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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 141994.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

T. T. exchange on London is 246; on Shanghai 70.

Eight fresh cases of small-por

been

Was

An aged earth-coolie accidentally knocked down by a motor-car yesterday at Wanchal Gap Road (near Stubbs Road,) and subsequently taken to hospital,

Only a few tickets remain unsold for Professor, Danenberg's pupils, apostrophe recital on Mon- day next, and these can be obtain- ed from the Anderson Music Store. No tickets, will be sold at the doors.

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or perhaps both parties desire to see brought to a suc. Members of the staff of the Univer. 1. Swenson who owns a forty civio pride is not universal. The cessful issus, and which would it have on occasion supplied the family apartment house in Jersey membership of the K.R.A. reached 'pulpit of the Helena May' In-City who offers bonuses for every a high water mark when Mr. W. J. lead to a better understanding statute, but something more than a baby born in the house. We Stokes became, treasurer, for with" between both Nations and exten-wattered lecture of tiro is wanted. further read that twenty bawling his usual thoroughness, Mr. Stokes sion of that trade which before4.course would, we think, have babies have taken Mr. Swenson "at went about things in no uncertain the war, Germany enjoyed to a contact between the community Swenson has always stipulated ressive appeals have resulted in a were notified yesterday,

almost universal appeal and serve his word during last year. Mr. fashion and his cogent and ngg-

such a great extent. The facts and those who serve the cause of that no family without children large measure of success. In los- are that Germany has lost no education so well at the western should become tenants. In adding his services, the K.R.A. is most time, and is losing no time, in out of the town. The University Ition this inimitable paragon has at unfortunate; but energetic minds Owing to the Illness of "A. B.

may be a lighthouse as Dr. Lim his own expense built a

bave other interests and these - Chadwick, the boxing tournament consolidating her position in the Boon-kong described it, but on the for the multitudinous perambul terests take time and attention for Monday next has markets of the world and lecture side its light burns pretty ators.

espacially, to the man who is cancelled. dim.

Three cheers for Mr. Swenson! thorough. Amongst Mr. Stokes especially in China. This she has

activities is that of Librarian of the a perfect right to do in open

Kongkoug which has Engineers Institute' and we think competition with the world; but

A GIFT. a large Japanese come we are right in saying that it is it is highly desirable that her

Ramsay

munity was no much due in large measure to his keen MacDonald has interested in the wedding of the ness that this particular library is actions in this and in other res-

been photo-Japanese Regent as other parts of one to be proud of. pects ahould, like Caesur's wife, graphed, we understand, wearing the world, and will be interested be above suspicion. The methods plus fours. We can find no con- to know that the British com- of trade adopted by Germany firmation in the rumour that local munity in Japan presented a before the war, particularly in plus-fourists are threatening to chest of sliver cutlery to the To-day's Poom,

wear red ties.

Imperial happy couple. The

(Twilight Musing.) ;- China, were to say the least

interest will be the more when it I think there is no greater thing reprehensible, going beyond the

Captain is known that the gift was made

than dusk APPRECIATION. Robert Dol- through the British Ambassador, The steals shamefnoedly around the limits of fair trade. Aided by the

Jar's

Charles recent Sir

Elict, large time credits which German

be remembered "getting together" will merchants gave their Chinese has so far not had the desired the University's Brst Vice-Chan clients, with the assistance of effect, and the position may be cellor. Sir Charles an their Banks who had behind them summed up not getting international reputation both as

together."

