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is against human nature to expect which should be added property
Brook.
bids a proy
our means to pay.'
Today's Poem.
(The Dones.)
11
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
tablished on
etc.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928
BANK LOAN.
$73,025 CLAIM AGAINST MERCHANT,
recover
Mr.
* FLOOD RELIEF.
of about 17,480,000,000 [any much thing; There is obvious losses
need of reform, and that men hold the close of the war the national the sale of lace nets, spot and dollars (£3,000,000,000) in all. Since
Wm. Powell Ltd. announÇO
$16,000 TO BE SPENT. ing responsible business positions debt has been increasing and not Madras musline. | should have the right to be hoord only during the war, but in the sub-
prung wan' Hospital'R DECISION. when their claim to be allowed sequent years, the budgets have not
QUESTION OF PROCEDURE, A sale by public Auction of exemption is backed up by reason balanced. At the end of 1921, the Crown land, in Stubbs Road
"About a wook ago, between total debt is given as 59,444,000,000 is announced to take place at 3 p.m. An action by the Yik On bank, and the hard fucts of logic.
dollara (£14,861,000,000). As
$600 and $700 was subscribed in Bonhami Strand, to on Monday, the 20th inst. mitters have gone from bad to
$73,926.26 from a merchant narod Canton 'for flood relief work in the worse since, it will readily be seen | The returns of notifiable Yuen Hang-kiu for money lent and Tung Kan district. Permission was Land Sales.
to what financial straila France has diseases, for the 24 hours ended interest due was begun in the obtained from Sun Yat-con's head- been reducoll. These figures also yesterday, report one case each of Supreme Court this morning before Despite Lowell's assertion that enable us to understand her unwill plague and small-pox. Both patients the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees quarters to convey some rice which
tis heaven alone that is given ingness to abate one jot or little of are Chinese.
I was purchased with the amount, by Davios, K.C.). away and the more pious one that her claims against her powerful and
Before the trial started Mr. F. C. military service car on the Canton The earths is the Lord's and the potentially rich neighbour, from A Chinese coolie who Jenkin, who, instructed by Mr. G. Kowloon Railway as far as Shek- fullness thereof our Land Sales whom, up to the present, aho has sustained serious injuries in falling K. Hall Brutton, appeared for the lung. Just before the train left, cantime to vie with Tennyson's received less that sufficient to pay from a ladder at the back of No. defence, applied for permission to one Yunnanese troops seized both the cost of maintaining her army of 106, Des Voeux Road West yester-fils & counter claim. Mr. Jenkin rice and the flood workers on the explained that a comer claim had ground that in these turbulent times **Il fares the inod, to hasteningcupation. What France has yet day, died in hospital last night, to learn is that the policy she has been pursuing is the least calculated In the early hours of this been filed with the original plead military transport was panimount "Whern rents increase boyond to secure. in appreciable measure, morning, four men armed withings last February but through an/and nothing could be more import-
lant." oversight the Court's permission. This was an allegation made by the financial advantages to which, daggers raided a small boat num-| was not first obtained. When the
the representative of the Tung Kan under the Versailles Treaty she lays bered B667V which was lying near Apologies to Guldsmith by all claim, and that rather is it ose to the Mongkok ferry wharf and stole other side were asked to consent to District Commercial Associations in
an application being tonde to file a means, but his gentle lines lend involve herself and the whole of $110.
Hongkong at this afternam's meet- counter elnim they refused to give ing convened by the Tung Wab themselves to maltreatment that the civilised world in a hopelessą
to Hospital Committee discuss sums up the situation in a complet. economie debacle: To avort such a
A Peking message to the Daily their consent and filed a reply des Hastening bids they rust he if they catastrophe, boweyer distasteful the Bulletin states that a report has cribing the counter claint as nullity. appirations for flood relif in the ron values to beyond a third and alternative may be, she will have to been issued by the Mitsui Company counter claims he was seeking East, West rod North Rivers dig Fourth of what the Government rocoguiso the expediency and the giving the results of the official te file, counsel stated, asked for tricts. Mr. Wong Ping-sun (Chair Supporting him ss them at, and increased rents wisdom of acting, in the strictest test of the wireless station at damages agains: the bank for human) presided,
Shunghiao, near Peking. Com-ing improperly sold certain shures! follow us aloth night the day. Our concert with her allies.
munication was successfully es deposited with them as wecurity for were the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall necount of a land sale hold recently.
