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LOCAL WEDDING.
GRIEFIN MARTIN The wedding took plaos at St. (John's Cathedral, this morning. In spite of its drawbacka==wet of Mr. C. R. Crispin, of the Hong return weather, no franchise and o'her tong and Whampoa Dock Com
RETROSPECTION.
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TODAY'S MISCELLANY
guayo Caro,
sational defeat, «of, M. Anden After Me Shimpiden a son- Gobert at Wimbledon, the Japan- sa champion, was apparantly the production of newspapers. It
quite unaffected by his long game may seem a little egotistical for shows one fatal case of cholers undersirable things-Hongkong pany, and Mrs. R. A. Mariin, re up to talk about our own draft, imported), the victim being has a glamour and charm which widow of the lata. Mr. T. H. that he has played twanty seta in Mr. Shimidru said but the Press of the work has Chinese.
draws you back to her as no other Martin, who was for many years one day in Calcutta!" All the re- become
important and
People who Superintendent of the Registre freshment he took at Wimbledon decisive a factor
the
have reviled har and metaphoric and Parcel branch of the Houg was a glass of water, which he ja control and direction of human Among the passengers who ally spat at her shores
whan kong Post Office. The Rev. V carried to the centre court with affairs that anything relat- arrived by the Venezuela was leaving them arparience an un- R. Copley Moyle officiated. ing to its development and Mr. F. G. Johnson, who is said to 20countable loss as time goes on. The bride, who was given away
He attributes"-his improvement has greater intend establishing in Hongkong Aantal pictures of a gay and by her eldest son (Hr. 2. J. J. swiftoos on foot partly to the ju significance than usually a China branch of the W. H. frolicsome past speed through Martin) was attired in grey from his youth.
jitau practice which he bas had taches to any other of the pro-Hazleton Co., oil importars of your mind and you compare it voile dress, with picture hat to fessions Is might be said that | Now Yark.
with the rather sad existence watch. The bridesmaids, who inowspapers are but mirrors-re-
you bare spent since you wore white embroidered silk The interest aroused by iba flecting the doings and opinions
left it You review a phantas-dresses and hats to match, were spectacle of a one-armed playar of others and that they are
magoria of Chinks, chairs and Miss Murioris May Martin and at Wimbledon recalls the graat mainly composed of advertiseths Wiltshire Regiment, has, we frocks of dusky beauties pro-Neilson was "best man.”
Captain PSL Beaver, M.C., of champagne, the gaily coloured Miss Joan Crispin. Mr. D. feats by a lady player similarly ments and gossip; but they have bear, been selected for service manading the streets, and can
handicapped. Miss Hilda Hit- taken upon themselves a far with the Egyptian Army. Captain smell the well-remembered per-was held at the Hongkong Hotel, left arm, susreaded in winning After the ceremony, a reception|chings, who was born with only a wider mission. Not only are Beaver is they of public utility service in the dissemination Peking.
and manding the Company of Wilts scent themselves. You feel that received the good wishes of their those of Pa mestan, in Now Zea confume with which they liberally at which Mr. and Mrs. Crispin many championships, notably
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of nows, but they also exercise an undoubtedly powerful
of
at present
even the misama of the Chinese many friends. dens and side streets could be! tolerated. You miss the most
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public opinion. And this is what We see from Home papers that wonderful harbour in the world the men now assembled at Otta- the marriage took place on Jane (despite the claims of Sydney importance is the shape of and is quite likely to be sears in wa are conscious of and what 30 at Sevencats, of Mr. Bertram people) with its conglomeration new tie or an ugly double- they are endeavouring to make ontague Ede, son of Mr. and of craft and its beautiful setting brimmed fell bat than is contributive to the common weal rs. Montague Ede, Hangkong. Peak
the hue and levels, island
a Glory rose. of the human race. In the develo Alice Endarice youngest child and
The
of vagaries
sansaless pienics, theatres, fashion create more enthusiasm opment of character and the of the late Mr. Alec Wards and dances
and
bunges mingle than the opalescence of an early the opening of the Democratic The Stars and Stripea fown at proper conception of citizenship. Mrs. Cruddas, Sevenoaks.