One thing in that a diplomatist and a scholar. It is the might of the Government, a

particular speech of his which not safe to hazard an opinion in system was set up which did not should have pleased Britishers, which direction he excels. He is BION PREMTESTAMIENSTYIN KEM FORD MODDED admit of fair competition. No was the Captain's quotation from credited with a knowledge of Kipling. That was a compliment twenty-two languages, and is one desires preference for anyone indeed because America has her certainly the author of grammars in this place of opportunity. The own quota of poets quite worthy of certain foreign languages' not door is seemingly wide open for of quotation. But Kipling it was common to students of language, all to enter. But there may be a and the lines illustrated Captain whilst his books of travel are not "Tradesmen's entrance" which Dollar's point admirably. Here the least part of his versatility. His

they are:-

last book in three volumes,~~WAS certain opportunists may be try-"It ain't the guns or armament, a learned treatise on Buddhism. ing to negotiate when no one is

Like most, or some of us in Hong: kong, Sir Charles was the victim of looking. We may expect, our

the wily robber, and early in ro- Foreign Office through the

sidence at West Point had the dig- Nation's Ambassadors, to be

satisfaction of

losing all his watchful lest advantage be taken

decorations. "Students at -tho and an agreement as indicated in

University had a whole-heart- ed

respect for the. giant some way be attempted. The

There may or may not Vice-Chancellor-giant in stature call is to our British Chambers of

SCOUTS. be question of critic-as well as in intellect, and the Commerce as well as to our mer-

ism regarding our experience of being “on the mat chants. Competition is at its local Boy Scouts Organisation, but before him was never appreciated. keenest. Nothing but the best no-one so far as we know questions But here is his letter to the Vice

the utility of the Boy Scouts President of the British Associa will suffice, and the best must be Organisation as a whole, for in- tion of Yokohama regarding the in the field of endeavour as well culcating traits of obedience, man- British community's gift.

liness, courage and a measure of as in the nature and quality of usefulness. The work of our own British goods.

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BRITISH EMBASSY, TOKYO,

Dear sir:

And peeps between the buildings,

looking down Upon & world grown dim. It does

n't frown, Nor does it gather grandly as would Upan

musk

men's Benada; -- just I alender tusk of colour, curving silantly between The day and night; a droop of

wings scarce soon.

--MILTON BAISON.

WEATHER CALENDAR.

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FEBRUARY 14,

:

There will be a cinematograph entertainment for children at the Helena May Institute, to-morrow, Friday Is at 5.30. The machine used will be the "Pathë, University.--- *Advt.

Thirteen Chinese, occupants of a Praya East flat appeared at the Magistracy this morning for an infringement of the small- pox regulations. The principal tenant was fined $25.

Two Filipinos, alleged to have been discovered under the lifeboats of the "President Taft" front Manila were charged before Mr. J. R. Wood with stowing away and remanded for a week.

The gum shines out, but it has been a hard frost in the night. There are some little snow- Throughout the whole of yps- drops that are afraid to put terday Mr. Eldon Potter K.C. their white heads quite out, continued his speech for the plain. and 1 few. blossoms of diffs in the 'action' brought by the hepatica that are half-starved. Bank of East. Asla against Mr. -Dorothy Wordsworth. J. H. N. Mody. The further hear

ing has been adjourned to Friday' morning.

GREATLY PLEASE.

geas, January 25, 1914

"I have the honor to inform you that I have to-day delivered in person to Count Chiods, the Comptroller of the Household of the Prince Regent, the chest con- taining silver cutlery which has been offered by the British com- munity to His Imperial High- ness on the occasion of his

(Singed) C Ellot."

**Bloop after tayle, port after stormie Ease after warre, death after life,

doth greatly please."

SPENSER.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In, The Mail

· ENTERTAINMEN'S. -

Dr. Thompson who recently figured prominently in cables escaped from, Chinese bandits, is having been captured by, and

to speak at a meeting in St. Andrew's Church Hall on Tues- day next at 615 p.m. Admission is free and Sir Claud Severn is to preside.

The Glole Trotters amused a big audience last night at the Theatre and concluda their

alt too brief season. The Coronet Theatre Orchestra, It should be said, helped considerably February 14-Coronet Theatre; by several well selected items. Thundering Dawn."

