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as the Director of a gigantic bank- Ing concern, and permitted that obsession to obtain the apper hand over his normal legal acu- men, may only be guessed by the layman. The learned trial Judge had no doubt on the point! We can only hone, with His Lordship, that the seatence which it was undoubtedly his palaful duty to
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1930.
IMMORTAL HOURS WITH R.L.S.
VICTORIAN CHILDHOOD
„[By the Old Stager]
pass on a member of the Bar, shallstevenson dlet at Vallima in smoothing out the mental tangles; TT Just 36 Years din R. L. love, and "Virginibus Fuerisque"
1894, sinking into unconsciousness un influenza victin, in robuster con- to himself until almost la the act of dictating, valescence, left bis last unfinished masterpiece, inder-time, with a fresh hot-water I renler-bottle, a bunch of grapes, and "Weir of Hermiston."
came to us at "Doctor Jekyll" a terra incognita ber that the news a time when we were keyed up to still. Can the bliss of living and the highest pitch of excitement at the consolations of existence reach the gradual unfolding of one of his higher flights than these? tales.
act as a deterrent not alone to Instone Brewer but to any other who in future may conceive the idea of acting directly against the Interests of the investing pablle. The lesson is a severe one, but the provisions of the Ordinance must be rigidly adhered to by all
My father was then a wonderful whose duty !! in to operate trender, and liked nothing better various clauses. Otherwise the than to continue, hour after hour, Ordinans would be a dead latter reading eut loud his favourites from and aduate protection of the the works of Scott, Jane Austen, Collins, Le Fanu, and Stevenson. public would simply not be pos- He read inimitably and produced a sible.
Bavour and a sense of reality and drama beyond ‘anything I have derived from reading to my- self, and the books which he fead" to us in youth retain that savour and reality to this day. He read for his own pleasure as much as ours, and made only one condition
News in Brief
The China Mail acknowledges the receipt of six Chinese calendars from the Standard Oil Company of New York.
The annual meeting of the St. Andrew's Church, Kowloot, will
at 6 pm. Tea will be served at
delicious
we must sit still. The moment one of us got up-albeit on tiptoe the seance was over for the day.
The End of A Chapter- We were
in the middle of "St.
It is not strange if I despisa and dotest those who seek to belittle Stevenson, but I am ready to believe
that it is not alone the modern ten- wholesale icono- dency towards clasm that seeks to tear him from his pedestal. In the thirty-five years which have passed since his death, violent changes have taken place in social life.
Restricted Childhood Viewed by modern oyes, my own childhood must appear drearily dull. In the 'eighties and 'nineties it was still the rule that children should be seen and not heard, and our parents considered that a fort- night at the seaside, the Christmas pantomime, and a couple of parties ware paradise now for a whole year. For the rost, we were thrown on our own resources, invented our
own stories fell with avidity on those of professional writers, to secure the romance and colour which we needed.
take place in the Church Hall to-day Ives" when the news of Stevenson's own games, and when tired of our
5,30,
death came, and we had reached that great moment when the Vis- count Anne, flush with bank notes,
સ had lightheartedly hurled wad For carrying three chickens by
of them at Rowley-and Mr. their lega with heads hanging down-Romaine appeared through the wards, a Chinese was fined $5 at: door! And to this day "St. Ives," or in the British Courts overeens. the Kowloon Magistracy thia
an inferior work, remains, thanks After a trial of four days they' re-morning..
to my father's 'reading, one of my *bedside dozen. turned a verdict of "Gullty" of
During the five days ended on the charge framed under the
February 2 one case of typhold Perjury Ordinance and with fover, seven cases of smallpox, and that verdict, it is noteworthy, the two cases of diphtheria were notified, learned trial Judge stated that he to the Medical Officer, of Health. agreed.
yes-
men.
More than any other writer Stevenson supplied the need of the hour. For in those days the young. were dull, difident, and repressed, and Stevenson encouraged them and treated them is grown-ups; while middle-aged folk were more. than middle-aged, and Stevenson beckoned them back to sanity and the schoolroom.
The appearance of Mr. Romaine at the door-still presages for me the announcement of Stevenson's death, though it made little impression on me at the time. Stevenson, the
For forty years the "gedulous man, has since 1894 been publicly ape" has been foremost to awaken The forthcoming wedding is dissected and his component parts in the breasts of dull schoolboys an The principal object of the announced of Mr. Luiz Alberto exposed constantly to view in the appreciation of style and the beauty
I find it hard to of prose. Crown in these proceedings, His Rosario, of Messrs. Gibb Living-market-place.
