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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922.
COLONY'S FINANCE,
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL'S
$100,900 VOTE FOR PUBLIC WORKS.
The following ficial minutes
recommended by the Offer Adminis toring the Government were consider
the Legislative Council ed by Finance Committed this afternoon:
$30,000 in aid of the vote public works, recurrent, New Territoirs communicatione, (39) maintenance of roads and bridges.
$15,000 in aid of the vote public works, extraordinary, Hongkong, buildings (6) Government Honse, additions and reconstruction of kit chon and garage blocks.
$13,400 in aid of the vote public works extraordinary, New Territories, baildi: ge, (96) diaphone fog signalling Installation, Woglas.
PEAK HOSPITAL.
MR. JOSEPH'S GENEROUS AUT.
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL'S
THANKS.
GARRISON'S LOSS.
Samd
Billy Monmouth of the Royal Engineers is dead. He passed peace- fully away at Wellington Barracks during the night. His sudden? death WAE
a shook (o
THE CHINA MAIL.
CROWN AND ANCHOR.
NEAT CAPTURE BY BRISTOL
POLICE.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
position as Manager of the
NOTICES,
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players and its sequel in Bristol polica Power of Attorney given the by the SANDOW'S DEVELOpers & dumbbells
court.
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The stratagom which Ulysses em: HAVING RESIGNED from my his friends, for he was quite well the played in the taking of Troy bas had previous day. The oldest member of a modern counterpart in a police raid EXPORT DEPARTMENT of the UNION Garrison, a far as service on Bristol "crown and anchor" TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED, the in the Colony, is concerned, Billy
firm to sign ita name Per Procuration soliery, who sprang with their weathe Company for revocation.
The Trojaus fell before the Grecian will be invalid as from this date, the same having been returned by me to
lucky lada" of Bristol were captar- rons from the wooden horro, Nine ed by thirteen police who emerged unexpectedly with drawn Latons
Reference to the philanthropic action of Mr. J. E. Joseph in making the the Peak Hospital available for the use of the community was
FLJ E well-known figure here made by His Excellency the Officer during the war and bad a large Administering the Government (the cirole of friends not only among the Hon. Mr. Cloud Severn C.M.G.) just men of the services, but slao among before the ordinary business of this the civilian population. Billy will be afternoon's meeting of the Legislative greatly missed, especially when the Council was begun.
football season comes.
Billy's connection with the Royal his connection with the Colony dated Engineers began with the war, but many years further back than that. He had been in the Navy, an 1 CAMU out to Chino
His Excellency said that since the bad, by an act of great generosity, Cuando last mesting Mr. Joseph bought the Peak Hospital and made it over to the Government to use sa a nursing home for such period as they wished. By doing this with the first crew of H. M. S. Mon
vory difficult Joseph relieved
outh" as it mascot early in the situation as the owners of the hospital nineteens, and bad lived in these had determined to close it at the rad
parts ever sinco. of this month. If that bad occurred
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$17,000 on accoutt of public works, the hospital accommo'stion of the extraordinary, Kowloon. conversion Clony would have been very shortand it would have been difficult to provide of the China Light and Power Comfer the needs of patients. The Gov pany's premises into a government erament had accepted Mr. Joseph's $2,409 on account of ruiscellaneous generous gift and had appointed a services, purchase of a motor car for use of Medical Ofliceria Kowloon and New Territoriea.
gaIng
$5,700 in aid of the following
04:---
$ 3.500
Fire Brigde, other charges: Clothing Incidentul expenses.. 200 Stores..
2,00
Total..... .$ 5,700 $15,000 on acroent of public works, estraordinery, Hongkong, buildings,
rlteration of larbour view 8 a police training school.
$500 in aid of the vote public
frem
I. C BARREITO, Hongkong, September 21, 1329.
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB
an innocent looking wooden
magistratie how he and a dozen police-WING to the inclement weather
uriture ran on the lab Back.
Sergeant Bond C. I. D. told the men proceeded to the Welsh Back,
the NIGHT FETE, arranged concealed in a furniture vac, and to take place to-night, has been
POSTPONED until further notice. berf men playing crown and anchor looking through a cievíce saw a numi.
Hongkong, September 21, 1922, between two piles of timber..
