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Buildings decorated. The Civil Governor entertained them to a banquet and later the Com mission visited Nanchang's, courts and gaols and expressed' satisfa tion with all they saw. After two more banquets and a visit to the Klakiang goals, including "the model prison," the Commission les this part of the country.

DAY BY DAY.

KINDNESS IS THE COLDEN CHAIN BY WHICH SOCIETY IS BOUND TO- GETHER Goethe.

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The P. & O-a. Kalyan, from kongkong, arrived in London on. the 27th May, at noon.

The P. & O. 8.s. Macedonia, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on 28th May, at 6.30 am.

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His Excellency the Governor has It is belog contended by foreign-appointed Dr. A.G.M. Severn to act

as Medical Ofeer of Health. ers, who are rightly jealous of eir extra-territorial rights, but who would not and could not fair. ly object to 'China exercising fr sovereign rights if her judic! code was brought in to line with the codes of western nations as regards justice and humani tarianism, that the Commission, on whose report there will pos- sibly be aetion, is not getting a fully realistic impression China's code and the aetion bas

A first and final dividend of 2.74 cents. In the dollar has been declared, in the matter of S. Green- field, of Victoria, Hongkong.

Passengers departing for Mani- 8. s. President Lincoln la per

included Mrs. G. R. or yesterday

Lindsay and children.

thereon. There is doubtless inuch-

Thursday,

Que case of small pox (Chin

of diphtheria' in the way of improvement to Teese and one case

(Portuguese) were reported to the noted during the past few yens Medical Officer of Health on and there are many indications that that trend towards a better- ment will be continert, but there is no gainsaying the fact that the moment, Chinese ideas of a ministering public justice are, from the foreigners' noint of view. hopelessly out of the question.

Company Meetings.

Ilis Excellency the Governor has declared Dr. S.C. IIo to be duly elected a member of the Sanitary Board for three years, with effect from the 22nd May, 1928.

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MIXED GRILL

A Merry Miscellany Ashley Sterne

We Londoners are extracting quite a lot of fun out of this one- way traffle system, and I shall never be surprised if sooner or later we have to pay amusement- tax on it. Yesterday, for instance, I drove my little one- mule-power Birdcodes round Par liament Square 87 times before T found the way out. It was ag

entertaining as a good old rollick- ing day in the Hampton Court

maze.

view, too, there is much to be sa

From the pedestrian's point of

for the system, because he can now be knocked down and run. över in one direction only, instead of two as heretofore, which, of. course, makes the coroner's job much simpler.

One of these days 1 quite expret one-way traffle will be introduced fis Excellenes the Governor has Fon our railways in order t appointed Mr. A.S.D. Cousland to obvinte the risk of tallisions be a Member of the Licensing The slight inconvenience of Board during the absence from the having to, travel to Manchester Colony of Mr. John Owen Hughes. when we really want to go to Eastbourne will be amply com- To the list of medical practi-pensated for by the additional tioners there has been added the safety secured for the journey.. name of Dr. John Durran, Alexan- holders, and it is cause for grati-dra Buildings, Bachelor of Medi- fication that, despite the difficult cine and Bachelor of Surgery of times of the past year, this old the University of Edinburgh. established company is still able to maintain its traditions. Inv-

Lady Chater Cesires to thank The sound position of the Unión friends for their kind expressions Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., of sympathy in her great bereave- was well reflected in the speeches ment and for the many floral tri-at yesterday's mouting of slure Lutes.

The Telegraphy

SATURDAY, MAY 29, 13:6.

THE EXTRALITY COMMISSION.

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Talking of safety, I think it is 4. splendid idea they have got in Chicero of making riding-horses carry red tail-lights when out

device.

Get a move on look alivni Lovers, awell the glad refrain, "Spring is with us once again!”

Soit spring m

mattress on the bed.

Whore 1 nightly lay my head. Don't forget that springtim

Out to put some spring in you! Come thon, every vernal thing, And in lusty chorus sing, Loud enough to reach to Spain "Spring is really here again!"

T need only explain that the phrase alien eggs" refers to th cuckoo's regrettable and reprehen- sible habit of laying eggs, belon. ing to other birds.

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Before finally quitting the sub- ject of spring (of which I am heartily sick. I feel I must draw your attention to a startling in Accuracy in one of Shakespeare's spring poems that famous one. beginning: "It was a lover and his lass." The post goes on to

Sayi

In the spring time, the only

pretty ring time, When birds do sing hey-ding

a-ding-ding."

Now I have it on the authority of Professor Barmion Crumpett himself that there is no bird known to ornithology which sin hey-ding-a-ding-ding either. "in" spring time or at any other poriod of the year. A specially trained parrot (he writes me) might be laught to sing these syllables, but they certainly occur in no natural bird-song yet recorded. He sug- gests, however, that Shakespeare may have been thinking of the Hawaian ukelele-bird, which sings hey-pluck-a-pluck-plyck but never in the spring time; only, on Michaelmas Day, when it falls on a Thursday.