RLS.'s Plums Lordship added, was to have the stone & Co., Ltd.,, to Miss Elizabeth believe that any other writer. has.
J. Ward, of No. 6, Morrison Gap given so much innocent and whole- He gave us our start in life principle affirmed that persons, Road.
some pleasure to young and old, directing our sense of humour no commercial men, who are taking
and his regard has been constant less than of beauty. He gave us Land Office
victimisation by the resurrection the best half-dozen tales of adven- advantage of the Companies' At the
ture, the best essays in juvenile Ordinance and the privileges terday, New Kowloon Inland lot
No literary critic is fairly blended philosophy, and the three best thereunder must also be held No. 1804 situated at the junction of
till he has fleshed his barb in short stories in different categories Om You and Shek Kip Mui was bound to comply strictly, if not sold by public auction for $6,750 to Stevenson's reputation, and no ever penned, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. honestly, with the provisions of Messrs. Lau Cheung, Lai Tim, Sut clever young man cu resist broad- Hyde," "Thrawn Janet," and "The
casting his discovery that the image Sire de Maletroit's Door." the Ordinance which are designed Wing and Cheung Ping-shum."
Children of his brain share Im- has feet of clay. Yet what a debt to protect the public who deal with
The local examinations (theory overy man of us owes him that ever mortality with Becky Sharp, with them.
and practical) by the Trinity handles a pen lovingly or reads with Mr. Collins, with Dominie Sampson Therein is to be found the College of Music, London, will be intellectual appreciation. For near-Long John Silver, Herralston and essence of the whole case from held here in May. Entry forms half a century he has helped young Kirstie, Henry Durle, and Prince
may be had from the local Secre- men to grow up and kept middle- Florisci. beginning to end against Inatone tary, Mr. William Anderson, at the aged men young, sweetened the Brewer, and no amount of senti-Anderson Music Co., Limited. ment either for or against him as
Last evening, the monthly meet can disturb that ing of PEREIRA-On February 4, 1930, an individual
the Scripture Union (St. at her residence, No. 2, Gran- | basis. Wholesale frauds by Andrew's Church) was held in the ville Road, Kowloon Ludi Company Directors have been Church Hall, when the Rev. W. vina Francisca Pereira, aged. 62-Funeral will pass the notorious at Home for some years Walton Rogers (Vicar) gave a very Monument at 5,30 p.m. to-day. past, as a consequence of which interesting and explanative talk on
the controversial Book of Genesis. (Manila and Shanghai "Papers innocent investors have been. please copy.).
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night watches, and kept drowsy boys awake. In Memory Corner there Jie labelled a score or so of Immortal hours, and not a few of them were spent with Stevenson.
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mail"
February 4, 1920.]
Literary Landmarks
To-day's dollar.ia.worth 5/ 6%d. The first day of the Christmas
in an arm→ One of the most disastrous fires in holidays, snuggled up chair before the fre in a Sussex the history of Hong Kong occurred this manor house, with all the fun before, morning at West Polat in premleca one and the lamplight shining down principally used as rice godowns and on Chapter I. of "Treasure Island"; dwelling houses. The cause of the out- on the ground floor of No. 26 Con- warmer and rug, and a candle-lamp
naught Road West The fire spread struck into the upholstery, and and enveloped the whole block of eight "The Master of Ballentrue" begin-houses. No fewer than 34 lives were ning to. exert his rare charma; an lost and the damage done was in the orchard in May and a young man in neighbourhood,of-$500,000.
their savings. It is obvious that Hong Kong on Friday, reported to the night mall to Seatland, a foot break is unknown. The fire broke out
A Chinese passenger of the Pre- sident Grant, which arrived in
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1930, in spite of long terms of penal the police that, whilst his baggage servitude passed on the guilty was being removed from the ship PUBLIC PROTECTION persons, upon convictions being to tricks, he found that one trunk, containing property to the value secured, the Companies Act at of $150, was missing. Home is not sufficiently strong
There is ever a danger in a enough and that, no punishment small community of foreigners to appears to be too excessive to ket take extremo sides. There is too as a deterrent. 'Happily prose- often lacking the will to observe cutions such as that of the Hatry the happy medium. Be a foreign-case are unknown here, probably
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
er in trouble he is either figura for the reason that there is in- Automatic Drawings: The American Bar's Visit: Duke of York with the Pytchley: The History of Chequers
tively "tried and condemned" sufficient scope for potential
before he appears in Court and swindlers to carry out their nefari-
given an opportunity to defendous designs against an innocent Mr. Aitken's Drawings himself, or else "honourably, ac-public.
