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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8.
DAY BY DAY.
1937.
PRAYER BOOK. REVISION.
rights until such time as they are surrendered or varied by negotia. tion. Seemingly, the extreme ele- ments amongst the Nationalists. GIVE NO SATISFACTION TO OTHERS. IMPORTANT ECCLESIASTICAL
HE WHO IS NEVER SATISFIED CAN
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The Empress of Asia loft Van- couver on the 6th February, and is dus here on the 25th February.
The ss. Sul An will leave for 13th inst., and not at 8 a.m., as ad Macao, at 9 a.m. on Sunday, the vertised yesterday.
EVENT.
The Very Idea!
As the student thinks:
The chief feature of the play of“ "Richard II" is the decomposition, of the King.
the ex-Geysir.
The German Emperor is called
used for carrying people about,
A pagoda is a chair on wheels
London, Feb. 7. The most important ecclesiasti cal event in the Church of England within living memory, is the meat bury and York to be held in Cardinal Beaufort died shortly ing of the Convocation of Canter-
Humphrey of Gloucester and London, at which the two Arch-after each other.. bishops will bo presented with a Yesterday's health return shows Draft Copy of the Revised Prayer that one Chinese case of small-Book, prepared by the House of pox and two Chinese cases of Bishops, for the final considera- typhoid fever were reported.
and possibly amongst Peking's-Duke de Lovis. leaders as well, think they can get nl they want by merely taking it If they parsist in that belief, how over, they are likely to discover that the Powers may not be so inclined towards a policy of conciliation ns Britain has been at Hankow and Kinklang. It is all very well for Mr. MacDonald to say that Labour wants to settle the Chinese question without either moba or armies. Ir he lived in China, he would prob- ably soon realise that account hus to be taken both of mob activities and Chinese military aggression.
So far as the Powers are" con- cerned-and this cap especially be said of Britain-they have surdly made the issue quite clear by the liberality of their proposals to- wards China. There is no question of wanting to impinge on China's sovereignity, nov do any of the foreign nations want to insist en privileges for the perpetration of which there is now no necessity. But they do all insist that there is
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Mr. and Mrs. G. 9. Archbutt and Mr. and Mrs. H. Odell were amongst the passengers arriving by the s.8. President McKinley.
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Fuga Island, North of Luzon; has been sold to an unnamed pur- chaser in Shanghal, according to a cable received in Manila from the Manila broker, Mr. J. J, Danon, now in Shanghai.
For breaking into a dwelling- house at No. 18, Whitfield Street, and stealing clothing to the value of $9. a Chinese was sentenced by Major C. Willson this morning to two months' hard labour.
tion by the Convocation of all
proposals of a permissive charat ter to increase the number of General prayers.
Overheard at the Motor Show: a cheap car-only £108."
First Fair Enthusiast "There's
Second Fair Enthusiast"Oh, do you think so? the worka!"
$198 without
I looked, says a correspondent, ro- and read, "£198 ex-works."
The proposals include a ference to the League of Nations. and industrial peace, and involve minor amendment to the Services of Baptism, Marriage and Burial, requiring both the bride ansi Bridegroom to respond, promising "to comfort, honour and keep." The bride will no longer promisc to "obey."
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O Caledonia, stern and wild, Meet muse for a poetic child! - Just listen to the Burns' Nicht
men,
Singing songs of butt and ben.
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Some of fashion's 'faibles during the past couple of months:-
Rubber ear-rings painted in the be brightest colours, and of any size:
the
Henceforth, the reservation of
Sacrament shall used for the Communion of the
only Sick.
It is stipulated that the changes shall not be used arbitrarily or
By kind permission of the Com-without the goodwill of the peoples represented on the Parochial manding Officer, the Dance Band Church Council. The revision has of H.M.S. Caradoc will play under
one-and only one-way of dealing with the numerous issues involved the direction of the Band Pres not yet received final form, pend- dent, Mr. D. R. Reiss-Smith, at the its consideration by the Con- Repulse Bay Hotel, on Saturday, on March 29, after which the vocation, which gives its verdict February 12, commencing at 8.30 Prayer Book will be submitted
to Parlament, who may accept reject, but cannot amend.-Router. FIRST REVISION FOR 300 YEARS.
in the present crisis. That way is by negotiation. Until China's Mr. and Mrs. A. Rahim, Mr. and political and military lenders come Mrs. M. R. Salleh and family wish round to a recognition of that cen- to thank those who attended the funeral of their father (Mr. Fatta.tral point, the present unsatisfac- deen) and other friends for their tory position is likely to continue. sympathy; letters of condolence and oral tributes in their recent bereaviment.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 19:7.
THE ONLY WAY.
on
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Educating Adolescents. There has been a great deal of comment at Home
a report which has just been issued by the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education on the "Educa- tion of the Adolescent" in which is laid down the broad principle that edugation should be regraded so that the primary and secondary stages, instead of overlapping as at present, shall be continuous, ang that all normal children shall go on
p.m.
