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In the street I witnessed two LADY BOUNTIFUL. police officers on point duty 'actual- ly firing crackera in company with youths and amall boys. My com- plaint is not directed at them.
I saw in more than ten dif-
£200,000 TO HELP SCOTS STUDENTS.
ferent places the actions of PRINCELY BENEFACTIONS. dangerous individuals. These
PRAPS-PRAF 3 NOT!
There are Inks of faith and hope at Fanling this week.
An elderly man was cycling down. "
persons persistently throw The will of the late Mrs. lighted firecrackers at women Marryat, sister of the late Sir the street when a dog rushed across and girls who passed by; or for James Caird, Bt., of Dundee, and the read and, getting under the sheer devilry directed their heir to his large fortune, provides front wheel, threw him on the missiles, either from the street, for the following public be ground in a sitting position, pavement or verandahs, at un-quests:- fortunate people who walked
Immediately a crowd collected, £100,000-To the Town Council int range before the explosion. of Dundee, to be funded, and the and the dog, excited by so many At the junction of the Cen-income utilised in the acquisition people, rushed round and round the tral and Western Praya of land in or around the boun- velist, seeming to enjoy it. witnessed two attempts, happi-daries of the city of Dundee, "Did you have an accident or ly unsuccessful, to throw light- ed firecrackers inte passing for the foundation of travelling dience.
£200,000-To a separate trust something?" asked one of the au-
scholarships in engineering, elec- "Oh, no," retorted the old fellow.
mots cars.
•
I beg to concur with Mr. Lind-tricity, aeronautics, and music, to "I threw myself down so that I sell's view that indiscriminate be eligible only to natives of Scot- could play with the dog!" prosecution is unwarranted, espe- land. cially of cases where firecrackers Nurses Home, Dundee.
£20,000-To the Caird Jubilee The steamer was crossing the (in long strings or squibs) are
Channel, and the sea was very.. lighted purely for ceremonial or Institute for the Blind.
£5,000-To the Royal Dundee choppy. One of the stewarda notic- religious motives; but encourage-i
ed an old lady looking very pale ment of the ubiquitous youngster sidue of Mrs. Marryat's estate
The will provides that the re-and leaning against the rall
"Come below, mother," he said bent on mischief is dangerous to shall be divided into two parts, kindly, "Your teeth are chattering the public at large. Why did not the one half paid to the governors with cold." the Police pay more attention to the latter category? Arresta on funded for the purposes of that sternly, and replied:-
of Dundee Royal Infirmary, to be The old woman looked at him most straightforward facts were institution and of the Sidlaw begging to be made and were yet Sanatorium, while the other half are in my pocket."
"Don't tell Hes, laddle; my teeth Ignored by officers on duty,
Whether my letter proves of directed to be paid to and any avail or not. I humbly pray schemes for the benefit of Scot-fallen
Institutions and among such that Police or Fire Department tish soldiers and sailors disabled experts will inquire into the com-in war as her trustees shall ponents of firecrackers on sale.
decide.
This year there seems to have been a concentration on the part Marryat are the last of a series of These dispositions by Mrs.
arches?" "What's good for my wife's
"Rubber koels.”
"What shall I rub 'em with?"
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LTO. of manufacturers to increase the princely benefactions to the city boarded a first-class carriage on the
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ero to be lured away from their money, for he admits that gam-j bling la winked at on racecourses and even connived at. He goes so far as to say that it cannot be suppressed while human nature remains what it is. Which is un- fortunate.
with spats, "muttonchopa," and
A pompous elderly man, complete -
tances in firecrackers, with all of Dundee during recent years by London district railway. the more noise, the longer range, (Sir James Caird), which totalled Mrs. Marryat and her brother and the greater danger of hurting people. The louder the effect, the over £400,000, more attractive the selling pro duct-seems to have been the policy followed.
ETIA'S FOLLY.
-£2 ON £5,000 BRACELET.
topper, by whom they squeezed. themselves into a Beat, peered at them dubiously over his glasses. and at last said, with a slight cough:-
"Er this ja
I ask you, Sir, in all serious- ness to say when does cracker-WAITER ASKS FOR LOAN OF carriage." firing for bona-fide celebration or ceremonial purposes cease to be a legalised necessity and becomes an evil, a nuisance and a danger to others,
I have just as much right to
HE MISSED THE BOAT,
first-class
"Good!" replied the other, with out even deigning to look round. "Me and my mate feel first-class this morning."
