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ENTERTAINMENT.

May 15.-Coronet Theatre; "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." Theatre; May 15, World' William Mack's "The Valley of Doubt,"

May 15-Star Theatre "Danger- ous Hours."

May 15.-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co., present their opening performance with "If Four Walls Told" at 9.15 p..

May 16.-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co, present "Bull Dog Drummond "ai 9.15 p.m.

May 17.-Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co., present "Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure" at 9.15.

May 18 Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co., present "The Man from Toronto" at 9.15 pun.

May 19, Theatre Royal; Robert Courtneidge and W. E. Holloway's London Co., present their closing performance"The Bat" at 9.15 p.m.

May 22-City Hall, Farewel Recital by Alexander Sklarevsky, would-famous pianist, 5.30 p.m.

SPORTING EVENT,

June 2 Third Gymkhana of the Hongkong Jockey Club, Race Course.

COMPANY MEETINGS.

May 25.-Extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Lond Investment and Agency Co., Ltd, at the offices of Messrs. Jardine, BEntheson & Co., Ltd., at 11.800.m, Insurance May 25. Union Society of Canton, Ltd., annusl aliarebolders' meeting, Union Build- ing, noon.

May 26-Extraordinary general meeting of the Hongkong Central Estate, Ltd., at the offices of Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, at noon.

May 25.-British 'Traders' Insur- ance Company, Ltd., annual share- holders' meeting, Union Building, 18.15 p.m.

May 25-China Fire Insurance annual shareholders' Co., Ltd., meeting, Union Building, 12.20 p.0,

OTHER MEETING

May 17-Meeting of members of the Hongkong Radio Society at Volunteer Headquarters, at 5.30

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#pecial sound box and tono arm. The outfit is connected to a gue supply by means of a rubber tube, and the jets lighted prior to setting the turntable in motion. As the record rotates, and the needle How does optim get into the vibrates, the little fames vary in country? Dock land is known to size according to the depth of tone, the police as being one of the prin- and in doing this they supply oug cipal gateways, with the result that mented heat to the atmosphere lately the police at London have directly over the mouth of the dis- been searching many vessels in tributor. It is at first difficult to London docks, says the Manchester credit the vast improvement in xe-May 16-B, F. Eurylochus Guardian. It in understood that production when the apparatus is in valuable information has been secur- oporation. All scratching and seal

May 16.-J.C.J.L.

FROM SHANGHAI.

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Toireitas.

ed by the authorities as a result of sounds are eliminated, and the May 7.0.J.L.Tillwong. the acnrobing, although no actual human voice rendered clear, dis June 18.-EY discovery of any of the drug was tinct, and absolutely natural: In Aug. 7, B. ¥. minde on any of the ships so searah-strumental selections are heard just

Naming the Flowers.

May

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The origin of some flower-names May 10.-B. F. Insulin and Diabetes.

is mysterious, Roger Wray points Jaze, 10.-U.8.8.8. A gift of £2,000, to be paid inļout in the London Evening News. instalments of £400 a year over a The snowdrop looks like a flake of poriod of six and a half years, has snow. But the tulip (which most boon made by the directora of Ash-people assume to be Dutch because ton & Parsons (Limited) to the the flower has a distinctly Dutch President and Governors of Guy's style about it) derived its name Hospital, to be spent in research from Turkey, where it signified "a into Diabetes Mellitus and other turban." Crocus is the Greek related diseases of metabolism in Krokos saffron, to which family the Medical Investigation Depart it belongs. Saffron is made from May 21-N.Z.K. ment of the Hospital's Medical the dried stigmata of the purple

which we know

“VROM ·MĚKUJI.. School. The money, which will be crocus, used to form a Parsons Fellowship well. But the jonquil gets its name June 10.-U.8.S.B. West Ivazı in connection with this resarch,from the Latin word for a

which has similar leaves, and will provide for the serviccs of gun flowers. A primrose is neither ROM SYDNEY AND MELERURIN additional worker in the Hospital prim mora rose. The original word

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May 16.-T. LO.

Ethan Allen. Earyiochus,

HONGKONG:

FROM-YINGJUTER.

Empress of Canada.

SHANGHAI:

Philoctetes.

Frotesians

Achillos -Philoctetes.

PEKING

Tyndarens

Tyndareus.

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Empress of Canada. Tyndarous.

Protosilaus.

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ing and Best at Toronto University because the word had a recognis- Jane 11-E & A Guy's Hospital is one of the institu- able meaning in English; but it is July 8-&A. tions at which combined research a misnomer all the same. The on this subject is being undertaken hyacinths and narcissus bear under the auspices of the Medical names of human beings, and spring *Hyacin Research Council,Morning Post. from classic legends,

thus" was beloved by Zephyrus, 18.-B. F. Our Worst Enemy.

