1934-02-03 — Page 9

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1934,

APPOINTMENTS AND LOCAL NEWS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Two New Justices Of The Peace

LADY DOCTOR ADMITTED TO PRACTISE

His Excelency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Captain Douglas Walter Mortlock, 1st Bat talion Straits Settlements Volun. teer Force, to be a local Temporary Captain,

Captain Mortlock was Acting Caplain of "A" Gun) Company of the Volunteer Corps.

BREVITIES

HMS. Berwick, of the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, returned to H«ng] Kong yesterday from exercises.

The dress rehearsal of the "Pirates of Penzance" will take place at t e King's Theatre at 9.30 to-morrow morning.

The Hong Kong University Arts Association are giving a perform ance of Oscar Wilde's ply, "The formerly importance of Being Earnest" in (Machine the Great Hall of the University at Singapore 9.15 this evening.

Mr. Im Ping-tseung has been ap pointed to act na Assistant Sec tary to the Sanitary Board. with ef-

- fect from January 27, 1934, until

further notice.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Sutor, of Shang- hal, who were married in Hong

|

COURT OFFICIAL LAID TO REST

Burial Of Late Mr. E. L. Stainfield.

LARGE GATHERING PAYS LAST TRIBUTE

THE CHIN

To-day's

ON

Short Story.

MARITS.

THE BOOK

of

By Margaret Irwin

He snatched at both the "Marius":

a foggy night in November. that there was still space for a large The remains of the late Mr. E. L. Mr. Corbett, having guessed book. He said to himself, in cara- ful and precise words: "This is Stainfield, Clerk and Usher of the the murderer by the third chap-

nonsense. No one can possibly Supreme Court, were yesterday laldster of his detective story, arose have gone into the dining-room and to rest in the Protestant Cemetery, in disappointment from his bed removed a book while I was cross- Happy Valley, in the presence of a and went downstairs in search of ing the hall. There must have been

arap, before In the second shrif": large gathering of friends, relatives, something more satisfactory to But another part of his mind kept court officials and members of the send him to sleep.

saying, in a hurried, tumbled tor- legal profession.

"There was no gap in thej The fox had crept through the rent: The Rev. W. Walton Rogers con-closed and curtained windows

second shelf.” Kong on Thursday, after the arri-ducted the service at the graveside the dining-room and hung thick on and "The Old Curiosity Shop" and val of the bride from Europa by the; Among those present were Mr. the air, in a silence that acemed as went to his room in a hasts that a.s. Conte Rosso, are spending their H. L. Stained, (brother), Mr. and heavy and breathless as the fog. was unnecessary and absurd.. The appointments of Mr. Wal er honeymoon at the Repulse Bay Mrs. W. Wendt (uncle and aunt),

The dining-room bookcase was the different light.

To-night, Dickens struck him in a Morris Thomson and Mr. Jo Hotel.

Mr. A. Pike (uncle), Mr. C. Stirlin...,

Beneath the au- Henry Burkill Lee, to be Justines

Mr. and Mrs. J. Brown and Mr. J. only considerable one in the house thor's sentimental pity for the weak of the Peace, havo bren gazette.

At the next meeting of the Hong Pearne (cousina), Messra. A. R. and held a careless unselected ealand helpless he could discern are The name of Mr. Tan Che-cheong Kong Branch of the English Ass Abbas, E. Abraham, R. Abraham, lection to suit all the tastes of the volting pleasure in cruelty and has been added to the List of Au-jciation at the Helena May Inst ́t te M. Ackber, F. X. D'Almada (snr.),

suffering. ditors authorised to practise in the at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday next, the the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabastor, Mr.household, together with a few dulures of the people in Cruikshank's]

while the Frot'aque Hon. Sir Henry Pelock KC. LL D. w. R. N. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. and obscure old theological books Illustrations revealed too clearly the The name of Mra. Ruth Gwen- will deliver a lecture on "Kipling's W. Brown, Messrs. B, H. Charles, that had been left over from the hideous distortions of their souls. dolwyn Nash. M.B., B.S., (Sydney, Poems."

R. Drude, W. S. Glendinning, Mt.sale of a learned uncle's library, What had seemed humorous DOW N.S.W.), of 1 King's Terrace, Tak

and Mrs. A. Grimmitt, Mesara, T.

appeared diabolic, and in disgust at Shing Street, Kowloon, has been Hours of transmission from the M. Hazlerigg, J. A. Howe, S. R. Cheap rad novels bought on railway these two old favourites he turned added to the Register of Medical local broadcasting station during small, Mr. Justice R, E. Lindsell, stalls by Mrs. Corbett, who thought to Walter Pater for the repose and Practitioners of the Colony. the month of January totalled Messrs. E. P. H. Lang, Q. A. A. a journey the only time to read, dignity of a classic spirit.

