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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1925.

Municipal Council and the remedy ing of irregularities' connected with the Mixed Court. It is doubtful if the decisions of these important British bodies will find general favour in the Settlement, however, for if articles in the leading journals and correspon-TE SHTEST letter to the Editor DEAR LOVE. has not yet reached Hongkong in the in this issue, haagesh, Hor voice though is hoard

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

"N," in his kindly!

Dame Clara Butt

dence columns are anything to go by, the attitude throughout the done a great service in the cause of on a large number of recorda,

strike and subsequent boycott has

and

been that to negotiate on matters literary truth. It was stato in prized by those who possess them in the Colony, Here is an inter- other than the shooting affair of this cum that the lino

That conscious water, aw its esting item about England's own May 80 before the judicial enquiry

God and blushod.

singer which should find a respon- had been concluded, would be an

from Shelly, this sive echo in the hearts of those act of weakness. We have already emaisted stated reasons for our approval being his single line poom picturing who love sentiment and the deep of the action of the two bodies in changing of the water into wine things that often lie behind it. Thousands of admirers 'lionia question, in holding out the olive Cana of Galilee as set forth in

Dama Clara Butt, branch in this manner and we fail the gospel according to St. John. ed"

The statement wis taken se an showered flowers on her at ber to see in what respect it may be accepted fact it has figured se a concert in Bristol, in celebration said to amount to desertion of serious contribution to a symposium of hor silver wedding. She wore Mr. Hongkong. The gesture, however, in a literary journal on the subject her wedding dross, and must be interpreted in the spirit of the best single line of poetry in Kennerley Rumford sported the in which it was made if bitterness the English language, Bofore buttonhole he wore at his wed- is not to be engendered which will adopting ""'N's" happy suggestion ding. The Mayor of Bristol pre- render impossible of creation the to go to Bhawell-for which the sented the couple with a silver necessary spirit of goodwill and writer cannot be too grateful,- epergne, and the concert closed co-operation. The action of the verification was sought in another with the duet, "Dear Love of

Bartlett's "Familiar Mine.". Chinese Minister of Justice in channel, Shanghai, for instance, in tele-Quotations' ascribes the line to.

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We read a note the other

graphing to leading politicians Richard and others in London that the Boswell-gr his commentator-con- BEARS. day that wolves or some other "four-footed tion and that it is due to its great doctor, "you told me of the existence that the local Chinese on Boy who, when verses on quadrupeds" had been doing

mischief on our Saviour's turning water into

the Fanling goli Court is prevented from co-operat wine were prescribed is an exercise, course. If this becomes pre- Ing in a judicial enquiry into the brought up a single line, which was valent the Golf Club will be forced shooting incidents can only be highly admired:"

to raise its subscriptions.. But described as foolish and. repre-

Vidit at erubuit lympha pudica, she meets a wolf? Let players what does a player do when he or hensible since it has no foundation

Deum" in fact. Although in practice it

be thankful there are so far-no A foot note states: "This line bears to be found near the appears to have given, rise to certain irregularities, the Mixed has frequently been attributed to course. This happened at Jasper Court has a solid enough legal Dryden, when King's Scholar at Park (Alberta) when Earl Haigh basis for its existence in the Westminster have in truth any for more than two hundred yards. Westminster. But neither Eton nor drove the first ball-and drove it Regulations governing the founda- claim to it, the line being borrowed. An unusual incident occurred tion of the Settlement-these, in with

I slight change from an fact, providing that the municipal Epigram by Richard

when Colonel F. F. Clarke, "a Crnshaw, authorities "shail arrest offenders which was published in his Epigram driving from the first tee sent his member of Earl Haigh's party. of the public peace. hand them mut Sacra, first printed at. over and prosecute them before Cambridge without the author's ball rolling along the fairway in respective authorities, Chiness or nume, in 1634. The original is front of a big brown bear which other as the case may be." An much more clegrant than the copy. happened to amble across the argument often advanced against the water being personified, and course at the moment. Bruin im- this practice is that a settlement "the word on which the point of the mediately followed the ball, and a for foreigners is not the proper Epigram turns being reserved to the second bear, emerging from the woods, also gave chase. While place for trying one whose close of the line Government is outside that Settle-

the members of Earl Haig's party looked on with astonish- ment; but it must be borne in mind that punishmnt, although

ment the two bears fought for possession of the ball, and when it Indicated, is, not carried out in the Settlement and that whatever

was finally retrieved only a few shreds were left. Earl Haig and anomalies the working of the

his party were left wondering Mixed Court gives rise to (divided

what rule of golf covers the case consular jurisdiction appears to

a penalty for the

Joann. 2. Aquae in Vinum Vera. Unde rubor vestris et non H

purpura lymplis?" Que rosa mirante tam nova

mutat aquas? Numen, convivæ, præseno agnos

cite nimen

erubuit.

cause for hatred and certainly no cause for strife. These are sim- be held chiefly responsible) some Nympha pudicu Deum vidit et in regard to

No

player.

