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eye, the cause of the "glistening tear in a neglected child's eye" would be better, served by other and more practical ways that should be obvious to all but the purblind. May be the neither ,"flippant nor cynical" critics of the

The mystery man of the world, Wellington, N.Z., Oct. 31. the richest man qutside America, : Harry McNeish, member of two Society will attend the annual man who has swayed Govern-Antarctic expeditions, with Cap- meeting to-day and personally ments, who hates any form of pub-tain Scott and Bir Ernest point out how the Society should licity, is going to London.

Shackleton, died penniless here Sir Basil Zaharo is now eighty recently at the age of 64. be run and where the funds are years old, but he retains his old MeNeish was a member of the to come from to ensure that sting and there are these who Scott expedition which visited the “thoroughness" 80 boastfully wonder why he is going to Lon-Antarctic in 1901. In 1914. he claimed in public for the Anti-don. A few years ago his sudden went with the Shackelton expedi- appearance in one of the capitis tion aboard the Endurance to the Mui-Tsal Society!

of Europe meant that something Antarctic. was afect. He is a man with a He was one of five volunteers thousand secrets,

who accompanied Shackelton in a His origin is uncertain. He is small boat from Elephant Island always "disappearing." Ho Is in order to bring aid to 22 mem- said to be worth twenty million bers of the crew of the Endur- pounds. He has owned Monte lance left on the island after their Carlo, but does not gamble: He vessels had been crushed by the Reclamation work has started off) married, after waiting for her for ice.

The trip of Bir Ernest the proposed vehicular ferry within two years.

Shackelton, and his five men of scheme...

Order of the Bath.

which McNeish was one, from Sir Basil Zaharoff's mother was Elephant Island to South Georgia, ́Among the New Year festivities Greek and his father Russian. He was one of the most daring under- will be a dance at the Craigen-was educated in England and is a takings of Antarctic exploration. gower Cricket Club to-morrow | naturalised French subject. A Sir Ernest planned to cross the night given by the President to all great deal of his money, he made Antarctic continent from the members.

during the War la armaments. Weddell Sea to Ross Sea by way. Not the least of the mysteries of the South Pole. Aboard the about him is his G.C.B., of which Endurance he entered the ice pack there are only twenty-one in existin December, 1914. The ship was ence, awarded at the recommenda beset by ice on January 18 and tion of Mr. Lloyd George "for ser- drifted northward. The terrific rices rendered." What were these ice pressure crushed her and sho services? He has also one of the was abandoned on October 27 zeventeen grand crossca to the The 20 men of the expedition Legion d'Honneur.

camped on the ice floe, drifting He lives in Paris near the Place (northward until April 1916. On de l'Etoile, and his hatred of pub- April 8 the floe split to pieces and Heity is such that nobody ever the men launched three small stays with him. He has friends; boats. Six days later, after many

they the King and Queen take tea with hardships,

landed him when they are in Paris; the Elephant Island. Queen of Roumania visits him; On April 24, Shackelton and his Lloyd George, Poincare, Curzon, five men set out in one of the Wilson, would lunch with him at ship's boats to bring aid. Snow the time of the Peace Conference, storias and gales swept them day

Pride in Flowers.

after day and after much suffer- Outside his house there are ing they sighted the cliffs of the marvellous window boxes full of west coast of South Georgia on

ing the threatened May Day de- could not reach land but finally monstrations this year Sir Basil. they were able to reach the head returned home from his constitu- of King Haakon Bay on May 19.

McNeish and one other man tional to find his servants remov- ing the flowers. "Why are you were unable to travel further and doing that?" he asked. They ex Shackelton with his two remain- plained that they feared the glassing men marched across the island would be smashed in the riots.. of South Georgia reaching a whal

"Leave the flowers," he said. Jing slation. *--

The theft of a Tientaln carpot, valued at $26, from the back of his residence, has been notified to the Police by Mr. N. Drummond, of 2 Quarry Point.

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ended December 13 amounted to 180.709 tons, and the sales to 106,772 tons.

