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Hongkong, Monday, March 22, 1926.

OUR LOCAL STUDENTS,

country is by pursuing his studies diligently and preparing himself

THE QUAINTS"

WEEK-END PERFORMANCER AT:

WWWS SHOW THE STVARI

·REMARKABLE SUCCESSES.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

A saying of thirteen seconds fance, of Arma and the Man," to Lifts is to be made in the speed make a long speech to the audience, of the lifts connected with the chearing Wia broken by one

A splendid, though not exactly a London tube, Patt Ridge tells, loud bgoing voice from the gallery, overpacked, “house greeted "the the story of in American million- am glad to find said. Mr. Quaints at the Star Theatre on are who died and found himself Shaw, “that there is one person Saturday night, when they, open- in a lift. When does this list go here with sufficient Intelligence, to ed their season here with an up he said to the attendant. "It share my opinion of this play Hays comady-drama The Sport does not go up replied the attend of Kings" The audience was ant This story is first cousin to

"I certainly held the nothing if not enthusiastic, and that which relates the post-mortem A Pinch. attention. Not so every applause was the order of the night experience of a Chicago man." Ha

plece, an witness this at the conclusion of each arene and was looking around him at the incident concerning a provincial act in the plays..

scenery and architecture of the drama. The frst act was good, other world. Well" he said in but a young couple had brought tones of civic pride, Heaven, fan't their baby, and the infant did not so different from Chicago after care for the stage representation, all Said his guide. “This is not and sald so The acting manager Heaven

Save Warning. Either the baby would have to be kept quiet, or his

Tan Hay, Author of The Sport

of Kings

As this piece is to be produced

The Shreds man re parents would take it out and have Book Titles cently referred to The baby was induced to sleep. The their entrance money refunded.

Rome

what may be described

Maudien

Yes, George"

Might, jest give the kid a pinch, will you?*****

misleading book titles incond act proved extremely un- standing Beloc's The Path to tractive the young father be

Maria Edgeworth onder het's text. wrote a book on mixed metaphors and called Itrikh Buls A cortain North-country agricultural society, which ordered a copy with a view to Improving the local breed of cattle, simply wasted its A Little edited a new weekly When Robert Barr money. Then there is Swinburne's Knowledge, in London, one of the

Under the Microscope), a title which induced an inexperienced and commented on the frat, num

proprietors looked In

for future service-future citizen again this week the story need not catalogue compiler to include the ber. The proprietor objected, tor ship" That is in itself a trust and detract from the interest of those book under “ Optical Instruments.some verses Inserted to fl

be given here in full as that might

who were not present our Saturday.

ja responsibility, and nothing but

column Speech making at our good can be done by a constant It can be said, however, that the

These are the lines I mean," he main theme is the besetting mania

Sharing amateur productions said, pointing. "Stone walls do reiteration of that homily in the for gambling, that form known as An Opinion, are not generally the not a prison make. Nor iron bara- role which perhaps Signed, Colonel Lovelace Now if

125 YEARS OF SHIPOWNING.

presence of the students of Hong-punting on racecourses naturally kong. It is by such sincerely coming in for premter attention, as well When Mr Bernard I was you, persuasively, "If I was

The Abhorrence of the country Shaw came before the curtain at you, I wouldn't take any more stuff. worded addresses that the stud

squire, who prides himself on his the conclusion of the first perform from these Aldershot chape! ents will come to an understand good Chriation home, at gambling ing of their natural vocation both in any form was well demonstrated now and in the future. An ounce learned that somebody or other had until the fateful moment when he of propaganda of this nature is been able, through his profta on worth a ton of expletives against the turf, to pay off his Income-tax. Bolsheviam.

That was the only stimulus enterprise is given by the "Journa An Interesting record of British quired to induce the squire to try of Commerce This prentice hand at betting, only |

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mora on the warehouse. The ori- ginal office is still used as the directors" room.

Arma made

which was actually owned by the of his first steamer, the "Therese" grandfather of the present Countess BANNING BOOKS.

to find in the moment of his One of the oldest of the Scottish of Oxford and Asquith. In 1859 greatest discomature that all his shipping companies is Messrs he engaged a junior clerk who was Literary circles have been in-"Bahtly household had been all George Gibson, of Laith, now an afterwards to make a great mark terested in the news that certain along in the habit of "having a bit integral part of the Gibson-Ranking in the businese, the Mr Thomas Ton" The sole exception was his Line, for the original George Gib MacGill who is still senior partner, At a moment when there is an books in the library of a local in wife, and she, in turn, unwittingly aon started business, as a shipping and who In spite of his age takes imperative call for systematic pro-stitution which have enjoyed a placed a bet over the phone agent as early as 1798, Eleven the very keenest interest in any paganda to counteract the in-wide popularity have been pro-phraseology employed by the book taken a very big part in the bust company that he has done so much through sheer confusion of the years. Inter his son appears to have thing to do with shipping and the sidious effects of Bolshevist teach-hibited.

as not being suit maker and the local co-operativeness, for he is advertised as being to build up hi 1864. Mr. James ings in China, it is refreshing to able matter for

agent for the ship Sisters, loading Rankine, Junior, was given a part- find that we have in our midst Standards of criticism

