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SATURDAY, APRIL 6. 1929,
Winter or any other season here: try can be made more convenient The name of the Yuet Tung S.S. given a universal desire to start ly to qualify for such trophies as Co., Ltd., has been struck of the work earlier in the morning and the Chater Cup, some of the register of companies. cease duty earlier in the afternoon Shanghai jockers can be induced everything else would automatic ally fit in
Kellet Crest Activity
to remain the extra week, owners
A E. Nash, the local solici of subscription griffins have an- tor, left for Home to-day by the other chance of making up their "Hakusan Maru."
In the neighbour minds whether they will sell or hood of that live in the land of hopes, alug- The following appointment was well-known Peak gards are given the opportunity made by the Secretary of State landmark, Mount of trying again and the first for the Colonies during the month Kelleton Kellet Crest, to be half of the extra season com-ended January 31:-Hong Kong: precise there is at the present mences earlier.
Misa V. N. Brett, Nursing Sister. moment, as there has been for
the 8.8.
some time past, very consider- The good work having started, Among the passengers sailing able activity with regard to the it is wise, therefore, to get for London to-day on building of the War Memorial through the first half year as "Hakusan Maru" is Mr. A. S. Hospital. When it is erected and quickly as possible so that the Abbott, manager of Messrs. Kelly ready for occupation it will be, public (mentioned first by de-and Walsh, Ltd. During his ab- we are told, in every respect a sign), the ponies, and those en pence Mr. S. O. Gregory will be worthy institution. Meanwhile, gaged have longer respite during in charge.. quite a goodly portion of the the summer. The second half of Crest is being levelled; fort-like the year then comes on normally. Miss Elsie Thomson, M.B., retaining walls and sundry build-But if the hectic week-ends of the ChB. Edin., D.RH, London, of ings that have served their day last two years are recalled, it will the Public Health Department of and generation are being de- be seen that local turfites are get- East Ham, who died at Kew on molished, so that foundations, ting less, because Macro has had March 6 at the age of 85, was solid and secure, for the new hos no races for some time, steeple- the younger daughter of Dr. J. C. pital may be substituted and a fine chases at Fanling do not come Thomson, lately of the Govern- building, which will add to the round so often (and are held on ment Medical Service of Hong. lovely amenities of the district, Sunday for a change) and the Kong, and Mrs. Thomson. be placed thereon.
writer, for one, intends to spend a few dollars on. April 13 -- and again on April 27 at Happy Valley. More power for good to the Stewards!
2
Yesterday afternoon, the Kow- loon Fire Brigade received a call from the Shamshuipo Police Sta tion notifying them of a grass fire which had broken out on the hillside near the Kowloon Water- works. One appliance, was dis- patched, and succeeded in extin-
The Prohibition amendment... guishing the outbreak, which was has turned many respectable of a small nature... people into law-breakers, caused
Simultaneously, a Building a motor road is be Motor Road ing erected on the east side of the Crest and work is being conduct. ed expeditiously. The scene is one of considerable activity, as the proposed road covers a wide area and will extend, we believe, as far as the Matilda Hospital. Survey lines mark the route and a
no small amount of violence and The death occurred at Exeter miniature "railway" covers
crime and placed the country in on March 4 of Mr. George P. large portion of the surface. the unhealthy condition of being Curry, who was for many years Over the rails are being trundled at odds with itself, Dr. A. secretary of the Hong Kong and numerous iron trolley loads of Lawrence Lowell, president of China Gas Company. Retiring in soil, filling up the wide spaces every one knows, the law is and family and settled down in Harvard University, asserts. 1924 he went home with his wife and widening the existing road. It is a big undertaking and is not enforced, and as time goes on his native town. He had been a that bind the two petit. Colonies being carried out under the super- it seems to be less and less sufferer for something like two of Hong Kong and Macao. It is vision of the Public Works De effective." If the prohibition-years. The funeral took place on
ists insist that
their prin- March 7, difficult at the moment to say partment. Near the fine house un-
shall remain which of the two Governors Sir til quite recently occupied by the ciple unabated
formal
"Raphael and His Vatican Pie- Cecil Clement or Signor Barbosa Captain Superintendent of Police the
law, they will make has been the more energetic in and now the home of the Colonial probably
enforcement tures" was the subject of an in- fostering this kindly spirit of Secretary, a very large "filling" is impossible, hamper the growth of teresting lecture by Father D. J. Concord. That may be a matter receiving the attention of an temperance and perpetuate viola- Finn, M.A. S.J., to the Univer- for their respective biographers army of coolies, of both sexes. To tion of the law and of good order. sity Arts Association last night, when Professor L. Forster pre in the years to come. Meantime expedite matters here a pierlike Washington (D.C.) Star."
sided. Father Finn paid particu- it may be said that the two Col-structure has been erected which onies know each other better, and enables the "dumping-down” or appreciate the other's little dif- the "filling-up" to be done in the ficulties much better to-day than, most approved and scientific man- say, even two years and a half ner. ago. Signor Barbosa and his family have come to regard Hong Kong not merely as a neighbour but as a friend at whose "fire- side" they have ever been wei- come to come and warm their
hearts with the glow of sym- pathy that makes the whole world king May, the Governor of Macao and his family enjoy their trip to Portugal and return here with the Assurance that they are coming back to friends and well-wishers in the best sense
of the term.
