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THE CHINA MAIL.

and

SOCIAL

FRIDAY APRIL 26, 1924

April 25-Ball in Aid of St. Dunstan's, at City Hall, 9.15 p.m. April 26-Dance at Feak Club,

SPORTS.

SEASIDE SEASON STARTS NEXT THURSDAY.

DIPPING IN THE BRINY,

Next Thursday we shall hear simultaneous splash when one

whatever chagrin they may feel theatres with sliding roofs the fifteenth century until the April 25-Star Theatre, Kowloon; HONGKONG BY THE SEA:

that Classical at those quotations being used by Think of the joy on some stuffy middle of the seventeenth,

Characteristic title was employed dances; also A Message from others who have not paid for a night of touching a button and is, this

constantly, Charles l's Mars. watching your ceiling glide into quite, sent, and who have therefore not obscurity to give place to the eldest son, for instance, being

April 25.-World Theatre; behind then the backing of heavens and the smiling twinkling specifically described by the"A Chapter in Her Life."

April, 28-Last Concert of the Associations which we believe stars. And think of our theatres Scottish Parliament as "Chartes, protect share buyers and sellers as blessed with this simple arrange Prince and Steward of Scotland season, the Hongkong Male Voice BATHING BEACHES OPENED.

From 1660 1714. Choir, In St. Andrew's Hall, Kow- ment: Instead of any breeze that and Wales." well as members. At the same may be blowing caressing an however, no reigning sovereign toon, 9.15 p.m. time, unless their position has a unresponsive set of brick walls, it came to the throne the title of Ing ceremony.

had a son, so that when George I May 1-Queen's Theatre; open- legal status, we cannot see how would find its way indoors or Prince of Scotland for the heir they, are to prevent others from perhaps in cellings would be the apparent had virtually been forgot participating in this class of busi-more correct term, and like mercy ten. It remained a legal title, bless him that receives. it is not however, for many years, and it is ness. It means that both the Stock a new iden. We know of a place recorded that, even until the Re-

9.10 p.m. Exchange and the Sharebrokers where men delight to knock what form Act of 1832, tenancy of a Association will either have is poetically called "the stuffing" 40 freehold from the Prince of to increase their membership, or out of each other. They designate Scotland was a qualification for a

the place "The Stadium." And vote in the Scottish counties." put up with another body working here on hot nights, when the air in the same field. We have no is made hotter by reason of feeling in the matter beyond tobacco smoke and the raucous cries of quite perfectly frenzied desiring to see the profession or calling of broking raised to the enthusiasts, they slide to the roof, and behold the whole canopy of highest possible level, and to have heaven is revealed for the asking. associated with it the word pro- The thing may have its draw- bity. Our concern, if we have any, packs; but the only one we know is that of failing to drawback the is also for the shareholder, both ceiling to its restful and original investor and the class we shall not position-thus allowing an ingress libel by calling speculator, to for nocturnal maurauders, and whom some protection is due, making it easier to steal the P NA TAL MODORE SAN SALAH SAE 50 SATSUMANMERKUNGSWISTIAN MAADUISM INAEGIEN BROTIN PARK DONThe investor in the long run is family piano or gramophone. "Tis but an idea. We present it free. likely to suffer from the fictitious and without the fettered chains of | values which are often a disgrace conditions that would impose so to legitimate share business in much per cent on the cost of pro- that his holdings may drop when viding a boon that we believe Ltd there is no real reason that they would generally appreciated.

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The China Mail,

Houxoro FRIDAY, APR. 23, 1994

BROKERS.

A QUIET REVOLUTION.

Five million SMOKE CLOUDS. peeple in the United King dom helped to smoke

57.688 tons of tobacco imported It cost £18,442,475. Five big corporations cleared £13,404,851 in profits in 1923.

last year

There are 413.749 licensed tobac conists in the United Kingdom,

428,000,000 cigars are smoked in England in a year,

Of which 28,000,900 Havanas are

The world used over 4,675,650 worth £2,000,000. million matches last year.

