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Hongkong, Thursday,
1925,
SOMEONE "field
THURSDAY,
SHREDS AND PATCHES
I
"Old" boy you
1ore on W. Arbuthnot Lana,
WHAT JASS Sially erratic, it gaia + MOTOR RHYMES, know" my little
the weirdest possible. MY LITTLE bus--?" e are loud calls for
effects by reaking. ***Bus." When he has -om the part of all the rules. - · The word came t
got thus far....
hop of Liah- frem a little town in the Southern The owner-driver will discuss
States of America where the The merits of his car.
The churches. I am afraid, made a sad mistake when they allowed us to go in for nothing
| Mr. Robert Lyně..
"tough used to shout, "Chas. L
has for a negru, minstrel, He'll tell the tale of Shauki. Hill' Charles by name,
it can't be done in top, but still
"Chan, became "Jazz and
the name stuck to the "music" It may be true, that the young which took New York by storm land. like the young, person, is at the time of the Armistice. But often tyrannical and dogmadle-whom folk cooled down "fuzz," pro- Miss: Odistance. Olyde;
[perly so termed, gently expired.
Đ
Churchmen have to face the fact that there is a serkuum cone i fict between Christianity" and science.Dean Inge....
Learned men and
the past have always bagi who were not aducated bot taught themselves—Mr: CE Mayo, se
The British
MEMORIAL. SERVI
THE LATE M. PAUL KROMER
THIS MORNING'S OBASMONY,
A Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Joseph's Church, Garden Road, this morning in memory of. and for the repose of the sour of, M. Paul Kremer, late French Con- in Hongkong,, who died in Badkow last week
RIGH
Here is a fine point sub- mitted in a recent book written by a medical
liners are you going?" asked
grian of the Plague. ar going to Bagded to kill biva thousand people," answered
the Pingue.
Later the Pilgrim met the Plage returning.
one told me that you were going to Bagdad to all five thou
(That hazardous ascent);
Right up in "top" he went.
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Pétrol consumption? Very sound:
One gall, per ninety miles. And Gil?" A pint, will take you
round And round the Hongkong
G.
Suchlike phenomena he'll cite, With envy you are green; You realise his is a quite Superlative machine.
Then, after making; all this fusa,
He sells it for a song. And someone gets the "little, bus”
Dirt
dear" Hongkong.
and people," said the Pilgrimag
agu killed Afty thouard Grey telle
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ARTHUR. 3., 19qus Arthur (now Heuera, mistaken; said
Lord) Balfour story Ingue. I killed Ave thouin "Twenty are Years: 1892- aand as I said I shouldy The 1916." others died of fright."
Returning to London from Paris during the war, Lord Grey The Ken is a ferocious was accompanied by Lloyd
Tan Han, fow),
George and Mr. Balfour. It was The packs your til abs a "frty Channel crossing and makes you how
4
And all the time she dape her wings, and says the most inenting things, And when you try to take her egg, She bites large pieces from your
foga.
The only ande way to get these
The service, which was a la to creep on your hands and knees lengthy and impressive one with a.
zun
later, when all three were com- fortably settled in a Pullman en route from Dover to Londen, this conversation took place
Lord Grey: I couldn't help thinking about mines on the was over.
Lloyd Gestige (wearily): Oh! I was feeling.much too bad to [think of mines.
Arthur Balfour (with convin- cing emphasis) 1' longed for t [!] minev un
full choir, in attendance, was con- in the meanwhile a friend must hide ducted by the Rev. Father And jump out on the other side. Robert, assisted by members of And then you watch the eggs and the French Mission, and the altar was draped in black. The Dead March in Saul was rendered at the While she pursue the other one. conclusion of the impressive cere- The dificulty is, to find
A tready friend who will not The attendance included main-
mony.
This seems the time place and opportunity to pass along the best Balfour story we know.: It was in Paris during the Peace mind,Conference, #TWO secretaries
were conversing •
bers of the French community.
A doubtful friend in
Why don't you persuade your among them Mons. Yves du Ta Garry, the Giraffe,
bid man to get his hair cut?" said Courthial (French: Consul) and}}}
Distrust him when one. He looks like the old man
of the 80s
Madame du GourthialAlage you hear hum laugh."
number of others were also pro- sent including the Portuguese. He laughs like poogle át a ball, fit Consul General.
And not because he's pleased at the Fie rechercut his neck, like tape, Lnt length precludes escape
OBITUARY.
MR H. E. STEARNS.
