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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

It is not often that a FAMOUS famous father has a famous son. Still less

EARLY TO BED.

Many modern parents are up so late themselves,

in active recreation until "some considerable time after five {o'clock" is considered to be the strongest one against the intro- duction of such a measure in Hongkong, but that surely over- looks the fact that a period of, in some cases, an hour elapses between the time that the office is left, a change effected and the destination reached. Also, some frequently has it been the case is very likely the old adage" early hostesses (in the case of tennis) that al famous mother has had to bed" is not now inculcated in Fseem to consider it a personal

a famous daughter-and especially the young as it orce was. affront if one refuses refresh- |** ment for the sake of getting down when the fame, thus attained parents, even in Hongkong, do want a modern example of the to the game. According to the has been won in the field of truth of the saying referred to,

Hence the

own words:—--

out so often, that it

hours in vogue at present there is physical science. thus not a great deal of daylight recent conferring of the degree they have only to turn to the life of the late Lord Leverhulma. left by the time a start can be of Doctor of Science from the This was his normal day, in his made with the sport in question, medical faculty of the Sorbonne and this gives rise to the question if not quite, unique interest. Her upon Mile, Irene Curle is of almost, why the Government continues to mother, it will of course be re- ignore the success of the scheme called, was the joint discoverer at Home and to refuse to consider with M. Curie of radium, and is introducing such an enactment in generally looked upon as the one Hongkong.

Tiger Incidents.

chiefly responsible for that« dis- covery. Mile. Irene obtained her distinction as a result of a thesis. In connection with, the refer-lon the alpha rays of polonium, a ence to the tiger shot anime years radio-active substance discovered ngo by Mr. D. Burlingham in the by her father and mother in New Territories, a render. has pitchblende. Thus she chose a drawn the "China Mails" asten-fitting subject and undoubtedly tion to the fact that this was the treated it in a brilliant manner. beast which had caused the death

ef Sergeant Goucher of the Police | *****In his lecture at the and, it is believed, an Indian police-COAL Huddersfield Technical officer. A Chinese gentleman,

College, Yorkshire, the the owner of a shoe factory which other night, a speaker drow a has since passed into the hands vivid picture of the waste involved of the Nanyang Co. at Happy in the ordinary method of coal con- Valley, had a house in Bonham sumption, which should arouse Rond, just above the Lunatic thought every where.. "It is a sur Asylum, with spacious grounds inprising fact," he is quoted as say. which he kept a menagerie com-jing, that, although coal was prising a tiger, deer and other discovered 1,240 years ago, the pro animals and a stable of whalers,¦blem of burning it economically China and Shetland ponies. After is only now belog considered.". some time in captivity, the tiger He explained that bricks could be was missed Police, plicers who made from furnace clinker and went to the house ostensibly Toshes, by mixing them with lime inquire about dog licences the and water, and added that the gentleman kept the Great Dines CO,. from chimneys, when freed which subsequently became the from smoke and dust, was a most Police Reserve mascots-were valuable food for all vegetation, informed that the tiker had been including fruit trees and root sent buck to the country.

Evi- crops. And then he made this dence of the shipment of a tiger specific and promising forecast: to Canton could not be found and In the future all our coil will be

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Hongkong, Wednesday, May 15, 1925.

BONDS OF EMPIRE.

Local Daylight Saving.

had escaped. Then came the dis.it for power purposes, thus bring ing it on to the same basis as tron, cvery of spoor at the back of the island, this giving rise to the Peak stone, cotton, wool, or other raw material. We shall then find we tiger story. After a while, the can secure from one ton of coal 14 hue and cry subsided until spoor cwt. of smokeless fuel, three and livestock was carried off. A of oil, 15 lbs. of sulphate ammonia, were found in the New Territories gallons of motor spirit. 17 gallons yemun fisherman is said to have and 5000 cubic feet of rich gas, the been the tiger swim across in the total value being twice that of the

early hours of one morning. to coal. the mainland. As is always the case, tiger stories are regarded with scepticism, and this one was

able.

video dwing!

Much of Hong- WHY SHARES kong converan- RISE AND FALL. tion is given to the share

4 30.-I rise and spend twenty minutes in gymnastic exercises, which I would not miss for the world.

4.50-Shave and dress."

$0-A cup of tea. Sipping this, I begin to attack the reports" which come every day from all our companies. These I read carefully and make notes for correspondence.

7 30.Breakfast, consisting of tea, toast, and bread and butter, im or marmalade. No meat.

750. Read the newspapers, or as much of them as I can digest in ten minutes. Generally It is not much more than the headlines..