They had the great joy encored an almost February 14-Star Theatre; of being

Scouts in the vaccinating campaign is widely known, and beyond our, confines instances beyond mere counting can be recorded of acts of doing "good turns," heroism, Not the least interesting part of and bringing an entirely new era the Premier's speach cabled yester-into the lives of those touched. day was that devoted to salaries. Here for instance is news of how Ramsay Macdonald (it seems Boy Scouts dissolved a system of peculiar that in referring to Labour caste in an Indian village. people the Mister seems to divp) At the village of Sural (Ben-wedding. is not to draw a salary as Foreign gal (says the Journal of Edu- Secretary J. B. Clyros-would-draw cation) certain disciples of the Lord Privy Scal's usual emolu Rabindranath Tagore are con-

Schoolboy how mente a "cool" £5,000; whilst ducting an educational experi Haldane would forego £4,000 of his ment of

A HOWLER. Mers are invariably hilarious produc- salary as Lord Chancellor and ro-mornings are spent in the garden, tions. Often they combine a sense 5.30 p.m. "The Rajahpore" by the unusual occurrence where bands ceive only £6.000. The plain man the afternoons devoted to asso- of humour-anconscious perhaps Kowloon Dock A.D.C.; 0.15 p.m.are concerned. may wander at the largeness of "ciated crafts, such as dairying, with a sense of observation which Douglas McLean in "One A Cabinet minister's salary and per tanning, weaving, hups fail to show be earns it when keeping, and the evenings to the following and at once agree

or poultry many adults do not possess. Read Minute." the detailed work of his department literature, music, and the drama,Q. Where do we find mangoes? is done by permanent officials also in The eyes of the pioneers are set A. Where woman goes. receipt of stupendous salaries. The plain man perhaps does not think on the problems of the village, and amongst the difficulties to be far enough. He often cavils at paying fb, to a doctor for a minute faced are enumerated monkeys, malaria, and mutual mistrust. The or so of a consultation, forgetting school of twenty matriculated thut behind that advice and prescrip- tion given in that minute is a whole pupils'feels and fends for itself and lifetime of training and the large pays its way. The aim ofthe new insiltution is to enable its pupils to cast thereof. The same argument earn a livelihood and to prepare may not apply to professional poli-thern for the fullest possible life and manner of them. ticians and we should hesitate to ex- press a definite opinion that any as citizens within, a rural com- Gettysburg speech which we gave

such are worth: £5,000 » year. But

wife.

munity.

This also so far as we know, may have a stratum of trath in

Doldrums are Army rations of spirits,

a

Speeches have SPEECHES. fascination for us, both in the matter Lincoln's

It is the

February 14-World Theatre Mrs. Wallace Reid in "Human Wreckage."

February 18. Pianoforte Recital at City Hall, 5.30 p.m.

SOCIAL

SPORT.

to

A Shangbai telegram to the Daily Bulletin BAVE that the Conference of the British Cham-

bers of Commerce in China and of Hongkong was opened yester day. The Conference passed a resolution urging the Diplomatic Corps to induce the Chinese Government to give effect to the undertaking to establish muni- cipal government on modern to the former enemy Concessions at Tientsin

and Hankow.

lines

February 15-At Helena May Institute, cinematograph show, 5.30 p.m.

February 23.-Royal Air Force Re-union Dinner.

March 1-St. David's Society Dinner.

February 18.-Theatre Royal : in our columns the other day is

To-night at 5-30 the Kowloom it may be that the Cabinet Minister The most amazing result is that rightly regarded as in the forefront H.K. Boxing Assc, special tour-

Dock A.D.C. present their musica! owing nament, cancelled of oratorical efforts. hes to find the lary of a private by means of the Boy Scout Move-

Chadwick's illness.

comedy "The Rajah of Rajahpore." secrebuy out of that £5,000--for ment the system of caste, that has model. It is concise. Says. what

February ⠀⠀ 20-23- Hongkong

This was a big success when'

at home," and now the played saying it has not been arrived the calle on any public man are ne- held its imperious away for cenit has to say without frils and at or is a wish father to may have an expensive

cerrily farve: or worse still be turies, is being broken down. } # packing" and in language that Jockey Club race meeting.

