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conquest of the air, lo belittle the value of the world, flight ventures and to pour scorn upon the Happy Valloy enterprise. This attitude is of course entirely mistaken; mwre, even in a small place like Hongkong, it is actually harmful, The world filers, as we pointed out some days ago, must expect to face dangers absent along the recognised Aying routes, where aviation has become as common and almost as safe, as railway travelling. The local flying 'men who have twice been defeated in
run a summer service of frequent
A good many SEX REVERSAL. Cases of Sex reversal have
seem to indicate that the difference between the sexes is sometimes. rather quantitative than qualitative. Professor Oscar Riddle describes a ring-dove that laid eleven eggs
MONDAY-MAY 12, 19Rİ.
SHADOWS BEFORE-
May
Panjain
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BROKEN.
NORWEGIAN ENGINEER CHARGED.
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Fines and opium hauls are still soaring at the Kowloon-Magistracy Last week, Mr. Hamilton imposed. a fine of $83,000 on a Hawailan seaman. This morning he eclipsed this record for the new court by mulcting a Norwegian ship's " engineer in the sum of $210,000.
Harold Andersen, the accused was described as an engineer aboard the Norwegian ship s.s
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
12.-Emrunet Theatre
May 12-Star Theage: 5.30
The Man from Wyoming 16 p.m. The "Quaints in "Underground to Anywhere”.... According to an Indian watch-
Widower's Mite also the Urbox on board the ship. May 12.--Worki Theatre man, the opium was found in a
11.02.
Las Vegas" and was charged " with being in possession of 1750 tales of prepared opium, valued at 321,000.
Anderson pleaded guilty and in reply to the Court said he was hard up and had a large family to support.
$ As an alternative to the fine, Mr. Hamilton passed a sentence of ond yeur in jail with hard labour,
Keeping Cool,
rambles cover Flect-strest, the what purpose would they sing to
A $210,00 FINE- that, greater opportunities might Smithfield, Lincoln's Inn, the content with rubbiahy words and KOWLOON COURT RECORD-
Yesterday's heat made us think Lambeth side of the river,. us the Lord's song when we are be made available for the com- Adelphi, and the line of the old dishonest music? To what pur munity to keep cool. The sources City wall,
pose build us cathedrals and paint at present available might easily
us pictures while we rejoice in ugliness? be extended. Seats on the upper decks of tram cars are without
A. Maule Royden. question cool vantage points and been reported of late, and they are"appreciated, making the "no standing allowed" which the Com- any, humorously perhaps, calls a what is wanted is an addition to rule," impossible to insist upon. the services running to. Quarry between January 27, and April 15. Bay, or North Point, or Kennedy In the next three months she nested Town; and the Company might|three times but without eggs. with profitable advantage, issue Thereafter she became like a male their efforts to give the Colony a summer season tickets, at reduced to behaviour and in voice. Eventu rates. The Peak offers a cooling ally she died of tuberculosis, and fying exhibition have been the station probably unparalled, yet is a post-mortem showed that she had victims of sheer had luck, a fact comparatively neglected The male reproductive organs. At the. which is patent to anyone who Tram Company might, again with Liverpool meeting of the British Association, Dr. Crew reported a has been privileged to see the skill profitable advantage, retent similar reversal in the case of a and patience they have bestowed cars in the afternoon, at reduced hen
tamable". upon their machine. Civil avia- fares, for the benefit of those
May 12.-Queen's Theatre; drone of Stevenson
Castle in Slim Shpalare Lion, it can safely be said then, living in the dust, heat and smells
LOVERS. should find
also the
The Olympia Folijos. ¡April number of has long since passed the first of the lower levels. One half the
world does not know how the the
SOCIAL. Empire Review specially experimental stages, and although other half lives; and probably interesting, for Mr. Sidney Colvin p.m.
May 17.--Danca at Fenk Club. Hongkong has hitherto been seventy-five per cent, do not know submits a further batch of letters
May 91.--Dance at Teak Clan. afforded little direct evidence, is how Peak dwellers meet the from Mrs. Stevenson dealing with
9.15 p.m. now a very real and a very humlution. The sea offers yet The assay winds up with an May 19-Tennis Mach 1.K.
of the day. Here then their life in the Samoan group, ÓNOMOTO important factor in modern life. another opportunity for keeping extract that is a little pathetic. Ground; 0. & H. D. Rumahn It is essential that, this should be cool. Ferry travel these days is an Fanny Stevenson survived her. Worthington & Ng Sze-evang. realised, even (as we have said) agreeable venture. Certain Kow-husband nearly twenty years, 130 p.m. in a small place like Hongkong, Joon families have been known to Callforma. Here is the extracting of the Hongkong Jockey Club.
schling down eventually in May 24.-Third extra Race Meel -
because vital consequences are
referred to: Ltd. involved.