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Before many weeks are past w shall be once again in the thick of the cricket season, and already I foresee the correspondence columns of the preas crowded with suggestions for brightening the game. Ah! if only the Committe of the M.C.C. had acted on the hints I gave them a few years ago. For one thing, I suggested that the batsman should have the option of either hitting the ball ov picking it up and running with t

Many's the time It is notified that, at the expira.after dark. ing important connections in all tion of three months, the Tai Ping when I have been in Chicago that parts of the world, the Society is Steamship Company, Limited will, have bumped slap into a horse's known in all parts of the globe, unless cause is shown to the con- til at night for want of this and as its ramifications have extrary, be struck off the register Indeed, I think it would be a go.

simple precautionary tended, the responsibilities of and the company will be dissolved. idea if all animals everywhere those in charge of its destinies

were made to carry red tail lights have grown. Happily, however, While Mr. C. S. Goddard, chief at night, for in the dark it's just the management and the director- examiner of Chinese Customs, was

as casy to walk into a giraffe in ate have always followed sound walking along Lichit Street, a Kampala as into a horse fu We notice that there is mu hand conservative lines in their Chinese snatched from his pocket Chicago Eastor, in fact; because policies. Yesterday's meeting a brown wallet containing $90 the giraffe is so much bigger. OS critician in the newspapers was noteworthy for a speech by and papers.

course I realise that there would' Shanghai and the North regarding [Mr. J. M. Alves, in which he

be some diffieplty in adjusting the manner in which the Interna touched on some points of general An amak, living at 19, Great tail-lights to Buch animals ag

interest and concern tional Extra-Territoriality Com-

to share Street was bitten by a dog owned Manx cate and guinea-pigs, which—just as in Rugby the player can holders. It is good that shure-by Mr. J. Baker, of Messrs Jar-haven't got any tails. But this mission is conducting its tour of hohlers should, at these annual Jine, Matheson and Co. She might be overcome by affixing red the country, ostensibly for the meetings of local companies, make was sent to the Government Civil lights to their noges and training purpose of reporting on whether their opinions known, but the Hospital.

them to walk backwards after dark. or pot the time has come when trouble is that all too often they China can be entrusted to dispense

Says one of our most popular justice to foreigners. It is com-forward points on which they who have been stationed at cer- and esteemed Church dignitaries: plained that their comings and go. would like to have information. tain business houses in Canton, "A bishop's time, stipend, even ha In view of these circumstances, preventing them from reopening. ings are heralded in advance there appears to be considerable have been dispersed.

have not the time, or, maybe, they In consequence of official orders lack the expert knowledge to put to the Chief of Police, the pickets

reason in the pleas" recently put

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that by the time they reach any given place, everything has been forward for the formation of a Mr. Claude Falkiner is playing specially prepared for them and local Shareholders' Association. a return match with Mr. A.

Such a body could hold its, meet-Osmund, billiards champion of the that they are seeing China under ints at convenient hours for mem-Colony, at the Club Lusitano at conditions which greatly differ bers, preferably after office duties o'clock to-night. Tickets may be from those which obtain normally, are over, and there they could obtained from members.

bring up points which could later The Commissionera are maintain

be dealt with by members deputed ing a deadly secrecy regarding to attend the meetings of the com-

A new Lodge of the Order of Buffaloes is being consecrated this their findings. and it is said that panies concerned. Much useful evening at.5 p.m. at the Institute, if they kept their movements as

work could be done in the in- Duddell Street This Lodge is teresta of the investing public in mainly for H. M. S.Hawkins and secret they would possibly see this way. Perhaps Mr. Alves is called the Prince George Lodg more of the real methods of Chi- would consider convening a meet- nese judicial procedure than ing of local shareholders for a

discussion of the idea. - now in goals and courts carefully prepared for their arrival. It

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Captain Morris, of the Hongkong Mule Corps, has reported to the police that "a driver's mirror,

should be borne in mind that the BANNED JOURNALIST. valued at $10, was stolen from his

Commission is not obliged to send

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in its report for two full years. and so there is every prospect that the existing conditions will continue, although there is a ver real danger that those conditions for the possibilities of them) will not be appreciated by the investi.

gators

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car when it was on the public. stand by the Star Ferry,

home, can never truly be called

his own" If this indeed be true, it, seems a pretty stiff price to pay for the privilege of wearing boot- laces on your haf.

