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THURSDAY JULY 9 1924
WEATHER CALENDAR.
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JULY 3.
To-night I am writing to
you comfortably by the fire- side, for we are forced to raise an English July.
-Walpole.
BORN TO BE PATRONISED.
WORLD FLIERS.
MACLAREN REACHES
FOOCHOW.
RECEPTION AT NAVAL CLUB.
Admiral Sah Presides.
(Reuter's Service).
MacDonald's team given a fairly nearly 600 of that famous long term in office. They would people of to-day united to argue thus: Läbour of course-can- produce this mound memor
able tribute to tin who fell not wholly satisfy the electorate. in the Allied cauerent artists Nothing but a government of have drawn origlietures for supermen could do that. Before the album; worked writers Labour came into power, the voter and leaders in m life have was always saying, "We have tried contributed signeracts from the Conservatives; we have tried while scores of that ones of their works anmpositions, the Liberals; we have even tried the 'earth have med it a them together as a Coalition. We privilege to contrilheir signe have never tried Labour yet. Lettures, For thoho love
futter for a modovereign a us try Labour now." If the draw has been art at which Labour Government is thrown out the prize will be valuable after being in office only a few original album, whas been months, the voter will say "We pronounced by the London's mentioning that fact good tem to be valets, as others are to be the contour of the whole coast but greatest experts priceless peredly to W. Pett Ridge, the courtiers. There is the climbing struck overland from Hunghwa have tried Labour, yes, but for Books of ten t can be novelist (who tells the story in his genus in man as well as in plants. Sound. A reception to the avia- how long? Wo will try Labour obtained through Cin Willcox, book of reminiscences, "A Story It is sometimes made a wonder tors is being given this evening at again." That is possibly why the whose address is above, or Teller"), added that she felt there how men of "no mark or likoli- the Pagoda Naval Club. Admiral hood" frequently rise to court pre- Sáh Chen-ping will preside. Mac- Conservatives have refrained from from Mr. H. E. Dams, hon,..as cause for jealousy.
sec. and treasurer he, British
"I have explained it before to ferment, and make their way Laren intends leaving for Shang- pressing home the advantage Legion (Hongkonnd China Mrs. Gilbert," said W.Sturning to against all competition. That is hai at 6 o'clock to-morrow morn- when they might have seriously Branch), c/o Messritterfield & explain it to you. I'm too good to tangible point; they offend no feel-
Pett Ridge, but I may as well the very reason. They present no ing. embarrassed the Government. Switc. In order to re obtain be true,"
A later message states" that Doubtless they realise that even if ing a ticket, no timeuld be lost Gilbert "was asked once why a a perfect unresisting medium of 7 a.m. to-day.
ing of self-importance. They are MacLaren left for Shanghai at they forced another general elec-in making applicatio.
certain actor persisted in showing patronage and favour. Thay tion-an "action which would in
boisterous and extravagant amuse aspire through servility; they re- ment over everything. Modera- itself make them unpopular with
tion, it was urged, would be, far pose in insignificance. A man of the country-the result would
talent or pretension in the same wiser.
These are the facts," said circumstances would be kicked out Gilbert." He is not quite a gentle in a week. man, and he knows it, and he tries to laugh it off 1*
of the Guard" ล THE YEOMAN is soon to be local - Phil.
produced by our story of Gilbert is probably not that the following
Foochow, July 2. out of place:
Squadron Commander MacLaren It is not the mere resolution to landed here without mishap under Sullivan fame, always insisted on it, without a natural genius and 2.45 p.m. He met with no acel-
W. S. Glibert, of Gilbert and act a part that will enable us to do perfect weather conditions at" attractive young women being fitness for it. Some men are born dents en route. He did not follow asked to his home. His wife
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write; CORRECT those whink they WRITING. do andose who want thay well mark the following
was when Mr. Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was overthrown. The present strength of the Parties in the House of Commons, as we have in composition from tenson is Ltd. pointed out before, is propitious his Bournemouth daysites some
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There was 1 young A LIM. fellow of Ealing,
Who tried to walk on
for the country's good. The only of his precepts in Cornhill the ceiling: Party which had not yet held office
is bringing fresh ideas and fresh energy to bld problems, but is. debarred "from making social] experiments at a time when indus- trial peace and confidence are the two most urgent needs.
Motor Irregularities.
Some months ago it was brought to the notice of the China Mail that certain irregularities were alleged to exist in connection with the Colony's motor traffic. The. report was to the effect that at the Whitty Street tram terminus motor cary were open to hire after prohibited hours. Sunday night's appalling nccident recalls to mind, the supposed evil. Only
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Said his friend, Mr. Brown, "Turn the room upside down, If you wish to get rid of that feeling".
