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the accepted schemeso far as the Committed is concerned, are nece sarily locking from the cabled nows, but we ruby mlo several iteres in it that gire cause for an expression of they set down the minutest happen. Was too utterly, utterly, utter"" mush thankfulness. In it at leastings, the most trivial impressions, more as a means of self-expression

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Horɑkuru Tuzaday, Jan. 8, '192.

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Why can't' We GHARIYARLA. have smaller cho- que-buks? auksu article advocating | various bank reforms. We feel inclined to butt inte this controversy with our own pet grievance"Why eur't we have bigger bank bai- unces?

know that the award of a prize is not to stop at that, but that the length and breadth of Angrica, where the schemas originated, is to be sounded on its practicability and if

Opinion at Oxford is divided on found, an endeavour made to the question of granting a full Blue carry it into effect. The least we for boxing. It would surely be tre can do is to wish its sponsors every ppropriate in the circumstances to success and to congratulate Mrrant a nice Black and Blue. Edward Bak on such an agreeable way of spending some of his bard- carned, and we well believe, honest riches.

Fore!

"Mokor-cars are now so citeap;" we read, "that they have been brought within the reach of all. Whut the mere pedestrian wants, however, is a motor-ear that he can get out of the reach of.

TUESDAY JANUARY 8 1984

OUR WORLD.

Tho kind of world, ono carries about in ono's self is the important thing, and the world outside takes all its grace, colour, and value from

thush.

-IOWELL.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

January 8.-Coronet "Are You A Failure?"

January 8.-Star Theatre; "Legally Dead."

$-World Theatre; January The Self-Made wife."

January 8.--The Grand Theatre;

Midnight Guest."

SOCIAL

Theatre:

CORRESPONDENCE.

PIRACY

REGULATIONS,

[To the Editor of the China Mail.◄

Sir, I have read with some amusement the letter by Five Eighths which appeared in your issuc of the 7th inst. which prompted me to reread the Chine Mail of the 4th inst. in which ap- pears an article on "Pictes Guards and Grills C.S.P views,"

What I should like to know is, Why are the police interfering im those matters, which concern ships at sea causing the ship owners no end of expense in trying to do the impossible just as an experiment to satisfy the whim of a department which really is technically incompetent.

Guards aboard' any ship are worse than useless; they are fo January 24-Fancy Dress Bail at ever a source, of annoyance; im Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.

SPORT.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

January 9-Lammert Bros., al Sales Rooms, Postage Stamps, 5.15 p.m.

January 1-Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, miscellaneous goods, If am.

OTHER MEETINGS.

danger they have proved theme selves utterly unreliable, and the only shot fired by one of then to kill, was when the Chief Officer of a British river steamer was brutally shot in the bäck whilst on duty.

In the "Sanning"" piracy, in the Hydrangea "piracy, what did the Guards do? nothing but hand over their arms to the pirates, and these Guards represent the department which calls upon the ships offices to resist to the utmost

Let the police attend to the wharves, and the water police to the off side of steamers, withdraw the guards, and pay the searchers a decent wage,

When that is done the Navy may possibly shew itself and take a hand in a game which has so far been conducted by amateurs. Dons anyone think the Navy will do any thing with regard to piracy while Lighting-up time to-day is at the police still go on playing the

fool?

AND GENERAL

new

"Saint George is not an Eng- tili saint at all, and he never did Anything for England. The chief exit that he is connected with, the slaying of the dragan, is the ano incident that is confess,The even by his warmest supporters. to be a mere solar ruyth, just a version of Apollo and the python, Bellophoron and the chimers, Perseus and the not-monster.

January 12.-Theatre Royal, Even an alternative, and com- H.K. Boxing Assen.'s third tourna- paratively respectable George, ment of the season, at 9.15 p.m. who is alleged to have suffered martyrdom under the Emperor Diodotian. was only fit for the Chamber of Horrors in tavol ling waxworks. This particular George was, we are told on the word of Christian gentlemen. killed three times, coming to life i amin on two of the occasionis. January 10-Hongkong Jockey Among the commonplace in Club, extraordinary general meet cidents of his humdrun envering, in the Board Room of Messrs. wore that he was roasted. he Jardine Matheson & Co., at 5 p.m. headed, and enten by wild January 14-Ordinary annual animals. Recovering from these general meeting of St. David's trifles, he was set on a wooden Society in the Supreme Court, 5.10 horse and a fire lighted under p.m. him. Sixty nails were driven in his head, he was sawn in four pieces, and these fragments were thrown into boiling pitch, Agnin ho-enme to life, and the over- 5.55. p.m. worked excentioners finally forced him into heaven on wheel spiked with swords." is Emerson. the great American Kowloon is nothing if it pro grossive that is if iy to be judged by

humanitarian, could find no re- deeming taite in his character and the fact that it is likely are long to

tells us that St. George was "a low have a more or less hideous network

A fish isn't the only thing nut parasite who got-rich-quick, had of trans, and a hospital which is

