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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1927.

THE LESSON OF CANADA.

TUESDAY,

AUGUST

·DAY BY DAY.

1927

the minority which controls the destiníos of a. black sub-continent. No similar compulsion rested upon Canada. Her specific function in

A MAN 18 KNOWN BY THE COM- world affairs is of a subtler kind. HIM STILL MORE INTIMATELY, THOR- PANY HE KEEPS, BUT YOU MAY KNOW

Federation has bean her chosen OUGHLY, AND JUSTLY IF YOU CAN menns of fulfilling the task which GET HIM TO ALLOW YOU A PEEF INTO she began to perform the day when THE BOOKS HE READS.-T. W. H.

Crosland. the United Empire Loyalists cross ed her border. More and more," as autonomy brought consolidation and development quickened her na tional spirit, has Canada sorved The P. and O. s.s. Nyanza is due humanity by linking the two great hore from Singapore at 10 a.m. to- sections of the English-speaking|morrow: world. Her service will find its symbol and its memorial in the Yokohama yesterday, and is dus The a.s. Empress of Russia left joint inauguration of the new here on Monday next, at 5 p.m. Fence Bridge by the Prince of Wales and the Vice-President of

There were two fresh Chinese cases of typhoid reported over the holiday week-end..

The P.&.0. 5.s. Devanha is due mails about noon on Thursday. hero, with the outward English

ANOTHER GOOD GHOST STORY.

CARNARVON ROAD

OUTDONE.

The Very Idea!

""Did the prisoner offer any resistance?" asked the Judge.

"Only half-a-crown, yer hon- our," said the Irish policeman, "ax" faith, I wouldn't look at ut."

the legacy was misapplied by, a step-brother.

the children, but, as the step- A legal action was brought by brother refused to deliver the the judge ordered the safes to be keys of safes in a Genova bank, forced open. A large sum in found and brought into court.

The vernacular press rolates the atrange story of the meeting with a ghost, at daylight, by the pro- prietor of the Chinese restaurant, A Geneva business mab, serving In To Yuen, in Reclamation Street,

a term of imprisonment for fraud, Yaumati, who said that coveral year ago he and another Chinese, roquest of a local judge, to was brought from his coll, at thà med Wong, vere partners in examine and give an opinion on Wong died in Hongkong, and he Faire.. business. About ten years ago the investments of a dead million was at Wong's bedside to the end."

The millionaire was Ephe. On July 30, at 3 o'clock in the Tomasini, a Russian of Odesso home along Nathan Rand, the He left 800,000 to the three afternoon, while he was walking who died a year ago in Geneva. restaurant proprietor noticed a children of his first marriage, but man dressed in a long white gown who was walking a few yards the United States. But it is given

ahead of him. In appearance this man greatly resembled Wong, the its best expression in a monument

deceased friend, Later, this.man at once so huge and so familiar

There will be Evening Service in addressed his friend by name, suddenly turned round and thut the world accepts it as a part the Peak Church on Sundays

acting as though" they were in- of the natural order of things. A August 7th and 14th at 6.30 Ptimate friends. Considering that frontier line 3,000 miles long All seats free-Advt.

Preacher Rev. E. A. Rigden R.Nit would be impolite to resist the sharo certificates and cash "was separates the. Dominion from the

friendly attitude of the other man, the owner of the restaurant United States nhd for All the 3,000

A Chinese woman living at 56, answered and said that he was on miles there is never a gun. The Sai Street, attempted to commit his way home and that he was fature will make Canada intern-She is now lying in a serious condi- fore he requested his friend to auicide by drinking lyscl yeateday-rather. busy at the moment, there- ally as the past has made her nation in the Government Civil Hof-

come and visit him at some other tionally. The interest which her pital.

time. But the man with the long statesmen are taking in immigro-

gown followed persistently. A sub-contractor engaged on ex- this time the restaurant owner Ry tion from the British Isles shows cavation work on Morrison Hill beenme, frightoned. that the impulse to fresh activities reports that his foreman absconded is stirring. If the Jubilee of Cop-entrusted to him to be paid to the yesterday with $300, which was

federation passed unnoticed in the workmen. agony of the war, the diamond Jubilee can be celebrated in a world whose anxieties are tempered, by hope. And if the centenary finds mankind in the enjoyment of peace und of the prosperity which peace brings, that will be due in so much measure to Canada's own contribu- tions to the needs of civilisation.