RUDYARD.
"
The following may not suggest Kipling, but it his none the
-Hazlitt.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Arrived At Shanghai.
As we were going to Press, a cable was received from Router's, to the effect that MacLaren had. arrived at Shanghai at 11.30 this morning.
RUN ON BANK.,
CANTON CONCERN'S TRIALS.
PANICKY DEPOSITORS.
"
As a result of the panic follow- ing the suspension of payment by
July 3-Coronet Theatre; Anita the Chinese Merchants Bank in Stewart in "Sowing The Wind."Canton, the Kwangtung Savings July 3.The Star Theatre; Bank has experienced a severe Pauline Stark in "Salvation Nell." "run" and on Tuesday a notice was July 3-World Theatre; Florence issued to the effect that business Vidor and Monte Blue in Main would be stopped temporarily. Street."
According to the vernacular July 3 Queen's Theatre: papers, depositors, mostly with Alice Lake in Kisses."
savings accounts, began to feel July 3.-At the "Peak Club, alarmed and the amount drawn Mother of mine, O mother ospecial engagement of Eleanor put increased day by day until Haber, in Character Sketches, towards the end of June, when 9.30 p.m.
'You should haved fewer adjectives and ពុទ្ធ more descriptive verbs. Fon want me to see your gardelon't, for pity's sake, talk abouelimbing roses' or green, my lawns.' Tell me, if you like,at roses twined, themselves und the less:- apple trees and fell showers "If I were hanged on the highest from the branches iver dare
hill, tell me again atytig about Mother of mine, O mother .o'
green grass.' 'Tel ghow the mine, lawn was flecked rithhadows. Iknow perfectly will grass is green. So does ererody else in England. Wha y have to learn is somethingliffent from that. Make me wat it was that made your grde distinct from a thousand the. And, by the way, whiliwere about it, rémember ond fo all that 'green' is a word taly forbid you to utter inscription more than perhaps ce ia a lifetime."
*** impexpro if I were damned of body and
niview of
..soul,
I know whose love would follow
ine still
may,
mine,
"If I were drowned in the deepest
sea,
Mother o' mine, O mother o')
mine,
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I known whose tears would come
down to me.
Mother of mine, O mother of
.
mine!
mine,
I know whose prayers would make
me whole, Mother of mine, O mother of
mine!
_there was_an, palpable, rush at the LAND SALE,
bank's premises in the Western July 7-At P.W.D. Offres, two Suburb. Before the July 1 holi lots of Crown Land, 3 p.m.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
day. it was rumoured that the bank would have to suspend busi- atness as it could not realise its
July 4-Lammert Bros., Sales Rooms, 10 pieces Chefoo assets to meet the immediate calls silk, noon.
And on Tuesday the notice came out as expected. "
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COMPANY MEETINGS, July 7-Further extraordinary meeting of A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd., at Hongkong Hotel, Pedder
Street, 11.30 am.
stated that although a large num- ber of authorised taxis are on the stands to cater for the Chinese at Shek-tong-tsui, there are still a
THE HANDLE. heforthcom- Mother of mine, O mother o' number of these unauthorised
nband concerts, the followi motor cars. about.. It is surmised
September 16.-Extraordinary that they have private licence In the early days of Irish may not, be propriate.
general meeting of The China numbers thereby obviating the Players at the Abbey Theatre,
Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the hour limit difficulty. Whether Dublin, things were nearly
| Registered Office of the Company, these cars take fares without the so flourishing with thenges they
Pedder Street, noon. One Imagines that It October 8-Second meeting of knowledge of their owners the are now, For instance, tre was REALLY must be a task of the China Sugar Refining Co., suspicion being that a, chauffeur no orchestra. Yeats, as anager,
some difficulty to Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, is out to make some tea-money always counted the hous
One take out
a policy with the noon. or whether there are people who night he announced to theplayers Metropolitan Life Insurance Com-
October 20.-Third meeting of put "private" cars to improper that there were two peok more pany of America, inasmuch as The China Sugar Refining Co., "use, should be revealed on investi- in the pit that night an three Dr. Armstrong, of the medical ention. Inquiries made by a China more than ever before it was staff of that organisation, is of the Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, Mail representative show that when a planist might be (gaged.furious to health. According to
thought that the time haarrived firm opinion that kissing is in noon. small boys now tout for patronage That was duly done, It thethis drastic doctor, kissing and July 14.-Farther extraordinary indoors and that when these un- performance. Not to bebeaten while osculation is perilous at any p.m. at hours when garage cara are fellow never showed up at the tuberculosis go hand in hand, and, meeting of the Peak Club, 6.80 authorised cars have been pulled Yeats went in front of cloth time, to kiss anybody in the up by traffic police, private licences and asked for a volunteer bm the morning is tantam unt to clamour have been forthcoming. We bring audience. A big fellow got up ing for instant death. By way of up the question with a view to and walked to the pia He some small consolation to those protecting the interests of owners spent some time lookingt over, who have formed the kissing whose cars, unknown to them, inny and finally. Yeats asked if he habit; he adds that midnight is be illegally employed after hours. were looking for the music
readily the best time for the Music be damned," d the exericse. Well, really——! volunteer, "I'm looking br the handle!"
