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KOWLOON MATTERS,

the matters

it reposes in itself of the mi

which have called for attention dur

DAY BY DAY,

ing the past year, probably the most important is that of the necessity THE DEVIL, AND JUST AS WICKED.

A. MAN MAY BE AS ORTHODOX-AB

Schoolmaster C. F. Jackson, B. Sc., has been appointed to H.M.S. Titania.

for a bigger and better school than John Wesley. the peninsula at prosent possesses, In its representations on this sub- fect, the Association has covered the ground thoroughly and well. The need for better accomodation has long since passed out of the sphere of argument; it has been fully established. Judging from the Committeo's Intest statement on the subject, the education author- ties are at last alivo to. this fact, and na a site has been ect galde and provisional plans for a new school drawn up, the Association is on good ground In urging that the next Budget include a sum for com- mencing the project.. So much has been done for Chinese students of the Colony that it is high time ade quate provision were made for European children.

LITERARY

COMPANIONS.

Some Reflections on Their Choice.

i

'.

in the nexortion that

"Wo are mighty fine fellows | fortunately, this is a loss that cách nowadays,” said R. L. Stevenson, of us can correct for himself. His Excellency the Governor has "but none of us can write like Speaking still in terms of English because. It det mort appointed Mr. D. W. Tratman to Hazlitt" The observation was literature

and accurate at the familiar, ond should realize with c Assistant Colonial Secretary acute and Clerk of Councils.

time when it was made, all possible vividness, to berin and it holds ne true, forty with, that since that litoraturo years later, in our own time. attained maturity in the Elizabo- Tendera are being invited for We cannot, or at any rate we do then era át has developed like a the extension of a storm water not write like Hazlitt at his best, trèo with two main branches. One drain from the old Talpo Road although we wish that we could; of those branches represents the to the Kowloon Tong village aren. and at least a partial reason for whimsical and childlike element this is that if wo should write in the English nature, that ele- His Excellency the Governor like the stronger, soberer, more ment which is always pressing to- has nominated Mt. Ho Kwong as thoughtful Hazlitt there would be ward eccentricity and self-re a member of the Court, of the scarcely anyone to read us. velation, toward the crotchety and University of Hongkong for a

The fact is that William Hazlitt the amusing and the literature of charm. Hero belong personal period of three years,

could make that thoroughly mas-Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt. Ste- tered pen of his do his bidding on renson, and a host of writers of His Excellency the Governor every sort of occasion.

It could our own' time, has re-appointed the Rev. Fr. curvet and caracols, it could take

a the tallest hedges and the widest Now there is nothing upgrateful Georga Byrne, D.Ph., to ho

certainly, Member of the Board of Educn water gaps like the flowing breeze, these writers, for all their charm, tion for a further period of two it could be whimsical, graceful, or do not represent the whole or even years.

crotchoty at its master's will; but the better part of English litera what it was best for was steady cure. Charm is good, but there is There has been added to the even-paced going across open also such a thing as strength; the list of medical practitioners the country, This being so, there is smoky, twilights of personal name of Dr. Wong Yan-kwonga significance, raventing more caprice, and changing mood may Bachelor of Medicing and Bache-about ourselves than about Haz-be delightful, but clear dry light ler of Surgery of the University] litt, in the fact that we remem Is a belter thing. The gorgeous of Hongkong.

ber and value his work, if at all, prose of Sir Thomas Browne, He chiefly for those things that he did the rained domes and turrets of a less well-for the intimate and sullen sunset smitten by shafts of self-revealing essays in which hoxlory, is immediately and amazing- writes rather like a second-rately beautiful even to a half-formed Charles Lamb and not for the im-taste, but who can fall to see that personal and critical essays, mus for all the higher qualities of wis- terpieces of straight-grained dom, of self-denial and self-con- thinking, in which he writes trol, of sober grandeur, the manly stendily like a first-rate William prose of John Dryden marches Hazlitt. This man could write as steadily beyond it? tablets of bronze, and though with a graver of steel on saved out of what he left us only those things that make him look an amiable tritter, He offered us bread; we have chosen a cream- puff.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. H. R. B. Han- a member of the cock to act as Court of the University of Hong- ex-kong, during the absence on leave of Mr. H. B. L. Dowbiggin,

There are many other matters dealt with in the report, showing the wide and balanced outlook of the officials of the Association, but we have not the space at the moment in which to comment on there. Suffice it to any that the | K. R. A. continues to manifest its. desire to serve all sections of the community, and that its advice, backed up by years of perience, should be of the utmost value to the Government and to Unneiul Members of the Council allke. Moreover, it deserves the wholehearted support of all who make their homes in the rapidly expanding residential districts across the harbour.

