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SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1929.

TO-DAY'S RADIO

BROADCAST HY G. O. W.

ON 250 METRES

The following programume

will! be broadcast to-day from the Goy. ernment radio station on the Peak, the wave-length being 350 metres, The call sign of the station is

G.O.W.

THE CHINA MAIL,

LONDON'S CHURCHES HIDDEN COMPLEXES

ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S CLOIS-

CONFIDENT MANNER THAT. CONCEALS TIMIDITY

TERS TO BE REOPENED

OLDER THAN THE ABBEY

T

Pages in London's rich history

FAILURE HIDDEN

like a

Have you an inferiority com- will be brought to mind when Prin-plex disguised to look eess Mary reopens the old cloisters superiority one? of St. Bartholomew the Great in Dr. Eugene Fisk, the medical Smithfield. This is London's old-director of the Life Extension est church foundation. It dates Institute of the United States, from early in the twelfth century, said to a "Daily Maily" reporter 5.30 to 6.30 p.m.-Demonstration when green Selds lay open to the sky where now the City's Central Re-Mat Market standa, and "Bart's" Hospital, in its apiendid mission of alleviation, keeps pace with grow ing needs.

1.48 pm.-Weather Report.

Programme.

7.48 p.m.-Evening Weather

port.

8

p.m.-Evening

(Columbia Records).

Programme

"The Bohemian Girl," Overture.

Thin ceremony will mark the final.

recently:

EXCHANGES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS

On London-

Bank, wire

months'

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Bank, on demand 2/~ 1/16 Bank, 30 days' eight Bank, 4 months' sight 2/- Credits, 4

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STAR THEATRE,

TO-NIGHT at 9.15 p.m.

FRED COYNE'S

MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY

"ON THE ROAD "

To-night

Only.

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On demand The most common psychic | Credits, trouble among men

in the

sight United States is the inferiority On Berlin complex, which afflicts many On demand people who appear to have the On New York- superiority complex when in On demand

"SOMETHING DOING"

FAREWELL

PERFORMANCE

Entire Change of Programme Alternate Nights,

Prices 33, $2 & $1. Booking At Montries & Theatre.

48%

Percy Pitt and the B.B.C. Wire. rehabilitation of the church since reality it is mere camouflage. Credits, 60 days' sight 50%

less Symphony Orchestra. "Red Devon By The Son," "My Message."

Tenor. Hubort Elsdell. "Enddon Hall," Selection.

the suppression of monasteries, by

Henry Vill The slow but steady work of restaration has been done In stages, and the cloisters, rescued from their later use as "stabling accommodation." have been restor- Regimental Band of H.M.ed by Sir Aston Webb, R.A., re-

Grenadier Guards. lates the "Sunday Times." "Libtle Nellie Kelly," Selection.

Herman Finck and his Orchestra. 8.30 p.m.-Dance Music relayed from the ball room of the Peninsula Hotel,

10 pam-News Bulletin.

The present church building is no more than the conventual choir of the old monastle church which Rahere founded in the reign of Henry I.. a glorious example of Norman architecture, a century old-

10.10 pmDance Music from er than the oldest parts of West- the Peninsula Hotel.

10.30 p.m.-God Save The King. Close Down.

mirater Abbey.

Mission and Vision

Its founder's life is of uncom- mon interest. Rahere was reput- ed a man of pleasure, with a zest! for "the gaisties and frivolities of Henry's Court." Seriousness and the burden of M solemn mission came upon him later in life, and in the year 1120 he undertook a pil- grimage to Rome. Illness over- Gettasom Sing is dead in Quesnel, jame him there, and in his mood of They have buried him there, where Penitence he vowed that if he

A "WHITE" MAN

"GETTASOM" SING CASHES IN

reached home safely he would the little town looks down from its found

a hospital for the poor. cottonwood bluffs upon the swift Providence was kind to him. He llowing river, and the yellow tide of was restored to health, and on his Fraser breaks In a white water way home-80

at least tradition

against the gravel bars. It is al says he had a vision in which ways the white water above the St. Bartholomew appeared before yellow in the Fraser, where it foams him and urged him to build a along the canyon walls; and it will church in the suburb" which is do for a symbol in the life and now Smithfield.. death of Gettasom Sing. For, as they will tell you; in Quesnel, Gettasom Sing, who was a yellow man and a heathen Chinee, was all white inside.

