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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1936

The China Mail

Ninety-first Year of Publication

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Notice To Contributers.

WEDDING BELLS Here

ASOME LEF

BRIDEGROOM ON STAFF OF

ST. JOSEPEPS COLLEGE

At St. Teresa's Church. Kowloon Tong. yesterday, the wedding was

There and

Everywhere.

solemnised of Mr. Hugh Gregory THE KING AS MUSICIAN Asome to Miss Doris Margaret

:

All communications intended for Lee, the Rev. Father P. Joy, S.J. It is announced that the King has become Patron of the Royal publication should be addressed to officiating. the Editor, and be accompanied by The bride, who is the only thus follows the precedent set by Amateur Orchestral Society. He the Writer's Name and Address daughter of Mr. H. Lee and the not necessary for insertion, but late Mrs. H. Lee of Liverpool, his father and grandfather, who

were both patrons of the society. as a guarantee of good faith.

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LAUGHTER IN THE HOUSE

REMINISCENCES OF

OTHER DAYS

SOME STORIES OF THE LIGHTER SIDE OF POLITICS

(By Rt. Hon. Lord Alness, K.C.)

to

TT is difficult enough, in all,mains a member," one is some-

conscience,

compress times surprised that the supply Immaculate Conception. The new as expressed in “jazz”. He is bridegroom, eldest son of Mr. and also a lover of the bagpipes, which within the limits of a newspaper of would-be members still ex- of ceeds the demand. But the Mrs. J. Asomie of Port-of-Spain-retain the qualities of the most article one's recollections

judicial hmuour. The metes magnetism of Westminster Trinidad, B.WL, is on the teach-{ austere

dia and primitive, art.

The to attract. Jand bounds are even more irk-never fails ing staff of St. Joseph's College. music of the intervening periods some when one addresses one- MP. who, while in the House, Hong Kong, Thursday, July 30, 193s and takes a keen interest in all he grinces less interest.

sporting activities of St. Joseph's! The Royal Amateur," which is self to the topic of Parliamen-may be inclined to curse the air tary humour. Let me at once the food and the tyranny of the College, especially the College severely classical in its approach

to music, has been royal since it say that I aspire to be illustra-Whips, would, once he ceases to tive rather than exhaustive, be a member, often give his The bride, who was given away was founded by the Duke of Edin-and that I shall draw upon a eyes to be back there again. by her father, looked charmburgh 62 years ago.

now, I fear, somewhat slender The lure may be mysterious, ing in a white satin gown trimmed

store of personal memories but its existence is beyond con- At the beginning of last with tiny white roses, and carried FROM COWES TO QUEEN'S HALL rather than cite examples of troversy or doubt. month was celebrated the cen-la bouquet of white tube roses.

Scottish Heckling Miss Betty Ribeiro, as brides- It started from a conversation Parliamentary humour which tenary of the birth of Joseph

have become classical and I have referred to elec- Chamberlain. His active life maid, wore a pink silk dress set in the seventies between the Duke.]

therefore commonplace.

tioneering. If I may be per- was suddenly cut short in 1910; of with a hat to match and car-who was a keen violinist, his secre-

May I say a word or two mitted a personal recollection, he died just a month before thejried a sheaf of pink gladioli tary & capable pianist - and

about the background of these I would say that often, after outbreak of the Great War. Mr. C. X. Dragon, of the S. C. Sir Arthur Sullivan.

at an After making music together on memories? I must own that I speaking for an hour Thus a full quarter of a cen-M. Post, undertook the duties of tury has passed since he was a best man- Miss Linda Gosano the Royal yacht Galatea, they be one of those who regard the election meeting in Scotland, I bright and burning flame in was at the organ.

gan counting up other music-lovers House of Commons, with one have been heckled by the audi- dubious exception, as the most ence for an even longer period. English politics, and it is more Among those present were than 30 years since he quitted Rev. Brothers of St. Joseph's and invited on board for a musical interesting place in the world. The Scottish heckler is of an Westminster: with all it stands unique variety. He is prover the Colonial Office and resigned La Salle Colleges, the lay staff of evening.

for, opens doors to more attrac bially astute and persistent. from the Government in order St. Joseph's College and a few

tive resorts than any other He will not be put off by that he might carry on his intimate friends.

RESUME of which I am merely jocular but irrelevant crusade for Tariff Reform with By kind permission of the Rev. foundation of the society. In its open.

Indeed, the House of reply. May I illustrate? greater freedom and somewhat less embarrassment to his poli- Father N. Maestrini, a reception early days the Duke of Edinburgh aware.

was given at the Parochial Hall, often occupied a desk among the Commons itself is a never-fail-remember speaking one evening tical Chief, Mr. Balfour. Til

student of human nature. · blems are a never-failing source 1885 he was regarded by the On leaving for the honeymoon, first violins at its concert. These ing source of interest to the in Galashiels, where Tweed prod

Undoubted Facts

of interest and where poaching For the first 22 years of its progressive forces of the time which is being spent at Macau, are now held at Queen's Hall.

