Page
WEDNESDAY, JULY 30,* 1930.
'*Phone 20022 ́
...FOR
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Twenty-five Words three Inser tions prepaid $1. Every 'addi- tlonal word four, cents for three Insertions.
All replies under this heading must be called for.
FOR SALE
FOR SALE-Dinner Set. Complete
GENERAL NOTICES
HONG KONG FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
THE Attention of those “Clubs
fact that entries for the Amateur Football League for the forthcom- ing Season Closo .on AUGUST 1.
Entries for the, Challenge Shield Competition CLOSE on October
1.
W. E. HOLLANDS, .
Hon. Secretary. Hong Kong, July 20, 1930...
HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB,
REMINDER.
and in perfeet candition. Best quality Kind Permission of Major of china.
Design very attractive... Taylor and Officers Telephone 21820.
the Band of the Sommerset Light infantry, will give a CONCERT 05 FOR SÅLE-1930 Commander Stude-the Cricket Ground on THURS- baker 7 Senter Saloon, Only done DAY, July 31, at 5.30 p.m. 3,000 miles,
Paint and condition
perfect. Owner leaving Colony. Any
Meribers and Subscribers will trial. What offers? Reply to Box No: be "At Home" to their friends. 6GD, c/o "Chinn Mail."
.TO LET
TO LET-No. 3 & 4, Dragon Terrace, Causeway Bay, 1st, 2nd and 3rd floora. Each nat has three bed rooms, dining room, servants' `quar- ters, kitchen, bath room, and water closets. Suitable for Europeana. Apply Clark & Iu, 10, Des Voeux Road C.
TUITION GIVEN
HOME TUITION.
WESTOVER-STEVENAGE Within an hour from London. In healthy neighbourhood, SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. Individual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
MISS. RUTH CULLEY
For
(Camb. Higher Losal), "Camb. Teachers' Diploma). MISS GERTRUDE TURNER,
(National Frodel Higher Certificate).
MISCELLANEOUS
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed. — “China MalTM Office, No. 3A, Wyndham Bt. Tele phone 20022.
ALEXANDER'S INSTITUT DE BEAUTE
For the best Fermanent Finger & Marcel Waves. Hair Cutting and Manicure for Ladies & Gentlemen. Pedder Bldg. 1st floor. Room & Tel 25169. Opposite entrance, HK: Hotel.
PHOTO - SUPPLIES
Kodaks and Cameras.
Films, Plates and Papers, etc. Developing, Printing and Enlarging.
ZIESS and BUSCH FIELD GLASSES
Price Moderate.
A Trial Order is Solicited.
A. SEK & CO.
Tel. No. 23459.
26A, Des Voeux Road C
Hong Kong.
FOR SALE.
COLLECTIONS OF POSTAGE
* STAMPS:
MOUNTED IN BOOKS.
All Different, Without Duplicate.
500 Stamps. $ 4. 3,500 Stampe. 60 1,000 do. B 4,000 „do.
•1.500 do. 18 5,000 do. 100 2,000 do. 30 6,000 do. 150 do. 40 10,000 do. 500 do. 50
2,500
́2,000
GRACA & CO.,
.
PEAK TRAMWAYS' COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE.
SUSPENSION OF SERVICE.
O the Engine House, the WING to necessary renewals
Public are hereby notified that no, CARS, will run after Midnight on SATURDAY, the 2nd August until MONDAY, 4th August, at 7 a.m.
By Order,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hong Kong, 28th July, 1930.
KASHMIR SILK STORE
for
EXCLUSIVE STOCKS
of
SILK
and
SILK GOODS.
Opposite Queen's Theatre,
A pair that will win any hand
SHEAFFER'S
PENS AND PENCILS
Sole Distributors:
THE CHINA MAIL.
Hotel Strathcona
THE MOST HIGHLY SIR OLIVER LODGE THE HONG KONG TRANSFER & LIGHTER CO.
PAID LAWYER.
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA Secret of His Success at
Make this Hotel your headquar-. ters while visiting Victoria, B.C. Ideally situated and within easy access to all the famous Beauty Spots in and around Canada's Inland Resort,
The Hotel where personal service. makes your stay enjoyable,
RATES MODERATE.
||||||_Å......2544401308|||E|
CLAREMONT
PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road,, Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club, Four minutes from ferry by bus.)'
Suites of rooms (single, and. double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms 'attached. EXCLUSIVE TABLE
entirely under European management. Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the finest locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet casily accessible.
Terms very moderate. Reser vations by letter or cable.
CLAREMONT Tels.: 57880 & 67885 (Private): Telegraphic Add.: "Fern" H.K. Our motto is "SERVICE."
the Bars.
SIR JOHN SIMON.
Not An Orator.
