1924-02-27 — Page 4

DEWAR'S WHISKY.

Messrs. JOHN DEWAR & SONS, LTD. and Associated Companies hold, the LARGEST STOCKS of MATURED SCOTCH WHISKY in SCOTLAND TO-DAY,' and are therefore able to guarantee the same fine quality all over the World. They have recently secured the FAMOUS ROYAL LOCHNAGAR Distillery at Balmoral, which is situated on the ESPATE OF H.M. THE KING. In addition they own directly or are jointly interested in NINE OTHER of the finest MALT DISTILLERIES in 800TLAND thus ensuring Future Supplies of their well known Brands

"THE VICTORIA VAT” & “WHITE LABEL.”

Sole Agents for Hongkong and South China. ́ A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ESTABLISHED 82 YEARS.

Powell

Phone Central 4578

WHEN SELECTING YOUR

NEXT PAIR

Ltd.

OF SHOES

CHOOSE

A

WICHERT

EXQUEITELY MODELLED----

THE ESSENCE OF GOOD TASTE.

B. B. B. PIPES IN GREAT VARIETY AT LOW PRICES.

CALL AND INSPECT ----

STORE CO., LTD.

Tortoise-Shell Frames For Reading Glasses.

N. LAZARUS.

The

te China

Mail.

HangKong WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27, 1924.

41

UNIVERSITY 'FINANCE.

Hongkong's Only European Optician,

concurs.

THE CHINA MAIL."

1.

Two men were

sup-

II a.m.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27 1934

March

SPORTS.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS.

[4-Lammert Bros., at No. 4 Broadwood Road, house hold furniture, 230 p.m.

ARMS EVIL

HEAVEN OR HELL.

MYSTERY OF A REVOKTUR.

Whother this rovotvar Heaven or Hell I do not know", 1120. there by B

impressivaly declared a Chitown whe was charged before Mr. Juniba Gompertz and a jury at the crimin ai sessions to-day with the unlaw

possession of arms.

Flo

perhaps to the good, except, that good to hear that attendances at | it has meant that the money has lectures and clinics has been con-

March 11-Master. E. Danon. THE TEST. angling in the berg's first public recital in St. had to be sent outside.

stant and consistent. If Sir

river. For some Andrew's Hall (Theatre Royal), We trust that when the new founder of the Y.M.C.A., were their pipes and watching their

George Williams, the original time they sat in silence smoking 5.30 p.m. Vice-Chancellor comes to con- here he would marvel at the great lines. Suddenly one of them March 12-Next Tournament of ment on the current year's buildings which bear the sign of uttered an excited exclamation the H.K. Boxing Assen. accounts he will not have cause the Y.M.G.A., all over the world; and dropped his rod into the

river. to sound a note of discourage the totally different work they off that cliff over there into the office furniture, etc., II a.m.

marvel at their appointments and

"Did you see that fellow fallat No. 6, Duddell Street, valuable February 28-Lammert Bros., ment. He has already paid tri-are doing to what he originally river?" he shouted. bute to his predecessor's work aimed at; but we imagine he

February 29-Lammert Bros., at "Don't get excited, Tom," No. 2 Leys Building: Nathan Road with regard to finance-a tribute would cordially approve of this answered his companion sooth- Kowloon, household furniture, with which the Colony entirely work directed to the care and ingly. It may be a cinema upbringing of children brought actor doing one of his stunts. into a weary world and very often They often make films in these

Police evidence was givam bo ba allowed to live for a brief while parts."

offect that at Samshuipe on the and wither away as an unwanted But," said the other, "

night of January 26 a résolvar wan An Outwórn Shibboleth,.

COMPANY MEETINGS. flower, whose present at any rate posing it isn't, and that the man is

found by aching Sub-Inspector Every now and again somebody should be tinged with the plea-really fu danger?'

February 28.Annual Meeting Goble and some Chinese polico un- takes a tilt at the "White Austra santness of health.

