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from his native environment and habits of thought. It has been argued that Instruction to Chi- nese should be in Chinees and should aim at making him a good Chinese. We think that Mr. Crook, the Headmaster, put the aims of Queen's College | very succinctly yesterday, when he said that the aim was twofold: firstly, to teach those elements of CUT DOWN EXPENSES language and its structure and of number and calculation on which in your kitchen by using a Pansy or Ideal Cooking. social communications are based Stovo, which have been and social intercourse minde pos- specially adapted to meet the requirements of the house-sible; und, secondly, so to guide holder in China.
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MODERN ROMANTIC READING. Some Thoughts on Best Sellers.
world,
The B. I. steamer Talamba left Sanger, here lies that one time "modern" In the same way, her male double Moji on Friday and is due here! on the 81st Instant.
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The annual meeting of sent- holders and subscribers will be held in the Cathedral Hall or Monday, 31st inst.
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Messra, N. Lazarus, the well known opticians, have lasued an effective leather matchbox holder, with a patent release arrangement. Yesterday's health return shows of which was imported, and one two British cases of typhoid, one
Chthese case of puerperal fever.
The name of Mr. H. M. Muir, C.A., has been added to the list of and mould and inspire. To para-auditors qualified for the purposes phrase Mr. Crook, the College aims of the Companies Ordinances. Jot teaching the three R's
through them the elementary vir- tucs, leaving the accond great aim of education the making of betterruary 2 and 3. men and women--to be a matter
The name of Dr. Eva To. Tung,
He.
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Thongkong Telegraph. quoted yesterday, when the foolish
ATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927.
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That noble and courageuku' age that hurled read Nat Gould until his And dined at Bled... What Are you publishers, Messrs. John Long, Ltd. stato that males of this these days, may be as a snail's three million copies! They pub- The speed at which we live in author's works new exceed twenty- crawl compared to that of the lish a list of eighty-five volumes future, and even now occasions which they strongly recommend. surprise, but the fact that for For another type of render, there some time there has boon, in the were dozens of little paper-backed Colony, a novel which includes a books read greedily in between detalled description of the late anniches of work; these short general sirike in England, and a
jatories, whose yellow covers bore clear picture of many of the fore
to that dramatic Pantry to Palace," which were a legend very similar to "From chapter, should not pass without simply grown-ups fairy stories, going events
"Young Anarchy," by Sir Philip soothing influence? It is greatly what has become of them and their Gibbs, gives a clear picture of the to be feared that Socialism, and six-months previous to last May bitterness, has killed the hope of of trial to your own reside as a bravely in many a heart below und brings the succeeding montheprincess rank, which flourished > background to another picture of
comment.
It is advertised that the Ex- these young people of the modern stairs. Not because Socialiam of change Banks will be closed to the world. All the difficult questions the red order has shown the im Lennsaction of public business on of discipline and freedom in home Posillity of achievement, so much Wednesday, and Thursday, Feb-life, and in public duty, in labour, as because conditions have torn and in that most diffenlt aft-tha asunder the glamour of the
in perfect proportion. right use of capital are painted Royal existence, and shown the Whether Pantrymaid that her one night out of growth extending right throug Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor he wrote the book before the main 4 week is a luxury denied to a And no-one could have read of Surgery of the University of event of the general strike, and princess, and both have now Mr. Crook's peroration without Hongkong, has been added to the was thus so sure of his ground, realised that freedom from inquisi catching something of the fine list of local medical practitioners.
and his future that the manuscriptive masters is the greatest tres- spirit that is behind the College's
needed only the last few chapters sure on earth. It is notified that the names of to complete it in May, he does not Realism rules every branch of direction and which stands at the the China National Tobacco Com- tell us.
art. The Romantic school deale back of all education. As the poutpany, Limited, and the Nam King
Great changes are taking place with ourselves, and aims at making pictures it, in the beautiful words Restaurant, Limited, have been in modern novel writing, and thejus say after every chapter:-"Oh!
struck off the Register.
public has so much from which how true It gives no more to select, that in successful novels, comfort than does life Itself, and have been made wise the nations Mr. A. L Shields has bee and best sellers, surely lies a key loaves the reader high and dry to of the earth will blend in one great Yung of No. 6, Peak Road. The national charneter. If Jane Aus- Some have a bee in the bonnet and. bitten by a dog owned by Ho to the much discussed changes of come to any conclusion he pleases. confederacy in the quest of Beauty animal has been removed to the tin truly portrayed her chosen type become tiresome, just like the folk
the vision unto which, through depot at Kennedy Town.
