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Hong Kong, Friday, Feb. 13, 1931.
News in Brief.
One case of typhoid fever Chinwas notified yesterday from Kowloon,
Acting Sub-Inspector A. V. Baker, Sergeant A. Wright and Sergt. 5. C. Saunders are going on Jong leave to-morrow on the P. & 0. 8. Kashgar.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1931.
FRENCH CONVENT SCHOOL
Annual Distribution of Prizes.
LIST OF WINNERS.
LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
Estate Duty Bill Amended.
FINANCE REPORTS ADOPTED.
presence of a large gathering. His Excellency the Governor, the
WA
of the
Sub-Inspector and Mrs. Rogers and family, Sergeant and Mrs. Kelly, and Lance-Sergeant Findlay the St. Paul's Institution took Council yesterday, presided over by The annual prize distribution, of At the meeting of the Legislative returned from Home leave on the place yesterday afternoon, in the P.&O. Khyber to-day.
Knocked down by a tram car in William Poel, K.B.E., gave the (No. 2), dated February 5,
Lady Peel, wife of H.E. Sirreport of the Finance Committea Dee Væus Road Central yester-prizes away, and she was accom- adopted, on the proposal day, a Chinese named Ngau Vanpanied by Sir William Hornell, Kt. Colonial Secretary, (the Hou. Már. (50) died shortly after admission CIE, Mr. G. P. de Martin, M.B.E. to the Government Civil Hospital.
Director of Education), and Mrs. B. R. Hallifax), seconded by the The China Light & Power Com. Valtorta, D.D., and Capt. Colt-C. McI, Messer).
de Martin, His Lurdship Bishop Colonial Treasuurer, (the Hon. Mr, pany notify that the supply of man, A.D.C. electricity will not be available be
An enjoyable concert was pre- tween 6 and 8 a.m. on Tuesday sented by the scholars:-Misses owing to alteratione la the gen-L Shearer, M. Stickland, H. erating station.
Pinheiro, H. Branca da Costa, Pat| Stickland and Audrey Jackson.
A verdict of "accidental death" was returned at an inquest held by Mr. Williama in the Central Police) Court yesterday afternoon on Mok On, a rikisha puller, who was killed in a motor mishap on February 1 in Queen's Road West,
the school.
the prize
Estate Duty BIIL
The second reading of "A Bill to amend the Law relating to Estate Duty," was then moved by the Attorney-General.
In making the motion, he said:-- move the second
"A
A black dog strayed into the Father Byrne read the ropurt. Water Police Station yesterday, and, in attempting to catch it felt he could not go away without reading of a Bill intituled
Sir William Hornell said that he Sir- rise to Sergeant McEwan was bitten. The thanking the school on behalf of Ordinance to amend the law relat dog was eventually put into a cage, Lady Peel and the visitors for the ing to estate duty." Much assist and transported to Ma Tau Kok very enjoyable afternoon spent at for observation.
ance in the drafting of this Bill The Prize List.
has been rendered by the Com The following list:-
is
mittee of the Incorporated Law So- ciety and many of their suggestions London Trinity College of Music. appear in its clauses. Since the Preparatory Certificate: Florence first reading last week they hava Grimmitt Practical-Maria Branca da Costa.
Junior Theory and
been in communication with me sug Intermediate geating reconsideration of clauses Intermediate Practical with Honours: six, eight, nine and 16. Marie Helena de Pinheiro.
Clause aix substitutes a naw A case against a Chinese con
Intermediate Theory and Senior section 9 (3) of the principal ordin stable who was alleged to have ex-|
Fractical: Lily Shearer.
Senior Practical: Gladys Grimmitt derived from section 7 (2) of the ance in place of a sub-section torted money from a newspaper hawker In Fakho! Street on Jane- Progress:-Patsy Wood and
Class D. General Application and
Act, 1894, relating to Hilda Finance ary 14, was brought before Mr. May. Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy Chinese,
allowances for debts. Their sug Class 8 Preparatory Class for gestion is that it is not desirable to yesterday afternoon. His Worshipchism: Theresa Tam.
Good Conduct and Cate-depart further from the language convicted and passed sentence of General Application:-Pansy Chan. of the Act in this respect. fours months' imprisonment.
Clans 7. let Prize Application and clause 8 it is suggested that the Progress: Rosle Raptis; 2nd Prize, proviso might be enlarged to cover Betty Longbotton. Nicholson; 2nd Prize, Marie Leonard similar nature to probate or ad-
Class 6. ist Class Prize: G
the case of foreign grants of a
res-Florence Grimmitt; Catechism obligation on the executors as to Class 5. Good Conduct and Pro- ministration.. Clause 9 imposes an and Class Prize:-Margaret Wong. chiem-Annie Nissen; English Com-
Class 4. Good Conduct and Cate-shares of a deceased person, which the registration of the unregistered position:-Laura Li and Dora Ellis.. is a new provision. It reduces
har for Class 3.
