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ming of the gates or the banging of the gangways since the Star Ferry began to operate, and, to all appearance, there never will be any change certainly not if the sailors are allowed to continue their propensity for doing just what they think fit.
Star Ferry
To-day
seditious slogans at a well-known
3
SATURDAY,
One fatal case of rabies a dog
AUGUST 10, 1929.
MOTH PLANES
DETAILS OF SOME RECENT PERFORMANCES
point on the Peak. Photographs was notified on Thursday, and translations of the said
Three cases of enteric fever were slogans were in evidence, but notified on Thursday. One was simply because the principal British.
REMARKABLE FEATS witness, a Shantung constable, did not give his evidence as clear: Peace in the Colony is published the "China Mail"
The latest list of Justices of the
Messrs. Arnhold & Co, write to ly as his
&Worship thought it There are 84 Official J.P.8 and 140 Our principala, tho Do Havilland should be given, the case was dis- Non-Official J.P..
Aircraft Factory, have sent us the missed, the accused discharged and, worse still, the unlucky Indian contingent of the Hong Kong well known "Moth" light aero- "A ratlon" for the men of the following cables giving particulars of recent performances of their "Bobby" lectured in such a way Police is announced as 11⁄2 lbs. atta
plane by the "Bench" that it seemed 2 oz. dhall, 21⁄2 ghee, 2/3 oz Telegram from de Havilland Air- the least that was likely to hap-masala, 2/3 oz. salt. pen to him was instant dismissal.
Respects" To The C.S.P.
་
|
craft Co., London-July 8; -
Result Kings Cup Air Race eleven seventy miles round Britain produced wonderful demonstration Moth per- formance and reliability stop. Win- Scout but Moths secured second, third, ning machine Was 400 h.p. military
One
The Lady Superior of Penang Convent, who underwent a minor The irate operation at the General Hospital, Penang, is making excellent pro- Magistrate, in- теза...
fourth and fifth places stop. deed, seemed
Moth with perfectly standard 100 more
deter- The current issue of the "Govern-hp. Gipsy engine completed course mined on that happening than in of forthcoming letting of quarries casily fastest time for light aircraft ment Gazette" contains notifications at average speed one hundred eighteen
point seven miles
iles per hour which having the case tried on ita and the sale of a large number of sixteen Gipsy Moth started and four- merits, judging by what he lots of Crown land in the Peninsula teen finished stop. stated 1 en he
his and in the New Territories. "respects" the "C.S.P.". At all events, the Shantung constable is to be sold by the Government Sanitary Department barge S.D. was, in the opinion of the Bench, with all gear and fittings except no use for the job he held on The ground tackle and domestic water craft Co., London July 12. Peak, and his superiors were to tank. She now lies in the Govern- he told so.
ment Mooring at Yaumati,
by ent
Now, this sort
"The Circus" starring Charlie Should Not Go of thing from Chaplin, who wrote, produced and Unchallenged any sort of directed the film, will be screened at the Majestie Theatre, to-morrow Magistrate is, and Monday. It is a real treat for see Chaplin and
was no
Neither retire ment due mechanical failure stop. Special trophy for private owners fly, Ing cwn machines won by Moth with sixth. Havillands." Metha second, third, fourth, fifth and
Telegram from de Havilland Air-
Sealed. Gipsy engine reliability tour | now passed five hundred dying hours savering forty four thousand miles stop Tour stepped for two weeks to exhibit engine Aero Show seals un- broken stop. Tour will continue after- wards stop. Engine running perfect 3y. Havillands”
craft Co., London July 23.
Telegram from de Havilland Air-
in our opinion, all wrong, and the kiddies to
Captain Broad on Gipsy Moth won should not be allowed to go un-laugh with him.
first prize International Acrobatic challenged. Constables, of the
Contest at important flying meeting Shantung or of any other variety, A small fire broke out last night Heston Aerodrome organised in con-
junelion Aero. a Japanese barber's shop at petitors
Exhibition stop. Com- are not always quite clear in the in
included Intest English expression of their ideas when in No. 20, Wyndham-street. The out- Scouts, high powered German Fight- the Police Court, and surely they break was extinguished with the ers, Light Aircraft, etc., stop. 10,000 should not be blamed when this help of three Indian constables, and spectators including many distinguish- happens. A little patience on the the services of the Fire Brigade
ed foreign visitors. Havillands." Magistrate's part, a little help to were not required. There the floundering witness and damage.
