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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

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*To-day is the 55th DICKENSLAN auniversary of the "death of Charles MUSEUM

Dickens, and on this

ghirland of flowers (about the year- 1660 one was killed striving to 'take away the ghirland) made upon. an hoop, brought forth by a mald of the town upon her neck, and a

Why must labour organisations invariably act the role of mis- chievous meddlers? Why cannot they concentrate on those pro- blems for which the International, Labour Conference in Geneva was convened instead of digressing and rushing in to express their opinions on a subject about which they must know next to nothing? day will begin the annual congress young man (a bachelor) of another There are some sane leaders in the of the Dickens Fellowship, a nobly parish first saluted her three times labour organisations; men who growing companionship of kindred in honour of the Trinity, in respect spirits. The occasion will be made the ghirland upon his neck and of God the Father. Then she puts take a sensible outlook on life, popular by the formal opening of a kisses him three times in honour of men who can express themselves Dickens Museum, in the self-same the Trinity, particularly God the reasonably -on topics. Where were these good men and true at the Geneva Con-

current world ( house in humdrum Doughty Street Son. Then he puts the ghirland.

where ." Boz" spent the earlier years of his married life. About on her neck again, and kisses her £4,000 has been subscribed for this three times in honour of the Holy Telaffy and particularly the Holy ference when they could not fore, purpose, and a most interesting Ghost. Then he takes the ghirland

Collection of Dickensian relics from her neck, and, by the custom, see the danger of trespassing on obtained either as gifts or loans intornational preserves in Shang-that may become bequests. Among give her a penny at least, hai? That there is a real danger of fomenting the strife by utterly

needless interference even by way of mere resolutions, is obvious to those much nearer Shanghai than is Geneva.

Sir Charles Eliot.

The Colony has had as its governors' soldiers of distinction and administrators of ability, but never, so far as we know, one whe shone as a man of letters equally as a diplomat. Should Sir Charles Eliot be appointed to this Far eastern "plumsurely persim mon and li-chee would have been more appropriate the Colony will gain in having a man whose towering height is only exceeded

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these personal things are the desk at which the great humanist made his public readings, and a pewter

tankard and a copper warming-pan. The latter will be placed in one of the rooms, which will be decorated as the Dingley Dell kitchen. During the congress a series of pilgrimages to Dickensian spots in and about London will enliven the proceedings..

Aubrey, in his Mis- TRINITY Cellanie's (1714, p. 49). SUNDAY speaking of Newton, says Upon every

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Trinity Sunday, the parishioners being come to the door of the hayward's house, the door was struck thrice in honour of the Holy Trinity; they then entered. The bell was rung; after which, silence being ordered, they read their

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which, as fancy leads, is now exceeded, as 21. 6d., etc. The method of giving this ghirland is from house to house annually, till. it comes round. In the evening, every commoner sends his supper- to this house, which is called the

Eale-house; and having before laid, in there equally a stock of. malt, which was brewed in the house, they sup together, and what was left was given to the poor."

Judge Maule, referred MAULED. to the other day by the

Governor, WIS once

very severe in a summing-up on a case of libel: "One of these defen- dants is. it seems, a minister of religion of what religion does not appear, but, to judge by his conduct, it cannot be any form of Christianity." Can this be term ed "Scurrilous Vapouring?"

THE CHINA OF THE PAST.

by the many qualities he pos-prayers aforesaid. Then was a sesses. At the University it was not a pleasant thing to be "on the mat before the Vice-Chancellor : there was a something about the ordeal which made you if you were a somewhat wayward student vow that the thing the Union of Chinese Associations Vice-Chancellor exuded person- would never be repeated. The

Reviewing "The Chater Collec-fact that, by order of the Chinese in London have held a special ality of a potent kind. Since tion" of Pictures relating to Government, no white women meeting and solemnly adopted a these days Sir Charles has done a China, Hongkong and Macao, were ever allowed to visit that city before 18417 How many resolution protesting against "the number of things entitling him to

respect. There is his work in 1655-1860, "The Times Literary underpaid diplomatists at Peking use of armed forces by interfering Siberia at a peculiarly vital time. Supplement says that Mr. James are aware that Lord Macartney's Powers to suppress the strike who There is also his ambassadorship Orange was happily inspired when allowances as Ambassador to shot down defenceless workers at Tokyo, also during critical he persuaded Sir Paul Chater to China (1793) were £15,000 a and students and recording "full times. In the world of letters

there is this, recent monumental acquire this interesting collection year? How many of Hongkong's prosperous citizens know that at a support" of the strikers.

work on Buddhism. But behind of pictures, engravings and books critical moment, just before the The very wording of the resolu-everything is

distinguished relating to the early days of Euro-birth of the Colony, the now in- tion" condemns those responsible career in many walks of life pean traffics and discoveries insignificant island of Chusan seem- China, with a view to presenting ed destined to become the local for it. They have only received entitling him to such a "plum' garbled and Inspired versions of as Hongkong is now semi-officially to the Colony of Hongkong habitation and base of British

described.