4
the Bar's Visit to America
including in lis membership, some of the best women riders to founds in the country and of all sportsa bunt- Ing, la one in which a woman -cas go with the best and still look her mast attractiva.
of
wife Mrs. Ronald Tree, w of is now four years since members the joint masters, Mrs. of the American Bar paid their Coats, Mrs. Fellowes, historic visit to Britain, and ar- rangements are now well advanced
and
ono
Dudley
minds made up long ago as to the Registrar of Companies a Statu. the small hours of the morning, for the KAHIT visit of the English wowes, and Mrs. Russell Cooke
all out recently to support this statement. To distinguish among thent would, naturally, be invidious, clear proof that 5 12 10% in, of but in the last named one found good-looking wamanhend looks at its yory best, top-hatted, on the top of ahorse.
National Trust) the scene has day is the day on which they usual OF: Londoners who watch the the persistently recurring themely have their blagest felds--a num. of a mediaeval exhumation that ber of well-known people ware, out- quitted" whether or not he may be Where, however, there is strong rapidly rising level of the harmonises with igeal legend and The Pytchley, too," is fortunate the "greatest scoundrel unhung." reason to believe that the publle Thames perhaps the one most in-a certain uneasy monk that visi The latest cause celebre-the In-might be, misled into Investing tensely interested is Mr. Charles tors to the Clergy House have stone Brewer case-which has their money in a worthless com- Aitken, Keeper of the Tate Gallery seen or heard. ended so calamitously for the ac-pany, it is the bounder duty of for he has vivid memories of cused, is a case in point. The ex- the Crown to initiate proceedings, thoroughly unpleasant ordeal dur tremists in opposite camps of Instone Brewer was convicted on ing the floods of last year. local opinion had their respective e charge of having fled with the
Wakened on that occasion in
he worked continuously for Bar to. America issue, and aven the jury's ver- tory Report in connection with twelve hours to rescue that dict has failed to shake their the Instone Banking Corporation, tares in the basement at Millbank, opinions. Fortunately, or other Limited, which contained a state and was very nearly drowned when he stopped into a manhole wise, no gossip outside the ment untrue. In substance and in concealed by the water. Court can influence the ultimate fact, and which he knew to be un-
Chequers And The Hawtreys decision either of a Judge or a true. The false statement con- Mr. Aitken, by the way, has
MIES Ishbel MacDonald mads a happy reference to Mr. Baldwin's jury. Justice must take its fained in the report was that the recently been telling of some
pipe is a speech in which she allud- course!Only-farely as in the
to the fact that a seventeenth Instore Banking Corporation,
be in the artist. Unable to draw THE Duke of York enjoyed an ex-century occupant. of Chequers was, famous Adolf Bock case do the Limited, in respect of its shares of his own will, he has, an que cellent yun with the Pytchley on Sirfienry Cooke, who hell the long innocent suffer. And even where issued for cash had received in sion, executed some scenes with gullt up to a degree is establish-
cash the sum of $876,750 and if the pencil remarkable both for ad British Courts in the Orient
their draughtsmanship and queer appear
the
1 striking effect been loath to temper
that the The fannonce that j Justice with
"less than a hand can be only ta
awas impo
enever
Brewer
to return a
from
they idna
brace not only the Betch and Bar of The American Invitation will em England, and Segtland, but also those of the Irish, Free State and North. ern Ireland, as well as solicitors.
* The inclusion of solicitors in the Ipvitation may Involve the abandon, ment of the usual provincial meet ing of the Law Society at home.”
automatic drawings of which With the Pytchley
his birthday before Tandon to join the Duchess and afterwards" to dine,
and Queen at Bucking
ed
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toobableto office of "Master of the
Chaquara
centuries the ancestral home of the Hawtrey Hounde met at Har hoge Zamily, and came to Sir Henry Cooka. Kelmarah, and found
right through his wife, who was » Hawtrey,, (den his way, which gave them run ovay Thite Hawtroys were direct a "hc48- dwide semi-circle and. Back again, tore of the late Sir Charles, Hawtedy, orthy, lasting plly, gvar two hours,
During My Baldwina" premiership: the famous, actor, was more than pues which proved thore had my
seen in vas
Wednes
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