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"Oh my dear Mis. Quiteright, what a lovely box of Cigars. Wherover did you may them?"), thar, they are nice. I bought them for my Bubby the His Emas dex, ani from the Flongkong Cigar Stare They have such a Drly lat." "Com with me then, I must get a bax for my Olt B.y" And they did but You euo all come, we have plenty more.
BIRTH..
CLAYTON,-On November 28, 1922, at Cheloo, lo Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Clayton, a daughter.",
the China Mail.
TEUTH, JUSTICE, FURLIC SERVICE
Horarong; Saturday, Dec. 8, 1932.
THE OLD
ORDER CHANGETU?
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
PREMATURE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Shid ayl acqwantous bée furgost Un aivvor brankat tay main i
Chorus
For nul laung sein, mit jos,
Ful aul laung in,; Weel tak asup os koianus
yet
Fuc aul laung sein..
Weo twaw bay run aboot the brajz,
Un poid the gownoz lein But wee' Wauburt mundia a
weerie fit
Sin aul lausg said,
To ba, or the contrary? Whather the foreser or the latter, he preferabla would eat to admit of some differ ance of opinion; the answer in the present can boing of an affirmative or
·SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1922.
Autumn leaves, Drifting through the air, Folling, falling Badly on to the wet and shining
pavement,
You are so badly beatiful,
So brown and crisp Just like fried potatoes.
PRICE
or
Happy Valley will con have its belt of tram lines and another link PROGRESS. in the chain of progres
LOCAL AND GENERAL;
M. A. Dickling an Mr. M. E: I. Airey, have boon ape sinted members of tús Education Band.
·
Forthcoming Crown lund sales. incla 18,720 sq. ft. at Bri lg Street, Taipingshan, for an upset price of $13,60.
M.Long, the Governor of French Indo Cico, who is returning to the East, is been landed at Culomba *uffet from fever.
The Peak School's prizi giving.
Quillar-Conch is an interlule on jargon leave any card or paper giving, his thinks of thas, wanted to mind the in the cures of his Cambridge Univer-identity or explaining the object of following little bit of vore libre, "in Sbid sal acqwantuns bea furgunteitý Ecelish lectures. Sir Arthur took his visit the two men whose house the manner of rom modern metere,"
Un aul laung sein 1
Hamlet's soliloquy and translated it he invaded in their absence still await which appeared in a recent issue of into iarena as follows:--
the slightest clue as to who he was or the Lyons Mail- why he came. Whether he wae simply come government official too lofty to xplain or whether he was some un authorised person with a motive of his own remains a mystery; but his of a negative character coording, as, discour:any or elrottery, as the Alta wither one elects on the one hand casa may be, amply demonstrates to initally suffer the disfavour of that the Englishman's home is not fortune, albeit in an extreme degree; his castle-in Hongkong, anyway. or whether, on the other to boldly
The Central Ohina Post eavinge adverse conditions in the LURED has heard about a new prospect of eventually bringing them
game just invented at to a conclusion, The condition Home, much more subtle than
will have been forged. is to take place on Thurday when of elrep is similar to, iBeaver." It in called Lure and this A hitherto quiet thoroughfare will Mte. Clad Severn will distribute the not indistinguishable from, that of is how it is played: Two players now becoms a streat of noise from prizes at ho Peak Club at 5.10 p.m. death; and with the addition of travel together on an omnibus, say, cookerow to midnight. Already some Enality the former might be consider from Liverpool Street to Charing of the Wongneichong Road trees have ed identical with the latter; do that Cross. Fassing the Mansion House jo this connection it might be argued A may say to B, "What a wonderful with regard to sleep that, could the architect Wren war. If a stranger addition be effected, a determination on the bus is "lured," and points out would be put to the endurance of a that Wren was not responsible for the multiplicity of inconveniences not to Mansion House, then A scores our. mention a number of downright evils little later B pointing to St. Paul's, incidental to our fallen humanity, and says, "I think the Gairty is the finest tbos a consummation sch'eyed of a theatro in London." If no one most gratifying nature."
troubles to correct the imbecility then A will have scored another paint. And so no.
..
Wee twaw hay run aboot the bray
Fay moarnic-sun tull dein; But sesz atween as braid bay roard
Sin aul laung sein.
Un thara haun, ma trustie freen,
Un gee's a haan on thein ! Un wee'll tak a rikht gid-wallie
wakht
Fur sal loung sein.