The police jumped from the can, drew their batons, and seized Stephen He first made his bomo permanently Gamblin, Allied Cridland, Horace ashore at the outbreak of the war, Saith, William Hutchings Bryant, when the "Monmouth" away for active service. Billy who Drane, lety George Dando, was called David Houghton, Thomas Jobus, Jobn had by this time become a venerable and Alfred Hurnsey, together with old goat, was attached to the R.Es. Then the Monmouth was committee which
suck with all bands on board, and up, three dice, and fivepence half. work making arrangements for
penny. They were plice in the Billy became permaneatly quartered carrying
van, and taken to the Central Police the hospital from with the R.Es, and right glad the first of October. The
Station. they were to have bim tou, Diane and Horuray, agatost whom
Rcle Eurvivor of the
nothing was known, escaped on the crow of that gallant cru'ter,
on
wag
at DOW
to commemorate ibe
the crown and anchor board,
Government had taken the cesponsi As bility of ceeing that the property wag put in thoroughly good order ond Billy was surnamed "Monmouthment of ten shillings costs; similar when the nursing home which was supposed to be created as part of the of the ship and his connection with War Memorial was ready it was proher, posed to bend the hospital ba k to
Billy worked hard during the war, Mr. Joseph to deal with as he wished. and was a familiar figure at football sure honourable members would wishcllected good sums of money for tle His Excellency added that he was matches, with bis gay trapping, and be the Clerk to r.cord on the minutes Red Cross and the fend for raising the appreciation which they, as 50-
and Tommy on active service. At presentatives of the community, felter to buy am.kes for Jack
VICTORIA DIOCESAN
ASSOCIATION
IN AID OF THE.
"NANNING FUND."
A PIANOFORTE RECITAL WILL BE GIVEN BY MR. ERIC RICE IN THE
BALL ROOM, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, ON
THURSDAY, 5TH OCTODER, AT 9.15 P.M. VOCALIST:-Mas. GANDY,
MRS, SEVERN, Government House,
payments were made by the seven atzo fined ten sbillings, but Johns, memo:y other defendants, six of whom were TICKETS $3. Obtainable from
upon whom there was found over two pounds, and who was the crown and chorite at the Welsh Back, will be for ore month, an anchorite at the Crown's ex ense
At the London Scesions, Charlen
THE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., Beaconsfield Arcade.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
works extraordinary, Kowloon build towards Mr. Joseph for bin most the end of the war he was put on the White, 67, a tailor, was sent to prison/HE Undersigned have received in-
ings, (68) Kowloon British School, provision of new class rooms.
$7,000 in aid of the vote Kowloon Canton Railway, locomotives, car rieges and wagon department, other charges, coal.
$1,500 in aid of the following
vuter-
philanthropic setion in this matter.
In seconding the proposition for a vote of thanks the Hon. Mr. E. V. D. Parr said that the Council would
cordially support what His Excellency had said. It would have been pos cible to make temporary arrange ments, in his opinion, if the Poak Hospital had been sold other than as a hospital but these 750 70 arrangements could not have been as good as the hospital itel. Mr. $ 1,500 Joseph, by ste ping into the breath
Governor, other charges :——— Incidental expenses.. $ Electric fats and light
Total
$10,000 in aid of the vote public works, recurrent, Hongkong, build ings (2) improvements to buildings.
$5,000 in aid of the vote Harbour Mister's Department, other charges,
raising and knewing moorings of ocean steamships.
PASSION TRAGEDY.
HUSBAND LURED TO DEAT I.
"
The German secount of the crime for which Bar. Nikoli von Gagra and Prince zu Stolberg have just been condemned to death by a Belgian court is published. It is one of the
mst bideons talis of the war.
and making this generous gift to the community, would earn the thanks af everybody.
The proposition was unanimouely agreed to and His Excellency raid that the Clerk would be instructed to
convey it to Mr. Joseph.
MURDERED MOTHER.
GIRL AS CHICF WITNESS AGAINST FATHER.
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reserve list and received his weil for 21 months for ratoning away with lion. cared psico. He had secu dralts two diamond rings, worth £94, which come and go during all theso be said he wanted to show to a woman but remained, the oldest who was too bashful to enter the and only permanent resident of Oxford-street shop of the London Wellington Barracko until death took Goldsmiths Company..
away.
years.
will have a place of honour in the They are stuffing his head and it
bat.acks.
PANIC IN CATHEDRAL.
MADHAN OFFERS HIMSELF
AB SACRIFICE.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
PEAK HOSPITAL.
WANTED fully
qualified MATRON for Peak Hospital from 1st January, 1923.
Applications should be addressed to the undersigned before October 10th, 1922, and should be supported A startling scene was enacted in by recommendations from the New York Cathedral.fSt. Patrick medical practitioners in China or during the celebration of High Mass | Hongkong. · by Father Patrick Daly."
The worshippers were disturbed as
a man with a blood-stained knife in
his hand ran between the aisles.
Women screted and menshouted, but the priest remained on his knees, continuing the service without apparent concern.
Ao be rose to his feet Father Duly saw the run standing by his side clad only in a sleeveles undershirt and trousors. The stranger kat two wounds, in the form of a cross, on bis bared chest.
A ver ict of Murder was returned against Aaron Rosor, faim labourer, of Blindly Math, by the jury at the ioqueat at Blindley Heath on Lis wife Daisy Edith, 41, who was found dead in her bedroom with threat wounds.
