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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929.
OPENING DAY
COLONY'S HEALTH ··
AGRICULTURAL SHOW PROGRAMME:
NOTIFIABLE DISEASE LAST. WEEK
H.E. TO BE PRESENT
Judging will commence at 10.30 a.m. on the first day and is ex- pected to be concluded by noon when the grounds will be open to the public.
SMA-POX DEATHS
تی ہے
The Committee has issued the In last week's return of notifiable programme for the opening day disease in the Colony, according of the Agricultural Show, which to reports to the Medical Officer of will take place on Saturday, at 3 Health, there were. 73 cases of ' Secret of Longevity
p.m.. The Show will be continued small-pox with 38 deaths during Reuter's telegram in yester-for the following day.
the week. Three of the victims day's "China Mail," referring to
were British and one Japanese, the remaining 69 being Chinese, M. Emile Loubet, must have come
one of them being imported. as a big surprise to many of our
From the following table, we readers as, we must admit, it
can see that there were no fewer The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn, than 115 cases of small-pox re- came to us. There was a time-C.M.G., who will perform the ported and 159 of the victims 1899-1906-when M. Loubet, as opening ceremony, and be accom- have died. The weekly return is President of France, was, of panied by Mrs. Southorn, Capt. as follows:---
Week Ending course, a very well-known. figure A. J. L. Whyte, A.D.C., and Mr.
W. R. Scott, private secretary, November 3 in European politics; but that will arrive at the exhibition November 10 time, especially with the War ground at 2.50 p.m. His Excel November 17 intervening, is a long way off. Itency and party will be received November 21 appears, however, that this once at the entrance by the Chairman December 1 distinguished Frenchman is still of the committee, the Rev. H. R. December 8 to the fore, and in the telegram Wells, 0.B.E., Sir Robert and December 14
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Cases Deaths
6
0
22
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31
9
8
33
25
61
16
91
29
81
22
73
1. 88
415
153
Small-poxi 22, cases from the
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it is stated that he has been cele Dowbiggin and Mr. Fung Kei-December 29 brating his 90th birthday. It is cheuk and others representing the very unusual that one who, as M. reception committee. Loubet must have done, has pass- ed through much political tur- The members of the general city, 51 from Kowloon-total 73, moil, ahould live to such an committee, among whom there 38 deaths during the week. advanced age, and it is even are a large number of the village Diphtheria: 1 case from the more unusual that he should then elders from every district in the city, 3 from Kowloon-total 4 (1 be so lively as M.. Loubet appears New Territories, will then be in- British, 1 Eurasian, 2 Chinese). to be. The veteran ex-President troduced to His Excellency.. Fol Enteric fever (typhoid): 1 is evidently a humorist, judging lowing the introduction, His Ex-from the city, I from Kowloon- by the remarks he made regard-cellency will be conducted to a total 2, (1 imported), 3 deaths. ing his formula for longevity. platform In front of the exhibi- during the week. He places first "a clear conscience tion building. The formal part
European Victim.
and a good appetite." and per- of the proceedings will commence The present outbreak of small- haps he may have said that if one with a speech by Sir Robert Ho pox, in the Colony has claimed its has the one, one must also have Tung, to which His Excellency second European victim in less the other. He is no admirer of will reply.
than a week. prohibition, as he advocates a There will be a distribution of Mr. Alfred E. Brown, Đ "moderate indulgence in spirits." special prizes and certificates of draughtsman of Messrs. W. S. The next item of the formula is honour to all who will participate Bailey and Co., Ltd., engineers the best and it is one that will in the Show..
and shipbuilders of Kowloon, is find
a ready and universal res- The Hon. Mr. Southorn and the latest victim. His death took had been disposed of) England ponse. M. Loubet says that if we Mrs. Southorn, will then be con-place at the Kemedy Town Isola- were but twenty runs ahead of would live long we "should never ducted over the grounds for in- tion Hospital yesterday.
Only 26 years of age at the time our cousins from "down under." use the telephone." Too true, for spection of the exhibits which
who could live long or wish to live will be staged according to the of his death, Mr. Brown, whose The fact in itself was sufficient to long if tortured telephonically 7 classification in the respective home is at Willington Quay, New- raise the present struggle above Also, says this vivacious old sheds, of which there are eight. castle-on-Tyne, had been in the Tea and refreshments will be Colony for only about two months, the previous two in the eyes of all Frenchman, "dabble sparingly in
who love the game of cricket: but politics, advice which from one served on the grounds through-arriving here on the P. & O. s-s. who must have devoted years to out the afternoon by the manage- "Malwa," Much sympathy will when Australia, In the last hour legislative harangues, is good. ment of the Castle Peak Restaur- be felt for his parents at Home,
The late Mr. Brown was takën of play, "set about" the English We are inclined to think that M. ant at moderate prices.