August 10 with a certain loan before notifying the and the Hon. Mr. Chou Siu-ki, the two Chinese representatives on the when land at Ho Mun Tin oame
Bordeaux. The test is being con- defendant that they intended to Legislative Council. Amongst those under the hammer, stated that the
tinued with Sainte Assise, Nauen, exercise their right of sale.
present were noticed Messrs. I sale was attended by "200 odd
Carnarvon, the Marshall Islands, Jenkin contended that if a mort yau-chen, Li Wing-kwong Lo people." Happy phrase! Odd
gagen sold without reasonable notice Chung-kui, Li Po-kwai (Chairman people 200 of them! A ship-
to the mortgagor the latter was of the Chamber of Commerce). Ip Ltd. worked Mariner who sights and They flock around the fountain in At yesterday's meeting of the entitled to substantial damages. Lan-cluten, Chan Din- and
and is hungry for it, is not in it
the square,
Sanitary Board the Chairman The ineasure of damages in this others, with these weather-beaten philon-
White. fluttering doves, grown informed the meeting that the case, it was submitted, would be the After some discussion it was throphists eager to land a site.
bold because they alre
Government has given its formal difference between the price at resolved to apply a RUDO of Perhaps we misunderstand them
The tidbits of the children play-approval to the Board's recomwhich the shares were sold and the $46.482.21, the residue of a sum and that after all they have learnt
ing there:
mendations concerning the highest price reached between the collected a few months ago for wat the luxury of doing good." It is little cripple, oven, pale and
'Removal of Patients" By-laws. ate of the sale and the date of the relief, to help of the most urgent the broad view that should be taken
The rest of the meeting was purely action. trusset,
nature. It was strictly stated that in all things. These little land sales
Shares with the snowy birds his formal.. There were present the
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K:C., who, NO
rebuilding reorganising or Chairman (Mr. G. R. Sayer), Dr. bring grist to the Government Mill:
scanty crust, they help the Treasury to have a
W. W. Pearse, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, instructed by Mr. M. M. Watson schemes would be considered yet on cool twelve million dollars or so ini
Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, and the ears, Johnson, Stokes & Master) the aur was all while the per appeared to support the claim, offer-sonal help was more important. Secretary (Mr. J. A. Fraser). 1 hand; help to make mads for more
ed several objections to Mr. Jenkin's The Hon. Mr. Kotewall fold the sites to be sold including that one
He said the defence mecting that it was not imperative leading to the Valhalla of the Fai pans at Shekko; and help also to house our many and in some cases over harrassed and over worker officials. And in any case it is an economie matter and text books and It budding theoretic economiste-even those in high places, tell us we must not interfere with the laws of supply and demand. Some day the scales. of blindness will drop from uneconomic eyes and everything. will be made plain to us.
Mean- while we go to the verses of, an' unknown Australian who composed them under the title of "The Land |Bale" at a time "When the 'land- sharks pushed suburbin out on to the peaceful seaside heaths where exemptions of those who are not have little to do with conditions as ho had hie little home." They may called upon to serve, and which we they exist here, but there seems a are happy to say includes jour-slight connection, whilst the last nalists, should be increased, or two lines give us hope: CORFIELD. On August 4, 1923, opportunity given to those who are Behold; upon the wind swept ways
at Kuling, the wife of G. F. entitled to the protection and con-
they rear Conyngham Corfield, D.S.Osideration of the Court, to clnisu (late Lieut.-Colonel, RE.,) Chinese Maritime Customs, exemption in certain circumstances. Yochow, Hunan, of a son. Wo illustrate our point by refer
ring to the case of a well-known Across the reoorland echoes far and MARRIAGE.
local resident, whose nume happen.
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The
Our
The tattered ensign of the host of
greed Who batten on their brother's
homing need.
ncar
auctioneer.
el to be one of those drawn in the The loud-tongued jargon of the
lottery of chance but who unfortunately was
not there to answer it when called.
Ho was fined although he pointed out that
Bewildering the birds that build
and breed
Upon their Maker's moor, sans
title-deed.
What is it
The
And grows a smile because of
their sweet trust.
