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News in Brief

In the Kowloon Police Court this morning, a Chinese was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour for the theft of three empty cement säcks.

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The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the, week ended March 1, amounted to 92,226 tons, and the sales during the period to 94,691 tons.

TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930.

WOMAN'S HOUSEHOLD

GODS

[BY BEVERLEY NICHOLS]

COMERBODY who is very dear to may be quite certain, the words me has just passed out of the were of no particular significance. Mr. W. P. Gooch, of the Na- | shadow of death. The experience In her tired brain some such argu- tional City Bank, bas lost a brown | hàs taught me many things-a i ment as this must have passed: I American camel hair overcoat, valu-consciousness of the fatility, of am ilk but I am slive, and white led at $90. He believes that he much that I thought precious and I am alive things must go of fr left it in a motor boat whilst cross the importance of much that I perly. I cannot go downstairs to ing from Hong Kong to Kowloon. thought trivial-and all these see if the flowars are nicely ar

things have swept to me, as it ranged for if there is dust on the Tho China Mall was informed, on were, on a tide of memories, beat tables doy if the carpets are swept. enquiry at the Royal Naval Hos-ing with them souvenirs too sad While I am lying hero I cannot see pital this morning, that. 4. B. Bruin, and tender to be written, of that evoryhody la comfortable, and 91 H.M.S. Suffolk, who fell from the | daffodil mornings, and lengthening that everything a tidy. But at second floor of the Seamen's In- | twllights when thrushes sang, and lenat I can tell Smith that her atitute early yesterday, is pro- somebody's laughter echoed on the collar is not clean.” greasing very satisfactorily.

lawn.

NEW CENTRAL THEATRE

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And as she reaches this con- clusion, she tries to tell Smith, and the words will not quite come... tries again...and with a supreme effort the sentence is pronounced.

I am trying write simply be- cause it was a sentence of such The new Central Theatre, de- exquisite simplicity that made me signed by Messrs. Palmer and write at all. In order that you

They are unfashionable gods Turner, has been completed inmay hear it as I heard it you must nowadays. They dwell, often Queen's Road Central, a little dis-try to call up a vision of'a darken- enough, in humble places, and in tance beyond Ho Tung Building, ed room and a woman lying there places far removed from the zelay The theatre is being equipped with with a white face and drooping thoroughfares of life. But they the latest Western Electric sound lips. A sickly, cloying smell hangs are true gods, all the samo with a machine, and when it is opened in over everything, for only A few

quiet beauty that comes not only from themselves but from the in- the near future the public will have hours before the doctors have been a first-class "talkie" cinema.

forced to inject ether and strych-cense which true women are always nine in a desperate effort to rally | burning at their shrines, évém

The effort was

though they burn it in secret and a falling heart. successful.

in silence. They are the gods that could tell many strange and poignant tales, of sacrifices which they alone could see and heroisms of which they were the only wit- 1099. They have been battles waged not for an hour or a'day but for year after year, grimly, doggedly, in order that their shrines might be kept sweet and fragrant. În order that sethe' litla "Smith-your collar in not clean."

Mr. Ng Saekwong, a former tennis champion, is the attorney for the owner of the new theatre a wealthy Chinese.

The Contral Theatre will show all Paramount's 1980 "talkie" pro- ductions as well as special pictures by other producing companies,

MR. PEPYS IN HONG KONG

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The crisis passel. And now, at length, the patient has been left alone, and has been told that she may take a little-a very little

lukewarm milk.

It has been brought to her by the cook, who warmed it herself, and would not allow anybody else, nurse or housemaid, to carry it to her mistress. She stands there, at the foot of the bed, hesitating,

to offer it. It would seem that the

clean."

to see

The

I could write it again and again, but you would be bored with me.

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China Mall,” March 18, 2920.1

To-day's dollar is worth 47m

This morning to the Suffolk, a reliction, of duty in the name of frigate, of which, Stewart Goss be the Colony. Unfortunately com- chirurgeon in chief, with whom I hardly knowing whether she ought

| talk a space of my play, and how plete unanimity did not prevail in doth go. And we drink a glass of patient did not see her that she the General Chamber of Com-the finest sherrys.sack that ever I was far too exhausted to see any merce the Government's slogan taste, which I learn be called Bris thing at all, in that mournful, And since I am in that mood which of Retrenchment and Economy atto! Cream. And Dam. minded: to shadowy room. But she did. And

buy me some when the dollar do go what she saw was

takes no account of boring other All Costa became as much an up. And mighty. merry we all wax-figure, nor a bowl of milk, nor, in- gesture put in a word for Smith. not a human people, I will merely, as parting obsession, with certain trading ined, for the officers all. gather to- deed, anything that you would I do not believe that Smith's collar" terests, as with those who sat in gether at seven strokes of the ship's possibly expect a woman

was unclean at all. A tiny smudge the seats of the mighty adminis ball, at a letter he showed us, wel who had the fluttering of the wings perhaps an infinitesimal speck. coming him as a new arrival to the of the angel of death still beating But, then, some women, thank God! trators, Still, at the annual meet-Colony. But Lord,, the man has in her brain. She saw a collar. I will always see the infinitesimal ing in 1927, the Chamber suc-been here these twelve months and And this is what she said:

For them it is the same as the in- This firm doth seek to ex- ceeded in obtaining a majority of more.