Loubet has not attained to his bowling and managed to secure ripe old age without acquiring the one hundred and eighteen runs gentle art of talking "with his for the loss of two of their tongue in his cheek. wickets, the question of the ultim- ate winner and very likely the question as to the disposal of the "Ashes" became a most open one, Australia, at start of play this morning, were 98 runs ahead with eight wickets of the second innings in hand. At this stage the game was anybody's.
Special Fares
i just before Christmas and ad- As will be seen from the adver-mitted to hospital, where Inter tisement columns, the Railway small-pox symptoms developed. management has made a substan- He was then transferred to the tial reduction on the ordinary Isolation Hospital, where he died. fares for the return journey to In spite of his short residence and from Sheung Shui. Visitors in the Colony, Mr. Brown who had Men's hearts ought not to be travelling by the 12.10 or the 1.15 shown himself adaptable to the set against one another, but set p.m. train from Kowloon will ar- life of the Colony, made the ac- with one another, and all against rive at Sheung Shui in time for quaintance of a number of people the evil thing only. -Thomas the opening ceremony. Return with whom he rapidly became Carlyle,
trains will leave Sheung Shui halt popular. His death after, such a at 4:46 p.m. and 5.55 p.m. for brief'association with Hong Kong The forthcoming marriage is Kowloon, the latter is the last is keenly felt by his friends and announced of Mr. A. E. Coates, train. Sailors and soldiers in uni- colleagues, of Hong Kong Tramways, Ltd., form and school children will be The funeral will pass the Monu-
ment at 5 p.m. to-day. The progress of the match yes-and Miss G. H. Maher (de Souza), admitted to the Exhibition free.
Exhibits and Exhibitors day marked a red-letter day in of N. S. Moses & Co., Ltd.
The following list gives the the history of "Test" cricket. The hour of commencement numbers of exhibits and exhibi-Low-plush, was quite at the Walter Hammond, of Gloucester-of the Local Composers Concert tors from each'district:-
Places- shire, did something which has to be given at the Helena May
Institute on January 15 has been Sha Tin not been done before; his double-altered to 9.15 p.m. instead of Lum Chuen, centuries in successive games, as 15.15 p.m.
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Taipo
Sha Tow Kok
Failing to Notify
•
The tenant of No. 10, Hong
Kowloon Magistracy yesterday Exhibits Exhibitors for "that he unlawfully did, knowing or having reason to be- lieve that one Chan Lau was suf fering from small-pox, fail to notify the same to the Medical Officer of Henith or the officer in charge of the nearest Police Sta- tion.
574
'76
82
15
126
18
1,267
185
743
87
| MCRAE—HURLEY-On January 3, 1929, at 2.30 p.m. at the
a record, are likely to stand for a Registry, Mr. Lionel McRae to
A member of the staff of the Fanling, Sheung, time. Other things. Health Office, at the invitation shui Mrs.
Hurley M. P.
(neo long
although overshadowed by the of the Peak Residents' Associa-Sun Tin, Goldenberg).
performance of the young Eng-tion, is making a house-to-house Kam Tin,
Pat Heung The Mel- visit for the purpose of vaccinat- lishman, happened.
ing all those so desirous.
Sun Pat Heung, bourne wicket, for instance,
Ping.Shan, 1 maintained its reputation of be At 10.15 last night, the junk Mong Chang 1,389 ANDERSON-On December 25,
1928, at Aberdeen, to Mr, and ing one of the finest in the world San Yee Hing" ran into the Tuen Moon Mrs. D. Anderson, a daughter, so long as it remains dry. It is Canton steamer Sal On" outside Cheun Wan the Kap-sui-mun pass, Very Kowloon and
The Yaumati CROUCH-On December 25, 1928, made of soil from the Merri little damage was done.
at the Country Hospital, Merri Creek, black of colour, and wives and families of the junk- Shanghal, to Mr. and Mrs. when well-dressed and dry has the men boarded the steamer in case any more trouble happened to the R. J. Crouch, a daughter.
appearance of polished ebony.junk. They were landed in LEITAO.-On December 26, 1928, The fears entertained yesterday Hong Kong.
C. L. Mathew, a son,
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WHITNEY FORTUNE
£11,000,000 FOR HIS WIFE
U.S. DUTIES - །་ " ་
The Court was informed by a maid servant, that the defendant had gone to Canton.
Mr. E. W. Hamilton adjourned the case sine die, remarking that when the defendant, returned it' could be brought up again.
