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THE CHINA MAIL.
doctrine that suggests it is better "Get on it you can" is the advice a cock, which crowed, at him in first of all to boop one's own frant given by a elergyman. This might what he felt to be an insolent and In conse step tidy before interfering with very well be adopted by the Hong-disrespectful manner.
quento, in some sections of the those of other people; or the wisdom ong Tramway Co
country, it is reported, every fowl of keeping out of the League of I have no time to talk to a com- | was killed, and in many parte num- Nations; but when they unpack mon policeman said Viscount bers were slaughtered, before the
Frobably policeman superstition was lived down. sisted to get him time !
their
"nodera antiques-curios they are known in the East, and treasure them as souvenirs of a travel that brought them to distanti shores and to peoples of different colours and customs, it will have
Carlton
Any two people who have spent To-day's Poems. ` more than two days together already
(Austerity,) have the material for lifelong feed-Mr. Binclair Lewis.
↓
"They waste their lives away whe
roam
been a poor and a costly journey that would be a waste of time to say the From land to land, without a home, i
is not also brought with it broadening influence that will tend to considerateness of thought and a' realisation of what the white races owe to those who seem so for removed from them. We are urged
tă loving couples.
So waste not thou: but pass thy
days
A tiny fire stall comfort thes.
cake of scanty meal shall be By thine own hands. Wild thyme
Well-kneaded on a hollowed stone
A now anesthetic called hydro-In some rude but, where with its chlorido of dimethylaminobenzoy
blaze Finethylethylcarbinol was shown at the Medical Exhibition at West. minster Rall. The idea is that the patient has only to repeat this word to read to weigh and consider. three times before he becomes com. The advice is also to those who pletely unconscious. bravel. Let us remember that when next we start out on our own parti- eular journey-even if it be but to England agai
Scratching the Surface.
A controversy is raging between the fire brigades of Brighton and Hove as to which should go to cor- tuiu fires on the border line of the two districts. We congratulate the newspapers reporting it for not having referred to the affair as a "Burning Question.”
The University is establishing itself by Degrees.
a
A 24-stone lady has avtom neross big river.--News item.
He, ho, ho! see the high tide rise.
See the reeds and seaweed shifer. When twenty-four stone all panting
lies
Looking around at the Colony's' basy harbour traffic," at the now mildings springing up in the heart of the city and ronicu bering the even greater prosperity, as it is claimed, of Shanghai, loose thinker might pardonably duir as hyperboli- cal the remark made by Captain Robert Dollar the other day to the effect that the surface of China had, from a commercial point of view,| not yor been scratched. But whit he said held more than gràin
When run writes to his of truth. That great hentay has
wife who is on a holiday been made with the development of
and asks when he is China's coast ports there can be no coming honte, it should not be con- gainsaying. In the progress made duded that he wants to see hør. towards developing and exploiting Never stick to a man who's too the resources and vast markets of close.
Sing, "Weigh down upon the|
Swanee liver!**
TRU
the hinterland has been infinite- A rich man can regulate his son's | sional. The British-American life by sheer will power.
Tobacco Company and the oil people! are probably the most enterprising
In losing Sir William. pioneers trude we have in
SPEAKING. Erunyate the Colony China and down south here, at
undoubtedly will lose any rate, they have scarcely penetrated with their cigarettes and one of its few brilliant extempore their kerosene and their candles speakers. Read any of his speeches and at once the scholar stands out, nore, one supposes, than 100 miles the man of affaire, and the diplomat.
Their activities! have of course been hampered by Sir William is thing if not uncon- ventional. We remember our feel- turbulent conditions and are restrict-
from the cast.
LWO
alque,
Ponnyroyal, or bittersweet, Thy simple table shall complete. With salt for thy sole condiment.
--So bile content!
-LEONIDAS. Translated from the Greek by William C. Lawton,
WEATHER CALENDAR.
JANUARY 14.
MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1924)
CANTON
CUSTOMS.
AMERICAN MINISTER'S MEDIATION.
INTERVIEW WITH SUN YAT SEN,
Dr. Schurman, the American Minister to China, called on Dr. Sun Yat-sen and had a conference with him lasting be- tween three and four hours. Dr. Schurman was evidently much pleased with the result. He obtained a promise that. Dr. Sun would take no further steps regarding the Canton. customs until he, Dr. Schurman, had arrived back in Peking. The assumption is that Dr. Schurman will be able
to
Dr. Peking. matters in
Sun issued
the
necessary orders and DI, Schurman departed for the North aboard an American destroyer, Dr. Sun Yat-sen's supporters aver that Dr. Schurman ex- pressed full sympathy with Dr. Sun's claims.
arrange
LOCAL AND GENERAL, "
Lighting-up time to-day is at 5.59 p.m..
Exchange on London la 2/34; on Shanghai 7132.
