FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1927.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THANKS TO CANADA. 20 OUNCES OF BILE. A “FAMILY CINEMA." 12 YEARS RECORD.
PREMIER ON VALUE OF HIS
WITY A GRASS CUTTER DIED.
VISIT.
SPIRIT AND OPTIMISM.
London, Yesterday.
Mr. Baldwin has addressed the
mier of Canada.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY,
IMPROVEMENTS AT "WORLD" THEATRE.
.SPANISH MAIN ROMANCE.
The death of a grass cutter The re-decoration of the "World"
PORTUGUESE MUTUAL AID
SOCIETY,
YESTERDAY'S REVIEW..
The need for
more interest
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”
"Entertainments.
August 26--Queen's
following telegram to the Pre-named Lam Tok was the subject Theatre, which has just been com being evinced in the Society by "Sandy."
of an inquest held by Mr. R. E. pleted, also the improvement in the Portuguese residents of the Colony August 26-World "I am deeply indebted for the Lindsell and a jury at the Central orchestra, is in keeping with the was stressed at the annual meet "Captain, Riood." generous welcome and unbounded Magistracy yesterday afternoon. Progressive policy of the manageing yesterday at the Club Lusitano
ment of the Des Voeux Road cinema
Theatre,
Theatre;
August 26-Star Theatre, Kow- loon; "Dance Madness."
August 26, 27-Theatre Royal, Charles Chamber presents the new Our Cabaret, in "The Disorderly Room," 9.15 p.m.
August 26- St. Peter's Church
The man went to the Govern- where the high standard set in re of the Associacao Portuguesa de hospitality given to Mrs. Baldwin
Mutuos (Portuguese and myself and to all my party in ment Civil Hospital on August 17 cent film programmes is to be main-Socorros Canada during three happy and suffering from pains in the abtained for the benefit allke of Chi- Mutual Aid Society).
The President of the Society, memorable weeks. As my first domen and was operated upon, nese and European patrons.
There were large attendances at Mr. C. A. da Roza, was in the act on returning to London, I but died that same night. His
yesterday's showing of Rafael Chair, supported by Mr. J. M. should like to express to you name was entered in the hospital Sabatini's famous romance of the Alves (Vice-President), Mr. J. A. whist drive, Cathedral Hall. 8.30 again, and through you to your register through a misunder- Spanish Main, "Captain Blood," d'Almelde (Hon. Secretary), Mr. p.m. colleagues in the Government, to standing with the ward officer as which is the principal feature to- Fernando E. d'Almada Remedies August 27-The 7 Players Con- every one, who helped us and in- Chung Chun, 40, grass cutter. day and to-morrow.
(Hon. Treasurer), and the follow-cert Party Taikoo Club, 9 p.m. At the 6.15 and 9,20 perform-ing members of the Committee:- August 28 Band Concert at deed to all Canada, my most sin- After death the body was kept cere and heartfelt thanks. It is a for three days, when as it had ances, which are favoured chiefly Mesars. A. F. Osmund, D. P. J Kowloon Docks, & p.m.
August 29--Concert in St. special pleasure to feel that not been claimed, the body was by Europeans, the orchestra is in Lopes, M. A. Simoes, C. de M. CV through membership of His handed over to the Tung Wah attendance and at the 2.80 and 7.16 Ribeiro, F. H. Barnes, and P. M. N. Patrick's Catholic Club (5 Garden Majesty's Privy Council for Hospital authorities who buried performances, the management has da Silva. There was a small at Road), 8 p.m.
arranged for the services of a Chl-tendance of members.
October 1~H.K.
W.G. & Canada with which I have been the man on August 20 as Chung nese interpreter.
The Chairman commented on the M.C.L.'s "Fun o The Fair," Lee chair coolie honoured I shall have hence- Chun. Later
The "World" Theatre thus takes small membership of the Society Gardens. forward permarient association friend of the deceased made en-a place in the Colony much akin to
Sports. with the fortunes and future of quiries about Lam Tok at the the place of the "family cinemas compared with the numbers of
Portuguese residents. The year August 26-Ping Pong League: Tung Wah Hospital, and as that at Home which show popular plc Anished with a membership of 206 St. Peter's Club V. C.A.A. name was not known there, the tures at popular prices. puzzled coolie reported his friend's disappearance to the police. Police enquiries led to
the Dominion.
