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1930:
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Two further Chinese "cases
Colony yesterday.
of
TO-NIGHT'S MUSICAL ATTRACTION,
THE ENGLISH SINGERS
PROGRAMMER
Great Interest is being centra in the initial appearance of The English Singers at the Theatre Royal to
follows:
A point of interest to Hongkong smallpox were notified in the night. The programme will be as
is the fact that Sir William has had experience of the municipal form of government, for he has heen President of both the Singa- pore and the Penang Municipal Commissions. Whether he holds: the same views on municipalities as Sir Cecil Clementi docs, time will tell. We can imagine, how ever, that the training of a Cadet officer and long years of immersion In the Crown Colony form of government la apt to encourage a bureaucratie rather than a demo- cratic outlook. If, however, our now Governor is susceptible to public opinion, he will probably soon discover that Hongkong's civic.sense is rapidly developing, and, should ho, during his term of office, bo responsible for some official reaction to that fact, he comos for
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FRIDAY FEB, 14, 1910.
THE COLONY'S NEW GOVERNOR..
him to relinquish the reins of government, have made, his ad- ministration noteworthy in at least one respect.
The Outbreaks, In Indo-China.
Between the lines of the brief and carefully-worded communi- qués Issued in Paris regarding The native outbreaks in Indo- China, lies a story of one of the the graveat insurrections against China, lies a story of 'ono',, of French administration in A quarter of a century. The main facts may not leak through for days, even weeks, but the French have not attempted to con- cen] the most important point,. namely, that the revolt against The prophets have all been con-authority
was the result of a founded by the appointment of widespread plot by Annamite Sir William Peel as Governor of Nationalists and that trouble was experienced in three"different cen- Sir Hongkong in succession to
tron at least, the malcontents pet- Ceell, Clomanij. Names freely ing simultaneously. At Yen-bal, mentioned for the post shortly the native troops of the Sharp- after it became vacant were those shooters battalion mutinted, and aided by natives, attacked their of Sir Murchison Fletcher, the new officers, five Frenchmen being Governor of Fiji; Mr. R. F. John-slain. At Hunghon, the militia
man.
through on the ss. Kalyan are five Among the passengers pakaing
experts on greyhound racing on their way from Home to Shanghai.
There will be no dinner dance in the Hongkong Hotel on February 16. Dinner, as usual, a la carte and table d'hote will be served in the Roof Garden.
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THE "TELEGRAPH" ARI SUPPLEMENT.
To-Merrow's Interesting
Pictures.
Variety will be the keynote of the pictures appearing in to- morrow's issue of the Tele- graph Art Supplement.
There will be several photo- graphs of the Queen's Rond collapse disaster, when three verandahs were brought down by a motor truck colliding with the supports.
In sports, pictures of ladies' hockey at Kowloon, together with the teams, will appear, whilst groups of the Interport golf teams will also be given. There will also be some inter- esting pictures of tennis be "tween visiting Japanese and local Chinese players at the C.R.C., as well as winners in the recent Canton Point-to- Point Races.
Last Saturday's fancy drain ball at the University and the wedding of Capt." Donald Skinner and Miss M.M. Colton will also be illustrated,
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Motets.
The Very Idea!
A letter published in a London paper" from the maid who, WAS willing so give a prospective mia treas atrial has moved - Ken sington reader to send the follow ing copy of reply sent by a butler in response to an offer of
ad engagementt
"Madam,- beg to thank you
God's mercies), and Ave verum (A up to my standard. Having lived for the offer of the post as Butler. Praise our Lord (Thanksgiving for beg to state that it is scarcely prayer of forgiveness)William the whole of my life in the service Byrd (1848-1628).
Hosanna to the Son of David (Song of the Nobility. My wages has of rejoicing on Christ's entry into a beon, $120 per Ana; though Jerusalem)-Thomas Woolkes (1575. now I should be satisfied with $100 per ann Hoping you will find: a 1623).
Ballet and Madrigain.
suitable man to fill the post as I think you are a lady.—1 am Sing wo and chant it (A 'dancing' | Madam, your humble servant, song extolling youth and pleasure).--- Thomas Morley (1658-1608)..
O boflly singing luto (The dis- ppointed lover to his luto), Francis Pilkington (circa 1662-1088). unsuccessful with two indies, decides Though Amaryllis dance (A lover, that he will "love", no moro").— William Byrd (1643-1023). ..
Folk-Song.
The Dark-Eyed Saller (The story of a sailor and his faithful sweetheart), The Turtle-Dove (A lover'a farewell), and Wassan Song (A song of Christ- mas revelars).---Arranged by R. Vang- han Williams (1872)..
Italian Street Cries.
Chimney Sweeps-Jacques du Pont (circa 1600).
Rag and Bone-Adriano Banchieri (circa 1665-1834)..
Bot Chestnuts--Jacques du Pont (circa 1000).
Ducts and Trio.
Some recent höwlers:
The population of Londen is a bit too thick..
Europoare battleships, sub- The five greatest powers in
marinca,' aeroplanes, électricity, and Mr. Philip Snowden,
Definition of "Craft Guild”- This is when a man makes a poor thing, shines it up, and sells it to the people for twice as much as it is worth.
