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IMPIRE
CONFERENCE.
PROMOTING UNITY IN VARIOUS WAYS.
LONDON, July 18.
It is officially announced that a further special conference was held at the Colonial Office at noon to-day. Mr. Churchill presiding. Messrs. Hughes, Massey, Ballantyne, Smartt, Mentz, and Sastri were present. They passed a resolution recommending that developments in wireless telephony be in vestigated and techuical reports furnished to the governments of the demi- nions and India. They also commended to the favourable consideration of those governments the principle of the proposals of Mr. Short providing for the acquisition of British nationality by persons of British descent of second and subsequent generations born abroad, subject to registration at birth and renewal of registration as a British subject at majority, They also recommended an early conference of representatives of the Patent -Offices of the dominions is London to consider the practicability in institut. ing a system of granting patents which would be valid all over the empire, They agreed with the resolution passed at the imperial Press conference at Otawa in 1920 that any Government assistance towards a reduction of -rates for Press services should appear specifically in the estimates and should not affect the quality of the news or the freedom of the newspapers. also recommending the governments concerned to examine most favourably any practicable proposals to reduce cable and wireless rates for Press messages.
STAFFORDSHIRE OIL WELL
A PROMISING GUSH
LONDON, July 18.
Replying to a question regarding oil-boring in Staffordshire, the Rt. Hon, S. Baldwin stated in the House of Commons that boring at Hardstoft
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Sbapetai....... EUROPE via Suez (Letters only London 18th June....Yan Cloon THURSDAY, JULY 21.
D.S.L. Japan and Shanghai...... Shanghai...
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FRIDAY, JULY 22.
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Failong Shanghai North Chios, Japan Canada United PtJEM, Central & South America & EUROPE via VAN- CJUVER, B.C. Registration 8.15 .. Letter 10.00a.m. *************** ikanghai, forth China, Japan, Canada, . United Ftates. "Central and South America & EUROPE via VICTORIA, B.C. Registration 9.15 am Letters 10
400 Stanghai and "North Chias Java and Port Moresby via Famarang....
bad been carried to a depth of 3933 feet and 213,825 gallons of high grade | Weibaiwai, Chafoo and "Tientsin moja mpesar oil produ-ed.
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS.
BRITISH COMPETITORS OUT OF LUCK.
Ewatow, Amoy and Foochow thilippine Islands
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SWAMPSCOTTS MARS, July 18. Misfortune is dogging the English athletes and detracting interest in Baigon the inter-varsity Oxford-Cambridge Yale-Harvard athletics fixed for the 23rd. Trowbridge has appendicitis and will not compete. McInnes has a severe bronchial attack, and Stallard's foot is troubling him, but the doctor hopes that both may he fit in time,
INDUSTRY REVIVALS.-
JAPAN WANTS LANCASHIRE TEXTILE MACHINERY.
LONDON, July 18.
These are signs of a revival of industry. Several mills, also tin plate works, in South Wales are restarting. This means employment for a large number of workmen. There is a keen demand for textile machinery from Lancashire, chießy from India, also France and Japan.
KIMBRO HONOURS CANADIAN PREMIER,
Hoihow and Haiphong
Yangis Cheaan.... Phetopenh.
Hopasiz........ JULY 24.
Kaijo Maru..... 8. JULY 25.
JULY 26.
Brocheunend Hailong. 1 p.
Fhanghai and North Ching... Swatow, Amoy and Foochow`.....
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27. Statow and Bangkok
- Chunsang THURSDAY, JULY 28 Shanghai and North China
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LONDON, July 18,
The freedom of Edinburgh was conferred on the Canadian premier.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
Called upon to stop, a man walk. ing along Main Street yesterday drapped forty tins of opium and made off.
The awning and engine casing of launch Na. S were damaged through a fire which started in some laise oil while the vessel was proceed- ing from the Yaumati slipway to the "T" Pier yesterday..
Mr. Ng Fook Sing, for many years chief accountant at the Central Police Station; died at the Govern
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TUESDAY, JULY 19. 1931.
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ment Civil Hospital at 3 a.m. this PING
morning. Mr. Ng, whó was 60 years of age, had been retired some years.
Some mild excitement was created outside the Harbour Office yesterday when a Chinese under the influence of liquor stepped off the
sea wall into the harbour. He was promptly rescued and removed to hospital
י
Injured in the right side of the body by motor cycle No. 74, drivka and owned by Mfr. Punchon, of Kaw- loon Docks, a Wanchai Chinese was removed to hospital yesterday from Chatham Road where the accident occurred.
Having jumped from the ground floor to the basement of a house in Sam To Lane, a distance of about twenty feet, in their anxiety to avoid arrest when the premises were raided for opium, two men were: removed to hospital suffering from irjuries to their backs and feet.
Having been so unwise as to leave his coat hanging from a peg a shopkeeper travelling from Kong Mun to Hongkong on the ss. "Son Ming" yesterday, discovered that an elaborate watch, chain appendages, altogether valued a: $300, had been stolen,
According to the amended advertisement inserted in this issue by the joint service of the Hongkong and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., and the China Navigation, Co., Ltd., sail ings to Canton will now take place daily at 8 a.m. and 10 p m. (Sundays 10 p.m. only), and from Canton daily at 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. (Sundays 5 p.m. only) The sailings on the Hongkong-Macao service remain unaltered.
An action for defamation of character has been brought in the US Court for China by a Russian lady, Miss Mary G. Rabenow, against Mrs. A. G. Grimes and Dr. A. E. Woods (Peking). Plaintiff, who re- sides at No. 45 North Szechuan Road, alleges that first defendant publicly said plaintiff was immoral and a political refugee and that, as the result of a statement by the second defendant, she had been unable to secure employment. Plaintiff asks for $5.000 damages On the order of the Court, the case will be beard at Tientsin.
In the Divorce Division, on May 13, Mr. Justice Kill gave judgment in the case in which Mr. John Bardsley Harrop of Brighton and Ayer Tawah Estate, Sitiawan, scught a dissolution of his marriage with his wife, Mabel, on the ground of her miscondect with Dane, named Jensen. Mr. H. Murphy (instructed by Mr. C. Burt) Brill, of Brighton) appeared for peti- tioner. It was stated in the evidence that the marriage took place in bad Penang, and his Lordship reserved his judgment to consider whether the validity of the marriage had been sufficitly proved. Giving judgment, his Lordship said he was satisfied that the marriage had been established, and granted a decree nisi, with the custody of the child.
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Captain G. A. G. Morse has gone back Master of us. "Luchow.”
Mr. J. E. Richards has been ap pointed Master of sa Taikoo Wan YL"
Mr. C. W. Falk has been appointed [Master of ss. "Chak Sang" in place of Capt. Courtney who is proceeding on leave..
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SMUGGLED CIGARUTTES.
A SERIOUS CASE.
RA.T.DO. AGENT SENT TO JAIL.
"This is a very serious case," said
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60, Des Vaur Rd. C* /¿lagistrate Orme this morning when Berg Finch, Carpenter, Huxley,
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convicting a Shankiwan shopkeeper, British-American Tobacco Co. agent for that district, on a charge of | having had possession of over 716,000- his shop from a junk, dug 2
Mr. C. H. Tyson, who appeared for the defence, entered a pies of guilty nd applied for a light penalty, plead ing first offence.
The Magistrate mid that the Op-¬- dinance gave him no option butto impose imprisonment as well 20 a foe. He would therefore fine the defendant $500 and sentence him to one mouth's imprisonment.