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MONTALTO DE JESUS-At 14, Conduit Road, Maria Augusta, the beloved daughter of Leonor Montalto de Jesus.- The cortege will start for the Roman Catholic Cathedral at 4 o'clock this afternoon, and pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m.
Hong Kong, Monday, June 8, 1930.
INSANITATION
something is probed the better it will be, for the reputation of the Colony and the better, it will be for the public health.
News in Brief
the day.
MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1930.
But it would be complete-
iy wrong to think that news bulletins
A Chinese named Slu Wan was do not interest the coloured news- at the Kowloon Magistracy this paper renders. morning find $100 with the alterna- As most of the papers appear tive of one month's hard labour. weekly, they give a highly condensed It was said that he had the drug and "Bantufled" version of current strapped to his knee with a hand-tidings. For instance,
Ikerchief.
Have You Heard?-
તુ. venture featuring Marcus Garvey. Employer to father of injured the "provisional president of the employce: "And when is George.
"Next Monday, unless.
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His Excellency the Governor, Sir African Republic" would probably returning?"
Father: William Peel, K.C.B., spent the he splashed" more than an inter- whole of Whit Sunday at Mountain view with Ramsay MacDonald or compensation sets in." Lodge, the Penk. The gardens Hoover. Reports of the Transke made a wonderful display with Bunga (Representative Council)
(the tramp): blue rhodendruma, which were get more space than the debates of sometimes think our profession is greatly admired by His Excellency.. the House of Commons or even the just the meanest business goin.""
Union Parliament, unless that us- Hungry Henry: "Wot's wroug
to discuss native with it?" oneembly happens
Lo Fat (54), a coolie, was Saturday removed to the Govern- affairs. ment Civil Hospital, suffering from
Fatigued Felix
Fatigued Felix: Sport awakens intense excitement other fellers is abused, they kin "Well, when
an injured spine. He accidently among even the uneducated natives.strike; but the only way we could fell into a hold of the s.8. Hiram No Kaffir journalist has any diffi-strike would be by goin' to work!" whilst working cargo.
tion is very serious.
His condi-culty in getting reports, often fur
Chinese
too copious, of contesta. Some-
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times the whole winning team waits In a Scottish household the maid- servant had a young man who called The body of a
woman upon an editor to see that TIQ
One overing there named Yip Kui-moi, aged 44 years, mistakes are made. He has a less frequently. was found by her husband early on enviable time then a referee, for the was an outburst of hilarity from the
kitehon, and the mistress paid floating in the Fea average black man is even more at Peng Choi Island. It was re keen than the white citizen to see visit to that quarter with a view to delivering mild reproach. **I moved to the Kowloon Mortuary, his name in print.
see," she said to the maid, "you There is reason to auspect that the case is one of suicide.
are fond of jocularity."
Saturday
Queer Names. These native sporting crowds find themselves queer, exotic
names
“Oh, no, ma'am," said the blushing girl, "you're got the wrong name.
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Lo Fat, a 54-year-old Chinese, The Lily White Hotspurs" is the was taken to the Government Civil [name one dusky soccer team has it's Jock MacPherson." Hospital on Saturday with a frae- gives itself, and we find the "High- tured spine, as a result of falling Byers Cricket Team," the "Purple An Irishman on a visit to London from the deck into the hold of Stars Rugby Club" and the "In-recently was taken to see some dog the 8.5. Hiram. He resides at anfuriated Tigers Tennis Society." racing by a countryman. * unknown honse in Chinese Street. Hong Kong, and his condition is considered serious.
The greatest enthusiasm, perhaps, "Sure and ain't it quare," remark- is aroused by the war dance. The led the visitor from the Emerald Isle, doings of the jerseyed, yelling. "to find them horseracing wid dogs." kerrie-swinging leapers who provide "Bedad," retorted his fellow- A Chinese banishee, ordered in such diversion for tourist, provide countryman, "and it ain't so quare. 1927 to leave the Colony for good copy for the native reporter, nayther, for when Of was down in period of ten years, returned re-Style, execution and general finish at į the Oisle of Wight they were having cently and, on being arrested, the inter-mine competitions aren Cow's Rogatta!" made his appearance before Mr. Jexamined stringently by, able critics |
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T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon in a way that resembles the judging "I never see the Meanes coming when he was Magistracy on Saturday morning. {ut a Welsh Eisteddfod.
to see your now. Have you quarrell- sentenced to eight Conimercial advertisements in theed with them?" months' hurd labour.
black man's press are often enter-) "Oh, no; but as they always taining, and they teach more about dropped in ut supper-time, we got present conditions than long political tired of them and gave them a hint,
peeches. What European, for in which they took.' stance, is aware that motor cars
'BLACK' JOURNALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA.
