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THEY SAY THAT People no longer trouble to makeup their own minds- Bishop of Southwark.

The coal situation has all the elements of supreme difficulty Sir Robert Horne, M.P.

There has been no bitter con troversy in the Cabinet on cruisers.Lord Birkenhead.

I am going to throw every ounce of weight I possess into the scales of peace.-Mr. Baldwin.

British people must not let com- mercialism kill their nationality and traditions-Mr. J. P. Kleyn- hans.⚫

The Red Flag was first used as a banner by the revolting slaves of Rome under Spartacus. Mr. Maxton, M.P.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15.--

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The man who say A play called "The Shadow of REYLIATION. he's happy in mer-the Glen" opened with a corpse

ringe is not lying. lying on a bed on the stage.

Он He's like the man getting out of the first night a mintako with the the dentist's clairy it cheers him lighting made the curtain trans

to know that those in the waiting room have yet to go through it

parent and the audience had the pleasure of seeing the corpso "get into bed. On another night the young lover who appeared in the scone forgot to put a mattress in the Not everyone conld sayed and the remains, after tying on ASTROLARB. ofhand just what the boards in discomfort and rage for atrolabe is. Hence the 20 minutes, got up and chased the ordinary public can hardly be over round the singe with a stick pected to thrill over the nas Floraiman, says if it had hap. mont that the sixty-throa astrolabes} given to the University of Oxford by ve raised the curtain and let the pened in her theatre she would Dr. Lewis Evans, brother of Air

Arthur Evans, the archeologist, audience share the fun. There is a when taken with those now in the notion hers for the Hongkong

| A.D.C. possession of its colleges, form the most complete and representative Sir Henry Irving experienced a' series of this rare and ingeniona stage joke which amused him more ¦ instrument. The announcement; in retrospect than it did at the however, is one that is of consider time. The vaudeville chorus of the File interest for the astrolube dates moment had for its catch phrase back to 150 B.C., and it is one of "How are your poor feet?" Irving Robert we the few scientific instruments was playing, Robert Landry in which have been saved from this The Dond Heart." Wrekage of Greek civilization. It wasting away in a dungeon and wn used to observe the position of after he had called out in the agony the heavenly bodies, and ita inven- of despair "My heart is dead, my tion is attributed to Hipparchus, heart is dead" you could have heard until a shrill who measured the exact length of a pin fall

It is all nonsense to say that jazz is the only way to the heart of the modern young man and the year, and accomplished many voice from the gallery maid. "And woman. Mr. J. H. Squire. other intricate mathematical feats, how are your poor feet, mister*** Six hundred thousand miners Incidentally, according to Walker's In the uproar that followed the fall. earn less than $2 a week. They Rhyming Dictionary, this word is of the Bastille would not have be

accept less; they de- the only one in the English-lon- heard. mand more. Mr. E. Shinwell, ex- that is, one excepts the words

ginge which rhymes "with" "babe, Minister of Mines.

in the classic of Lewis Carroll:- Twas brilling and the slithy loves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: Al mimsy were the borogroves,

And the mome raths outgrabe,

I wish to put in a word for those who have to pay, compared with pre-war prices, outrageous prices for their coal-Sir W. Joynson-Hicka (Home Secre- tary).

In my opinione wire women to go about without any clothes at all they would be far less ropugnant to people of good taste. Cardinal Rasino.

of the police and sanitary de- CHEUNG CHAU NOTES partments knowledge of the

language is encouraged in a prae- (From Our Own Correspondent.) tical manner. In the more intri-["

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The symposium

THE BEST LINE. on the

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And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.

PRINCE OF SCOTLAND.

single line of poetry still engages the attention of readers of a certain Literary journal A correspondent states that no poet has given more at- toation to the single line than did Interchange of views and ideas

Miss Horniman is Edgar Allen Poe; and in parti- between

representative educa- STAGE SToRius. probably not cular and as evidence she quotes known in Hor the following which Poc wrote tionists of the Motherland and

She is in Manchester par: and re-wrote. In it, he said, he Canada must

kong. have a beneficial · effect on the future citizens of tiesiarly, where for years she wished to make the words them- both.--Dr. Stevens.

arried on a Repertory Theatre. It selves convey the sound of the han remained for Stephen Lenock rustling of silk! This is the lo satirise repertory. A repertoryline: play is a play where the actors come on the stage and brood, and brood. Having witnessed reper- tory plays in the north of England, the writer, with his hand on his hand, denies the statement. what matters it? Here is Miss And you will find, by speaking Torniman telling a story of a cat this line, that he accomplished his who or which spoiled a scene in purpose. "Hindle Wakes." It came on in Opinions will differ as to the the care of som, tense dialogue very best line. The Shreds writer and diverted the attention of the feels that many Hongkong men cate or specialised pursuit of Cu several xxxnsions recently audience from the actors by pre- will plump for G. K. Chesterton's trade, it will be recognised that when there has been heavy rain in tending to catch a mouse.

1 don't care where the water Hongkong this spot hass beent

it walked up to the imitation fire in with a the ability to converse

goes, if it doesn't go into the wine. elien: or potential buyer in his tably last Friday, when the grute, sniffed it and strolled con

a large party tabout 19) took a trip, temptuously away, own language, is an asset of con-to Macro where also they had siderable value. The "pidgin" main)..

