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CASUALTY,

If the difference in sscs of revenue of the proposed new doubtless church site and the old one, were.

There are few kooner

That was D very THEATRE forcible comment in MANNERS. yesterday's China

Mail on the subject

́FRIDAY, "NOVEMBER 18 1923

WEATHER CALENDAR.

10000g | tory avan if the superior Inndlord Yeats is le interesting to nota is not {"forms" ́ qut · his property and merely the dreamer that a Foot is becomes in effect a sleeping partner considered to be. A high sense of

daty to hit country only? It seems to us that it is in prompted him to take his abate in assessed the amount would be 1779. thees rookeries that the refuge of the government of his distressful found la be only a few hundred Thus we have Plato pounds per annum, and for this certain types of undesirables is toloquntry.

desire fulfilled and a Poot becomes insignificant amount, their historical be found. Of Clubs and Guilds we

a Senator, loses nothing by becomeanatum sanatorium was to bo sscai- say nothing, A Club to be legal ing so, but dignifies his new duties ficod.-Sydney Morning Herald. must be registered, and if landlords and comecorates a serene and beauti- were made responsible in the fal mind to the services of the State. manner we have indicated, noder penalty of heavy finea, the harbour- ing of unregistered Clubs would be considerably reduced. Attention has been drawn to the inadequacy of the punishment meted out to criminals in spite of the powers freely bestowed on our Judges by n willing and presumably anxions Government. The matter is emphasised afresh. It is no use wasting words on a man who pins his faith to the penetrating qualitiba of a revolver. We trust we have not damped the ardour of our correspondents in their laudable efforts to draw attention occe more to the state of crime in the Colony, and to suggest remedies. We hope

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MARINE - MISDOINGS.

"PUTTING HIM IN THE DITCH."

má tha door, who do you think LAUNCH QOXSWAIN'S. TEMERITY, it was your nephew Oh, how glad! Why, you have It was Commander Beckwith's" flown on the wings of the busy day in the Marine Court this. winds 1--Bo be had-in mich morning when half a dozen cases a storm, on Saturday night, arising out of offences against the that I believe it tossed biri harbour regulations were disposed aver the houses, and set him of in very quick time. down in Berkeley Square. Walpole.

of Theatre Manners, as they are exhibited from time to time at the Star Theatre. We have aro this dwelt on the same theme, but WHERE FOOLING yesterday'a remarks are so very clear and the statements made so very

You can foot all the people some Writing of Piccaver,

reasonable and true, that no apology of the time and some of the people A Trp. the Viennese tenor, is made in confirming the truth of all of the time, but you cannot fool

a contributor to the them. A peep behind the scenes, all the people all of the time.

with its chaos of stage properties

Evening Standard mys :

A moment's thought shows that the writer doesn't mean what, at hasty glance, you think he means He goes al

The owner of the motor boat "Tai Lee No. 3" had to answer a charge alleging that he permitted his vessel to be under way

FAILS.thout a certificated coxswain.on board. After hearing statements, Commander Beckwith decided by the police and the coxswain that the coxswain, and not the owner, was the gulity party. He accordingly fined him $20.

---'ABRAHAM LIncoln.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

"It is about time, said the Marine Magistrate when a motor boat coxswain was charged with having taken his cruft outside the harbour limits without a perit, "that these harbour motor boats realised that they are only harbour' craft and are not to go outside the harbour The without a special permit." man said he did not know the November 16.-Coronet Theatre; regulations. "Well you have been Richard Barthelmess'in "The Love a coxswain for four years and you ought to know them," responded Flower."

Theatre: Commander Beckwith in imposing

a fine of $10.

November 16-Star Herbert Rawlinson and Eileen November 16-World Theatre: Percy in "The Prisoner." Charles E. Mack in "Driven."

November 16.-The Grand Theatre; Eileen Percy in" The Flirt."

November 18-Star Theatre; Nazimova in "Salomé."

