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Current Comment.
MONDAY JULY 20 1824
An Edifying Library.) It is seened good to the city of Bath to establish a public Tibnery, No one can accuse ther city fathers of plunging into this! desperate adventure in rash haste, comments the Daily Telegraph. (London)," They have been arguing about it. we are told, for half a century, We may renture to
be
rings in our ears; Muchi19; n circulating library in a town is evergreen tree of diabolical know- The ideas of Sir Anthony ledge."
10 prevail Absolute seem still
Upon among the city fathers, what principles the novels admitted into the smallest department in the library will be chosen we are not to inquire. Whether to con
STARS.
The stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and every where the blue sky, belongs to them, and is their appointed rest and their native country and their natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly, expected, and yet thera Is a silent joy at their arrival.
-Coleridge.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Cming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS,
July
The 14th Lover."
Theatro;
Theatre;
11 1.m.
July 28.--Lammert Bros., at 180, The Peak, valuable leasehold. property, 3 p.m.
hoits, nuts, etc., 11a.m.
COMPANY MEETİNGS. September 16.-Extraordinary general meeting of The China Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., at the Registered Office of the Company, Pedder Street, noon.
October 3.-Second meeting of the China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder.Street,
roon.
extra-
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
15
An ivory carving signed
Second Lady: "And what did crop production should be too much weight, or furnishing
First Lady: Do? Why, looked mediate increase in the price of excuse for doing so. At the same real estate is put at a similar time, we feel sure that those who at him as if I had, of course." Agure. Before any decision is use the ruce-course fully appre-| reached on this scheme, the rate clate, the difficulties confronting of erosion at "that point of the the Clerk of the Course. We'are, river is to be observed at flood confident that the present vexu- height in late July and August. tions delay will eventually fully If found feasible, the project will justify itself by the production of be put in hand next Winter. The a track from which the water will Brancing of these and similar soon disappear in the wettest of C. G."Alabaster, speaking as Chair-schemes are done by the Commis-weather. man of the Cheung Chau Resi- sion, which advances the necessary dents' Association, when funds in the shape of loans Yat 12 likened the island's 'first settlers per cent.). guaranteed by the dis
Although many believe trict magistrate and the provincial
that in the large cities to Pilgrim Fathers. Pioneer's authorities. The scheme, för re-
of the world to-day the these first settlers certainly were, payment in for the magistrate-to
problem of traffic con- for Cheung Chau to-day is a very collect taxes from the areas re-
gestion is pressing for sure them that the experience of claimed. In the cases mentioned, desirable place in which to live. the districts have undertaken to solution as never before, it appears, other towns gives no serious reason
from an account of what happened to fear that minda will Dotted with charming homes, contribute (either in funds, or
July 21. Coronet Theatre; following a Court reception in weakened or morals corrupted by
But they "The Shelk." terraced with well-made bridle-labour) haif. of the necessary London just 100 years ago, that the reading of books.
mean to take no risks in Bath. July 21-The Star Theatre; paths and blessed with other money. Though in the strictest this is by no means the case.
sense, such work may not come The description referred to reads, When the new library opens tan" THfing With Honour."
July anxious day!) it will be found that
21. - World facilities including a reliable ferry under the category of famine in oart service, Cheung Chau now has its relief or prevention, it is directly It is acknowledged by all that "the fiction departinent, the small The Breathless Moment."
21-Queen's crowning gloryan Assembly connected with increasing China's at no former period on a similarest in the library, will be incked
there witness-
away in an unobtrusive corner," Hall. Built on hill whence food supply and indirectly is help- occasion
PUBLIC AUCTIONS. universal irregularity
Thus are the citizens of Bath to The ruin and
July 22-Lammert Bros., at radiate footways to all parts of ing the Chinese to help themselves ed such
and giving them the means to and confusion, the island, this Assembly Hall acquire knowledge, necessary for wreck of carriages were beyond be preserved from the guile of the Sales Room, genuine Ford spare motor accessories, gymbolises the community effort the prevention of famine and all precedent; indeed there were insidious novelist. If, in spite of It was no uncommon thing to see that such books as novels exist, it floods, in so far as such schemes very few escaped without injury all that can be done, they do laur parts and
a carriage moving upon three in the perversity of their hearts most progressive community in are feasible.
wheels, and hundreds had their they insist upon reuding the the Colony. Nobody can visit
panels smashed to pieces. Servants things, they must; but the civil
July 24. Tammert Bros., at Cheung Chau, even for the short-
and horses fared
little very
library, intent upon edification,
Godown No. 20, the China Pro- better. est space of time, without finding "Six Week"
Great numbers, both of ladies shall offer them anything a vident, Loun and Mortgage and ITQFevidence of this community effort course was closed for six weeks to and gentlemen, could not get to everything else first. The voice
but it is not everyone who knows Co., Ltd., West Point, rivets, that long before, Kowloon and the improvements to be carried out. obliged to walk home through the Peak had their residents' associa-The work entailed the laying down-streets in their Court dresses.