of the Police
A Worthy Cause.
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OTHER MEETING, DON
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Rumour has it that the Bank has assets in real estate, etc., which will more than on-set all
Canton claims.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
According to our special makers have carried their den correspondent, Canton pen-brush
mands for higher wages.
Health returns show that dur-
ing last week there was one death
from small pox; one death from diphtheria, one death from spinal fever and one from puerperal fever. They were all Chinese.
Two of the Hongkong Volley Ball League schedules finished last week. Queen's College and the Ellis Kadoorie School winning the Senior League and Small Boys" League Championships, Mr. and Mrs. F., C. Hall left- for: Sydney yesterday by the writes that General Chau Chi Our special correspondent "Arafura."
ching, who has been district
The present generation owes a
LIGHTER SIDE Courts.
A Reuter message from London, magistrate of: Shuntak for the debt that it can never fully repay
This referete to
Two men
at dated July 2, states that the Rev. last two years, recently bought YEATS. Yeats brings frth the Thames stated that a row arose Dr. Hopkyn Rees, formerly 1 land to the ex-service men and women
Fanling, in the New and their dependants, many of
following stor between them and others over a missionary in China, is dangerously Territory, and will shortly start a Arthur Sinclair, who ha been discussion about trades
farm there upon his retirement whom are in dire distress as "a
unica 311.
from official life.. one of the main props of th Irish principles. result of the sacrifices made by Players for many years, krwa, of themselves
The Magistrate: Oh, politics A London cable reports the or their relations course, W. B. Yeats the pot and are always inflammatory. If you death of Admiral Sir Charles
A Reuter message from during the anxious years of playwight, exceedingly wil and want to go on in this way you had Dundas, KC.MG. The late Admiral London say that it is understood Armageddon. Earl Haig's appeal tells some amusing stories if him. better, go into the House of served on H.M.S." Audacious," that a meeting of the Committee which cost the Government ita for funds to relieve this distress While rehearsals for Yeat"On Commons.
as a cadet in 1874 when she was of Imperial Defence yesterday, first serious defeat.
has met with a gratifying response Balle's Strand" were in pogress
attended by all members, in ad- What the
on many occasions, but there still at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, because his eyes were diluted,"
I knew the prisoner was drunk Flagship on the China Station.
dition to the ex-Premiers, Mr Conservatives and: Liberals said remains much to be done if the difficult lighting effects were said a constable giving evidence at here yesterday she carried among Mr. Asquith, negatived the pro- When the Suwa Maru" left Baldwin, Mr. Lloyd George and in effect was this: "You can try present generation intends to give demanded by Yeats. After many
her passengers: Dr. Rabindranath posal to build a charinel tunnel. your hand at ruling the country full effect to the duty it owes to weary attempts there warn udden the North London Police Court.
flare of light: 'You'vo jot it) A wife complained that her huse Tagore, Mr. C. F. Andrews, Mr. H. Norton, Mr. R. R. Gibson and Mrs. D. McColl.
'YESTERDAY'S GOVERNMENT but there are certain things the distressed ex-service men and You've got it! That's it! Hold on band kept her shert of money.
DEFEAT.
Eight times now has Britain's
first Labour Government been
!
came the excited
The Husband: You fle, and could prove it, but you never give me a receipt.
Willesden defendant: When I To-day's cables Rot work, I passed a resolution not AN ADMIRAL'S announce the to drink more than half a pint of TARNS. death of Ad-beer a day, and I've carried it
miral Dundas,
unanimously.
· (Circumstance.)
Messrs. Lee Shiu-pak and Lee Kin-sang, secretaries of the Chinese YM.G.A., have left to attend the National Y.M.C.A. Summer School at Kuling. They will take a six weeks' course of study.
