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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, (93)
ROBERT BRIDGES.
SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 1930.
capacity the natural instinct and finish of a Jacobean. Perhaps that is the reason for the charge so often brought against him that he lacked the outeries of passion. and that he deliberately purged his work of all excitements.
Bridges was not a Burns, it is true, yet the lyric mood embraces many manners, and it is a narrow critic who fails to find it strong and true in this writer. Quota- tion of whole poems
is not neces- sary to show his facility:
So sweet love seemed that Aprli morn, When dat we Mizsed - berita the thors.
. So strangely sweet, it wis not strange
Wẹ thought that love could never change.
The following passage, which opens one of his sonnets:
Since not the enamour'd sun with glance
.more fond
Kisses the follage of his sacred tree ·
Then doth my waking thought arise on the has something of the spacious surface beauty and precise, if old- fashioned, Imagery of a romantic description by Shakespeare. Lest the impression be given that prior to his appointment as Laureate
the
world
concealed
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had luminary of the first rank, it is only fair to say that not all of Dr. Bridges's poems maintained the standard of the portions quoted. Especially in his dramas he was often the victim of his virtuosity, and became garrulous, though like Shelley not always unpleasantly so. The dramatic situation moved him less than its poetic content. Yet where he was characterizing the shading and complexity, the vaunt of human impulses-matters which only poetry can fully catch-he reached really noble heights.
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A FOOLISH MAN, BEING IN PEO- PORTION TO HIS FOLLY FULL OF HIM- SELF, AND SWALLOWED UP IN CON- CEIT, WILL SELDOM TAKE ANY COUN- SEL BUT HIS OWN.-- Balguy.
Messrs. Gilman and Co., Invite offers for the wreck of the sa. Braaland, as she lies on Bombay Reef, the Paracels.
H.M.S. Vindictive arrived in port early this morning with reliefs for the Tamar, the Iroquois, the Peters- field and gunboats. She is com- manded by Captain Stuart, D.S.O., D.S.C.
A report has been made by Lau Tal, master of fishing junk No. 2233XC, to the effect that whilst in the net of assisting to holat sail as the junk was off Applichau, about 4 o'clock this morning, a seaman named Leung Sap-ng, aged about 50 years, accidentally fell over- board, and, as he could not swim, it is believed he was drowned.
NO PRISONERS AT SESSIONS.
MISUNDERSTANDING OCCURS
AT THE GAOL
CASE
ADJOURNED.
The Very Idea!
More schoolboy howlers:
The Congo is not so moist as the Nile..
Alto is a low sort of music, which only ladies aing.
The chief exports of Italy are the blinds from Venice.
The larynx is the volcobox, and shuts when we swallow.
An optimist is a person that at-
tends people's eyes.
The Danes brought with them the frugal system.
The sitting of the Criminal Ses- slons this morning, for the purpose of adjourning the Kowicon City murder case until May 5, was de- layed for over half an hour through
When a country is put under the non-arrival of the three prison- ers until after eleven o'clock bo- interdict neither marriages, births, cause of a misunderstanding at or deaths are allowed to take Victoria Gaol. Mr. J. W. Franks,
place. Prison Superintendent, explained the cause of the delay, and the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) direct- ed Mr. Franks to take steps to pre vent a similar happening in fu- ture.
Yesterday morning, when the Criminal Sessions opened, the case was adjourned until this morning in order to enable Mr. F. C. Jenkin,
The Pilgrim Fathers thought it better to be out of this wicked world, and so they colonised in Massachusetts.
•
Lieutenant (roaring at steward) "Who, told you to put those flowers on the table?"
Steward The Commander, sir.” Lieutenant-"Pretty,
they?"
4
aren't
pounds, So says the Professor Lelean;
alas, poor man, Whereas,
When charged with larceny of defending counsel, to consider his a pair of slippers from the defence, as the case was assigned quarters at the Po Hing Theatre, to him by the Crown at short no- a Chinese who appeared before tice. The Telegraph was later in- A woman's clothing weighs five formed that jurymen would not be Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon required to attend until May, 6 on
morning was Magistracy this atated to have been sentenced to but it was necessary for the Court which day the case would be heard, six months hard labour for false to sit this morning formally to ad- pretences in September last. The journ the case until that date. defendant was given another six months' imprisonment.
