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lady. noticing the horrible expense of funerals incurred by poor people, presented for free public use a wheeled, bier, to encourage simple. walking funerals. The Undertakers' Associa tion wrote to the Rector of Busher that its members would decline to use such a bier. They preferred the costly hearse with its trappings and its profits, and although the Board of Guardians made a fight for it, the profiteers were apparently strong enough to prevail.

SPECIAL CABLE

SHANGHAI NEWS.

RICE SHOPS REOPEN.

[China Ma SPECIAL]

SHANGHAI, June 9. The rice shops have reopened. Licences for Chinese dealers were taken in batches and distributed through the Rice Guild in order to

save face."

· AMERICAN COURT CLERK.

Mr. William Chapman was installed with ceremony as clerk of the Amer! can Court.

FOR THEM THAT ARE

ALIVE WITH ME TO-DAY.

A SORT OF REVIEW.

MONJAY, JULY IN

ENTERTAINMENTS.

C

THEATRE ROYAL,

THE PASE STRINGO."

Not the least clever of the maay excellent plays staged by the H. B,

A HUNGRY THIEF.

HARD HIT MAN FROM THE COUNTRY.

'QUITE A LOT OF TEMPTATION.”

Having walked far to this beach, and swum a little, I lay back where

"I was compelled to steal because a rock held of the sunshine, and Waring Company during their two had been without anything to eat. seasons in Hongkong was Purse for several days." was the plea entered looked at the loveliness of the world, Strings, a comedy not without an by a Chinese charged before Magist the eternal sea. the hills, the armada occasional note of tragedy, which rate Ore this morning with having of clouds, sailing to their dogm on a they presented to a good house in the snatched a gold chain with jade British Rock, and I bethought me Theatre Royal on Saturday night. pendant valued at $60 from that were that ses all ink, and that

Distinguished by a dry humeur Chinese woman on Hill Street, West sky all paper, yet could I never make liberally embellished with epigram, Foint, last night. an end of listing the charm of it. The the story is woven around the one thought that thousands of years ago, fault in an otherwise admirable has on a shore like this, hands like mine band, an obstinate refusal to make played with pebbles like these, and his wife an allowance out of his that thousands of years hence, all comfortable income. The theft of a

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Defendant added that he had been only 18 days in Hongkong. Having failed to find work. he had spent all his money.

The Magistrate (to Inspector

Earth burial itself (apart from astentatious funerals) is expensive. wasteful, and insanitary. The good land so wasted in over-crowded China is realized by us all, the same in our own overcrowded urban areas is apt to be overlooked. The disposal of the dead should be a municipal mat- ter, and were it made so, we would soon see cremation the chief method. COMPRADORE'S CONTRACT. these things will happen again, and pair of silk stockings, the threat of Appleton). Do you think be is

some ran feel as I do now, was much police court proceedings, a suit for really "hard hit "

The Iuspector: Yes. There is with me. James Elroy Flecker has left libel, and a voluntary bankruptcy are a message for him, in words sent as events that help to turn the tables nothing known about him. There messengers along the way we may and give the wife control of the purse is quite a lot of temptation for people not travel. To our heit of that com-strings. An unpaid botel bill is the of the defendant's description in the ing century he calls:

strange cause that reconciles hus- vicinity to Shektongchui. band and wife after a period in The Hagistrate passed sentence of which the latter has been subjected three months' hard labour. to a course of his own treatment.

Tatil this business is taken out of private hands altogether, reform will be slow. Publicity and argument, however, such as this eurious book has to offer, should help to clarify public opinion and make it more thoughtful and sensible.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tenders for the purchase of the W. D. vessel "Hercules," with engines, boilers, and various spare stores, close at the Ordinance Office Ltd. at roon to marrow.

DER A. WING & CO.

60, Des Voeux Road, CENTRAL..

SMEDLEY.-On July 2, 1921, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smedley, a daughter.

› MARRIAGE.

An auction sale of teakwood and blackwood farniture, etc., will be conducted by Messrs Hughes and Bough to-morrow afternoon at their sales room, No. 8 Des Voeux Road.

LIABILITY FOR SMUGGLING.