80-Read and reply to letters for half an hour.

8 30-Motor from my house in Hampstead to my offices at Central-buildings, Blackfriars, arriving there shortly before 9

a.m.

90-Work continuously, in- terviewing callers and conduct- ing such other business, as comes the way of the chairman of such a concern as Lever Bros., tatil ↑ p.m.

10.Lunch in the office; cup of tear two poached eggs, or a littte cold meat.

↑ (5-m Sign, the letters which were dictated in the morning, usuilly a large number.

130, Forty winks." This short sleep in the middle of the day I consider most important and always take,

15.-Begin work again, and continue until 5 30, when I motor home.

70-Dinner I do not have business dinners, although I en- tertain to a fair extent. I make it a rule to leave business behind me for the day when I leave- the office, and I refuse to discuss it until the next morning.

The evening is spent in social pleasures. I am very fond of dancing and of the theatre. If If I am at home at 10 p.m., I go, to bed, taking no supper and am invariably asleep as soon.

Is it correct CHINESE GORDON. to say that so long as

The Prince of Wales, after- wards King Edward VII, when. he heard that Gordon was going to accompany Lord Ripon to India, asked, or rather com- manded."' him to dine at Marl- borough House. But to every body's dismay, Gordon declined the invitation. In vain was it pointed out to him that this was not an invitation but a command. and that one could not treat the Heir Apparent in such a way, especially as there was no valid reason for declining. Gordon remained unmoved, nd there was nothing for it but to explain to the Prince of Wales that.. Gordoa was not like other mea. The Prince accepted the situa- tion with equanimity, · and laughed good humouredly at the whole affair.

ever, as is suggested, it is to be continued after the Exhibition is closed, its title alone is likely to detract from its usefulness. A better and more permanent name might have been suggested. That apart, and in spite of the fact that there is a tendency to multiply these Leagues, anything that can further the Empire spirit of Tellowship cannot but be welcomed exception to the rule until the in a place like Hongkong where The question now is, do the market. The following is from a heist was actually shot down. there is as much necessity to theorists maintain that the pre-Home paper and may prove in- fester true Imperialism as in other sent tiger is the old one's offspring tersting. It is for those who know other parts of the Empire of which (if it was a tigress) which has to say if the same thing applies to this Colony is but a unit. If the remained in seclusion till now, of Hongkong

did it migrate here? There is no

A reader writes and asks me China remains a nation, so long Empire is worth living ju, it is doubting the fact that tigers are to explain why shares rise and will Gordon's name he remember- worth helping along in every way still to be found in the hills along fall. At first blush, the answered? We hear little of the famous possible. And if the creation of the North River and even in the might be because they can't move General's name nowadays. It has

further yet another League or Fellowship

parts of Hangmoon's sideways, but seriously the ques-cropped up again in a book of hinterland.. can accomplish.ever so little in

tion is a good one. I will try and memories as the following shows. answer it so that all can under Gordon was appointed to a post in this direction. then it is to be Worth Copying.

stand. The price of a share de- India: welcomed by the very practical. Laurence Sterne's words gen-pends on suply and demand. way of joining it. Now that its crally occur to us when we come When people wish to buy they Lo know of some of the things create a demand; when they wish objects and reasons" have been that Shanghai people do. They to sell they provide a supply. If "explained, it remains to be seen have one custom which may be there is a big demand for shares how many in Hongkong will deem old or which may be only of recent and a small supply, the price goes To the creation of Leagues of it their duty, as units in the great innovation, which is wholly admir-up; and vice versa if there is a big Shanghai has lost several supply and no demand then the ene kind and another, all actuated family of Empire, to become notabilities recently individuals(price goes down. The demand mare or less by the and idea, there

members.

who have served the city well. is created either by good news

such as There have been the usual expres-:

an increased dividend. seems no end, The latest, as

от In the case of mining sions of regret and doubtless mentioned in the "Chinn Mall,"

there were also the usual funeral shares good developments, or in yesterday, is the Fellowship of the

manifestations. But there has anticipation of good news, of At a meeting convened by the teen something better than all good news will shortly be publisk

good results, or on rumours that British Empire Exhibition. This has received the blessing of, the