His Lordship entered the Court
Zounds!
Is burdened with fifteen Ahl on the other hand man's wear
Is cheap; he can contriva
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at ten minutes past eleven and ask-While woman fifteen guineas pays,. eds the officer here who is in To get a suit for five... The seizure of 500 taels of pre-charge of the prisoners?
Besides, ag every one doth know, on board the 8.a. pared opium
A Warder:-Yes, my Lord.
Man's clothing is so strong, Ixion on Saturday last was men- tioned before Mr. Whyte Smith at were adjourned until half past ten
Did you know that the Sessions That (measure it by time or space)
He wears it twice as long. the Kowloon Magistracy this this morning?—Yes, my Lord.. morning, when Detective Sergeanti Did you convey that information Humphreys made an application to the authorities at the gaol? for the confiscation of the drug. Yes, my Lord. He intimated that the contraband His Lordship: Why, then, were was found in two flour sacks in the prisoners not here at half past the hold of the ship, it being valued ten? at $6,000.
Mr. Franks explained that it waS due to a misunderstanding at the An elderly man, stated to have prison. Yesterday afternoon he been engaged as a casual worker was rung up by Mr. D. L. Strellett, at the Kowloon Docks, appeared who asked him to be good enough before Mr. Whyte Smith at the to inform Mr. Brutton, who was Kowloon Magistracy this morning
then interviewing one of the pri- on a charge of stealing a quantity until May 6. Mr. Franks added that soners, that the case was adjourned of scrap brass and wire. The he sent the message to the Officer defendant was fined $5 or seven in Charge of Prisons and apparent- days' hard labour in default. Itly that officer assumed the case was stated that the defendant had would not be heard until May 6. It a previous conviction for stealing, was apparently taken that the case but that it dated as far back as was adjourned so far as the pri
Arrested in suspicious circum- stances in possession of a long female silk coat, a Chinese who appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning was given the maximum penalty of three months' hard la bour. The defendant, who tried to hide the garment as soon as he saw a policeman, had several pre- vious convictions
for returning from banishment, he having only recently finished his term of five years.
soners were concerned.
1
The new rich lady was making call.
"And what are you going to do with your son?" she asked,
"Oh, when he leaves Oxford be'll take Orders,"replied her hostess.
"Really, said the visitor. "Why, my husband started as a commer- cial traveller, too."
minister.
•
Sandy was returning from the public house when he met his
drunkards go?" asked the latter.
"Sandy, do you know where
"I think I dac," replied Sandy. "Where?" said the minister. "Where the best dram is kept."
Penitent "I have stolen a fat: goose from a poultry yard!”
Priest-That is very wrong." Penitent Would you like to
His Lordship: You realise that that is not sufficient authority and no doubt you will take steps to pre-accept it, father?" vent an occurence of this kind hap pening again.
Mr. Franks--Yes, my Lord.
· Dealing with the matter of his
defence, Mr. Jenkin said that as he had mentioned in Chambers, he had gravely under-estimated the time he required in order to pre- pare his defence.
Counsel asked for the case to be adjourned until May 5 and the application was granted.
Priest "Certainly, I will not re- ceive stolen goods-return it to the man from whom you stole it.":
Penitent-But I have offered it
to him and he won't have it
Priest-"In that case you may keep it yourself."
Penitent "Thank you, father." The priest arrived home to find one of his own geese stolen.
