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the United States with the two 'countries named. Wo have lot off France 10 por cent. easier than America hne, and Italy no leas than 33 per cent. easier. So if Franco has a grievance against Britain, she has an oven greater ona against the United States, and If she thinks she is being badly treated by America, then she must concede that we are getting worse treatment still.
1929.
DAY BY DAY.
THE WORTH OF A STATE, IN THE LONG RUN, IS THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUALS COMPOSING ITJohn. Stuart Mill,
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
Mr. D. W. Tratman resumed duty as Clerk of Councils, with effect from 23rd June;
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It la notified that Mr. W. Southorn,resumed daty as Colonial Secretary on 23rd June,
It is notified that the Kam Wing per cent. under the winding
THE SUPERLATIVE:
Some Examples In Literature.
Had I (Cap'n Cuttle-wise) but England's classical scholars”, I'am made a note of all those varied calmly plenaed that he has found facts, which In my books are him so, Or again, as one who finds underscored, and concerning which much joy in the poetry of today, some author has been moved to I am glad to read that Herbert speak in the superlative degree, I Paul had his own delights. And would to-day have for my trouble one Arthur L. Humphreys tells ma an intersting compilation. For that "The Walrus, and the Carpen tunately, for a deeper reason than ter" is "the most exquisitó non- what at first glance might seem to sense ever written." be my laziness, I have omitted to do so.
It would soom that we are on the ove of a general reopenlag of the whole War, Debt leeue. That is not to be regretted, for the fur-Bank is paying a third dividend of! I long ago learned, with regard where the other name of nonsense
ther the war recedos in history the more apparent docs the, noad for reconsideration become. The Bri tish altitude has from the start been clear and unambiguous. We
havo declared ourselves in favour of all-round cancellation. In any
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up order.
In the "A" Division of the Ten nis League yesterday the Chinese RC. defeated South China A.A. by elght sets to one. *--*
a
Tenders are being invited for new siding at Fanling Station, on behalf of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section).
But I was raised in a school
to this particular matter, that the was rubbish. And to think that he thing of chief importance is to use should say that "the first book of these evaluations to quicken, one's Marcus Aurelius" in "the most own insight, Paradoxically I baya dignified thing ever written!" Ab found that that which arouses a lad I thought it the driest, And. one's intercat. If remembered tob if I asked you as to the most well, may add to one's information human sonbet ever penned" would at the expense of one's insight, you say that it was Swinburne's Especially have I found this soLove and Sleep?" When Robert with regard to the attention one Underwood Johnson says that the pays to those judgments of others oponing ince which call for the use of the super "Terminus" are "perhaps the loft!- lative. A judgment rendered in est lines ever written in. America," terma of the highest degrea is very I appreciate his judgment with apt to impress the unwary with a out feeling called upon to accept it. sense of authority which wider I like the way in which he uses tho superlative, with a modifier; ha knowledge eclipses.
རྩྭ.
of Emerson's
event, we do not desire to receive more than we pay out. That is the essence of the Balfour Note. Un-
The forthcoming wedding is an happily, the United States takes announced of Mr. Paul England opposite stand, and at the moment Barker, of 103, the Peak, and Miss there is no indication that she in-Mary Bertha Watts, of 1 Queen's
Gardens.
On the other hand, he is a peor leaves for himself a gateway of tonds changing her mood. The
sort of reader whose attention is escape. He does not speak as if ho revised reparations settlement, A regulation provides that not always primed to notice the new everything. It is seldom wiss the complaints by France, and the Second Street, between Pokfulam use of the word "grontest in his to use the superlative unaccom Road and Eastern Street, is closed reading. Always, with regard to panied. What seems like pro- recent British Labour utterances to. motor traffic between the hours any book that one renda, there science might at last be proved to
should be this double intercats Inbe presumption. all converge towards one point of 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.
I had a mother to whom the most Itself it may be the greatest book the desirability of all the interest---
Tenders are invited for the which wo have ever read. This is difficult part of speech was the su ed nations getting together in con- supply of two flat bottom hard to unquenched hope which survives perlativo. In the north country of ference on the subject. But the wood barges for the Sanitary De-a thousand disappointments. And England they are sparing of praise.
