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THP HONG KONG JOCKEY .CLUB.

NOTICE. THE HALF YEARLY GEN

ERAL MEETING of YOTING MEMBERS will be held at the CLUB HOUSE, HAPPY VALLEY, ON WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY, 1981, at 6.15 P.M.

All members are cordially invited to attend and participate in any discussion which may onsue.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27,

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1931.

The iden' of "Post-Mortem" is to

BOOKS and READERS how that within a brief 13 years

"LIFE AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT."

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NOTES ON NEW BOOKS.

the horrors of war have faded from

The other night. I sat next. Lo the imaginations or those who knew | Mr. Tom Clarke in the stalls at them at first hand. The author has the Royalty Theatre, The Indy in- chosen a enrious machinery for mediately in front of us was dis

Cussing Me Clarke's "Northelifo bringing this to light.

Diary," in one of those clear car-. rying voice that so often batray their ownors into awkward confid- fences.

The Dying Hero,

The chief charactor in the play,

GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY | tralian Gold Mining Co., Ltd., for Hornby, Hemelryk & Co. of Liver this country, though in this, as in ross, who as a child in the fons he served in France, all his former certain things in it...

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· AND NOTICE 18 GENERAL MEETING of the VOTING MEMBERS of the HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB will be held At the OLUB HOUSE on the 27TH DAY of MAY, 1981, immediately after the Half-yourly Meeting of the Veting Members when the unbjoined resolution will be proposed :-

"THAT Article of the Articles of Association of the Club be "altered by deleting therefrom the "words "Ordinary Members may "be unlimited in number" and "subaltituting therefor the words

pool:

The report of the Raub Aus thu four weeks ended April 25, in

The market continues to show a follows:- Development:The total footage disappointing tendency, and values completed for the period amounts show a further decline of 3 or 4 to 718 feet. The tonnage mined and crushed for the term totals 8,432 points. tona; and the recovery of fine gold The Japanese syndicate did not per ton, equals 13'02 dwts, show release any of its stocks during ing a satisfactory profit. In the development generally, the widths March, but has decided, in order and values of the ore is maintained not to depress the prices of new throughout.

The Cyanide Plant treated tone, for a satisfactory profit.

erop. to withhold all of its sup- 581plies until after July 1 when the spring cocoon marketing will be completed.

Bakit Koman Area:-The ton- nage mined and treated from this area totalled 1.075 tons, and de velopment 3381 feel.

Anderson-Lilburno Aren: Ton. nage mined and treated from this area totals 01 tons, and develop ment. 56) feet.

The number of Ordinary Members shall bo.one thousand "two hundred or such greater "number as the Voting Members

all from time to

time "determino "* *** AND NOTICE is ALSO HEREBY GIVEN. that a further EXTRAOR DINARY GENERAL MEETING of the VOTING MEMBERS of the Club will be held at the same place on WEDNESDAY, the SEVEN-cooling

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Then the curtain rose.

Poems and Thrillers,**

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LIFE AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT.!!

Of Mrs. Wrigley, who "worked

n Captain John Cavan, is fatally For a couple of minutes the au- lly Co-operative Working Wo- for 3s. dd. n month on a farm near wounded. In the brief period be.thor was forced to listen to

Edited by Margaret

appreciative, but also highly eri- Llewelyn Davies Introduction Oswestry, and after marrying had fore he actually dies his imaginate, review of his book. Our by Virginia Woolf. Hogarth to sit up at her sewing machine tion takes him to his mother (a neighbour was of the opinion that Almont day and night Yoake beautifully written scone), his it contained "some astonishing There are still two nations in money for her baby; of Mrs. Bur pompous father, a pod with whom discussing," but disapproved of stuff which everybody would be

other international spheres, the knew women who becams oplum comrades and even his old sweet gulf dividing them has narrowed slaves to escape from their misery, heart. All of them, with the excep

inço Disraneli wrote his "Sybil" and who describes in inefferably tion of his mother, bear out his There is greater community of ex-vivid language the day when a idea when living that the war would periones between-shaft we say shepherd's wife called the child to forgotten, or made the text of the Duchess of Atholl, M.P., and workers out of the field, and fed false sentiment and a still falser

Mrs Scott, felt hat worker, sick them on a paradisaic meal of hot glorification of war. ness visitor for an Approved So- | Soiled potatoes.

guildswoman riety, co-operativo and Justice of the Peace, than could have been shared by any duches and working woman ካበ

years ago.