The bookmaker was ODDS, taken ill suddenly. He sent his runner 10 a 'street where several doctors lived, bidding him tell a certain doctor

to come at once.

It was a different physician who answered the summons. After- wards the bookie asked his tout to explain why.

should our advice is worthy of giving and taking, we would suggest that the "Insiders" and

In an unostena- the “Outsiders” get together and}

tious paragraph in the memo come to some reasonable under-i

of the ran dum

"Well, you see, guv'nor, there standing: otherwise they may find Secretary for War on the Army was a lot of brass plates on the the Government taking a hand in Estimates is the announcement doors, and when I got to the num-

that in future the promotion of ber you gave me I saw Consulta the game-instituting a heavy officers will be by merit"; Sotions 11 to 2. The chap next door licence fee for the privilege of that the Army now offers a "good was offering Consultations 10 to adopting the calling: insisting career for a boy with brains." I knew you'd life the chap

There are men living who bought that gave you the beat adds," that Brokers, as insurance 'com.and sold, commissions in the panies do. leposit a heavy fee with Army, for the purchase system

was. not abolished by Royal the Government as an evidence of

Warrant until 1871.

(The Ways of the Water.) It singa as it goes- Born of the snows." From fitful drippings To crystalline thunder, It leaps and cascades, Parting crags asunder.

After that To-day's Poem. their solidarity to meet all engage-promotion Was by seniority, ments-and what may be more though men who specially distin. necessary-limiting the number guished themselves were given" brevet rank. Otherwise it an of brokers. The Government is! officer got a step in rank it was likely to be more than interested generally due to influence and not in the mutter, seeing what a large)

petticoat influence" for part of its revenue is derived from which the War Office was at one stamps on share contracts and transfer deeds.

Portugal.

seldom

time notorious.

THE DOG COMES BACK.

A seven-year- old collie that finds honour- able mention in the newspapers for having return- What know they of Portugal ed to a farm in the Cumberland who only Fortugal know? Who fells from Liverpool, a hundred we may well agk. And with all due railes away, is not a pioneer in this direction sense." Many defference and diffidence we sug- kind of gest to the Portuguese Consul that are the stories of dogs traversing information concerning Portugal miles of country with which they would be very welcome to those of are unfamiliar and coming at last to the old time from which they us who live in Hongkong. Is any have been taken by train or car. ⚫effort made for instance, to attract No satisfactory explanation has home-goers to the beauties of the ever been offered for this faculty, place? For we presume there are though the occultists have ventur. beauties and attractions equal to ed the opinion that the dog has a other places. For instance: Mr.kind of second sight, of which we H. G. Wells has been sent to humans know nothing. Portugal by his Doctor to get well.

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It plays on its ways, Nor ever stays. In joyous haste

It swivels and swirls In silvery sprays Of veiling pearls.

It laughs as it grows

To rivers from snows.

It ripples and frolics Through meadows and lanes In musical measures— · Fed by the rains.

It foams and it flashes i It spouts and it splashes Till tossed and billowed And piled in waves, The spring of the mountain The whole earth laves.

-Gertrude S. McCalmont.

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Hongkong dips in the briny to cool their fevered limbs, for on Thursday the bathing beaches will be open for use of the general public. For the moderate charge April 25-Billiards Champion-of a nimble five or ten cent; piece. ship for Ho Kom-long Cups at the swimmer, the paddler and the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, 9 p.. mere splasher will be able to April 2-H. K. C. C. Tennis swim, to paddle, or to sport their Tournament: T. Honda v. H. D. latest style bathing costumes, on Rumjahn

the sands of Hongkong.. April 26-Sixth tourisment of "Happy Hongkong" should be the Hongkong Boxing Aasen. at as familiar a slogan as "Cheerful Theatre Roval, 9.15 p.m.