Children and birds in gentle cORI-
radeship..
Is such a pretty sight that it must
strip
From faces care that shadowed
brow and lip: gives a heart glow, like the sight
that greets You, sometimes, when the body
of city streets Takes up with some poor
vagrant our he meets!
~JANET GAROAN.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail..
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Constance Talmadge in "In Search August 15.-Coronet Theatre;
of a Sinner."
August 15.-18.-World Theatre "While New York Sleeps."
August 15.-Star Theatre; Mary MacLaren in Bonnic Bonnic Lassie."
SPORTS.
August 16-Royal Hongkong Golf Club Ladies' Medal Competi- tion.
August 19-Royal Hongkong Golf Club Competition, Happy Valley Course.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS. August 15.-Lammert Bros., at Godown No. 51, Kowloon, 66 cases
The Japan Chronicle says:application. Mr. P. L. Spence, the President of put forward was unsustainable and to spend any definite sun. They the Kobe: Cricket Club, informs row Mr. Jenkin was seeking to had to investigate conditions us that he has received a letter from abandon it. The one part of it thoroughly first. Captain E. J. M. Barrett of Shang- which was astninable was a pura It was mentioned that difficulty hai, stating that the Committee of graph admitting the entire amount in sending rice to some districts the Shanghai Cricket Club, hearing of the claim and this paragraph Mr. would be encountered owing to the that the Kobe Cricket Club is in Jenkin, according to the suggested dangers from bandits and military. financial difficulties, owing to the counter claim, wanted to strike out. The moeting decided that in die- heavy expenses entailed in keep-They are purporting," said Mr. tricts which could be reached Hong- ing up the Recreation Ground, has Alabaster, to file a new counter kong would send supplies while the voted a donation of Y.100 to the claim and really they are striking others would have to be attended K. C. C. The spirit of good fellow-out an admission of the entire to by the charity organisations of ship that prompted the gift will be claim. The old counter claim was Canton. The various district com- appreciated by all Kobe sportsmen. pretty bad but it was better plend-mercial associations would be
ing than this."
quested to send delegates to super- Mr. Jenkin: Mr. Alabaster can- intend distribution. not take advantage of what he calls Mr. Li Yau-chuen jocularly re- an admission in a document beferred to an instanca during a pro- doscribes as a nullity.
vious flood when the people of a The Chief Justice asked why the village in his own district claimed defendant's solicitore when they that there were 27,000 inhabitame discovered the omission did not ask when he knew there were only in Chambers for permission to file 9,000. He exhorted the delegates- a counter claim.
to supervise distribution conscien Mr. Jenkin: Because they wrote tiously. A Reuter cable from Washington
Mention was also made at the states that the late President Hard-to the other side and hoped to get ing left estate valued at $750,000. consent, which is not usually with-meeting of a scheme to raise funds
beld.
under à combined effort in Hong- His wife is the chief beneficiary.
The Chief Jusica: Why did not kong, Canton and Macao with the Tang Wah Hospital as the contral they apply then?
Mr. Jenkin: Because we also had organisation. This was not, bow- the right to make this application ever, discussed. on the day of the trial.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
G
A Renter cable from Amsterdam announces the death of M. Cremer, former Minister of Colonies. M. Cremer died after an operation.
Cable advices received in Shaug hai last week state that Mr. Abe' Stein, president of the Abe Stein Co., died in New York after a short illaess. This company is the parent organization of the China & Java Export Co., a Shanghai concern, dealing in hides and leathers. Mr. Stein was known in American circles as the "the grand old man" of leather.
Mr. Alabaster was proceeding to stato further objections when the Chiof Justice told him that he did not wish to hear him any more.
Announcing his decision to refuse
CRUMBLING
ARCADY.
[Suggested by the now bye-laws the application, His Honour said to come into force on the Peak the defendarts desired to amend Trama.] their defence (which they said could
being the chief executive of a big Ve timorous things! China Mail. shipping office the imperative duty that ye fear?
