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propre. Having concluded his divert- every night up to all; hours, and pre- Fejo (Penang) which declares it ing consultation with Fool Bah re-ventas,body getting wink of sleep! would much rather, any day; listen to garding his marriage expenses, Ko Ko, You can't do nothink to stop it; i*L the Lord High Executioner, sees his the fora what's at fanis. And the the squeals of a gang-robber on the prospective bride and her, sisters ap. angre hid bag, drawing her ragu triangles, than bear of a harmless prouch. Turning to Poch Bah again, around her peemably, turned on her unolia stabbed in the stomach, a he says "Any little compliment on sest a Park Lona milionaire might poliseman shot dead, or a nonls who An abject tarn in bie luxnelous bed when dis has had the lob of her car forn off your part, such as grovel in a characteristic Japarare turbed by a barrel organ." „ attitude, would be est emedi

THE ATYI.

BOMBE.

SATURD

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Police Sergeant Frederick Titus James has been appointed to be a Sanitary Inspector for Stanley

One Indian cash of diphtheria fever were reported yesterday. |and apa American caso of enteric

The Kowloon Teaboose Ustion, which was raided by the police ently, has been declared an unlaw. ful society.

The latest Government · Gazette, contains a list of masters, mates and engineers who have passed their

Despite the travails of by a highwayman in a hurry to steal favour." Now, of C01:50

ACROSS these joyless post-war days her jewellery Drastic illi require the point of this remark lies in the

one almost dreada dying drestio pures. Nobody will gainsay fact that Poooh Bab is endlessly bonat-

The prospect of making that our orime problem is not serious ing bja "inconceivable!" family pride,

that last trip across the

snough. tracing his ancestry back to "Styx with old Charon has now lost its protoplasmal primordial atomie gloture, ita alarm. Not that the pamage

Timid Hongkong⋅ fólk Trafio regulations in connection bale." And this remark would have will be lost restful; not that Cerberus,

were proparly alarmed with the forthcoming race meeting are boen worded the same way had the infected with the modern commercial

when they learned that published in the current icane of the opera been written round Zulus or spirit, will demand bigger sops for his supposed bombe bad been found on

Government Gazette. Eskimoes. The only other remark three heads; not either that friend the Shaukiwan tram lines. These post- which could possibly be taken amis Charon will have becoms excessively war days, bombe are common things, occurs when Ko Ko, Pooh Bah and soured through association with One we even found at Buckingham Pitti Sing are glibly talling the Mikado profiteers who have died from over- how they came to execute his son sating: but simply because the Palace in mail week. However, it examinations and obtained certificates The Mikado has graciously admitted journey itself will have become was only a discarded war souvenir, of competency during 1922, that when a man of exalted rank physically uncomfortable. For you very battered and rusty, which had chooses to disguise himself as a second see, inevitably there will be dozens of found its way into an empty dust cart trombone,, he must take the conse motor cyclists who will calmly wheel extering the Palace grounds. No quences, adding: "How could you their speed frogs aboard and swarm significance whatever was attached to tally"

the whole boat. This vice they will the matter.? have acquired during life and "kubit,

Bince kaspeare will still hold them in its sinal · grip: BLIGHTING MGA hothing "to" an Long custom, likewise, will cause them, GENIUS, idiottle to the readers unthinkingly perhaps. to show old

The two former employees of the of John Bull and not Bank of China were yesterday com- Charon their Star Ferry son much to our average British citizen mitted for trial at the next sessions tickets.

the wards of an minent oritic-it

...

Pooh Bah: No, of cours we couldn't know that he was the Heir Apparant

Pitti Sing It wasn't written on his forshead, you know,

Ko Ko: It might have been on his pocket handkerchief, but Japausse don't use pocket handkemhiefs. Ha! ha tha'!

The Government Gazelle notifica that at the expiration of three months, unless cause is shown to the contrary W. Charleston and Coy., will be struck off the register and the company dissolved.

