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somo kind or other not that uch cannot be adjusted when- ever the mutual conciliatory spirit is prosent. Whatovar hap- pens now, however, there is ond thing to be said for the British Government, to which the whole world will have to agroo-it has dono its best.

Changing

Commodores

1924.

DAY BY DAY.

-AN-VII-GEBAKER DIFFENS FROM AN EVIL-DOER ONLY IN THE WANT OF OPPORTUNITY.— Quintilian.

To-day is the tonth anniversary of the of the commencoment Great War.

Mr. and Mrs. J, Harold Dollar arrived hore by the s.s. President Garfield to-day.

TWO-MINUTE TALKS A Dally Tonio

By ROBERT POWER

TREES OF THE WOOD.

The wood is full of trees. Now know there are some, for their they are in the full glory of their fragrance fills the air. Palo and Spring livory. All shades of green, ghostly are the slivery anemones, from the bright emerald of the oak or "millkmalda" de the obildron follage, to the deeper colour of the call thom. Horo and there are elm, and the dark, sombre hue of lomouhued patchos, where the the fire.

primrose still lurk. There is They aro of all size and shapes, muslo in the wood, for from sun. Up to the blue sky towers the rise to sunnot the birds' orchestra.

An armed robbery in which ajolm, stately and trenchoraus; for may be heard.

sometimes without warning we Whon the strong winde blow,” Chinese girl wan robbed of a pair hear a crashing in the wood and the trees bond their boads and of bangles has been reported know that a great bough of the clap their hands." to the top. occuring in Saiwanha on Saturalui hos fallon. In a clump are most boughs thore is always

Thors will we have no hostila-day afternoon." tion in Maying, bo very general regrot amongst the community

the sturdy oaks, rising smoothly movement. On the lower the birde from the nons-carpeted ground, have their cunning neste.

At

A P. W. D. coolie was injured splitting into many smaller stoms, the base of the ancient olm, and that Commodore Graco is to leave by being knocked down hy aand casting an umbrageous shade round about the spreading roots us at the end-of-the-prosònt

-of-the-giant-ash-the-rabbits. year. During the period of his unter car belonging to the Hong-on-the-hottest-lay

Thore too aro the graceful frolic:

Troes have their moods." In service bore, he has become akong Hotel, at Stubbs Road yes.

torday. He was taken to the larohos, the gloomy yow, the silver great favourite in social life, in

Government Civil Hospital. booches so ladylike and lovely, Winter. they stand otark and naval circles and in the world of

the solitary ash, and the dark sitant, as if horeft of hopo. In sport. Everyone who has boon

pinos with their thin trunks. Summer the fruits appear, giving brought into contact with Com Tho China Express and Boneath those the ground is life to God's little oroaturo and modore Grace has soon learned | Telegraph, in reporting the death brown, thick with myriads of pine of their abundance to man him that he is a charming personality of Mrs, Arthur Sovern, a cousin noodles which have fallen from self. In Autumn they are, ail and a man of high character and of Ruskin, states that she was the cones. As we walk amongst glorious iti russat, gold, and drim- thorough genuineness. Above all the mother of Sir Claud Sovern, them the air is filled with a rich, son, while the leaves fall as tho ho knows nothing of affectation Colonial Secretary of Hongkong-aromatical odour. On the other rising winds sing a requiem for, or self-glorification. He will bo This is not correct. Sir Claud's side of the wood is a little rost the dead days of Suminor. particularly missed tennis father wan the lato Mr. Walter le river, and here are fringed We ard as the trees. Varlous circles, for in this realm ho has Severn. figurod prominently and shown a ilno example to 1113 1. And what can

younger maji.

In

So

the weeping willows, omblems of in appearance, fruits, and useful- mourning and regret, drooping noss With us the Spring of life David Belknap Wickersham,thair foliage down to the silvory must be saccorded by the heat of Summor, to give place in due Lu Baid of him can also 43, who is charged with issuing water.

In the wood.it is dim, but there course to Autumn days when the be recorded is charming false statements in regard to tha

of alleged existence of an estate in are splashes of colour. The forms evidences of decay ure Hoen. wife and daughters, all whom have made many friends in South Siam, in his capacity as wave their apple-green tendrils, too, at last, will come the Winter, the Colony.

Whilst regretting President and Director of the while azure as the rain washed when the loaves of life's business. that the exigenctos of the service American Asiatly Commercial aky are the blue-bells which trem. fall from the norveless hands, and call bum elsewhere, we can count Company, Limited, appeared boble in every whispering wind. The the Great Woodsman will decrac ourselves fortunato in basing as fora the Magistrato to-day and violots are well hiddon, but we our fall.

his sucessor Captain Stirling, was again romanded. who has a fire ricord to his credit. Tho-new Commodoroisnostranger

TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

"COUNTY CRICKET

CHAMPIONSHIP.

County.

Possible

juod

obtained

There arrived in the Colony to the East, of which he must yesterday by the 8. Sarpodon, have grim as well as pleasant| Capt, and Mrs. L. C. H. Bellamy.

