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and peered with his uncanny in- VOLUNTEER CORPS sight into the unborn, incipient mind of Mr. Henry Ford. Let me give you a few quotations to illus- trate my meaning. That the Bard knew all about noisy en- gines is revealed by the following, from Hamlet (Act 1 Scene 4):

Thou

in complete strel, Revisit at thus the glimpses of tho

moon,

Making night hdleous."

Further familiarity with auto- mobile engines (over-oiling) is shown by this:-

Co tu karr ing bin Coupe Dade a

Volunteer Deferee Corps Orders! Issued by Lieut.-Col. L. G. Bird. D.S.O., O.B.E., Commandant, stato:

1

PARADES.

Corps Band.

both days, calling at Kowloon Polles Pier at 8.85 a.m. Friday April S.

9.00a.m.-Blake Shield and Mus-

ketry Cup, 40 9.00''a.m.—Francis' 'Cùp.

2.30 p.m. Jar Competition and

Reservea Challenge Cup. 3.18 p.m.-Attack Competition. Saturday April 4.

9:00 am-Corps Championship

and Tyro Competition.

The Revolver Competition (Corps The Band will parade at the and All Comers) will be firdd both Music Room, City Hall in Bronday, daya 9m, to 5pm. on Friday, at 5.30 p.m. sharp, for Band Prac- April 3 and 9 am to 1 p.m. on

Saturday, April 4. totice.

Entries.

The rankcat compound of villain ous smell that over offended nostril." (Merry Wives of Windsor).

Shakespeare would seem have heard of insurance policies (especially those with flaws): "Never did base and rotten policy Cover her working with more deadly

wound."

(Henry IV.)

Then again, he refers to traffic congestion in the manner of the complete motorist: "Why, one that rode to his execution Could never go so slow."

(Cymbeline). Of the policeman on traffic duty ho is equally eloquent: "Look, with what courteous action It waves you on,"

(Hamlet) The passage in Macbeth in which Duncan says: "Let me not burst" shows a familiarity with tyre trouble, as does:

"You are not worth the dust which

the rude wind Blows in your face."

accom-

The Band is also asked to attend

Intending competitors on Fridays, the Portuguese Com-must rent in their names pany parades, until after G.0.C's. panied by entry fees not later than Tuesday, March 24 to the Han. Inspection, for March practice.

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Band Recruits are reminded that Secretary, Ride Meating, Volunteer Recruit Class will be held each Headquarters.

Entry Fees. All individual events Monday at Headquarters for prac tico. It is very essential that all$1 per event. Team competitions 50 cents per man with exception of attend the parades.

the Revolver Competition for which There will be a parade in the the fee is 20 cents per entry Miniature Range at 5.30 p.m. on (entries unlimited), made on the Tuesday. Those requiring aiming range. practice will attend at 6 p.m. This Competitors will make their own

arrangementa for timn. is a voluntary parade.

Battery.

The

There will be a practice parade canteon will be in operation. for the G.O.C's. Inspection on

p.m. at

Head- SMUGGLING BIRDS OF Thursday at 5.30 quarters. Every member is expect ed to attend. :

Musketry.

Those members who have bean

PARADISE.

Outfits.

"Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the King'a Eng- Hish." (Merry Wives of Windsor.)

These extracts should of them- notified are required to fire Part II.! Organised Plume Hunt selves be enough to convince any-Table T at Stonecutters range on! one that Shakespeare was next Sunday. Any member desir motorist; but his attitude to ous of firing again can do 80

A man has just been fined £100 pedestrians puts the matter en-but he must inform 0, C. Battery for an offence concerning the im- tirely beyond doubt:--

in good time. Particulars ister.

portation of birds of paradise Engineer Company,

plumes, writes Jack McLaren in the To-morrow, team shoot with R. E. Daily Mail. In New Gulnes, the at Peak Range. Start 9.30 a.m.