242.25, of which 160.25 hours were Macfadyen, W. B. Musk tt, W. Old devoted to European programmes R. Pestonji, U. Rumjahn, A. H. and 82 hours to Chinese. New

the Rumjahn, A. Spary, D. O. de Silva, intruders among

Colony.

numbered 350.

erere thrust in like pert undersized respectable

AMERICA'S FOREST licenses issued during the month. White. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Mr. nineteenth-century works of culture, Justice J. R. Wood, and others. chastely bound in dark blue or

The grave was covered with a

green, which Mr. Corbett had con-

EXTENSION

268,785 Acres Purchased For £107,877

Washington, D.C.

The National Forest Reservation Commission has approved the pur.) chase of 268,785 acres of land for extending national

forests.

al a

YACHT CLUB BALL. Successful Function At Peninsula Hotel.

LADY PEEL PRESENT

profusion of wreaths, among them sidered the right thing to buy dur-

being those from Dad And Flo,

MONDAY'S STORY

Monday's story will be "Air Lock A.G. 75," by Simpson Stokes.

But presently he wondered if this

Alma and Matt, Bertie, Peter and ing his Oxford days; beside these Chas, Edith and Jack, Gladys. Ha- there swaggered the children's bel. John, Henry and Billy, Clair, large gaily bound story-books and Percy and Yvonne. Ida and Austen, ollections of fairy tales in eve.y spirit were not in itself of a mar Pete and Chas, Uncle, Auntle and colour.

pie quality, frigid and lifeless, con- Margaret, Uncle Harry and Aunti“ From among this neat new cloth-trary to the purpose of nature. "I The annual ball of the Royal Maude, Uncle Alf and Auntie Min-bound crowd there towered here and nave often thought," he said to him- cost of $539,385 (£107.877). The on Kong Yacht Club, held last nie. the Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, there a musty sepulchre of learning, seif, "that there is something evil money will come out of the $20. night in the Roof Garden of the Mr. F. C. Jenkin, Mr. Justice R. E. brown with the colour of dust rather in the austere worship of beauty for 000,000 ($4,000,000) of public Peninsula Hotel, drew some

Lindsell, Mr. Eldon Potter, Messrs. than leather, with no trace of gild- its own sake." He had never works funds set aside by the pre- guests in all, including Lady Peel. F. X. D'Almada e Castra (snr.) and ed letters, however faded, on thought so before, but he liked to sident for the purchase of addition-ccompanied by Captain R. F. Wal-F. X. D'Almada e Castro (jnr), Mr. crumbling back to tell what lay in think that this impulss of fancy

Justice J. R. Wood, Messrs, G. K.'side.

A few of these mor band was the result of mature considera- Hall Brotton, Messrs. Lo & Lo, survivors from the Dean's library tion, and with this satisfaction he Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master,, were inhospitably the K.C.C. committee and members, rusty clasps; all remained closed,

fastened with composed himself for sleep.

He woke two or three times in! Messrs. Tso and Hod son. Lammert and appeared impenetrable, their the night, an unusual occurrence, of the Magistracy; blank forbidding hacks uplifted but he was glad of it, for each time

al lands for national forests.

The lands to be bought are

South

ter, A. D. C.

In

Other gues's

Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee. North Care lina,

Carolina, Georgia. Florida.. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Michigan. Wisconsin and Min- nesota. Reuter.

GOLD RISES TO NEW RECORD PRICE

(Continued from Page 11.

270

included Commo-

dore Frank Elliott, R. N. and Mrs. Elliott, and the Commodore of the Yacht Club. Mr. A. L. Shields, and

Mrs. Shields.

Bros, atal

its

The decoration of the room was watchmen of Supreme Court, and above their frivalaus surroundings he had been dreaming hor.ibly of]

in keeping with the occasion.

Each pillar bore a shield of one of the yacht clubs in the East, the clubs represented being Singapore, | Shanghai, Bhopal, Madras, Aden,¡

Colombo Motor Yacht Club, Kara-

others.

FUNERAL OF LATE

chi, Rangoon, and Naini Tai, The CAPT. BRAMWELL. crest of the local Club was placed

over the table ut which the official Burial At Happy Valley

supper party were seated.

Oars

139/6d, per ounce, which greatly were in position on either side of stimulated the market in gold min the pillars. The shields were the, ing shares.

work of Mrs. Vernall and Mrs. Ro- Newspapers note that yesterday's bertson. gold price was not fixed on the ster ling-franc rate which has been the orchestra, practice since England abandoned! the gold standard in 1931, but on the basis of supply and demand.

Gold to the value of £840,000 was purchased.

France

R.A.F. PRAISED

(Continued from Page

Yesterday.

with the air of acorn that belongs: to a private and concealed know. ledge

these blameless Victorian works. and Sprightly devils in whiskers peg-top trousers tortured a lovely maiden and leared in delight at h r anguish: the gods and heroes of

classic fable acted deeds whose

It was an unusual flight of fancy for Mr. Corbett to imagins that the vaporous and fog-ridden air that seemed to hang more thickly about naked crime and shame Mr. Co.be.t the bookcase was like dank and had never appreciated in Latin and

poisonous breath exhaled by one or other of those slowly rotting valumes.

