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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1933.

DR. KOTEWALL'S

ADDRESS

"Adventures Among English Books.”

ENGLISH ASSOCIATION'S FINAL MEETING

Lady Peel, the Hon. Mr. V. T. Southorn and Mrs. Southora, the Hon. Sir Henry and Lady Pollock, the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Sir WII-j Ham Hornell, Mr. Justice,Wood, Mrs. Kotewall, Hen. Mr. A. E.

TRIBUTES TO LORD, OXFORD,

Memorial Tablet-In The Abbey.

London, To-day, . Tributes to the late Lord' Oxford

were paid in the House of Commons yesterday by Mr. Ramsay Mac-

LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY.

Wood, Professors R. K. M. Simpson Pound Declines Slightly In New York & London

(Hon. Secretary), F. A. Redmond, and C. A. Middleton-Smith.

My first adventure among English: books occurred on the day I left school. When. I brought home, en my last day at schoul, a book which

THE CHINA MAIL.

SOLDIER DIVES ON TOP OF SHARK Strange Experience of

Sydney Swimmer.

MISTAKEN FOR COMRADE!

Sydney.

fbler's

bit

To-Day's Short Story.

BY DECREE OF THE HIGH ONES

By Coutts Brisbane.

THE

'the

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THE little tarts of apricots "I am, that lowly and unattrac

favoured with garlic, the tive person, replied Dr. Hi, with Donald, the Prime Minister, Mr. Swimming with troops of the 1st savoury duck with its niound of the modesty proper to politeness. An interesting lecture on "Ad- George Lansbury, and Sir Herbert Medium Artillery Brigade at Cob-rice and well-peppered onions, the "If you require my services, be ventures Among English Books" Samuel on behalf of the three

Beach, Sydney Harbour, shark fin soup, and a double brief, for am was delivered by the Hon. Dr. R. Hparties in the House

Sergeant McCann had an amazing measure of well-heated wine had read for Sen-Kang,tako when Kotewall at the final meeting of Premier, moved an address to His encounter with a large shark at the 1932-33 season of the English Majesty the King praying that which he had clutched in the With that feeling of peace to sufficiently-to-be praised skill is re- gone to their appointed place. "That is well, for your never- Association, held at the Helena memoriai tablet be erected on behalf belief that it was the form of a May Institute yesterday evening.

wards all which only a well-quired in my house, which stands His Excellency the Governor, Sirminster Abbey to the memory of

of the House of Commons in West- comrade.

bestowed inner man can confer, but a little way from that road. McCann was doing an under- William Peel, presided over a large the late statesman British Wire-water "stunt" when he made his Dr. Hi Ho filled and lit his pipe, Know that an eminent mandarin gathering, which included the fol-less Service.

mistake. He tried to get to shore,

and puffed luxuriously. pnamed Wing Soo lies upon my bed lowing:-

but could not move. He tried tol He had had a very busy and pro-in great pain; therefore hasten.”

fitable day, for his fame as a heal- "I come!" said Dr. Hi, and rose. shout, but could not..

The shark heaved him to the surto hang out the scroll, which pro- pain with the alacrity of & swallow er had gone far abroad; he had but "My feet move towards his bed of face, scraping the skin from his claimed his name and accomplish absenting itself from the presence leg as it swished away from him.ments in any market place in all of hawls. Nevertheless. It swam under a girl bathing some the province of Ho Nan to collect paused and coughed delicately: distance away, and disappeared, a crowd of sufferers clamouring "There are mandarins whose emi- making no attempt to molest her for relief. From his place by the inence of station is accompanied by

McCann said he was in only a few feet of water with his hands

window of the aptly hamed res-an inexcusable reluctance to kes- on the bottom, and his feet above, taurant, Rotundity-of-Circumfer tow a fitting fee when the agony The local dollar remains un-the surface.

ence-Bestowed, Dr H looked of the body has been assuaged by changed at 1/33%.

