́MOND,Y, DECEMBER 17, 1928,
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
NOTES AND NEWS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
YACHTING.
CRUISERS' FINE SAIL
A more ideal day could not have been chosen for yesterday's cham- 1st November being "Charter plonship race for cruisers. The Day it was observed as a general course was from North and South Holiday. At 7.30a.m., tho usual Ceremonial pande took place and a fairway buoys (E. to W.), to Datum salute of 21 guns was fixed. After Rock (S.) passing cast of Kau-l- breakfast people began to gather chau and thence to Chung Hue (S.) round the customs wharf to witness The third point was the North fair the aquatic sports, the greasy pole ...... and duck-hunt as um created way buoy (S) and the course was sone morriment; the rest of the twice sailed. This gave a "soldier's items were carried out without any wind" on every leg except one, mishap, the saing with the athletic where it was dead aft, and the) mports in the afternoon. The only breeze was fresh enough and estnordinary item Was a Suli: strong enough to make the carry- dane in full nativo costume and the ing of topsails a ticklish proposi- *a* day wag wound up by then at times. It was an excellent dinner party given by 11.8. the test of the relative capabilities of Governor and Lady Rycroft,
each boat since it was plain sailing We are sorry to hear that Mrs.all the way and no question of Pinnock, owing to bad health has had to leave Borneo for England before her husband, Mr. Pinnock the genial Manager of Messrs. Harrisons & Crosfield (Borneo) Jatd., in Sandakan whose leave is dao shortly, Mrs. Pinnock left by the 9.9. "Kajang on the 2nd insi. Accompanied by her busband as Tur Laburn. We wish her bom royage and a speedy recovery.
PATENT MATITES, Mr. Mark Benson.
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BARTHQUAKE.
BOGOTA, December 16 Many have been killed or injured in an earthquake which destroyed the towns of Cumbal and Chile
near the Ecuadorian frontier. Eighty-five dead have been so far recovered from
the ruins of
Cumbal, The full extent of the damage is unknown owing to land- slides blocking the made.
· BRITAIN'S WAR DEBT.
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WASHINGTON, December 15. Messrs. Morgan's have deposited $92,000,000 in Liberty Bonds with the Federal Reserve Bank to cover the next British instalment of the war debt. Bankers estimate that Great Britain has saved nearly $2,000,000 through using Liberty Bonds.
LONDON BANKER'S ACTION.
joss" or superior harbour know- ledge could come into it. With novices at the helm the result must have been much the same. Cigale" led all the way and would
NEW YORK, December 15. probably have won if Croucher had not been misled by an ambiguity The London bankers, Messrs. in the sailing instructions into Spurling and Company, are suing standing across to the westward of Doherty and Company for and on Kau-i-chau instead of reaching account of profits of the Cities straight down to the eastward. The Service Company and other leading boat was also handicapped Doherty subsidiary companies. by the extraordinary difficulty Spurling and Company claim the Jata of experienced by everyone in pick- existence of a profit-sharing agree- Patwitering up the mark boat off Chungment and state that in 1911 they ls through his agent Mr. Hoe. The Sailing Committee advanced nearly $3,000,000 to fin- 5. A. Ralan, Patent and Trade- should certainly arrange to have ance the Cities Service Company. mark Agent in Barney filed the a bigger flag on a taller mast next necessary papers assigning and transferring his (Mr. Benson'a) right Some idea of the speed attained and title obtained from the B.N. can be gained from the fact that. Borneo Government of an invention the race started at 19.30 am., the for "Process for Treating Volatile distance was just over 20 miles and Compounds and an invention for the boats all finished round about Process for Removing Reaction 2 o'clock. The time limit bad been Producta from Hydrocarbon Sub-fixed for 6 p.m. stances" to the Canadian American Fimore and Trading Co., Ltd., a British Colurabian Corporation at Victoria British Columbia.
time.
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The results were:-
ENGLISH RIG.
Time..
