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service reads, or the widening of present should realise is that if he wishes with minds of their own, and views once is not to includo pavements to enjoy. 1924 and make it a health. Für 100 wide enough for him to walk upon successful year, he must have the is there any reason why there necessary

our.. Chinese school should not be tiers of raised, walks many of

muddy-faced and and all too my two in height. The newest type boys

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THURSDAY, JANUARY, 24, 1024

this, howevor, don't keep

folks at home; and Murun

SMALL-POX SPREADS.

leves is as ustal frequented

PORTS.

by all the usual visitors; they BREAKS OUT AT RIVER arrive cross as ten sticks, dripping, soaked through and shivering, in great.coats and snow-shoes-Lady Lyttleton,

THE ARTIST AND THE

PUBLIC.

KONGMOON, January 22, An epidemic of small-pox has broken out at Kongmoon and San Wui, claiming many victims.

Fung Shiu-ming, the Admiral, arrived to-day. Chinese gun boats have dressed: ship in his honour, Chan Chak is being profusely entertained prior

to leaving.

new All

of their own based qu their own active experience, able to co-operate and advise on any scheme of reform, together with those who of garage is built on the storey bloodless locking, bayo 'not the seal of Government principle. It saves land area, and frequently are turned down by the enables a large amber of cars to doctors when applying for certain dangling he stared without difficulty. The posts. Most of those have them- displeasure continually before them.

urs simply glide to the floor alloted selves to blame. So our advice to In the mattor of Government to them. Are thess raised adowalks very boy, whether healthy look- ty of frish air, plenty, but not an Grants the Headmaster of the possibility, or are we to look for or weak looking, is to get plen- wurd to an overhead tramway in excessive amount, of exercise, and Diocesan Boys' School says the the near future; or is it to be a

plenty of sleep. The healthy Whatever the public demand the system of awarding them is anti-subway? If the latter it is a pity student has a clearer brain and can artist will soon produce and the quated and unfair." He bucks that that the P.W.D. did not complete do better work than he who re- best education which the operative I up with figures that are at least the job-or commence it, in their mains indoors all the time-be is can receive is the refusal of bad she needs to be pumped and to

also a more useful citizen and a work and the acknowledgment of recent upheaval of Queen's Road. «

greater assety to his country. So good. There is no want of genius all you pale faces in Queen's and among us, still less of industry you are many get out to the hills The least that we do is laborions. Carried un- during the Chinese New Year and the worst is wonderful. But CHARIVARIA animously: Vacation, all your lungs with the there is a want among us, deep and woollen undies. pure healthgiving atmosphere wide, of discretion in directing toil,

found on the heights, feast your "What is the difference betweentheses on the marvels and beauties and of delight in being led by the

of nature, become acquainted with imagination. the peaks and valleys of the island and of the mainland, and come back to work in a healthy state. Fresh air, clean water, exercise, and sleep are the best as well as the cheapest medicines.

starbling and not & little enlighten- ing. He is either right or he is? wrong, and his figures incorreel. This gauntlet of a gemine grievance thrown into the Education ring. should not be allowed to remain

there. There seems no doubt that this particular system is antiquated and the need for reform made manifest.

the ordinary man and a politician!" we are asked. We are not quite sure. In some cases it is £400 per

annum.

The Beard of Education's “ludi-

An American Doctor says it is crous meetings" have not engender-injurious to lie on both sides. Not ed the respect due to an educa- always though, say some of our Ice tional authority"" and have certainly House Street friends:

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tion. That my been obvious ind carbed the contumely of those fostered by the usual Government restrictions. The future--existence

"Our Pelice are the politest in! the world," according to a writer. In spite of their penchant for pinching-people.

A Doctor claims to have effected cures in various illnesses by mak- ing the patient inhale the odour of a goat. We should very much like to present him with several of our Hongkong. markets.

WONDERFUL WORK.

It is a wonderful work, which the British Universi- ties Committee is

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SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

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In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS. January 24-Coronet Theatre; Quincy Adams Sawyer."

January

24-Star Theatre; "The City of Silent Mem

January 24-World Theatre ; · Two Kinds of Women."

SOCIAL

The "Hof Sang "is still here paired before she can be moved. Damage to the cargo (rice and flour) is assessed at $10,000,

In connection with the piracy of the" Tai Lee, it is learnt here, in addition to the China Mail report, that most of those kidnapped were emigrants returned from USA. One pirate is said to liave: been killed in the confusion.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL,

the

Eleven fresh cases of sinall-- pox were reported yesterday.

The "Do Be Chairful" Com pany, 51 Queen's Road Central, are offering to the Public a select quantity of Drawnwork, Lacos, Peking Crystal Necklaces, etc. etc., at Actual Cost Prices.

accomplishing in helping to meet the countless tragic needs of their fellow students in the various European centres of learning.

