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ambitions. So it all comes down to a country's real policy—whe ther that policy is based on war-
-THOSE--WHO-:ADMIRE AND · LOVE · like Intentions, or whether the KNOWLEDGE FOR ITS OWN SAKE preservation of peace and COR- OUGHT TO WISH TO SEE IT: ELEMENTS cord is the dominating idea inspir- MADE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL-Sir, Wi-
liam Herschel.. ing it.
Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith is to act as Assistant Land Officer and Deputy Registrar of Marriages.
It was only natural that Mr. Bridgeman, in the course of his speech, should touch on Anglo- Américan relations, for there has Tenders are being Invited for the of late been much mischievous supply of a single screw teakwood and fil-laformed talk in regard launch for the Harbour. Depart thereto. The British policy is ment.
the Register.
that there ahall be no competition It is notified that the name of either with the United States or any other country. We should prefer, of course, the concluding of some disarmament scheme ac coptable to all the Navy Powers, and, as Mr. Bridgeman put it,
"we are willing to listen to any proposal in this connexion. Un.. happily, it has not yet been found possible to discover such formula, but it is no more right| that Britain should be blamed for. this circumstance than that wo
OLD CURIOSITY SHOPS.
Some Thoughts on Their Value.
The river of time plunges down just as they were washed up along. through its rifuging channels with the banks of modernity. a proud indifference to human con- cerns. Its effort is, apparently, to Neatness and precision-virtues trinkets and the treasures to which than their dus meed of praise-are hurry away, and to hide all the which usually got somewhat moTE we have given our hearts, to annul never more out of place than in an the products of art and of handi- old curiosity shop for everything craft, and to sweep all our child- that is kept there is really debris, hood's toys into oblivion. Never however precious, and it should be has the speed of its current been stored as such. Here is one apot the Kwong Shun Steamship Commore furious than it is today, never at least, in a world which grossly pany, Limited, has been struck off has it torn and eaten and washed overpraises youth, where nothing away the past so relentlessly; and need apologize for being or avon perhaps that is the reason why we for looking old, and consequently are nowadays searching out and any effort at furbishment strikes saving such few things as it the sensitive visitor as vaguely die- leavea behind with a devotion never honost, like a cosmetle. There seen before. Our fondness for the should be tarnish on the aged silver, past appears to stand in exact proverdigris on the bronze, honorable portion to the rapidity with which stains of service it passes away, so that if we must bindings, dust everywhere, and in on the leather admit that the present is in many the absence of arrangement a gen- ways more swiftly forgetful than eral effect of chaos come again. any other ago in history we may also say that it is more given to We are indeed fond recollections. absorbed--and with good reason— of modernity, and yet we show at In the swift kaleidoscopic spectacle
The Rev. E. C. and Mrs. Loben stine and Mr. M. Manuk were mongst the passengers arriving by
the President Jefferson,
During the absence of Inspector Meade, Inspector H. L. Lockhart has been appointed as Inspector of factories and of juvenile labour.
Mr. Justice Wood and Mr. N, S. Brown have been nominated as should seek to cast the odium on members of the Court of the Hong others. We still have hopes that kong University for further periods the same time a quite unprecedented
something definite will soon be done to remove the present un- certainly. In the meantime, it is reassuring to feel that Britain still maintains an open mind on the subject and is willing to ex plore overy avenue leading to- wards the desired goal,
Spred.
of three years.
Nearly soventy pages of the Gazette are devoted to the Ord ance to amen the constitution of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ing Corporation.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Victor Cecil Branson to act as Government, Analyst during the absence on leave of Mr. E., R. Dovey.
Hongkong Telegraph. that the terrible tragedy at Day- that port in a series of sports fix-finds-- there is unexpected. Quite red heels
and atrays out of the past are One dislikes to see these waife
they not our nucate in some sense?
look "presentablo" as it were in the rubbed and polished and made to simulate a second youth, made to
fondness for the antique
twentieth century, when all their beauty and value consists precisely. Fortunato for us, therefore, that in the fact that they are actually,
not old. the river of the years has
The pleasure of burrowing here carried quite everything away and that here and there, in quiet creeks and there in an old curiosity shop and backwaters, some flotsam and where the "stock" has been allowed jeteam has lodged end clung. Certo grow without plan and to lie tainly the little that has thus been without too much intrusive order of saved is a strangely miscellaneous arrangement ja the pleasure of assortment, having been brought constant surprise. Such a shop is together quite as much at hazard like the writing or the talk of an Rs the stray sticks that drift and incessant and inveterato humorist, cfrele in the eddies, of an actual in which nothing turns out as we river. And this provides one of the expect but all the laws of logic and The Hongkong Police "Inter-chief delights of exploring the little association among ideas are steadily The Automobile Association of force" team, who went up to shops where antique articles are defied. A dainty pair of dancing America is probably safe in assum- Shanghai to meet the Police of stored and sold: everything one slippers in brocaded satin and with rests upon a bishop's tona Beach, the death of Lee Bible,tures, returned last evening by the unlike the articles set forth for sale chasuble; a porcelain dog from. in other shops, it has not been pro-North England laughs with open the American racing motorist, dur- 8.5, Khiva. '
duced to supply any actual demand; mouth from amid a forest of Kaffir ing an attempt to beat Major Se
Tenders are being invited for merely, it happens to exist, without assegala; rouge pots still splendid grave's land speed record of 231.3
purpose, without utility, in defiance with the painted pastorals of the the preparation of sites and con- of the laws of economics. Whether fourteenth Louls are perched among miles an hour, will result in a restruction of a latrine and bath beautiful or not, it has at least the tomes of Tillotson and the DISARMAMENT.