SPORT.

That he carried offensive matter on his ferry launch was the allega- tion made against the master of the Hing Fat," who pleaded guilty to the charge. "No pigwash of any sort is to be carried aboard pas- senger boats," declared the Magis trate, "you are fined twenty five dollars or one month."

December 1.-Next Tourna ment of the Hongkong Boxing

In the next case it transpired. Assen. at the Theatre Royal that the Magistrate personally December 1.-Hongkong Jockey witnessed the incident which led Club's extra gymkhana.

I heard him at Vienna last year gives one pause. When we seȧ 13 in his favourite part of Rodolph in more or less beautiful setting, or a La Bohème, ainco when I have no drawing room, we perhaps fail to desire to hear anyone less perfect realise that it is the result of in that role,

porhaps half a dozen people rush ing, tearing and sweating in s furious endeavour to get things ship shape. Delays may be irksome but facts should be remembered in Even if he could not sing speaking of them. It is a pitiablo note, Piccaver would still, in my state of affairs when people cannot opinion, he the only possible find something interesting to talk scheme is adopted. That sich is Rodolph from the point of view about during waits, or allow their

of romantic conception.

minds to dwell on the severe calling necessary is apparent. It is more

In our opinion, however, an of a thespian, or the vast amount than necessary when the influx of refugees from Canton by reason of operatic tenor who couldn't sing of brain-work that is required to note would not be worth crossing make a decent actor or actress. If tho abominable state of olies which the road for, no matter if be exuded there are no natural aids to make intervals less irksome, or if good holds there, daily threatens to in-romance all over the place.

music fails to charm, people so dia- crease, and at a time when email-

"Are all you poets astrously situated might try the pox is more or less rife and our

LIARS! liars?" asks Hassan of morbid potion of a coloured comic crime statistics' tell their own tale.

Ishak, and the poet paper. But these intervals excite H.E. the Governor hit a nail on the answers, Yea, Hassan, but we tell the passions of the mildly mannered man of the papers as well. When head when he referred to the fact excellent lies."

Pavlova was here the intervals that Chinese in general were

The London street between the dances was inordinately

to the defendant, master of the wit, JUVENILE boy has real diffident in coming forward to give.

long. But members of the audience

M.B.K. launch "Mitsui," being WIT. information and evidence. So be it.

Here are two exam were not apparently concerned. November 16-Cinematograph charged with disobeying the rule plea :-

The music was in the superlative entertaiment at the Helena May of the road. It appeared that the Let us have registration by all!

"I was walking up Seymour

"Mitsui" unwisely crossed the November 17-Dancing at bows of the Government launch fection all something to ponder means. Let us start it gently. Let Street with a very tall actor friend; degree, and the dancing was per- Institute, 5.p.m.

"Victoria" which had Commander us register the owner of Chinese boy fmm s Somers Town school over. Our young one's mind was Palace Hotel, 9.15 p.m.

November 20.-27.-Hong-kong Beckwith aboard. tenements and make him responsible ran across with all the air of one such that his account contained a

St. Andrew's Society Practice

Questioned, the defendant for his charges.

We think a cager to deliver an important tres poenish, petalant complaint of the

Dance.

explained that his master was on fact of these delays. It struck us

November 27-The Hongkong the launch and waved to him to healthy and agreeable change would age.

**Your chum 1' he said, breath at the time that Pavlova's con- Male Voice Choir, Cathedral Hall; soon be manifest.

lessly. Well? If he was to fall sideration for her colleagues, in

go faster. down,' said the boy, he'd find bir insisting on long rests was-worthy

9.15 p.m.

"Well," inquired the Marine December 8-Hongkong Wo Magistrate with

some warmth, self 'alf way 'ande; tell him I':

of every commendation..

men's Guild and M. C. L's Grand "because your master is there, are "A lad called at a general shop.

Fête and sale of work in the you going to put me in the ditch? and asked for a packet of cigarettes.