School prize distributions are During the last three years-some 20,000 books have been sent to a

to take place at the LM.S. Ying number of universities, as well as

January 26.+Burn's Nicht Din- Wa Girl's School on Friday, next many gifts of food, fuel, clothing, books and instruments to indivi- ner in the Hongkong Hotel, & p.m.(Lady Stubbs distributing) and at February 4,Grand Chinese the Sacred Heart English School duals. Still, the situation almost beggars description, and a cam- Carnival in the Hongkong Hotel (Mr. G. P. de Martin, distributing.) paign is now being organised to raise a minimum of £5,000 for further urgent relief. on this subject has declared that if the youth of the world can be won to such a task of co-operation, mutual understanding, and mutual respect, there is hope for the The "Yellow Dragon" future. And in this statement is

College's much truth. HONESTY, Queen's

bright little magazine, Į quotes this piece of honesty

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Things are not what they used of the Board way be. in question.to be" laments our favourite paper. Pany and sickly from its birth, a But were they ever?" weakling if ever there was one, it also needs the rejuvenating in fluence of experts. It the Board is not to legislate; let it be absolutely clear what its lunctions are, and lot those who grace its table, uider- stand what they have committed themselves to but let us in such supreme tatter as education, make the most and the best of those well qualified to advise, and whose call- ing is not merely a question of earning living, but moulding a destiny..

Weak in English.

"Perfume has supplied the plot of many dramas" we are told. Is this why certain superior people sniff at them?

In the Junior Local Examind- tion one unfortunate candidate wrote only three lines of dictation 'Dear Ex- and then put down: aminer, I am very sorry but I can- not understand Mr. X's pronuncia tion, Your's regretfully," "Y.Z." We hope "Y. Z got full marks.

It is easy to inngine that for concentrated attention was given to the-teushing of English-not merely to the theory of granuar, but fo shat and the speaking of the langu age-even to the suctifice of other of Chinese subjects the Way scholars would be less hard keep myself from sleeping while! than it is at the monient. Wo do I pray?" "Pray ceaselessly."

Someone asked JAPANESE. Honen Shonin, "What shall I do to

while

nat want it repented, in the words answered the holy man, of the Hon. Mr. Kotewall at the you are awake." Gap Road prize distribution, "tkat n number of boys who... left school could not speak nor write English very well! We need not labour the point. The matter will doubtless receive the attention of that technical and qualified Head of the Education Department--- when the Government appoint him.

The same rose bears the flower and thorn; one root is theirs.

To be under a raised sword is hell, but charge, with it and,you will find heaven too.

It is still water, not running,

It has remained for 1r. Kotewall which reflects objects, and it is the to offer an inducement in the shape calm heart which reflects our rea- of a scholarship to the boy at this sons while the disturbed heart particular school who excels in Eng. cannot

She China Mail. whose meetings are new described example of the benefite--and not

EDUCATION AGAIN.

Phil.

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Grill Rooms, 6-12 p.m.

LAND SALE January 28-At P.W.D. Offices, one lot of Crown land at Conduit Road, at 3 p.m.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd., agents for Hongkong and Canton for the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Co, Ltd., (total assets £20,000,000), send us a wall calondar in panel form illustrating a river scene in the Chinese style of art.

January 24.-Lammert Bros., at their Saloe Rooms, a valuable collec- tion of postage stamps, 5.15 p.m.

January 25-Lammert Bros., ati

-The coxswain of one of the their Sales Rooms, a fine collection

new Yaumati ferry launches the of Chiesa Curios, 2.30 p.m.

Man Tat" was fined $too at the January 28-Lammert Bros., at

His Godown, No. 18, The H.K. Kow- Marine Court to-day for. carrying loan Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., 123 passengers too many Kowloon, Miscellaneous Goods, excuse was that one of the other 10.30 a.m. to 2.p.m.

launches was out of order and all: the passengers from it came on to- January 28-Twenty-third or his launch, dinary general meeting of shares

Mr. E. Ralphs, Secretary to the holders of the Hongkong Land: Reclamation Co., Ltd, at the Hongkong Board of Examiners, Offices of Messrs. Jardine Matheson Royal Sanitary Institute, informs the China Mail that at an examina and Co., Ltd., II a.m.

January 28-Thirty-sixth ordin-tion in "Tropical Hygiene for in God, who is the author of ary general meeting of sharehold- Sanitary Inspectors, held in justice and who will defend ineers of the Hongkong Land Invest ment and Agency Co., Ltd., at Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Offices

Further cxamples of BESS. Queen Elizabeth's acidity are given below: To the King of France in 1577 she said ***Whoever may pretend to make justifiable war against me will have but small reason, see ing that I govern an empire and an invested with a crown grant 'ed to me by the late King my father. I do not demand the rights of others. I rule in justice. I maintain my subjects in peace. I trust I fear no other princes.

against evil doers."

