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For drawing water from a hydrant without permission, the Foo Loong, contractors, were fined; 895 at the Kowloon. Magistracy yesterday. The defendant was also ordered to pay $15 as damages.
A Chinese coolie was attacked.by. two теп at, Wanchal yesterday arm was morning and his loft almost severed from his body. The police are Investigating the out- rage. The injured man is in the
Government Civil Hospital.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1928.
TELEPHONE WIRE,
DEEP WATER BAY DISTRICT. COOLIE STEALS 900 YARDS IN
PRAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
To kill game on what do you depend most? Confidence, aim,
"Luck!" personal cleverness, or your gun?""
"What are you crying for, little boy?"
"Boo-hoo! My dad fell down-
stairs."
-6 WEEKS' "HARD." Sentence of six weeks hard labour was, this morning, passed by Major C. Willson, O.B.E, on a Chinese who admitted cutting and stealing about 900 yards of tele- phone wire at Deep Watof Bay. yesterday. He was stopped and Gaarched by a constable in Aber In a report to the police yester-deen last evening as he was com day, the manager of the. Kowing down the hill, from the direc- loon Dock stated that a Chinese tion of Deep Water Bay, and the shipwright, named Ng Ping, was wire, which was colled up, was Injured at 8 pm, on Tuesday, found concealed under accused whilst working on a crane at the jacket. The wire was the property gations lead us to believe that there dock. He was struck by timber of the Hong Kong Telephone Co. which was being lifted by the crane,
"Well, don't take on so. He'll get better soon."
"Yes, but my sister saw him fall, all the way. I never saw nuffen
-boo-hoo!"
Professor: "Microscopical investi--
are colours too- delicate to be dis-
and had to be removed to the OBJECT OF RACING.cerned by the human eye-invisible
Kwong Wah Hospital.
The master of three fishing boats, who was found mooring his boats in Causeway Bay, typhoon shelter without permission
was fined. $15 or
LORD ELLESMERE AND MR. EDGAR WALLACE.
Lord Ellesmere gave evidence night, recently in the test action betweent In default the Jockey Club and Mr. Edgar
last
colours we may call them.”-
Student: "I know the name of one of them, sir"
Professor: "Indeed. What is it?" Student: "Blind man's buff."
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Father: "Have you told Doris
2 weeks', hard inbour by Comman-Wallace, the author and racehorse that she will not get a ponny from Mother: "I did better than that der JB., Newill, D.S.O R.N., at owner, who had pleaded the Gam- us if she marries this fellow?". the Marine Court this morning.ing Act with the object of obtain- Five other boat masters were eaching a decision as to whether forfeits-I told the young man."
for vold nominations were recover- Rined $15 on a similar charge.
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"So you want
"Yes," "Do you know much about busl.- ness?"
"Not much." "Do you know the difference be tween an asset and a liability?"
"No."
able or were wagering transactions.
In this action Lord Ellesmere, daughter?" Chinese Fireman No. 7, Wong Senior Steward. of the Jockey Club;. Cheung, stationed at the Central Lord Wolverton; Major Sir Leonard Fire Station, wis yesterday re Brassey; and Sir Samuel Edward and the Government Civil Scott, trustees of the club; moved to Hospital suffering from opium pol-Messre. Weatherby and Sons, regle- eoning. The man was alleged to trars and stakeholders, asked for a have swallowed the stuff in an at-declaration, that Mr. Wallace was tempt to commit suicide. His con- Hable to pay £4 in respect of far- dition is not serious, although he fatta will have to remain in hospital for n couple of days.
A notification at the
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"Well, you will after you marry" my daughter."
