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Y.M.C.A.
Lovers of art should not fail to visit during the hext few days, the Chinese Y.M.C., in Bridge Street, where a selection of paintings are being shown. The exhibition began yesterday, and will conclade on April 5th. The artists are Mrs. J. L McPherson (British),--and Mera Ko Kim Fu, Ko Kei-Fung, Chan Shu Yan (Chinese), and Mr. K. Kojyo (Japanese).
END,
1925
CHARGES AGAINST INDIAN. PRACTISING WITHOUT PERMIT AND POSSESSING POISONS, The bearing of the case in which Hakim Karin Bax, of the Indian Mosque, is charged with practising medicine without permit and with illegal posscasion of poisons, was continued before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy
yesterday morning.
Mr. Whyte-Smith appeared for the Crown' and Mr.-Elsiey Zaitlyn, barrister at-law, for the defence.
CORRESPONDENCE.
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NATIONAL MUSIC,
“A correspondent who recently asked the THE VALUE. OF SILENCE..
source of a quotation: used in connection * KONGKONG- with, some editorial comments on the ITO TER EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS.
work. of GILBERT and SVELIYAT may ba Si-Since reading the report of the interested in the following extract of a ey. TB Powell's interesting sermon lecture given at the Royal Institution mind a sentence from that fascinating Exxis It may be added that it is the above subjects. I have recalled to on June Sud, 1999 by Mr. Mauzick Hindu scripture The Bhagavad Gita" considered an Honour to lecture at the running as follows: "In the quietude of Royal Institucion and we may therefore the senses and the tranquility of the assume that Mr. MAURICE BARING is an mind a man may behokk the Majesty, oll authority on the subject which he dis- the Self" The text of Sunday wogcussed. The extract is as follows:-
The inte Arthur Strong, who was ing's sermon was Be still and know
only a scholar of encyclopaedie know- that I am God. May it not be that both librarian of the House of Lords, and not these quotations-bear on the same thing; ledge, hut who also had a rare apprecia- and that the words "Be still," can be tion of all the arts, and an appreviation interpreted as addressed to the restless based on knowledge, used to say that the greatest English composer England had senses and ratiocinative picture-making produced since the days of Purcell was and Ruddigore, and not the Sullivan of mind! Without a doubt in places where Arthur Sallivan, the Sullivan of Pinafore outer silence combines with surroundings the Golden Legend, and that compared of beauty restful to the age it is easier with him most of our modern composers to attain to peace of mind than anidit were but the grammarians of music.
We may add that Mr. Macaca Bering, tumult and bustle, but, in seeking the silences for the purpose of securing peace throughout his lecture, warmly praised You went to see the Hakim about, a of mind, we are confronted with the in- the music to be found in the operas of teresting and fascinating questions as to GILBERT and SULLIVAN, It is, of course, a matter of taste whether music of etttlement?--Yes, I did.
what this mind is that must be rendered
The last witness to give evidence at the Mrs McPherson is the exponent of Western Art, and amongst the exhibitors previous day's hearing. Sergeant. J. Heavy Battery, her paintings are undoubtedly superior Mohamined, of the to any in her creative art. Hor two RG.A., W8 cross-examined at length by painting, "Sea-Nymph" and "Myterious Night
Me Whyte-Smith: When you were
are original, intense, mystical Mr.. Whyte Smith. Ast, that is truly great is the expression of the artist's personality. Faintings, to be of artistic value should cover the full told there was a plot against the Hakim story of that which the artist wishes to in the hope that the police would take portray. If the scene is joyous, then rap proceedings against him, you did not ture must live in the painting. These think it was your duty to warn him two paintings immediately convey to ou a mystical pensiveness. That what Witness: No, it was not my duty to the artist sought to do, and in that she warn the Hakim or anybody else bas succeeded.
The three Chinese artists are consider ed to be among the foest in South China. In Ko Kei Fung we have the bird and animal artist and his pictures of the gay
phoenix are well done
When you went to see Hakim, about
to the cantatus of Strengs, but, it is peacock, the keen-eyed heron, and the this matter it did not occur to "you to tranquil, what it' is that in us is deeper) Pianfore and Ruddigore is preferred warn him. about this plot against him than, our usual workaday mentality. The
lower mind is indubitably a very restless the taste of most people and it is cot The Hakim is not my officer.
piece of machinery, and frequently ex- hibits an almost exasperating activity wanting endorsement by musiuni autköri– when we wish it to cense its persistenties.