Nine fresh cases of small-pox were notified during the week-end. The Sanitary Board meets to morrow when six items of business will receive attention.
1689. The cold is excessive; our thermometer is as low as it can go, our river is frozen; it snows, it freezes and freezes ngain at the sušne time; nobody can keep their The silk which left here by footing in the streets: I stay the P. & O. s.5. "Devanha" on the at home and sit in the 15th December, was delivered in Chevalier's room.-Madame Marseilles on the 12th January, a de Sevigne. Paris.
transit of 28 days.
■
1760.
are
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BOOM.
(From Our Queen's Road Correspondent.)
Since I last communicated to you the finding of the Roman remains in Queen's Road, I find the matter is being covered up—us u walk along Sbog Queens Road will show. Koopers have now risen higher in the sebomo of things or at least the road hus, and remains to be sen Tha prices will do the sume. boards used to allow pedestrians to cross from Queen's Road to Wynd- bum Street nas been described a the Bridge of Size as so way. persons of stouliali dimensions have found themselves wondering how on. ourth they were going to negotiste its perilous widin. It has been pro phosed that soon the boards will
How do you contrive to oxist A very serious feeling seems on your mountain this rude to prevail at Canton. The West season? Sure you must be Bund was again placed under come a snowball! As I wou martial law" on Friday and was not in England in '41, I had strongly guarded by Yunnanese collapse and pacipate people into no notion of such cold. The troops. Certain suldiers station- the abysmal smells of the saver. streeta
abandoned, ed in a gambling house, were dis-One unholy person has been heard- nothing appears in thom; the armed. The train service on the to wish that a few government var- Thames is almost as solid. Canton-Samshus line has been vants may be on the boards when I scarce venture to make a again suspended.
this happens. It will be send from campaign in the Opera House, for if I once begin to freeze. I shall be frozen through in Walpole.
moment.-
A BOUQUET..
-DEAN INGE,
The staff of the Central British this that the work of Christina School has been further augmented Missions needs our payer-ful sup- by the appointment of Miss Kitson part.
who arrived on Friday last. Miss You may possibly have head of Kitson is a B. A. of Leeds Univer- the sudden rise in shares and the ity, and holds also the Diploma in Boom on the market. Some have Education of the same University. been heard singing :- She has had considerable ex- perience in High Schools in England.
During last week business in unprecedented rise
ed by the ack of navigable water-ings of dismay when be arose to ways. In the latter respect we seem speak at the couferring of the degree even to have gone back a step or upon H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
With all our faults, we are ahead scems to dictate that for somewhere about 1769 Custom along a system of waterways right bo read. If so it was broker on the mindedness, and genuine desire to the local share market showed an traders were able to convoy junhoeches made before royally shall of other nations in probity and fair- ension we are referring to when promote the advance of the King- from Peking to Cauto. Real
Sir William stepped to the front of dom of God upon earth. development unust largely, of course, the dais and for ten minutes treated await the building of railways and, under present conditions, that looks shearers to a model of English pose delivered in faultless style. like being a very long wait indeed. Like most men, Sir William bas his White a milway, say, from East to habits." One of his greatest we West through the centre of China might prove a
very profitable, imagine is his fondness for the cheroot-ane of which appears to be risky, investment for any of the big continually between his lips. It had powers it is highly improbable that become quite a jake in University the big powers could agree who was arcles and meetings were known as to have the concession without
two-cheroot
man
Another mr to decide the issue, five-cheroot, or a Chinese capitalists on the other meeting, indicating the number hand are not likely to be attracted smoked during the proceedings. to such a proposition while the
A certain country continues in its present disturbed state
tlie and with
Good Goise. Ind just bought a example before them of the man at
car, and, although Canton who built ailway and by no means an expert driver. he a few pre whom it had just begun to pay after took his wife out on running at a loss for twenty years liminary expeditions, during which had it commandeered by Sun Yat- the good lady did not hesitate to Altogether it looks as though criticise her husband's efforts at we will have to be content to scratch driving. Hello, old man." said his about the surface for some time yet. next-door neighbour ene evening, "I see you've got a little two-seater, What do you get out of her?" "About forty thousand words to the gallon," auswered the other sadly.
sel
We are.
find
one of
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Ta-ra-ra-Boom de aye
I've bought some shares to-day,
(repeat the first line).