"Well,"

of the H.K. Rope Manufacturing der some sacking which overed a replied the other

Company, at St. George's Bldg,trestle bed on which the prisoner, philosophically, "If he drowns Chater Road, If a.m.. lia" policy. The last was Mr. Barwell, Premier of South Aus-

he isn't."

was lying. March 3-Thirty-fifth meeting tralia, who jeopardised his politi-

One of our local

of the H.K. Electric Co., at St. cal' prospects in consequence, and A DANIEL. `publicists queried at

We mentioned the other George's Bldg. Chater Rd., it a.m. the latest to question the wisdom

the time of Lord

M. P. day that there were March 4-Thirty-fifth ordinary of the Commonwealth's dog-in Northcliffe's death if his name,

eleven Jewish members annual meeting of shareholders of the mangerish attitude towards would be remembered 100 years of Parliament. Having startled the Green Island Cement Co. Ltd., Asiatic immigration is Lord hence. He was an optimist to the our readers with that stupendous at St. George's Bldg., Chater Rd., Leverhulme, Interviewed during extent that he believed the world plece of information let us add to, 11 a.m.

would still be here in 2024. It it the fact that in the British his recent tour of the dominions struck us at the time that it was Cabinet there are seven miners and "down under," the soap magnate asking too much of posterity. one barber which recalls a poent Was temerarious

enough to Certain it is though, that assuming written about 150 years ago. It express the opinion that the the continued existence of such carries an interesting parallel: "White Australia" policy is re-papers as the Daily Mail, North- tarding the development of the cliffe's name will always be re- Commonwealth and that it will membered in connection with the be impossible to develop the press which he helped to establish, Northern Territory while such a His Napoleonic attitude-common polley is maintained. Comment we think to all men who rise to ing on this, Mr. Bruce, the Com-positions of wealth and authority--- monwealth's Prime Minister has often been commented on, but tartly declares that he "knows of those who profess to judge no reason for regarding Lord character place him very low on Léverhulme as an authority on the ladder of fame. For instance the settlement of Australia," his brother, Lord Rothermere has been discussing him with an claiming that the people of Aus- tralia are "unanimously deter- summed him up in a phrase:

American journalist and has "Á mined to maintain the "White fire business man, but lacking in Australia" policy and to avoid in judgment of men and politics." its development those problems Surely a damning analysis and of mixed races which have been one not likely to please the object. found insoluble in other coun-

tries."

Thus when a barber and a collier

fight.

The barber beats" the luckless

colller white;

The dusty collier heaves his

ponderous sack.

And, big with vengeance, beats

the barber-black..

In comes the brick-dust man,

with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the

barber-red;

Black, red and white, in various

clouds are tossed, And in the dust they raise the

combatants are lost,

of it should he be able to hear of it the lines carry a bit of advice for No insinuations are intended, but A statement like that as perhaps Sir Conan Doyle would

To-day's Poem.

(Song.)

reveals Mr. Bruce as a typical have us believe, in the pizze the members of the new Cabinet "White Australian" in that his wherever it is, to which he has worth noting.`· mind has become so steeped in gone. Part of this judgment the tradition of this outworn | might well apply to Lord shibboleth that it is incapable of Rothermere who is directing the grasping any fresh side of the policy of his papers and who has question or even of conceding earned universal condemnation in that there may be any fresh side the attitude taken with regard to of the question to grasp. Not as and the abuse hurled at the present Labour Government at Home. an "authority" but as a distin- Daniels who come to judgment guished visitor of proved astute should be careful. The Biblical ness, Lord Leverhulme's opinion quotation, is: on a current problem was sought and given and as such it should have been accepted. Naturally*

perity."

Children.

•

[The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall.] Let's meet again to-night, my

Fair,

Let's meet unseen of all The day-god labours to his lair.

Judge not lest ye be not judged.

And then the evenfall! The Gas Company has opened a bearch shop O living lute, ✪ lily-rose, in Wanchai that is the form of fantasie,

GAS,

11

Bank notes are such commodities

ན

doze, Steal to the stars will we! While nodding knights carouse at

meat

ments-awcet

And shepherds shamble home, We'll cleave in close embrace

As honey in the'comb!

-Thomas Hardy.

#

WEATHER CALENDAR.'

1687.

www.

FEBRUARY 27.

Meeting of shareholders of the March 6-Nineteenth Aunual Union Waterboat Co., Ltd. In the offices of Messrs. Dodwell & Co. Ltd., II a.m.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

T. T. exchange on Landon is 24; on Shanghai 71.

A Reuter cable from Vienna reports that Austria has recognised the Soviet.

ble.