Quesnel is in the very heart of the

In 1123 Rahere founded church and hospital at the same time.

Work was still going on when he died. Prior Thomas, between 1144 and 1174, continued building.

Prior Bolton's oriel window in the south wall of the chair, one of the architectural glories

of the

old Cariboo placer country, and it used to mean something in the code of those parts, to say that a man church, was built about 1517 to 1520. He was the last prior but sus a white man. It must mean

before the suppression (1506 to something still, thereabouts, we 1533). He also rebuilt the prlor's should suppose. We must also sup house and other monastic building.

come to know pose that they had

Enter. King Henry Gettasom Sing thereabouts, by the time they came to bury him in Quesnel. He bad been nearly fifty'

and years,

Part, at least, of the work of years was soon to be swept away

there when the last prior, Robert Fuller, had surrendered to Henry VIII. in 1539. been a pincer miner himself in his Nave, chapels on the north side of younger days. But the children of the choir, and the north transept Quesnel knew Gettasom Sing as the were destroyed; the south transept smiling, seam-faced old Chinaman, was stripped of its lead; the Lady who carried water from the river, Chapel, and the monastic buildings, and split wood for the cabin stoves. the Close and Cloth Fair, as well

It seems that the children of as the advowson, were sold to Sir Quesnel were fond of old Gettisom Richard Rich. He, in 1556, grant-

Siux. He mixed his pidgin English the church and monastic buil- with Chinook, and that is the sortings to Queen Mary, who set up of mixture that children take to here the Dominicans, kindly, and understand better than Friars.

industrial

or Black

I

Time and fire

utilities have For years a

A leading West End doctor On Bombay who specialises in psychology Wire.. and has recently returned from On demand the United States said:-

On Calcutta-

This trouble is much more Wire common in the United States On demand than in England, because they On Singapore- are a young nation and more on demand anxious to know what people think of them. They are continually feeling their mental muscles.

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On Shanghai-- On demand-

78

day's sight (private paper)

On Yokohama— demand

106%

On Manila On demand

(Bank's

9.60

They have plenty of faith and confidence in themselves, but a little doubt. While out- wardly they have great assur-On ance, inwardly there is ap-old Leaf, 100 fine prehension that they may not (per tael) be able to do the job properly Sovereigna -in other words, an inferiority buying rate) complex disguised as a superi- Silver (per oz.) 26% ority one.

Bar Silver in Hong I know of schoolboys 'Kong.

2% Frem. who try to

Nominal conceal Copper Cash their failure at games by Chinese Copper Cents 6% Prem. joining a gang and so trying Rate of Native In to impress their personalities

7% p.a. terest in other less desirable ways.. Chinese Sub. Coin. 30% dis.

Hong Kong Sub, Goln Pur.

K.C.'S £70,000 'FEE

SIR LESLIE SCOTT AND

INDIAN PRINCES

The Indian States Committee since October 15 has met 16 times. Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., counsel for the Indian princes, has been the chief figure in the inquiry. To him was given the task of outlining the princes' grievances and their suggested remedies. Page by page he has gone through the evidence con-

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LONDON EXCHANGES,

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MICHELIN

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WATER SUPPLY

Level and Storage of water in Re servoirs on January 1, 1020;---

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS.

wh

1928 1329 12′ 8′′B 15' 8"

26′ 6′′B

24′ 0′′B

2' 2''B

22′ 6′′B 47′ 0′′B

4"B

Tytam

Tytom By

Tytam i nediste L

Tytan Ta

Wong Nel Chung.. 15' 4"

Pokfulum

19' 3"B 23 Z"B

[Nota: B. denotes "Below Overflow": | A. denaten "Above Overflow; L. de-] notes "Level with Overflow."]

