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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1928.
OLYMPIA'S MOTOR SHOW
NEW FEATURES
£40,000,000 OF BRITISH CARS QUICKLY SOLD
THE "BABY" CARS
London, Yesterday.
THE AUSTRALIAN
. DISPUTE
NEW DEVELOPMENT
VICTORIAN SEAMEN COME OUT
COLLAPSE HERALDED
Melbourne, Yesterday.
The annual motor show at Olym- There has been a now development
BRITISH POLITICAL CONFERENCE
LIBERAL RALLY
"THE LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST"
The
PARTY'S POLICY
London, Yesterday. annual Liberal Conference,
pla opened to-day. It is con-in the strike situation, a meeting which opened at Yarmouth to-day, sidered that more changes and of Victorian seamen deciding to is the last but not the least im- developments in motor engineering strike against the new Transport, portant of the Party conferences, as are being exhibited at this show Workers Act and to advise seamen it is generally considered that the than at any other perlod during the In other ports to do likewise. It Liberals hold the balance of power past ten years.
is expected that Tasmania will be in the next election. Among the features are the fol- Isolated to-morrow. lowing:
First cheap "Straight eight" cylinder British car. :
Sir Charles Hobhouse, in his
On the other band the refusal of presidential address to the 2,000 carters and drivers to join the delegates, said that they sought no waterside workers is ́interpreted as dalliance with aims which were re- heralding the collapse of the strike. pugnant to them or methods of
Wonderful improvement in "Baby-Reuter. car" of 7 horsepower, # market which England holds alone, includ- ing "baby" from
A famous Birmingham firm, which is super- į charged and has a speed of seventy miles an hour.
Much more comfortable body work particularly with "Sunshine saloon," namely, enclosed car roof of which slides back for fine, wea- ther.
HORRIBLE HOMES
SOME OBSERVATIONS CON- CERNING "ATROCITIES"!
PRESENT FURNISHINGS
[By Gregory Brown.]
Better springing, more speed and Interior decoration and furniture high efficiency brakes which need of the not distant future will most just a light touch of the foot to assuredly be designed more strictly stop the car in safety distance.
for health and utility. The word; "taste" will then, I hope, be applied only to sensations of the palate..
It is one of the saddest signs of
British touring car, which will accelerate from 10 miles an hour to 95 miles hour in twenty-five seconds.
Varied colouring of motor bodies, which will mean multi-hued ronds in the near future.
PERHAPS CLOUDY
government that crippled trade and curtailed liberty. He denied that Įthe party was disunited on leader- (ship or policy.
Fifteen resolutions were then dia- cussed which, when passed, will be embodied in the manifesto to the nation on the eve of the election. One declares that the party refuses to link its fortunes by agreement with any other party, while another pledges the abolition of protective taxes.-Reuter,
J. P. AND OATH
SWANSEA POLICEMEN ASKED TO AFFIRM
After several summonses against hawkers had been heard at Swansea Police Court and a constable had taken the oath in each case, Dr.
· Rawlings, a Jay Wesleyan preacher, who was the presiding magistrate, said:
N.E, winds, moderate, fine to
John Adams the cloudy, is the forecasts until noon
It is stated that already orders from overseas are pouring into the offices of British makers on preliminary notices of the new models, particularly suited to work in the dominions. More than £40,000,000 worth of British motor cars have been sold to agents and a third of that output is for Empire destinations.--British Wireless Ser-
vice.
Futhers Detalls
to-morrow.
The anticyclone has moved
́E.N.E. and is now central over Korca.
· Moderate monsoon may be ex- pected along the S.E. coast of China and over the north Ching Sea.
Two Japanese · experts were among the first to arrive on the the times that so many people who opening of the show, when there pride themselves on their "taste" was some 2,000 people, of whom furnish with antiques. "Perlod at least 30 per cent. were women furniture," they call it-any period. who paid 10/- for' admission. but never this period.
There are about 1,000 models ranging from 105 guineas to near. ly $1,000.
Instead of displaying what le called good taste it amounts to an admission of complete lack of faith The total value of the show is in the production of to-day, and estimated at a million sterling and a dearth of original ideas and in- forty-five per cent. of the firms ex-dependent judgment. hibiting are British, the others in-
I wish some of you would affirm instead of taking the name of the Almighty all the time. It is per- fectly legal to affirm and it does aeem to me irreverent to the name of God to take the oath in all cases.
I know that you do not want
to do it. It seems awful to take the name of the Lord all the time for these minor offences. Just think ́it over.
WIDOW AND CAT
THOUGHT IT WAS A CAT BURGLAR
A summons against Mrs. Mary A. Fortunately there are a few peo-Millhoff, an elderly widow, of elude America, France, Germany, ple designing and manufacturing Knightsbridge Court, Sloane-street, Italy, Austria.
furniture more or less suited to the s.w, for alleged cruelty to a cat
cord for the show.