Mr. G. T. Thach arrived here by the 9.8. President Cleveland to champion of the child after barely join the staff of the National City twelve months of existence. Not Bank of New York. He is accom- The China Mail yet is it time to wax eloquent in panied by his mother.

public over "the glistening tear

The forthcoming wedding ls -an- in a neglected child's eye"-first nounced of Ernst Richard Alexan- things must come first. Its work der Zimmermann, of Jordon House,

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CHILD WELFARE.

Lapplause. Unobtrusiveness must

Mr. George Hagg, manager of "They are the pride of the quar- After three unsuccessful at

the

Island through the ice floes When the procession passed his Shackelton succeeded in rescuing house the demonstrators cheered. all his men on August 30, 1916, He is inundated with begging using the Chilean Trawler Yelcho. iettere. And he has a special card printed in answer. It reads:

$250,000 BUILDING.

He recently burned his diaries, IMPOSING STRUCTURE ADDED

TO PENANG CONVENT. in which he had kept the happen- ings of each day and his com menta in the presence of six

Penang, Dec. 1. secretaries he consigned them to -Mr. E. W. 4. Gilman, the Resi the fire. A French newspaper dent Councillor, opened the new bad offered a thousand pounds for Convent building which has been one single page of the diaries. put up at a cost of $250,000.

FUNERAL ORATIONS.

LANGUAGE WHICH IS TOO LAUDATORY.

The use of extravagant langu

The new building, which standa lop the right of the main entrance to the Convent, is an imposing structure and occupies an area of 10,000 square feet.

Arrangements were made to re- ceive 700 visitors, most of them being present, including Dr. R. O. Winstedt, who had travelled from Singapore especially..

·Government has contributed

be the underlying principle; but For unlawfully preparing opium that need not invite criticism at No. 96, Woosung Street, on (neither "Aippant nor cynical") December 29, Tee Luk was fined $100, or two months' imprisonment as to its not living up to its ideal; at the Kowloon Magistracy this or a suggestion as to how many morning. inspectors it ought to engage.

Another rejoinder, equally em-the Shanghal branch of the Na- tler. They shall not be deprived tempts to return to Elephant phatic, is the first annual report tional City Bank of New York, and of them." of the Child Welfare Society (or, Mr. P. A. Cox, assistant Oriental to give it its official name, the manager of the C.P.R., Shanghai, arrived here by the ss. Empress-of Society for the Protection of Russia. Children) wherein it is stated!

Mr. Alexander Clark, Divisional Sir Ball Zaharoff, n'ayant pas de that the Committee at first ex-

Inspector at Central Station, who voix, ne peut pas chanter. (Hav perienced some difficulty in ob- has been discharging the duties of ing no voice, is unable to sing.) faining the services of a person Chief Inspector in the absence of with the requisite qualifications Mr. P. Grant, who is on short leave, for an Inspector, but in August

Is going to Yaumati this week on transfer. appointed on probation Miss Setto Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 1930. Wai Sheung, B.A., Ginling Col- Mr. C. H. Hoare, of Messrs Lane,

lege, Nanking, who had made a Crawford's, has reported to

Polica the loss of hla Bulck motor particular study of sociological car which he parked in Rumsey matters, including child. welfare. Street, next the World Theatre, bo- The Committee has prepared for tween 7 a.m. and 8 pm, on Decem-

ber 28. Judged by its annual report, distribution among the general which was published in our news public leaflets stating the aims Making use of the well-known columns on Saturday last, the and methods of the Society, the "bank note trick” a Chinese re- Society for the Protection of things which constitute offences Restaurant, Laichikok

lieved a waitress of the Tung Nam Road, of Children has more than justified againat children according to the jewellery to the value of $76. The the expectations of the founders. laws of the Colony, and what incident happened at 2.00 p.m. age in oratione and hymns at Its creation, it may be remember should be done by any member of yesterday whilst the victim was on funerals is criticised by the Rev. half the cost of the building, and C. E. Harris, vicar of St. John's. local subscribers have raised her way home. ed, was the subject of some ill-the public in order to invoke the

