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ELEVEN-YEARS OLD CHINESE ON OPIUM CHARGE
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When a Chinese girl, who gave her age as. 11 years, was this morn- ing charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Central Magis. tracy, with the unlawful possession of 31 taels of raw non-Govern- ment opium, Revenue Officer Grim-" mitt told the Magistrate that he thought the girl was older than she claimed to be.
on the water-
Giving the facts of the case, Mr. Grimmitt said that the girl
arrested front st Connaught-road Cen- ¡tral yesterday afternoon. when
Was
the opium wax found Con- cealed on her person She would give no information other than
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1929.
BRITISH COAL
LARGE CONTRACTS OBTAIN- ABLE IN CANADA
MR. THOMAS AND COALOWNERS
London, Yesterday.
MUZZLE FOR PUP
NOTHING SMALL. ENOUGH FOR IT
£ sunimons
A LADY'S DILEMMA
Adam Baronelli of 24, Ashley Mr. J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal Rund, appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte- and Minister of Employment, to-day Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this received at the Treasury about a dozen morning in answer to whom he wished to discuss the ques- dog to be abroad without a muzzle. representatives of coplowners, with issued against her for allowing her
tion of selling British Coal in Canada. Madura Baronelli stated that her dog The meeting was held owing to his was only a little puppy born in July. recent visit to the Dominion, where he It was flat faced and, therefore, it discovered that large contracts for Bri- was difficult to get a muzzle for it. tish coal could be obtained if the price On the day in question she went to a were suitable. Among coalowners pre- leather dealer in Haiphong Road to sent
at, the interview were Mr. get a analfer uuzzle, She was there Williams, President, and Mr. Lee, for half an hour only when Sergt. Secretary of the Coalowners Associa Kelly cane. Hon-British Wireless Service.
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that she belonged to a beat in MEETS TWICE IN ABSENCE OF the harbour. Mr. Grimmitt offered
to take her out to the sampan in a motor boat to find her mother; but she said that she did not know where the boat was at the moment. His Worship gave a remand for 48 hours for further inquiries to be made.
MAIL TRAFFIC
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SIR ERIC GEDDES
London, Yesterday. Sir Eric Geddes, speaking at the annual meeting of Imperial Air- ways Limited. said the mail traffic on the Indian route was not in- creasing so rapidly as had been hoped.
The problem of providing ground accommodation for passengers was only soluble gradually. It would be folly to sink capital in building in
PREMIER
The Sergeant stated in the lady's favour that she had two dogs with her and the larger of the two, was muzzled. His Worship Even pups are liable to bite.
Madam Barnelli: Bité?
F
As regards the question of rabies Sergt. Kelly stated that the Colonial
MANY MATTERS DISCUSSED Veterinary Surgeon said that puppy
London, Yesterday,
degs were very liable to contract the disease from larger dogs.
1 Madan Baronelli insisted that her The Cabinet met this morning dog, wher it did wear a inuzzle, always
afternoon. It is let it hang about the neck! and again this understood that mary matters were
His Worship. registered a caution. discussed, in view of the Premier's departure for America and his IN LOW WATER absence from this country for four weeks. British Wireless Service. TAILOR'S EMPLOYEE PAWNS.
CLOTHES OF A CUSTOMER
Degrees
'Temperature. 10 am.. to-
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Temperature, 4. p.m.,
yesterday
87 Humidity, 10 am, to-
day
89
Humidity, 4 p.m., yes-
terday
66
Cheng Shing, a tailor, 9, Hong Lok-street, was
at the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning, sentenc ed to six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour for pawning four pieces of clothing, the property of Mrs. J M. Gutierrez of 38, High-i street, who sent them to the shop for alterations,
The accused was left in charge of the shop while his master went to the country. The mistress told
the desert, on the Persian Gulf. **5986999*********** him to pawn the clothes as they
or in African Equatorial forests, until night halts had been perman. ently fixed, and a route selected,
It was the Board's aim to con- tinue the India service to Australia. The negotiations with the Indian Government for a permanent Kara-.. chi-Delhi-Calcutta service had been inconclusive.
The Board was corresponding with the Australian and British Governments regarding the con- tinuation of the service to Austra- lia.
The dividend of 7% per cent. was approved. Reuter
UNLUCKY PAN FU
ALL HIS PROPERTY TO RE CONFISCATED
PREMIER DAYS RECALLED
Shanghai, Yesterday. Advices from. Tsinan are that by order of the Shantung Provincial Government all property belonging to Pan Fu, who was Premier in 1927 under Chang Tso-lin, will be con- fiscated.
Pan Fu was last reported to be living in Dairen, and is said to be the owner of the largest estate in Tainan. Reuter,
SECRETARY SHOT
MR. CAMPBELL FOUND DEAD!
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CLUB MYSTERY
AIR RECORD
FRENCHMEN'S ATTEMPT ON STRAIGHT-LINE FLIGHT
THROUGH AFRICA
Le Bourget, Yesterday. Flying a monoplane with a 600] .. engine, and carrying 4,870 Hitres of petrol, the French airmen de Marmier and Favereau took off at 6.55 am. to-day, in an attempt to beal the world's record straight-line fight.
Their route is by way of Mar-1
were low in funds.
The total value of the garments was $41.50 and they were pawn- ed for $4.30.
His Worship told the complain- ant that she could get back the clothing on payment of the re-
demption money to the pawnbrok-
er,
NEW CORSET
BACK INTO WHALEBONE AGAIN
sees, Tunis, the Nile Valley, and into Harley Street. on to Mozambique. Reuter.
FRONTIER TROUBLE
BRITAIN ANXIOUS ABOUT AFGHAN TRIBESMEN
CIVIL WAR DANGERS
Eve has thrown another bomb She is wear- ing corsets again, and her medical. eritics are wildly disputing their effect on her health.
Because of the revival of the Princess dress-though it is no longer called that a tightly fitting garment moulded closely to the figure till it reaches the knees, where it breaks out into frills and flounces, requires a tightly fitted, strongly boned foundation.
So the good old steel and whale- are being sold in
Simla. Yesterday. British north-west frontier offi- cials are anxiously watching the bone corsete latest developments in Afghanistan hundreds. in view of the danger of tribes with lands on both sides of the frontier day of the rubber reducer and the One specialist rejoices that the becoming involved in civil war-elastic belt is over.
Reuter.
for motoriste at Newlands Corner,
"If," he said, "girls had left themselves really free there might have been some- thing to be said for the no-corset Under a notice authorised by the mode, but they bought cheap, badly Earl of Onslow, it will be a punish-made elastic belts, wore them as able offence for, motorists to drive tight as they could possibly endure, Shanghai, Yesterday, their cars on
the greensward and and impeded the circulation. Mr. A. T. Campbell, Secretary of into the woods, but pedestrians will
"Leas Danger" the Tientsin Club,
"The new corset has at least to WAS found still be allowed to use the downs. shot dead to-day in the club quar-A free car park will be available be carefully fitted, in many cases ters-Reuter.
made to order, sad there is certain- ly less danger of serious resulta."
Women doctora, on the whole, are against any kind of boned corset, and declare that the
sports girl does not need any support other than her own muscles. But dressmakers support the new fashion wholeheartedly.
And, in any case, Miss 1929 is eschew her corsets. not likely to. Some of the most daring models of the season are built on the new lines-for example, "The Mermaid," an evening, robe of gleaming green ailver fitting like a sheath to the
where knees,
iridescent tulle that sprouts forth in a fashion suggests sea foam and ends in a "fish tail train.
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