Hongkong Telegraph. Initiative, if it is to come from any partment, on similar lines to the added to this is the hope that with-There, one cannot do anything so
country, must be with the United existing barges S. D. M. & N. States. Unless and until revision It is notified for the Information la mutually agreed upon, Britain of owners and occupiers, of tene- third will pay all she has convenuntediments that rates for the
quarer of 1929, are payable in to pay, heavy though the burden advance on or before the 31st may be on the present and future July. generations,
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In super
In the book we have in hand there well but it calls for qualification in shall be judgments of ultimate the praise of it. The use of the appraisal which acquaint us with superlative is always accompanied criticism. Somewhat of the adme SATURDAY JUNE, 29, 1920.
what or who is greatest In some by a phrase or word of deprosatory area of experience.
qualifying of approval I found also It is well to remind onrecives in New England. Judgment was FRANCE OBJECTS.
however, that what a man hopes Judgment. To achtove, the super- for may sometimes prove to be the lative meant comparisons made. His Excellency the Governor has revealing of his.foolishness. It is But out here "where the West be- Since the writing of yesterday's
imado, bagnata appointed Mr. T. W. H. Hosegooda vain thing to rest content with gins" it merely means an assertion comment on the subject, the War
to act as Deputy Harbour Master, an accumulation of other mon Emerson apoke a useful word in Arrest Compensation.
his time in which he uald thas Debt man has taken a new and
during the absence on leave of judgments expressed
lative terms,
"superlatives are diminutives." Some surprise was, manifested Commander J. B. Newill, D.S.0., somewhat sensational turn by the
Yet many there are who make Some day the American West will by the European Unofficials of the R.N., (retired),
this resting place the goal of their come to a sense of discrimination spirited denunciation in the
Legislative Council when they
Letters of administration have desire, Let but an insistent ad- which will make her use of the French Chamber of the unratified were asked by the Government to
vertising manager persistently superlative worthy. But that day settlements with Britain and the approve a vote of $400, to be divid- been granted to the estate of Eng speak, in superlative terms, of this is not yet. To hail loud volen poets
ed between Tsang On-wing and Hip-on, a trader, who died in- United States. The latest develop Cheung Man-kun, the Treasury estate at Villa de Cecilia Tampico, or that author and it is too easy speaking uncouthly as posts of the ment arises directly out of Ameri-clerks who were arrested in Tamaulipas, Mexico, on May 20, to forecast the result, There have frat magnitude Is, Indeed, to make always been reviewers who rush superlatives into diminutives. Yet ca's decision to insist on the pay-connexion with the Carvalho co 1928. The local estate is so too caally into the use of the super-sometimes wonder if the raucous
frauds, and their attitude, we bent $2,100.
lative. And for our day we have, nese of the West is not perhaps the ment of four hundred million dol- love, will receive the support of
Chan King-Hang, altaa Pang for good measure, the various pries ono pays for the too great lare, to cover the cost of stock the large body of public opinion.
Perhaps we all have need to left in France after the war, un- It may be that, having won the Chan-ahi, a widow, who died at 1, clubs that will, in some way, choose reserve of the East
victory in the subsequent lawsuit Li Yuen Street West, Hongkong your "greatest" or "best" book for
know how to be careful, of, our; less the French Government rati- with the Bank, the Government can on December 29, left local estate ne c
One can well afford to smile at praise rather than chary of it. fies the Mellon-Berenger Agree-afford to feel magnanimous re- of $10,500. Letters of administra ment by August lat. We have all garding the affair, although a for- tion have been granted to Mr. J. these things; but not to the for- Recently I was glancing through Whatever value we give to the myself making a comparison with along understood that liability formidable bill for lega) costa is like H. Seth and Mr. S. H. Rosa, in-getting of their final usefuldess the poema of Goldsmith. I found judgments advertised, le of little regard to the tople I have in hand ly in be presented for the civil corporated accountants.
