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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1928.
HARD TO ENFORCE
FOR THE POOR·
DONATIONS TO FORTHCOM- ING CHARITY BAZAAR
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
DOG MUZZLING ORDER IN THE COLONY
WHAT A MAGISTRATE SAW
Arising out of a question as to
For the theft of coal from the M. B. K. coal yard at Yaumati,
The Bazaar Committee of the two Chinese were each sentenced to one month's imprisonment at Society of St. Vincent de Paul whether a dog when not on a have pleasure in acknowledging lead, should have a muzzle, Mr. the Kowloon Court to-day.
the following further donations E. W. Hamilton observed at the
had seen a number of dogs in
Hong Kong without muzzles.
The total output of the Kailan for the Bazaar to be held on Kowloon Court to-day that he Mining Administration'» mines Sunday, December 9: for the week ending November 17 amounted to 94,811 tons, and the sales during the period, to 90,475 tons.
At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, Mr. E. W. Hamilton committed a Chinese for tria!! in connection with a highway robbery charge alleged to have been committed in Prince Edward-road on November 12.
Mr. Kwok Slu-lau Mr. Li Pingb.......
$20
25
Mr. Ho Kom-tong
26
Mr. Ip Pun...............
10
M.S. c/o Miss C. M. Gonsalves
Mears. Kayamally & Co.
10
Mr. A. H. Ferguson ...
The Batato of Mr. and Mrs.
F. A. Gomes Mr. J. P. Sherry Mr. D. H. Cooper
26
50
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ST. STEPHEN'S
ANNUAL BAZAAR IN AID OF M. C. L.
Pleading guilty to a charge of anchoring his vessel inside the Yaumati typhoon shelter, with- out permission, Mr. S. A MRS. SOUTHORN'S SPEECH Cassumbhoy, owner of the 5.8. Cassum" (ex-H.M.S. Woodlark) was fined $25 at the Marine Court yesterday.
He wondered if the 'muzzling order was still in force in Kow loon and not in Hong Kong.
Sergeant Clark replied that dogs on both sides of the harbour were supposed to have muzzles, but the Police found difficulty in inforcing the regulations.
PERFECT LIAR
HIS WORSHIP'S "YOUNG"
FRIEND"
Yesterday Mrs, Southorn, wife' "Look here, my young friend, of His Excellency the Officer Ad-you are not only hawking with- ministering the Government, (the out a licence, but you come here Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, in a brazen manner and tell a Six Chinese cases of notifiable CM.G.), opened a Bazaar or- perfect set of lies." disease were reported to the ganised by the students of the Thus spoke Mr. E. V. Hamil Medical Officer of Health yes-St. Stephen's Girls' School in aid ton at the Kowloon Magistracy terday, four from the city regis-of the Ministering Children's this morning to a Chinese youth tration district and two from League.
who, according to Sergeant Har Kowloon. Three of the patients Each form in the School ran greaves, had been arrested yes- had small-pox and the other three its own stali all of which bore terday. enteric fever. (typhoid).
attractive articles which readily Defendant emphatically denied attracted buyers and quite a tidy this. He said that the Sergeant A farewell dinner to Captain sum of money was realised for was arresting a number of people R. P. Mitchell of the s.s. "Fat-the deserving cause. There were near him and some ran away, he shan" of the China Navigation toys, dainty paper flowers, draw- among them.
Co. (Hong Kong-Canton run) andings, embroidered works, knitted His Worship passed sentence
Mrs. Mitchell will be held on
and
were
WORKED WELL
STOWAWAY'S BEHAVIOUR
board his ship to-morrow at 7.30 goods, etc., all produced by the of six strokes of the birch.
students themselves. victims, it is very different with
p.m. Captain, Mrs., Master J.
The Fairlea School also had two! vast and Miss U. Mitchell, are shortly stalls where many pretty the cases, majority of whom are Chinese, proceeding on leave.
useful articles were exhibited. The principal attraction Numerically, of course, Chinese
The mistress of a cargo boat, three stalls in the centre of the are very much in the majority in charged with securing her craft hall where one could buy china the Colony as elsewhere in this outside five others alongside the ware from Kiangsi, lacquer. ware part of the world and it is there- 8.8. "Norviken," was fined $5 at from Foochow, and dainty goods
the Marine Court yesterday from Ceylon and Japan. fore small wonder that they are Another cargo boat mistress was much more frequently affected ined $13 for carrying 13 passen- by small-pox. There are, how-'gers in contravention of the
terms of her licence, ever, other and special reasons why many Chinese fall victims
bers every year.