Seoing Itself in the shinning: THE IRISH FAILURE. aumories, for in the Boxer rising Capt. Bellamy. M. C., is taking he was saverely wounded and in-

well-known validad Homo. He has also done up the position of socrotary and enamel of a new car which Mr.AS AT 2ND, AUGUST 1924.

general manager of the long-H. H. Parry, a splundid servicu in the Grant kong Tramways, Ltd.. fillim the auctioneer, of Chippenham and A sentence in one of the Reu-War, hoing in command of the vacancy caused by the rotiremont Calne, had loft in a country road ter messages on ireland ie-day destroyer flotilla during the Battle of Mr. W. E. Roberts, who is in Witshire, a game cock attack- rofars

"dangerous roof Jutland and being decorated leaving this month to take up anod its reflection with, such fury Lo the

for his able work..

appointment in London. He is a that there was difficulty in driving Middlesex over £8, Yorkabire it of Repair cost Hurgence of the Republican

sou of the late gonoral manager movement," This revolt from

of the Liverpool Corporation and the bill for the queer claim Lancashire Tramways. Capt. Bollamy has has just been settled by the Surrey... relinquished the management. of insurance company. the St. Holons Tramways to lake up the Hongkong appointment.

the accepted administration of our Gaol. the Irish Free State has hoga

V.R.C. FETE.

Kont Notty

70 54

77.14

માર્ક S8 72.50

.100 68 68.00

70

45 64.29

90 - 52 70

$7.77 40 57.14 Warwickshire 65 34 52.31 By completing the trip from Somerset

DO 47 52.22 Southampton to Cherbourg in 3Gloucestershire. 90 43 hours 50 minutes, the, Cunard Sussex ... 90 42 liner Mauretania has made

Leicestershire. 85 36 record for the crossing. For 85 Hampshire miloo the linor, which is on

Glamorganshire: 85 record-breaking trip after her Essex rucent overhaul, travelled at a Worcestershire,,85 spood of from 28 to 30 knots. Northants The time for the Southampton-Derbyshire Cherbourg crossing is usually 6 hours. The Mauretania hus boaton this by over two hours.

...

47,77

46,66

42.35

VO 31

34.44

27

31.76

-85 25

29,41

20 23.53

55

12 21.82

80 9 11.25

BAND

CONCEIT.

THIS EVENING'S

PROGRAMME.

Happily, not many of us know apparent to olisorvors of the! much of the inside of our Gaol country for some months past, frou personal experience, and it is and the pity of it is that the only whion the annual report of tho the Prison Department is issued that whole trouble is due to

we get an insight into failure of the Treaty with Britain of the aspects of life there. It to bring all that was expected of may interest the public. thore- it. The Republican element in fore, to know that the daily!

avorage of prisoners last year RECORDS BROKEN ON Ireland was an inevitable pro-was 861, which is a higher figure|

SATURDAY. blem, but with the majority of than for any of the past ten years,

Swimming in the four lengths the people in the South prepared and that the total number of

convicts" enjoying the hospit-handicap at the V.R.C. Foto on to give Dominion rule a trial and

ality of His Majesty last year Saturday evening, D. Lyon twice abide loyally by the Treaty 30 came to 24, which is also a re- beat the record for the bath

A dramatic story of how long as all parties honoured it. cord for the past decade.. The which stood at 60 seconds. In there was good reason to hope nount of money spent by the his heat he deadhouted with that the age-old trouble was to Gaul last year was well over D. Laing for first place in 59.3/5th Holbein's famous picture, "The $324,000, as against an income at seconds, and in the final he beat Duchess of Milan," was secured

The tortnightly band concert is boot at rest. That these ex-$117,000. The average cost of B. Rasmussen by a foot in the for the National Gallery was

time of 58.3/5th given by Sir Robert Witt at the due to tako place this evening in pectations have been falsified maintenance per prisoner for the wonderful will be roused with profound year was $240,88, as contrasted seconds. It will be a long time annual meeting of the National Statue Square, when the band of witt the sum of $62.58 par bafore such a magnificent race Art Collections Fund at the Hotel the East Surrey Regiment, will sorrow all over the Empire, and prisoner in 1914, so that even in will be seen again; Rasmusson Victoria recently. Forty thous-render a Bino programme of music, and pounds was still nooded whon The concert will begin a 5 o'clock Irishmen thomselves, unless at prisons the cost of living is rising put up a great struggle.

Another interesting feature of ho received a telegram:-"Will and last until 7 p.m., and there forty thousand pounds." there will be plenty of seating the extremist persuasion, must) very materially. There is quite

The progratoime will be grieve over the black prospecta deal of industrial labour done the evening's ontortainment was give

in our prisons, including not- the Diving for Objects competi-Fearing it was a practical joke, accommodation provided. alend. It is obvious that when making, tailoring, ratian-work, tion. E. U. Jordan recovered no ho asked for a banker's reference, the leaders of the different tin-smithing, shov-making, print fower than eleven before he found and found that the £40,000 would follows:

tho be paid by the Bank of England, Quick March.. The Middy.....

