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is recorded that Father Diego This was a ballot on the three best. as a guarantee of good faith. -

Cera, a member of the Austino and the three worst exhibits. Recoletos Friars, began construe-|| The first three paintings" which tion of the organ in 1818, md received an equal number of votes the tedious task required four-were by Dr. Farley Norris, the years to complete. The 950 bam-Dean of Westminster, Canon RN these days, when events of there goes the last and most 500s of which the organ, is com-bertson of Winchester, and the I these days, when events of there go

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posed were covered for six months Rev. E. Maples Earle, Hong Kong, Thursday, Feb. 20,-1936 with sand from the beach to pre-

serve them from attacks of bam-mouth Art Gallery, where the ex- boo bigs. Since that time the hibition was held, acted as retur Defence Problems

organ has been badly damaged a ling officer. After taking the vote number of times. From 1888 to be passed some constructive crit Undoubtedly one of the most 1917 it was never played. hat icisms upon the paintings. infiuential men in Parliament, is now in perfect working order. butside the Government ori

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ties.

this

fraught with immediate peril to [any which are not manifestly Nationalist minority.

ourselves or are anywise remote

Subject's Liberty from our daily interests.

It is true that Proportional Therefore it is not at all sur. Representation remains; but, It is said that some rebels did not prising that the now imminent whatever the other merits of agree with his remark about the disappearance of the second that system, it is of little prac-

the Chamber in the Irish Free State tical value so far as Dean's "Early Morning on Downs" This was, that in return should have evoked hardly a minority is concerned, having Chamberlain, whose! speeches carry greater weight

for his services as Honorary Cha-ripple of concern on the English regard to the overwhelming than those of perhaps any other

plain to the Royal Academy side of St. Gearge's Channel. strength of the two larger par- member of the House at the Mr. Gordon Mackie Foxley Norris "profited well

from his study of professional chamber government in a coun

Yet the coming of single- present time. Mr. Winston

Nor from the wider stand- In Colony Churchill and Mr. Lloyd George

technique."

try whose laws and constitution point of the liberty of the sub- can always be relied upon to

The names are not divulged of are in the main modelled upon ject is the prospect less alarm- provide the fireworks of BUT ONLY FOR SHORT STAY those who showed the three worst those of England should not be ing. Hitherto in framing their debate; but Sir Austen Cham-

paintings. One of them was by the allowed to pass without notice measures Ministers have had to berlain is more and more being Mr. C. Gordori Mackie, who left hon. secretary of the society, The sequence of events

take account of & can

Chamber looked upon by that large but the Colony on retirement last year, whose paintings may be definitely be summarised very briefly. In where independent judgment is usually inartienlate body of has returned to Hong Kong again. amateurish, but why is a musician March, 1934, a series of dis less easily dragooned than in the solid critics who have no par- this time for a short holiday. He of professional attainments. agreements between the two Dail, and any sometimes, one ticular axe to grind as their arrived on the ss. Corfu yester-

Houses of the Irish Legislature suspects, have been secretly nnofficial spokesman. He is day and when interviewed on

colminated in the Senate's

thankful on occasion for the the acknowledged leader of an board the finer by the China Mail

jection of a bill aimed against check so placed upon their own {"Independent” faction of the said that he had had a very ples-

the Blue Shirt organisation. intransigent followers.. House which does not go under sant trip and was glad to be back

Henceforth a majority of one that name independent” injin Hong Kong once again.

Its Fate Sealed

in the remaining Chamber may the most useful sense of that! When asked what industrial

make what laws it pleases, the Thereupon Mr. De Valera's || word: conforming to the broad conditions in Britain were like

Governor-General being con- ing through the Dail a bill advice of the Ministry. It will abolishing the Senate itself.

This bill was in turn rejected emergency-2

be quite possible, on the plea of The trouble started when little by that body and little more often

plex already Doris declared that she would rather

abused to carry al have half a jam bart than two thirds was heard of the matter at stages of a bill in the course of just before Christmas, the 18) it How often have I tried to tell months' delay permitted by the to present an astonished com- la single sitting of the Dail, and that his you," said the exasperated teacher, Constitution having meanwhile try next morning with a statute from $16.00 per pair. of the thinking man in the many meing friends will be glad that two third of anything is more elapsed, the bill was again pass having already the force of law

country. Party shibboleths, to have the opportunity of meet than half? Now you all know," she

The choice for the Senate was circle in Dublin has received before anyone outside an inner insofar as they are shibboleths, ing him again at the Annual Race went on, that Daris prefers a small ed by the Dail. mean nothing to him; nor do Meeting which opens next Satur-Portion of tart to a large piece. Fm-

my child, isn't she?”

to decide whether it would as any hint whatever of what is slogans, catchwords and the day.

"Please, miss," said Doris, in a sent to its own extinction ❤ other paraphernalia of party

small, dear, piping voice, "I dont have the measure passed over

proposed.

its head by Dail and Governor.

Since The Statuts General alone. It was one of the early matches of

Since the enactment of the Either way, unless a last Statute of Westminister Consti the season, on a ground on which the minute compromise were reach tutional lawyers appear to hold grass was, if anything, a little tooled, its fate was sealed plentiful.

that the Irish Parliament (hen-- The diminutive, but self- important, referee had been giving Already the Oath of Allegi- ceforth synonymous with the little satisfaction.

ance and the right of petition Dail) can repeal any portion of A number of somewhat inexplicable ing. the King in Council have the Constitution, even though decisions has been endured patiently, gone. Now, with the passing of an essential part of the Anglo when, finally, a voice inquired in the Senate, shortly to be follow Irish Treaty. From this it fol

"Why don't they cut the grass so that the referee ed by the abolition of Univer-lows that the existing right of

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| That recognition may be dis- The Times made a good point lusioned, but it is honest. It in its report of the debate when. attempts to face facts as they it said that what the people of are, not as they ought to be in England objected to was not so la perfectly organised society, much the expenditure of money And some of those facts thrust on armaments as a wastage themselves upon the conscions- of the funds, appropriated for nesses of all men at this time that purpose. Only the wilful- Leaving any question of morally blind will fail to admit that! obloquy completely out of the it is the duty of the nation to question, nobody but Mussolini provide adequate defence not and his deluded people really only for its own peoples but for believe that there is anything all those committed to its noble or inspiring about his charge. But it is also obvious) East African venture. Fifty-that the expenditure which two nations have condemned it secures that defence must be at Geneva; and in addition exploited to its best purpose. countless millions of the people The co-ordination of the de

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