Just as a great mer cantile marine, was one of the finest assets the nation possessed during the war, providing the grent sea services with men who had inherited an instinct for the work, so can civil aviation in turn produce the men who will either themselves find places in the country's new first line of defence. or who will further develop the instinct for the air which shall stand their sons in good stead when the need arises, for peace (as we all profoundly hope) or for war, as many have already begun to fear. Anyway, without a great civil air fleet Britain will not only suffer, serious commercial losses, but will also fail to foster that great and promising tradition which her gallant airmen began
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make use of their monthly tickets by remaining on the one ferry boat for hours: at a time. The Company may not thank us for divulging this secret which may tempt others to a very easy-and- cheap-method of keeping cool. Some enterprising soul" we hope, may be tempted to see if there is nat
a paying proposition in organising harbour cruises. It is certainly worth thinking about: Owners of motor cars find their hobby very agreeable these days, and that fact suggests the thought that proprietors of cars for public hire might go into the question and see if they cannot summer. Keeping cool is such an quote special hiring rates for the
absolute necessity to good health, that every possible method lead- ing to that state of life should be adopted.
1851 TO 19241
In speaking of buses homage should be paid to the great Mr.. Tilling and the Great
from either standpoint it is essential that the public mind Exhibition of Hyde Park. It was should not be misled by isolated then that the enterprising Tilling saw his chance and first put his |«ccidents, resalling very often buses on the streets of London. A from extreme daring and not an of 80 with an active memory from.everyday routine After could tell you how his father took hinïat the age of seven on top of the ļall, we do not cry general calamity new bus to Hyde Park He would when a steamer-even a steamer remember the birth of the London General, with its 300 omnibuses following its usual reenguised brought up to date-two rows of route, meets with disuster, yet it passengers on top sitting back to would portend 'evil for our mari- back. Later came the garden seats time and naval supremacy if we with the centre aisle. Then in 1005 a motor-bus fleet of 241, did. So is it now with civil Horses, however, struggled on till avlation.
October 18, 1911, when the. Lon- don General pansioned the lasť survivor.
Appreciation.
Home papers to hand give pro- minence to a luncheon given by
NAPOLEON RELICS.
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SPORTS.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS. May 18-Lammort Bros, at Sales Rooms, Postage Stampe, 5.15 p.m. May 14-Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, -leasehold' *** property, Victoria Road, near Villa Miramere 3 p.m.
COMPANY MEETINGS.
May 16.-Fifty-first annual meer ing of Union Insurance Society of Centon Ltd., at Head Office; Union Building, noon.
I am here, as you see, in San Francisco living with a friend in three little rooms, Lloyd, Bolle and myself, cooking over a gas stove and washing my own dishes but how little would care for that if Louis" were here too, I believe for him, all is for. the best; he went as he wished to go, when he wished to go, leaping off from the "highest pinnacle with the great drums beating behind him. Could he have arranged his own life and death; how little things would have been changed. With such May 18.-Fifty-fifth annual meet thoughts I try to console myself-ing of the China Fire Insurance Co., and pretend that I would not Ltd. at Head Office, Union Build- bave had it different. It is harding, 12.20 p.m.. to believe that I am to go ou May 28-Forty-third meeting of Indefinitely and always alone; it the Canton Insurance Offles, Ltā.. seems impossible. After, all at Jardine Matheson's offices, at these years of preparation I was hoon.
May 16. Fifty-eighth ordinary meeting of British Tradors Inam anoe Company, of Head Office, Union Building, 12.15 p.m.
not ready when the time came. May 26.Secund meeting of That very day I had said to him, shareholders of Lane Crawford "I am not a coward; for a Ltd., at the Hongkong Hotel, noon, woman, I am brave." Vain words: where is my courage now? I am 'not altogether selfish in my grief, for I do think of "the others who loved him, more particularly of you."
The Philistines -SCHOOL'S IN. are islands in
the Pacific. Cologne is famous for He odour made there.
football match.
A refugee keeps order at.
tences when they are ill.
