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RAILWAY MATTERS.

TUESDAY, MARCH

rallways, material benefits would engue to both sections of the årst named, and incidentally, the ad- vantage would also be felt in con nexion with any scheme for the development of the port of Wham- pea. This Colony is not opposed, as many shortsighted people have im- agined, to this latter project; In-

1928,

DAY BY DAY.

NO LIFE BY ITSELF IS MORE THAN A BROKEN FRAGMENT—Julia · F. Deans.

Bishop Valtorta left yesterday for Walchow.

The Empress of Canada, left Hongkong on the 16th 4th March.

which Feb-

PRETTY LOCAL-

WEDDING.

MR. H. J. ARMSTRONG AND

MISS THWAITES.

The Very Idea!

Without modern conveniences, modern government or even

A wedding of considerable local modern dress, 6,000 Americans interest took place at St. John's may this year be living in an ancient Egyptian city by the Nile. Cathedral yesterday between Miss The colonista all will be members Vern Joan Thwaites, daughter of

deed, we should welcome its being ruary, arrived at Vancouver on the Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thwaites of of the Roseerucian Order, a philo-

put into effect, Money is, of course, needed both for the suggested loop Hing and the port development scheme, but there is reason to be

evo that this Colony could play a part in that as in other directions.

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612, The Peak, and Mr. Harold John sophical and religious cult. Tel- Armstrong, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. clamarna, Egyptian city built by Shoemakers in Singapore are on Armstrong. The bride's father Amenhotep the Fourth in 1,300 strike, demanding a 40 per cent is Oriental Auditor of the C. P. R.BC, la the sito chosen for the increase in wages. The strikers Co. while the bridegroom is a well-experiment. There the people known solicitor in the firm of will attempt to live the life and number about 1,400.

customs of the early Egyptians, Messrs. Deacons.>

The bride, who was given away abandoning every vestige of latter by her father wore a very charming day civilization in an effort to dress of white satin crepe and car show that the Rosecrucian laws ried a bouquet of white roses and are a fit standard for the human carnations Her bridesmaid was cace, The expedition, which ex- The death occurred in London Miss Dorothea Bowley, who wore a pects to start late in 1928, la to last month of Captain William dress of pink georgette and carried contain about an even number of Asdaile, Nautical Adviser to tho a bouquet of pink and mauve sweet men and women who must have British India Steam Navigation Peas The two train bearers were demonstrated their physical fitness Miss June Dowbiggin and Mastor and belief in the principles of the Robin Hall who were dressed in cult, white satin. The bride's mother wore a dress of fawn georgette and lace, with velvet picture hat to match. Mr. Hugh Jones was best

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The s.8. Hangsing, from Taing- Finally, there is the larger and tau and Swatow, reports sighting more important question of secure derelict and waterlogged junk ing direct milway contact between off Tungsha Light Vessel. Canton and Hankow. The comple tion of this line is long overdue. If this work were seriously "taken in hand and pushed forward, the benefits which would follow, both to Canton and Hongkong, would be almost beyond estimation.. It would be huge undertaking,. of course, but if Marshal Li Chai-sum and his colleagues could but make a start on the scheme, their regime would long be remembered.

Mrs. E. Ralphs is to distribute the prizes at St. Joseph's College on Monday at 6.15 p.m. Mr. A. E. Wood, the Director of Education, will preside.

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Mr. and Mrs. G. W.. Kynoch, Mr. and Mrs. K. McIntyre, Mrs. A. B. Munro, Mr. C. Munro, Mr, W. H. Beatty and Commandant Pascale arrived here from Australia by the s.a. St. Albans.

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King's College Advance;

Amongst the passengers who ar- In almost every sphere of life

rived here by the Blue Funnel there is a limit beyond which big-liner Sarpedon were Mr. and Mrs. ness censes to be desirable, but in J. D. Danby, Mrs. Annett, Mr. and many such cases the reason is to be Mrs. R. K. Rodger, Mr. and Mrs. found in the failure of the heart. H. Turner, and Mr. D. S. Wylle. within to keep pace with the out- The annual inspection of the St. wardly rapid growth. We can, John Ambulance Brigade, which however, greet with complete was to have taken place on the Murray Parade' Ground this even- equanimity the opening, in auspici-ing, has heen postponed, on ac- ous circumstances yesterday, of the count of the inclement weather. new King's College, a centre of The date of the inspection will be

announced later. education designed on a scale never hitherto attempted in this Colony. ILMS. Vindictive which

car.