AN INTERESTING LEGAL DECISION.

How far a ship's compradore can be held liable in respect of opium smuggling was a point which present- ed itself for decision in consection with a case heard in the Summary Court to-day before the Puisse Judge, Mr. 3. R. Wood.

The plaintiff was Cheung Hung, compradore of the sa. "Cerf," who claimed

fram. two co-defendants, Choy In Ching and the Shiu Hing Steamship Co., the return of a de- posit of $500 lodged with the delend- ants at the time he was made com- Pradore of their ship. His claim counter by the was met by a owners in respect of a fine of about $1,100 imposed on the ship b the Chinese Maritime Customs for opium snuggling.

For a new rest and recreation ball for the dock workers at Yoko-

Mr. T. Rowan appeared to support hama, three shipping companies, the claim and Mr. G. G. N. Tinson the O.SK, the T.K.K, and the N.Y.Krepresented the defendants. have each contributed Y10,000 and The question at issue was, His 23 other firms closely allied with the shipping business have contributed a total of Y22,000. The hall is to be built in the Customs compound.

On the ground of the high cost

Honour pointed out when giving judgment, as to whether the imposi tion of the fine upon the owners of the ship entitled them to retain the deposit made by the compradore under his contract. "I find," the judge pro-

respect of the smuggling of opiam

of living Chinese painters in Hong-ceeded," that the fize was imposed in kang have petitioned the contractors for an all-round increase in wages of some of which was found in the 40 per cent. No reply has yet been received but some of the contractors have agreed to attend a meeting convened by the Painters' Guild for the purpose of discussing the position.

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seas

I care not if you bridge the

Or ride secure the cruel sky, Or build consummate palaces Of metal or of masonry. But have you wine and music

still,

And statues and a bright-eyed

love,

And foolish thoughts of good

and ill

And prayers to them who sit

above?

Art yearns for expressions to give permanence to the sense of beauty and of being. As when W. H. Davies tries to record an experience like mipe upon my beach -----

Sweet Chance, that led my

steps abroad, Beyond the town where wild

Bowers grow

A rainbow and a cuckoo, Lord, How rich and great the times

are now!

Know, all ye sheep. And cows, that keep On staring that I stand so

long

In grass that's wet from

heavy rain-

A rainbow and a cackoo's

Song

May never come together

again;

May never come

This side the tomb.

cargo hold of which the compra- dore held the key and other portions of which were found in other parts of the ship which have not been shown to be under the care and charge of the compradore. The condi- Through a clutch not answering tions under which the deposit was quickly enough recently in Tientsin, made were not drawn up in writing

So we may walk abroad again, a motor car containing Mr. Hutcheon, between the parties and there was a of the American Trading Co., and dispute between the witnesses as to revisit this beach, and watch another his chauffeur, went quickly back the circumstances which the guarsunset as fine, but shall we recapture wards into the river at a point near antee was supposed to cover. The the magic of this mood, that makes the end of Rue Chevrier. Fortuna compradore states that this deposit the poet, eing, the artist paint, and tely it was low water at the time so was made as guarantee against theft us take out our notebook, to put. that only the rear portion of the car of cargo or against the loss by down in prose shorthand this piping

Company

any money music of the caged soul, thin and was submerged, the engine portion the

for passenge being clear of the water. The occu- collected

fares sweet and tentative, this tuning up, any other pants were unhurt and merely had and

of

ing a fair quantity of mud on their shipping company clothes.

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purposes.