+

The prisoner stated that earlier in the evening a man named Ng Choi invited him to drink tan suggested that Ng put the revolver een in order to get him into trou-

When the revolver, sa antiquated wespon stated to have a pin-fre as efl us to their several juryme wall as a rin-fire action, was hand- took it into turns to click the harn mar. His Honour wathed them appranhensively for some tre and then remarked with a smile : wish wu wouldn't point, that re-. volver at me. I know it im's load- od bukil—"",

The point for the jury so dacii, His Pomour Sindicated, was whol ther or not they considered that" en hand wit, prickly an object this revolver could be under the Leucking, without the prisone know

ing it. The man bhd magentod The Hon. the Colonial Secre- that one Ng Choi had plated tary.sends the China Mail a copy there but His Honour though—– of the Form of Application for though it was only a suggenken, of membership of Fellowship of the corse that the expression British Empire Exhibition.

A

Mr. Chan Harr, Mr. A..S. D. and Mrs. H. H. Band and Mr. Courland, Mrs. A. G. Stephen, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hansen are passengers on the outgoing "Prezident Cleveland."

In order to stop the avoidance of income tax payment by wealthy persons by the bestowal of bene- factions upon relatives and others, states a Renter's American Service cable from Washington to-day, the House of Representatives has gnacted a tax on gifts ranging from one to 40 per cent.

*** drink tes" might be some sort of euphemiam for going, tp commit s Grime.

jury brought in a verdict of sy After a very brief deliberaten. the and His Honour passed sanfrage of two years' imprisonment with kord labour,

Two "Old Gentlemen.”

A similar verdict was returned in case in which two Chinese "coles, described by Tis Tonour 4 ce stage of the case as "these old gem-. tlemen", we charged with the lawful possession of 3 revolvers patil 201 pounds of ammunition found them at Chun Wan.

It was stated that a Chinese come. stable became suspicious, when he The February settlement, a saw the prisoners walking along the Temarkably light one on account of main street of Chan Wan and on the annual races, passed off yester-zearching them be found that ene day without much bother lee had three revolvers strapped around ward with some anxiety to the next other had 201 rounds of revolver House Street is now looked for his waist with a girdle and that the

settlement on March 25 when Jagyrimition distributed botween the embarrassing complications may pocket of an overcoat he was carry- be expected to occur.

ing and his girdle.

When arrested the first man mid The proposal to establish a he was promised $20 for taking the new golf course behind Old revolvers to Sai Lo. The other mam Kowloon City, details of which said he was asked to transport the were published in the China Mail overcoat but did not know what was some time ago, has now been in it.

advanced a step further, the His Honom decided to defer- a Government having approved the final cuntence upon the prisoners. scheme. A further meeting of until Friday. These men are not those interested, in the formation very young and are rather feeble" of a new golf club for peninsula the Puise Judge pointed out, and. residents is to be held shortly, they are obviously not robbers or This is good news for Kowloon piratee.. Tell them that I will sen- golfers as the contractors have tence them now for three days until already begun making a mess of Friday and if they assist the police, with any information in the mean- Up by candle-light about the Kings Park course.

time it will be reported when they six o'clock it being bitter cold weather again, after

come up faz sentence again.” all our warm weather, and by water down to Wool wich rope-yard-Pepys.

HISTORY IN WORDS.

CRICKET.

H.K.C.C. TEAMS.

Orchestral Concert on March 13, Booking is proceeding for the In addition to H. E. the Governor and Lad Stubbs, and party from Government House, H. E. Major General Fowler and party, Com- modore and Mrs. Grace, Hon. Mr and Mrs. Kotewall, and Mr. and

"The following teams will repre- Mrs. Edkins have intimated their intention to. he present.. An sent the H.K.C.C. on Saturday. endure longer than temples will be made known in a day or lat XL. v. C.R.C., league match March 1, at 2.15 p.m. sharp on exceedingly Interesting gramme has been arranged and grounds as below: of solid rock-teaches two

