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HONGKONG & DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18TH, 192

VACANT GOVERNORSHIP OF

KIPLING ON HIS OLD SCHOOL DAYS.

INTERESTING STORIES.

“Be fit" is the keynote of Kipling' "Land and Sen Tales for "Scouts and Guides."

TASMANIA.

For nearly two years Tasmania has been" without a Governor, though the desire of the people in all parts of the State is to preserve the system of a direct representative of the King, as provided in the constitution. The impressitas has been that the Colonial Office could not find anyone willing to take the postition of Governor, owing to the insufficiant salary, Nou And history gives the naked cause of meu are available, but the

however, it is discovered that suit One single, simple reason in all case+;

Nations have passed away and left no

traces,

They fell because their peoples were no Tasmanent was blocked by the late!

Government in huequent! o

..

There is one lesson at a Times and

Places

One chargeless Truth on all things

changing writ For boys and girls, men, women,

natione, race

a vote of the Avembly adverse to an im ported Governor.

The opinion prevails that it is the business of

of the Colonial Office either to alter the system or make an appointment. Only

one of the two House of Parliament (with a small majority) is adverse to an appointment. The other favours the old The Chief Justice has never been Be the fit. And once again, be fit!

pointed Lieutenan

as in The book exemplifies the versatility of other State, The

Government, Mr. Kipling, and tells in beautiful props holding office on sufferance, and unlikely and occasional verse the responsibility of to last, rrommends that a junior judge youth in preparing for the great adven-should be Lieutenant-Governor, with a sure of citizenship of a mighty Empire. permanent appointment, but there a The opening tale appropriately is the strong feeling against the proposal. It is Withing of the Victoria, Cross" and hoped that & Governor from England will there are yearning stories of the poet's be appointed without delay-Hobart Mer Devon school, of a master-cook, a bold cury. 'prentice, and an unqualified pilot; in

T

fact, eleven stories and seven poems, all HONGKONG SHARE MARKET in the best Kipling style, admirable and

CLOSING QUOTATIONS Laspiring.

From a purely Westcountry point of view, the gem will be An English School," which thinly disguises incidents in the life of Kipling at his old school at Westward Ho!

Of all things in the world there is nothing. always excepting good mother, so worthy of honour as a good school. It stood within

two

miles of Anyas Leigh's house at Nor tham, overlooking the Burroughs and the Pebbleridge, and the mouth of the Torridge, whenes the "Hose kailed in search of Don Guzman. From the front: dormitory windows, across the long rollers of the Atlantic, you could see! Lundy Island and the Shutter Rock,: where the Santa Catherina galloon cheated Amyas out of his vengeance by going ashore.

Through all the five years, Kipling saya he never saw the bead master lose his temper, nor among two hundred boys did one at any time say or bint that he had his favourites. So we trusted the head absolutely at school, and afterwards trust. ed him more." Acurions detail was that the Army class, which meant the prefects, and was generally made up of boys from 173 to 18, or thereabouts, was allowed to smoke pipes. One result of this was that, though these great men talked a great

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The other, which concerned me more! directly, was that it went much harder with a junior whom they caught smok ing than if he had been caught by a

master, because the action was a flagrant invasion of their privilege, and, there fore, rank insolence-to be punished a such. If any head master is anxious to put down smoking nowadays, he might do worse than give this scheme a trisi

The boys were not encouraged to lower each other over the cliffs to take the young bawk and jackdaws from their nests above the sea. Once a rope broke, or else the boys above. grew tired of holding it, and a boy dropped thirty feet on to the boulders below," But as ho fell on his head nothing happened, except punish. ment at the other end for all concerned." Boating was impossible off that coast, but "sometimes & fishing-boat would be wreck ed on Braunton Bar, and we could see the lifeboat and the rocket at work; and just once after chapel there was a cry that herring were in. The school ran down to the beach in their Sunday clothes, and fished them out with umbrellas."

They were cooked by hand afterwards in all the studies and form rooms till you could have smelt us at Exeter.

On the last Sunday of the term the last hymn in the chapel was "Onward, Christian soldiers." We did not know what it means then, nad wo did not caro, "but we stood up and sang it till the music

was ewamped in the rush.

Later

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on, meeting our mon all the world over, the meaning of that hymn became muchLoans granted on approyeż oscaritias.

too plain."

Current Accounts opened_gid Fizad Deposita received at rates which may be There were no public-houses near ascertained on application except taprooms that sold cider; and

The Bank also condugta a farizga Department.

IX. O. LAU, Chief Manager.

raw Devonshire cider can only be drank after a long and very hot paper chase. Wo bardly ever saw and certainly never spoke to, anything in the nature of a woman from one year's end to the other; for our tasters were all unmarried. Later on a littlo colony of mothers came down to live near the school, but their Boas were day boys, who couldn't do this and mustn't do that, and there was a great deal too much dressing up.co week-days and going out to tea, and things of that kind, which, whatever people may say Dowadays, are not help- ful for boys at work.

Canos, especially when they are brought down with a drawing stroke, says Kipling,

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