¡ter.
aly, Belgium and lets been re-requirements of the present. The was dismissed by Mr. Gill at West- ceived by wire throughout the pity te there are not a great many minster.
re more doing likewise, or even bet- It was stated that the cat was world, which constitutes
pushed through, a window and fell Most homes are extraordinarily, 18ft. to the ground. A striking feature is the general ugly, uninspired and depressing. Mrs. Millhoff sald that she was. concession to women's partiality for When we cease to approach these an invalid and the cat entered her bright colours. It is noteworthy matters from an "artistic" stand- bedroom at night. She thought it that the closed car is still gaining point involving questions of "taste" was a cat burglar.. She had pushed in favour-Reuter,.
and let the question of utility be the the cat out many times, knowing governing factor in our design we that it could alight on a ledge 15 shall have much better results.
She was a lover of inches below.
IMPERSONATION?
GIFFORD AGAIN REMANDED AT KOWLOON
We have plenty of evidence that animals and had no. Intention of articles designed solely for utility, hurting it. can be agreeable to look at. An aeroplane, a ship, a plough, a rall- way engine, are each in their own particular way beautiful to be hold.
I have even
which collect dust, there will be aluminium shutters, which will open A further remand was granted by. '
Been recently and shut in a perpendicular direc- Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon modern operating table which I tion from the bottom, operated by Magistracy this morning in the case considered very: satisfying and well-a ray of light or an electric switch.
balanced, so much so that I made in the ordinary way. la which Douglas Gifford, (24) an unemployed Eurasian, who is charg drawing of it. I am not aug
Back Simplicity Floors will be covered with hard
gesting that we should decapitate
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ed with impersonatin gthe police and with the theft of a quantity of our breakfast egg at tables quite rubber, and all fireplaces removed. EX-M.P'S WEDDING jewellery from No. 800 Temple like this, but it does illustrate the for Instead of heating houses we| point that satisfying form can, and
street, Yaumat
docs, exist divorced from self-con- shall probably heat people.. That is The adjournment was fixed for acious Art.
to say, they will wear electrically Saturday, Oct. 13, when, in all prob, Possibly the very best example of the risks of going from the suffocat heated clothing, and will thus avoid ability, evidence for the prosecution the beauty of, utility is the violin, will be given.
ing atmosphere of the centrally- every curve and line of which has heated house Into the biting chill Detective Inspector Fation is in a sclentine Justification in acous of a damp winter's night. charge of the case. -
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Some of these things will be all
FANCY DRESS PROCESSION
AND A BAND
Dippe, France Amusing, acenes
Hotel Metropole, where the wedding breakfast was held.
The band was headed by a well- known London chairman of a public company-one of the guests who wore a grey suit and a silver-grey bowler hat, and acted as conductor to the band. The bridegroom and
A Clean Sweep If the homes of the future. are to the good, some of them will be were witnessed on a recent morning the bride-a pretty brunette of 22, who wore a blue and white, printed to be beautiful and original me bad. We shall, no doubt, find it an at the wedding between Mr. A. chiffon dress-were in a motor-car must be prepared to make a clean absolute necessity to guard our
sweep of the old ideas and begin selves more against disease, dirt, Baldwin-Raper, formerly M.P. for at the front of the procession, again. We must throw overboard noise and smell. Invention will East Islington, and Mile. Renee The wedding ceremony was per Shanghai, Tuesday.all picture-zalle hanging pictures, follow invention. The unsuspected
formed at the town hall by the owner of the Hotel Metropole, On Sunday afternoon a congre- wainscoting, carpets, and cloth reason for each will be mainly to Benoist, of Lille, France. gation of 1,000 participated in the fabrics.
combat the evils attendant on its A procession of open horse-caba Capitaine Talloux, who is a promin- dedication of Fitch Memorial In the new house all angles in predecessor. Some also, as now, preceded by a band in small white ent official of the district, and to Church in Darroch-road. The rooms will be rounded. The walls will be to alleviate or gratify the United States sallor hate, double-whom the mayor, deputed his duties |for the occasion... Guests came from church has been erected entirely themselves will mostly be made tele- neurotic cravings, inherent to arti-
breasted blue conte, and grey flannel Singapore, New York, Canada, and under Chinese supervision by the scopic, so that the size and arrange- ficial life. North Shanghai Church of the mennt of rooms can be changed as Ferhaps in the far, far diétant trousers, paraded the front of the Berlin Church of Christ in China. It is required with little or no trouble.. future, we shall realise what blind A memorial to Dr. and Mrs. George Colour will play a much-more im- alleys all these things are, and so A. Fitch, who during a period of portant part than it does now, as simplify our existence that we can almost half a century built so much we shall have resilsed its medicinal enjoy the beauties and pleasures of their own lives into the Chris- qualities.
with which Nature has so lavishly tlan movement in Shanghal
5. In the place of, fabric hangings, | surrounded us.
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