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SATURDAY, AUGUST
PITCH
9 19
BATTLE.
PIRATES DRIVEN OFF BY JUNK.
ONE MAN. KILLED.
News has been received in Hongkong of a pitched battle between an Aberdeen junk and two pirate launches in the Chek Kai district on Tuesday.
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sanitary standpoint, some owing an additional Bunds for the cultivation of a national collec-i to the acts of the law itself and every complete Inch above: ilon of conifers and taxads, la cause others owing to economic law.
that height; fractions of for hearty congratulation. It has Before extending the Sanitary
an-inch to count in favour long been recognized that an arbo of the pony.
retum, other than. Kew Gardens, Board's powers to the rural dis tricts they should, he thought, that the rulings of a
The Stewards wisely recognised was. urgently needed for this pur pose, and the location, chosen Com-eems admirably suited to the carefully consider amendment of mittée of Inspection might well needs. It appears that it has not the Ordinance. Indeed, he felt end to dissatisfaction and friction beeri possible for several decades its mere existence created past to show at Kew creditable they ought to have a new Ordin [an owner's risk in making examples of most of the spruces ance altogether. The Board's new purchases and hit on an and fire, two groups which include The launches ordered the crew of the junk to lower the sails. Chairman (Mr. G. B. Sayer) also expedient which we trust, will some of the handsomest of all Upon their refusal to do so the launches opened fire with machine-gunt,
be supported us conifers.
revolvers and cannons. The junk returned the fire and eventually the had his doubts about the adequacy eventually
heartily up North as it was by the
pirates were forced to draw off. They sailed away in the direction of present health laws, members in general meeting on
After breaking in Macao. expressing the opinion that before July 22. The passing of the rule
BURGLAR'S to the premises of APOLOGY. Messrs. Price and from the one of the pirate launches.
One of the junk's crew, Tau Pa, a seaman, was killed by a shot the Board sought to have the will certainly be beneficial to
Co., Belfast, and Ordinance applied elsewhere, they racing in Hongkong, it may well helping himself to several articles, ought first to satisfy themselves persuade our Northern friends of burglar wrote a letter stating that ibe futility of attempting to tar he had been driven to his action that it was not capable of improve-"foreign" blood. If it does so, the by starvation and unemployment, ment in itself: These statements local Stewards will deserve well of and asking Mr. Price to forgive were surely clear enough, surely racing men in all places where the him. He then lit a cigarette, and, throwing the match among waste alarming enough to Impel drastic China pony furnishes the stock.
paper, set fire, apparently un- reform. Yet six months later.
Intentionally, to the premises, we had our officials, during the
£700 damage being caused... housing debate in the Legislative Council content to dismiss the In yesterday's "China Mail" Ordinance from their minds "with mention was made of the selection all its imperfections" thick upen coming interport cricket match. committee' to be chosen for the How these imperfec- Beyond those privileged to know, tions are still inviting grave risks few are acquainted with the com-
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SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
August 9. Coronet Theatre; "The Shriek of Araby."
August 9-The Star Theatre; "The Darling of New York."
August 9. World Theatre; 'The Bachelor Girl.".
August 9.-Queen's Theatre; "The Broken Wing."
LOCAL AND GENERAL
On arrival at Sandakan from Hongkong, the s.s. "Hinsung" re- : ported the death of a womu froin natural causes.
Chinese
Tho "Pembrokeshire bas Onice that a danger to navigation, notified the Hongkong Harbour
t. 33.10 N., Long. 117.56 E. apparently a capsized junk, lies in
was proved once more less than a Position of this. committee. For of his wife, £2 a year, to Archdea- No. 17 Godown, China Provident] wharlat 9.30 to-morrow night on
when several
decades arrangements for inter- port cricket matches have been in the hands of the Hongkong
The new river steamer Tung On" will not leave Hongkong for PBLIC AUCTIONS..
Canton to-night as first announced. August 11-Lammert Bros., at She will sail from Leung Wing con Griffiths, of Newport, to preach Town Mortgage Co., Ltd., her first trip. sermons twice yearly on the duty Connaught Road West, 6,000 sacks
of work and our, 11 m. and necessity patriotism, £50,007.
. coli inaker of Tung Kun August 12.-Lammert Bros., at reports that 18 coffins and 10. Sales Room, Duddell Street, ratios of nails were taken by
The value of the cargo was about pirates from a junk on which they August 13-Tammert Bros., at were being shipped to Sam Kong.
$500.
