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CHANCE FOR INVENTORS,

The man who could invent a

(Continued from Paye 6, 1

A Glance at our Files. opera is opera sud a play at one: and the same time and because of whose vociferous esila for

(Nov, 13-19, 1897:) encores, much of the singing is either lost or has to stop not

INTERPORT FETE comparative quietness has been. Last Dight the Hongkong restored His is the kind oCricket Club gave a fote on the new water-proof material for the cracked cerebrum that thinks the cricket field is honour of the foods and aprons of the ricksbas Toreador's Song" music hall visitors from Shanghai and the of Hongkong would earn the ever- tura and the sweating bull Straits Settlements. The ground lasting gratitude of every resident butcher ready and willing to was most beautifully illuminated in this far eastern Colony. The oblige wi" a slog dance ser his and the gentlemen responsible thin American cloth at present in third appearance. I'm right glad for the decorations scored that the Opera Company is to be an unexpected and unprecedent-then a ride in wet weather is any use soon becomes cracked, and wi' us another weak. Yon sorted success, with very moderate thing but pleasant, for the water

thing's An education in resources and extremely little itself which makes the promise time

comes drip, dripping down the to evolve artistic

back of the neck, and streams o' a couple o' matinees all the effects. Up to sundown the mors to be thankful for. I hope ground and pavilion had been of the luckless accupant, quickly through the apron on the knees you'll all hear them at least once, foccupied by the players and

his converting but for the Ive o goodness their friends, in dozens and miniature aqueducts. Sitting in dinan' go to opera at sil unless scores and hundreds : but

A puddle may delight the average you're prepared to enjoy it and to between dosk Rud dinner allow your neighbours to do like-time the scene had undergone schoolbar, but the staid business wise. Selah.

man objects to it on principle, and bence we imagine that really) cheap and waterproof covering welcomed.

t our rickshas wou'd be

o

A Catholic Curriculum.

trousers into

wonderful transformation. The Pavilion, by daylight as ugly as Our table at tiffin time has got lights and surmourted by a pretty sin, was festooned with fairy all yon Correspondence Schools device comprising the initials of ye ee advertised, licked at the all three Cube, Shangbai, Straits

OUR ROADS. post. I'm quite bonvinced that

and Hongkong. The trees all

Truly the ways of the P.W.D. if our conversation could only be round the enclosure were dotted are utterly beyond understanding capitalised, Wiseman's would be with tiny sparks of macy colours. Some time ago the gradient of able to give the Laiversity a run and a big barrier of warm orange Robinson Road. Kowloon, was for tis money and even then pay tinted lanterns facing the pavilion altered and some hundreds of tons ⚫ decent dividend. And what a separated the public side of the offartblaboriously cut away from syllabus Man. ye canna' beat cricket field from that reserved surface at, most probably, con- it. Ay, yon's the place to finish for guests of the H.K.C.C. Seats siderable exponse to the rate- your education if only your were placed all over the pitch payers of the Colony. mind can stand the strain. and under the trees at the boun.tas suddenly dawned upon some- Subjects? Poob! We'd make daries, and the pavilion marques, one that the level of the road is too the average professor look like and matshed were converted into low and that it must be built up & wandered cat and wish refreshment-booths where crea-gain. Consequently coolies have ture comforts were supplied in been employed for some time past Our curriculum is as catholic endless variety without stint. At busily replacing what they as eacherd of the ground was a band busily carted away some time koowa an average thirty-five stand, and the West Yorkshire before. What can be the reason midate period take in from how and Hongkong Regiment bands for this strange proceeding we are to master the clarinet to remove alternatively played most enjoy unable to siy, unless it be as we ing corns: from tips on funeral able selections, bath in their best heard suggested the other day management to hints on how to style.

that Hoogkong roads are for the pitch a tent and the evils atten-

benefit of the P.W.D. and not the P.W.D. for the roads.

he'd been a plumber instead.

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it is compendious.

I've

dent on whistling on Sunday. WHAT SPORT DOES. Yesterday, же took in the The Interport Cricket Week peculiarities of salmon, tioned has as much significance as a and otherwise, their habitat and great poltips event, for it is a

· removal therefrom. It was but remarkable demonstration of

step then to bees, stings, bites, Anglo-Saxoniem. The charac- spiders and whence to Scottishteristics of the race came out in

THE OPERA.

