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TRINITY HOUSE, - 400 YEARS' WATCH ON

BRITAIN'S COASTS.

The Corporation of Trinity House, who Headquarters are at Tower Hill, London, is the lighthouse authority for England and Wales.

It provides and maintains light hauses, lights, buoys, beacons, and fog signals, and removes reeks dangerous to oavigation, and is the chief pilotage authority of the United Kingdom. The Elder Bre thren are required by the terms of their charter, to assist, the Admir alty Judges a trying marine causes, Traditionally the corporation is believed to have taken its rise early in the Sfteenth century from a guild or fraternity of pilots, seamen, and mariners located at Deptford Stroud, in Kent, This guild, having hecome prosperous and possessed of almshouses and lands, was in corporated on May 20. 1314, at the instance of Sir Thomas Spert, by Henry VII

ROOT OF INDIAN. 'PROBLEM. ENGLISH BEHAVIOUR AND CUSTOMS.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1930.

JAMES JOYCE'S FEAR OF BLINDNESS.

SEVEN YEARS' WORK ON A BOOK.

MAY BE UNABLE TO COMPLETE IT.

PASSENGERS:

Arrivals.

THE ATLANTIC SEAL. FILM TAKEN IN THE OUTER HEBRIDGES.

The following passengers arrived

A lecture on Sea Birds and by the six President Jeferson, on March 29, from America and Seals" was given by Mr. Soton Gordon last month, in aid of the Shanghai-Mr. and Mrs. U. Y. Lady Emily Lutyen's, speaking at

Chen, Mr. S. Chun, Mr. A. O Gaelic Society of London and the a women's freedom League meet-

Halsey, Dr. Geeman King, Mr. HoLondon Highland Club, at 97, ng held in Loution recently, said

Grosvenor Square, by permission of Daily increasing blindness may prevent James Joyce, the Irish Yui Kwan, Mr. Ping Lau, Mr. C. was fundamentally a social one.

Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who "We And English people in India author whose books have been ban F. Lee, Mr. Y. C. Lui. Mr. E. B. Mrs. Robert Fleming.

ped in Britain and America, from McKay, Mr. Orlando Pao, Judge

Milton D. Pardy, Mr. Kai Quan, presided, anid that photography a way they behaving socially in would not dream of behaving at completing what he declares is to Mrs. 3. Samples, Mr. Geo, Sillett, had helped greatly in the study of were shot and people went to home. They will go into a shop he his greatest work, says the Paris.

Tsang, Mr. E. Warren, Mr. Chong and treat assistants in a way which correspondent of the British Loitedir. Food Tom, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. bird life. For a long time birds bodies. Now they were able to has made ine blush with shame."

study their life history by photo One of the things which most

graphy. Mere skilt and patience offended Indiana was that we were

Wong, Mr. Yang Ling Zec,

niways criticising their evils but

were required to photograph living torgetting our own.

birds than to shoot them, and Mr. and Mrs. Seton Gordon were to be ways criticising their customs, but

congratulated on their work and there were many English customs

on the valuable pictures they had which offended Indians.

secured.

We were al

For instance, the English method of taking a bath was disgusting to Indians, who always bathed in run- zing water. Dominion rule was the only possible solution to the, Indian question.

English Consuls at certain foreign ports,

Press.

Departures.

The following passengers left by the P.&O. ss. Rawalpindi for London vi ports:-Mr. and Mrs. F. Allan, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Mrs. G. 8. Arbuthnot, Mr. M. M. Adams. The Hon. W. W. Astor, Ali. Mr. V. H. Bourne, Mr. and

Mr. Seton Gorilan showed two

tinematograph films and also many photographs with a lantern to illus. trate his subjeet. Lantern pictures and a film taken in the Outer He brides last November gave a vivid impression of the grey or Atlantic seal any of the scenes indicated the difficulty experienced in secur aid that the film relating to the Atlantic seal was taken by his wife. They started from their base in the Hebrides, at the use in the

For seven years Joyce has fought Chow Wong, Mr. Kwang Kingmuseums to study their stuffed to finish the most ambitious work against failing sight in an attempt he has ever planned. On his forty- eighth birthday, on February this year, he admitted to friends that the task looked impossible. In even years he has only completed authors. James Joyce is unable to half of the book. Unlike other He finds it necessary to dictate.

Mr. C. E. Beale, Mr. W Brydon, write every word with a great red pencil on huge sheets of paper. He Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Broughton, Lt. In 1520 came the establishment

cannot read a line of his manu- R. Y. Burges, R.N, Mrs. Royd and script without a powerful magni-infant. Miss E. AL. Borry, Mr. J. of the Admiralty and Navy Boards

A. Brander. "Mr. H. R. G. Beer, and the building yard at Deptford,

fying glass.