JEWELLERY FOR JAPANESE

DISPUTE OVER PURCHASE

Mr. Charles Quartermaine was EX- cellent as the rather fatuous husband, playing the part with an easy indiffer ence that contrasted well with his few moments of passion. bliss Jeannette Sherwin again proved her self an accomplished actress by her skilful portrayal of the harassed A chim by Mohideen & Co., jewel- wife, rising to fine heights of histrioniclers, against a Japanese photographer ability in the more spirited passages.named Taniyama for payment of As the practical widow, Miss May $340 said to be due in respect of Hallatt had a part worthy of her jewellery sold and delivered occupied while Mr.the attention of the Puise Judge unquestionable talent, Frederick Annerier as Mr. Edward (Mr. J. R. Wood) in the Summary Ashby, K.C., the family friend, woo Court this morning. Evidence was, general admiration by his fine acting. given by the plaintif that in January The applause was so great at the the defendant came to his shop with a conclusion of each act that the Japanese lady, Mrs. Sano, proprietress curtain had to be raised four or five of the photography fimm known as times to allow the players to receive Messrs. Mumeya & Sano" and bought the enthusiastic tribute of the audi- certain diamond rings and other eace. At the conclusion of the last jewellery to the value of $410. The act, the Company received an ovation. defendant said that he would pay for A magnificent basket of flowers was the jewellery but had only so far paid presented across the footlights to $70. Taniyana explained that Mrs. Miss Jeannette Sherwin. In the Sano, who had often previously absence of Mr. H. B. Waring, Mr. bought jewellery from the plaintiff Charles Quartermaine thanked the on time payment was the purchaser audience for its cardial reception cf

the goods and this was understood the play, and hoped to rett later in by the parties at the time. He had defendant instalments the cooler weather when the heat paid the would not tend to make the audiences amounting to $70 on behalf of Mrs. so small. This announcement was Sano who was now in Japan. Hold- greeted with further applause.

CHEFALO AND PALERMO.

MANY NEW ILLUSIONS.

ing that it had not been established that credit for the goods was given to the defendant,ais Honour dismissed the claim with costs. Mr. A. el Arculli appeared for the plaintiff and Mft.- Leo d'Almada for the defendant.

CAPT. D'OLIVEIRA.

NOT RETURNING TO CHINA.

It is unlikely that Capt. D'Oliveira,

During their six rights engage- ment at the Woping Theatre, Chefalo and Palerma will present many new mysteries and illusions not shown on the unpleasant experience of collect Witnesses called on behalf of the as it were, of the golden harp we may their previous visit to Hongkong. a wonderful magician. state that in not thrum boldly until the great Chefalo is addition to these purposes it was also Conductor shakes his baton at us That no one can dear. He is also a secretary of the Marine Officer's agreed between the Company and Are the things we call day-dreams inventor and is constantly adding Guild, will return to Chinz: We A desite to go on the stage, led the compradore that the deposit was peeps at realities, and the rest of new tricks, illusions and effects to understand that the health of Mrs. two young Chinese girls-aged 15 a guarantee against smuggling by the car unsering life the dream? This already big stock of mysteries. D'Oliveira, which Shanghai did not and 17 respectively-into a series of compradore's staff or by any person Brown must have thought so, when For their return engagement Chefalo suit, necessitates their remaining at The Guild will probably adventures which ended in the policeing part of the ship puder the coute wrote "Opifex," the cry ofa poct and Palerme will present any new Home. court on Saturday, when one of two trol of the comprador. It is to be who cannot say what he would say, surprises, giving a performance that receive his resignation by an ensning youths was charged before Magistrate noted that the evidence given by the but is more determined than despair-will surpass anything in the line of mail, and have to look for a new Lindsell with having harboured witnesses for the company in this ing.

the

magical performances ever attempted Secretary. That it will do so with those #Warc of Capt. carving images from here. Their engagement at

the regret, Woping Theatre begins on July 15, D'Oliveira's long and capable work And tinting them with soft and they will give a full performance on this coast will prophesy.

there every night at 9.15 at popular prices...

unmarried girls without the know- particular does not agree with the

clouds, ledge and consent of their parents, terms on which their counter claim is of a vulgar and thoughtless vanity, The other mas, alleged to have been drawn. There the guarantee against rather than a tribute of honour to the prime mover in the affair, has smuggling is stated to be an absolute

etherial dyes The girls said guarantee against all smuggling on the dead. It frequently eacrifices absconded.

Pressed from the pulp of board and not the limited guarantee told them

dreams, the Eving to the dead, as literally as that ever did suttec. Insurance companies alluring stories of the stage and against smuggling which the witnes

That such seekers after reality need at Home batten on this buman folly. eventually prevailed upon them to ses have indicated.