COMPANY MEETINGS.
fortnight. ago, startling statements were made at a meeting of the Sanitary Board. | Cricket Club and as one of the With the meeting still fresh in the honorary officials remarked, these
Mr. Archibald Claude Dunlop, of matches have to be played and 143, Haverstock-hill, N.W., left public memory it is unnecessary somebody has to fix things up. £5,000 to Charles William Stanley Pumps, 5.15 p.m. to say very much about these When sporting visits are made Laughlin, £250 each to the execu- Sales Room, Duddell Street, statements. Briefly they showed there arise the questions of initial tors, and the residue, to his mother that vital questions affecting the spade-work, entertainment and for life, on her death giving £20,000tion of jewellery, 11 a.m.
reception. These tasks have to the Roman Catholic Bishop of public health are left to the deci- generally beeh entrusted to men Portsmouth, £5,000 to the rector of
August 14.-Second meeting of Nine sarapan owners were sion of officials outside the health bers of the H.K.C.C. and it is St. Ignatius, Stamford-kill, if not ti Sandakan Light and Power each fined $7 by the Marine Magis service, with the result that un- believed the selection of the team already given, and, after other 1922) Ltd., at St. George's trute (Lieut. Commander G. F healthy drainage, bad bullahs and has automatically rested with our Roman Catholic Archbishop of
bequests, the residue between the Building, Chater Road, 11 s.m. Hole, R.N.) at the Marine Court.
September senior cricket club. More recently Westminster
16.-Extraordinary this morning for lying inshore impure water are often matters the selection committee has in Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth, Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the e.. between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.
and the Roman general meeting of The China during prohibited hours last night,. over which the Medical Officer of cluded one or two experts not con- £44,978.
Registered Office of the Company, Health has no control. Moreover nccted with the club, this being
Peddler Street, noon.
A Chinese arrested on October 3.-Second meeting of charge of boarding
Mr. Mark Jeans, of Kings Hall,
it has long been known that the probably due to their being more Milton Lilborne, Wilts (net €1,616)
Sanitary Department is bridly competent to choose owing to their£36.159.
wider range of choice. It should Mr. Heary Corry Bishop, of 4. under-staffed and cannot possibly be noted that for the match pro- Milton-road, Bournemouth, leather attempt much of the work thut visionally set down for Armistice goods seller, £36,912, should really be part of its-routine. Week, local clubs. will be asked to
Mr. John Charles Wright, of These are some of the facts that send along for practice members Beeston, Notts, £31,384.
Mr. John William Dicks Young, impel us to ask if the Colony is not who are considered to be up to of Stoke Park, Coventry, retired RELIABLE SILK HOSIERY,
seeking unduly large credits of presumed, "candidates" for inter- Mrs.-Frances Vernon-Wilkinson, interpart form. Since, it is to be
butcher, £24,926, PSNOTonganomÉNCIO RO|O|O|Q|2|0||0|0|00|ture it it is not inviting the port honours will come under the of 24, North Bailey, Durham, left terrible consequences which selectors' eyes, could not a depar- £300 each to her servants Jane ◆◆◆ Bernard Shaw points out almost ture be made from "olo custom" Underwood and Charles Under- invariably result from these reck: and their names te publicly an-wood if still in her service, £20,513.
nounced as is done at Home?
Lawyer: "Tell the AH-HA! court exactly where You were on the twentieth day of said month at five-thirty in the afternoon." of the Strand, asking a
Defendant: I was on the corner question."
"Ah-ha! But how do you know t was exactly five-thirty ?”
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Dctober 18. Extraordinary ton, at the Kowloon Magistracy brought before Mr. E. W. Hamil- General Meeting of Douglas S.S. this morning. Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office showed that a previous conviction Police evidenco of the Company, 20 Des Voeux was recorded against him for a Ron. Central, 31200 The China Sugar Refining Cuz, cabin. A sentence of two months' similar offence. On this occasion he October 20-Third meeting of was found in the Chief Engineer's Td., at Co. Office, Pedder hard labour was passed. Street, upon.
November 5-Further extra-
The rainfall for the month of ordinary meeting of Douglas 8.S. Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Voeux Road 18ins. 24.00 23 days: at the Matilda July at the Botanical Gardens was Central, noon.
OTHER MEETING.
Hospital, Mount Kellett. It was 18ins. 31 on 21 days, and at the August 14. Extraordinary Gen-Police Station, Taipo, it was sins. eral Meetings of the Hongkong 43 on 20 days. The lowest Jockey Club in the Board Room barometer at sea level was 29ins. of Massin. Jardine Matheson and .476 at 23h. on the 5th. man a
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The Stewards of the Hongkong Previously and up to now in this What is lawn tennis coming to? Jockey Club and the members outpost-of-Empire at least, it was present at the extraordinary a game played mostly for the sake general meeting, held on July 22 of playing, But, apparently, the are to be heartily congratulated or glamour of new Wimbledon has having laid the foundation for had the effect of putting lawn I was asking him was what time it what may well prove the regulation tennis in an entirely different was!' of the height of ponies racing riot light. This change is particularly only here but throughout China also.
