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FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

"Was he dress.

In

It looks 1.3 ir ed the flight round the Australian "Oxrond Baus." ed like a gentle TALK COKET | Arthur Gilligan Continent during the summer of

mad?Yes, sir.

will play no more last year. The Britannia trophy "Was he wearing Oxford bugs or cricket this season. He tells me is awarded every year to the plus fours ?-No, sir.

that the specialist's report on his A aviator who, in the opinion of the Bristol magistrates were amused health practically forbids it. Committee of the Royal Aero by this dialogue between their clerk any case he won't be allowed to do Club, shall have accomplished the and a police witness, in a case in any bowling. However, saya he most meritorious performance in which a man charged with danger-brightly, "if I can't play cricket, the air during the year. The ous driving did not appear.. I can at least talk it. I am being achievement now 30 worthily The problem. whether a gentle- snowed under with invitations to crowned was a most notable one.man can be told by the clothes he lecture, and I rather enjoy it." It consisted of a flight of 8,568 wears, was not, however, solvad. miles round the Australian Con-

Such tinent in ninety flying hours. The flight was accomplished in the POETIC Incano. wreck of the erdinary course of these officers'

Hesperys duties in making a survey of the Tn the midnight and the snow! coast line on a Rolls-Royce-Fairey Christ save us all from a death seaplane, the power unit being

like this

>

On the reef of Norman's Woo!

Gilbert Porteous tells Whe the FAST LYNNE. me an amusing story, Apropos the suggest- fell revival of "East Lynne" as the Lyceum with bis wife, Ethel Irving, in the leading part. In the first place one of the Melville brothers a Rolls-Royce "Eagle" engine.

was approached, and he received The achievement' was also notable

the suggestion favourably. In fact in proving once again the re- Hiability and endurance of British-

Every child at soliool for gon-the whole thing was practically built aircraft and aero engines, rations past has, with more or sitted, until the advent of the as in the course of this flight ex Longfellow's fumans poem, "The the best Lyceum manner: East less reluctance, learned by hear other brother, who exclaimed in tremes of heat and cold were en-Wreck of the Hesperns."

Tynne at the Lyceum Theatre?

suggestion fell through. Only over my dead body! So the

countered. In point of mileage

--LONGFELLOW.

the flight was equal to a journey and it is, therefore, a shock to learn The story has become u trudition from London to Singapore; and the climatic variations were hard-that an enterprising Boston jour

rulist has discovered that the ly less remarkable.

vessel was in reality never wreck- ed at all.

There is a vast snob. WORDS. bishness

in the world of words. The maritime records for the year

"Intrigue” is a climber While "meticulous" begins to: SEAMAN STABBED. 139, record a heavy storm an December 15, when, among twenty

wear the alr other vessels, the Hesperua was Of shabby genteel. driven into Boston Harbour. The No day labourer would say to his... Reminiscent of "blood and only damage this particular vessel brother thunder" tales of seafaring in sustained, however, was a broken "Verisimilitude" in the old days are the circum- bowsprit.

And to the Bishops stances under which a Japanese Longfellow's diary, under, date "Bohunk" is verboten.. pantryman on board the Empress December 17 reads News of In the millennium things will of Russia is alleged to have shipwrecks. Horrible off the coast.

com Tarnty bodies shore of GloucesThere will be self-determination

ter, one female being Inshed to a And there will be democracy,

me of the wreck." The diary Among words, her mentions details regarding the Hesperus, R] concludes" must write a haltid upon this."

been wounded by patriot yesterday afternoon.

According to the report made by Captain Holland, the master of the vessel, another Japanese waited for the man in an alleyway on deck which was in semi-dark- ness and stabbed him with a knife

fewer than twelve times Sur Se, ringing {revenge consequent on a private quarrel is thought to have been the motive)..

no

Writer: Were you

three siz? Customer (after a long wait) :i Ringing it? Great Sout, no! The crew was mustered as soon was telling it. I thought you were as the attack was made known. dead.

but the wanted fireman was no-

yet been apprehended.

',

the

where to be found, and has not Boy (reading): She threw herself into the river; and her husband, The injured man wus attended horror-stricken, rushed to. first by the ship's surgeon, and hank then at the Government Civil Teacher (cutting in): Why did Hospital, where he now remains the husband mash to the bank? in a critical condition.

change.