home of the birds, the hunting of Dress: Mufti with riffes only, no, these glorious creatures has been bayoneta,

prohibited for years now under Monday, Miniature Range shoot. similar, and even heavier, penalties. Sunday, March 22 Part II, Class This prohibition, however, has sent Firing and Company Shoot at up the value of the birds so high. Dress: Uniform or that there are always men ready Equipment and to take the risk and hunt them. Mufti optional. bayonets must be taken. Launch I knew a copra trader in the leaves Queen's Pier at 9 a.m. and Papuan Gulf who so extended his Kowloon Police at 9.10 a.m.

activities in this direction that in due course he was making far.more tout of plume-hunting than out of trading. He obtained the birds on to the pretended trading-trips Machine Gun Troop.

interior, and shipped them off con- Parade at Causeway Bay Stables cealed in bags of copra. In this on Tuesday, at 5.30 p.m.

way a ton of copra-the dried The following will fire M.G. kernels of coconuts, used for soap- Course Part II at Stonecutters, making and other purposes worth to-morrow.

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(King Lear.) Let me conclude by drawing your attention to the Merry Wives of Windsor, in which, it Chairman. It would give the will be remembered, a certain meeting an atmosphere of bon Ford did undoubtedly request Sir shareholders for the mere joy of of money, or all of it, for "easing joining our soirees. This is not him of the carriage." 90 facetious

you might imagine. They do this kind of thing in France, I believe and look how France has cornered all the gold. Foreign financiers are simply charmed into yielding to demarids. Ushered into a rose-

News in Brief.

The Jurors' List for 1931 is red salon, they are seated next to published In the Government beautiful, perfumed women,Gazette. handed fragrant cigars, coaxed

and petted, coddled" and preen- The Peak Tramways, Ltd., adver- ed, until they beam inwardly and tise that no late cars will run after outwardly and are ready to do 12.05 on Monday morning. any mortal thing with their fountain pens..

+

The

The lowest open air temperature

'62 degrees. yesterday was We are rather too humidity was 61 at 10 a.m. and 43 Too Blase blase in Hong at 4 p.m.

to fall prey to

these exotic allurements, but I It is advertised that the Good think a brighter note could be in-Press Day will be celebrated to- troduced to some of our meetings. morrow at the. Roman Catholle A little music, for example, would | Cathedral,

be appreciated during the reading of the Secretary's report-Bach's The Chief Justice has ordered "Concerto in A Minor" for in- that a Special Assizes be held on Assizes stance-with ar interlude at the Monday, The ordinary

Hong Kong, Saturday, March 14, 1931. conclusion for coffee. The Chair-will open on Wednesday.

ADVERSARIA.

and in

on

Corps Signals, Parades will be held at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tues- day, and Friday.

Sergt. Frost, Tpr. Cochrane. Tpr. Weill, Tpr. Lammert.,

Tpr. Holcroft.

about £16, would contain hidden plumes worth £500 or more.

The Paupan Gulf is an isolated part of New Guinea, and it was Armoured Car Company.

long before the authorities got wind Before they Car Section. Parade on Mon-of his activities.

day at Headquarters at 6.30 5.m. could act he had given up trading for driving instruction and crew, and left, the country with a for drill.

tune..

on

on

own

car.

Motor Cycle Section. Parado

Another Individual had s pro- Monday at Headquarters at perly organised plume-smuggling

even to having his 5.15 p.m. for instructional driving. outfit,

Machine Gun Company, schooner which took the birds on There will be a parade at Corps board at a secret rendezvous. In Tuesday

This man wAS' an expert bird- Headquarters Mufti.

hunter and skinner and made long Machine Gun Training under expeditions into the mountainous Platoon arrangements.

interior in search of plumes. Many M.G. Couree Part II-No, of the birds he shot himself with a man, refreshed and genial, would then clear his throat and give a

It is notified that the name of Platoon will fire this course at ahotgun of the tinfest bore and. to-morrow. Range cartridges having sugar for pellets, discreet lecture on the civil war in the Victoria Food Products Com- Stonecutters China or

the possibilities of pany, Limited, has been struck off Officer: Lieut. H. Owen-Hughes, as that there would be little if any

Uniform or Mufti optional, but blond to soil the beautiful plumes. speaking to our fiances in Lon-the Register of companies,

Belts, Pouches and Bayonets must In the end he was killed by na don by telephone, introducing

be worn. Launch leaves Queen's tives, who. resented his taking, so "Without fear, favour or malice.”