It will be generally conceded, we imagine, that the poetry of Robert Bridges, whose death was reported yesterday, whilst appre-
In the heat of the discussion ciated by a limited cultured clase, concerning the speed limit, eugen lacked wide appeal to the public.dered in the provisions of the new When appointed Poet Laureate in Traffic Bill in England, little or no
1924. attention has been paid to the im- 1913, there was some regret ex-portant provision which empowers pressed that the general reproach the Minister of Transport to make which followed the selection of regulations concerning the "methods Alfred Austin, his predecessor, to be used and the appliances to be did not forestall the singling outfitted for signalling the approach of another rather obscure figure. of a motor vehicle." Apparently se It was said then, and nothing that far the Minister of Transport has not yet exercised his powers, and he wrote subsequently caused any while there will always be oppor- marked revision of opinion. that tunity, it is perhaps unfortunte Bridges' work had none of John that the new Bill did not specificial Masefield's colloquial passions, ly provide for an ordinary bulb the abounding visions of Alfred horn apart from an electric horn on Noyes, or Kipling's downright motor vehicles. The electric horn, force. In some respects, he was liable to fail in the hour of need. like most things mechanical, is not even as modern as Tennyson, That failure may conceivably result for his moral judgments were less in an accident which could have been explicit and did not have that avoided if a stand-by warning de sweet sting of sentiment for each vice had been available. There is Victorian more to be said, however, in favour accustomed English readers to of duplicate warning devices. expect of the poet. Though not a ject well to the forefront in this The question of wigs need cause
Noise and its diminution is a sub-taining striking fancy dresses. STOLE FROM MASTER. Ling base.
pagan, like Swinburne, Dr.
highly mechanised age when noise no misgivings as these
A young servant girl in the Bridges was given to looking back appears to increase daily with ef
hired from the Institut de Beaute, employ of Mr. F. C. Mow Fung of WHO WAS- Pedder Building. ward, and he sought inspiration fects on the population not yet de-. from such ancients as Homer, termined. The electric horn is up Machylus, Terence, Apuleius, to date and is fitted to practically Calderon, Lope de Vega, Stendhal. all motor cars. The bulb horn is Appointed Poet Laureate when perhaps considered out of fashion, in his sixty-ninth year, a graduate but there can be no question that it is a far more pleasing, though
occasion which the
Our readers will be interested costumes used in the A.D.C.'s re- to hear that practically all the cent production of "And So To Bed" will be sold by auction st Messrs. Lammert's rooms on Fri- day next, at 2.30 pm. Many ladies
and no doubt also members of the sterner aex will gladly avail them- selves of this opportunity of ob-
can be
FAKED AN ARMED
ROBBERY.
SERVANT GIRL HIDES CASH BOX IN HILLS.
Crampian Farm, Kowloon City, was charged with the larceny of a
A landowner has no authority over the air more han 100ft, above That is a decision of the U. S.. his property in the United States.
Supreme Court, upholding a lower court ruling against Harry Worcester Smith. Mr. Smith had sought in vain to restrain planes. from flying over his place--which...- · would have debarred them from using an adjoining field as a land-
An effort to clear away the cash box containing a gold pen, DEADWOOD DICK? coolica who gather at the old before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Police Pier, which is now known Kowloon Magistracy this morning,. as the "T" Pier, at Kowloon Point, it being alleged that she had resulted in the appearance of robbed her master during his Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy eleven men before Mr. Whyte absence.
The defendant pleaded guilty to
of Eton and Oxford, for many lass effective, warning device than this morning on charges of caus- the charge. years a practising physician, he its shrieking electric counterpart. ing obstruction. Detective Ser- According to Sub Inspector. had to his credit a large body of If the law insisted that both be goant Humphreys commented on Elston, the defendant was employ-
then motorists, lyrics, including some three-score carried,
who the nuisance caused by these ed as a servant girl by Mr. Mow intimated that a Fung, who was the Superintendent sonnets in sequence, called "The although much maligned, are gen- loiterers and Growth of Love," a long pootical erally considerate users of the roads, campaign to clear them away was of the Chinese Company of the would probably use the discordant being carried out by the police. Police Reserve. She was given a
Each defendant was fined $2.
comfortable home and good wages, version of "Eros and Psyche." electric horn in cases of extremв
but yesterday she opened the brettos for oratorios, a masque, necessity only, relying on the bulb
wardrobe and took a cash box. above half-a-dozen
The key had broken in the lock poetical horn with its less nerve racking
and she scattered the things about dramas in various manners, note for general usage. There
the place before raising the alarm experiments in classical metres, might be some reduction in the
that an armed robbery had oc- curred. She took the cash box to an essay on Keats, and a study noise of modern city traffic. Even if there were not, then motorists
the hillside, where it was hidden, of Milton's prosody. Here was a
but later recovered when the body of verse which the fluent Mr.al safeguard for themselves and the would be equipped with an addition-
Police arrived on the ecene, the girl disclosing its whereabouts. Noyes may perchance never public would also have its measure exceed; and if its interests prompt-of safety increased, ed the moderns to cry out "old fogey!" It is significant that the
COLONY'S WATER
"STATISTICS.