How many years does follows that every great work of art by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, on a charge of PILLION Hongkong lag behind requires for its fall appreciation having embezzled $50,000 from their

employera discrimination above the average. RIDING. avery other place, no! Ko Ko's jest, feverishly made to

excepting Lhasse sad Hongkong way have that discriming-

At the V.B.C. laat night, Ho Sai- tickle the Mikado's sense of humour Chihualma The Homeland authorition when Elmans and Pavlovas come at a very critical moment, could only ties have probibited motor spoliats but it clearly has not got it where chung defeated 4.0. Rozarie in the Amateur Billiards Championship of SeBoy the most touchy Japanese, be taking a passenger on the carrier, Godowskys are concerned. Whether the Colony. After some interesting cause the race is famous for its cleanly because coronera jaries have been man was given three packed house play, Ho ran out winner by 500 points habits. Indeed anyone who would returning mausimuthber verdicts because bis art possessed greater to Rozario & 410. Highest breaks take offence over the remark, which where the practice has ended fatally appeal or because (as one suggestion Ho 26, Rozario 21.

has strong paychological interest in Ont here you will not only see has it) it was the thing" to attend:

POSSIBLE

LEGE

MAJESTE

other conceivable excourse,

its place, deserves to be annoyal. civilians riding behind the driver but whether Godowsky was alighted Further evidence was given ye

Now, apart from those you will sometimes even are uniform because his mediam was above terday at the Criminal Bessionsbefore two instances, the only ed police. But of course..... OF Hongkong or because few people Mr. Justice Gomperts in the case in oured to beayea wiatry which a motor car driver damed Lai theatre whether any one thing fully Sing is charged with mandlaugtar explains this warka manical debacle The prosecation had not completed the ensuing correspondence bas raised its evidence when the Court rose. so many points that the verdict is The case was adjourned until Monday. best expressed in the words of the banned" Mikado ":-

THAT

And we are right, I think you'll say, To argon in this kind of way.

And Lam right, -- And you are right

And all is right-too-looral-lay

to come here,

ception the opera pan

The New York Times ex aronse lies in the fact

presses wonder that a that the Mikado is personated ILFORD murder trial, just ended in ludicrously, Without him the opera is prima: London, should have at innocuous, with him it is affensive. tracted crowds that packed Hongkong Japanese residents will be the court room. This, the Time

-On Thursday night, hundreds of affronted, insulted avre. But Bong-thinks, is ous of those incidents which

young trees planted on the hillside at Tongs Japanese, unless they are "show how different our good cousins

Repulse Bay were destroyed through plessure tint, could give the Theatre are from ourselves.” However, an-

the grass in the vicinity being ignited, Royal wide barth fan they usually do.) | other Américan journal, the Christian

Daring the same night; a large tract Then it is the merckthat the opera Science Monitor points out that by

of grass and shrub at Stanley and the was being staged that would cause way of lessening this diffèrence the Toq-looral-lay, indeed, för Hong-hillside between the Matilda Hospital offence? Does that hold, it is Times weat to the trouble and ez koig, having elighted" Godowsky, and Mount Kellet Road were also the offensive that the operb should be pense of having several thousand cannot reasonably expect any more some of grass fire, staged in England, Paraguayor words of testimony relative to what great, artists, Greenland; it is offensive that it calls "the sordid love affairs” of the either Pavlovas Elmans, or On Monday February 5 at 5.30 the opera, should evah exist in agrumed cabled to the United States Godomkys. One thing Godowsky's.p.m. Mr. H. W. Kent will give a print Utterly fanciful, thoug's for the delectation of its readers. The visit has shown about which there can lesture at the Helena May Instituta these objections are in the actual Monitor then adds: "I London be no argument that organisation to on collecting Chinese Pattery and circumsta; ces, they might have good papers in turn insist on cabled receive distinguished visitors is Porcelain and other Coribs. A small grounds did the opers mimic the accounts of our lynching whairk, who | urgently needed.

display of curing--will be on view living Milado or any of kis immediate can wonder at the mistaken idles each |_*

Beading the Kowloon before the lecture, which will be forebrais. But everyone knowsthat the people get of the other's character?"