For the week-end matinees of Star Theatre, performances will the Banvard Company at the commence promptly at 5 pm. Seats may now be booked in ad- vance at the popular prices of $3, $2 and $1,

we have

Or again to choose a more ex- acting comparison, one may set the Hooker beside the magniloquence deliberate, oven pace of judicious of Milton, and even here we should not hesitate long. Milton's, ma- jestic organ music is the proxy, no The Gazette contains the draft

doubt, of a greater man, but it is of an An Ordinance to consoli- This same unworthy choice that not a greater prose. It has gran- date and amend the law with can be seen so clearly in our deal-dour, elevation, and the titanic respect to certain unclaimed ing with Hazlitt has boon mado rhythms of the sea; but the gran- balances and certain other un- just as certainly in our dealing deur is something added from the claimed sums. Lengthy "Objects with literature as a whole. More outside, the elevation is that of a and Reasons" are attached ex- and more during the last two noble rhetoric, and the rhythms plaining the provisions,

hundred years we have given our are those of the poet's own mighty hearts and our critical preference heart and breath. Turn now to at to that writing which either representative of the other tradi entertains or informs us, so that tion, let us say to Isaac Barrow, now we have almost forgotten the and what does one And? elementary fact that it is by no beauty of fitness, of exact ade means the business of literatura quney, of moans nicely adjusted to either to instruct or to amuse onds-a beauty which does not but to illumine, Speaking in terms amaze at all and which may at first of English literature alone, wo lie, hidden, but which endures and place Charles Lamb far above grows like the colours of an old much higher than Richard Hooker, etend of the splendid fervours of William Hazlitt, Jeremy Taylor painting closely scrutinized. In- and Sir Thomas Browne over John the Gothic Cathedral we are given Dryden. We delight in colour here the sober certainties of the rather than in form, in rhetoric classle temple--the metaphor has more than in that sober eloquence done service ten thousand times but

hand. We demand that a writer which comes unsought from un- it will nerve again. swerving devotion to the topic In

Trunk Line To Canton, The week has been one which No-one Cum huve read the

might almost stir the Colony to voluminous annual report of the take an interest in itself. Not Kowloon Residents Association only have very real, if hardly de without realising that, to use the finable, prospects of the establish- There will be a grand gala per- words of the Committee, "There is ment of a vehicular ferry service formance at the Harmaton Circus still plenty of scope for the useful been held out, but the long-lost on Friday, March 1, at 9.15 p.m. activity of such a body in express- vision of a trunk telephone line under the patronage and in the presence of II. E. the Governor, ing the nspirations and desires of between Hongkong and Canton has Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G. Fifty ampidly increasing population, been revived.

extreme- per cent, of the gross takings will consisting as it does of all nationaly desirable developments, both of] be donated to the R.S.P.C.A.

which would add very materially lities.

to the amenities of the Colony,

During the nine years of its existence,*the Association has done yeoman work on behalf of the

These

[

The

The Banvard Musical Comedy Company will give two per and prove a great boon to com-formances to-day and to-morrow In merce, have been promised earnest the Star Theatre at 5.00 and 9.15 residents of the peninsula, work consideration at meetings of local p.m. To-day's matince will be S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. which has inveived heavy calls on public stility companies, promises "Tip Toes," and "Clowns in Clover” the time and energies of the mem-of this kind being a rare experi Follies Bergere" will hold the bill will be given at 9.16 To-morrow bera of the Committee, but work once insofar as they have come at 5.00, wind "Review of Revues" at shall mingle himself with his sub- How quietly and with what which has been willingly under-together in the space of a few 9.15.

ject matter even at the cost of steady hands these supreme proso taken with the sole desire to im-aya, Brief details of the pro-