Bathwick, Bath. Writing in his $32,000. founded criticism by members of Society's aid on behalf of any Mrs. F. Hille was yesterday parish magazine, Mr. Harris Mr. Iman, in his speech, said The wondered how many visitors the Anti-Mui-Taai Society two child. The District Watch Com-Aned $10 by Mr. Butters in the y

"One cannot but be conscious, there were who had any idea of months ago. "Without the least mittee has kindly allowed the Kowloon Court for driving a car in reading accounts of some the extent of the work carried on without a driver's licence. Mr. intention of being flippant or District Watchmen to make a H. Huhrt was also fined $10 for funeral, that there must be within those walls. He confessed cynical," it was asserted that house to house distribution of having been in charge of the car great deal of wrong thinking on that a fortnight ago when he was this subject. Hymns are sung first conducted round by the o far as there was a difference these leaflets. It is anticipated and allowing it to be driven by an and orations delivered which, in Reverend Mother over this bee- between the Anti-Mui-Teal Society that as the result of the publicity

their language, would appear to hive he was filled with surprise and the Child Welfare Society, thus obtained there will be á great Mr. V. du Bus. de Warnaffe, of identify the departed relative or and humble admiration at the "it was a difference in thorough increase in the number of cases No. 9. Peak Mansions, appeared friend with the very chiefest of great work that was being carried Said the spokesman of reported and that it will be neces- before Mr. Butters st Kowloon Saints, whom, very often, his known on so unobtrusively in their midst and remembered actions would en by the charitable Sisters of the |Magistracy . yesterday, charged the Anti-Mul-Teal Society regard-eary in the near future to engage with driving

tirely fall to endorse such a ver holy Infant Jesus.s a private car. In o

dict. ing the Child Welfare Society: the services of an additional dangerous manner in

Besides the orphanage of 550. Chatham

"We know that, with God, all girls there were about 1,200 giria "We are heartily glad of ita com Inspector.

Roed on December 17. He denied ing into existence during the past If the foregoing remarks be an

things are possible, and that He pupils in the school, which, he the charge. He was discharged

can refuse to reward us after could well believe, was one of the with a caution. year, but we would like to see it incomplete rejoinder to criticiem

Iniquities. In the Litany we pray best schools in Malaya, pad to that effect, Dr. Winstedt said that even in live up more to the idea of being (aoither "flippant nor cynical") Before Mr. R. E. Lindeell yester "It is a right and proper thing, distant Singapore they had fol the champion of the child, as it there is the record of cases inves day afternoon, the licenses of the Loo, to exercise, always, the virtue lowed the anxieties and worries sets out to be. Instead of having tigated between August 1 and Gilles Avenue, Hok Un Kei, was But, above all things let te re staff, anxieties and worries which Mow Yuen Chinese wine shop, 12, of hope, along with faith and love of the Reverend Mother and her just one young lady fulfilling the November 14, and there are the charged with the possession of member the awful purity and were inevitable before a building duty of an Inspector, there should Inspector's notes In the plaints cars containing 235 gallons of Chi- majesty of God, and realise how like that could be completed... be at least a dozen or more officers investigated, which were publish ese spirits on which duty had not much our dear departed weed the Straits Times.

been paid. The spirit was found help of our prayers that they may (men and women) selected and ed along with the annual report in on a sampan at the Traya West, and be purified from all the stain of trained because of their special this paper on Saturday last. To there was a pass purporting to sin and be perfected, In blessed. aptitude for the posts they have repeat in part what we stated covor the delivery of the jars from ness.!?

the "Mow- Yuen shop to the Hang to all. At the time we stated two months ago, the Society for Tue Then shop, 867, Queen's Road that the Child Welfare Society the Protection of Children may West.«. After some evidence had need not blush crimson with lack soap box orators to proclaim been taken, the case was adjourned

until Saturday: deepest shame because it has its good deeds to the world but only one lady inspector--and a that need not suggest that it is According to figures prepared by:

Much sympathy wil be felt for young one at that, as was very virti still-born or doomed to the Merchants Exchange of Van-

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