Within half a mile of headquar is pure and undefiled. Its brevity

March 2--Next Tournament of general public will have the chance of seeing these clever amateurs. 'ALARCOUN.-On February 8,

the thought on one side or the When "U.B." (Sir Henry Camp-ters there are three villages with enhances its value and reminds the H.K. Boxing Assen.

It will be repeated on Saturday at of bell Bannerman) courageously ap distinct types of customs and social LIS

at least two

-COMPANY · MEETINGS. efforts and Mrs. J. P. Alarcoun, a other. It is difficult to understand pointed honest John Burns, organisation-those of the Santal! in different directions which de of the Hongkong and Shanghai Maclean in One a Minute, one February 23-Annual meeting 9.15 The film to-night is Douglas ..this supposed agreement or to labor member, to the President-aborigines, of the democratic serve a laurel wreath by reason of

clever young film believe that the Powers would ship of the Local Government Board Mohammedan, and of the Hindu, their simplicity and directness. Banking Corporation at City Hall, of this

comedian's biggest successes to in a Liberal Ministry, the political with his rigid caste sysiem. Yet The first is Mr.

H. B. 11.30 p.m. consent to it in any shape or world gasped. John did the work Scout troops from these three vill Dowbiggin's three word speech on

specialises in February 25.-Thirty-seventh date. Maclenn form. By its terma one country well and drew his £5,000 per ages now study, play, and eat 8 recent Occasion:

Captain meeting of the Hongkong and clean, snappy humour, and the

Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. picture is bound to be popular. undertakes to give what it has annum. In a remote age he had together"1

Spinks-Sportsman," The other is that of the unknown popular Ltd., at Messrs. Jardine's offices, II not-or what it is supposed not publicly declared that no man was worth more than £500 a year.

PEKING, February 13.-The Spelling has been captain of a rugby team who after to have, to a country which has When a bricole Tory Collonel M.

February 28-Annual Meeting first meeting of the House of SPELLING. described as a gift a match and the dinner that of the H.K. Rope Manufacturing Representatives after the spring not but would very much like to

of God. This must followed, on being called upon for have. Briefly Germany is said to

Company, at St. George's Bldg. festival is scheduled for Friday, Chater Road, II a.m.

according to a Peking message to have agreed to pay China a sum

March 3-Thirty-fifth meeting the Daily Bulletin, when it is of $100,400,000 the amount of

of the HK. Electric Co., at St. expected there will be a trial of The argument applies in sald.

It May come as George's Bldg., Chater Rd., II a.m. strength between the Wu Ching- PREVENTION, some as losses and sums expended by the re of the members of the

March 4-Thirty-fifth ordinary Han faction and those opnosed to China in connection with the Boate pay

present Cabinet or of those drawing

what of a shock Great War. From this is to be

to many to learn that the managing annual meeting of shareholders of them on the subject of the Speaker director of what is known as the the Green Island Cement Co. Ltd ship, the former being anxious to deducted the value of the Chinese-

Marshall Stillman movement, the at St. George's Bldg., Chater Rd., have Wu Ching-linn return in'view

of the coming election of a Vice-. Government's indebtedness to

object of which la to help men

President. certain German firms and institu- Lectures

DEATH.

ARTHUR On February 5, 1924, at Hangchow, Elizabeth Walker Arthur, wife of J. of the Hillcoat Arthur, American Presbyterian Mis-

sion.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

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The marriage of Mr. L. G. Johnson to Miss J. M. Ross will take place at St. Joseph's Church at 3.45 p.m. on Saturday, Febru- ary 16th. No invitations have been issued but all friends are cordially invied.

Reception at No. 3, Queen's Gardens.

he China Mail.

Besocors THURSDAY, FEB. 16, 1924)

P. reminded him of this utterance,

be calmly, and truthfully replied, be the view of a local Broker who. a speech, foundered and could say that in his then present position, be in mentioning his son's spelling" only-"Thanks for the spread." was simply drawing Trade Union deficiencies is reported to have wages.