THE PACIFIC.

ple · statements of fact.

laws must be made, respecting the amount of verbiage will make conduct of the ever increasing them anything but what they are, numbers of Chinese who eince the A strict observance of them and Taiping rebellion have found pro- tection within the Settlement. all the rest of the things worth borders. Similarly, if there is to having, will be added as a matter be smooth working within, the of course. Some Cantonese will Chinese committee which already admit all this. They will see in advises on matters relating to the How are we to describe this ports of all the oceans. Magellan the sending of the "Honam" and government of the Settlement immensity which men call the blazed its trails as the pioneers must be replaced by actual Pacific, how deal in terms of the marked out the forests of the the promise of regular sailings Chinese representation on the common speech with its uncom- western world; Drake, seeking not an act of bravado or of pro- Municipal Council. Far from being prehended might, with its vast new lands for his sovereign, vocation but one of peaceful a disturbing element in the pre- ness as of infinity itself? asks an followed across the vast and commonsense. It is not designed sent negotiations the association American writer. And yet the desolate sweeps; Wallis and Van- we are quite eonvinced of it-to with requests along these lines by inspiration lies in the sublimity of couver, Cook and Bougainville; responsible British bodles in its boundless distances. in its un- Kotzebue and d'Urville and take any sort of "war into the Shanghai should be all for the plumbed depths, in its many Forter, came after; and then the enemy's camp.” Hongkong, on good and should lead to the crea- mooda Balboa, gazing long and whalers, swarming forth from general lines, has no quarrel tion of a more favourable atmos- silently from his peak in Hittle New England sea-ports like with Cantor. It has provoked phere for the hearing of other Darien" at the wonder of the new bees from their hives, spread over matters of more immediate found ocean, felt that inspiration, ten thousand uncharted leagues in none, und desires none, unless importance.

vital issues are at stake. The Colony has been somewhat help lesa in being. in what may be termed a state of sinlessness! Reiteration of the obvious is á dreary business. Having once tesitfied to our spotlessness, it is best left at that.

CORRESPONDENCE.

“THE SHORTEST.”- (To the Editor of the China Mait),

sea.

yet knew it to be too lofty for pursuit of the giant animals of human expression. For it was the sea. And all men who. made up of many elementa, indis. traversed the mighty ocean knew tinguishable, yet each born in the its influence, for amid the vast- DEATH...

glory of the unknown eastern less that seemed of Infinity itself And these seemed to the the glory of the great Pacific had HO-A his residence, No. 5, MacDonnell Road, Hongkong,

discoverer to combine their power lain upon their senses..

I sit to-day Beneath. the cool in such an appeal as never yet at noon to-day. Mr. Ho Cheuk, assistant compradore

Sir-The writer of your enter, bad found its way into the heart shade of a native thatch on the The Seamen's taining column "Shreds and of mankind, and in response to beach of a far-set isle of the won to the Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking

Patches quotes an epigram of which he could offer only homage drous sea, where the milk-warm Union may, or may not Corporation, the seventh son of Mr. Ho the sailing of the "Honam." The wrought at Cana of Galilee. If Countless leagues of distance, the lagoon plash tenderly at my.

Shelley's on the first miracle and awe, reverential and silent. trade wind rustless the palm

fronds, and where the wavelets of Union has made the mistake of he will look up his Boswell under thousands of fathoms of depth, feet Out there on the reef the prostituting labour to a spurious the year 1778 he will find that Dr. these have little significance for drone of the urf ever rises and form of politics designed to turn Johnson quoted the line

the wanderer of the Pacific but falls, ceaselessly by day; and by "Vidit, et erubuit lympha its many moods, varied as those night. There is a line of gleam- out Robots. It has not helped the

of the Adriatic, capricious as ing surf, and an occasional plant cause of genuine labour one whit, as having been composed in bla those of Geneva, reveal to him comber mounts like a great whirl

pudica Doum It will find that out soon, and it youth by an Etonian and as have always something unexperienced of snow in a northern blizzard.. may be that the familiar lines of ing been "highly admired. and unforecasted. Sometimes it and the fine spray drifta down the the "Honam" will help to a state Shelley's line (if it be genuine is as gray as the Channel off the wind, like smoke in the distance, of thought leading to the reign of translation of this that it would as the Bay of Biscay beyond that bumbles the blue of the Shelley) is so obviously a mere South Foreland, ominously restive Startlingly blue, with a richness

Fook.

Hongkong, Thursday, Sept. 1, 1925.

HATS OFF.

The best is yet to be, sings the poet. The best, so far, is the fact

.

LEA NA NGA SCOALA CON LA COMUNERA KOREA NA that the "Honam" left Hongkong reason. We certainly hope sobe interesting to learn more of Ushant Light. Its billows roll as sapphire, stretch the leagues of

tion.:

G.FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD this morning, and by the time The tentacles of friendship are the circumstances of its composi-high as December seas off Hat- see beyond the rear. Plocks of these lines are in print will have too far outspread for them to be Incidentally Jonnison, was mis-skies above it hold clouds lower pleasure of the afternoon trade teras and as menacing, and the white appear before the gentle completed her short but adven- entirely cut off from their hold. quoting in so far as the actual ing and grim as those of Cape wind, and they gleam in the sun turous voyage to Canton. The Certainly, they have been strain- order of the Latin words is con- Horn. But again, among those to the horizon'a rim, flashing "Honam" has set off without any ed and weakened, but it has been cerned, and the transposition of mysterious and never-falling along that clear-defined line. ike fulsome preliminaries. The

the two halves of the pentameter trade winds which fill one with an the signallings of & distant semp difficult to think that they would gesture if such we may call it cease to hold, and that the future

greatly improves the bouquet. insatiate longing for the un-phore. All else is vastness and Yours etc., known, with a craving for high emptiness, stressing overwhelm- of sending the boat and taking had nothing in it but hate and

adventure beyond the far-flungingly the impression of might and cargo and passengers-ds in rum. We speak of the Honam's

Hongkong, September 2

horizon line, the ocean of Balboa

and mystery. There is 20 accord with commonsense. It sailing in that spirit of optimism

[We'reproduce below that part and of Magellan and of Drake liner no far-questing tramp," suggests a new era. It is a busi- we have kept since the days of

The Shortest to which our grows tranquil as a forest lake no

dent's lette efers The glea Bess proposition No question of

ing June ushered in an Intoler

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