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SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1928.

MAUDLIN MAUNDERINGS.

[By the "Mail's" Madman.]

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LOCAL CENTRE.

FOR TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC.

A NATIONAL INSTITUTION.

THE CHINA MAIL,

In view of the fact that a centre

PARADE DETAILS.

AT CENOTAPH, NOT THE VALLEY.

THE KING'S BIRTHDAY. ·

Owing to the weather and the

of Trinity College of Music is in state of the ground, the parade in process of formation in Hong connection with the celebration of Kong, for the purpose of bringing H.M. the King's Birthday at Happy the advantages of its examinations Valley has been cancelled and the within the reach of residents in alternative parade” this locality, it may be interest to plice.

Shadows Before

COMING EVENTS, ANNOUNCED 'IN THE "MAIL."

To-day Queen's "Finders Keepera."

To-day--World Theatre; “The Heart of Salome."

Theatre:

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To-day--Star Theatre; "Ankles Preferred" will take To-morrow Concert arranged

argument by emitting a juvenile sort of bark. It was a. dog. Garrigan's assertion that it was a Nagaaaki Terrier was greeted with roars of incredulity. Be vond all doubt the poodle was a hybrid, Peddie simply called it a our readers to give some parti-At 9.a.m. H.E. the Offcor Ad-by Miss Stubbings, City Hall, 7.30 mongrel, "Woodie" said it was an culars as to the growth of, and ministering the Government ar- alloy, Dipper an amalgam, Briggs work done by. thla now great and rives at the Cenotaph and will be racelveit by a Guard of Honour of referred to the number of the National Institution.

the 2nd Butt. Scots Guards with which Whe branches on its genealogical tree. Trinity College,

I thought my description, a founded in 1872, is the oldest royal salute. HE will then pre- synthetic dog, was neat, but examining body. for music. The sont a number of long service and Ivan's designation was voted best. original scheme of Higher Ex-good conduct medals. He said it was a canine cocktail. nminations was announced in 1873,

Royal Salute.. public examination The species being thus settled we and the first

A royal salute of 21 guns will

p.m.

To-morrow — Queen's Theatro; Stranded in Paris."

The Genoral.”

To-morrow - World Theatre; |

To-morrow-Star Theatre; "So's Your Old Man.”

Lammerts Auctions. June At Sales Room, house- hold goods, 2.80 p.m.

June Household goods, 1

Meetings,

June B-General meeting of clation, St. Joseph's College, p.m. Christian Brothers' Alumni Asso-

June 7--Annual meeting of Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, noon.

Miscellaneous. June 4-Reception at Govern- ment House in honour of the King's birthday.

June 4-March Past at Cono-

The other evening I ran across my puaning friend, Ivan Knox, in Ice House-street` but as he was busy dogging a rainbow-draped piece of femininity he merely nodded and continued the chase, About an hour later when he tried to dodge me in Wyndhamn-streci I knew that his hunt had been abortive. He was then returning from the Punsters' Club and had under his arm two books: "The Indian Wife-Tamer," by Bashir had to fix on a name. Canine Cock-held in 1874. At the present time be fred by Ist Mountain Battery, Hodin, and "The Rape of Helen," tail gave rise to such suggestions more than 60,000 Candidates en- K.S. Brigade, RA, on Murray and 4, Knutsford Terrace, Kow- by Ida Dunnet. He offered to as Martini, Bronx, and Manhattan nually enter for its examinations, parade ground. At the conclusion loon, 2.30 pm. lend me "The Welsher," by Owen but these were rejected as were The College was the first musical of the 7th, 14th and 21st rounds of

Sports. Bolt, but I declined. I then be also Heini and Mixed Grill. The institution to hold local examina- this salute, a "feu-de-jolo" will be June 10-American Mixed Dou- last name combined with the facttions in "music. Since these ex-fired by a company of the 2nd Battles (handicap) tennis tournament, gan to chaff my Don Juan about that the dog was of Japanese examinations were established, the Scots Guards, facing the Cenotaph Ladies Recreation Club. the lee House-street spectrum but traction decided it and we named College has examined over one mil-At the end of the last "feu-de- he' skilfully changed the subject it after a Japanese mixed grill,lion Candidates. Upwards of 650 joie," the whole of the national an- by remarking: "Here we are in Sukyaki (pronounced Skee-aki). Public and School Local Centres them will be played.