"My eyes were blurred a

down the narrow, difly street, the practised skill of a healer foo Silver prices, both spot and for-from being opeted Under water, and along the rough road over to demand more than a fee of fifty "through" Plug-Chow's eastern ate innocent of the ways of the world had been awarded me as a prize for ward, also remained steady, the and when I saw a shape Hear me which he must soon be jogging if taels in advance." good conduct, my father was dum-quotations,this morning being. 174, on the bottom. I thought it was founded. Having recovered from his and 17 5/16, respectively.

one of the chaps up to some fushe would reach Sen-Yang, the shock, he asked me to name my re- Cross rates were this morning. "I dived at it," said McCain, before darkness fell.

acene of his next day's activities, ward for this surprising feat; and G83.42, and £-G$3.414, for the "and then became so scared that with a sigh, the worthy doctor I told him that there was a 3/6d. London on New York, and New York, I cannot remember much. book of history entitled "Epoche offen London; rates, respectively, as English History" in a hook-shop in compared with, 4-G$3.42%, and out of the water, swishing its tailgered in this earthly paradise, bul "It was a Shark! It lifted me drew forth a fat purse and settled the bill. He would fain have lin Hollywood Road, on which I had ret¦£-G88.42, yesterday.

and tearing the skin from my toes on one foot and from the right leg as it scraped along me and swam Suddenly clatter of hooves many more will attend the success rose above the clamour of the of your ministrations," replied the "I couldn't move-couldn't speak,treet vendors, and a man, well messenger, and, taking from an in- Males on the wharf

clad in garmenta of a superior mer pocket a bag which gave forth shouted "Shark!" and then, they told me

quality, though sailed with the musical chinkings, he bestowed it afterwards, looked in horror as the dust of travel, threw him-upon the doctor.

"I come " cried Dr. Hi. "Let shark swam under a giri who was self from a lean pony, and, after a

once. restaurant

Bring my pack, containing nothing] "Here is one whose rice bowl has but the rarest drugs, procured at 10 feet long, my mates believe. I'm never been empty!" quoth the keep an immense expense, and we will sure it was," said McCann. fer of the house. "Eminent-Turner. take the road." How a money changer's shop car- The shark apparently was bask-Away-of-Mortality, permit that. I me not only a mine of historical in ried on a profitable business by ex-ing in the shallows in the shade attend to his wants." But even as formation, but also one of the must changing to Singapore and Malayan of the wharf when MeCann dishe turned, the newcomer, advanc. At once Dr. Hi Ho sought informa

tion. precious of my possessions, because Chinese emigrants counterfeit Chin-turbed it with the dive that might with precipitation, Inclined of its sentimental association.

himself with due courtesy before the close to the bedside, think you?" "Is the Heaven Aspiring. Steed These, then, formed the nucleus disclosed at the Central Police Court

Jese 20 cent pieces for notes, was have cust him his life.-Reuter.

|man of medicine. of my collection of English books-this morning before Mr. Wynne-

"Have my eyes the sublinie samen of the estimable Wing Sop of he asked. "And are the yamen A nucleus rather singular, and per-Jones, when Leung Hi and Lo King

tisfaction of beholding the highly

My father

my heart for months. gave me the money, and I dashed of and secured the caveted volume, with what delight you can imagine.. The next day it was my turn to re- ceive a surprise. My father came home with a big parcel which, when]

655 COUNTERFEIT COINS

jaway.

business was business.

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's atory will be "The Shilling," By Gerald Bullett.

"Here are a hundred, and us

opened, revealed to my enchanted! Two Money-Changers farther out. It did not attack her word with a beggar, entered the my horse be brought at

eyes three sumptuous volumes,)

bound in full leather, and profusely| illustrated with maps, charts, din-

Gaoled.

grams and portraits. It was Rid- VICTIZED VISITING CHINESE

path's "Cyclopaedia of Universal History." This book has been to

ture.

but swam out to sen.

"It must have been from eight to

30 FATAL CASES OF -SMALL-POX.

esteemed Dr. fi Ho?" he inquired.

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A few minutes later the pair clattered forth out of Ping-Chow.)

demand the return of a fee if, by an irascible temperament, likely to the inscrutable decree of the High Ones, Wing Soo has already de- parted?"

haps not very helpful in a youth in Ho, money changers, were convicted quest of the good things in litera-on charges of uttering and having in their possession 54 and 601 counter- Fortunately, a helpin! guide soon feit coins of 20 cents denomination came my way. This guide was at No. 1 Connaught Rond West. Colony's Health Returns police sergeant.

