1934-02-02 — Page 7

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934.

LOCAL SOCIETY OF LOCAL NEWS

ST. GEORGE

Annual Meeting Held Yesterday.

SIR W. HORNELL ELECTED PRESIDENT

The annual meeting of the Hong Kong Society of St. George was held yesterday in the board room of Mesars, Jardine, Matheson and Co.. Ltd.

BREVITIES

The marriage took place yester- day at the Supreme Court- of" Mr. Geza Sator of the Palm Court, Nathan Road, to Misa Sarolta Engel, formerly of the Repulse Bay Hotel, Hong Kong. Colonel F. Eaves, Deputy Registrar of Marriages, officiated.

There will be a dinner dance, at the Repulse Bay Hotel to-morrow night and a tea dance on Sunday afternoon, at 4.30.

Mr. C. Bulmer Johnson, president was in the chair, and among the members present were Sir William Hornell and the Hon. Sir Thomas Southern.

Major-General Itagaki, of the Moving the adoption of the report| Japanese Army, was a passenger for and accounts, Mr. Bulmer Johnson the Colony to-day by the President said:

RARY: NOTES

POET CRITICS

OF WAR

Five New Books Of' Verse.

MR. SASSOON'S - SATIRE

The End of a War. By Herbert Read. (Faber. 24. 6d.);

The Road to Ruin. By Siegfried.

THE CHINA MAIL.

GOD'S WAY WITH THREE PERSONS

Notable Novel By

Janet Beith

ROMANCE AT A MANSE

ROMANCE AT A MANSE, "No Second Spring" by Janet Beith, Hodder and Stoughton.

*78. 6d.

Have you read a delightful poem

"Harriet, hil

Light of my eye!

Come to the picturės And have a good cry"?

Sassoon. (Faber. 2s. 6d.). by A.-P. Herbert in which he in- Summer Harvest. Poems, 1924-vites his lady love:—

1933, by John Drinkwater. (Sidg-; (wick and Jackson. - 58.), Poems and Ballads. By Shane

Lesile. (Bean. (68.), (' The Spirit of Youth and other

Well, one can recommend a leas Poems. By Margaret Stephens, public way of having a good cry (Blackwell, 2x. 6d.). S

and that is to read "No Second Mr. Herbert Read has lately Spring" by Janet Beith. The General Funds show a balance of $4,692.12. being an increase of Mr. R. I. Cherrill, of the Asiatic been chiefly occupied with criti- $637.70 when compared with 1932. Petroleum Company Ltd., returned cisms. His new poem (his first In that year our income amounted to Hong Kong this morning from book of verse for number of this book is written on "seb-stuff" to $1.836-and we were forced to Manila by the s.s. President Jack years) is a criticism of war-lines. transfer an amount of $715.99 from Bon-

the Entertainment Fund to obviate the necessity of realising a portion

Jackson.

1

That is not meant to imply that

On the contrary, it is very criticism in the widest sense,

restrained in matter and manner, He does not condema; he shows the story of a Scottish clergyman Whether it is us war as it appears to three vlc-land his little wife. timsa German officer dying for a true story or not-and the illu the image of empire; à murdered alon of truth is very convincing French girl, martyr in the service it is at all event a very likely of her country; and an English of-story, when you consider the date ficer who, surviving, seeks to re and the circumstances. concile the fact of war with the The story opens in & show. | idea of God. Mr. Read is a clever storm and gale, and ends on The forthcoming marriage be-critic, but a critic too apt to stop blustery day with gusts of biting tween Ernest Duncan Holmes, Mas-short just where criticism becomes winds tearing up from the Forth. ter Mariner, of the Peninsula Hotel, vital. His poetry has something Poor Allison seems to have and Mary Frances de la Sala, of of the same fault. It is sensitive very few fine days. in her life and New Street, Macroon, County Cork, but not important; it stops short of one of those was the day on which Ireland, is announced.

the essential point.

she went for a picnic with Andrew Like Mr. Read, Mr. Sangoon fo Simon, a stray artist who stayed still thinking about the war; but at the Manse for a season and who he has achieved none of the critic's fell in love with her.

a time

She fell in love with him, too, detachment. There was when his emotions reused him to of course, but, like Candida, she poetry beyond his natural stayed where she was needed most abilities. That time Is past, and and sent him away. Unlike

of the Society's investments to meet Mr. A. F. Crawford, of Messrs. the expenditure.

Swan, Culbertson and Fritz, retura- During the year under reviewed to Hong Kong this morning from however, our income totalled $2,431-Shanghai by the s.a. President Har- '70, the increase being mainly due to rison.

special donations by members which amounted to $736, and an Grants and Donations were $1.168.29 against a figure of $1.853.68 last year. I think we may consider the position generally as satisfactory.

The 1913 Ball Account shows profit. of $531 which amount has "been transferred to the Entertain-

ment Fund,

Election Of Ofleern. The office hearers elected for the current year were as follows:

President-Sir William Hornell.

C.J.E.

burg.