with the thought af long the ventilation of governmental
iced drinks on hot days. These ing. Expansive artificiality Convention at San Francisco, and social evils, and in the urging
thoughts of the luxurious past, in Presents greater attraction than and to be the largest in the moderate and constructive From the Consul General for countries where taxation absorbs the gifts of usture which cost us country," was probably the flag policies the Press of the world has the Netherlands wa have received your surplus wealth, have the nothing. And therein lies the specially made
for the San A responsible task-though a copy of the 1920 edition of the same effect as a mirage on aason. We are untrue to our Francisco Exhibition of 1915. that task is not always Year Book of the Netherlands thirsty traveller. And етед
This huge piece of busting carried
with the East Indies, compiled by the though your limit in Hongkong
measured 46ft. by 23, and bad a PIOSTIES AND PYRAMIDS. disinterestedness that it should Sub-Department of Agriculture, may bonestly be put at ten years,
superficial ares of 1,058 square The Conference has been at Industy and Commerce at Buiten-you are tempted to return and From the point of view of utility | feel: It floated from the top of a pains to insist on better Press zorg. Java. It contains A
risk the Happy Valley the the pigsty excels the pyramid, staff of Oregon fir. 2ft, above communications and there is of information and is beautifully chance to apply the adjective to but because of that we should not the ground, 78. higber, than the something more valuable than a illustrated.
your life without the use of the perpetuate the pigsty as a mono- giant flagstaff from British meat howevermuch the succulen: Columbia recently erected in Kew bacon appeals to our gastro-Gardens. A full-size Union Jack, The Stoke-on-Treat Labour
nomical appetities. Jack London, the dimensions of which are 15ft. Party have decided to oppose Has this old world, with its peophy, tells of the drift of the the size of this huge American:
in one of his rare works of phil- by 734ft, is only about one-tenth Colonel John Ward, M.P., at the chequered history, changed so human race in search of food; flag- next Parliamentary
election. very much in ita sacient manners nothing else matters so long as
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1920.
MOTORING MANIACS.
be.
out
selfish desire for efficiency be hind the plea
more
We are informed by
noun.
THE BUBBLE.
solves.
This is not the first time in its
up to recent times we allowed with food. We are replate that in 1806 memorial on the
worst accident of its kind which Hongkong has experienced. Apart universal brotherhood and peace/Canadian Pacific Ocean Services ratechisms in which we were than the mellowed beauty of the consequence of whose report it
moment or two.
„THE NEW PRIESTCRAFT.
than an
Much money
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chauffeurs are careless in their driving and appear to bave an undue made of much greater value if lowo recruiting ground, bich religion bad eliminated our worst a few chaotic years the found-
#3 that archbishop. But in the space of of 1913 are labouring under a
A REAL MISSION.
