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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929.

DAY BY DAY.

the original Act in the Secretary. for Foreign Affairs. Unfortunately political changes In England have

TO WATCH THE CORN GROW. "ÄND. had the affect of delaying the | THE · BLOSSOM......" BET, TO DRAW Introduction of this amending Act ̧ HARD" BREATH OVER PLOUGK- with the result that we are now SHARE AND SPADE, TO READ, no more forward in this matter 10 THINK, TO LOVE TO HOPE, TO FRAY-THESE ARE THE THINGS than when the Buxton Committee To MAKE MAN HAPPY.—-Ruskin, presented Its report It will therefore be seen that the Canton Hankow project has suffered from British as well as Chinese delays. There should, however, now be no

THE LOOKING GLASS SPEAKS. Some Interesting Reflections.

It is partly due to my position Lackeys stood stifly at every cor here at the head of the first ner. Then, a gracious figure at has been added to the list of aued experience worth the telling dark eyes, a sad and royal beauty: The name of Mr. J. B. Hawker fight of stairs that I have gather- the foot of the stairs, dark curie, thorised architects.

Very early I learned that it is where As he mounted, the little hand of one stands that matters most, where his hotes on his silken sleave, one' stands and how one faces. there was a prolonged sigh of

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The annual liquor licensing s03-

slons are to be held at the Council Chamber on November 8th, at 4.30 p.m.

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difficulty in China inducing the British Government to take action in accord with previous declara- tions of policy.

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Dr. S. S. Strahan to be a The value to China of an un-member of the Medical Board for interrupted railway line between a further term of three years. Canton and Hankow cannot be

His Excellency the Governor has over-stressed, whilst at the same time it is obvious that this Colony Sergeant HG. Willams to be Second Lieutenant in the would also paterially benefit, pro- Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps. vided the foopline between the Canton-Hankow and Canton-Kow- loon lines were undertaken. This would result in Kowloon becoming In reality the southern terminus of China's trunk line, and would bring this Colony into direct, con- fact with the great Industrial

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upset price $3,465. :

you see, look down these shallow a score of curtates. A moment, steps and through the wide door to and the lovely face of the un the garden. It is a curious thing, happy Stuart met my own never and one I have long thought upon, to be forgotten. Ah me! I heard. that the act of ascending is, almost long talk for weeks and months. in itself, a beautifying and clarify I would we might have spoken ing thing. It has long been together of place and purpose, he familiar to me, to see what appear and 1.

ed cloudy and nearly distorted far

below grow into positive loveliness I am glad to have known the with each step upward. Whether good friends of this house. Long this is due to the ascent, or to the before that Puritan peace fell on fact that, I see from a different the stormy Stuart seas, when level, or to a combination of both, I Elizabeth sat in the green gardens have not yet fully decided.

that you see yonder for the per- Kowloon Inland.Lot 2772, situat- | Another thing that has been formance of

the Masque, ed at Talkoltsul, is to be offered for | gradually borne in upon me is that Spenser and Sidney and Raleigh sale on the 21st instant. The area one does not weary of the right walked

these corridora Ho. is about 1,980 square feet, and the position At first I wondered if I was galiant that Raleigh; and should grow impatient, or bored, or all the noble company of the even incapable of reflecting clearly openseas bluff. Sir Richard and well the same view and the Grenville forever striving to re- need not have member when he must play the same steps-but wondered for a moment. The days courtier and when to smack of the faces above the stairs Gilbert, dear friend, who algual- so it with love and laughter, ed "Good cheer, brave hearts^1 the coming and going

50 when the little Swallow and continuous and so full of Squirrel slipped from sight in a His Excellency the Officer Ad-purpose, that I have no sooner seen world of watora. Was it any appointed Mr. T. W. H. Hosogood the sun to the western hh that wonder that he found them again ministering the Government has to act as Harbour Master in top corner is creamy with the little safe and sound, and anchored a

pale feet of the moon, and new little before him? addition to his other duties during work and now beauty is before me.