A

Among the passengers who dis- embarked from the a.. President Harrison this morning wese Mr. and Mrs. L. P. S, Bourne. Mr. Bourne is the Calcutta manager of Messrs.. Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Co.

Vice-President.-Mr. V. M. Gray-} Committee.-Mr. G. S. Archbutt, Ng Hee, an unemployed Chinese, Mr. L. C. F. Bellamy, M.C., Mr. J. was sentenced to one month's hard K. Bousfeld, Mr. P. S. Cassidy, Mr.labour by Mr. Balfour at the Cen- W. A. Cornell, Mr. J. D. Danby, Mr.tral Magistracy this morning, for J. Scott-Harston, Mr. V. C. Labrum, stealing 11 milk bottles, the Mr. R. E. H. Oliver, Mr. A. B.perty of the Dairy Farm Company, Raworth, the Hon. Sir W. Tnt Queen Victoria Street Southern, K.B.E., C.M.G., and Mr. G. G. N. Tinson.

pro-

had

now Mr. Sassoon seems to be living Candida, however, her husband did on the memory of anger. Six of not even know that her fancy had the seven poems In "The Road to strayed. Ruin" are in his satirical manner:

Our bequest

Is to rebuild, for What-they-died- for's sake,

Fine Characterisation

The character of Hamish, the Minister, is as interesting in its A bomb-proof roofed Metropolis, fruthlessness as is Allison's in ita

and to make

softness. He is completely fncap- Gas-drill compulsory. Dulce etsuble of realising that there is any

decorum est....

other point of view than his. He but really not very is in the pleasing position (for him) of never doubling that he is right in all he thinks and does.

Competent,

good.

Substitute For Sin

For driving dangerously in Con- Arrangements for the celebration naught Road West, Leung Chal, a of the next St. George's Day were lorry driver, was fined $10 at the left in the hands of the in-coming Central Police Court this morning. committee.

It was stated that he travelled at After the desperate honesty of His wife's heroic shouldering of over 20 m.p.h. through An area Mr. Sassoon, Mr. Drinkwatersher part of the burden is only very on all occasionally noticed by this pathe- which was crowded with pedestrians."Summer Harvest* (poems

occasions) has a professional afrtic egoist and yet he is aware that STARTING TIMES

Indeed, it is professional. Mr. without her his life would be even Mr. Richard McDonnel, manager Drinkwater knows this job-writ-more difficult job than it is. FOR FANLING.

of McDonnell and Gorman, Ine, of

ing verse

disturbi guaranteed to

His naive appreciation of the| · Shanghal, was a passenger for the nobody. And here are nearly 200 fact that marriage is intended for Sunday's Pairings. Colony by the B.8. President Harri-

son which arrived this morning health-giving rest.

pages of it; like cocos, full of the procreation of children leads him to produce ten-three of whom The following are the Royal Mr. McDonnell is on a business trip 'Hong Kong Golf Club starting to Hong Kong.

times for Fanling on Sunday :-

Mr. Shane Leslie is not so rest-die in the course of the story but ful. He finds a poem "a good sub-does not make him affectionate to stitute for sin." With

them. He is in the position of God

some

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin S. Gar-writers it is not * substitute but to them and as his God to him is 9.28 a.m. T. H. A. McCarthy A. Me-vey of Chicago, are through passen- the same thing; his lively Irish hard and terrible master, so is and ballads absolve Kr. be to his children. His wife's

C. I. Bowker. V. R. gers on the s.s. President Harrison, poems Gordon.

on a world tour. Mr. Garvey in a Lestle from that. The book is un-Ispwes into loving motherhood he

N. L. Smith, E. D. Mat-retired Vice-President of the Bell equal, genuine, provocative and regards an appardonable frivolity.

thewa,

E. des Voeux A. W. Muir. Telephone Company of Chicago, sometimes passionate; occasional No review would be complete

OLD COURSE

Kellar.

*0.32

20

A.

9.38

"

0.40

##

9,44

9.48

A. MacFarlane G. Milne.

9.62

"

J. P. Warren W. Wright.

9.50

H. N. Williamson J. Forbes.

20,00

10.04

10.08

10.12

:10.16

*10.20.

10.24

"

R. H. Grimtha I. G. Allison. U.S.A.

P

ly, but not often, very bad indeed. without a mention of the illustra Margaret Stephens is tions. Hamish and his daughter sincere and not at all professional. Jean and Allison's last glimpse of

Miss

For stealing 6 pieces of clothing Her verse expresses a plessing Andrew are the best, perhaps, but

A. B. Purves T. R. Chassels from 50 Stanton Street, Arst floor, sensibility which deepens now and all the pictures and the chapter G. F. Rees P. S. Grant

A. Kidd W. N. A. Smalley. Wu Hing, unemployed, was bound then to devotion; the phrasing in beads add greatly to the delight of Cdr. G. F. Hole A. Ritchie. over by Mr. Balfour, at the Cen-neat and the imagery, graceful: reading a feally notable novel.

E. M. tral Magistracy this morning, in Here, for instance, in « prosta

C. Hopkina

Bryden.