"Smith-your collar is not finite.Daily Mail. pedite his future journeyings, and three to, one in favour of a re-

mighty civil tool: But I do think solution that "accurate statistics the Captain of his frigate might of trade be maintained and that have word to say on this. the Government be requested to Thence, though it irked me to leave the Bristol Cream, to see an old line re-establish the Statistical De-of battle-ship with a coverture of partment as soon as possible."wood above such as I have not seen Que gentleman then characterised paince I was a boy at Plymouth. statistics as a disease; others re- And they tell me she is named the Tamar, and acts as Navy dépot for ferred to their alleged ineffective-the port. But who the Dodo may ness on the score of inaccuracy; be I know not. So to the Club and others trotted out other where much discourse of my play equally senile and hoary objec. with Mr. Hannibal who do give so much pains to his part I doubt not will be mighty fine therein. Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 18, 1930, 198, Contrariwise one member

Propounded the interesting theory And so to Anderson's where I do that Hong Kong with no statistics book my seats for every night, and could be likened to a firm with-find though many are taken, there are yet a plenty left. But it being out books. Such a firm would get now five o'clock, I home by way of Whether or not the ubiquitous short shrift should it ever have the Peak Club where I drink a My wife, poor wretch, wit chooses to raise a emile over the misfortune.. to find itself in glass.

mighty cross that I do not return the fact that the. Statistical the Bankruptcy Court.

before, but Lord! a man must meet Department of the Imports and Other days; other ways. Our his fellowes sometime. After sup Exports Department is to be late departed Governor, decided per we played at cartes, and so to officially re-opened on, the First that the Butcher of Retrench- of April, general satisfaction ment and Economy had had quite must be expressed in regard to a a long innings and that it was step that has been too long de Jayed.

Alt communications, abould be addressed, to the New paper. En terprise Ltd. to whom all romit tances should be made parable.

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The words were sald in a voice which carried in it all the world's weariness and yet all the supreme courage with which some women are st Hghting the world. tones may have been faint and drooping but the old doggedness was there--that quality which has 10d. made British women carry on in the face of disaster-the quality It is understood that the Com- which made queer' old maids inmittee of the V.R.C are now Kensington straighten their backs arranging to revive the holding of during an air raid, and march their annual athletic meetings fiercely to the china capboard, and which were held in abeyance for dust, and dust, while the universe several years on account of the toppled about them.

War.. "Smith-your collar la not

These meetings were formerly an athletic event of the Colony for Perhaps I am making more of longer than most of UB "cán re those words than they merit. Per-member. haps, having in imagination died so many glorious denths—(as you," "If you want three square meals in your dreams, have also died) a day and a comfortable".béd at perhaps the naked, almost feree night, 'do not live in Hong Kong," simplicity of that sentence shined says an Amarican recently returned with an undue lustre. To her, one to San Francisco from here.

clean."

AND AFFAIRS

MEN, WOMEN, AND

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me to ignore him so far as con- сегда a Statistical Department. The Statistical Department That decision was hailed as n fought never to have been chosen. most sensible one by all the com-

It was one of the blunders of the mercial interests in the Colony Another Naval Occasion panícky Government when it Not a word in opposition was

ADMIRAL Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, looked around for an economic expressed even by: those worthy

the new Commander-in-Chief lamb to be slaughtered by the members of the General Chamber at the Nore, took over the China butcher of the firm of Retrench-of Commerce who voted with the command, in which he has been ment, Economy and Company. minority in 1927. May be they conspicuously successful, at ex- Down came the knife on the neck have, in the years that have actly the moment the last Nicara-Had, on behalf of all the members

New Commander-in-Chief Sir William Peel: A Long-Lost Oasis: "Captains and Kings": Hunting in Fall Swing?"

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His Majesty sunkes this journey fairly frequently, Kur the Queen of Sweden has been in poor health for. years, and, by doctor's orders, spends most of the year In Italy.

with him in regarding it as a great Prince of Piedmont's wedding have honour to the Society., They very departed. King Gustay of Sweden much regretted Sir William would no will be going to Rome and will stay longer remain with them but they there for a considerable time. hoped to see him on his way out and they wished him every happiness in his new home.

