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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1912.

DRAMATIC POLITICS.

DAY BY DAY.

Fatjonco and tonacity of pur pose are worth more than twice thoir weight of cleverness.

To-day's Paper.

"AMERICA'S GREAT EDUCATIONALIST,

Arrives in Hongkong"

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been told of how his reforms Gondoliers" and ho was as great NOTES AND COMMENTS. have cost "Harvard, money, in- ns over. He was · Luis tending enefactors, in their we are told and that was his first

wrath; cancelling bequests which stogo appearance. Mo

they had proposed to leave to finished notor singer.. their old university, Whether quartette

Something for Nothing, Tho Advertisements offering," "some"

the thing for nothing are sometimes, Bolo,

There arrived to the Colony to or not that has been true in in- tuation, Let us grasp

and day by sa Lutzow the foremost dividual cases, the total result of "Take a pair of sparkling to be found, but usually when educationalist in America, in the Dr. Eliot's administration has oyes came in for rousing en- they are analysed it is found that Woman's World and a descrip- person of Professor Charles Wil been vastly to increase the pores. There were others, too; the offer hides an ulterior design tion of a fatal leap from the Eille! fiam Eliot, President Emeritus wealth, as well as the oflioionoy Mrs. J. W. Kew who made the on the pocket of the acceptor Tower will be found on page 3 of Harvard University, who has and reputation, of the univer most of hor singing parts and The vendor of certain articles, and Xaverian's notes ori sport en been on a long voyage. He is sity.

has a fine stage presence, and ብ page 8.

was delivered in London on Mar.

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Regimental Sports: The regimental sports of the 8th Rajputs, postponed on Feb. 16, will take place on the United Services R. C. ground at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 27.

THE GONDOLIERS.

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Brilliant Production By the Hong kong Amateur Dramatic Club.

not have been bettered.

The cast is ps follow The Duke of Pinza-Toro, Grandeo of Spain. Major D Hunter, A.O.D..........

Lingcustom.

made in the Evening Post" in January. It is addressed to the Tonnais of the Equitable Life Assurance Society Building, No. 120: Broadway, New York, Çilo and reads The New York Luiz, "His Attendant," Staff- Real Estate Security Company, Surg. A. Soliofield, H.N.

owner of the Forty-two Broadway Don Alhambra del Bolero, The Building, offore free of charge Grand Inquisitor," Mr. M. Dthe temporary use of a limited amount of vacant space in the Palmeiri, Guiseppe

accompanied by Mrs. O. W. Eliot In their address presented to Mrs. T. L. Perkins, who made a particularly edibles, hair restorers and his daughter Miss Ruth Eliot, him on his rosignation of the pre-short but admirable appearance, and patent medicines, sometimes The German Mail of Feb. 21 while the party is completed by sidency, the graduates of Harvard may be specially mentioned. fade it profitabile to give away

Mr. Robert Pierce, private score- Baid to

One must offer a warm word of samples for the purpose of at- tary to the Professor;

"The American people have praise to Mr. John Robertson

tracting

There When he retired from the begun to tear that the university who was responsible not only for prosideroy of Harvard rather is not a cloister for the recluse, the scenery and affects (the however, no such simple At the Marine Court this mor-more than three years ago it was but an expression of all that is scenery alone is worth seeing) planation of an announcement ning, before Commander C. W. his intention to make a trip best in the nation's thought and but for the whole production Beckwith, five bent pe pla were round the world, and while doing character." "The single head of And the work of the orchos charged with failing to licence so to ecoure material for writing the entire educational forep of the under Mr. Denman Fuller, could their craft. In one instance à fino a book, and adding yet an United States," Mr. Choate has of $3 was imposed while the other to the 18ng at of publios-called him.

tions of which he had boon the ethora had to pay $1 each.

nuther. However, some of his.. plans have been interrupted by a serious illness which" overtook him in Ceylon, about two months ago, which made him alter his itinerary and abandon al visit to his old friend Govern. or-Gonoral Forbes of Manila.

