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that he found Rome brick and left | Today's Poem.
it marble: We do not see why it}:
... (Brother Hats.) should not be said of H.E. the Every morning past my gate Governor' that he found Kowloon Stiffy walks the taan of hato, without a member, and gave it one. One who cannot wish me well
In his heart he carrigs Hell.
Arbitrato
The absolute' need for arbitration in labour disputes stressed so often by the China Mail as well as by our contemporaries is again brought
| Which of us-in that fire-
Tortured by what dark desire, Burns the better-le or I? Which is there more like to die?
to the fare by the report of the There I watch, of narrowed mind, Hecretary for Chinese Affairs, the One so grudging to be kind, Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax. He con- That with every passing day vincingly pointe out that much Good, will be thrown away. trouble could have been avoided
during 1921 by common action There in his dark lute I read among employers. The want of it How, to loneliness decreed, has resulted in differences in the Stubborn footed, narrow-eyed.. treatment of the same classes of Goes the desert-heart of pride. labour. The advantage to the
And, as on that linto I look. Read therein the open book Of another blinded soul- One that wills not to be whole?
employer, as Mr. Hallifax points But, if this from him I learn, out, is obvious but it is not a one- Must I not the nearer turn Hided advantage." The existence of To that Lover, from wines Heart, a body to which disputes can be re-Fearful still, I stand apart?---- ferred at any time with the cor tainty that all necessary technical knowledge can be represented on would prevent that delay which is so dangerous in the early stages of a dispute and would at the same time secure to the men that they Aye because my pride is still will be understood without the Harsh controller of my will, necessity for wearisome, explana- Better tis for me encli day. tion of detail to untechnical ears. Not to wish his hate away. The Government would also benefit,
if only in the saving of time reHere alike, blind souls, we'go; quiced in the formalities of sppoint, his friend and he, my foo. ing a Commission whenever such's Every morning past my gate considered justified, and in taking There go I with Brother Hate t Ltd. stops to see that disputes which
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cause so much inconvenience, loss Sure, if Hell were void of use of time and money, and foment For the slaves that Love would loose, racial prejudice and ill-feeling are Could it show so stinging bright brought to an end. Surely after Underneath the morning's light? this expression of opinion on the
-LAURENCE HOUSMAN. port of one of its most trusted and experienced officials, the Govern- ment will take action to bring into being a body that would have about it such potentialitics for good. The numerous industrial concerns which abound in the Colony and those which are being projected point to the necessity of in Arbitration Board and commonsense demands it.
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When Typhoons Rage.
SHADOWS BEFORE,
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
July 28. Coronet Theatre;! "Hunting Big Dame i 1*Africa."
July 28.-World Theatre; Rose. mary Theby and Hamilton Reyello Were it not that a bonevolentig" Good Women." Government has given them homes July 28.-Star Theatre; "Twin in the empyrean, some of our Beds." senior officials might have heard July -Band Concert, Volun- many things yesterday that would teer Parade Ground, indefinitely undoubtedly Eve interested them. postponed. Kowloon folk are usually prosaic]; enough, but give them an occasion and they will become not leas cxcited, not less voluble than other mortals. Yesterday they had an occasion. Owing to the, typhicon the ferries had stopped running; and-the circumstances- thereof
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to his wife and the remainder there- a splendid book. The compilas of to his son," saying "I know he recognises that the best of Hazliti will not hoard," and also" because is not all to be contained in a amall it will give me nearly, but not book. It.might be said of Hazliti quite as much pleasure for him to as was said of Burke that the only enjoy it as if I had beeti able to do specimen of hit is all that he So many slight-Sp myself." Not a word you notice whote."
about a corkscrew Archibald! My the Times Literary Supplement is It is good news that ing references
word! having been made
to be reduced in price from 6d. to to the efforts of the chap who
The seven ages of 3d. "The olfange in price will shouts : Boy, the Office" "Lyre,"
BORROWED.. the motorist are involve some sacrifice on the part of that he has sent us the following scribed by one who apparently satisfied if the how price brings it thus happily de the Proprietors; but they will be
POETRY.
effort of Mr Mei Yao-ch'en a
"well-known poet and critic" of knows-
the eleventh century, pointing out All the worl'd a-wheel. that, as in common with the best And all the men and women mere modern poetry the lines do not
ly motorists; rhyme, although he adds that prob- They have their sidecars and their ably they had no rhyming diction- aries in those days. Here is the poem entitled
Song about a pig."