Chamber of Commerce shortly this. We have noticed in the ed, or on a general opinion that after the, war for the purpose of northern papers which have the price of the shares is too low. Secretary of State for the Colonies considering a proposal for the reached us, acknowledgment of When there is no business and no Es likely to accomplish valuable introduction in Hongkong of a uonations received by different interest in a market then the work in fostering in all Empire similar daylight saving enactment institutions-the Russian Chil tendency is for prices to fall, affairs the feeling of family to that passed at Home, the dis-dren's Home, the Charity Fund of This is accounted for by the fact dvantages of the scheme were the St. George's Society, the that as the shareholders of a fellowship. "In facing the com-thought to outweigh the advan- Missions to Senmen. Hospitals, company number from a mon problems of Empire. both tages and it was decided not to etc., etc.-in memory of the late hundreds to many thousands,

This is surely an there is always someone some in this and in succeeding genera- approach the Government with a Mr.

view to getting the clocks put original but beautiful way of where who wants to sell; this tions, the keynote of our policy back. The strength of the feeling commemorating the passing of desire to sell in no way reflects on must be 'We are of the one against such a scheme at that either a beloved one or one who the intrinsic merit of the company, family.'

time may be gauged from the fact has served his fellows. We com- but is caused by a shareholder It was a coincidence that in the that the meeting was held as the mend it heartily to the notice of somewhere requiring money for same issue there should have been result of the introduction of such Hongkong. It need not interfere other purposes or, maybe, reproduced a part of Mr. Austen measure in Shanghai, and it with the old established custom of shares belong to a deceased estate

was recognised that any altera- piling up perishable wreaths and the executors have to sell. Chamberlain's speech on March 24 tion in the zone time between the, expressing very often, perishable in the course of which he stated ports, unless it was joint; would thoughts. It may indeed supple-

Tolling, rejoicing. interfere considerably with the tent these outward manifesta- A WASTER'S Borrowing, that "the British Empire,

market. Whether or not. the tions of sorrow in a more practical

SONG. Thus I my life detached from Europe by the opinions expressed to a "Ching and tangible form. Our hearts

conduct; Let it Each morning sees Dominions and linked to Europe Mail" representative and reported are very often touched.

some task begun, by these islands, can do what yesterday may be taken as indien- from henceforth be the pocket.

-Each evening sees it chucked. no other nation on the face of the

Lordon, May 12.-The Chinese earth can do, and from east and

to the success of the scheme else. west alike comes the cry that it where it is impossible to say with- Industrial Mission was welcomed: is in the hands of the Empire that out another meeting being con- at Bradford by the Lord Mayor They there shall be no more war." The vened; but there can be little and President of the Bradford

doubt as to the enthusiastic recep- Chamber of Commerce. two declarations-that of the tion a local daylight saving enact Secretary of State for the Colonies ment would receive from juniors lunched with the Lord Mayor, and and that of the Secretary of State in the local offices and many who later conferred with the Councithings are equal, employers give

the Chamber of Commerce and preference for Foreign Affairs-deserve to are not juniors, but are keen on the National Wool Textile I sport and are anxious to keep fitdustrial Council M-S-Welir during the trying summer period, the Bradford Dyers Association

Fletcher Assistant Colonial address praised the Tradem Secretary, points out that Hong-Act passed in Peking in 1923. H Long, has led the way in regard said that doubtless the expedient to a slight measure of daylight of the rule prevalling in Engli | She proceeds to the hotel. caving in that its time la fixed a that the first user of a tride, and want," says she nice in Hongkong what is to be gained little ahead of the sun already had full rights, there mi, would alry toom. Can you let me, have by membership of the Fellowship All the more reason, then why it obvious to judges. In China. Pa one for to-nighaj Merkin "Yes, suite ono,” say of the British Empire Exhibition, should go a little further. The claily as the principle.jalape

argument that has been put for articles two and three of Cam Sensation, seeing that the great Fair at ward se to the danger of indulging! Trademark Law -Reuter

be published together. They coh- tan the sum brain and the thought of Empire unity and Empire fellowship..

It may be a moot point to people

F

rive of a change of feeling among representatives of commerce due

few

the

The following ad- "LEST WE vertisement ap. FORGET" pears almost con

tinuously in the

visited dreworks and mills and Singapore papers:

It is requested that where all

to application for employment to Ex-service men.

-well-dressed SENSATION woman tas just arrived by train.

Da, the evening when Gordon should have been dining with His Royal Highness, Lord de Grey, the eldest son of the newly ap pointed Viceroy, remarked to friend in the Reform Clab:

Most extraordinory fellow that is my father is taking to India as his private secretary. He should be at Marlborough House to- night, but fostead he is sitting in the housekeeper's roon at Ripon House with a plate of cold meat lu front of him, deep'in Indian Bluebooks. This most extraordiaory fellow " had mich to do later

in quite another way that refusing

royal commands:

TO-DAY'S SMILE.

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