By special arrangement English should be an affront both a bit stopped to take on the to those who use it and those call-party, who put out in boats from

Some months ago reference was Asturias, there were also the Duke ed upon to elidure it. "Catchce"the harbour, a proceeding not mu

mixed with some risk, owing to a made in the press to the title of of Braganza (Portugal), the Duke and "piecee" and such aboming-all that came on at the critical Prince of Scotland which unques of Calabria (Two Sicilies) and in modern Italy and Belgium tions should be taboo. And it is moment, One bout was nearly

swamped, but all got on board safe- tionably existed at one period. the Hair. Apparent is the correct to say that whilst enyhe plan had been to put off in Suggestions were put forward Prince of Piedmont or the Duke of deavour has been made to incul- the same way on the return trip, but that it existed still, and it was Brabant, even in the short-lived cate a true concept of the English this was abandoned, and the proposed in certain quarters that monarchy of July in France the language into the minds of young voyagers landed in Hongkong re-its use should be revived, in Scot-Prince Royal was generally known

inring by the lute ferry.

land, at any rate, and apparently as the Duke of Orleans, Chinese, the same with regard to

Thus it is clear that to use the Some of the trippers nad nover that Wales and Scotland should Chinese, has not been made with bon to Muso, so the points of in- young foreign mercantile assist-terest wer, all new to them. Others Appear in that order as a sort of title Prince of Scotland de an had not been there for a number of tandem-title for the Duke of alternative for that of Prince of The Chamber's school is

Rothesay: ants,

Wales would be, nowadays, a years and there was much that was

Mr. Stevenson, in the new "Scot- definite derogation from the one effort to meet the situation. new-the continuation of the Bund It might be argued that in some sad the reclamation about Green tish Historical Review," examines dignity of Scotland, as it would CAN YOU SPEAK CHINESET directions it has been dealt with Island, and the beginnings of the this proposal and deprecates the give the impression that Scotland extensive docks and outer harbour change which would not only was a mere fief of the Crown hardly. It is no earthly use The trip round Macso was made in associate the purely feudal and instead of being an integral part

quasi-sovereign title of Prince of of the King's own style. allowing an assistant to spend motor cars,

Two of the Bible Classes fave Wales with the purely filial title Mr. Mitchell reviews the pro It should be heurtening news time in gaining a grip of Canton-been discontinued us the leaders are of Prince of Scotland, but would grass of the cotton industry in that the Hongkong General ese only to send him to some other way. That conducted by Rev. postpone the name of Scotland, Scotland which arose in Glasgow Chamber of Commerce is to con- part of China where Cantonese is Keof is well attended. The after-which used to be an independent and Palaley on the ruins of the tinue its classes in mercantile a "foreign dialect. This has not on Service on Sunday was in the sovereign state, after that of tobacco trade, shattered as a re- hands of the Rev. A. H. Bray of Chinese. It seems only the other generally happened, but it cer- the Wesleyan Mission, Faishan Wales, which, within the range of sult of the American War of day that on the initiative of Mr. tainly has happened. Of the ad-His subject was a life of fellow written history has been but. a Independence, W. H. Bell, of the Asiatic Petro-vantages of a grasp of tones lead-ship, with God." A new Bible principality and never generally greatly, though never quite free Sindy Class under the leadership of recognised as completely sovereign from its dependence on Lancashire leum Company, who had seen the ing to clear diction, there is no Rev. J. Robh is to be held each before her forcible annexation by for machinery until it was super value of language schools in need to argue. How many con- Tuesday at 9.90 a.m. in the the English. Mr. Stevenson, how-seded by local competition, which Canton, the Chamber of Com-tracts have been lost when per- Assembly Hall. The study being ever, produces evidence, to show pushed the iron trade to the front. merce ventured on an experiment haps the right word in Chinese based on the Epistle to the Philip that the title Prince of Scotland Just as the "tobacco-lords" "had that was fraught with immense would have rande all the differ-pian. Some attempt has been made thus ceased to exist just as the turned to muslins, so, in the end, to improve the wireless, telephone tille King of Scotland has ceased did many of the cotton-spinners possibilities. It has steadily ence. And how many contracts service and wo trust that the to exist since the Crowns of Scot turn from soft to hard in order to persevered with the idea, and if have been disputed simply be typhoon season being practically land and England were merged become ironmasters. the Colony is not possessed with cause one side avers the goods are over, our Pier will also receive the first in that of Great Britain and, Mr. Dunlop discusses sixteenth attention of the P.W.D, and the mercantile assistants able to con- not what was stipulated? It is much needed rainy bo commenced. later, by a further union into that con-ury schemes for the planta- of the United Kingdom The tion of Ulster, and reminds his verse, intelligently in the Canton certain that much time and worry

princely title, as he points out, readers of the little-known fact ese dialect, it is not the fault of would be saved, if parties to any

according to official usage in that Scots and English were at the Chamber of Commerce. As it piece of business clearly under

Letter Patent under the Great one time Just as much rivals in la, there are many who hold certi-stood each other in the language

Seal, was first Prince of Grant its conquest and colonisation as Britain and uttarly Prince of the were the, French and Eurilah iya Bicates of proficiency in the that, let it be admitted, some mis

United Kingdom of Great Britain the colonisation of North America. spoken word of a language in sionaries have suggested has been

and Ireland. Indeed, during the In the Notes and Communica- which the nuance of tone "plays the invention of the devil to

Stewart reigns in Scotland, before tions" at the end of the Review such an important, if not terrify hinder them at the ontset in their

The first trial match of the 1608, th title of Prince of Scot- there is an interesting comparison lng, part. The Government work Mercantiles Chinese has Hongkong Hockey Club wil take land was falutance only for between the receipts taken in the places the utmost importance on only been referred to in this con-place at the U.S.R.C. at 5.80 p.m. shout 15 years out of 288 and Scottish Register House and the the general body of its members rection.

rection. The term suggests a type on Thursday, teams as follow: between 1488 and 1582 It was En

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