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hecessity of art of a high stand- fard is að evident that the leading business men of every country have sought ita co-operation in
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930...
GENTLEMENIN
*BUSINESS.
Be Plundered.
CITY RUBBER BROKER
CHARGED.
Alleged Gambling Losses on Market.
the improvement of their adver- Customer Not Game to tisements and their buildings. Even the man who composes the
"Newman's definition of a gentle cigarette advertisement has bor-
It was alleged at the Mansion rowed the sentimental syllables romains unrivalled. Here stan-ly the whole of the deficiency of man as one who never inflicts pain House on October 8 that practical. of Barrie, and one of the fascina-dard is set for the business man £68,260 of a City rubber broker, tions of the more famous brands It involves a conception of public-who was accused of offences under of whisky is that they are pic-spirited service in everyday trans- the Bankruptcy Acts, was due to
The customer ceases to gambling on the rubber market. tured in our journals with skill actions.
be fair game to be plundered, but Defendant was Gordon Page and beauty of colour. Art as an is seen as & representative of so smith; 88, of Langford, Middlesex. independent force, however, still clety to whom all business men are The charges against him were: lacks the patronage under which responsible."
Having been adjudged a bank- Mr. Harold Bellman, chairman rupt, he, within two years prior to alone it can thrive and develop of the Metropolitan Building So the presentation of the bankruptcy Therefore we urge that the catab-cieties Association, set forth this petition against him, did material- lishment of a gallery in our City ideal in an address at the Metro-ly-contribute to or increase the is one of those cultural neces-politan Building Societies Sum extent of his indebtedness by gam- mer School at Selwyn College, bling, or rash or hazardous specu- sitles which we, blinded by the Cambridge.
lation, auch being unconcerned fluctuations of silver and inter- Stressing the value of per- with his trade or business, |mittent civil wars, have abandon- sonality, Mr. Bellman said: "Thore Making false entries in books
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is the persistent impression that relating to his property or affairs. unnecessary because we
cool and colossal cheak rather than Detective inspector imagined that we could endure in ability is responsible for many said that the defendant, when the Stubbing happiness without them.
success. I grant that sometimes warrant was read to him, replied: the prizes fall to the vulgar rather "I do not understand what it all than to the virtuous, and that the moans." When formally charged, thruster occasionally triumphs he said, "Yes, I admit I gambled, was the quietly competent, but but I did not gamble beyond my
-such victories аге frequently means."
ephemeral, Personality does not Mr. G. B. McClure, for the Dirac-
that under the rules of the Rubber Growers' Association a broker was
News in Brief. One case of typhoid fever notified yesterday.
4
A fire broke out in the rear of consist of making a noise in the tor of Public Prosecutions, said
World."*
a bamboo ware shop at 51 Main Street, Shaukiwan, shortly after SURVEYING AFRICA
ten o'clock last night. It was extinguished by the Police and in-
mates of the premises, The damage was very trifling.
NEW MAPS COVER AREA OF 60,000 SQUARE MILES.
Rugby, Testerday.
only supposed to act as an inter-
mediary and not as buyer or seller,.
but it was alleged against him that
he concealed from A number of people with whom he was entoring into transactions that he was the The Annual bazaar In the Diocesan Girls' School will be holdi
principal. It was also judged that Full results of the aerial sur-the made fictitious entries in hla to-morrow afternoon in aid of the vey of 60,000 square miles of books of names of people owing Loper and Blind Homes and to country in Northern Rhodesin large sums to his estato. raise the School funds. On are now available. Our greater artists must often December 19 and 20 there will be a survey of this area would have bankrupt in February, 1929, with A ground Defendant was adjudicated a feel like this, because the inter-drill display by the pupils.
taken about 10 years, whereas unsecured liabilities of £70,862, sity which they pour into their
the British Survey Expedition of and a deficiency of £56,260, and the Letters of administration have the Aircraft Operating Company allegation was that practically the work emphasises the shock of been granted to Mr. G. T. May, of carried through the work in less whole of the deficiency, and al disappointment when they are the Asiatic Petroleum Company, in than four months. Twenty thou-most the whele of the unsecured neglected. In Hong Kong, we respect of an estate of $300 left in sand photographs were taken abilities was the result of one feel fairly sure, this is hardly ap- Maude Melrose May, who died in ed
the Colony by his wife, Esmee during the flights, which extend-final throw in the rubber market as
over 40,000 miles. Aja gambler. plicable, although our artists testate-on-May-27, this year, at 157, Glosher-biplane, the first air representative of the Rubber here could do with a modicum of Adelaide Road, London.
craft in the world designed and Growers' Association, answering official as well as public encour-
built specially for survey work, Mr. Robert Fortune, for the de- On charges of having driven a was used. Contact prints made fence, sald he was not prepared to Our impressions of motor lorry without a licence and from photographs contain detail say that no the exhibition of the local Art without the sanction of the owner, which is proving of great interest went on by brokers, but it was not private speculation Club (ably criticised by "B.B." a Chinese was this morning fined from geological, botanical and the practice.
agement.
