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TUESDAY JULY 28 1024

"LOCAL AND GENERAL."

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For the first time. In their history the China Merchants' S. N. Co, have appointed a

Chinese master and officers to one of their Vorscis. The steamer is the That shakes from Life's fresh Kiangli," and the master chosen

Mr. Yang Chihsiung. "Klang is one of the two steamers recently purchased from the Govèmmant.

in which It appears that it has re-written show signs of careful Beatrice Mary Stevens, two years' To-day's Poem.

revision in the light of the latest wages to each other domestic: (Dream-Podlary.) been arranged that when the information. The Washington report for which the Governor of Conference Treaties and ResoluServant of 4 years' service not if there were dreams to sell,

What would you buy? under notice, £3,000, to his friend, Hongkong has been asked, istions are again included; news. received, the whole matter-in-paper editors and other students Cary! Hanbury, of Mollington, Some cost a passing bell, cluding the representations which of politics will be grateful for this Banbury, £18.460.

concession, in view of the prob- Mrs. Julia Onofra Lepel. Young have been made by the China ability of numerous issues arising Adams, of East Molesey, Surrey, Coast Officers' Guild and the out of them being raised in the £1053. Marine Engineers' Guild of China near future. Mr. H. G. W. Wood-

will be considered by a com-hend, C.B.E., and his collaborators M.A. of Mayfield: Sussex, at one And the crier rang the bell,

are to be heartily congratulated on mittee of representatives of the the completion of a task of im-time vicar of Shottermill, Hasele Departments of his Majesty's, mense difficulty and responsiblity | mere, Surrey, £8.588. Government which are concerned as are the printers and publishers,

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in the matter." The importance The Tientsin Press. Ltd., on the

admirable production.. " of this development, of course, lies in the fact that Hongkong seafar- ing opinion feels that the Navy should play an even bigger part than it does in dealing with the piracy evil, and this opinion will now be considered, not by local officials, but by the executive heads with whom rest the final decisions.

Turtle Turners.

Familiar figures in our midst are the fisherman whose catches grow with each successive telling

The Rev. George Henry Purdue

crown.

Only a rose-leaf down.

If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell,,

What would you buy?

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-Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

The

All passengers for Honolulu whether they intend to stay there or stop over for a few days, must be in possession of a certificate, or | bear marks of a recent vaccination, according to Information received at the NY.K offices, Shanghai. ***The American health authorities,"

| were not la receipt of instructions regarding this dow regulation, and ¦in örder not to put passengers to any inconvenience the NY.K. wired asking for confirmation, and the confirming cable leaves no doubt that this regulation is being enforced.

A cottage lone and still, Mr. Herbert-

With bowers nigh, SCOTT'S PHOTOS G. Ponting.Shadowy, my woes to still,

the official Until I die. photographer to Captain Scott's Such pearl from Life's fresh crown Antarctic expedition, lecturing at Fain would I'shake me down, America's "Kip the Stoll Picture Theatre Club Were dreams to have at will, KIPLING AT "Hing Week" re- London, announced that he would This would best heal my ill,

" HOME. calls a story of an present to a national institution

This would I buy. Invasion of the the six negatives which were found great storyteller's home by visitors by Scott's body, together with from across the Atlantic. One day any number, up to 50, of framed when he was' busy in, his study enlargements of his own photo- there burst in upon him a man, graphs of the expedition for the followed by two lads, who asked: purpose of forming a national Are you Rudyard Kipling?" exhibit. Sir Frederic Kenyon, Receiving an answer in the affirma- director and principal librarian of tive, he turned to the lads and said, the British Museum, has announced 'Boys, this is Rudyard Kipling." that the British Museum will Then to Mr. Kipling, This is accept both of Mr. Ponting's offers. where you write?" "Boys, this is where he writes. And. says Mr. Kipling Before I

of the story and the golfer who could so much as ask His name

MORE PESSIMISM.

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Mr. Bernard Shaw's story of the hos tess who called him

pessimist a

his whereupon

Current Comment.

(Weather Reports and Wireless)}

Co-operation

WEATHER CALENDAR,

JULY 22.

1775. There is. I think, still the same prospect of a plentiful harvest. We have in this part of the Kingdom had rain to swell the grain, and sunshine to ripen it.

--Johnson.

·DISAPPOINTED AMBITION.

Reporting on the trade of the March quarter, the British Consul- General at Canton' states that since the Japanese earthquake Canton

silk looms, anticipating an increase in price, stocked heavily. Un- fortunately, the price for silk fell considerably, with the result that several big silk looms had to suspend business. It was reported that in the latter part of March an American fin decided to close down their Canton office and confine themselves in future to artificial silk (produced in the United States) as being more profitable.

