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BY APPOINTMENT

TR. THE KIKO

MRON, THE PRINDE OF WALMA

THE act of choosing a

hat-like matrimony-- is something not to be undertaken lightly.

There is no more striking instance of incompatibility *than an unbecoming hat. Nor any better matched pair than a well-chosen. 'Lincoln Bennett' and its

wearer.

Ample and varies

stocks of BILK HATS FĹĽI HATS. BOWLER HATS

STRAW HATSTM

and CAPA

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Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

Men's Wear Stylists.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1930.

NOW IS THE TIME. TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

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

OVER

would be to adopt the suggestion that at these periodical Colonial Office Conferences one or more Unofficials be permitted to be present on behalf of the Colony. If it were found impacticable for a member of the Legislative Council to attend, then a way out might be found by the choice from former residents, now living at Home, of someone acquainted with the Colony and its problems: At the last Conference, matters of the utmost importance were dealt with, including the future develop ment of the Crown Colony Legisla-1 tures, the relation of the technical to the administrative services,

DAY BY DAY.

O YE CODS! WHAT THICK EN- CIRCLING DARKNESS BLINDS THE MINDS OF MEN!-Ovid.

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE

"TELEGRAPH FILES.

The following extracts are from The flagship H.M.S. Kent is the Hongkong Telegraph for week leaving Hongkong to-day for ended February 27th, 1909, Singapore and will return here about March 12.

Mrs. G. P. de Martin is to pre- sent the prizes at the Kowloon branch of the Wah Yan College on the afternoon of March 11th.

A sum of money, found in the Public Enclosure at the Race Course on Wednesday evening, is awaiting claimant at the Police Head- quartera

For cutting stone from land not

·

The rate of the dollar on mand was is. 8d.

The Very Idea!

"Is it not strange," asks a cor- respondent in a Home paper, that in these days of numerous reforma many business-letter writers are content with a stock of worn-out phrases inherited from their pre- de-deceseors? Modern-minded print- ers discard old-fashioned type de- signs but in their mental com posing-rooms thousands of business men still use a lot of pre-War and Victorian stuff which is nothing but jargon.

Mr. H. K. Hung was admitted to practise as a solicitor at the Supreme Court.

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The Hongkong A.D.C. presented "A Country Girl." Amongst the cast were Mrs. W. Logan and Mr.

G. P. Lanmert.

:

The formal presentation of the

"A veritable outrage is the misuse of 'same instead of and same shall have our attention." Examples Referring to same 'As per is another horror, which has usurped the place of according to. Contents noted' is superfluous

aerial, road and railway develop under. lease at Kremer Street, Manse built at the expense of Sir to the degree of absurdity: Sure-

"t

Taikoktsui, a Chinese was fined 35 by Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow-u

ment, wireless, medical and public health questions, and education. loon Magistracy this morning. The defendant said that he had All these are questions with which had a contract to supply a con- Hongkong in tommor with the tractor with small stones. other Colonies, has the liveliest concern. It may be taken for granted that at the coming gather ing there will be brought forward

1,000,000 issues which are equally vital.

IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

One very important matter al ready mentioned is that of the

DODWELL & Co., Ltd. working and application of the

Bole Distributors

HONG KONG & S. CHINA.

MARRIAGE.

Colonial Development Fund. Hongkong has already received some benefit from this source, in the promise of a big contribution towards the aerodrome, and it would not be difficult to make out a good case for further claims on the Fund. Already it has been suggested

proposed

that the

remand. On Appearing on charges of dealing in the sale of two children, a mar and a woman were again remra.ded

by Mr.

Magistracy this morning when it' was stated that the case would be heard on the afternoons of March 12 and 13:

Whyte Smith at the Kowloon

The theft of Ave tons of coal from the M.B.K. coal yard is reported by Mr. Y. Kawaguchi, manager of the yard, who states that during and 27th, the night of the 26th

later some person stole the coal, which was valued at $80. It was

coal recovered, in the Ming Kee yard. Shek Leung Street, but no arrests have been made.

The marriage between Mr. James Arthur Kent and Miss Annie Cross will take place at the St. vehicular ferry scheme might very staged at Le Petit Theatre, New

Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on. Saturday, 8th March, 1930, at 3.00 p.m. No invitations are being issued, but all friends and relatives are cordially in vited to be present at the ceremony, and afterwards at the Church Hall where a re- ception will be held.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY FEB. 28, 1910.

THE COLONIAL OFFICE CONFERENCE.

"Twelfth Night was recently

Orleans, under the direction of formerly of

Hongkong. It was hailed as a ing that the settings were among great achievement, one critic say- the most beautiful, if not the most lovely, ever shown on a New Or- leans stage..

Shortly after 10 o'clock this morn..

THE "TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT.

Many Race Week Pictures To-morrow.

Race Week pictures will figure prominently in to- -morrow's issue of the Tele-

graph Art Supplement.

Several finishes, including the Derby, will be shown, 25 well as the leading in of many of the winners. Other pic- tures will show the big crowds attending the Meet- ing, the new stands, and Mr. Heard escorting Miss Barbara Sutton to tiffin" after the presentation of the Ladies' Purse.