Storage in millions and Decimals

Paris New York Brussels Geneva

London, Yesterday.

124.075

4.84 31/32

34.00

25.205

Amsterdam

12.095

92.65

20.41

Stockholm

18.14

Copenhagen

18.18

18.19

34.505

of gallons.

.Prague

1634

1028

Helsingfors

192

Tytam

285.70

1920 266,14

Madrid

29.685

Tytam Eyewash

.38

.80

183.90

Lisbon

109%

Tytom Tuk

026.08

Athens

876

Bucharest

807.

Wong Net Chung .. Pokfuhtim

18.40 25.82 18.60

522.00 7.03

Rio...

6' 29/32

Buenos Aires

47 16/32

Total

098.59

1/6 1/32

Oslo Vienna

2/6 3⁄4 2/0

Bombay Shanghai Hong Kong Yokohama Silver Spot Silver Forward ... 26 3/16

-British Wireless Service.

1/10 15/32 20%

LOCAL DIVIDENDS

2 MORE COMPANIES ISSUE REPORTS

The

Tytom Intermediate 195.90

..1,449.25

Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and dé- cimals of gallons during the month of December.

1927 1028 Consumption.......271.58 108.41 Estimated population 417,940 428.280 Consumption per head

per day..

20.0 14.8 Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis- tricts during December, 1927, with the exception of the distrista West of Eastern Streat where an Intermittent Supply was given from December to 31, 1927. Services to houses in the Rider Main Districts were discon- nected and a supply was given by public street fountains daily during December 1928.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL.

Subject to audit the Directors of the Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Stor age Co., Ltd. will recommend the payment of $1.25 dividend. net profit for the year ended 1928, Kowloon Reservoir... 74′′ 9' 0"B including the amount brought for Shek Lal Pul Reser ward, amounted to $305,286.48. It

their elders. They would understand Strange things happened after why it was right that he should be the suppression. called Gettasom, meaning "getta and some," the invariable formula of his wrought damage. conversational openinga. He was fringe factory occupied the Lady always getting something for some-Chapel; there was a blacksmith's body, it appears doing something forge in the north transept, and by way of aid and comfort to some- the parish schools in the north body else this

High pews reached did triforium. acam-faced Pagan, who liked. his rum ration, nearly to the capitals of the piers, and was hower of wood and drawer and the whole was covered with whitewash. In the south triforium of water to Queanel.

for many years Nonconformistts They must have been very sure la had a meeting house. Quesnel that they were not mistaken Until 1906 the cloisters, now to United States to box Jimmy Maloney.ed December 81, 1928, is $277,- about Gettasom Sing, when they be reopened, were "lost." turned out to honour him were occupied as stables, with 7ft.

more bays

They

recovered and

were

IIN

Con O'Kelly, heavyweight boxing champion of Ireland, who went to the

voir

1928

1929

1' 1"E 8' 0"B

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

1928 1929 Bookbinders.

is proposed after paying the above Reception Reservoir.. 28" I' 8"B mentioned dividend, to place to Gen-

Storage of milHons and decimals of gallons. eral Reserve $80,000, and to carry forward $25,286.43.

Kowloon Reservoir.. 280.42 Shek Lai Pul Reservoir 96.87

27.24 - 28.75

404.03 893.50

The "Star" Ferry Co., Ltd. The nett profit for the year end-Reception Reservoir ..

Total

260.74 104.10

601.19, which togother with the previous year, monies a total of in millions and decimals of gallons $42,487.15 brought forward from Consumption of water in Kowloon $320,038.84 available for appropria-

during the month of December."

1927 1928 Consumption

109.76 Extimated population 163,180 188,220 Congmntion per head.

21,0 per day....... 17.5* Fall Supply in all districts during

tion.

