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Recent proceedings in the Divorce Court must have caused some uneasi ness amongst those who hope to obtain

THE CHINA MAIL.

FLOOR OF THE SEA.

ing bows, we decided to press on through the night. The sun dipped Into the sea behind us, blasing our

CORAL-BUILT TROPICS, 11⁄2 wake with trail of gold and firme

SUKLILE SPECTACLE DESUIRED.

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To the marvels of the coral brute tropics and the mysteries of unknown Papaz Captain Frank Hurley, the famous Antarctic photographes, has gone for new copy and studies. On the sea, beneath the sea, on the earth, and above the earth, he will be busy for some months. His pen and camera will be employed on behalf of The Sam Sydney, and from Thurs day Island he sent the following article

gether night came on-stars, height and, lustrous; gleaming, Nke a rullion | lamps:and -Venus, queen of the heavens, throwing her silver sceptre across the set.

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"SAFETY FIRST.”

—NOVEL-PARIS-ME AJURE,

SEKRATIONAL FILM PERPARED.

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So many accidents have occurred

LIKE AN INVEKIKO SKY.

in Paris recently that the authorities -At 9 pim, we came up with the have been compelled to make some Otulla formless silhouette riding through the night. Then over those attempt to render walking in the starlit waters went forth it cheer awrincipal thoroughfares less danger

M. R native "Oinili, ahoy!"-the strangest ous than at present,

I have ever heard; and so on. Prefect of Police, has considered pressed alone, with phosphorescent that both drivers of vehicles of ill avalets rippling from our bows, and sets and foot passengers need to be down in the depths scintillating yedicated to avoid mishaps, and the riada and specks, gluting like a star batter to do this he has prepared what is said to be a sensational film strewn aky inverted.

Capricious is the weather in these which be fmagines will convey a usc latitudes, for a great cloud bankful lesson. This fits will figure in the swept down, with driving rain programmes at the principal picture distant theatres, and so much interest has squalls, obscuring

FRIDAY, ₤ MARCH (18,-1921.

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DISTRICT SCHOOLS.

I am seated on a boulder by the summit of a green hill looking down on to a conglomeration of rusty tin roofs and rows of tree tops that mark streets, and out over a placid expanse of blue-green sea. The sun glares observation. Owing to the innumer been taken in it that requests, bave down on my shadeless vantage, and able and sporadic nature of the reefs, been made from kinema houses I envy those aboard the three score it was impossible to maintain any-abroad.

It is a simple story, but contains pearling luggers that ride in the cool thing ke true compass course. breeze off shore. A thin strip of The midnight watch was just being the necessary human interest that beach, fringed with palms, roos of changed when a horrible grinding the Prefect of Police has imagined. to the jetty where the Taiyuan is die Jar threw us on to the deck Up A wealthy manufacturer desires a charging.

Prince of Wales Island ross the vessel's bows, and it needed husband for his daughter, who, lies over to the right and Homme no further investigation to eyince naturally, is very pretty: He makes Island just across the water. The that we had driven on to a reel. the announcement in his salon, that tide is swirling in, and rips and races; Mr. Done's presence of mind saved he will give her hand to the suitor who marking shallows and channels, as from being disasted. A few sharp takes her through Paris first in a changing blue-green to muddy tints orders to the crew, and down rattled motor-car and then on foot without It is all delightful media betwixt the sails, and anchors were run out meeting with an accident or infring

ing the traffic rules Suitors decide Austral and tropic scenery, quite fore and aft. - ·-

to accept the test. There is, however, unlike an Australian port in all but

one exception. A young man thinks of the Hongkong District Schools the dwellings.

it strange that the girl should con Athletic Sports meeting, which w sent to marry the best chauffeur and held on the Queen's College rearea the best walker. As the manufacturer ton ground, at Causeway Bay, yes- replies to this objection a shadow

ANNUAL ATHLETIC APORTS.

FULL RESULTS.

Following is a full list of results

BRITAIN JUSTIFIED.

OUTSPOKEN STATEMENT.

U.S. GENERAL'S REBURT TO CRITICS,

up here for Britain that I am to do "I'm no more ashamed to stand

so for the United States thank God that in a crisis like the one we had, there was no bickering between course, General Pershing, gave them the English-speaking people. Of

fire divisions, but it saved, the Aled

These words were spoken-before

biographical. But the science of pub relief from it. The innocent and thej galvanised-walled, corrugated roofed waiting for the incoming tide, Mr his daughter on the altar of security (Group IV)-1, Wa King-tak, Time: British Government to supply ships

fire.

