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DEATH,

ern brethren, the terms of com petitorship could easily be widen ed, and East and West might most in.combat to the great good of both sides The Stadium idea is not new. Having created it, no harm will be done in emphasising

TUESDAY

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The Biblical injunction playing the liveliest time possible Its vast Importance, and in sug-Go to the is very decided. "Go to on the moat solemn occasion, the ant, thou sluggard, Doodle Came to Town" and one

executed with great gusto,Yankee,

reating that the deliberations on Ant;

the scheme be renewed at the

point at which they were broken

day in 1007 L recollect hearing three Chinese military banda on ruway platform all playing differ- ent tunes at the same time, and the music if it might be called

consider her ways and off a couple of years ago, The be wise;!", Here is a story told Government we believe would by a watcher of "an amazing in sanction, or consider a well

eldent illustrating the tenuelty, thought out scheme... But such a scheme needs the whole-hearted ingenuity and co-operative enter-music--was partly Western, part. support of the sportsmen of theprise of a family of ants." Colony. It is up to them to be up and doing.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ly Chinese, It was performed in honour of the arrival on the scene of a new miltary Mandarin from

A busy little Ant came across green caterpillar crawling slowly Peking. across the garden path. After: A writer mentions a certain watching for a moment, he, hustled similarity between Scotch, and off to the wooden border of the Chinese airs, the squealing of

Chinese Instrumants on the occa path and disappeared under the son of a funeral has often remind (To the Editor of the China Mail),wood He came back with another ed me of bagpipes.

ant They too took stock of the

THE CRACKER NUISANCE

Chinese must is said to have originated in an attempt to initato

with your article on the cracker caterpillar, and then they went one the sound of the wind and the rain..

to each end of it, and, taking hold and the art was carried to a high,

Sir-I wish to heartily concur

nuisance at the New Year.

of it tugged There was no result. pitch of perfection in the days of The first ant carried out his Confucius, when one of the great original manoeuvre and came back man's disciples was said to have

“ruled a district in peace by play-"

In the Chinese quarter nobody Can object to us much din as the inhabitants chose to make even in the Foreign and Business quar ters one can tolerate, those long with two more ants. One ant pulling the guitar strings of crackers set off by theed at each end of the caterpillar Banks and Offices. When, however, while the twoi new-comers, bắt him

Hare a ser

It comes to a lot of loafers making in the midle. Again the first ant Short Sermon mon preached by

4 past of themselves by throwing

the Police do not.

mean to enforce the law against

for reinforcements, until those abominable bomb crackers went about in the Foreign business quar. Anally a small army of ants was ter at all hours of the day, it is pulling from each end and strotch time to protest.

Furthermore it is a shockingly Ing the caterpillar, while the others There is no question of not bad precedent to pass a law agathst, ranged themselves on each side and a certain thing, and then allow the sawed the caterpillar in pieces. trusting the Colonial Office to law to be openly fouted under the Then they carried away the pieces safeguard Hongkong's interests eyes of the so-called guardians of adequately, nor does any suspi- the law. cion arise of the part played by the Foreign Office. But the fact of that indefinable missing link will cotrude itself. The man in the street is not versed in the tenance a fagrant infraction of it technicalities of high polities or inter-Departmental relations in Downing Street. All that con- cerns him is the fear that he may

errckere in certain districts, why

ין .

People who return go through the faree of passing it. Can They? from Home leave

long or short recount they do intend the law to be observed, why allow their repre- the joy with which they are re- sentatives on duty to openly coun

colved by their canine pets. Here

Yours; etc., ANTI CRACKER.. Hongkong, February 16.,"

cor.

is a remarkable Instance of dog

Home inatinet, told by a respondent:

Some years ago I used to be

be over-looked and ignored in the MOTOR ACCIDENTS. Frequently away from home on long

settlement of important issues. affecting his absolute existence

In all the commente so far in regard to the feasibility of the appointment. of a High Commis-

AN ABRUPT ENDING TO:

"A JOY RIDE.

DRIVER'S MISFORTUNE

warn-

the Rev. Dri Whewell in America in 1814, on the text "Mán is born into trouble;

the sparks fly upwards." Ital took one minute to deliver, the following being a verbatim re- port

@ shall divide my discourse pe into three heads-first, man'a Ingress into the world; second, his progress through the world;; and third,; his egress out of the world. Firstly, his ingresar izito the world fa, naked and bare; Becondly, his progress through the world de trouble and care; thirdly, his egress out of the world la nobody knows where. To conclude-if we live, well here, we shall Hve well there," and I can tall, you no more. If "I preach a whole year.""

⠀ When there is a carb ahead

there is a track behind

correspon business fourneys for several days Chinese Proverbs, dent writing to at a time, I had no regular day'

a Home paper or hour for returning, neither did says: anybody know at what time I have just finished reading. The Great Wall of China, by Yet my brown William Edgar Gall (Murray, 51 A joy ride in a motor car by five would arrive. sioner for the Far East nothing Chinese schoolboys was described waterspaniel invariably met me 158) Apart from the story of has been said in regard to his before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the two or three miles from home, no the Great Wall, I have been struck with the extraordinary number, and Central Magistracy this, thorning official standing yis-a-vis the Bri- when a Chinese driver was charged matter by what road I came. while variety of the Chinese proverbs tish, Minister in Peking and the with using a private car for public on all the other evenings of my which the author has set down in Governor of Hongkong. His hire and having defective brakes, absence he would remain asleep this volume. Here are a few:-

The charge was a sequel to an before the fire. Can dogs receive duties must be such as not to accident, in which an old man was telepathic impressions or clash with OF overlap those knocked down by the car and re-

ings? BLAIR in London, en 15th inst., already being carried out, but selved injuries to his head.