Un shairlie you'll be your peint
stop.
Un chairlie All bes meiu; Un wee'll take a cup on kaianas yet
Furaul laung sein.
now
And translation::-
Should old friendship he forgotten
Ler's the English
brauca ?
And never brought to remem Should old friendship be forgotten
And old long ago?
Chorns
For old long ago, my dear,.
For old long ago.
We'll take a cup of kindness yet
For old long ago.
We two have ran over the hills
And pulled the pretty daisice: But we've wandered many a weary
icot
Since old long ago.
We two have paddled in thy brook From morning-un til dinner.
timui. But broad
seas have
between us
Stace old long ago.
roated
CLIMATIO
DRINKING
Madamo Sarah Grand, authoress of "The Heavenly Twins," has discovered why Scots. men drink whisky. It is to enable them to withstand the rigours of their
climate. Which, however, anot kong's climate, what? compare with the rigours of Heng-
Lest you be rashly lured" take warning that the game has dangers; witness the following letter which appeared in our Hankow contem- porary the next day :-·
Memars of the Q. C. O. B. A.
disappeared and others will doubtless are remised of the Second Annual soon have their beauties chorn. Meeting to be held on Monday the Forward, forward let us moge, lat 11th inat.at 530 p.m. io Queen's the great world spin for ever down College. Avt. the ringing grooves of change," aven if it cost Happy Valley ite charm and the ricshe coalie his job.
:
AND DON'T
WE ALT.
KNOW
rr 2001
..
The Gief Justice of the Straits Set lementair Walter Shaw, K.O.B. These happy verses leaves Engled by the "City of Simla" are son by a reader on January and will arrive in the sizning himself Settlemen hout February 2 next "Victim." Another year.
victim, I gladly print
thom, merely adding
The OpeBilliard Championship
middle of
Mr. S. B.3. MoElderry, of the Hongkong Civ Service, who in to represent the teen Crown Colonies at the Red CroCongress at Birgkok, has been payg a short visit to Penang.
like the negro (it was of the Coloniheld under the auspices prayers printed above his bed take place fout the
argro, wasn't it?) who had bis of the Victor. Recreation Club will
Jaanary 1'23 Dear Sir, I was driving this fore-"Thom's my sentiments!" noon with a lady and decided to play Who comes each morn with eat like,
tread, The Ching Mail waxed in the new game of "Lure." At first it van! dignant on Monday over seemed fascinating and appeared to And wakes me from my cosy bed! car the raucous motor booter have possibilities. It had. The game Who watches me with stealthy eye,
nuisance. It's like to have proceeded very evenly until nearing And-wears my singlets on the sly?.-
The Boy.. cause to wax erer more indignant the Race Club when I rspied a little' these many moons yet, for list! even Chinese boy "mit nadlogs on" and this week I beheld one of the Colony's innocently remarked "Isnt that a highest officials sweep past in a motor lat little girl." I got a thick ear. car which fereeched its way along Never again will I be Queen's Road with a hooter bad as the worst of the monstrous devices |
to secure greater and still greater! Wow! believe it but thrra sia #ed
Who likes to see me nice and "posh"? Who sends quite clean clothes to the
wash i
Owing to sugh weather the Hokuto Ma," which arrived
her this morn'from Crapond, had take sbelier inan Ha, Buy from two o'clock on thith until balf gast [eight the followirday,
LORED,
Who never buys a cigarette ?
Perbapa you
won't Who scrapes his chin with my Gillette?to
The B.y.. actually some people in Who reads my letters through and Possibly-you-thought the_Colony_who_refused to e the China Mail'a Tues- Pavlova because the is a Russian-through-i-
Who clean my pipe and smokes it LYNCHING -day loader-oreggerated These are doubtless the same people too 1.
the borrors of the lyn- who acorn Goethe, Wagner and many who bears the brunt of all my spite, ching scandal in the other immortals because they were When I ha.a had a hectic night? Southern States. Just read these few G.rmans. What does Shaw, writing
The Boy. examples. The dark ages touch is of the war period, say about this
THAT
INPANY.
At the Helenay Institute.en. Monday the 11th)ecember at 5.30 p.m., the Rev. Jirk Maconsohie Cinstera and Nebul? The public will give a Lanternestum on "Star
are cordially invites Advt.
The rainfall the month of November at the Binical Gardens
Hospital, Mount Kelt, it was Oin.