Other sporting pictures will include น group of Indy golfers at Fanling, the Por- tugese crew in the recent International Regatta, and several illustrations of the Inter-Hong rowing race for the Hornell Cup.

Vice-Admiral Sir A. K. Waistell's visit to Macao wilt also be illustrated.

ly an answer to a letter is proof positive that it has been noted. I‹ have your letter before me' fa in the same class... Heaps of, similar rubbish is used daily by traders who consider themselves up-to-date, and really are so until they begin.

to dictate.'

We agree with the correspondent; but think the most loathsome phrase in business jargon is "your" good self."

"What does that say mummie?” "All dogs found on these premises without their owners will be shot." "Oh, mummy! that isn't fair. The poor dogs can't read."

The correct pronunciation of | horticultural_names is beyond the

average gardener.)

With vigour intensive and means inexpensive I, duly produced в сгор

Of blooms in perfection, of which

any section

Would easily stock a shop. My pets were prolific, my marrows

terrific,

The runners and carrots superb, And the plot that I rented was fra-

grantly scented

With every conceivable herb.. But, though fortune is kindly, I'm

labouring blindly

(What is the Latin for cress?) Without which result your beloved

horticulture

well be brought within the pur-Walter Sinclair, view of the Fund, in order that the capital expenditure involved might not fall too heavily on the Colony. This is a matter which we should like to see pressed home at the coming Conference, if not before. for in these days of motoring three men gained admission to Paul Chater for St. Andrew's the first floor of 93, Apliu Street, Church, Kowloon, was marked by transport it cannot be disputed Shamshulpo, and robbed the in-a special service, at which the de-a that the provision of such a mates of a pair of rattan bangles. dication ceremony was performed

available by the Bishop of Victoria.. service is essential to the due Only brief details were

when enquiry was made this morn- development of the Colony. In ing as the police were still taking The Chinese members of the any event, Hongkong will follow statements from the persons effect-Legislative Council opposed the ed. It was stated, however, that no amendment of the Magistrates with the deepest interest the pro-arms were used. ceedings of the Conference when it

........

Not a Paradoz

Is not a pronounced success...

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A school teacher had been giving lesson on classical mythology, and was afterwards testing the pupils'

knowledge.

"Who was Bacchus?" he asked. There was no reply,

"Come, my lads," he said. "Venus was the goddess of Love-Mars, the Ordinance making provision for god of War-Bacchus, the god regulations in regard to the pro- of-"

"Bookmakers!" piped one bright. hibition of spitting in

public places. The Bill, however, passed lad. its third reading.

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Under the auspices of the University Engineering Society a course of six popular lectures on. "Modern Architecture" will be given in the University on Thurs- days at 5.16 p.m. by Mr. C. E. H.E. Senhor J. A. Rocadas, Gov. official Moore, Bachelor in Architecture ernor of Macao, paid an (Liverpool University), A. M. I. visit to the Colony and was given Struct. E. The first lecture will be a reception at the Club Lusitano.

6th- given on Thursday, March The general public is invited to attend.

EXCHANGE RATES.

Paris

Arrested on a charge of causing an obstruction by leaving 50 catties of firewood outside his shop in Peking Road, a Chinese Basels appeared Before Mr. Whyte Smith Amsterdam at the. Kowloon Magistracy this Bean morning on a charge of obstruc- Copenhagen tion and of giving a bribe of 45 Vienna

Helsingfors cents to an Indian constable. On

Lisbon the first charge the defendant was Bucharest fined $2, whilst a fine of $5 was im- Buenos Aires posed on the second.

Shanghai Yokohama

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London, Feb. 27.

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Nottingham Wife-If husband and I go out together it always means high words.

Solicitor at Bow County Court- You have an extravagant wife? Man-What men has not?

Mr. Justice Hill, in the High Court-My only acquaintance with motor cars is dodging them.

Magistrate at Highgato-The only way to stop a woman talking it to get hold of her and kiss her.

Clerk at Highgate-How many children have you? Woman--- .34.855 12.12% Seven-and one in the Army..

.20.37 Barrister, at Lewes County 18.16 Court-Are you a teetotaler? Wo .34.515 | man—Yes.. Barrister-IB your 193% husband? Woman-No; but he .108.25

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assembles. In the eventually meantime, let us hope that a sound choice will be made in the Questions of the highest impor-selection of the official delegate. tance to all the Crown Colonies, Hongkong included, will be con- sidered at the forthcoming

The difficulties under which Mr. Colonial Office Conference, to be Thomas is labouring in tackling held in June. This gathering, the unemployment problems are which is not to be confused with strikingly shown in the latest the Imperial Conference, will be analysis of Britain's Industrial attended by representatives of the position. It is generally hold that non-self-governing Colonies, and, the outlook is definitely brighter as at the previous one, held in to-day that it has been for years past. With promise of the assist- 1927, Hongkong will have an

ance of the Bank of England and official representative. A point the joint stock banks, employers which has once more been raised are pushing ahead with schemes is the question of the advisability of rationalisation. Lancashire is of Unofficial representation, and making a very definite bid to reduce