(purely by the way, of course, At the Rotary Club tiffin

a deprecatory manner) Tuesday the epeaker will be Dr. Pler at 9 a.m. and Kowloon Police many of the birds which they them

selves prized for making head- The prophets are such sordid matters as dollars and David Z. T. Yui General Secre- Pier at 9.10 a.m.

Scottish Company..

dresses and other decorations. It Brighter with us again. The dividends. Then would follow tary, National Committee, Y.M.C.A.

Parade on Thursday for Arms appeared that they crept upon him Drill. robes of Moses and more coffee or merangues, a little China. Company

while he was stalking the birds, light music of the French school,

No. 7 Platoon at Headquarters when his only weapon to hand was Meetings. Marconi enfold the and shareholders would gently The forthcoming wedding is an

at 5.30 p.m. under Captain H. R. his tiny bird-gun and sugar forms of our chair- question, parry, demur, or retire. nounced of John Edward Ward,

tridges, which, of course, would be men of companies, and share. It would be as well, perhaps, to clerk in Government Service, of 6, Forsyth.

No. 6 Platoon at Kowloon Dock useless for defensive purposes, holders' meetings, no longer the have a master of ceremonies for Morrison Gap Road, and Dolly under. Licut. G. Duncan, M.B.E.

In another part of the New these occasions, and I have in Luiza Maher, of the same address.

Portuguese Company:. Guinen interlor I came across solemn and vapid seances mind one gentleman -- a director}

The Company will parade at gold-prospector who had collected of mathematical legerdemain, of an important local company- His Excellency the Governor has

of paradise He showed them to assume the academic graces of who has a perfect flair for bowing accepted the resignation by Second Headquarters on Friday at 6.30 more than 200 birds

there and smiling and being deferen-Lieutenant Herbert Ernest Duncan P.m. for Arms and Foot Drill and skins.

in his tenta the lecture-room. Our chairmen tial. The only dificulty is that Adams of his Commission in the

flashing and gleaming dis- noble fellows that they are, are these meetings would become so Volunteer Corps, with effect from

Dress: Belts and sidearms and play. Empress 'Birds, Raglanas. Rifles: zealous not to bore; a few grand-popular that larger rooms would February 26.

Red Birds, an array of colour have to be taken and, if the pro- scale figures roll off their tongues.ceedings concluded with a dance,

Muskotry. No. 12A Platoon will such as never I had' seón "bo- His Excellency the Governor has it is true, but they must interest, they might have to be held in one re-appointed provisionally and sub-proceed to Stonecutters on Sunday, fore and maybe never will see again. Their beauty was a thing of its they must amuse, they must in- of the hotels.

ject to His Majesty's pleasure, the March 22.

**Detalls a isayed in Corpa own.

Next day the prospector learned Unfortunately my suggestion Hon. Sir Henry Edward Pollock, struct! Already we see the gown'

Allotment of Peak Range. from the natives that a Govein- replacing the black vest and comes rather late and most of the K.C., to be an Unofficial member of Orders for Casuale.

company meetings for this year the Executive Counell for a farther

Peak Range will be allotted to ment patrol was on its way, Know- striped trousers, and the ermine are over; but I look forward period of five years, with effect from Scottish Company on March 29, ing he was suspected of plume- hood the pink camella, and we with anticipation to next year's March 1.