When holes are added to holds the holes are holes.
Quinino la the bark of a tree: caning is the bark of a dog,
The opposite of flat-chested in hump-backed.
"But, good heavens!” the man cried, glaring at the proof of his photograph, "I look axactly like an ape."
You should have thought of the photographer auavely, “before you decided th; be
I spy Celia (A' courting song).that," said Henry Purcell (1058-1005),
John, come kiss me now, 10th | taken.” century (A quarrel between a surly husband and his teasing wife)- [The City Council of Vianns has Arranged by E. W. Naylor 1807).
The Three Fairies (The fairies at midnight put the house in order and pinch the lazy serving-maids). Henry Purcell (1668-1695),"'
Ballet, Madrigals and Cantones.
What saith my dainty darling (A 'dancing' song).-Thomas" Morley (1558-1603). -
The Silver Swan (The song of the dying wwan)-Orlando Gibbons (1683-1025).
I
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go before, my darling (Fairies at play).-Thomas Morley (1558-1003),
My Phyllis bids me pack away (A lover dismissed by his lady, is con soled by the thought that he "need
Weelkes (1675-1023). not ́sing_another_song"),——Thomas
POWERFUL DRAMA.
EXCELLENT TALKIE AT
QUEEN'S THEATRE,
stone, Commissioner at Weihniwet; post was attacked, but the assault was repulsed without loss. At and Sir Gordon Guggisberg, Gov- Hanoi, the capital of Tongking, ernor of British Guiana; whilst Monday was a day of glave an-
Two Chinese, charged before latterly Sir Frank Baddeley, of xiety. Bombing occurred at dif-
A powerful drama, with a some- ferent points, and there were other Mr. Grantham at the Central Nigeria, most of whose service had incidents giving rise to alarm, The Magistracy this morning with what unusual theme well handled, been spent in the Straits Settle-authorities apparently have the cruelty to two turkeys, were each is at present being screened at the ments, was spoken of as a likely situation well in hand, if not in fined $25. Inspector. Fowler, Queen's Theatre. This is "The control. A terse statement to R.S.P.C.A., said he saw the men Valiant which features Mar- The actual appointment, the effect that steps are being plucking the turkera whilst they guerite Churchill and Paul Muni. however, goes to an officer who has taken to restore order, apenka for were alive, in the Central Market. The atory is of a young man who gives himself up for murder, adopts Had a long and distinguished itself. Meanwhile, two facts
the name of James Dyke and career in Malaya, where he has emerge. One is that the native
The annual show of flowers and who resolutely refuses to dis. population has grown increasingly spent the whole of his colonial restless, and the other, that the vegetables, under the auspices of close his real identity. Then fol
the Hongkong Horticultural lows an attempt by an aged invalid service extending over a period agitation has been largely fostered Society, will be held in the City mother, who for years has lost of thirty-two years. At the by Chinese agents, some of them Hall on Thursday, March 6. The trace of her only son, to ascertain
avowed Communists, and moment, Sir William Peclia Home other equally militant, but inspir- to 7 pm. Further particulars may to visit the condemned cell herself, the show will be opened from 8 p.m. whether Dyke is her hoy. Unable on leave, and it is therefore not possible to say when he will come
to Hongkong, but we can bespeak
for him in advance a very cordial welcome when he lands to assume the Governorship.
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issued a warning against ... kissing parrots, which is said to be a cons mon practice among women.)
Of lady mine, existence, good.
nesa knows, is
Parlous enough without the
freaks of folly. Therefore, for fear of getting.
psittacosis,"
Don't kiss poor Polly. When for such favours vainly I
have striven,
Spite of my anguished prayers
and humble kneelings, Aud to a stupid bird boheld
them given,
*Think of my feelings! - Were you attracted just by
pretty colour?
Judge me not, then, by how
I look at present,
I will become, who once could
scarce be duller,
Quite iridescent... "Pally is captivo. He would fain
desert you
Did he not wear a strong and
-binding fetter.
1, who count faithful servico a
virtue
Still go one better. Put him aside and you will
never miss him;
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But if your heart be Allod
with melancholy Thinking of how you used to
pet and kiss him,
I'll be your Polly,
Woman at Tottenham: I don't
ed by the Kuomintang. The in-be learned from an advertisement her daughter Mary undertakes the know my husband's Christian terest of the Chinese in the revolu- appearing in this issue. tionary activities of the Annamite
politicos has been shown by the many anti-French articles publish-
.***
A cable received in Canton in Chinese journals. The favour from the Minister for Foreign ite trick has been to compare Affairs, "in Nanking, states that French colonial
Colonel Liang Tect-suen administration
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has
painful task. In the interview be- names. tween Dyke and his sister for he
Shoreditch Man at
County is really the missing lad-the Court: I have an alling wife. drama reaches its tensest point. Plaintiff: She can drink plenty It would spoil the film for those of alc.
Witness at West Ham: The who have not acen it to reveal the climax; suffice it to say that the evidence is under my hat-on the temptation to create a happy
desk over there. ending has been resisted.