A plot of Crown land, situated necessary part of civilisation. keeps out of trouble if it will re-to flee from justice, was made a Both are not quite a fact accom-member to keep its mouth shut.bishop. and was finally lynched. near Ma Tau Wel, was sold by pub- twin lic auction yesterday afternoon for plished, but they have been talked We respectfully draw the attention Probably our Saint had & into the region of practical polities to this of those man who will make brother and their characters got $35,100, the purchaser being Chan aised up. In any case the fabled Ming, No. 307, Des Voeux Road

price and have now cut the red tape of speeches.

or factual story of the releasing of West. The upset oficialdom which had wrapped itself")

*There is no doubt that many the distressed raaiden suggesting $27,118. round these schemes with tenacious and glutinous persistency. The hostesses could do a great deal more chivalry is really what matters. latest ides, as we announced yester than they do when introducing one Unfortunately maidens nowadays day, is the possibility of now person to another," says a writer. golf luks at Kowloon City, and They might corunence by pro it is likely we shall see the links nouncing the name clearly. before we shall see either the Hos- pital or the trams. It may be that the argument is that a sound body does not need either trun-car or a hospiul, and that those can wait in favor of something that gives the opportunity of acquring-in the open-air, that expansion to lungs and elasticity to muscle, to sly nothing of pleasant companionship, which this new set of links can give. is narrow, shallow, erroneaus and We do not know if the same argu- doctrinire," says Mr. Winston nion or one of them, will be used Churchill Of course, we may be against the idea that was used when wrong; but we are inclined to think the now-excellent E.A.S.M.A. Club that Mr. Churchill does not agree wag about to be formed-viz., that with Mr. Wells over politics. there ng enough golf clubs already

This of course is a · We are informed that "restaurant in existence. fallacy. There is no room at the prices are still much too high." in so to speak, either at Fauling. We take it our ontespondent is in Happy Valley, or Deep Water Bay, favour of tariff reform.

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Club, democratic lines, if it is, not sorely needed, is at least very desirable. We are all out for sound bodies and whatever may help to make thèm

just us we are out for sound ls in sound bodies, which we should like to believe golf is capable of giving.

The best kind of repentance not doing it again." As the said whe last $8,000.

A contemporary says, "Atoms are so small that one million of them, placed ride by side, would not men- sure as much as the thickness of ̧» If any of our sheet of paper." readers doubt this they can try t for themselves.

"H. G. Wells' pulitical outlook

The mine of a plaintiff GRAVE in a big law suit. wus

Toomb.

A rament's speed we crave--- As the plaintiff's name is Toomb The issue must be grave!

wickedness of this mortal life, to one loss ginful. The times then

Better a lean horse were probably rife for these expres

then 25 toom ALL SCOTCH. sions of a desire to give back to the

halter. world for peaceful purposes what it

Hell whistle a lerrick out of the had gained after a more or less hard | Diaries..

the lift. struggle. It has remained for

Reading in such a book as Buy what you diana want, an

Diaries From the yout Bell what you cann angulier of these men who have" English

sparc. Sixteenth to the Twentieth Con-

grow up.

poke oot o' the meal barrow vi tear in its o'o.

too wi her. Neer seek a wife till you ken what

Millionaires and other wealthy risen from lowly depths to struggle turies, edited by Mr. Arthur God send yo readier meat than a

runnin' hare. men wuke their money as they with or against the led things of Ponsoniy, one question in parti- alone know or their biographers life and to achieve what the world enlar presents itself and demands to He had 'guid skil o' borse flesh who

bought a goose to ride on. think they know. They also spend counts success, mul to uso part of be answered: Why is the keeping

par: his gains in an object which is likely of a dary now seldom considered Serve yoursel till your urns what they have made, or

worth while? Moderns look upon thereof, ne they think fit. Tims to be of lusting benefit not only to the task as one of inkssible bore- It's air time when the moose we have men like the Cadburys and alie-country of his adoption, but to dom, even when the rapid pace of the Loverlinimes engaged in the world at large. Our references events may be sluckened sufficiently ameliorating the lot of those who lo ̈Mr. Edward Bok's scheme will to allow of it. Yet they feel vast admiration for those uncestors helped them to their great fortunes be remembered. We blessed it and whose copious jontaals linger to Everythin' has an end, but, a pud-

an engagement which has, on the hoped for it a succes it deserved. provide invaluable family anecdote din has two. whole, made England so singulurty Mr. Bok offered £20,000 for and record. And they come, per-Guid folks are scarce: tak caro o' free from labour disputes and even scheme, which if adopted, would

to a war-weary and the intimate element in these docu- The loodest bummer's no the best revolutions, as compared with other bring peace

as fardily, to the realization that

me.