There is a distinctly education. They are inviting Mr. Samuel and customs as we like to believe the stomach is filed. And so al valge in the fact that we in Clowes, general secretary of the We have, it is true, clothed our-with our sense of appreciation, long history that Westminster Hongkong should know what is National Pottery Workers' So-selves with the robe of culture we look with greater pleasure on Abbey bas had to send out an happening elsewhere in the world, ciety, to be official candidate. and affected the cals of human the mundane things of life be 5.0.3. At the beginning of the ard that we should
know Their action has been taken itarianism which could not with-cause we live for materialism. nineteenth century the exterior quickly. The need of the age, because of Colonel Ward's definite stand the prick of the knife of we are only aesthetically in-was in such a sad state of decay
than ever, is for the refusal to sign the Labour party circumstance. For centuries and chined when speedy transmission of ungarbled ticket. news. Ignorance is the pro-
Las of genitor of half our misunder
ourselves to be educated by do not eat to live but live Lords of the Treasury. This subject was addressed to the .The recent motor smash-up on the Deep Water Bay road has standings and if ever the world
ecclesiastics, who demanded our to eat. That is why caused a deal of comment locally, because it happens to be the is to enter upon its dream of
the petition waaimmediately referred obedience by their parrot-like tbe
pigsty is of greater importance to "Committee of Taste," in from the question as to who, if anybody, was to blame, there is once it will only be by reason of the Limited, that on accept of quax-exhorted to "order ourselves low-
wonderful pyramid. again raised the general issue of how mishaps of this character can fact that we understand each antine, the sa. Monteagle will and reverently to all our
was laid before the House of -be prevented, for there can be no doubt that if we get these constant other. Luderstanding makes for Box sail at noon on Fues betters." We were taught to fear
Comment, and an emerZEDCY ly-recurring accidente motoring, as a pleasure, will become adversely tolerance and sympathy. The day next. August 17th. In & merciless God of ferocity and to
grant of £2,000 was at esce made. affected. It is generally conceded that the Colony's roads are not by Press hasn't this high conception explanation, it may be stated accept all that teaching without
Throughout the ages mankind A good deal of labour was procur- any means ideal for motoring, a fact which is as much due to their always before it; it is often too that on the day before the ship's question and with implicit faith has been subjected to the ambi-able for £2,000 in those days. many twists and turnings as to the nature of the road surface. commercially minded, it is often arrival bere a Chinese Greman and obedience. Have we survived tions and powers of a small body Subsequently sums amounting to Improvements have been made, admittedly, and more are in too narrow minded, reflecting died of cholers, and the author the predatory instincts of the of men. And in no instance has more than £42,000 were granted progress, but when the very best has been done there will still exist racial and personal jealousies.ities have placed the vessel in Danes who invaded Britain and as by the power of the priest bas, of course, been spent on the
Angles, the Jutes, the Saxons and it been so corisistently illustrated|by. Parliament. many bandicaps. None the less, with the facilities available now Bat the ideal need not be con- quarantine until Sunday. and in the future it should still be possible for motorists to undertake sidered wholly chimeric, for.
| burnt and destroyed, with fire and Superstition has been the fail|fabric even since that time. enjoyable spins into the country, with no risk to themselves or to speaking generally, the Press of
sword, or the desire for cruelty with which whole nations have others using the roads. But what we wish to emphasise is that the world-or rather the writers
which has permeated religion been subjugated. Most of us caD Recruiting for the Wiltshire through the ages? Before 1914 we look back to the time when the par- It seems that those who the safety of motorists and the public alike rests with those who for it, are men who have a vision Regiment-the 1st Battalion of had reached s stage of smug com- son was a power in the land, and thought that Scotland bad drive the cars, a point upon which we shall have more to say in a of an ordered, well-informed and which is at Dublin. the Irish placency, when portly parsons and the Diety Himself was not spoken opportunity of going "dry" this
peaceful humanity. Telegraphy, front," and the 2nd Battalion at negligible Nonconformist minis of with greater aw Now, whilst we are not going to deny that many native both wireless and cable. could be Hongkongis very good in its ters blandly assured
year under the Temperance, act
delusion. Even if the ballot in Fondness for taking risks (sometimes to "show off" maybe), we there were an intensification of ambraces all Wiltshire. rather fear that these Chinese drivers are saddled with more its use for the speely transmis the proud boast of the Wiltshires sense of daty well and truly done, were badly broken and tottered in course provided by the Act, It is human passions. Then with a ations of an unstable systems are approves the most ex- blame than is really theirs. Even in the case of hired cars, we have sion of world-wide news. Govern- that they are one of the most ter- they turned to their tennis or a state of ruin. But always there effect compared with Frohibition. it will have a comparatively mild known of instances in which European occupants have urged ments could help in this work.ritorial of regiments, the the chauffeurs to speed up, not because they are in particular harry, but because they have succumbed to the fasi-and- tha: as a result of the deliberato go out of Wiltshire for recruits and men were engaged in the marveless grip of those who have on pretty much as before. any and it is not too much to hope craiters having had very seldom meetings. When the blow fell seize the reins of power from the the wholesale trade is allowed to
retea parties, jumblesales or vestry are men of ambition ready to farious "joy-riding" craze. On the other band, it is equally truetions in Canada, the British When the Great War broke out cheerful pastime of obliterating failed. that European passengers who would be quite content with a Government will give serious about 90 per cent. of the tst and each other, the churches stood lust for power is dreamed of by And in this case the
Hotels, ions, and clubs will still be allowed moderate speed are often placed at the mercy of chauffeurs who consideration to the improvement 2nd Battalions were "Willsheer helplessly by, powerless
10 sell to liquor
their guesta scorch."