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("We Are. Such Stuff As Dreams
. ณ Are Made On.")
evident in matches between ladies. To-day's Poem. much as the individual's appear- It is not the game that counts go ance and peculiarities. Writing of Miss Helen Wills the American Our revele now are ended: these 18 year old champion-a leading
our actors,
It will be remembered that the incursion of the so-called Russian pany, in the minds of some, creat ed the fear that the "China pony" RHR was doomed for racing purposes. Home critic remarked apropres of As Iforetold you, were all spirits,
Steps were taken here and else her victory in a semi-final of the and where to bar the "foreigner." In singles that she had no emotion, Are melted into air, into thin air: the majority of cases, sight was did not cultivate pretty tricks like And, like the baseless fabric of altogether lost of the fact that of the acrobatice of Miss Colyer or recent years "China" ponies have Miss Austin and lacked
this vision, the The cloud-capp'd towers, the gor- been yearly showing more, trace of
Pavlova-like foreign blood.
action of Mile. Different clubs
geous palaces, had different methods of finding a same writer also said of Miss Wills
Lenglen at her liveliest. This The solemn temples, the great solution.
globe itself, In many cases the But she has a charm all of her Yea, all which it inherit, shall dis- standard of height was lowered-cwn. With her demure, short step the only wane way to tackle the she seemed like a simple little girl And, like this
solve; problem. Had malters rested who had strayed into the cham-
insubstantial there, all would have been well.pionship by chance." But one and all added a rider to writer was curious to know if her the effect that after a given date, calm was assumed to conceal As dreams are made on, and our the Stewards may refuse to nervousness. Possibly there may
little life accept the entry of a pony which, come a time when one will have to Is rounded with a sleep. in their opinion, is not a Ching undergo a course of training on- pony. cretion, appoint a Committee of
They may at their disthe stage to become a successful Then Inspection. The Stewards deci-exponent of the wonderful game.
sion shall be final." The foregoing takes her
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BIRTHS.
and scandalously, if not with BEYSON.-On July 30, 1924, at absolute impunity, yet without Kuling, to Mr. and Mrs Ken- any evil consequences that anyone neth M. Bryson, a daughter. thinks of tracing to it." HALL-On August. 1, 1924, at
River Mead, Woodley, Berks, suddenly
Nature
Our
TREAD SOFTLY
pageant faded. Another Leave not a rack behind. We are
*such stuff
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-Shakespeare.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
AUGUST 9,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Lausanne Treaty yester day became operative. in the case of Britain, Italy and Japan.
include about 56,280 feet in the Forthcoming Grown land sales
price $58,780. Conduit Road locality,
upset"
CDIT*S*
The Parliamentary pondent of the "Daily Telegraph learns, on the highest authority, that the Empire Exhibition will
open next ysar.
Tomorrow morning at St. Scout Troop and Cub Pack will Andrew's Church, Kowloon, the
parade. The vicar, Rev. R. Lindsay, will address them
The
maximum squall velocity as record- ed by the Dines-Baxendell anemo- graph, was at the rate of 52 miles per hour at th. 38m. on the 20th.
To-day's "Governmest Gazette" contains a proclamation by the Governor-General of Aus- tralia directing that, on proof that a ship registered in either Hongkong the law of that country, relating to or New Zealand has complied with
the fixing, marking and certifying of load-lines, she shall not be required to comply with any of the provisions (excepting only the proviso to sub-section (3) of section 220) of Part IV. of the Navigation Act relating to the same subject-matter,
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thompson, arrived from Shanghai by the
5. "Devanha."
"L'Oeuvre" learns from London that the French Minister of France has handed Mr. P.
Mr. E. H. Williams has been. Snowden an important memoran- aptointed District Officer in the dum concerning inter-Allied debts. Southern District of the New
Territories.
Major Zanni has arrived in Calcutta, according to an overnight The name of Mr. Mustapha message. An earlier cable stated Bin Osman, Government, Civil that Major Zapal was reported to Hospital, Bachelor of Medicine the wife of Lieut.-Commander revenge. She strikes at the city H.K.J.O., but it was similarly is an extract from, rule 77 of the
have made a forced landing at Iari, and Bachelor of Surgery of | 198 miles from Calcutta. Hall, of the Upper Yangtze, until the innocent young have paid worded in Northern Clubs' new
the University of Hongkong, has The other day 1763. It has rained such delugea,
been added to the Colony's list , of a son.
for the guilty old, and the account rules.