hunting, and having no means of honeyed sense of meetings, and hope that some of

Appointments. The Governor in Council has de- listen with that

concealing the birds, he reluctantly the more soulful shareholders will

No. 80 R.Q.M.S. H: Green is ap-decided that the only safe course satisfaction that Tennyson knew give it their consideration. Pro-clared that the Dangerous Drugs

Bhall henceforth pointed Acting Regimental Ser-was to destroy them. so well how to describe, to these vided I receive sufficient support Ordinance, 1923,

He built a pyre, and there that worthles giving a dissertation on I am quite willing to call a con- apply to di-hydro-morphinone and geant Major and Acting President

ference in the City Hall with a ts salts and any preparation, of the Bergeants' Megs vice R.S.M.night, in the midst of the mountain jungle, I saw 200 of the rarest and warfare, the future, of radio tele-view to organising & Brighter admixturo, extract or other sub-W. H. Edmonds on leave.

Struck Off The Strength. " most beautiful birds in the world phony, or any subject that will Meetings Campaign and shall be stance containing any proportion of

Having been dismissed from the go up in flames! make glad the heart of an Editor. glad to receive correspondence on di-hydro-morphinone,

Corps:-

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the matter.

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And why, indeed,

Why Dull the more philoso-**** The "Avon

Affairs? phle of us may Bard and the

well ask, should a Automobile. company meeting be a dull affair?

¡

Practice Marching with Corps me

Band.

1931.

No 1126 Pte: 3. A. Baste, No. 12 Platoon, dismissed' on 3.2.31.

No. 1144 Pte. J. R. Soares, No. 12 Platoon, diamissed on 8,231,

** Leave, ista Lieut: L. FONicholson, Battery,

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "CNIMA KASPI

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General Sir Arthur Currie, They say that G.C.M.G., K.C.M.G., KCB GB one never pro-arrived in the Colony, yesterday on perly

under the P. & 0. s. Karmala, after hay-

March 14, 1921.1. stands Shakes Ing Tepresented Canada at the speare until Inauguration of New Delhi. Sir

To-day's dollar fe worth 2/2%. A little more colour, a little more maturity. Not having reached Arthur is staying in the Peninsula granted 7 months leave from 1.4.51 romance, a little inore galety, and the bald patch and iron-grey Hotel, and will proceed

on his to 8110.81.

No. 188. Sergt..W. FL. C. Robson, Damage estimated at $25,000, was we could swallow with a much stage, I am yet a little more tem- journey homeward in a few days,

Armoured Car Company, Car Sec- caused by a fire that broke out on braver smile the insinuation that bered by the biustering winds of

to returned from leave on the premises of Lane Crawfords in 10.12.80.**

mapy Ice House Street on Saturday (Sgd.) W. H. G. COATER, night. The second floor, where the Captain: G outbreak occurred; was devoted to Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. the manufacture of hair mattresses NOTICE. which fed the flames until the firs The Annual Corps Rifle Meeting had rapidly assumed big dimen-

the directors fees should be in- Life: than when, four years ago, Mr. RR. Todd,~ Assistant creased. If I were the director I was a pale and poetic passenger Superintendent of Imports and of a public company I should have outward bound for the magic Exports, giving evidence before Mr. chocolate eclairs and frappes East; and coming back to Shake-W. Schofield in the Central Police served in the Board room by speare after a long and shameful Court yesterday, alleged that there pweet young things in scarlet interval. I find in his writings an organised traffic in oplum uniforms, Expensive Turkish many new and surprising pro- tween Canton and Hong Kong. The cigarettes would be handed round phecies. I have discovered, for case was one in which three men will take place at Stonecutters talons. Considerable damage was and the meeting right open with sxample, that Shakespeare knew word charged in connection with a Range on Friday, April and done by water to the grocery and dignified eighteenth century all about cars he must have bore big keizure on the steamer Kwong Saturday, April 4 Launch will cigar departments on the lower

leave Queen's Pier at 215.m on floor. ballad or a step dance by the rowed Mrs. Hecate's witch-bowl Tung on March 8.