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MARRIAGE
BROSTEDT-SHEEL-At
A report has reached the Police to the effect that there has been lost or stolen from the s.5. Selstan lying at buoy 56, a green plece of tarpaulin valued at $50.
A Chinese, who rode a bicycle in a residential area in Kal Tack Rond. on Saturday night, and who rang his bell incessantly, was at the Kow- loon Magistracy-this morning fined $5,
WEDNESDAY, JULY, 2, 1930.
"THE MAN FROM
TORONTO."
Rain Responsible for Poor House.
FARCE WITHOUT MUSIC.
Have You Heard?—
She: "Anybody would think that I was nothing but a cook in this household !"
He: "Not after eating a meal here!"
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Last night the Salisbury Com-
A schoolboy was writing an essay Sentence of three weeks' jail was pany presented "The Man from on "Sailors." This is an extract: passed on a Chinese at the Kowloon Toronto," at the Star Theatre to and brave-for they know nothing. "Our seamen are cheerful, happy,
Magistracy this morning, when he pleaded guilty to the theft of two slings of firewood from the Yee Woo frowood shop in Mongkok.
rather poor house. Probably of things going to happen to them the rain that fell a few minutes in the future." before the show was responsible,
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"Do you know anything about but the players were in no way palmistry, George?" she asked. daunted.
"Oh, not much!" he answered, The heavy dowpour of rain last
"The Man from Toronto" was with an air of false modesty. “Not night after half past eight o'clock caused a flood in Nathan Road, a farce, but one that had not great deal, although i had an ex- immediately outside the Majestic music to it. Mr. Grant Ander-perience last night which might be considered a remarkable example of Theatre. It spread over, half of the road, and swept in to the side son, as Fergus Wimbush, was in the art you mention.
The cause the lead, and as a burly rangeman
"I happened to glance
at the
of a
street-Salgon Street. of the flood was said to be a choked from Toronto, he was true to hand of a friend of mine, and I drain!
type that he displayed his ignor-immediately predicted that he would
soon become the possessor ance in regard to the wiles and large sum of money; and sure Considering it a deserving case, trickery of a woman.
enough, before he left the room, he Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon
The play on the whole was had a nice little sum of money Magistracy this morning recom- splendid and many humours and handed to him." mended a Chinese to receive a free wits were introduced into it.
And you told that just from his licence to hawk ear-brushes. He To-night the Company will pre-hand?" she said in surprise. ordered that $4.20 be taken from sent "Journey's End." the Poor Box, twenty cents of which will go for the payment of photo- graphs for the free licence.
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"Yes," he replied. "You see, he had four aces in it.” '
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"And how much would you say
| KILLARNEY ON SALE. this colt was worth?" asked the
THE **GHOST LADY" OF CLAPTON.
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railroad claim-agent of the farmer.
"Not a cent less than $500!" emphatically declared that sturdy son of the soil.
"Pedigreed stock, I suppose?" "Well, no," the bereaved admitted reluctantly. "But you could never colt like that, by its
The starting announcement is judge a about to sell the famous and love- made that the Earl of Kenmare is parents."
"No," the attorney agreed dryly. ly Killarney Estate in County. "I've often noticed how crossing it Kerry. Since the fishing in with a locomotive will improve a lakes le to be included in the sale, breed!" the lakes and their wooded islets
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Two Chinese, one a cripple and the other one-eyed, appeared before Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowicon Magistracy this morning charged with fighting. It was stated by the cripple that the second ind tripped him up, while the latter and armaments at the bidding of intimated that the cripple threw foreign sentimentalists and poli-stone at him. "Both were cautioned ticians who are determined that and told not to fight again. no longer shall Britannia rule. the waves. Neither the
Cable advice has been received are presumably included also. Labour Government nor those announcing the marriag of
During a recent race meeting a Many volumes of prose and verse certain bookmaker found himself aliens who prate in the course of Augustus Brostedt, Asiaticraffic have been
written about the penniless, but very daringly bet five post-prandial speeches of
the Manager, Canadian National Rail- beauties of Killarney, which is to one against a certain horse, al- days, Hong Kong, to Jessie Marle visited every year by great num- though at the time he had no funda idealism of smaller navies
Can Sheel
of Sunderland and Hong bers of tourists from Britain and to pay with if the horse won. The ever realise that the British Kong. The ceremony was perform America, but the sporting delights horse lost, however, by a short head, Empire's actual naval needs ated by Mr. Sydney Ashley, O.B.E.. of this territory of 10,000 acres and after the race the bicker went Home and abroad in times of Superintendent Registrar of the the sporting rights cover nearly up to the bookmaker and said: District of St Giles, London, on 100,000 acres are familiar only to "Well, I've lost; but it was a good erisis (not to speak of times of June 30.
