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Hongkong. Friday, January 30, 1925.

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port sporting contests has come to an end with the last of the foot-

ball matches against Shanghai, in which the visitors demonstrated the truth of the adage that a game

THE HAND OF TIME.

HOW THE COLONY HAS CHANGED.

INTERESTING MEMORIES.

IMPRESSIONS OF A FORMER RESIDENT.

| (By R. T. Peyton-Grifin.)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1925.

have mentioned, but it will come. This, however, is perilously ke "argufying," and "we must get back to our muttons.

SPEED IN CARL

"BACK TO THE STANDARDS, MUF PRE-WAR DAYS,

TELEGRAFU HLAÐ EXPLAINS. .

The most vivid impression one receives on return to Hongkong comes from the hotels. The ser- vice is excellent, the food beyond reproach, hut, nourishment not-

"As regards speed and efficiency withstanding, our pocket-book

we are back to pre-war atandaz'lla' seems to be suffering from a pro. said Mr. M.F. F." Alfoy, superin gressive anemia. Its rotundity tendent of the local branch of the has collapsed into an elegant Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Years ago, when a new

meagreness, and, unless the date "Chim Muil" representative journalist came to Hongkong, the of our departure comes quickly, who approached him this morning first assignment given him by his we expect it to die of sheer for observations, in view of“ lis editor TVAS to write hia inanition, despite the fact that we early departure from the Colony "impressions" of the place. The had taken it for a short recupera- (Mr. Airey I'ms heen transferred to present writer was allotted that tive trip to Macao from which it Wellington, New Zealand and task,, and somewhere in the dusty had received some little benefit. leaves on February 18 by the files of one of our newspapers But, if we may venture a sugges- “Mishima Mara''), here there is hidden a crime tion, it would be that many In war time, owing to interup- which it is to be hoped will never chances of acquiring revenue have lions in other lines, the Eastern be raked up and used against been missed. No toll has been Extensiar Company had a bray him. If it be, he proposes to taken for the privilege of breath-time of it and mistakes were almost plead youth and inexperience as ing the rarified atmosphere of inevitable; but, figinatively spent- mitigating circumstances. After the hotels, while the wear and ing. Mr. Airey told the "China an absence from the Colony of tear on the plate glass windows, Nail" man, where there · might some years, during which the caused by gueats looking through have been forty, incenracies in the hoar frost of maturity, has some-them seems to have been com-course of a hundred cables, there what lightened his locks, and add-pletely overlooked. Some day, were now only four. This of

"Why?" he asked. "Don't orate?"

"Yea, brudder, you certainly does orate powerful."

assumed a

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ed girth to an erstwhile slender some All Baba will come and build purse is conducive to ` greater figure, he has been asked again to a new hotel and then this is not speed as we are able to concéntendo write his impressions. Which re- a threat; not even a promise, but on the messages themselves instead minds us of the story of the negro if the hotel management makes of filling our lines with corrections," pastor who was informed by a prospects so attractive we fancy In reply to a query as to the deacon that his "call" would not it will have some difficulty in average time a message now took be renewed.

keeping him out. Speaking on be between Hongkong and London, half of the tourists, we think some Mr. Ainy took from off his desk less painful means of extraction notification according to which might be employed: the desk the time taken for calles banded in "And don't I argufy?"

clerk might be allowed to run hast night at Hongkong to reach them over with a vacuum cleaner, Tandon bod heen two hours and "Yes, you sure does. You when little or nothing would be a half And these were not orates and argufies, but you don't missed. We have a number of urgent ones," remarked:Mr. Airay; specify wherein."

other helpful. suggestions which The Derby result last June comé And so, not to fail as the we could supply the hotel inanage-through in 30 seconds, as you pastor did, the "orating" and ments with but if they want know." "sputifying" will be neglected in them we are open to a proposition. “Mr. Airey has been in Hongkong favour of "specifying wherein." in the hope that we may get a for four years and a half, an Hongkong has changed. It has little of our own back. However, unsually long time for a superin

certain monumental with the gentleness of the shorn tendent, and he smilingly tenurked. dignity not wholly to be dis- sheep, we would like to compli- this morning that it was the associated from the plethora of ment the hotels on the really longest he had been anywhere since splendid buildings which project efficient service they give: it is he "me East with the Company their heads skyward in emulation certainly of a very high standard. years of the massive Peak, but fami- larities have disappeared

The expansion of Hongkong Since Mr. Airey has been in in during the past ten years is more Hongkong the Company has built favour of a granitic dignity. The apparent to those who have been houses in May Road and Magazine ancient Supreme Court building away than to those who have Gap, which have solved the housing. wherein many a cause was plead-stayed behind. The disappear- problen in so far as the staff in ed amidst the dust and dirt of ance of Morrison hill into the concerned...