Two of the schoolboys giving David Keay Blair, late equally obvious is it that in certain evidence said that when leaving Secretary of Hongkong Gen-respects there could be secured a the Lee Gardens yesterday after-

writer eral Chamber of Commerce degree of co-operation and co- noon a boy offered to give them a Grigin of

Home paper, says: (By cable).

ordination not possible under the motor ride. A bargain was struck Chinese Music. The traveller, who for 31.50 as far as Possession

years after hear present régime. If a state of Street, and the students. were ing the tune "Mackrimmon's Hongkong, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1926, betterment can be effected by the ushered into defendant's car. On Lament" in the Highlands, heard destination a "almost the same, tune" sung by appointment of a High Commis.reaching their

further arrangement was made for Chinese mourners: at a funeral sioner for the Far East, there is a trip round the island for $7.hear Tientsin, may have heard, not frothing to be gained by delaying The car proceeded along Queen's Oriental music, but the originali. Its consideration on the part of Road West as far as Centre Street Scotch air. borrowed for the occa-

when the accident occurred and 'sion.. Downing Street.

A HIGH COMMISSIONER

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The departure from Japan of Sir Charles Eliot, who made a brief stay in Hongkong at the week-end on his way Home, has! revived for the time being the in- Iterest in the advisability of ap pointing a High Commissioner for the Far East. It has been felt for some time, more particularly in connection with the events of

INTERPORTS AND A

* STADIUM, 4-

Chashmah selama

Aoife

A

the driver was taken into custody In the early days of the Republic by the police....

(1911) at a wealthy Chinese

The owner of the

car Mandarin's funeral in an Inland foreman at the Nanyang Brocity, the Chinese musicians, follow thers Tobacco. Factory salding the time honoured custom of that. the defendant· · had structions early in the afternoon to take a friend to a Chinese club. always with us. Unlike the poor, his mission defendant went to the Interports, Hke the poor are He thought that after completing we would always Have them with Les Gardens to make money by

as. They do much good. They hiring the car. help trade and that spirit of good.

A great man is one who knows: the times.

Do no wrong by day and you. will fear no demon knocking at your door by night,

What can the swallow know of the aims of a wild swan?.

A true man does not mind his lowly birth

Soldiers may not be needed for

a hundred years, but cannot be dispensed with a single day.",

He who has seen little marvels

...much...

A kind word keeps warm for three winters.

floundering shallow water incurs the ridicule of shrimps,

A dragon

One piece of bad meat makes the whole pot small

BRAIN AND STOMACH.

will so large a part of all, sport charges, imposing a total fine of an audience of youth it is right young men and ma His Worship convicted on both When eminent persons address the mental sluggard."-- Hongkong battles with Shanghai $75, or six weeks, and the payment that they should be rather bracing vocation in which they at football and goes under. The of $6 as compensation to the than pessimistic. But surely Sir to disdain a healthy "divotees of golf trounce large injured man, or an additional one Arthur Keith, at King's College submit, no hop hearted players from Manila and week's imprisonment.

Hospital, has overdone it. To tell Sir Arthur surely young men that they will never contrast. Bit rest

the past eight months, that there is something like a missing link of some undefinable kind between the Colony of Hongkong, for example, and the Foreign Office as

meet Shanghai Later victory regards the development of events and defeat will be celebrated at

Ricsha Smash.

in China. It is known, of course, well-ladened tables and speeches along Queen's Road Central collid hurt is, no doubt, just what young works hard with his brain: shall

A motor car driven by a Chinesework their brains hard enough to us being that every mar that the British Consul-General in will crown the spirit of fellowshiped with a public riesha yesterday man need, but we do not care for have indigestion? Sir Arthur bide created. It would be a good and smashed it. The coolie re-the other half of his doctrine, that us contemplate the agonies of Canton, with that innate courtesy thing if the Chinese New Yearceived slight injuries, but refused they must be very careful of their Carlyle, and Darwin, Huxley and

stomachs (remarks a London Herbert Spencer Nothing can paper) A young fellow anxious more nvidious than to doubt about his digestion is not an agree-, man protestations of sto DISHONEST “BOY," able, not an edifying member of ach ar be it from us

the

arkis tion gol

ROBBED A EUROPEAN-

LADY.

stadium

for which he is noted, invariably Holiday was definitely, set aside to go to hospital. ~ keeps the Hongkong Government by the foreign community as apprised fully of the changing Interork week and time given over games between represen- situation, and, in turn, the Goy- erament here has on occasion passed on through the Press what it deems in its discretion the public, ought or would like to know. Still, this Colony comes under jurisdiction of the not the Foreign Colonial Office

Colonial Office Office. And

cannot take official cog

the position in China. Anze of the highest importance. Hongkong might occur in China and yet in any con tion of the policy to be advi any ameliorative meaky takeng Hongkong haan locus atand The Br

PHAK CLUB THEFT...

society. He ought not to kn that he has such a thing till he came to forty years and a mature interest in it will make

misery to himself and a plague. on to everyone el

A Chinese boy employed at will not allow the the Peak Club found himself in the of vigour In both Olympic dock at the Central Magistracy brain. A man, it is his grim

be this morning for stealing a tortoise- must choose. Sooner or later an shell cigarette-case and a gold-

laws demand sports mounted powder Box belonging to works his brain shal terest in Mrs WEL. Shenton, stomach Most of If the vari-The articles were left on a table Arthur) nisfully

At the Club yesterday by Mrs. habitual study have to pay

missing. Frice. We knew that mus

moned the scholar's life assall

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