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idle. We can only lie back in our arm chairs in Hong Kong, wish both crews the best of luck, and anxiously await the result in the Sunday Heraldi
News in Brief
The total output of the Kallan Mining Administration's mines for the week ended March 22, amounted to 109,888 tons, and the sales during the period to 106,657 tons,
Lul Tse-hal, master of the Shing Tai curio shop, 9, Star Street, Wanchal, has made a report to the Police alleging that a foki had col- lected $300 from a customer of the shop and absconder with the money
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1930.
UNION CHURCH.
Concert to Aid Building Funds.
VARIED PROGRAMME
A very enjoyable concert was given in the Union Church, Kow- loon, last night, by the Church Choir, a large audience being pre- sont
The Items, which included songs. Instrumental trios, violin solos, and varled and well monologues, were arranged.
The concert was in old of the new church and building funds. The artistes were Mra, Arnold, Mrs. Mather, Miss C. Braga and Mrs. F. Short (at the piano), Miss McGill, and Messrs. John Braga, Annisa, Cornelius, the last named being which were rendered by the choir. conductor of the three numbers
It was announced by Mr. J. Braga Lam Chui (55), who was banished that a number which he played on in 1927 for a period of five years, composed by Miss Mendham, whose the violin, Serenade in F, was returned to the Colony without aalster was one of the audience.. lawful excuse and was at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning sen- tenced to
seven months' hard labour,
A paragraph In this morning's Police reports stated that a gold wrist watch, valued at about $100, was picked up on the Repulse Bay bathing beach at 4 pm on Wednes- day. The owner can make applica- tion for it at Police Headquarters.
HELLO! HELLO!!
Irate Officer on the Telephone.
IMPOLITE REMARKS.
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Peking, March 27. Some uncomplimentary remarks passed over the telophone line be- tween a milltary officer and an operator of the West Tolephone Ofce when the officer reprimand- ad him for delay, in getting a con- tection, led to serious conse- pro-quences at midnight on Tuesday.
Convicted on a charge. of snatch- ing four silver dollars from a Chin- cse woman in Waterloo Road, a Chinese boy was ordered by Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magis tracy to receive 12 strokes of the
Det.-Sergt. Fitches
cane. secuted
The fourth whist drive of the
of mock gravity from a London Magistrate; and a fiery pull in the Daily Herald, and it is all over and forgotten; even forgiven. Police Recreation Club was held at This is a very excellent thing, for the Club-house, Happy Valley, last it is a
heritage that belongs evening, when prizes were won as follows:-Ladies: 1, Mrs. Booth, 2, to England, (as well As Mrs. Pratt, 3, Mrs. O'Hare, Hidden to Scotland, Wales and Southern Number, Mrs. Eccleshall. Men: 1, Ireland) and these young men Mr. Roberts, 2. Mr. Gardiner, 8, Mr. whose sacred task it is to preserve frans, Hidden Number, Mr. Phillips, tradition and scholarship deserve this burst of freedom. Woe to
the day when the boat race is run by the State, and the crowds solemnly file through turnstiles
to back their
from political motives!
official crews
A Chinese and his son, both blind,
It appears that at about 11 p.m.
SEPOY DISASTER.
Fund Started by Navy League.
A GOOD STEP.
The China Mall is informed that the local branch of the Navy League has decided to open a special fund for the relatives of those who lost their lives in the Sepoy disaster,, and has itself already allotted a sum of £25 thereto. The appeal, which is addreased to the whole communi- ty, has been endorsed by the new President of the local branch (Mr. A. L. Shields), the Vice-President (Rear-Admiral R. A. S. HR, CB.E.) and the members of the Committee, who feel that the public will welcome this opportunity of expressing its sympathy in a prac that manner.
Donations will be welcome, how- ever small, and these should be sent to Mr. W. A. Dowley, Alexandra ledged from time Buildings. They will be acknow- to time in the Chine Mail and Sunday Herald.
FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS.
The following weddings are az- nounced to take place in Hong Kong shortly: Florentine
Santos Fernando, student at Lugard Hall, Hong Kong University, to Carmen Florencia Lisola Garcia, of 37, Jordan Read, Kowloon.
Hua Tza-jen, medical practition- er, Tong Shan Hospital, Tientsin, to She Mee-chol, nurse, Government Civil Hospital, Hong Kong,
On February 24, 1930, the number of persons on the registors of em- ployment exchanges in Great Bri- tain were 1,083,900 wholly un- employed, 366,000 temporarily stop ped, and 88,500 normally in casual the officer rang the West Office employment, making a total of up from No. 432 South and ask-1,539,300. This was 15,359. more ed for a connection with No. 1495 West.
than a week before, and 147,439 He waited for half an
more than a year before. The total heur yet every time he was told on February 24, 1950, comprised that the line was engaged. When he reprimanded the operator, it is
1,132,200 men, 39,900 boys, 323,800 alleged, the latter replied by
women and 49,400 girls,
using abusive language.
tor.
r
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mall" April 11, 1920.]
