest novellst of all time first many authorities the enjoyments go. One or two of the the danger of losing public sme sent offices in Beaconsfield Arcade be writers because he was in- landed in New York, he insisted
pathy by resorting to extreme more adventurous have kept us methods. That we strongly evid-to more commodious premises interested in that work. He asked to reporters who asked him for the New Fire Station building from utter submersion by their ent on the occasion of the last gen- efforts in the A.D.C., the Phil-eral strike. It is not that the opposite the Central Market. The them only to do that job they could literary opinions that he knew am not a literary man," he said, harmonic Society, the Male Voice reasonable demands on behalf of ment and the Imports and Exports
public may not sympathise with offices of the Education Depart best, because they liked it best. nothing about auch things. I going into his shell: There you "There were millions of happy have the almost universal ear Choir, etc., and theirs is a worthy the workers, but what is strongly Department will also be removed
marriages and fewer tivorces mark of a really great man, Nɔ enthusiam, surely? For weeks resented is that any body of men to the new building..
before women were educated. matter how far he hits the ball, no should seek to hold up the whole past some few dozen men and wo-nation in order to wring conces
The following ships are expect And to-day the happiest marriages matter what laurels garland his men have been swotting and work- sions from employers. That is sheered to be in wireless communien-are among the so-called uneducat brow, he sees a goal beyond; the better, bigger thing to be done.. ing to produce a Gilbert and. Sul- tyranny, and as such will never betion with Hongkong to-day, ed classes.
"For marriage is a simple thing He continues to insist that he has livan. opera.
Principals, chorus, no country in the world," says Kashima Marü, Pres, McKinley, for simple people. It is only done nothing as yet, that he knows
tolerated by the British public. Nanning, Kum Sang, Aki Maru, orchestra, directors, and everybody Mr. Clynes, "have the working Maru, Haining, so when in bed that nothing the little fellow and s
It is concerned haye put in an enormous classes and their friends a finer op Maru, Kiungchow, Haining, Sin- become united that complexities
accomplished very little who amount of hard work, just for the portunity than is offered in Eng kiang, Gemma, Fushimi Maru, and difficulties. arise.
"Until men defranchise women struts his stuff and asks the Land for the use of their political Fingal, Chaksang, Japan. Lung loye of the thing, and the result is power," and he spoke words of wis-Shan, Mausang, Hozan Maru, and monopolize education they whole world to bear witness to an extremely enjoyable "show" dom when he appealed to the work-Hector, Tiikarang, Tipanas, Myr will never know domestic happi- his mighty prowess! One can hear again the brillianters to cultivate a fearless and midon, Prosper, Kotsu Maru, For-ness."
awakened political intelligence, tuna, Anhui, Uga. Marc, Daininis- Just some quotes from a critic's "Perhaps it is best after all,” versifying and sparkling wit of Gil-operating through constitutional shim Maru and Talma.
summary of a new play in London- remarked the rejected suitor as town, the theme of which is ho lingered in the hall, “A man bert and the beautiful lyrics of methods. If the industrial unrest Sullivan. Was there ever a wittier of the year. nowending has not pro- duted anything more valuable than or cleverer piece of doggeral than this recognition of the folly of the "A modern Major-General" or a unrestrained, use of the strike more haunting melody than "Poor pon, the troubles experienced will wand'ring one?". Surely, we ought to have our minds more on the en- joyment of thoso gems than on the little lack of first-class quality. which is inseparable from amateur- -enterprise?'
not have been in vain.
EXCHANGE RATES.
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A -middle -aged European merely this aren't we making a of twenty-five would soon tire of boarder of the Kowloon Hotel mess of things by educating a wife who novered round the was charged before Mr. JHB
women?
thirty-two mark,” Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with failing to pay for
"Why, Mr. Ardent." said the his board and lodging. Mr. An economical old gentleman Woman in the case, "how ver Perry, manager of the Hotel, read the following advertisement ungallant of you to insinuate that
I am thirty-two. applied for permission to within one of the leading daily draw the charge, stating that he papers:
Well, perhaps you are not,"
believed that the defendant was "How to save gas bills. Full he replied, but it certainly struik unable to pay the $91.due but particulars will be sent on recaipt me that you were somewhere near would settle his bill as soon as of one shilling."
the freezing point?”,
Rugby, Dec. 14.
he possibly could. The case was. The old gentleman, whose gas 25.096 merely brought to show that
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Women's cluba of America
20.375 things could not be done with im- bills were rather heavy, wrote for 19.155 punity. His Worship granted the particulars, enclosing the fee of spend more than 200 million
application and dismissed the one shilling. The reply came in
a few days
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Paris Genova Berlin. And yet this week's presentation Oslo by the Philharmonic Society has Hels
Helsingfors brought heartless and very unkind Shanghal condemnation on the heads of those w who have tried to entertain us. In Stockholm
Vienna our Sunday contemporary there.
Madrid was a "criticism" by "Thesplan" Butinos Aires which for pompous superiority and Hongkong
Bruseela downright animosity would be hard Milan
Copenhagen Progue
to beat. In yesterday's Morning Post an anonymous correspondent Lisbon
Bombay got an obvious grounch off his Yokohama cheat by slamming at practically Silver (spot)
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18,200 163.11/16
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Sy Tokyo, Dec. 14, 1/5.49/04 The Prince Regent's intention of .2/0.3/16 24.18/10
returning to Tokyo to-day has bean 247/8 cancelled owing to the Emperor's
condition, Router. -Byltiah Wirólban,
"Paste them In a book!
dollars yearly, comments Ida Clyde Clark, writer and lecturer. She comments that most of this. < 200 million dollars is filched from husbands pants pockets. She Blind people are reputed to be razzes sex barriers in club worke singularly clover with their fin and says that "It's high time we gers, but a watchmaker, born stopped working as sex groups blind, la seldom heard of. Such and started worlding us human man, Thomas Rippin, lived at being."
Holbeach, Lincolnshire. Born Sounds good, but why spoil the blind, he could take apart and put men's clubs, and why have oura together again watches of most spoiled? All theories to the con- delicate mechanism, and In, Josh trary, we aren't alike, we don't time than most watchmakers who especially like chewing the rag Once some about the same thing, and why have good eyesight." of the wheels and screws ho used should we?