Like Hakluyt, Mr. Orange in com-power in the China Sea? Or, to the origin of the disturbances, and

piling this collection set himself go still farther back, how many of read into these just what they

to bring to light antiquities us remember anything of the "smothered and buried in dark hazardous adventures, which were pleased to believe. They Flying Ants,

silence, and to preserve cer- these pictures recall, that led the have taken their cue from the Eighty years occupation of

tain memorable exploits, of late Portuguese to plant their outpost produced, "a Hongkong have Chinese Foreign Office, which wretched sanitary system; train-

years by our English nation of empire at Macao and to estab straight away also "protested" ed nullahs; and the Central Mar-

achieved, from the greedy and lish their trade, early in the devouring jawa of oblivion; to sixteenth century, in rivalry with against the use of arms against het. But with all these blessings

gather likewise, and as it were that of the Japanese, at Ningpo? the frenzied students, little know. of civilisation there has not been

to incorporate into one body.. To those who have, lived in the ing that those who had resort to produced anything that will stay

and torn and scattered limbs of East these pages. that bring to the sudden appearance of those arms were fighting with their incredibly awful creatures that

our ancient and late navigamind so vividly remembrance of tions by sea, our voyages by things past, will naturally sug- back to the wall and only fired income, like a baby, "out of the

land, and traffics of mer-gest the reflection that on the self defence of their own lives and nowhere into here. fly about us.

chandise by both. '

whole, the instincts and impulses in the hope of saving the truculent shed their feeble wings, and ther. To the fulfilment of this evid- which determine the attitude and

wriggle and crawl to our inner- Chinese themselves from a more most disgust. Apparently, they ently congenial task he has actions of the Chinese, in the ever- terrible disaster. The members serve some useful purpose-bat brought a wide knowledge of the recurring phases of their history, subject and the discriminating are far more consistent and per- of the Union of Chinese Associa- why should they appear just a taste of a connoisseur; the result sistent than our own. He who

the gong announces the dinner to i tions in London may know some which we have been looking for is a volume worthy of the object compares, for instance, the atti- thing about the traits of their ward? What is their purpose view and of Sir Paul's muni- tude towards the Opium Question of China's present representatives" compatriots in Shanghai, but if any beyond that of being sent ficent gift to the Crown Colony.

Of the 430 paintings and draw at Geneva with that of Viceroy to try us? Big fleas, scientists- obviously they can know as little or is it poets tells us are sent ings in the Chuter Collection, 261 Yeh at Carton in 1857 cannot fail of the actual cause of the outbreak to gobble up the lesser feas

reproduced

colour to be impressed by the continuity the of unbroken traditions which 2. 1925, at the Victoria as the natives of Timbuctoo. And But this does not seem to hold and half-tone plates by Nursing Home. Shanghai, to event were they to be placed in good in the case of flying ants. Nickeloid Electrotype Company's underlies Chinese statecraft. As "Ultimatt" process. Mr. Orange far back as 1834, just after the Given a spell of a certain kind of Mr. and Mrs. M. Reader possession of the facts, it seems dampness and we know what we has divided them, chronologically arrival of Lord Napier at Macao, Harris, a daughter.

and geographically, into twelve we find the Cantonese officials SHAW--On June 3, 1925, at 117, too rauch to expect them to may expect towards eight of the actions, each separately cata-burning some chests of opium in

Bubbling Well Road, Shang-appraise these at their true worth Sanitary Board any knowledge of

clock in the evening. Has our logued and annotated with public, but still, in private. con- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. T. H. R. and refrain at least from comment these vermin. Can it tell us what numerous quotations from the inuing to connive at and foster. Shaw, a daughter. LENZEN.-On June 3, 1925, at and protest until such time as the to do beyond putting bowls of works of contemporary authors, the opium trade." The words and the whole supplemented by gestures of a Sun Yat-sen may Dr. Fearn's Sanatorium, inevitable inquiry is made by an water under or near a light, and biographical lists of the artists appear to be very different from Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. impartial tribunal.