And an ordinary, genial, third-
Etia Novello (37), an Italian waiter, is rather an unlucky fel-class grin appeared on every face Other arguments of a general burn firecrackers. How far are more about diamonds.
live in a street as persons who ow. He is now wishing he knew in the compartment. nature are advanced by this they entitled morally and legally He picked up a diamond brace-
་་
"Good morning!" said the film
editor. In one plece, for instance, to go before they infringe the let at a London club. The brace-producer, and noticed that his visi law? I purposely say "infringe let was worth about £5,000. he regrets that hound racing the law hecause consideration Going to a jeweller, Etia aaked to had a cast in her eye.
"And what can I do for you?”
let.
months.
part."
.
The vlear made a bad break the other day. At the close of the an them he rose to preach, and tact- Icaaly chose the text, "Now when the noise had ceased-"
should have been extended to for others is not so easily defin-him for a loan of £2 on the brace- China when the problem is caus-able.
"I read in the paper that you're ing the British Government at
Gaming: Sound common sense
That set things going, of going to do a now film, said the Home such grave concern. In an- a flutter at New Year. The view
tels one that most Chinese have course, and at Marlborough Street visitor, "and. I wondered whether Police Court, London, Novello you'd let me play the pleading. other he asserts that the chasing taken by the learned Magistrate was sent to prison for two
"I am sorry," returned the pro. of an electric hare is a travesty of at Kowloon, Mr. W. Schofield, is sport. His regard for the morals
highly commendable.
What is making Etia more ducer, "but I am afraid the cast in Mr. Lindsell, as the Senior that an advertisement appeared Give me the leading part and ad- of the Chinese of Shanghai, how-Magistrate, has previously ex-
crestfallen than ever, however, is your eye precludes that."
"Rubbish!" snapped the lady.. ever, has, in this respect, proved pressed the opinion that the in various newspapers offering a
vertise the film as containing an of no avail. He railed in the first essence of the Gambling Ordin reward of £450 for the recovery instance at the proposed constitu- complained of is one purely of ance is not whether the game
all-star. cast," of the bracelet.
The bracelet belonged to Mrs. tion of the course in' the French chance-as distinct from those Arthur Bendir, who is a well- Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 27. 128. Concession, the Champ de Courses with an element of skill-
but known racehorse owner. Francais. Since then he has been view all the attendant circum- whether the premises, taking into advised of the existence of the stances, .constitute Greyhound Association (China) gaming house with possible bene- SEAMAN CHARGED. Ltd., which has been alive for fit or gain to the keeper(s) and/or Shanghai will be sorry to hear
other persons. This has acquired some time. that Tientsin is sorry that grey-property in the International broad-minded and fair but also Such an opinion is not only hound racing is to be introduced Settlement, and our poor editor typical of British justice. Yes- At the Central Magistracy before into the Model Settlement. It is is faced with the prospect of see-Second Polles Magistrate, Major Chinese seaman named Ho Tin Jones, the other evening, after
terday a case came up before the Major C. Willson this morning, a not Tientsin, however, that is ing, five courses established. in C. Willson, OR.E., where about a (32), whose address is given as reading in the evening paper an Shanghai. What he will do about dozen Chase needed guilty to No. 50, Hollywood Road, second account of the wedding of a popu it we cannot say, though the least playing pai kau in a shop in the floor, was charged on two counts of lar member of the local cricket serted chapter on the evil in the dants, who all had good employ tones. we may expect is a specially in that the assembly of the defen-two Chinese women by false pre-ating tone, "marriage is very much central district.. It was not denied attempting to obtain money from tear, "but," he added, in a rumin-
next issue of his Year Book! ment, arose out of the usual New
Year festive spirit.
GOING TO THE DOGS.
really sorry; it is the editor of the "Peking and Tientsin Times,"" though this is almost the same thing. He is sorry that the poor Chinese of Shanghai are going to the dogs, that they are to be given further opportunities to gamble and become more wicked. It would, he considers, be more appropriate in a city which for
CORRESPONDENCE.
OF THE LAW.
a common
FALSE PRÉTENCES ALLEGED.
'But the choir got their own back. At the end of the long, prosy ser mon they rose and spontaneously burst into the anthem, "And when we awoke from our sleep,"
"Well, I wish him luck," said Mr.
like cricket."
The first charge was that the ac- "Don't be se ridiculous." snapped cused on divers dates between De- Mrs. Jones, "However can you
KYLE
My little boy, whatever are you Lady (to little boy crying):
crying for?"
Little Boy: "Father beat me!" Lady: "Beat you! What for?"