The series of very Daylight interesting awn Saving tennis matches in connection with the BATES. On March 28, to
Rev. W. P. and Mrs. Bates of tournament at the Hong Kong Cricket Club has brought home to Ningpo, son. BUCKLEY-On March 29, at many people more than before the Home, advisability of some sort of day- Victoria Nursing
Mrs.light saving scheme. Toward the
Shanghai, to Mr. and
T. A. Buckley a sor HUCKSTEP. On March 28, at the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Huck step, a son.
MARRIAGES
Very little change
has been effected
Mr. J. A. Tarrant, Secretary of lar attention to the frescoes on Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., the walls of the Vatican apart- Limited, left for Home to-day, ne-ments known as the Stanze da companied by his wife and Raffaelo, daughter, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Goodall left by the same steamer.
Passengers on the P and 0. "Kalyan" due to arrive next Old Gives
Place in the Mount To-day at 6.30 p.m. Swami week include Miss W. J. Adama, to the New Kellet district for Gopaldas, an eminent Indian Mr. D. Black. Miss V. N. Brett, Mr. J. A. Dewhurst. Mr: H. Dew- a long time and Sadhu, will deliver a lecture on hurst. Lieut. W. F. Edda, R.M., the quiet beauty of the place, Hindu Philosophy and Yoga," at Mr. T, J. Fawcett. Mrs. Freeman, with its magnificent views, east the Sindhi Merchants Club, Miss Freeman, Miss E. Geldart, and west, is among the glories of China Building. All members are My H. G. Hegarty, Miss H. R. M. the Peak. The new hospital, the cordially invited.
Korte, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. new motor road, with vehicles
hurrying along its surface, the The gross receipts of the two MDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Mackie, Mr. D S. Pethick, Mr. C. T. many changes which these con- Dancing Displays given by Miss Pendrey. Mr. T. Sparshott, and cessions to the spirit of progress Violet Capell amounted to $1,200. Mr. G. White. must necessarily bring about, will Miss Capell has taken with her Considerably alter and, in some $20 which she will be handing to respects, mar the natural beauty Viscount Knutsford for the Lon- of the place. Still, from the point don Hospital, and two other local" THE DOVER ROAD" of view of progress and up-to- charities are benefiting also. dateness" the amenities of the district will doubtless be improv, ed and that nowadays is by many regarded as all-important
a
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FIRST PERFORMANCE IN THEATRE TO-NIGHT
EAGERLY ANTICIPATED
Music Company.
Returning Home on leave, the Rev. W. W. Rogers, Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, will be among the passengers sailing at noon to- day on the "Hakusan Maru." Mr.
The eagerly anticipated first end of a protracted game of
What's in a name, Rogers, who leaves with his wife nerformance of "The Dover
old What's in the tennis the light is not by any
and family, will return in six Road" will be given at the Thea saying
tre Royal to-night. goes. Well might months' time. means good, and some players do
The final Number? one ask to-day
dress rehearsal took place last hesitate to take advantage of it by appealing for a suspension of
what's in a mum-
Bonham-strand East was the night and was much appreciated play on the score of bad light her. It is notorious that if there scene of a motor accident yester-by an audience chiefly consisting Moreover, the spectators have are 10,000 tickets in a lottery or day afternoon, when two cars met of Service men. likewise to be considered, particu- cash sweep, very many people in a head-on collision. Both The curtain will rise punctual- EDDINGTON-OLSTEN-Onsion to see a fall programme and the first and last. The com-
larly when they pay for admis fight shy of No. 1 and No. 10,000 vehicles (public cars) were badly ly at 9.15 and those attending the damaged. Another accident re- performance are requested to be March 28, at Tientsin, in not one curtaffed by sudden twi- mon belief is that these numbers sulting in a ricsha being totally in their seats by that time, in H.B.M. Consulate, and later light. It seems that it is idle to "can never come up." It was dis- destroyed occurred yesterday at order that the action of the play at All Saints Church, Francis ask the Government to introduce proved last Saturday at the noon, when motor ear No. 458 may not be interrupted. Smollet Bredalbane Edding a Daylight Saving Bill why, it second extra meeting of the ran into it in Connaught-road near Further performances are being ton, of Reading, England, to can only be guessed and the Hong Kong Jockey Club when a Wardley-street. No casualties given on Tuesday, Thursday, Fri- Audrey Adele, younger daugh- General Chamber of Commerce Portuguese resident drew, with are reported in either accident. day and Saturday, 9th, 11th, 12th, ter of the late Capt. R. T. evidently thinks that the matter ticket No. 1, two first prizes in
and 13th April. Olsen and Mrs. Magaret Olsen is much too triding to come under successive races, enriching him woman living at Shamshuipo has
The case in which a Chinese Booking is at the Anderson of Shanghai.