Statistics are not as a rule inter- but returned the affection so coldly esting, but the recently issued re-that the latter, in anger, blew the

quolt

(flung by Apollo) port on the registration statistice of

hit that it

"Hyacinthus " Scotland for 1921, notwithstanding on the head, causing his death May 20,–C,P.B.. that they are now ǹ-year old, con-In his grief Apollo changed June 7B.F. tain some facts worth emphasising the youth's blood into the July 5.-B. F.

16.-B. F.. Narcissus, according to Despite all the outery against bous flower. ing scarcity and overcrowding, and one legend, fell in love with his Aug. -B. F. despite the increased cost of living own fair intage as he saw it reflect Sept. 18.-B. F. Oct. 4.-B. F. and diminished employment, the ed in water, mistaking it for the death-rate was the lowest since nymph of the fountain. He pined

FROM 1861, and the death-rate of 18.56 away and died of unrequited love. per thousand was the lowest ever The flower bloomed from the place May 20-C.P.8.

Jaly-5-3, F. 1.-B. F. recorded, the previous lowest being where he languished. The daffodil, 14.45 in 1917. Moreover the infan- formerly the daffydowndilly, is a Ang. - F tile death-rate was a "record" low difficult name to trace. It is un- Sept. S.-B. P.

Greek the old one, being 90.3 per 1,000 registered doubtedly

asphodel," as the French and old! FROM SAN WRAHONDEN. births, as compared with 92 in 1920 was the previous beat figure. When English names for it are almost

• FROM EUROPEAN PORTS. the causes of death are examined, identical.

Preussen. the information is for from gratify.

Oldekesk ing. The deaths from caucer

Atsuta Haru. *Emil Kiritori. it le stated, "numbered 6,902, and equalled a mortality rate of 132 per 100,000. This number, and this rate wore both higher than in the previous years. The rate was higher than that due to say other cause of death, with the exception of heart disease, it exceeded that from phthisia by fully 50 per cent, The tragedy of such statistics lies in the fact that with, all our vaunted medical skill we are able to do so little to combat a relentness and deadly an enemy. Contrasts.

It is a favourite with all the poets. May £8.-H.A.L Surely one of them might create a

June 5-1.0.J.L legend for the daffodil ? ·

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A Chinese Playhouse.

Philoctetes.

TAB. B. July 3-3.0L 47 Zosima.

FROM: LONDST.- May 19.-P. & 0, - 19.-0. L. 14.-P. & Q

LG L 9.--N.Y.K. 10-P-80 18--P. & U.

·18-0. Lu 80, P.&O.

1.-P. &0. July 201

14.-P.&0. 18-P.&O. Aug. 11-P. 4O..

18-P.40. Sept. 8-P. & 0. 12P.&0.

Deita..... Glengarry Soudan. Dovanha.

Gilentara. Atsuta Maru. Malwa Sidills. Gleniffer Khiya...

Carnarvonshire Foudan Kashmir. Macedonia.

Dongola.

The opening of the Chen Kwang Theatre-the first Chinese play- house to which a foreigner can go with any degree of comfort-was described in Peking as "ap epoch in theatricals. The new theatre Jane J.-F. &0. in warm and clean (the Montreal Witness tells us), ond for the first time in Chinese theatrical history the prospective playgoer need not send a servant hours in advance to reserve a seat and be sure it is held until he comes. The most distin guished actors in Peking have been They sat side by side in the engaged for the company of the Underground (writes F. M. Hall-new playhouse. The Chinese ward in the The Star.) Both were theatre heretofore hea mystified and young and sufficiently pretty but baffled the foreigner. He doesn't while the one hardly attracted the understand the language, and in tribute of a glance, the other spite of character-revealing gesture, May 16.-B. 7. not only attracted but held all and the fact that most of the lines glances for as long sasheare sung, he has a bad time making remained in the carriage. Yet the out what it is all about. He is former was by far the better dressed likely to mistake a whole series of June and her features were more regular-plays for one play, and come home ly beautiful. But her hat was too at the end of his tour with a sorry. pretty; it made it unnecessary to tale of the dismal length of Chinese look at the face beneath it. Her plays, and the deafening jangling of July fur collar was too large; it had gongs and for he quite forgets ceased to be a collar, and became an the nasal voice that pedalee choco- ostentation. Her daintily-glovellates in many an American theatre Aug. 1-B. F. bands were clasped above a golden he is appalled because the bag, clearly intended more for dis- Chinese eat and drink in the theatre. play than use.

Her bearing was Shakespeare and Kit Marlowe May 28.—H.A.L studiodly graceful, and her expo-would not have been quite so sques- sion self-conscious. The latter was mish, by the way for they were a woman of the people. Beneath a need to the hubbub of the pit, the *FROM COPHENHAGEN, plain felt hat der abundant hair lords in the galleries and sometimes was drawn carelessly back from a on the efage, the crange sellers and Jone-8 face ruddy with bealth and ebining the sweetmeat merchants going July 8.--E, A. with vitality. She was dressed in their rounds; and they might even Aug. 13,7-By A

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