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ACME STEEL STRAPS
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EXHIBITION
FOR TEN DAYS ONLY from 9 am to 5. p.m..
of delightful
PICTURES WATER COLOURS and PACTIS.
by the foremost artists of Japan. The Pastels are all suitably framed.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1928.
FOURTH YEAR.
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Debit Reduction.
PRAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
"How did you Taake yourTM money?"
"I formed a partnership with a rich man."
Government but merely the THE righteous and just act of a" Gov- ernment that knowe sound from spurious legislation and is not afraid to act in accordance with equity and justice. By virtue of the Declaration of 1922 the Brl- We have on this occasion ap- tish Government has every right plied the amount of $55,500, to net as they have just done, and shown in the last statement as no absurd ideas on the part of "premium on shares' account,” in the Egyptians as to self-deter- the first place to write off the mination could possibly cause the items of $5,618.52 preliminary British, Government to act other-expenses and $10,000 underwrit-
"He had the money and I had tho› wise. That the Egyptians are ing commission, and the balance, experience." not lost entirely to political together with the net credit
"And was it a successful busi sanity is evident from the fact balance from the fire, marine and ness for you?" that they have decided to shelve accident departments, has been "Immensely so. the obnoxious Biil-at least for applied to the credit of profit and solved partnership a year later I the present. They will do even loss. The debit to profit and loss had the money and he had the ex- better to drop it entirely.
is reduced from $116,382 to perience."
AND ASSURE
A PERFECT FIT
BANISHEE THIEF SMARTLY DEALT WITH TO-DAY.
PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS.
PRICE $17.50.
'WHITE WEBBING BELTS"
FITTED
WITH NON-
THE SPORTEX": WHITE WEB TENNIS BELT
RUSTING
BUCKLES
VERY DURABLE WASHABLE WEBBING WIDTH 1/2"
S
WHITLAWAYS STANDARD VALUE
$47,243. This substantial redue-
tion, the elimination of the two items referred to, and the reduc-
"How did you do it?”
Torendor "Ah,
When we
dis...
senorita, to--
ATTEMPT TO BRIBE. tion in the life establishment ac-night I will steal beneath your count indicate an improved posi balcony and sing you . Kweet tion. We think that on the whole serenade." progress has been at least as satisfactory as we had reason to hope, and we say, consider we have left our most difficult, years behind.
before
Company's Articles,
Consuello-"Do. drop you a flower."
And I will
"Ah, in a moment of mnd love?" "No, In a pot.”
$10850
the
on, Mary," sald tancher, bring your paper to me.",
flaming cheeks, handed the teacher Mary, with downcast eyes and
a alip of paper bearing the words "Daddy and Tommy Jones."
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A Chinese was charged
It is felt that the position of Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central
the company is now such that the
The teacher, wishing to Magistracy this morning, with the manager will be able to take his the interest of her Sunday school theft of a jacket containing leave without prejudice to the class, asked them to write down: watch and 77 cents from No. 6 company's interests, and he pro- the names of their favourite Tong Loong-street. The owner of poses on his return journey, in hymna. All the pupils handed in: the jackot saw the accused snatch six months' time, to visit the their slips but one. it through the lattice work over southern agencies with a view to #Come the staircase and then bolt down-consolidating our interests there. stairs. Chase was given and the During his absence Mr. E. R. Dis Childe, the assistant secretary accused was stopped by a trict Watchman, to whom he offer will assume charge of the com- ed the watch and the 77 cents to pany.. overlook the matter and let him go.
After the Magistrate had convict- As you are aware we have dur cd, 'Sub-Inspector Cargili, in charge, ing the year altered the com- of Police Records, proved that the pany's articles, and the business accused had had several previous convictions and was banished for ten years on February 4 this year.
The Magistrate paased sentence of three months hard labour each of the two charges of theft and offering a bribe, the terms to pressed in these columns, that the run consecutively. In addition, the accused was ordered a further six sons of Nippon will stand no non-months' hard labour for returning sense so far as China and her from banishment. civil wars
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A CAR SKIDS.
—
WITH SERIOUS RESULTS IN 'QUEEN'S-ROAD.
UNLUCKY AFFAIR.
Whilst motor còr Na. · 391
on
was
A youth seated himself in a don-
of the company is now conducted tist's chair. He wore a wonderful by a board of directors elected in shirt of striped silk and an even accordance with the articles by more wonderful checked suit. He the shareholders, a form of con- had the vacant store that usually stitution which is undoubtedly goes with both,
"I'm afraid to give him gas," the satisfactory from every point of view for an insurance company dentist said to his assistant. than the constitution which it re- placed.
"Why?" asked the assistant. "Well," said the dentist, "how
In conclusion, I should like to will I know when he is uncon- express the directors' appreciationscious?" of the loyal and energetic sup- port given by branch managers, president secretarics, agents and staff in our various branches,
Adoption of Accounts.