CANTON ITEMS doubtless all would be well; but
SEQUEL TO ATTEMPT ON
MA SHEE-TSANG.........
Canton, Yesterday. Great secrecy is maintained, as to the wreabouts of Ma Shee-tseng, the Chinese actor, at whom, as previously reported, a large bomb was thrown, followed by a hand grenade; the latter missile went wide of its object, but In the first place, A pair of trousers containing a the former seriously injured the lower such a state. of wallet with $150 in robes; were limbs of Ma
yesterday reported to the Police as The Police have not so for found affairs is the very antithesis of the Bri- having been stolen from the third any traces of the criminale, but it is floor of No. 335, Nathan-road, Kow-understood that they are convinced that tish judicial spirit or loom, the residence of Mrs. F. Lim. private vengeance is at the motive and, indeed of any judicial spirit, Later the trousers were found working on that conviction, they expect which should be and is based stuffed into a drain pipe, but the to arrest the persons concerned in this
attempted assassination in the near- consideration. wallet and money were gone.future. upons calm Doubtless Magistrates, like lesser
the "lecture" which Magis Mrs. T. Robertson, living at No trate Hamilton seems to have 13, Queen's-road Central, reported thought it his duty to mete out to to the Police, yesterday, the loss of the constable in question is quite a string of imitation pearls and a the last thing that one would ex-pair of shoes, worth $17.50. They pect from a British Magistrate were stolen from her place during speaking in & British Court. her absence, between Wednesday
and Thursday.
Judicial Spirit Lacking
One thing may be said in favour of the Star Ferry, namely, that it is,
Further investigations have reveal- in several other men, occasionally act stupidly Hong Kong's patronisers of the ed that at least 16 people can now be respects; much more efficiently but when the "lesser men do so Queen's Theatre are soon to be accounted for in different city hospitals, conducted than it was some variably of little moment. Not so originator and producer of Rooster the lower parts of the body.
the consequences are almost in- given a show by Mr. Forcat, the the majority of whom are injured in years ago. The ferry piers, both when a Magistrate acts as the Acts, the roosters being the only in Hong Kong and Kowloon, pre- Magistrate acted in the case in trained game in the world, accord- sented a fine old jumble in the ances, was caught practically the main entrance of the Theatre. which the accused, to all appearing to the framed advertisement in good old pre-War ways. To-day in flagrante delicto. But the case Mr. Torcat will be assisted by Mlle. the piers are a model of is dismissed, the accused dis-Flor d'Ailza. orderliness by comparison with charged and a floundering fellow of a Shantung constable is
Chang Hauch-liang Replies General Chang Hsueh-liang, sent a
and other generals in the north-east characteristic reply to the Provincial Kuomintang's cabled message (to him provinces asking them to defend the country and resist foreign aggression) In the following words—AN
"With the spear in my hand I have ing the orders of the Central Gov ornment the Central G
the olden times, when passengers sharply cashiered. And all be
A proclamation is published in coming off jostled with those cause the occupant of the Bench the "Government Gazette, relative going on in the most promiscuous, did not choose to act as ninety to reciprocal provisions, provided by Hong Kong, Saturday, Aug, 10, 1929. and sometimes. in the most nine in a hundred British Magis- the "Maintenance Orders (Facilities North and East Rivers
The Kwangtung Survey Office, which trates would have acted, namely, for Enforcement) Ordinancs be- hazardous, manner.
calmly, sedately and sensibly.
tween the Commonwealth of Aus had to suspend the work in the upper tralia of the one part, and Hong country on account of the recent war, Kong and other parts of His is about to despatch two batches of sur- The constable Majesty's Dominions of the other to the North and East Rivers to carry veyors and staff, numbering about 70, probably did part.
out a minute survey the districts in that section, both for military and con- structional purposes. Canton News. Agency.
STILL WATERS
Star Ferry "Sailors":
Nowadays
Who Was The Offender?
tories should communicate thely in-
given.
ELECTRIFY HER !
