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DECLENSION.
LOCAL CRICK
ANNUAL UNIVERSITY
"MATCH
A CAMBRIDGE GENTUR.
FRIDAY DE
SHREDS AND PATCHES
Oh yes
That knowledge of there till the winter FALLACE. Grammar is indispen-cried the bitten; but why abould sable for Carroot Writ you love me in the winter?"" But Including in their team five aer-ing and Speaking. vicemen, Cambridge, University That the above is 'n fallacy wo
the tortoise never told her, defeated Oxford yesterday, in the fint stated to the authorities by a there lived happily till the winter So they went to the stables and annual local cricket match on the reader of one of our large publish came, and one day the tortoise dis H.K.C.C. groundin
ing houses who work would give appeared Captain Warters hit 20 runs in plenty of opportunity for farm-awfully distressed, so she set out to The poor kitten" was one over as part of an enterprising ing an opinion On consulting Mr. look for him in the garden, and the century for the Light Blued." Walter Jerrold fur grandson of had not gode far balore the melt Halsey's fast deliveries and Douglas Jerrold), the author, and tortowe in the snow. He must Quick's right-arm bowling proved reviewer of immaneo experiondo, he be buried alive ale cried in alarm. a very effective attack on Oxford agreed that a knowledge of format and started to dig with a her Six Dark Blue wickets All for 9
runs and then Hett hit out, get me was not indisponaabio, and might till she dog the poor tortoise iting fours. In his 19.
said that he had never studied formal up and he froze in the mov
Oxford were all out for 88.
i
In
a second venture they improved considerably.
Cambridge.
Lt. T. Halsey, b Sayer LE C.B. Abelson, b Powell Capt. Warters, at Wood. b
Hamilton
H. G. Wallington, b Sayer Lt. F. G. Emley, b.w, b
Sayer..
Rev. E. K. Quick, st. Wood, b
Hamilton
EW.Hamilton, c & b Ham-
ton
T. D. E. Fendered.. lbw, is
Sayer
Wu. Sayer, b Hamilton Lt Mansergh, c&b Sayer R. E. Lindeall, not eat
Extras
Powell Hawkins Sayer
Bowling Analysis.
4
grammar. It is said, that Horbart Spencer, Tim Hesly and Frank 3 Bullen are other examples of good writers who never studied formal
EZMIRELLE,
So perhaps it is not úlways wise to have friends.
(Alternative ending, composed after
an schalt protest againek
miatio a generála
20 September 26, 1919, mid, "I would. So perhap
Mr. Donald Chinn, writing an 118 suggest. Bunyan, As fine Enghebbetter for him never to
I fancy the font twenty or so lines or to has told
of his opening to the Pilgrims but perbai
gross would be hard to excel Tiruded into his
In 1864, Mr. Robert Gordon muid have spent Latham, M.D. FRS lectumor, so perhapa
the Forgal Institution on "The ***
11 Importance of the Study of Ima
guage se a branch of Education for THE PERFECT Bay all, Clees, and in it he said, Cross vulgarity of language is a
Peak, Specimen.
10 fault to be prevented, but the
1 per prevention is to be got from
with jum
have been
her
Sve in Mway be
in its fum, Tibet Haraphic
edit face
5 habebunt zulos, The proprieties
of the English language are to be By failing backwards in the fire
It never aqualled, except at night It never roused: paternal re
192 earned, like the proprietion of
English manners, by conversation or ticked the paintwork of The Wand intercourses and a proper school or squibed blackbeative on the
1 for both is the best society in which
Total
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10 Q
59
2
0:
330
The learner is placed. If thia, be
10 0
68
27:5
2.
0
Extras.
