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SONGS YOU Will like

A Selected List of Popular Sheet Music

A Garden in the Rain

When Summer is Gone

I Don't Want to Get Thin

The Lonesome Road

I'm in Seventh Heaven

I've got a feeling I'm Falling

Maybe, Who Knows? Little Pa!

A Precious Little Thing Called Love

Carolina Moon

Lover Come Back to Me

I Kiss your hand, Madame

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1929.

NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.

OVER

1,000,000

́IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,

to some extent an expensive luxury. The Hongkong. Government cadiet ayatom was established by Sir Hercules Robinson, then Governon of Hongkong, in 1861, with the approval of the Duke of Newcastle, the Secretary of State. The Idea was to provido the Colony with a 'staff of well-educated interpreters who should study the Chinese language and be eligible, when qualified, for promotion to the head- ships of certain departments. "Sir Hercules Robinson appointed three cadets, one of whom subsequently became Secretary for Affairs (Registrar-General) and then Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements. Another became Captain Superintendent of Police, the third succeeded to the post of Secretary for, Chinitae Affaire. To-day, if cadets do not exactly swarm in Government offices they are in sufficient ambera to pro- duce quite à considerablo buzz.

Chinese

DAY BY DAY.

ONE OF THE BEST RULES IN CON- VERSATION 18 NEVER TO · BAY A. THING WHICH ANY OF THE COM-" PANY CAN REASONABLY WISH WE HAD RATHER LEFT UNSAID-Swift.:

There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.

Whilst working on a scaffolding Wing F Terrace, Mak So, a Chinese aged 23 years, of 24, Square Street, fell and recolyed in- juries to his head, legs and hands.

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Hongkong Dollar.

[To The Editor of Hongkong '

Telegraph.]

Sir-I hesitate in throwing "cold water on the conflagration of optimism that has arisen from the recent drop of the dollar ex- change, but the future, I think, will hold justification for this letter.

In my humble opinion this scaring down of our exchange will ultimately prove calamitous' and Mrs. O'Gorman Anderson. Mr.we shall live to deplore having" T. Arnott, Mr. J. H. Donnithorne, taken auch a step before getting to Mr. and Mrs. D. L. MeWhirter; the bottom of our paper premium Mrs. W. Orchard and Mr. and Mrs. problem. There can be only two reasons for a rising exchange:~~ F. Boulton arrived on the as.

(1), "an excess of exports over Sarpedon yesterday.

imports or (2) a domestic shortage: of the currency. We are assured. that there has been no shortage In the case of Mul Sau-fong, and as Hongkong is essentially a 每 commodity Chinese woman aged 22, who was shipping agency, discovered at the Tong Shan Hotel, distributor and banking centre, Connaught Road West, suffering we can safely assume that the paper premium is due to a favourable from opium polsoning.

trade balance resulting from large invisible exports on shipping work,, the middleman's profits on dit tribution and "remittances from war-scared Chins.

Attempted suicide is suspected

Admitting a charge of causing It would, of course, be impossible cruelly to five chickens by over to continue an analogy of beescrowding in a crate, a Chinese and hives in relation to Govern-woman was fined $10 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smalth at the Kowloon ment departments, but it should Magistracy this morning. not be difficult to see our point,.

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. that, in our opinion, the saturation

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY OCT. 17, 1929.

REORGANISING CADET SYSTEM.

point was reached long ago. Cadets have penotrated into all spheres of Government, even into those where one would naturally expect a specialist to hold the reins.

Arrested having a bath in full view of the public at the Hanghom Market, a Chinese was fined $5, or seven days hard labour in default, by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning

We would welcome, therefore, any move on the part of the Government which would rectifyat

Mk. T. 5. Whyte

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The Very Idea!

A visitor in a remote villago came across an ancient inhabitant. "It's very old some of us get," sald the old man.

"Why" said the visitor, "you aro man yourself, aren't a very ald you?"

"Yes, I've turned, eighty, but if

ninety this year.". my aister had lived, she'd have been

"Dear me," said the visitor, that's interesting, and when did your sister die?" At birth."

Our G.B.S. Is in a mesa.