It may be that greater grounds of Government House, You must obey the rule of the road Our Pickwickian contributor had The proprietor declined to serve

interest and appreciation 2 p.m.

before anything. Fined twenty- just banded in his copy for our him. Until you reach the legal

might be shown in the

AUCTION.

five dollars or one month. Saturday Literary Lobby, which age, he said, brusquely, as I've efforts of our Theatre musicians if November 19-Lammert Bros.,

After the master of the steam happened to be on the celtic magic often told you before, I don't dare the titles of the pieces they play at Sales Roome, a valuable collec launch Sui Yick" had been of W. B. Yeats' poetry, when news supply you. The lad went off to were printed on the programme. tion of Postage Stamps, 5.15 p.m. mulcted in a penalty of $100 for arrived that the Nobel award for the doorway. Got any broken bis-Frequently, one is asked "What is

carrying 25 excess passengers, a November 28-Hongkong En sampan woman made to suits he asked. 'Lots,' answered that, and mind and memory are literature bad been

was present--

of William Butler Yeats. We are not the shopkeeper, readily.

2 charge Mend taxed in an effort to recall the title.gineering and Construction Co., ed sure how the literary pundits will them I said the boy,"

Ltd., first ordinary yearly meeting lying her boat alongside the Hol take this news, but we believe there

Just now our busy at Hongkong Hotel, Noon.

Ping coat wharf without per will be rejoicing the world over,

postal officials have 1

mission. November 16-Regular monthly whero literature for its own sake is

been exceedingly busy, valued and treasured bringing with

the parcels department meeting, of Marine Engineers'

Gloves

Furs.

W. B. Yeats.

Novelties in many varieties,

B. B. B. PIPES IN GREAT VARIETY AT LOW PRICES.

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REGISTRATION.

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in a few short lines to do justics to

Music.

'A lover wrote to his sweet- P.8. heart declaring he would go through fire and water

Робт OFFICE.

we have come across of turnstile arrangement is adopted.

the following in The Times: Space perhaps does not admit of e

Mr. Rutland HIGHBROWS. Roughton 60- nounced a series of

SOCIAL

MEETING.

OTHER MIGHTING.

GENERAL...

LOGEL AND GENERAL.

Information has been received of the death of Mr. Percy Mould, chief manager of the Mercantile Bank of India Ltd.

Is it possible that after-dinner big one but perhaps the experiment speeches are a marketable com- modity ? "Are we to believeght be tried on a small scale. that there exist professional writers of them, composing them

The route to America via the at festive desks and selling them to uninspired customers? three chamber concerts of his own Commercial Pacific Cable is 'later So it would seem, if wo are to works at Molian Hall. His hand-upted. Telegrams are being for judge by a recent advertisement bill contained a prominently dis warded via the Atlantic at the rates

shown on Tariff Cards. for a supply of them.

played note which we reproduce:- These Concerts are Not For Highbrows but for the general musical public who still believe in

On

The woman naively explained.

"This woman," Commander Beckwith observed in imposing a fine of $10, tells some story about giving birth to a child but that only happened on one occas- on, I take it. Tell her not to go. there again but try another one.”

LOCAL AND GENERAL

a child but this excellent defence it its own peculiar joy. It is difficult for her. "He made an appointment especially, and quite small crowds Guild of China, at Guild Office, that she went there to give birth to the work of W. B. Yeats, to com- to meet her the following evening: can be seen daily at the iron grille 1 Sailors' Home, West Point, 5 p.m.was knocked on the head by the

"Don't clamoring for attention. It would

November 16 to 23-Share list owner's statement that she had.

offended in the same manner at from this source must necement on its outstanding qualities adding the pastcript:

be a good thing if some arrangement open Hongkong Development least 10 times previously and. could be made whereby those who Building and Savings Society Ltd. had been warned about it. The China Mail.sunily be few and far between it and to make those quatalions which expect me if it rains."