"I tell his teachers not to worry about his spelling. I don't know myself whether there is one or two f's la profit

but I make it all the same."

some-

am

II a.m.

LECTURES

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL..

Mr. and Mrs. Sliva Netto, Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Noronha and Mr. M. Ellis are passengers on the "President Jefferson" which left: yesterday for Manila.

It used to be when released from prison, to go February 14.-H.K. Amateur ENCUMBRANCES. the fashion in straight, declared in New York Photographic Society. "An Ex- tion making the net sum to be The Helene May Institute: puta

certain un recently that conventional uplift planation of Paget Colour Photo- paid to China approximately the community its debt by Roosevellian circles to describe methods. have proved a complete graphy illustrated by Paget colour $45,000,000, There may be in stranging ich lectures as that give children as encumbrances. We fallure in the prevention of crime. lantern plates by Mr. Denis F

by Dr. Harston on Monday, dob existence documentary evidence cribed by the Chairman, Sir Claud remember in our younger years The only way to stop crime, he Hazell,

February 19.At St. Andrew's as to China's losses during the Sovorn, as perhaps the most inter- seeing advertisements galore in urged, is to convince criminals

which applicants for certain that they can get more happiness Church Hall, Kowloon, Dr. war, but if so we are not aware eating he had, ever heard. Dr classes of lobs were advised out of an honest life than out of a H. Gordon Thompson gives of it; and in any case these would ledge of his subject, the human eye, would not be welcomed. In the amount of such "convincing goes borders of Tibet

Harsion combines extensive know that encumbrances L. children, dishonest one. How small an account of his journey along the doubtless be represented, in the with a "pretty wit," a combination documents accompanying the of virtues not possessed by all le stage of disillusion to which we all on in the average prison is, un- Treaty of Versailles. We imagine turers. The arrival of the Univer-reach we remember serving on a fortunately, so well known as not

sity's new Vice-Chancellor, permits committee which had to consider even to warrant comment, we shall be right in thinking that us once again to refer to the question letters of application for a care such an agreement has never of University Extension lectures takers job, in which with ons The "North

China Dally been signed. It may have been to express the hope that he will consent those who wrote stated give the matter his earnest con- they had either no encum News," with due qualification rande but lacks the necessary lerntiin. It seems to us a remark-rances, or only one en- gives the terms of an agreement signatures, and we hardly thinkable fact that in University city cumbrance. It startled us seeming lack of indifference entrenched on Bucas Island. A

we have no such lectures as a well beyond measure. Landlords are manifested in the activities of the delegation of More Chiefs called Lord Latham, Lady Howard, said to have been arrived at these will be forthcoming in the quipped Extension Lecture Com potorions for their objection to Association as shown by a memon Governor-General Wood and Lady Seymour, Mr. W. J. Carroll, between representatives of Ger- present state of Germany, or the mittes generally supplies. We had encumbrances - and the way in bership of under 300. That has requested him to forward a reso Mix Donnithorne, Mr.R.J. Wilton, temper of her near neighbour hopes at one time when the Dean which some children are brought been the fate of the KR. since lution to Congress asking that and the members of the Hongkong of the Exculty of Engineering held up or not brought up, we can units inception we believe." It is Windanao should remain under Interpart Football teams were is "said to have been arrived at." France. But we profess to see in forth on submarines, but that derstand the objection, But, there common to mover organizations United States sovereignty — passengers on the which is perhaps tantamount to this rumour a movement which curly pe has alocat fuded. are exceptions. We read of a Mr. which deal with civic matters, for Rusters

Jefferson.

THE SINO-GERMAN.

AGREEMENT..

many and China. The agreement

STOKES,

The "death is announced In Manila, February 13'-Accord-- London of Mr. Harry Bush, who Pointed reference ing to unofficial advices, three died of pusumonfa on Jamry 13. was made at the hundred Constabulary, under He was well known in North annual meeting of Colonel Bowers are bombarding China and was at one time a lead- the KRA, to the four hundred Colorums who are ing merchant at Newchwang,

President