But it is Sidney whom I have Hole, R.N., (Retired).

The Puisne Judga (Mr. Justice Wood) is leaving Hongkong on Tuesday next for Shanghai where during vacation. He will on October 16.

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SATURDAY OUT. 5, 1929.

THE CANTON-HANKOW

WWAY.

Hopes, however faint, will once again be aroused following the statement just made in Canton by Mr. Sun Fo that negotiations are in progress between the Chinese. and British Governments aiming at the completion of the Canton Hankow Railway with funds made available from the British share in the Boxer Indemnity Fund. For more than twenty years now has the bridging of the gap between Canton and Hankow been stressed as of vital importance to the coun- try, but, as time has passed by, nothing has been done and the link has still to be forged. Had original intentions been put into effect, the line would have been completed many years ago, but financial difficulties and a variety

Canton would also be immenaur able. From every standpoint, therefore, the completion of the line with funds made available from the British Boxer Indemnity Fund is to be commended. We Lean only pow hope that the the absence of Commander G. F..I know there are many rooms in Kald most dear, that flower of

negotiations said to be in progress on the subject will soon result in a definite decision being reached.

The Premier's Mission.

this house, other stairs and other doors, which I have not yet reflect chivalry, poet, courtier, Christian His Excellency the Officer Ad-ed. There are other mirrors in Knight There was none such, ministering the Government has whose depths these things are sometimes think in all those been pleased to appoint, provision shown. I am very glad to be con- spacious daya. Often they paced up and down, Spenser and ally and subject to His Majesty's tent,-- pleasure, the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kote- wall, C.M.G, LL.D., to be tempor- arily an Unofficial Member of the the Hon. Sir. Shouson Chow, Kt, Executive Council in the place of who is temporarily absent from the

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, fully confident of fulfilling the high pur pose of his mission, narrowing the Atlantic and more firmly cementing | Colony. Anglo-American relations, arrived

point of view.

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About my deep frame someone Sidney, and long stanzas of The long ago carved a welcome for all Faerie Queene stirred the scent who should come. "The ornamented air, while Sidney bowed his honour It." That has pleased me, beauty, and cried encouragement of a house is the guest who doth geatle head at the breath of and indeed I have not yet conclud-to the ardent heart that leaned ed my study of the lines. I thought upon his own. They were great at first (young things are apt to lovers, these twain. There was in the United States yesterday, Miss Fazenda is co-starring with air opinions), that the guests con- young Will Shakespeare,

too landing at New York preparatory droll Clyde Cook, at the Star ferred an honour on the house. And new to court, with his seeing eye, to his visit to President Hoover. Theatre in "A Sailor's Sweet so they did, and so they did! But and that good genial heart which occasion was an auspicious one. heart," a Warner Bros. produc- there was more in the line than this even now boats in his every play, The remarkable enthusiasm which tion directed by Lloyd Bacon, hardly remember just when I and has made him for all time eclipsed all other impressions of the love-lorn spinster who, upon fall- as an active state of consciousness

Miss Fazenda plays the part of a found myself thinking of honour companion of men, British Premier's arrival reveals ing heir to a fortune, leaves the in spite of all the affairs of the then, more formal, you under

One has much leisure för thought

Yes! the garden was different unmistakably, that conditions for ladies' boarding school where she day, and this question of "holding the pourparlers could hardly be had been preceptress to engage in in honour has been a pleasant stand. Perhaps there was mere more favourable. In the brief a hunt for big game, any man bething to linger upon, and one, pro-lawn space, more clipped box. space of four months, since General ing big game, according to her ductive of great serenity and Certainly those tall hollyhocks blessedness, I. find. A small friend were not there, and I believe the Dawea began to prove himself an

of the family, who runs frequently Sweet. Williams were at the back. irresistible goodwill manufacturer,

up and down the stairs, wears a kept more strictly in the kitchen a complete transformation in the relations between the two nations

school badge that says, "Honestas garden. You remember the line.. Sweet William with his homely non Honores.' has minifested itself. Already

cottage smell One of the most pleasant things. cordiality has supplanted coolness,