1st Prize and Lugard the ability which the registered
the year
1931-owner incurs under the now.section Kong. Examination Test Prizes:-Marie.
24 Introduced by clause 15. Helena de Pinheiro and Josephine Cho
Revisionary Interests, Prize for General Progress:-Violet Bradbury
CORRESPONDENCE,
ECONOMIC ARGUMENT.
[To the Editor of "Chini Mail"] Sir,-Apropos argument in your article, "Mons-
the
economic trous Luxury," while it is quite true that spending is better than saving, it is not, I think, the whole truth. put forward in books on Economics, The argument, as I have seen it is something like this:--
Class
In
With regard to clause 16, two
2 (Junior), Junior Class Points are made, firstly as to the Prizes: Stella Rocha, Elfrida Xavier, possible retention of the table in Louise Santos, Ivy Yer, Daisy Chan the existing third schedule and its and Sophie Chung.
Junior Prize for English Composi-revisionary interests and, secondly. application to the valuation of ton-Edna Holland.
This closed the business of the Counell, which then adjourned.
weight with
the "victorious" Powers, particularly with France, to whom the payments are more a moral obligation, a genuflexion of the knee in pardon, than the Remarking that although there honourable settlement of a debt. might be some truth in the stories It may be shown without great the evidence of the prosecution and of both sides, the major parts of difficulty that many nations the defence wore lies, Mr. R. E. would have benefited by a Euro-Lindsell in the Central Police Court pean War, and speeches and arti-yesterday discharged Lau Sau, a Revenue Officer who was accused of cles may be produced as evidence demanding, with menaces, the sum that a number of prominent of $400 from an inmate of 1, Me- statesmen and industrialista was Gregor Streat, and also of larceny not unfavourably disposed to end-
of $300 from the same complainant. Fing the international tension which prevailed at that time, and, incidentally, adding to their pos- sessions and widening their fron- tiers by a short and sharp con- dict. But the addresses of Lord
Junior Prize and Certificate:-Stella as to the insertion of a provision Xavier.
similar to that in section 12 of the Grey and other British statesmen
Prize
Junior Prize and Certificate Special Finance Act, 1907, making it clear
for Biblical delivered during 1912 and 1913
Rannah Abbas.
Knowledge:-that the new rates are to apply to are sufficient to convince us that
Louise Choa.
Junlar
Prize and Certificate: Persona dying after the commence- Great Britain, at any rate, had not
for distinction in Franch presented by consideration and
ment of this Ordinance, Junior Certificate and Class Prize,
These are all matters which merit the slightest wish or intention to
Monsieur de la Prads, French Consul:
so, after the quarrel with a friendly and com-
If I spend £500 in giving a
Helen Bogdataky,
second reading, I shall propose that mercially
Junior Frize and Certificate, Dis-the Bi luxury dinner, I, of course, give tinction in Arithmeti:-Merit Ching. Standing Order 27, to the Standing- valuable neighbour employment, but the following day
be referred, under Perhaps the strongest evidence of I have as concrete result to show tinetion in English:-Edna Carroll.
Junior Frite and Certificate, Dis-Law Committee for report, capecial our innocence is the fact that, for the loss of my money; whereas Geography and Needlework Mary tioned. WHOSE "PIGEON?" from an armaments point of had I spent the £500 in building a Lec.
Class 1 (Senior). Senior Prize for ly on the clauses I have men- ...view, we were totally unprepare employment, and in addition the Ada Shum.
house I would equally hare given
Senior Prize for English History time, His Excellency having pre- The Bill was then read a second The announcement that the for a war of any description. world and I would be materially Hamira Iemail.
Senior Reichstag has approved of a pro- Germany, 'on the other hand, bad richer by one piecee house.
Priza and Certificate:viously intimated that he thought posal to enquire into the causes of been increasing and training ber
Senior Prize
the reference to the Standing Law and There is thus spending and Joyce Walker,
Certificate: Committee eminently desirable. the Great War by an impartíal armies with an object which it!
spending.
Sontor Prize and
Certificate:- commission reminds us of Charles is not easy to misconstrue; and Bulgarians, acting according to Gladys Grimmitt.