An interesting appreciation of tune to witness the production of Palmeiri, Antonio, Francesco 21-story absolutely fire-proof office Dr. Francis Clark presided over Professor Eliot comes from the "The Gondoliers" by the fl. A. D. and Annibale, "Venetian fondo building, 12 B oalary, and will smoking concert, held at the pen of H. Porry Robinson, who in O. last night have a clear duty to liers; " Mcsere. Geo. P. Lammert, ondoavour to make sucionants as Corinthian Yacht Club, last night, an article in the "Daily Mail" said: perform. If they know of any Bertram Webb, A. L. Shields,

comfortable as possible under the at which Messrs. Craik and Eng-Dr. Eliot was president of friends of theirs who have not yet R. H. Whittamore and Parker,

circumstances by extending uny land, who are returning Home on Harvard University for forty booked sants for one (at least) of R.N. leave, wore the principal guests. years, and he is reported to have the coming performances, they The Duchess of Plaza Toro, courtesies in the nature of the que

apokon of his election to the office should point out to these friends Miss E. Benbow Rowo....

f conferencer rooms, telephone in 1800 sa ་་

"a miracle," he him the ortor of their ways. They Casilda "Her Daughter." Mrs. sorvice, ee" Is this altruism District Watchman Attacked.

District watchman 40, arhilst solf being at the time only thirty-should; if necessary, go even the A. Schofield.

Gianotta, Tessa, Fiametis and pure and simple, an attribute not walking along Queen's Road West five years of age; notoriously length of emulating Napper

"advanced" in-thought and full Tandy, of taking them by the Vittorin, "Contadine" Mrs. Jusually associated with American last night was attacked by a gang of rouglis and severely handled of reforming zeal while the board hand and lending them to where Hunter, Miss Hilda Gordon, Mrs. corporations, or is there latant tho Ono of the gang was arrested, and which clocted him was composed tickets, may be had. There are J. W. Kew and Mrs. G. L. Plattoquisitive design that inspiron

Inez,

"The King's of men whose ages averaged two reasons why the support to something over sixty and who the club at this time should be of Mother," Ms. T. L. Porkins.

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C. Y. C. Smoker.

at the Magistroy this morning, was fined $3 or in the alternative 90ven days' hard labour,

Opium Smoking,

At the Magistracy, this mora-

ing, eighteen men word charged with opium smoking in a divan in

Contre Street, West Point. One

Silas,

Those who had the good for

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the fiaborman when bo baits His were all conservativo to the back the most generous character. Gondoliers, Mon-st-Arms, Con-hook? bono. At first it will seem curious The first is that the production tadine, oto, etc.-Mesdames

Piano: Mrs. Adams.

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are people so foolishly illbred? Especially do I protest against the gentleman who repents all the jokes and whistles the tunes. Mr. Lammert can render

pair of sparkling oyos s'oull be rendered but singing was ruined for me this whistling poiso have suffered oursélyes aud

to English minds that a man deserves it; the second is that the Hollingworth, Robertson, Jones, A Protest should come to be a great public continued existence of the olub Quinn, Bead, Young, Pellow, A correspondent thus voices. oharacter through his work as depends, as we understand, upon Weston, Kew, Platy, Misses; head of a university. But, the the success attending the present Main, Boannus, Chunyat, Rob his grievances "May I protest, attifudò president of Harvard or Yale series of performances. The nu-son, Haks, Benbow, Schmidt; though you against the at of them was further charged with is in immensely closer towel diente luat night was largo, but Mosers. Bidon, Parker, Darby, of a certain class of play goers ?. If keoping an opium divan. For with the institution anil its not so large as it ought to have Wood, McNulty, Chapman, Platt,py these dollar to see and hear this offence he was fined $100 or scholars than is the Chancellor boon. There were too many gap Ballook, Emmett, Hollingworth, the Gondoliera" I want to, Bod three months' hard labour and the or Vice-Chancellor of Oxfording seats in the dress circle. Itaymond, Souter, Groy, Shields, others were bach fined $2 or five or Cambridge, Heia more Amateurs at Home who ven-Whittemore, Lako.

and hear it. I do not want to listen

days.

like the donorimas or of one of ture upon a Gilbert and Sullivan The Orchestra is composed to people behind me who discuss

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our colleges; and still more like opera are largely aided by atten- of

in no undertones, the various Railway..

the headmaster of a great public dances at, and study of, profes- First Violins; Mr. T.G. Flynn, players as they appear on the An announcement in our ad school. When one remembers Bional por rmances. That is not Lance Corporal Spieglehulter. vertising columns states that Mr. how men like Arnold, at Rugby, possible here, but is it altogether Second Violins: Mr. F. C. Bar-stage-their mothers and grand- G. P. Lammert will sell the or Warre, at Eton, have come to drawback from the point of low, Q. M. Sergt. Jenkins, R. E. mothers, their husbands; and, Scenic Railway by public auction be conspicuous public per- view of the man in the dress cir Celli, Mr. G. S. Archibuit, wives and sweethearts Why at noon to-morrow. We under-sonalities, the wonder vanishes, cle or the pit? Is it not rather Baudeman Cranlergii. ¦ stand that the financial pos As soon as he was fairly in the the other way about? A definite,