In his death. The member of of earth on the original pave-tained in five printed books of Parliament for that riding was a ment. In that year the three foolscap size, each containing pallbearer, and so was ble president north bays were of the local Board of Trade, and the restored. As recently As 1923 some 500 pages. This has in- bank manager, and the lawyer who five

bought volved the quoting of nearly 800 practises in that wide countryside. from the stable keepers in order cases from 130 different States of We like to think of how it was that to celebrate the 800th anniversary alleged violations of the treaties. Quesnel turned out to pay its last of the founding of the Priory and His concluding speech lasted respects to the name and memory Hospital. The cloisters are really three days. At the invitation of only 15th century work. They the princes Sir Leslie Scott came were rebuilt at that period, the out to India in January, and He was only a poor old Chinaman, original Norman work being revisited most of the States, and Pay a Bonus of $1.50 who had never known much that was placed by "modern."

of Gettasom Sing.

not hard labour. But he made no

covenant with despair or meanness

or unkindness, and Quesnel had the

idea about him that he was white THREE GOALS AT 70

IN HOCKEY MATCH

inside. So Quesnel — abating no

uncompromising BISHOP OF LONDON'S SCORE . measure.

of its creed about Oriental exclusion, like enough - burled Gattusom Sing where the little camp in the After thrilling spectators many Cariboo looks down from its bluffs timen with his lively aprints in a upon the white water and the yellow hockey match between teams repre- of the Fraser. And we think that senting the public schools of Mari- Quesnel did right by Gettasom borough and Radley, the Bishop of Sing, and honoured Itself In Its London, who is 70, scored thres

goala. honour of him.

The Directors will, at the ap- proaching meeting of shareholders, recommend the following distribu-

Pay a Dividend of $2.

per share, absorbing $160,000.00

tion:

account

40,038.84

December 1927 and 1929.

The Government Analyst's reports show that the quality of the water is fähtisfactory.

Total rainfall to December 8, 1927, 107.87; December 31, 1928, 71.16.

Willesden Defendant (to woman $320,038.84 complainant): Were you properly

dressed?

talked with many rulers and offi-

per share, absorbing 120,000.00 cials. Returning to England in Carry forward to new May, he, in conjunction with other distinguished counsel, drew up a legal opinion on the position. Scott is receiving a fee of £58,000, It has been stated that Sir Leslie!

with a "refresher" of £200 a day, making a total of more than $70,000, which is a record fee for a barrister.

12-HOURS DAY AT 94,

Mr. James Harries, of Tench- street, Wapping, E., who is in his 95th year, still works 12

Quesnel, Nov. 27-A pathetic in- He was playing as centre-forward cident in connection with the life for his old school, Marlborough, in four daily as a wharf watchman. and death of old Gettasom Sing, the grounds of Fulham Palace.

The blahop turned out in grey Recon reporters to a

Recently he said "Dai¡y water-carrier and handyman of Quesnel, was revealed here when his flannel kalckerbockers and a car-

I remember when twice yearly

effects were being catalogued. digan worn over a cricket shirt. a fair was held in the Deptford In his little old battered trunk, His team, which he captained, won Tunnel under the river. ·At packed preparatory to his intended by 11 goals to 8.

departure home, were found a pair of women's boots and two pairs of

women's stockings - presumably

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- night all the neighbourhood GRACA & CO., Entering fully into the excitement came down to dance.

of the game he shouted. "Come on, The Shadwell, district was then Dealers in Postage stampe, Marlborough I" and "Well played, notoriously lawless. In one Cards Garden Seeds, Toys. gifts, for his wife and a fancy Marlborough !': with the most youth-street, known locally as Palmer's ture Books, eter jack-knife dor his boy.

ful of his team, admonFolly, six policemen, each armed No. 10, Wyndham Street,

The game was the 28th of an with a cutlass, would patrol one annual weries (Inaugurated" by the side while there would be eight bishop?!

policemen on the other

“Arrangements are being made to have these things went to Sing's

home,

Woman: I was.

Defendant: You wore only one garment.

Woman: You mind your own

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