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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928.
At the Central Magistracy this DRAGON BOAT DAY. morning, a woman was fined $100
for kcoping a flat pt No. 257 Holly- NOTABLE ANNIVERSARY ON
FRIDAY. wood-road for Immoral purposes.
Queen's-"OLD" RACES THIS YEAR.
While walking along road East at 8 am, this morning a Chinese 66 years of age,,suddenly collapsed and died on the roadway.
According to a report made to the police, a Chinese girl of about 18 years of age, living at No. 129, Hollywood-road, is reported miss ing sinco noom on Tuesday..
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As the result of going out of his depth whilet swimming in the nullah at Smithfield, above the oplum factory, yesterday afternoon, a 15-year-old Chineas by named Chan Fung-yuen was drowned.
A fisherman named Chan Ho, had his right arm injured as the result of having it jammed between a Yaumati ferry launch and the wharf at the mainland yesterday afternoon. He was removed to the Government Civil Hospital...
A lift "boy" employed by Messrs. Douglas and Co., No. 17, Con- naught-road central was yesterday afternoon removed to the Govern- inent Civil Hospital suffering from a crushed left arm, stated to have liven caused whilst operating the lift.
Vivian Shaw, a male Eurasian, aged 23 years, employed as verger at St. John's Cathedral, who was
reported missing en June 18, has returned, according to an item in this morning's' police reports. No explanation was given for Shaw's absence.
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less said about the local censors the better. From one point of view-the official-perhaps this
At the Kowloon Magistracy. a would be the most desirable youth was charged for stealing a course, but ap far as the Chinese jacket from a house in Austin-road. Press of Hong Kong is concerned The defendant was discharged with a caution од condition that. his and the public generally-the uncle agreed to sign a bond for the course is most undesirable. Fur-sum of $50 for ble future ther inquiry is required, we sin-behaviour. cerely believe, into the working of }
Mr. H. A. Nisbet, Registrar of this Government department, or
the Supreme Court, who is leaving branch of a Government departon retirement on Saturday, will be ment. The evidence in the police court made it abundantly clear that all is not well with censor ship procedure; such evidence produced in a court at Home, would immediately prompt, we are sure, an official inquiry; and it
presented with a memento from the Law Society of Hong Kong, in the Supreme Court to-morrow, to be followed by a presentation from the Court staff.
An alarm was new Reclamation,
raised near the Wanchal, on
To-marrow is the 5th day of the 5th moon according to the Chinese (lunar) calendar.
P'RAPS-P’RAPS NOT!
nap..
Mother (to little Tommy, who la sitting still): "There's a good boy to be quiet and let daddy have his
The Chinese classical name is
Good Little Tommy: "Yes, ma. "tion chung chieh." In the Can-I'm waiting for the cigarette to tonese colloquial it is "tuen yuongburn his fingers." chiet." Essentially, the day is the Dragon' Boat Festival.
Until 1924, festivities in Hong Kong were mainly confined to the dragon boat race. The festival has not been observed as a genera! holiday by Chinese until reacht years when the advent of labour unions brought about a day of rest for the tofler,"
Late Sir Henry May. When the late Sir Henry May was Governor, he seldom withheld his patronage from the races at Aberdeen. The events
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Take care of yourscif, dear," said the public speaker's wifo, as her husband set off for an open-air meeting.
"Yes, yes, I will," he answerobi. "That's right," she said, st
"And remember, don't anxious. stand with your bare head on the damp ground."
An Irishwoman was charged with assaulting a neighbour, and pleaded "Not guilty."
forward,
The prosecutor leant this place gradually lost favour for want of shook his finger at her, and said prizes ofronet pork, banners, firo-karshly: "If we prove you guilty, as crackers etc. More recently, races we shall do, will you tell, the Court on semi-practical lines were staged why you committed this assault?"
"I will not!" shouted the defen- at North Point where they attract
"I had me qant loudly,
OWN large crowds.
reasons,"
Canton usually has a big celebro- tion. The races on the River have been disfavoured as the authorities found difficulty in curbing the at- tendant disorderly outbreaks.
The dragon oarsman's sense of sport is that his crew must, win at all costs even if he has to open
fire at a rival crow that dares to
lead by a length or two.
abreast.
Local Observances. The dragon boat is a long affair (with a dragon's head and tain just wide enough for two men to sit
Each man carries a pad die and in the Hong Kong boats there are about 25 pairs in cach, craft. At Canton the boats are generally longer, having room for about 50 pairs of paddlers. Euch craft includes in its complement a drummer and a man to beat the gong, these combining between them the duties of stroke and cox Banners won in previous years will also be put in the boat to urge the crew on to greater feats.
