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POLICE EFFORT.

THE CHINA MAIL..

ed the western part of the City to find out how many of those he described as derelicts slept out of doors. There is biblical authority to prove that evil Hates light Then let there be light.

Students Conference,

AMU 11-D

April 26-Dance at Peak Club, 9.15 pm.

SPORT,

April 5-7-Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Captain's Cup: Club and extra race meetings

April 19 and 21. HK Jockey

THURSDAY APRIL

PROPHET ABROAD.

THE SEAMY

YOUR FORTUNE FOR FIFTY COPING WITH THE COLONY'S

OENTS.

WORLD'S 'GREATEST PREDICTER.

CRIME

NEW YAUMATI COURT. Little Dramas Soon To Ba Enacted.

Promennding up and down the pavement is a venoble Sikir who Hongkong Hotel (Pedder Street)

a can on which are inscribed. Try solutee passers-by and offer them

(China Mail Special:)

your luck," "World's Greatest Prestentorian voice of the sergeant

"Bring In the prisoner! dioter, The Most Renowned, rang out. And there was a hush. otc, etc..

The whispered chattering ceased.

The

been tried, the idea being that dinners should be ordered, and paid for by omen: The sugger-9.16.p.in provide a feat and prove if women William Rees-Davies at Hongkong tion was made that it would April 19. Publio Dinner to SH are as generous as men in the Hotel 8 n.m. matter of tips. The walters are the only persons able to say if these Leap Year dinners provided the same amount of tips as before, or if they were exceeded, or a The Hongkong University stil they are silent, Women are decrease experienced. So far dents should find no difficulty in notoriously economical in their PUBLIC AUCTIONS. being represented at the Imperial idea of tip valuss, but it is quite April 4-Lammert Bros, at No. Students Conference to be held in likely they excelled the men in an 18 Godown of the H.K and Kow July, if they will agree to the art which has become a vice, and toon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. following suggestion. It seems which grips then like one. impossible and prolably unwise,

Kowloon, miscellaneous. · goods, 10.30 am, that one of the present students

Mr Ramsay April --Lammert Bros., at He describes himself as Nanak The prisoner rose from out of should make the journey to DISMISSAL. MacDonald has 8 Catchink St Kennedy Town, Singh and claims that he will tell the depths. Head first, unshaven London and their represent his

been telling of rice mills with buller and polishers, anybody's fortune with the greatest the recesses of the mysterious and unkempt, he emerged from own University. Impossible first his Sunday visits to the late machines, motors, etc., 11 a.m. on the ground of the expense Lord Morley and how honest

April 9-Lanimert Bros., at precision. A gentleman who asked involved only a very wealthy John used to reward him, on his Sales Booms, the ss. Kwai Wa How much was told Afty dungeon below and stood there in student could hope to do it, and departure with a number of now lying at Shamahnipo. 8 p.m. th stories of imdreamt of wealth five foot six before The Bonk,

cents,"

He was at once regaled the dock in all the misery of his cigars. If Ramsay's conversation Impossible on the ground of time had been brilliant, the cigarinum 6: Catobick St. Kennedy Town, three young ladies were enamoured reflecting his wretched figure in April 16-Lammert Bros. at

and was told, with a chuckle, that Enclosing him wore atout bara, expense, for such a trip would bered six. Often they dwindled two complete sete rattan and cana effectively cat into the time a to two. The earning capacity splitting machinery, eto, 8 pm of him, one being tall, another of the shining brass, polished that student normally allows himself was studiously noted and Lord COMPANY MEETING, AN

medium height and the third abort morning. Caged in from the gap- to study with a view to taking a Morley was inexorable in the

The descriptions were illustrated ing crowd he stretched his arms, April 10-Second yearly meet- degree. But the matter might be doing out of the number that ing of shareholders of the Hong with movements of the hand. A freed from the iron shackles which arranged by asking someone seemed to him to meet the case. kong Engineering & Construction this stage the prophet said that marked his desperate nature, and who has been - a student here There was a somewhat similar Co., Ltd., at St. George's Building, what he had delivered was only a officially to represent Hongkong. method fured by the late Sir Chater Road, noon.

preliminary vision but if the belloy rested on the rail in front. At his Quite a number of students, after Alfred Jones, the great Liverpool April 11-Seventeenth annual ing one wanted a detailed account side stood two statue-like figures completing their course here or shipping magnate, and a pioneer meeting of Gande, Price & Co., the change would be $10, whore watching him with calm indiffer- a part of it, proceed to England in the trade of some of our Indies Ltd. at 8 Queen's Road Central,pon the victim strode into the ence

hotel.