Drunk in the afternoon." word puzzle, and the clue was Little Boy: "I was doing a cross-
I put
Yet His Worship imposed cember 29, 1927 and January 25, compare cricket to marriage" fines of $50 and $25 respective first floor, pretended to the com-so easy to those who haven't tried 1928, at No. 32, Hollywood Road, "Why," replied Jones, "it looks ly on two of the defendants for plainant (So Kiu) that he had been it." being "keepers. of a common authorised by three Chinese (rela- several years past has been living [ALLEGED INCONSISTENCIES
gaming house."
tives of the complainant) who are on a volcano, to restrict rather
This so-called gaming house de-detained at Shanghai, to collect pends almost entirely on Euro- $4,000 to pay for the release of the than augment the facilities for
pean patronage, was on the three detained men.. gambling, and he points to the ITo the Editor of the "China Mail") ground floor of a busy thorough- The second charge, which awful consequences that will Sir, My little knowledge of fare and accessible to anybody similarly worded, alleges that the follow the institution of grey- the law coupled with what experi- Can Police energy in this dec- December 29, 1927, and January 22, who wished to make a purchase. accused on divers dates between hound courses. "The British ence I have gained of the Press in tion be' reconciled with magis- 1928, at No. 17, Staunton Street, Dad, and it was ''"ter"'" ・
two continents tempts me to draw terial disapproval of firecracker second floor, attempted to ob prblic attention to recent incon sistencies in the Colony's Police prosecutions? Add to this poser tain $4,000 from the complainant Courts.
A comparatively heavy fine by the (Chan Luk) on the same pretext. Warder · (entering condemned Firecrackerai
Bench and the inconsistency is The learned Senior Magistrate states that he But only last Christmas Mr. Detective Sergeant Donovan, who questi
Accused claimed that he had been cell): "There is no hope of a ro- complete.
authorised to raise the money. prieve, is not in sympathy with Police Lindsell exercised his discretion-prosecuted, applied for three days!
What is your last re- prosecutions for alleged infringe ary power and dealt very remand pending the arrival of the plane."
Convlet: "I would like to learn tions during the China New Year for something which in the moral who are due here to-morrow ments of the firecracker regula leniently with a defendant-up "vital witnesses" from Shanghai, period. In spite of such dis- if not legal code is more serious. The accused was accordingly re-to a man who was employed to ad- encouragement I submit that the than playing pai kau merely be manded for three days in police vertise on the street: "Pardon me, A well-meaning pedestrian sald Police policy is much too weak cause it was the day before the custody. it matter? All sorts of silly ques- From what has transpired, as
for prevailing conditions. festive season of Christmas. tlons regarding China are being reported in the Press the Police and apologise for occupying your I beg. Sir, to enclose my card asked in Parliament on almost Department appears to have paid time and space. every day of the week, nulsance which has grown into an only scanty attention to A Not content with this warning evil regarding what may be said at As a resident of over, thirty Home, this editor from his nice years' standing, I had occasion little office In goody-goody Tiensk for Folice attention to a num
for the Arst time in my life to tsin sternly reminds us that gamber of young men who for several that a fire at Strathisla Estate, chester Reform Club, said, "As visible of the goddesses.
Au, Inch correspondent states given in his honour by the Man-knees which are not always in- bling in any form is an offence hours threw lighted firecrackers Jelapang gutted the smoke house for the extension of the franchise Touching on peace Lord Hewart
Government," he says, "will soon be asked in Parliament whether the Defence Force has been des patched to, and retained in, Shanghai for the purpose of pro tecting greyhound racecourses, and thus encouraging gambling among the Chinese population." Of course the British Government may be asked this, but what does
Yours, etc.,
Hong Kong, Jan 27
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KNEES OF FATE.
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Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice, speaking at a dinner
under the Chinese penal code, the street to the level of my containing rubber valued at well, you remember that said that after the great blood- This consideration he has the intolerable Within a quarter of Mr. E T. M. Lias. Senior Master, be incon the knees of the gods.forehand, in all goodwill and with Homer, when he refers to future letting of the war, they perceived good sense to see, however, is not an hour following my report the Raffles Institution. Singapore, who suspect that if Homor were careful and patient deliberation, uncertain events says that they the necessity of discovering be one which will weigh over-much nuisance was abated. Several had been spending a holiday in alive to-day he might perhaps be the seeds of possible fature con
hours later I was driven out of the Penang with Mra Lias, returned to with the wicked racecourse pro house by a recurrence of the the Southern Settlement by the tempted to reconsider his phrase, fict in order to remove them for moters or the poor Chinese who
and to say that they lie upon the ever,
nuisance..
B.U.Kinta