La Boxing Bruta}?

A good deal of interest will be with the "noble art" in the protest taken by all who are congerned

A Friendly Chat. Eventually, however, both men arrived at the restaurant is Reclamation Street, and seeing that he was now in his own shop and told the waitress to prepare the proprietor became reassured,

Whilst playing at Wong. Nel aged fourteen, residing at No. 10, Chong yesterday, a Chinese boy Bowrington Canal Road, was bit-two cups of tea. The boy has been admitted to the ten by a dog, which is still at large. Government Civil Hospital.

time when there were no visitors. As it was about 3.30 p.m., at the

a the restaurant, both friends sat down at a table, taking their tea Shanghai papers report the and talking about old times when deaths last Wednesday of Profes-they were conducting business in sor L. T. Helfrich, of the Shang-Hongkong.

feld.

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Ho had been detained, and ghen he arrived at the concert hall where he had been due half an hour before the doorkeeper re- fused to let him in.

"The concert has already be- fully. "The singer is now giving gun, sir," he explained respect

her third song."

"But I'll step very quietly," he sald. "I shall make no distur bance.

"I can't do that," sir. You see the trouble is if the audience soe the door open they might all rush out."

Cho

Willesden magistrate (to appli- You were in the kitchen, I sup cant for a summons for wages);

pose? Applicant: No, in konnels with the dogs;

Police constable at Kingston: I could hear their language when they were half a mile away.

Man at Tottenham: I am in a difficulty as is usual. Magis- trate: You are usually in dif- culty? Man: No. At the word "difficulty" I should have taken a breath,

"Magistrate (at Marylebone): Are you in work? Man: No. 1 am

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hai College, Mrs. Lana Marco, and When asked by what sort of Mr. John W. Schoenfeld, a partner business he was now doing, the in the firm of Schubl.and Schoen- "ghost" replied that he was Week-end telegrams have a

managing a rice and firewood nounced the arrival in Canada of

business in a foreign place, and Mrs. Ermina Benarbu, residing was only waiting for a steamer to the distinguished visitors from the by Sir Hall Caine, the famous at No 9, Wai Ching Street, West take him back, where he was Homeland-the Prince of Wales, novelist, agains; the last big cham-Point, reports that thieves entered living with two daughters and a Prince George and the Prime Minis-pionship fight in London, when her house yesterday by forcing son. After chatting about half anf the wor wacky

Walker and Milligan battled for open the staircase door yesterday hour, the ghost said that he ter. Mr. Stanley, Baklwin. The fistic honours. If that contest morning. The robbers took with desired to leave to the great visit, which is in connexion with displeased the Manx writer, he the money, jewellery and clothing relief of the frightened man, who The large public audience at

valued at $313,

immediately accompanied him to the United Free Church Assembly the. Deminion's Jubilee, will most must be still further perturbed at

the door. When the ghost was

was entertained by the Rev, Hugh reports of certainly be productive of much re-Sharkey match, when much blood Lim-yuk, of Macao, was held on of the restaurant, he disappeared the report of the Committee on the the Dempsey. The funeral of the late Mr. Lo scen stepping just outside the door Elder, Edinburgh, who presented joicing and the welling up of n-was shed. Opinion as to the tural loyalties those ties which brutality or otherwise of boxing the Governor of Macao being among bewildered and panic-striken mau ber of Sunday school "howlers."

Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock, H. E. altogether, as if by magic. The Youth of the Church, to a num- bind together the wildly separated as a sport must differ, and on this those present. In the course of the then went up to his restaurant Students wore asked to describe nations of the British Empha. I disagree."

point many people will agree to funeral service the Governor of and asked the waitress whether the circumstances which led to

Undoubtedly boxing Macab delivered a short speech re- is 60 years ago, now since the Bri-can be brutal, just as wrestling or lating the life work of the deceaseShe noticed the face of his friend the frst appointment of deacons.

merchant.