bea

Your

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Y.M.C.A. at Kowloon is to be per- formed on Monday the 21st inst. HE. the Governor will declare the stone" well and firmly laid.”

. I am etc.,

SHIPMASTER. Hongkong, January 8.

PIRACY LAWS.

(To the Editor of the China Mail.)

Sir, I have followed this matter, as a mere land lubber, with a con siderable degree of interest and was much enlightenment, thanks to 6ths" vigorous writing. It was. easy to seo he wrote with a strong The Criminal sessions will sense of feeling, even to suggest na opportunities. No begin to-morrow. The list of cases ing that part of the Navy might be give us

country-side to bits-an expression dragon affronts them, whilst many to be tried includes thirteen under sent to Blas Bay to blow the which, to me, made his letter less a man has to eck aid to free himself the from a maidenly dragon of a mg Ordinance lone armed robbery, one valuable than it otherwise was. and bone and a bank of hair. deportation and one murder. The I'm sure on calm reflection he murder trial is listed for next would see the complications that day.

Monday. ch

Cable: "The ex-Crown WILLI. Prince of Germany was located on the little island of Wieringen, half of which he might occupy.""

Though for his former moval style

A hope he any evince, While he rules over half an isle Ho's but a half-crown prince 1

Not everybody FREE LANCE. know that the expression "Tree-

lance" originated as a military term

Arms and Ammunition

would ensue from such an in- The Union Church held its first temperate action, and the injury to services in Kowloon on Sunday, I have read his second

innocent people it would cause.

letter: when the Rev. J. H. Johnstone with much interest, but it appears preached moming and evening in to me that further action must come the Central British School. The from him and those who agree with morning service was for children him and that the Government The collections for both services should take sensible action that is totalled $66. There were good congregations.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Fraser returned in the middle ages, when it denoted to the Colony by the s.s.

Albans." a professional soldier who was pre- pared to sell his services to anyone who required assistance in waging small wars.

To-day's Poem:

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I bave not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears Loomis but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

.

It matters not how strait (bo gate,

How charged with punishtnents

the scroll,

I am the master of iny futo

I am the captain of my soul..

-W. E. HENLEY.

going to alleviate the thoughts of

unrest and distrust which is in the minds of many. Ishare with many- others, the great astonishment to learn that no enquiry has been made into the. "Sunting" affair,.. St. and that the same apparent attitude

of indifference is be shown over the "Hydrangea." A department- al Head has made a report-finis, It is incredible and a striking com- ment on Governmental and civic interest. A game of bridge and the making of a golf course are far Acting Inspector Peter Grant more important than the remedying. has been appointed Divisional of laws which are going to reduce Inspector for No. 7 station and piracy to the irreducible limit.

Yours etc, Sub-Inspector Bond of the Water

NINE TENTHS, Police has been made Acting Inspector..

Hongkong, January 7.

The warships in harbour" drees ed ship" this morning to mark the birthday of H.M. the Queen of Italy.

Senhor and Madame de Freitas, Mr. T. G. Weall, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Crawford, Mrs. J. McHutcheon and Mr. and Mrs. H. Tod, are passengers on the "Patroclus which left to-day,

.PEAK SCOUTS.

PROPOSED WOLF PACK.

The forthcoming weddings are

It was decided at a meeting hold: announced of Mr. Powys Drum-

at the Peak Club yesterday, even- mond, Agent for the Asiaticing, to form a Wolf Club pack of Petroleum Company at Hoihow, to Scouts for boys on the upper levels. Miss Linley Ruth Sharples of St. The Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, Scout George's House, Hongkong: Mr. Commissioner, explained the aims Sydney Harold Ernest Backett,

to those prosent. jeweller of the Kowloon Hotel, to A mesting of eligible boys will Miss Helen Esther Bawden Hedda be held on Friday. Miss Miller de Vere Provis, of the Adolphi will be in charge of the pack, and Hotel, Singapore.

a committee of parents has been formed. Mrs. Stark, has kindly A number of Government

nlaced the Peak School at the dis- Officials and many prominent Chinese gathered at Blake Pierposal of the "wolf cubs." the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax (Secre be sure Lapland is the torrid tary for Chinese Affairs) who,

WEATHER CALENDAR.

