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TRANSLATION OF HUMOUR.

Some Random Notes on the Subject.

one with which we are in full sympathy, and we also welcome the decision to catablish a really re- Hinble Statistien! Branch of the Imports and Exports Office. .

We do not intend at the moment

The name of Mr. Henry Poolor to go Into the Budget in further de has been added to the List of Au-

I do not need to go far afield, volatilo, fickle to the highest de- tall, but a few general observa-thorized Architects.

in the world of literature to rea- gree. And naturally, when it has tions, more particularly on the

His Excellency the Governor has lize how elusive of print humour is. to do with a certain "lean work- growing cost of Government, will appointed. Mr. A. W. G. 11, Grant-Thero. is Dickens, renowned as a horse" of which we are informed not be out of place. Almost every | han to be a Police Magistrate.' •

dispenser of gayety, whose most early in the narrative, trouble la admired effusions evoke but slight to be expected; let the translators I rend his ware. "Tenia mas cuarios que most praised Pickwickian episodes, utter confusion of the tribe who morriment from me.

un real," wrote Cervantes to, tho. only to find in them more en make of it what they can or ignore than laughter. His famous Mr. Weller does not keep me in a pun on the word quarto," says one it entirely. "An untranslatable Mr. E. L. Agassiz resumed duty state of perpetual hilarity, as he 400 bewildered to distinguish be as Official Receiver in Bankruptcy is said to have kept the servants tween the two meanings of tho and Registrar of Trade Marks and of Dingley Dell; though all this word or offer any further light on might be changed were I to ch the subject; "whose bones stick. Letters Patent on 2nd September.

counter him in actuality. There out like the corners of a "Spartah Ha Honour the Chief Just has is Shakespeare, acknowledged mas-Real," says another, sensing the ordered that the next Criminal ter humourist, whose celebrated word play but approaching, incon- Sessions shall be held on Monday, laugh-provoking clowns inspire gruity in his chosen figuro, inas- 16th September, at 10 o'clock in few smiles from me, when much as the Spanish real is com- I meet them in the mediumposed of eight quartos, is a round the forenoon.

of cold print. The "Comedy coin; the third makes no attempt to It is notified that the names of of Errors" scenis anything translate it, omitting the words al- McNeary and Co., Ltd., the Sining but comical to

mo and nologether from his version. On Land Investment Loan and doubt I should feel the same re- My friend laughs at these Agency Co., Ltd. and the Chung garding "Much Ado About Noth-absurdities, as he pust, and trans- wok Restaurant, Ltd., have been ing." had I not once witnessed intes simply and literally, "He had struck off the register.

an admirable interpretation by the more quarters than a reál,” seeing Ben Greet Players. As for Fals- in the renowed and angular sleed of Mr. C. P. Fletcher, of the taff, the world's supremely funny knight-errantry more quarters than P.W.D., has reported notice the loss from his office in my heresy did I not know that I quadruped-and more even than the to the man, I would hesitate to record four-the usual number for a the new P.W.D. building, at have a sort of partner-in-disgrace right cuartos of a real. And I who in Mr. Max Beerbohm, who has once knew and loved and drove just declared against the power

such another horse of extraordinary reading to transport us to the him, while taking a certain amount Angularity needs must agree with | heights of humour. "No printed of pride in his Judicious render- page, alas," says he in his de-ing. Fortunately, the ante pun in Hightful essay on the subject, Rocinante is sufficiently lucid for "can thrill us to the extremities all of laughter."

head of expenditure shows an in- eroase, despite the relief obtained by the loan policy. Personal emoluments, we are told, account for the greater part of the in- crenses. True, there is left un allocated a sum exceeding $1,669,- 000, but the greater part of this will no doubt be swallowed up con- sequent on the proposals of the Salarica Commission, proposals. which, unlike those of many past Commissions on other subjects, are evidently to receive very prompt attention. It would be informative if the total annual amount paid by the Government in

anlaries could be ascertained and contrasted with the Colony's In come. The figure would probably DODWELL & Co., Ltd be very surprising. It is, at any rate, obvious that with every pass- ing year a greater percentage of the Colony's revenue is being swallowed up in administrative ex- peases. The tendency may be to some extent inevitable, but we are

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THE BUDGET.

left to wonder when, if ever, a hall will be called,

1,700 CONVICTS IN REVOLT.