to the leaders of Probibition. It is and that it is with a feeling of very real thankfulness at of the cable and wireless services born men. retaining whole skin that these former come to the end of their of the Empire. But, important
sauge the awful agony of the to be feared that the cause of Yons taking a meal on their journey. We have heard it said that in some of the smaller garages though this Empire Press Con
convulsions of war. Their wordy humanity is not the true sim of premises. With a doctor's order the chauffeurs are paid so much per trip, and if that is so, then that ference is. the World's Press
teachings had disappeared. like these captains of the Dry move-iquor may be bought at a che- fact may explain their anxiety to get the run over and to raturu to Conference to be held in Australia the R. K. Dockyard Recreation pressed primeral passions were by ambition. Commencing with spirits, wine, or beer with meals, The fortnightly whist drive of pricked bubble. Long sup-ment. They are actuated solelyist's. Restaurants may provide their headquarters to get further customers. But what about the next year will be of even greater Club was held last evening, the paramount, and
and the private consumer, provid- European owner of a car? Is he always above reproach? We fear value. If the Press
our elegant the prohibition of alcoholic liquors, not. Only yesterday we heard of the case of a man who boasted the
of prize winners being:-Ladies-apparel of culture fell from us they seek to borden the worlded he buys not less than two world weta that he had made the run out to Fanling in a little over half an working for peace and the ad- Hill (167); 3rd, Mrs. Lamerton playing the nude instincts which to deprive the subject of his liberty
united ly 1st, Mrs. Hodds (177); End, Miss like the rotten rags they were, dis with petty and tyrranical laws-gallons at a time will not be
interfered with, bour. We will leave our readers to imagine what that means on yancement of civilisation, for the (167); 4tb. Mrs. Cheesley (167) had lain dormant so long. If we of action. When this scheme is such a road. Then there is the type of car-owner who has a high-breaking down of prejudices, for Hidden No., Mrs. Phillips (158) are to remain insensible to the complete and the world is under powered machine of which he is proud and who likes to boast of its the enlightement of peoples, then Gents-1st, C. P. O. Jones (175): brutalities inherited from our the heel of Pussyfoot, those little which ensures its success, the
With a splendid enthusia achievements. Such as these can be heard telling their friends one would be able to see, up-2nd. Mr. Rhodes (174); 3rd, Mr. savage progenitors, then there pleasures which help to make appeal of the Dean of West- that they have "touched " 40 or 50 miles an hour a speed which is obstructed. alluring vistas of utterly unreasonable on the majority of roads which we have in world growing truly beautiful.
Sandford (173): 4th, Mr. T. Marsh must be a purer and sincerer form life bearable, will be banned by minster has been taken up in this Colony. It is not that they are anxious to get anywhere within
(172); Hidden No. Mr. Lee (156) of the teachings of idealism, and these mischief-makers. Smok almost every quarter. But the,... certain prescribed time; the speed mania merely grows upon them
The duties of M.C. were capably the unsatisfactory jabberings of ing will come next in their cry of The Abbey in Danger and they are never happier than when they can
fulfilled by Mr. Budden. It was pragmatical parsons must be agenda, horse-racing and the should not be allowed to alarm a lot ber ont.* would be serious enough if they only risked their own lives in the
snnounced that the next drive superseded by a nobler and more innocuous forms of sport public that necessarily lacks process; it is a thousand times more so when this
would be held on Wednesday, worthier spiritual system.
will be bludgeoned by Prohibi-technical knowledge. Our price- Involves olbers in danger as well.
tion. Doubtless even kissing less heritage is not going to will be made a punishable offence collapse as did the spire of (when the kissers can be caught). Chichester Cathedral, or the
generosity of
proposal
COLOUR.