Such a narrative makes one tions. Cheung Chau had its own of rubble drains on the sand track.
at distances varying from 10 to appreciate the efficiency of present civic body, Moreover this civic 40 yards, and the raising of the day police departments and body has been no mere advisory level of the course one foot. This clines one to look upon the bright committee but un-executive group was to be done with six inches of side of the motorcar, situation. more like a municipal council than clinkers and sand to a similar any other unofficial association in depth. The work, we understand, the Colony. Consequently when Sir was placed in the hands of a con-
October 18. Extraordinary tractor named Lam Woo, who was Claud Severn addressed Mr. Alk-to supply all material.
Work for diabetes, but it is a yaluable gratulate, or to condole with the
Dr. D. M. Wilson, authors whole works are found General Meeting of Douglas B.B. baster on Saturday afternoon as appears to have proceeded with antidote. "Mr. Mayor" he was not uttering commendable despatch at the medical superintendent of the worthy of, inclusion in Bath's, saual Co., Ind., at the Registered Office Wellington Hospital, recently department of respectable fiction of the Company, 20 Des Voeux
TL is said that Road, Central, noon. commencement. At any rate. thei
explained the position in a lecture. we, cannot tell. an empty, pleasantry-but-was-uble druhus were finished-in-and the List of his remarks shouldbest sellers are to be excluded. October 20-1 ird meeting of simply paying courteous tribute to very short time, after which work be pisted in everyone's scrap- This, however, will not distinguish The China Sugar Refining Co., "Until the discovery of the library of Bath from any Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Fedder Street, the Chairman's real standing inlcame practically to a standstill. book: the community. That the audi-Racing men became nervous lest insulin," he said, "the outlook for others which do not insist incon.
November 5.-Further the new and edifying principis ence laughed as much as did Mr. the job on the surfd track should the patient once in coma
cases hope- Alabouter himself must not be not be finished in time to allow practically in all
of training for the next usten less. Treatment never brought that the fiction departinent must ordinary meeting of Douglas 9.8. taken to mean that they disagreed meeting, being commenced soon, the patient round, lo-day, by be the smallest. Few public Co.. Titd., at 20 Des Vox Road
the Colonial Secretary enough to get intending com-giving insulin, the majority of libraries trouble their shelves with Central, noon.
Soine sufferers thought that We must warn the city fathers of Cheung Chau residents, like all petitors ft after their summer those cases were being saved." the "best sellers of the hour.
"spell." Certain allegations were
of quantities
in Bath that a mere nvoidance of taking people who get things done, are made to the "China Mait" which sulin they could cal what what is popular will not asstre essentially modest, and it doubt led to our obtaining an interview they liked but that was a great them of dismissing", rubbish. less tickled them to find other with Colonel Hall Brutton, the mistake. If huge doses of insulla Gidance by the higher critics will people struck by what they them-senior steward. The considered were taken the percentage selves take for granted. But any opinion of Culonel Bratton was sugar in the blood would probably not avail to save them from Shugetsu, fetched £90 in auction
that there was little ground for be reduced below normal, and blunders of mission and connais at Sotheby's,
Rion. The first duty of a public way a community which can erect complaint and that the work on fatal coma develop from
The rainfall for the 24 hours the sand truck, at any rate, would condition just the reverse of actual library is to be as catholic as it
The 239 inches. be completed by the end of this diabetes. If insulin is taken under means will allow and to neglect all ended at 6 p.m. yesterday was
doctor's direction, and the the crotchets and crazes., month. In the issue in which the a
The U. S. destroyer "William interview with Colonel Brution patient adheres to a prescribed mind which is eonvinced that
which B. Preston"
conveyed appeared, we ventured the opinion diet, the prospects are that his life fiction is in itself inferior to other
Leader Maclaren's Squadron that his view was decidedly may be prolonged to the ordinary forme of literature, and that the
from Hongkong to aeroplane We have carefully span. The doctor said that it is a fiction departament should be the optimistic.