vival of agitation by those who deny house at Kowloon City and Dock one of the qualities of beauty in grave Isaac Barrow double- the Justification for such efforts. Lane, with all drainage and any existing for linelf alone. One does barrelled pistoleta with flintlock Britain's attitude towards dis-Public sympathies are notoriously other contingent work.
not enter the shop of a dealer in have somehow made their peace antiques and ask for a pair of with a company of knitting needics. fickle, and it is quite likely that armament was well elaborated in
critics will be found even among It is notified that, at the expira-silver shoe buckles because he has Salt cellars, Italian primitives, the
course of Mr. Bridgoman's those who with bated breath watch. tion of three months, the Leyaeco any Intention of adding those walking sticks, soventeeth century speech in introducing the Naval ed Segrave's dash down the sands. China Company, Limited will, un-articles to his own attire; he has watches, doll's houses, cames 1ings, Jess cause is shown to the con- in fact no use for them whatever, and pitchors of antique silver stand. Estimates in the House of Com-The principal argument is, we sup- trary, be struck off the register in the strict sense of the words he or lle or lean together on one shelf. mons. He was able to show that pose, that the margin of safety is and the company will be dissolved, merely wishes to have them near A properly conducted old curiosity him as small fragments of the past, shop la an object lesson. In do- [so for de actual naval disarmament so narrow that land speed attempts
"Electric Street" is the name exactly na he might wish to have mocracy. is concerned, Great Britain has are little more than a gamble with
death. It is precisely this that the given to the thoroughfare running a rose. That analogy is a reminder done more than any other country statement issued yesterday seeks to in a south-westerly direction from of business, both of them just now that there are at least two kinds Star Street, parallel to Wing fnet which cannot be too disprove. The Automobile Asso Fung Street through and to the in a flourishing condition, which often emphasised in view of ciation points out that Daytona south-west boundary of Inland are supported by sentiment alone; the business of the florist and that suggestions which are frequent-Bench has been used for racing cara Lot No. 2837.
of the dealer in antiques,:; ly made that the British Govern- for 26 years in which period hun-
Billy Dean, the popular Lanen ment has been standing in the way dreds of terrific bursts of speed. of the progress of the movement, have been witnessed, the world ro-shire comedian, and his partner cord has been broken on no fewer Topsy Lee, "London's miniature
SATURDAY MARCH 16 1929.
view that such reductions are not
for instance, in the Schneider Cup
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imagination, for every object one It is a testing place, also, for the finds there may serve us as a key te some door in the past if only we knew how to turn the look. The thin, tinkling notes that come forth at your touch from the old harpsichord are either laughable to
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But the differences between the you-If you compare them with the Since the Great War, the British than fourteen occasions, and only Sophie Tucker," will appear dur-florist's shop and that of the anti-soporous grandeurs of the modern Navy has been
ing each performance to-morrow quarian are numerous and impor-pianoforte, or else, if you are reduced by three drivers have met with an un- and Monday at the Queen's Theatre tant. The beauty of a flower is its wiser, they evoke a picture of the aubstantially Thore than two timely end. If we accept these in a series of burlesque items.
youth, and it is all the better stately dances of long ago, and per million tons, whilst even before facts na accurate, the answer scens
for being allll wet with the morn-hapa also an Image of Bach him- the Washington Conference more sufficient. Racing drivers at all Sir Emmanuel and Lady Hoyle Ing's dew, but silver shoebuckles self composing at just such an in- We love the yond which no mortal has dreamed. ships had been scrapped than the times carry their lives in their were amongst the passengers who are treasurable almost entirely bestrument majesties of music be
arrived here by the President Jef rosebud because. It seems to give
cause of their age.
