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China Exhibition.
"chops" are carved: how jade is turned: and how the
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1981.
“A” DEFEAT H.M.S. KENT.
humour for at least one Manchester CLUB licence-holder. Ho has just had his į principal amokeroom redecorated, Els taproom:doubled in size, refloor- ed, redecorated, and reseated. His price for bitter beer is, aa usual, 8d. a pint in the amokeroom and 7d. a pint in the taproom.
The customers in the amoke- room were, very naturally, die- cussing the Budget, and were all one mind. Their beer should
of
Superiority in All Departments.
BLACK SCORES GOOD TRY.
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ADVERTISED IN CHINA MAIL.
Social Functions. To-day-Dinner Dances at Penin- sula and Hong Kong Hotels.
To-any-Entertainment by Les Dejchans and William-Rimels,
cost them no more. Unanimously
At Happy Valley yesterday the they decided, as soon as the pricHong Kong Rugby Club "A" XV. goes up, to migrate "en masse" into were opposed to HMS. Kent, and, Peninsula Hotel "Rose" Room. the taproom-Manchester Guardian being superior in every depart-
Theatre;
Entertainments. To-day King's Theatre: ment of the game, ran out worthy
"The Seas Beneath;" also Nellie winners by 17 points to nit. Chaplin on Gandhi,
The Club "A" played a good Farren's Whoopee Girls. After meeting Gandhi, Charlie game and the scoring ability af To-day Queen's Chaplin is said to have declared their three-quarters was much In "Harmony Heaven." that he is wondering whether the evidence. The first score of the Today Central Theatre;.... Mahatma is right in denouncing match was obtained through D. "Butterfly Wu." modern machinery and thinking McLellan, who gained possession To-day why money alone should control the of the ball and ran through the "The Man 1 Love." world. He is puzzled over the whole opposition to score. He converted Today - Star situation, and though he disagrees his own effort. Law. proved to be "Harmony: at Home," with Mr. Churchill's imperialist views, he does not find in Gandhi's views any solution to modern evils confronting mankind.
Chaplin is reported to have also declared that he strongly believes that Gandhi is a type of Sunday School teacher with his head turned in the wrong way!-Ceylon Obser-
ver.
News in Brief.
Yesterday's lowest open air tem perature
The мая 67 degrees. humidity was 55 at 10 a.m. and 45 at 4 p.m.
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Mrs. H. B. Keary, ef 3. Armend Building, has reported the loss from her house of silk to the value of $58.
She believes it to have been stolen.
An elderly Chinese woman, Ling
Majestic Theatro;'
Theatre:
a dangerous wing man and was November 14-"Dear Brutus" by successful in scoring a good try A.D.C., Theatre Royal.
A fine brank through his speed.
Bazaar.
:
through by Fox resulted in this Novembor 7-8-Italian Convent pinyer touching down, while Annual Charity Fair, 10 am to 8 Mack's breakaway from the scrump.m. to score near the posta, musterpiece,
down.
was a
10.30 u.m.
Home Malls. To-morrow-Inward from Europe A good" dribble by Turney.vin Siberia (Oaatkerk and Naldera), Outward twenty-five yards from the line was via Suez (Rajputana). rewarded by his getting the touen for Europe vin Siberia, (Tandu)
McLellan, Law and Turner icor-
Lammert's Auctions. ed in the first half to give the November 6-At Sales Room, Clab. a lead of 11 points at the in-household furniture, 2.30 p.m. terval,
Miscellaneous. To-day
Exhibition. --China City Hall, from 3 to 10 p.m.
Land Sales. October 9-At P. W. D. offices,
The sailors were seldom in the picture and had to give way to superior opposition.
In the second half Black and Fox added further tries for the Club which were not converted.
Result:-
Club "A" ..... 17 points H.M.S. Kent .. 0 point
GLADSTONE MAINTENANCE
CASE.
JUDGMENT RESERVED.
three lots of Crown land, 3 p.m.
CORRESPONDENCE.
RADIO SERVICE.