NATIVE POLICY,
CLOSER UNION IN EAST AFRICA.
in the Chino Mail on Wednesday), $80 by Mr. R. E. Lindsell. Tral other viewpoints, besides reveal- Mr. Fortune: You know per Sergeant G. Baker sald that the ing errors in existing maps, it fectly well that it goes on?-I do were, as might be expected, not defendant drove the lorry at the being found possible to detect the not. of the same tenor as those that rate of 80 to 35 miles an hour in lines of geological formation with
Mr. Fortune, for the defence, are on occasions forced upon us Hennessey Road.
much accuracy.-British Wire-contended that no evidence, had less Service. by the vital tours de force at the
been produced on which a jury The Society of St. Vincent de Royal Academy; but the essential Paul acknowledges the following
would convict. Defendant had been perfectly frank in the matter all spirit was there sufficient, in our further donations to the Fete in
through, and, as to the entries of | opinion, to justify a discreet as- afd of the poor:-Mr. Ho Ki $10;
the different names that had been sistance from the Government. Mr. D. J. Lewis $10; Club Lusitano
complained of, he had stated that $100; Mr. Rollin $20; Anonymons The Art Club experienced no little $25; Mr. Fung Ping-shan $15;
he made tho entries because he did not want his office to know: difficulty in obtaining a suitable Anonymous $25; Mr. A. el Arculli
Rugby, Yesterday. The first meeting was held to journed the case, intimating his The Lord Mayor formally. ad- room for their exhibition, and] 35; Mr. A. Lambelet $5.
day of the Joint Lords and Com-intention to commit the defendant this alone should engender in us
Chu Chuen (45), of 537 Cantor ons Committee to
consider for trial. Defendant was allowed the suspicion of neglect. There Road, was yesterday sent to the proposals for the machinery of bail of £500.
closer union in East Africa. The family wish to tender their grate should be no valid objection to Kowloon Hospital auffering from Committee is widely representa- ful thanks to all their friends for Hong Kong having a permanent fractured skull, from which he died tive in composition and is expect the many floral tributes and letters picture gallery, to be maintained later. It is stated that the injury led to make an exhaustive and of condolence received, and for the sympathy extended to them fnby a suitable; annual grant from wooden cheat of tes failing on himsympathetic examination, extend- their heavy bereavement
the Government. In fact, we whilst discharging cargo from the often wonder why some of our SA. Tilawa at the Kowloon
& Co, Ltd., 86-38, Southampton Street, Strand, W.C2.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Mrs. William Farmer and her
ARS LONGA.
were
was sustained through a large
Wharves.
DRIVER HELD UP.
ROBBED BY A TRIO OF PASSENGERS:
PUSHED DOWN A HILL
to-day.
over several months, of the problem from all points of view. including the question of native policy-British Wireless Ser-
¡vice.
HUBBY TOO MANY. MISS JOYCE DENIES & FIFTH MARRIAGE.
A SURPRISE APPOINTMENT.
Lord Amulree As Air Minister.
His father wan
London, Oct. 17; Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 13, 1930. Legislative Councillors, whose
After the R-101 disaster has patronage of the arts in general
come the work of reorganisation, about which there has been is proverbial (not excluding that
the usual crop of rumours.
The Br of oratory), do not offer an oc
pointment of Lord Amulree to "Ars longa, vita brevis," runs casional plea at those meetings at
ed some surprise, aucceed Lord Thomson, has caus- the old Latin tag, which is rather which so much that is fanciful is
but Mr. MacDonald was apparently guided hard on some of our long-suffer discussed. An art gallery, filled
by political considerations. The ing patrons of picture galleries, with the creations of local artists, A highway robbery is mentioned actress and former Ziegfeld Follies sitting in the House of Commons. Miss Pegar Hopkins, Joyce, the promotion of a Minister already who must wish that a few of the would surely be more agreeable in the Police morning reportsgirl, who has had four husbands, as Secretary for Air would have monstrosities that get hung (un than and every whit as edifying According to Ng Kam-shiu, anders why on earth she has been involved a new peerage and by like their creators, unfortunate as, an aquarium filled with leer- publle motor car driver, living at
credited with a fifth,
election, as already six Secretaries We ing piscatorial specimens; and 696 Shanghai Street, at about 8.80 tests any one who wishes this fifth Commoners. less enduring.