"I came to Canada with two thoughts uppermost in my mind. The first was to endeavour to interpret the spirit of Great Bri- tain. If I have in any way suc- the identification of Chung Chun WONDERFUL HOUSE. Ing in that sympathy which
TAKEN BY MR. LIONEL DE
ROTHSCHILD.
and as 93 of these were persons re-(Y.M.C.A.) sident in Macao and Canton the August 27-Ping Pong League: figures showed that their comHop Ying Club v. C.R.C. (S.C.A.A.) patriots in Hong Kong were lack August 27-Hong Kong Baseball not League: Japanese V. Filipino, only the Society's objects but also Happy Valley Diamond, 4 p.m. ceeded I shall be proud indeed. with Lam Tok.
its record proved it to be worthy of The second was to learn all I could The first witness called at the
Lammert's Auctions. of Canada that I might when I inquest was Dr. Phoon Sik-wa,
Encouraging Portuguese,
August 27-At the Hong Kong returned help in some measure to M.B., B.S. (Hong Kong Univer-
& Kowloon Taxicab Co., Ltd.'a The Chairman referred to interpret her to my countrymen.sity) the medical officer who per-
various grants which had been Garage, Sallabury Road, Kowloon, That task is for the days which formed the operation on the de-
Motor Cars, Machinery, etc., The "Daily Express" under-made to students to further the are coming. I have done my best ceased. In his evidence he said stands that Mr. Lionel de Roths-course of their studies, and to the damaged by typhoon, 11 a.m. to learn. I can send no better that he had had some experience child, a partner in the famous fin-progress made by many of them, August 29-At 3, Minden wish to Canada than that when in Guy's Hospital, London, and ancial firm of N. M. Rothschild also to the large grants from the Avenue, Kowloon, household furni- next a Prime Minister of Great was a registered medical practi- and Sons, has taken a wonderful Benevolent Fund.
The Society ture, 11 a.m.
August 29-At 74A, Nathan Rd, Britain visits her, he may find tioner in Hong Kong, having new town house in Kensington was doing all it could to encourage the same spirit and the same qualified five years ago,
the learning of Portuguese by Kowloon, household furniture, 2.45 optimism I have found in this
into his new home from his pre-shape, of scholarships and sub-
providing books, prizes in the P.m.
August 30-At 6, Cambay Bldgs., year of the Diamond Jubilee of the Confederation-British Wire-
In answer to the Coroner, the sent residence in Park Street in sidies to St. Joseph's College and lat floor Kowloon, household furni- less Service.
witness said that he was on the the middle of October.
the Italian Convent. The Portu-ture, 2.45 p.m. The house No. 18, formerly guese classes conducted at the September 15-At Lammert Bros.' staff of the Hong Kong Univer- occupied by Lord Lee of Fare-new school in Hamuntin, conduct Sales Room, valuable properties in sity. During the last five years ham, who vacated it last April-ed by the sisters of Our Lady of the New Territories, 3 p.m. he had performed a large num-
Meetings. ber of operations at the Govern-is one of the finest in this magni-Angels, had also been subsidised
August 26-Fortieth ficent thoroughfare. When the recently to 11 ment Civil Hospital either by renovations and improvements Classes in Portuguese under the meeting of members of the H.K. himself or with the help of now in progress are concluded it direction of others. He added that since will rank with the most palatial d'Almeida and Julio Gonsalves, Ltd. (top floor), 5.30 p.m.
Messrs. Januario Football Club, n the offices of Mesara. Jardine. Matheson & Co., Professor Digby, Professor of homes in London.
also those of Miss Gonsalves, had Surgery at the University, went
been well reported on by the Con-
"BOOK OF FRANCE."
TO SHOW APPRECIATION OF
BRITAIN.
WAR TIME EFFORTS.
past and present, specially pre- pared to mark French apprecia- tion of Britain's part in the war. British Wireless Service.
Gall Bladder.
on leave, the witness as senior assistant had acted for the Pro- fessor.
Palace Gardens.
--
He will move
Victorian Style,
/
Mr. de Rothschild has given orders that the Victorian style of
moderate extent.
ernment of Macin
After referring to the Portuguese
08
annual
August 27- Meeting of H.K.
Miscellaneous.
RUM RUNNING.
PROHIBITION AUTHORITIES
SCORE HEAVILY.
sul for Portugal to whom was given Realty & Trust Co., Ltd., Exchange the task of supervision by the Gov-Bldg. 11.30 am,
September 6-Annual meeting of The Society London, Yesterday.
Hong Kong Philharmonic Society Sir Austen Chamberlain leaves
Dealing with the deceased, the his new house shall not be inter. was deeply indebted to that Goat St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30|
ernment for the continuation of i London on Tuestiny next for Paris witness said that he was sent for fered with by the improvements. the subsidy out of which the pm. on his way to Geneva for a meet- at 9 p.m., on August 17 by the However, the oak panelling from enlaries of the teachers were met.