a much more select circle. The war) must be studied and mat
ruce, and I got a good run for my takes yield salmon and trout, but?
money." from an angle totally different
the strictly preserved salmon fish- A Chinese coolie, who
"Yes," replied the bookmaker, from that of any other foreign cautioned on Friday last by Mr. of the best sport in the kingdom, had a better run for your money if ing in the river Flesk affords some with a wry smile, "but you'd have nation. True, this aspect has Whyte-Smith the Kowloon while the red deer of the forest you'd won!". been emphasised to the point of Magletracy
abusive have given many an enviabo
at
for
using
was
almost weary reiteration by men language to a bath-house attendant "head" to the stalker. Such-
in Hunghom, appeared again this emailer deer as woodcock, snipe, A rustic lad was sent to college morning, charged with the theft of and duck abound in and on the and wrote home to his parents say- a cotton jacket from a dwelling in shores of the lakes and their tiny ing that he was doing quite well Hunghom. He pleaded guilty, and islands, and, since there are 1,000, but couldn't get on with nigebra.
Chinese
Ten Years Ago
of the stamp of Earl Beatty, Lord Jellicoe, and the leaders of the Navy League; but the Labour
the Magistrate sentenced him to
His father replied advising him Government, in its desire to win
Acres of agricultural, fand, the six weeks' hard labour, a few cheap plaudits, stands
estate has a practical as well as to ignore any foreigners, and take a pictorial interest. The lakes, up only with youths of his own ndamant. And yet, when a crisis
which have belonged to Lord Ken-nationality. does occur, the rank and file of
A new game in the sphere of mare'a family since the time of the Labour Party, whether they ing) was told to Mr. Whyte-Smith a whole series of wildly romantic gambling, called "Tue yue" (fish Queen Elizabeth, are the centre of Lon- he resident at Home or overseas, at the Kowloon 'Magistracy this legends, many of them of great an don. by Mr. Sydney Ashley, will be the first to shriek out for morning by Sergeant Slater when tiquity. This enchanted region, O.B.E., Superintendent Regis- trar of the District of St. the assistance of the British gambling in Wuhu Street. Twenty than elsewhere, the hills glow with svas cautioned for where "the turf is of richer he
Giles, on June 30, 1930, Navy.
cents, which was picked up, Wa8 a richer purple," is to be sold by Augustus Brostedt, Asiatic What do mere politicians know ordered to be put in the Poor Box. auction shortly by Mesars. Daniel Trafie Manager, Canadian National Railways, Hong Kong, or care about British trade routes Sergeant Slater, remarked that this Smith, Oakley and Garrard.
"fishing" game was played very to Jessie Marie Sheel of Sun--and the vital necessity for ade-much among the Chinese in the derlund, England, and Hong quately protecting them? What streets, but did not constitute Kong.
do they know of Empire who only gambling if no money their own parish pump know? by the participants. Hong Kong, Wednesday, July 2, 1930. Bent on enjoying the sweets of office whilst they may, what do they care
No Naval Protection?
It
was used
FOCH'S MEMOIRS.
[From the "China Mail” **
July 2, 1920.3
To-day's dollar is worth 3/8-143
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A reader of the China Mail re- ports that when walking down- Monmouth Path
Thursday morning he saw a snake about five feet long. He offers a Cer- tificate of sobriety covering two previous evenings and adds "This seen in five nad a half years. "Is it a record?” It Is., It is a record of unobser- vance: We have seen that num- ber in five minutes, on the road lending down from? the Peak to
whether, say, Hong BURNT TO DEATH. SOLD FOR PUBLICATION IN is the third snake
Kong, Malaya, or Ceylon be
AUSTRALIA.
BRITAIN AND, AMERICA.