of English country life, she set in real life, who are hobby riders, all vicissitudes, tolls the indomit-
out with that definite object, and and desires to share their nag with The annual ordinary general in the romantic school of, to-day's ever good listener. Mr. Hutchin- able world, So long as that high meeting of shareholders of the writers of novels, there is the same son thinks it necessary to belabour faim and purpose dominates and in-Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., In view of the great amount of spires those of this Colony who are Ltd, will be held at the Hongkong effort to select a type, and sketch his moral about the freedom of funcost prevalent among all classes in charge of our educational in-Hotel on Saturday, February 12 it without exaggeration. The women to earn a separate income,
in China, there will be general stitutions, we need have no fears at 11 am.
trouble with the critics is that until he causes sudden death, in of the future.
they refuse to state this is a violent manner, to a set of young satisfaction at the words of ad-
The offices of the China Coast picture of such and such a type," people infinitely better able to monition which is Excellency the
Kwangtung Unrest..
Officers' Guild and Marine Eng-and either praise its accuracy, or take care of themselves than their Guverner saw fit to address to the Various reports recently coming ineers' Guild of China will be condemn its faults: their cry is mother and father. In spite of to hand regarding the possibility Building, 67 Des Voeux Road Cen-novel desing with the license of a very sunny sojourn as a best
situated at 3rd Floor, Stephen's inevitably: Here students of Queen's College yester-of trouble in Southern Kwangtungtral, as from February 1.
Is another this solecism, "This Freedom," had day, at the annual speech day and would appear to be confirmed from
modern life; while we admit its seller, and enused many n wiseacre prize distribution. It was largely the news, emanating from our The death has occurred in truth, we turn with relief, to to shake a finger of warning at on account of the lead given by Pakhui correspondent, which we Manila of Mr. J. G. Lawrence, book of essays by ete." Surely any young person within sight.
published yesterday, striking school students in Jute of groups of disbanded troops have Lawrence and Selph. The decens decision and selection of the read-Picture, and the Problem Novel Seemingly juny of the legal firm of Ross, the subject matter is open to the The Problem Play, the Problem: provided a real problem for the fed. succumbed malignant ing public, and the critic's work are all hot cakes to the public, local authorities, with the resultmalaria.
is to test the treatment, and decide possibly because our hard instinct that the latter have been compelled
its worth.
is so enlarged nowadays that we to make overtures to these folk, Oh the pretence of looking at a
In a short list. of present, best find comfort in reading of com- promising them official posts. All cubicle, a well-dressed Chinese sellers of the moment, under plexities similar to our own, and
nction are: appears to have gone well until gained entrance to a house in the
Galsworthy's "The pretending they represent real insisted upon, and when cur cor- and chain from the principal Mr. Gilhooley," and Stella Ben-those stories which tell themselves, the disarming of the soldiers was city, and, snatching a gold watch Silver Spoon," Arnold Bennett's fe.
"Lord Raingo,"
O'Flaherty's In the second division, we have respondent sent off his news, fight tenant, escaped. ing bad broken out between the
son's "Goodbye, Stranger." The and remind one of gramaphone
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1925 thal this Colony suffered the disastrous train of events which led up to the declaration of a boy cott, for, with characteristic "follow-my-leader" procedure, the workers of the various establish ments did as others were then do- ing. His Excellency,rightly orged that school boys have no place in ein Kwangtung is said to be over from
two factions. The whole of South. "A boatman fell into the water latter authoreas was lately dee-records in their reiteration-.. ajunk at Kennedy Town cribed as one of the four greatest stories which begin with a set of contentious politics and that their run with robbers, and, in the dir-yesterday, and was crushed to women writers of the world, characters whose names don't quty is to study. His very plain cumstances, it is little wonder that death between the junk and the, though her cutput is all too arall matter, who are of no fixed abod, speaking, both to students and the people are apprehensive of seawall. The remains were re-She can almost be described as and of no standard of living com-
serious trouble, inasmuch as the moved to the Mortuary.
local celebrity, since she now has mersureable with the pareats, ought to be productive of authorities are apparently unable
her home in North China; and reader's. A great blonde Russian much thought and lead to nothing to control the situation. It is His Excellency the Governor has many Hongkong people will
resteps in, with casual and dis- but greater discretion of action. when we read news of this charac-granted the local rank of Captain member her visit here some years interested immorality, to splash a
ter that we realise how much more. fto Lieutenant That Queen's Collere is perform real progress has to be made in Steele, M.C., R.A.RO., the Royal
ago. Henry
streak of red upon the canvas pre- For the grown-up, there are sixviously filled with pallid creatures. ing a very valuable work is amply China before anything approach-Irish Fusiliers, A.D.C., with offer! distinct groups of modern roman of little vitality. Aldous Huxley Illustrated by the lengthy anding peace and security is attained. from 18th November, 1925.