TWO KILLED DURING FIVE ‚HOURS' BATTLE,

Lower Albert Road, of a silver cigarette case containing $10. Mr. Fletcher asscases his total loss at $60.

According to a report made to

the police by Mrs. Murphy of the Felix hat shop, Ice House Street, 17 unknown Chinese rushed into the shop at 4.45 p.m. yesterday and snatched a lady's handbag valued nt $5. He managed to make good his escape,

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New York, July 29. The mutiny yesterday at Auburn Prison assumed serious propor tlons, the 1,700 prisoners obtain- ing control of the arsenal and its Ilerlin stores of rlot guns, rifles and Stockholm ammunition, and battling with the Copenhagen prison guards for five hours.

the

An analysis of the Budget pre- sented to the Legislațive Counell on Thursday amply bears on the observation of the Colonial Secre- tury that, except in regard to un- derbakings financed by down, the Government's policy is concerned

Oulo Vienna nore with services than material

The prisoners set fire to works. That, in fact, is the most; workshops and attempted to batter Helsingfors

Prague marked impression left after down the gates, but finally surren Madrid dered, as the result of a police Lisbon studying the appropriations. In rush, after two of their number Aliens this connexion, there is undoubted. had been killed, and 12 prisoners, Bucharest

three warders, and one freman ly a tendency to cover, by loan a

wounded, and four prisoners had Buenos Aires

Bombay good deal of the heavy.expediture escaped.

Shanghat which was formerly met from re- Sunday brings to Auburn the Hongkong vente

or surplus balances. For luxest discipline, with the convicta Yokohoma

permitted free access to the prison · Silver (spot) large undertakings, from which yards for games and recreation. Silver (forward) future generations will benefit as Virtually the entire population of much as the present-day resident, the prison, which is only designed to accommodate 1,226, came up the the loan svatem is without doubt the stairway to gain the yard led by a most equitable. But It can be trusty," who rapped on the door. abused. We do not say that it is it, a score of prisoners suddenly Añ a guard, named Wallace, opuned at the moment, but it is well that darted from the line, beating and note be taken of current tenden-Four of their leaders had pistols, kicking him into unconsciousness.

indicating outside assistance.

Arsenal Seized,

cies.

of

Surely, it is but to be expected

This being my personal convic-that the worthy Sancho Panza tion long cherished in secret. It should prove something of a alur- follows not only that I am wholly bagblock to the unwary. His wife unqualified as a translator of of the varying nomenclature, hie' humour, but that I need must mar-lost ass which he continues to ride. vel that so subtle an cniotion even to the point of recovery, and ever survives the rude process of similar incongruitles have doubtless translation; for rude it is by com- laughter; likewise his broadsidea provoked moro controversy than mon consent, even though it be of indiscriminately fired proverbs, London, Sept. 8.

labour of love, Laughter may be coined words and obscuro puna, Of 122.876 the universal language, but hardly all the confusion thus caused, none 4.84% In its printed form. The Serbian interests me more than that attend 34.89 translator of Shakespeare, whose ing the solution of his interkled 25.08 tribute I may appreciate though word play in the affair of the letter .12.00% not rend, I assume to have encoun- to the renowned Dulcinen of El

.32.69 tered, some problems wholly be- Toboso. "High 20.385

and Sovereign yond the scope of scholarship in Lady" wrote Don Quixote in his 18.216 this particular phase of his work; anlutation, to which the wily squiro 18.205 likewise the French and the Ger- promptly gave his own interpreta- .31.44 man translators, for all their on That she was indeed so ligh 103% boasted, kinship, understanding, “that, in good truth, she exceeds me 102% 32.905 I base not upon actual investi. was ready to felgn upon emergency

This presumption, by more than a handbreadth," ho

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BOLIVIA REOPENS TACNA-ARICA ISSUE.