In to-day's paper. I read that the
Augusta Noronha,
Senior Prize для Certificate:- Lamb's story of the roast pig. the evidence that she was pre- their King's wishes, commuted his Conferences and commissions of paring for a war,
wedding gifts into debt remissions. enquiry have become such a farceļon sca, is overwhelming. The in-ple awake to reality.
on land and It is refreshing to read of one peo nowadays that this latest piece of tervening years between 1914 and news is calculated no longer to 1931 have made it only too clear
Yours, etc. raise a smile. Like the Chinn- that the case against Germany ia
Par. Hong Kong, February 18. man's roundabout way of finding, far too strong ever to be under- out that pig was an edible deli-mined by the Andings of an “im-
EXCHANGE AND TRADE cacy, by burning his house, the partial commission." Reichstag proposes to explore a The nations who have suffered the British Economic and Cotton from screen work shortly after her was reported yesterday, took place Sirin regard to the task of Dolores Costello, who retired Dispensary, whose sudden death mass of complicated documents most from the War have long Mission to China many people ap-marriage to John Harrymore, wat the Protestant Cemetery, Happy and show that the responsibility since ceased to blame Germany pear to be obsessed with the idea of return to motion picture work, it Valley, last evenlug, and was at was not wholly Germany's own. for beginning it, and it is not clear think that if they can get their
Japanese competition and seem to is announced. The Germans are a simple and a what useful purpose may be serv-costs of production down to the she would not play with her
A studio announcement 'sald tended by a large gathering of: serious peopia and a considerable ed by re-opening the question. level of Japan troubles are over, husband but would be starred in
friends of the family.
The chief mourners were Messrs. proportion of them believe that Undoubtedly the German people They tend to overlook two Im-her own right. The Barrymores
Alec and Alan Mackenzie (bro Gormany was practically forced as a mass wanted it no more than portant factors, Le, exchange and recently returned with their infant into the War. Thus, if the en- did Britain or any other of the
competition from local mile daughter, Dolores Ethel Mae, from quiry is to be made in the vain Allies, but a country must ever and sheetings were originally done
The ordinary bleached shirtings a yacht trip to South America. hope of satisfying this impres- bear the blame and responsibility by Lancashire who were in turn
There was a profusion of floral eion, the uncertainty of which is for the actions of its Government, anally, the local mills,
MOSQUITOES-BLAMED. ouated by America, Japan, and,
tributes, including those from. His in itself significant, one cannot This is not the time to engage on How can Lancashire hope to re
Loving Wife; Rose and Ezra; Macon, Ga., Dec. 19, help feeling a certain amount of an enquiry of this kind. The gain such business? Or what avall. Smith, a private detective, for and Beryl, Staff and Directors of Mosquitoes are blamed by Ervin Edward; Daisy and Willie; Alan Violet; Alec and Alan; Kitty and sympathy for such naive and world is once more in the precari sit there, take a fraction of this in New Jersey in 1016, of which and members, Rationalist Asso- is it to cut down a little here, and a the Black Tom munitions explosion the Colonial Dispensary;. President childlike faith in their incul-ous position in which it found it and a decimal point of that when Germany has been absolved by the clation: from the various local dis pability. We are reminded of self in the years preceding 1914, exchange is able to move 20 permixed claims commission, pensarles and other firms; and per- those frequent incidents of the and the statesmen of practically cont. either way at any moment and Mr. Smith says workmen were so sonal tributes, early days of the War in Britain, every European country VD duties are being increased with no bothered by the insects, that they when Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt as deavouring to restore the balance market2ed with shells got ablaze.
country are en corresponding rise in the local built a fire and a freight car load- swiftly as conveniently becaine of sanity. If, instead of concern. The attitude of Chinese dealers Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and protesting herself with a lost cause, of to-day is that if exchange drops in the world markets and perhaps ed-indignantly, "Noo, we are not labouring under a delusion, which and if there is a further increase, in
Home prices must drop accordingly, oven in Great Britain itself. Shermans 1
can bring her, po advantage, Ger- the Customs tariff, prices must pressing aspect, the undersigned "An an antidote to the chova de If, however, this is an astute many were to put her shoulder to come down in proportion, move on the part of the Reichstag the wheel and
would like to focus the darneft at What Home producers are up tention of students of our problems ift the Higations of the Re neighbours in their effort to bring that there is no stability in this in the British Empire." A great -operate with her against more that anything else is to Leacock's Economic Prosperity
Many members of the Portuguesa. of country either in sliver or anything opportunity lies at the door of any community proceeded to Macau for political party, that gets down, to the religious festival known as the
nder the about, a. am
mainly
ving the doubts-
idence present
[To the Editor of "Chlua Mail."}
dropd
Senior Certificato and Prize pre- Bented by Mr. Ho Kom-tong, 0.B.E. Florence Tong.
Senior Prize and Certificate:- Elizabeth Johnson.
'DOLORES COSTELLO.
RETURN TO CINEMA WORK ANNOUNCED.
MR.. C. MACKENZIE.
FUNERAL AT PROTESTANT CEMETERY.
The funeral of Mr. Colin Mac- kenzie, manager of the Colonial
thers), and Ezra Abraham and W. Goldenberg (brothers-in-law).
The Rev. E A. Armstrong, con- ducted the burial service,
Ten Years Ago.
February 1, 1921) 77 [From the #Chica "Mall"/
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