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Here follows the last of my

spring poems-a sort of round-up of all the seasonable birds and.. things to which my previous poems have not made allusion, “

Blackbird on the bending seray, Pipe a merry roundelay! Lark within your watery nest, Trilla gladsome anapacst! Waker, little sleepy leaves! Waken, sparrows in the drain! Spring is functioning again!

stilt-like Cuckoo with your

legs, Cease from laying alien eggs! Wasps, you irritating things, Sharpen up your little stingal Busy bees within your hive,

21 YEARS AGO,

EXTRACTS FROM "TELEGRAPH FILES.

HOME OFFICE EXPLAINS.

London, May 28. official statement by the Home Office states that Mr. Rus sell, the American journalist was provisionally refused permission to land at Plymouth at the request of the Irish Free State. Mr. Russell was told that a "final decision would be Klven when he reached Southampton but he preferred to musical comedy, "No, no, Naneti " The last perfomance of the go to Chebourg, He would be by the Tho. Quaints" took p allowed to land at Southampton on at the Queen's Theatre last oven Bowling Green Club, for the pur- undertaking not to visit the Freeing, when, despite the many times pose of raising funds to extend

His Excellency the Governor has, in accordance with instruc- ions received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, heen pleased to recognise MV John J. Muccio as a Vice-Consul for the

The following items are ex-.. United States of America in tracted from the Telegraph files Hongkong.

for the week ended May 30th 1905:-

The Commission has been sen. ing Kiukiang, Nanchang, the goale and courts of the Shanghai district and has now accepted an invita-State-Reuler. tion to study the judicial admini-. stration of Chekiang Province. It would, appear that the Commin- sion spent quite an interesing time

PREVENTED FROM LANDING

IN ENGLAND.

London, May 28. "Referring to an announcement.

A successful promenade con- cert was held at the Kowloon

It has been played in the Colony, the greens. The Committee re- there was another large and sponsible were Messrs. S. Smith, apreciative house.

The Company D. Gow, Kinrose and Galt. is leaving the Colony to-day...

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A Canton news letter states At a meeting of the Committes that, there was much exeltement that Charles Edward Russell, the of the institution of Engineers amongst the Chinese over the American journalist, was prohibit and Shipbuilders, & silver ciga American exclusion law, but a ed from landing at Plymouth from

at Klaklang. On their arrival they were met by a reception com- mittee of some 30 people and the liner President Roosevelt, Mrrette caso suitably inscribed was boycolt of American goods wit

T. P. O'Conner says this must be late trensurer of the Institution, as,

prosented to Mr. R. Johnstone, not expected...

paraded through the streets to the Grand East Hotel. It is reported an error by a subordinate official, 'a' small appreciation of his work' After having been in Manchuria. that the streets were nicely clean-

Mr. Russell is a brilliant journ-hon treasurer and as a token witnessing the Japanese military ed and that the railway station pro-Ally in wartime; an avowed alist, powerful speaker, strongly

of esteem. The presentation was manoeuvres, Prince Karl Anton, and the hotel had been prettily Socialist, but never regarded as a sident, who spoke in eulogistic Mr, (later Six) Francis Piggott,

of Germany, visited Hongkong. made by Mr J. Ormiston, pres decorated in honour of the guests. friend of violent methods, · Ho ne- terms: of Mr. Johnstone'a work,

In Nanchang the streets had bug companied Mr. Elihu. Root on his Mr B. L. Frost also endorsed the new Chief Justice, was wel

Government mission to Russian.......

specially swept and all shops and Router.

Ormiston's remarks:

comod by the legal profession at the Supreme Court.

either kick the ball or gather it. He could then score a boundary either by a direct hit or by sprint- ing with the ball to the rails and touching down.

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Again, I suggested that bowlers, when confronted by chaps lik

Hobbs and Sutcliffe, should allowed to bowl. two balls simul- taneously, one with each hand; and, similarly, that two weak batsmen at the tail of a team b permitted to defend the Bate wicket.

But the Committee never to k any notice of my letter, notwith- standing that I offered to come. and lunch with them every day for a week and thoroughly discuss th matter as man to man.

On Empire Day, HE the Governor (Sir Matthew Nathan) visited the Kowloon School and addressed the scholars

At a meating of the Legislative Council, the Governor reported on the negotiations for the construc tion of the Kowloon-Canton Rail, way, and stated that a party of to aurveyors had left England start work over the British section.

A list of Yacht Club, oficials showed that Mr. E. W. Carpenter was olected Secretary, and Mr. C. H. Blason Hon. Troasuror,

Mr. R. Wood was appointed Assistant Land Officer in the New Territories.

At the annual meeting of the "Star" Ferry Co., Ltd the

Sir Paul Chater, presiding, spoko of the necessity of inaugurating a

mord frequent service and also of

eventually evolving schemes the conveyance of horses, chairs and vehleles.