Su Yuan keptan ordinary pig Which daily greeted him with
friendly looks. Delighted, he regarded it as a white
unicorn
Grieving only that it did not grow
fat.
In blustering gales or deluging
rain,'
The pig wouldrush at people with a
loud grant,
But did Su Yuan care? His affection was proof against
fear."
Our own office lyricist suggests that a better rendering of this old- time classic about a thin pig would be as follows. He says it has ad- vertising possibilities, about it which should not be overlooked,
Su Yun had a little pig Which winked the other eye, Although it didn't care a fig At those it did espy.
:
It grieved S.Y,, it was not fat Like any other pig, But S.Y., said "upon my hat I'll give it 'Glaxo' swig:""-
Mr. J. H. Taggart has bought another Hotel:
A SONG
"Boy the Office L
Every week I buy thee Hotels Either in Shanghai or Timbuctoo And if I can't buy thee Hotels Then what the devil can I do. 1
ENGLISH.
KEEP TO THE LEFT.
cer
motor bikes."-
And que man in his time. goes
many miles: His vehicles are varied. At first
*the cyclist Going feorful lest his tyres be
-punctured;
And then the motor bike, complete
with carrier,
The while her lover, sighing like a
furnace-
Or maybe cursing, when the thing
won't go-
Grows crosser yet, and dusty; Then the sidecar, full of strange
folks,
And then the next two-seater, All highly varnished and with
good velvet liner,
With noisy horn, and chassis of
formal cut;
Then comes the touring car. Important, to block the way, Complete with chauffeur. Thepiext
age shifts
Into the mighty char-a-bancs With many seats and doors, and
tucked inside
Maybe a crate of beer, and maybe
not;
And those who ride with childish
treble pipe,
And whistle, and upon mouth
organs.play.;
Last scene of all
That ends this strange eventful
bistory
Is when we leave the road and turn
us home, Saus beer, sans cash, sans taste,
sans everything.
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within the reach of a wider circle of readers." This is very noble. The continuance of a journal such as the Supplement devoted to the independent criticism of Loolas- find great consolation in poetry is much to be desired. Wo
When we feel thé. these days.... world is in evil case we declaim with Chesterton:
It is you that have made na rubric
for saints, na raiment for lovers, ' Your caps that cry for a feather, → your roofs that sigh for a spire; Is it a dream from the dead if
your own decay discovers Alioc in your rolling graveyard. the worry of the world's desire!
Therefore the old trees tower, That the freeh tròça, grow and ore stunted; Therefore these dead men mock you, that you the living are dead:
Since ever you battered the saints and the tools of your crafts were. blunted,
Or shattered the glass in its glory and louded pouracipes with the icad....
We have not yet seen a copy of GK.Cs Weekly. H. G. Well's says: "If Catholicism is still to run about the world giving tongue it can have no better spokesman than Bennett is chock-fal | G.K.C.**,
of quotations in His How to make Those who the beat of Life... crowd into flats might well consider this "Unless you believe that solitutide is the best of life... you will not make the best of life."
The latest game for A NEW evening partles we Wives he thinks should go out Our book on "Eng-
GAME, read the other day, is ore and take more holidaye, and Bish and how to
forevery guest to bring a thereby marriage will be sweetened. write and speak it" photograph representing himself or
Bennett mye that wives are is in the press. Meanwhile we herself as a baby. The photographs human; husbands not less so. "Be notice Dr. Henry Van Dyke is are numbered and passed round, polite to one another (ceremoniously against the proposal to make a new and those present are invited to polite, and, if advisable, insincerely American language. Go it Doc. write down their identifications. polite!) is a prince among marita! Vier sind mit you What do you We should like to suggest an im- maxima, and politeness is to be think of this as ‘a specimen of provement.. Let every feminine attained by vigilance. Everyone Yorkshire English, truthfully bring a photograph of her mother can achieve it with patience. July 30-Crown Land Sale at vouched for: Has noone seen The male portion of the party does! "Few wives have much use for P.W.D. Offices. 3 p.m.
