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SATURDAY, JULY 25 1931.
Orders for the Coming Week.
Mr. A. W. G. H. Gsantham VOLUNTEER CORPS. cupled the Bench at the Central Police Court this morning vice Though we are unable to boast MW. Schofield who is, we under-
stand. on a short holiday, of a building to compare with Now. York sky-scrapers, we have Jeanette MacDonald, the beauti- every reason to be proud of Glou-ful star of "The Love Parade," "The Vagabond King." "The Lot- ccater Building, probably one of tery Bride" and "Let's Go Native the finest structures, in the and Jack Buchanan are the adorable Orient.
players in the Ernest Lubitsch pro-
Orders by.Llout-Colonel L. G. duction, Monte Carlo," previously Bird, D.S.0, 0.8.E., commanding As I looked out across the ha-shown at the King's Theatre and bour from beneath the clock now on view at the Majestle Corps, are as under:~
Hong Kong Volunteer Defence
tower thoughts of the future Theatre, Kowloon. stole in on my reverie. The piou- | eer of modern architecture had
Under Section 24 of, the Asiatic
BILLIARDS RESULT.
PARADES.
Corps Signals
́Armoured Car Company.
Car Section. There will be r parade at Headquarters on Monday for Machine Gun Instruction.
Instructors Class-Parade Headquarters on Friday.
Machine Gun Company,
at
A Filipino, named B. G. Arlegui, at last arrived. How long will it aged 45, believed to have been un- Parade at Corps Headquarters at be before one is confronted by a employed, was yesterday found 6.30 p.m. on Friday for Signalling blaze of lights completely over- locked in room of the Tong Lol Instruction... shadowing the present beautiful Boarding House, Queen's Road, panorama which presents itself suffering from the effects of lysol at the moment when the tourist poisoning. He was taken to the vessel heaves to through the Lye Government Civil Hospital by the Moon Pass?. How long will it be keeper of the house, but was found | before Queen's, Road becomes a to be dead on admission.
valley between mountains of steel and the gradual slope leading up to the Peak? The day is not ful off when Hong Kong will hear Emigration Ordinance, 1915, His continually the pile driver at Excellency the Governor, has ap- work, and her familiar thorough- pointed the Health Officer of the fares will become darkened by port and any and every person or new steel skeletons. The growth Persons from time to time or for Room at Headquarters on Tuesday. the time being holding office or act of a Colony personified!!
Gloucester Building inspires ang as or performing the duties of sense of power, elation, and hope. the Health Officer of the port, to be It will have its advantages as in medical officers for the purposes of Summer the higher storeys are the Chinese Passenger Act, 1865, untouched by the scorching heat and of the said Ordinance. of the pavements below. When
the sun shines it pours through: Sitting without a Jury, Mr. E. H. the windows, but there is always Williams held a Coroner's enquiry a breeze. It will have its restaur- In the Central Magistracy yester ant, its beauty parlour, its little day on the body of a Chinese group of speciality shops cater-patient of the Tung-Wah Hospital, ing for the average people in who committed suicide by cutting town-an island of inestimable his throat with a penknife on July power and independence.
16. The Coroner (Mr. Williams). returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, and auggested that, in future, patients should be relieved of everything be fore being put to bed.
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News in Brief.
The Hat of authorised auditors appears in the Government Gazette.
Death of Australian Aviator.
At the meating of the Rotary SUICIDE ON BEACH. Club on Tuesday Sir William Hornell will speak on "The Com-1 A new arrivalmerce of Thought." Soda Biscuits. in the Colony, a man from
The total output of the Kailan. A remarkable case of suicide Arbroath, was heard, the other Mining Administration's mines for occurred at Juhu Beach, Bombay, day, to order a "double Scotch the week ended July 11 amounted to when Captain Harry Derby, an and two biscuits." He was serv- 99,882 tons, and the sales to 75,736 Australian airman, who was alt- ed, but was distinctly annoyed tons.
ting on the sands, was observed by when, dropping the biscuits into|
an early morning horseman The name of Dr. Heary Delahunt drink from a glass and immediate- the Scotch, the brew did not Matthews, MB., M.S. (Sydney), of ly show signs of violent convul- efervesce. No good!. I thought Alexandra Building, has been added sions,
آنها
strychnine.
to
There will be a meeting of
Officers and Sergeants of the Com Fany at 5.30 p.m. In the Lecture
Company Rifle Club will fire at the Peak Range on Sunday, August 2 at 9.30 a.m.
Individual Spoon Shoot-Rango Offeer Lieut. E. G. Stewart,
The Officers commanding the undermentioned Units will issue their Orders separately to their
commanda:
1-Corps Band.
2-The Battery Company. 3-Engineer Company. 4-Machine Gun Troop.' 5-Scottish Company. 6-Portuguese Company.....
Struck Of The Strength. 1509 Bdm. J: H. Tavares, Corpa Having left the Colony-No.
Band, as from 17.7.31.
Parmitted to resign.-No. 1506 Pte. W. V. Edley, No. 4 Flatoon, as from 24.7.31.
Strength.
The following has been taken on the Corps Strength:-
Tpr. D. McLellan, M.G. Troop.
· Leave.
Section granted 11 weeks' leave Captain E. P. Minett, Medical"
from 25.7.31 to 8.10.31.
Points. 189, 153-
BB
192
200
200...
200
200
1,422,
(Sad) W. H. G. GOATER, Captain,
Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C.
Notice.
Result of the 2nd Round of the Soldiers' Club Billiard Tournament, so," he said, angrily. "What's to the Register of Medical Practi- The rider galloped to the spot 1031
itioners. no good?" asked
to render assistance, but Captain H.K.V.D.C. an acquaintance:
Derby's death was almost instan- L/Cpl M. A. Baptista... The Arbroathian pointed to an
Notice has been given of the taneous.
