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THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932,
years ago the Hong Kong FIRE FLOAT'S RECORD
Naturalist came into being and there is not doubt that this excel- lent journal has greatly increased the interest for the study of na- tural history in Hong Kong. The latest number of this journal, just published, contains a variety of nature articles and many Illustra- tions, and is but another tribute to its capable editor.
After
News in Brief,
JOURNEY.
Fast Time Registered in Trip to Aberdeen,
EMERGENCY CALL.
Correspondence.
PROTECTION WITHIN THE BRITISH EMPIRE.
[To the Editor of "China Mail.") Sir, I congratulate you upon your fire
At 11 p.m. last night, broke out on the ground floor of leading article on the above subject 45-46, Main Street, Aberdeen, oc- and I believe that British public cupled by the Tai Shing rice and opinion here is in complete ngrec- grocery shop, owned by Mr. Liment with your views. Yau-tsun, C.B.E., the well-known
Unfortunately there is no
ro-
further British The
a quarrel over gambling local merchant. Both the ground matters at 17 Bridges Sreet, a wo- and first floors of the building sponsible Body to man, Kwok Kan (68) is stated to were severely damaged and gut-commercial interests here. have taken an overdose of opium, ted, whilst house No. 47 also European Chamber of Commerce suffered slight damage. The fire, cannot do anything in this respect and is now in hospital.
it is stated, originated in a heap 88 it is an international Body. The of firewood, but the actual cause local Government from whom much of the outbreak is at present un- might be expected are hostile-may- be unconsciously so-to British
.as on
The annual dinner of the Law and Commerce Society, of the Hong Kong University, will be held Lane, Crawford's · Restaurant, Saturday, April 9, at 8.30 p.m.
Water Police yesterday found body of a male, identified as Ip Iu cargo boat on March 22 last. The body was removed to the mortuary.
(25) who accidentally fell off &
known.
Two fire engines from Central interests as they buy foreign goods Fire Station and a firefloat were in preference to British. despatched to the scette, and on A Departmental Chief who gite the arrival found the conflagration on the Legislative Council told me well under way. The firemen that the Government was out to buy put up
a great fight, and the at the cheapest price they could flames were extinguished within irrespective of quality or origin of two hours.
the goods and that the "buy Bri- The firefloat, it may be men- tish" polley of the Government was
reserved
for tioned, completed the trip from purely lip service
The Home Gov- Hong Kong to Aberdeen in just Council Meetings. over three-quarters of an hour, ernment is tackling this subject which time is stated to be the very seriously but the local Govern¬ ment's attitude is tragic and, if fastest yet for the trip.
The stock in the shop was persisted in, cannot fail to affect adversely British commercial inter- insured for $4,000.
ests in China,
An enjoyable and largely attend- ed flannel dance for members of the Central British Association their friends, was held in the Cen- tral British School hall last night.
and
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ended March 12, 1932; amounted to 91,682 metric tons, and
KOWLOON DOCK
the sales during the period to FERRY IN COLLISION.
94,101 metre tong.
Messra. A. Goeke & Co. inform
us that the Societe Internationale de Placements, Basle, have cabled
Natural History Study.that the official quotation in Baske
for one sub-unit of the International Investment Deposit Certificates
It is a curious and rather re- yesterday was, £2 15s. 6d. grettable fact that in the past, "the
Hits Motor Boat Lying Off Queen's Pier.
$400 DAMAGE.
A collision occurred in the har-1 bour yesterday morning, between
I realise how easy it la to criticisa the Government as they are unable
to reply and I am therefore prepar-
ed to adduce evidence in support of my statements to anyone who cares
to get into touch with me.
Yours, etc.,
BRITON.
INDIAN ARMY CADETS.