Every endeavour was made to kedge the ship off, but the coral Climbing down from the hill, one gripped our copper like a rasp, and can race through the barbed trip with falling tide, we lay helplessly wires there must be fortification battleting on the reef. hereabouts--scurrying emaciatedThroughout the night the seas goat herds, and into the "City af battered the vessel on the sharp passes over the screen. He tells how terday Thursday Island. A couple of coral, so that we stood by the lifeboat his son returned from the war wound 100 Yards Flat Race (Group 1).-line." hundred paces more and you are into expecting the sides, to be staveded, and with the Legion of Honour | 1, Mck Tai-chenk, Time: 17sacs- the Congressional Committee investi- Main suret, avenued with coconut, through momentarily. Sunrise saw and other decorations. One day he 2, Li Kai-yeung: 3, Kwan Sheung-gating the American war expenditure AN INFERNAL MACHINE.

our stranded vessel lying on her was knocked down by a motor-car palms and mangoes.

The man who invented corrugat bilgesa belpless derelict on a coral and killed. The emotion produced chi. (Group II).~1, Li King-chong, by General Charles Dawes, the HUMAN EMOTIONS RECORDED.

ed iron ought to be galvanised, for reef.

hy this story is accentuated when Time: 16 1/10secs. : 2, Lau Ping-ka: Chicago banker, who during the war Anxiously we watched the tropical he adds that his wife died of sorrow.

was in charge of the Supply.Services no one has done more to debase Tennyson was wont to express with

Australian architecture and to add storms raging around the horizon, Therefore, he goes on to say, be3 Cheung (Group II)-1, Lt of the American Army in Europe.

He made this protest after 2... BAN- vehemence his objection to "being

On fearful lest they should bear down attaches great importance to traffic Sek-kau. Time: 18.1/10secs; 2. ripped up like a pig." The method

to rar domestic discomfort.

relative to the alleged refusal of the of revelation which he feared mas

either side, rows of typical Australian and destroy our little vessel. Whilst problems, and has decided to sacrifice Chan Hau-leung: 3, Ho Wing-fat ber of questions had been put to bim This explanation convinces the 17 1/10secs; 2, Chi Ping-hing; 3, unless the United States put five divi licity has made much progress since-used, in particular, must feel that dwellings colonial ovens "slowly Done and I rowed over the shallow for Parisians.

tracks had been observed. By prod-suitors, and, all determine to try Wa Hing-kin. (Group V).-1, Tsesions in the line.

Anti-British elements persisting ' his time, and we now hear of a process litigation is more than ever distasteful cook the inhabitants with the sun's reef to a nearby sand pit, where turtle

"The inhabitants seem rathered ding round with a spear we located their luck. In the room there is Shu-ming, Time: 18secs.; 2, Mox

He Siu-fong: 3, of exploring the secrets of our souls How that they are made familiar with

Chan Shan-chung-who is noted for his vigorous, down. in this questioning, General Dawes, compared with which the indiscretions the possibility that after all the ordeal from the cardinal points of the com- the rest, and scooping away the sand a young man who is silent. of friends, correspondents, sed self. of publicity has been endured & jury pass, but the aliens from the north nearthed 150 turtle eggs. It might is a sayant who has not had] (Group | VI)-1, Li Hing-chau.right utterance, replied with cousi-

to qualify for a driving elected biographers are ito quote may condemn them to face it again. appear to have been attracted to have been a dump of golf balls. time

the right thing to win the war. TENNYSON himself) "as moonlight The suggestion of a more excellent Thursday Island as Elings to a lodes What a breakfast we made. Lait licence. The heroine is evidently Time: 19secs; 2, Tan Sik-siu; 3, So derable heat that Great Britain did General Pershing said that General anto sunlight and as water unto comes from Chicago. Mr. Justice tone; in fact, one wonders whether time I was shipwrecked it was well disposed towards him, for she Chun-foon.

High Jump (Group 1).~1, Kwan wine." Dr. AugraTUS WALLER, di- BROTHERS of that city is retiring from this is Chinatown or a Japanese vil penguins, and now turtle eggs. Ent promises to initiate him into the my-

thing for the common good, and rector of the physiological laboratory the Bench because his health has lage. The shops of the whites can be thank Heaven the weather was warm steries of driving a motor car. This Sheung-chi, Height: 5it.. 2, Lui Daxes war always willing to do any part of the story is evidently too Chung-kai; 3, Mok Tai-chenk. Instanced the question of unified of the University of London, has been broken down under the stress of counted on the fingers of one hand, here..