A third floor line nisa' decades, where reporters sat in reclamation scheme at Wanchai is been added to the building in wonderful intimacy with the Bar, all to the good. So also is the Connaught Road Central to çapa- half of the match

was well has long since disappeared. And development of Kowloon, but it is with the increase in traffic, advanced and the visitors had a with it have gone such names as

to be doubted whether Victoria Mr. Airey has identified himself. goal registered inst them.

Marcus Slade, and E. H. Sharpe itself is capable of much more closely with the public and social Yet even its successor in Statue

extension. Possibly the old life of the Colony, and his departure Many thought that the result Square,, is acquiring, the aspects scheme of a tunnel through the will necessitate resignation from another local win was a foregone of an ageing respectability, for Peak may afford some relief in nine Committees, including the conclusion, and some of the rain and time are dimming its the future if it be revived, and Hongkon

Cinb, the Penk spectators had even left the original pristine beauty. It is not even more houses may be pre- Residents Association, and the ground. when the visitors made of the building can be easily nesses of the immediately ad- the Alice Memorial Hospital. Mr.

to be supposed that the exterior cariously perched on the steep special building sub-committee of an onslaught on the local goal and cleansed, nor is such a course to jacent hills. Yet, no matter what Airey has been a member of the St. netted the leather three times in be "advocated. But if a sugges is done on land, the harbour of John's Cathedral Church body and succession-truly an admirable tion could be advanced, we would Hongkong will remain much the of the Board of Education.

like to see the statues in the ad- same. piece of play!

It will still retain the His successor is to be Mr: B. A. jacent square given a good wash combination of efficiency and Leggatt, of Penang, who will As sport, football assuredly ing. Once, if memory serves, it beauty which has endeared it to regume friendships formed in the holds its own with the populace was done, and a little of the "spit all who see it. It will ever pre-course of residence here in a sub- wherever it is played, and it is and polish" exercises inflicted on sent that aspect of continually ordinate position. gratifying to think of the wonder-applied to some of the denizens been a delight to the eye, a thing NAVAL POSTMAN'S FALL men in barracks nearby might be changing colour which has always ful progress that it has made in of the "finest site:" for no matter of beauty and a joy for ever.. Hongkong, which can more than how royal a statue may be, it loses

And if it is permissible to close hold its own with the best expon-one of its kingly attributes if it this halting mixture of impres- MONEY FROM REGISTERED ente of the game in the Far East. Hongkong knows why the square note, it would be to express. is decidedly grubby. Again, sion, and opinion, on a personal

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LETTER.

IT AINT SO GOOD AS IT USED TO BE.”

In tropical jungle long ago, About a million or two B.C Old Pithecanthropus grunted low : "It aint so good as it used to be "

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The Vice-President of the Hong- should be apoiled by the erection delight that Time has not laid too Pleading guilty at a 'Naval kong Football Association, speak of a pier on its foreshore. No heavy a hand on those we knew court-martial yesterday to ing at last night's interport dinner, doubt it is wise to dissemble so well a few years ago. A toll charge of having stolen money described the rise of football here beauty in a desert of utility, but faces are missing from

popular love for this casis of has been taken, some familiar from a registered envelope whilst the acting as ship's postman, Cor- as "wonderful." When he arrived the installation of this new pier Colony, but more than enough re- poral Fulbrooke, of the Royal in the Colony twenty years ago looks suspiciously like kicking it main to make this return visit a Marines, H.M.S. "Ambrose," was football was on a very ordinary downstairs. But hold! we are memorable event amongst many sentenced to be imprisoned" for

commencing to "argufy," where-pleasurable excursions. footing, and consisted mostly of as we promised only to specify having fulfilled a promise to an the service.

Thus, six months with dismissal from PLAY THE GAME!