concern just here; but it is of me as evidenced in his two poemst this sum, in the event of non-rati- suit as wall as for the criminal
portance that we have recognized "The Traveller" and "The Deserted: fleation on the date named, was trinl. At the same time, the pub
the innate desire of men for the Village. Incidentally, I see that lic will forget less readily than the
the first named of these poems carn- part and parcel of the Franco-Government the jury's indictment
The pity of it fe that many are led the high praise of Johnson, who American Agreement, and we are that the absence of adequate
too ready to live on the froth of decisred it to be the finest poerd accordingly, not surprised that the supervision on the part of Trea
words instead of on the food of since Pope's time." Very Inter sury officials amounted to grave
acquired facts. Some day the esting to the way Goldsmith runs to United States should hold France negligence." It may be accepted
reading publie will learn that, when excess in the use of the auperlative: 40 Whe understanding. That that Carvalho Yeo was a particul-
it comes to the superlative praise in the poem on "The Deserted VII- France, practically at the eleventh arly clover and Ingenious rogue,
of anything, it would better mako inge, "Sweet Auburn loveliest but it was evidently the opinion
Its own superlatives. One should village of the plain. The strength hour, should now threaten not only of the jury that other factors were
not have such a regard for other of the village is played against the to refuse to ratify the settlement, essential to the commission of the
people's opinions as to become, in weakness of the city. Here is capable of arriving at one's own. Paradiso indeed-on paper. It but also decline to pay the war forgeries. The apportionment of
over described. stock sum, must be regarded as a of the Government. We must con- the blame is not our duty, but that
(Abbreviations: Ace; K
Incoming at thle conclusion; *** totally unexpected development.
But with his poem un "The fess, however, that the announce-king; Q-queen; Jack; X
however, It is well to note the way and worth of Through much Traveller wo have a better attitude What is even more regrettable is ment of the proposed compensation any card lower than 10.)
Double and Redouble-2. rather astounded us. The amount
reading I have learned that many, and argument. I quote from his. the declaration mude by M.
is unimportant, though it may be As illustrations of correct either in innocence or ignorance, own preface: M Franklin Bouillon that the Ameri- of Interest to note that if the divi: doubling aasume that first have spoken of a mole hill as 1. it."What reception a poem may find, can and British settlements with sion is equal Cheung Man-kun will hand has declared a club and were a mountain. Therefore have which has neither abuse, party, nor France were designed to drain the get more than three months' wages you hold in turn each of the hands I learned that what calls for the blank verse to support it cannot to compensate for his three weeks' which follow, The explanations superlative from them is not altell; nor am I solicitous to know. ways to be so expressed by me. My aims are right... I have last drop of blood from a country in police custody. The principle, accompany the Illustrations
1-Spades K Q X X; hearts AJ These are they who quicken one's endeavoured to show, that there already. bled white. This appar however, is worthy of further in- ently is not merely the view of one quiry. The Hon. Mr. B. D. F.XX; diamonds QJ X X; clubs X. interest without particularly adding may be equal happiness in states to one's Information. And their that are differently governed than Beith was rightly afraid that the Double, '
2-Spades K X X X; hearts A value lies in the fact, not that they our own." In the light of this re man, but, If we are to judge from payment would create a precedent, the debate in the French Chamber, and it is a rather remarkable one,X; diamonds K Q. 10 'X; clubs save me from work but that they solve the poem receives its richent
set me to it
[worth, -It is a poem of fair com The Government argument, boiled XX. Double. of French politicians generally.
3-Spades AJX X; hearts XIt is for this reason that I give parisons, using this word "fair" as down, is that they were treating Even M. Poincare, backed up the the case as an employer dealing diamonds AK JX X; clubs special attention to any man who it relates both to justice and beauty, opposition to the settlements, and with its employees, and that they XX. Double and if your partner speaks in terms of the superlative. He has an eye for the good of all: promised to endeavour to get the thought (though we very much declares hearts, declare your dia- Whenever I come upon an appraisal He is not here concerned with the so expressed I know that here is an-use of the superlative. The well- doubt it) that private firms would monds.
4-Spades K JX X; hearts A Qother opportunity for the measure educated man knows that the agreements varied. The French do the samo In similar circum- protesta on the subject are of more stances. To us this is begging the X; diamonts K X X X; clubs K.X. of ignorance; sometimes it is his, highest knowledge is in knowing Double... hometimes mine, the Intrinsic good which can be question. The only difference be-.