nothing of never a hat nowhere." not want to know what she looked tongues that don't speak, lips that The enforcement of like twenty, thirty, forty years don't sinile, eyes that don't glisten. the "keep to the left ago," but what she will probably arms that don't embrace." regulation has
look like twenty, thirty, or forty He seems to know about it all, tainly contributed to years hence. As a danger or safety
...We wonder when another Old more orderly progres- signal there is nothing to equal Wines Tale is coming along sion along the foot- mother's photograph. We expect That was the best thing Bennett A schoolboy's ex- miscuous habits of pedestrians in marriages on our track or to be the
planation of the difference between crossing the roadways are a stan subject of a sermon
an editor and a journalist is quaint, ding (the word is used in the
One of the latest A journalist is a non who writes .scientific discoveries is metaphorical sense) invitation to
for the newspapers. An editor is s serious, accident. In Melbourne
"bridge hand." It isn't the municipal authorities have { the rare sort of hand man who leaves out what the jour- nalist writes.”· A man who is commenced to deal stringently
that enables you to make with jaywalkers. The Mel a grand slam in no trumps and not a "best seller" cannot hope to bourne Council's traffic inspector score 100 above the line; but a new make a fortune in this non-appre Mr. W. H. Mal- recently instituted a batch of pro- disease which consists of a twitch clative age. .... secutions in which the defendants ing of the muscles of the wrist, due lock whom we remember as a were charged as follows :-. to frenzied efforts to keep the pips philosophical writer, satirist, and "That, when crossing from rubbing off the trump suit, poet, has just died leaving a modest street, did not on leaving The "movie eye" is, of course, al- £288. Mr. E. V. Lucas con-
Two cases of small-pox (Chin-
excited much comment. Had any ese) were reported during the 24 paths in Hongkong, but the pro-to have the registrar of births and
senior officials been housed across the harbour, they must almoet! certainly have heard these remarks, for most people did not learn that
hours ending Thursday.
On August & the sun rises at the ferries bud stopped until they 5.54 and sets at 7.04. On August actually espied the blue flag. This 31 it rises at 6.05 and sets at 6.42: Inst fact alone was enough to excitel the growing crowd of defeated
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
According to a Reuter cable
THE MOVIE
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~CERBERUS.
OUR LITERARY LOBBY.
LOCAL GOSSIP FOR BOOKY
PEOPLE.
ever did.
I should still spend two hours a day, as I do now--just writing." It would probably be better if Mr. Lucas spent two hours a day→→ just reading.. .. And here is Miss Rebecca West, who wrote 'The Judge telling us that when we get hold of a good novel we ought to be prepared to spend not two days but two months over it. That's us all over Rebecca.. Here is ah advortisement of a new [noval'a engrossing character :
Dope I Murder!! Abduction 11.
Through a typographical error, The China Mail. requirements of the pince.
sources of information is to the travellers Here you have the har- the price of "Lotol Sprayers was The bour more like the roughest ocean, given as $5 each. This should of first was its own officials whose aim is scarcely broken... How are
said they, wet out where we live the course be 50 cents each. interest it was rightly alleged is we to know that the ferries have include 10,332 sq. ft. at Shaukiwan, Forthcoming Crown land sales stopped? Must we struggle in upset price $10,332 about 3,750 89. merely mechanical. This is truc from Hunghom and Yaumati and ft. in the same district, upset price the footpath proceed by the shortest | ready with us; soon.we shall have fesses that he loves writing... It is likely to be more mechanical Homuntin-from Taipo even $3,750; and three lots at Ho Man line from the point on the kerbline the broadcast ear" contracted "If I had a million pounds a year, GOVERNOR'S OPPORTUNITY. As the days go by for as we have before we can learn that our jour- Tin, the first 56,100 sq. ft. for an from which he left the footway to through "listening-in" for nothing
pointed out, in the housing of tency is wasted effort? Telephone! upset price of $16,830, the second a point on the other kerbline of the on a home-made wireless set, higher officiala, the Peninsula has But suppose that we have a tele- 66,000 sq. ft. for an upset price of street, immediately opposite the It does not need a typhoon to: far bu absolutely ignored. are we to suspect that these mild for an upset price of $6,000,
phone and many of us haven't-$19,800, and the third $20,000 sq. ft. first mentioned point, contrary to amplasing the importance and The second source of its informa- winds, these gentle showers are but
the by-law of the said act pro- needs of Kowloon, and to bring it tion has been the Unofficial Mom that the ferry will not run to-day?