Acd there's a hand, my trusty quite misleading; they sl took place miserable brød 1-"But when it who nurses me when I am il. ?
this year. On May 18 a negro was cams to isaatio denunciations of Who rules me at his own sweet will? t tortur d over a slow fire while 2000 Geiman chemistry, German biology, Who quietly smiles at all my swank? was in '64 on 9 days the Matilda And we'll take a right hearty drink men walo' ed and cheered. Finally he German poetry. German music, Who knows my batance in the bank | 75 on 3 days, and aħe Police Sta
comrade, And give me a hand of this!
For old long ago.
And surely you'il stand your pint
(of ale). And surely I'll stand mine;
And we'll take a cup of kindness
J
yet For old long ago.
GOLD
AND
DR 98
gave the 'etired confession; someone German
literature, German
had killed a white woman and robbed philosophy and even German on-
TRY
Irl
The Hoy.
The Boy.
The Boy.
tion. Taipa, it was 01:39 on 2 days.
A special dancet which the theatre's own Americaazz band will
K
Theatre this evening. To week-end picture will be Midnight Romance," featuring inty Anita Stewart.
The Royal Ilangke Golf Club holda ire annual mertios Jardine Mathern's Board Room 5.15 p.m. on Monday, December 18NomiLB. tions for General Committeembers should be rent in y m, on December 14.
The Mana-er olib -Kg Lee Impot and Export firm of 158," Queen's Road West, reports ti
yes. terday he gave a foki a chei for $5,000 to cash at the Bank of "wan. The man collected the monebat failed to return.
her, When the boy confessed he was gineering, as malignant abomations Who at a moment's notice will hung over a hot fire, and more than standing towards British and French Contrice with most uncanny skill 200 shots were fired into his burning chemistry and so forth in the relation To fe dan snexpected. 16, body by the onlookers. The next of braven to hell, it was clear that Though he had only asoked for two?play, is to be held she Kowloon days
coloured boy who bad the utterers of such barbarous raving shot a white man in Texas was tied had never really understood or cared with a rope and dragged behind so for the ara and sciences they pro ess. Who can these dava afford to run French writers once made automobile until dead, and thined and we profaning, and were only Three wives while I can not keep ousl the quest of le mot juste a burned. A mob which included the appallingly degeners to deacon Who leets his wire and family craze. They might apend women and children, burned-a-nagrodants of the men of the seventeenth With food I buy bat-n-ver see a whole day seeking the alive near Ilubbard, Texas. "While and eighteenth centuries who, ru
The Bay, one word which would the victim was
slowly roasting cognising no national frontiers in the wittieat, cleveret, dirtiest, or worst
connote the finest shade of meaning various inambers of the mob amused great realm of the bumsu mind, kept To whose bands do I day be day they were seeking. Words have in themselves and entertained the rest the European comity of that realm Become mora plastic just like clay ? m3D in Hongkong or the East pay deed a wondrous colour, rightly used; by jabbing sticks into his mouth, nose loftily and even ostentationaly above Who knows my follies better than no attention to the superlative.
Walter de la Mere the other day and eyes." As one American wiiter has the ransonra of the battlefield." Or Myself? Who is my right hand man ? Woman (at Enfield declared the longer he lived the more bitterly observed the theft of four hoge as Lord Haldane said, acclaiming Police Court in zail astonished he grew at their inexplice having cost four negross their lives Einstein, "genius knows no frontiers." week). Would you able power. Sometimes le mot jule the valus of a negro's life in fionisana
And now just a word And when I take a holiday belp me ?
te achieved in a flash of genius, is one hog. "The prevailing quota
about those dancers. Have And hie to landa far far away. Magistrate: We would--
Charles Dickens, for example describtion in Georgia is somewhat higher
you ever flopped in a heap When over land and sea I port. Woman: Thank you!
ing two gentlemen speaking, after a for there two negroes were lynched
on the floor? Have you Who is it that I miss the most? Magistrate: If we could—
funeral, of the dead man "as though for killing a mule, which establishes a ever flopped in a heap on the floor
The Boy. Woman: Thank you!
they themselves were notoriously valuation of half a mule per negro," with several other people! Than Magistrate: But we can't.
immortal." Sometimes again the The mob bas lynched negross for less you know how clumsily it can be When he intends to do a shoot Woman: Ohl
desired effect is achieved by years of than this though-for creating a Zone. Bix of those Parlova dancers He says: Can catchen substitute patient polishing, like Gray's "Elegy disturbance, for disagreeing with could whirl round the room and For my must shop chop countly dr in a Country Churchyard."
landowner, for not turning out of the when a certain note was struck drop Canse my glandmother makes die." road for a while boy with an lightly, without a sound, without s
Oh Boy! automobile, and for creating a die-jostle, into a group of the farest turbance on election day. The mob statuary.