ARTIST MURDERED
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY NEAR BERLIN
Berlin. Profeshor Kurz, an artist whose wife was President Hindenburg's first cousin, has been the victim of a ruthless mur- der at. Werder, one of the outer Buburbs of Berlin.
at St. Marie Hospital, Shang-afternoon that it was breaking, hai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. A occasioned by the suprisingly blacksmiths, arrested by the One of the two young Chinese Leitso, a son, Paulo Emanuel.
quick dismissal of the last four police in connection with the mur- MATHEW.--On December 25,
English batsmen, were not, der in Kennedy-road, on February 1928, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mre. happily, realised, for the Austra-22, 1928, of Fung Man-chui, a student of St. George's School, lians were able to knock up over was discharged by Major C. Will- New York-An official apprai- For some years past he had MERRITT. On December 17, 1928, a hundred in what may be termed son, O.B.D., yesterday. The police sal of the estate of the late Mr. lived by himself in a small one-
at the International Hospital, "no time."
withdrew the charge against the Payne. Whitney, filed recently for storey house, and here he was Hankow, to Mr. and Mrs. F. N.
accused, Kam Lam-kwai, on the taxation purposes, shows that the found dead." Evidently he had Merritt, daughter.
This sudden exit of the rest of ground that the evidence against American sportsman died worth been killed by blows on the head the visiting side, just referred to, him was insufficient.
The other 238,865.702. also constituted one of the fea-man is under remand until Mon-
day next. tures of a remarkable day. The Australians' fuller knowledge of the ways of the wicket may have had something to do with it, but It is a coincidence as rare as it. Hammond, Jardine and Sutcliffe,
Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 3, 1929.
A REMARKABLE DAY
•
LACK OF CLERGY EARL GREY ON FINANCIAL
DIFFICULTY
with an axe. All the rooms in the
The Federal taxes on this will house had been ransacked, but it amount to more than £4,000,000, has not yet been discovered whe- By Mr. Whitney's will charither the murderer secured con- ties, libraries, and institutions of siderable booty.
learning benefit to the extent of Professor Kurz, who was best £9,000,000. His widow receives a known by a. series of eighty-four fe income from £11,000,000, be illustrations to the luxurious work sides realty valued at £600,000, on the Wartburg, the Thuringian jewellery and.. racehorses vàlued castle where Luther translated the Bible, was 70 years of age. His at £183,000:
Mr. Whitney,' bequeathed mode of life had become very
"In England the death duties believed that his murderer is to on Mr. Whitney's estate at the be sought among acquaintances maximum of 40 per cent would made by him in this way. have been £15,500,000.0
is interesting that the most ex-it must be remembered,, were able citing period in the history of the to master the bowling for reason- Newcastle-Earl Grey, who is present series of "Test" matches ably long periods. Our own sur-chairman of the Church of Eng- in Australia should come in the mise inclines to a deep apprecia-land Board of Finance, said $100,000 to his friend Mr. Finley eccentric. While he avoided all that unless the decline in Peter Dunne, a well-known intercourse with people of his very middle of the tour. The tion of the slow leg breaks of clergy could be arrested they American humorist who created own class, he was very sociable with tramps and beggars. It is first and second matches, now D. D. J. Blackie, who took six of would soon be unable to provide the character of "Mr. Dooley," that we look back upon them, the wickets during the innings, an incumbent for every parish.
There were 14,000 parishes in hold little of our attention; all we catching two batsmen off his own the country, and little over 15,000 remember is that England won trundling. The three top-scorers clergy. Before the war there rather easily on both occasions, in the English side, it is observed, were 21,000 clergy. The burden
“Hallo, "old" féllow, and how do But in the third "Test," now be fell to the Victorian, and his is the was falling on districts that most
needed help. He did not believe you like your new job?" asked Ing contested at Melbourne, the kind of bowling, it seems, which that lack of unity was responsible Tony, meeting his friend in the situation has become intriguing. simply shouts to be knocked in for that position. There were street Yesterday, after both sides had the air. He is, of course, per- many men admirably equipped for "Simply topping!" was the re- completed an innings (which forming on his own midden, the vocation who were anxious to plys "Tam practically my own ence?" AN
came forward, but found it im-master! I can get to the office at Binks: "Oh, he was quite all meant that two and a half which is helpful, but this factor possible to raise the necessary what time I like before nine, and right; we lent him a mackintosh
leave off anytime after six." and umbrolla matches of the five to be played may not have played an important funds,
Jinks: “Did you give an open- aft show in spite of the rain
Binks: "Yes, the stage was sheltered by trees."
Jinks: “What about the audi-