Now it

Donizetti's "Lucis di Lammer moor" Italian Grand Opera Company, at was presented by the the Theatre Royallast night and proved to be a veritable triumph. The house was packed and was as enthusiastic as it coold possibly

be.

history. The connection? Why all climes and under all sorts of Lucia di Lammermoor.' bless my soul, how much further conditions. Love of open air and in my country's history do you all that pertains to it, as well as expect a couple of otherwise fall that it typifies in the affairs quite intelligent Englishmen tof mankind earnest strife solely go that the pathetic little tate of for the joy of striving, not for the Bruce and the Spider? From sake of anything to be gained: there to Elizabeth and patient waiting and watching. Shakespeare WAS ап easy strength when the moment comes jump but maration o' Falstafi to strike or struggle in attack or unearthed the familiar but defence, fairness in combat and)

The opera is perhaps not so always provocative question" Are bonour to the vanquished for their stout folk more humorous than good tight; and a determination well-known in Hongkong as it tbin?" By a small majority always and everywhere to avoid deserves to be and a short resume it was decided in the affirm the common failing of the sordid of the story, founded on Sir tive. That ends the matter so world that makes life'

Walter Scott's novel, will possibly a penall be interesting. far as my fellow professors are servitude with all work and

Lord Heary Ashton, who is Lucy's brother.| concerned.

no play." The British do not take their pleasures Badly, knowing nothing of her attach- but they are resolved to havement to bis enemy, Edgar of or perish in the Ravenswood, has arranged s

Lean vs. Fat.

are

So thousands of miles arriage between Lucy and the nothing: climates

wealthy Lord Arthur, in order to bis fallen fortunes. of

retrieve

Lucy

are

State,

But it doesna' end the matter their games so far as the stout and sprightly attempt. of Hongkong are concerned. They have had a very narrow scorned: affairs escape.

learning that For years they ha trade of millions, no considera. Later, been encouraged to believe that tion is sufficient to bar the British is in love with Edgar, he inter- humour and avoirdupois

her lover's letters, and from their amusements. Foot-ceps hand in hand. Up to now they hallis rampant in Singapore. with executes a forged paper, which have rejoiced in their reputation in bail of the equator; tenais is convinces Lucy that Edgar is

false to her. Convinced of herl

for massive mirth.

played in Labrador: horse-races ever's perfi fy, and urged by the Now their whole philosophy of from Buluwayo to Tientsin: and life has been shaken. They have the libellous lunatics who say necessities of her brother, she been voted jovial only by a small the trade-mark of British rivit unwillingly consents to wed Sir majority. Let that be a lesson isation is a bible and a bottle of Arthur. The guests are assembl to them. Stoutgers ians 003 ram, know full well that the real td for the ceremony, and Lucy longer unanimously accepted by banner bears a horse-shoe und a has just signed the contract, common consent as & sure cricket-bat. Jules Verne knows enounces Lucy for her fickle when . Edgar appears and proof of inward effervescence. Fin "Hector

Servadac " be

ness. Edgar is driven from the

It isna suggested, mind ye, that pictures two Englishmen, at gut Castle, and the shock being too corpulency should be listed as a posts 500 miles apart, playing capital crime or 2 notifiable chess by telegraph so intently much for the gentle mind of Lucy, disease but the fat man must be that they never notice the she becomes insane, kills her bus. made to realise that his hey-day earth

hand and then dies. Edgar, over- has split up into is on the wane. The scraggs wi steroids and they are fring come by these tragic happenings. their melanchoby mien are now through space on an overgrown

visits the churchyard of Raveba-; in the running. Joviality is too meteorite. When the ancient Wood and stabs himself among so often taken for humour. The Greeks held Olympic games they the tomb of his ancestors. So Garmane are stoot and therefore mede a fuss for years and filled much for the story. bumorous! I ask you?

Although Donizetta composed books with poetry about the great

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No, for real beroar give me event, but we go a few thousand fewer than sixty-three operas, every time the thin, cadaver miles for a game and think little is best is undoubtedly "Lucia." ous individual wi' the twinkle in of it. And now, "Over!" The Throughout the whole work there He may not be able to visitors go away this week, and rune & current of tenderness and pin you against the wall and the tbree communities not passion, expressed in simple and persistently obtrude when shaking merely the elevens, but all their appealing melody. Mlle. Delza, himself free of his alleged friends, we almost said the whole as Lucia, was perfection itself, wit bat his is a type of population-bave acquired a per- the part to a finished degree. In her pure soprano voice suiting fun pot sufficiently recognised in manent feeling of being nearer, her duet with Edgar in the second these days of bamorous reference more neighbourly, more united. so often associated wi' mighty balk and horrible impetus. The

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