...Alford. factions Bro unable

The only condition was that agreeing, bookbinding and photography, it necessary to come to

surface. C. Mackenzie was

....Auber. despite all the facilitios placed at

second in this event, with aight, the gift should be anonymous." Overture...The Bronze Horse and he won the diving with 81 he added. "I can only toll you their disposal, and the efforts of

points to Duck's 79. Miss this, the gift was made by a Selection.....Iolanthe...Sullivan. the Prime Minister and others

Blunsdon swam very well to win woman who was a lover of art, Idylle. Trumbild You Bloh. of the Cabinet, the differences aro

the three lengths handicap from and that that gift represented 3.--Suite of Spanish Danaca......., Bioszkowski, ono-third of her tutal fortune." scratch.

Serenade... "Quanil tu chautes" of a conerote kind, and praetionlly

LONDON QUOTATIONS.

.........lamud. insurmountable without further

Mussrs. . P. and H A.

7.--The Grasshopers' Duove......... strife, and, though Providenco

...... Bucajossi forbid, bloodshed. Under the Lammort advise us that they are in receipt of the following cabled

H.-Selection...... Half-past-eight... circumstancoe, it appears almost quotations from their

.........Rubena. Government at Agents this morning: -- futilo for the

.-Foxtrot... Yankee Doodle Blues. Wostminster to proceed with Sholl Transport. 81/6 buyers; Jogislation which is not likely 84/- sellers. to satisfy either the North or the South.

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It is not the purpose of these comments to discuss the rights and wrongs of Erin's unreal. Both sides are responsible for much of the friction that exists. Were Ulsterman and Southornor!

SHARE MARKET.

Lonilon

Mexican Eagles.-14/44 buy ore: 15/42 sellers.

Anglo-Persians, 39/3 buyers 626 sellors.

Tronoh. --43- buyora.

B.

have

"

BN

At the conclusion dancing was indulged in to the strains of the

Nowadays we send poison and Quavora" Jazz Band.

aeroplanos against caterpillars The following were the results: and other enemies of agriculture. Four Langths Handicap (Mem-Oihor times other methods. Ro- her). 1st Heal:-(1) Rua- corde of the Middle Ages provide uumerous exemples" of loga) or müssen; (2) G. Razavet.

2nd Heat:-D. Lyon, D. Laing occlesiastical proceedings boing

defined it dead heat first; Lyon's time being taken against the insects, and as 593/6 seconds, a record for the late as 1516 an opiscopul edict probably

"something that happened was published announcing: Wo

to," bath.

would up. grant the request of the in-whon it didn't ought Three Lengths Handicap.

a definition which habitants of Villonoo, and warn (Boys):-(1) J. Poarno, (2) Athe caterpillars to retire within parently fit Mr. Grindel Muc Uns.

six days, in dofault of which we thows alleged invention: Accord- Three Length's Handicap declare them accursed and ox-ing to Mr. Loach it was not at all | (Girls):-(1) Miss P. Hunt, (2) communicatod." With oxompl-clear that Mr. Grindell Matthews phononiena wore produced by Miss D. Hunt.

ary fairuos, an advocate was

or by someth Diving for Plates (Members)--sometimes appointed on behalf the “death ray' 18 with the (1) EG. Jortor (II), (2) C. Mac-of the inkoota to plead their ing olso, and as this gentlemon following cable quotations Kenzie (8). At the first attempt cause against that of the farmers has formerly put and preparod to give way on Shanghai stocka from. their Mackenzie, Razavol and Montalto before sentence was pronounced. schemes for which extravagant olaims wore made, it is, hardly some points, there would be Shanghai office —

with 7 plates aach lied for second.

suprising that the Govoramost Three Lengths Handicap

Comniander overy prospect of an early and

'rofused to bite. Discussing Mr. "Death-ray (Ladies)~(1) Miss Bluneden, Grindell Mathews in the House Kenworthy suggested that it was permanent settlement, at least buyers.

of Commone last month, Mr. Mr. Matthews who got £25,000 botwoon the two administrations,

Four Lengths Handicap Finki Pringle called upon Mr. Leach, out of the Admiralty for an They have mot, and boen unable

(Members) :—(1) D. Lyon, (2) B. the Under Sucrotary for Air, Invention for directing vessels.by

defino to agree. The immediate cause

the word "phono- wireless, and that the Admiralty Now Engineerings. Tls, 64, Kusmussen. Time 68.3/6 seconds. to is tho of friotion

boundary buyers.

menon," of which he had made subsequently found that it had Won by one foot in record time. question, but the inability to

Orientals. --Tis. 3.50, buyera.(2) N. W. Duck (79).

- Diving :—(1) G. MacKonzie (81), rather free use, says a contem- bean "sold a pup," but My Losoli porary. Mr. Leaoli was wisely refused to commit himself on Fottle that matter is based on the

Sam Weller "would this, Shanghai Cotton. - Tls.

Team Rugo: Rasmussen't team, silent, (antagonism, ef- long, föng yours, buyers..

SHANGHAI QUOTATIONS.

Mosers. Ellis and Co. have

to meet intent on a settlement, kindly supplied

Langkats (comb.)— Tls.

17.

(2) Miss George."

EwOE. -- Tis. 102, 'buyers Shanghai Docks. Tla. - 91, buyers.

56,

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forward.