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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13
WEATHER CALENDAR.
What addresses might bo given.
We wrote on agree with Mr.. H. G. Wells who' SINGAPORE, Saturday about says: Kowloon really needa is a Municipal |
A well-known" A day will come when the Council, or "a" Board with perhaps
only passports in the world will the limited athority given to the Bishop. The next well-known"
be found alongside ofaziec idola | 1900. Sanitary Exxurd. Suggestions one to come to our notice is "the
well-known Dutch journalist D.B." in our historical musounis. innamenble could doubtless he .B. despite. belfü "well- is not known to us
Franco. owes Great given, to assist the Association in known"
QUEER. Britain £612,000,000 increasing its mouiboraliip, but we and has been giving some Im-
and yet has lent some hope those concerned will not be pressions of Singapore. All that
we can say is that they are "some" of the" wee" States in Europe dudly depressed, but inde the
impressions. Listen whilst he | £32,000,000 to permit them to buy work to which they have set their mourns. Singapore irritates me, war material. This is the sort of hurts me Bangs against the im thing that "no fellah can under hands.
pressions of beauty I, enjoyed in stand." Peking, Japan, etc. I think the t chimes of the Anglican Cathedral here
tiresome, dull, and intrusive, and the building itself
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FEBRUARY 19.
The two boys are at Eton. They can't get to school from' Mr. Godley's house because of the floods, which favo been really tremendous all over England.Lady Lyttle
ton.
APHORISMS.
Man contrives, but deerees.
apart.
ni their conduct.
BANK SUES BROKER.
ACTION AGAINST MR. MODY.
PLAINTIFF'S CASE OPENED.
The case for the defendant in
the action brought by the Bank of East Asia to recover $77,000 odd from Mr. J. H. N. Mody, the exchange broker, was concluded at the Supreme Court yesterday.
Mr. Alabasterio concinding his heaven opening for the defondants said
was that the plaintiffs entered
of the neglect of the collection
At first my way with men was to hear their words and give them altered from a cash transaction to credit for their conduct." Now my way is to hear their words and look third defence was that by reason
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage.
If my mind is not engaged in ny worship it is as though I worshipped mitted documents that lind been not
duties of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, the plaintiffs here were estopped.
He submitted that on the ad-
Every man sees the faults of putin, gross neglect of duties by others, but cannot discover his own, the London Joint City and Mid- Innd Bank was admitted. The superior man blnahos with
Mody Kave evidence' feur lest his words should exceed his Mr.
bearing out "Mr. Alabaster's actions.
statements.
Cross- opening -CONFUCIUS,
examined, he said he had been an exchange broker for 15 years. He had never before guaranteed an exchange contract, nor previous to this instance been asked to do so. Re-examined he said that after
he June 9.
considered. the guarantee dead, and as he heard nothing from the banks thought the deal had gone through.
without number- Fino words and an insinuating he had three defences. The first The Black Shirt in Italy has been
with truo virtue.
don to give time to the principal a symbol of honour and power iwer second rate and grabby. The progress be unknown. Some re-ce, are soldom associated into a binding agreement in Lon
By nature men are nearly alike: debtor. The second, independent sinee the memorable mirch on Rome Christmas celebrations in the hotels searchers earn undying fame as about a year ago. To wear the were more boisterous and noise-well they deserve, to others loss is
that in London the contract was gartment means to be in the service making than cheerful. An Amita- their portion. Here then is Mr. R.by practice they get to be widely of the binding agreement, was · of the Government and probably to tion of amusement it was, nothing Blackall of Leigh-on-Sea who has
acredit transaction: and his be a member of the personal gird more. Hooters, whisties, crackers, given humanity his two hands. of the Fascist dictator, Simor plum pudding, cheap German For twenty years, knowing the Travelers in made paper garlands, whisky sodas penalty he has operated the X-rays Benito Mussolini. Italy report how vigilant are the and the fox-trot. That was all. No at the London Hospital. It is satis 110 old fashioned factory note that the hospital black-shirted ones, even in renota inistletoe, districts, watching others of up-country dancing! A dismal imita-will keep the hero on full pay for posed radical, tendencies. The bincis tion of a Christmas tree, and thrice his life he is only forty-one- ourt rules the country. Last san: damned banging of the jazz-band whilst the Carnegic Hero Find has mer an Italian general and sure of was accompanying the awful awarded him £75 a year. On any his assistants, commissioned to draw hobble up-and-down, which is call-scroll that may hereafter be made, a definito frontier between Greeceed at present dancing. I was glad, we hope Mr. Blackall's name will and Albania were ambished and when after a New Year's Eve, with be inscribed near the top.