I THE.V.R.C. 'joy-riding Members of the Victoria the 25th instant.
Recreation Club have learned Bo what is needed in Hongkong is less of this nonsensical rush with pleasure of the ing about at high speeds in motor-cars, and it's about time the fact (confirmed at a recent meeting) was brought home to European owners and native chauffeurs alike. for
Colour is a wonderful thing. In fact there is reason to believe Campanile at Venice. Nor is it the construction.. of gatherings (when members could Have you ever thought how drab that it will be a crime to suile threatened as have been, within In Shanghai there has just been issued & Municipal notification on an additional floor in the trip the light fantastic) that existence would be without it and a hearty laugh a capital recent years, St. Paul's and the this very matter of dangerous motoring, which, after pointing out gymnasium building which the proposal that it is incumbent on drivers of motor vehicles to take particular the
was made for The iridescence of a rainbow, offence. One is apt to look upon Cathedrals of Winchester and are in adjusting their speed at all times so as not to endanger Life Chairman (Mr. R. E. Belitios,) that which now holds the billiard pass so indifferently in Wyndham pitying contempt; but, make the Abbey are happily sound. it constructing another floor above the gorgeous floral display we these "Wowsers" with a kind of Salisbury, The foundations of Tid limb, saysThe public safety must have first consideration, has made practicable. With the table and the paraphernalls of Street or the coloration of the no mistake, they tod those who drive in such a manner as to endanger it will be additional accommodation pro- the gymnasium. Of course, care butterflies fluttering in the foliage deadly earnest, and with their sphere is for ever playing the
LIU In But the wicked London atmo xosecuted with the utmost rigour of the law." In other words, vided by this new floor, the liter had to be taken that the rules of or in popular hotels, all serve to specious arguments and, phay dickens with all our great buikd» abile roads are not roade solely for motorists; others have their ary and social tastes of members the Club as a strictly recreation brighten existence although many foot tactics, they are a menace tongs. The moment money is short- ghts indeed, they can claim.first consideration. These speed will be catered for in the provision institution were not infringed, people do not realise it because all the free and easy customs and the band of the repairer is anisce are really doing an ill turn to the general body of motorists of a reading room and library. but fears were overcome when of its familiarity.
their antics, and when any of them are known to be "Toad bogs In the colder months of the year, it was
Can you which we enjoy so much. Pussy stayed, in that instant the London understood that other imagine what your sensations foot, needs the firm hand of atmosphere--hand in hand, of May should not only be punished by law but denied membership of the when there is little OF no branches of recreation would not would be if everyone were correction. His faline cunning course, with Father Time gains Automobile Association and generally scorned by the motoring attraction in the swimming be interfered with by the proposed clothed in black, or if nature should be met with vigorous the ascendancy; That is what is? ternity. The speed-limit regulations, too, badly need zavisng tank, members are at present innovation. Members of the suddenly presented her charms action. Metaphorically, he should the matter with Westminister actically all the motoring in Hongkong is for pleasure, so it isn't only able to find recreation V.B.C. can now matter of burry for anybody. That being so, we should like the in the gymnasium or sociability themselves that on the couple would be irritating and madden- be sent.iguonimiously squealing none too much if 11 then co
congratulate in white and nothing else? It have a tit can tied to his tail and Abbey, The money asked for in it, for certain areas at any rate, very materially reduced. To in the bar. It was in view of the tion of the addition to the building, ing. And yet we take the to the place from whence he cerned in preserving for Falan At, no reasonably-minded motorist would object; the others, being fact that the new rooms could be they will have one of the finest wonderful gift of colour as came, followed by contumely and her most valuabia possession
ource of danger to the public, needn't be bothered about.
used for occasional festive] recreation Clube in the Colony matter of course. Of much more derision,
to be made ssay in their min
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