[To the Editor of "China Mail,”)
Sir, Having heard commente concerning radio service stations. I venture to state that these, whe-
Mr. Alfred Morris, A.C.P., head master of King's College, reporta that the fan light of his office at the feather College building has been broken hat are a portable gramophone and a silver Heng Kong, Thursday, Nov. 5, 1931. duster and the coolic
manufactured? How can one, on shield, to the total value of $80, are
missing. going Home, talk intelligently on things Chinese without first ac-
The case in which Mrs. J. Glad-ther of a private, public or Govern- dealers and suppliers who are, after By the time this edition goes tually witnessing the processes Fah-sang, of 8 Chinese Street, was atone is claiming maintenance from mental nature, will reflect on radio to press the China Exhibition in of manufacture out here? Mere knocked down yesterday by a public her husband, and the legal custody all, trying their best to put before
motor car in Tin Lok Lane. She of the two children, entered the the City Hall will have been conjecture or hearsay will stand received injuries to her head and closing stages in the Central Police the public radio sets which every Mr.dealer will assert are of the best
make. "back from face, and was taken to the Govern- Court this morning, before opened by His Excellency the the Homelander
Schofield,
A radio service station, may give Governor. The fact that it has China" in poor stend in face of a ment Civil Hospital for treatment.
Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, for Mrs. been sponsored by a religious battery of questions from a
The Plymouth car, he property Gladstone, and Mr. D. Brittain advice to prospective purchasers of radio sets. This, I can assure you body in co-operation with other myriad of Paul Prys among his of Mr. Ping Yee-ho, of 11 York Evans, representing the defendant,
depends on the service station ad- was both addressed the Court.
viser's choice. He may or may not similar Associations need not de- relatives and friends. "Seeing is Road, Kowloon Tong, which
Not Vindletive, tract one whit from the public believing"-and those who see reported missing on Tuesday night
from outside the Majestic Theatre After referring to episodes of be acquainted with the various sels As the outcome of Chinese craftsmen at work will in Saigon Street, patronage.
was recovered alleged cruelty Mr. Evans, sald on the market, yet, how can the pub- his advice with the Exhibition it is hoped by the be believed at Home instead of yesterday in Min Street, near the that his client's continued attempts rely on
to get Mrs. Gladstone to return as a regard to purchasing a radio set?
Radio deulers have their own staff promoters that various charities risking an exposure of their Kun Chung Market.
mother to her children, had been! will be assisted-a most laudable ignorance concerning the model
described by the prosecution as and do give service to their clients, molestation. The advertisement and, in doing so, help the sales of intention 80 near Christmas.of manufacture of any Chinese
inserted in the papers repudiating their respective employers' goods. Those who witnessed the China curio or commodity they may Mr. M. S. J. Walsh, of the Bri-Mr. Gladstone's liabilities for his What is the object of a radio service station with its various services Exhibition in the grounds of St. have proudly presented to their tish-American
a Co. wife's debts, was not put in in Andrew's Church, Kowloon, relatives and friends. One (China), Ltd., has left for Shang-vindictive spirit, he submitted but when all radio dealers can effective- on business on the
merely as a protection against any ly do this work themselves. three years ago will be foremost need not be a venerable Profes-hai
Ulysses, which sailed yesterday possible action, in their strong recommendationsor of Antiques and Curios to ac-
evening,
Witer Eyes For Husband Only,
From the evidence, Mr. Evans to all sections of the community quire that little knowledge that'
The forthcoming wedding is an- continued, that Mrs. Gladstone's us- not to miss the opportunity of is by no means dangerous, but
nounced of William Hyde, engineer, Bociation with other men to the visiting the City Hall from to-interesting and welcome to many of 31, Humphreya Building, Kow entire exclusion of her husband was
To at Home to whom Hong Kong Joon, and Charlotte Thomson Brown, obvious. day to Saturday, inclusive.
non-"intellectuals" the und China are but names mere en route from Home on the 8.8.
Fushimi Maru, an atlas or in a "Foreword" in the official pro- places on
some
Personal Pars.
Tobucco
S.P.C.A.
Further List of Subscribers.
8.3.
Yours etc.,
BANNERMAN,
Hong Kong, November 5.
(late Major Philip F. Talents
Fusiliers), of Nythen,
Even in these enlighten-Lancs.
ed days, perhaps, Mr. Gladstone ap-Tremeirchion, St. Asaph, Flint, peared to be a man who thought left unsettled property in his own gross value of that the wife's eyes should look disposition of the gramme may appear a trifle gazetteer.
only to the one man-her husband. 113,955, with net personalty £11,- He left: The ruby ring "The stilted and stereotyped
Furthermore, how can an in-
He had followed his client's in- 201.
the Marquis struction's not to name the third given to him by aims and objects of the China dividual describe this Colony as
party. The man was in Hong of Bute when he (testator) was Exhibition are, firstly, to foster drab and dreary unless he has
Kong, and held a good position, and his fag at Harrow, to his wife, ask- interest in Chinese arts and embraced every opportunity to:
it was probable that if his name ing her not to part with it in her crafts and to help toward mutual acquire a first hand knowledge |
The Honorary Treasurer of the was divulged he would lose his em-lifetime.