-FURTHER DECREASES IN
SUPPLY.
Continuing, Sub Inspector Elston said that the girl had been originally before the S. C. A. and Mr. Mow Fung suggested that she should be taken before the S.C.A. again.
The total storage in the island reservoirs on the morning of Mor The box contained a quantity of day, 21st April, amounted to 671 jewellery. which the girl carefully 16 million gallons, showing a le-wrapped up and left behind to crease of 38.21 million gallons give the impression that the during the past week; the amount rebbers were surprised before they author did not lend himself easily parts for the week ended April, million gallons.
The health bulletin of Eastern collected from streams being 95 were able to make good their to comparison with any but poets issued by the Director of Medical. The week's consumption amount escape. of recognized importance, in style and Sanitary Services, contains ed to 55.64 million gallons which quite as much as, substance. He the following cases, the figured in includes 16.48 million gallons from stood deeply rooted in the grent parenthesia indicating deaths: the Shing Mun Supply
The total storage in the main tradition, and the genuineness of Plague, Baghdad 1, Bombay (1), and reservoirs on the morning of his poetic feeling could not be Colombo 1 (1), Pnom Penh 2 (2); Monday, 21st April, amounted to
The case was: accordingly re- gainsaid, Besides, he perpetuat Cholera, Basrah 3 (2), Bangkok 1 395.68 million gallons, showing amanded for, 48 hours. ed some of the finest English asso-(1), Saigon 17 (10); Small-poxduring the past week
decrease of 15.06 million gallons ciations, especially of country life, Harachi 10 (10), Madras 55 (6); including Hongkong supplies and
Bombay 143 (88), Cochin 56. (3), The week's consumption,aut / CLOUDY WEATHER which he saw full of warmth and Moulmein 10 (4), Vizagapatam 11.92 million gallons delivered to The Royal Observatory reports colour. In spite of the prepon (1), Penang 8 (1); Batayla 2 (2), Water Boats at Lai Chi Kok, that the depression or typhoon, in derance of dramatic form in his Macao (1), Shanghai (4) amounted to 26.02 million gallons, the China Sea has filled up. A work, Robert Bridges was essen- Cerebro-spinal fever, Shanghai River and streams during the The local forecast is S. E. The yield from the Shing Mun farge depression covers China.
tially a lyric poet, showing in this | (16).
week was 29.96 million, gallons.“ winds, inoderate; generally cloudy,
"Deadwood Dick!" aome people may murmur, "what is Deadwood Dick, the hero of penny dreadfuls and dime novels' doing in the gallery!" Yet Roland and Oliver and even great Tamberlane might not have disdained the ser vices, and the company, ot, Deadwood Dick, the real: Deadwood Dick
HIB
name was Robert Dickey, and he served as e Ecout under Generals George ....... Cook, and Alfred Terry, in the: final desperate struggles be- tween the redskins and the white тел. The North American Indians, with thefr backs to the... wall at last, were terrible foes to en counter, and Deadwood Dick's fame was well and truly earn- ed. In times and places where danger was the daily atmosphere, and courage was a. common virtue, he stood supreme, and gained the undying respect of his con- temporarios.
When the end of the wars came he was appointed. an Indian agent, and later rose to the rank of a Marshal of the United States: but the love of the wild life' was too strong in him, and before long he was back again in his old haunts, this time as a hunter- and trapper. He made a good deal of money, and lost it all, dying in poverty, po
As the Utica Globe said in his obituary notice; not all the efforts of popular story writers could succeed In making of Deadwood Dick the hero which he was in reality,
samoumean