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was there that, she volunteered to carry a message from Gambetta to Marshal Bazaine, who was bouleged at Metz. This message was carried in her mouth, and she still has the rubber tube In which it Was en- closed.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1931.
NO TALKING TO CLIENTS?
An Advocate's Complaint.
ASSIZE JUDGE'S RULING.
CORRESPONDENCE.
FORTHCOMING MUSICAL
EVENTS.
ITo the Editor of "China Mail.")
Sir, In the whirl of engage- Mme. Hild succeeded in passing
ments during the week of the through the Prussian lincs, but ahe
A.D.C. show, I hope it will not arrived too late. Baznine, who was
be overlooked that some excel- alleged to have betrayed his com
lent musicians the Schneider try, had already aurrendered. She
Trio are coming here to give was told subsequently that if she
Before Mr. E. W. Jayawardene. two chamber music concerts at had delivered Gambetta's message Commissioner of Assize, the case the Helena May Institute after the surrender she would alwas taken up for trial recently at Tuesday and Friday, November most certainly have been shot by the Colombo Aseizes in which a 17 and 20 at 9.20 p.m.
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Bazaino's ordera. As it was she vilinger named Pedru Mirandu was The Trio consists of a pianist, returned to Tours and gave back the charged with having on December violinist, and 'cellist, and the instructions of the Republican Gov-16 at Kurana in the Negombo Dis-type of music performed by
piano triosis ernment. She may well be proud triet committed culpable homicide them-- of her "Carte," for very few women not amounting to murder by caus-which is practically never heard
ing the death of a man possess one. Daily Telegraph.
named in the Colony. We have had in- Paulu Fernando by stabbing him dividual pianists and violinists His Voice Brings Silence at Once, with n knife, says the Ceylon here, but no chamber music trio
Mr. Knightsmith, who lives at Observer.
has visited us since the War. Cleethorpes, Thorpe H, Avenue, Mr. M. F. S. Pulle, Crown Coun- An additional attraction is the Thorpe Bay, Southed, is 73, and he sel prosecuted. Mr. H. Sri Nia-fact that they have with them a le probably known by more famous sanka with Mr. E. F. Wijemanna cinvicembalo, better known as a men-and women-than any other defended the accused.
harpsichord, for which music public official. For 40 years his Mr. Nissanka, addressing the was written before the pianoforte voice has rung out above the after-Court said: "Before the Indict was invented, and at their dinner chatter. of distinghished ment is read to the accused in this second concert they will devote diners, commanding silence for case I desire to say that I am in the first half to a recital of 17th speakers. And yot,
as he stated structed by Mr. A. E. Aserappu, and 18th century music, using recently, although his volce lom Proctor, of Negombe. I want to this instrument, following with mands instant attention at all pub-ask the accused his age because it Arensky's beautiful piano trio in lic functions, it certainly does not is very material to my defence. D Minor. dominate his home.
He has entrusted his life and his
The works chosen for the first He anld:
liberty to me, but it seems, that 1 concert are a Brahms trio, and "During the whole of my profes-cannot speak to him, according to Cesar Frank's trio, with an in- sional career I have been assisted the new resolution passed by the teresting set of piano pieces en- and guided by my wife, and she General Council of Advocates."
titled Pictures from an Exhibition was responsible for a revolutionary The Judge: What! Cannot talk by Moussorgsky, change in the profession of toast-to him? You cannot talk to a client Advertisements will appear in mastering. About 38 years ago my in a criminal case?
due course, but the amount of wife said that she thought a pro- Mr. Nisannka: I cannot talk to advertising that can be done is fessional Master of Ceremonies him, according to the new rules. relatively small, as the seats are should wear something distinctive, except through a mouthpiece the priced at $4 and $3, and even if and between us we managed to get Proctor.
the hall is fairly full the re-
its full support, must therefore count to some extent on the in- dividual efforts of music-lovers in bringing them to the notice of likely supporters.
out a rather Imposing scarlet -uni- The Judge: When did you hear ceipts cannot amount to very form. The first time it caused a of such a rule?
much. The Hong Kong Musical sensation. At first it was consider- Mr. Nissanka: I never heard of Society, in giving the concerts
But if wait a few years more. How-ed a joke by many of the City toast-such, a rule in all my life. ever, the die has been cast. The masters, but some were soon pleas-is there all the same.
The Judge: Have you read the work of erecting the overheaded to act as my deputies."