Also that man's father acknowledge ployment. friendship and, secondly, to ex-of the manufacture of Chinese Society desires to
were known to Mr. hibit aspects of Christian work ware of all descriptions? Is there with thanks the receipt of these and mother
Gladstone, and were, in the Colony, He submitted that Mrs. Gladstone's in South China and to demon-not an intense fascination in further donations:-
Previously acknowledged
assoication with other raen was of strate the value of missionary witnessing the carving of ivory Staff of. Dairy Form, lce &
the class to which a husband could) Cold Storage Co., Ltd.. effort." From the angle of work- the turning of jade, and so forth? |
rightly object. ers in the "cause" the ideal is Does it not provide a welcome in- Staff of Hong Kong &
29.00, Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. laudable.
terlude in "the daily round, the
can
Mrs. R. A. D. Forrest'
I. Ruttonjeo & Son,... As far as the general com common task" of the man who Staff of Butterfield & Swire munity is concerned and par-does not intend to make of Hong Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn ticularly the non-Chinese section Kong "an abiding city"? Thus, A. G. Grantham -they have an unrivalled oppor- from the very selfish viewpoint Kowloon Golf Club
the non-Chinese variety D. Davies tunity of seeing Chinese artisans of and craftsmen actually at work and entertainment and know-II. Pooley jun.
ba derived at Miss E. A. Girling in the City Hall. How many ledge
A. W. Heron Europeans, on going Home on very little cost by visiting the F. H. Crapnell. leave or on retirement, have ex-China Exhibition. They will be. C. Stark.
mo- grateful afterward to the pro- Miss H. Harry perienced some awkward
Chas. E. Térry ments by their inability to ex-moters for providing such an ex-R. Taylor
G. Cartla plain in a few simple terms how cellent opportunity of extending Chinese curios are made: how their knowledge of Chinese arts Miss V. Capell fireworks
manufactured: and crafts and at the same time Mrs. C. Cock
D. S. Lambert how rattan ware is made and assisting some deserving charity. Lt. H. C. Gould, R.A.
F. Oliver how mats are made: how ivory balls are carved within ivory balls: how raw silk is manufac- tured from the zocoon: how black- wood carving is done: how the brass engraver turns out work
are.
H. Hilj
From Other Pens.
Total
The Increase of a penny a pint in
A Flight from the Penny.
$3,296.50
84.00
To-day's Thought.
·Some of us would be happier if we did not work so hard trying to have a good time.
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "China Mail”, of November 5, 1921.]
To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%.
Wrong To Strike Wife. 27.00 Mr. Brooks, after referring to 25.00 legal authorities, said that in these 26.00 enlightened days. It was very wrong 25.00 for a husband to strike his wife. 14.50 His Worship would have to consider 10.00 the mental outlook of the defendant. 16.00 It was common knowledge in these 10.00 days that wives want to dance with- 10.00 out their husbands. He suggested 10.00 that Mr. Gladstone was wanting in 10.00 mental balance, and submitted that!
5.00 as he had not provided an acceptable Theatre have won instant popu 5.00 marital home, his client was justi-larity, and many enthusiasts are now availing themselves of the ex- 6.00 fied in leaving him.
His Worship said he would deliver cellent floor and good music to 5.00 5,00 judgment on Saturday morning.
spend a pleasant evening.
5,00
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Both novel and entertaining, the new kinema dances at the Kowloon
Last night's programme at the 5.00 AMERICAN MISSIONARY KILLED Kowloon Theatre afforded a good
5.00
2,00 2.00
1.00
$3,581.00
A skeleton unearthed at Cavers the "price of food" is not without ham Court is believed to be that of to challenge comparison: how humorous possibilities rather grima combatant in the Civil Wars.
BY BANDITS,
illustration of the kinema dance'ia practice. After the usual British Shanghai, To-day. Gazette had been screened, the The American Presbyterian dis-dancers held the floor for half an sion has received a telegram from hour. A splendid First National Halchow stating that Mr. J. Wattraction "Forty-five minutes from Vinson, the American missionary Broadway" with Charles Ray in the A further who was captured by handits on leading role, followed. November 8, thirty miles from Hal-half hour's dancing brought the chow, has been killed-Reuter, evening to a happy conclualon,