The Court was crowded and the there to enter either Oxford or possession. He did not give noon.

Another came along and this time air was stifling. Outside a curious Cambridge, or to become students cigars away, but when he wished in the great London University aver, and he had a

to indicate that an interview was April 11-All interested in the ad man varied his taction. Ha throng peered in through the

ceaseless propon to form a Hongkongpened a small grimy note-book tauch windows craning their ecks t Others of course proceed to Edin-stream of callers daily, he handed Forfarabire Asam, to meet at No. the worse for wear and indicated again a glimpse of the prisoner burgh. There are several of these the caller a banana In those Queen's Buildings, Ground Floor, caldur with wook-days in it, all who, unperturbed was leaning students now at Home who, we days this was almost an unknown opposite Star Ferry at 6 p.m.

drway out in badly smudged ink. negligently on the rails of that feel sure, would only be too fruit. In this way Sir Alfr d

The prospective client, we invited dreaded dock... pleased to attend the Conference, helped to popularise the fruit. A LOCAL AND GENERÁL.

to point at any date but he apperen to represent Hongkong and to certainly original way of doing

tly had his doubts and left. speak, if that should become things."

At Kuala Kangsar a fortnight necessary, for his alma mater,

Mother, rebuked ago, a lady took part for the first He could, at the conclusion of the Conference, write a report and

THE RETORT. little Tommy, as time in Malaya, in a polo match, Mrs. Holdbrook playing for the send it to Hongkong where it third helping of apple pie,

he asked for a Perak Gymkhana Club team. would be read with a considerable knew a little boy who ate too much degree of interest and profit. apple pie, and he burst" You This is a simple suggestion. We can't have too much apple pie, make it not wishing that the mother." "How did the Title boy matter should die with the burst, then?" asked the mother, Registrar's explicit statement "There wasn't enough boy!" why, at the moment, it is im rejoined Tommy.l possible for Hongkong to take part in the matter.

The China Mail that new and up-to-date methods will ceaselessly be adopted. More particularly should this be the case when visiting war-boats are here; or great liners are in port The onlooker sees a great deal, if not all, of the game, and he can Signe are not wanting of the not help but observe, how certain desire of the Police Authorities to Chinese, seemingly of the undesir- make Hongkong a fit and properable class, attach themselves to place to dwell in. The activities more or less simple sailormen, and in the direction of clearing the act as guides, very bad couh Wanchai cesspool are noted with héliora, and certainly repulsive Interest. If any criticism is to be friends. In doing what they are. levelled at all, it is that the police the police deserve every encour have been singularly slack in agement and every possible attempting to root out the grow amount of help that can be given. ing persistency of the work of We should like to ask if all male solicitante, on the lines possible help is forthcoming? Has which common sense dictated; for the beneficent aid of light been the nuisance has been long eatab tried to its full extremity? We thed The methods which the mean artificial light. Are our tanteur in detective or police streets lighted as they ought to work would have adopted, are now be? Some of them and even the carried out, and the success Prays, are places of Satanic dark- our police, sergeante ness unrelieved by light, or ahow- for the

ted the dimnese redolent of an yla gas meter anxiously

o it. We awaiting the Bghten

influence of yet an If any them opy the

will continue and Commissioner

A. Wireless School.

The proposed Wireless School,

די י

LONELY.

OTHER MEETING.

Anybody who likes a good laugh and has not yet seen "Rags to Riches" should make a point of going to the Coronet Theatre this evening when little Wesley Barry's masterpiece will be screened for the last time.

When the China Mail man went up he was seked to sign his name in the book; the reporter did not comply but was told in a smattering of English that a wonderful opport amily tres wasted as everything could be revealed by handwriting,

·SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Mr. A. E. Odell, managing director of the Europe Hotel, Singapore, left by the "Naldera" on home leave.

On the U.S. K. C. ground yes. terday, the Hockey Club defeated goals to one. a United Services team by four

Woodward, Mc Mr. T. E. Dibbs, who has been master, Evans and Powell scored on the staff of the Pinang Gazette as

The trial dragged on and at the end, the sentence was pronounced. "Guilty,"

The prisoner betrayed no emo- tion but held out his wrists for the handcuffs. The trapdoor Was opened and alowly he disappeared from view. His wife, pathetic little figure drooped like a fackag flower. She had waited in vain. for him to step out of the domic into the Court free man Instead he had gone the way f all criminals-through the tra door and down the hard ecfd stone steps to serve his term of incar. ceration, the punishment to fe the crime.

seems to be the joint effort of same number of people to be for the Club; the Services' point sub-editor for about ten years, has Courts. And with it there i

was notched by their centre-half. left for New Zealand.