It really isn't 'fair! They say his work Begins to irk. -

But does our Bernard care? He's still a boy........ With Shavian joy;

They cannot break his heart. He'll cry with force "Bab. Applesauce

You can't put me in the 'Cart' (2,1

"Pa, whata.à parasita?”

A parasite, my son, is one who goes through a revolving door on another person's push,"

*

Which really owns the picture- the pupphagen who cannot sp preciate it, or the connoisseur who can appreciate it, but only keeps it in his mind?-Dean Inge,

Instability in a currency is un- desirable, but our rising exchange: has not us yet proved injurious to the staple industries of the Galonyi. and high rents with all the building that is going, afford ample evi- dence of ovar-increasing prosperity. There are people, however, who talk illogically of a high exchange being economically unsound and of the disadvantage under which the exporter is labouring, and it is to zle

3.

Mediocrity in everything is be- coming every day more and more completely the expression of humans ity's ideal.Mr. Compton Macken-

After all, I am not the only peb-

My experience is that people pre- fer publichouses to ruined castles.

Payne' Henry,

(motor-coach driver},"

Some degree of intelligence is needed to understand the weather.

Sir Napier Shaw.

On a charge of removing, sand; without a permit from the fore- such superficial criticism that we

M ble on the beach. Mr. Bernard shore at To Kwa Wan, a Chinese owe the racont fall.. cactie WAS fined $15 by "The high rate has been the direct,Shaw.

Smith result, of Hongkong's geographical It is the hardest thing in the the Kowloon Magistracy position in relation to China, and world for an artist to make a suc- a state of affairs not altogether this morning. The defendant was by forcing down that rate we have cess of his marriage. Mr. Hugh satisfactory. Current rumour has were loading the sand on to

in charge of seven coolica who relinquished an invaluable birth- Walpole..

right-a carnucopla of potential. it that cadets will no longer be track

wealth. To clarify this point, we promoted automatically to control

might imagine Hongkong as being Serious injuries were received a self-supporting. invulnerable of the Police Department, the by the 23-months-old child of Mrs. laland in a world breaking up under Sanitary Department, or the Arbusoff, who resides at 9, South international warfare.The In- Treasury. With excellent cause, View, second floor, Yaumati, on security of outside wealth would Tuesday night, when her amah ac-bring along a rush for Hongkong's Cadets may protest and in other the Education Department might cidentally dropped the baby from currency and there would be no

Colonel (after aavere lecture, to ways express their grave dis- be added to this list A thousand the window of the servants' quar-question as to whether the ex-. pleasure, but if there is any truth reasons could be advanced inters. The child was conveyed to change should be permitted to rise a couple of men on the evils of gambling) Seven days confiped the Kowloon Hospital in a critical or whether we should derive bene whatsoever in the rumours of Im insistence upon the appointment condition,

fit thereby. A shipowner, for in- to barracks."

Sergeant "What shall I do with pending changes in the policy of of specially-qualified men to these

stance, would be only too pleased the Government of Hongkong re-positions, even as it could be shown leave sent year should not fail to for a little property here, and the table, sir?"

Hongkong residents going on to hand over his fleet in exchange this 434d. which was lying on the garding administrative appoint-

Colonel "Give them twopence emphatically why a cadet officer get a copy of the October-Decen- Colony as a whole would thrive im-

each, and let them toss for the ments, the approval of public of long experience, thoroughly ber number of Thos. Cook and measurably.

Son's opinion generally would not be convergint with

Far Eastern Travellers. This is an extreme case, but the odd halfpenny Chinese the

Gazette. It contains nearly 80 fact remains that in dropping our many lacking. The attitude would not fangunge and customs, should be pages of well-classified. Informa-exchange we are deliberately de. He was a very dilapidated speci-** be hostile in any sense of the word. nominated as Secretary for tion in regard to fares, bookinge,clining to accept good money and men of tramphood who begged alma On the contrary, the happiest rela-Chinese Affairs. The Chief of tails of aerial travel between the which every resident in the Colony pathetic housewife, offering him a aide trips, etc., and also gives de- obliterating a source of income in at the back-door and the sym- Police, too, must be thoroughly Continent and England.