To-day's dollar is worth 4/- 9%d.
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The closing game of the 1919-1920 football season was played yester- day. The usual Hong Kong football crowd, several deep all around the of the opera-playing pitch, was thronging the grounds long before the time When the foreman proved equal-echeduled for the kick-off of the ly adamant, the officer ordered the The foreman was knocked ancon- two bodyguards to beat him up
sclous and had to be removed to the
Central Hospital for treat ment. In the confusion" which enated, the officer and his two men made good their escape in a mator car..
At midnight the rate officer, accompanied by two bodyguards. turned up at the telephone office and insisted on'
getting hold of Members of the St. Andrew's the offending operator. The fore- Club, Kowloon, are, in the St.
man apologised and said he would Andrew's Church Hall to-night, at look into the matter, adding that 9 o'clock, producing "A Blank Cart if the operator was found guilty ridge," a farce by Ian Hay, and of discourtesy, he would be severe- "Aunt Maria's Wireless," a shorty fined. This did not satisfy the comical sketch by Mabel Con- oficer, who reiterated his demand standures. The admission is $1, It is an error of judgment, per- and tickets can be obtained at the
for the surrender
haps, to describe the Boat Race as door. Britain's national sport. It is nothing of the sort; at least, not were very fortunate to ascape death as football, the Derby, or even when they were knocked down by a ericket are.
Rather is it an in-tramear in Wongneichong Road, at explicable fervour which has its 9 o'clock last night. The force of roots in the cheering crowds that the tram lines, but the father was The impret knocked the boy clear of
went to the fair in the long ago caught in the fender in front of the lo watch the jousting or the wheels and carried a little distance tourney. It is a debased form of before the tram was brought to a standet. Then, to the surprise of THE BOAT RACE. here worship, extended not only to those who witnessed the accident, the respective crows but to every the man crawled out nom the worse To-morrow night, when we are silly undergraduate who ever at- for his alarming experience.
tended a lecture.
boy was Injured on the head as the our after-dinner
The Nation sitting over
result of his fall. liqeurs, or, more sensibly, read-crowns its upper-class youth with ing our bed-books, the University the laurel leaf, just as the Spartan Boat Race will be in progress. citizens crowned the victors of From Putney to Mortlake thethe games with the myrtle. crowds will line the banks of the But from men who have know- Thames and cheer with that voci-ledge of boat racing and the ferous lung power bequeathed to strenuous training it entails, sym- every British boy at school the pathy will go out the oarsmen light blue or the dark. The public who, for a few glorious minutes, is apt to be fickle over its colours, will expend in might and tenacity whether at the polling booth at the strength to gain which they ho General Elections, at have renounced the joys of beer Futney during the beat race. One and rich foods. The spirit which year they will favour Oxford and animates the crows is a healthy another Cambridge, whilst the emulation to be found in no other to many of Mr. Baldwin's older listeners the famous scene in the betting fraternity will study country; it is contagious, and so
Albert Hall on the ove of the
or
The
The incident aroused good deal of feeling among the opera tors who have written a joint let tor to the new Director, Mr. Sun Yao, requeaing him to investigate the matter and bring the military man and his men to book-Kus Wen.
replay in the final of the Hong Kong Hong Kong Police and St. Joseph's Shield competition between the
College. His Excellency and Lady Stubbs were also present.
The Police won by 8 goals to 1. Everybody gives Swan, the Police golle, credit for the win. Thanke to his unerring judgment, which always placed him in the right position, to stop the ball, half-a- dozen stinging shots, everyone of which would have gone past any other gonile, were wasted.
The Collegians were the superlor team as far as scientific football was comerned.
MEN. WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
What Won The Election: The Next Sea Lord: Popular Officer of the Royal Navy: Miserable Weather
at Cannes, Game Hunter and Epicure.
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The Balfour Declaration. THE dramatic reappearance of the Referendum, after its long hibernatios, must have recalled
Madder would romain at his post for suficient timo to permit the new First Lord, Mr. A. V. Alexander, to avail himself of the Admirals ac- cummated knowledge and experience. This doubtless accounts for the fact that the change-aver is not to be effe ted for another five months, Conjuring 'Admiral.