WIDELY CIRCULATING JOURNALS.
NEWSPAPERS OF NATIVES.
are Iow
advertised in these
Journals? Most of the cars thus offered for sale are secondhand yet the prices-£100, £150, £195-show that the native is not always the pauper folk overseas think him.
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"Oh, Indeed. What did you do?" "Well, we put nothing but sponge- cake on the table.
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A house agent had a farm on his books which was supposed to be haunted, and to prove rumour wrong
No Yellow Journals, One marvels to think that a native he decided to engage a man to stay The follow- will pay £20 for a saxophone, and there for one night. burs football jerseys as expensive ing day he was up early and went
It is noticed that the subject is to be discussed at the fortnightly The coal-black fellow you may have seen on the films gibbering meeting of the Sanitary Board to and
as those uused, by the All Blacks, round to see how the man had fared, gesticulating through the morrow when Mr. Wong Kwong-frenzied gyrations of the Zulu war several months to buy an object ho On the lawn he discovered the re- A houseboy will save his wages for But the man was not to be found. tin is to propose the following dance has one strong link with the
mains of a window, aash and resolution:
more civilised world.
Until you have read a native. shutters completely wrecked, but of Own newspapers, writes Carel Birkly in Overseas.
paper you cannot realise how. he the watchman there was no sign.
Four days later the house agent Dozens of patent loves medicine.
country lane three miles away. come nerous b'm tramping along a
"That this Board regrets the necessity for the continuance
He has his
fancies.
more than
"Hallo, George," he cried. "Where have you been all this time?"
The man wiped the perspiration from his brow.
"Boss," he tearfully replied. "I've beet coming back."
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A Creole gentleman once settled an affair that concerned his honour as
Although very few people realise of the present crude bucket this, it is recorded in the official medicines are offered for sale in the They are advertisement columns. system of removing night-soil than sixteen Bantu periodicals are from rheumatism, toothache
archives at Pretoria that no fewer warranted to cure
many things. and and recommends that applica-published in South Africa. Some
drunkenness to stammering. tion for water closets be sane of these newspapers have very fair "Straightening fluids" to remove the tioned on the following condi- circulations, while
rival stunts. kinds from the woolly hair of the competitions and "scoops" liven up native have a large sale. Contain- tions being observed:---
black journalism. The Sesuto, ing nothing much (1) If premises affected have Xosa, Zulu and other periódicals flavoured water, hundreds of bottles not been ordered by the have their feature sections, their of "straightening fluid" are Import Building Authority to be leader writers and their specialists ed from Dixie each month.
"Society particular topics.
Amusing results often attend the the advantages of a duel and of gossip" pages are run; and they traslation of advertisements in the damages. carry advertisenments-lots of native press. Though you have The culprit, a wealthy banker,.
The Even amalgamations and little Xosa and less Zulu, you can was
his intimate friend. reconstructions occur in the native often trace familiar words in a new Create sent his wife to her mother newspaper world.
guise. "Sigaretti" appears as a for a day or two and invited the Our Bantu press does not own highly-phonetic version of cigarette. "friend" to dinner. The latter palatial buildinga. Ic does not "Blanketf" is an easy one to guess. came, He was afraid to refuse. own hundreds of linotypes or scores The galls, coloured blanket is the of throbbing presses.
A servant placed a large covered
demolished.
(2) If there shall be (other than in the Peak District) an independent and ade quate supply of water for the, purpose...
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(3) If the applicant under
takes to comply with the existing regulations as to the manner of construction and maintenance."
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them.
Sinca
Man's Arm Bitten
off.
a husband in a manner combining
She never saw
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mall,"
June 9, 1920.J
To-day's dollar is worth 3/-
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It is housed dress dearest to the black man's dish on the table and retired. The in dingy buildings in side streets of heart But print" must be host removed the cover and displayed Rand townships and in the locations identified from a crude linen Illustra-to the terrified banker-two pistols of other cities-and even down the tion as a cotton print. Most white and an unsigned cheque for $100,- obscure roadways of large kranls.folk would not find it easy to trace 000, saying, "I know all-take The upretentiously produced sheets the meaning of "papulumans" your choice." This resolution is the outcome are hawked at rallway stations and peppermint-or "stimele," the native The cheque was signed, and the of a debate a fortnight ago fol- sold by agents living in compounds version for steamship. "Bangi next day the lady was sent to Europe So long as there is no universallowing the fallure of the sub- or coloured settlements.
noti" (bank note), "istu?" (in imita with the $100,000. flush system in the Colony it will Committee to arrive at a unanimenns new In South Africa.