Akyab reached here yesterday been watching events since then recognised fact that Jews are more smallest and least obtrusive in a
other liable to diabetes than
library, may be of great value for morning. With the possible exception of and our representative has visited people, and that the Japanese are
other purposes in life, but it should {*** not be on a library committee. At Kowloon cinema-goers have India in former times, the loss of the course on five occasions to little suject to it. life from abnormal causes in report progress. On his visit last
any moment it might begin an their last opportunity to-day of Universal- Mr. John Armour China in each decade must be far evening, he found that approxi-
LATEST Brown, of Moredan. gent that the Encyclopedia is seeing the notable
book than "Pick Jewel production, "Trifling with greater than in any other portion mately 50 yards of inders had
$1 greater Apart from the been laid. covering three-quarters
WILLS Paisley, starch. and
The of the world.
fathers Honour," which has been drawing city Wiek
to the Star cornflour manufac
Bath have
sym-large audiences congestion of population in the of the breadth of the sand rack..
turers, a director of Messrs. Brown of great centres. where with charac- and that in a few other spots róari teristic indifference to sanitation metal (as he describes it), to the and Pulson, Ltd., left, in addition pathy. This must seem to them Theatre over the week-end.
"His race well run, the goal and hygiene & favourable field is depth of six inches, had been laid to real estate, personal estate in a strange, difficult, terrible world.
Of the making of many hooks well won. Now comes rest," offered to numerous epidemics, on the outside of the inner track Great Britain £231,654.
Mr. Robert Halliday, of Dale there is no end, und, alas! people This is the epitaph that Mr. Harry China is particularly susceptible car the 6-furlong post. While
Again from Edward Bickerton, of Barbourne to recurring visitations of floods allowing for delay caused by rain. and famine. Chinese chronicles the progress made is decidedly Derbyshire, left bristle with the recita! of national disappointing and, unless the residue of his property, about thousand daughters, by heaven! sportsman and holder of the record or local disasters. In 1877-1878 contractor works wonders, he £70,000, between the famine is said to have caused the would be a rash man who ventured death of 8,000,000 in Honan, the opinion that the work would Shansi and Chihli. Of late years be completed by the end of one district or another has record- August. The six weeks agreed ed famine with attendant loss of upon will expire to-morrow. life. More notable disasters from addition to the vexatious delay, Hope, younger daughter of faraine occurred as frequently as there is disappointment in certain Mrs. S. Hampson, of Broad-1901, 1906, 1910, 1920 while in quarters that there is no intention way, Withington, Manchester 1911 and 1917 floods took a heavy to have the cindere rolled before 9, Ullet-roay, Prince's Park, Liver-
toll of lives. Though action on the the sand is laid down. With DEATHS.**
part of the Chinese Government regard to this complaint, it is only could do much to prevent or fair to assume that the Clerk of WRIGHT.In his 79th year, at minimize these disasters, practi- the Course has obtained expert 16, Claverton Street, London, cally nothing has been done. It opinion as to the advisability of on Saturday, July 12, Alexan-has fallen on the China Inter- having this done. Some fear that ter Wright, formerly head of national Famine Relief Commis-the sand will percolate through Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. sion, formed, in 1920 we believe, the layer of cinders unless the("Cyril Harcourt"), of 87, Victoria. XAVIER-On July 13, Anne, to take the first comprehensive latter are rolled. On the other street, S.W., actor and dramatist, Lazily and incessantly floating
A Pair of Silk Stockings," beloved daughter of Mons step towards remedial and preven-hand, it may well be that the author of numerous plays, including and Mme, F. Xavier, aged 4 tive measures. In this connection cindera used will be so fine that
the report of Mr. O. J. Todd, they will pack" and thus prevent "Wanted a Husband," and "Yo CANDLIN-On July 11, 1924, at Engineer Representative to the the sand working through. That, the Night. £2,115.
Peitaiho, the Rev. G. T. C.I.F.R.C. in Peking is illuminat-jas we have mentioned, is a matter Candlin, United Methodist ing. Mr. Todd's report covers a for experts. The main object of Mission, Peking, aged 72. journey recently completed these interested should be agita- GREENWOOD.-On July 13, through Shantung, thence to tion to expedite the completion of
1924, at the General Hospital, Shanghal and, after a day in the job. In this connection, the On the night of July 5, 446 Shanghai, Arthur T. Green-Nanking, up the Yangtaze to Public Works Department should inches of rain fell in that city. It wood.
Hankow for field investigations in be requested to hasten work on the Electric current was cut off for KING.-June 5, at Streatham, Hupeh Province, As a result of culvert near the 6-furlong post. some time to the Poh Yone district. The Ada, Elizabeth King, widow of Mr. Tod's investigation, 60,000 Until this job is completed, it will The maximum recorded rainfall Willian Woolley King of mow of land, now subject to be impossible to open the course on any one day in Bangkok would in a little ever four hours on March Shanghai....