vided." deceivers base? Are we to know
One offender, who, the evidence again to the notice of our legislabors of the Legislative Council, All this would our mythical senior
showed, had crossed Bourke-street tors. It does not even need whose knowledge of local condi- officials have heard as they stood in
diagonally from north to south, protested. "I pay rates; I can cheme involving figure that tions is amall" and the third source the rain and watched the huge from Seattle, President Harding walk about, the streets as I like." makes the brain roel to rekindle
wealthy land-owners. "whose in. waves sweep past. All this-and has arrived there from Vancouver. But the Bench, by fining him zos. and reawaken any declining interest
with costs, convinced him that terests patently conflict with those more, how someone recalled that there may have been. It may lie
the K.R.A.-over vigilant -had
Lieutenant G. M. Crockett joined he was quite mistaken. ✅ An- of the residents." If these state-brunght before the higher powers a
the sloop Magnolia," China other defendant, who was un- Bath Comedy.'' that the marvellous growth of the ments are true then a case has suggestion for having signals pro Station, with effect from the Ist der the impression that the by- place has been so sudden, so been made against the Government minently displayed at various points
law referred only to street inter-on our little "Corona" to the sound pontaneous, that it has not been and the need for a more enlightened ning how that suggestion had been, has been appointed second. Why people who wander more or when the ferries had stopped run.
sections, was padeceived by being of falling rain, the whistling of the The Hibbert Journal is celebrating Sergeant Wilfrid Brackenridge, called upon to pay a fine of 59. wind, the, anashing of glass, and its majority. A solid journal possible to give a like sudden and policy established. We do not made nearly two months ago; how spontaneous considération to the advocate speed. Let it be "In there had been three severe typhoon Lieutenant in the Hongkong less aimlessly across the roads the thud of falling sign-boards. tbia
Dr. L. P. Jacks, the matters which affect the conveni-quietness and strength."
Volunteer Defence Corps. It is blows since, the ferries each time
should be called "Jay walkers." Our avoirdupois takes on the feel editor, is to contribute an article in ence of the many-some by reason here that we think a claim that Arabs silently stealing away; how ing Mr. Carlos Henrique Basto to justify it, or is it an unmerited as- folding their tarpaulins and like the
am at a loss to know. Is there any of goose-flesh and we sigh again for each number dealing with a philo The King's exequatur empower thing in the habits of these birds to of economic housing difficulties, Kowloon has might very well be nothing had yet been done to save act as Honorary Consul for Bolivia persión? The temp Is, of course,fied.
the hot weather,
sophical problem suggested by the Never satia march of events. The first of who spend the best part of their met. Mr. A. G. Stephens has re- many hundred Kowloon residents in Hongkong: has received His an Americanism, and may haveTropic. Iste on out shelves, and Government by Talk com- We hava Banfield's these will be under the title days there. Wo.com recollect the signed his seat on the Legislative making frutta trips through the Majesty's signature.
Just "happened." There is an time, not so very far distant, when, Council. His multifarious, duties official Many wise sayings would rain; how this neglect, was typically
ancient story about an inquisitive now we read that Banfield has, like parative study of Carlyle's Address as Rector of Edinburgh University parse as its housing accommoda-force hiin to do so and his wisdom they have heard too about bridges Lieutenant Commander M. F. Noah should have called a donkey Dying of consumption, Bonfield Lloyd George in 1928: A com
The appointment of Surgeon person who wanted to know why Tom Bowling gone aloft."
in 1600 with the address of Mr. and tunnels and other wondrous Hopson, to the depot ship "Tamara donkey, Well, what else would
live forty residences or flats await-
Had it not been for the effective
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Junc.