It was not the its mad-house noise, "the
was finished and the authority of Italy alone that haul feastweek beon flouted, but that of all the people seemed to come back to Allies represented in the Conference their senses. The Singapore of of Ambassadors who authorised the every day life is a town suffering commission. Instead of laying a from dyspepsia and bad temper, feasting, rollicking dignified complaint before t com.
Well, petent tribunal of either the Lange is an alcoholic Bediam!" of Nations or the Conference of Well Hongkong is not such a bad Ambassadors, and demanding con-place after all. We wonder if xention, and drastic punishment D.B. knows that a certain class of for the guilty, thus ensuring the pill is still worth a guinea a box. synthy of the world, the Fascist and that they are tolerably well-known to perform the Government decided to vindicato its honor by another deed of violence, service advertisements ascribe to and he occipation of Corfu esult them. ed, with an indemnity on "with- denwal of 50,000,000 fire. was no court verdict, na opan hear. ing. The report of a comfinission of the! investigation, lispatched to scene, was not given to the public." Italy, we may say obtained the money by threats of war. The re- port of the Ambassadors' investigat ing committee has been published. The conclusion arrived at, in briof, is that liore is no evidence to prove the Greek Government responsible. Fairness compels the human mind pay, don't go." not necessarily gurled in.a black shirt, to suggest that pending an impartial adjudication by an open
There
*DON'T
GO.
we
ነፃ
pay as you go as you go."
Some time ago, printed the following bon mo! "Farbetter is it to spend
than to
This caught the eye of the manager of one of our local con cerns who suggested it would be better worded thus ---
"Pay before you go, if you can't
We do not know AMBITION. what the correct definition of am-
It
It was chiefly because
was Certainly not Made The Most
י
of.
SPOONERISMS.
is
Dr.
W.
A. Spooner, War- den of New College, Oxford, has decided to to retire in July, when he cele brates his 80th birthday. It is from Dr. Spooner's name that the word
Spoonerism
derived- Spoonerism being defined as the accidental transposition of certain letters of two or more words. There is the story of his search for the Dull Man at Greenwich instead of the Green Man at Dulwich, and others are his call for cheers for the 'Queer old dean" and his perversion of the first line of the well-known hymn into "Kinquer ing congs their tikles tate."
The Man- HOW JOKES TRAVEL chester
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail,
ENTERTAINMENT S.
February 13-Coronet Theatre; Thundering Dawn."
Mr. Cvril Chamokin, manager of the P. had O. Banking Corporation. was then called to give evidence February 13-Star Theatre';
on the subicct of banking procedure Gladys Walton in "Crossed Wires." and Mr. M. J. B. Montargis, who February 13-World Theatre; was manager of the Banque In- Mrs. Wallace Reid in "Human dastrille de Chine at the time when Wreckage."
the transaction forming the subject February 13-Theatre Royal; the action took place, was another Dick Norton and The Globe witness. He said that if the Bank Trotters.
February 18. Pianoforte Recital at City Hall, 5.30 p.m.
SOCIAL.
February 23.-Royal Air Force Re-union Dinner.
March 1-St. David's Society Dinner.
SPORT. Guardian February 18.-Theatre Royal ; court before which all parties catbition is. Let us call it a super the travels of a joke. In the nament. 9.15 p.m.
throws some interesting light on HK Boxing Assen, special tour- be heard, the 50,000,000 lire bo
February 20-23. Hongkong returned to the neatral Swiss Bank desire something which trans- middle of September it published in which it was originally deposited. Cends all the other desires which
March 2.--Next Tournament of "G. P." an article "On Being In this way is the world to under-fict us. And let us acknowledge from its entertaining contributor Jockey Club race meeting.
once and for all ambition is a part Bitten,
which contained the the HK. Boxing Asscn.