At a reception a woman chatted for some time with a distinguished man of learning, and dlapinyed such intelligence that one of the llatonera complimented her.
smile, "I've just been concealing my
"Oh, really," aho said, with
ignorance."
The professor spoke up gallantly. "Not at all, not at all, madam! Quite the contrary, I assure you!"
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Employer typist): "Well, where
(engaging fresh were you Jast employed?”
Modern Young Maid: "In a doll factory."
Employer: "Doll factory? What did you do there?"
Modern Young Maid: "I WIS making eyes."
engaged, but don't demonstrate-
Employer: "Very well, you're your capabilities when my wife is about."
Men At West Point.
Mrs. Vere de Vere, accompanied The menfolk have their gorgeous by her maid, want shopping one banquets at West Point, and afternoon. in spite of alleged bad times cele- "I want brations will be lavish to-morrow
night.
The origin of the festival ist ob- scure, It is strictly observed as one of the four gottling days in South China' business circles.
In their homes the women parti-
to see some red geor gette," said the lady to the maiden
behind the counter at the draper's. After inspecting it closely she fr quired whether It would wash nicely.
"Oh, yes, madam," declared the shop assistant promptly.
"Here, Jane," aald Mro, Vere de
is our fervent hope that the Tuesday night when a Chinese at- cipate in various rituals, mostly revere to her maid "chew, that for a
authorities here will see their way to act in a like manner.
Hong Kong, Thursday, June 21, 1928. The "Italia."
ALL NOT WELL.
It would appear at the present
tempted to commit suicide by ligious. jumping into the harbour: The man was rescued and was taken to the Government Civil Hospital in
a critical condition.
"Letters of administration to the Hong Kong estate of Tam a Yow, a farmer of the Sunning district, valued at $4,400, have been grant- ed to his widow, Tom Li She, of No. 143, Connaught-road Central. Deconged was 68 years of age. Death took place in the Sunning district.
Money is fairly plentiful in local Chineso trade circles at present so that no difficulty is anticipated in connection with the first settlement of the year. Business has been generally restricted, so that the turnover will be smaller than in boom times..
An 'olo' custom attached to the
minute or two and see if the colour
comes out."
ave a finger in the pie but I smat Charlady: "She wanted me to a rat an' nipped it in the bud."
Cook: "Lor', Mrs. Jones, 'ow you do mix your semaphorest"
Mr. Spendix: "Any bills due to day?"
festival is the practice of making packets of prepared rice, this being traced to some event in Chinese my- thology when a certain conscienti- not." ous but disappointed statesman is
Mrs. Spendix: "No, dear, I think
"Any payments due on the house, said to have drowned himself in a the wireless, the furniture, the rugs,
of well-meant advice. river over grief at hla sire's refusal or the books?"
SHIUKWAN CITY..
WALLS TO GO; NEW ROADS INSTEAD.
In pursuance of the town plan- ning scheme of General Wong A Chinese who failed to abate a Ying-yu, Rehabilitation Commis-
"No." "Then I haye Afty shillings we don't need. What do you may if we buy a car?"
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Farm Labourer ('in conversation. with his pal): "I did very well out of that motor-car accident.", "How much did you get?"
hurt.
"I got £50 and the missus 225," "I didn't know the old, girl was
"Neither was she, but just when the car struck me I had the presence
of mind to give her one in the eye."
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moment that it can be only, a mere matter of a few days before the unlucky and plucky General In a general sense, little fault Nobile and his colleagues will be can be found with the sentences rescued. Already aeroplanes conveyed in the considered judg have been in close proximity to ment delivered by Lt-Col. F. their "red tent" and, most, tan- Eaves, D.S.O., at the Magistracy talising for all concerned, have
As the result of a raid in a Chinese teahouse in Wellington- yesterday in connection with flown away without effecting a
street, yesterday, the police have) what has come to be known as rescue. That such a misfortune eflected the arrest of two Chinese the "censorship case." The news should be possible illuminates who were alleged to have been con- paper concerned, in advocating a more than anything yet men-bery on Saturday night at the Tang cerned in the attempted armed rob- boycott, ran foul of the law as tioned the desolate waste of Kee money changer's shop, No, 18, it exists in Hong Kong, and those snow-covered and ́ice-bound | Queen's-road Central. having to do with the journal dreariness in which the unfortun- have now to pay the penalty ate men are marooned: It seems auisance by preventing the breed-sioner for the northern region of The allegation that other Chin-almost incredible that men, ing mosquito larvae, was fined Kwangtung, the city walls of Shlu- ese papers published similar situated as they are, could have $20 at the Kowloon Magistracy kwan are being demolished to make matter on the subject of a boy failed to indicate unmistakably yesterday. His statement that it way for wide modern roads.