annual floods, are to be reclaimed for training. We have reason to appear to be 5.35 inches which fell HUNTER-June 12, at Clacton- near She Kow, on the Pekingbelieve that the P.W.D. authorities 31, 1912. Before that 45 inches William Hankow Railway, at a cost of have a pleasant surprise in store was the maximum May 8, 1903), on-Sea, Roland (Roy), elder son of the late $70,000. Close to the city of Sh for those who use Happy Valley Since then the biggest fall was AW. Huxter and Mrs. Hux- Show, on the Yangtaze; 200,000 for recreation, and this may well 437 inches on October 8, 1918. ter, aged 31
mowe have been under flood for six farepart for the delay in complet There was also a fall of 4.25 Ward-June 18, at Bognor, years. Formerly this was firating the present culvert. Onches on September 12, 1919.––
Walter Cyril Ward, late of class rice-land, but the Yangtze another occasion, we hope to deal has been rapidly working south-fully with the question of draining Shanghai, aged 81.. PARKER. On July 15, 1924, atyard and scoured away a large Happy Valley; for the moment we Mokanában Captain James area of farm land. It is estimated will content ourselves with re- Henry Partridge Parker, aged that $180,000 will be required to questing those responsible to pres
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The marriage arranged between Mr. R. E. O. Bird and Miss Clarke will take place at St. John's Cathedral, on Saturday, July 26, at 9.30 a.m.
BIRTHS.
MILTON.--On June 5, 1924, in the Church Missionary Society's Hospital at Yunnanfu, to Mr. and Mrs. M. Milton, à son. ANGIER-June 11, at New Mouseficid, -Newbury, to Hilda Few, wife of Capt. R. A. Anger, a Ro TUTTELMAN.-On July 13. 1924, at the Victoria Nursing Home. Shanghai, to Mr..and Mrs. H. M. Tuttelman, a SON.
NOBLE-On July 16, 1924. at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J A. Noble, twins (boys), one still-born.
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MARRIAGES.
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at Christ Church, Streatham, Burg. Lt. Commander Lionel F. Strugnell, R.Nio Edythe M. Leys. BLACKER-HAMPSON June
9, at Knutsford Cheshire, George Oscar Blacker, former, ly of Singapore, to Dorothy
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can afford to laugh, not simply at itself but at the rest of the Colony, loud and long.
Famine Relief Work.
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House Farm Monyash, Bakewell will go on reading.
the ultimate Bath the cry resounds. Had I a Terrace, Worcester, a well-known
Sheffield
Royal Infirmary, Sheffield Royal'd as soon have them taught the Hospital, the Jessop Hospital, for black art as their alphabet.“* Tree Orphanage, Totley, Derby Women, Sheffield, and the Cherry shite £93.374.
In Mr. Thomas Hyden Rigby, of 6, To-day's Poem.
mansions,
(Rhythmis. Grosvenor Derbyshire £48.747.
Buxton,
Mrs. Agnes Helen Nicholson, of When men were all asleep "the
snow came flying, pool, left her daughter, Agnes In large white flakes falling on the
city brown, Elliot Nish, and failing issue to the daughter to the University of Stealthily and perpetually settling
and loosely lying, Mr. Robert Cox, of Belmont,
Hushing the latest traffic of the Liverpool. £35.235.
drowsy town, surgeon dentist. £25.785. Atkins-road, Clapham Park, S.W.,
Mr. Cyril Worsley Perkins Deadening, muffling, stifting its
murmurs failing:
Hongkong residents RAIN. will feel a melancholy sympathy for Bangkok.
down and down; Silently sifting and veiling road,
roof, and railing; Hiding differences, making an-
evenness even,
Into angles and crevices: softly
drifting and sailing:
All night it feil, and when fuli
inches seven
lay in the depths of its uncom
pacted lightness,' clouds blew off from a high
and frostly heaven......
--Robert Bridges.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
HOW: IT'S DONE.
First Lady in bus: 1862. "The conductor looked at me as if
my hadn't pald
JULY 21,
will, shall be placed on his tomb. He left £4.136. He left his turf for the mile on turf, directs, in his
mile record (4m. 238.) timepiece and other trophies to his nephew, Mr. Thomas Bickerton, of Shanghai.
The appeal of M.M. Andre Berthelot and Alexis Perotte, two officials of the Banque Industrielle, de Chine, and other officers of that institution, who in August last were convicted of irregular issue distribution of of shares and fictitious dividends, came before the Ninth Chamber in Paris on June 17, M. Pernotte, managing director of the bank, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and a Berthelot, who was chairman of fine of 3,000 francs; while M. the directors, was fined 3,000 francs. Many eminent counsel appear for the 143 sufferers by the failure of the bank. The hearing is expected to occupy a considera- able number of slitlags. Y
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Major G. W. S. Money arrived here from Shanghai by the S.B. "Porthos."
The marriage arranged between. Mr. R. E. O. Bird and Miss Clarke will uke place at John's Cathedral at 930 next Saturday morning (July 26).
Senator Wheeler, of Montana, My wife and I lay long talk has accepted the Vice-Presidentai ing in bed. ...it raining | nomination on the Lafollene in- all day long.
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