People often lose their
To-day's Poem.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
For having carried 12 pas sengers in excess of the 17 allowed by licence, the master of a coal boar was fined $5 at the Marine Court this morning.
STREET THIEVES.
INSPECTOR'S REPORTED
RUSE.
Previous accounts of seafarers being set upon in dark alleys and robbed are recalled in a Court case which came up before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning when it was alleged that a ricsha coolie had attempted to pick the pocket of Detective Sub-Inspector Cotton" and had extracted a watch from his coat. The case was remanded as defendant wished to obtain legal advice.
It is surmised that the inspector. was dressed as a member of the mercantile marine who had come ashore and had a good time. He engaged defendant's ricsha late. on Saturday night and had not been in it for long, when the alleged offence took place.
WOMAN'S SUICIDE.
A Chinese woman of Lan Tao Island is believed to have taken ' her life by an overdose of optim, following an altercation over some cattle grazing on her family's ground.
On Friday her husband reported to the Police at Tai O station that the woman was dead at Fan Pui, Shek Pul, in an unnumbered house. Some cattle belonging to one of his clansmen had eaten the paddy
A Reuter cable from Shang-in his field, during his absence and hai reports that Stevenson made his wife had upbraided the man. the highest were break seen in His wife, in turn was reprimanded Shanghai, compiling 272 fa
by an aunt for not preventing the--- conse-match against Mr. Gordon Morris trespass and deceased is said to
at the Shanghai Club
have insisted an $20 compensation, On getting only $3 she is believed Charged at the Marine Court, to have become disappointed over this morning with unlawfully her ability to make good a slip. absenting himself from duty on which she should have prevented, the s.s. "Sun Ning," an Indian and therefore committed suicide. guard was remanded on bail of $20 until the return of the ship.
(Noon in a Chinese Temple.) Noons drop gently here, and steal
on the winds away. Noons fall silently as flower-petals
fall;
From the quiet dream-lit hills
they full
song
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WEATHER CALENDAR.
days are very free and 1669. COMMA easy in rhyming, spell. NOTE: ing, and punctuation. They make small letters
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UNRULY SAILOR,
Large crowds were the guests of the China Sun Motion Picture Co., Ltd, yesterday at the World For dimaging a door, and seven Theatro, when, films, produc-panes of glass to the total value of tion of the Company, were exhibit $20 at the Wanchal Fire Station ed. These consisted in the main of on Saturday, Arthur Joseph Chick, the films prepared for the Empire of the U.S.S. "Helena" was fined Exhibition which were thoroughly $5 by Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the appreciated.
Central Magistracy this morning and ordered to pay $20 com Washington, May 11.-The Inpensation. terstate Commerce Commission has Defendant pleaded guilty. La annulled the section of the Merch extenuation of the offence he ant Marine law, mentioned on the explained that a number of 20th. The order is to be set aside Chinese were pelting him and his until the Shipping Board re-companions with stones and they.. certifies the sufficiency of Ameri- returned the fusilade. can vessels and the Commission
After His' Worship had remark- acts on such certification-Renter's ed that the Fire Brigade had not American Service.
barmed defendant and his friends, a marine ileutenant of defendant's An amazing story of a humanship stated that disciplinary action being "with four eyes" has been Defendant had a good record for would be taken on board ship. swallowed by a Japanese newwhich a bonus to him was just paper. One of them, gaoted by And so away to Stevenage, the Advertiser says: With a pack-Pending: and staid till a.showre was age containing Y,2,000 tied on over, and so, rode easily her back a girl three years old with to Welling, where we sup- four eyes, two being in the back ped wolf, and had two beds of ber head," was desorted in Jina- in the room and so luy gun, Mici prefecture recently. The single, and still remember it village had been celebrating a Last week a robbery with that of all the nights that festival, and it is believed that violence occurred at night at ever I slept in my life I the girl came from the country, Lam Taun Pass, near Taipo in the never did pass a night with During the festival a woman well New Territories. Three men set dressed in a silk kimono appeared on one and inflicted wounds with more epicuriam of sleep;
| near the village shrine leading her a dagger and with what is thought there being now and then a Hitle girl. She requested an elderly to have been a steel-pointed spear. noise of people stirring that woman to watch the child while. The victim was wounded in the waked me, and then it was she retired to wash her hands. The right arm and leg. He lost $5.50 a very rainy night, and elderly woman waited with the in money.. then I was a little weary, child for hours, but the mother did that what between waking not return. Lifting off the little and then sleeping again, girl's bat, the guardian discovered one after another, I never two eyes in the back of the child's
Stockholm May had so much content in all head and the bundle of money. Swede-Russian Commercial Trea- 11. The my life, and so my wife left evidently to be used for the ty is now effective Ratifications says it was with her.
care of the child. The little gidere exchanged yesterday. was immediately turned over to the police....