"friendly" matches. Chinese wherein."

old friend, we cease to "specifyCaptain, C. G. Brodie, of H.M.S. Another of the series of inter- players and spectators also And the streets of Hongkong wherein," and leave to others""Titania," was President of the We remember the day when they whatever there remains on which Court, and Pay Lieut. F. R. were conspicuous by their absence. were safe to sleep on, when chair- to exercise the gifts of the pastor Porter of H.M.S. "Hawkins," the To see such a crowd at the Happy men and ricsha-pullers pussy-whose story formed our text.

Judge-Advocate. Valley ground on Monday last footed between pedestrians who would have been a revelation to passed the time of day in the We they been able to return and be would find a soft spot in the old residents of the Colony had middle of Queen's Road.

remember when our faithful dog is never lost or won before the

present at that match. final whistle blows. Whilst

cement roadway and sleep, The whole secret of the success oblivious of passing traffic. That Shanghai lost two out of the three football matches, they showed

of football in Hongkong is simply dog was killed three days after a corollary of the success that and a passing motor-car was reaching Shanghai Hongkong throughout that fine sporting has been achieved elsewhere in responsible for his untimely spirit which was commented upon the Orient-a determination on demise. In those days-and it is in these columns yesterday in the part of the football authorities only a decade ago-motor cars connection with the yachting con- to ensure that the game shall be was in inverse ratio to their num- were few. Their unpopularity tests. And the visiting footballers played in the truest sporting bers, Possibly that was due to a likewise showed that they possess spirit, a determination that has mechanical and offensive smelling that spirit of indomitable pluck invariably received the utmost assault on the Victorian dignity that keeps true sport alive and co-operation of players and specta of the place, or that objection to that adds a zest to interport and tors alike. "Play the game" has ernor Caine, many years before, nocturnal noise which made Gov- Club meetings without which any been the motto writ large on the stop watchmen clanking their sport would degenerate into a poor portals of every Club in Hongkong bamboos as they made their But whatever old thing. As was pointed out by and in the hearts of all the players, nightly rounds. the Vice-President of the Hong- Given a continuance of that laud-wanted in the early days of their the cause, motor cars were not kong Football Association at the able sentiment, there is no reason advent. Human mutability has gathering in the Hongkong Hotel why football should not continue changed all that. The site of the last night. Shanghai were unfor- to progress with the advancing old clock tower in Pedder Street, tunate in losing the services of years. It is a sport that makes is now a ranking station for more cars than the whole of the their manager-captain, Mr. a good athlete, and a good athlete Colony possessed a few years Phillips. Shanghai did not send is the best possible basis for the ago. Kowloon which in those down a team to show us how to making of a good citizen. Which days afforded a happy hunting win games, but they certainly why football shall be fostered and sounds to the chug-chugging of is perhaps the best possible reason ground for ricsha coolies, now re- sent down a team which could why Interport contests should be innumerable motor buses, quaint show us how to lose well and grace encouraged.

little lovable crentures compared fully At the same time, with all

the final ghat, înļ

to the behemoths which perform

due deference to one of the pillars TRY THIS FOR YOUR COUGH. similar functions in Shanghai.

the game

A nervous backing cough cannot be The time does not seem far dis "cured by, a glass of water, but it will tant when Hongkong will be con- did disappear under the bealing and sooth fronted with a traffic problem. reveal the art of winning even lot effect of Chamberlain's Cough Possibly it will never be so acute

Remedy Every mer la Piriend. It wheri all seemed lost. The second for and everywhere.

as it is in the northern part we

A thousand milaaniums later on, But still a long way off B.C., Paleolithicus used to moan :

Italat so good as it used to be "

With dog, horse, ox, (and a wife) well tamed. More skilled in the art of butchery, The Neolithic sage exclaimed:

"It alat so good as it used to be "

When man discovered the way to write, (We don't know exactly when B.C.),

The first thing he wrote was that ancient blight; "It aint so good as it used to be,"

Though science and art became prolific, About three thousand years B.C., What says the ancient hieroglyphic? "It ain't so good as it used to be,”

When Jacob exchanged 'Poor Palestine For Egypt's wealth and luxury,

He grumbled to Joseph through fumes of wine; "It aint so good as it used to be."

What was it Noak told the crew? And Cleopatra Actony ? -

And Mr. Gladstong in "elghty,two ?

~ It aint to good ur Trued to by

And when this mortal coll we shuffle,

To stoke the fres, or harp,with gloo, We'll hear the older residents snuffle: "It sfit so good as it used to be."..

.Hongkong, January 29:

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