One feels disappointed in that Mr. Chan Shu Yan has so few pictures in the exhibition. He is the painter of Nature in her glory; when Spring runs riot in TAKE A PEG the country side. One sees sunabine in all his work He brings to one's mind the nature love of Wordsworth.
Ko Kim Fu is a versatile artist. He
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You knew that the plot would, con- tinue, the plot that would have gor Hakim into trouble 1-I did not know whether
it would continue or not..
meanderings and pictorializations. As
for example, a man will have been ment ally picturing over and over again some
MISSION OF HELP. LETTER FROM THE BISHOP.
His Worship: You have been smart loves nature in her wildness, the tempest enough to get it fixed up with Hakim to
The following is a letter from the whipping the trees, the ruggedness of mountain and glen,He retains, how get yourself subpoenaed. Did you ar- succession of incidents which have wor ever, some of the old Chinese style, a few range with the Hakim to get yourself ried him during the day. He wishes to Bishop of Victoria (the Right Rev. C. R Bishop's House, Hongkong, 23rd March, 1925. of his nature pictures being vegry crude.subpoenaed, knowing that your evidence sleep. But his mind insists upon auto-Duppuy), to the members of his discese:— MY DEAR FRIENDS.-On March 13th the On the other hand, his picture of Lofung would be more valuable if you were submatically running over the disturbing auc-
us through Tower is well executed.
K. Kojo's paintings, are distinctly poenaed? Is it true you fixed it all up cession of events when de, the man," wants different! He portrays a different type with the Hakim-No, I did not do any to he at peace and go to sleep, A. duality following cable reached
hers evidence itself. The man and his Beuters: At the request of the bishops of the Church in China the Archbishop of scenery, some of kaleidoscopic colour,
Hthing of this.
Did you give him over-active mind have for the moment of Canterbury is sending two priests to others of serenity and peace.
His Worship: aristry is a wonderful example of minute observation. There is indeed grandeur the names of any other people who you conflicting tendencies. The fact that we visit missionaries. English communities, Woods, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Cam and exquisiteness in his picture of "Snow thought would give evidence for him can switch. our minds from the considera in the Chinese Coast dioceses Canoni
Can ste priest has not yet been chosen." The exhibition has been arranged by I did not know a subpoena would be tion of one subject to the consideration bridge, sails early in October. The second.
This means that for the Mission af. thinking of Hongkong and echintrace Messrs. Moffatt and McPherson at the issued at all. Why should I give such of another subject, that Chinese Y.M.C.4. to enable the, Chinese
thinking of London, shows that to some Help to English speaking congregations in China, one of the missioners will be nt the Ching Ming festival period to see
extent our mental processes are under the Rev. Canon E. S. Woods, brother of these works of art.
uur direction. But a wax, standing in & the Bishop of Winchester who was the basket cannot lift himself by the handles louder of the recent Mission of Belp ta ̈ That which can even partially govern and India. control the mind must necessarily he superior to, greater than the mind There are sages in India who would te one that much in the same way that the surface of a lake ruffed by wind
on the Mount of Fung
Loi,"
LOCAL SPORT, BILLIARDS.
CHAMPIONSHIP OF COLONY AT V.RO.
At the Vistoria Recreation Club, last night, in the billiards tournament for the championship of the Colony. Ng Sze Kwong defeated Joiner Restall, in the second round, by 800-386.
BEST BREAKS.
The best breaks made were: Ng Sac Evong: 39, 38, 4, 33, 30, 27, 26, 21, 16, 18, 17, 16, 14, 14. 18, 18, 19, 11, 11, 10,.10.
Joiner Restall: 17, 13, 14, 13, 10. To-night, Ng Sze Cheung and C. X Tsang will meet in the second round To-morrow's game is between Corp Blonden and P: S. Leung.
date.
FOOTBALL.
K.C.C. K.F.C.
information..