The Marquis Cur- zon is said to be employing his leisure in writing members of the Carlton Club, a new "Life" of Napoleon, and the Club dining room, to num-Napoleon relics are advertised to into the court-petala of oleander
falling: *** įber of workmen. The luncheon be sold by ancilon in Paris shortly.
was a very graceful tribute by the These facts raise the question-Noons of to-day, noons of yester club to the men who have been "Does anybody, even in France, day, refacing its premises, often at take much interest in Napoleon Fragrant noons of centuries ago-- great risk. I was served at six nowadays?" The relics were col-A hush in the wind, the soft tones
Inules by twolected by Archambault, the groom
of a gong daffodil-decked dozen smartly, uniformed girls, who served the ex-Emperor at St. Touched lightly like an ancient The menu was skilfully chosen, Helena. They include such grue- It began with hors-d'oeuvre, and some articles as the shirt which Begun and never ended. It is so passer on, by way of fillets of sole Napoleon was wearing when he They come and rest awhile, and with tartare saucê, to chicken died, the compresses which were
then are gone and ham pie, roast beef, and put to his forehead during his Upon the wind.
illness, and the glass from which golden syrup roll, Liquid refresh- he drank for the last time. It will ments" included, beer served in be interesting to see whether these elegant quarter-pint glasses. The fetch much more than their in- men were soon set at ease, but the trinsic value en greatest decorum, in accordance with the bost traditions of the Carlton Club, graced the progress of the meal. The only toast was that of "Our Guests," submitted by Lord Younger, the Chairman.
"You have been watching us dine in here for a very long just as likely to put their commas period, and we thought it very and semi-colons at the beginning much nicer that you should dine instead of the end of a line. It is tho-mishaps which have over-with us," said Lord Younger..... rather a shock, therefore, to find DAVIS.-On May 6, 1924, at taken the world fliers, Major "People have said that the club inserted in a recent book of verse erratum!" "Page was exclusive, and this term the following Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Martin barely escaping death might convey the idea that the four, bottom line, delete comma James P. Davis, a son. in the frozen North, MacLaron members consider themselves after said he."". Would ENSOR.On April 8, 1924, at delayed under India's tropic sky, superior people. Nothing of the correctors of the Press always
Bedford, the wife of E. Nand the.. Portuguese compelled kind, Ensor, Chinese Customs, of a daughter.
to wait for
"We do not have guests here a new machine. because when the club started it Only the Frenchman d'Oisy was the first political club in
The Londoner is į DISCOVERING"; notoriously ignor- appears to have escaped accident London, and there were not & LONDON, ant of his own and his very immunity amidst so great number of members of
city. When he many perils acquires in conse. Parliament. Members showed first comes to town he fully in- quence almost the aspect of sheer such extraordinary Interest and tends to look into such interest- pleasure in entertaining at the ing links with the past as good luck. Turning, from the club that some were nearly ruin Charterhouse. London's Wall, dangers which beset the world ed, and a resolution was passed Westminster Hall, St Bartholo pioneers, Hongkong finds further prohibiting the admission of mew's and so forth; but some
how he never gets time. The examples in the successive accl-cata in order to save the Homeland: Association: have now THE SOURCE OF TRUE ART.
pockets of the members. Hongkong can hardly be blamed dents which have befallen local
made the way easy for him" by This is not the first time that olishi, a three and sixpenny I do not think we shall have If it begins to have doubts about attempts to hold a flying exhibi. employers and employees have fortes, New Rambles in Old great art again, until we realise the practical value of civil tion Therefore it is not uur: fraternised in this manner. It is London which take the form of its Divine source, and I am sure all to the good that such functions six walks through tos City, under no great artist will have liberty of aviation. Almost every day, the prising that some people are are possible and made possible by the unobtrusive guidance of utterance until we common people cables bring fresh tidings about beginning to distrust the vaunted a feeling of goodwill on both sides. expert knowledge. The first aix are little artists ourselves. To
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perrallor quality, the drone aimed at the lives of certain mem
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