The wark of demolition has bell was impossible to clear the entire cott is completely beside the their exact location to those who premises in two days, as he had gun and several hundreds of sol-1 point. The offence was a serious are of course as eager to rescue several hundred barrels on the land, diers have been placed on the me these horrible stories of ghosts Why do you. Insist upon telling one and, rightly we think, a seri-them as they are to be rescued. did not satisfy the Court.
work. These soldiers will receive and robbers. while you are cutting ous view of it was taken by the It must of course be borne in
remuneration in addition to their
learned magistrate.
pay and they will work four hours my hair?" said a long-suffering mind that aircraft'have no means
Tho charge of robbery and a "day only.
customer to a talkative hairdressor. "I'm Borry; air," replied the It is a pity, though, that the of "taking off" once they alight kidnapping on board a fishing bout The walls have been divided into
brought against four men was con- four sections, and the section at barber, but, you see, when I fall cádi did not take a more serious on these ice-bound shores; and tinued, before Mr. W. Schofield Lo-tung-moon is the first part to stories like that my customers' view in regard to the censorship that therefore they are thus com- yesterday. In cross-examination by be broken up. charges. After all, the boycott,pelled to "keep on the move." Mr. Horace Lo, who represented offences naturally arose out of However, as it is certain that the the defendant, the master of the the working or the non-working excellent suggestion made to Gen- defendant. The case was adjourn junk denied that he knew the third of the censorship regulations.eral Nobile with regard to "guided. If the censorship machinery had ing the rescuing seaplane's course been operating properly there by wireless directly he sights it” Before Mr. R. E. Lindseli at the would have been no boycote mat- would be followed, the rescue, na Central Magistracy this morning, ter in the paper concerned. And stated, is likely to be now merely Shek-tong described as an em
a Shantung Chinese named Cheung if the editor and the others in- a matter of a few days. The un- ployee of the Yea Tal Hong firm of volved wilfully dodged the censor, lucky explorers have had more freight brokers, of Nos. 154-158 they should certainly, in our than enough of the antarctic's m Wing Lok-street, was charged with view, be made to suffer to the full hospitable shores, and it is safe to the embezzlement of 19,051 belong say that he is directed to inform Robinson: "I met my wife in a extent of the law. The learned say that they will be by no means of in my car and later married her
ing to the firm, and falsification of her that Their Majesties will be very funny way. I ran over her magistrate, however, ruled other unreluctant to touch a terra firma | bail. wise, and for the infringements that knows no ice and is not sur-⠀⠀ of the censorship rules nominal rounded by a howling waste of piercing, bleak and biting winds, fines only were imposed.
pugs
For, stealing a jacket from a ten
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CORRESPONDENCE,
their hair stands on end, and it makerit ever so much easier to out!"
Two golfers discovered an old lady calmly seated on the gross in the middle of the fairway,
NEW WESLEYAN HOME.
(To the Editor of the "Chlas Muil," "Don't you know it's dangerous
Sir, In response to a personal for you to sit there, madam?" askod:
the Queen by Mrs. J. C. Knight "It's all right, air, thank you, request addressed to Her Majesty one of them, Anstey, wife of the President of beamed the old lady,
"I'm ait the Wesleyan Saliors and Soldiersting on a newspaper... Home, the Hon. the Colonial Secre-fre tary has written to Mrs. Anstey to
Brown: “If everybody had to do selves to be hung in the New Home now being built on the Praya East: that there wouldn't be so much The portraits will be procured reckless driving."ASAN
Palace for
So far, the search cannot be said shop in Kowloon City, a Chinese and sent to Buckingham. At the wedding reception: the
We do not pretend to possess to have been conducted satisfac was this morning, the Kowalgnature. the power of following the line of torily, what with Amundsen lost loon Magistracy, sentenced to 6No doubt the Colony will in some young man remarked: "Wasn't it before the others are found and weeks hard labour. The accused way make it possible for such por annoying the way that baby cried reason which prompted Col
search parties having to set out had a previous conviction, dating traits to be obtained as shall be during the ceremony? Eaves to treat” the censorship to rescue the would-be rescuers back 4 years, when he was arrested worthy of the gracious personal in. It was simply dreadful, replied charges as more or less trivial; [Since the above was written for stealing and was sentenced to terest Thelt Majestles are thus the prima little maid of honour undant showing in what Hong Kong is "When I get married I'm going to but it looks very much to us as if the welcome news is to hand that 14 days hard labour,
provisions have actually been stated that he had no work at the trying to do for Service Men
Yours, etc. she coneldered, In the light of the dropped on General Nobile's present time, and stole to obtain
JACKNIGHT ANSTEY. police court revelations, that the camp]
some money
have engraved right in the corner of the Invitations. No babieszak- peated