An audacious attempt to hold

not pay any

if it were possible, would have they were gonë.” done a hole in less than one. This is the time of the year when a

The recent further representa- further taxis placed upon, our powers of credulity by the stories

tions made by the Hongkong be Chamber of Commerce to the Hong When he of the turtle hunter. tells us of whole nights spent cause he did not like asparagus kong Government on the subject of lying on the moonlit shore with- recalls a more amusing because, a better system of weather reports

The same sun which gilde all out speaking, smoking, or even according to the speaker's inten-in the Far East, wider co-operation

tion, accurate use of it by a between the various meteorological nature, and exhilarates the whole moving in spite of the ravages of child. It was a war birthday, and stations, and a more satisfactory creation; does not shine upon dis-up a European miner is reported to have occurred at Kampar, on sand-flies his hearers catch their a few strawberries had been pro- method of imparting direct in appointed ambition. It is some-July 5. M. Crepy, accountant of the breath and marvel at the hartii cured as a great treat. The quess formation by the officials of the thing that rays out of darkness, French Mining Co., Kampar, was hood of man; but, when he begins tion rose whether sugar could be Royal Observatory at Hongkong and inspires nothing but gloom taking money from Kampar to to refer to his catches by the spared to eat with them. Daddy should by now be producing and melancholy. Men in this de- Batu Ampat, when, a few miles out hundredweight those who know helpfully suggested that they results, especially so far as the plorable state of mind find a com- of Kampar, on the Temah side, four nothing about the pastime begin might be sweat enough to eat suggested to, wonder if there may

small Siccawei and the alleged de fort in spreading the contagion of Chinese were seen in the centre of not be alone, truth after all in the popular daughter turned on him with the fections of the Hongkong Ob- their spleen. They find an advan- the road signalling to the car to. Oh, servatory system are concerned, tage, too; for it is a general stop. Thinking the Chinese had association of moonlight with crushing condemnation,

observes "Shipping and Engineer popular error to imagine the loud- mistaken the car for a hired one, romance. This, in all possibility, daddy, you are a pessimist!”

ing" (Shanghai) In neither of est complainers from the public to Crepy did is due to their having some sort

H.M.S. C." has these matters should any insuper be the most anxious for its wel of vague idea of the hunter put-

the following able difficulty be experienced, for fare. If such persons can answer ting the turtle. on his back alive; | MACHINERY. lines in the on the one hand the shipmasters are the ends and profft of relief, they but what actually happens is

London "Morning as anxious to cooperate with the are apt to be careless enough about that when the turtle goes in shore Post" which vividly, convey an staff of the Hongkong Observatory either the means or the conse to lay its eggs a stake is placed impression of Wembley's na-

os they are naturally keen to obrain beneath it and several people chinery wonders..

the latest and most reliable la quences. help iJ its leverage for Through this window look, and see formation regarding the weather; when on it back it Largesse of machinery, is quite helpless and can be killed Mighty gun and tiny drill,

Both together lying still. at leisure. It is quite an easy Work of townships whose smoke process the turtle hunter tells us and it is quite obvious that he thoroughly enjoys his thirty-mile trip to some remote part of Lan tao and his all-night vigil. It no doubt has its appeal for those ›♦♦ anxious for fresh experiences; but to most people to remain at home in a comfortable bed and put up with the tales of the hunters on their return is the lesser of what they, no doubt look upon as two

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while it is so well understood as to he hardly worth mentioning-that- Father Froc and his efficient staff at Slecawei are ever and always ready and anxious to do anything Daylong, blotting out the skies.

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the of Out of all this clank and hum

representations that were made by Comes, then, the millennium?

their local Chamber of Commerce, After all this toil and stress

and also that the very excellent sug. Shall we fashion happiness? Through achievements such as this gestion that a wireless meteorolo Venture from our chrysalis? Here's the old material side Brightened, broadened, glorified, Is there, still, another way Upward? Let an Empire say.

said

-Edmund Burke.

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised In The Mail

ENTERTAINMENTS.

particular attenton till, on their getting closer, guns were levelled and two shots were fired. M. Crepy dropped down in the car to prevent himself being hit. and the driver, accelerating speed immediately he saw danger, they were able to get away, running the gauntlet of the robbers' fire.

In a manifesto, the Kuoming- Canton tang headquarters in declares that it is the fond desire of the Party to see the remitted Boxer Indemnity devoted to the purposes of developing education and industry. The Party would oppose to the utmost of its strength the appropriation of this money for the building of railways or the Huao July 22. Coronet Theatre; River conservancy works. The "The Sheik!"

Central Committee has also issued a "The Primitive Lover."

July 22-The Star Theatre; statement deploring the misunder-

July 22. World "The Breathless Moment."