In consequence of the receipt New York costs of production by amalgama- a decision on this matter is to be tions. The patience and determi- of a circular letter from the Can-Geneva

Milan reached at the coming Conference.nation exerted by British business ton Kuomintang Committee, re

Stockholm questing the prohibition of inde-Oslo There is, in our opinion, every men in the last decade are having cent news items and literature de- Prague reason why this Colony should send an effect and it may be accepted trimental to public morals, the Madrid an Unofficial delegate, for by this that Britain is at last digging Canton Municipality has issued a Athens means it would be possible to bring itself out of the post-war depres notification to the public banning

Hong Kong forward many points of public insion. Yet unemployment figures the mention of obscence, items in Bombay terest which stand in danger of are steadily rising, and Mr. the newspapers. The. Bureaux of Silver (spot)

Public Safety, Education and Silver (forward) Thomas recently put forward the Social Reforms have also been being ignored so long as the gloomy prediction that the situa- notified to co-operate in this Conference is composed wholly oftion will get worse before it gets matter. Omcials. Unofficial opinion on better. Rationalisation in many a

Described as an odd job coolie, all the manifold issues to come cases means more dismissals. It

who worked in various docks, a before the gathering would be most will not be until rationalisation Chinese appeared before ifr has had the offset of rebuilding Whyte Smith at the Kowloon the export trade that any great | Magistracy this morning on a The problems of the Colonial inroads on the present figures will charge of larceny of 21⁄2 pounds Empire, we fear; get all too little be possible, though the Govern of lead piping from Messrs. W. S. consideration under existing arment proposes to advancofas many Bailey's shipyard. The defendant rangements. It has no separate schemes as possible for allevia pleaded guilty and was sentenced

to three weeks' hard labour: Mr. SirWill you permit me a few spokesman in the House of Com-tion. In England the tendency J Fraser repeated what he had lines in your valuable columns as I mons, although the Labour Govern- to pessimism, and one of Mr often said before, that there was cannot understand why the Com- Thomas's most difficult taske. is to a lot of petty thefts from the mittee of the Lusitano Sweeps on ment is planning that it shall overcome that feeling. That it is yard and it seemed impossible to the Champions did not disclose the number of tickets that were can- haye, leaving purely Dominion not shared universally de shown put a stop to the Farcenies.

celled as that is' an unusual 'đề- affairs in the bands of Lord Pass by a recent comment in a leading.

parture of theirs, field. It is interesting in this American paper,, which says that

standing a certain menure of connexion to recall that some the time cannot be far distant direct competition, the rebuilding nations with colonial possessions when British and Americane make provision for direct repre- ports will be riding on equal terms of British foreign trade and the throughout the trade routes of the continued progress of American sentation of such colonies in world. The journal adds that commerce are not incompatible;

The Because he had not taken the their Home Parliaments. Portugal, American industrialist should be they are complementary.

success of one contributes to the necessary precautions of attach- for instance, in one example, the last to view. either, with a success of the other. This con- ing to a receptacle, in which was Macao, amongst other colonies, prehension or displeasure the reclusion is based on no mere theore-contained gunpowder and fuse, a

label bearing ia turn of British goods to their old-

conspicuous being permitted to select a mem-position of prominence in the tical fluff: it is based upon prac characters in English and Chinese ber for that purpose. It may well world markets. British industrial tical economics and established the description of the contents of be that in the course of time, fits will be equally short sighted facts. Trade does not thrive on the tin, a stone-breaker who ap Hongkong will be similarly placed, if they look upon expanding expoverty, it thrives upon the inpeared before: Mr Whyte Smith but that time is not yet. The ports as halting the onward march creasing wealth of friendly coun- at the Kowloon Magistracy this.

triek

morning was fined $5. **** of American commerce. "Notwith- least, however, that could be done

welcome.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Sweep Query.

ITo The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.Ţ

"

Thanking you for inserting this card, Yours, etc. in your next issue, I enclose my

INTERESTED.

GRETCHEN?

It is in Goethe's, version of the Faust story that we first find a serious. love element in troduced.

Margaret or. Gretchen, as she is more familiarly known, was a simple country girl, who attracted Faust by her beauty and artless innocence, by her high spirits and her pretty, harmless vanity. Faust would have married her, had not Mephistopheles sternly remind .ed him that in his contract with the Devil, by which he re- ceived fresh lease of his youth in exchange for his soul, mar- riage was forbidden him.

Margaret and her lover struggled against their mutual passion, but nature, aided and abetted by Mephistopheles, proved stronger than, con- science, and poor Gretchen em- barked on the disastrous course

and

which brought her to dishonour death. For having trangled her child, she was cast into prison, where shame and despair unhinged a mind temperamentally unfitted to face high tragedy. Her repent- alr ant lover, sought by mean to procure her escapo,.. but was not even granted the slight solace of watching beside her deathbed, being himself dragged away by Mephistophe- les to pay the price of his own bargain with the Prince of Darkness.

The character of Gretchen is reminiscent of two women who figured in the poet's life, Gret- chen, whom he loved, and Frederike, who loved him..