THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, “SATURDAY, JANUARY
1927.
DEPARTING ADMIRAL
LEAVES FOR HOME-TO-DAY-
Vice Admiral Sir Edwyn S. Al- xander-Sinclair, K.C.B., M.V.O., who has just handed over the com- mand of the China Station to Vice. Admiral Reginald Tyrwhitt, leaves for Home to-day by the P. and 0. liner Malwa..
MIXED GRILL
By
A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne
A well-known burltone singer i to'n clerien error studied ns- The departing Admiral has been
has been advocating the fearning trunomy by mistake; won the Mar. Commander-in-Chief of the China of singing, not merely in order to tell Prize (1885) for his investiga- Squadron since May, 1925, when aequire a more or less pleasing tions into Three States; joined the he relieved Vice Admiral Sir A.Freeinplishment, but also ne a staff of Greenwich Observatory Everett, who returned Home on
means of improving and maintain (1891) ILS nasistant-meridian. ng qur health. Vocalists, it ap polisher; appointed Lecturer in pears, rarely, suffer from guttural Astronomy to the Keeley Institute or pulmonar lls, and this I can
(1896), where his lectures in the well believe if birds are any phenomenon
double-moons of created much interest. His 'pub- lished works include: Pars, about Mara (1895); The Obliquity of the Ecliptic, and How to Prevent #. (1903); A Method of Curdling the Milley Whey (1919); and some, Observations on the Docking of Cometa Tails. (1925). Hobbies: Stilt-walking and cheese-tasting.. Club: The Junior Müstard.
sick leave. In October, 1924, Vice Admiral, Alukander-Sinclair com pleted two years in command of the First Battle Squadron. He was Second-in-Command of the Fleet during that period, and while
· Admiral; Do’Robeck, was nway ow- Ing to motor accident in the autumn of 123 was in chief com- mand, being ao employed at the time of the Dominion Premiers' inspection at Spithead in Novem- ber, "1923. Id held commands in the Grand Fleut, is captain, com- modore und rear-admiral, nil
through the Great War. He was first in the ballluship Temeralre in 1914-15, then Commodore Com- manding the First Light Cruiser Squadron in the Gaintea in 1915- 17, and then Rear Admiral Com manding the Third' Light Cruiser
Squadron in the Cardin. The Galatea was the first vesel to give the report of enemy ships on the afternoon of May 31, 1916, which led to the Battle of Jutland. In 1920-22 he was Admiral-Superin- tendent of Portsmouth Dockyard He attained his present ranle in April, 1922,
BIG BAZAAR.
FOR GIRLS' COLLEGE, BUILDING FUNI)
In a big effort to raise the sum which is still neered before the project of new building for St. Paul's Girls' College is fully co- Yered on the financial side, the Honorary Building Committee, of which the Hon. Dr. R.H. Kotewall is the Chairman. and Miss Woo, the Principal of the College, ii an active mehber. a monster-bazaar is to be hell text week-end on the first floor of China Building, by kind permission of the Directors of Chinese Estates, Limited. The function opens on Friday at 4 pằm. when Lady Clementi will perform the pening ceremony, and is to be continued or the following two days, ending on the 17th January, A lucky dip will have 4,000 prizes,
criterion. You never hear, of canaries auffering from.enlarged uulns or relaxed tonsils, or of bullinghes contracting pleurisy or pneumonia. Nightingales, too, never got quinsy, though there have been occasions when I have earnestly wished that they might, or else that they would learn to warble bass for a change.
The only thing is that, suppos- we all took up singing as, a health measure, we might possibly render ourselves immunu, from chest, lung, and throat allments, but can see the whole nation quickly plunged into an epidemic
earache and nervous dementia
Excuse me for moment, while I tap on the party-wall with the poker. The young person next door has just begun to tell me for the twentieth time in succession that there was no rose in all the world untill came. If the tapping has no effect, shall call in and tell her face to face that there were no rows it all the world unti), she came.
At the recent Brewers' Exhibi- Lion in London 1 read that the judges were required to sample
600 sorts of beer, Fancy these poor fellows having to go home and admit to their wives that they had had 692 over the eight!
inm always vastly intrigued in reading the Social Gossip columns in the daily Press, but I cannot help feeling that the writers do not strictly adhere to the truth,
including a Fiat car and one din-Were 1 a Society paragraphist this mond bracelet as first and second prizes.