Having heard all the witnesses," leisure for life, W. H. Davies reminds Undertakers grow rich by it. The agree to pass off as their sisters, and community as a whole loses by it, come to Hongkong to receive train. His Honour concluded" I incline to us with simplicity:

What is this life it; full of care, We have no time to stand and CANDLIN-BATES.-On Saturday, as we may note especially in China, ing as actresses. In Hongkong the the view that the guarantee included

at Shanghai, which comes within our reverend

men took them to various Chinese nothing whatever about smuggling. July 2, 1921,

stare? Thomas Henry Robinson Cand author's purview. The disposal of threatres. but made no attempt to It is for the company who claim to carry out their promise, suggesting retain the deposit to show that they Hine, second son of Rev. G. T.

the dead should be municipal business. instead that the girls live immoral have good cause under their contract Candlin, D.D., of Peking, to

In America the average cost. ex- lives. The defendant was sentenced giving them the legal right to retain Edith Harriet Bates, second

The The onus is on them and it daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. clusive of graves, tombs, monuments, to six weeks hard labour. Bates, of Stepterd's Bush, etc, is put at $150, which means Magistrate told him that bad he seems to me that they have not been about $136,000,000 a year spent on been the principal in the matter he able to show it. I propose therefore funerals. That does not seem to would have received six months to give judgment for the plaintiff include the cost of "mourning" The girls will return to their parents with costs in both cases" clothes, happily going out of fashion in the country.

London.

The China Mail. among ourselves, who used to carry

PUBLIC SERVICE

RUTH, JUSTICE,

Blosuzosa, MONDAY, JOLT 11, 1921.

WASTEFUL FUNERALS.

it to ridiculous excesses, some describ-

MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE.

PROSPEROUD EMIGRANT'S

of

DEATH

1

No time to stand beneath the

boughs

And stare as long as

COWN.

sheep OF

A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and

stare.

These standing and staring seers at times awake us from the dream of business, make us aware ---

At last we know that we have

died

-When we hear music from that

band,

And then we would steal forth

a hand

BANDMAN OPERA CO.

Miss Madaline Rossiter

"BRAN PIE" ON MONDAY,

TALK ON THE THAM TOP.

"I think the bank depositors will be all right, by and by. Mr.—is offering them 80 per cent, for their claims.

liability of shipping. firms for smuggled opium. I hear it will be tested soon by a case against the Company."

Seems to have lost his reason, and they are sending him bome: Bossted of walking about, Wanchai with sufficient explosives on him to blow up half Hongkong."

Attempting to utter a forgi d

in the present Bandman repertoire. ed in the pages of Dickens. The Singapore $1 note was the charge

Booking is at Moattie's. Press an- average cost will be roundabout that preferred against three Chinese before

nouncements will give further details. - figure in England, for though we do Magistrate Lindsell on Saturday. Toe not give our undertakers as much rope first man, according to Inspector

RUSSIAN OPERA COMPANY. Found by Sub-Inspector Wil as the Americans do, nor dignify their Appleton, attempted to pass the note coffins with the fancy name of casket, at two money changers' shops and hanging by a black silk girdle to a

The regret of local theatregoers at After a very successful season st we have not yet seen the absurdity was subsequently arrested by a dis- free on Moont Davis about 100 From information | yards above Jubilee Road, the

To draw a brother to our side. the departure of the Bandman Opera Macao, the Russian Light Opera and trict watchman.

will Bail for "Ts worth a thousand years of of wasting our substance on the de-

well dressed glory of life on a sunlit earth, to be Company three month ago was ten-Operetta Company state, the labour of a good man's life, coration and trimming of, carrion, tokseen, be it bal by one, the count- Reviewing the diversity of charges custody. First defendant said when to the Public mortuary. Sex. ills beneath the sun. So one in the various states, our author Lotes he complained about the slackness At. first it was thought that the to be thoughtless and feel it not! pany would retam here on its way on Thursday. The Company expects Qainey L. Dowd has written, and the that a flash of fun now and then of work, the second defendant grave man had been murdered by rob O sense of oneness with nature, and home. That happy day is now at to spend three or six months in Java,..