It was stated that the secretary

wired congratulations to Sir William Peer upon his appointment. It was suggested that members should be invited to attend, and subscribe to small dinner to be given in Sir William's kohoor when he parsed through Singapore.

Diplomat Explorer

She had a severe attack while in' Rome last June, and the King hasten ed to har ride. She became a good deal better, but has not been able to,

apend the winter in Scandinavia for a long time," and is now reconciled to being more or less permiancut in valid.

Kit Gustav. _on_the other hand, though over 70, is the most vigorous

of monarchs.

of the Statistical Department, elapsed, heen converted to the sua crisis arose.

This was something of a coin- and not even a postmortem utility of statistics in relation to cidence. It

Was in Nicaragus examination was thought neces-

the progress of a Colony. And that Sir Reginald's first experl- sary. Rather did the Govern-how complete is the mental ice of active service occurred nearly forty years ago, over what ment look around for floral somersault even of the Govern-was known as "the Hatch inci tributes-not for the lamented ment is apparent from the dedent."

SIR Ahmed Hassanein Bey, F.R.G.S., Tremendous excitement arose at [...who recently, after a preliminary Statistical Department-bit for claration of its spokesman yester-

As a player' of lawn tennis, 'on' the itself. Even a vandal can so for

the time. because the Nicaraguan crash, left the Heston Air Park on Riviera courts he is well known, for day that:

solo fight to Egypt, stated before he has played almost every chazi- Government, arrested "It is the duty of the Colony Hatch, H.B.M. Consul at Blue- for taking up flying is the ballet that the redoubtable Fräulein Aussem get all ethics of decency as to

Mr. He net out that his principal reason pion In turn, and 'not long ago beas vaingloriously exclaim: What a to make this contribution to the fields, Nicaragus, and other Brit will assist him in his explorations. good boy am I" It was devoutly

He, hoper to be able to revisit the? world's common

tah realdents on a charge of con- Libyan Desert, where he discovered The January Exodus stock of

spiracy: It was a costly step, for the long-lost oasis of Kufrn, and will hoped by the authorities that no knowledge of its trade, since Nicaragua had to pay a large in-probably retrace by seroplane thespite of the mildness of the wiz more would be heard of the without it that body of know-demnity and a British squadron dally interesting Journey to Darfur "ter, the January exdout abroad of matter that there would be no ledge must always remain in entered the port of Corinto to see which he made in 1972-88, whes such all, save the most devoted of the valuable ethnographie discoverisk rehunting set is now in full swing, and call for an inquest, let alone any

on all hides thero is talk of propon- complete."

that it was paid.

Lieutenant Tyrwhitt, as he then

ecording to the staff:{

at the led fourneys and plans for dipaiture: Lord Gisutonner goes to Cannes, Alstor, Mra James gained ble experience in flying, he is Beck, is of obe of the best pupils they have over had This is remarkable in a man of

for 40.

plea for a resurrection. Wherein | Liow long it has taken the Gov was, was in charge of a landing-ton Air Park, where Bir Ahmed whilst his New York with her

did they make another error of ernment to awaken to that sense party from H.M.B. Cleopatra, and Judgment

of duty I

had quite an exciting time of it He had to walt until August, 1914, before he saw another bit of.fighting on a rather larger

husband

Lady Montagu of Beaulieu," whose" He is First Chamberlain to little son Edward, aged three and i Fuad of Egypt, and previously had half for the present holder of the Ardistinguished careers in the title and the soungest peer of the Egyptian Diplomatic Service.

reslil, had arranged to leave England shortly with her step-daughter, MATT He) WAN

The war and besides tipo Bermadr hill other thielle activities-l

years before apo two or three Elizabeta! Bécal Monta par," on "'d short

The General Chamber of Com merce, true to its, "aims and objects," true to its generations of FORTHCOMING WEDDING tradition, became aggressively Inquisitive as time passed. TheThe forthcoming wedding is an-

Out Yorkshire Governor Ching Mail assisted the commer Bounced of Mr. Baroda Father COMMENTING upon the appoint

stonhangh Collier, missionary Willin Peel, tebe. Governor of

ment of their President, cial Paul Prys The Sunday Yeung Kong, Kwangtung, jog Miss Hong Kong the Chalemany of the FoyeFERANSEO) ffèruid weighed in to prod the Frances Dorothea willis, lesión: 80% ty of Toskanireman in Maidya, ROKE be extremaly: Horal now on Carrionlar lite Joins cher alter Government on its shocking de ary, of the same address,

at dinner in Sagapore, recently;; leg days, though most of the leap. Mru, Jarzai, › sforzierig. Countess of | aldɔ be vas aura", they would. Join | talna, and the kings” attending the Rosslyn..

Bir

for his university frames Cambridge

Robe too has ita full quota ofirm slaylaltors from England. Among people

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