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at 7,30 a.m. on Tuesday while she was lying at the quarantina anchorage. He steamed soross and called the defendant's boat | alongside. Defendant, had thrso

passengers on board.

In reply to a question by the Magistrate, witness said that defendant's boat did not go along-| |side the gangway but booked only 10 * parthola for about

two minutes. He did not think: there was any communication with passengers on board.

Defendant said he was going to the steamer, bat when he saw the quarantine flag he did not go alongside. The police than called him.

The charge was found proved and a fine of $10, with the alter- native of 14 days' bard labour, was imposed.

The master of a passenger boat had the same penalty inflicted for going alongside the Kwai Yang this morning before she had been examined by a police officers.

"THE DEVIL'S

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(By "Librarian.”)

Paris in the first hectic excita- ment following the Armistice affords the setting for The Devil's Passkay" the big feature attraction at Kowloon Theatre this evening. Acting and photo- graphy are both superb while; the story is remarkably clever. A young American playwright's search for the plot that is to

“R. L. S.” Aguiñ. make his

new play famous About a year ago a Stevenson form the main theme. How "discovery" was unearthed by bis extravagant young wife somebody in South Africa. It is lured into debt by was pronounced to have the true fashionable bot unscrupulous R L &" ring which is not sur- modiste, how the complications prising, for alter discussion had that follow get into print, and how proceeded for a while somebody the guileless husband unaware found the piece in the edition of that his wife is the unnamed lady, Stevenson's works edited by Mr. uses the story as the basis for a Lloyd Osbourne. This suggests piquant play that sets all Paris deficiencies on the part of the laughing at him, is depicted with quidaunes, and raises an interest- masterly skill. The race course, ing question as to just how far the theatre, and the boulevard critics in general bave studied scenes are presented on a scale the works they criticise. abusual even for the screen, while the close attention to detail has made an exceptionally finished production."The Devil's Passkey" is unquestionably an outstanding picture.

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NOTABLE COMPOSERS.

Some like to laugh,

Some like to cry, Some like chaff,

Not I.

Of the Moral Emblems, this is

a goodly sample :--

The Abbot for a walk went out, A wealthy cleric, very stout, And Robin has that Abbot stuck As the red hunter spears the

buck.

The djavel or the javelin Has, you observe, gone bravely

in.

And you may hear that weapon

wback

Bing through the middle of his

that

back

Hence we may learn

Abbots should Never go walking in a wood. There is no apparent reason for in the collection, you will see; its Nothing particularly impressive doubting the genuinenes of the attractiveness consists in the steat Stevensonian volume, just Stevensonian gaiety, and the published by Chatto and Windns light it throws upon the author's under the title of "Mral Emblems life. and Other Poems,” with 19 wood- cut illustrations by the author. They are not important additions to Stevenson's work. Neverthe less, lovers of the author will gladly add the volume to their

collection.

Mr. Herbert Jenkins. the publisher, made a score with his Bindle book. After it had been. belauded, somebody discovered that it had been overrated. Per- In a delightful preface Mr.

hape so. But it was good fun, asi Lloyd Osbourne tells the interest has now given us a companion was its successor. The author ing story of these verses. When he was a little boy of 12, living as a gorgeous foil to the genial volume. "Mr Bindle," who with R. L. S. and his wife at Bindle, while the latter keeps his Davos, he got an inkling of the jovial wink, his cockney wit, and struggle that confronted bis step-bis temper under all her on- slaught Mr. Jenkins has a soft Cader the stress of this finan-spot for Lizzie Bindla even while cial urgency he determined to he is castigating her. Ha lets

father to make ends meet.

go into business," and with you see at intervals that Lizzie the help of his printing press has a heart. A shrew who cooks be started by printing the preyou meals that are the envy of grammes of the Hotel Belvi-

your neighbours, a childless dere.

Woman who is born mother, Two francs-fifty was the emolu- tender to little children and ment from this source. It stirred [ desolate without them-to her his ambition, and presently be much may be, and is, forgiven. was writing and printing a tiny There are delicious scenes when book of eight pages entitled the Biodles go to Summer Camp: "Black Canyoo, or Life in the when Mrs. Biadle breaks the Far West" For this be bad an strike: when her party is seduced immediate and gratifying sale at away by the more hilarious party sixpence a copy.

organised by the unregenerate It was then that Louis' Bind and when Mr. Hearty ambition was fired, and one day, succanters a bull. Mr. Jenkins with an affected humility that is a farceur who escapes the W&5 most embarrassing, beinanity of farce. called at the office and sub-

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Passengers Leaving. Among the passengers leating Prominent amongst the passen. by the KeystoneState, which uils