Black journalism is not by any tion of a motor car's noise), "Ipilisf" her husband again.
It is pill), "mashin!" (sewing machine) be farcical to prate of our promous decision in regard to a cer-over forty years since the first news and "suti" (sult) are but a few of gress in matters of sanitation and tain application from Queen's paper was started in Kingwilliams- those words which make the ad public health We have remained Road Central. The merits or de-town, in the heart of the native vertisements, of native papers more
territories. It was called Imva mirthful reading than in this respect on the level of a merits of that particular applica-Zabaritsundu (South African Native liberately comic journals.
many de hamlet in the "No Man's Land"tion do not concern us. What we Opinion). 'This weekly is Atill of Central Australia since the want is concrete evidence that the published, and it carries. great Sanitary Board was first created Sanitary Board is really sanitari- then many other publications have SHARK NEAR TAIPO. 8d.
weight among Its readers. and, apparently, we are quite con-ly-minded: that it is truly desir-seen the light of day. Some lasted; tent to remain antiquated until ous of eliminating in time the dry the great bulk of them did not.
The following advice.is intend- the end of time. We boast of our closet evils." We require teati. The high water mark was reached
Jed for young men desiring to beautiful roads, our lovely Peak, mony that in this all-important periodicals were circulating. As seven years ago, when nineteen
come out to Hong Kong:-
"You can, after being pune- our modern buildings, our fine ad- matter. there is no such more and more natives are learning A shark has found its way into tual and deligent during business ministration, our loyal com- thing as red-tape in dealing with to read, the numbers will doubtless the waters of the Colony! Two hours, spend your leisure emulat munity, whilst the majority of applications for the flush system grow.
fishermen had an encounter with iting sulky Achillies, be a hermit, our dwellings reek with the stench to be installed in existing build-
The Centre at Jo'burg. whilst they were engaged in their and remit in sterling 75 per cent.
work in Johannesburg is of human refuse and the air isings, but that each and all of
the most im-
small boat at Pak Sha of your salary, but in that way Au, Taipo.
madness lies," polluted with germs spread by them are or shall be in future Four papers are issued there. The was hooked on an ordinary fishing and horn into every convivial oc- portant centre in black journalism. The shark, not a big specimen, "You can do as the Romans do, means of the primitive night-soil treated from the only angle ros most important are Amantu Batho line, and, not knowing the nature casion that happens, and wake removal system. One would think ible-the public health. More and Umiteteli Wabantu, which of their catch, the fishermen drag-up every morning with a rich yel that we had been denied the pes-over, we desire information as to against the more or less local cir difficulty, almost succeeded in got past the Monument."
claims to have a "national" sale as ged it to the boat and, with some low taste, but that way leads. session of nasal organs. One why buildings in process of con- culations of its rivals. At Cape ting it over the side. would think that we had been so struction are being permitted to Town there are three publications;
You can join the choir and Then the younger of the two share a hymn book, but that way. accustomed to the accumulation have no modern flush system. ones appear in country places. At fish, when it suddenly snapped atYou can gamble and need not.
at Durban two, while a few odd men, Ho Sang. tried to spear the tends to marriage," of a hundred smells and odours We want something more than a Maseru in Basutoland there is a him, biting his right arm off, be-ray the brokers or your poker, all our life that we actually enjoy mere sentiraental expression of newspaper rejoicing in the majestic low the elbow. The shark escaped creditors, but that brings un- feing In the vicinity of a dry opinion from the Board in favour title of Mochochomono. It is as the result of the confusion, that popularity. On the whole you ckeet All over the Colony new of the resolution to be considered printed in Sesuto.
Lego had better stay where you are.” What appears in a native news Ho Sang's uncle, who was his "The time, patience and perse Nothing less than an paper? They have no world-wide companion in the boat, immediate verunce, to say nothing of the hatic and earnest declaration cable service, it is true, and word of ly rowed for shore and the two robust constitution, needed to tedly" in favour of a battle, rebellion and murder does went to the Taipo Police Station, develop a young man into a
fishyavstem eat the not send black-fated special cor where they told their story. The successful taipan would serve more respondents leaping 1 from their Police rendered first aid to Ho equally well to make him a or earliest possible date shall satisfy onces ready to picture for their Bang and then sent Him to the M.P., and each is about as respect lack of cohesion be
readers, the startling happening of Kwong Wahr Hospital.
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