a local man
that I had some thoughts of Showing at the Star Theatre of medical At the meeting on July 22,
practitioners. Mr. is balanced. And then she goes to Rule 77 was removed from the through Professor Mackall's volume
was looking turning my gallery into an for the last time this evening is Mustapha Bin Osman qualified in sleep again and gives another substituted:
Statute Book and the following of "Select Epigrams" with refer
ark, and began to pack up a little Baby Peggy's first big picture, 1924. pair of bantams, a pair of "The Darling of New York, a ence to various renderings into The China Mil. period of credit, with the same
blending 1-Any pony bred in any place. English from the Greek Anthology.
cuts, in short, a pair of production
comedy, His many friends in the Far result. Hongkong, has seen this
every Uving creature about pathos, mystery and surprise. East will learn with interest and in which China ponies have He was greatly struck by the process in the past, as.
hitherto been bred and ae-
my house: but it is grown
pleasure that the name of Captain beauty of Meleager's epitaph, KOROKORO, BATUIDAT, August 9, 1994 epidemic records amply prove, and
quired through channels Here is Professor Mackail's literal
fine at last, and the work-Six cases of typhold were noti-R. H. Griffio, O.B.E., RD., skipper
fied to the Medical Officer of of the P. & O. version: Tread softly,
men quit my gallery to-day Health on the 7th inst. Of these 2 cluded In the last list of Royal through which China ponies
is in-1 Dongola" the question again arises is the
0 have hitherto been acquired stranger; for here an old man
without hoisting a sail in it.
were British, 2 Chinese, I Scot- Naval Reserve promotions from! NATURE'S CREDITS,
Colony still asking unduly large whose height does not exhilled in the slumber due to all sleeps among the holy dead,
Walpole.
tich, Japanese. Five of these Commander to Captain, the high- credits of Nature. Frankly we ceed 18 hands 2 inches, Meleager, son of Eucrates, who WHY SHOULD WE LEARN
cases occurred in Victoria, the est rank it is possible to attain la Drawing the moral for political feel that it is--and we fear the
fractions of an inch to count united love of the sweet tears and
other in Shaukiwan.
this branch of the service. Cap- tain Griffin is well-known in these nežence, which he avers has been possible results. That our
anxiety
to the Chinese waters, and it will be remembered is well founded can easily be -recklessly neglected by Govern-
ents and electorates during his proved. So long ago as January fe-time, Bernard Shaw enlarges have the Colony's rural districts of last year, Dr. Koch, seeking to pon Nature's way of dealing with brought under Sanitary Board mbealthy conditions. Nature, he control, raised the whole question mys demoralizes us with long of, our health laws.
During the credits, and reckless overdrafts, discussion that followed the "sand then pulls us up cruelly. One Medical Officer (Dr. W. W. Pearse) tance he gives common declared there were many things mestic sanitation.. A whole city in the Public Health and Building eneration may neglect it utterly Ordinance which failed from the
in favour of the pony, shall the Muses, with the joyous Graces;
same.
GREEK?
According
be eligible to compete in any whom God begotten Tyre brought There is a story which may Press, Mr. Lu Cheung-halang, that his Order of the British race reserved for China to manhood, and the sacred land have been invented by enemies of Chinese Delegate to the League Empire was an honour only recently ponies, with this exception: of Gadars, but lovely Cos nursed Classical education: An English of Nations, that ponies measuring 18 la old age among the Meropes. bishop is said to have given three the Peking Cabinet, reporting that service whilst in command of the has telegraphed awarded him for his excellent hends 3 inches or over which But if thou art a Syrian, say Salam reasons for, the study of Greek. he has engaged for the Trademarks have raced in Hongkong and if a Phoenician, Naidios, and The first was that it enables you will leave for China in a few days commander to captain were made Dongola at the time of the Bureau three foreign advisors who earthquake. Five promotions from pravious to the Annual Greek, Hall: they are the to read the New Testament in the Meeting, 1924, shall be
Born Nomluk
original; the second, that a know- Evening Service is being hald eligible to compete in any
ledge of Greek gives you a plea in the Peak Church on the Sun A statement AISY raca reserved for China CONIFERS cently made in the sant sense of superiority over days in August at 6.30 pm panies.. 2-The weight for China garding the acquiring of a site
Kew Bulletin, other people and the third, that conducted by the following:
at a knowledge of Greek often leads August 10, Rev. G. R. Lindsay ponies, subject to the pre-Bedgebury, about ton miller cast of ta positions of considerable emolur, Rev. Dr. J. P. Mackie; 24, Rov. ceding Rule shall be 1140 Tunbridge Wells and twelve miles mant,
J. Northcott, CITE 31, Rev. H. pounds for 12 hands with south of Maidsone, England for
Copley Moyla
Viscount Finlay,
were captains in the service of the at the same time, three of which P. & O. They are, as well as Captain Griff, Captain C. P Cooper, D.RE, R.D., and Captain G.H. S. Furlong, RD., both of whom have commanded vessels in these waters at one time or another in the past RATE