J. 8. Key G. B. S. personal bond of $50 to be of good place:

behaviour for the next six months.

Thomson

T. J. & E. R. Price. 10,28 H. F. Phillips J. M. Gray.

A. W. Hodges G. G. Marə rable.

.-10.32 »

··10.40 m

· 10,44. »

Banished for life in connection with a kidnapping 'case,' a Chinese

10.38, D. J. Keogh H. S. Ferater woman, Wo Yis, who was arrested

C. B. Matthews E. F. Clark. 5. T. Batlin N, E. Little-in West Point yesterday was 'sen- john.

tenced to one year's hard labour by Mr. Hamilton, at the Central Pollos Court this morning, for returning

*10.48

#

1. Young W. A. Stewart 10.52" W. A. Butterfield W. A.

...Cornell.

A."H. Penn H. C. Meeke. to the Colony,, 11.00 H. H. Beddow H. G. Wal-

:10.56

7

57

*11.06

"

W. Greene,

:11.08

+

Edwards

Though I am old and fancy-free,

O Flower of Heaven, tak******** ENGLAND'S EASTERN

Eternal Youth and winsome

Grace,

Find in my life a dwelling-place: Or, art Thon an elusive thing Tethered within the heart of

Spring?

The Hong Kong Afternoon Tea BUTE

Car: Weeks G. Service Company of Whitesway EH. Wild A. Sommerfelt. Building, Des Voeux Road Central, 11.12 R

Whyte, Smith · D.' 8. announce that they have establish-

ed an afternoon tea service de-1 11.160. H. Bradley,

ley J. W, May-livery to meet the wants of office Davidson A. B. Baworth, workers who are unable to spare Major Eastwick Field Capt. the time to go out for thair after-sa

noon cup of tea or coffes:

11.20

11.24

11.28

K. S. Robertson D. S. Bobb.

NEW COURSE

* Cartín. Vi

NEW READABLE THRILLERS.

Idiotic Heroes And Heroines

PROVINCE

R. H. Mottram's Book

On East Anglia

East Anglia. - By R. H. Mottram.

(Chapman and Hail, Sa. (d), This secount of, England's eastern province in written by one of her talented sons. Mr. Mottram was born in East Anglia, and his Torbears lived in East Anglia. for many generations. The region has [seeped into his blood, and all that It has meant to him and given to him is here rendered back in grats-

Two very readable thrillers are ful thanks for his birthright: "SS, Murder" and "One More He shows us a region that has 9.32 .m. Mrs. Whyte Smith Mize A further broadcast talk on Chance" with the preference to never been hammered by the har {"Safety First" was given läst night the former..." "8.5. --Murder,” L. An by "Owner Driver," his remarks though offered as a detective Industrial progress but yet has der and more disfiguring blows of Mrs. Smalley Mrs. Wilson being intended for motorists only, story, is in spirit much more akin

B. Lissaman, the points dealt with being keeping to the thriller, Mulcahy

to the proper side of the road, over-It la guietly and convincin

LH. Geare L

drewes

9.34"

9.44

0,48€

A.

9.56 C T. Biollingwerf B. A taking, and signalling when turning written, with a neat little problem,

Rodgers

Campbell H. Hamp-or slowing down.

10,00, B.

10,08,

10.12

10,20

استيد

and the only criticism is, that the neat little problem is never Gordon H, H. Pethick. The body of Mr. Y. Irama, Chief resolved; we are given

Monaghan HLUE Officer of the OBE steamer Suma

Mrs Byme Thom- tra Maru, who was killed by a

“which came aboard, as

maintained a quiet prosperity

with which time has for been busy, but always, gente region that has inspir- painting, andit Bar,

THE

ELECTROMATIC

BRITISH MADE

FULLY AUTOMATIC, ALL ELECTRIC

OIL BURNER

Sole Agents for Hong Kong · China,

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

HONG KONG, CANTON, SHANGHAI, HANKOW, POOCHOW & CHUNG KING.

If your boller is still consuming coal or coke, it demands some. one's constant attention.

Someone has to shovel tons of fuel, remove ashes, which means increased expenditure. In addition someone has to spend extra time keeping things clean ---- further expense that could be saved.

A building that is either too hot or too cold affects both health, temperament and efficiency.'.

The "Electromatic" fully automatic Oil Burner is in reality automatic weather, It provides an even heat at whatever tempera- ture you choose, which is maintained automatically, day and night, summer and winter. It starts itself, runs itself and stops itself as though a man stood controlling it for 24 hours a day.

It is absolutely safe and reliable, clean and economical; it means that all your heating and hot water problems have now ceased to exist. The "Electromatle” Oll Burner deals with them all efficiently and consistently.

If you are experiencing trouble with either central heating or domestic hot water installations, let us tell you what it will cost to change over to fuel oil, and further, what it will cost to run.

+

If you are installing new plants don't decide on solid fuel until you have seen the “Electromatic” in operation.

Better

AND COST LESS!

BURLE

༧༥༩་

A double delight

awaits you

BURLEIGH

CIGARETTES

Coo

on her way from Bir