Mr. Wallace entered his horse Master Michael in two races The harassed housewife was busy And there is the rub. In any
Newmarket First Spring Meeting. "telling off" her lazy husband,
"Goodness only knows," she said. open clash with his military col-
1928, but did not run him. He leagues he must invariably lose;
a letter to Messrs. Weatherby In- were living in the age when men while they listen to his moderate Office, dated September 5, reads as refused to pay the forfelts, and in "what you would have done if we
follows:-Complaints having been
their brows." a test case. dictates peace will reign and the received to the effect that Canton-vited the Jockey Club to see him in earned their bread by the sweat of The languid and born-tired in-- The Hon. Geoffrey Lawrence, much-desired consolidation of the Hong Kong River steamers are in Nationalist Party will continue to the habit of passing Whampoa at K.C., continuing his argument for dividual turned wearily in his arm progress. In this direction it is full speed causing dasiger toe the club, said that the reason chair, and faintly replied:
and native craft racehorse qwners paid money, to "Ah! I should have. opened a bankments that Mr. Hu Hun-min can," if he
mariners are warned that vessels
run horses was not only to win shop and sold hankies!" desires, help Dr Wang, must go slow in this vicinity and stakes. The sole object of horse racing was to improve the stamina statesman full of enthusiasm and other narrow parts of the river.':
and develop the speed of the animals the bride, when they returned from experience. His predecessor, Mr.
the honeymoon-trip, "let us have a and to develop stockbreeding. Huang Fu, it may be remembered,
Lord Ellesmere, in evidence, said clear understanding before we set-
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Whilst Sub-Officer Chan Wel-sun, was put out of office as a result of the Kowloon Fire Brigade, was of the Tsinan affair, purely a mili- driving ambulance No. 8 to the he was a racehorse owner. Asked tle down to married life. Are you Yauntati Police Station at 4.80 if there were any other interests the president or vice-president of taristic move; the Foreign Minis- this morning, he had to swerve in horse racing than winning the this society?" "I want to be ter before that, Dr. C. C. Wu, sharply at the junction of Nathan-entrance money of other entrants, neither president nor vice-presi though the period of his adminis-rond and Ningpo-street in order to he said that the chief consideration dent," she answered; "I will be con- a Chinese was the improvement of the breed tent with a subordinate position." tration was blessed with an avoid knocking down
woman who attempted to cross of racehorses, and by racing one not "What is that?" "Treasurer." amount of constructive work by Nathan-road in front of the am-oniv improved the position of the
"My poor man," said the prison: which Nationalism is now bene-bulance. As the result, the am- individual animal, but also his fitting, was hampered by the bad balance went temporarily out of progeny. impression left by the Foreign control and dashed into a tree, UB- Minister he followed, Mr Eugene aining some damage. Chow Hol.
ly Injured. Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 6, 1928, Chen, who was frankly anti-Brian ambulance attendant, was slight
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visitor, "do let me send you some cake. What kind do you prefer?"
"Any kind, ma'am," said the con- vict, "so long as it's got a file in it?"
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The actual amount subscribed or Ellesmere said, was an insignificant proportion of the value of the race cartributed by the owners, Lord
to the winner. If an owner won,
Dignified Steward: "The vessel, the winning of the prize enabled him to continue to breed race-mum, is trying to get a good exam-
ple to the passengery.".
horses.
Mr. Archer, K.C., (for Mr. Wallace): Do you mean that the prizes you may win if you manage things properly are so great that you can by means of them carry on the breeding of racehorses?--It would help.
tish and bombastically sure of himself. So, it is seen, since tho Nationalists moved from, Canton never up to now The news published to-day that to the North, Mr. Hu Han-min has accepted has there happened a real oppor- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's offer tunity for the trained and ear DISCOVERED IN ITALY 200
YEARS AGO... of a post in, the government at est politician to work for the good Nanking is fraught with many of the Nationalist cause. As it
Rome-A communication from interesting probabilities. It.may is, with a little luck and the main-
the sources of petroleum in Italy mean, as our correspondent, Li tenance of good judgment on the the commission of Inquiry into Chung-yin, suggested on Satur- part of the military leaders, unexpectedly brings into promin day last, the commencement of a China may now set her feet along ence Lady Mary Wortley Mon- who has great skill but no money to breed racehorses, relying on been supposed to have gone new struggle for power between the path of internal progress and tagu, who, least of all, might have
searching for oil on her famous getting enough from prizes to sup- port his stud? The breeding of the politicians and the military-international goodwill.