A man (which, of course, includes woman) may, with per fect propriety, be bitten by
Imagination.
difference
Hand.
between
i
stand the oranrisations, known as the Black and parcel of ourselves to which, following
more often than not we become Shirt and the Black
abject slaves. Several well- known authors have giver publicity to the ambition which is theirs, and each without, ex-i ception seek for more proficiency M. Coné describes imagination as and enjoyment in the calling they the first quality. It seems to us have adopted. Rita" desires to priceless possession and we are in keep her own ideals; Mr. Halliwell entire agreement with him, It hus Sateliffe to revel in the joy of its dmwbacks verbaps, but its con- creation, and Mr. Ernest Raymond pensations overwhelm them. The to write a book "that would be success of It Winter Comes has widely read." Mr. Eden Phillpots' intrigued the minds of thousands real ambitton continues unchang Our own iden of the success of theed: "To try and make a beautiful book is that it is entirely due to thing if I can." That seems a the reelable character which splendid ambition, and having Hutchinson has drawn in the cen- tal figment of his own imagination read Eden Phillpots largely we can say he has often Mark Sabee-for Mark possessed imagination, an imagination which achieved his ambition. It is a wish coloured his own life, bringing him which might be universally adopt- STORE CO., LTD.nny misaaderdandings, perhaps, To make a beautiful thing
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The Observer, which took the
Hall,
COMPANY MEETINGS, '7
....LECTURES.
of East Asia had notified him of. the non-payment of the £10,000 which be had contracted to sell to their London agents he would have done his utmost to adjust the matter. His branch Was
in. funds til the end of June, 1921 but it was not until July 4, that he heard the money had not been paid.
was the law
of
Opening the plaintiff's case Mr. Eldon Potter K. C. submitted that he had nothing to answer... What jot of evidence had there been, he asked, which said that in Hongkong the surety should be given, notice PUBLIC AUCTION.
of non-payment? It was for the February 14-Lammert Bros.,
paid for which he had given 'a at Sales Rooms, a quantity of surety to see that the debt had been miscellaneous goods, I am.
guarantee. One would think from the defence that notice February 23-Annual meeting must be given to the surety, but of the Hongkong and Shanghai the contrary Banking Corporation at City Hall, England. It was not the creditor 11.30 p.m.
who had to give notice of default. February 25.-Thirty-seventh and many other things, from 1
It was for. Mr. Mody to see that rattlesnake to a mad dog. On meeting of the Hongkong and the debt he had guaranteed had the other hand, he shall not, Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. been paid. He went on to say that under peril of ostracism, be Ltd., at Messrs. Jardine's offices. II it was most unusual for contracts bitten by a
Stilla.m.
of this kind to be guaranteed. If February 28-Annual Meeting they had been informed earlier of less, shall he be bitten by a
And it is utterly un- of the H.K. Rope Manufacturing the non-payment it would not thinkable that he should be Company, at St. George's Bldg., have heen for the protection of
Chater Road, 10a.m.
Mr. Mody but for their own March 3-Thirty-fifth meeting business. The text books bristled of the HK. Electric Co., at St with cases which laid it down that George's Bldg, Chater Rd., II a.m. it was not the duty of the creditor
March 4.-Thirty-fifth ordinary
Mr. Potter went on to say that a liberty of quoting the passage, was annual meeting of shareholders of to give notice to the surety. only the first of a large hand, the Green Island Cement Co. Ltd., binding agreement to give time but in the end to the shores of
Within the month it was snapped at St. George's Bldg., Chater, Rd., discharged the surety but such was **********happiness which are the bourne...
A reader who writes which all reach in the end whose
not to be found in this case. He up by America (where it will pro-II a.m. imagination is true and of gopl SLOW.suggesting that the bably go on ricocheting till the " report." „Lovers of books we should.