800 Aspirants for "Sandhurst."
As a result of acoldentally fall- the Kowloon Dock ferry and a study of natural history has bying down the embankment between motorboat. no means received the attention It Caine Road and Caine Lane, Wu Ka- Chan Chee, coxswain of the Robert MacWhirter is going should in Hong Kong, In this cheng (16) a student, living at 33 motorboat Australis, of the Union Motor Boat Company, reported to home. He has let the tear doon- Colony where certain wild animals Circular Path, sustained injuries to
his head, causing his removal to the the Police that his boat was berth- ed alongside Queen's Statue Pier, fa" In the column with which he and birds abound the inhabitants Government Civil Hospital.
with the bow towards the praya has so long and so successfully get to know something about them,
The return of notifiable diseases
wall. The Kowloon Dock ferry enlightened the front page of our but it is often the case that this
for the 24 hours ended yesterday Kau Lung Shun-0, in trying to junior morning contemporary. something is more linked up with shows one case each of small-pox, come alongside on the same side Nearly 800 applications were re- And a column that is going to be legsad, superstition or tradition diphtheria, and enteric fever (all of the wharf, struck the port aide ceived by the Public Services Com As for than it is with actual fact. This in Victoria district), and four of of the motorboat, causing damage mission in the first fortnight follow-
cerebro-spinal fever (two each into the extent of $400. Victoria, and Old and New Kow- loon districts).
missed, I'm telling you.
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Tam Shing-wai, master of a cargo boat, in a report to the Police stated that whilst sailing his boat, of 23 picula capacity, off Black Point on Tuesday, it capsiz-
a member of the
PRINCELY GIFT
£2,000 A YEAR.
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OF
To The London School
Of Economics.
FROM LEVERHULME TRUST.
New Delhi, Feb. 29.
ing the notification that inquiries. would be entertained. for particu- fars and entry forms for the com-
petitive examination for the Indian Military Academy which is to open at Dehra Dun, at the beginning of October, and still they come."
That is the embarrassing, if en- couraging, problem set the authorí- |tics by the first popular flush of en- thusiasm for a new and compara- tively inexpensive opening to an
the news, maskee the world-crisis of course applies chiefly to the in Kamschatka, what the Japs were natives in the New Territory, doing to Shanghai, the vagaries of where many wild animals have the dollar-all that had to wait till been scen by them, but few con- we knew what had happened to crete cases brought to light. Archie MacPherson, or what was Of late years matters in this the Intest from the Linkumdoddle respect have somewhat improved, ed owing to heavy seas, and sank. front, or how Robert was getting although ignorance regarding the His daughter, Chan Tai (14) and on at the dancing. We could have fauna of the Colony and New Ter-Tam Sun (33), better missed a better writer, for ritory is far more widespread than crew, are missing and it is fear-
ed that they have been drowned.
The Leverhulme Trustees have honourable career. Robert had the gift. The gift of that regarding the flora. This is
made the handsome gift to the Lon- It is embarrassing for a number The Sando Weight-lifting Club don School of Economics of £2,000 of obvious reasons. It is certain, writing as he talks, the gift of natural, since a knowledge of the
as similar experience of the past Addison, and Hazlitt, and er.... vegetation of the land was neces- has been opened at 19, Queen's Road a year to provide scholarships.
The scholarships will be known shows, that nothing like all theas Tom Wright; picturesque, trench-sary in order that its inhabitants Central, in premises formerly oc
cupied by Miss Daisy O'Keefe, as Leverhulme Scholarships, and it first Inquiries will be fol ant, human. An artist in human-should live, far more so in the Classes will be held under the is understood that they will be of lowed up by the applicants
tuition of Mr. A. D. Spoors and two kinds.
themselves опсе
have Ism, that's Robert MacWhirter!
they past than it is to-day.
other resident "strong men." Body Some will be awarded to boys received the particulars sought, But he couldn't help himself. It At the same time it is very ob-building by scientific exercises is and girls as entrance scholarships, but even if 300 of them was born in him. For we have the vious that there is a good deal the chief sim, but general physical and some will be reserved for even-jeventually decide to enter for the honour to know Linkumdoddle of interest taken in wild animals. culture is Included.