And as for the Ignoring The hardy mariners It would be no- Mariners having all their
not do pre- tired that the
own way, and a
cisely what he Star Ferry lot more than they ought to have should have done or, rather, did Hong Kong (the Hon. Comdr. G. F. The Director of Air Services, "sailors" have of in dealing with late-comers, they not say what he should have said. Hale, RN, retired) announces that late been coming in for their were simply ignored, for the ferry But, then, neither did the Magis- persons intending to fly British air periodic piece of criticism regard had to be a good bit away from trafel Who is the more culpable craft over Dutch East Indian terri Pullman axle lighting apparatus ing the manner in which the wharf to prevent dozens of in question? The vast majority tentions to the British Consular and terms furnish a complete com they slam the gates in men, young and old, from jumping of British and other residents of Representative at the place nearest pendium for handling a woman, DO the faces of those who aboard. It was most exhilarat this Colony will doubtless have to their intended destination. At Complaint and cure have been matter what her mood may be. had no difficulty in coming to a least five days notice should be arrive "Just in time to be too ing, especially when one or more sound conclusion one that was
worked late" Those hardy mariners of the impetuous ones
out ingeniously by all but more judicial than that of the
writer in the Pullman news as fol- seem to take a fiendish delight in missed their objective.
Magistrate in question. And
lowe this part of their "nautical"
their sympathy will be entirely Last evening three Chinese armed When a woman is sulky and wil and wholeheartedly with the with knives attempted to carry out not speak exciter. duties, and it is to be hoped that
no-luckless constable, whose prosa robbery at No. 7, Kiu-vin-fong, If he gets too excited control- the occasional reminder they re-
A Remedy thing.
of that pects, we trust, were not detri- but were frustrated by an amahler. ceive regarding their rudeness
mentally affected by this very employed in the house raising the If she talks too long inter Wanted exciting sort hap rare display of feeling from a usual alarm of "Save Life." The rupter. has at least a little of the desired
neng for the British Magistrate's bench
would-be robbers departed hurriedly effect. But we very much doubtsailors" have it all their own
If her way of thinking is not without taking anything. They our converter: way and Bang goes the gate on
If she is willing to come half In commenting gained admission to the place by one And cannot men, young or old, and, alas! even
one of them representing that he had way meter. Happy Mission upon this un- come to repairs the telephone, and Crash Goes The something be on ladies, old or young, for the
Of The Press pleasant inci- once inside he admitted his con- Gangway
done to cause
nautical gentlemen are no respect
Jendent, we stated federates. ers of persons. It is high time that we were surprised that those indi. viduals, in the exercise of their
this outrage on the public gen- those genial
And to write to marine" duties, to let down the rally was remedied. But, as we Water Sho
have atated, we haven't much The Star hope that a remedy will be effect other profoundly,
Dejects had not ed:
cudgels Shantung Before the matter so It is happy mission of Rather passes completely the Press to fasa torch Surprising into oblivion we
ight of sarity upon abuses. We trust that Silence
agistrate should like to say Hamilton will here that it has what he sent to the surprising that son
it.
gangway with less thunderous effect? We know of nothing elther in the Colony or out of it to compare with the grand slam that the gangwayn recer every
ferry arrives either Hong Kong on Kowloon. If these
ancient mariners have no nerves it might be pointed out to them been that at least some of the patrons
writers to the new
Spublico, (and no
Мопо-
have not called
of the Ferry have and that these should be considered. But what's the use of complaining polies we never know
com
uals who like
The death of Mr. G. 0. LaBrooy, papers about the took place at the Ipoh. District Hoa-
"The Films"
pital where he had been a patient and rossing as the result of being thrown out of the his ricsha which was run into by kless hire motor-car. He was born in
do
amends towards.
may have acted We all act now and
Ferthel
Colombo, and came out to 1898 and settled in Rusla Five years later he lett for Ching
worked as an insurance Shanghai - and Hankow, to Ibon about the end established himself as merchant and broker. Later he ɔrinting business known ton Press of which the
If she will come all the way--- If she wants to go further con- receiver. PAS
ductor
If she would go still further dispatcher.
If she wants to be an angel→→ transformer.
If you think she is picking your pockets-detector.
If she proves your fears are. Tong-compensator
If she goes up in the air-con danser.
if she wants chocolates-feeder. If she sings inharmoniously
if she is in the country tele-
If she is a poor cool-discharger. If her dress unhooks connector. If she eats too much reducer. If she
ong rectifier
If she is cold-heater.
if she gossips too much-regula for
rallé futués: and splutters in
LaBrooy and
lation might)
Bro
becom
erser.
By Norette.