י.

the

A Chinese hawker of No. 37, Shanghai Street was sentenced to Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy six months' hard labour by Mr. W.

its far more erue! national sport this morning on a charge of unlaw

or not. But the woman replied that she did not notice anyone. This merely added to the restau; rant proprieter's amazement.

CORRESPONDENCE.

PRAYA SHACKS.

To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir, I notice that the reclaimed

One of the candidates wrote:- "They (the deacons) must be energetic and vise to come through arguments victorious and take a defeat smilingly."

Another student wrote:The disciples appointed seven men to look after the women. They were to very strong men and faith- ful and honest. Deacons were Fappointed because the wives of

preachers

were left too much alone."

Logic, and ignorance often walk hand in hand.-Professor Saurat. Advertising in newspapers to-

of bull-fighting, Siam its cock-ful possession of an automatic area on the Praya Baat is being all-day is read with the same interest fights, and so forth, or even longer pistol and 99 rounds of ammunitioned up with most unsightly wooden as the news columns. Sir Charles Actually, the modern rules of the which were found concealed in a packs. fistic art, popularly tormed the disused stove on the verandah of the area has been reclaimed?

Is it for this purpose that Higham. Qucensbery rules, are gentle by the defendant's flat. comparison with the "antil one, of

I still think women should Now, it is impossible to view the never speak in public and per- harbour, whereas a nice promenade hapa as little as possible in pri- might have been erected the same vate-Lady Lilford. as we have at Home. The area now seems liable to develop into more elum centre. Yours

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tish North America Act became even horse-racing can. There are those who even see much to find lawan act which has permitted fault with in fox-hunting, hare the growth of Canada from a coursing, or, for that matter, the .s. Tjiaalak on Saturday, a In the crew's quarters on board Colony into a nation. With its pas. rabbit shooting, But certainly party of detectives searching the sage the Home Government relin-hitting and mauling each other; pared opium, whichic had been left the spectacle of two grown men vessel discovered 28 taels of pre- quished all formal constitutional with sometimes fatal results, is unclaimed. Mr. W. Schofield made authority, and the lapse of time has not one that ill be acceptable to an order for tthe confiscation of only given more and more prae- fall tastes. One criterion is the the opfum at the Kowloon Magis-

virtual exclusion of women from tracy this morning. tical expression to the doctrine of boxing contests, though their in- equality within the Empire. then clusion in audiences la extending. first clearly set out. Technically Yet, brutal or otherwise, boxing is the bonds of Empire were relaxed: such will survive while Spain has

a typically British sport, and a morally they were renewed, so that to-day the undisputed formula of Empire is that freedom means friendship. The union is close enough to gurantee contaci. That suffices, for out of contact there arises a mutual appreciation which with

'em dropa" prize fights of old, A Chinese shop foki, who was bare fists, some of which entrusted with forty crates of leuds in turn to mutual services. lasted several hours. Then, so chickens, valued at $470, to be The future will show how far this far as. British sports of older taken to dealers in Macao, left. new principle will carry. But it sions as ball bafting, and cock been heard of since. His master,

times go, there were such diver- Hongkong on July 28 and has not etc, was not for Canada alone, nor even fights were common a century ago who owns a shop at 276 Des Voeux- for the British Empire alone, that (and are still practised in modified Read Central, fears that the man Confederation was a memorable form in certain parts of England): has absconded after collecting the event. It put an end to that inde-The fact remains that publie money due on the chickens. terniinate period in which facts judge by latter-day difficulties of On arrival of the President Polk scomed to prove that colonial Em-staging big contesta through yesterday, it was learned that Mr. lady friends of members using the down hill." piros ended in disintegration. The turning against prize fights Perent cinema star making the world tee do not expect the ladies to official obstruction-appears to be Francis X Buchman, the promin-club houses. Surely, the Commit conclusion drawn from the revolt haps the human race, with its tour, was not on board. Mr. Bush-stand out in the heat whilst their porarily insane" was recorded at of the American colonies of advancing civillaation is actually man received a cable at Shanghai, men friends take refreshment? an inquest at Haslemere, on Mr. Britain, and strengthened by the becoming more squeamish than it recalling him on urgent private

was in the time of our great-great-affairs, and he embarked on the barred from the club houses. man, who was found shot in the As it is now, our children are Charles Thomas Gurney Castle- gradual expulsion of Spanish grand parents, or even later. President Cleveland sailing from authority from South America, was Which does not necessarily answer that port for the United States. Must it be our wives next? A cellar of the Railway Hotel, Hasle- nullified in the decade which saw the query whether battling for Mr. Bushman, prier to leaving, ex-charge might reasonably be made mere.

