HONGKONG MAN'S
WEDDING.
QUIET SHANGHAI CEREMONY.
An interesting wadding took place very quietly in ShangHät, at the British Consulate, on Monday lust. This parties were Mr. H. J. Pearce, M.C. of Hongkong, and Miss Maży Lockle, of Hankow,
Mr. Pearce is well-known in Hongkong. He la an Executive Engineer in the Public Works Do- partment hero, in charge of the Buildings Ordinance Offles and la á keen yachtsman, owning the Yacht Argulin II in the Handled class which he regularly gajiš in the R.HK.Y.C. races.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1927.
MIXED GRILL by A Merry Miscellany கு
Ashley Sterne
Well my best wishes to you fat Finden's: "Indian Love Lyrics." Happy New Year.If you think He expresses annoyance, however, they're any use to you!" Thus at the behaviour of the other pas- friend parted from me the sengers, who, whenever he play, other klap, and over since I have will persist in throwing half- been wondering whether wishing-pennies-and occasionally buckets. one another a Happy Now Year of water into his cabin. He really does any good. I think so. further Inforins me that he intends Community wishing ought to afford to put up at the Tnj in Bombay, ин as much spiritual uplift as though I have sifice learned from community singing, add, since the private cable advice that the wish is father, to the thought; we management of the famous hostel Have only to wish hard enough and have decided to pull it down often enough in order to be firmly hooner than accommodate the Pro- convinced in mind that 1927 will essor, I am not altogether sur prove to be a happy year. That prised. His somewhat disturbing. conviction Impressed upon us he passes of mental détachment often will be a poor poltroon indeed who.lend too tiresome sequels, as, for goes about with a lugubrious face instance, when he was staying at reminiscent of n funeral mutathe Hotel Execrable at Margate with the mumps. People of njene summer. In the middle of the pessimistic nature may urg, night he rang the fire alarm by "What was the good of our wish-mistake, "and when they burat teen months. She is the daughtering one another a happy 1926, on him he petulently demanded two
He is also well-known in con- hection with the Ex-Active Ber- picemen's Association, Veing a founder member of it and at the present time one of its Vice-Pre- sidents. He served In the Great War and was awarded, the Mill fary Cross. He is a son of the late Mr. Edward Pearce and Mrs. Pearce of Weymouth, England.
Miss Leckie is of Hankow, where she has been living. for some oigh-
of the late Mr. Alexander Leckie and Mrs. Leckle of London.
The ceremony was very quiet, both bride and bridegroom attend- ing in travelling dress.
Mr. E. G. Jamieson, Acting Bri tish Consul, performed the cere many and a few friends of the parties were present among them buing Lt. Col.. V. Contes of the Punjabi Regiment now stationed in Shanghai, Eng. Commandor Rampling of HLM.S. Hawkins, Miss Somerville, Mr. A. Basson and Mr. F. Oliver.
Afterwards,
reception was
held at the Astor House Hotel, where friends of Mr. and Mrs. Peuree from Hongkong, Shanghai and Hankow guttered to offer their felicitations, and later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Pearce left, for Peking, where the honeymoon is heing spent.
QUICK FLYING.
FROM CHERBOURG TO" CROYDON, IN 70MINUTES.
London, Feb. 4. Captain Hinchcliffe, with a, pas- Benger and a mechanic, made a re- markable light to-day from Cher- Bourg to Croydon, accomplishing the distance in 76 minutes..
His passenger, being in a, hurry, Capt. Hinchcliffe few straight cross the Channel instead of tak- ing the French coastline for a considerable distance as is usual, and he thus reduced the journey by at least 100 miles. There was fog over the Channel at the time.
Capt. Hinchcliffe was flying a and plane at the time and could, In case of need, have alighted.on the open sea--British Wireless.
FRENCH VISAS.
NOT REQUIRED BY BRITISH.
London, Feb. 4,
The Foreign Office have received information from the French Em- bnasy that instructions have been sent to French Consuls that the arrangement of 1921, under which British subjects do not require visas to enter French territory, is to remain in force.
This means that British ath-
jects will not be affected by the French Government's new regula tion which requires the passports of foreigners to he vinced by French Consuls, with a view to preventing an indow of foreign labour while unemployment exists in France-British Wireless.
CARGO BOAT ROBBED,
ARMED MEN STEAL OYSTERS.
A cargo boat trading between fishing villages in Hongkong wa ters, was boarded on Tuesday, out- "side the harbour, by three robbers who were armed with choppers.
The master of the boat was at- tacked and wounded in the head, About the most valuable goods on board were a cargo of dried oysters, which was valued at $40, aid this the robbers removed into their own boat.
The theft of money and pro- perty, to the value of $1,601 "has been reported to the police by the inmates of No. 38, Bonlinm Strand.
when all we got in return was the poached eggs and a rum-and- most disastrous Strike In history?" | milk.