illustrated. All who are interested in Residents' Associa barleegrin' in quite impersonal; that That the Time went to this same

the subject are cordially invited to tion's annual report, the Mikado portrayed. never existed."troable and expense. ja exsily ex

you noticed of couras, attend. Advt. that anyway he belonged to the plained. The public wanted the de that almost every suggestion, sub Gilbertian period when the world was tails and got them. The remarkable mitted to the Government received The annual distribution of prizes still young enough to find most things interest this trial Brotrad was prompt-attention and, with fewer of St. Francie and Holy Infant (in the opera's own words),

apparent not merely in the enormous captions, was acted upon. Convincing (Chinese) Schools, No. 157, Wanchai "A source of innocent merriment crowds which sought to get into the proof this that the Association is do Boad, will take place in the premises Of innocent merriment." Old Bailey, but also in the ing excellent work and consequently of the Catholic Men's Club (8t. Hongkong's ban therefore raises the space the story received in the papers. deserves the support of every main- Patrick's Hall), Garden Road, on me question that has arisen over Seeking to probs the question What land resident. Convincing proof also February 6, at 5.30 p.m. Madome life, have time-tables posted, in each a new London play, "The Queen's the People Read contemporary that our Government, with its O, de Albuquerque e Castro will give bus. This would greatly assist the Minister banned by the Lord hat listed a few of the headings from manifold duties, cannot look after away the prizes. stranger, especially dering these Chamberlain, presumably because it some of the fifty newspaper clippings everything. Thus does the K.R.A, times when the waiting intervals are introduces the young Victoris and which were among the exhibits in the report give the Colony "fariously to RAM.C., takes over charge of the longer. Think of the cold waits that the Prince Consort, figures asential to case. The following indicate their think." could thus be avoided, this freezing the completion of the historie scheme,

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The "China" "Mail.

UTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVIOX"

Horarono, Saturday, Feb. & 1921.

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the worst men.give oft

I therefore suggest that the Kawlona ·Bos Com

the best advice. Might

pany, whose service has become a part of the mainland's daily

XEOGJ

THAT

HAINT

Loske's new novel, "The

Reviewing William J.

Tale of Trions." the

weather.

China Mail's book critic macs. quoted the passage: "One

and much the sa

as another in essentials. To carry on file you have to eat and sleep. There

80

Both portraits are drawn with the And

the almost sympathy, and not an in- *OUT GILBERTING, music lover most cident, not an episode is included GILBERT. not hear "The | which has not already bzen published Mikado" in Hangin memoirs and thoroughly discussed

nature:-

"Poisoned Curato," "Women who hate ell Men.

་

"Do men like red baited women!" "Patient Killed by Overdose.” "Girl's Drug Infection.” "Battle of Calves and Ankles.” "Holiday and Death Pact." "Poisoned Chocolates." "Doss Courtship Cost tos Macht"

A Girl's Death Riddla." "Masterful Manufa

INTERENOS OBVIOUS.

425,000

.

FEELUARY 3 1023

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN COMPANY.

Booking is still proceeding briskly at Moutre for the Hongkong seas of Messrs. J. C, Williamson, Litl's Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Coin- pany which is to begin on February 10 with a performance of The Gondeliers: His Excellency the Governor is to be present at the per- formances on February 12, 15, 16, 21 and 22.

MR. GORDON CHOCKER.

Amongst the Company's tale cast is Mr. Gordon Crocker who hea sung tenor roles with the. D'Ovle Carte Opera Company at Home. He has a voice of exquisite, timbre. and sings with great feeling.". With Mr. Charles Mettam, the Australian tenor, he shares the leading tenor parts in the Company's repertoire.

"A" GRIFFINS IMPRESSION"

OF HONGKONG.

THE RAILWAY STATION.

In crossing the Harbour one does To either because one lives in Kow loon, which is known as the Hinter land, or hecause one in op a visit tö one of the denizens of that place. possibly a member of the now famous Kowloon Residents Associa tion. On the other hand one may

be supply passing the tire away catching the whiffs of brine and of ozone that are whifted or is it wafted ?—from the white cliffs, of Dover straight through the. Lyee- mun Pass, or to Capauimur aud away into the Hinterland of the Great Unknown. There may be other reasons, of course for many cross the Harbour to Kowloon in order to get away from it. This is

a ponderous fact, which, as they say, intrigued me the first time I heard it and caused me many cosmic moments of cogitation. And this is

where the Railway Station comes

in.