An American movie magnate visited his studio where one of the a picture The Chairman moved the fol-companies was making
dealing with France during the: lowing resolution:—
"I have now the pleasure to pro-last days of the Revolution.
He spied the actor impersonat-- pose the adoption of the report
and accounts of the company foring General Bonaparte for the the year ending Dec. 31, 1927, as sequence being filmed had to do being driven by its Chinese driver presented, and when that has with the suppression of the mobs along Queen's-road West at 9.30been seconded I shall be pleased in Paris by the future Emperor.
any questions that shareholders may wish to ask."
Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton second- ed. No question was asked. The resolution was carried.
to answer
"Who's the guy?" asked the fila magnate, pointing to the actor.
are concerned. Japan's economic burdens conse- quent upon possessing an ever-. increasing population more or less arbitrarily confined to its own shores are such that she cannot afford to relinquish one square inch of the ground she occupies and has developed in Manchuria and the North generally. And if any danger of ejectment arises last night, it suddenly skidded as it we may be sure that Japan will approached the junction of Centre- fight for what she holds. Debar-street, and before the driver could regain control, the car knocked red as is her excess population down A Chinese girl named Au
Election of Directors. from most of the desirable places Chung-kwong who was coming out
Mr. Shewan then said: "In of Centre-street. of the world outside her own cident, the car continued to skid the election of directors I should After the ac- asking a shareholder to propose boundaries, she is confronted until it collided with a gas-lamp like to say that, in inviting Mr. with problems peculiarly her standard which was broken, leav-Brooke to join the Board as an Jown, problems' with which none of ing the junction of Centre-street additional director, it was not in- ing past St. Mary's Cathedral,
the other great and ambitious in darkness throughout the night. tended to increase permanently through
The injured girl, who suffered a the number of directors. Powers have to contend. It is fractured leg, was removed to the hoped, therefore, that she may be Government Civil Hospital. Hong Kong, Wednesday, May 2, 1928. able satisfactorily to overcome
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zones.
JAPAN IN CHINA.
her present tribulations in China whilst is no.way adding to the re- grettable ferment which is the curse of the country.
WITHOUT LICENCE.
DOG-OWNER FINED AT THE MAGISTRACY.
NAIVE PLEA.
"Why, that's Napoleon!" ex-*
plained the director.
"Why did you get such a little an important man to play such part?" demanded the magnale.
Some evenings ago I was walk-
the
beautifully-kept-
Boul.
"As, however, several of the grounds, and very close to the directors have been unexpectedly building (writes a correspondent.) called away at the same time it Always to me there is a was felt that Mr. Brooke's assist- satisfying air of quietude about ance, as an original member of this oasis of stillness in the desert: the consulting committee of this of restlessness and rush of the company, would be valuable dur-West End, a sense of peace, and a Ing the absence of Messrs. relaxing of the tension of business Cameron, Marcel and da Roza. life.
worn hands of a woman awake our'
Whilst there exists among for-
"If Mr. Brooke is elected it is This evening coming towards eign nationals in China an acade
his intention to resign as soon as me were two elderly women dress~- mic interest in the progress of the
the return of one or more of the ed in black, gloveless, and whom I war in the North all eyes are un-Britain's Ultimatum.
At the Central Magistracy this directors makes this practicable, gucased to be cleaners of offices on charged and I should like, on behalf of my- their way to work. There WAS doubtedly directed upon the acti- Nothing is more certain than morning, a Chinese was vities of Japan in the fighting at the British Government in before Mr. R. E. Lindsell for keep-self and the other directors, to something a little pathetic about pointer dog without athank Mr. Brooke for acceding to them-why is it the uncovered toil- presenting an ultimatum to the ing. a At the time of writing Egyptian Government did so only licence, and for bringing it across our request."
Sir Austen the harbour from Yaumati to Hong Mr. Allan Keith formally pro-pity and softer feelings? much of the natural suspicion as a last resort.
I thought. "How delightful for that has existed as to Japanese Chamberlain's statement in the Kong without a permit. He plead-posed the re-election of Messra.
