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-are printe aphazardly. Cor-; respondents are fortunate if they! get more than a cold and formal acknowledgment pending period such as t present three and twenty days in which official- dom can settle down and make a serious effort to overtake arrears of business.
In our commercial life things are no whit better. The adage appears to be to put off by all means till to-morrow the things that could easily be done to-day. The morrow is interrupted by the
tions.
the
In conclusion, he sated that A salvagn vessel is proceeding A landslide occurred at about Congress favoured a federal con- to the stranded vessel from the midday to-day near the reservoirs stitution, and the emphasised the North, and the Jocal tug in Kowloon. One of the fire appli- need of Congress uniting with the Henry Keswick was despatched ances left the Kowloon Fire Station to clear the debris, the extent of which was unknown at the time of going to press.
RAIN LATER.
The Royal Observatory'a weather report to-day states: The anti-egelone has weaken. ed and is now central near Shanghai.
Moderate monsoon along the S.E. coast of China and over the N. China Sen.
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FALL IN LABOUR MAJORITY.
Result of East Sydney By-Election.
STRONGHOLD FOR 20 YEARS.
Sydney, Yesterday. The final figures in the East Sydney by-election are:- winda,
Mr. Ward (Labour)
19,975 Mr. Courtenay (National-
Ist)
Forecast: N. E. moderate; fair at first; some, light rain and fog later.
Rainfall. Rainfall for 24 hours ended nt 10 a.m. to-day-nil. Rainfall since January 1-0.97 inch against an average of 3.68 inches-deficit 2.71 inches. Temperature.
The temperature at certain speelfled centres this morning at 6 o'clock wae:-
Hong Kong
60
Macao
58
Pratas Island
72
Manila
72
Foochow
52
Chefoo Shanghai
34
38
"That is a despicable theft" said
noon of a Saturday necessitating Mr. Hamilton at the Kowloon the dropping of office tools or by, Magistracy, this morning, when
·
Mr. Mountjoy (Com-
munist)
Laboud Majority
to the assistance of the Roseville immediately following the news of the stranding here on Satur-
day.
COMMUNIST WEEKLY IN PENANG.
Distributor Committed to Assizos.
THE "RED LIGHT.”
The fact that a Chinese Com- munist weekly known as the Red Light is being regularly published 16,333 at Penang was disclosed at the
Second Police Court in the course 611 of the proceedings of the prelimin
ary enquiry into the case in which 3.642 Chia Scong. a twenty-year old The Herald, in an editorial, Chinese youth, is being charged noints out that East Sydney has with possession of seditious docu- been a Labour stronghold for 20ments, which had a tendency" to years and, referring to the fall in incite persons to interfere with the the Labour majority, says: A administration of law. few more such victories and Labou, Federal and State, would
well-night destroyed."
be Reuter,
CORRESPONDENCE.
Chief Detective Inspector Fowler prosecuted.
Detective Bok Ee Seng said that on February 10, he arrested the ne- cused in Gladatoue Road on Detectivo suspicion.
Lee
Al Sang was with him at the time. He caught hold of the accused while wiingas searched him. The search resulted in witness seizing five packets of rolled papers which Sir. On behalf of the Society I were copies of the Red Light dated
THE S.P.C.A.
[To the Editor of "China Mail."
a Bank holiday or by the annual he sent a Chinese to jall for two wish to thank you for the publicity February 3.
The accused was then taken to Races or by Easter and so on. months for stealing a jacket from space you have given us in con-
another Chinese who had be- nection with our Carnival Dance, the Detective Station whero We do not take our pleasures sad-friended him, fed him, and found also Messrs. Moutrke, Anderson and Detective Mat Esa made another ly. We take our business respon him employment.