(Repeat the first line again) If those shares dont riss I say. There'll be the devil to pay To-ra-ra-Boom de syo
in several stocks and the amount of transac- tions put through was on a very large scale, The most notable advances were in Hongkong It seems to be the old saying again, Wharves, Hongkong Docks,Shang-give some people sufficient (Rope (a) hai Docks, Hongkong Lands, and they'll hang themselves. Oa Cements, China Lights, Hongkong
Ropes, Dairy Farms and Hong the other hand those who have stuck kong Tramways. The Shanghai 16 Cements have concerte examples Market for "Cottons" was dull but to go upon. It remains to be seen Docks" showed an improvement who will turn out to be The Orphane The Singapore Market for Rubber of the Storm and made to carry the Shares was unchanged and quota- Baby. January 14-Coronet Theatre;tions showed little change. The I believe the A.P.C. are not going "The Birth of a Nation."
raw material is quoted in Singapore to have a clock in their premises Janitary 14-Star Theatre; at 4934 cents per ib. "April Folly."
January 14-World Theatre:" "Nobody's Bride."
January 14-The Grand Theatre; Tigane Serbiana in Songs and January 14-Theatre Royal, Dance. Fight Films. School's entertainment, under the auspices of the Victoria Diocesan
Assen, at 430 p.m.
SOCIAL January 24-Fancy Dress Ball at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.
COMPANY, MEETINGS.
་་
BOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
a was first hoped. They have afixed something which looks like super door knocker hung tou high-
110.
The Old Supreme Court Buildings Among the passenger who left has been christened China Build- by the "Khiva" on Saturday were inga, causing some confusion is we Sir Roderick Jones (Head of already have a Bank of China Build- Preece, Mr. F. J. de Rome, G. W.just the thing- syllabic tribute Reuters), Mr. and Mrs. A. Hing. Kote building would have been. Barton, and Mr. W. H. Groskamp. to the genius which has given uso.
building of no little charm.
оп
A PRAYA MURDER,
Mr. G.. A. Wheeler and Mr. Baldwin, of Shanghai, had the honour,
November 25, of explaining the game of Ma Jhong to Queen Mary when Her Majesty visited Harrod's where they are CANTON OFFICIAL'S demonstrating the Chinese game.
SHOT.
Yesterday the Bishop of Victoria
WIFE
Charged with having murdered
is to the eye and the mind, what the next best thing, books, are to the mind only. That fact, sunongst|
PUBLIC AUCTION, others considered mutionally imperi-
January 17.--Laminiert Bros., at ant, is why the heir apparent to
Miss Millicent Hud
Sales Rooms, household furniture, the English throne makes those CHARIVABIA, dleston the heiress
The metamorphosis and miscellaneous articles, 230 to 40 million gold Verus For that periodic visits to the distant-posses
some people pm, WOMEN.
undergo in their life marrying the Austrian tennis-player Voltaire, one of the inimitables of sins of the Empire to see and be lollars, is to change her name by
is startling. It is January 28-Twenty-third or seen, and to acquirunt feast a know- Count Landgwigsahn Von Hoog, not so long ago that the Pankhurst dinary general meeting of share the past, basa jibe in one of his
ledgy, suporticial slough it may be, straten. We may be wrong. of family was preaching the gospel of holders of the Hongkong Land publicly licensed at St. John's
Reclamation Co., Ltd, at the Cathedral the Rev. Thomas Bertram the wife of the Finance Commis books at the perfect. Englishman of peoples and countries which course, but we think it is the Count force as a necessary aid to the ces of Messrs. Jardine Mathieson Powell, M.A., to be Assistant stoner of Kwongtung, a young and who travels without design, buying should stand in good stend when who should change his name. acquireinent of votes for women.
Chinese Chaplain at St. John's Cathedral; respectably dressed Thunt, and the incidents which and Co., Ltd., II a.m. modern antiques at an excessive problems of government and policy
So Mr. Irving has not, resigned, followed is not forgotten With the
January 28-Thirty-sixth ordin- and the Rev. Norman Amold Peel, appeared in the dock at the price, and regarding everything with arise; for us Kusum has it there is
gift of the vole the Pankhursts and ary zeneral meeting of sharehold- A.K.C., to be Assistant Chaplain Criminal Sessions to-day before a haughty air. How far that is true a great deal of difference between
the organization they created did ers of the Hongkong Land Invest- to the Missions to Seamen, Hong the Chief Justice (Sir Willam Rees Davies:K.C.) and a jury; He was defended by Mr. N. L Brewer we need not spend time in debating travelling to see countries and
A man at Home was knocked not dio, they did the old soldier ment and Agency Co., Ltd., at kong.
Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Offices ΚΟΥΤ fnded until
Mrs. Harry Woods with her (instructed by Mr. A. el Artulli). or how true it may be said of those travelling to see poples,
down by two motors in succession, trick-they
11.15 8.m. thom-
Explaining the Crown case, who travel in Juxurious case-such The iden of runking it an ambition and then run over by a third. It w
February 1--One-hundred and daughter Doris who arrived last an case as would raise the sarcasm to see peoples and places, before ous looks as if he is doing it on purpose. Christabel, reaching the Bible fourth ordinary meeting of share-week from Sumatra, speaks in the Attorney General (the Hon. gospal and telling, Canadians, inter holders of the Hongkong-Canton glowing terms of that country. It Mr. J. H. Kemp K.C) said that the of those who place a uing on dies, is one that appeals to us, and A Fether declares that the man alia that "Britain and America are and Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd., at is not only most picturesque, clean dead woman and her husbandcame the word travel that is perhaps not using this is the object of the who first made toy dams is the in the greatest moral danger. They the Offices of the Company, Noon, and healthy, but very rich in its down to Hongkong from Canton
OTHER MEETINGS.
products as is well known. They on the night of November 3 by the understood nowadays, and see the passengers, on the Franconis," worst criminal the world has ever are deeper in the mice than the
January 14-Ordinary annual spent most enjoyable hours as "Kinshan," arriving at about mid- beauty spots of the world in comfort who having drank in all the beauties known. What about the man who people of ancient Rome." Whether
this is due to giving women the general meeting of St. David's guesta of the Dutch who are Man night. The prisoner came down Haboous on the same steamer and the Crown and without effort-eive the effort of Hongkong natural-we had first mado Haggis?
Society in the Supreme Court, 5.10 agers of enormous
(Estates) of either tobacco, ten, alleged that be shot at the woman rubber or oil. Some of on the Prayá after the steamer had January 14-General meeting of coffee, the Hongkong Philharmonic So the Estates comprise as many as berthed and mortally wounded her. ciety in St. John's Cathedral, 5.15 4,000 acres and the compounds The Attorney General Confessed surrounding the Bungalows, that he was unable to suggest what' p.m.
most lovely park the motive of the murder was. The January 22-Diocesan Boys' rival the School Annual Speech Day from lands of England. It was with only thing known and this 3.30 105 p.m. ':'.
great regret that Mrs Wood was might have no forced to leave but she had to leave with the prisoner was that FLOWER SHOW. The urrening
March 6-Hongkong Horticul- owing to her unfortunate accident last July the dead woman consulted CREDULITY force of supersti-tural Society's annual flower and Of the dancing her daughter her solicitors here about a threaten
tions credulity is
vegetable show, well illustrated in a recent state of ffaire in Baluchistan, where, it
Dean Iage believes that the his torian of the future will probably A slack call ours the age of coal. statement surely I
to sign cheques or negotiate" instru- nimost added and artificial," but ments of exchange. Ocean tours the latter we have yet to seo or hear are a feature of the age of the of, are now speeding elsewhere, we American ago it should be said. We may at least congratulate them ond are familiar with those round tripe boing in a position to make such D During a grand opera rebearsal in! of ten days or so which plot to show journey possible. Emerson who Chicago the conductor of the us all that is worth seeing in certain was a great American, in his "Cop punched the leading singer on the orchostm (sprang on the stage and price of the Continent and have duct of Life" said that Americaps
noee. Those attempts to make their own distinctive educational went to Europe to be Americanised grand open more attractive have foutures; for it must be a poor They probably came back feeling our warmest approval. person who can derive nothing from there was no place Jike Home, and any sort of travel, of long or abort that with all her faults, if she has to sit tight duration, but a change of climate. any, their affections rezanined true If the mode of travel could be to their own soil. That is likely to altered so that ite cost could be be the case with our "Franconių made to come within the reach of travellors; but it is likely also 10 all, the gain would undoubtedly be have a chastening effect. Many vill
the benefit of mankind for travel doubtless see the value of a Monroe House Stront
vote, Christabel does not say
Little Miss Chrissie Insiste that we'ro busy A'down le slippery slope. But she doesn't my whether Its due to the other
Or giving our women the vote.
Its a wise drunk who knows how appears, a belief arose that fowls
contained snakes and that their eggs barboured corpions. Lol colour
p.m..
Whooping Cough.
connection
speaks to the highest terms-ing letter that had been sent to and the Dutch, (as far as that ex-her. Witnesses would be called, perience goes and they have been the Attorney General Indicated, In most parts of the world) are who saw the lady fall and saw a about the keenest nation on that man behind, hey, who dronsed 'a- pastime that could be conceived revolver. The whole point of the We am told that some husbands was given to the story, it is said, by Whooping cough it hned on the child, and there is no limit of course to the case mumed on the identity of the come home very late at night. We the fact that a holy man of the disend bad in the parents. Control the closing hours. Miss Alleen has prisoner with this man, who ran dreadful booping and coughing with believe they don't give a rep either trict of Kandahar some time before Chamberlain a couch remedy it in remained to carry on her teaching away and was caught by in Chinese-
od the whole fowl tabe, be a due quiet sleep, but containa hein Wedem, but Miss Durls has re- Revenue Officer: There are a lot of corners in Ice result of having had his regular margoden por other harmful substances, sumed tuition at her studio at The hearing of evidence le pross
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