It includes the famous at Home:-T. E. Pearce (capt).. the likeness of the Rarkocszy March from Berlioz's Col. T. A. Robertson, E. J. R in all countries and "The Damnation of Faust," and Mitchell, R. E. A. Webster, H. -to recognize the the allegro

movement

pro-

he viewed it from the commercial aspect from which probably a lifelong habit has accustomed last thing in effectiveness and When torches waste and warders him to view things and Mr. Bruce display, and the cause of gas should have welcomed this ex- should advance accordingly... The HONGKONG CIGAR pression of opinion from an shop is more than brilliantly lit at night it is warmly lit A impartial observer and, instead of cosiness exides from it and a dismissing it with a cheap sneer, sense of "home dearie home- considered whether there was not that's where I would be." Elec in it more than a grain of truth. tricity has not quite ousted the For the saner politicians in burner and the incandescent and Australia are becoming grow whilst it is able to manifest its ingly convinced that the day' is wurm distributing forces which the dawning when the "White Aus-ordinary electric light is not able tralia" creed, which every Aus-to do, will continue to have its tralian youngster has drilled into users." Some of us these days him, by such organisations as the offer up prayers of praise for our Australian Natives" Association, gas geysers' which in a few of time give us a from birth, will have to be drop-moments ped in favour of a policy of supply of hot water which makes us spartanly brave each cold regulated Asiatic, immigration. What the "White Australians" morning. must be forced to realise is firstly, that there is no moral right to A NOTE, scarce monopolise vast areas unless they

these days that when. can be utilised within a reason- they come our way we sit up and the future, to assist it to the able time and secondly (an argu-take notice. Some of the latest tradition which is becoming its ment more likely to appeal to issues of the Chartered Bank strike due. Practical minded people lia by blocking Asiatic immigra- forgery. A $10 note which floated their type of mind) that Austra-us as being very effective against who make use of the words tion is depriving herself of what late our pocket yesterday for a "Does it pay?"; may possibly would unquestionably prove a TEN in big red capitals pro- very temporary stay, has the letters question the wisdom of maintain huge impetus to her own prominently displayed. A midnight which

The study of words,-words ing an establishment with at the'

reveller could tell at a glance that hewn it was ten and ten only, whilst our

us, One of the results of Sir Wil moment a comparatively speaking

simple and gentle money-changers liam Bronyate's recent occupancy

small number of students. For

will be discouraged from thinking of the Vice-Chancellorship of the tunately the answer to "Dves It

they are dealing with one hundred It may be said that many dollar notes. The bank must be Hongkong University has meant, Pay" is "Yes! it does, but in people who have children know congratulated on this effective with the co-operation of the manner which is not to be nothing. whatever about them, method of stamping their notes. Registrar and the advice, we measured in monetary returns. We are not referring particularly Perhaps for this entirely unsolicited believe, of the University's The balance sheet is more than a to those who consign their puff they will kindly send us a few Accountants, the recasting of the mass of figures totalling over five be seriously said, in many cases goodwilll

darlings to the tender, and let it samples as an expression of their University's accounts In a sim- millions of dollars, but a standing the loving care of faithful and per form than that which pre-memorial to the men who, either loyal Amahs, and who appar

St. James' defini led hitherte) and a measure of at the foundation of the Univer what the child or children may visit the fatherless and widows RELIGION, tion of trus religion is to publicity regarding the accounts sity or since have helped the be doing, where it may be taken and to keep oneself unspotted with an interesting and illuminat University to its present position, to play, or with whom it is being from the world. It is of course ing explanatory Note by the Vice- and laid we trust & solid founda- allowed to associate. This is all casier said than done. Mr. Edwin Chancellor tending to make things tion..

by the way and not intended as a Clodd who is one of the leaders in clearer to those not so well versed

prelude to a sermon on parental the Rationalistic movement had One matter in Sir William control. We were agreeably been giving us his idea of what accounts, in addition to taking Brunyate's Note strikes us as interested to read of the Confer-religion is in the following the world at large into the extraordinary and that is his enes which the Chinese Y.M.C.A. words! ve justice and University's confidence. This reference to the fact that for is organising in the matter of