August 28-Memoria! service ing of the League of Nations house physician at the Govern- his ballroom in Park Street will be which opens the following Thurs-ment Civil Hospital to deal with removed to the ballroom in Ken- Library in the care of the Club for Late Wor, Bro. D. C. Logan, day. On Wednesday at Paris as an urgent case. He saw a Chin-sington Palace Gardens.
Lusitano which was available for Zetland Masonic Hall, 10 a.m.
August 28-Theosophical Society the representative of Great Bri- ese whose name was given to the A "Daily Express" representa- use the Chairman thanked Mrs. tain he will be presented with a witness as Chung Chun, The tive found a small army of work- Osmund and Mr. d'Almeida on be bathing picnic for members and copy of the "Book of France" man complained of pains in the men busy on the premises during half of the Society for their grati- friends, launch leaving Blake Pier which is an epitome of France's stomach. After diagnosis, the mail week. All the forty bed-tuous servicce in assisting the little at 3.46 p.m.
Convent at Homuntin in the study witness concluded *hat the rooms, the ten bathrooms, and of the Portuguese language. The patient was suffering from gall numerous reception rooms are work of Mr. Max Remedios bladder, and that an immediate undergoing decorative treatment. Treasurer was also referred· ́to operation was necessary. Wit- The total cost of these alterations with appreciation. ness was assisted in the operation will be somewhere between The deaths of two members dur- by Dr. Yeoh, while Dr. Bau ad- £20,000 and £30,000.
ing the year in the persons of ministered the anaesthetic, a An electric lift (although the Manuel Pedro dos Remedios and MOUNTAIN TRAGEDY mixture of chloroform and ether building is only of three storeys) Elias Maria Xavier were referred to
New York, Aug. 14. which was administered in the is being fitted and a luxurious win- with regret and the Chairman refer- 'open way.'
Prohibition authorities scored ter garden constructed. Up-to- Bishop Nunes and Bishop Valtorta heavily during the past 24 hours The operation confirmed the date garages are being erected at who had joined the Society during and captured liquor cargoes whose witness's diagnosis. The gall the back. The garden, as is the the year."
value, if landed, would have put a bladder was very much distended case with most gardens in the dis-
Sound Financial Position. cool million dollars into the and contained twenty ounces of trict, is small in comparison with It is feared that 15 persons decomposed bile. In the case of the size of the house.
Reviewing the finances of the pockets of the boot-leggers. The have been killed and 20 seriously a normal person, witness said,
For old-time magnificence, Society, the Chairman stated that largest single haul came from the injured by the derailment of a the bladder could hold only two coupled with modern comfort and the Society, since its inception had freighter "Ansonia" upon which train on the mountain railway ounces of bile. There was also efficiency, there will be few Lon-collected the handsome sum of over were 7,000 cases of prime (uncut) from Chamonix to Mer de Glace. a stone under one of the pipes. don houses to compare with No. $95,000 of which about $30,000 scotch. The engine and a carriage with This stone, as the post mortem 18, Kensington Palace Gardens 50 tourists fell 50 feet down the afterwards revealed, was not very mountain.-Reuter.
hard. Witness only removed the bile and decided to allow the stone, to remain as it would gol later by itself.
TOURIST TRAIN BERAILED NEAR CHAMONIX.
Chamonix, Yesterday.
GEORGIA TO BRAZIL.
START ON 4,600 MILE NON-STOP
FLIGHT.
The deceased collapsed while the gall bladder was being sewn up after the operation.
Not Likely to Die.
next October.
FAMOUS PICTURE.
SIR JOSEPH DUVEEN'S GIFT.
E
Sir Joseph Duveen offered to
red to the welcome afforded to
leaving capital funds in the hands was seized with its cargo of liquor had been paid out in subsidies, The British trawler "Sebastopol" of the Society to-day of $59,010.98 and 74 arrests were made during after meeting the expenses of the the day of rum runners.--"China twelve years, amounting "to an
Press." average of $650 per annum.
Financially, stated the Chairman. the Society was sound. The Com- mittee, with pardonable pride re garded the Society, although it was not supported as it might have. been or should be, as the most suc- cessful Portuguese organisation of an associative character in the Fàr East.
BUSES COLLIDE.