The following is from We posals for the trunk line to Canton Gazette:In order that a complete profer the fuliginous murk of Every phrase adds to the total vagueness or complete incompré-masters Work forward, adding son- thehensibility. We have come to tence to sentence with exact con- gruency of form to meaning! fear that a labour of love such as the negotiations with the Canton list may be obtained for record idosyncracy to the clear blue skies [structure of thought, like a squared

Administration succeed, were purposes, will those ladies mapped out by Mr. J. Scott Har-gentlemen resident in Hongkong ston at yesterday's meeting of and other than members of His the Hongkong Telephone Com- Majesty's Forces, who have had any decoration conferred upon them by His Majesty the King, please inform the Chief Clerk, Colonial Secretariat? A reply is requested by 9th March, 1929,

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The indubitable fact that faz-leircle and eddy and Amplify like therefrom. Indeed, it is not an

itt wrote much of the time, al-Sterne; never do they pause upon though not always, rather better their own harmonies like Milton; common to hear derogatory and

than anyone can afford to write they march straight on, and their sneering remarks, passed on the this subject were framed along

today may be set down, then, with music is the sound of ringing activities of those who are render-lines which suggest that Hong

fact than in his time it was still so much that they are in tune with confidence, chiefly to the further strides. They give us the sense not ing really useful elvic service with kong is ready to go ahead at the

possible to and fit audience their world, although they are, as no thought of reward or recogni- first opportunity. It was pointed

The health bulletin of Eastern illumination, for a writing austere, self-a deeper and more heurtening though few" for a literature of that the world is in tune with it- tion. But every community has its

factory telephone system in the day last, Issued by the Director of that is ne longes possible. We moods and thoughts of an in- ports for the week ended Salur giri, ascetic, self-denying. Today assurance. Instead of volcing the confirmed grousers-usually, we are eity of Canton has been the only ledical and Sanitary Services, still have agile pens, and some of dividual ench of them speaks in glad to say, only a noisy minority barrier in the past. Recently, gives the following cases, the them often long for a and we have no doubt that, though however, Canton announced its in- figures in parenthesis indicating course of open country, but they aspires above all to be a spokes- straight some degree for all men and each few bouquets are handed out, there tention of reconstructing its sya- deaths: Plague, Bassein (2), are required merely to curvet and man of common sense. Their of- is amongst the bulk of the people tem and of bringing it up-to-date, Colombo 2 (2), Pnom Penh 2 (1);

(1), caracole.

fort is not to discover what things have never been said before, or to neross the harbour quiet apprecia-an announcement which im Cholera, Bassein (2), Calcutta tion of all that the Association mediately aroused interest among (80), Madras (1), Negapatam (1), is all that need concern 48, and

The loss to ourselves as readers say the old things in novel and

(Continued on Page 0.) does. The critics discount the the directors of the Hongkong Tuticorin 5 (2), Bangkok 17 (12), value of their own views by falling Telephone Company. The opening Basrah 4 (3), Bombay 44 (32), Pnom Penh 7 (6); Small-pox, up of an automatic telephone ser- Calcutta 18 (6), Cochin 10, One characteristic which has al-vice in Canton brings the trunk Karachi 28 (7), Madras 60 (13), ways marked the activities of the line well within the realm of prac- Moulmein 4, Nogapatam. 2 (2), Rangoon 4 (1), Vizagapatam · 12 Association is a desire to work in proceeding with a view to co 4 (3), Palembang 1, Pnom Penh 19 ticability, and negotiations are

(2), Singapore (2), Belawan Deli harmony with the Government, We

operation. Few doubts will be (10), Shanghal (9), Canton 17 (3), see further evidence of that fact in entertained on the score of finan- Macao (24). the annual report now issued.. Ifcial, return for the capital outlay matters require remedying, the As- involved. Experionao of similar, sociation takes the best and the projects elsewhere is a guarantee quickest method of getting into of auccess. Construction of the touch with the appropriate authort-line seems to depend upon en- tles, and the appendix accompany-thusiasm for the project in Canton, Paris ing the past year's report shows and we have every reason to be- Genova

Ifove that the progressive officials Berlin that, once a question is taken up, now in control of the affairs of there le commendable persistence that city, will be happy to meet Athons A

Helsingfors displayed in pursuing it with a Hongkong half-way. view to early action, being assured.

to take a hand in the work.

It takes a good deal of plodding,

however, to stir up some Govern.

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(1) Diamonds. (2) Clubs. (8) Hearts,

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