Tsang Fook Co. for showing our search. Mat Esa discovered two sibilities flippantly. The Chinese
Posters and selling tickets, and to more packets of the lasues of the The next practice for St. remind Patrons that tables for Red Light in the accused's trouser menial's "by bye" and the Malay's Patrick's Ball will be held in the parties must be booked at the Hotel.pockets. besoh hari are expressed in the Helena May Institute to-morrow at Tickets may be had at the Hotel on The Red Light weekly dated Western colloquialism: "Any old 5.15 p.m. A special tea dance will the evening of the Dance, but I February 8 coulained the follow- other items. time will do." And all the while be held in the Peninsula Hotel on would urge those who Intend being ing facts among
Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Hotel present to secure their tickets Under the caption "current com- our trade rivals are working day Orchestra will play the specially early either from Messrs. Moutrie,ments (by Hung Koo) it wrote that BENJAMIN-Dolly, wife of and night, heedless of our volun- arranged Irish music which will be Anderson or Teang Fook Music the revolutionary currents in
Sassoon Benjamin, on March 8 at Cap Martin, France.tary interruptions at week-ends a feature of the Ball, There will Shops or members of the SP.C.A. Malaya had greatly terrified the To humanity may I British Imperialists who in order (By cable.)
and holidays, to "put one over us" be an inclusive charge of $1 por Committee.
say how pleased I would be to dis- to maintain their administrative and obtain signatures to contracts
cuss any question with him relative position, which was shaky, had Hong Kong, Monday, March 9, 1931.that might have been ours had Whilst the Star Ferry, Northern to protection of animals at our adopted many callous methoda. Star was crossing the harbour at Carnival Dance on Friday evening, At Penang and Kuala Lumpur their we been in our office instead of 12.30 p.m. on Saturday, a Chinese 13th inst., Supper 11.80 p.m. "warriors" had been sentenced to
DEATH.
GET TO BUSINESS!
head.
Yours, etc.,
better-off households.
J. RUSSELL.
the golf course, the race course, woman named Chung Szo (29) Secure your tickets early. or the cricket ground.
jumped overboard in an alleged ut- And when we come to sum-tempt to commit suicide. An alarm With Christmas, New Year, marise the year's working and picked up by a sampan. She was there was no evidence of lavish
was raised and the woman WAS Chinese New Year, the annual laiment that many things have taken to Kwong Wah Hospital suf-consumption on the part of the Race Meeting, and even the
gone agley we too readily put it fering from immersion. Her coa- Census behind us, we can as a down to universal trade depres-dition is stated to be not serious. community settle down to serious sion instead of a communal readi-GOLF AND THE FOOD business for exactly three and ness to exhibit "Out" on our office twenty days, when we will take hame boards. Now we have thrée another little vacation for Easter. and twenty days to get down to So many interruptions in our business. Let us make the most business life cannot be good for of the diversion from the holi us. There hovers over us almost day feeling and really do things! continually that unsettled spirit
News in Brief.
CONSUMPTION.
Diet Investigation Facts.
EXTRA CALORIES.
Various terms of imprisonment, Mention was also made of the Naval Base, at Tan Kah Kee's All these factory and at Malacca.
were under the heading "Protest against Fascism and Reformation."
Reference was made to the re- Walking, Games and Work.
cent riots at Rangoon and the clos- On the problem of the extra 200ing down of a Chinese School at calories consumed by the sedent-Singapore, Attacking Mr. Tan ary group 45 compared with Kah Kee severely, the Red Light de- manual workers, the investigators scribed him as "a well-known. say it was agreed that the sedent-wicked capitalist." ary class expended a great deal of
The paper also published a energy in walking and playing caricature in which a labourer was games, including golf, but. It was shown striking at a sitting figure doubtful if they expended any with a hammer..
thing like the amount of energy Detective Leo Ah Sang, who represented by the extra food. It assisted Detective Bok Ee Sang in that handicaps us in our concen-
followed therefore that the extra arresting the accused, also gave tration on our chief objective in
An inquiry to the diet of 154 | food must either be stored or evidence. being here to prosper in trade. its annual general meeting in the golfing centre, which embraced
The University Union will hold familles of St. Andrews, the great metabolised in some other fashion. Mr. E. V. Fowler, Chlef Detec
Man Same as Dog?