The death is announced of Mr.not he sustained in the sense it Woe, unto me, a common plebe, and the work involved in getting What though men sell this flower-Foochow Tea, Ir Season (More F. L. Latham, formerly Advocate-could not be proved), so as to sub- My Star has fallon from the away two of his Company's steam-
Heavensi
filled land and mar Thy heathered heavens with
unverdured street
BOKORONU, WEDNESDAY, Aug. 16, 1923. ors, hud eo encroached upon his
time and memory as to prevent hire And hide the gracious grass with
sand and lar heeding the summons that had been
To pave a way for rent-collecting sent to him to attend Curt. He'
LOCAL JURY REFORM.
feet.
things.
have wings.
Was fined and presumably Be conforted ye freedom-aurtured Whilst a resident earning not lessalonished. These fucts are un- than $100 per month and having disputed. They seem to suggest For God hath other moors and ye the God-given intelligence which that the machinery of the Court enables him to speak und under-should be clastic enough to allow stand the English language bat such an one as we have mentioned no voice in the many things which
-intimately engaged in business are done for him by a London. appointed oligarchy, he is yet
and death.
now defence assessing
or less damaged), II am.
August 17-Lammert Bros., at General of Bombay. Mr. Francis stitute o their Sales Rooms, valuable lease-Law Latham, M.A., was called to damages which they said they could There's naught to do but ait God
the Bar in 1864. He went out to recover in law. This was a material grieve, hold properties at 3 p.m.
August 20--At P.W.D. Offices, cight lots of Crown land at Stubbs Road, 3 p.m.
August 21.-Lammert Bros., at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, The s.s. "Chekiang now lying at Shamshuipo, 3 p.m.
MEETINGS.
Y.M.C.A.
ACTIVE ACTIVITIES.
+
Af least it seems like that and more, The Chief Justice: You will have From Peakite's "Rules on Trams!" years ago and joined the firm of Messrs. Dourille and Co., in which to rely upon your pleadings.
he eventually became a partner, Outlining the plaintiffs' case, Mr. | “Dont board. fill (children) all get marrying the oldest daughter of Alabaster explained that the amount
~10
Mr. Dourille. Mr. Pig was a popular claimed represented the difference (O! Shade of good King Arthart) member of the French community between a total sum of about five Dont board a moving tram or scoff and his early death will be deplor-laklis advanced to the defendant At yalpings of the Starter 12 ed. He leaves a widow and four and the amount realized by the sale children.
India in the Bombay Judicial amendment to the pleadings, to His With Idols shot to six-and-sevens Service, and officiated as Remem Honour's mind, and should have brancer of Legal Affairs from 1872been made long ago.. The only For did not I ere aim afar, to 1873, and as Advocate-General observation he had to make as to Promethean Heights to seek? and Judge of the Bombay High the filing of the counter claim was Was not my sola inspiring star Court for various periods between that he thought the other side might in orbit to the Ferk? 1880 and 1884. He was Advocate-have toll the defendante frankly General, Bombay, from 1884 to that they would waive their oppost- Whereat thought I, (Aku!) 1893.
tion to the counter claim or that Arcadian mortals blest August 20.-General meeting of the Hongkong Philharmonic So- The death is reported fromthey should file their notice in the Without the sign, "Keep of the
usual way. ciety at St. John's Cathedral, 5.30 Yokohama of Mr. Claude Albert Money Talks.
grass!" Mr. Jonkin denied that he was On High Elysiau crest! p.m. The French Government and the Ponducive to the prosperity of the Tronch people are influenced in secured Creditors of the Hongal months. Born at Pierte Bonite.that what he did sustain was that Woe, unto me, (as I said before)
Piq, after a painful illness of an December 12-Meeting of Un-internal nature, which lasted severotting up a new defence and said decmed capable of considering Port-to come before an official their reparations policy by two kong Branch of the Banque in the Rhine district of France, in the sale of the shares was a wrong My Idols wore but shams; abstruse legul points of view sub-empowered to hear and to act, powerful motives which blind them Industrielle de Chine, at the City 1872, Mr. Piq came to Japan 23 ful one. suitted by "windy warriors of the to claim temporary exemption. to the ultimate consequences which Hall, 3 p.m.