its official ken One or two firms self by more than $4,400. If any HAMILL-WALLACE. On Feb bave long since set the lead by so body cares to test the law of summoned her husband, a return
ruary 6, in New York, Mies regulating their hours for their averages over a sufficiently longed Chinese from America, for
CHHƯNG CHÁU NOTES Velma Mary Hamill,
of staffs as to enable the latter to period, it will he found that No. 1 cruelty, desertion and neglect to Toronto, Canada, to Rev. have plenty of time for participa has an equal chance with No. 13, provide for her, was again heard
[Frans Our Correspondent) Edward Wilson Wallace, of tion in sport before it gets dark, No. 777, or any other of the numbefore Mr. T S Whyte Smith at
Cheung Chau, Friday, but as often as not these mean- bers popularly conceded to be the Kowloon Magistracy yester der along “on their own" await- |-
day afternoon. It was mentioned The Rev. H. R. Wella, O.B.E jossy." DEATHS
that an agreement had been arriv-paid a recent visit to inspect the ing the orthodox knocking off" time of their fellow (or sister)
ed at before the Secretariat of Girls' School and take the morn- BAGAT. On March 31, at the sportsmen.
(or sportswomen) resident offered to buy a certain having promised to pay $30 a
A few years ago, an American Chinese Affairs, the husbanding service. General Hospital, Shanghai, Tis a wonder indeed that the ticket (with either four or five month and provide his wife with F. Short conducted a Communion On Easter Sunday, the Rev. Peter Bagat, Kiangsu Che movement has not voluntarily digits) in a $10 Derby sweep run a fiat, or 40 without the flat. The service in the London Mission mical Works, aged 52 years, made headway.
by a local Chinese Club for 350 question of costs was to be de-House, which was attended by a CATTAPAN-On March 80, at
This was months before the draw.cided by the Magistrate. It was few of the residents and visitors. tha General Hospital, Shang
Before the present "He had a hunch," he said, that then agreed that complainant Although the week-end was hal, Luigi Cattapan, aged 54. Up in the crisis in Kwang that number was going to draw should receive $40, the question cloudy and the much-needed rain
Morning Member of Shanghai Muni»
tung arose an edict
a certain pony. It didn't. Nor of costs would be settled later. fell, several houses were reoccu- Went forth that cipal Orchestra.
pled for the holiday which bright- CUPELI-On March 30, at the Government staffs in Canton was he able to buy the ticket in
Country Hospital, Shanghai were expected to be at their office question because it was sold out A peculiar report was made ened up toward the end.
of the Colony. And what about yesterday afternoon to the Police The old "Morning Star" has Manlio Capelli, aged 40, of desks at eight o'clock in the the Shantung policeman who by a Chinese house boy of the ex-been put back on the run and is the Chinese Customs Service, morning, as it was thought, and won nearly $14,000 in the Lusi-periences that befell him while on very unsatisfactory, being very thought rightly that too much tano Club Celebrations in his way from the Peak to Aber low in the water. When the tide good daylight had been previously frittered away before most follWei hai wei mora far can be deen on the new Aberdeen-road, is out the gang plank is at a very began their day's work. Here visualised, we think. many start at half past eight and
Shanghai.
Hong Kong, Saturday, April 6, 1929,
STILL WATERS
He said that he was on a visit to acute angle - impossible for the his father, and while near No. 38 ladies to mount. - On one ocea.
- A sports correspon Bridge, he overtook three men sion, the beat moved after the
many more at me but that does not permit their stopping in good
Is There dent suggests that While passing them one of their plank had been let down and it time in the afternoon to change Racing? Jockey Club Stew and, advancing on him, gripped Hong Kong wharf
Too Much the Hong Kong number pointed a revolver at him, fell into the harbour when at the Many besides the and go off to the soccer, tennis, or Good Bye local Portuguese hockey grounds in time to indulger ards will find that him by the throat in an endeavour The demand for houses is be to a community will res in a full-timed gume. If all were they have erred in having three to search him. The boy, however, coming more brisk, and certain Governor gret to say "Good to start much earlier than at pre- think so. A few years ago, the The other two then sprang at him, Ching Ming celebrations were
race days this month. We do not threw his assailant from him. months are fully booked. .. ________ bye" to the Gov- sent they could easily adapt ernor of Macao and his charming themselves and everybody else to custom began of holding the first but after a struggle lasting a few carried on as usual. wife and daughter when they a voluntary Daylight Saving extra meeting of the year a week moments, he broke away The Progress is being made with leave Hong Kong for their native scheme with, in addition after the last day of the annual three would be robbers then ran the ticket office at the Cheung land to-morrow. During his brief healthier physiques and better meeting. Which is obviously to after him, but gave up the at-Chau pier. Had it been larger it regime in Macao Signor Barbosa efficiency in the day's duties the advantage of those actively tempt after a short chase. When could also have served as a shelter has co-operated to the full in There would be no need to put engaged in the Sport of Kings, last seen the three men were for passengers when the wea- cementing still closer the ties back the hands of the clock in Ponies are still in training, an en heading toward Wanchal gap.ther is stormy