Rowing back to the "Herald," we film, for he is led to remark. a public demonstration of Judicial business, most of it, we infer, the shops and houses of the Asiatics A MARVELLOUS GARDEN OF THE SEA. much for one commentator on the (Group II)-1, Wooz Man-tung, | command." "Great Britain-came to making

And Height: 4ft. 7in.; 2, Cheung Kit-it," he said, "after four years of passed over the most wonderful it is the Prefect of Police who has sang: 3, Cheong Chong. "an instrument which records human composed of matrimonial disputes, number on the entire fingers of the

(Group jealousies, but not till threatened with sight in the world-a submerged written that!" The rest of the story IID-1, Chan Shu-tong, Height: #ft. extinction did she do what she should emotions." This infernal machine He is convinced that there is one

There is also a considerable sprink coral reef. The floor of the sea fay is soon told. The young ayant 3in.; 2, Tsang Ki-chong: 3, Ho Yun-have done in the first year of the seems, and we can well believe it, to remedy, and but one, for a state of

things which imperis not only the ting of natives from the Torres carpeted with a marvellous garden becomes a most skilful driver, and have impressed his audience profoundhealth of the judiciary but the welfare Straits Islands, and a heavy down so fantastic and unreal that one fulfils the test without an accident of Sing. (Group IV).—1, Wu King-tak, war.

Height: 4ft. 3in.; 2, Chu Ping-bing; "The morning after the final ly. In a preliminary explanation, Dr. Waller laid down that in ordinary of his country. His prescription is nour of unclassifiable breeds, from seemed to be peering through a glass any kind. And of course he marries 3, Ko Wa-him. Group V)-1, Lai agreement was reached,” he conclad-

for "each family to form an arbitra-pale-faced aboriginals to almond-sea- into another - world. Rounded the wealthy manufacturer's daughter. Kam-chrer, Height: 4h. Imma; 2.]ed.

"to appoint" Minhal › Foch, - folk the emotive response" 15.

Chun Shur-chung: 3, Ise Sm-ming Colonel Repington published it in the found in the palm of the band and the tion court before which husbands and eyed Malays, octoroons, and baboons. knobs and knolls several feet in Why this is a diameter, cauliflower heads, fungoid,

Long Jump (Group 1)-1, Mok London Morning Fest. They let him sole of the foot. That great truth we wives can bring their matrimonial White Australia!

and mushroom-shaped · growths, a

Tai-chenk; 2, Yau Wing-kwai; 3, off with a fine, but he ought to have will accept without any scientific troubles." The telegrams lay stress human menagerie!

Thursday Island is the latchkey to forest of stag antlers, of trees,

Chan Singel (Group II)-1, Libeen shot." evidence. Impudent ears have been upon the novelty of this proposal.

Man-shing; 2, Chan Tak-kwan; 3, boxed and offending bodies kicked for It is, in fact, only new to us because the front door of North Australia. shrubs, and 2 million forms, lay

Cheung Kit-sang. (Group II)-1, many a long year. But the bearings of its extreme antiquity. Primitive But as it lies almost beyond the hori packed together in a wild, chaotic

zon, only the Income Tax Depart- undergrowth. society is full of the jurisdiction of ment seems aware of its existence !

Chung Kwok-ping;2. Lin Chi-kan; 3,. Chan Ki-sum. (Group IV).—I, tion of it. Dr. WALLES attached a

Wu King-tak; 2, Cheung King-hon; hand of a member of his audience to ace with savages would have inform meticulous spy-glasses, has lost its things, could

13, Chm Ping-hin. (Group V).—1, Chan Shun-chung; 2, Tse Shu-ming: ed the surprised commentators that, range here. The Japanese who skip galary of extravagant colour. Here a galvanometer, and showed, by whatever else may be said against per the majority of luggers engaged the spectrum had rioted. Primary flashed mingled with means of a spot of light on a screen,

3, Luk Chung chân. Neither No vessel of any nationality may 300 Yards Flat (Group B).—1, Mok a record of the victim's emotions. Mr. Justice BROTHERS, he is no in-in pearling and beche-de-mer fisheries colours Such is the profundity of modern novator. Further studies in the earn up to $800 annually. They fashings of faintest hue. science, so delicate are modern scienti-social life of humanity would have exist on the bair of a coconut and order nor rule controlled the colour enter a United States port or come Tai-chouk; 2, Kwan Sheung-thi; 2,