To love justice

mercy, to latter phase of the mattor must more than a brief period, avail- tions and lectures which are to be children's health, and the exhibi-

pity the suffering, to assist the weak, to forget wrongs and re

February 27-Coronet Theatre; The Colony will lose one of its he heartily applauded. There is able funds remained uninvested, given to be followed by demons-

member benefits, to love the truth Anita Stewart in" Mary Regan." best known residents, to-day when the Kowloon CC in a friendly The following will represent idence in this annual document:It may be that outside mortgage is situated in one of the most trations. The Chinese YM.C.A.,

and liberty, to cherish wife and February 27-Star Theatre: Mr. Willam Nicholson, of Messrs: match with the H.K.C.C. at bome of tremendous amount of investments, the field for the dense portions of the Colony and

child, to make a happy home, to Glady Walton in The Wild Butterfield and Swire salls for on Saturday R. E Lindsell- detailed work and we can under investment of what may be term-fa thus eminently in a position,

love the beautiful in art and Party DS

Home on the "Lingnam,” nature, te cultivate the mind, February 27, World Theatre; sland and appreciate Sir William ed Trust Funds, in Hongkong is assisted as it is by willing medical

to be brave and cheerful and to Jane Novak in “Divorce.” * Brunyate's very generous tribute limited. The mutter is a striking workers, to carry on such an

make others happy, to fill life February 27-Theatre Royal with the splendour of generous, The Quaints in "Wanted A Smile the Registrar in particular, and comment on the view taken by excollent work as instruction in acts and the warmth of loving February 28 Theatre Royal The general body of the staff.members of the Finance Com the cause of child welfare The words, to discard error, and de- excerpts from Polly and Fently identifed with the activities |

stroy prejudice, to receive now

"Wanted A Smile."{!!

of the local St. Andrew's'; truths with gladness and to

SVORNI SOCIALS cultivate hope to do the best February 28Musicale at the and an oathushistid vyach

besides being a keen that can be done, and then to be Helena May Institute,

Yesterday morning-the-mad resigned that insreligions

Febru

Messra. Batterfield Beautiful as this visit will rot body but it seems to

ently evince little interest in

able to onslaughts on their age- Chinese, who are not really amen-

Buch a willingness to disclose the mitee who were of the opinion

stupe of income and expenditure that in view of the inflated land bound ideas, are taking kindly, to mokrite warm praise-places, the values then ruling in Hongkong, Tniversity above cloistral criti- investment, an local, mortgages chatz, and in a sell to those who might involve serious risk men in our Quiversity a hope for

that's beerý - exercised, an

ed readily recognize is for their the scheme which those concern- bened and what is just as please important, for the beneft of the commuhi

bole,

ex

from Owen Hughes, G. R. More, E. G. 'many respects of Mendelssohn's Scotch Symphony. Lammert, A. C. I. Bowker, eemed barbaric,- There wiil be an annotated A, V. T. Dean, A. L. Gace, and derstand dimly the programme.

Rev. T. E.. Powell. e of that wondrous law of

intellectual development which adapts faith to purposes and hopes to necessities, and tempers the, sense of beauty according to human powers of acquisition.

Lafcadio Hearn.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

"Coming Events Advertised In The Mall.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

[dyof the

$David Socie

SOCIAL AND: PERSONAL.

"A" Team v. K.C.C..friendly at Kowloon: H E Hollands (capt.), L. D. McNicoll, F., C. Through Reuter's American Miller, C. V. Mark, P. Jacks, Service comes a cable from New D. HF. McMaster, J. N. Owen, York announcing the death of J. P. Bridger, R. Stock, J., E. George R. Chester. author of Hancock and L. H. Kerne. "Get Rich Quick. Wallingford,” and other stories: R

"A" Team v. "Craigengower. friendly, at Craigengower

A Reuter cable from London G. H. Percy (capt.), E. C. Hagen, states that Admiral Sir Percy W. W Mackenzie, A. K. Mac- Scott, who was last reported kenzie, H. Griffin, C. R. Baron, seriously at Malta, has been D. B. G. Nicholson, C. T. Fowler landed on a.stretcher of A. Stevens, L. 1. Blacking and Albert Dock from the liner E. Way.

Mashobra" from Malta: He was | | taken to his home in an ambulance.

K. C. C. TEAM.

by way of New Zealand and the (capt.), A. W. Ramsay, S. Jex, R Panama. ¡Mr. Nicolson, who was Pestonji, L. E. Lammert, F. ... attached to the Talkoo Sugar Howell, R. Barnshaw, C., Barn- Refinery and has spent 28 years in shaw, L.A. B. Dunod, J. C. Fot the Colony, has been very promin Leber and T. M. Cochrane,

resented

*Troublespine. Coughi

troublesnolo, Alee