The troops will then give three Wyndham-street; an hour ago it Then the pendulum swung and are established in the United King

Sukyaki, an affectionate brute dom and the Dominions.

cheers for H.M. the King, was Ice House-street: isn't that s who after all was scarcely respon- The Income and property of the

A detachment of the Royal Air true description of Hong Kong?"sible for his ancestors, became an College from whatever sources de Force will then fly past. Not having the faintest idea of object of praise as alcoholic rived, are applied solely towards i The parade, headed by a de what he was driving at but sus oracles indulged in platitudes the promotion of the objects of thetachment of the Royal Navy, will pecting it to be a preliminary to about the wisdom and fidelity of College, and no portion thereof is then march past in column of some vile pun I merely growled, cross-breeds. Wonderful stories, paid or transferred directly or in-route, companies or equivalent "How?" "Well," he retorted, mostly inventions, were told about directly by way of dividend, bonus units giving "oyes left as they

isn't it a case of Wyndham miraculous mongrels at one time or otherwise howsoever by way of Paas H.E. the Officer Administering tapb in honour of King George's street after another?" "I gazed owned by those present, but as profit to the members of the Cor the Government at the Cenotaph. at him more in sorrow than in everyone was fraternally inclined poration. About £3,000 is disburs- The route will be:-(starting Birthday, 9 a.m. anger and volunteered to go with no one spoiled the fun by ques-ed by the College annually in con- point) junction of Queen's-road

June 5 First of a series of him there and then to see a mentioning his neighbour's veracity. nection with (a) Scholarships ten- and Murray-road-Murray-road- addresses at Union Church Hall, fal specialist, but my pleasantries | After Sukyaki's health had been able at the College (b) Local Ex-Connaught - road Hillier-street- Kennedy-rd., on the Old Testament, were cut short by an ominous repeatedly drunk the music, or hibitions tenable at Local Centres, Bonhom-strand East Queen's-road. by Mr. J. S. Flacks. sound, and light heartedness gave rather the noise recommenced and (e) National prizes to local H.K.V.D.C. and Police Reserves: November 18- Matriculation, For the information of the Senior and Junior Local exams. at bled the unsuccessful attempt of and continued till midnight when the Coronation

J'car of King! a ship's siren to blow; then it an interruption occurred. From Edward VII, and to commemorate now be 9 a.m. instead of 8.60 a.m. grew louder and sounded like the above, below, and around angry the 30th Anniversary of its own as previously arranged. crash of a mighty billow on neighbours made a simultaneous foundation, the College, in 1902, All Police Reservists who have shore of loose shingle; later like attack on Garrigan's ceiling, floor, presented the sum of £5,000 to the been detailed for duty at Happy the rasping, and rattling of a walls and door. On opening the University of London for the pur- Valley on Monday are ordered to PUBLIC AUCTIONS. dozen old derricks that had not door we beheld an irate gentleman pose of establishing a University report instead for duty at or near been oiled for years; and finally in pyjamas. We invited him to Chair of Music. The Gift was ac- the Cenotaph. They will fall in THE Undersigned have received like a ton of coals dropping from join the company but he cast cepted by the University, and His under their respective commanding, instructions to sell by Public great height on a corrugated aspersions on our births and told Majesty was graciously pleased to officers in Chater-road opposite the iron roof. Birds stopped singing, us to shut up our blankety adject-permit the use of the title "The Supreme Court at 8 a.m. sharp. strong men stood taut with hands ival row as he wished to get to King Edward Professorship of - Long Service Medals. clenched expecting the worst, sleep. A soft answer proving un-Music": The University elected as The following will be the reci- women prepared to faint, and successful in turning away his its first Professor the late Sir, pients of Long Service and Good men who had fought in France wrath we surrounded him and Frederick Bridge C.V.O.. M.A., Conduct medals at the Birthday. automatically ducked. Then it sang "For He's a Jolly Good Mus, D; who was a Vice-President Parade: happened the flower-seller spat. Fellow" while Briggs tried to and Chairman of the Board of the First Class Warrant Officer:-In- He had just been clearing his kiss him. He managed to brack College-The Royal Commission structor Encordon, AEG throat in the most approved through our cordon and went off appointed in 1892 to consider the and Sgt-Major J. R. Marshall, R.E, Mongolian fashion and was su- in high dudgeon muttering some-reconstruction of the University of Second Class Warrant Officers: Tapestry Covered Couch and Arm- blimely unconscious of the commo- thing about the Police. This in London included the College among B.-S.-M. J. Broadbridge, RA, and chairs, Desks, Folding Sercen, tion he had caused. I mentioned no way damped our enthusiasm the Institutions suggested Mr. Gr. E. F. Fogden, D.C.M., RA; Bookcases, Oil Paintings, Pictures, something about the crash of aand no one knows to what lengths Schools of the University. Sgt. E. Davies, 20th Heavy Bat Electric Table Fans, Carpets, Teak forest giant but Ivan reproved we might have gone had not