February 14, H.. Amateur quoted an authority in support train journey to Fan- In certain circles it may why are rossessed of irisgination. ling is unnecessarily long, sends end of time). Then it crossed Photographic Society. An Ex which said that "a hinding agree China Mail.. give rise to wrong ideas concerning They felt petion of the one us the following which he suggests to the Continent, where numerous Planation of Face Colour Photo- ment between the creditor and the the unanimity of feeling which which the writer has gathered with may soon apply to our own railway. d'eaux, Besançon, Lutre, and Mon-graphy," illustrated by Fages colour principal debtor to give time is dis-
loving cure, and they novel in the On a country line the train
activity on the part of the former." exists on the Kowloon sile regarding scones which in many cases his own jarked to a standstill for the third treux have appreciatad and disse-lantern pintas by Mr. Donin Htinguished from mere passive in-
minated it (not without mishap to
Passive inactivity, went on M February 19-At St. Andrew's Potter, meant doing nothing, and Boxoxora Wenzelay, Fan. 13, 1925. the various micasures of reform and imagination bas created. Innging-time. A weary passenger thrust the asterisks, which sometimes
Dr. that was what the plaintiffs said improvement which are so neces- tion builds for us castles in the air, his head out and asked: "We took the form of burg and Jen)Church Hall, Kowloon,
gives their London agents did, they did Mary. Carping critics and the in-which more often than not practical haven't caught up to that tow Italy and Germany have still to the H. Gordon Thompson
experience shatters to bits. But we again, have we?"
heard from, as the jest is only at account of his journey along the nothing. It was wrong for them to different ure ns thick as the oft-build again, it may be a fool's
the beginning of its travels. And borders of Tibet:
do nothing, they should have ropeited quotation regarding the paradise a sheen of silvery flimsy
Informed the plaintiffs; but that Of the making of now with Its publication in this A PARODY. parodies a s of
column it has reached Hongkong!
was the highest it could be put. us. The South Ben Islands,
books, there is no
Passive inactivity did not constitute quantity of the leaves said to be on which may soon be dispelled for Valbnibrosu, We are not aware although We may not have end How many parodies have
a binding agreement." in commendation of the sims of, and how matters can be remedied. Some been there, are made plain to been made of Kipling's immortal Today's Poem.
Mr. Potter had hot completed his the work of those connected with,
we wonder. And, how (The Simplest Way.)
speech when the court rose, and the people refuse absolutely to be either us by the pong of John Russell. If."
case was adjourned till to-day. the Kowloon Residents Association, organised or reformed, or to help in George Calderon or Somerset many of that verse in Omar so I clean my teeth in water drawn
Maugham. Hardy takes us through dear to us all. Here is the
from a cold well;
TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. that there is no need furter at this organisation tending to reform. his beloved Wessex Phillpots latest which has come to our And while I brush my clothes, I
When the hearing was resumed late stage to paint the luy afresh Attending Committee meetings is among the hills and vales of notice:
purify my mind;
this morning Mr. Pottor said that The Chairman's speech will have not so exciting or pleasurable as say the jungle or we roam with Kim; or
Dartmoor. Kipling takes us to A cushioned seat, a fag or two, Then; slowly turning pages in the
since the Court rose the plaintiffs and thou
had Had Tree-lent Book;
the opportunity of been read with more than passing dancing or dining: it is more banjo time conjures up the Beside me sitting in the picture-1 recita, along the path to the
considering the evidence ten- interest and particularly the parts of exacting. We think something army back to the army, again house,
eastern shelter.
dered by the defendant and had it which have that humanising might be done by the Association in sorgount" or the "better man then And picture-house were para-The world has forgotten the tra The lecture on Paget Colour come to the conclusion that this
disc enow.
fountain of this Teaching touch-the acknowledgement of the extending the scope of its activities I am Gungh Dhin," Connd's
Photography which Mr. Denis H. evidence was no defence to the co-operation rendered by Govern and attempting to unify the masses spidery web enmeshes us, and There seems to be no limit to this And people enslave themselves to Hazell is giving before the Hong-claim. Mr. Potter intimated that
Lord Tim becomes our second sort of thing. Many will agree mincios and fables.