→
Bazaars--and Bazaars
COUNTS
Four hours outside Singapore en route to Hong Kong, the offi- cers of the s.s. "Telemachus" Mrs. Southorn, who was in-discovered a Chinese stowaway troduced by Miss. E. S. Atkins, on the top deck. He appeared the principal of the School, in before Mr. E W. Hamilton at declaring the Bazaar open, ad- the Kowloon Magistracy, this Bdressed the large gathering of morning.
The case in which two barbers to. this dread disease, which even are charged with murdering to-day, despite the accumulated fellow barber was again adjourn visitors and helpers as follows: Mr. H. Willan, chief engineer,
ed, at the Kowloon Magistracy
I begin to feel that the year said that defendant had worked wisdom evolved out of years of yesterday. A witness (also would be incomplete without St. the whole of the remaining voy- was closely cross-Stephen's Bazaar. I should be age. He had given no trouble patient research and laborious barber) study in many directions, etill examined by the prisoners.
I untruthful if I were to pretend and had worked well. was suggested to witness that in that every bazaar that comes Defendant, who described him- fatally accounts for large num-giving evidence against them. he one's way is a pleasure. Some of self as an unemployed ship's was, avenging a grudge. Wit-them have entailed real suffer-fireman, pleaded guilty to the It is therefore extremely in-ness denied the allegation.. ing. But I am glad to say that charge of evading legal fare.
in Hong Kong the promoters of The fact that defendant had. London Offices:The Far East ern Advertising Agency (London),teresting to read, as we did in al
Owing to the insistent mewing bazaars have come to the con- worked while on the ship, his Ltd, 86-38, Southampton Street, brief article in yesterday's of a cat from an unknown source, clusion that you should make Worship said, made a consider Strand, W.C.2.
"China Mail", on one phase of the proceedings of the Kowloon your wares both useful and at-able difference. Sentence of one. the many activities of the local Magistracy were frequently dis-tractive and your surroundings month's imprisonment was im-
turbed yesterday. Policemen set cheerful. They have put behind posed. Chinese Young Men's Associa-out to locate the intruder, but them the days when one return- tion, that those actively engaged without success. Finally, it was ed laden with a collection of In the work of that admirable thought that the animal had been atrocities that had travelled very trapped in the huge space be often from one bazaar to another. EVERETT,-On November 21, in
London, W. H. Everett, Joint institution still continue, earnest tween the roof and ceiling of the Of course, even sow you can't A DUKE'S DEBTS Assistant Manager of Thosly and devotedly in disseminating Court house, which had been re- please everyone. I met a clergy- man at this very bazaar last year Cook & Son; by cable.
scientific knowledge in plain novated last week. and
fashion
and he protested plaintively that practical
in
While a sum of approximately someone had sold him a box of many parts of the Colony. This $20,000 is still needed to complete face powder. excellent work was undertaken the scheme, as the result of re- "You should congratulate your in response to an invitation from presentations made by H.E. the self on haying secured something "It might be difficult for a General Offcer Commanding, useful that you can pass on to a man to be economical when he the Medical Department of the Major-General C. C. Luard, C.B., friend," I said unsympathetical is a duke, but at any rate he Of this delectable little Colony Government and those Chinese CM.G., who has from the begin-ly. Ten years ago you would might behave like a gentleman," of ours it may, we believe, be said
lecturers who have been giving ning taken the greatest interest probably have found yourself said Mr. Registrar Francke (in with truth that,malaria, though and continue to give so much of has authorised the payment of cap."
in the Home, the Army Council landed with a velvet. smoking the Bankruptcy Court, London), not so prevalent here nowadays their time and attention to this £250 from the Royal Tournament
when suspending for three years
MALARIA, MOSQUITOES AND. SMALL-POX
long been adopted-by
our!
.....
"MIGHT BEHAVE LIKE A GENTLEMAN”.
RECKLESS EXTRAVAGANCE
I remember going to a bazaar the discharge of the Duke of
as in the past-thanks to the important matter-ha ng been Profits Fand towards the ex-in Ceylon, and finding I had won Manchester, who was adjudicated scientific methods that have for doing so, we note, by utilising penses involved in building new in a raffle a jak fruit weighing a bankrupt in January 1916.
premises in Hong Kong for the nearly thirty pounds. It's not an The duke, added Mr. Registrar the services of the Y.M.C.A. unit Wesleyan Sailors and Soldiers' easy thing to take home with Francke, had run
up personal of the St. John's Ambulance Home on Praya East.
you.
bills, and had a separate estab- Brigade, and by sending those
However, as I mid before, you jlishment at Gloucester Gate, N.W. STILL AT LARGE need fear no such horrors here. He owed £197 to his doctor. He undertaking the work as lecturers |
medical staff, ard Sanitary Board it has not yet been wholly eradicated. As to mosquitoes, in- dividually or collectively, they seem to be as great a plague as ever. As a matter of fact, such
is not the case, for these pests,
like malaria, have. long since been tackled in such a way by
ancс
8 were
•
has been prepared through the co-operation of Dr. Ware of the Health Department.