tive Inspector, gavo ovidence to the Too many holidays and too little Great Hall to-morrow at 5 p.m. all classes, rich and poor, reveals As obesity was not a marked effect that he personally enquired work make of Jack and also
a remarkable deviation from old feature of that section of the into the case. Tom, Dick and Harry-a very
The lowest open air temperature food standards.
population, It must follow that Mr. Gwee Kok Weng, stated that yesterday was 57 degrees. The It is discovered that, as compar- the only possible explanation he translated the documents in alack boy in our local world of humidity was 81 at 10 a.m. and 161ed with two previous investiga-that luxus consumption or second-the case from Chinese Into Eng commerce. Likewise have they a at-4 p.m.
tions, the consumption of fat hasary dynamic action is a real fac-ah. To the best.of his knowledge deteriorating effect on the admin-Among those leaving for Home
doubled,
tor in the situation."
his translations were correct, istrative machine, the wheels of yesterday by the 8.8. Khiva were by the fact
The investigators are puzzled The Investigatora nak: "Does Chia Seong was then formally. that while 3.100 man adapt his intake to his ac- charged. He reserved his state- which are too apt to get clogged Mr. W. Kay and Mr. D. M. Richards calories a day antiafled the manual tual needs, or does he, whon hement and His Worship committed if not exactly rusty. There is of the Education Department), labourer, the sedentary group gets, the chance, eat in excess for him to stand his trial at the next
the mere satisfying of his ap Penang Assizes.. lacking the will to observe expedi-Mr. E. S. Carter (of the P. W. D.), consumed more than 3,300.
and Major W. G. H. Miles, R.M.
· What becomes of the extra 200 petite? When the food is "rich" tion in all things appertaining to
calories?
is the total quantity Ingested civic matters,
To-morrow evening at 8.45, Pro-
Rea! Normal Diets.
smaller, and when the fare fa By the time a precious minute fessor Herklots, D.F.H., B.Sc., will In publishing their report, the plain is the absolute ingestion of give a lantern lecture in the Union Medical Research Council explain food increased so that the calories begins its circumambulatory Church, Kowloors, on The Domin- that the object of the inquiry was ingested from day to day remain course round the various Departance of Plant Life in the Tropics to approach to more accurate approximately constant? May we menta noon of a Saturday comes An Interesting, evening fa pro quantitative knowledge of the not assume that the Instincts of along.
then follows a holimised. Admission will be normal diete actually used by in man sie as sound as those of the To-day's dollar is worth 2/8
habitants of this countrys average dog, that the human ''fat day lasting from one to two or cent each person.
The council mention that one of boys' are relatively as rare as the
Aa will seen by the notice in our three days then comes all The death occurred on January the main conclusions reacted was canine pampered Fidos?" advertisment columns, the Peak The better physique of the Tramway, will run only between other noon of a Saturday and 24 laet, at Edingthorpe, Norfolk, of that for the population examined
Ten Years Ago
.. From the "China Malt" of
March 9, 1921) -
Mr. Arthur Francis Bellamy the consumption of protein was sedentary, professional, and non- Kennedy Road and Barker Road the aforesaid precious minute has Brown, formerly a resident of Hong definitely below, that of carbo manuel labouring population and until further notice. The reason not got half round one Govern-Kong, where he acted, as Editor of hydrate below but that of fat the fact that they take more ays for this is that a defect has develop ment, building. Monthly pan- the China Mai. Later he went to much above the standard values tematic and on the whole more ed in one of the plers of the viaduct cial statements are published Malaya, where he was Editor of the hitherto laid down by accepted Aud strenuous exercise than manual hear the upper terminus. The months late Lists of accepted turned Home some years ago. Mr. graph
Malay Mail for a period. He re thorities, writes the Dally, Tele-workers, is offered as a "plausible management are unable to say whe Haberplanation for the greater ther the shorter run will be of a tenders — with no amounts stated) Brown was 61 years of age,
In regard to total energy value calorie value of the food ingested. long or short duration.