To say that it is the most prosecutions are not infrequent- as the natural successor to the Mrs. Asome wore a blue silk dress

flourishing existence, during which it has raised over £10,000 for critical, and at the same time This question was suddenly : Liberal leadership when Mr. with coatee to match. Gladstone quitted the stage. It

charities, Sir Arthur Sullivan was the most generous assembly in shot at me from the back of its conductor.

the world is to record a com-the hall: "When God made the may well be difficult for those

monplace. To say that a mem-fishes, did He make them for who only remember Joseph

ber may stand higher in its the common people or the land- Chamberlain as the champion

esteem if he commits a foured gentry-which ?" of British imperialism and the

pas. and then whole-heartedly With, I fear, a feeble attempt apostle of tariff reform to con-

The ink and blotting paper are

and at humour, I replied: "I am expresses his regrets. ceive him as the darling hope

the most unsatisfactory features of

record an sure that my friend at the back most post offices,"

a cor. apologises, is to declares

of the hall can answer that respondent. Although the pens have equally undoubted fact

When one has regard to the question just as well as I can— their had points.

rough road of electioneering by probably better; for he may be "When purchasing an electric radio which a member arrives at the more closely in the confidence

EXPLANATIONS

of all that was advanced and The

extreme in British Radicalisza.

Many Conservative suppor-

ters did not forget-though

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they schooled themselves to: QUIS BERNARD (1798-1858) forgive the author of biting Llude amorney of femmes set, what the most important poist House, to the absorption of his of the Almighty tha phrases and audacious projects France. volunteered to

defend to remember?" asks a correspondent time which conscientious mem-claim to be." This might have which challenged the very General Jean Travot on a trumped Say, perhaps, that you mast eventual-bership entails when he has passed muster, and ended the

ly pay for it.

arrived there, and also to the matter, at, say, the Lambeth citadels of Toryism, Whigism, up charge of treason before a

another exacting demands of the aver-Baths. Not so. however, in and Liberalism alike. He had Military Court on March 20, 1816. A solemn thought: In no sympathy and small patience The defendant was quickly found couple of decades each of five young age constituency while he re-Galashiels. After the titter created by the irrelevant reply with Liberals who were ready guilty and sentenced to death, the men is likely to be known only as to sacrifice everything to a execution being set for a few the husband of one of the Dionne father. You never hear Claude doing had subsided, the voice from the back of the hall was stern, theory and simply gaped in in-hours thence. Bernard moved that quints.

Self-Made Man: "Pity e it as

"And now answer the ques- Towels activity at imperial and inter- the sentence be set aside until the

careful with is vowels-'e's got national problems because they King had had a chance to con- Married Daughter: "I do wish L. 0. L. lying about all over the tion!!!

(Continued On Page 10) refused to be solved according sider a plea of mercy. The King you'd learn not to drop your aspirates,Į place." to their sentimental or selfish was in Versailles, five days away. formulae. Chamberlain cer and Mrs. Travot was then on her tainly tempered his Radicalism way to see him. On his motion when his fidelity to the Unionist being denied. Bernard moved that principle made him the ally of the be permitted to present his the Conservatives; but in SO arguments in support of the doing he democratised the motion.

The Court consented, and Conservative party and

gave Bernard spoke incessantly for five practical shape to the creation days and five nights, until Mrs. of a Tory democracy,

Travot returned with the King's That was a supreme achieve commutation of the sentence, ment. Nor does it stand alone which saved the General's life. "I believe," said Chamberlain After the trial, the weary tribunal in 1895, "that the British race imposed a jail sentence upon the is the greatest of governing lawyer for having "tricked the races that the world has ever Court out of exercising its duty." seen." Doubtless other states-

men before him had been of

similar mind, but he was the House Of Four Towns

first to proclaim it as an article

not only of faith but of action. THE

house owned by R. Kuehn Chamberlain was the greatest at. 771 Irvington Avenue, imperialist that Whitehall has Maplewood, NJ, has been in four seen. The Federation of Aus- towns, but has never been moved. tralia was his work. He was It was built in Vailsbury 25 years fired by the vast imperial con-ago. Vailsburg became part ceptions of Rhodes for Africa. of Newark and the town line was He had noble visions of changed. Then it was decided imperial federation which have the vicinity was to be part of resulted in what we now call Irvingten, and the line was again another Thereafter the British Commonwealth of changed

Nations. It was his vision change was made and the ground which foresaw, and his practi- became a part of Maplewood-all cal genius which realised, that three of the other towns bor either the parts of the British dering.. Empire must be bound more

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Be failed,

even in South Africa, when of the hurricane. time has grown a little older, and the devastating force of the his name will be reckoned hurricane made complete re- among the true founders of the pair inevitable. No other man Union, og det er In 1905-6 could have done so It was his imperialiam that much. What was his sei-et aviv

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