PROTEST AGAINST SECRET TREATY.

reverence,

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376 gation, but upon inference which but for Sovereign-Soberang-it. .818 seems not unwarranted. Knowing was his good pleasure to substituto 5% it to be the case with the trans-the word Sobajada even in the pre- 477/82 lators of Shakespeare's distinsence of his master. Alas, this 15 guished contemporary, Miguel de witticism, has been wasted on the Cervantes Saavedra, I conceive it desert air! Sobafeda is the past to be true in all simillar cases. participle of Sobajar, to scrub. Now, I am verily persuaded that What, then, shall we make of it? but for the services of a most ex-as politely as may be, render it Two of our English translators, ceptional translator and inter-subterrane, a rather far-fetched preter of humour, whose work oc- antithesis; 1 third renders it eupied many years, I should never "scrubby," a fourth, "scrubbing," have been able to read and enjoy my friend renders it literally the renowned romance of Don "scrubbed," which though prefer Quixote. Through his version of able seems not so funny as it must. the grost Spanish classic, render-inve been intended to be. In this ed solely for his own pleasure instance the translator fores not and delight and not to be had on unlike the ty amidst the honey, "a the market in any format, I have la mosca entro la miel," a phrase been able to reach a degree of of the Second Part which, though If we except the projects being

Publication of accret clausen in appreciation never afforded me by neither obscured by humour not In financed by loans, the Budgel of-

After felling Wallace, fully a the Tacna-Arica treaty, by which his acholarly and present assis- perturbed not a few, of the com- the standard translations. With the least illogical In content, has fers us very little over which the hundred prisonera sprinted down Bolivia in shut off from the Pacific tance I have been enabled to find mentators, English and community is likely to enthuse, the hall until they encountered an Ocean, han opened an entirely new the celebrated smiles and laughter (notably

other guard, who was wounded in phase in the controversy over the that have hitherto eluded me, as Clemincin). I smile to see them especially if we also rule out un-the arm in trying to keep his keya disputed Peruvian and Chilean I believe they clude many another make a mountain out of less than dertakings already in hand. We from the rioters. These keys

of our generation. From his nm- a molèhill, and expend their sar- can, however. congratulate the here they armed themselves.

gave the men access to the arsenal, territories.

coam on each other in their ple and interpretive footnotes I The United States does not have garnered not only the joys Government on one aspect of its: Taking advantage of the first approve of the negotiation of the of the translator, but also the tricky stuff, which both the simple

marginalia. policy-namely, a determination confusion, about forty rushed for secret pact, according to repeculiar problems that may attend and the wise will do well to avoid. Assuredly this humour is a to take the first steps in organis-by machine gun fire from the turret Washington advices make it plain humour. And I must confess that I who venture where I dare not the main gate, but were driven backtions In State Department circles. him when he has to do with Yet I find much to thank them for complete Health

over the gate. It was in this rush that the "bottling up" of Bolivia find herein a men'sure of smiles un-trend. I am especially grateful to This that the two prisoners were killed. was in noway sinctioned through known to other volumes smiles him (Jarvia) who explains that the vice for the Colony.

The guard inside the main gate the United States part in the deriving from the fatuities of some disembarkation at Osuna, We conulder to be the best

attempted to draw a pistol but was sotticment of the Tacna-Aries die of his brother translators who are, many leagues from the sea, is a feature of the Budget, Dr. Wel-ahol through the arm, one convict pate.

a city alas, startlingly like myself in spite satire on the historian Mariana, who Jington has not been long in our seizing the huge brass key and Bolivia has declared she will of their exceding scholarship. midst, but it can be assumed that arently in the hope that friends let to the sea. She met the publi throwing it over the wall,, apexert every effort to obtain an out-

gravely relates a similar, incident in his history of Romun Spain. he has spent a good deal of his outside would open the gate. Then cation of the secret text with a treats of the condition and occupa- a form of humour when he made It is in Chapter First, "Which Did Shakespeare, then, indulge in time in analysing the whole poxi he and three others climbed the note to all governments maintain- tion of the famous gentleman Don he notorious geographical error? 1

stairway leading to the turret, ran Ing diplomatic representatives in tion of the Colony's health ser- along the wall under a hall of La Paz, This note denounces the Quixote of La Mancha," in which question. Surely this would be a vices and the defects in the pre-bullets from the guards and dropped secret protocol and emphaskes our three leading English trans-charitable solution of what has long sent system of combating disease into the street, two of them leaping Bolivia's need for free access is a Motteux) trip and stumble over the to some of us. For my part, I can

latora (Ormsby, Jarvis and been a perplexity and a consolation. into a parked motor car and driy-

ing

ser-

:

Pacific port.