One does not know which to chotse na an example of harbihood and courage.

Mr. Charles Williams, has al-

ready published five books of voran, a volume of criticism and two sen- antional novel of the supernatur

a!.

One

Next month the Oxford Univers. Tho satire ia biting, especially ity Press is to publish in the scene with his father, Sir volume three of. Mr. William 's James Caven," the newspaper pro- plays in verse. They are entitied "Tin Witch." The Chaste Wan- prietor. He and his right-band ton" (is it possibis that such a man look on the reappearance of title wriggled unenught through Johu (he is accepted as rent, al- the net of the Restoration 1) and though dead, by all) as a fine sub. "The Rite of the Passion," intend. ed to he performed in church on ject for an exclusive interview. In Good Friday. this scene the. Nool Coward who has made ippancy a hue art, is himself again. Sir John, his right-hand man, a secretary and: the tiresome Lady Stagg-Mortimer

For five shillings, those who are, as Mrs. Woolf puts it, 'condemned Mail advices from Now York in-

A Silent Revolution. dicate that the thrown sik demand

to remain for ever shat up in the The spread of popular education, confines of the middle classes, is quiet with the exception of the

enfranchisement, com wearing tail çonts and silk stock. hosiery trade which is showing political hetter results, but according to our munity organisation and the deveings, and called air or madam as the case may be," may look across Derrick Area:--The tonnage latest cables, the demand for finish-tupent of public services have

wrought a silent revolution in our the barrier into that other world, mined and trented totala 800 tons, od silk goods is still dull. and development 323 feet.

The New York and Chicago certi- own time, and this little colles and watch, and learn and wonder.who wrote to the papers that sho Construction:-Concreto tank for

had "given" her son to the war, And perhaps foul a trifle more speak their thoughts aloud like the tower, capacity 12,500 ficnted stock on the 18th inst. total- tion of life stories and reminis gallons completed woodwork towered 2,000 balas (1,060 bales Grade C, ecnets by members of the Women's inclined to welcome those changes characters in Eugene O'Neill's TEENTH DAY OF JUNE, 1981, at a being erected. Now winding rope quarter past Five O'CLOCK in thelled at Bukit Koman shaft, 540 bales Grade D and 190 hales Co-operative Guild contains a for which are slowly but surely abolish "Strange Interludo." This scene,

Electric line to dredge, Grade Y). AFTERNOON, for purpose of receiving 2,500 ft.

einating revelation of that expan- ing the division.-Wilfred Holtbyt any rate, would be remarkably

effective on the stage. a Report of the proceedings at the new line completed's tons of east-

Owing to the suspension of reelsion of interest and enlargement in the News Chronicle above mentioned meeting and of ings for plant, and general repair

ing in Japan. the Arrivals from of opportunity which changing confirming if thought fit as a Special affected, Resolution the above mentioned

Interior and the Into Sight figures the lives of the adult women of

Resolution.

for the first fortnight of this month this country.

By Order of the Stewards, U. B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 14th May, 1931.

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Did you follow Morning. Dew's tips in the DAILY PRESS at Monday's race meeting? No, well that's a pity, he spotted five winners!

Cynnide Plant:-531 tons of low grade concentrates, treated for re

every of 64'35 ozs. of bullion, show

ing satisfactory profit.

Dredge-2,000 yards dredged, day shift only, for 2023 oz. of gold bullion, showing profitable result.

Stamps Battery Tonnago:-40 worked for 28 days: Bukit Koman Area, 1,075 tons; Anderson-Lilburne Area, 301 tons: Derrick Aren, 8 tons. Total: 2,432 tons.

Amalgam: -4,034 nza. Smelted Gold:-Battery, 1,004'45

Cyanide Plant, 64'36 oz. Dredge, 20'25 ozs. Total: 1,803'05

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TO MAN'S RUSES

OBTAIN DRUGS.

