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FRIDAY `MAY 2 1924.
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Coming Events Advertised In The Mail
ENTERTAINMENTS.
May 2-Coronet Theatre; Lore Chaney in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
2.-World
CLASH WITH BANDITS.
W
KONGMOON PUNITIVE
EXPEDITION.
FIELD GUNS IN USE.
(From Our Own Correspondent.J
PAKKAI, KONGMOON, May 1. Bandits numbering over A thousand strong have resisted the military at Wang Chung, that part
May 2-Star Theatre, Kowloon; Classical and Characteristic As President of dances; also "The Conquering the United States Power." the late
Theatre; May Mr. Wilson was one Rin-tin-tin in "Where the North of the delta where the Tau Mun ferry was fired on from the banks of the most accessible men in the Begins."
May 2.-Queen's Theatre; "The recently. A punitive expedition country. He was also one of the most business-like. For example,
Hero."
crime. it may be conceded--has gued them; what were their temperate. If there is any drink- aroused feeling to a high pitch. peculiar problems and how theying to be done, I can see to that." Further, "she should be able to The public hangman has resigned met them. It may be that the
felling of history in the future will walk 20 miles a day, and be good his gruesome job, mainly, it is consist principally of showing at begging bottles and food. If asserted, through the laceration moving pictures with thesho, can sing a bit so much the of his feelings in the execution scanticat of worda to explain better; singing hymns or ballads
brings coppers." mentioned. Opinions on
doubtful points. Most minds are
Finally, "she must not mind more easily impregnated with
what people say, and she should matter, as in other questions, are what the eye sees than with what be able to fight & round or two to divided, but a calm consideration is read; and the useful mission of defend her husband when in will lead most to the conclusion the cinema in this respect has action." that the death sentence should already been demonstrated. It is pleasant.to realise that thousands cease to operate, und that a more at Home will see for themselves humane-let us say sensible what this Colony is like, and that method, should be evolved. It has yet to be proved that this form of punishment is a deterrent to crime. It has certainly not been eo in the Far East, and where the
and messages himself, jotting them bum Heughan, renowned Scottish creants but 'organised opposition spirit of vendetta or vengeance
Extreme cases of down in shorthand, at which he Bags Baritone in an amazing re has been encountered. As the fight between the military and play such a prominent part, it will
MODESTY, modesty are so rare was an expert, and transcribing his pertoire of songs.
May 5.At Helena May Institute, bandits still proceeds, the San ⚫that when a meritor notes on to his typewriter. His never do sa...., Our suggested lous example comes to notice, Note to Germany after the torpedo-moving pictures of Hongkong taken Wui magistrate has thrown in his guards who are equipped with alternative has been banishment it is a pleasurable duty to recording of the Lusitania was done in for Empire Exhibition, 9.16 p.m.
field-guns and machine guns. to some place that needs the hand it. A Charwoman who saved £20 this way, and European diplomats and presented it to a London still recall with amazement the
Other bandits are rumoured to of man to develop; to till the spil, Hospital was invited to meet the portable typewriter he carried to
with conspiring politicians and assembling in force
anti-Sun and dig the earth, to bring fruit-Prince of Wales when he opened the Peace Conference. Like most fulness to the barren places. If a new casualty ward recently Americans, he believed thoroughly Her reply was: "Please excuse in the social importance of the about-to-be murderers ever think
anecdote, and he often startled a me I am too busy at work."
May 2-H. K. C. C. twice, and we doubt it, they are Moreover, she begged the as- Cabinet meeting by telling them
of his favourites was that of the sea May 3.-R.H.Y.C.'s thorities not to divulge her name the latest story he had heard. One Tournament: final singles. and address.
captain who called a mutinous crew cruise and ladies' day, 8 p.m. together and read them the 'Riot Act.
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"For 20 years her mother put away with much sacrifice £t each year, and in the gifts at the open- ing of the new ward was able to hand in £20.She was invited to meet the Prince of Wales, but she refused her name and address, and it is only by a remarkable coinc dence that this has been dis covered."
INCOME TAX AND COLONIALS.