few coppers, remarked, "Ah, my acquainted with local conditions,

I feel sure that we shall not have poor man, it must be awful to dady's handbag is now who outery from the people who in their findes A lady's hand-bag is now in long to wait before there is another want work and be unable to arrested a Chinese yesterday with abysmal ignorance of international

tions subsist between members of the cadet service and the "com-

munity (save perhaps in the Police Courts!) as a general rule. It is realised in the first place that there could be no satisfactory substitute for the cadet system, and further that it has been the means of bringing to the service of the Colony men of the greatest ability, whose records of service reveal genuine achievement In every sphere of duty to which they may have been called, and whose careers

and promoted from the higher ranks of the Police Force. Our remarks, of course, are entirely without prejudice to the present holders of the offices under con sideration. To take one instance only, Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe has been so long in the capacity of C. S. P. that to question his qualifications. would be a monstrous presumption. That, however, is beside the point,

Health.Propaganda.

was sharing.

■

ONLOOKER.

"Yes, mum," he replied, "It must

it in his possession. He has finance have forced the hands of be!" failed to satisfy the Palice with our bankers-Yours, etc., his being the rightful owner of the article, and he in now suspected of being in unlawful possession of it. Anyone who has lost a hand-bag la requested

Kowloon, Oct. 17th,, 1929,

to communicate with the quite WELL-KNOWN DOCTOR

The Hongkong University Arta Association hus arranged

ย

LEAVES.

Willesden witness-The proceed- ings struck me as being definitely disorderly, for quite a dosen people were fighting simultaneously.

Hackney Woman--A man who

never has a quarrel with his wife wants' watching,

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"Moors are very expensive luxuries,” declares i gossip writer.

dramalle evening on Saturday next Dr. G. E. AUBREY GOES HOME The little moar, and how much it

the University. Under the direc

tion of Professor R. K. M. Simp

FOR GOOD.

fa 1

Sir Charles Pinkham, a Wiles

son, MA M.G.. "The Ghost of and most able medical practition-den Magistrate, in fining three

One of the Colony's best-known

Jerry Bundler"" is to be acted by

the men undergraduates and "The era, in the person of Dr. G. E. young motor-cyclists £15 each for Mere Man by the women under Aubrey, left the Colony for good riding dangerously I hope you graduates. As an added attraction yesterday, departing for England will have to sell your machines to Mrs. A. M. Bowes-Smith has kindly aboard the ss. Glenshiel, accom-pay these fines. consented to sing.

panied by Mrs. Aubrey...

at all times have more than justi- The Government might, easily beat 8.45 p.m. in the Great Hall of fled the fullest confidence of, goy-less fortunate in their selection ernors and governed. Even the when filling a vacancy should it frequent switching of certain be created in the near future. officers from post to post, which gives a somewhat false impression of Instability and is often used as

It is satisfactory to note that the an argument in condemnation of the system can be presented in an Health Week in the Colony, have re

suggestions for 'the holding" of a entirely different light; namely, sulted in a decision by the Sanitary that the primary purpose of the Board to go into the whole question system is to train educated men for of health propaganda. A com- higher administrative positions not mittee of the Board, la to be ap only in the Colony of Hongkong pointed to report on the matter but in the whole of the territories That a great deal could be done by under the direct control of the means of posters, pamphlets, lec-. tures and cinema films, there can be

RUTH VAN VALEY COMPANY.

TELLMAN THE MYSTERIOUS ILLUSIONIST.