Verily, verily I say unto you.

It will be easier for a camel.

To pass through the eye of a

needle

Than for "epistemological" To enter the kingdom of Heaven.

The Maori woman

TCSOLATE Mom who has died io

MERU.

New Zealand at the reputed are

That

is said to have had personal experience of cannibalism. might easily be the case, for the Maoris certainly did not give up the custom before the war of 1845- 1848, and are suspected of having

Boy: Please, sir, to get the in-practised it even later. They alone among the native ruce of the earth The sailing of the Empress of sur money.

in subjection are increasing in num- Russia, was deferred in, conse-

The magistrate regarded the bera, Alen, they have a sense of quence of the affray, the time of jurlin with a look in. which sym-humour. A well-developed and the delayed sailing being at 5 p.m.pathy for his sad plight, and dis- rather stout Englishman went deer to-day.

Japproval of his wrong action were stalking with a Maori neighbour

about equally blended.

He was having an open-air bath "My dear boy," he exclaimed, | while his friend smoked his pipe whatever possessed you to stent and watched him. Then, without moving a muscle, he remarked, the tortoise,"

"I didn't steal it," was the un- | dreamily, “Ab; Mr.' ~——, what a "It followed me pity I did not meet you a hundred years ago. Yon would have made

Empress Boat Sails. Owing to differences between contact. It is easy to despise it the members of the crew it is and a duty to discourage it. The reported that the Captain of the

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Hongkong, Friday, July 24. 1925,

THE LAST REFUGE.,

Agreement is general that our present troubles are not neces

sarily of our own seeking. This

either direct or encourage a wave of Britishism - that

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is not by any means typically disturbance. As a result the Em-proprieter. Chinese.

CREW DESERTS.

CHINESE SEAMEN AT КОВЕ.

The

expense of the latter; of removing on a new crew. The trouble has expected refort.

apparently been smoothed over home." a beam in another when the mote and the offending parties inform-

A man rushed into an old far very fine meal." in our own eye, remains to beed of the severe penalties they are ture store.

"What do you want?" asked the CIVILIAN IS A which Fisher and spoed with removed. For this "last resort" liable to receive if they cause a

Sex Piont. Churchill hurried of Is this a Seyond-hand shop?") Who is not familiar press boat sails with her old crew

the battle-crnisovs to i at 3 p.m. to-day,

asked the man. with a type of patriotism that

"Can't you see it's a second-hand the Falklands, recalled by Admiral

Sturdee's death, bad one curious. was current years ago at Home

shopp

sequel, which was related by Sir and might well be described as

"Well, I want one for my Doggins Brownrigg in his reminis "music-half patriotism"; when a

watch."

cences as Chief Naval Censor. The country's attitude was almost

The proprietor of the second-ships had to ruil with some officiala, - hund shop was not so tidy us be and workmen of Messrs. Vickers. universally acclaimed, whether it

might have been. One day, while who were employed on some of the was right or wrong. On the

standing in front of the store, un gunnery fittings, under Mr. Lionel surface it seems a noble thing to

Irishman approached him and said: Leveson, a brother of Admiral "stand by" our particular. country:

Have you any clean shirts in the Larson, then Director of Opera without considering for a moment

shop?"

Įtions. The former, u civilinn, went Sure I Invo," answered the through the Falklands battle, and whether right of justice has

Kobe, July 23. determined our country's attitude. sixty-two, of the Blue Funnel

The Chinese crew, numbering shopkeeper, anxious for a sale, returned home with the distinction "Tote of them, As cleat as any- Lof having been present at the most But a moment's consideration liner Talthybius

"thing."

decisive naval action of the war, "Well, said the Irishman, mov.whereas his brother, who had been should help towards the conviction ship. A new crew is being re- away, go in and put wan of nearly 31 years at sen. had never that principles of right should eruited.

sabot fired in action.... govern our conception of what circulated among Chinese seamen [Wild stories have been constitutes patriotism." "My arriving at Kobe from the Ameri- country, right or wrong" Mr. Jcan Pacific coast, causing the men G. K. Chesterton, rightly says, to desert as in the case of other "is a thing, that no patriot would ships.]

think of suying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, -drunk or sober.'"

sion. This is admitted.