into that darker the Theatre Royal for a brief season end of the year and then visiting University of Chicago Press has lights up this sombre subject. He him the note, promising to give bers for his money, but when the to be unaware! To pass from one hand as the Company will open at returning to Hongkong towards the

ablished, a remarkable book entitled quotes an undertaker's advertise- bim 10 cents to buy food if he ac body was searched, a purae was darkness Funeral Management and Costs-a ment as follows:-"For composing ceeded in changing it. The other found containing a quantity of darkness, from life unsavoured into commencing Monday night with that Banile, Shanghai and Japan before manager of the Company wishes to world survey of burial and crema- the features, $1. For giving the two men accompanied him to twa Hongkong and Chinese - 10 death keaned, without seeing the ever popular London production proceeding to America. Hr. Podoli,

money changers shops and saw the cent pieces, and several dollars' dawn or hearing its voices! Praise Bran Pié." It would be good if the ideas features a look of quiet resignation, note refused. There was no evidence worth at Singaporej 10-cent notes. Te your posts that save you from that. The present company had the thank local theatreguess for their this book could be popularized, for $2. For giving the features the ap against the third defendant excepting The case is obviously one of suicide, Praise one A.M., who hath compiled honour of being presented with support of the company which has faneral superstitions and extravag-pearance of Christian hope and con- that he was in the company of the bat the police are at a loss to know An Authology of Modern Verse, more than 500 yen worth of flowers thereby been encouraged to plan auces and wiste represent one of those tentment, $5." We also have our other two men. He had been charized its cause. The deceased appeared to be and praise Methuen the publisher, by the Japanese community on their another season on its return visit.

countless ills" spoken of in the grim jokes, as in the story of the because it was anticipated that a prosperous returned emigrant who hath published for six shillings final performance in Osaka.

Rollicking comedy, good music, were with which we opened. The Lancashire man who lay adving, ownership of the more would be from Singapore. Enquiries are prothese hundreds of messages from 89 problem is not new, but this investiga-His wife asked him if there was any shifted to third defendant by second seeding.

given by first defendant, the other remains two men were also taken into Chinese were yesterday removed blind and not see it ! O joy of being, pered by the thought that the Com-Singapore by the B.-Is.s." Torills"

"

poets. Though you may be shackled plenty of dancing, sums up the ing to urban things, unable to reach my redients of which Bran Pie"

COMING TO HONGKONG,

on of it is unique. "Bereaved thing he "fancied." "There is, defendant. After evidence, had been

Coming to Hongkong shortly are tarts," we are told, are too distraught lass," he said. "I've been fancying given to prove that first defendant 4 transect intelligently the business a bit of that 'am, but theer, lass knew the note was forged when he BLAZON-TYPE NOT NECESSARY beach and to play with my yellow composed and all who desire to see Mr. Log Podolsky, the brilliant ("THAMERBLAIN'* Colio sod. Darth- ainda, you may read this book, and the Revue at its best should not misé pianist who has visited the Colony of burial, It isn't that so much, as know the wants that for the funeral, attempted to change it the second

ime, the Magistrate sentenced Bracesy eeds no glaring bead-be taken (that core of you which lives) the opportunity of participating in before and Miss Amma El-Tour,** The ignorance and apathy of those not so never mind." the

There is an Undertakers Associa defendant to six weeks hard labour in to attract the public eye to the top of the bill where the sky this banquet of good things for those talented singer who has been received

and the second defendant who did sapie statement that.

it ka tronddenly in away Lamily knows: grows wide, and when the sun grows. prefering extravaganza produced on with the highest praise everywhere which convention, ancient and stupid tion in England, a trade guild, whose not deny dost defendant a secimation de bewer it is good to go thus, but a magnificent scale Afgar should she has pettorined. Further parti ustom, is followed. Moreover, as is impudence should certainly bo check regards ownership of the note, to roars and is jungle its name implies is better to go in your own body, not be missed as it is universally cult of the concerts to fell known, in certain plsssss ostenta ed by the Government. Ope of the three months... Third defradant win

**11 Gresskis and read to toe with your own

proclaimed to be one of the very best locally will be published later, funerals are a gratification Bushey Board of Guardians, a humane, discharged.

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