The 14th Lover." July 22-Queen's

standings, both among its mem- Theatre;bers and outsiders, which have arisen from the utterances and Theatre; conduct of Communists who bave recently joined the Koumintang; July 23. World Theatre; and assuring the public that the Alimony."

PUBLIC AUCTIONS, July 23-Lammert Bros., at 180, The Peak, valuable leasehold property, 3 p.m.

Central Committee, while welcom ing all who have joined the Party, will recognize and support only those members who respect the

doctrines of the Party.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

gical station should be established at Pratas Shoal is being pushed forward with all the vigour and insistence its undoubted import The eighth issue of The China

ance warrants. It has been one of the most regrettable features of Year Book has reached us; once

"That woman is meteorological work in Far Eastern again we welcome its addition to

OUT OF THE the most awful waters during recent years that our reference library. The new

FRYING-PAN actress Lever saw," there has been nothing like that issue is slightly larger than pre-.

af the mild-measure co-operation and

July 24-Lammert Bros., at vious editions and includes a num-mannered man to his neighbour in co-ordination between the various Godown No. 20, the China Pro ber of new features.

Among the stalls.

stations that conditions and these are:-an entirely new chap-| ter on Education, with details of his neighbour.

"That lady is my wife," replied circumstances demanded, and vident, Loan and Mortgage and Co., Ltd., West Point, rivets, "now that the matter has

Lieut. A. C. Newbold has been the principal Colleges and Univer- "should have said "She is a strongly been taken up at Hong- bolts, nuts, etc., 11 a.m.

July 2-Lammert Bros at appointed to the "Titania" mother sities in China; a description of good actress struggling, with a kong-where many considered the

the trouble lay there The Kowloon-Canton Workshops, ship of the Submarine Flotilla on movement for educating rotten play. I wonder what fool root of

service Uliterates, and a chapter on wrote it? corrected the mild one. appears no logical reason why a Hunghom, ons locomotive, etc., the China Station, for

with a submarine, Lieut. Newbold Athletics in which are given á

"Unfortunately, I am the author," maximum of efficiency, so far as noon.

conditions obtaining will permit,

COMPANY MEETINGS.

entered the Royal Navy Jn 1910 comprehensive survey of western said the neighbour simply,.

should not be attained.

September 16-Extraordinary and served with submarines during forms of athleties since their in-

Another feature of the situation general meeting of The China the greater part of the late war. troduction during the last two

most countless dise that holds out distinct promise is Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the Chinese decades,

National

WONDERS. plays at Wembley, that concerning the installation of Registered Office of the Company, Our Chefoo correspondent Amateur Records and those made

which are novel fa some sort of wireless apparatus on Pedder Street, noon.

writes that Dr. J. G. Schurman, by students of the Middle Schoola. extreme, it seems invidious, Coasting vessels. The Deed of the

October 3-Second meeting of the Americao Minister to China, In the latter connection, it is in- perhaps, to pick out any single one adoption of wireless apparatus on the China Sugar Refining Co., accompanied by Mrs. Schurman teresting to note that the time for particular mention. The China Coast vessels, and particular diffident about uttering

con- (6 seconds) of Ko Shao-ken of exhibit sent from Alberta, howly those carrying passengers, has Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, arrived at Chefoo on July 8 on the gratulations which perverse Fate Ellis Kadoorie School, Hongkong, ever, in which the Prince of bean laid stress upon for many noon. A

October 18 Extraordinary may promptly turn into lamenta-made in the 50 yards dash at Wales, his horse, and in the back-years, and has been proved to be

Nanking in 1910, still holds. A ground his ranch at Hikh River no empty, meaningless cry, but a General Meeting of Douglas 9.8. NATHANSEN. On July 14,

tions, still we think it can be safely complete translation of the new are all modeled in butter, does stern necessity, emphasised by the Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office 1924, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, Berthe Nathansen, said that, so far as the bigger regulations relating to criminal appeal as being unusually note severity of weather conditions in of the Company, 20 Des Vaux October 20-Third meeting of aged 35 years.

ships are concerned anyway, the procedure is a welcome addition, worthy. It has taken three and a these parts during the major part Road, Central, noon) NORTON-At Colombo, on 21st danger of piracy was never less The chapter on railways has been half tons of butter to make this of the year and the fact that there

greatly expanded; a comprehen- exhibit and two men are employed have been serious casualties, ac The China Sugar Refining Co July, 1924, from enteric fever, than it is to-day. This compara-sive survey of the traffic in opium/day and night keeping it frozen to companied by heavy loss of life,Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, Herbert, James Bridges Nor- ton, late manager of Hong- kong Hotel. (By cable).