The Trinity College of Musia tery, R.A.; Sgta. E. Leach and A. Typewriter Desks, Rugs, Orna- me. "If you must use an arbori Dipper brought us back to sanity Examination, which are doing à Barnes, 31st Heavy Battery, R.A.; ments, Curios, etc., ferous smile," he said, "call it the by remarking that it was "dot great work in helping to raise the Sgts. C. Clark, W. Burton and Hay. "Phlegm of the Florist." playing the gabe by Tobby Garri Standard of Music, are now held in Jam Muhd, Hongkong and Singa- Chairs, Sideboards with Mirrors, Teak Dining Tables, Dining! After informing Ivan that I gad." Brakes were applied, and some twenty different Countries. pore Brigade. RA. Sgt. W. Bent, Dinner Waggons, Ice Chests, Din- would rather listen to a whole after singing and drinking "A In another article it is proposed Royal Corps of Signals, and Lee. ner Crockery, Glass Ware, Cutlery. street of florists clearing their Wee Deoch An' Doris" we open to say something about what has Sgt. E. C. Goodheart, R.A. throats than hear one of his puns I made to bolt, but he gripped me by my alpaca coat and 1, remem- bering the attenuation of that garments was forced, willy-nilly, to stand, still, (for to be seen in Hong Kong with a torn jacket is

way to concern. At first it resem- with greater intensity than ever examination Cahdidates. To mark Volunteers, the time of parade will the Hong Kong University.

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ed our lungs to full capacity in been done for musical education Auld Lang Syne." Most of the throughout the British Empire dur- party were beginning to showing the last half-century by Trinity signs of wear, but as Ivan and I College. were feeling comparatively fresh we hear-heared Garrigan's pro- posal of a motor ride round the

as detrimental to one's social island to clear the lungs and blow |

“SAFETY FIRST.”

TRIAN'S LAMP."

CINEMA NOTES.

LAURA LA PLANTE AT

QUEEN'S.

THE

Auction

ON THURSDAY, the 7th June, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m.

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street. A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

** FURNITURE,"

Comprising

Toak Hatatands, Glass Cabinets,

Kitchen Gear, etc., etc.,

also

Iron, Brass and Teak Bedsteads with Mattresses, Single, and Double Wardrobes with and without mir- THErors, Washstands, Tesk and Cam-:

phorwood Chests of Drawers, Chamber Stands, Household, Linen, Laura La Plante's latest pic-Tollet Crockery, etc, etc., ture, "Finders Keepers," which will be screened for the last time to-day at the Queen's Theatre, în FINE an extremely funny comedy of army life, in which Miss La Plante plays the part of a gen- eral's daughter who has great trouble in persuading her father to give his consent to her mar- riage to a private. "Finders Keepers" is the comedienne's

A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE

(Carved and Plain) .

and

:

I Cottage Plane by "Morrison" 1 White Frost Refrigerator

1 Royal Typewriter

1 Remington Typewriter

2 Gramophones

2 Enamelled Batha, Catalogues will be issued.

On View from Wednesday, the

6th June, 1928.

standing as being found fraternis- away the cob-webs. And so the WOMAN INVENTS A “PEDES. ing with one's subordinates). He three of us got into a "Pirate begged me to go with him to Car," a full moon in a cloudless Tommy Garrigan's flat where sky made head-lights superfluous.

Brighton, April 12. several cronies were meeting to Nearing Stanley we heard a Nervous women need no longer help Tommy to choose a name for weird melancholy sound, and as fear that they will be run over by his new dog. After extracting no one could guess the cause we motor-cars on dark nights. Mrs, from Ivan an unwilling promise went to investigate. There on J. S. Brown, of Southwick, that he would perpetrate no more flattish piece of ground we found Sussex, has invented a safety belt puns while in my company that some Scottish enthusiasts six which, she claims, will remove evening I agreed to go. Ten min- pipers blowing their hardest at all danger. utes Inter two chairs dumped us six different tunes what time their "I have been present at so many brightest effort to date, the scene at Garrigan's abode. We were brawny countrymen were indulg-accidents at Hove and Brighton where she impersonates a soldier not the first to arrive. Complete ing in antics one sees at Highland that I felt something must be being extremely well done ander ly filling the big arm-chair was Games wrestling, tossing the done to lessen traffic dangers for the direction of Wesley Puggles. the imposing bulge of Tom Peddie caber, and putting the haggis. those walking in the streets," she John Harron plays opposite the sluicing down beer, while strad- We were enjoying the barbaric said.. "I am convinced that in star, while Edmund Breese of dling in front of the grate with scene when a gigantic Caledonian the safety belt, which I am now "What Price Glory" fame, also ap- his back against the mantel-piece, detecting us approached and de- patenting. I have solved the pro- pears in a prominent role. as if the thermometer were at manded: "Whut areye blem." zero instead of eighty was "Long Sassenachs wantin': is there nae Mrs. Brown put on a tweed coat WORLD THEATRE. Woodie" puffing at his eternal preevacy on this island?” On with two deep pockets. Then