brought to light the fact that the smell of their houses. Any scheme of the profound camouflage, within the three-mile limit with Kwok Wing-fat. fic methods, that, with the gaivano family councils are also found in thing beyond these delicacies is It was as if a million seeds of strange intoxicating liquor on board. meter and the screen and the spot of civilised societies. Many of the di- purchased from the Jap shops. The plants had been thrown together, and This, in substance, is the decision Fong Muiskwong; 2, Li Man-shing dressed in Oriental clothing and ap light, it is now proved that running a pin into a man or burning him with Force cases which have come before balance of earnings is sent to Japan. had sprung into plants blossoming in given by the Department of Justice Lan Shut-kan; 2, Chung Kwok-ping;ble language, a girl was for thres

white community,

A KUMAN MENAGERIE,”

of the observation lie in the applica the family. A very little acquaint-Ever this department, with its Master: Artist, wha

emotive

No will but that of the Great fashions al conceive - such

“WET" LINER PUZZLE.

A U.S. RULING.

a

MAY AFFECT OUR SHIPS.

bar, even Chan U-shing.

(Group II)-1,

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"PRINCESS OF THE WILDS."

SERVANT GIRLY HOAX.

were told about her burying been kid-

THREE MONTHS' DECEPTION,

Found crying in a Munich street 3 Ko Yau-sing. (Group III)-parently unable to speak any intell under the Prohibition Enforcement

3. Kong Ki-in. free from all income tax. These men atter confusion.

months the subject of much study Mr. Justice BROTHERS must have been earn their livelihood in Australian

Drifting on a waveless ses, and laws. The department states speci

200 Yards Flat (Group IV)-1, and discussion among Munich savants. a match produces an emotive re-

a pase three fically that no ship transporting sponse." Again, we have no di- previously tried by members of the waters, but by the interpretation of peering through culty in taking Dr. WALLER'S word family. Many potential divorce cases an absurd clause, the department fathoms of crystal water this liquor from one foreign port to an-Wa King-tak; 2, Ko Wo-him; 3, They decided that her language was for it. What we should like to know which might have come before bim has not the temerity to exact these sublime spectacle lay glorified. From other may touch at a US port. The Cheng Lai-chuen. (Group V-1, that of some mysterious tribe in Cen fairy grottoes shoals of tiny fish Customs authorities express the Ise Shu-qing: 2, Chan Shun-chung; tral Asia, that she was the daughter is whether the manipulation of a spot were, we have no doubt, settled by obligations.

Anchored amongst the pearling flashed out into the sunshine, but of opinion that if strictly construed it 3, Ma Ming-ngar, (Group VI)-1, of the "Chief and therefore

Princess" that the had probably of light on a screen is found as soothe sage influence of family arbiters.

been smuggled to Bavaria from Con thing a relief to the feelings as the But it is necessary to add that some, luggers off shore were the two fine mis such, celour and markings that no will prevent the entry of any pas Li Hing-chan; 2, He Yek-k; 3,

120 Yards Hurdles (Group 1).-1.stantinople by Allied officers” and more ordinary form of

and perhape his most difficult, cases sionary vessels "Herald" and "Oitali" man might describe. There were senger liner having

It is not stated from what quarter Mok Tai-check; 2, Lo Cheung-deserted. gleams of scarlet; others with scales

A home was found for her, but ..response" to a buming of the fingers. were in all probability embittered and skippered by the Revs. John Done turquoise shoals and emerald and though its contents be sealed.

We are, however, assured that it complicated by family interference. W. H. Macfarlane. The latter was that glinted gold and silver, some the application for this ruling came, kwong; 3, Pang Wai-kuen. (Group

streaked and but it will certainly be a source of II)-1, Cheung Cheong; 2, Lau she could not be induced to learn any becomes quite an absorbing passion The jurisdiction of the elder ststermen returning with his family to Darnley

designed mathematically. Each considerable cocafort to American Ping-ki; 3, Tsoi Pak-shu. (Group language. A few days ago she dis- to sit quietly in an arm-chair and and women of a family is, in fact, al-Island. In quest of pictures and gaudy" banded,

adventure I signed on as a passenger watch the response of the instrument ready established, but its validity in the Herald." for crap, selected scroscopically perfect, and all shipping interests. The fact that I, Chung Kwok-ping; 2, He appeared, and romantic accouts to one's thought and temper. Such and its usefulness must always be from the natives of Torres Straits, living gems. A dorsal fin. skims the all United States passenger ships are Wing-fat; 3, Lan Shut-kan.