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1- suggest to you that you are the man who ran the whole of the defence of the Hakim and that you. £xed the whole thing up with him, arranged which witnesses should be called, and that they should be subpoenaed; and that some bave tot been called because their evidence did not suit-I suggest you ran the whole thing and arranged the whole of the defence 1flect only broken images of the most It is not trum
Canon Woods is Chairman of the Life and Liberty Movement, and is one whene delightful personality and keen spiritual insight will be an inspiring force in our midst. During the War, Canon re- will calm will to serve in France was Chaplain at thes gorgeous moon, but plection of glory, Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Ho who was not allowed for health reasons
your battery and you are very proud of winds it; is it a good battery —Yes.
the moon in its
for
Woods
so the mind of man, when fretful and has a connection with this diocete as from There is a lot of coprit de corps in storm-tossed with worries, anxiety or the 1920-1929 he was good enough to act as
ardinary thought processes, will one of my commissaries in England. not prove
reflecting
The Mission will visit Hongkong early vehicle suitable inspirations from the higher, Diviner, next year. It is proposed that the "Forthcoming Mission of Help "should part of him to manifest through for the sweetening of this world, but "In the be the special subject of discussion at the quietude of the senses and the tranquility Church of England Diocesan Conference of the mind better conditions to be held next month-Your Friend and
Bishon, are offered.
And when a European civiliza accuses one of your men of stealing anything, naturally you are all very angry 1-How? I put it to you that that the whole of your battery have been looking for Abbas Khan ever since be charged one of your regiment with stealing a sack of attar (a food used for mules) 1-The fifth bat tery have nothing to do with this man. But is it all the same regiment
Yes
Then it is true that this man was charged with stealing a sack of attar by Abbas Khan t→Yes.
.
Most of us can mentally picture a secne, ear former home, a friend's face, a ship, but if we really want to find out how little our mind is under our control, it is very easily discoverable, by attempting to hold still even for ten seconds one of our mental, mind's eye, pictures! And schoolboys and scholarly professors, actors bending the attention to even one sub- and second matca, know full well that
U. E. VICTORIA, HONGzona.
LORD KNUTSFORD'S THANKS CHARMING LETTER TO MISS CAPELL
Miss Violet Capell has received the following letter from Viscount Knuts lord in reply to one which she sent to
I think the man was acquitted --You.ject or line of thought, for any length It was a disgraceful thing and it was of time at a stretch is an extremely diff a thing that should never have been cult thing, the mind continually wander him together with a remittance, heing rought against him Therefore, you are ing off and having to be reined in. In part of the proceeds of the charity
Landon Hospital all very naturally angry with Abbas cidentally it might be mentioned that the entertainment given by her pupils at the 21st February, 1995 Khan for doing it--Why should we he habit daily practiced of paying "divided Queen's Theatre on January 7th and 9th- lacing a pair of boots or totting up the
DRAR MISS CAPELL, I really cannot go angry about it. If he did do anything attention to any task, trivial even
figures of a bill-doing things with con- wrung be should be punished for it.
It is not an unnatural thing that you tration in other words, is the long on calling you "Dear Madame" in view Ramsay, Hyde, H. G. Howard, J. should all be angry with Abbas Khan. cen
a place. However, how am I even to try gradually and very slowly-built Do not your officers know it is so-Not and somewhat arduous way in which is of your wonderfal kindness to this great.
A sporting arrangement has been made between the Kowloon Cricket Club and the Kowloon Football Club, whereby the Cricket Club will meet the Football Club football next Saturday on the K.F.C. enclosure, and the footballers will play a return gans of cricket against the K.C.C. on the latter's ground at a later The K.C.C.'s team of footballers for next Saturday will consist of:-A., W. F. Goodwin (captain), J. C. Maltby, F. M. Hast, Capt. S. Frury, N. Trambitzky, G. B. Slipper, and D. E. Banner Reserves: A. J; Kow, L. Jack, Trainer: G. Herridge;, Mascot W. F. J. Corvin: Linesman S E. Green; Manager: E. Abraham..
Kick-off, 4.30 p.m.
and J. Fruser.
H.V.D.C. RIYLE MEETING. The Annual Corps Rifs meeting will be held at Kowloon City Rifle Rangu (A) on April 11th, 12th and 13th, competitions to be bred off as under:-
necessarily.
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up a
His Worship: It seems to be quite someth mentioning that things done hard work. If we had a Golden Book of
Does not Captain Clemente, your com.measure of power to control the mind and thank you and all thor delightful manding officer, know that you are all The things done may be trifling, but the pupils for this wonderful bolt from the power that is built up by the way in blue! £80 is a positive godsend here, and Father fed up with Abbas Khan 1
I do not know whether our commanding which they are done with concentration I do so like to feel that it follows not of extraordinary value. It only the keenest sympathy, but also real officer knows it or not.
in this way are also necessarily better Benefactors here, the school would cer- Do please, if you can, thank everyone done, trivial or not. A column of figures tainly deserve a place on the front page. added with one-pointed attention is far less likely to have to be gone over two concerned in this is warmly as over you. Or three times than if concentration is can on my behalf.