The death took place at Colombo,, as he was on his way, home on sick leave, of Mr. H. E.
its train and occupied the minds Stearns, of the Union Insurance
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fand then he dexterously throwa
The window open with his nose. And if you hide beneath a chuir He finds you out, and pins your
there i
"I know," mid the other, but
word to the barber's,
perquade him.
replied his friend. and the next day he approached Lord Balfour, the old man" in ques tion,
Of held, "how like Mr. Lloyd George, you look with your hair long hike that
Lord Balfour arose and went to the barber's on the spot.
of the members of its Gem Co., of, Canton, who until recently THE STUDY OF GAELIC CULTURE.
mittee, brought to full notice
was manager of the branch at Kobe. He was obliged to leave There is in it perhaps a suggest the s.s. "Mantun at Colombo and Glasgow, not Inverness, may wee hoove on the hillside, the glen that we are apt to become slaves proceed to hospital and he passed of the game instead of being its away following an operation on master; but reflection suggests the 14th int that where two or three golfers are gathered together in pursuit.
a small ball, there must be pro-
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safely boast of being the real with the sheep straggling through, Highland Capital of Scotland, the mist on the summit, the great says the "Christian Science stretches of purple heather car- GOLF.
Monitor." It is on the fringepeling the sides of rugged moun- of four Celtic divisions, it tains, and the lochs made famous contains a quarter of a million in song and story. He may be There was once a Hongkong Cupan who said he would sooner
associations and organisations, of America, in the bush of Aus- Fblems of comfort in the midst of bosthe golf champion of Hong-
At the monthly meeting of the and it shows a greater interest litralia or on the veldt of Africa, Long, than be a member of its them. This is the nearest refer-
Kowloon. Residents Association perhaps than any other city in the but wherever he is, Gaelic will sncesto prayer-book or biblica! (held at St. Andrew's Church Hall language, music, history and cus- carry him back to the heath he Legislative Council Such a
language we dara ugom in with the President, Mr. W. Stoma of the Gael To crown all, has trod and the scenes he knew desire may not say much for the
writing
which
Bailey, in the chair) the following it has just opened & Highlanders' well. Legislative Council, or the sense of
matters came up for consider Institute, the object of which is to The music of the Highlander alan can' take us far "civic service" "which member-
encourage the study of things may best be heard at a Gaelic Mod tion: from such desirable things. What Children's Playground. As Gaelle, to promote the home in-or gathering. With what fervour shup of it should connote; it does say a lot for the enthusiasm which was once the special game of the only a strip of ground along strice of the Highlands, and to a choral society Sings "Ho-ró
provide a "home" or meeting place mo nighean donn bhoidheach" European community has now Chatham Road and not the full for the sons of Scotland. Hither-Ho-ro! my nutbrowa meiden"). the royal and ancient game pro-
area further back from the road to the gathering place for men Is there anything that excites the vakes amongst its many adher spread tour, Portugues and had been prepared by Government from the north has been the national feeling to the same de wil soon we hope, take it up. Han, Colonial Secretary upon the rches in Argyle Street, under the gree? Outside the music of the rallway tracks of the Central bagpipes there is perhaps nothing Edo well in a pastime matter with a view to obtaining Station. They sho
for the children, the full area for
so stirring as the Gaelic song which the wrist, the eye and which the Association had asked The Institute may retard the rendered with taste and feeling. declina of Gaelic, although the Once heard it is not soon forgot- that calm ttitude of mind so the Government.
Dangerous Cycling by Youths in hopes that Gaelic might continue ten necessary to success in any call-
e so much called into play. KowloonA letter was read from as a living language have longis, then, one of the chief ob This is exemplified in the two the CAP. that this practice was grown dim. Thirty years ago Jects of the institute to keep alive no comined to Chinese and the Scotland had four times as many the musical traditions of the High- -members of the Gov Han, Secretary was instructed to persons as it has to-day speaking lander. And in this it will find rvice, -- honoured - write the C.S.P. that the Associa nothing but Gaelic It 1891, the great sympathy from the Domi- tion complaint Included an igures ware 43,788, in 1921, the nions. For it is there that the onenders, against whom heavier and decreased to 10,814, Indeed, old songs and customs are trea penalties should be devised... it is a rare thing to hear, the lan-Isured. Ja there that they are
Numbering of Houses in Koyage spoken in the strests, and app Hoon The Hon. Secretary was only in a remote village like Hally Ther
ructed to ain write the Gore chulish, near the Pass of Glencoe,
thle subject, giving may it be heard occasionally in Comm
conversation.
KOWLOON MATTERS. Highlanders; it has clan societies, lost in a busy city, in the prairies
ents. A local professor of music.
has put it on record that some of his pupils are more concerned with iden of a correct stance, the approach shot, putting and the ability to heat Colonel Begay than with the complete subjugation of
any-Czerney and his one hun "dred and one EKETS
piano" Golf then, bath hán torlea no lose, renowned than of the many
things. sither to pane, the time;
the liver, org
Becantly anciant thi with his
who comple
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Club
Club a speads its afflictiöus? doubtedl
The Chinese the President is to interview the
cons
nent an- |The cause of the decline is not en ar to be, found in putside influences. Rather fe? It to be traced to the Hon. Highland home.” The Highlander, unable to speak English in bia ate l'enrly years, has found Gaalle a handicap in dealing with the out- late Therefore he has his children to learn
eving that to In
doss
the
with the
What
heiz, true worth. carealy a 'spot in the signs of the British lth of Nationar that toy the sound of jat is unfamiliar- of the lilt. an-Instituta will Convict
they
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