Position
Points
to date
1 49 30 5 10 1 42 5 4 12 I 23 27 I I 24 40 2 14
Azuma...I 57.20 1 53 k.m. s. h. m. LaCigale1 49 30 U. and I. 2 2 20 Irene..... 2 3 57 Feathers 2 5 10 Norse
man...2 14 40. I 37 25 3 13 CHINESE RIG.
The a.a. "St. Albang" of the E. & A. 3.8. Company on her arrival from Hongkong en route for Australia ou 8th November was put in quarantine owing to the report of sull-pox having broken out in Hongkong. Her steerage passengers for Baree were landed on the Quarantine Station at Berhalla, The vessel after bunkering left the same evening for Australia. All other vessels arriving from Hongkong Ladye thereafter were similarly treated regarding quarantine.
6
Jean...25 10 2 5 10 2 12 Niobe 55 42 1 52 20
BOY SCOUTS.
COLOURS. DEDICATED.
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On Saturday, the 10th November the Ex-service men and their friends had an enjoyable evening at the Sandakan Hotel. About 45 sat down to dinner and found up the occasion with a dance till past mid night, to commoonste the signing of the Armistice. The Constabulary Band was in attendance. This Yesterday morning at function wo understand is going to Andrew's Church, Kowloon, there be held annually at Sandakan.
was a Church parade of the St. A fashionable wedding was Andrew's Troop.
solemnised on 19th November 21
St.
Two beautiful flags, one a Union St. Michael and All Angels Church, Jack, the other the troop colours. Sandakan, of Mr. C, E. Chubb, which had been presented by Manager of the North Borneo Trad Scout-master A. G. Carroll, were ing Co., and Miss Mand Eliza dedicated by the Rev. G. Arrow Dipple. Nurse-Matron in Sandakan Smith. The flags were taken up to Hospital. The duties of best the altar during the signing of the am was fulfilled by Mr. Hard-second hymn and there left until the end of the last hymn when the wick from the West Coast. A
patrol leaders once more took reception was afterwards held at the
possession of them. Hou. Dr. Dingle, the P.M.O.'s House, which was largely attended. A NEW INDUSTRY IN NORTH BORNED."
The Rev. G. Arrow-Smith gave the Scouts a sterling address from the First Epistle to the Corinthians, 16 Chap, and the thirteen "verse.," Watch ye, Stand fast in the faith, Quit ye like men, Be strong."
Perhaps in emulation of the Philip pin Government, of extracting oil from Nopa trees, we hear a factory is being erected at Senawang near The Rev. R. Lindsey was to have Tabuk to make Nopa spirits (sugar taken the Dedication Service but alcohol) as motor fuel, and for the was unfortunately unable to attend fart that recently import duty on such commodity in North Borneo had been increased, (coming events throw their shadows before
How-
owing to sickness,
MARGATE?
WAR PRISONERS RELEASED,
WASHINGTON, December 15. President Coolidge has ordered. the release of thirty persons who are still imprisoned as the result of contravening war regulations,
INTER-VARSITY SPORT.
ROEHAMPTON, December 15. In the inter-varsity cross-country seven and-a-half miles race, Oxford (twenty-two points) beat Cambridge (thirty-three points.)
CHUNGKING OCCUPIED,
PXKING, December 15.. -A foreign official telegram re- ports that the Szechuan First Army evacuated Chungking on December 13. The Second Army, ander) General Yang Sen, entered the city on December 14 from the north. No fighting occurred and Chungking is quiet. Neither of the opposing forces indulged in looting.
Chungking harbour is now open to navigation.
JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE LOSSES.
TOKYO, December 15. Questioned in the Dlet, Mr. Inouye said the total loss from the earthquake was between seven and fen billion yen.
Mr. Okano said that the Imperial. University loss totalled forty-three million yen.
NEXICAN REVOLT.
are
NEW YORK, December 15. The important Mexican ports of Vera Cruz and Manzanilla closed to international commerce by President Obregon's orders. These ports are in the hands of the Revolutionaries and it is stated that shippers sending goods thither will be treated as out and put smugglers.