More she hates, loathes and de- of State (the legal maximum) are suffer them gladly, realising that even if the blossoms in some of yesterday three Chinese husband on her.
Lord Amulree, for they are but splashes of experi- these paintings were so brilliant stating that they wanted to go to London hotel with a tempestuous has been described as the perfect. engaged his car in Shanghai Street,
merly Sir Wiliam Warrender She was kept In her room in a Mackenzie, is aged seventy and mental colour and daidistic forms, as to imply a violent perfume, Fanling. One of the men sat in cold-so her hatred of these Fifth chairman... products of the effort, sometimes surely this would be preferable the front whilst the other two were Husband Men was conveyed to rather strained, to attain the old to that ancient, fishy smell which accommodated in the mar of the Daily Express representative by self-sacrifice sent his son to Edin- a farmer near Perth who at great divinity by a newer set of prin disgraced Caliban as a member
telephone, They then proceeded along Talpo
burgh University where the boy ciples. Like the clumsy masses of Shakespeare & airy world? Road, but, when near Taipo Shek, "sn't four times enough?" walled worked hard and laid the founda that first crawled the earth, they The maintenance of a local art one of the men asked the driver to "No. I am not looking for another legal career. Lord Amulree has Miss Joyce and ancezed. MA tions of his subsequent successful. are seekers of the light, and we gallery would be a negligible stop under the pretence that his hat busband. I did not say he'd have never sat in the House of Com had blown off. The driver prompt- who compose the untalented ltem upon the Treasury auc-ly stopped, whey, it is alleged, the to be thirty-five, tall and dark. I'm mons. He was raised to the peer- judges of the queer stuff which counts, and could even manage to throo men set upon him, one man fed up with this nonsense. In any age in July, 1929, His first two art galleries and publisites folst evade hostile criticism by sidling catching Him by the thrust. They case, my head is going round and tasks will be the setting up of no upon us, must give them rope into those mysterious "extras" they pushed Ng down the hillside. kar ( Bekrched Ng, buty before:doing so, not that they may be hanged which sometimes baffle even the Following: Ng's report the Folice but that they may develop with- keeneat brains of the editorial de- arrested an alleged suspect. out an inferiority complex of repartment. dundancy. For there must come And if a gallery, why not an ECONOMIC UNITY. a time to every artist when the Art School, where those, whose weight of middle-class indiffer- peculiar joy it is to plaster c CLOSER ASSOCIATION WITHIN
THE EMPIRES ence must crush him with des vas with lurid forms could learn A pair the cause of so many fall from a not- foo advanced artist |=; ures and make him imagine in the best methods of King's Road his melancholy that he is not ful- W7 There is not the sligh filling his purpose here on earth, need here olve ourselves in whatever that may be that he is a discussion on the Platonic ideal a parabite which has managed
or to sways into the solid Mary fure to the
Batters
that
At Rugby, Yesterday. ying to a Parliamentary the Dominions Secre- fary, Mr. 7. H. Thomas, said that further study of the problem of closer Conomic Association with
fround.
Inquiry Into the loss of the R-101 "What? Do I think that girls and the appointment of a new really know the qualities they want Director of Civil Aviation to sue- in the men they marry? Yes, Ldo; caed Sir Sefton Brancker. but they hardly ever get them, That's the men's fault.
"It is up to a man to keep his wife's, love. It's his job.
Whereat there was nothing to do but sympathise with Miss Joyce over her cold, hang up the receiver, and depart, brooding on Life and, all that.
CHAIR COOLIE STABBED.
Ten Years Ago.
From the "China' Mall”.
December 12, 1920.1. To-day's dollar is worth 11/10.
The members of the Club de Recreio at Kowloon have arranged A chair, coolle named Lal On garden party to be held in the In the Empire, with special refer residing at 8, Kwong Hon Terrace, grounds of the Club for the pur ence to the problems left over by was yesterday removed to the Gov pose of, welcoming H. E. Senuore the Imperial Conference for exernment Civil Hospital suffering Henrique Monteiro Correasda Amination before the meeting af from slight stab wound on the Silva, governor of Macan, and this Ottawa, next year had already ciest, alleged to have been inflicted Benhora da Silta on the occasion begin by the United King during a quarrel with another chair of their visit to Hong Kong for the overnment and would be golfe at the function of Welling purpose of laying the foundation Street stone of the new Club Lusitano
banding In Ice House Street.
Britisk Wire-tion Street