Double Bass: Bugle Major Of a cortainty this week will be regarded as one of the most sibilities of the Railway have saddle at Harvard he began to first-hand interpretation of a Joluson. noteworthy in the history of British polities. One sousation has been recognised in several quart-justify his reputation saare-part by a clever amateur, an inter-

Flute: Mr. J. D. Osmund, .. scarcely time to be well understol, befors it is hustled out of the era and that koon competition in former. When he started to re-pretation immediately and om- Oboe: Mr. W. Anderson., limelight by another. The fact that in Hongkong we have to de- oxpected.

volutionise the medical school of phatically his own, is surely Clarinet: Band Sergt. Waro, pend upon a telegraphic agency for our knowledge of the dramatie

Cornets Trumpot Major. El- Magistrate as Interpreter.. the university, one of the pro- fresh and more attractive than a

fessors is said to have exclaimed: mereimitativo interpretation lack-liott, R. G... Bandaman Kelly. happenings that aro agitating Great Britain is a disadvantage. Mr. Irving, whilst engaged in "How is it, I should like to ask, ing in originality. The most at- Trombone: Corporal Georgo However oxellent a telegraphic agency may be, and we do not deny trying man charged with larobny that this faculty has gone on for tractive feature of last night's Tympani, Side Drum, eto, Router's claim to possess certain morita, news compressed into telo- from the ss. Prinz Sigismund, aighty years indnaging its own work was that the players infused Lance Corporal Ervine. graphic dissions resembles canned food, which though often er undertook the interpretation of affairs and dog it well, and their own spirits into the parts the ovidence of a witness who note within three or four months, and declined to trammel their vellout is never quite the same as the fresh article. The impression spoke Malay. The defendant was it is proposed to change all our native ability by slavish copying HUGHES COMEDY CO. ympathise with our correspon that is gained of the stirring events that are agitating our kindred charged with, stealing a quantity methods of carrying on the of others.

dent whose wail we are given at Home is blurred and indistinct, and it is possible that the mental of lead and rope from the afore school?" "I can answer your For a first night the production Last night "Two, Men, from here in place of in our correspond- vision retains the most vivid image of what is relatively unim- mentioned vessel. He was found question," said Eliot; "there is was wonderfully smooth. There Japan was staged at Victoria portant. Consequently it is difficult to get ovents into their right guilty and sentenced to three now a new president.

were elipe it is true-one of them Theatre and though the audience ence onlumo. Bat he must really months' hard labour."

He usver shrank from respon- covered up most brilliantly but was email it was appreciative. be more philosophio. If one lefa sibility or hesitated, indeed, to they were few and far between, The Yid and the Teuton as in this kind of things get on his From many points of view the re-antry of Mr. A. J. Balfour

An Impertinent Litigant use his powers when he believed Generally, the singing, the acting provious productions were the nerves the case is serious, upon the political Stage would seem to be the most dramafic event of Hakam Singh, a money lender, it to be for good: Courage either and the staging wore admirable heart and soul of the story. There was not even the suspi- Madame Pearl Lloyd took the week. It was thought that. Mr. Balfour had finished with the Ruod P. P. Mathias at the Courts in word or deed ho never lacked. stress and strain of political strife; that he had definitely retired to of Justice to-day to recover $240 In 1800, when Mr. Bryan first ran eion of a weakness among the but little part in the play Newspapers and Libel.

A serious attempt in being lent on a promissory note and Mr. for the Presidency, and the conn-principals. Major Hunter was a itself but was responsible for enjoy in an honourable leisure the placid pastime to which he is Justice Compartz made an order try had gone mad on the Froe clover Duke of Plaza-Toro and songa which of themselves were made at Home to get a Law of known to be so devoted. It was believed that his metier for the that defondant should pay at the Silver question, President Eliot the famous song in the first not worth paying to hear. The Libel Bill through Parliament Inture was to bestow hard knocks upon golf-balla rather than upon rate of $3 per month. Hakam chanced to be in St. Louis, and was rendered with rare epirit. Texas Tommy Dance appealed to Governments, and to exhibit his prowess on the links rather than in Singh loudly protested and said was invited to address extempo- As the Ducliess of Plaza-Toro many, though it can hardly be during the present session.” The that he would sooner see the note raneously the Chamber of Com- Miss C. Benbow Dowo nas one of recommended for grace or chart, most important provision is that the legislature. Suddenly, however, he has appoured at the head of torn upthaa agres to such a judgmerce there, St. Louis is a the successes of the evening. Her