To-day's Poem,

On the arrival of the steamer The Prince of Wales has gone

vessel and found concealed in to recuperate from the effects of ports revenue officers boarded the states 2. Reuter cable from London, the cabin of a passenger, who had his accident. already left the ship, 1,680 tahils

of opium,- valued at about $5,000,

History is written in Polise

tragedy and comedy. Ghosts of author and no divergenco, from Bow Street have inspired the

tags has been necessary to stimu late its fascination. Murderers, robbers, thieves and innocent men have all provided a story from the book of life. The weary free Jance, has earned many a welcome shilling with a few pert remarks

London, we aro "assured, has become ibe: most lonely place in the world. That seems a remarkable thing to say of a place that contains almost the perhaps our two biggest local found in Australia. But it simply Arms, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson proves that crowds do not neces &Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Butter friendships, and that one can be Sarvistan at Singapore from Ching" to Biarritz for a ten days stay the true record of actual happen-

sarily make for closer union or field & Swire and deserves the just as lost in the crowds of a big success which is its due It seems city or a big hotel, as in the to meet the suggestion that ships wastes of the Sahara. Loneliness sailing from Hongkong and likely after all is a condition of the mind to receive the unwelcome atten- tion of pirates should have a wire- less installation with of course a wireless operator in charge. On that ground alone the idea of the School is most excellent and it is pleasing to see that the "Govern- ment, through. its Education Dept., is closely associated with the idea. Whether objection will be raised that the operators are to be Chinese we do not know. Whether also it will be argued that it is "not wise" that operators are to be Chinese we do not know. Time should be given to test the scheme. It should attract the best class of Chinese that the Colony possesses the studious, steady and reliable class that we have in great numbers. The terms of employment

Mr. G." M. Young has been and eight pounds of oplum and appointed a Director of the Hong cocaine for Rangoon, constituting kong and Shanghai Banking one of the largest seizures of the Corporation In the place of Mr. last two mentioned drugs made in G. T. M. Edkins, who left the from the Old Lady of Tottenham. Singapore for a long time.

seem

Earth gets its price for what

Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner

to die in, priest hath his fee who comes

and shrives us,

The

At

We bargain for the graves we

He in;

the devil's booth are all things

sold,

Each ounce of dross costs its

ounce of gold;

For a cap and bells our lives

we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole

soul's taskings

'Tis heaven alone that is given

waway,

aaking;

Boring “fans” will be pleased

Colony to-day. 201

Mr.

A Rester cable from Washington to hear that a bout has been to-day announces that President arranged between Jim Cartlidge, Coolidge has selected who has come with a good reputa. Harlan Stone of New York, to tion, and "Matty" Smith who is succeed - Mr. Daugherty claimed to have been the ex-juplar Attorney-General. Hopes are also entertained of |world light-light-weight champion.

the Irish boxer. Smith and Cartlidge Cartlidge meeting Jerry Monohan, are to box for the Colony's light weight championship and details will be given later.

R

Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Still loft "Naldera," but do not expect to be Singapore for London by the away for more than six months Mrs. Still has not been very well for some months, and it is hoped that the change will quite restors her.

The play of the imagination is never needed. What sharper wit,- more biting sarcasm and silvery eloquence have, been heard than those we, who are privileged, have, listened to, and marvelled at in our Police Courts?

Police Courta in the Far East

comedies as do the famous courts stage their little dramas, and of London. They have their oddities, scum and debris of humanity just the same as Bow Street, Probably the Chinese psychology has provided a greater problem for the learned gentle Mr. T. G. Weall, whose marriage men of the Bench than the breaker

Mr. D. K. Blair, Secretary of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, left for home yes. Many friends gathered on board East for nearly twenty years, and his humour, his inscrutability is and offered their good wishes fara is well-known in Hongkong, and

generous whilst the work itself 'Tis only God may be had for the terday on the s.s. "Pembrokeshire." is reported, has been in the Far of the law at Home. And perhaps

will not be over arduous, although

of course it will be responsible. The story of wireless is full of romance, and "Sparks," as opera- tors are familiarly called, have added their share to the glorious story of the sea, We trust that

-J. R. Lowell,

WEATHER CALENDAR.