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This weather reminds us of "The We 'lobby".
tion was it was not uncommon tois shown in his action. It is sug ventures, not omitting aerial taxis: Hongkong, hás been cancelled, he call it?" was the contlusive re-decided to adopt the simple life and parison between the late sage "of ing the tenants who were not forth guested that Mr. H. W. Bird will Thus would their imaginations have and he will join the Royal Nayal joinder. That seems to be about | sought, sanctuary on a tropical isle Chelsea and our late perorating
take the vacant place. We do not been fired and their resolves stirred, Barracks at Devonport instead.
Promier should be interesting, coming. Now From a sickly know what operates in these while lesser Breeds, without the
all there is to it. A man who lay off the coast of Queensland....... walks is a jay-walker. What else. He survived most of the medical for the coming year is rapidly fill- The membership of the Book Club puling infant, Kowloon hae with the shooting pains of growing appointments to the Council civic spirit, solemnly-eyed the waves
breaking, over the prays wall and many years niagistrate and a judge
Mr. Alfred Gascoyne Wise, for would you call him" whether it is seniority of residence, calculated the chances of something of the Hongkong Supreme Court
men who gave him six months to ing. Prospective members are It has been suggested
neither proposed or seconded. .. hildhood reached almost maturity, alshown in the public service, carrying away or dwelt upon need whose death we recently reported,
MONEY, to us that the reason live, by about thirty years.
They simply send in their names with problems still unsolved and
why some people His is a fascinating book.......... friendship, divine right or what, but lessly. sembled breakfasts and passed away in the Cottage Hose leave so much money behind them Old Man has been elected Book Membership is to be restricted to The (with $10) and the deed is done, likely to be for some time to come.
wo think an excellent opportunity played with thoughts of coming pital at, Camberley. Death was due when they die, is because they fellow. No. 3447 by "The Council 80: 50 names are already on the presents itself to admit the claims of indoor comforts. How many hours to the effects of appendicitis." can't take it with them! Here is assistance rendered it by the, Kow-
our raythical senior, officials would
the late Sir Edward Green leaving of the Ancients," "with shouts of list. Scoops published by Kowloon by appointing one who shall have waited one knows not; possibly
Bor now you Stanley Patil & Co, il a book which loon Residents Association-
Commander LHK Clegg,O.B.E., mere bagatelle of: £772,545 rejoicing."
We have heards should interest the newspaper man. public-spirited body of men urged be recognised as the mouthpiece of all day since assuredly) they are has been appointed to the com- Greedi evidently didn't know what know into action by the inaction of the and the member for, things Kow-baser sort who joyously welcomed China Station, from Aug. 8, when and started by leaving £500 to the not a word about the best Hotal should be interested in
not like certain lazy fellows of the mand of the river, gumboat "Best to do with all this. He did his best lot about bedside books, but Whilst The Manager of thos
Drinks How do mix and how to Government, the many reformarloon. It is not a new idea and wo the enforced, holiday and forthwith he will proceed to Hongkong to Bishop of Wakefield expressing the books to be read at meals... which have been effected and which do not advance it as such. When bied them home again some to relieve the present skipper, of the hope that he would spend it. for Those we like are the easily digest servo The Beautiful Depil,
>>Henry Sidgwick, the and Sabatani's - Life" of Ociore. are now being contemplated would it was first moored it did not appear however brief the watery vigil, this much service in the late war. In teulpling of bur gaitered ones. philosopher, is said to have cured Borgia are also published by Stanley
sleep, some to play poker. But "Bee. Commander Clegg saw his own benefit. We deplore this ed ones. probably never have been brought to ag to be quite ripe for tomout, we feel sartar, mythical senior adallion to commanding The Bar Pancy passing an Ice Cream Soels himself of a sickes by Foul Well, suficient unig, the to birth. Kowloon was a place you bat as we have pointed out, Kow-officials would thoroughly have which is the ang shih of Rear Fountain parlour with Ecoo in your standing in the middle of the column are the words thereof
olf to buy an were forced to go to in order to get loon is no more an infant, it is agreed that these name signale are Adinimal Anderson Commander pockets My. Then there is Mr. host and treating poetry w to Fanling. The Goversment de grown and growing entity of vast needed in the populona centres fur: Cleres ll also discharge the Archibald William Stirling (the This is not exactly fair to the other cough losen
Wethersfeld, and needed withani duke of Chief of Star to the late) who was poor with 193,625 end offline pended upon three quite inadequate.
sad of someone delit
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