I will answer by buying that If wo hadn't exchanged, the old,ld wish the General Strike might have last- ed as long as the Coat Strike. !
All the same, I have felt it my duty to administer a gentle rehuke
GENERAL STRIKE
1926
COAL
STRIKE
for 1926 for being cynical (see Ode below), Years should be cyclical, not cynical. "But never mind that for a moment. Gather, round the glowing embers of my Grill, good messmates o' mine, and let us wish the community "A Happy New Year." Bravo! That's the material with which to "pro- vide ourselves! I'm sure we're in for a happy time!
Somebody has bent mb an awfully nent little. pocket diary for
I can't say I regret, old Twenty Six. That you've passed down the
corridor of Time.
Your Coal Strike put us in .
pretty fix
And though that trouble's gono
(I hope) yet I'm
Not feeling very cordini all the
sume.
I wish you more "good riddance"
than "good-bye"
For somehow I think you've not
played the game
By those who welcoined you with
gladsome cry,
A
year ago,
Might
And
and wished a happy
follow when time's sceptre you would sway.
prompted you one passing summer's day
To make ironie for the storm
Of strife you raised, and caused. crashes
By
"conled" comfort
in the form Of letting us regain our long-lost
"Ashes?"
Well, you may go, and we'll ring
in the
new,
(According to the words of Alfred.
Tennyson)
And should be prove a better
year than you.
I'll be the first to hand him out a
benison..
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Ye married men of England,, 1927. True the leaves all stick who guard your native, squawa, together and require to be violent-have you lately noticed certain. ty blown upon before they will mysterious activities going on t pencil is of that particularly since Christmas your wives have separate, and
the lead of the home? Have you remarked that
brittle nature peculiar to diary | been weilding the dumb- pencils. But its full of vital in bells and the Swedish clubs? formation which will be of great Have
you observed that service to nie. For example, on January 11th I see Hilary Law' Sillings begin. It is great com. fort for me to know that if should trangress the Hilary Law they can't sentence me to the scaffold before that date. Then
too, I am delighted to know that on January 14th it will be high waler at London Bridge ni 10,50 f.m. If I want to bathe, I shal now know that it's no good
bimbling up at 2 a.m. when, there they have Been letting their ill be nothing to bathe in except fingernails grow? Have you slime and broken bottles. Again, detected them punching the patn
see that February 3rd. is the toe sack in the larder or indulging Feast of St. Blasius (Whoever he in short, sharp aprints round the may be). This will be exceedingly garden? Have you seen them. itseful to remember if I receive an doing the bayonet-drill with their Invitation to some frightfully dull umbrellas? Have you noticed that function 1 couldn't otherwise avoid i
Boadicea-cum-Joan-of-Arc expres-. attending. As witness;
sion on their faces? No well, let
"Dear Lady Goops,I am deeply distressed fant I am unable to accept your kind invitation for February 3rd to hear Mr. Bensle
me remind you that we are on the eve of the Great Bargain Sale Senson, and that these activities. are part of the course of intensive" Tosher recite his own poetry, but bargain hunters. Soon, you poor training Inid down for potential unfortunately that is the night of fellows, you will be subsisting on the Old St. Blasiusians' Annual
Dinner,, to which as an Old Boy I feel etc., etc."
a monotonous diet of hash and
shepherd's pie, until such a time as the housekeeping money shall have recovered from the unfair strain Old Professor Barmion Crumpet placed upon i Au then sailed for India on December 17th.you must derive such consolation He also sailed on the "Brahampus you may from the knowledge tra Belle". In a letter to me from that those ten yards of pink crepe- Aden he tells me that in preparation de-chine your wife bore home so for his study of snake-charming h. triumphantly are the object of has been practising the Burmese concentrated
envy of at least nose-hute on the voyage, and can 5,000 disappointed and embittered now play by heart all Woodeford- females.
The Turkish Government has approved the proposal for es- tablishing a train-ferry across the Bosporus which will make it pos sible for the Simplon Orient ex press, which at prescht stops at Constantinople, to run through from Paris to Angora.
The Afghan newspapers have published the text of the Russo- Afghan treaty of neutrality and mutual non-aggression, signed at King Amanullah's summer. palace" at Paghman on August 31, and the treaty of friendship of Septem- ber 14, 1926.
The second and third engineers The United States Senate has of the British steamer Bellevue, ordered an inquiry into the relation which arrived at Philadelphia from ship between the Chester Oil Con- Cardiff and which was at anchor in cessions in Mosul and the State the Delaware River, were scalded Department's part in the Lausanno to death, when a steam pipo burst. Conference which resulted in the The names of the men are given as general recognition of the Turkish N. Dunning and W. T. Grifiths Repubite
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