do anything beyond what has been
A F Hamilton 6 1 done, and a desire for a better
Oxford-1st Innings. understanding and ideas to that A. G. M. Fletcher, b. Hulsey. end should not now come from the G. R. Sayer, Lb.w.. b Quick Chinese. The desire is evident, A. E. Wood, Quick and evident on both sides we are
Rev. T. B. Powell; e Warters; certain. It only needs an accept Rev. A. F. Hamilton, b Halsey
b. Halsey
able scheme which will bridge B. 3. Hawkins, b. Halsey natural problems... of racial tem-Rev. WT. Featherstone, b perament and outlook. HongA. Dyer Ball, hw, b Quick
Halsey
kong. generally speaking, is not an A. B. Hett, c. Quick, b Halsey "abiding city" for the general run N. L. Smith, b Quick of Briton. Home calls persist and R. D. Rees, not out, he looks forward to the time when fa settlement finds him in the place from whence he came Added to this, there is the absence of the civic pride. Things are done by
& 4. 11 58 2 20 others and their's.is the responsi
Oxford 2nd Innings. bility. If there has been declen-G. R. Sayer, not out sion-a falling off the blame R. D. Rees, run out ... must be pliced at the doors of the A. E. Wood, b Pendered
Rev. T. B. Powell, not out leaders of the people. But we Extras should hesitate to, apportion any blame, or admit there is need to
Total (for 2 wkts.) . do so. What is needed in that
Bowling Analysis.' encouragement be given to those E. W. Hamilton 6 who, whilst compelled to engage in Pendered what may be called the super- Wallington fluities, yet have a mind for the
Mansergh Emley
THEY SAY THAT~~
If Communism achieves a 'cer- tain success, it will achieve it, not improved economic
S
A Punch" editor, was once told that his paper was not as good as it used to be. He replied that it greater things, and who find in never was! There is a sugges-them soul satisfaction. Much has tion in a recent pulpit utterance been done and much remaine to described as "courageous," that be done. Criticism is needed; but the Colony might be better than something better besides. Exam- it is. Really that the people who fple. Given a consistent lead there go to make it might be better is no reason why all the things de. than they are. To particularisasired by the Cathedral preacher that the British community does should not be accomplished-even not reach the highest level of cul-fo "a higher, saner; and more tural thought and action. "Some Christian public opinion."- of the societies of the Colony" de- sire to go one better than their neighbours, and the result' has been unnecessary" extravagance. We think more of a "ludicrous" race meeting than we do. of our University. Etcetera, Doubtless. the cap fits somewhere; if so there is work to be done amongst the "undeveloped possessors of brains," who occasionally read Kipling's poems and believe them- selves thereby to be true heirs and representatives of the British Empire." There is abundant evid- ence to prove that in the materia! things of life, this Colony has not declined. It has been a sin of our self-satisfaction that we have prided ourselves on this material progress; and not been mindful of
An
Halsey Quick
:
Total Bowling Analysis.
0. M.
doors,
floors.
It never suiked, and never cried,
5 good,, systematic Teaching ja super- Remained austers and dignified
fuous; it is bad, insufficient..
When called a lot of silly nance. "The main thing By fat ad tactless Uncle James. THE TORTOISE about the follow It loved ita bath and when; memorsed. ing is that it www It never bowled, or kicked, or
cursed; written by a girl nine years of age :
Once upon a time there was Nor added to its nurse'a toil very lonely tortoise, and every man- By jibbing, at its case oil. mer, in the garden he lived in, In fact, it downed upon me rather, the birds would rejoice and the Itwasn't in the least like Father flowers would rejoice, but the 'tor-
The answers given
19 tone would come out of his burrow
4
5 and weep for loneliness and wish ScncoL's IN. in class are often
"Pre-
mirth-provoking.
0 the summer was gone so that, "he 2hould go bovaleep again
"Give the future of drink,
The plural of pillow?"
The recalls the itawer
One day, as he sat weeping big sent, be drinke; future, he will be 88 hitter tortoise fears outside his drunk.
Thouse, there came to him a little "Bolster.
lonely kitten who poured forth of the boy who'aid: "Masculine, 6 heartbreaking tales of her tribery (nan; feminine, woman; dentical, 4 and loneliness; and he poured forth corpss," "What are the chief im-
This, So there they saw for holes porte of Canada ?** "Emigrarite." 58 listoning to one another's sorrows. What the difference between
At last tee tortoise said: "If we are lost and feet?"
"One from jo a
0
12 both so lonely, fake me to the stables foot, and a lot of foota is a feel," 20 where you live and i will live explained the young philosopher.
9
99
B. W. 0 19 0. 6 1 20 1 2 0 13
2 l 21
ri
1 0. 17 Kowloon v. BE. At Kowloon, the K.C.C. drew
AN INGENIOUS NOBLE.