APRIL 3.

if our surmise is correct regarding wireless and piracy 1845. from this port, will share in this that all firma operating steamers piece of spirited endeavour. They certainly ought to come into line and thus help to relieve an intoler able situation which is perhaps more their concern than others.

DANE Thieves? **** THE IMPENITENT the title forceful two verse poem by Sit 4 given to a William Watson in a Homie paper. It may have a local application and bring the truth home to Impenitent

profiteers!

I met with a Wholesale.

Robber

A greater miscreant still."

pleasant holiday and a quick return Shanghai is connection with a little more exasperating and to health. Before he left Mr. Blair Dodwell and Co., Ltd. He will in bewildering. The study of the was presented with a pair of beauti all probability return to Hongkong Chinese is always perplexing and ful vases by the Hongkong Japan-to resume charge of the frm there will ever baffle the cleverest of ese Residents Association as a in the autumn, reports the China paychologists. For as one able mark of their esteem, and inappre Express."

scholar has summed it up he clation of the cordial relationship

who grasps the inner workings which had existed between Mr. Mr. Edmund Blundin, whose of the Chinese mind, has the key Blair and the Japanese community, book of poems, The Shepherd of the world." particuarly in connection with the won the Hawthornden Prize" in **** Japanese earthquake disaster.....

I have been loitering out in the garden here this golden day of Spring. The wood pigeons coo in the covert; the frogs croak in the pond: A report reached Hongkong he returned from the trenches, has Hongkong Police annals the bees hum about some yesterday of the death at Canton now been appointed Professor of turned over with, the thyme; and some of my on Sunday last of Mr. E. K. Vizer, English Litemture at Tokio of the new magistracy at smaller nieces have been Second Officer on the B and S, University. He was to leave for loon. The Court is busy gathering primroses Steamer Liangchow Mr. Vizer, Japan early this month,

Fitzgerald.

1922 and who has been on the A new page in the history editorial staff of the Nation since

SIMPLICITY.

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Yaamati, once termed the blackest spot in the Colony IC

It is stated, shot himself through the head with revolver about

On March 16 Mr. H. H Bateman requires no feats of imagination II.30 .m. shortly after the ship of the London-Rangoon Trading to conjure up the manifold scenes had berthed. He was removed to Ca, Rangoon, while in a punt with that will be played in that little the Canton Hospital, where he his wife and children on the Bahan

died about a quarter past seven the side of the Royal Lakes, fell back room above the old Police Station irrations and unnecessary ex-verdict of Suicide during formerly chief of the Rangoon Yaumati without The Mr.

“To ampufy life by abollahing on board the next day, and 60 was a son of Mr. Bateman,

same night: An Inquest, was held wards and was drowned. Decease among the hotbed of armed rob- perditure would increase our temporary insanity was returned, Fire Brigade and a brother of EW Hamilton will hold the bere whom Yaumati, Lehôt

health and happiness, and would The deceased, who was quite a ex-Captain Nomian Bateman, 20th scales of Justice and from there I met with a Retall Robber, perhaps enable us to hold our own young man, was buried at Canton Burma Rifles. Who robbed at his counter against the races of the East,”

we expect some of the most vivid on Monday evening..

stories of crime to be told.-Glan Apdvate cable received in Ing through the windo Given a dinner on March 15, Singapore announces the sudden empty Court one can by the London Press Club who death, in Aberdeenshire, of Mr. ture the pris handed him a silver Inkstand for James Sellar, brother of MAM dock lammed up his daughter Isobel, with love on Sellar, of Messi: Sime, Darby and benchea. *** One her art Birthday Me Ramsay Co, and formerly manager of MacDonald," said he now knew Tanjong Pagar Docks before they

old mend! why the Government had sur. were taken over by Government vived during the Inst fortnight, hr, Sellar, who is believed to have plates? (Laughter). He add hile the been over 60, retired about: 20 } returi Americans, French

nang Years ago. had their wanderf the English jourrialist that clusive quality pendent distinction

For both Kwould build a gibbet As high as their souls are low, And swing them aloft to their

kinsfolk

"The vulture and carrion crow.

The results of the YEAR Special Leap Year dance at the

Coming

Dean Inge.

SHADOWS BEFORE

The Mall.

ENTER

April

Rags to Ric April

A ball are not available. 5.30 p.m livening Probably we remain as before, and Love Light.

penny, whilst males, were asked to give = onia Concert. ent, let dance. They were not invited to April

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