Mr. Knightamith has officiated at life of one of the greatest criminal shelters is proceeding and the St. James's Palace, the Royal Aca-lawyers in England-Sir Edward
He was continual- I trust that those who read Government will be able to demy, the Guildhall, the Royal Marshall Hall.
this letter and would like to at- ejaculate "What a good boy am Albert Hall, the Mansion House, ly talking to his clients.
of the I"-so solicitous of car and taxi and other halls in London, in the Mr. Nissanka: I would ask for tend will make a note
provinces, and on the Continent. your Lordship's ruling on this mat-dates and do their utmost to en-
sure A good attendance. fares and of people going to the In addition to his professional ter.
to the The Judge (to the Registrar): would specially appeal public pier. As usual, bus pas- duties, he is an accomplished singer, sengers are the Cinderellas of the and is the proprietor of a band. Read the Indictment to the accused, many Chinese in the Colony who
As a boy he sang in St.
The indictment was then read are known to be interested in Kowloon Circus traffic scheme. Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. out and the accused pleaded not Western music, but who did not respond to our request for sup- Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1931. They may, on proceeding from He has been Master of Ceremonies guilty,
The Judge (to, Mr. Nissanka): port for the Your Guller reci- the Ferry to a bus, get knocked to the Mayors of Southend for 80
tale. years. And he says that the ideal What is your grievance? down by the erratic driver of on-after-dinner
That I cannot "Fluent. speech is
Mr. Nissanka: Kowloon Circus.
other bus rattling through the humerous, and brief." Evening talk to my client and I want very great interest is the Heifitz re-
The China Mail
It is rather naive to assert, as crowd of pedestrians. They may Standard. a contemporary does, that the get sunstroke or get wet to the present iden of traffic control at skin whilst catching their bus- the Kowloon Circus has "worked nobody cares. If people will
News in Brief.
Paul's
so well that it has been decided patronise buses they cannot ex- To-day is Election Day in the
This is pect. the same luxurious treat|United States, to allow it to remain.
own
much to.
The Judge: Not even now? Mr. Nissanka: No.
Judge Gives Permission. The Judge: I give you liberty to do so,
Mr. Nissanka: Thank you, My Lord. Your Lordship has render- ed a great service to these prison- airers in the dock, and other similar The circumstances and this ruling will appreciated by the whole at be
motor
has been arranged for Friday,
Island.
CROWN LAND SALES.
Another
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cital, which everybody is already talking about. The exact date is not yet fixed, but it will probably be about the end of the month.
Yours, etc.,
A. M. BOWES-SMITH,
Hon. Secretary.
H.K. Musical Society.
Hong Kong, Nov. 2,
To-day's Thought.
There is a vast difference between At the offices of the P.W.D. yes-intuition and suspicion. terday afternoon, two lots of Crown land were sold by public aucton,
The first was Kowloon Inland
The
good news for accident insurancement as those able to afford. a Yesterday the lowest open companies, but a bad omen for hired motor car or a taxicab! temperature was 67 degrees.
still Oh, yes hapless pedestrians who
-the present traffic humidity at 10 am, was 55 and
4 p.m. '66. have to run the gauntlet either idea is working so well! Some of buses moving on to the day we may open the Government The trial trip of the Hei Fook "cattle pens" or of rikishas rush-Gazette to find that the buses Shipping Company's new ing toward the Star Ferry en-have to park on the vacant vessels, Ho! Fook and Hoi Kong, trance-way with passengers. On ground adjoining the Wee Golf leaving the C.M.S.N.C.. Wharf, the Hong Kong side of the Ferry course and that bus passengers West Point, ai 3 p.m. vehicular traffic automatically are required to walk thence to
Mok Siu-tsze, a clerk employed at Lot No. 2573, situated at the junc- comes to a standstill to permit the Ferry. What is the use of the Sanitary Department office antion of Canton and Mongkok Reads, It comprises an outcoming Ferry passengers to having a Kowloon Circus if we peared on remand before Mr. Wil at Taikoktaul ¡cross the street in safety. In do not witness the antics of the liams yesterday afternoon, when area of 26,000 square feet and the
Some of he was convicted of two counts of annual Crown rent is $478. Kowloon bus drivers are their clown now and again?
