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號陸委百陸仟豆萬弍第 日伍拾月玖年丁 HONG KONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10th, 1927.

SOME IRISH IMPRES- SIONS.

JESUIT STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY.

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HOSTEL TO BE MAINTAINED BY JESUIT ORDER.

SITE AT FLY, POINT BATTERY.

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day.

Registerol as a Yewspaper at the General Post Office in the United Kingdom.

Anniversary of the Republic of China.

Golf: Autumn Meeting, Fanling. Yachting: Week-end Cruise coa- cludes.

Football: Civilians e. Chinese

Athletic, Happy Valley, 4.50 p.m. Army . Royal Navy. Sockunpoo, 4.30 p.m.

The Procurata Hong Kong of

6th Extra Race Meeting of Hong the English Assistancy et the Writing in the Liverpool Past Secuit Order stands at an errly Kong Jockey Club, Happy Valley and Mercury, Mary McCabe, a Liverpool Trishwodan, gives her nail for the snactment of a Bill L.R.CH.K. Flectrie Company:

date to apply to the Legislative (second day),

Cricket: HK.C.C. .... Army: | impressions of a visit to Ireland.

Th neersities in the way of food vid for the incorporation of the 2nd XI. . K.C.C. 2nd XI.

intituled

An Ordinance to pro-ECC. & Roral Navy: Royal Navy and lodging, she says, strike me as particularly expensive in Ireland Precurator in Hong Kong of the Just Rom. This would be bearable English Assistans of the Jesuit

Oriler." if the fare and accommodation were

An arrangement has been come to good, bus paly in Dublin can bu rely on a high standard at both between the University of Heng small and large hotels to commen-Houx Song of the English Assis. Kong and the representative ju sate for high charges. There a tancy of the Jesuis Order by which ample accommodation in Dublin the University have agreed to c again now, the Gresham and other hall or hostel being built and main- well-known hotels destroyed during tained by the Order for the re the troubles having been rebuilt on sidence of students of the Univer moder lines. In the country dis-

sity. tricts anything less than a station hotel is usually definitely bad though one found a pleasing excep- tion to this rule in the wilds of Connemara.

For the most part they seem to have no conception of what con- stitutes a fair charge to boliday visitors. The idea appears to be that holiday-makers have money burn, and are not particular how they barn it. Their notion as to the quality and price of luncheon

The Roads.

ment the University have agreed In pursuance of this arrange- to grant a sub-lease of a site at Fly Point Battery, intended to be re gistered as Section A of Inland Lot No. 2610, to the Procurator in Hong Kong of the English Assis tancy of the Jesuit Order.

In order to secure perpetual suc session and the other advantages of incorporatica it is proposed that the Procurator in Hong Kong of the English Assistancy of the Jesuit

or tea for motorists is simply 3p-Order shall be incorporated as palling.

corporation sale. The Bill propos ed will follow in its main lines other incorporating which have been passed from time to time.

Ordinances

PROPOSALS TO PRINCESS ILEANA.

Nearly all the roads in Ireland are splendid. The Free State Gov ernment has already spent £5.000,300 on road improvement a large sam for a small country. Motor-buses, which have penetrated to the re- motest parts, ace rapidly changing Irish E. For country-folk a long journey was once a tremendous happening, the event of a leftine.

A "COZY" HOME. To reach the railway station re quired

in many cases,

Since Queen Marie of Rumania young journey in itself. But the busenounced that a would not ob pass the door, and are cheaper than ject to Ileana marczing an Ameri- the railways; which means that to can, provided she really loved him, day people think nothing of taking the 16-year-old Princess has receive A sixty-miles ride up to Dublin. ed nine proposals of matrimony The country shop-keepers are ad- from youths in different parts of versely affected by the change. So the United States. much shopping is now done in the capital that provincial retail trade

was never worse.

One swain in a rural district of Indiana promised not only to honour, love and obey Europe's prettiest Princess if she married him, but pledged to her his ten-acre farm, six cows, and automobile, two buggies and a sleigh.

The Sharon, hydroelectric acheme, which is making steady progress, is another modern deve lopment that will soon be effecting

Another admirer, this one in New great changes in Irish social con- ditions. In its first stages it is York State, wrote that he had no costing £5,200,000. Remembering title, fortune or fame to offer her, thas the new Mersey tunnel is to but would give her all his love and sest nearly as inch, this may not devotion, and in addition a cozy scem ao large a sum for an under-rume. taking that will alter the whole Jace of the land, but for a little ultry which has reduced its in- come tax from Ga. to 3. in the pound in five years, it is a task of same magnitude. When can pleted it will bring electricity to the farthest village and the one Kest farinhouse, economüse time and Jabour, increase production, and replace drabness with light.

•

Thriving Shops.

A third American who sought the royal band and heart said that. having seen Her Highness during her visit to the United States, he was sure she was just the girl far him and that he believed he could make her happier than, if she be- came a Queen.

Championship swimming mees at Victoria Recreation Clubs & p.m.

Hockey European Y.M.C.A. . Club de Recreio, King's Park, S

pim,

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m.; King Ed- ward Hotel, 5 p.m., and Lane,' Crawford's Restaurant, 430-8.30

Exhibition Billiards Match Euro- pean Y.M.C.A., Kowloon. League: R.A.. Garrison Sgra. Stoel and Coulson's Billiard

Mesa; D.R.C. t. St. Patrick's Club

Northants T.

Police: K.0.S.B. v. Warders; R.E. and R. Sigs. . Revenue.

Chinese Ath. Association annual

Point; in tonour of

Chinese

dinner at Yee Wo Restaurant, West National Day and opening of Foo ball Season, & p.m.