I am sure St. Stephen's stalls are took a house elsewhere, and a to various centres. Material THE PRISONER WHO STROL-spread with everything to tempt number of small tradesmen were
LED OUT OF DOCK- you while you are here and please victimised,
Mr. Registrar Francke said he you when you look at it at home. When the case was called at The good work of St. Stephen's thought that this was a, case of the Kowloon Magistracy this in the cause of the M.C.L is too most unjustifiable and reckless It is especially interesting to morning, in which a defendant well known to need comment from extravagance note that a new and larger ser had mysteriously disappeared, me Under the inspiration of The total of the unsecured in- those responsible for the efforts
vice is being undertaken by the Sergeant Clark informed the Miss Atkins and the staff the debtedness was apparently £129,- towards their eradication in the game organisation during the was still at large.
magistrate that the escaped man girls spend time and thought on 656. The only realisable assets others less fortunate than them-disclosed by the duke were jewel- Colony that they are to day current month and January. Mr. E. W. Hamilton remark-selves. The M.CL. Is fortunate lery and personal effects £200 nothing like the dangerous nuis
Two centres are to be visited ed that the case had best be put in having such faithful and able and these realised only £90. they
decade
supporters as St. Stephen's girls. The trustee had, however, re- on the file. each week by a leader and four It will be recalled that the pri- The need does not diminish covered from the duchess and ago. Those who have been long assistants, who will speak on soner, who had been brought be year by year. It increases. You the Zimmerman trustees: £9,923. resident in Hong Kong or Kow malaria and small-pox and pro- fore Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones for will never come to a dead end in A dividend of 1s. in the & had loon will readily bear out this
vide free vaccination.
larceny left the dock without at social service. And through the been paid, and an additional 6d. statement, though, probably, John's. Ambulance Brigade, we anyone in the Court.
The Sttracting the slightest attention of M.C.L. you reach out helping or 61d. was expected.
hands to such a variety of sup The duke admitted that a con- comparative next comers, who read with pleasure, has made
plicants with so great a diversiderable number of his liabilities appear to be special targets for full preparation for this service. FARMS CASE. REMANDED sity of needs. Let me emphasise were personal debts, £2,859-being the blood-sucking parasites, Sheung Shui, Fanling, Taipo
once more that the total of due to jewelers, £183 to tailors, The case in which Chinese was $17,550 collected by the M.C.L. 2270 to bosiera, £1,000 for hotel may seem to be not quite Market, Yuen Long Cheung charged with unlawful posses last year was divided equally be accounts, £916 in respect of an obvious. Of small-pox, a much war and Shamshuipo, Tosion of 1,000. rounds of ammuni- tween Local and Home charities establishment at Gloucester more serious matter than either Kwa Wang, Kowloon City, tion and five "38" long revolvers, The Chinese blind, destituto or Gate, 4976 to C, Fairs for tennis malaria or mosquitoes, it may Aberdeen, Cheung Chau, was transferred to Hong Kong orphaned shared alike with Eng balls and racquets,, and £1,220 Shaukiwan and, Stanley are this morning by order of Mr. lish waifs and strays, and sick or to Paquin for women's dresses, be said that wille it is certainly all to be visited and we sin El W. Hamilton, the Kowloon fatherless children
and so forth th not with us as with other parts cerely hope that the zealous Magistrate, In this great combined effort of the unsecured indebtedness of the East, endemic, it must be work of those engaged in it will Defendant, a native of Sunwul, in Hong Kong there lles a fine in $14,427 related to income tax., regarded as decidedly epidemic bear excellent results. The was arrested on Monday on board ternational spirit as well as a For the duke, Mr. W N. Stable men thus admirably devoting the s.s. President. Cleveland' as practical means of relief of dia said that wherever he went Never a year comes, we believe themselves have had training and a steerage passenger.
tress (Applause) every but there are quite a good many experience in this service and are Mr. E. 80. Brookes is appear Special thanks are due to the enor
difficult victines
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the defence,
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