Inust inevitably flow from persisting sig" and holding the scales evenly Take another instance. Here is the in it. These irupelling, motives are in such momentous matters as life chief oxcentive of a large concern, fear of Germany and the desperate He is cajoied and suddenly called to appear in Court plight of the national finances. If carrossed. He, in his collective on a day when business demands only tangible securities could b
devised to ensure France from Ger- capacity, is addressed as "Gentle is presence and that his undivided an aggression-and this given the men of the Jury," and assured in attention shall be given to the will, should not prove beyond the uffairs of those who have confidently wit of world statesinship-tho dulcet tores that he cannot possibly
The sad news has been received help, after listening as he has, to placed him in such a position; affairs first stop would be taken towards forthcoming events as under:
the tranquility and economic the case before the Court, so intel- gain which have a direet bearing stability of Europe. Just in how!
Friday at 7.30 p.m.--The English in Hankow of the death of Mr. Debating Club will carry out H. J. Ling, at the age of 45, late ligently and so earnestly, but arrive on the prosperity of the Port. Fail- dosperate a State are the French
a Mock Trial."
manager of the Hankow Dispen- at a conclusion which will leave him, ing attendance he in likely to finances may be seen from a few
Saturday at 5.30 p.m.-Vegetable sary. The death occurred at the share the fate of the previous tell-tale figuros taken from a review dinner. 8.00p.m. "The Kuling Hospital on the night of no option but to much certain examplar and to come in for some of the French financial situation by Church and China" Address July 29 from tubercular trouble. I REMOVAL RUMOUR NAILED. decision
We make no attempt unwanted publicity. There is an
Mr. J. Lawrence Tanglia, in the by Rev. H. T. Chung.
was not altogether unexpected as current number of Scribner's here to beüitle the Jury system,other and a very serious aspect of Magazine." Mr. Langlin writos:
Sunday at 3 p.m.-"The Bible in for the past month Mr. Ling was in
China" Address by Rev. Ha very critical condition. Much Much concern was caused among although we think we could make this matter. Assuming one or more "By the end of 1913, France's total O. T. Burkwell. 8 p.m. sympathy is felt for the widow and members of the Kowloon Cricket And swearing, that's profanely mit a good cass why it should either of the type of jurymen we have debt was 6,402,000,000 dollars (nt Address by Rev. H. T three children he leaves. Mr. Ling Club when the rumour got round
Chung
came out to China in. 1900 when for this morning that the Government be abolished entirely, or arrange indicated being "drawn" for service par, roughly £1,250,000,000) which monta made to have a more equal in the circumstances described, is and nearly twice that of Great
was more than twice, that of Italy Monday at 7.30 p.m.-Cinema three years be travelled for Messrs. had ordered the K.CC. to give up Ob, how much better it would be
display. Also on Tuesday. Burroughs, Wellcome. In 1903 he their ground. Fortunately, no such distribution of the different. comit possible, with their thoughts else Britain. On top of this pre-war; Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. Chinese joined the firm of Messrs. A. S. order has been given, probably Instead, to inscribe thus: 'ALL GENTLEMEN manities of our Colony occupying where that they are likely to be aħla burton was added the phenomenal Debating Club.
Watson and Co., with which firm because the Government at the
with chivalry (9 exporner of this world mat ItIt is proposed to form an fhe reminined until 1909. Then when moment has no recreation ground the box, than the balloting of names to give that fres, and unlettored reduced to the purchasing power of orchestra of wind or string instru-Watson's gave up their Hankowto offer in la place, though ever. And all dis OTHERS-must l which is the rule, generally gives attention and consideration to the the frano in 1913, the cost of this ments. An average of 117 members branch Mr. Ling took it over and tually the K.C.C. will be asked to Wo simply content ourselves with cases which come before them war in gold was 12,180,000,000 used the baths, poo! and organized it into what to-day is the move to King's Park, it is unden
Hankow Dispensary, making a plea that the short list of which is expected of them? It dollars (roughly £2,500,000,000) to gymnasium during July,
The Clunese Y.M.C.A. announce
Guard,
of certain shares which were "Get off when pushed, oboy the deposited as security for the loan.
(Proceeding.)
stood.
K.C.C.
Dont stand, dont smoke, dont chew
or spit;
(My Lord, that word sounds bard 1). Dont ride unless you sit !'!
"Dont play (mouth organa or
jew's-harp)
Dont sing (a Costar song.).
Get drink-(Oli, Pussyfoot bo
sharp!).
wrong 1'!
deport
JOHN KYOTO
1993.