I like the children of to-day. I that I have watched has been this and regardless of whether or not

like the children of yesterday. All gradual replacement of what I the little people who have danced call the kindlier flowers. I liked the Hoover-MacDonald conversat tions result in agreements on mat- The returns of the average up and down the sunny hall have those geranium borders; of course, ters of high moment, it is evident amount of bank notes in circula. been dear to me. Now they have and the lobelia threw a soft blue that the Prime Minister's visit will tion and of specie in reserve in cropped heads and short overalls shadow on the hall, floor, but I prove exceedingly fruitful. De-Hongkong, during the month ended Even the baby pads purposefully an own I love to reflect these deep of other causes have intervened, ileate and complicated business will both Stagers of the respective admires, his own brief blue tunic at pansies, and all the scented spiras

30th September, 1929, as certified the stairs with deep breathings, and with the result that there are still be transacted between the leaders Banks are: nearly three hundred miles to be built. There are certain engineer Ing difficulties to be encountered, but, even so, the application of a little enterprise and energy would soon result in the project being

finished.

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of these two great nations in the course of next week, and the sound judgement of the one matched by the obvious sincerity of the other are happy auguries for complete success. The meeting is interest-

BANK RETURNS.

NOTE AND SPECIE FIGURES FOR SEPTEMBER.

Banks

Chartered Bank Mercantile Bank

TOLMI

Averzo Amount

24,837,783

1,993,448

$82,072,108

Specie

40,000,000

small

the top. Yesterday, and yester fignanette. Stocks I have day, they had long shining curls, always loved and when those la Reserve on stiff ringlets that bobbed under slim lilies are in bloom, and the 6.500.000 feathered hat and beribboned bon great silken poppies, and the 45,292,600 $4,000,000 net. Such little flower faces, peak roses hang over the lavender 860,000 ing from shady brims, or dimpling walk-ah welll you are a friend with demure satisfaction at the of the house and you will be able

erinolined figures that to watch them day by day ing from another, point of view. are deposited with the Crown looned boys surveyed their rows of Monitor

In addition Sterling Securities dimpled back at them! Fat panta D T in the Christian Science Both President Hoover and Mr. Agents valued at £1,255,700. buttons anxiously,"or gloomily at Ramsay MacDonald are new in of In addition Securities deposit times. I have wondered if extra ammur fice, the President having had theed with the Crown Agents and helpings of pudding were sometimes advantage of Mr. MacDonald by $2,907, Government valued at governed by the strain on those WHO WAS ?

sume buttonal ed with the Crown Agents valueded to school for the first time on In addition Securities deposit- Just such a fat little boy depart-

£2,907,959.

WARWICK REVUE COMPANY.

SPLENDID COMPANY SOON COMING.

one of those yesterdays. I did not remember having seen such a de parture before, so perhaps the im- pression it made was the greater. His boxes went first, then he follow- ed with his father, very stiff about the back, very square about the shoulders. His mother wore, B Bwcoping gown that made a pleasant sound as it moved over the polished, floor, -and in her shadow small" sister. The Booking is proceeding apace for came the the short season of the Warwick, little girl paused as she re- Revue Company which commences turned, peered steadfastly into at the Star Theatre on October my depths as if to discover 10th with "The Peep Show." The there the face that had so oftan news of the success in the Strasts tenderly mocked her over the Settlements and elsewhere. ag shoulder. I would have shown it preceded it and Hongkong will un-if I could! A tear fell on her shoe doubtedly welcome this ane som just where the elastic crossed on a bination with the same enthusiasm tiny white stock. She saw it glit London, Oct. 4 that has been displayed in the ter in the sun, and stooped and mop

123.94% South.