It has accommodation for roughly fries aircraft, has arrived in Hong- Whilst no detalls have been issued twenty per cent. more scholars than kong from Shanghai and will, it the worthy headmaster, Mr. A. is understood, be leaving for from official quarters in regard to Morris, can at present claim, and Home later in the week. H.M.S. the subjects which engaged the at- there can be no shadow of doubt Vindictive will be relieved by

that the facilities at the disposal of M.S. Cumberland, which is due tention of H. E. the Governor and the students, no matter what bent here shortly from Singapore. Marshal Li Chal-sum during their their mind takes, are unrivalled in $ converantions on Saturday morning, further afield. Behind the opening

the Far East, and, perhaps, even- The balance sheet of His Fat we understand that one of the of King's College there is the trade and Co., Ltd., made up to the end of the Chinese year, shows that topics discussed was the future of tlon of the old Salyingpun School, dividends have absorbed $1,800, the railway which links this Colony with a record of nearly fifty years wifist after $750 has been set with Canton. That is quite natural, markable new building, combined aside depreciation of property, as it is in this sphere that the Gov-with the the spirit built up by Mr. there is a balance on Profit and ernments of the two places can and give it a life and vigour at the out-

and Mrs. Morris at Salyingpun, will Loss Account of $27,346.33, should work together in the closest co-operation. At present, such a harmonious relationship does exist, and its continuance is necessary for the prosperity of both sections of the line.

of useful service; pride, in the re-

re-

set which under any other circum- The Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon, stances, could not be built up over- from Liverpool and Singapore, re night, or be bestowed by a head-ports the death of one Japanese master's decree. In just over passenger from epilepsy en route, twenty years, Mr. Morris, with the The sa Selatan, with 407 deck creased the usefulness of the school parts the death of one Chinese co-operation of his staff, has in- passengers from Singapore,

eighteenfold, even as figures go à male cit route from" beri-bori. brilliant achievement, and a tribute with the young people who have to his determination' and influence

schoolmasters

It is an unfortunate circurastance that the Chinese section of the rail

H.MLS. Cornflower having arriv- way has been allowed to deteriorate passed through his chartered within the boundaries of the China Station,' F.M.S. Hollyhock

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The service which was fully choral was conducted by the Rev. H. V. Koop.

Following the ceremony a recep- tion attended by many friends, among whom were a number of members of the legal profession, was held at the Roof Gardon of the Hongkong Hotel. ·

Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Arm- strong left for their honeymoon at Shek 0, and to-morrow they sail for England via Canada by the Empress of Russia.

The bride's going away dress was of belge embroidered georgette with velvet hat and fur to match.

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There once was a foolish

young queen

Who drank some.raw gaso-

lenc.

And then in her fre

She breathed into. the fire, Since when she has never

..benzono.".

Mr. Stuart Deacon, Liverpool's Stipendiary Maglatrate, speaking recently at a banquet, told the following interesting nautical stories, which greatly pleased his

hearers.

The first related to a case that was being tried in the Admiralty being brought over from Ireland Court. There were some pigg to Liverpool, and in the course of a fire the pigs on board got burn- ed. In the course of the case, one of the learned counsel said “it was

DEATH OF MISS MARY rather a rash thing to carry piga

DAVIES.

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HEROIC DEED DURING GREAT WAR,

on the open deck," to which the. Judge replied "It was a 'rasher' thing to burn them." He thought that Lord Birkenhead, who - was prosent, at the banquet, would agree that it was not a bad joke for an Admiralty judge.

London, Feb. 20.

It was interesting how one The sudden death at Cannes of docs turn everything in one's own Miss Mary Davies, the youngest mind into the language of his own daughter of the late Sir Robert profession, said the Stipendiary. Davies, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of He heard of an old sea captain ono. the Punjab, recalls a heroic deed day, who had a great friend who was a paraon, and this paraon of the war.

was very busy on Easter Monday Miss Davies was working, in carrying out marriages. The par- 1915, in an American hospital at son remarked to the sea captain, Neuilly, as a bacteriologist under "I have married three couples in Doctor Taylor, of the Imperial a quarter of an hour," and the old Cancer Research Department, who sea captain replied, "that is not was then investigating the cause so bad, that is at the rate of twelve..

knots an hour." (Laughter.) of gas gangrene..

The other story was of another". Dr. Taylor had reached the stage sen captain who, he thought, was where the crucial experiment of true to the fable that Jack has a inoculating a human being with a wife in overy port, which fable, pure culture of baclflus became ho was sure, was a vary mislead- ing one. His wife believed him to

necessary.

This appeared to be impossible, be a very good man, andyshe put but Miss Davies courageously in-up a handsome monument on his oculated herself and called Dr, grave and placed at the bottom Taylor, who promptly injected an "Rest in peace," but shortly after antidotal preparation of hydroch-she had erected it and paid for it.

occurred to her. She sent for the Ber within 24 hours, in taking the risk of a lingering (Laughter.)"'

Her extraordinary self-sacrifice sculptor, and added to the words "Rest in peace-till I come." and painful death proved the efficacy of a cure which, sub- sequently saved thousands of lives.

AMERICANS SHOT.

ALLEGED DESERTERS FROM

"Optimists are people who have been well and properly. fed as babies.