It is reported that President Obregon "is leading Goverment troops against Guadalajara, which city is held by the Revolutionarles,
VERA CRUZ, December 15. Rebel Headquarters announce that the Government forces have abandoned San Marco and are now
line. The Rebels are pursuing them.
ever, we wish the enterpriser good HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO retreating, tearing up the railway fuck and specially to Mr. D. D. Wood, IN.B. Government ser- vunt, whose official title wo bolïeve is Supt. of Forestry Department, for having filled a petition on behalf of a C. M. Hudson, of Manila P... for exclusive privileges for invention for Composite Motor Fuel."
To everyone born in Englend the name of Margate in acciated with holidays and ses bieczonA A summer health on the south coast. resort it inons of the most popular places
• Stops Croup It stops croup. That's why mothers koop Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in TLIE Yet residents them do not invariably the house. It contains ne narcotics and onjoy good health, as Mrs. Evelyn is best for the children. For sale every-
We are also glad to hear that More. W. Watt & Co., of San
Hawkina has reason to know, la & where.
recent interview at her home," Levine," Bawley Squaro, Margate, this lady
said:
dakan have been appointed agents. “Eome time aco my health began by for the Standard Oil Co., of New fail and I became weak and thin. I York, for the sale of their oil in suffered from savore lassitude was Sandakan and the east coast of semic and wasted away. I felt so North Borneo. The m/s "Avarua" tired, to ill, that I had no life in me. arrived
was attacked with Indigestion and st Sandaken on 28th dreaded any meals. I lost pearly 28 November from Zamboanga PI. pounds in weight. with a cargo of kerosing and gaso."I gave Dr. Williams"„Pink" Pills & line for their agents. Such agencies tris, and just look at me now. They and a "competition" of any descrip. have worked wostium in me. The tion is good for the country, but my food is doing ma good. And to think indigestion has quito disappeared and "monopolies are bad.
Idd not discover the value of De Williams Pink Pills before."
COURT CASES. Among other petty crimen For men as well as women Dr. Wil- for November, there came in Pink Fills for Pale People are a before the Court two cases of cut-truly great restorative, purifying and ting and wounding, one for enriching the blood and building up the DETTES. "As a remedy for net vous tunately ended fatally, a Chinese debility, indigestion. Theniatkam ooolis who died though severe vlade, neuralalu, skin disorders, thin sbook and loss of blood-the cases after effects of malaria and other favors, are pending.
and the special silente of the weaker sex, they have been world-famous for more than goneration. Your chemist We are informed that after Falls them or put on 33 LAL per the combined efforts of the bottle, 39/4for six bottles, from the Dry North Вокеа Chamber of Wiliams Medicine Co., & Klariane Hoad, Commerce, "the Government | Bhangbai.
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FILMS SHOWN RECENTLY,
This week, we are holding another voting contest for popular cinema pictures recently exhibited at the Ooronet Theatre. Next week we will run a similar competition for films shown at the World. We will give a prize $50 to the competitor who sends in the coupon agreeing most nearly with the order in which the first-ten-- pictures are placed. It is not imperative that the coupon must be exactly correct to win. Somebody must win the $50! Why not you?
Twenty names of cinema pictures are given below. Select the tan you consider the most popular and wetta tham sut in the order of your aboton. Then cat the form out and send it to the "China Mall" omsa marked **Yota.""
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Therefore the secast of sha dentist is. Not, to select the tan most popular Items in alphabeties) order from our lit, But to select the ten most popular items from our list and judge what place each individually will occupy-which will come first, which second, and so on until all ten have been placed.
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Orphans of the Storm
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Through the Back Door
Tol'able David
Trouble
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To the Editor
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China Mail,
Hongkong.
December 17, 1923.
I consider the following the ten most popular films from the above list, placed in the order in which I think they are liked best :-
Please write clearly in block letters.
Name
BWL Boos, Lad AGRUTER
Address