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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1938

The China Hail

Ninety-first Year of Publication.

SA Wyndham Street. Hong Kong. Telephone 20022. London Office:

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OBITUARY

Sudden Death Of

Mr. C. A. da Roza

A SLEEP WALKER'S EXPLANATION

DILEMMAS

PROMINENT BULLION BROKER EMBARRASSMENT AND

The' death took place at his residence, Solar de Roza, May Notice To Contributers.

Road, yesterday, of Mr. Carlos All communications intended for Argusto da Roza, the well-know publication should be addressed to local bullion broker and bead of the Editor, and be socompanied by the firm of Messrs. Roza Brothers. the Writer's Name and Address not necessarily for insertion, but jas a guarantee of good faith.

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Mr. da Roza had been ill for four days before his death and had left his office earlier in the week.complaining of illness. Yes-

terday, however, the doctor at A

DISCOURAGEMENT"

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF

cular feat.

A SOMNAMBULIST ·

(By Dale X. Hayden) ^

not

been able to

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THE

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the stern of the superliner Queen Mary, ready, like a giant fish tail, to compel the waters to obey its slightest turn.

Some idea of the high metal strength of this huge rudder, may

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Somnambulist am I--but not ing into difficulty. But at times be gained when it is realised that so fortunate as a young Swe have tending Mr. da Roza found him much better and the patient him-dish gentleman of whom I once cipate trouble. self said he felt well on the way heard. He arose from his bed one

There is one feature concerning queen. to · recovery. · At 445 pm, he might and in his sleep walked a felt worse and phoned his brother, tight-rope stretched across a river, my somnambulism which seems to weighs 270 tons, which is 90 tons Hong Kong, Friday, August 14. 1936.1. 4. W. da Roza, to tell him to thus winning fame and a hand-be peculiar to myself; I have never heavier than the entire weight of come to Solar de Roza, Mr. da some prize offered for this parti-heard of it in anyone else. Just as the Pilgrim ship "MAYFLOWER”

features Interesting lone is often reminded of a forget- Roza then went to his room pre-

My particular afiction hasten dream by some sight, or sound, Queen Mary's rudder are the two paratory to going to bed, but as

anything but em-for even smell, so am I reminded doors which have been Etted into he reached his bed he fell forward never won me Everyone has heard the story.

ladder running through the "com- Embarrassment the poet who enquired and died before his brother could barrassment, worry and discour-after my walks of faces or places the sides, and the permanent steel

be-I have seen" in my sleep. agement. His death was

cause friends--and strangers- I well remember the first experi-partment" enclosed by the steel walls of the rudder. Inside there have seen me in some most un-ence I had of walking in my sleep.j dignified circumstances; worry I had returned from school rather is ample room for several men to Mr. da Roza was born in Hons because on occasions I have placedļelated, having gained some distine,walk about. Struts and bars hold

Stuff Of Dreams

of whether the Editor was in or reach the house. not. On being told that he was due to heart failure. not, he handed his contribution

Early Career

to the office-boy with the re- mark: "Then just put that in Kong on March 3, 1884, and

was

The great rudder bangs between the wastepaper basket, will educated first at St. Joseph's Col-self in dangerous places; and tion or other, and though only all rigidly in place. rou" The anecdote seems to lege and later at St. Xavier's Col-discouragement because, during eight, had the idea that I was a express very well the general lege, Shanghai. He joined Messrs. the 20 years I have "practised" man and therefore entitled to all the lower two of the ships' four this zocturnal wandering, I have, man's rights and privileges. Im-big propellers, each of which light in which versifiers are Lowe, Bingham and Matthews as excluding ordinary nightmares and agine my disappointment, then, weighs 35 tons. held: seldom taken seriously, an assistant in 1900, but left for walking about the room, taken on to be informed that I should not invariably reviled, a downtrod-England some

an average two major strolls albe permitted to stay up late that neither time nor opportunity to

time later and

den. meek section of humanity while there become an incorpor year and never carmed a penny evening to see a group of friends slip up and retrieve it, I went to lacking all the essential virtues lated accountant and a member of thereby!

at 5.30 p.m.

OBITUARY

Lord Banbury Of Southam

London. To-day.

I Am Nonchalant

ЗУ

and

wide-

friends staring

the jersey, there came to my mem- ory like a flash the view of the

And I had

me.

who were to call on my parentsbed that night worrying about my that ge to make material suc-the A.S.A. He was in England!

It was a humiliated and downcast jersey. What was my surprise cess. It is rather surprising, several years, and on returning to therefore, to read, in the report Hong Kong left Lowe, Bingham But if I have not won fame youngster who reluctantly crawled the next morning on making my of Mr. Stanley Baldwin's recent and Matthews in 1915 and started can at least claim originality. The into his bed that night and fell bed to discover it beneath my pil- speech as Chancellor of Cam-jon his own account. In 1915 he traditional attitude in sleep-walk asleep to the drone of voices drift-low Strange to say, when I saw bridge University to the became a bill and bullion (ex-jing is the slow, stealthy gait, the ing up from the parlour below.