4
SUMS UP.
"
Life in Victorian Britain.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
St. George's Building, 2nd Floor
WHAT you need.
Phone. 23639.
WHEN
you need it!
We guarantee prompt "delivery of Cargo ex ships delivered to all parts of Hong Kong and South China.
"Also passengers' lug- gage called for and placed on board out going ships.
WE ARE AT YOUR SERVICE.
CLEANED
CLEANT
CLEANED
****
DRESSES, SUITS, COATS AND HATS
ALL CLEANED BY
THE INTERNATIONAL DRY CLEANING & DYEING CO.
19, Wyndham St. 148, Wong Nei Chung Road, - 79, Calné Road,
Hong Kong.
Happy Valley.
36, Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Henr Korg.
"At the time Sir John Simon re- I cannot go back so far as Sir' nounced his practice at the Bar to Alfred Yarrow does, not by nine become Chairman of the Statutory-years, said Sir Oliver Lodge in a Commission on Indian Reforms, telk recently, but I, too, remem- his, income was estimated in legal ber when luggage was put on the circles at £40,000 a year. He has roof of the railway carriage, and announced his intention of return-tled down with a tarpaulin, which, ing to the Bar. He is now 57 years however, did not always keep the old..
sparks from damaging it. I also Laymen are, naturally, curious remember that railway' travelling' regarding the qualities which have in those days seemed a earious enabled Sir John to make this adventure, not to be lightly un- princely professional income, dertaken, being regarded by my wrote Lord Riddell in appreciation forbears as a greater innovation of Sir John's gifts and character. to old habits and customs then a They are easily stated. He is journey by air is regarded now: highly educated, but education has and in this they were doubtless not spoiled him, nor made him too right, for the change in our mode sophisticated. He has a clear of locomotion began with the rail- simple mind, and the gift of mas- ways, and effected a greater re- tering complex facts and figures, volution in travel than all the and stating them in a lucid and comparatively minor achievements convincing fashion. Lord Balfour of the nineteenth century. I ro- once remarked that Sir John was member, too, when the 'Great the only man who had been suc- Eastern' or the 'Leviathan,' as It cessful in explaining to him the was also called, was regarded as intricacies of the income-tax, Hen monstrosity in shipbuilding, as possesses also the art of seizing indeed at that time it was. I re-. the salient points in a case and member, too, the invention of the disregarding non-essentials. These sewing-machine. My mother had gifts, combined, with a sound one of the big treadle-machines, knowledge of law, untiring indus- which was more like a piece of try, a pleasant voice and an in-furniture, much bigger than the gratiating manner, have made him hand-machines now, so common. a successful advocate of the non-I had a mechanical turn of mind, flamboyant type.
and was often called in to put some part of it right when It He is not a great orator. He has went wrong.. as it often did. It not that overpowering flow of had a number of gadgets, which language which sweeps
an have now for the most part dis audience off its feet. Neverthe appeared. I remember also the less, he can be most Impressive. Introduction of the typewriter, He has no vices or bad habits, is likewise from America. bleased with an even temper and, In my youth domestic lighting although respectful to the Court, was conducted mainly by 'candles. has the courage of his convictions, which at first required snuffing. | I see that E. F. Benson aska Sir John is tall and slim and has so that a tray of snuffers was why the nineties were called the fashionable air of youth, part of the equipment, until some- MUTINY HERO, DEAD.- which, in the Law Courte" as elsé-body thought of tightening up one
"naughty." I suggest that it was because about that time a discus- where, fits in with the spirit of the of the Colonel Qamond Barnes, one of age.".
threads of the wick, so sion of subjects which had been' the most romantic figures of the
that, as it got liberated. It leani hitherto taboo began more or less Sir John usually wears Indian Mutiny-he was the last hat, and, to emphasize. his contempt was burned away, which was
a felt over to one side of the flame ant to be fashionable, and that the surviving officer of the famous for old-fashioned conventions, has improvement.
an emancipation of women was then "Hodson's Horso" died, at ble a predilection for, rather jaunty
beginning. Since then the pen. QUEEN'S present "Romance of home in Ealing in May at the age styles.,
But the moral I draw from al!dulum has awung far-too far, as Rio Grande," a film of Mexico— of ninety-six.
that is that we did not feel as it many think-but it is showing the land Colonel Barnes he was known best in cases involving a mass of period; we thought we were adequable position.
As may be surmised, he is at his we were living in a hackward signs of returning to a more Warner Baxter
as the young as "Fighting Barnes stood ft. technical detail. Indeed, he made vancing with feaps and bounds; old condition will ever revive. It good performance of courage, "Not that the seeker of romance gives a really 6 ins. in his socks, and until almost his name in a dispute between two and often I have heard my grand- the day of his death he was alert railway companies concerning the mother say, 'Ah, my dear, the of evolution.
ie Impossible to reverse the clock: gratitude and love. Antonio in mind and full of vigour.