In explaining the present post-, tion of the Building Fund, Miss Woo yesterday stated that $270,000
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The embalmed, and perfectly preserved, body of a man; estimat- ed to have died 2,000 years ago, has just been discovered in an nn- cient tomb in Mongolia. Inter- viewed by that eminent anti- quarinn, Professor .Pifflinger Rottenbleiter, the corpse is re- ported to have stated that it attri- butes ita long decease to the fact that it has been a death-long tec totaller and non-smoker.
I have, just been reading about
a young fellow in Munich, unable to read or write, but who neverthe less possesses the extraordinary faculty of calculating the days of the calendar Instantaneously. If for example, you ask him on what day of the week the 17th March will fall in the year 3215 he can tell you without a 'moment'a thought, although 1 cannot see that it matters very materially whether it falls. or a Sunday, Tuesday, say, or on a Friday. If It should chance to fall on a Sun- day, pious Aberdonians might pos- sibly deem it as well- to make a note to that effect, on their "En- gagements for 3215" list, so that they might not find themselves in chureh without the necessary threepenny-bit; but otherwise I' cannot see that this young Muni- cher's startling gift is of any practical value. As a matter of fact, I, too, possess it in modified degree, although I am able both to read and write. (Editors hotly dispute the latter" claim). If, for example, you ask me on what day Christmas will fall in the year
is the kind of thing I could-quite--2063, I can immediately answer
justly and truthfully state:-
I noticed Lady Blimph lunching
She
at the Seidlitz yesterday. made an awful noise with the us
is needed, of which $150,000 hasparagus, and cut her mouth twize)
been raised, and $50,000 more pro- mised by the Government; leav ing a margin of $70,000 which is hoped will be wiped out by, the proceeds of the bazaar and by voluntary donations.
The girls have been really hard-working," said Miss Woo, "and they are putting their best efforts towards making this bazaar an unqualified success."
"FEET OF CLAY:"
with her knife.
. Amongst other stall-holders at, the Albert Hall Bazaar, organised on behalf of the Home for Orphan- less Children, I saw the Hon. Mrs. Gumph. As usual, she had got her stockings on crooked, while' her clothes looked as if they had ยก been plastered on her by amateur paperhanger.
Occupying a box at the Giddity Theatre last night was the Dowa- gur Countess of Boxum and Portiv. "Occupying" is not exactly the mot juste, perhaps, as sho not only alled the box completely, but overflowed on to the ledge. She appeared to have added another' chin to her already considerable
FINAL SHOWINGS TO-DAY, The final showings of the Cecil B: DeMille production, "Feat of Clay," which opened at the Starlight... Theatre on Thursday will take place this afternoon and evening. Rod La Rocque, Vera Reynolds, Victor Varconi, Ricardo Cortez, Julia Faye, Theodore Koslaff and Robert Edeson áre featured in the cast. The story was adopted to the
Margaretta screen from Tuttle's magazine serial...
Feet of Clay" is a story of New York and California, and, as one who was privileged with a preview of the production so aptly exclaimed, "as modern as rolled stockings and of a smartness akin to Fifth Avenue on Sunday morning."
Easter
The Rifferaff Club was very full towards midnight. So was Lord Swillingham. He not only drank like a fish, but looked like one too. Following upon my remarks last week on the notable disco veries concerning the planet Mars made by that eminent astronomer, Professor Evans, Gayzor, the ac- companying detalls of his career will no doubt be appreciated by my readers. Born at Skye in 1860; educated entirely on the Corres pondence System; intended to specialise in gastronomy, but owing
A sack containing 40415. of N. Y. K. LINE.
raw and prepared opium, was ex- hibited at the Gravesend Police Court when Wen Tchin, a Chinese THE LIVERPOOL SERVICE/
Arema in the Dutch steamer, For some time past the N.Y.K.
Palembang, was charged with hav- Liverpool liners (freight acrvice) ing had oplum in his possession: suspended calling at Hongkong It was stated that when the owing to the recent interruption of steamer arrived, Customs offi trafc with Canton, but they will cors found the opium hidden in resume calling here, commencing various parts of the coal bunker. with . Tajima Maru sailing The opium was value at £40 6s., honce on or about 4th February but it was pointed out that in 1927.