It is a comparatively well-known

fact that there is a Railway Station, with trains that come and go, pas- sengers, that 'em--and disembark having previously had their tickets punched. So one night I meander- ed forth to view the 'historic fact Star bosts, (which demands an and hoarded one of fast moving article to itself) and was soon mov-

Major A. 8. Littlejokus, D.&.0.,

Military Hospital, Bawen Rönd, from Today's cables report Major D. L. Harding, D.8.0., that Billy Hughes has BAM.O., as from the 5th inst, and MILL-STONE. resigned from the post from the same date Capi. F. E. of Australia's prime Tomlinson, R.A.M.O succeeds Capt minister. The news auggests two g. A. M. Tomory, R.A.Ming silently on the bosom of the thoughts With Idoyd George and medical officer in charge of officers,

other war-time prendas unstated,

nightly ocean on which our ships- (and sampane) come and go. Anon I reached the other side and as the

clock tower loomed into view I could. not help pondering on the vision, the effort of those pioneers of a vant generation who bad talked and planned and carried into effect this now accomplished fact, schreving as our gallant French allies here it un fait, accompli. Thus I rumgisted as 1-crossed the piazza (Italian for terrace) towards the main entrance. bound. Where were the flashing Approaching nearer; stood spell- lights, the streams of people, going and coming having had their Perhaps you share the The new offices will be under the tickets punched)? The place seem OUR general illusion and think supervision of Mr. A. Brostedt, genered dead-bankrupt non compus FOOH - Hongkung banned “The al trallio, agent, and ir. Q. M. BARS Mikado because it Hemsworth, passenger, agents

might possibly offend our

is no difference between a hard-boiled kong! Of the many ridiculous things in the Press (Incidentally, the egg in Somerset and a hard-boiled egy the Colony has seen (and their name Gilbertian touch again-the play was

Billy's enforced resignation marks the women and children of the garrison Tobolsk. And sleep is sleep is legion) surely none was ever promptly published by a well-known

Passing of the politician with the residing below May Road level. whether you are patting up at more ridiculous than this. After the firm.) As the produces pointed out,

golden tongue, the word-spinner al The Canadian National Bailways Claridge's or at the Hotel of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was framed here was no question of any guardian-

waya dazzling the electors with his will open offices in Hongkong on Mon- Beautiful Star." Locke may be some sensitive, sentimental statesmen ship of publie morals, an question

poses and his heroics. Billy's fall also day. Their first Oriental connection right about gleep, always provided the task it into their heads that this play of bedroom scenes or the opacity The story of the crims, clearly, lost reaffirms the truth of the old say was established about 18 months ago. sleeper is tired enough, but about the might offend our new allies and so, to of алу revde girl's

lin-nothing in the telling. The list is too about killing cats. Billy received a when headquarters were opened in hard-boiled egg-1 Not with Hong the disgust of all music lovers and gere, but the much larger depressing to consider further Mur present of £25 000 in reconnition of Shanghai sad the success which has koog, anyway. That I know, baving the amazement (and amusement) of question of the freedom of the stage. ders are not a congenial topic these his public services." "Mercilessly used attended the enterprise is respon ayselt seer, smelt and heard more the Japanese, they issued the fist and yet the play was banned. With glorious, crisp winter days. And any by his political opponents to cover sible for the decision to farther than one local hard-boiled egg, which, "No Mikado," Later on wiser heads the defeated producer, Hongkong's way, if you want to discuss murders, him in ridicule and contumely very extend the field in the Far East. The served before Lenin or Trotky, would saw the preposterous nature of the exasperating experience still rousing Hongkong will give you ample cartoon showed him with his moner headquarters will be transferred to have caused the massacre at every decree and the ban was removed, our ire, we can forcefully demand material. For instance, there are the bags-this appreciably increased his Hongkong and will be located on this ben from Rigs to Vladivostok. Among the vast audience that wel when will this stap'd folly cease; young ladies who murder Uhopin the election troubles. The moral is plain, Chater Road side of Queen's Building

Newspaper reports, that comed the reappearance of The in these days of freedom when will the young men who murder John Clay,

Mikado" in England none seemed to playwright be permitted to depict on the elderly www Russia's official bang-

Even as Kipling, didn't man, after dropping some joy it more than some Japanese the stage any monarch later than 2,000 people into sterai-students, many of whom had travelled King Charles II, for whose political

say, in his famous Jinas, ty, has now hanged him- many miles specially to be present security the censorship came into

NOBLE "Its thank you Mister

ART.