"sloshing" at the pests with a and authors represented, and an those of the Imperial Commis- newspaper? Presumably it can- C. A. Lenzen, a son, C. A., Jr. Even if it be admitted, for the not. And until it, or some other excellent Index. For the studert stoner Lin, who ruled over Canton

MARRIAGE.

sake of argument, that the mem-body can, it is useless Mr. Austen the interest of these beautifully eighty odd years ago, but their bers of the Union of Chinese Chamberlain who has never been printed pictures is intensified by ultimate purport and the race- their association with important mind behind them, remain unmiş-- PARKINSON-SHEARER.-On Associations in London. have a that Hongkong is a plum.

here, telling medicine gentlemen

events in the early history of takably the same. June 2, 1925, at H.B.M. Con- certain right, by virtue of their

foreign intercourse with China; Another unfortunately neglect sulato-General. Shanghai,

for the general reader, the elusive ed lesson which these pages nationality, to give expression to before Mr. J. F. Brenan,

charm of the works of Chinnery, teach-amply demonstrated by Acting Consul. and after their views on, the disturbances

Allom, Alexander, Berget, and Parkes at Canton, in 1857 and wards at the Union Church in Shanghai, what is to be said pose when I can avoid it.-Mr. Far East is emphasized by day at Hongkong, Shanghai, and."

I make it a rule never to com- other artist adventurers in the clear for him who runs to read to

extracts, admirably selected, from Tientsin-is that no people on

NOTICE.

MR. TANNER desires to thank his many friends in the Colony for their kind notes of Congratulation

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

June 9, 1925.

BIRTHS.

·READER" HARRIS. — On June

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DEATH.

O'TOOLE.-On June 3, 1925, Una, youngest child of. Mr. and Mrs. J. O'Toole, aged 11

months.

THEY SAY THAT

TO-DAY'S SMILE.

are

in

by Dr. John Darroch, Harold of the "sympathy" expressed by Oustav Holst.. Edgar, son of Charles John the International Labour Confer Parkinson, of Blackheath,

The only real security for France the descriptive writings of Robert earth are more ready than the England, to Grace Shearer, once in Geneva? That conference is something which is security for Fortune, George Wingrove Cooke, Chinese to accept and support third daughter of Mrs. Archi-comprises delegates of nearly Germany and for Europe.Lord Bernard (of the Nemesis)quiet and orderly government,. bald Shearer, of Renfrew, sixty States, and although the

Grey.

Laurence Oliphant. Robert even though it be administered by Scotland,

Human usturo is so constituted Swinhoe, Sir George Staunton, foreignera; furthermore (a truth. Governments are entitled to send that a man may be a coward in the and many other authors Their of vital significance to-day), that. two delegates the representative morning and a hero at night.-Mr. combined effect is as of "magic the force required to establish and organisations of workers may be R. Morrison, M.P. expected to take greater adyan- tage of their right to be repre- sented by two delegates each. It is a labour affair pure and simple. What do workers' delegates from Sydney or Brussels know of the facts of the Shanghai disturb. unces? It is all very well for them to sit in conference twelve | It would be too much to expect thousand miles away from the the Shanghai riots to pass without actual scene of the strife and the usual crop of mischievous adopt resolutions of sympathy meddlers, thousands of miles with the hinese away, giving to the world their "sympathy." bet note version and their “ protest." Fimpliedly a vote of Yesterday the cables told us that

aithorities

Hongkong, Tursday, June 4, 1925.

MISCHIEVOUS MEDDLERS.

dasements" opening on the whole maintain law and order, in any fascinating panorama of life in city or province, need not be China, as Englishmen knew and large. Nevertheless, as it was im lived it, from the beginning of the the days of Macartney so it is to- geventeenth century to the middle day China's rulers and leaders. of the nineteenth century.

prefer pleasant fictions to unplea- Even those who reckon them-sant realities, and are still ready solves fairly familiar with the to jeopardize life, property, and early days of British diplomacy the future of their country in and trade in the Far East may blind adherence to their unchang find their memories refreshed bying devotion to "face-pidgin."" this delightful book concerning Any wealthy philanthropist, con- many things which, in China cerned with the welfare of China. itself, have long since beende might do good work and tow rich.. voured by the greedy jaws of seeds of wisdom by sending a cblivion. How many inhabitants copy of this book to each of her at the Treaty Ports to-day re- Tuchums, and to those of her member anything of our four modern Intellectuals who hold! years, military occupation of Can-forth so eloquently on the aboli- ton from 857 to 861, or the tion af arten territorializ