The American steamer "Saokaty," belonging to
the
At Messrs Lammert Bros, auction rooms, yesterday after noon, the sa. "Derwent," of 2010 tons register and 1,562 tons gross was sold to the Tung Tal Company for $92,000. The vessel, of British registry, Was built by Messrs. Thompson & Co., Sanderland, in 1879. She has accommodation for 12 first; 20. second and 1,063 third- class, passengers.
women who gave their all to save to it!" cried Yeats the class legislation, for instance the British Empire in its hour of electrician. which you must leave alone. need. Those who fought a great "Mr. Yeats, * Your defeat to-day is a warning, fight for us and who, since the war reply, the lamp's on frel If you are wise you will give ended, have been engaged in a scurcely less strenuous struggle defeated in the House of Com- heed, That the Conservatives against untoward circumstances. mons. Politicully these setback, and Liberals are showing no have earned, our most generous are not very important because undue harte to unseat the Labour sympathy. The present genera- the points at issue have been Government is not altogether tion are now given a further who had a distinguished career in
surprising, The Liberals support opportunity of giving tangible the Navy and was a popular figure To-day's Poem, mostly too small to warrant any Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (for the purchasing copies of the British retirement. The gallant Admiral evidence of their sympathy by in London society during his
New England Steamship Com At the monthly meeting of pany, has been destroyed the General Committee of the appeal to the country, apart from same reason that they helped to Legion Album. One of the leading used to tell some good stories, not Two children in, two neighbour by fire at New Bedford, due to Hongkong General Chamber of which the Premier made it clear
villages.
an explosion. The company's Commerce this week. special re- when he first took office that the put him into power. They prefer London dailies has aptly described the least amusing bei the
were ference was made to the death, moderate Labour rule to extrem notable autograph album." It can
this book as "the world's most following:-
Playing mad pranks, along the dock and freight shed "A naval captain, of some
also burned. The loss is estimat- since the last meeting, of the late Government would not feel con-
healthy leasta -- strained to resign over every little ist Conservative rule, and it is be claimed, without fear of refuta distinction, was cruising about Two strangers meeting at ad at $350,000 according to a Renter Mr. A. R. Lowe. It was decided to cater upon the minutes of the message dated July 2 reverse it might suffer.
only when Labour begins to flirt tion, that never has so remarkable London one day, when he ran Anti-
festival;
Chamber a record of Mr. Lowe's* with the ranker socialism that a collection of autographs been craft, whose faut and spruce Two lovers whispering by an
valuable services to the Chamber cipating these setbacks, the Pre-
offered to the public in one volume. appearance attracted his attention. orchard wall; .... mier will be a wise statesman if valves to
they join forces with the Conser: The price of this historic book is Salling up under her lee quarter, Two lives bound fast in one with
and to the public, and to address apply the check five shillings and the order can dipped his colour, and, celus. The accepts them calmly Hither Although there can be no doubt either be placed with your booking gracious reply, they bore. Two graves grass-groen beside a Hakata Wan Harbour Works Com
golden case; to they have not been designed to that the sterner Conservativesler or sent direct to Captain along in company OK
gray church tower,
pany of Hakata (Kyushu Island) overthrow his regime-though of would have the Labour Govern, G. Willcox. M.B.E. organising During the course of the after-Wash'd with still rains and daisy Japan, to build harbour works and For sommers of the males after viol- course his opponents would not ment out of office to-morrow if a secretary to Earl Haig's Appeal, noon, which they spent together, blossomed allow a really good chance to slip really good chance presented Eccleston 6g., London, B.W1, he took her to the theatre, where Two children in one hamlet born harbour to the principai coal mines much relief is afforded by masuring the
Since November, 1918, Field-Mar- they sat in the scalli. At the end me and bred;
in Japan. It is expected that the affected parte tboroughly with Cham away but have been designed itself, there must do the other hal Earl Half has devoted all his of the second acta note was handed So runs the round of life from work will take five years to com: have need of such prepiration and see berlain's Pain Balm: Try it when you more to serve as warnings. So hand be many in the Party who energies to the service of those to the captain, which he opened
plete and that the cost will be Yen yourself what an exclient lisimpat it was with the Evictions Bill would prefer to see Mr. Ramsay who won victory with him. Now and read as follows!
·I IDC0,000. Tennyson.
It la. Bold overywhata, prostor,
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alongside a nice looking little
hour to hour.
Mr. Paul Page Whitham, Prest dant and General Manager of the
Asia Development Company, Ltd., a letter of condolence to the widow. has just jened a contract with the
A foothing Ha'm
to connect a short rallway from the out oxerrim and for, rhoumstlo pains,
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