in rogard to actions, brought by, the Unionist forces at a moment when the enemy is in a state of mont. His Lordship thereupon Western-town, the chief city of a stage presence and acting were Wo learn that the Arratoon men of straw. Under the existing demoralisation, and the newly elected Generalissimo has apparently entered judgment for the plata State which was strongly for of a very high class. Mrs. Scho- Apcar, which arrived recently surrendered his honours with cheerfulness and cordiality. That tif, but granted a stay sine die as Bryan, all of which Eliot know field as Casilda was about the from Japan, brought Yon 275,000 the position that has now dovoloped is fraught with peril to the punishment for "using imper-well enough when he stood up biggest success of the evening in Japanese gold coin for the can put a newspaper, to very

tinent language in court,"

and talked to the members of the Her unaffects presence, her net-Hongkong and Shanghai Banking considemblo exponse b "Government is admitted even by the Liberal newspapers. "

chambor on the duties of citizen- ing, and her singing were be- Corporation.

ing an aotion for libel, It as a nice point whether it is playing the game in strict no-

ship and told them that the chief yond praise. The duet with her

Field firing will be carried out a well known fact In the Courts of Justice before danger to the Republic lay, in husband, as "Luiz, in the first cordance with honourable rules to Book to make party advantage Mr. Juntios Gompertz an Indian "the uninformed public, opinion not was one of the hits of the by the 26th, Punjabia-on · Maroh papara inske, a practice of com out of a national calamity. Whatever Government happened to be moneylender sued a man named of the West." The phrase raised ovening. A special word of 27 and 30 between 10 am, and 3 promising by paying a small in power at the present crisis would reap a large harvest of unpopu-Xavier to recover $560 on a such a storm of indignation as praise is due to Mr. A. D. Silas p.m. on the southern slopes of the larity. Sir Rufus Isaacs was howled down at Hoxton probably be promissory note. Plaintiff said any man might have bent before, who took the part of the "Grand hill between Grasscutters Pass amount in cases which they would cause the audience was filled with resentment on account of the loss that defendant received two sume but the president of Harvard Jaquisitor" at very short notice. and Shatin Pass, and inconvenience suffered by reason of the strike, and the opporto caso a note for $280 which was true and right, and, when the gentleman to the life. Of the of $200 for which he gave in stood to his guns. What he said He was the consequential little

The occupant of-199.Den-Voux less troublesome to - take this unity of venting its wrath upon a meniber of the Government was was to include interest. A with frenzy of anger had died down; two. gondoliers, Marco Palmeiri Road was aroused from his limb conres. In the now birt one it could not forgo. The merits or demerits of the Minimum oss named Dian Lorenzo Alonzo wholesome and the phrase quoted G. P. Lammert and Mr. Bertram rattling of bamboos on his vor. Provided they

the offer of his castigation was and Guiseppo Palmeiri (Moore, ere early this morning by the moava Wago Bill or the Insurduce Act probably influenced those who rosaid that he signed the note and

Webb) and their wives Gianetta andal. He jumped out of bed to chambers considers fused to listen to Sir Rufus but little. Mr. Balfour and his lieutenants, that about $138 had been paid has passed into a classic.

In the main the tendency of and Tossa (Mrs. J. Hunter ascertain the cause and saw a man libel to be of a trivial olia knowing that the Government would be blamed whatever course the note to onable witness to solevate what used to be the speak only in terms of warmest arm. Before he could catch him were a

ne interest only. Xavier signed his work at Harvard has boon and Miss Hilda Gordon) one can with a basket of fish under his and the they took, are shouldering a grave responsibility. when they propose get the money. Hig Lordship sabsidiary schools of law and commendation. These four have lie man jumped over the verandah may play the to add a political to the industrial crisis that is convulsing the remarked that he believed that medicine and science to a parily a good deal of the business and into the street. He sustained the defendant country." Moderate men would look askance at the Unionists if they if he could he would credit them Greek. At the same time; how grace and spirit, Mr. Lammert him from making good his encar

the payments had been made and with the study of Latin and it was carried out with mach serious injuries which prevented security for he deliberately and cynically set-party before patriotism. We not say against capital. Judgment was ever, he has immensely improved was--Mr. Lammer) at his beef, and, when arrested had that this is what the Unionists have done, or intend to do, but in entered for the plaintiff with jumpthods and strengthened That is all that need be said. It taken to the ligspital. Ho the light of such knowlod go as we at prosent possess it looks as if costs, payment to be made at the the teaching staff in the classical de imbre than a year or two ago brought before the Mng their attitudo demands some explanation:

rate of $10 per month

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