Limehouse it could be sold for a
The service is a monthly one and much farger figure. Wen Tchin the calling ports in Europe are Genoa, Marseilles and Liverpool, was fined £100 or three months' and sometimes Glasgow,
imprisonment.
the 25th December; or if you de- sire to know on what day All Fools'. Day will fall in the year 1997 I can equally immediately re- ply the 1st April. And the curi-. ous thing about this gift of mine is that I can exercise it even if you blindfold me, or tie my hands behind my back.
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"Evening frocks cut in the crinoline style will be the fashion this winter," so says a ladies' journal. -And-so--say--
Dear maiden, tell me what I've done To merit your displeasure!
O, tell me why it is you've gone To so extreme a measure As to adopt the croinoline-.. Thot grim Victorian garment?
Too loving, pressing, have. I been, Who never any harm meant?, Have 1, perchance, been overbold, Tuo ardent in my wooing, That you, dear maid o' mine, should
hold
The course you're now pursuing" O, tumble, please, to what I mean; Despite a man's persistance There's nothing like a crinoline To keep him at a distance!
An unmarried woman, ask- ed at Shoreditch County Court liow she would deal with her lod- ger who had quarrels with his wife,replied:-I will wait till I marry before I talk of managing a husband.
--London-Thieves recently en- tered the prison grounds of Ports- mouth Prison and broke into the home. After superintendent's making themselves at home in the kitchen, and pantry, they olude 1 the guards at the gates by posing as workmen. Their "tools" eon- sisted of a quantity of the superin tendent's silver.
Don't allow a sulky fire to spoil
this pleasent hour.
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"FLOODS IN F. M. S.
"BIG PETER."
A DIGNIFIED EXIT FROM YORK MINSTER.
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the Kuala Lumpur police, secured a stout rope, and Mr. Boyle, of A portion of the fabric of the the Cycle and Carriage Co,, and a west front of York Minster la bé- Filipino who volunteered to swiming removed to allow of the pass- age from the cathedral of its fam- put, were tied round the waist ous ball, Big Pater, which is to be with one end of the rope, while taken down and recast. The other the other was held by the three bells of the Minster, twelve in police officers, standing shoulder-namber, have recently been re- hung in the south-western tower high in the water. The two me after recasting, and these now pro- were fortunate in being able to duce one of the most musical. hold on against the strong current chimes to be heard in the countrys
To complete the renovation of the till the rescuers arrived and got bells it has been decided to have them safety back to land.
Big Peter recast also.
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land:
THRILLING RESCUE WORK.
Big Peter weighs 11 tons, and it. ranks after the great bell of St. Some hours after the two Euro-Paul's and Westminster's Big Ben peons had been rescued, two Tamil as the third biggest belt in Eng
A foot in thickness and coolies attempted to cross the channel and found themselves with a clapper weighing three difficulties. Fortunately the d-hundred weight this beli was cast rection of the current carried them 1946. It has never been rung to the fence, to which they clung because it proved too unwieldy. till Inspector Bagat Singh, with Big Peter has defied the efforts of the assistance of others, managed 40 men pulling with : ropes over to haul them to safety with ropes. pulleys to swing it into action, and The third piece of rescue work since that successful defiance' of done by the police lasted about five authority the bell has remained hours. By the side of the bridge, silent, except for the chimes struck on low-lying land, is a Malay
upon it with a hammer each day at house occupied by three women noon and at midnight on New and a man. The water had rush Year's Eve. The bell has now been ed in and reached such a height lowered: to the nave from its lofty that the inmates had to take shel perch in the north-west tower and ter by sitting on the tops of the will be removed by the main doors. almeirahs. The man, however, at the west end. To permit of this mide occasional visits to the roof it has been found necessary to ro to call for help. Inspector Baga move the stone pillar, which divides Singh heard him, and, pending the the doors.. arrival of a raft, attempted, "In va- rious ways, to bring the family to safety. The current was strong, and the rope method falled, but with the arrival of the raft, the four people were conveyed safety Ito, dry land.
An interested spectator of the lowering of the bell was Mr. Hin- left, a veteran York citizan, who remembers seeing the bell in the Minister stoneyard before it was hung,
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