When the French king changed his religion and became a Catholic,

she wrote:

do ill that good may come of.

it i

(Moths in the Dusk.) Where is it that these frail adven That veer so lightly, with so

turers go,

brove a will, delicate and strange, that

tremble ex; For all the dusk is windless now,

and still?: Where is there left, in crashing

COMPANY MEETINGS.

11.15 a.m.

OTHER MEETING.

EXHIBITION.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

London in December 7th and 8th, 1923, three candidates presented ful, one being Mr. Harry Edward themselves and two were success- Strange, Sanitary Inspector, Hong- kong, who has been awarded the.. Certificate accordingly.

Later Reuter cables report that: died at Gorky, M. Lenin His body will be transported to Moscow on Wednesday and will lie in State, until Saturday, when the funeral will take place. "The burial will be at the Kremlin wall alongside the grave of M. Svertloff. Death was due to paralysis of the respiratory organs. The Govern- continue to carry out Lenin's work, ment, in a bulletin, says it will expressing the will of the workers of and peasants.

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It is stated that a new general': asurance Company has been re- gistered in Hongkong under the- name of the China Underwriters, Ltd. The nominal capital of the new Company is $5,000,000, divid- Lighting-up-time to-day is at ed into 500,000 shares of $10 each, 6.05 p.m.

the issued capital being $2,500,000, comprising 250,000 of $10 each. T. T. exchange or London is The members of the Consulting 2/4; on Shanghai 7034,4-

The first prize of $20,000 in the Macao lottery is said to have come to Hongkong.

Committee of the new Company are Messrs. A, Cameron, C. B. Brooke, C. A. da Roza, J. Scott. kong, Tsang Foo and R. Shewan. Harston, Li Tse-fong, Mok. Ching The managers are Messrs. Shewan.. Sir Claud Severn is to distri- Shewan, Tomes and Co., and the bute the prizes at St. Paul's Secretary is Mr. R. Farrant. College on Saturday, January 26.

February 1 One-hundred and "Ah, what grief! Ah, what fourth ordinary meeting of share- regiet! Ah, what pangs have holders of the Hongkong-Canton seized my head, at the news and Macao Steamboat Co. Ltd., at which Morlant has communicat- the Offices of the Company, Noon.

·February 2-Fifth ordinary ed. My God! is it possible that any worldly consideration could yearly meeting of shareholders of render you regardless of the the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., at the registered office of the Company, Can we divine displeasure?

No. 10, Des Voeux Road Central, good reasonably expect any

3 p.m.. 271 result

follow such Can

How could you iniquity?

February 4-General Meeting lish subjects, and the policy, if it

imagine that He whose hand has "There is an old saying that all is considered a wise one, might very

supported and upheld your cause of the Hongkong Jockey Club in misfortunes come, not from well be adopted by those enabled. Heaven, but from the mouth. The

so long would fail you at your the Hongkong Club Annex, 5. p., need? It is a perilous thing to to offer this encouragement because

January 28-29-Exhibition they desire to see an advance made man who is careful what he says incurs little misfortune, even as by-Chinese-in-the-written and the man who is careful what he spoken language.

Some of our table-rippers might paintings at the City Hall. This particular cats and drinks can keep away scholarship altould be all the more sickness.

spend some profitable time in getting in touch with the dear valuable coming as it does from Mr.

Our Art Socie-lady and enquire what she would Advisory adumbrations of a Board Kotowall who is himself a living

POSSIBILITIES. ties hold out pro- say had she M. Poincaré to deal merely benefits, but enjoyments, to

spects of doing with! as ludiorque.

be gained from a true knowledge of the world a service. The A. D. C. The Diocesan Boys School is not English and English literature. for instance, may give us another Hongpong ThumbAY, JAN. 24, 1923 exactly a new institution; its Head Mr. Kotewall is one of the few of Irving in the realms of tragedy, or To-day's Poen.

is not exactly an infant in batters the Colony's public men who buy a Hawtrey in that of comedy; to and read books, and gain a corressay nothing of finding another of education. These necessary facte ponding benefit therefrom as only Pinero or Barrie. Similarly the may blossom from its | being taken duly into account, any true lovers of boots know-for un

thing in the way, of comment and acquaintance with books that matter ranks another Caruso or a peach While the Government conveni-Guggestion natuting from that reveals itself in the spoken and of a Melba; or a composer to vie

written utterance, and in an appre- with Chopin, or Elgar. Our Art So outly so it seems, boggles; while, particular source needs the attention ciation of the unnumbered forces Club also may give the world au- Mike the weather it seemingly has it deserves. }

that go to make life worth living, other Orpen or a Whistler. In all we use the word no mind of its own; while from, nil There is an embarrassment ofApart from natural and physical these cases accounts it is said to have appointed riches in this report that adquite of disabilities it should not be possible may." It seems necessary in the

to any of any Chiness. "scholar "Acting" Director of Education

Inappointing a no. adequate reference in the brief diligently prosecuting his studios at