And when I cross that distant bourne has even lynched men who have been
During an interval long From whence no wanderers return, sentenced to death by the courts,
When they have rung my funeral # PAVLOVA, enough to allow
A message from San Francis thus disposing of the plea oft-n
conversation
knell, advanced in extenuation of mob role beauties unfolded, a wit in the Whom shall I seek in Heaven or- sent to Japan by the Kukosal" A sociated Press states that the Chit that the courts cannot be depended Theatre Royal oa Thursday evolved
The Boy.
Mail Steamship Company has beet upon to administer justice. And yet the following sentence from Pavlova's the Senate allowed the proposed name" Packed audience voices loud
According to a Home Blued $323,300, following the seizure Federal law to die an ignominious ovatione venting admiratios."
Sir James 1 $95.000 worth of opiam on board death in political filibuster.porkaps the bighest praia. I have yet
Cantlio favanta the the company's liner "Nanking." Politics again--disty business, - .. beard comes frora. a humble servant
Chinese practice of
Last week I had a AMBIGUITY. few lines about The Free State pow
ambiguity, inten- The corfaw tolls the knell of parting a British Dominion, tional and unintentional. I omitted, surely Ireland will however, to quote one of the seat st finally secure the pieces of intended ambiguity which
dates itself, to wit:-
peace that will ea able her to answer the brutal jest God bless the King!~I mean the which has remained trus evor since Faith's Defender; Doan Swit first uttered it. The God bless (no barm in blessing) the occarion was a Dublin feast. One of Pretender
the dignitaries, raising his glass, said. But who Protender is, or who is King. Mr. Deen, the Trade of Ireland." God bless us all!-that's quite an "Sir," replied Swift, with great quickness," I drink to comemories,"
Here's some ad- vice always timely, HYPERBOLIO framed by one who
THE
MICRQUE.
other thing.
TINO'S
ESCAPE.
Perhaps it was just as well for all concerned that Constantine gat away before his arrest} has clearly learned was sought. Even the revolutionarica from bitter experi- might have found it a delicate business ance: In most big towns East of Suez executing the father of the reigning many people, especially those with king. few ideas, are bitten by a microbe which caures them to exaggerate in a peculiar way. For instance in Hong- kong I have heard several very ordinary gramophonce described a
HEARD THIS
ONE YET!
day, The lowing her wind showly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his And leaves the world to darkness and to ma.
weary way,
Now lades the glimmering landscape
on the sight
And all the air a solemn stillness
holda,
Save where the beetle wheels his dran.
Ing flight
And droway tickling loll the dist-
ant folds "
of words has ontributed to the How much the poet's careful choice
| beauty of these lines has been dem Here's the latest, austrated by Mr. Austin K. Gray,
boned from a B.A, late of Jeans College, Camb idga, Srdacy papar in the following lines giving What's that funny fundamentally the same picture:
TRUE
TOO
local hotel
:
00
the
But
PERISH THE
paper,
THOUGHT.
five thousand years”
The name of the Anglo-Rian Trading and Industrial Com {*Britorasse', Limited has been sig off the register. The China Ve able Oil Co., Ltd., is given t months in which to show why jebould not be dissolved.
£
At the Catholie - Man's · Club.
Story told with much glee girl in the latest Punch. Hair away QUITE daring the week has it for and dress ungainly, she stande standing, by which, it's boy mis Garden Road, on Thursday evening fact that two nameless surveying the front steps, broam in behaves, it is the school master who the Naval men of the station who ara, on ILMS. naval officers perceived cue band, a bucket in the other."Ai punished. The Home paper proceeding Home
to be paid off, were the notice in a certain one step and a two-step I can manage tiembles to think of the development Vindictive"
with the best," she declares, "but of this doctrinn: editors: being entertained at a very enjoyabla this 'ere fight wants a blinking bastionadoed for the mistakes of their smoking concert, by the other mem
taff and general managers and bers of the club and their friends. Publova."