Noiseless Entry Empire Universities Congress, change) broker and founded Roza outstretched of his appeal for more poets. Bros., in which he was helped by open eyes. There are, it is true, I did not remain long in bed. A moonlight-flooded town from the Το .one unfamiliar with the his brother Mr. A. W. da Roza. slight variations from this, but half-hour later found me down in top of the windmill. context of his talk the remark Besides the widow and four defy all these rules. I despise the middle of the parlour, with my never climbed it before!

and slippers CE, -blankly

Delicate Situations might come with something of children, the deceased is survived convention-when asleep. As a cap a shock. But, of course, he by two brothers, Mr. A. W. da matter of fact, several

at all the visitors. My My nocturnal wanderings have was alluding to what a London Roza, the remaining partner of have threatened to disown me un-jarrival had been so noiseless andjat times involved me in situations a moment the which have been both delicate and paper calls the "science and Pol Roza Bros., and Mr. "Gus" da Ro-less I improve my manners by atuncanny that for Econ-ridden age." and his pleajza, well-known member of the least unhooking my thumbs from guests were silent; and duringjembarrassing, and from which, was for singers "who will Jockey Club.

my pyjama girdle and tipping my that moment my mother, tactfully had they been known, only a great inspire Europe and the world The funeral takes place this that (I invariably wear a bat) to motioning them to remain silent, Ceal of explanation and persua-

I took me gently by the hand, whis-sion could have extricated once more with a sense of unity afternoon, passing the Monument y superiors and the ladies and a sense of freedom.”

chance to pass. My nonchalance, pered something to me and led me]Once, as a matter of fact, it be Poets, we all know, are born.

they aver, approaches, insubordina-upstairs to bed without ray waking came necessary For me to enlist and not made; but there is un-1

tion, and my negligence, im-jor knowing anything about it. The the services of a specialist to doubtedly something to be said

modesty. And were it not for the next morning, however, 1 was prove my innocence. for the abandonment of the

fact that my walk is somewhatjable to recall several of the faces: I was at the time attending a "science and Pol. Econ.-ridden"

co-educational slower and my motions unusually ji had seen-but nothing more.

college abroad loutlook and the active cultiva-

I was at and was ́sharing a room with a rhythmic, they could hardly detect Several years later tion of the type of mind that

that I was asleep.

tending a boarding-school in friend in the men's hostel. For- can see beauty in the simple

Though I have never bothered South-West Africa. In the school tunately he was acquainted with things of the spirit and poetry in babbling brooks. Because

The death has occurred of Lord to study somnambulism to find a grounds was a tall windmill and it my habits. As the term examina- cure, it is quite evident that my was a favourite trick of the boys.[tions were just over my mind was in the long run it is the idealists Banbury-Reuter.

as usual at such and dreamers, constantly striv

Frederick George Banbury, first tendency to sleepwalk invariably contrary to rules, to climb to the fatigued, so,

It times, before retiring I asked my ing towards perfection in the Baron Banbury of Southam (er accompanies worry or anxiety, ex- top of this and view the town. mundane things of this world, 1924), was the late Chairman of Cessive physical or mental weari-happened that one evening just room-mate to lock our door and one of the fellows hide the key. This, however, he who leave their influence to be the Great Northern Railway. Helness, and is greater on moonlight before study

nights; consequently, by a little took my rugger jersey and tied it forgot to do, and that evening I felt on the commonplaces of represented Peckham in the Con

1892 to forethought and preparation, like a flag to the railing at the top took a stroll." human relationships. Theirs is servative interest from

Page 5) the inner vision which tran-1906, and was Conservative M.P.asually prevent myself from get- of the windmill. As there scends outward trappings and for the City of London from 1906 is concerned with the ultimate to 1924. He was created a Baronet truth of an idea; whose skill in 1902 and a Privy Councilor in translates drab monotony into 1916. something approaching blessed [escape. There is more per-conspicuous for his uncompromis- manence in the least of Shake-ing opposition to modern speare's sonnets than in all dencies in politics and had the re- your stupid and bombastic non-putation of having blocked the sense about "race purity" passage of more private when tinpot dictators are than any other living member.- nothing but an unpleasant|British Wireless Service. memory the real singers of life Sir Harry Preston and quoted. But they will be London. To-day. The death oc- the real singers, not the sort earred yesterday of Sir Harry! who produce a Newdigate prize Preston, the Brighton hotel proprie- poem once in their lives and tor. sportsman, sponsor of charity never heard of again. boxing tournaments and outstand- Living poetry is a stuff that ing personality with a great num- ! cannot be taught. It either ber of friends in all walks of life? bubbles up like a natural spring In 1927 he received a presentation for it comes with a great gush. Silver Chippendale salver en- There is always behind it a graved with 126 names, including strength of philosophy, some that of the present King as the singleness of purpose or out-Prince of Wales. He was born in look, which is as a consuming 1860 and received his Knighthood fire and cleanses all that it in 1933.-British Wireless Service. touches. It is impossible to

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read such a poem as, for Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Luke, who {instance, "The Hound of were married last Wednesday, Mr. Heaven" without a feeling of and Mrs. L. Rondon and Mr. G. tremendous uplift and a sort of E. R. Divett were

amongst the reverential awe. Here are the passengers who left the Colony inner workings of a storm-yesterday by the sa. Tatsuta Maru tossed soul laid bare and, at the for, Los Angeles via ports: close, such a calm serenity of

valiant resignation as must article portrays. The poet is tremendously inficence all who not concerned with the relative-- contemplate it. There is a nolly unimportant things of life-ar Ress magnificent conception whether your maternal grand- behind "The Testament of mother was or was not a Jew; Beauty," which for its techni-whether South China will win cal innovations no less than for the Football League or not. its ennobling quality caused His concern is, with those spiri- such a stir when the late Foét tual things that complement Laureate first produced the the aesthetic and emotional work some years ago.

side of existence the influence These and other manifesta- of everything that is beautiful: tions of the true poetic spirit and honest and true. Let us in all its grandeur effectually abjure the "Pol Econ-ridden" decry the complaisant and mentality and encourage the patronising attitude which the dreamers to convey to us all the unlettered so often display to-stuff that dreams are made on. wards poets and which the That way lies true serenity and anecdote at the head of this repose.

was

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