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As the matter is of some interest
To the first question-
the
How, long may a visitor from the Colonies reside here before becoming liable to income tax? the answer is: Not more than six months, in each financial year; that is, from April 5 one year to April 5 another.
on the
he wrote all his important speeches May 3-7-Theatre Royal, Wil
The theatre-not the College. The Hon. Mr. Kotewall át yester day's opening ceremony made the interesting statement that accord-]. ing to an informant five times as many Chinese attended cinema performances as did those who The question has been raised by attended the Chinese theatre. If a correspondent of a Home paper this is correct, and we think it as to how the income tax regula is, the penchant for things moving tions affect visitors from the on the part of the Chinese-ns Colonies making a temporary stay witness their fondness for motor-in England. driving is again demonstrated. The pious hope that the manage inquiries were made by a news ment would exercist care in the paper. representative, and selection of suitable pictures will following agswers obtained from find ready approval. Fortunately Mr. Wilfred Fry, the income tax the management has the splendid consultant, example of the Coronet Theatre organisation as a guide. The ideal of course is for Theatres to pro- duce their own films, but this is wisely left to the large monied corporations whose work is that of production. Theatres are therefore very much in the hands If the stay is for longer than six of producers who probably argue months, then the visitor becomes that they produce according to liable for income tax public taste, which it may be amount brought over or remitted argued in some cases is vitiated to him. A careful management therefore takes a broad view, sometimes a very definite view. With a more or less expert knowledge of what is moving (unconscious pun) in the cinema world, we can state that. Hongkong Bas been well
In such a case the periods spent served and those who have done in England are added together, this serving are entitled to all and if they total up to more than praise. We have been out and out six months, income tax is charged upholders of the cinema as an according to the scale explained educative and, entertainment above. factor of no little importance. It reaches millions and brings reluxa- tion and laughter that otherwise would not be there. We have yet HONGKONG CIGAR to see a film that no matter how wicked it portrayed certain types STORE CO., LTD
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Berosunu TRIDAY, MAY 1, 1924
DEATH SENTENCE.
Moving History.
The second question was :-
What happens in the case of a ---visitor who stays here for a part of a holiday, goes for a time to the Continent, and then returns to England for the remainder of
his stay?
PERTINENT
AND
The following ex- tracts are taken from from a IMPERTINENT book of essays,
"Pertinent
and
Impertinent":
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All I want of you men,"
ACHILLES' HEEL
said the captain in conclusion, is silence, and not much of that," Mep rarely die, we are told, of the disease they expect,
Prevention superseding cure, To make assurance doubly sure, Sir Fearful faced life's
menaces
By taking every panacea Of which he had the least idea
For threatened pathogeneses. Inoculation's artful aid
He sought; was every week
X-rayed,
For signs of ills that lodge in
He fought with physic every
germ,
Wrestled with avery elinic term. And baffled woos zymogenous.
He hoped his kippers, stoned
his fruit,
Nor left a rift within the lute,
The warming pan befriended
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But no precaution, out or in, Warned him of that banana skla Which tripped his heel and
ended him.
A.W.
SOCIAL. May 17-Dance at Peak Club,
p.m. May 31.-Dance at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.
SPORTS.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
has been sent against the mis
1be
at Sam Neung Mul, near Kamchuk," Orders have been given, to the Tennis Coastal Defence Commissioner
and Chau Chi-ching, the Shuntak closing magistrate, to disperse the bandits.
Over a hundred soldiers have been disbanded at Pakkai. It is
Ex-Admiral Chan Chak is re-
May 3.--Lammert Bros., at H.K. hoped that this event will be the & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., Hung. forerunner of many more. hom, a quantity of miscellaneous ported as having been promised gear, etc., 11 am
by General Hsu Sheng-chi, re- May 14-Lammert Bros., at Sales commendation for appointment to Rooms, leasehold property, his former post. Telegrams have Victoria Road, near Villa Miramere, been sent to Canton urging his 13 p.m.
:
return.
June 11-Lammert Bros. at The fantan monopoly, which the premises of the H.K. Tramway produces several thousand dollars Co., Ltd., Bowrington. Canal Rd.,{a day, is still operated by the old East, steam driven electric generat syndicate which is backed up by ing plant, 3 p.m.
the local commanders, Canton has been wanting to secure the evenues for some time and 'twe delegates were sent here to confer but they did not achieve object.
COMPANY MEETINGS.
May 6-Forty-third meeting of the LC.S.N. Co., Ltd, at Messrs, Jardine Matheson's Offices, 11 am.