Parla, May 13. The manuscript of the memoirs Pokfulam, and they run much of Marshal Foch, written by him- farger up there-one bring, as self, was sold to-day to Messrs. Plon long as the road is wide. They
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From the China Mall of
July 2, 1940.]:
Earl Beatty is correct!
menaced by sudden inter- AGED CHINAMAN'S FATE IN would indeed be a shock to the ruption of its overseas trade? It country - and to the whole is not an impossible contingency. Empire, including Hong Kong-Here in Hong Kong, so near to when it awakens to the fact that the recurrent upheavals in China, A fire occurred just before mid- of Paris, and to Mezera. Doubleday, are harmless. naval protection is a thing of the a crisis may easily arise leading night, when Casey and Co.'s pre. Doran and Co., of New York. The past. He is not alone in con-to a temporary suspension of mises at East Ingham, where they the rights of publication, for the American publishers have acquired
demning the London
Naval those supplies necessities that carried, on business as general United States, the British Empire, Treaty as "a great and deplorable can only come to us from across storekeepera, drapera, and bakers, and all Portuguese and. Spanish blunder." He has not been the the sea. But, if we have inade was burnt to the ground, says the speaking countries. first to emphasise the vulner-quate cruiser strength, how can aged Chinaman, Ah Lin, was trap-to contain personal memoirs for the Brisbane Courier of May 6. An The autobiography is understood ability of Britain's trade routes we avert a situation pregnant with ped in the flames and burnt to general public rather than a detailed and our inadequate cruiser danger to every one of us? It is death.
The result of the poll was de- history of the War. It gives fullclared in the first elections by strength. His advice is sound: no argument to assert that be-
In a few minutes after the fire accounts and explanations of the universal franchise of members "If we have no money for national cause, except in a time of actual inferno, and the rescue of the vic united command, including the go of the electorate polled and a started the place was a seething controversios connected with the of the Legislative Council. About defence, let us at least show warfare. between the Empfire tim was impossible. Efforts were Mashal's differences with Msurprise was created by the In- common sense and keep free and and a foreign foe, our Colonial concentrated on saving the adjoin- Clemenceau, and it pays fall attendian candidate topping the list of untrammelled by a Treaty of this Possessions have
Ing buildings, and the absence of tion to the operations of the Allied successful candidates. The main never been. kind."
a strong wind, and the presence of as well as the French armies. jeopardised in the past, they may a passage-way, saved the Ingham
issue was the proposal to evert It is not to be expected that not be one day through the clos- Cash Stores, and probably a block in the Marshal's own writing..
It contains 150,000 words; largely to the fluctuating dollar as oppoe- cd to fixed exchange, the pro- Earl Beatty's stringent but ing of our trade routes. As an of five buildings.
A baker, Mr. L Castellaro, was
Marshal Foch gives extensive ac-gonists of the latter having timely criticisms will have the island nation Britain herself de-sleeping on the top storey of the counts of the part played by the aweeping victories. slightest effect on the policy of pends upon uninterrupted trade store, on the same foor as the aged British forces on the Western front. the Labour Government which has routes. As Island Colonies Hor the smell of smoke., When he rose Channel ports to the........ breaking' of angular contest in the represen
Chinaman, and was awakened by
Simultaneously there was a tri- sacrificed the vital needs of the Kong, Ceylon, and even Australia the place was in flames. He tried the Hindenburg line and the cross tation of the Colony in the Im- Empire for the mess of pottage depend upon a free flow of com- to awaken and drag the victim out. Ing of the Scheldt in 1018. In a purial House of Commons. The symbolised by "playing to the merce over the scas, But, when but was forced to make a hurried final chapter he gives his views on Free Trade Party were success- Sul the Protectionist and the Im- gallery for the sake of cheap that protection is denied us, it will exit through the window, and the Face Treaty,
The manuscript is being translat perfal Preference candidates he jumped to the ground. notoriety (misnamed popularity). be too late to protest. The dam- In the morning the remains of ed into English by Colonal Bentley ing in a big minority. Whilst it professes to be seeking age will have been done!
the victim were found in the debris Mott, U.S.A., formerly liaison remedy for the vast unemploy
burnt beyond Identification. The officer to Marshal Foch and now The first regatta of the V.R.C ment throughout Britain it is
building was an old one, and burnt, Military Attache at the United at their new headquarters at Gin but adding to the formidable idle
flercely. It was completely States Embassy in Paris. The Drinkers Bay proved a rent suc- The forthcoming wedding is destroyed in a little over an hour. book will, bo published in London by cess, over two thousand people list by reducing the workers at announced of Luiz Francisco Leon, It is understood that there are in- Mesara Heinemann as soon as pos- being convojed thither by the various Naval Yards through of 16, Robinson Road, Hong Kong, surances on both building and gible after the translation la machines kindly provided by the
finished. the craze for fewer naval ships and Enid von Langenberg.
[stock.
Hong Kong Aero. Clus
News in Brief
from their defence of Ypres and the
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