House of Commons makes this ed that he was bringing the dog Allan Cameron, Li Tse-fong and them to be able to pass through intentions has been dissipated; abundantly clear. It is only when over to Hong Kong to get a licence C. B. Brooke. Mr. Wong Oi-kut this twilit loveliness before start- General Fukuda's assurance to the need is imperative that the for it.
seconded. The motion was caring, work," and I wondered if they Government acts
Remarking that the both sides that his force is only British
were feeling the beauty and peace Re-election of Auditors.
of it all creeping into their souls, located in the area of hostilities drastically. No nation is more could get a dog licence
averse from interfering in the police station on the mainland, the
Mr. S.. F. Chubb proposed and so as to protect his country's in- affairs of another nation than Magistrate fined him SE on each Mr. D. L. King seconded the re-as it was into mine, soothing and teresis and the lives of his the British; and, contrariwise, no charge.
election of Messrs. Lowe. Bing-healing the ugliness and disap.. ham and Matthews and Messrs. pointments of the day. countrymen is being accepted; nation is more tenacious than the
Percy Smith, Seth and Fleming as They passed, and my dreams were British in their determination to and to-day we have a cable to the assert their rights particularly
auditors for the ensuing year at shattered. "Pulr Lizzie," Bald one a fee of $750 for each firm. This to the other, "she never could take. effect that he is co-operating with when, as in the case of the Egyp
was also carried.
pease brose." the Southerners with the object tian Government in the new legis- lation it proposed to adopt, an- of maintaining peace and. order.
other Government acts obviously Japan's action, it must be ad-without much if any consideration be extra evening ferries at 7 p.m. both to and from Hong Kong, mitted, is a reasonable, one, and for even the most elementary making it possible for visitors to
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CHEUNG CHAU NOTES.
May 1. Starting from to-day there will
apend the day here. This service continues through the summer till September 30.
The annual school sports are be- ing held a little later than usual. Wednesday next is the date fixed. Some of the events will be contest cd from 11 a.m. onwards...
near
REUTER'S MAN.
OBTAINS-DIVORCE IN SHANGHAI
DO YOU KNOW?
To-day's List of
Little Posers.
rights of others. The Assemblies' their assertion that they are
Bill which the Egyptian Govern- sending troops into China for pre- ment were bent upon passing into cisely the same reasons that we law is such a flagrant abuse of the
In a divorce suit brought be- sent troops to Shanghai last year powers of legislation and indeed is one which will not stand con- so grotesque regarded from any
fore Judge Sir Peter Grain in the point of view that it seems almost
British Supreme Court at Shang- tradiction. The difference is incomprehensibla that it could
hai last week, by Mr. Herbert G. Mende of Reuter's, Ltd., Tientsin, that Japan's position is more possibly be countenanced for a
The big theatre matahed
against Mrs. Natalia Mende and
From day to day in the "China complicated than was Britain's. moment by any responsible legis-
lative body worthy of the name. the Fisherman's Temple is being Mr. Edwin Fasting, a decree nisi Mall" appear half a dozen questiona Whatever General Fukuda does at It is no exaggeration to say that dismantled, the next event of this was granted.
of a general nature, for which Tsinan or at any of the other had the Bill passed into law not kind is to be conducted by the ed for the petitioner. The evid-"Dally Sketch," Answers will be Mr. Kenneth Newman appear acknowledgment is due to the places within the range of hosti-only would it have been a positive Vegetarians.
hardship to foreigners throughout Commander, Littledale and hisence of Barbara Sandhard and found on page 9 of this issue. litica is going to displease one the length and breadth of Egypt family left yesterday for the North Nina Pashoff was taken and the faction or other. That the Japan-but it would have been almost as and his genial presence from our/ decree granted on grounds of mis- 1. When London and Southamp→ ese commander is too level-headed dangerous to law-abiding Egyp midst will be missed. Several to take sides goes without questions themselves. In desiring to visitore stayed over the work end.
bring about auch an extreme Own Correspondent tion, but he has, nevertheless, a measure one can but conclude difficult task, a task which we are that the present Egyptian Gov-
ernment were actuated by a most A "chow" dog, Velonging to Mr.in the Wengtofshan district, re- sure no other Power would under- unwholesome fear of retaliation W. Simpson of No. 89, Gordon- ported to the police that at 10 p.m. Knighthood was originally intende take with readiness or an execss on the part of extremists. It road, Kowloon, was yesterday re- on April 29, bullock belonging to to be conferred only on natives of of confidence as to the outcome. indicates a deplorable state of moved by the police to the Matsu- him was killed as the result of Maita and the Ionian Islands
In effect this recent action on affairs in Egypt; and all law kok depot for observation after dynamite being thrown Into the 6. Which travels the faster--
abiding and truly patriotic Egyp-had bitten a Chinese The Injured cuttle shed.. Ho auspostes that the light or heat? the part of Japan emphasises our tians will see nothing of humilia mit went to the Kowloon Hospital animal was killed by a clansman of 6. For what wild animals Dublin. anntention... more than once ex- İtion in this act of the British tom treatment
conduct with the co-respondent.
An Autao farmer named Tang Ying-klù, living in Fathang village,
bis out of revenge,
ton were connected by railway?
2. How many varieties of postage stamps bore the portrait of Quean Victoria?
3. What tow in 7
4. Which British Order
is celebrated?».