Mr. W. E. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. T Dressed in White, " 1ounther with the superintendence

The author of Ulysses," who C. Barulay and infant, Mr. and of the storehouses there for mate- riala, arms, ammunition, and pro- visions, was placed under the direct The foundation-store of the pre/refused to take orders as a Jesuit Mrs. G. L Buchanan, Miss P.ing" the photographs. The lecturer i extrol of Trinity House. In Eliza scut Trinity House on Tower Hill priest after leaving a Dublin col-Buchanan, Miss P. and Muster D. was laid by William Pitt on Sept-lege, works from ten to fourteen Buchanan, Miss C. E. Cannon. Mr. beth's reign the corporation was

powered to erect seamarks and amber 2, 1793, and the building, hours daily, but whites only a few. Crosbie, Mr. and Mrs. V. D. to grant licences to mariners to row designed by Samuel Wyatt, was hundred words each day. A great K. Craddock and two children, completed in 1795. Over the win part of the day is taken up in Mr. S. E. Clark. Mr. A. E. Chis in the Thames.

child, Ira W. G. Cameron and Aurora burning on the During the reigns of James I. and dows are medallions in bas-relief of revising his manuscript, which he holm, Mrs. H. Collia Boyd and orning of last November with the hours. through вса that each Charles I the suppression of the George III. and Queen Charlotte does in a most thorough manner, infant. Mr. Clark, Mr. H. L. and horizon. They sailed for seven pirate who infested the English and representations of lighthouses, often rewriting pages after it is

beat was constantly swept by the in white. He declares that this is Cringle," Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Car seas, and they were soon soaked to Trinity House, and the corporation Lattleships, lighthouses, huoys and only write when dressed entirely maid (Miss M. Booth), Mrs. R. A.

the skin. When they reached the appeared during the latter reign as lightships, and an old clock 1 d

Smeaton's Eddystone List pleasant for his eyes. During the ric, Miss B. J. Carrie, Master D. I... B. Carrie, Mr. C A. Dudden. erneral supervisor of the maritimsin

summer he wears white suits.

that it was impossible to land, lo interests of the country. It laid house. It was designed, to ring a

The anal pointed beard that he Cdr. R. H. Death, R., Mr. and seal island the swell was so heavy buoys. erected beacons,

their small boat they rowed back- superin-hell every hall-hour to remind the

wears hides a terrible scar, inflicted Mrs. W. S. Dupree, child and in- tended the shipbuilding yard at keeper to snuff the candle.

The present Master of the Corby a mad dog when he was five fant, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Donne, certificates to

He will not allow Mr. A. Dawson, Mrs. E. Davidson, ward and forward along the coast,

and at length got ashore. Deptford, granted

ilots. recommended masters forporation is the Duke of Connaught, years of age.

and Misses D. Deakin they were leaving the isle. after having taken the film, wave broke the Navy, and even appointed and the Deputy-Master Admiral G. anyone to bring a dog near him. Mrs. J. W. and Miss D. Deakin,

On the other hand, he is very fond Master J. n. Mansell..

into their boat and the camera and (Continued on next Column.)

of cats, wears huge rings, smokes (2). Mr. and Mrs. J. P. B. East- a carious pipe, and always carries wood, three children and Burse

(Mrs. B. Hildreth), Mrs. Edney the film narrowly escared going to an ash walking-stick.

and child. Mr. and Mrs. J. the bottom of the sea. They went there only in the late autumn. in November because the seals were They were, he supposed, the only British animal which had its young

northern

Cenasts occupied the attention of In the building are models of old in proof. He declares that he can son, Miss E. M. Cochrane and aninute became more storms. Their

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He has entitled the book AEwing and infant, Misses E. J. and Work in Progress." It is modernist. Ewing, Miss E. Finlay, Mr. A. E. Farmer, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. throughout, and would not be un- derstood by anyone not familiar Foster, Mr. W. S. Forbes, Mr. Tin November. At about this time J. Falin, Mrs. J. A. Greenfield, with James Joyce's developmqatsisses E., D. and A. Greenfield and

the English language. Two sections of the first half of the book governess (Miss Thomas), Mrs. B. have already been published, and Grisoni, Miss L. Gargason, Mr. G. the third, which he has been Mr. and Mrs. Gilman and infant, Greenwood, Miss E. Greenwood, titled A Fragment," appeared in Paris early in March. The first Livin Plurabelle" and "Tales Told two fragments were called "Anna of Sten and Shaun." The second. fragment was published by the American poet-millionaire, Harry Crosby, who recently committed suicide in a New York fat.

James Joyce goes to every prin- House. It is now eighteen years since he visited his bome in Ireland He considers himself a virtual. Heath, Mr. C., E. Holmes, Mrs.

of the year they went back to the Pictures were shown of the "scals under many conditions and in vari the sea and sometimes angry. One ous moods, asleep en land and in section of the film showed a rush Mrs. F. Gregory, Mr. H. A. Gre-

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