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"PATHOLOGICAL LIAR'S"

MANY POSES;

A remarkable story of a man's rases to obtain morphia was told

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are small, but shipments were also extremely small, with the result that Japanese port stocks at 134,000 bales show an increase on the fort night of 4,000 bales.

In view of the continued unsatis factory demand for Silk goods, Raw Silk prices may sag somewhat lower, and we recommend pur- chases in weak markets only.

Close New York, Saturday: July 2.66., September 9.25c., November 12.25c.

H.M.S. IRON. DUKE.

TO BE USED AS TRAINING

SHIP 1

No confirmation is at present obtainable of the report that the battleship Iron Duke after being demilitarized is to be used as a

of 1928. -

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at the Liverpool Sessions when boye training ship at Devonport, Patrick Burrowes (28), n farm lain place of the old Impregnable, heurer, of Croom, County Lime which was closed down at the end rick, pleaded not guilty to obtain-

The vessel is one of the five enpi. ing drugs and food by false pre- Tences. He was sentenced to 18tal shims to whose impending pass- ing, under the terms of the London months' hard Inbour.

Naval Treaty frequent reference has been made in "The Western Morning News," the other four be

Evidence was given that Bur. rowes presented himself at different Liverpool hospitals saying he had hat IL motorcycle accident. Ating the battleships Benbow, Mari- others he said he was Patrick Mur-horough, and Emperor of India, ray, an Irish Rugby international, and the battle-cruiser Tiger. And that he had been injured in

The Trou Dukė in the only one

the match against England in Lon-of the five that is not. lo be scrap- ped. but she is to be "demilitari-

don.

MR. NOEL COWARD GROWS

SERIOUS,

SCENES, By Nool Heinemann. 35.

In an introductory letter to the Editor, Mrs, Virginia Woolf, whose

ind graces all it touches, descri- POST-MORTEM." A PLAY IN EIGHT bes her own sensations at a Co.

Coward operative Guild Congress in New- castle in, 1013, when she listened to delegate after helegate rise and speak her mind on the reform of the Divorce Laws, the care of ma- fornity or the Taxation of Land Values,

"Ladies" and "Guildswomen."

She describes the irritation and depression into which the confer ence plunged her, her sense of the futility of a sympathy based on ac- ademie appreciation. In a half- dozen of brilliant pages, she de- fines the difference between Ladies" and guildswomen, as it appeared in 1813.

"Ladies in evoning dress are loveliér far, but they lack the sculpturesque quality that these working women have. And though the range of expression is narrow- er in working women, their few expressions have a force and an emphasis, of tragedy or humour, which the faers of ladies lack. But, at the same time, it is much better to be a lady; Indies deaire Mozart and Einstein-that is, they desire. things that are ends, not things that are ends, not things that are meana."

Mrs. Woolf's ladies, of course,

He variously said that he was a zed," and in the Navy Estimates are idealisod Indies, erenturva gift- Iank clerk, a police sergeant, the provision is made for £42,160 to heed with her own exquisite taste

clerk to a judge at Preston, the spent on the work at Devonport during the current financial year. son of an Irish judge, and the son of the superintendent of a Dublin When this work is completed she nsylum. He complained of severa will be available for training du-

ties. pain and doctors, suspecting a

In his memorandum explanatory fracture of the ribs, prescribed | several doses of morphin. Before of the Navy Estimates, the First (Mr. Alexander) stated: being X-rayed he insisted on leav- Lord

and tell the same story.

ing each hospital, saying he meant "The Iron Duke is to be demili to return to Ireland. He would tarized during the year, and will then proceed to another hospital then continue her duties no gun nery training ship at Portland." It is expected that the Iron Duke will arrive at Devonport next Nov- ember to be taken in hand for

demilitarizing".

War Record,

and culture; but her sense of the situation se not idealised and she sees the time when "this force of theirs, this smouldering heat which broke the crust now and then and licked the surface with a hot and fearless flame will... break through and melt us together BO that life will be, richer and books muri complex and society will pool its possessions instead of segregat ing them"--and the toughness of spirit which she salutes'in Mrä, Laylon, and Miss Kidd, and Mrs. Burrows, will not be put to such ferosious tests.