A collision occurred in Kowloon yesterday between a Military 6- wheel Morris lorry and a bus be- longing to the China 'Bus Com-
The
Brunswick (Georgia), Yesterday, By the Coroner: The witness Flying a Stimson-Detroit mono- did not think that the patient was plane "Port of Brunswick." the likely to die as the result of the the National Gallery, the choice of Exclusive of interest earned by pany. The bus was some four aviator Paul Redfern started from operation, which lasted under an a picture from the recently pur- the respective Funds, the general yards in front of the lorry when the beach at Glyn Isle on a 4,600 hour. As soon as the patient chased Benson Collection, now on income for the expenses amounting it pulled to the centre of the road mile, non-stop flight to Brazil.
exhibition at Manchester, and from which the expenses amounting to pass another stationary bus. Janeiro. He hopes at least to reach was applied and injections made, trustees have selected the famous $4,800.63 which we have transfer lorry driver had no time to pull up Redfern's objective is Rio de collapsed, artificial respiration after careful consideration the to $750.93 must be deducted leaving The lorry followed. Suddenly the
the surplus for the year at bus-stopped dead in front. Pernambuco and will try for the but the patient died in spite of painting of "Christ taking Leave red to the various funds in the pro-and it crashed into the rear of the long distance and endurance record. these efforts to bring him round. of His Mother," by Correggio. -Reuter's American Service. It was the witness's opinion that
portion called for by the regula bus which was badly damaged, the if the operation was not perform as the most attractive and inter-
This has long been recognised ttons.
tall light being smashed. The ed at once, the patient would have eating among all Correggio's early
lorry had its crank handle driven died that night. As far as the works.
Into the radiator. witness knew he had never pré-
SHELL DRIERS FINED.
Mr. W. E. Hollands, Land Bailiff
viously had a patient die while | --- under anaesthetic.
charged two Chinese women. be Dr. Bau Tsu-zung, M.B., B.S., aggravated by the operation and large increase in membership, overdose of Chinese medicine, a
of the P.W.D., this *morning
Medical Evidence,
The Viva-tonal Columbia
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ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING,
CALDBECK'S
A Co-Operative Scheme? In conclusion; the Chairman thought the attention of the incom- ing Committee should be engaged on an extensive propaganda for a
As the result of drinking an fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell with tres said he qualified at the Hong Kong the anaesthetic.
scheme for the insurance of Insur Chinese was yesterday taken to able members for a pass on Crown land in Hospital University in May 1926. Between
moderate Road. It was stated that the au- July 1928 and the present month
the Government Civil Hospital from amount, the establishment in Kow- No. 42 Queen's Road East. Не thorities at the Government Givil he had administered anaesthetics Dr. Mustapha bin Osman, as-loon of a store on co-operative prin- died at the hospital at 2.20 this Hospital had complained about the in no fewer than 500 cases, and sistant Professor of Pathology meet present day conditions.
ciples and alteration of rules to morning. women drying coconut shells in the this case was the first one in and Bacteriology at the Hong" Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro re- vicinity of the hospital, and this which a patient had died under Kong University, gave evidence ferred to the disappointing strength constituted a nuisance because it anaesthetic. Sometimes patients of holding the post mortem and of membership compared to what caused the breeding of files which had showed signs of collapse, but said that the cause of death as it might be. It was not right to invade the wards of the hospital. The defendants had been warned always managed to pull through given by the previous witness approach the question of member- several times but without effect. In the witness's opinion the de- was consistent with his examina ship from the point of view of what
one would get out of it but to bear WANTED. To purchase a Black The Magistrate imposed a fine of censed had a weak heart, and if tone, Medical to mind, the benefits which would
each and warned the defendants the case had not been an urgent Dr. D. J. Valentine, Medical be derived by deserving members of Carved preferred. Reply to
wood, or Cherrywood bedstead. that if they were caught commit- one, witness would not have Officer at the Government Civil the Portuguese community. ting the same offence again they agreed to act as anaesthetist. He Hospital expressed the opinion tion of the reports and accounts.
The Chairman moved, the adop Box 660. would be fined $5.
decided to take the risk because that the actions of Drs. Phoon My FX d'Almada Remedios the patient was bound to die durand Bau were reasonable. He seconded, and the motion was car Ing the night if the operation was would have done the same thing ried unanimously.4709 7 FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT: not performed. There was a bet himself under similar circum- A ballot was taken amongst the A cry in the night, griping pains inter chance of his surviving the stances. He considered that both members, and the President and the vitals, cramps, weakening dlar: operation than the disease. The Drs. Phoon and Bau were ex- other officials of the Committee, Thess; whether child or adult, there cause of death the witness attri-perienced surgeons
as well as the members of the Com
above, were re-elected. ME
is immediate comfort and ease from buted to heart failure due to The jury returned a verdict of mitee, whose names app pain in Chamberlain's Colle and Diar shock, which might have been death in accordance with medical Roza was elected anditor for the Thota Remedy. It pays to keep t always on hand." For sale everya, bern; caused by the abdominal pain evidence.
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