ing students and awarded on their fifteen places open to competition, well, we even know
work at the Intermediate examina- the examiners will be overburdened' the suburb One has only to pay an occasional
The popularity of English talkies tion to enable them to become full- in the short time available.; that can claim the honour to be visit to the. Botanical Gardens, and
wae again amply demonstrated time day students for the two final The medical test will be held in his birthplace. It rejoices in the although the collection of captive yesterday evening, when a special years of the degree course. a number of provincial centres on euphonious title of "The Bogle animals and birds is a small one, return showing for one day only, of The entrance scholarships are or about June. About July 14, the Hole," and is inhabited only and yet you will always find a number "Canaries Sometimes Sing" was especially designed to make it pos-competitive paper examination will That sible for young people whose be held in Delhi and the interview entirely by artists. We have this of persons interested in them. given at the King's Theatre,
auch a riotous comedy can be en-homes are in the provinces to go and record beard will meet concur- on the unimpeachable authority of Then again one cannot overlook acted by a east of four people and to the University of London to rently. the local 'Polis, though he did not the Hong Kong Aquarium with its without a change of scene, is suff-study economics and commerce, The selection of Lidian Army state the fact exactly as we have varied species of fish,
anakes, cient tribute to the actors, and although, Londoners will not be ex-Cadets will come lator. It should makes criticism superfluous, "Sun- cluded from competing also. be noted that every Indian Army dona so. He said:
bears, and other animals, on ex-shine Susie" which comes to Their value will be $50 for sjeandidate must be under 25, not "Neething but a wheen dawma-hibit to the pubilt, all shown to the King'e Theatre on Sunday will student living at home.
under the rank of Lance-Naik and a The School of Economics has a holder of the Indian Army special ad poachers and horse-coupers; advantage in ae riatural surround-be the next British picture to be
shown in the Colony.
growing demand for places from certicate for which an examination - amongings as space affords. Here again
students outside the London area, will be held early in August. and the Leverhulme Trustees could I gather (writes the Statesman's And if poaching and horse-coup: tora interested in animal life.
New Delhi correspondent) that ing are not among the Arts—well,
In addition to the undergraduate several people are inquiring whe→ But since it is neither practic- we ask you!
scholarships, it is open to the thier the holding of a university de- able nor humans to keep many:
school also to use some of the grea does not exempt an Army can Now Robert, listen, before you animais alive, and caged up, the
money for grants to atudents didate from the special, certificate go a word in your lug! Make a educational: advantages of
a zoo
undertaking research into economic examination. That is impossible book of them! In this time of logical collection would probably
problems.
since the latter, requires some mill- general depression the world bad-be considerably enhanced were
Lord Leverhulme, who died. Intary knowledge. It is expected that 1928, was well-known for his com-the nominations of Indian Army ly needs cheerful books. Join the there added to it a museum of pre-
A Chinese banishee who appeared (mercial philanthropy.
Cadeta, will be made about August ranks of the world's greatest bene-
He left certain funds to his 20. served animals, which it should before. Mr. Schofield, in the Central factors, Mark Twain,
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Police Court this morning, when Trustees to be devoted, in the first Perhaps the men", who, will have certainly not be very difficult to
questioned, admitted three previous instance, to the assistance of "his most anxiety are those who, because Jacobs, Wodehouse, and Will Rogers, constitute were It started and pur-convictions for larceny, and return-own people," members of the Com-they are debarred by age from en- sued upon the right lines, and not ing from banishment on five oc-mercial Travellers' Association, of tering for the open examination, So now the China" Mail says Goodbye, Robert, and may joy go allowed to get into the state of calons, his last sentence being in which he was president for a num-have enlisted in the ranks of the
April last year.
ber of years, and those occupied In Army with a view to their nomina». with you always! May you come the exhibits which were on view,
Defendant, in reply to the Bench, the gracers' vocation. tion to the college. back with the bloom of the heather in the so-called museum situated' said that he came here to look for a Lord Leverhulme was originally Lance-Naiks, or vacancies for on your cheek! May you find the at the City Hall. Such a museum clansman in order that they might grocer's assistant. He also left Lance-Naiks, cannot be made in a Mistress and the Wes Yin in the same and
a return to the country to worship' a fund to be devoted to education day so there may be delay for some pink! And for a last heartener would be an expensive item, but
tombs
and research, and it is from this and disappointment for those who take this bit of and Scots from the educational point of view His Worship passed sentence of fund that the Trustees are making are near, the maxin
"May your lum aye reek honay !" It would be money well laid out one year's hard labo
the grant for the scholarshipa nomination to the colle
not-an honest' day's wark the lot of them."
and make a book of them.
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one will and a crowd of specta- BANISHEE RETURNS not have met a more real need.
TO COLONY.
Looking for Clansman to Worship Tombs.
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