May 9.-Statutory meeting of the Simplex Plaster Co., Ltd., at Com pany's Office, 2nd floor China Bldg.
their
About twenty natives who were to have been shipped abroad for Indented labour," known in the 9 p.m.
vernacular as 'selling the little May 16.-Fifty-Erst armual meet-pig," have been prevented from ing of Union Insurance Society of leaving by the Pakkal police. Canton Ltd., at Head Office, Union Building, noon.
May 10.-Fifty-eighth ordinar? meeting of British Traders' Ineur noce Company, a Head Office, Uulon Building, 19.15 p.m.
ing of the China Fire Insurance Co., May 16.-Fifty-fifth mual moet Ltd.. at Head' Office, Union Build ing, 19.20 p.m.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
H.M.S. "Robin" was in port yesterday and left this morning,
To-day is Labour day. The holiday has been celebrated by demonstrations at San Wui city and Kongmoon.
MORE STOWAWAYS.
CHINESE "LOSE” THEIR TICKETS.
same
"As he left the
At the Botanic Gardens last THE VERDICT. consulting room mooth a total of 4 89 inches of rain.
Two Chinese charged with of his doctor a man found his wife out twelve days out of the thirty.
panel fall was registered. Rain fell on stowing away on the J. C. J. L. steamer "Tjikembang” from Singapore submitted the side anxiously awaiting the verdict
Well, what's the doctor got to say about yer, 'Erb?' she asked. He tingent of Chinese police
One of the Weihaiwel con- excuse at the Kowloon Magistracy was this morning. They said they says me 'cart's bad, and me chest's drowned whilst bathing in the had had their luggage and money bad, was the gloomy reply. Then, iver at the border and his body stolen including their tickets brightening up, he added: But, was recovered yesterday. De and as the Compradore of the thank Gawd, me stummick's all ceased was stationed at Lok Ma ship did not understand them right"
Chau station which overlooks and they were afraid to report to the officers they hid on the ship... Chinese territory”
'Mr. T. R. van Dam, second officer
To-day's Poem.
(The Dominie.) He sits ahint a desk, And he rattles wi' a stick, And we're a' as mum as mice; And his hair is straucht and
thick;
Ay, and thick hair' owre his e'eu, I think I see him glow-r. Ilka word's a, thuniner-clap, And he gi'es a gey sair elour.
-T. S. Cairncross.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
The question is not. Do we want money? bat, How much do we want at the price it will cost us!
The answer is: Just so much of 1662. it as will enable us to forget its existence as will give us freedom to "shape our course in that direc tion in which all space is open" to
us,
No readier compliment may be paid the fair sex than the widower's eagerness to make good his loss.
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After I had washed myself, it being the hottest day that it has been this year, I took them all by coach to Mrs. 'Hunt's.Pepys.
MIRACLES.
Sir William Brunyate, late on the "Tjikembang" told the Vice-Chancellor of the Hongkong Court that the first defendant was University and Lady Brunyate found hiding beneath some planks, were the guests of honour on which he had so arranged as March 24, at a dinner given by the effectively to conceal him. The the second defendant hid on the Rockefeller Foundation at Waldorf Astoria, New York. Mr.tween decks behind the main mast John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Chairman when discovered. of the Rockefeller Foundation, presided.
Moving Pictures of Hongkong, taken for the British Empire Exhl bition, will be exhibited at the Helena May Institute on Monday, May 5, at 9.15 p.m., Tuesday, May 6, at 5.30 p.m.; Wednesday, May 7, at 915 p.m.; Thursday, May 8 and Friday, May 9, at 5.30 p.m. Adults, $1.00; children 50 cents. Pay at the door. Adut.
The Hongkong Hotels Mana. gement announces that beginning on May 1, the Orchestra will play at Repulse Bay Hotel on Tues- days, Thursdays, Saturdays dur ing tea and dinner dance, on Wednesdays at the dinner dance and on Sundays at orchestral con- certs during tea and tiffia. At the Hongkong Hotel there will be a dinner dansant nightly in the Grill Rooms.
The first defendant said when he went to see the Compradore after he had lost his luggage-two days from Singapore, the com- pradore refused to have anything to do with him. The officers, he said, could not speak his language.
The second defendant said his
ticket and clothing were stolen on board and he had to consequence. board with a ticket. He could not understand the Compradore, as he spoke a different dialect..
The case
hide in His wife was on
was adjourned until to-morrow pending the appearance of the Compradore.
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A WRECKED CAR.
EMPLOYER TO PAY $1,335.