tie reading, each containing so Michach Arlen, and their friends The Nationalists have had most interesting report of its
many volumes that any ardent atring together a dozen seches and 11 wonderful opportunity of Headmaster, Mr. A. II. Crook, and making
Mrs. Durica M. Wilkinson, of reader could confine himself, or call them chapters one to twelve. Д model province of Hongkong," with two" of her
the study of any one of them and It reminds one of strolling along a the soundness of the education Kwangtung, but instead of daughters and son, have had the caree keep up with new-comers, row of bathing huts, catching
their 'hands provided can be measured by the setting
to the privilege of an audience with His and entertain the old. Twenty years glimpses of the occupants, or even work which, lay at their doors, they ficliness the Pope. The party ago the feminine devotee of Charles more lying on Wet-Hal Wel Island soundness of the school's lifection. have seen fit to embark on military now touring the Continent and is Garvice followed exactly that plas where a dozen families have no The vast majority of the boys at adventures which, so far, have had later to visit England.
of devouring each new volume better shelter from the inquisitive, the College are Chinese and it is little other result than to spread
superscribed with his name, and than a highly coloured curtain internal disturbances na to lear Inevitable that the recreational to serious anti-foreign outbreaks. the police in connection with the completion, to something he had blocking the window.
Four men have been arrested by turning back impatiently, on its jover the door, and a large plant and moral influences with, which All China's troubles with the armed robbery at Che Wo Street published before her adolescene. shey come in contact while at Powers could be quickly adjusted Fifty dollars, worth of the pro school will have a permanent effect able of controlling the major part from the arrested men.
if there hrose some authority cap-perly stolen has been recovered upon them. It cannot be too often of the country. That much-to-be- emphasised that the Govern-desired development has yet to be The Offices of the Supreme ment of Hongkong
reached, and the disturbances now Court are to be open daily from 10 is .pro- accurring in the Pakhol district am to 1 p.m. and on Saturday viding, by means of its Government, provide yet another illustration of when they will be open from 10 schools and also its grants to other the point that Nationalist power is
a.m. to 12 noon during the Chinese comparable institutions, hundreds not complete even in the South.
New Year Vacation, except on of Chinese youths with a first-class
Public and General Holidays, when education which otherwise, they would never be able to procure. This Colony, although it has not
Brussels rot solved the problem of institut-Amsterdam
Borlin ing compulsory and free education Copenhagen 28 in Britain, hun no reason to feel Vienna anything other than proud of its contribution to the great work of Bombay educating the youth of China on Hongkong modern linet.
New York Genova "There has long since been a Milan division of opinion regarding the Stockholm nature of the education which Pramug Madrid should be given to Chinese youths. Athens in schools such as Queen's College, Buenos Aires
Shanghai. some educationista being opposed to Yokohama the kind of Instruction which they giver (forward)
Silver (spot) claim tends to "uproot a Chinese.
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TISTHENES.
FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.
MORE ROBBERS.
ANOTHER ONE CAUGHT.
Armed robbers who entered No.
IN KENT'S NEW COALFIELD. 338,. Des Voeux Road West, yester day, were disturbed, on the point
London, Jan. 28. of opening safe, by the unex-
Four men were killed and sloven Pected return of a foki of the shop injured in an explosion which took Abandoning the job, they rushplace to-day in the colliery at ed, pell-mall, through the doorway, Cetterhapper, near Deal almost knocking down the coollo
The colliery is part of the new in their anxiety to escape. How coalfield which is being developed over, the foki chased the gang and in Kent-British Wireless.
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OTHER CASES.
BIG CONTRACT.
SECURED BY BRITISH FIRM.
London, Jan. 28.
192% Rudolph Valentino is now ap 2.17/32 pearing at the Queen's Theatre in .6.27/32 | “A Sainted Devil," a pleture which During the confusion occasioned 70.3/04 shows him in the role of a lover by the fire yesterday morning on distracted by the abduction of his the waterfront, premises nearby 26.0 beautiful wife on their wedding were entered by thieves who sue- 118% day. There are some remarkably ceaded in breaking open a safe and 18:19 good scenes in this film, which is stole from it jewellery and money According to the Industrial News 18.84 also noteworthy for powerful to the value of $1,606. A report the London firm of Perry and Com- 2ncing by Valentino, Halon, D'Algy, was made to the police by. Mr. pany have secured a contract for 369 Nita Naldi, Louise Legrange and Ching Ham-po, the manager, of the port works for the Belgian Govern- 46.16/12 Dagmar Godowsky. Those who firm victimized.ment valued nominally at £360,000 Thloves also entered a house in and covering an extension of the 72/7 like romance, with ample thrills, 3/06/02 should say this picture, which is Jervois Street yesterday and ro-port of Matadi and the construc
20% balng shown for the last time moved money and jewellery ton of a new portat Angongo, In
amounting to $1977.
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