A remand until Friday, when the again accorded on the application ship is expected to return, was
of Chief Delective Inspector Mur- phy prosecuting this morning in the case in which a man is charged with being implicated in the Ha- noi piracy.
Twenty Chinose arrested during a raid" at Stone Nullah Lane were charged with playing paikan, before Major C. Willson this morn- ing, Nineteen were fined $3 each, while the remaining defendant, who did not appear, had his bail of $5 estreated.
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from one inch across to the size of "houp-la" rings..
Air cushion coats for securing comfort when sitting on hard chairs.
The garment has a re- markable lining, which can be inserted and inflated."
Shoes that grow with children
were seen at the Landon Exhibi- " tion of Inventions.
feather.
Bereta, with or without 0
Popular coloura- Yellow, red, orange, and blue.
Fashionable colours with seduc- tive names, such as malvetto, tulip leaf, enndalwood, del. phinium, London, Feb. 7.
pimpernel, copper Many changes in church services į bench, barley-corn, burgundy, are authorized in the proposed golden brown, and mulberry. now Prayer Book which has been Bells on garters, which clink drawn up by the Bishops af musically as milady trips daintily- Church of England and which was along. There are "elinks" of rich aid before the "Convocation basso, melodious, tenor, and some Canterbury and York, sitting can imitate the chimies of Big Ben together this afternoon in West- down to the last note.
minister.
in the Prayer Book, after nearly The proposal to make alterations
300 years has aroused acute con- troversy and the recommendations of the Bishops are in the nature of a compromise" between the
These are but a few of the
will be observed no mention has vagaries of Dume Fashion, and It bben made of spattees, because there is no desire to offend the Russian boot.
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Some little time ago, the point to some form of secondary edura, Mr. D. E. Clutter, special repre- Evangelicals, on the one hand, and
Deputy chairman at the London was stressed that. America's pro- tem, schools with a predominant Rubber Co., arrived here by the The use of the new Prayer Book is your boy is thirteen and does not tion. But within the secondary sys-sentative of the Firestone Tire and the Anglo-Catholics, on the other. Sessions: Do you mean to say that blem, in connection with the Chin-ly realistic or practical curriculums.s. President McKinley. Round-not compulsory and it is depen
know what a betting slip is? ese crisis, was different from that will stand on the same footing as the-world passengers by the same of Britain, because of the fact that those offering education of a more liner included Mr. and Mrs. W. A,
dent on the goodwill of each in- Father: He does not know, ale. theoretical kind. The Committee Dunn and three daughters, of Los
dividual congregation.
He is a very bad scholar. the United States owned no Con naturally recommend that in cen-Angeles, and Mr. and Mrs. C. G.
The changes affect the Cen- ressions in China. In a limited tral (or, as they are to be called,Spencer and daughter.
munion and include new forms of
Yorkshireman, summoned' for a sense, that is true, but, as we have nodern) schools a practical bias in
Service to meet modern conditions motoring offence at Kingston: the curriculum should only be in- There were five deaths from these is the ommission from the greant he winked at him as I came and problems. Important among When the constable saw the ser- previously pointed out, the matters troduced after careful considera- typhoid fever in Hongkong last Marriage Service of the promise UPC". of principle which have to be facedtion of local economic conditions week, and two from diphtheria.or the bride to "obey and serve" to all the Treaty and upon the advies of local em There were also three non-fatal her husband. The bridegroom, When we come to the ployers and employed. But it is cases of small-pox, one non-fatal instead of declaring "With all my not to press her waist. You must
encouraging to find, says the Man-
fatal case each of cerebro-spinal declares "All my worldly goods I palm of your hand. Unmarried case of puerperal fever and one worldly goods, I thee endow;" only lightly touch it with the open fever and rabies. All the cases
with thee share." Cremation is ladies must refrain from t lish occurrence of typhold. were Chinese, excepting one Eng-provided for and in the Prayers altogether both in private and in
are common Powers.
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Ir a lady waltz with you, beware
Shanghai problem, however, the chester Guardian Commercial, that United States has a direct interest, they add that the bins "should not be of so marked a character as to for the foreign settlement there is
prejudice the general eduration of international in character. Thus the pupils: for, as in times of
for Industrial Peace the League public. Very young married it comes about that America has prosperity.too little attention was
of Nations and election-time devo ladies, however, may be allowed to To-morrow afternoon, at 4.30lopments in the world since the waltz in private balls with persons now made certain proposals with Kiven, too much weight can be
given to the apparent "needs" of Excellency the Governor, Chiffreely recognised. Prayers for
p.m.; at Government House, His last revision of the year 1662 are of their acquaintance! the hope of eliminating the Interna- industry and trade at a time of Scout of Hongkong, will inspect the dead are for the first time in old book of etiquette written This is just a sample from an tional Settlement from the zone of anxiety and depression. warlike activities. As Britain is time a good general education is the Prince of Wales' Banner won, in authorised for "Those whom we
At any the Scout Troops and present the cluded in the Burial Service, being about 75 years ago. only foundation of a successful prepared to negotiate for an alterarorational training. It is regret-2926, by the 20th Hongkong Troop, love but see no longer."-British tion in the status of her Concess table that the Committee should and the year's work. The holders
for general efficiency in Scouteraft Wireless. sions, so the United States now ex-base on economic grounds their re-
commendation that the school-leny of the banner, during their year presses willingness to become a
of tenure, are entitled to be ing age should be raised to 15 atalled The Governor' Troop." party to properly instituted nogo the beginning of the school year tiations with regard to the future 1932. Such a recommendation should be discussed out social und of the Shanghai Settlement.