Biologists tell us Moreno as the, villain of the piece He was thirty-three years
demands of one of them for in-world is going so fast, it is time that evolution never retraces its prefers loyalty to love and sacri India and at Hyderabad when the played such mastery of technicall-in fact, much as it does now, achieved, continues, with such regain the alat of his ancestors increased traffic facilities. He dis-I was put underground. It felt, steps, but that progress, once fices his lover in his attempt to
ties that, before long, practically when previous records His regiment, went to Kota, all the big railways gave him a stantly being broken,
dre con- modifications as are inevitable; The singing of Mona Maris 33 where the Rajah, who had remain general retainer.
and when so that a creature once modifed Manuelita is delightful and adds ed loyal, was beseiged in his own that, in order to prepare for them, accustomed and which we for worse, and that the modifica spectacular picture.
In its 'habita continues, for better greatly to the success of this many of the things to which we
A "Talkie hearing, he spent several days in take as a matter of course will tions once introduced conduce film. They attacked the city from the signal-boxes, checking and record-seem to posterity old-fashioned either to its advance river and rescued the Rajah. ing the traffic. It must be con- and barbarous.
or to it Colonel Barnes's horse was
ultimate extermination; it cannot CENTRAL features William ahot fessed, however, that his fee-book from under his legs on the river profited by modern commercial
go back to its earlier state. As Powell and Louise Brooks in "The bank, but he escaped unwounded, and Industrial conditions. Nowa
to what the bearing of that is on Canary Murder Case," a detective Mrs. Sidney Webb's more recent gociological problems it is too story with Colonel Barnes was born on De- days huge sums are frequently at reminiscences deal with changes ensy yet to form an opinion. Powell, as the detective, is splen- an ingenious-plot. cember 28, 1834. He was educated stake, so that litigants are willing in the world of politics. In con. The present generation has adapt did, whilst Louise Brooks, as the at Rugby, joined the Indian Army to pay heavily to secure a popular nection with them I remember the ed itself rapidly to the new con- star of a revue, acts her part in in the old, "John Company" days, counsel. The demand for Sir indignation of one of my aunts, ditions, and on the whole the re and at twenty-three, fought with John's services enabled him to take who took
very pleasing manner. distinction."
a keen interest insults must be considered good, Romance, excitement, and in- He won the Abyssinian medal in standard of legal foes, which has disqualification
a prominent part in creating a new social and political affairs, at the Anyhow, it is useless to attempt tereat can be found in this Para- the campaign in that country in greatly increased the cost of women, so that property 1868, and gained further distinc litigation. tions in the Afghan war of 1878-j
Very Ambitious, 79 and the Zhob Valley campaign
it been possessed by a man, was new departure must be absorbed, Brook in "Forgotten Faces," a Notwithstanding his legal auc-deprived of that right when the and the relation of the sexes of 1884.
cess, he is not a lawyer in the holder belonged to what was
settled by the young people them some sense that Lord Oxford, Lord then thought the inferior sex. time of the 10th Bengat Lancers, Reading, Lord Birkenhead, Lord They were not deprived of the stincts which are a part of human
relves, in the light of the in and in 1877, as Chief Herald of Hewart, Sir Douglas Hogg and privilege of being taxed on it nature." India, it fell to his duty at Delhi Sir Thomas Inskip are lawyers but they had no voice in the dis- to proclaim Queen Victoria as Em-For them the Bar, and all it stands tribution of the taxation. But .1 -press of India.,
Mutiny broke out.
citadel.
He was in command for
..
It ia related
"
Our New Women.
exercised
4
AMUSEMENT
*
NEWS
of the
*
senoritas,
upon to put the clock back, and return mount film. A talkie film. which either to the dress or to the would have entailed a vote had limitations of our ancestors. The
THE SUN CO., LTD. furnished with luxuries to which themselves from what they regard freedom
so that
THE FIRE IN THE CITY OF HONOLULU,
MAJESTIC presents Clive
melodrama of society and crook life. Menacing faces out of the
Hundreds of faces. A melodrama past. Faces that recall old sins,
of fear. Unseen, unfathomable fear that moves, that thrills. ·A· alent film.
*
STAR features Pola Negri in "Good and Naughty," a comedy- drama revealing Miss Negri as vivacious, romantic and charm- Ing. The success of the picture is further assured by the capable acting of Tom Moore and the droll comedy of Ford Sterling. A silent film.