0 .A controversy that is going on known weekly paper in London 0 in the Times" between Lord was able to entertain ita readers Graham and the Lord Chancellor every week with a piquant column is full of charm, because one of of recent absurdities committed by county justices. Thanks main- the parties to it expressesly to the exertions of Lord Lore- curious and amusing, state of burn, whose cleansing of the mind as clearly and as uncon- magistracy was the finest piece of sciously as a well-drawn charac-work done by any modern Lord 4 ter in a novel, remarks the Chancellor, a Royal Commission was appointed in 1910 to inquire Lord into these evils, and wise sugges
with the Royal Engineers in an interesting match in which the bat beat the ball.
Kowloon C.C. Lt. Hall, Jacob Jones, b Jacob Lt. Smith, c Blonden,,
Cockel!
Major A. Pollard, not out Capt. C. J. Bensley, c Ram
sey, b Coekoll
J. C Lyal, not out
Extras
39
10
56.
17
221
Total (for 4 wkts. dec.)
technique, but as a religion. Mr. S B. Spillett, R. J. P. Masters A. R. F. Raven W. F. Brown, J. M. Keynes.
and Morton did not. bat.." Bowling Analysis,
It has been a matter of much speculation among historians what Jones Wellington would have done if Jacob Napoleon had cried at Waterloo Goodger Mr. P. G. Wodehouse,
Cockell Faro Ramskill Roberts
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"Manchester Guardian."
33. Graham is the ardently Conservations were made with a view to 63 tive Lord Lieutenant of Buteshire, making the magistracy more and he has fallen foul of the more magisterial and less of a party
preserve. It is in an endeavour.. moderate Conservative Lord to make the spirit of that Report Chunzellor, Lord Cave, because prevail in Butashire that the Lord Lord Cave, in effect, asks for Chancellor has, enraged Lord some sort of evidence that Con Graham. servatism is not an indispensable When Lord Graham and his qualification for nomination to the Buteshire Advisory Committee membered that, until a few years persons whom they wished to ace Buteshire bench. It will be re-sent up to Lord Cave a list of the ago, the appointment of anyone put on the Bench, Lord Cave-no who was not a known Conserva-doubt suspecting a party boycott tive to a rural bench of magie took the precaution of asking trates was rare. Nearly all Lords what the politics of these persons Lieutenant of counties were Con; were. Apparently this was an servatives, many of them of the embarrassing question, for the primitive kind who regard the Buteshire magnates pvaded it; holding of Conservative opinions they said they really did not know as a necessary part of human de for certain; in fact, though not cepey. Thus, in their own view, in form, they flatly refused to give they tabooed Liberals and Labour any proof that they were not men, not because they were packing the Bench in the old- Liberals or Labour men, but be- fashioned way. Lord Graham's cause, being suich, they were pose, in reply to reproof, is de necessarily devoid of judicial qual lightful He argues that the sin itles. This pretty distinctior en of mixing up politics with magis abled them to feel that they had terial appointments is really Lon no political bias, and that their Cave's; that if, Lord Cave had only thought was for the effici- simply done what LordGraham ency and integrity of the Bench wished the word politics need One practical result was that a never have been mentioned, and Total (for 8 wkts.) great deal of excellent material now he accuses Lord Cave of try- Q.M.S. Roberta, Q.M.S. Ramseyed. Another was that, as the visory Committce to make recom for the magistracy was left un-ing to force the Buteshire Ad- stock of fadicial wisdom and vir- mendations of a political charac tue among. Comervative country for. It is beautifully bal gentlemen was not infinita, some According to Lord Graham to very bad appointments to the submit, without a mention of i Bench were made, and a well-essential fact, a list or ame
fellow-partisans would be an partial and non-political: itician that Bat
2 RE. Sergt. Cockell, e Bensley, b
*Jones
Sergt. Blonden, c Bensley, b
Smith..
Lt..
Jacob Larcombe; Brown...
Capt. Bridgeland, not out QMS Ramskill, not out
Extras
134
London, December 3. The Colonial Office announces that it has decided that the per- its causes or its significance. In cantage of the standard production matters of ordinary culture there of rubber which may be exported may not be much or anything to from Caylon and Malaya for the show Promoters of cultural of quarter from January 1; next will be Q.M.S. Faro, Spr. Goodger, Sg jects find it difficult to make them used by 16 points to a hundred Jones and Q.M.S. Jacob did not successes. It has yet to be shown per cent)
that teachers and preachers are to the fore when these ventures are projected, and by example ·and pricept, enzimendi them to followers Lal needs for
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