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U.S.S."General

Alava,"

a short, un official visit. HE the Tao Yio paid an :Official visit to Dr. Schurman at the U.S. Consulate a t

the Minister and Mrs. Schurman was held by Admiral and Mrs. Washington on board the U.S.S. "Huron, which was attended by quite a large number of the comi munity. Dr. and Mrs. Schurman

in cases where, wireless: would

Sp.m., the same day. At noon on have proved of inestimable value,

the extra. Wednesday,

Tao Yin November .-Purtber tivo security,. it should be added,

Include:

Furthermore, in other parts of the is in great measure due to the A summary of medical events in efforts of the China Coast Officers' China during 1928 will appeal to

LATEST WILLS. Mr. Frederick world, where the shipping industry ordinary meeting of Douglas 8.8, entertained thirty-seven guests, far less importance. Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Voeux Rood including the Consulate Body, Admiral and Mrs. Washington, Wissler, of is of many. Professor Hu Shih, the Guild and the Marine Engineers' promoter, contributes a valable Heath House, 1 Shooters Hill-road, than is the case here, compulsory Central, noon.

and Important local Chinese, to OTHER MEETING.

dinner at the Broadway Hotel, Guild of China, working in close chapter on the Chinese Renais- Blackheath. S.R., chairman of the wireless has been a provision for a New vessels for the

July 23,-Lecture on. The when Dr. and Mrs. Schurman co-operation with the Imperial sance. China's finances-always a Marmite Food Extract Co., Ltd., long time.

coasting service are now mostly Value of Devotion" at the Hong-were the guests of Honour. In body. Accordingly it is refreshing subject of absorbing interest £79,856. Bohaxona, Tumbay, July 22, 1984,, to see that the Guilds further include the latest available in- Mr. Leslie Hargrave Wood, of being commissioned with a wire-kong Lodge Theosophical Society, the afternoon a Reception for

formation. Another new feature, | 18, Basil-mansions, Knights less apparatus, and a school, ander 16, Queen's Road, 5.45 p.m. efforts are not being allowed to which is invaluable to students of bridge, S.W., £51,573.

Mr. John Grigg Tomkinson, of quential and progressive ship- languish. From latent Home Chinese politics and for referènce papers we learn that besides is the documented information High Habbesley, Kidderminster, ping companies in these parts, has Worcestershire, retired carpet been established at. Hongkong regarding the Lincheng affair, the manufacturer, left £250 to his for the training of wireless supplying the different Imperial negotiations for the rendition of gamekeeper. Henry Fanner, and operators. Although there ap- A Reuter message states that in continuing their trip will call in Almost we hesitate to remark Government departments with Wei-hai-wei, the gold frane con- £200 ke his parlourmaid, Louie pears no possibility of the rain fell at Lord's ground on at Wel-hal-wol, Tsing-tau" and, the fact that local waters have copies of specific plans put forward troversy, the Sino-Russian nego Norman, if still in his service and situation, as regards the dearth Saturday and prevented a start Newchwang, and possibly Ching-

of wireless on Coast vessels, being made in the Middlesex v. wang-tao. lately been agreeably free from by China Coast officers to combat tiations, the new Trade Mark Law not under notice, £43.758

and the Canton Customs. Reliable Mr. Walter: Dawson, of Dews undergoing any drastic charge South Africans match. Play was piracy, lest we invite the usual piracy, the Imperial Merchant summaries of Chinese Politics bury, Yorkshire, Chartered ac- during this typhoon season or abandoned for the day at 3 o'clock. perverse sequel before the ink is Service Guild has placed before during the past 12 months and an countant, left to his Rousekeeper, this year, the situation holds forth hardly dry. Many times before the Secretary of State for the account of the civil wars which Jane Helena Young; if still in his much more promise than has yet this the Colony has been lulled Colonies comprehensive correspon-haye been raging in China during service, £4,000, and if she should been the case, and the time may

of all passenger-carrying ships on Public Lecture of the Hongkong into a false sense of security only dence received from the China the past 18 months are also valu- desire it, the use of his house for not be far distant when the dream be the subject of this week's

12 months, Eat,574. to be rudely awakened by some Coast Officers Guild The latest tiened above the new features M. Andre Nicholas AT8916300 under the British lag, being fited 16. Queen's Road Central, on able new items. We have men. Andre Nicholas Argenti, of the China Coast or at least those Lodge The Theosophical Society, outrage more impudent than ever development, is contained in the which most appeal to us. Chapters to James Tupper, bia stud groom with wireless, is an actual, accom Wednesday July 23, at 5:45. p.m. But although we are naturally reply from the Secretary of State, that have but been completely and chauffeur, £200 to Nurse i plished fact.

*The Value of Devotion "will

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