"dry" is always considered to be 300 Yards Flat (for Indian boys napped by hooded Asiatics, emissaries are the simple joys of the scientific limited by the character of the people were a fine, hefty lot of fellows, and sea, the smallest fishes dart to cover

traced her to the house of friend mind. It may be doubted whether concerned. If the world were made those who did not reach an inch over a white flash and a shark passes one of the principal bandicaps of the only).-1, D. Mohamed; 3, N. B. from ber "royal father." The police"

U.S. Mercantile Marine in the fight Kitchell; 3, M. Hassan. for supremacy. the rest of us are sufficiently intel-up of reasonable and good-tempered 6ft made up for it in girth. At

The tide running in swiftly, we

Tug of War.1, Sayingpan of her mistress. This man had in- Considerable doubt at the same School; 2, Ellis Kadooric School..

duced her to live with him aftër dis could arrange all our affairs without a hundred-mile race to Darnley, the

Team Race (Senior)-1, Wanchai covering that she spoke Germad as it in an easy chair attached to a galvanometer seems to us a pastime the assistance of Mr. Justice BROTHERS. "Herald" bearing an hour's handi-to an evel keel from her coral couch.

formerly a servant girl in the neigh- Ellis Kadoorie School. hardly likely to supersede golf. It But while less agreeable qualities are cap. With a freshing breeze and a Two boys dived over the side to the strictest construction will be School: 2, Saiyingpun School; 3. well as he did. She was, it app

Elsewhere it is quoted as an in-

bouring village. must needs be a solitary amusement.

Team Race (Junior).-1. Wanchai to be found in human nature it wa cloudy sky we reeled a merry eight survey the extent of damage. All placed on the new ruling. Whatever pleasure may be derived remain necessary to call upon judges knots. Navigation in these water the false keel had been torn away, stance of the fact that the Prohibition School: 2, Ellis Kadooris School; 3,

is extremely intricate, and de- and a large expanse or copper ripped laws cannot be enforced without

Selyingpar School. from contemplating a visible record who can give their decisions the sancpends considerably on one's local offe Soundings taken in the shig's giving rise to impossible complica

Sir

Ellis: Kadooris · Challenge A Chinese arrested on: Praya of the state of our soul, it is notation of force We do not know experience. I was amazed at the reswell indicated only a small leak.

With the flood tide we managed

Shick-Won by Sayingpun-School East yesterday charged this morning pleasure we should choose to share, whether he proposer to invest a family markable skill and science with which

Runners-up, Wanchai School.

before Magistrate Orme, with the Even to Dr. WALLER we would rather court with that. There can be little "the boy handled our craft, working to float the vessel off, and, lost

Championship Gold Medal-Won) unlawful possession of 722 rounds not confide the emotions which are doubt that the innocent and the cul- tiller and salis to every paff, veer, no time setting all sail for

pable in his divorce cases would slike ; and vantage.

Darnley. At evening we came voices and cries, a hubbub of con- by Mok Tai Cheuk (Ettis Kadoorie of ammunition, pleaded ignorance of roused in us by the prospect of being regard such a prospect with horror. Through calm seas, flecked with up with the islands, and directed by fusion of dusky figures, lit, strangely School) with 10 points out of a pos- local regulations. Inspector Kent, of No. 2 Police Station, said that the derive some relief from the thought What man could endure the compul-white-tops," down long streets of bonfires bove to and dropped another by dancing, firelight. A pleasant sible 15.

light blue calm, with green streaked off the beach. The natives had ar grinding, and we, had touched the At the conclusion Mrs. E. A. accused threw two-packets of am that at present it has its limitations,sion of a mother-in-law?

shallows and reefs on eltner side, by ranged a great welcome, and as we beach. Above, the starlight danced Irving, wife of the Hon. Director of multition into the harbour before be hanchhacked islets, and sandy spits pushed off in the dingeys numbers through waving pairs. We breathed Education, distributed the prizes, and arrested. The Magistrate im topped with palms and mangrove swam out to pilot us in. In the an atmosphere sweet scented with was presented with a beautiful bou posed a fine of $200, or in defacit, through an ocean of mystery and shallows a borde had gathered chant tropical Bowers and this was, my quet of flowers in a silver vase as a four months hard labour.

ammunition was confiscated. wonder, with bellying sails and spurting a native welcome babel of first-impression of Darnley.

beneath.

lectual to be satisfied therewith. To People it is no doubt true that we early morn the two vessels ser sall for returned to the "Herald." now rising me exists in shipping circles whe-]

harnessed to his invention. But we

It measures quantity, not quality.

Our feelings at burning our finger are income-tax demand. So the spiritual to the meter of emotions just the same tragedies of mankind still elude the as our feelings at 'contemplating an I grasp of science.-Daily Telegraph.

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