"They are all men of pleasing Sub. Inspector A. I. Elston who, Among the books 1 borrowed from carried out the raid on the pre-

countenance and polite, demeanour, During the week ended on April him were, I remember, several mises, in his evidence, stated that 1, 36 cases of amall-pox occurred,

and will bow to the decrees of the volume of Dickens, Thackeray and be entered the shop and showed the 30 of which proved fatal.

|Highly Exalted. But be not Scott; Longfellow's Poems; Lytton's first defendant his search warrant. Other diseases which were nuti-

afraid! Though the neighing of "The Last Days of Pampeli";

the Steed has indeed been heard, Leung II, the Arst defendant took fled to the Health Authorities were: Smollett's "Roderick Random"; and two rolls of coins and broke them in diphtheris, three cases, resulting in

his gold and vermilion, hooves-are- "The Beauties of Shakespeare" by a tray.

not yet upon the floor of the cham- that ill-fated divine, William Dodd, which were later found to be counter-cases,

There were 82 coins, all of two deaths; enteric fever, three 80 Industriais 65,69 56,05 40 up

two

ber." replied the messenger conso- 20 Rails 24.99 24.55 44 downlingly. who had to pay the extreme penalty felt.

deaths; paratyphoid 20 Ullies.19.33 19.33 unchanged fever, one case; and cerebro-spinal to Bonds 74.14 73.78 36 down

With that he bestowed his whip Out of a total of 1,246 coins of fever, 14 eases and three deaths, One of the first volumes quar20 cent denominations, 655

Mesars. E. A. Pierce & Co. Re-lash impartially upon his beast and ried out of the Police Library was found to be counterfelt, the face tuberculosis was 79.

were The total number of deaths from port:Industrial issues are acting also upon the quarters of the bene- Robert Buchanan's, "God and the value of which amounted to $131.

better than rails, and it is possible volent doctor's plump and lethar- On Monday four cases of amall- that some Industrial issues wili show gic. mount, and, so urging, kept him Man." which deeply' touched me at

further rise. Growing interesti Hin Worship convicted Leung Hi pox occurred, three in Kowloon and being shown in commodity stocks, at a smart trot, which in a while

is the time-a time when my mind was. jon both charges and sentenced him one In Victoria. One case of of which

brought them half-way towards" wrote the book in explation of the hard labour on each charge the Kowloon.

to the maximum term of 6 montha' cerebro-spinal fever occurred in leading example. In the wheat mer-Sen-Yang, where the conductor ket profit-taking caused a reaction but veered aside upp track which wrong he had done to Rossetti. " sentences to run consecutively..

prices rallied at the close. The market has ruled quiet but steady. wound into the hills Silver prices advanced early in the The sun was setting, and, as its day on trading, but eased toward the light declined, Dr. Hi Ho began to close. Business done:-720,000 shares. look about him with apprehension,

Last To-day's for the hills had a bad names *Price Price

of the law for forgery.

very

Impressionable.

Buchanan

There is no doubt that pathos in Lo King Ho was sentenced to most potent when first encountered three months' gaol on a conviction

in youthful reading. In this con on the second charge;

nection I remember being stirred to

the depths by another book from the

Police Library. It was "Beatrice",

News In Brief.

by Rider Haggard,

Few novels I

have read have moved me more than Chung Yun, a stone dresser work-

that story.

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American Tob" "B" uated to the Publié Lending which was being dressed above him, day. The boys and girls suitably Library in the City Hall. My chief fell, crushing his ribs. He was attired, danced and sang around the Borden of these days, Mr. F. H (after-taken to the Kowloon Mortuary, Maypole. wards Sir Henry) May was my

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my appetite for nature studies and. The farewell concert of the tion), Mr. A. O. Brawn (In-pector travel-pictures, in both prose and Schneider Trio will be held at the of Schools), Dr. (Mrs.) Minett poetry, that for months afterwards roof-garden of the Hong Kong (Medical Officer for Schools), and I read scarcely anything but works Hotel, to-morrow, it 9.15 p.m. Miss Hilde Trefusin

Lon such and kindred subjects. These three talented musicians are This special penchant is as strong leaving the Colony,^ shortly, for to-day as ever; for I go again and South Africa and South America. again--especially when the mind is

untroubled, and there is a prospect: Chów Pal, a Chinese,boy, was ad- at a quiet and undisturbed after-mitted, to the Government Civil noon, or evening before me to the Hospital yesterday evening, muffer-

Be not afraid! If we should meet any, I will quickly deal with them in no uncertain” manner," re-

plled the guide, and, throwing aside the skirt of his coat, displayed 8 heavy sword, a broad knife, and a pistol of the sort used by outer barbarians, which could be dis charged six times without pause,

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