Cleethorpes" or Breezy Blackpool April 26.-R.HY.C. closing during the seaside cruise of the season and ladies' only remains for some enterprising day at the Club-house, North merchant to establish ice cream Point, 3 p.m.

April 26.-H. K. C. C. Tennis Tournament: semi-final doubles.

April 28.-H. K. G. C. Tennis Tournament: semi-final singles,

April 30-H. K. C. C. Tennis Tournament: final doubles,

May 2-H. K. C. C. Tennis Tournament: final singles..

season. It

parlours on the sands, donkey rides, a roundabout and a pierrot show to complete the picture. And then for some confectionery firm to introduce a Hongkong rock; so that visitors from. Kow- loon or tripping round the world will be able to take back some little memento of Hongkong by the sea.

The Public Beaches. PUBLIC AUCTIONS. April 28-Larnmort Bros., la,

Two of the public bathing Will be open on Armand Bldgs., Kimberley Road, beaches Kowloon, household furniture, Thursday, May 1. They are the beach adjoining the premises of 2.45 p.m.

the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club at which a fee of 10 cents per head will be charged and the beach at Kennedy Town which will call for a five cents fee. Matsheds have been erected and are ready for use,

April 29-Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, one Driggs 5-pas- senger meter car, II a.m.

June 11-Lammert Bros, at the premises of the E.E. Tramway Co., Ltd., Bowrington Canal Rd, East, steam driven electric generat ing plant, 8. p.m.

The beach at Stonecutters. Island, probably one of the 'fa- vourites will not be open for at COMPANY MEETINGS.

least three weeks. Permission bas April 30-Twentyseventh an not yet heen received froin the nual meeting of shareholders of the Military Authorities. The usual China Provident Loan & Mortgage ferry service will be in operation Co. Ltd., at St. George's Building, again though to which company the 6 Connaught Road, 11 a.m.

contract has been given is not

May 6-Forty-third meeting of announced. the 1.C.S.N. Co, Ltd., at Messrs,

The bathing beach at Hunghom,

Jardine Matheson's Offices, II a.m.will not be open this year, stated

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

a P. W. D. official to a China Mail representative yesterday. Last year it did not prove popular, chiefly on account of its proximity to Hunghom station and to the One case of small pox was fact that the water there is a trife reported yesterday.

"The

Yellow

Dragon

olly.

At Repulse Bay, the ice has "already been broken, as it were. (Queen's College) for April, ie as The sands have already been usual, brimful of good things. trodden by the week-end partles and the fun and frolic has begun. Badly scalded through up- The P.W.D. are placing two rafts setting a pot of boiling water at for the Instruction or amusement 30, Tung Street, a three years old of the splashers. There will also Chinese girl has been admitted to be two attendants. the Government Civil Hospital in

a serious condition.

This Year's Fashion.

seems

to

Our Fashion Expert has hardly had time to discuss the latest cut in "I did pick the purse from his bathing costumes. Men of course, pocket," admitted a Chinese to conservative as they always are, Mr. R. E.Lindsell this morning will wearthe regulation blue. Some "but dropped it on the ground, of the more daring will romp the Then I picked it up and replaced burning sands with a stripe-the it in his pocket." For this he got favourite

be red two months.

their costumes. or yellow-in 1

Of the ladies, the Deauville A seaman employed on the

will be in vogue, yet style steam launch "Hats Maru" was it is expected, as in former years, charged before Mr. E. W. Hami- there will be many surprises and ton at the Kowloon Magistracy perhaps a few shocks. The figure, this morning with being in unlaw the colour of the hair and the ful possession of 100 rounds of twinkle in the eyes is naturally, Mauser ammunition. The case invariably the deciding factor. was remanded until April 29... For those who have been to Still deep snow-a

Honolulu and seen the sights of Describing a Chinese boy of Waikiki, ukuleles will be the thick in the court-yard, eighteen in the Police Court this ultra-mode as a completing touch. dare say.