34.88 .12.10%

As one surveys the position, it is obvious that if China is left to complete the line herself, we shall have to walt very many years the greatest expectations, have two months, and both have justified before anything is done. For this

proved themselves resourceful at £180,000. reason, we can heartily support leaders and courageous internation the proposal that part of the alista. Personal contact between British share of the Boxer two such men is certain to play an Indemnity Fund be utilised for the important part in clearing away any purpose. This, incidentally, is in remaining distrust and suspicion on full accord with the advice of the either side of the Atlantic, leading to that mutual understanding and Buxton Advisory Committee,

confidence between the English- Several years ago, the British speaking peoples which is so Government promised that the eminently desirable in the interesta balance of the Fund should be of the permanent peace of the devoted

purposes. mutually world. beneficial to Great Britain and China1 In accordance with that policy, an Act was passed in 1925 which authorised the application of the Fund for the purposes in dicated, and which resulted in the Paris

Brussels appointment of the Buxton Com- Amsterdam mittee to advise the Government Berlin as to how the money could be bagen most usefully expended. That Helsingfors Committee, in the course of its re- Bucharest

Lisbon

commendations, advocated the Buenos Aires creation of an Anglo-Chinese Shanghai

Yokohama Board of Trustees to control and New York administer the Fund, and it also Geneva

Millan.. strongly urged the construction of Stockholm the unfinished section of the Oslo Canton-Hankow Railway. Later,

Prague

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it was intimated that an amending Card

Act would be introduced in the

Bombay British Parliament to give the Hongkong Board full control over the Fund, silver (forward)

Hilver (spot) in place of the control vested under

HUDIBRAS.

The nearest English parallel. to the Spanish novel of Don Quixote is Samuel Butler's. long poem, "Sir Hudibras,

Sir Hudibras was a Judge in the days of the Commonwealth, a Presbysterian of the eeeled. type, who set out on a crusade against the abuses and follies of his age. Riding on a sorry. steed he journeyed round the country with his companion Ralph, attempting to enforce the laws which forbade popular amusements and pastimes.

ped it up with a wlap of a handker-worn never to cut it as long The Warwick Revue Company's chief. A gallant little lady! sole object in fe is to amuse. With that object in view Mr. Edgar

I like the parties of to-day-the Warwick, who understands he laughter and gay voices, the swift 1933 audiences so well, has gathered feet on the landing, the easy intro 108.25 round him artistes who are past ductions and friendly gossips at 817 masters in the art of laughter my very elbow. I like the 5/32 raising. But the whole show is balls of yesterday the Boft .2/2 not given over to comedy. There hum. of conversation, the sound 1/11 7/22 are delightful little scenes which of silk moving slowly, the

4.88 7/22 are calculated to please the aye as

gracious bow and delicious

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25. 181 well as tickle the ribs, fine dancing curtsles, the tight nosegays almost .92. 85% by experts and singing of a high hidden by shimmering voluminous order. With all these different skirta, the music of the minuet. 104% appeals he would be a sad fellow Aht the pretty powdered head! I 82.75 Indeed who could not End some like the shingle too, of course. 378 thing to interest him in such a Even a looking-glass may be pro 6% varfed and diverse offering.

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/6.27/32 The plans are open at Moutrie's I remember one very grand 1/10% and the Star Theatre, and early scene. Candles were burning in

23% application for reservations Sa itish Wirelose,

23% recommended in order to avoid every wide angle the great doors

Chalf were flung-the disappointment.

blazed.!

Ho did not cut a pretty figure as he went about his thank- less task, being stout and hump-backed, with a straggling reddish beard which went un- trimmed, because its owner had

as there was a Stuart left alive. As well as being unattractive In person, Hudibras was vain, stupid, and grossly ignorant."

The alms of Cervantes and Butler were not precisely alike, Whereas the Spaniard sought to ridicule aut of existence the obsolete, but harmless, conven tions of chivalry the English- man's intention was to en phasize the danger to the com munity of excessive puritanism. The name of Hudibras – is derived from Hugh do Bras, the patron saint of Devonshire. The character of the priggish meddior is drawn from Colonel and one of Butler's acquain Rolle, a resident of that county, tauces AK