Long Amateur photographic he therefore proposed to call no ment officials and the Committee of in Kowloon in different directions self. Galsworthy, introduces us to with us that the above is the Under the given words, I want the Society takes place to-morrow evidence but to proceed with his the Association a views regard.It might extand its Secretariat and The Stoic" or The Man of Pro-limit. One thing it cannot do and essential meaning,
(Thursday) evening, not on submission that in law therewas no ing the provision of adequate have assistant secretaries of Portuon for countless pages and yet not which the original lines posses.
party. Barrie-but we could go that is deprive us of the beauty I look for the simplest way to sow February 24 as inadvertently case to answer. The plaintiffs had,
and reap my nature.
stated yesterday, shelter for those who may gcse and
he said, been prepared to call a Chinese race. This touch on Leighton. Rodin, Yeats, de
Here in the quiet of the priest'a
number of witnesses but he took be considered the victime sooting to a very desirable and would la Mazo. Bigar and the imagists the
temple-courtyard;
Fake huildings, fake trees, fake the view that it was not necessary This evil has pot Mosses ned their climbing colour to props-these things result in a to call them on the sitar of the steady opward doubtless moet with approval. The world has given us Truly then
PASSPORTS. yet been eradicate the thick bamboo; march of progress the richa man.recontinuance of monthly publicity The trouble is not in having imagination is the first quality."
faky look about most storm scenes The Chief Justice: In that case
ustice: ed, but we are We concern, ourselves at the moment is of course excellent, but it is not imagination that is the poster getting a step nearer for we read And now comes the sun, out of mist on the screen: More money and it will mean that you will address
and fog with the ecoming lack of support, everything. It is more likely to of each of us, but diving one of the that agreements have been con And pics, that seem to be now-care however was spent on staging on the law and the facts as they
a spectacular storm on the island are, cluded by the British Government
bathed referred to snow, which Kowloon assure the indifferent that God's first quality,
of Java for Thundering Dawn," with the Governments of Italy, And everything is gone from me, the Universal-Jewel picture at the with his address which he had Mr. Potter agreed and proceeded residents generally give to the in His heaven, someone in the
the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, apcech goes, and reading. Association ns evidenced by the K.R.A. is doing sometiring,
and Switzerland for the abolition Leaving the single unison...
Caronet, than in the previous pot concluded when our report history of picture making at closed. inmuiticioney in the number of everything's all right in this little
w of visas on the passports of British,
Universal City. All the players in Hano who tuvo joined and world of oure."The clergy of all
the Java sequence of the story. J. the foolishness of the quotione denominations might well nssist the
A Standard· Remady
Stuffs Colds Warren Kerrigan, Anna Q. Nils- which non-members, it is alleged Asociation in commending its H.E. The Governer, as Lord" entering the United Kingdom.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a son, Tom Suntschi, Winifred Mothers, why allow enufllos and ruise. This sort of thing is no new detivities, based on past results, to Stubbs, but it seems to have Certainly a step to the right standard family medicine. Prompt, Bryson and others, went through stuffy wheery breathing to distress your phongment, as those in charge of the notice of their congregations, Captain Neville as "side-camp to feeling which should exist amongst from whooping cough, nervons hacking Critics have declard this one of contains no nacostios It is gud too for excelled Itself in referring to direction leading to that pateral reliable and effective for goughs, solds, their action, at real peril and con- babies when quick relief follows the do
group, bronchial coughs, coughs resulting stantly soaked with water and rain, Chamberlain's Cough Remedy t
chacks the development of a wild and thn K.B.A.. should know.. We are and we see no reason why the Governor. Stubbs. Our educated the peoples of the i World. The triding throat, Grantlesome night inclined to think references to the Association should not mange a comp, seems to have a brother in next thing to be tackled is pass coughs and the chrome coughs of elderly the screen's most thrilling storm croup and whooping cough very uier
episodes, if not the one best. is a friend."! Fot sala sverywhere. fports: On that we are laclined to people. Forasie everywhere. matter might well have been allowed civic Sunday ecol year when special Manila!
We have sud suicient are this
A certain Philip subjects entering those countries,
OUR LORD, pine paper still con- and of Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, inues to refer to Swedish and Swiss nationals
.
-ELU TOUNG-YOAN.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
:
Reuter cables from London that the King has visited the. Empire Exhibition.
Sixty-seven cases of small-pox were notified last week and there were 60 deaths from the disease Twelve fresh cases were reported yesterday.
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