TRAFFIC MISHAPS.
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A certain golfer, before playing a shot, had a habit of turning round to his caddle and saying "Sh-sh," without the lenst ocea aion for doing so.
A new caddie was about to get out with the "hush-hush" player -when-an-old-caddie-plucked-him
educational grounds only. The re- FADING NEWSPAPERS. TWO REPORTED YESTERDAY, by the sleeve, and whispered by The dominant feature of the at-port of the Malcolm Committee,
way of friendly encouragement, Two traffic accidents occurred yes- "Noo, Tam, ye're a richt wi titude of the Powers towards China published earlier, showed that on
terday. In one of these, it is report- Maister Doulas so long as ye dinga ed that the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kolo-mind hearin' a man persccatently wall's car knocked down a Chinese sand-paperin' his whistle.". who
was walking along Queen's Road Wast, near Kwal Heung
man is we
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in the present crisis is that most, economic grounds alone it was 'de-A PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE. sirable to raise the school-leaving if not all, of them recognise the de-age to 16. The average business New York, December 15-0 sirability of extensive Treaty re-
think, progressive January 1 the New York Times vision, but that all insist that this enough to support any deliberate is to make an innovation in the Street, and caused slight injuries An Edinburgh school "howler:" and logical policy that gives to newspaper world. It intends to to the man, who however, refused shife at a very early age, with "James Cook was born in York- shall be accomplished by due and educational needs the first and to print a limited number of copies to go to the Government Civil little or no education. When he proper negotiation, That point economic" needs only the second of its regular editions on pure 100 Hospital for treatment. recurs again in statements issued place.
per cent. rag paper. These copies
was a boy he went to sea, and he In the ether, the driver, of a ure for the use of public librariesmotor lorry reported that the made up his mind to go and search Boon rose to be a captain, Ho by the Powers, and it is one which
and such institutions as desire to vehicle skidded when he applied for an island in the South Seas. the Nationalists: in particular would
preserve dafly records of the the brakes do well to recognise Whatever the
while going dow and when he got there be found World's happenings.
into a lamp-post and knocked it Pokfulum Road. The lorry ran there was no such place," nature of foreign rights in China, Parta.
Brussels
down. No-one was injured. they cannot be modified excepting Amsterdam by mutual agreement. Even Mr Copenhagen
Berlin
Ramsay MacDonald admits the Vienna reasonability of that standpoint. Helsingfors
Lisbon He adds that force should not be Rio used by either side over this mutter Yokohama
Hombay
of Treaty revision."
But he P Genevn
New York
pears to overlook the point that it Milan is the Nationalists who have been Stockholm
Ogla exercising the force up to the pre-Prague sent, utilising it for the express Athens Madrid purpose of taking away foreign Buenos Aires rights. British troops are being Shanghal
Hongkong sent East, not for aggressive pur- Silver (spot)
Silvor (forward) poses, but merely to protect Treaty
Hom
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Mr. H. W. Selby-Lowndes, the well-known M.F.H., in his "Hunt- ing and Sporting Reminiscences," tells an amusing story of a village cricket match.
London, Feb. 7.
It will be the first time that the .123.40
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bep 12.1334 printed on rag puper since the Civil War. It will also represent, it is believed, the first Instance in which any newspaper has printed The ordinary yearly meeting of .2.17/32 an edition on all-rag paper since, the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking the inferior, but more economical Corporation is advertised to bo wood-fibre nowspaper universally held at the City Hall, on Saturday, 4.84.18/16 took its place about afty years.ngo, February 26, at noon.
.26.22 This return to a time-proof edi- tion has been rendered necessary 18.17 owing to the fading of the modern 183 type of print. For instance, al
ready the files of the war news of the Globe Trotters, than which the first ball. On his return to.
In he went and got clean-bowled 874 papers of 1914-1918 are rapidly no better recommendation could be.
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There was one run to make (he states) and one wicket to fall, and the last man to go in, having father overdone it at lunch, was It is announced that the con- told by the captain, "Now be very: has now been placed in the hands hit the one on the right." ductorship of the Star Theatre careful, and if you see two balls of Mr. Herbert, Morris, formerly
why he did not do as he was told.
46 fading, and soon will be quite un given. From now on, the demands the pavilion the captain naked him 2/04 readable. On the other hand, of pleture lovers, who also have 27.7716 newspapers printed during the the harmonious complex, will be
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ngo, are still quite legible.
Peninsula picture house.
I did. he replied. "I saw two balls and hit the one on the right, but I hit it with the wrong bat!"
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