Arnold B. nnet; in one mannging directore of operating com
The island that is the zone of BREAKING of his chatty diary wittees being scourged for the faults
books, talks about his of everyone in the office. Extend The Tempat might it not ba visit to the Russian this practice Incally and we shall perur Island of Hongkong seen with the
M189 BLANK, Room Umpteen DRESSES AND HATE 10 am to 12.30 pm
2 p.m. to 4 pm.
THE
thing all out the Funeral curfew clangs the Sun's Blyly awaiting their chance, they Balles. The incomparable Paviors is chance aes high postal officials being eras of postio fancy, trandstad into
derr ise.
That's the vessel's screw; when
The moving kine o'er fields we stops the vistal stops.
tardily, But when my screw stops we allud home the worn-out locat tradg.
izg'bies, "Auld Lang Syne," caelinquishing the earth to mirk and of the best known aonge me in the world. I have
move.
the best gramophone in Hongkong," water, dad ?" by people who have probably heard no more than a dozen of thoar: înt strumente. Ditto about pianos. It know more than ons man in the Colony who has been named the **finest man in Hongkong," while quite number have the distinction of being the "biggest scoundrel in Hongkong." When there is no doubt WORDS. heard Orientals singing The misty. view dissolves now où my about he, she, or it being the extrime
it was suggested to faze, case io his, her, or its class the disease Barns (he says) by an old man singing again manitoste itself-by-substituting song of t a olden tins, How much doth keep.
the East" instead of Hongkong this famous song owen to the chaim, Except where yonder insect buzzing, flourishing a paper ascribed ju Eaz
MADIO
ор
slightly altered the lotting, adding portraying the Dying Swin Aflayed for are letters, telephone the realms of poesy and symbolised. put before one ward and "o"-be-feather from her daatume falls tu t'e directori garotted for delayed calls, for dramatic presentation 1 How there tartling amendments, remained of this andicces is bened to arbine lazdy drinks, and taipananerally and how many things are different. lare another. And the notice, with ground and a scatter brained member hotel managers thumb scrawal for many things are there, in Common unchanged fully thirty-six hours Moulticu 1. Those who saw l'avlova mauled for coolie del'ngsencks. It Boking aw open at Mantries fr They da strange things as the Dying Ban on Thursday will might even become the practice in the A.D.C.'s production. la Hongkong. This appreciate the furious temper which the beat circles for a quiet to nemult wook when two bachel. this ons word, uttered during tho pr bis host if the cook has used baking HE ors returned home from fortonnen, rau ed in the pointer of life anda instead of icing sugar in the Bulfin and tall Nare, N. A Graham, 'sweeld, or for unofficial members to of the Q;A;IM:N.S., it is stated in And all the atmosphere stern calm the boy informed them that a
office for tiffia ons day in the Five Towns.
Among the masny brauti -Europran in civilian drest, HILFE
THOSH,ful planos pɔenir Pavlova presented in the Tucatre
Than when I'm told that the Ching of the post's native dialect is forcibly | strage, a
fail is the "best paper out Bast" shown by the original Ayeshica ver wonder. And so my dear new o mere sion printed below with an English far off sheep." to this island of fragrant streams translation now made by Sir James and primitive sanitation when you Wilson, K.0.8.1 to demonstiste this
are told that "So and So" in the very point. Here is the Scoto:
WHO WA9
AUTUMY
fish had made a complete tour of the And condolent junglings soothe the house This unmannerly person had
LEAVES, Royal was ohu callid Antumn Leaves." apparently not taken the trouble to Those who saw this superlativa alle But perhaps the finest example of inquira beforehand whose house to anty will call me brats when I confess this remoulding to illustrate the poorer was watering for this information he the tilla (not the performeuse, for
Matrox MM Tunley. Sias ↑ E.;
prove the sincerity of their criticism Command Galers, embarked on the. apdigzing Air fingereisto the orce Karmain" for bome code 6th of the departmental hosd conecmed, instant av have abordingly been
Billous Hendachu..
Strack off the strength of t a Com-- mandi Capt. P. P. "Vidal, foDE,” inness and the disappotra All that in posded is by correct the RAF.C., audiķis wife “baying "orr.ved-
to linhalacio al proved by as, "Silia" from Bombay
will soon be as well as orus Fo axle terday, have been taken on the
of words was given by Sir Arthur sought from the boy. Nor did he one largets everything when one by all Chemlais an Etarska pa's strength of the Command.
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