Rollvin Much Disappointed.

La Paz, Bolivia. Publication in Santiago, Chile of the text of the supplementary pro- tocol to the Tacna-Arica Treaty

Hartzenbusch and

aame pun. Now, pun, however conceive of no happler fate than: mean and questionable its rating in that each error be interpreted as the ranks of humour, is something profound and baffling humour- else again from the viewpoint of the II, in the Christian Science perplexed translator, being elusive, Monitor.

He is now to attempt to deal with ing away.. rural sanitation, malaria and the Two others ran some distance afoot and then held up a passing prevention of disease generally-motorist, Jacob Reese, throwing The reorganisation scheme which his wife and baby from the car and the Government has in view in- forcing him at the point of the volves an increase of a lakh of where they started to force him into which has heretofore been kept joint accord, cede to a third power from gaining access to the sta..

pistol to drive to a lonely spot, dollars in personal emoluments, a shed. Convinced they intended to secret, and which apparently all or part of the territories This provision was not recom- but the community will not be-kill him. Reese felled one cuptor dooma Bolivia's hopes of obtaining (Tacna and Arica) which in con-mended by Mr. Hoover, when he grudge this if the eventual out- and fled to the nearest house, a port of her own on the Pacific formity with the treaty of this gave his good services, and the cacaping several shots, one of coast, has caused great disappoint date, remains under their respec-State Department dissociatea come in a better equipped and a which lodged in a wallet in his ment here.

Live sovereigntics; nor can they itself from it. moro co-ordinated health service. | pocket.

Although Bolivia's importa and without this requisite, construct In fact, it runs counter to the In particular, preventive work is to Meanwhile, the convicts remain exports are handled through the across these territories now inter-proviously expressed desira of the be concentrated on. We thus haveing in the prison, set fire to the Chilean port of Arica without national railroad lines,

State Department, specifically ex- pressed November 20, 1926, by` hopes that at long luat public axos, knives, and shovels to fight desirous of possessing her own shops, from which they had seized taxation, Bolivin has always been

Frank B. Kellogg, then Secrotary health will receive the considera- the firemen, while thefr anfpera Pacific port so that goods imported

of State. In a recommendation tion which is its due. The moder-shot at the guarda on the walls. or exported would not be subject President Hoover on request of then made to Chile and, Poro he The commanding officers then to foreign scrutiny. It has been Chile and Pero, recommended urged aale of Tacin-Arieu to nieation of hospital equipment, ordered the State troopers to drop pointed out that in case of war terms of settlement for the Bolivia, giving it a senport, and the intention to build a mater, Into the yard, and this manevro Bolivia would not be able to im-Tacna-Arica question, which

Bolivia was an original party nity block at the Kowloon Hospital, broke the heart of the rebels, who port arms and munitions through served as the basis for the agree to the issue as participant in the

were soon herded away from the the port of Arles,

ment recently reached.

war of the Pacific are also mutters for congratula-burning buildings. The firemen

1879. Chile But according to the full report defeated both Bolivia and Peru tion. Of other schemes to be were then able to extinguish the

The part of the supplementary of the protocol between Chile and and took the provinces under the Péro, a new clause has been treaty of Ancon, pending a plebls- Laken in hand, the intention to put flames, but not before damage had protocol involved follows:

been inflicted to the extent of The governments of Chile and inserted which prevents Bolivia, a cite of the population. Bolivia Hongkong on the map aerially is

£50,000.

Peru cannot, without previous third party interested in the issue, I lost Antofagasta,

Not Proposed by Hoover.

Washington, Aug, 5.'