L/Cpl. A. P. Silva advertisement in a local news adhesion of Hong Kong to the A post-mortem examination re-Pte. L Lima paper. It read: "Soda Biscuits International Convention relating vealed that death was due to L/Cpl. 4. D. Remedios 80 cents per tin.".
Apparently to motor traffic, which will have poisoning, owing to an overdose of L/Sergt. J. C. Remedios '.. the last "talkie" he had seen was]
effect on April 29, 1982.
Sergt. F. F. Sequeira Two letters were found, one ad- Pte. E. A. V. Remedies "Just Imagine.
It is notified that Mr. E. 1. dressed to the coroner and one to Pte. M. M. Sliva
the police. No reason was given Arassiz resumed. duty as Official evidently Receiver in Bankruptcy and Re-for the suicide.
Total The Dogged joined the local gistrar of Trade Marks and Letters Captain. Darby owned a Puss Company S.W.B. 1,365 points.
murder and sui Patent, with effect from July-20. the world. He reached Madras in
.H.K.V.D.C, won by 57 points. Dog of Kowloon,cide pact club
March
Golf Match. It will be remembered that he The following will represent the Its owner, if he The load being apparently a Golf Cluby implicated in the or she does not restrain the ani- fell in Hospital Road yesterday station, and the runner demanded, a Wales Borderers at Shek-0 on 29th little heavy, a coolie, Au Mui (48) engaged a rikisha at Egmore Corps in a Match versus The South Robbery, robbery apparently mal from pursuing such bold, whilst carrying a sack of rice. He rupeo extra. An altercation' fol-inst.:-
had no fear of a bad ways and persuade it to leave injured his left leg and was taken lowed and Captain Derby, pulling Major H. B. L Dawbiggin, to the Government Civil Hospital. out a revolver, fired, and killed the O.B.E., Captain E. J. R. Mitchell, bogey; they didn't, however, well alone, may he put to the cost
rikisha puller, He was sentenced Captain W. H. G. Gonter, Lieut. A count on being stymied. At any of erecting a tablet BimBar to
Hutton-Potts, Lieut. H. Owen The forthcoming wedding is an-to pay a heavy fine. rate, they are now bunkered, and that in
superscribed In
nounced of Dr. Neil Duncan He came to Bombay, two months Hughes, Lieut. J. F. Wright. It will be interesting to learn Memory of Spot. And that a Fraser, of Swatow, c/o Mr. C. E. ago and lived at the Juhu Hotelle with how may strokes they get hot all, the owner may be mulct, Moore, May Road, to Violet Mary out.
Hong Kong, Saturday, July 25, 1931.
Adversaria."
Those said to be
Нав
Whilst a charge of dynamite was being prepared near the hillside In Waterloo Road, for blasting pur-
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ed in heavy damages, and no Chesworth, of Fatshan, Bt. Paul's
Hostel, Garden Road, Hong Kong. motor-cycle and Hong Kong's cycle and few motor-cyclists are Knife That thirst is prodigi. Worth it.
Thirst.
And the Government, which is : Poor People habitually abused, is constantly and Sickness. being embarrassed to assuage
to
tatou That is
ous.
what I am told.
Moth aeroplane and was touring
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A MAN OF NERVE.
Forging Hindenberg's Signature For
LA £10,000 Claim.
Whatever Herr Adolf Thun lacks
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "Chin Mall of July 26, 1921.1
To-day's dollar is worth 2/8a. He walked into a Government In
number of Chinese coolies aboard, surance office recently and present Bound for Singapore with a largo ed a claim for £10,000, together with the s. Lüchow put into Hong Kong a letter, signed with President Hin-
It is not nerve, people poses it exploded, causing Cheung Kau (20) a stone breaker, to Injure hie~ left hand.
He was taken to the Kowloon Hospital.
that thirst, and colossal sums of Kang magistrate the other day
Alighting from a tram car
money are spent in alaking it. It and imposed, fines of $20 on, cer motion in Wong Nel-chung Road requesting immediate payment denly attacked with acute appendi
denberg's name to the effect that to-day and landed her Chief Officer In the claim was in perfect order, and (Mr. E. T. Stringer) who was sud citis Mr. Stringer was taken to sterday Wong Kit (15), de- The idea of the President taking the Peak Hospital, and on enquiry steant- fcribed as an apprentice carpenter a personal Interest in such a mat- there the afternoon it was learned of 18, Apu Street, suffered in-fer was so novel that the authorities that his condition was much about Jurfes to his head and was taken to investigated and now Adolf la the same.
possibilities. What ship companfea? Will captai henceforth,, be, liable when deck and steerage pas
gers
is understood, however, that Govtain offenders. Thi ernment is likely to be interested in a certain American, Dr Edward Spencer Cowles, of New Yark, who undertakes to remove thirst by means of a simple oper ation and a surgeon's knife,
The point le: Will what is saved what will I be fined when you g
sick of me? on the runabouts be made up on
the swings?
On an Empty Afri
Stomach
Beware!
The Southi
who reparing imorrow a
$400
stomach, need
80% seve
the Government Civil Hospital.
It is noted that at the expira tion of three months from date the Asiatic Trading Company, Limited, and the Kwok Tung Company, Limited will, unicas cause is shown: man to the contrary, be struck off-the Register of Companies and be dissolved.
Whilstarleep last night on the block off houses in Wing Lok Street, a man named Tong Hoi- kee, of house No. 184 apparently Frolled of and fell on to the third
When his em this morning, they found their master dead,
Hong Kong duchieupr body
doing one year's hard."
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