travels to Constantinople. minded leaders of the Nationalist
Writing from Florence more racehorses in very expensive,
A Friendly Case. For the defence, Mr: Archer It was perhaps inevitable that than 200 years ago, she quaintly the serious illness of Sir Austen describes how, after visiting a
Party. On the other hand, it may Sir Austen Chamberlain. mean added weight to the admin-
Mr. Archer: Is it a practical proposition in England for a man
Uneasy Passenger: "Doesn't the vessel tip frightfully?"
Guide (showing party round an cient castle) "This is the moat. Would any one like to ask a ques tion ?".....
Inquisitive Tourist: "Yes. How on earth could a chap get one of those in his eya?"
Miller: "I forgot; my umbrells this morning, dear." --
Mrs. Miller (sarcastically); "How did you cong to remember. having lost it? ES
Miller: "Well, I shouldn't have,
istrative side of the regime with- Chamberlain should raise a crop Trappist monastery near Fieren-aald that although it was a test case missed it, dear, only I raised my
stopped."
An Englishman and a Scot were
out calling for any display of of rumoura as to his impending zuola, she also went to see a na-it was a friendly one. The Jockey hand to shut it when the rakt feeling by those concerned, resignation and as to further tural curiosity in the Apennine Club could not succeed without re- Mr. Hu Han-min, provided he set changes in the Cabinet. The mountains. It was a liquid that lying on some contract with some rumour, however, has been quick-came out of the earth, she says, one, and whatever contract was tles down at Nanking, will have ly denied officially. We are not and resembled brandy on fire." relied on it was not a contract which rounding off a convivial evening on to ally himself with the present at all surprised that on Sir The official commission has had for its obfect merely the pro the hotel billiard table. Three fire" in the Apennines, and de- holding the lawful sport of horso that the game was more strenuous - Foreign Minister, Dr. C. T. Wang, Austen's recovery to normal found traces of the "brandy on vision of the necessary expenses of small cuts in the cloth suggested
health he will return to the who is showing, so far as we are Foreign Office. Not only is his clares that it has arrived at the racing, but was a contract which than brilliant,
Damage to the cloth is charged at able to gather, that he can handle heart very much in his work conclusion that important des was made by way of wagering with Man allve, Sandy!" exclaimed the militarists without involving there, but he has the full con- posits of petroleum exist in the in the meaning of the Gaming Act, one player, "look at that notice.
fidence of his colleagues of the Apennines, but more in the direc1846.
10/ a hole. We'll be docked 30 bob himself in difficulties. We real Cabinet Deservedly, Sir Austen tion of Reggio Emilia. ise, of course, that if Dr. Wang is regarded as one of the greatest Signor Mussolini has received
for this is capable of continuing this Foreign Secretaries which report on the subject from the we have had for many engineer in charge, and it is pro- procedure indefinitely he wil years. His abounding in posed to create an Italian com- emerge as the most wonderful terest in the League of Nations Pany for working the deposits, statesman of mo
modern China, and his regular attendance at the
Lowev
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the wind seems in his Geneva meetings have, of course, been of incalculable service to at least for the present him in his official capacity. Quite In foreign circles Dr. Wang has apart, however, from the sub- praised for successfully Jects discussed at the League his handling of other matters, not tiating the settlement of the ably of our China and our Egyp Rape with the British tian policy has been particularly and condemned for Bound. It is unlikely that all will
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In reply to the Judge, Mr. Archer said he had not the remotest idea of what a wager was
The Scot volunteered to inter Mr. Justice Clauson Then you view the landlord, and collected 15/ case pocket-knife, he rapidly transform- are in a difficulty. You have to from his friend, Then producing a ed the three small holes into one prove that the contract in, this can was a wager.E
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