Daisy Angel na Kucer, 14 who Bet to Decim ber 1914. nd Marchf. und her mother Load on the 1915 Baron von Gagern, together with b droom flor, said that her father Reali ing that the intruder was a other officers of the staff of his regi-had ever eo many times threatened to madman. the prie t answered. Lis ment lived in the chateau of Baton kill Ler mother. They quarrelled gesticulations and incoherent exclums d'Udekem d'Anez near Bruges. because a nei,hbour usd to tell livstions with zontbitg words. Ia brek a Baron von Cagera fell madly in about her mother, whom her father English the maning was profresing love with the Baroness d'Udekem. Ife would then thrash. He also accused his intention of offering himsell as o sought es excuse for putting her her mother of going for omnibus rides sacri'ce. husband out of the way, in the hope with men. that ho raight persuade ber to many - him. He decided to pick a quarrel with the husband and challenge him to a dual: He found an excuse in the fact that the Belgian had told him that there were no arms in the chateau,whereas arms warenfterwarde discovered thera.
He took Prince zu Stollberg into his confidence and together they wont to a retired part of the forest aur rounding the chateau, where he had asked the owner to meet him. Baton d'Udekein kept the appointment, and his German rival offered him a re volver, und, according to the state. ment of his German rival, he wax told that they must fight a duel until one of them was kill.ð.
"Yes. I understand you,” said Father Dals, "but you must, wait. Go back, and tell them at the pulpit,"
By Order,
D. K. BLAIR,
two
· Secretary & Treasurer PEAK HOSPITAL COMMITTER. Hongkong, September 19, 1922.
PEAK HOSPITAL.
WANTED, in March 1923, three fully qualified NURSES r the Peak Hospital.
Apply stating qualifications and particulars of èxprilence to the undersigned.
By Order,
D."K. BLAIR, Secretary & Treasurer, PEAK HOSPITAL COMMITTEE. Hongkong, September 19, 1922.
FOR SALE.
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Several inen ruibed to the altar and grappled with the matiac, twisting the knile from bit grasp Police Will took charge of him and the tumult în A., ↳ General Foa Ofiro D. x 567.
It was stated that when arrested the husband hal bloodstains on his clothing. There was also a recent cut on the left side of bie cock and when rked what it was be replied, I did it myself before I left home that morning. I left the razor there. She the church subsi lud as he has been a trouble for the last year, I conducted to an ambulized. can't remember doing it."
WAS
Exupt for the brief time spen' in Roser was committed for trial on quitting the maniec" the priest the coroner's warrant.
Buffered the incident to make fo break in his conducting of the service. Father Daly believes that the man is one who has lately been writing voluminous prophatic letters, perned] with his
blood to the Cathedral clergy.
FRIEND SHOT.
TRAGIC END TO A DAY'S SHOOTING.
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Baron d'Udekem, who
R. turning from ehooting Catholic, refused Prince za Stollberg oxpedition on the Gower Peninsula retired and left the two togelber,
Acor Swanapa, Evan Joseph The Belgian continued to refuse to Phillips was unloading his gun, when fight, until at last the German said, it accidentally went off, and Llewellyn "I will count 1, 2, 3, If you have not Luther Jenkins, his friced, worived fred at 3, Í eball fire at you,”
the charge in bis stomach.
The Belgian did not fire, and the Jenk na died before a doctor strived. Germ a shot him'dead. He and his
The two men bolnaged to Bynes,
Own
BULL FIGHT PINES,
PROMOTER AND POUR MAT-
ADORS HAVE ALSO TO
PAY DAMAGES. -
A message from Bordeaux
friend took a spade which they had near Swansea, and were staying at brought in their motor car and dug a Cherit n, a village on the rorth of states that the promoter of a bull chive. in which they placed Baron the Gower Peninsula. They had fight at Bordeaux, on July 14, at d'Udekom.
bren out shooting together all day..
which eight bulls were killed, t wether. with four matadora, bave each bean sentenced to one day's imprironment; One ease of enterio fever, Chinese, 15 franos flop, and 1,000 france was notified yesterday.
damages to the Society for the Protection of Animals:
This was afterwards discovered, and Baron von Gagera was condemned by a German military court to expul ior from the army and 18 years' pénal servitude. The princo was con demned to six months' imprisonment In aid of the Nanning Fond," The papers comarating on this in a fortress.
a piacoforte recital will be given by says the Exchange, declare that f Both of them regained their liberty Mr. Eric Rica la the ball reog, Cor. view of the spormous-takings-at-bull- by an dm cesty. The prince is dead crument House, on Thursday, Octo fights, metings are not likely to e and Baron vou dagen i Hving ber 5 at 9.15 p.m. The vocalist will seriously intilered with by such
bo Mim, Gandy,
penaltion
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Matt
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