Ten Concert and Dance "at Great H.A. University Union Double all of University, 8.30 p.m. Royal Engineers Junior Club" darce, R.E. Theatre, 8.30 p.m.

E.K. Male Voice Choir rehearsal, St. John's Cathedral Hall, p.m.

QUEC

's Theatre: Painting the Town."

World Theatre: "The Way of Girl."

Star Theatre: "Bright Lights." Principal Mails-Inward: USA, etc... President Jack- son): U.S.A., etc. and Europe vid Siberia (President Wilson). Outward: (Canada, America, etc.. Europe via San Francisco and vid Siberia (President Pierce), noor.

Tuesday.

Shanghai "Interport Bowls Team arrive.

1st General meeting of creditors of Joseph Durand and Madani Flint, partners in Cafe Restaurant Parisien and associated businesses, etc., Official Receiver's Office, 10.30

4.m.

L

Ladies Committee of Golf Club at home," Fauling.

Garrison Football Learner "A" Company, 2nd K.O.S.B. 2. 20th H. Batty. R.A.; K.Q. 1 2nd- K.O.S.B. "D" Co., 2nd K.0.S.B. (both matches at Sookun pos," 4.30. p.m.).

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel and

Hotel Savoy, 4.30 p.m. and Lane.. Crasford's Restaurant, 430-6:30 p.m.

Rezt, King's Park, 5 p.m.

Hockey Club 2nd XI. w. Queen's

Crawford's Restaurant, 8.30 p.m.

H.M.S.Imre dance, Lane, 1a.m.

After dinner dance at Lee Gar-

dens

Ileana, however, has rejected all these and other proposals, déclar- ing ehe will not marry for at least five years. She is now President of the Young Women's Christian Association of Rumania and plans to devote hil her time to betterment of the welfare of the girls of her country. She destes also, new that her father is dead. to stay at her mother's side and give the Queen at the help and encourage"

Star Theatre: Jazzmınnia.!! ment possible.

Principal Mails:-Laward": Although she has rejected the Rusia and Taiyo Maru); Austra

Canada, U.S.A., etc. (Empress of proposals, Thanna has nothing but lia, friendly feelings for the American Eumpe

etc. (Changte). Outward:

via Marseilles, etc.-

Clothes are excessively dear in Ireland. There is a growing ton denty amongst middle-class Irish women to go to France to replenish their wardrobes. They argue that what they save by buying French dresses

pays the expenses of the journey, thus providing the added advantage of foreign travel. They leave Ireland merely with what they eland up in," and wear their able to say to the Custom authori- ties on returning home that they and chivalrous attitude toward wo- have no imported goods, but only mankind," she said. "They were their own personal belongings. all just lovely to me when I was

Yet, in spite of this, the Dublin America, especially the military shops look thriving and attractive. cadets." They are still not quite up to their standard of former times, when

alle declared.

Queen's Theatre: ir Flower of Night. Kid."

World Theatre: "The Country.

French purchases long enough to be boy like them for their gallantry (Angera), 2.30 p.m.

N

Wednesday.

and sports meeting for Scotch St. Andrew's Society "ut horne"! Troops, Happy Valley, 2 p.m.

Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel and Hotel Savoy, 4,30 p.m.; King Ed- ward Hotel, 5. p.m., and Lane, Cranford's Restaurant, 4.30-8.30

m

HE. Football League:-Division I.: R.A. v. Queen's Regt.

Hockey Club 1st XI. «. Qasen's Regt. U.S.R.C., 6 p.m.

Queen's Theatres," Flower of

World Theatre: The Country

the Castle crowd" inde Dubliner, at least, as far as women are fashionable city, but there is a concerned. With the present abbre tremendous improvement since 1921, viated styles, "no woman, unless when I was last in the Free State.she happens to have had long ex- Indeed, Dublin as a whole is once perience in the front row of the again looking like a European chorus, feels inclined to perform capital. It is strikingly spruce the extensive stretch required to and clean, and well ordered; and reach the high step of Ireland's Night." its streets are thronged with smart traditional vehicle, Yet skirts, people and smart motor car. though short, are not, generally Kid." True, most of the latter bear the speaking, so sencty in Ireland as G.B. plate, but that only proves elsewhere. Evidently, modesty is that foreign wealth is coming not yet quite out of date in the back to Dublin. The majority of Free State. Or perhaps Ireland is Irish-owned private cars are shabby in the very van of fashion and has looking American makes of the already started the more ample cheaper kind. Evidently, the Irish modes we hear so much about but man has not yet become proud is the same degree in which fe is "horse proud.

car

But the Dublin taxis are fairly good. It is surprising to see them

never see.

"

Star Theatre: Jazzmánia." Thursday. Annual Sale of Work at French Convent, Causeway Bay, opened by Mrs. W. T. Southorn, 10 am.

Women's Workers' Guild: Cor porate Communion in Lady Chapel of Cathedral, followed by Cóm- mittee meeting in Cathedral Hall,

Whilst on the subject of manners and modes, it only remains to add 10 am. that, in the courte of some week's Interport Bowls: Hong Kong v. touring, I did not ace a drunken Shanghai, Craigengower O.C., a in such profusion, Dublin had a person in Ireland-not even I p.m. sentimental attachment for her Dublin during horse show week. Garrison Footzall League-

outside (jaunting) cars" and I would sooper make Ireland fres. RE. and R. Signals . RAOC.:" supported them as long as possible. than Ireland sober." But if Ire. 31st H. Batty R.A.

". "C" Short skirts have killed them now land can be free and sober, too, so Company End K.O.S.B. (both mat- (Continued at foot of next column) much the better.

<es at Sookumpoo, 4.30 pm.).

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