knocked down to Mr. Wong Wan, masters. They stop to the recent "turns" have been obtaining $70 from a pawnbroker at upset price was $39,045, and it was
3. Morrison Street. He was Ben- allow passengers to alight and provocative of mirth as well as lensed to two months' hard labour 200, Sai Yung Choi Street, for then career round to the "cattle pregnant with the menace of on the count of obtaining 360 and $79,000. pens" to the danger of people tragedy. When the Kowloon a further month on that of obtain-
Ling $10. a bus. Circus traffic scheme really crossing over to catch Again, on alighting from a bus reaches completion any old at the eastern end, particularly year between now and 2081-we during the rush hours, one en-trust that Mr. Punch will send
rikishas out a Special Commissioner counters numerous dashing toward the same spot to "write it up"! drop their fares, heedless whe ther or not they are obstructing and menacing passengers from the buses. This is the system which we are now told has "work- ed so well that it has been de- cided to continue it"!
From Other Pens.
A Gallant Old Lady.'
to
In cerebration of her 91st birth- doy, a woman who played a gallant part in the tragic slege of Melz in the war of 1870 has received the
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mail" of
November 8, 1921.)
To-day's dollar is worth 2/9%.
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At this afternoon's meeting of
the Licensing Board, tribute was The other was Rural Building Lot paid to the services rendered by the Alexander Mackenzie. No. 332, situated in Repulse Bay late Mr. Road, near Wingmelchong Gap. It The Board passed the following re- "The members of the Licensing Luiz Lourenco Franco, a retired comprises an area of 31,800 square solution moved by Dr. Savers: medical officer of the Portuguese feet and the annual Crown rent, is
The upset price was $6,360, Baard desire to convey to the widow died at 14, Sallsbury $386.
sold to Mr. and family of the late Mr. Alexan- Mackenzie their sincere Army, who
on August 22, and the property was Avenue, Kowloon,
them in their 1931, left estate
in the Colony Lai Tin, of Woo Brothers, for der
sympathy with $8,100. valued at $103,000. Probate of
bereavement and to record their ap- his will has been granted by the
Supreme Court to Maria Luiza da] OXFORD SCOUTS' BENEFACTOR, preciation of the valuable services
rendered by their deceased col-
Silva, widow, 14, Salisbury Avenue,
Among wille recently announced league as a member of the Board." to Maria Luiza Franco Silva, 13, Salisbury Avenue, to Januario is that of Miss Emily Lydia Peto, d'Almeida 6, Ashley Terrace, and to of Crewkerne, Somerset, a daughter 14, of the late Sir Morton Peto, Bart., Julio Hyndman d'Almeida, Salisbury Avenue, Kowloon. Testa- at one time M.P. for Bristol.
Miss Peto left £100 for the gen- tor made a number of family be-
eral purposes of the Boy Scouts! Association, and £800 for the up- quests.
headquarters of the
During a time of supposed strict economy, money is being Carte de Combattant, a document of Lim Kee-tey, alias Lim Kee-tye, keep of the lavished on the erection of a which every man who has fought alias Kee Tye, timber merchant and New Marsten Boy Scouts, Oxford, couple of overhead shelters for France is the proud possessor. contractor, formerly of 38, Carlton which hall I gave to the associa
She la Mme. Josephine Hild, a Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia,tlon some years ago." one from the Star Ferry veran-widow, who lives in the Bonsecours and trading as Lim You, who diod dah to the car and taxi stand Hospital at Metz. She is a vigorous at 335, Nathan Road, Kowloon, on A visiting card found in the and another from the western old lady, and talks with great June 26, 1929, left estate in Hong house of the dead woman was stated Letters to have led to the arrest of Henry end of the Ferry premises to the animation of her adventures as the Kong valued at $43,700.
of administration, with will and Daniel Seymour, 39, a commercial secret messenger of Gambetta.
was charged on re- publie pier. People wanting.
When war was declared Mme. Hild codicils annexed, have been granted traveller, who or taxis or desiring to left her home at Sarreguemines, in to his widow, Eva Lim, and eldest mand at Oxford with the murder go to the public pier have done the Moselle Department, in order-son, Hugh Lim, Prince Edward of Mrs. Annie Louisa Kempson. so long without overhead shelters as she puts it to avoid the Prus-Road, Kowloon, who are attorneys Mrs. Kempson, who was 68,
slans." Sho stayed for a time with for. Daniel Lim, the sole executor found dead in, a room at her home, from rain and sun
that they her brother-in-law's family at named in the will, which makes Boundary House, St. Clement's,
1Oxford, on August 1. Ineed not be pitied if they had to Lyons, and later went to Tours. It family bequests."
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