are so necessary in literary appre

Since writing our rive first aro first attended to. appears to us that we must get back ciation. As we write there is

SPEECHER, comment on speeches This cannot be done until some sort again to fundamentals. Is there before us eight volumes professing any reason why stocks should not to be the colected work of Yeats They were issued some years ago be reintroduced in the Colouy? ad since then Yeats has added to his Was it a wise move to have con-joutput with samo delightful and victed prisoners withdrawn from the charming vares, plays, and prose. public gaze? Has the employment His recent fugitive remembrances Two correspondents during the of prisoners on urgent Public Works, of his early and later life are writ- ings of sheer beauty, and will live past few days have taken the especially in the making of roads, long in connection with the other trouble, in view of what they con- been considered? Is it not a fact and more representative phases of gider the seriony state of the Colony that prisor is a more or less attrac- his work. Anthologies are perhaps the beat index of the best known in regard to the prevalence of tive place to those who came to take work of any waiter although the

and 104

predeliction of crime,

up their quarters there for a time? | personal seriously to suggest as a means The food is good and so is the Anthologist plays a great part in

reflects his own feeling. of combating the matter, the re-accommodation-at least we believe any selection he may make and gistration, of all Asiatics. The first it to be. Would the fact that, if such Lake Isle of Innisfree is the correspondent simply stated the idea suggestion was adopted, and popular selection and, we quate it whilst the other has elaborated it prisoners were made to work hard for the benefit of those who love' somewhat. At first sight the ques- for a "Living" be a deterrent to 7erse and can road and see in it the infinito beauties of a mind charged tip of the registration of all crime? In the Phillipines criminals with beautiful music: Asiatica living in Hongkong, Kow-

are made to work in public. We hava' loon, and presumably the New

geen bands of their under armed Territories, seems utopian, im-

supervision, doing very necessary

to

address

the

"The

I will arise and go now, and go

to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of

clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there,

a hive for the honey bee; And live alone in the bea, bee'

loud' glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for pesce "comes drop- ping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket Bings,

There midnight's all a glimmer,

and noon a purple glow,

possible of realisation to be really street work. Has the question of -effective, leaves out probably the

the overcrowding of certain districts floating population in and around the barbour, would create a huge in the Colony been seriously con Is it disputed that no sidered? number of officials, probably causs international complications, and overcrowding exists, and that ther above all-rosult in little if any good, are no warrens where people herd or the prevention or limitation of and the cultivation of criminals and crime to its lowest limits. Hong- the planning af crime-takes place, kong is a free Port with certain very to the great disgrace of the adminis limited exceptions, and her trade tration which permits it? Are the success is probably due in part to and to the cultivation of criminals that fact. Hongkong is also a free and the planning of crime? Are the Port in regard to those who are present housing lawn observed in allowed within its borders, and relation to the number who may within certain prescribed limits the inhabit bonses? Do those who are recital of which need not detain us responsibla make frequent visits, or hero; it is desirable that it should "aida? No police court prosecu-While I stand on the roadway, or remain so. Assuming that registration has been made under these tim was an pocomplished fact, in law for a considerable time. What what way would that tend to reduce are we to wines from that? Should crime? An armed mbbery is come not owners of Chinese tenements be mitted and the culprits escape; how made to become more responsible for would the fact of registration help those whom they admit as temante: as well as literatures and

harged to, make periodia went Idah in the detection of the criminals? and

the Police of thoes whom What they have done

not always leave

ben fingers in the ther

and defea

the common-chord and an

"The English huve a poor re- putation in this difficult art, and roost Englishmen are not easily to be persuaded to practice it. If the importunity of their friends drives them to their foot, if they find themselves unwillingly om- barked upon this dangerous collec- tive wooing, they target to woo and think only of the happy divorce which shall bring them Today's once more to silence, a seat, and a agar.