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Dr. Aubrey, who had resided in the Colony for some 24-years, had intended retiring in March, but WHO WAS.. latterly, his health has been rather

MR. SQUEERS ?

indifferent, and this fact accounts

Not

for his earlier departure. only as a skilful surgeon, but also as a good all-round practi- tloner has Dr. Aubrey figured prominently in his profession, Lovers of Mystery will be de-whilst apart from his private prac Secretary of State for the Colonies.no doubt; indeed, in this way the lighted by the performance office he has for many years been consulting surgeon to the Nether- Only thorough acquaintance with whole community could be reached Fellman whose programme of sur sole Hospital and, eleo lectured on the manifold activities of Govern-But health propaganda, if it is to bere flusions pile on top of each private life, he was very popular

Frises is seldom equalled. Bapid medicine at the University. ment, giving them a sight of the effective, must not be spasmodic. other so fast that an audience is with all who knew him, whilst he inner workings of the entire Gov-"Health Weekes are all right for completely bewildered. The very was for several years an excellent ernment organisation, can fit those the purpose of laying special em- letost flusions of the continent tennis player and has also taken

phasis on factors which will help are presented in fast and credit- a keen interest in horticulture. who display initiative and ability to keep the community healthy, but able style, by Tellman in a setting for the parts they may be called we suggest that, better still, the or splendour rarely seen outside by a large circle of friends. She Mrs. Aubrey will also be missed upon to play in the future history authorities should propagandias all of the principal cities of the world.as gained considerable promi- of the Colonial Empire. Some of the year round. There are com-Catching live fish and doves from nence locally as a musician, and plaints which are seasonal, such, empty space is an idle pastime has also been an enthusiastic mem the men who commenced their for example, as diphtheria at the with this artist. Producing heavy her of the Hongkong Art Club. careers many years ago; at the moment, and a well co-ordinated howls of water and beautiful girls their many friends will wish Cantonese training school in Canton scheme of health propaganda would from nowhere, is easier than tak both Dr. and Mrs. Aubrey many sult its campaign to the needs of ing his afternoon siesta. Tellman years of happiness and prosperity hava 'subsequently attained to Gov- the moment. Only by insistent has a world wide reputation and in the Old Country. ernorships, in which connexion the methods is any real impression like-belongs to the International Bro names of Sir Cecil Clementi, Sirly to be made on the classes most therhood of Magicians and de re needing health education. It must Francis May and Sir Murchison be a year-in and year-out tasks, con- cognized as a superior in the art Fletcher, now in the Fiji Islands, ducted in the belief that even of prestidigitation. The perform readily como to mind.

Immediate results are not secured ance 18 one of the outstanding In the long run success will be at features with Miss Ruth Van

WARSHIPS IN PORT..

Nevertheless, there is consider-tained. Dae other need is that the Valey and her "Round The World Badin H. Ships Tamar and.

uble excuse for the feeling that the campaign should be run on com- Revue" which will appear to glad- Cadet system has grown out of préhensive lines. The cost would den the "hearts of thestragars

be considerable, mimittedly, but in of Hongkong with a drevušica)," proportion to its development as these matters; the financial factor musical, magical show of swirls originally conceived, and that the is of secondary importance. The ed amusement valuckander was annual cost to the Colony, in the prime need is to inculcato element caption or Good Show th

nry ideas, the observange of which The Company will appear at the. neighbourhood of $860,000 for the will conduce to public health by re-Star Theatre for one night only services of thirty-seven officials, is ducing the risks of infection.

on Tuesday Oct. 22nd.

•

Mr. Squeers, of 'Dothéboya Hall, Yorkshire, was a rescal of a schoolmaster who flourish- ed for a time in Dickens' novel, unti "Nicolas Nickleby,”.

* Utterly, Igborant – himself, Squeera pace very little possent tenes of imparting knowledge to the wretched boys commit- ted to his care, but contented. himself with stealing their money and their clothes, and with keeping them hálf star- ved. His idea of "u, school- master's job jaeems to have been very clear cut and simple, for it entailed very little more. than the constant flogging of. bis lads.

Mrs. Squeers was a fit mate.“ for anch a fearful rufian, and their union was blessed with two children who did not de- part one little hit from type. There was Miss Fanny Squeers, who hated Nicholas. Nickleby because he did not return her passion, and Master Wackford. Squeers, one of the nastiest small boya in fiction.

The Squeers family were at last brought law, owing to the Submarinosathor & contence of transporta

tion dus to the theft of a deed.

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WarU.S. Destro Italan 6/B yers "Whipple and John Edward; Sebastiano Cabotor Chinese GAB, Namsang.

Such a schoolmaster would be impossiblehowadays, but this was very far from being. so in Dickens day.