Living by Frauds,' Detective Inspector Thomson said Burrowen first came to the notice of the police in 1927, and had com- mitted false pretences in many parts of Ireland, Scotland, and That the Iron Duke wilt he used England, warrants for hin arrest aa a harbour training ship for boys being out. He had for four зелга as the Impregnable and her prede been living by frauds on clergy-cessors were is highly improbabic. ston, priests, nurses, and doctors. It will be remembered that at the and had many aliases. He had end of last January the First Lord, posed as an Irish ocer, the son in the House of Commons, replied of an Air Force officer, brother of in the negative to Mr. Hore-Beli-atories are at once amazing and

of Agriculture. The police all over was any intention to restore the a boys' training the country knew him as a cunning Impregnable s

shin at Devonport rascal and plausible impostor.

A Wage-Earner åt Ten. For that is the quality which emerges from the life stories which follow, the indomitable energy and toughness of the human spirit. The

རྨ harrister, and the Irish Minister sha when he asked whether there commonplace of Mr. Layton, born in Bethnal Green in 1855, pennies by minding earning babies to buy gin for her mother, A Liverpool prison doctor said; The Iron Duke ia the name ship travelling to the country, a stowa that unless drastic steps were taken, of her class, and was built at Port- way in her aunt's enveloping crinoline, a wage earner at 10, a Burrowes, who was a pathological smouth Dockyard, where she wa

domestic servant nt 13, training liar, was likely to become a cen-completed in March, 1914. She was firmed drug addict. When the pri- first flagship of the Home Fleet, herself as maternity nurse after son authorities found no trace of and after the outbreak of the Creat she had married and bad a child, the accident Burrowes feigned in War became flagship of the Com- plunging heart and soul into the sanity, and when that failed hermander-in-Chief of the Grand co-operative movement, winning pretended to have tuberculosis, of Fleet (Admi. Earl Jellicos). She prites by eways, lecturing, organs- which there was no sign. While in was prezent at the Battle of Juting, and finally travelling to forstode bo purported to do spitting land and subsequently served in Ghent and Stockholm to read pa- blood, but it was found to be so the Second Battle Squadron and in port on the Guild, paying her OWI from a prison library book. the Mediterrancan Fleet,

expenses..

Death of the Hero.

The three plays are set in framework of poenis."

The Rouse Gaso.

Commentaries ou fatorius trials appear astonishingly soon after the judgment.

Already one volume has appear- ed And on May & The Trial of Mr. Sydney Arthur Rouse," by Tremayne, will be added to the "Famous Trials" series edited by Mr. George Dilnót. Mr. Groffrey Bles is the publisher.

י.

**Bed Ike."

de

The last episode shows the ac- tual death of John Cavan, and that his phantasy has taken only Mr. Hugh Walpole spends a brief space of time. Thore is much of his time recommending genuine passion and a high-minded other people's books as most au- bitterness t this play, but its satire thora do recommending their own. is marred by the fact that none Ho has now written a preface to of his characters has really lived "Red 'Ike," a tale of the Cumber- 13 years after the war. His pie land countryside, which Messrs. ture of them and his account of Hutchinson will publish. Any playgoer who generalises their feelings are pureby subjectibe Mr. Walpole compares the nu from Noel Coward's "Hay Fever"

-the realisation of his thoughts thor, Mr. J. M. Denwood, with or "Private Lives" would not ex-before dying.

George Borrow, and 18 aware of pest him to be expable, of "Post- In performance the appearance the enormity of the comparisont Mortem," a play which has not of the dead man would be diff. "I do not say that 'Red Ike' is an

J1 writes. Mr. bon performed and possibly wascult to manage so that it would other Lavengro,' not written for performance. Yet convince. Reality and the dying Walpole, but I do say that it "Vortex," by far the finest play man's dream would become inex comes nearer to the true spirit of he has written, foreshadows the tricably mixed, even it the action "Lavengro' than any other Tag- mood of "Post-Mortem." As in were made continuous, as the au lish novel of recent years.". the earlier play the slight dippancy thor miggests. But one would like of some of the scenes hides the

to see Port-Morton staged, for it is a play out of the common

sincerity, and carnestness of his disillusionment with life.

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