Atkins when boxing alf, recalls the story the late Sir Apart from the fact that The being? Algernon West, in his Arst volums of Mikado" has just been played to a

nights come round." Those * You will pardon my Cathedral Church Notes, to have to re- - full house in Singapore, the biggrat

life depands upon the point who enjoy a tidy little bout owe both franknees when I my you're very cord the resignation of Mr.W.Everett, **Recollections," told about the public executioner of the day, the reThe Mikado" in Hongkong we can joke is that while wa dare not stage

of view, Mr. Ralph Nevill our soldier and our sailor lade the simple. Hongkong banned "The who for, the last two year kau noi gives an illustration of the warmest praise. But I imagine our Mikado because is burlesqued, not well filled the post of regeras the hawned Mr. Marwood, and, Lord. buy the novel “Kimono" which is |

kind in his book Yester theatre, packed though it always in Japan, har Hongkong. Our local. Cathedral. Mr. Everett had applied Granville's popular private secretary vastly more offensivo to the day and To-day" when he relates how for those fistive occasions, would Pooh Bali could not have stood the for a year's extension of his term of Bobay Meade, as he was known among Japanese who sought to forbid Mr. G: R. Sime, the claver writer be vastly more crowded could the fatite, it would havabres too obvious, servics with the Army in the Colony de intimates. On one occasion

Boboy Meade was horrified at the its sale in Japan. After this, could and unrivalled authority on London Association stage about between ton biting. The pre-alamite ancestral but owing to the flimess of his littl inhuman way in which arecations in anything be more Gilbertian than life (who died recently) while strolling (say) the Peak champion (who must pride of these 4 haughty and oz. girl (who we are glad to hear is now Laita Wers, conducted, and thought Hongkongamadmotherly mid-along the Thames Embankment one halong to the Peak Residents clusive persons" would never have bouch better) he had to cancel this he could not do better than consult Victorian order? Nothing, absolutely summer's evening stopped to listen to Association) and the Kowloon, aham- vived the shock Marwood... who at his invitation nothing 1

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GENTLE

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Nearly everything in this

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the straion of a Hungarian band which plot+; (who must belong to the could be heard throath the open win- mainland'a ciyib body.) "Tis but": ■ The Hongkong ban is, a Jibel against genins. Lest dows of the brightly lit Savoy. Oba anyons might think eat near him he saw a dishevelled that among Brightly bag-ous of the ragged,

came to sea him at the Colonial Office. Te found him an asruest advocata of what he professionally called the `long drop," which he maintained was | the most rapid way of putting a mDAN out of existence. Mr. Marwood" was Day mot a highly-educated man, but he int illustrated his process by saying numbers, there Jurk darkly offendive There was Mr. Peace, a small man; allusions 1 aball risk precipitating I gave him a sixfoot drup, and International ostrophe by quoting, hamura you, sir, he passed hoff like the only two passages which might dimmer beve."

wound spancie

amour y band of the

Dawns Our Wedding out whose wretched existance seems The Flowers That Bloom to be an insoluble problem of grab

ing, and other delighiol

and morning, and Foffared to relieve her)

Was irer

“BUN

kior. Japanese friends here. We are very sorry, sayı St. John's

the

iness New Year

PINKETTES

Kiange

application and is leaving for home next month He has been a great help and has shown a deep interest in the work of the church, and a mhát psip

tionscidia

no less offi éle

#bas ap? to that than his

fugit, or words to that effect! "Badly it dawned upon me I had arrived too late or too early. The; place had closed for the day? The engines so to speak had folded their" tants and like the Arabs bad silently stolen awayan

Noto. My next impression, will

be devoted to the waterfront, which

I am told is to be kept open day and night..

Cath Fabi

the Dext