Your examine a swordhiit of gold; present strength of the Navy, hands, literally, but we see no great fersen. Sir Emmanuel is a J. P. for self to us alone, but a piece of and sliver, studded with precious
er danger in whirling in the Huddersfield and Penrith, and he How far our cruiser strength has straight at 200 miles an hour than was formerly in command of yellowing lace that was worn in stones, and your thought loaps the the stately minucts... of the chasm between our time and that been affected by this policy may in taking a hair-pin bend in a road West Riding R.A.S.C. (Territorial eighteenth century is dear to us in which it seemed right to lavish be gathered from the statement race at the very, ordinary speed of Forces).
precisely because we are certain art and wealth upon such. toys. that the total is, now only 62, 60 miles per hour. The percentage
that it has been dear to others long the leaves of a book that may not You find a rosebud nreased between The Government proposes to ago. There la, to be sure, a cer- compared with 114 before the war, of casualties would probably work
erget an underground public tain pathos in flowers, due to our have been opened for two hundred We are glad to notice that Mout much higher. The outery, latrine at junction of Hollywood sense of their evanescence, whereas years. Who placed it there? And Bridgeman, whilst stressing the person who reads that Flying Officer owner or occupier in the immediate painted by Watteau consists in its was a symbol once, loaded with un
any, will come from the type of Road and Ladder Street. If any the sentiment attached to a fan when? And why? That rosebud necessity for disarmament within Atcheficy, of the R.A.F. has looped vicinity of the site has any obfragility. Flowers are the con- phraseable meanings; now it is a certain limits which shall not the loop at 300 miles an hour, and jections, these must be sent in fident smiling children of the pro- puré, mystery. Yet it touches a affect national safety, sought to describes the feat as foolhardy. writing to the Colonial Secretary sent, speaking to us of the beauty chord, and your thoughts vibrate remove a very popular impression The foolhardiness lies in drawing as to reach his office not later that will forever endure, but the re-in unison for a moment with the
than April 6th.
les of our ancestora whisper of thoughts of some unknown and ut- that the
ends of peace will line between plain recklessness
much that seems to pass away.terly forgotten friend of centuries necessarily be served by reduc- ledge of the facts. It is essential, the P, and O. Nalders yesterday the florist's window is the better An old curiosity shop is a place
and cool daring without a know- Among passengers arriving on And again it may be observed that avo, tions made on a proportional
were Mr. and Mrs. Bird, Mr. and for some suggestion of plan and ar- basis. We have always held the race, for which Ateherley is train- Mrs. Strange, Condr. 1). Maxwell, rangement; just the opposite is of memories and a refuge from the ing, to make a turn on a triangle Comdr. and Mrs. Lambert, Mr. S. true of the antiquarian's shop, winds of change. Here there is, in themselves a guarantee against course at, perhaps, a much higher white, Major G. Ogilvie, Mr. Itoys and clocks and ball gowns things up to date," but a delight, Schofield, Mr. A. Judd, Mr. R. where we like to see disorder reign or should be, no effort to bring war, since they leave the various speed, and this we think offers Richardson, Dr. and Mrs. Mott, and Bibles proroiscuously strewni (Continued on Page 0.) countries in relatively unchanged greater strain than looping the loop. Mr. and Mrs. Austin, Dr. A. Dou position, so far as strength is Equally, we doubt if the feat would glas, Mr. M. Breen and Mr. and concerned. There must be some-
have been attempted If Flying Of Mrs. Webster. cer Atcherley had not accomplished thing very much more than pro- the feat at lesser speeds, gradually portional reduction if world, peace working up to 300 miles an hour, is to be preserved-namely, the Disasters which occur in the process encouragement of the spirit of of such performances on land and amily and friendliness. It is a in the air usually result from hu- corollary to the statement to say which is not in any means confined Brussels
man lablity to error, a factor New York that even large Navies do not of Lo these spheres. necessity imply warlike inten- tions. Mr. Bridgeman made that point by suggesting that world
The health bulletin of Eastern Blockholm ... peace is not placed in jeopardy Ports for the week ending March Cophenhagen.
gives the following cases, figures Oslo because two or more peace-loving in parentheses indicating the num- Vienna nations have strong naval forces: ber of deaths-Plague, Baghdad | Prague, Admittedly, the means of waging 3, Colombo 2 (1), Pom Penh 1 Helsingtore war are rendered all the greater(); Cholera, Bassala (2), Ran-Madrid
Lisbon goon (1), Bangkok 13. (12), Paom as the strength increases, but Peah 1 (1); Small-pox, Basrah 1
Athens Rucharest umbers or tonnage are not the (1), Bar and Orissa 45 (22). Ris. real factor. A small but bellicose Madras 76 (24), Negapatam 1 (1); Buonos Aires
Rangoon 5 (2), Belawan Dell 1; Bombay nation can do for more harm Samarinda 27, Sourabala 1, Knl-Shanghai than any number of countries phong 10 (8), Pnom Penh 10 (7), Hongkong. well armed for defence but having Hongkong 37 (42), Shanghai (12), Yokohama
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