fistic honours is a brutal form of pressed his disappointment at beto ladies actually using the greens, the establishment of the sovereign-sport. The best reply seems to ing unable to complete the tour.

but surely not for the privilege of ty of the Crown in India and the be, yes, insofar as most sports

aitting in the club house?Yours, etc., grant of what we now term Dornin-where skill, strength, and human The recent invitation for ten-

OLEINONE. endurance under stress are a factor.ders for supplying ion status to Canada. Though The man who is heavily tackled Eastern Railway with rails and the Chinese few minds realised it at the time, at "rugger" and has some bonies accessories attracted many com- confederation had sent the "ripe, broken, the bataman who mis-petitor's anxious to get the order fruit theory of colonies into the Judges a rising ball on a fiery pitch for 51,000 tons of rails, with ac-advertisement columns of the cheery caused loss of business.

Jimbo of antiquated ideas, and had heralded the modern conception of 'British Commonwealth or Nations. :

the

In another respeèt the force of Canada's example is already patent.

opinion--especially if we are to

and has his eye cut 'open, others who suffer injury in sport, may be just as "brutally used as the gumo fighter who struggles on, with gory visage, until his seconds throw in the towel.

and cossories, amounting to more than G.$2,000,000. British, French Ger- man, Belginn, Russian, American and other arms tendered and that of a French concern (Mark Terk), at G.$42.38 per ton was accepted. It is noteworthy that French fac- tories of lae have been very lucky She has shown how the conflicting cemetery at Bangkok of the Gerese Eastern Railway.

The grave in the Protestant in obtainin, orders from the Chin- aspirations of two races can be man Charge d'Affaires, who

Not a long was time ago they obtained an order reconciled in n federal synthesis, buried in 1925, has been de for roofing iron. The budget Her success points the way to South

secrated and the bronze cover committee of the Chinese Eastern Africa, whose problem is the more tion at this outrage amongst the G. Rs. 3,000,000 for the purchase There is much indigna Railway has approved a credit of urgent because both races compose 'German community.

of 2,000 fralght-cars.

atolen.

RHYL

A gentleman lying on his death- bed, called to his conchman, who. had been an old servant and [said, "Ah, Tom, I am going a long and rugged journey, worse than ever you drove me

Charge to Lady Golfers.

["Oh, dear sir," replied the fellow Sir, as a member, am serry (the gentleman Having been an to hear the Royal Hongkong Golf findifferent mister to him), "he'er Club are considering a charge for let that discourage you, for it's all

A verdict of "Suicide while tem-

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The widow stated in evidence that her husband had been greatly worried during the last month by the action of local members of the Ancient Order of Froth- Blowers in leaving his hotel be cause, she believed, he had not Further details are given in our attended their meetings. This

little revues to be given in the Star.

which Mr. Charles Chamior is

fired?"

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Theatre by the new Our Cabaret Counsel (examining witness)-- company of ten London atlates You say you heard the first shot bringing to Hongkong. The first of these revues is "Cocktails;"

Witness Yes, sir" which will be given on Saturday and "How near were you to the Sunday, August 6 and 7. This will scene of the affray?" be followed by "Snappy" on Monday "At the first shot I was about and Tuesday, August, 8 and 9: ten feet from the man who fired." "Our Cabaret" on Wednesday and "Ten feet? Well, now tell the Thursday, August 10, and 11; and Court where you were when the "Tally Ho," on Friday and Satur-second shot was fred.” day; August 12 and 13. Booking. "I didn't measure the distance." the Star Theatre at the popular is now open at Messrs. Moutṛles and "How far should you say?"

"Well, I should think that it prices of $3, $2 and $1.

would be about half a mile."