That is rather drab suminary the Clyde for Demerara. After nership, and the public-spirited gentlemen able and what constitutes

of a very "live" plot! The cast that the firm progressed steadily even more progress with the agree decency-

was an excellent one. If the and in 1820 they purchased the ment with Gibsons, the bab willing to initiate in a quiet way even in books are for the in-world was the oyster" of Mr. property which stilt acts as their To go back to the Gibson side a movement for the mental uplift-dividual to decide. In both there Salisbury he could scarcely have office, It was then almost entirely of the business; in 1863-they came lifting of the students in our are certain well-defined lines characters. One and all forgot for taking up much space, but, as their Mr. D. R MacGregor, and many of improved upon his selection of the warehouse, the office part not to a very close relationship with midst. The entry of students whilst the latter often has the the time that they were artistes, business has increased this has the ships which appear under their unen the political stage in China backing of law and order. Censor so, wall did they enter into the been reversed, and now the office name at this time were jointly has been fraught with disastership, in whatever direction exer-spirit of the comedy. They cer space is encroaching more and owned. The arrangement was not from the lifting of the curtain on cised is generally bad. In con tainly gave one of the best possible

antogether satieactory; however, the first act. What the Hon. Mr. nection with literature it is in-for in a theatre of the limited performances that could be hoped

and in 1869 was, ferurinated. On their own again Gibsons laid down RH Kotewall in his address to defensible Who is to hold the dimensions of the Star, although By November 1860, Mr. George further. tonnage, beginning in 1870 the students of the Tutorial In-scales evenly in deciding between the stage and accessories have Gibson was gettiar a very old man steamers whose names were all with & well-known series of stitute on Saturday night the Bible and Boccacia; between many another theatre of bigger whose name, je still very intimately "Red Gauntlet, for instance, made much more in their favour than and the late Mr. Robert Somerville, taken from Sir Walter Scott. The described as "interference" has the coincidences of Garvice and stage capacity....

connected with the firm, entered as a number of voyages to the East be- and effects which even those who the luridness of D'Annunzio The Quaints, in a word, held a clerk. He and Mr. Mungofore she was sold to the British fell so blindly into the Communist Murders and murderers generally and that, after all, is the finest going ahead, and the progress of time had a considerable connection their audience from first to last Gibson realised that times were Indie Line, and the firm at that trap could not foresee. They are not things we admit as being criterion of any touring company's the arm since that date is very with the Orient have not benefited the students quite decent. Yet in the hands of merits.

largely due to this new blood. In one iota. On the contrary they a competent, writer they become

December, 1850, they purchased

Marked Progress. have brought the word "stud subjects of absorbing interest. In spite of the bad weather yes "Balmoral, which carried 200 tons having worked so well in 1878 their firet steamer, the little The agreement with Rankines ent" into general contempt, and Prohibition, as we well know, terday, the Star Theatre was pack of cargo, and could generally they came to a similar one with caused incalculable harm to the merely excites curiosity. The ing performance of

ed at both the matinee and even be relied upon to make the Clyde Shipping Company to cause of education In China-American is more anxious to get Nanette

No, No, the round voyage between Leith cover the Continental trades, and generally.

and Rotterdam in about a fortnight, in 1878 they took over a number alcohol because it is officially

Mr. Salisbury, as the extra-Their ownership of tonnage did pob of Mr. MacGregor's steamers, he Mr. Kotewall placed his finger denied to him. The news spreads himself often in trouble as a result agency Business and they had creased feet strengthened their vagant "Jimmy Smith," found prevent them carrying on with the having recently failed. This in- on the crux of the whole position that "Tom Jones" has been pro- of his fondness for the ladies and numerous connections, both in and band very considerably, but in the when he declared referring to hibited by an insignificant Muni-hia arrangements with Billy out of the shipping world. They meantime the concern was essen the loss of life as the result of cipal Library Committee, and Early the lawyer (acted well worked up a Swedish business as tially a family ene. Mr. Mungo the shooting of students in immediately there is a "run" on out of the mess in which he had feit themselves strong enough to the business, in 1888, and was by Mr. Gordon Rennie) to get him well as a Dutch, and in 1854 they Gibson's son, Campbell, came into Peking that. if, in laying down the book on the part of the idly been involved produced roars of build tonnage on their own account, admitted, a partner on the death of their lives, they were furthering curious who expect to have sensi laughter Miss Silva Lennox and the first being the stormer Eglin ble father two years later, Mr. the interests of their country, the bilities tickled. If a poor man, tive wives gave the husbands an In 1855 Mr. George Gibson died, partner in 1900 Shortly before" Miss Dorothy James, as the respecton Robert A Somerville becoming a sacrifice would be commendable wrestling with adversity is a uncomfortable time by appearing at and in the same year the "Eglinton" the war. Mr. Campbell Gibson's son. But by interfering in matters sight for the gods, how much places where they were least ex was chartered to the French Navy Mungo, Campbell Gibson, entered which they did not understand, muat they, weep at the spectacle pected. Miss Ella Brakiho played to set as a transport to the the office, but was mobilised with ang which were best left to those of supposedly well meaning people Miss Mavis French, as the cook at out stored, and on her returb was at the outbreak of war and died. the part of Nanette well, and Crimean campaign. She carried the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve with more experience, they were people whose contact with life the Smith's, acted a part which put on the Kiel trade with wheat, a gallant doing harm. There has never has probably been from the suited, her well been any doubt of the political sheltered vale of com

the freight then being seven shill Other part The main theme was to be happy ings per quarter. Unfortunately during the morale of the students in general ease, and who know not life's com- and in this the company succeeded she was lost in the Baltic, which In this Colony A few were, it is plexities

admirably In

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