JANUARY.8.

parts of the world.. The late Mr.ired world. It was not an empty/ments gives them their greatest head's noe sooner up than 1766, I am perfectly well, though to this morning to bid bon voyage to

interi

Fuo' courtesy, fu' a' graft.

A Committee of eminent The present is a generation coin your stomach's yappią. Carnegie had his own way, and offer.

said when his wife swallowed many a town and village in Great people was appointed to consider mitted to the wholesale writing of That'e well awa', is the busband

her, tongue. Britain boasts its Carnegio Free the many essays 'which were to ba nemois. Persons, significant and insignificant, press upon a credulous Lending Libory giving those in ont in-totalling we are now told public their inmost thoughts and bumbler circumstances a glacious no fewer than 22,165, and to experiences. It is, too, a time of A

Twenty-two loose thinking; hence much is said opportunity of making themselves adjudicate thereon.

and publiabed which will be regard acquainted with the great literature thousand, one hundred and sixty-ed later as inelevant, even repellent, of the world, even if it has meant five people engaged the Nowadays writing manifeste à na insight into the characteristics of stupendous task of evolving a pre-marbui soll analyse, aften

acquins poss., But, turning back

wouldna has the bag bladded" man may love baggie that

in his teeth.

A young Filipino saw in a newk UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY, paper an adver tisement which

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style and the many curious people liom of peace for the world. to the duties of other generations, onvinged by the pens of the Missos. Twenty-two thousand odd attempt there is discernible an engaging Ethel M. Dell and Marie Coralli-ing to earn or win, £20,000 the freshness and naturalness altogetherWeated: A saxophone. Must

be in good condition

Not long afterwarda te swarthy and organs in Churches and Chapels alice will any. It matters not. So unfamiliar today.

Mendira, it may safely be acum- fovillences oither of the late many, and many more than the ed, beve temporily tatton, the young chap called at the address millionaire's songs of humour, or number specified, lave been think place of diarios, and writers of these and said to the advertiser

I want to accept the position s his belief in the soothing efficacy of ing the matter, out, and the fact always have a calculating eye upon music of

dorotiana kad to that they have been so thinking is their audiences, especially when satonhone. I have never been, a

all to the gooi. Infomalive details shey, Colonel Repingtons and saxophone, but I think I can do is in

Margot Laquiths making disclosmos and am in good condition.”go

Búvá | thorrhja from the mas

2008 in comparison with accompanied by Mr. Hallifax, Paris. We have had such a left to day by the "Patroclus" for frost for this fortnight, that Home where he is to act as Com- 'I wont nine miles to dine in missioner of the Hongkong Section the country to-day, in a villa of the Empire Exhibition. Promin exactly like a greenhouse... ent members of the gathering were We were four ann couch, and the Hon. Sir Claud Sovers, the all our chinks stopped with Hon. Mr. E. A. Irving, the Hon. Mr. furs, and yet all the glasses Chow Shou-son the Hon. Mr. R. H. were frozen. We dined in a Kotowall, Sir Robert Ho Tung. Mr. paved hall painted in fresco A. G. M. Fletcher and Mr. Chan with a fountain at one end. Hare.

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GOLD RUSH.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S MASTER COMEDY

"The Gold Rush will be the title of the forthcoming Charlie- Chaplin comedy, work on which has now begun.ged

The story willbes Chaplin story of the days of the "Forty-ninere," Chaplin himasif will again don the

reports from those in the know." the story as being outlined will present the comedy genius in the

At the end of the hall sat shivoring three glorious An Antiseptic Liniment baggy trousere, the old shoes and macawe, u vast cockatoo, and There is no danger whatever, from the faithful derby, and fromm mit twa

poor paroquiale, who, ocks or blood kotaan apulting from equalled like children in the wound when Chamberlain's Fain Balm wood after sheer nursery fro4 promptly applied. It is antiseptis I am come home, and blow and, destroys, tho, gerne which, ca funniest rale, he has ever at-

three diensten.“ It also cation wounds to ing my ballets between every head without idaturi tion and in one third paragraph, yet sorce the Ear degnired by the ardal trow "mare my "Angton Walpole, men For

the Gold Runk the Coraust Theatre,

will:come to