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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1932,
BRITISH GOVERNMENT LOCAL SOLICITORS IN HIGHLY DANGEROUS
STOCKS STRONG.
All Round Rise.
Rugby, Yesterday. There was another allround rise) in British Government Stocks to- day, buying orders coming from both Home and Abroad Advances
are attributed to the expectations
CAR SMASH.
Crash with Lamp Standard in Queen's Road.
HEAD INJURIES.
CONDUCT.
Youths Severely Dealt With.
Three Chinese youths, who at tacked a Shantung police constable who had arrested a man in Holly- wood Road, during the firing of crackers on Tuesday, were Bevore-
of a further reduction in the Bank Mr. H. S. V. Mossop, the well-ly dealt with by Mr. Wynne-Jones Rate in the near future and are at-known local solicitor, of the firm yesterday afternoon. tracting special interest in view of the likelihood of early War Loan Conversion operation later.
of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and
Hie
Worship considered that Master, was involved in a motor their conduct was highly danger- ous, in that it might have led to accident this morning, according considerable bloodshed and the to a Police report.
loss of many lives. They were
War Loan fives were quoted to day at 100%. Conversion 4% rose to 100%. Consols fours to 90 and Funding Loan fours, which,
Mr. M. M. Watson, also anoli- cach fined $50, with the alternative closed on Thursday at 92%, im-clter, and living at the Peninsula of four weeks' imprisonment, proved to 944-British Wireless
Service.
BRITISH SWEEPSTAKES.
Question To Be Raised In Parliament.
U.S. JOURNAL'S LOVE INDEX.
Hotel, was driving his motor car along Queen's Road East,, in a westerly direction and when op- poalte the Army Ordnance Corps Private Lives Of Its Readers. buildings, he attempted to pass ar- other motor car, which was travel- How much does a salesman need ling in the same direction. In do- to know about his prospective ing so, he collided with a lamp customer? This question has, standard, in the middle of the cropped up during an investigation; An extension of the powers of road, damaging the rear part of by the State Bureau of Statistics the Racecourse Betting Control the car. Board the body responsible forį totalisator operation-to allow the The two passengers in the car. Board to promote national sweep- Mr. Mossop and Mr. N. J. Thayer: stakes for the benefit of English of the Hong Kong Club, sustained hospitals will, it is understood, ba head injuries, as a result of the urged in the House of Commons. impact.
In November the project was being seriously considered but it)
was then pointed out that, while no PATRIOTIC BRITISH TAXPAYERS. official steps had been taken, the suggestion was being freely dis-
cerned.
Major Elliot
Rugby, Yesterday.
Into the stock-selling activities of several high-class periodicals.
The bureau is seeking to deter- mine if the publications are guilty of violating the Martin Act, which forbida the publication of intimate- ly personal matter in a magazine. Six card indices were identified by former Mr. Richard Sommer, a stock salesman for Town Topics, who said that he had received the cards before giving advice to the cussed by the various interests con-| In the House of Commons to-day persons named on them. The (Financial Secretary names are withheld, but the annals Apart from the funds which to the Treasury) moving a small themselves make curious reading. could be derived for hospitals by supplementary vote for extra ex-
"Clever Chauffeur.” properly supervised national penses incurred in the collection of One card read: “The wife of— sweepstakes on the lines of the Irish revenue. said that the collection re- She will divorce him in due time sweepstakes, It is estimated that cently bad been at a rate almost un-Had practically agreed to marry the charges which the Board would paralleled in the history of this or but seems to be taken up mako would go far towards improv any other country and it was due to with a Mr.
who is worth ing its unsatisfactory financial pos!- the loyalty of direct taxpayers and £2,400,000.”
officials of the department that this Another card contained the in- When the report and accounts of result had been obtained.--British formation: "A bridge expert Has the last year's operations of the Wireless Service. Board are published in May it is ex- pected that they will show another deficit. It is, in fact, regard- ed in sporting circles doubtful whether the Board will be able to do more than make up |the previous year's deficit and meet the interest charges on its bank
tion.
loan of £2,000,000.
TOOK BRIDEGROOM'S PLACE.
as U.S. TO ISSUE NO MORE NOTES,
But Best Man Went For Police and
Intruder Was Arrested.
Washington, Yesterday."
an affair with the sister of hle brother's wife, age 18 His wife
has left him several times. Wealthy."
Yet another read: "Wife in dis- "tress, saing-for non-support of a child. He is supporting other girls.| After a conference with Mr. Telephoned that he will take five Hoover, Mr Stimson safd to-day shares."
that there would be a cessation of notes on the Sino-Japanese situa- tion.-Reuter's American Service.
£1,350 FOR A GIRL'S LEG.
Knocked Down By Bus While On Way To School,
WHEN DICKENS KEPT THE SCORE-BOOK.
Charles Dickens acted as cricket scorer at the village matches at Gadshill. On che occasion he Just as a rich peasant proprietor
bowled the first ball at a charity was being married to the village:
match at the back of Gadshill beauty, a young man who had long)
Place, and it is depicted in a pic- courted the girl dashed up thei
ture which was to have been put aisle, pushed the bridegroom down' Damages of £1,850 and coats up for sale at Sotheby's on Febru- the steps of the choir,, and took his were awarded at Nottingham ary 17. The exact date is un- place by the side of the frightened Sheriff's. Court recently to Dorothy known, but it is believed girl.
Bennett, aged 12. of Union Street, September 16, 1868,
to
bo
The priest pretended to go on Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham- The novelist'e son, Sir Henry with the ceremony.
shire, against Messrs. Richard| Dickens, K.C., the Common Ser Meanwhile the best man slipped Johnson And 300, Sutton-in-jeant, has supplied some corro- out of the church to fetch help, | Ashfield, omnibus propriators. borative testimony. He says: "My
When the intruder thought the "The girl was returning from father lived in Gadshill from 1856, wedding ceremony had been com-school last January when sne of to 1870. Towards the end of the pleted he carried the half-fainting the company's omnibuses mounted time we had a village cricket club! bride in his arma to the door of the the pavement and pushed her of which I was captain. My father church.
Against the wall: Her left leg used to take the part of scorer at But outside six gendarmes were was consequently amputated above the games we played there and was waiting or him, and freed the bride. the knee. Another operation will sustained in that arduous job by She returned to the altar, and the be necessary, it was stated, before cooling drinks provided for those priest then married her to the real an artificial limb can be used, when guests who were staying in the bridegroom. The Intruder was she has finished growing in eix house at the time or for the neigh- taken to prison.
years' time.
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