"Every success is a personal success the reward of an instino- tive judgment of circumstance. You must express yourself in your words without being an egoist: you must take your hearers into your confidence without exhibit- ing a desire to instruct them; you' must know exactly when they are beginning to want more of you. And at that instant you maat ait down and leave them happy

16 their disappointment." Perhaps our local ontors will profit by this plece of sensible! advice. In the brochure we are

And evening fall of the linnet's preparing on speeches a special chapter will be devoted to the can- winge

trol of nerves. To make a blunder at the begirming of a speech is almost fatal. We have in mind the outdoor grator who in addressing a meeting of working-men unfor fuately addressed them as Horny handed tons of gáil.

I will srise and go now, for

always night and day. I hear lake water lapping with

low sands by the shore;

on the pavements gray,

I hear it in the deep heart's 'coil.

We have already referred, briefly. to Tenta" "salociation Gregory; whose Ways nut

|Thisizio {and:

dost

Complaints continue to

with the

Boad hava

bocasional tune.

Twelve cases of small-por The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for have been reported to the health the week ending 3rd November, authorities during the past 24 hours. 1933, amounted to 97,945 tons and One sufferer was Irish and the rest

Chinese. the sales during the period to

NO W TICKETS even for the 96,162 tons..

Profession.'

Poem.

(Ens.)

Eva, with her basket, was Deep in, the bells and grass,

• Wading in bells and grass

Up to her knees, Picking a dish of sweat Borries and pluma to eat, Down in the bells and grass"

Under the trees.

Mute as a mouse in n Cormer the cobra lay, Cinnamon tall. Curled round a bough of the

Now to get even and Humble proud Heaven, and Now was the moment or

Never at all.

"Eva" each syllable" Light as a flower.fell, "Eva" be whispered the

Wondering maid, Boft ass bubble song Out of a linnet's lung. Soft and most silverly

“Eva be said.

Word -

Injuries to the head necessitat-- The China Mail understandsing removal to hospital, that many of the Ladles In Can suffered by a Chinese apprentice- ton aro.maklag a lottery in aid of who fell off the roof of the A. P. Chinese sufferers in the recent Co.'s godown at Tai-kok-tsui- earthquake in Japan. There are yesterday. fourprizes two motor cars and two motor boats The lottery will be held on the 16th December, not as. stated on tickets. It is hoped that the public will assist in this charitable undertaking.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Band Dight at the Craigen-

numerous

gower, Club last night attracted a large number of members, and friends. The band of the "Empress of Canada” played selections, classical and popular, "" and earned much appreciation. There were also Instrumental:solos Messrs Lane Crawford Ltd., whilst dancing was also indulged announce the opening of their new ini Salon from Monday the 19th inst,): · In Hótel Buildings.

A haul of property valued at [$84.80 was, made by four armeds Major General Fowler, Sir. robbers who carried two revolvers Jamieson, Colonel Davy and Mr.S. and two daggers between them Berg were passengers on the ine when they secured admittance to cotning "Malwa."

the second floor of No. 23, West Street, Hungbom, by calling out the name of the' tenant.

The robbery took place at about 445 pro..yesterday.

Benjamin Lay, a Eurasian

Mr. and Mrs. G. Montague Ede, Mr. and Mrs. E..W. Hamilton, Mrs. and Miss Hollingsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Hughes, Miss Hughes, Mr. W. L Leask, Mr. and Mrs McGregor, Mr. and Mrs. J. M Alves, Mas Alves, Mr. Jorge, Mr. youth, was sentenced to six: and Mrs B. D. Evans, Mr. and Mrs. months hard labour and a Polico Day were passengers on the Supervision Order was made by Karenlang - Kalsecl-Hindoler Mr. JR Wood yesterday for

burglary, of #Ma, 12. King Ma Terrace, Wongnelchong, and stealing from Mr. S. E. Alderman, a quantity of silverware.. Chinese who, faced the time)

ma Mall

aled sentenced:

labour, while s

"'charged with root

remanda