(Reuter's Service.)

deserted the

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If the British railway companies any more wholesale tidying of the who among other bodies have just calendar. And certainly the plan A memorial service for the late heen consulted by a League of No-hus the grim recommendation of being a much more simple and Counsels of perfection in such Mrs. T. Lowndes Bullock, mather tions Committee-have their way. feient method of handling time of Lady Severn, took place yester- there may shortly be a popular thun any devised before it. Why times as these are easy of expres- day evening at St. John's Cathe-clour gajust, caloudar reform not start frests with a plan which is a British Colony in rather close should be easy to see in the atti- officiating, supported by the Rev. George 11., says the "Manchester Sunday will always be the first of But it dral, the Rev. T. B. Powell such as enlivened the reign of any fool can grasp, under which a proximity to a Chinese storm

tude which the Home and Hong-G. T. Waldegrave. Those pre-Guardian."

This time, however, every mouth and a Saturday the centre, from which it, is easy to kong Governments have taken up, Severn, H.E. the Governor (Sir of eleven days flebed by the refine July as few as those of the sent included the Hon. Sir Claud the cry will not be for the rotura seventh, and the glorious days of a anti-foreigniem or anti-a desire to convince those most Edward Stubbs, K.C.M.G.) ac-formers, but a protest against the most charish February? It is intimately concerned that it companied by Capt. Neville insertion of a thirteenth month. It plausible, but unappealing. That has seized

(A.D.C.), Sir Henry and Lady is high time, the argument runs, thirteenth month, for instance, drank or sober, but. China die | sustained by what is described as

Creasy and Mrs. Creasy, the Hon. ragged reckoning of months that we interloper among fair neighbours if tinctly sober." A well-known Mr. P. H. Holyoak, the Hon. now indulge in A clear twenty- it thrust itself into the summer, and patriotism-love of country, and clerical character suggested he Mr. R. H. Kotowall, the Hon. Mr. eight days to each month, with an an appalling protractor of a winter an unhesitating and unequivocal was popularly dubbed "Scap Sam Chow Shou-son, Mr. J. R. Wood, extra month added, would account that is over-long if a place were adherence to all that is said and

Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Mr. A. G. M. for 304 days of the year. The odd found for it about Christmas. Gov done in the name of Ching and What China needs to be helped to Professor L. Forster, and Mr. from the system, would have a name very naming of it. Weddings because his hands were clean. Fletcher, Mr. J. Owen Hughes, day, floating in glorious detachment moments might well fall over the the Chinese, against foreign

"Soapy Sam" form of C. de Albuquerque é Castro of its own and full on the day be would abjure it, and births that aggression be it peaceful or other

fore January 1, whose place it would occurred in it be deemed unlucky wise. It is a type of patriotiem patriotism, the last and bost (Consul-General for Portugal).

usurp as the first day of the year. |--s mouth no poet has sung, with- which Dr. Johnson might well refuge of a true patriots.

This Prussian plan for rogimenting out a content, without a part, with- this direction there are peace and

the months so that each toes the out a character. Even the League · describe as the last refuge of á

AaZety The prevailing type, FEW CHILDREN ESCAPE IT. line like a Guardsman,finds, of of Nations would not easily be acoundrel". It la the type which.

course wam supportera among pardoned its begetting. As for the fostered or brought to birth in a Stomach aches, so inseparable from those who urge a Bxed Easter. The milway companies let them has surmounted foreign influence of contact and social relationship,

verbal hemorrhage, makes they of childhood, can become

horal word as if not promptly Litemotional Chambers of Comwould no doubt be mild learn to forbign education, both secular statement you'll never have a feleted Chamberlain's Collend merce are said to look upon it kind-onerye, with rigour the nitrates on Vian Distrbons, Ramady de sals and depend- jy, though the secretary of this Lon- their own time schedules, bafcen and religious and the forms or quiet world tin knock the hs for both children and grown people, don Chamber of Commerce is of they cook to present us with a

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foreign government with which numbers of Chinese have come in

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