The acting throughout is all that
a very fins study of the condemned
28. a
There are other talkis features
to 30 chickens by overcrowding, all-talkie can be described
On a charge of causing cruelty youth. All the other roles are well taken, and the production of this a Chinese woman was fined $10 by triumph of clearness. Magistracy this morning. The on the programme, the news reel Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon defendant was stated to have had appropriately including a short talk the chickens in two crates which on navaj disarmament by Mr. A. V. were so small that some of the Alexander, the First Lord of the others, while the heads of many of fowls were standing on top of Admiralty. them were bleeding.
MISS BATES?
In Jane Austen's "Emma" you will read of an elderly spinster, Miss Bates, who con-
existence, to be one trived, despite the far from comfortable conditions of her of the happiest and best-loved women in the village.
As matters have worked out,
with that of the British in Hong- accepted the post of Correspond- Hongkong has given Malayan kong, and one may be sure that ing Member in China of the the colouring does not show Secretariat of the League of Governor, and Malaya returns the French officials in a good light. Nations, which post was offered to could be desired, in which connex- WHO WAS ? compliment. As Sir Cecil Clementi's An important French police off-him by Sir Erle Drummond, fon Marguerite Churchill is expo- was the first case on record of an clal was recently in Hongkong us Secretary-General of the League, cially good, whilst Paul Muni gives official from Hongkong being ng the Colony as a base while seck- ing the source of the révolutionary appointed to the Governorship of propaganda which bus been find- the Straits Settlements, so is Siring its way inte Tongking. It will William Peel's appointment to the well aware of impending trouble be seen that the authorities were head of the administration here and that no stone has been left un the first instance of a Malaya turned in the effort to nip the pro- Government servant being directly let in the bud. To an appreel promoted to the gubernatorial achieved, and it is to be anticipat able extent, success has been position In Hongkong. Indeed, ed that the crisis will soon have save for the case of Sir Samuel presed. Bowen, who was in charge in Hongkong back in the early, doya of the Colony's history, and whu had some time, previously been Governor in Singapore, we believe Paris Sir William Pool, to be the first Brussels
Amsterdain Governor of Hongkong to have Berlin apep service in Malaya. Our Kew Copenhagen
Vienna Governor. is, like his immediate
Helsingfors predecessor, approaching, the Labon retirement age now, being fifty. Bucharest
Buenos Aires five years of age, and it is possible Shanghai; that this may be his last post. Al-Yokohama Now York though only six months older than Gava Sir Cecil, Clementi, he has put in, Milen
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Stockholm some two years service more than Oslo the latter. Reports reaching us, however, indicate that His Excel Athens
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lency le still full of life and vigour, Bombay and, moreover, is a man of charm-Hongkong ing personality. In the lengthy silver (forward)
Silver (spot). period of his service in Malaya,
London, Feb. 13.
Further summonses agalnat motor drivers for failing to have two efficient and independent brakes on their vehicles... were heard by Mr. Whyte Smith at the 124.15 Kowloon Magistracy this morning, 84.805. Three defendants were fined $20, 12.12%
it being alleged that only one 20,365 18.105 brake was defective while the 34.625 owner of one lorry wag fined $25; .103% - both brakes being out of order."
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21 YEARS AGO,
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES.
The, following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for week ended February 13th, 1909,
The rate of the dollar on de mand was 16. 0.1/100,
The Government announced. Its 43.1/16 A coolie employed by the Bani intention to abolish the Clock 1/11 tary Department appeared before Tower, situate at the junction of 2/0% Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Queen's Road Central and Pedder 86-7/82 Magistracy this morning on a Street, **69.00 charge of being in possession of
18.185 eleven hinges reasonably suspect The forthcoming retirement of .18.21 | ed of having been stolen or un- Dr. G, II, Bateson Wright, of the ,1641/4 | Iawfully obtained. The defen-Education - Department, › was ane 38,626 dant pleaded guilty and ranounced,
4875)
marked that he had found in
5.15/82 the hinges in the street whilst at The VIC. team to visit Canton 41/6% | work. On the production of a for a regata to be held in March 12094 | previous conviction for stealing comprised Messrs. L. F. Lammerts
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his Worship sentenced the dilene A. Musso, J. A, 8. Alver illah Wireless.dant to three months hard labour, Cruickshank, and 8. A. Seth.
Miss Bates' days, were spent:" perforce in attending an aged mother In failing health. Their joint Incomes permitted no luxuries but, indeed, 10- quired careful spending to provide the baro: nécessities of life; yet Miss Bates was happy, being possessed of a contented nature, and, a lively unaalfisht ness which found great satis- faction in the good fortune of“ others.
To be auto, her interest in other people's affairs frequent- ly developed into an unwere ranted carbosity, with gossip as a by-product, but neither the curiosity nor the goulp *were malicious in intention or In effect, ller incessant chat- ter, all about the most trivial occurnences, might, often bore," and sometimes Irritate, her hearers, but it never harmed a Hyjng soul; for Miss Bates was no back bitter, no scandal- "monger, SANG
in Jane Austen's own words: "She was a woman.no, one named without good
loved everybody