Alma Rubens gives a striking pipe and exhaling cynical re-Garrigan's producing a bottle of she passed round her waist a deep performance as an international marks. Briggs was there with the "Cratur" the change of ex-belt of white surgical webbing, spy in "The Heart of Balome,” his salacious yarns (where does pression on the face of the Gael Two cords connected the webbing which closes its season at the he get them?), and Dipper with was wondrous to behold. Half the with little pocket-shaped bat-World Theatre to-day. Holmes his gift of silence and his bottle made him semi-friendly teries, and she had made two Herbert is cast as a sinister at adenoids. Soon three others ar- "An' hoo dae ye like the pipes ?" deep buttonholes in the material manipulator of high finance while rived making a dozen în all. Cock- he asked. "Grand," I replied, at the back and front. tail followed cocktail, story follow, "the most inspiriting music in the

Electric Light Bulbs.

Walter Pidgeon is the hero. A thrilling sword duel between the two comes as a climax to an inter- esting series of events.

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

`LAMMERT BROS., Barber Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1928.

# THE Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auction

CON FRIDAY, the 8th June, 1928, commencing at 2.50. p.m. Nos. 1 and 4, Knutsford Terrace,

Kimberley Road, Kowloon,

*FA ·Large: Quantity of

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FURNITURELE CA Comprising

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Carpets, Rugs, Folding Pictures, Electric Fans,

Dining Tables Dining Chairs,

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ed story, incense to the nicotine world." He seemed further molli- Through the buttonholes she Goddess ascended from pipe, fied and I was congratulating my has placed two tiny electric light cigar, and cigarette, eight o'clock self on my tact when that ass bulbs, the front light a deep had sounded and still no mention Ivan as usual put his foot in it, orange and the back ono a beauti-

STAR THEATRE. of the dog, Had Ivan hoaxed me? this time by making some faceti-ful. clear ruby, Mrs. Brown con-

Ankles Preferred," a picture Scree By half past eight Garrigan's boyous remark about the drones of trols these lights with a switch. also having its final screening to

etor had contrived in some miraculous the pipes sounding like a million As soon as it grew dark to-day at the Star Theatre, is a live- way to spread a hot and cold.col- cicadas. That roused the fury of night Mrs. Brown put on her ly comedy drama of modern city Sideboards Dinner: Waggons, Ice lation for a dozen, and as the eat Gnel. What's that ye say aboot safety belt and walked along the life, and the troubles of a Miss Chests, Cooking Stoves, Crockery, ing hour was come and the cock-sick adders?" he roured. "Wid centre of King's-road. In front 1928, whose ankles bring her Cuttery, Glass Ware, Kitchen Uten- tails had produced a spirit of ve liken the Scotch the snakes? of her a lamp gleamed like a yel more admirers than she can copa ella, etc., etcn camaraderie it did not require Mebbie ye wid like tae ken hoo low diamond Soft red rays came with. Madge Bellamy and Bedsteads much pressing to persuade us to they sting." By this time his fist from the rear light. sit down. After dining and was drawn back and his big hairy The effect on motor-car drivers liqueuring was indulged in a sing jaw was shoved out belligerently. was somewhat startling. In their song which ultimately degenerat Ivan, whose classical profile was efforts to obtain a second glance ed into a competition in which in grave danger of suffering the at the unusual sight they almost each Stentor tried to out-bellow fate of the Parthenon,, looked un skidded and swerved and made His neighbour. This might comfortable and it required all figure eights with the whe have gone on till we had four persuasive powers, and the their cars Pedestrians ruined our voices had not remaining hall of the bottle, to the pavements Dipper with his gift of convince the kilted Titan that astonishment Tax silence and his adenoids, Ivan meant to be complimentary expressed a lively Interest, and made the startling, announce From truculence Donald changed hailed Mrs Brown with facetious ment that we had assebbled to to dialectics and began discussing remarks dabe a dog. Orders were forth Bannockburn and the sgow I don't care wha with given to produce the pup. Rangèrs, but as an arg When it appeared we were in Scot is even more doubt as to whether it was pugnacio small dog or an overgrow but the animal itself, settled all

ently fled, or as the would say, beat it.

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