GOLE manent from its own ranks of allegede at our disposal. And the any of the Calony's schools that he

and pald Secretary for the Golf A Admirable Crichtons of Culeta, in riches are not all directly-although is weak in English:**

Club, enthusiasts will agree that the face of reiterated pleas for a indirectly, concerned with the

the Committea has done the right qualified and technical man to fill ordinary question of education.

thing. What is also wanted. Is a It would appear to us as we luve Sidewalks,"

permanent and paid instructor one of the most exacting posts in

Are we coming to a state uf There should be found someone the Colony, and warnings as to how previously emphasised, that the

oxistence in Hongkong when it able to do this work during certain: utters are viewed, not by a hand-crying, need at the moment is for will become necessary to have hours of the day. The fees from ful, but numbers beyond ordinary the appointment of the right, moving staircases and raised would-be Vardons should help to expectation, it daus nained for one trained, and techniest expert, as footwalks? Thanks to the past pay his salary. of our local Headtoasters to issue & Heal of the Education Board. The services of the P.W.D. the report which is a clear call to action fetich of Cadetism in this particular his life, or becoming limbles, for, in matters of education.. In describ matter has got to be slaughtered practically there are no footwalks ing this particular report as an act The possession of a degree highly for him to walk on and motors standard. We give ourselves the of courage, we are not necessarily desirable as it may be the ability hoot past him in the street shaving nleasure to quote part of the Were brief ne thous imputing stie absence of that quality to toceli Greek at the University; his calves, by a veritable hair's Editorial commending it as a breadth. The Chinese we are told cheery piece, bf writing and from others engaged in educational to plead a cause in the Bupreme have no traffic sense. And we think advice

Employment in Govern- Court, or direct the activities of the they are not to blame. The only Whether we admit it or not, and pursuits. rent service in Hongkong bus, Banitary Board, have nothing to do docent sidewalks are to be found whether we are superstitious or doubtless many advantages, but with with the direction, control, and our the Naval Yard for the rest not, most of us are wondering what they are but ghosts of their dead 1924 hss in store, for us. About that employmont vanishes free and extension of educational matters, selves, or practically do not exist is time of year man, and unfettered opinion, and we should That can be denied. Given thus Failing the provision of motor cars especially young man, is of a certainly rub our eyee to read a the right man, the whole question or motor cycles for each of us and hopeful and expectant disposition

wel as we are not all Government Ser and trusts that good fortune will 1809. report written by a Headmaster of and system of Equation

vants we cannot see these eventuat attend him throughout the coming Government School that stated know it, or do not know

ng, it is up to the Government to months. We are certainly in this provide for the humble and patient frame of mind about ourselves what he thought of local educational got to be gone

pedestrian. If the making of new The first thing the schoolboy

the direction of it, and the

pedestrian daily walks in danger of

circumstances.

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per-

...

worlds whose wake

Is strewn with shards of king doms shocked and tossed," place for things so frail as well

might break Their wings against a twilight,

dad be lost?

What kings of earth, no longer

now renowned,

Have gazed at dusk, beyond sucli

ahujes se these,

To shadowy empires whence their

Ame were bound,

"The Yellow Dragon" ADVICE. (Queen's College) for

January is again up to Nor

Blind to white, maths gone stauy.

ing through the trees, thought how all the kingdoras

they might cull

so beautiful!

and not

—DAVID MORTON,

in Harper's Magazine

WEATHER CALENDAR.

JANUARY 24.

As I now all In the

room, I see positively noth

out of the window

might be there for aught know to the cont

Lieut. R. R. Beauchamp will lecture to children on "Flags" at the Helens May Institute to morrow, Friday, January 25, at 5.30-Adut.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The China Mail regrets to learn" that Miss Ferguson, Headmistress of the Diocesan Girls' School fa fil in Hospital.

ARTING.

Unto the satiate All gifts war poor,

Unconfined in bars Gratitude soars.

To you I send some dried lychees, In gratitude

You made me pass the summer's beat; Not in solitude.

Driftwood on the stormy sea of life, I float away

The old year files, I wish you now A Happy New Year

To you and all near you at home' Who hold you dear-

Amerry year, a falry year,

A year of sunshine, weather-clear

A prosperous year,

A longer life,

wohlthy year,