Severe welcome morning. Revenue Officer Grim All camera fiends are liable to get for the poor lambs now mitt said that he was a well-known shot this year. coming into the world.-smoker who hung round the opium Scott.

divans and informed the keepers. when the officers arrived, for which he was paid twenty cents. Mr. R. E. Lindsell ordered the boy to receive eight strokes.

WEATHER CALENDAR.

APRIL 25.

foot

THE

HAWKINS

RACK.

The age bid war and he is spending his time doing so, and also writing a novel. That MENNONITES. of the old against the new is being may not be very exciting, but to quite a large number of people it re-enacted again to-day in the is an interesting plece of news, ranks of the hook and eye who obtain it from a source given Baptists" or Amish Mennonites in over to those interested in books. Croghan, America. Although new

ideas and new methods have had 1827. So then if the Consul is silent a hard struggle to win recognition regarding his own country, let us of any sort among this strange see what a Consular report from people, old restrictions have been Lisbon has to say about the place relaxed to the extent of permitting We should all be interested in a number of members to purchase Portugal if only by reason of the tracks to assist them in their farm fact that Britain takes about a work and it is even rumoured that third of the exports of the coun- some of the more modern of the Most {try, and supplies even a greater colony own automobiles.

POINTS OF VIEW. proportion of he wants. Portu- unusual of all the encroachments gal's well-being is therefore a of twentieth century customs upon

This Constitution is worth pre-

H.M.S. "Hawkins" flagship of Benito Henson, was charged the China Fleet with the Com- they would be put lo considerable thatter of concern to us. Credit is the staid habits of the colony serving-Mr. J. H. Thomas,

before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the mander-in-Chief (Admiral Sir given to the late Prime Minister, is the use of the button. The

Human nature is too good for Central Magistracy this mording Arthur Leveson) aboard, returned inconvénience without them. For Snr Antonio Maria da Silva, whose sect gained its name through the years then the Colony has had its tenure of office is a record under strange doctrine that forbade the the petty uses that it is put to-with "being a person other than to Hongkong, yesterday after com a Chinese unlawfully he was found pleting a three months' cruise. to brokers, all familiar figures, and the Republic. for the fact that said, that buttons wore orna- I do not believe that any man asking for alms and being without Singapore, Saigos, Bangkok and

use of buttons on the ground, it is Sir Oliver Lodge.

Sir Arthur broking has come to be regarded more than two years have passed mental and therefore worldly, was ever saved by belief in a employment or visible means of the Dutch Indies.

sustenance at Des Voeux Road Leveson was met by Commodore as an honourable calling in which without any serious public distur- Occasionally now, it is reported, a treed.-Rev. W. B. Selbie.

bance. Conditions favourable to young man of the colony is to be

near Who can tell which the clever Central

Wing Lok Grace and senior officers of the the prizes are likely to lead to stable government are improving seen who wears buttons instead of boys and girls are at twelve years tantamount to vagrancy and de salutes were fired from the British Street" yesterday. This was Nayal Yard staff. Though no 'affluence. For years the Hong-but. "bombs-sometimes more hooks and eyes. Both men and old?—Mr. C. P. Trevelyan, M.P. In speaking of brokers, it is: necessary to discriminate. There kong Stock Exchange has reigned noisy than dangerous are still women of the sect dress plainly. There is no more searching test fendant pleaded guilty, He was naval vessels in port, the U.S.S.

committed to sin for a of a man than to examine the way

the House of "Helena" fired a salute and later thrown on the slightest provoca- It is considered a supreme its membership being at tion, and with impunity, for even Mennonite woman to cover her he spends his money.-Mr.

the U.S.S" Sacramento" honour. once costly and limited. We when arrests are made conviction ear with her hair and so it is Geoffrey Howard.

ed the Admiral and the Flag.