ANTONIN DVORAK. the Golden State is at 9 am, to-morrow, is Mr. W,W. Miss Dorothy C. Gee who is hers Stifler who is associated withthe Bohemian Composer of the Late oo a combined business and Rockefeller Foundation in Pek-

Nineteenth Century. recreation trip. Miss Ges who ing. Mr. Stiffer has made alrip Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) was is on her first visit to the Far from Peking to Manila, callingst the greatest Bobemiso composer. East since she went to the Shanghai, Foschow, Amoy ind and one of the greatest, nation-

mitted a manuscript called "Not Captain Scott's supreme adven-} United States 22 years ago, is Swatow and is now on his return alists of the Modern School. Of

I, and Other Poems," which the ture in the Antarctic has found a manager of the oriental depart- [journey.

the people, Dvorak was steeped

firm of Osbourne and Co. gladly fitting historian in the man whose ment of the French-American Another passenger by the sime in the traditions of Bohemian folk

accepted on the spot. It was skill with the camera has already bank in San Francisco. She is vessel is Mr. E. W. Mills who is music and he constantly employed

an instantaneous hit, selling out done so much to popularise the said to be the first Chinese lady going to Tientsin.

the national idiom in all his comi

an entire edition of 50 copies. expedition. Io "The

Great to hold an executive position in In Wireless Communication. positions.

The ambition of publisher and White South" (Duckworth) Mr. a banking institution.

Dvorak spent some years in author soared still higher. Herbert G. Ponting, the official The following vessels were in Commenting on the economic wireless communication with the America, and when be returned They planned an illustrated photographer of the expedition, conditions of Chios and the part port at 2.30 p.m. 10-day-Empire to Europe, gave to the world bis book. Louis began to carve pic. has worked almost as graphically Chinese women will play in the Arrow, Lake Fermingdale fiks fifth symphony, which is called tures on squares of fretwood, and with the pen as with the sensitive development of the country sha Mara, Empire State, Caddo Pak,

From the New World." It is thus grew Moral Emblema," film. Lady Scott's introduction says: As far as I see China the Amazone, Hermes, Empress of based on negro melodies.. More Emblems," and the other quotes her husband's eulogies of has a wonderful field for every one Russia, West Prospect, Dunes

Dvorak wrote in all forms, bis Davos Booklets which are to-day Mr. Ponting, oracious travel- of the Chinese people and they

operas being unknown outside of among the "excessively rare,"

ler," delightful lecturer and pho must take advantage of this

Bohemis. His greatest orchestral items in booksellers catalogues, tographic genius.

'It is my wonderful opportunity if they

One deportee from Saigon on works are hie five symphonies which only collectors with long intention" concludes the author, expect to

board the Sai Sang, which arrived Overtures, "Husitska," "Nature," purses can hope to posezes. 188 the country

“doring my lifetime to assist in prosperous and weil organized, this morning, was ill on arrival"Othello," and "Carnival;" Con- All the verses in these little perpetuating the story of my late Bat above all I am interest and was sent to the Government certos for violin, piano and cello: booklets show R. L. 8. in a happy chief and comrades of glorious ed in the affairs of women Civil Hospital by the Health Slavonic dances, and many short mood of irresponsible gaiety from memory." more than anything else, for Officer. A baby girl was boron compositions for instruments sod" Not I to the more sustained believe the women of China can the way up. The Chusan fm songs. do a great deal for their country Bangkok reports the death of a by getting into the spirit of Chinese from old age.

practical work and combining

their efforts with those started by

men and gradually work toward

Various

Approaching An Infected

Vessel

!

LARGO, "FROM THE NEW WORLD" SYMPHONY, This exquisite movement is the second of the Symphony, "From The master of a motor at the New World,” which Dvorak bettering China ip all lines of was charged before Lieut. Coo-wrote while a resident of New development."

way Haks R.N.R, in the Madna York City. The "Largo” is said Miss Gee is proceeding to Court this morning with approach-to express in tone the lonelines Canton, Sheaghai, Tientsin, ing within 30 yards of the and homesickness of the im Peking and other places. She Golden State, being an infected migrant, who has settled on the 8878 that if the

without having int viit prairies of America. · ▲

situation vessel,

banking institutions in China.

is encouraging she may establish obtained the written permission beautiful example of poetic

of the master. The offence was thought. Miss Gee was born in Canton committed at 7.30 s.m. on Dec. 6. but went to the United States at A. M. Carey, I.... B. A. 29., sid

the age of three, her father being that he saw the motor boat Wo attached to the China Specie Fat go alongside the Golden Skate

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