+
L
On this occasion he was request lives. They may make excursions women's rights expect the revolu
for, la part and parcel of their little did those supporters of MARINE INSURANCE ed to stand on the steps of the Into politics or literature, but tion that has occurred dais, instead of on the dafs Itself, fundamentally they are governed Thay wished for an artificial res- now! as his great height would have and guided by the traditions of the triction to be removed dwarfed the principal official noble legal fraternity of which taxation could not go on without figures at the ceremony.
they are distinguished members.représentation; they never ad Men from the remotest parts of Many men whose natural talents vocated the granting of votes to India, Afghanistan, and Tibet were enable them to excel easily in one all women. But then neither did assembled at Delhi for
A heavy claim is foreshadowed the walk of life are eager to try their they imagine in their wildest mo in the case of the United States occasion, and their tents were hand at something else, and to free ment. any of the relaxation and liner, City of Honolulu, states the
permitted to young Times. The firo broke out while WORLD presents Camilla Horn some of them were so unaccustom-as "golden slavery" Sir John is people now. Nor could they have the vessel was in dock, and it was and John Barrymore in "Eternal ed that they ate the scented toilet one of these. He became, a K.C. Imagined young women able to reported that all the passenger Love," a. film faultlessly acted and soap provided, and then complain at thirty-five and Attorney-General take their past with men on equal accommodation had been gutted directed, and which at times rises ed," said the colonel, "that they did at forty. He might have been terms, in flying great distances from the social hall aft. At first to proportions of epical grandeur not care for English sweetmeats!" Lord Chancellor, but declined this unaided, or in becoming cham- 40 per cent. was quoted for re in its sweep of story against
IS YOUR NAME HERE ?
much-coveted. honour. He prefer-pions at lf. Indeed this change insurance, but the rate after heroic backgrounds. It will give red to become Home Secretary! is the greatest of all, and we are wards dropped, and then 25 and motion picture audiences a new His ambition is a brilliant pollu-probably far from seeing the end 30 per cent, were quoted Accord appreciation of screen drama A Malls has been received at the cal career, and he is very ambi of it yet. When girls played mening to the present estimates, the silent film... American Consulate General for tious,
at cricket, the men used to play cost of the damage is likely to be the following persons
His friends forecast that he may left-handed with a broomstick for much more serious than was at Geo. A. Allan, Miss Pone day become Prime Minister, a bat. They would find that as first anticipated:
(£357,000). The costly character Bostwicke, R. Caldwell, Mrs. Others think that he lacks the difficult now as it was contemp- The City of Honolulu is described of fires in passenger ships has Chamberlain, A. Conley, R. G. qualities of a great leader, tuous then Miss Ponsonby says as a vessel of 10,680 tons, bulit in been frequently demonstrated, Cooper V H. Donnelly, Fish Time alone will show He has she remembers the time when no 1900, and owned by the Los and this, outbreak must be ir Mrs. M. C. Foster F Hamilton spared no effort to achieve politi girl went for a walk alone In Angeles Steamship Company cluded among the many fires The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd. Kendall, Mrs. G. H. Kosten, 8 the House of Commons, has been panied by a mald!
Mrs. L W. Hoffecker, W. Rcal distinction: His attendance In London, but had to be accom She is understood to be which have occurred this year in
Valued for insurance at $1,786,000 vessels of the liner type..
75
AN. INTRODUCTORY HISTORY by
A. H. CROOK, O.DE, MA. W. KAY, MA
PRICE $2.00,
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religions Goode, Garden Beeds, Toys, etc 10, WYNDHAM STREET,
F.O. Box No. 620. HONG KONG.
The ORIENTAL BOOKS
of LOVE
TE KAMA SUTRA, of V1657
Sage Price's's Dollars;
ANANGA RANGA, The Hiada
Art of Love Admis
TPERFUMED GARDE
W-L-HANDYSIDE, MA, B.Sc.
NOW ON SALE AT THE PUBLISHERS
China Mall Officer.
LAMMERT BROS.
Madrinan, G. F. Mantz, L. Moller, exemplary, and he has made a reha
W. C. Ockland, Miss A. Riggin, putation by frequent speeches both Capt. G. B. Rogers, Mim H. Root, in and out of the House. He has Sadiq, L. L. Simpson, Mr K. Smith, thus become..one of the leaders of A B. Taylor, R. L. Telgler, G. Lthe Liberal Party There Is a Townsend.
common delusion that successful lawyers are not successful politi- lins.Look around you, sas Christopher Wren'
PPRAISERS
He does and has read
Public Auctions -
thhi by enab
11093
With Leiende Sir Joh
but
be sby (Continuet ut fact of
:Column
Dispel L *Constipat
LAXATIVE PERFECTION
INKETTES
Chemists
THE DAINTY LITTLE LIVER REGULATORS OF
"FAR REACHING BENEFIT.