'Hawkins Hongkong, one dealing solely in believe this latter fact conduced seldom follows." National schools drawn back without wave or curl, I should certainly have saved

It is expected the exchange and bullion contracts;

will proceed to the North for the to the formation of the Stock- exist for those who choose to platted, and made to cling tightly myself a great deal of misery if I

summer after a stay in Hong- the other dealing in stocks and brokers' Association, admission to attend, whilst the cinema has to the back of the head tires did not care what happened to my

kong of about three weeks. While shares primarily but also in other which is now also a more or less humbler town dwellers, and fool-are forbidden luxuries. No jewels in America, while there marrier of the late Rev. guests of the Government

Moving pictures, become the chief recreation of the books, newspapers, and paintings country.-Dean Inge.

the "Hawkins" is here, Sir Arthur Gaolers are the only unemploy Inatters where the services of a costly affair, and which now also ball to many thousands of Portellery, fancy shoes or clothing are broker or middleman are either as a limited membership. That guese youths is almost a religion. worn, Shotguns and fowling children in America have never desirable or necessary. In such a the two Associations work amic- We trust the Consul will adopt our pieces are taboo. There is no had such a time since the days of and Mrs. James Ware, of Shang House.

hai, and Mr. Roland Bachrach, son Colony as this,, where the markets Ably we doubt not. The piquancy let us have news of the country one member of the sect suffera

suggestion and from time to time poverty among the colonists. If Eden. Mr. Lloyd George.

If the war has taught us any of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Bachrach, of of the world are brought to our of the present position is that he is doubtless proud to represent. misfortune the others, it is said, thing it is surely this: that hai last week. The Rev. L. W. Flagship on her cruise, is due back

London, was celebrated at Shang- doors, the services of exchange those who formed the second

come to his aid and the Golden Christ's authority in every sphere,Faucett, of St. John's University in port next Saturday, brokera are very necessary and Association are in league with the

Rute thus is in daily practice.economics and polltics included, officiated. they prove a link as between premier organisation to keep out. Sliding.

Concession are now being made, must be asserted by the Church.— however, to the younger genera-Principal Garvie. bankers and merchants. Whether or to subdue, the activities of To go or not to go, that will be tions even in the church. For the bankers would be able to get on those who claim that they have a the question during the coming benefit of the youth of the colony without them we do not know, but right to whatever plums are wait. weeks regarding verandahs every third Sunday services are we think we are right in suggesting to be picked in, evidently, a itself to our notice as we sit and times the services are in German.

Meantime one question thrusts conducted in English. At other ing that they welcome their very prosperous business. No one realise what the summer days are Pies We think we are right questions the right of the two likely to be and what, - ikkal

A PLRA some vague in Great in assuming that banks Associations to withhold distribu, malaria--mosquito bringer avoida

Britain lately, for the welcome the services of bona fide tion of their quotation lists. or to The question is, is it not possible eldest son of the Sovereign as the us, we shall have to go through revival of the description of the brokers of stocks and shares, and hand them to whomsoever they for our

are at least two classes of them in

coarse net.

+

which has obtained'

constructioniste, or Prince of Scotland. recalls some

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.

ENTERTAINMENTS.

April 25.--Coronet Theatre;

it might be easy to prove that like, and we can well understand architects to design houses and interesting historical facts From Pola Negri in "Passion.

Detention.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

of Miss Helen and Lady Leveson will be the

Lady Stubbs at

The Admiral's Yacht "Peters- field” which accompanied the

The Hongkong agent of the BULAWAYO, April 23.-Pre- Canadian Pacific Steamships Ltd. míor Coghlan, addressing Ladians,, advises that word has just beer forecasted a restriction of fresh received by the Spanish Minister Indian immigration with the Soviet in Japan to the effect that the delegates.--Reuter, Spanish order "Merito Naval"

(2nd class) has been conferred upon

Capt. S. Robinson ini, recognition

COPENHAGEN, Apell 23.-The

of his meritorious services when new Danish Ministry, formed in command of the as. Empress through the Premtership of the of Australia during the catas Socialist Leader Stauning, Includes trophe at Yokohama in September Madame Nina Bang, Minister for

Education-Ruler,

fast.

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