No one who wishes to keep well within the limits of that which he has a right to assert will affirm that it is impossible that the sun and moon should ever have been
A Chinese named Zing Yuan On a man's ability to relax de- made to appear to stand still in
Three Chinese were charged will have to pay $1,335 and costs last been made. The fact that pends his ability to concentrate the valley of Ajalon; or that the the make and break of the current walls of a city should have fallen
at the Kowloon Magistracy as a result of a collision in which interest, and that no one since that they have been made in Hongkong is the force which drives the world. down at a trumpet blast; or that yesterday with stealing a quantity a lorry, driven by kis employee,
by a Hongkong Company lends
water was turned into wine; of coal from a lighter in Yaumati crashed into a car driven by timo has made any attempt to additional interest to the effort. Each human being is the sum because such events are contrary typhoon shelter. Four men Mr. D. Templeton, Manager of consider feelings that naturally It is questionable if the Helena total of his particular ancestral to uniform experience and violate was stated transformed the coal the Talkoo Sugar Refinery. arise when the death of a woman May Institute is likely to accom faberitance, making of him a highly laws of Nature. For aught he can into a sampan and when chosed The accident took place in modate those who will be anxious specialized magnet capable of prove to the contrary, such events by the Police one of them jumped Praya East as long ago as is involved, and institute to see the film, and we suggest attracting to itself only such ex-may appear in the order of Nature overboard and escaped. The art December 31 but the case was reprieve petition. It has remained that reprints be made sufficient to perfences as by affinity belong to to-ndorrow. But common sense defendant who also attempted only concluded yesterday before The Lantao murder case excited for His Excellency the Governor allow of one being hired to each it
and common honesty alike oblige to escape was sent to jail for thres Mr. Justice, Gompertz, him to demand from those who months and the other two for six Chief Justice, owing to the non- general interest at the time of its to use the high power vested in of our principal cinema theatres who have the necessary facilities
appearance of the defendant. hearing by reason of the brilliant him and to commute the death to house large audiences. Having
An incumbent would have him belleve in the months. The second accused had
in 1912 been banished. defence put up by Mr. Campbell sentence to one which we think taken the initiative to depict the THE BEGGAR'S of the village of actual occurrence of such events, evidence of a cogency propor- Wakefield once
Sentence of three months' Prosser, and what we may will be in accord with public senti-Colony as it is, we trust that no
lald It
tionate to their departure from imprisonment with hard labour down describe as the outlook on life on ment-if the public. has any! important function will be held
was delivered at the Marine without it being pictured. We that a wife should have special probability.
-Huxley. the part of some of the members Pubile opinion--at Home at any owe it to ourselves to the great qualifications suitable to her hus
Court yesterday on Mohammed ---- | Khan of the s.s. " Ying Chow" who band's station in life. With this m
Last night in the above Handicap of the Chinese poorer classen. It rate-is rapidly coming to the majority who are uninvited to idea in mind, no doubt, a tramp Try Chamberlain's Palm Bains was convicted of omitting to do at the Palace Hotel, Mr. H. Wilson was also memorable in that it bore view that capital punishment most functions and to the future, has been giving a correspondent Braises, trains and stiff, wall" certain lawful acts, proper and 50 beat Mr. L. RABUlling 70 testimony to that equality of should be abolished, and that it to depict what has taken place his views on his (the tramp's) ideal jointe should be rubbad.vigorously with requisite to be done by him, Mr. H. Wilson scoring 250 to Mr. Uhamberlain's Pain Balm sing to thereby tending to endanger the L R Billing 235. Highest break justice which is the prite of Eng- certainly should be abolished in Future historians will bless us for bride.
such an act of foresight and the She should be," said he, "ante penetrating quality. the circulation lives or limbs of the persons on for Mr. H. Wilson 21 and Mr. L. R It was the case of women. The last then moderns will look back with allround woman; not good-looking, parts, relieving the pressure and inflam board the ship
is stimulated throughout the congested fish jurisprudence.
while, on 2. Billing 13. Tonight Mr. E memorable also in that the passing ghastly hanging of a woman-for interest to see how the ancients or she might run away with mation that cause the pain. Fold and voyage from Shanghai to Hong Antonio 125 meets Mr. H: Miles
kong."
-125. of the death sentence on a woman the committance of a ghastly conducted themselves; what intri- someone else; but she must be recommended everywhere.
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