He hurriedly chos ↓ Dickena

Greek Unaeens.

dozes

that

When he had awakened in a cold sweat from the spectacle of the The funeral of the late Captain

ravished Philomel's torn and Bleed- A. B. W. Bramwell, who died sud- from the second shelf as appropriate ing tongue, he decided there WAI Music was provided by the hotel denly at the St. Francis Hotel on to a London fox, and had returned nothing for it but to go down and Thursday morning, took place at to the foot of the stairs when he get another book that would turn Happy Valley yesterday, the Rev.decided that his reading night his thoughts in some more pleasant [G. T. Waldegrave, Chaplain of the should by contrast he of blue Italian direction. But his increasing re- Mission to Seamen, offelating at skien and white statuas, in beautiful luctance to do this found a hundred

he graveside.

rhythmle sentences. He went back excuses. The recollection of the gap A few friends. ttended, among for a Walter Pater.

in the shelf now recurred to him) The brisk demand for francs was

He expressed particular ap-hem being Messrs. D. Purves and He found "Marius the Epicurean" with a sense of unnatural import-

tipped aldaways across the rap left ance; in the troubled attributed by the Press to the repreciation of the work of the E. Campbell.

the Indian Royal Air Force on quirements of dealers for purchases Frontier where, in close conjunc-Mick and Annie, E. Campbell, P. Curioalty Shon."

Wreaths were sent by Jock. Bob, by his withdrawal of "The Old followed, this gap between two books of gold from the Bank of

seemed the most hideous deformity, for shipment to America.

tion with the Army, it assisted T. Farrell, Capt. and Mrs. W. T. It was a very wide gap to have like a gap between the front teeth in maintaining law and order Hodger, B. H. Waller, St. Francis heen left by a single volume, for of some grinning monster. Francs appreciated, in terms of with a minimum expenditure of Hotel's staff, and the Institction of the books on that shelf had been But in the clear daylight of the sterling, from 77.27/32 to 764. life and money. British Wire-Engineers and Shipbuilders of closely wedged together. He put morning Mr. Corbett came down to the Dickens back into it and saw the pleasant dinning-room, its sunny windows and smell of coffes and =|toast, and ate an undiminished breakfast with a mind chiefly orcu- pled in self-congratulation that the wind had blown the fog away in time for his Saturday game of golf. Whistling happily, he was pouring out his dual cup of coffee when his hand remained arrested in the, nét,, as his glance, roving acros bookcase, noticed that there now no gap at all in the second, shelf. He asked who had been at: the bookcase already, but neither off the girls had, nor Dicky," and Mrs

Tho Corbett was not yet down, maid never touched the books.

War Loun, 3% per cent., closed at less Service.

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LITTLE CHANGE ON

WALL STREET

(Continued from Page 1).

1

:

Business reached a high figure. 2,870,000 shares being trad:d.

In their market report, Mesars. E.

A. Pierce and Company, through their local correspondents, Messrs. Asia Landa, Ltd., state:-

"There is still a substantial amount of profit-taking. There is nothing aggressive on the selling alde, however, and we may have in irregular resting spell for a time, although the daily market holds re- latively firm, serving probably to re- move the danger of a sharp shaker out. Utilities are finding somewhat greater favour,

"Wheat: Local, liquidation, in the absence of outside buying, la dia-, uppointing the Trade.ava "Cotton: There has been addi tional long realization. Speculative buying, was not no aggressive, but business, after a wank opening, rai- lled slightly, scattered buying being encouraged by the firmness of the stock market, which off at the de cline in the Bierling exchante, and the heavines on the London, and Shanghai markets!

Hong Kong.

Venice In Grip Of Winter.

Venice, Italy, Bnow and ice have bem the portion of Vasice during absent wanka,, and this-pie;

(urs is rare in that it depicts sis wat seldom seen

Canal in Venice have to pick their way, throng? to do so. Even the fanied" pigcons of it: Mark

opma wasther,,

is not pften that, ha gondöllers on tha" Grand iting den, but this time it wan, posable for them

hava, given way before": the unwel

the was

They wanted to know what book hai missed In It, which made him, look foolish, as he could not say.

"I thought there was a gap in the second shelf," he said, "hut" it doesn't matter”.

A

"There naver is a gap in the second · shelf,” sanid: little-- Jean brightly. You can take out lots of books from it, and when you go, back the gap's always filled up. Haven't you noticed that? I have

„Nora, the middle ons in are, sAIT) Lean wan""; always being' silly; tha had been found crying over the funny pictures in the "Rose and the Ring because she said all the people, in them had sochy wicked

NOTHING LIKE IT EVER BEFORE!

NOTHING LIKE IT EVER AGAIN!!

AT

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