HONGKONG,
SATURDAY, JULY
TO-DAY'S CABLES.
(Renter's Service to the China Mail)
OPIUM IN LONDON.
CHINESE TRAFFIC SENT TO JAIL.
Seven Chinese were charged at Thames police court with possessing utensils for opium smoking. Six of them were fined £5 or a month's imprisonment. The remaining Chinese, Low Ping You, who was said to be one of the principals in the opium traffic in the Chinese colony and whore wife was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in con- nection with the Billie Carlton case was sentenced to a month's imprison- ment and recommended for deportation..
TEA GARDEN STRIKES.
RIOTING FOLLOWS NON-CO-OPERATION AGITATION.
DARJEELING, July 30,
Strikes have broken out in four tea gardens. Over 40 strikers have been arrested on a charge of rioting. The authorities attribute the disorders to the activities of non-co-operators.
PRINCE'S £25.000 TRIP.
VOTE FOR VISIT TO INDIA AND THE FAR EAST.
LONDON, July 30.
A supplementary estimate of £25,000 has been issued on account of the Prince of Wales' visit to India and the Far East. It is pointed out that certain expenses in connection with the voyage will be defrayed from navy votes.
KINEMA NOTES.
THE EMPIRE THEATRE.
AN EXCELLENT PROGRAMME.
30, 1991.
COOLIE SUES MISTRESS,
CLAIM FOR WAGES.
Mrs. F. Morrison, of 49 Hollywood Road, was the defendant to an action brought by Cheong Lam, a house coolie, at the Summary Court to-day before Mr. Justice Wood to recover an amount of $21 said to represent wages due to him for a period of one month and five days.
The plaintiff's case was that his wages were $18 per month. On June 18 he was given a month's pay, less $3 and on July 3 defendant dismissed him without notice. Subsequently at the police station Mrs. Morrison offered to pay him half a month's wages but he refused it as it was not enough.
Cross-examined by Mr. D. H. Blake, who appeared for the defence. - the plaintiff said that on July 3 when he asked for the $3 defendant told him to go away and see the police about it. He took that as a dis raissal.
His Honour held that the plaintiff bad not actually been dismissed and gave judgment for the defendant, an amount of $3 to be credited to the plaintiff against the costs of the sait.
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With a plot, constructed by one of universai love, "Polly of the Storm Woman and the Law," a sensation
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al 7-part Fox drama, is thè current
An entire change of programme is announced by the Miss Cora Wi Company who are nightly receiving a very cordial reception.
the greatest living dramatists and the leading role played by one of the
A time nurtured feud between attraction at the World Theatre. most charming actresses yet seen in Hongkong, the film version of Sir squatters and land-owners is the Featuring R. A. Walsh this splendid Arthur Wing Pinero's "Mind the Paint; mainspring of the plot. Mutual bit- film will be shown until Monday Girl," Leaturing Miss Anita Stewart,terness and prejudice are shared by first. can certainly claim foremost rank all except three-Poily, her saintly) among the best kinema productions grandmother, and her here from the of to-day. To enlarge upon the hilltop. Everything, it seems, that cleverness of the plot or the quality class batred can accomplish, threa- of the acting, to pay adequate tribute fens to separate the young lovers.
The photography is superb there to the staging and photography, even to mention the wonderful gowns dis- is a vivid storm scene, flashes of the war zone and vistas of played, were a task beyond the com.fire pass of a newspaper paragraph, and natural beauty-while the cast is a an act pnnecessary when the picture pleasing one. Mildred Harris Chaplin Polly" very can be seen to-night and again to-makes the role of morrow night in the cool and com. attractive. Micky Moore is a win- modions Theatre where the pleasure some wee actor, while the role of the afforded by a fine picture is enhanced benign grandmother is delicately by the delightful music supplied by handled by Ruby Lafayette, and that of Polly's wealthy young suitor by the full Coronet Orchestra.
Emory Johnson.
An unusually interesting British
Taere is no connection between gazette showing Wonderful Derby this "feature" and "The Secret of scenes, views from the air, the great the Storm Country" seen in Hong trek, and the famous race itself, is kong some months ago.
way."
At the 5.15 p.m. performance the great Shakespearian pageant, The Merchant of Venice is to be seen. xlso episodes 7 and 8 of the sensational serial, "The Moon Riders."
"BLIND HUSBANDS.
MONDAY'S EMPIRE ATTRACTION...
"Blind Husbands," a Universal photodrama of the Alps, which is. to be shown at the Empire Theatre on Monday, is said to be a quiet though
scheme of life.
another notable feature of the current Also included in the programme powerfal denunciation of the man Empire programme. Remarkable is a laughable comedy by Harold who forgets that his wife is his sweet-. views of Canton from the air and an Lloyd entitled "Bumping into Broadheart, leaves her seemingly out of his amusing comedy complete an excel lent programme,
Tomorrow (Sunday) at 6 pm. Mary Pickford the world's sweet-i will be seen in the famous! play Daddy Long Legs." At 9.15 pin. "Mind the Paint Girl" will be shown.
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KOWLOON THEATRE.
POLLY OF THE STORM COUNTRY.”
Kowloon residents are promised fine entertainment at the Kowloon Theatre to-night when "Polly of the
THE WORLD THEATRE.
THE WOMAN AND THE LAW."
Claimed to be one of the finest pictures ever screened in Hongkong,
In "Blind Husbands," Dr. Arm- strong, the famous American surgeon, nearly loses his beautiful young file to an Austrian lieutenant who shofers upon her the attentions that her husband is too busy to remember...
Eric Stroheim, who depicted the repulsive role of a Han officer in Heart of Humanity," is the villain of "Blind Husbands."
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