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form, though this will be difficult, the race has become a National General Election. of December, St. Frederick Fleid is one of the
since the boats come from the same "atable" and the oarsmen are not usually accessible, for an inspection of their sinews or muscular flexibility,
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institution,
-1910. The first University boat race
A
It occurred when Mr. Balfour,
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most popular, of the Navy's senior all cars, for, in addition to being a Best-rate sailor, he is also a frit-rats sportsman, with a keen senso af bu mour. He is a member of the Magicians' Circle.
When the Mediterranean Fleet flag; stip Queen Elizabeth was lying off Orioni Teland, in the Adriatic, the Admiral at that time was flying his fing in the Admiralty yacht Bryony. The ladies on shore who were in- vited to dinio. on board with the Ad-
miral quickly heard of his gifts as an entertainer, and on more than one occasion he was strongly pressed to. de a few after dinner tricks..
was rowed at Healey in 1829, and the then leader of the Unionist though a hundred years and more party, declared that he was ready. have passed, public enthusiasm is to submit Tariff Reform-and not Strange loyalties discover no whit dimmed. In so far as merely food taxes-to a Referer themselves at the Lent Term figures are concerned, the Univer- dum. classic; men suddenly unearth sities are now equal, Oxford and "That's won the election," came cousins who were at Calus and Cambridge each having won 40 a loud cry from the auditorium, accordingly sport enormous races. Since 1923, when Oxford which was long remembered as a rosettes of the proper hue; were the victors, the honours signal instance of prophecy un- hibernating aunts in Hampstead have fallen each year to Cam- fulfilled. sally forth with their umbrellas bridge, who are expected to gain Mr. Balfour's offer of a Refer and shout themselves hoarse on the lead to-morrow. The little endum, however, helped rather to the river bank, because they seem dissention, which marred the pro split the Unionist ranks than to to remember a distant nephew parations of Oxford a Lort time unite them. Mr. Baldwin's offen who was up at Oxford for a term, ego will probably affect nothing in relation to Food Taxes bidment and delightful staf
but public sentiment, and the fair to have precisely the opposite chances of Chelt success need not
It is strange how the multitude pays tribute to the seats of learn- Fing on these occasions, "and
motes those that wear the senib arce of Att
and Cambridge
winks from the
effect..
ected to be lessened by any A Popular Appointment.
ale obtaining from that THE appointment: of: Admiraði, Sir Gyár a Frederick - Field to be the next delta Last year First Sea Lord in succession the Ad- by seven lengths mical Sir Charles Madden se hran received with the widest approval in and this naval circle
The choles has not
the at
In the daytime the Admiral spent most of his time on shore, either on the lawn tennis courts or playing golf on the sporting: If not high-class course which the island possesses.
As might be expected, Admiral around him an exceptionally compete Field had succeeded in collecting,
Weather Mia:tura.- CANNES has continued to labour Funder the disadvantage, et miser- able weather, which has played. Its part in the slump ** from which the
French Riviera has suffered this
Mr. Kenneth Foster.
No one could have put up
&
pluckier fight with long illness than Mr. Kenneth Foster, at one time M.F. for Coventry, who has just
at the
died will be much missed Cariton Club and White's, and he
had friends everywhere, as, with his cheery good nature, his amazing in telligence, and his first-rate sporting reputation he could not fall to have.
He had travelled all over the world, shot big game, was known as an opicure in half the restaurants of Europe, spoke French well, and was a fine judge of a new play, a now novel, and a new opera.
But he realised that wealth har also its responsibilities, and he took his share in serving the community
both in London, where he was a mem ber of the Metropolitan Water Board, and the Chelsea Vestry, and in bla native Yorkshire, where he was an Immensely popular landowner.
Spanish Scene In London. THERE are few people who sur
post the existence of a typical Spanish patio within -quarter of a mile of Hyde Park Corner, with tiles: and fountains in the best Andalusiad
trid/lon.
A flight of shallow steps: · leads, yard, surrounded by a low wall with down into a charming red-lifed_court
builtin seats of coloured tiles, such as ars to be soen in the great. Plask do Espana at Seville,
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Diminutive; fountains play · into Banken pools of mure brightly pate termed files, and there are, yellow urna and pots, each crested with s bright, blue" Spanish crown, to hold flowerlig shrubs...
In strange contrast are the stories of those who have fast come back Three gaunt plane trees towering from: Switzerland where the winter in the midst bring one rather sud- Mit been so, mike brand latterly the denly back to London; but their surd so hot finow? hast best hard! "reen shade will be welcome in Bom/
Lynhy #fmexwithin' i mar, when the patio will: convey
fldalon of Snanish homes