6-Spades AJ hearts K 10 X; Once I thought that I was com- found in any age, person or thing. than pasting interest in view of tween this case and that of any diamonds K X, X X X; clubs A Qing upon some weighty Judgment Hells wise who runs get too easily. Mr. Snowden's recent criticism of other in which men have been ar X. To bid a no trump over a sult in a striking sentence, couched into the use of the superlative. It is the Anglo-French settlement, on reated on suspicion and subse- bid, your hand should contain two the superlative; now I am aware to be wished that many who use the ground that it amounts to quently released is that the vic stops in the suit declared by op that, as a rule, I am coming upon the superative would give thought tims, were Government servants. ponents. If the hand only con- the expression of someone's taste, to its more sparing us. It is a bleeding Britain white in the in- They were arrested by the Police.tains one top, double se in flius- And I find it interesting to see helpful thing to become a con- terests of one of the most prosper There is no evidence that their tration (4), Bid no trump on what other people: like. It makes noisseur in the use of the super two mo feel justified In my own lative; which is to say that one ous nations of the world. If that arrest was due to unjust suspicion this hand which containe
peculiarities. When Horbert Paul should know how to use the super- on the part of the Treasury heads, stops. represents the view of the Labour indeed, Mr. Messer during the trial If declarer bids a no trump do tells me that Richard Bentley can lative superlatively F. 6. In tho Government, the prospects of said, emphatically that he always not double unless you have at be described as "the greatest of Christian Science Monitor France securing a rovision in hor believed Tsang On-wing to be in-least one of the majors well pro nocent In the interests of justice tected and the hand contains suf favour appear extremely remote.
It is pertinent to point out in this
be in a worse position than any of hor Continental Allies. We show
Joy WW.Wentworth
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The health bulletin of Eastern Vizagapatam 2(1), Macasser 5.
it is often necessary that precau- cient strength to return to two no tionary arrests should be made, trump if the weak mafor a bid. ports for the week ended June 22, (4), Paom Penh 2 Shanghai (2), connexion that Britain appears to and the very fact that the two The following lustrations will issued by the Director of Medical Canton 6, Dalren 4 (1), Swatow clerks concerned were in custody clarify this observation. Assume and Sanitary Services, contains (12) Cerebro-spinal meningitis, for three weeks seems to suggest that the dealer bida a no trump the following cases, the figures in Balignepan 2(1), Shanghai (12). that the Pollco had strong grounds and you, second hand, hold: parenthesis indicating deaths
1 Spades QX X X; hearts X: Plague, Tamatave (1) Baghdad 7 The death has occurred at his. for auspicion." If the Government ed yesterday that Britain is paying is prepared to rectify by financial diamonds A Q. X; clubs A (2) Bassein (1) Bombay (8) homs at Liphook, Hants, of Colonel by far and away a greater percent consideration all such "unavold. Deable and if partner bids Rangoon (2), Colombo 1(1), George Howard Trollopa, for many two hearts bid two no trump Saigon Cholera, Calcutta) years president of the London age to the United States than any able mistakes" by the police, well 2Bpados. Q X X; hearts XX (57) Rangeen (8), Bangkok Master Builders Ass plation, and other of America's debtors. The and, good, but the special protec diamonds A QX clubs, AJ 100 (5), Thom Penh 2 Balgon member of a arm (ollope and tion of Government servants at X Pasa; no protection in any 55 (49), Amoy 8, Canton 5 (8), Colls) which executed: important further fact should not be lost the cost of the public purse is un- major. Tuticorin 16 (10) Small-pox, building contracts in the Far East, aight of that our settlements with tenable. We should certainly op 3- Spades A QJ X; hearts AJ Aden 10 (6), Basrah 1 Bombay 38 metably the new, Hongkong - and/ France and Italy are on a much pose very strongly the Increase 10 X diamonds X X clubs K X (27), Calcutta 8 (7) Karach! 10 Shanghai Bank premises at Shang more generous scale than those of “ggested by the Hon. Dr. R.-H. X. Double. Both major suite are (7), Madras 28 (B), Nogspatam 1 hal.
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