"Pessimists are those who have been left hungry by their mothere and never knew what it was to have'a square meal."-Dr. David Forsyth Physician to Charing Cross Hospital.

both in respect of the condition of teachers "talk shop" it would ap.broke the paying of pennant at florido and quinine, with the result the true state of affairs became the permanent way and of the roll-pear that they have the dullest and 8 a.m. yesterday morning. The that Miss Davies was out of dan-known to her, and a happy thought. ing stock. This, of course, is not most uninspiring job in the world, Cornflower relieves the Hollyhock the fault of the present Administra, but if the headmaster of King's on the Sidon, see it

College had tackled his task in that ing a relief crew for H.M.S. Ir tion, for the neglect has been ap attitude, it may be accepted as cer- quota. parent for very many years, It is tain that King's College, proud as essential, however, that attention be it stands to-day, would not be in A pair of silver vases is report- exlatence. The acquisition of given to present shortcomings, 80 knowledge la merely a means, to an

ed to have been lost while in tran that a good and regular service be end; a sense of responsibility and sit between two silver-smith shops maintained.

The recurring poli- cess or failure are vastly more im- who was sent from the Leung knowledge of how to react to suc- in the town yesterday. A foki tical upheavals in Canton have ren-portant than thorough understand- Chau Keo shop at No. 4, Kui Yon dered impossible the carrying outing of the binomial theorem. We Street to take delivery of the have rensen to believe that these goods is further reported to be of many of the obligations which precepts are well understood at rest on the Chinese Administration King's College, particularly when

missing.

Four Americans, three of whom | When a woman was fined at under the railway agreement with Mr. Morris made a pointed refer

ence to the desire for playing fields This morning's Harbour Office are alleged to be American navy Nuneaton recently for not having Hongkong, so that the Government for the pupils. It is most essential reports gave 17 arrivals and 21 desertera, who had been arrested a dog license, she found she bad here has had to come to the aid of that adequate facilities for play as departures, of which seven and 12 on a charge of highway robbery, not enough money.

She promptly borrowed the the Chinese section. The assist and we have no doubt that due con- 69 in harbour, British 24. Tan- but were overtaken on the Tia necessary amount in court from: well as for work should be provided, respectively were British, leaving escaped from the gaol in Ensenada ance which we are able to render sideration to King's College claims mage was good and freights fair, Juana road and shot dead by a the policeman who summoned her, is, needless to say, willingly given, will be given at the right time. with the best return of the day posse of Mexican officials|· but oventually the Chincoe auther King's College was entering upon a Japanese, Norwegian and Ameri

H. E. the Governor, femarking that made inward by a British vessel, Router's American Service, itles will have to assume greater new era in its history, wished It a can making the next highest.. responsibilities than they are at right royal future of usefulness and present discharging, in which co-beneficence, and, we cannot do bet-

ter than echo those sentiments, nexion a considerable outlay of the track and rolling stock is inevitable

If the railway is to play its rightful

part as a link with this Colony.

The point made by the Chairman of

EXCHANGE RATES.

the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Paris. ing Corporation, in his recent Brussels

Amsterdam speech that the proper main-Stockholm tenance of China's railways Oslo. necessitates the current

Vienna ex- Madrid penditure of considerable Athens portion of earned revenue - Bombay

Ito plies with distinct force to the Hongkong Chinese section of the Canton New York

Geneva Kowloon line. On the other hand, Milan the section will never be able to Copenhages.

Prague. carn all that it might until present Helsingfors deficiencies in service are made Lisbon,

Bucharest good.

Buenos Aires There can be no doubting the

Shanghal Yokohama point that if a loop line were con- Silver (apot) atructed so as to link up the Can-Bliver (forward) Lton-Kowloon and Canton-Hankow

London, Mat. 5.

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U. S. NAVY.-

Calexico, Cal., Mar. 5.

Shot Their Way Out.

The "Allahy Club," composed of about 30 New York men who would rather languish - bobind

· Calexico, Mar. 6. prison walls thịn fytill court de- Mr. H. A. Wilbur, associate gen- The men shot down after escap, crees, has been moved to now, but or eral secretary of the National ing from goal, are reported to now better, quarters. The old Committee, Chinese Y.M.C.A. have shot their way out of the Ludlow Street gaol, which has e (whose office is at Shanghal) is in prison, leaving the watchmen and been its headquarters for 59 Hongkong to take the place tem-two other officials wounded.— years, is being torn down. Some porarily of Mr. J. L. McPherson, Reuter's American Service.“

advisory general secretary, as the latter is proceeding shortly on a 124 year's holiday. At the Chinese Y. 25.01 M.OL.A. on Saturday, Mr. McPher 12.126 son and. Mr. Wilbur were guesta .18.07

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IN LONDON.

London, Feb. 18. Literary forgers are already busy marketing the late Mr. Thomas Hardy's manuscripts and |letters, principally for export, to By ss. President McKinley from the United States, diables Manila" yesterday, there arrived An alleged Hardy poem was re- | Captain F. M. Sharp, landing here,” | cently purchased at a London sale- and Mr. E. W. Latic of the Colum room and its spuriousness was disbla Pacific Line, bound for Beat covered when the book was taken tle. Mr. Latle will be well remem for rebindingbered by baseball enthusiasts, Harry's literary executor sub as the leader of the Association sequently declared that the poem and Hongkong side during the utwas an impudent, forgery.

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