As a very slight record of your remark- lacking.
I
obvions to me that they all have every reason to dislike Abbas Khan, bat when this man comes and says he is as much a friend of Abbas Khan's a Hakim is, it does not seem very credible.
Mr. Zeitlyn: From what you have
And what & merciful relief from so able help, I am taking the liberty of Dow said, sit, it seems that Abbas Khan much unhappiness it would be if when the nominating you as an Honorary Life April 11th: Jar Competition, Corps from his actions does not set to on a thought of a certain thing meant misery, Governor of the Hospital. No respon Championship, Tyro Championship, At-gentleman who would scruple to get anyone could compel the mind simply not to sibility attaches, but it is the only form I hope you will regard it-Yours very tack Competition, Revolver Competition one into trouble; and I hope, sir, you (open, and for members of the Corps); will bear that is mind when I remind think of it, completely drop it, and turn of recognition in our power, and as such
to more cheerful
that it is through the portale truly, April 19th: Blake Shield, Francis Cup, you of it later,
To the witness, Mr. Zeitlyn mid: I of the stilled mind-that is to be found Reserve Challenge Cup, Tile Competition Machine and Lewis' Gun, has been suggested to you that you helped the fragrant avenue that leads to spiritual regions and ultimately reaches to God, Revolver Competition (open and members the defence I did pot.
Is it not tras that you were sent for in Whom at deepest we are rooted. Hap of the Corps); April 13th: Ali Comers Competition, Revolver Competition (open, by Messrs. Deacon's several times and piness is the great thing we are all of
that you refused to go! It was not as after, however misguided in and for members of the Corps).
necessary for me to go and I did not.
You did not make any statement until you came into the court on subpoena, when you made a pescilled statement!- No, I did not make any statement be fore then.
His Worship: I have a fifty-fifty know- ledge of each side.
The Tyro Competition is open to mem- bers of the Corps who have not scored over 65 in Part 1. of the Musketry Course
this senson.
POLICE COURT ITEMS.
The four men and one woman arrested in connection with the robbery committed
·
in our
search
at times, and however weird may neem
KNUTSFORD
CINEMA” NOTES.
QUELS'S THEATRE. The Prisoner of Zeoda" & éMetro the directions in which it is often looked production, bad a successful run lask happiness does exist, Selznick Distributing Corporation'a for, but in the deeper, spiritual part of year, and it is prophesied that the us inexpressible. and such happiness as we may have been "Hapert of Heatzau," which opens at the privileged to feel in our lives from time
Queen's Theatre to-morrow, will out- to time really filters through into our distanco ali previous photoplay winners.
side outer personalities from this spiritual
It is said that never before in screen Mr. Zeitlyn: If that is so, there is of ourselves which is deeper than the only one obvious conclusion that can be ratiocinative, picture-making mind, which, history has such a case of celebrities ap in conclusion, it may be said, is the peared in any one production as may ho analysis seen in "Rupert of Hentian." Elaine Another Indian witness said he was a reason why no effort of book-keeper employed in a shap in the has ever succeeded in explaining and Haminerstein, Bert Lytoll, Lew Cody Haiphong Road He knew Karim Bux accounting for the mysterious joy which Bryant Washburn, Hobart Bosworth, had sold, sous medicine at one time, but is the essential nature of Love, the Claire Windsor, Irving Commings, Mit- it was always prepared beforehand, On reason being that the lower and lesser chell Lewis, Elmo Lincoln and Marjorin Crowell and Gertrude Astor are well. At the Marine Court yesterday, be one occasion defendant gave a man some cannot analyze the higher and greater, Daw are all popular stars, while Adolphe
restless mind. Yours truly,
#known for their many splendid por tore Lieut. Comdr. G. F. Hole, H.N.. a medicine in a bottle for a disease, but sod Love emerges from deeper than the Menjou, Nigel De Bruilier Josephine boat-mistress was fined $5 for carrying the battle was labelled.
trayals in leading roles, eight passengers in excess of the number allowed by licence.".
at the residence of Mr. J. M. d'Almada come to in this case, Remedios at Ho. Mun Tin on March 7th appeared before Mr. J. B. Wood at the Central Magistracy yesterday and were again remanded.
The case was 'muljourned until thir morning
Hongkong, March 21st, 1925.
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