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KOWLOON WEDDING
Young Couple United by Father Spada.
DE SOUSA-- XAVIER.
officiated.
800-
of
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1932.
SMALL COIN
A middle-aged Bengali of
Some
The Rosary Church, Kowloon, Cobra in a Rat-trap. was the scene of the wedding yester- day of Leonor Maria Xavier, fifth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. P. Calcutta, being troubled by rats Xavier of 26, Granville Road, Kow- and mice, set a rat-trap in the loon to Luiz Eduardo de Sousa, Courtyard of his house.
time later he found two mice en- of Shameen, Canton, th Mr. and Mrs. E. V. M. R. de Sousa.trapped and, after killing them, The Very Rev. Father G. M. Spada laid the trap in the same place. A few minutes later he heard the jaws of the trap fail. Thinking The bride, who was given away he had caught more mice, he by her father, looked charming in lifted the trap and was carrying a dress of charmeuse with a long
it when he was bitten in the train, and carried a bouquet of hand. It was dark at the time arum lilies. The dress was a cren He looked to see what had bitten tion by Mme. Ribeiro. The brides him and, to his consternation, muids were Miss Lolita de Sousa discovered he had been bitten by
sister of the bridegroom), Miss
a coltra that had been caught in Rita Xavier (sister of the bride) the trap. The man died within and Miss Licy Oliveira. They
an hour... were dressed in pink net with crino- ing hats to match, and curried bouquets of roses.
Sothe years ago, on the out- skirts of Calcutta, I had a some- what similar experience. It The bride's mother attended in 2 also was with a rat-trap, the dress of brown Franch crepe and type that cruelly decapitates or luce with hat to match.
Missing Yacht Found in
Shanghal.
The yacht Svantlana, valued at $7,000, alleged to have been stolen in Vladivostock, last year, in was the subject of a case
It seems Shanghai last week. that three Russians stole the yacht in October and some time Inter sold it to a Greek in Shang hai for $1,300. The Court ruled. that the sum of $1,300 should be paid by plaintiff to defendant and the yacht returned by de- fendant to plaintiff
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Were entertained to dinner on April 8 by Mr. C. M. Bain, popu larly accepted by the unit as their "father," The fertile mind breaks the back or neck of ad- of the donor of the feast is saidi The groom was attended by Mr. venturous but foolish mice. One to have invented a new idea, F. M. Ozorio of Shameen, and Mr.night the trap was set in the born of the fact that he had al- Eddy de Sousa.
pantry. About midnight Iways thought it unfair that, after After the wedding. a reception heard the jaws of the trap fall. a pipe band parade through a was held at the Club de Recreio, but did not bother to get out of dining-room, only the Pipe-Major
The honeymoon is being spent bed to go and reset it. It was
exchanged glasses with the at. Fanling.
chairman. So, he had each piper in turn play to each of the five- really big people, and exchange a glass with each of them. It add- Mr. Chen Fu-mo, the newly-ap
ed to the gaiety of the occasion. pointed Superintendent of the room. He appeared to be great--I should say it did! China Merchants S.N. Co., has as-ly perturbed, so I went to find sumed his post in Shanghai, out what it was all about; not
giving a thought to the trap. He Land Of Mystery And Surprises. The Dean of Canterbury, the told me that there was an im-
The Chairman of the Mercantile Very Rev. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, mense snake in the pantry. That I
Bank of India, Ltd., in the course is essential today that this was the preacher at Evensong in all but sent me into bed again. should be the case. It has been Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, I called to my brother in the
in these past few recently. essential months especially. and it is to
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HONG KONG
The China Mail. Hong Kong, Monday, April 18, 1932.
Hong Kong's League of Nations' Society.
Personal Pars.
be regretted that "owing to #1 Mr. D. R. Fleming, son of Mr. variety of reasons", the local So- Douglas Fleming, has returned to ciety was unable to do all that Shanghai after an absence of 10 it ought to have done in these years. directions.
The first Report of this Society
If it is thought we are criticis- was presented to a meeting, well! attended by members, held in ing the Society harshly, if it is the Hall of St. John's Cathedral thought our criticism is uncalled
News in Brief.
Three cases of small-pox and six
last Friday evening. It was not for, we assure our critics in turn or meningitis were notified yester
assurance of the
"The League of Nations to-day is suspect.. It has had, so far 33 can be gathered, a poor Press.. Criticism has been severe and unfavourable.. There is reason, and there is also pre- cedent, to believe, that the League of Nations. in the greatest crisis of its young life, is not useless, is not a failure, and is not imprae- ticable idealism. It may seem to be so to-day. but, let it be borne in mind, that ap- pearances often are decep- tive.
Frankly, we are
not convinced, in spite of the march of events in the Far East, that the League of Nations has failed."
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only another mouse the los in the house! But, at six o'clock the next morning. I was roused by the house-boy calling to me from just outside a window of my
next room and told him about it. He was the snake-killer of the family. He used to kill them with a Malacca cane. Well, to cut a long story short, when the pantry door was pushed open from a safe distance, the snake
also a cobra was there true enough, but it had been decapit- ated. It was a new rat-trap and it had done its fell work well and truly. But the servants in the
house warned us to be careful for some time to come, as they said
Aa we go to press, the annual re- the mate of that cobra would
mate.
We decided to set the trap again the following and suc- ceeding nights. Two nights later the cobra's mate, we assumed it to be that, did turn up and.. Lowest open air temperature on strange to relate, it was also de- 'That Saturday was 62 and on Sunday 64. capitated in the pantry. Humidity at 10 am, on Saturday trap did not entrap another was 86 and at 4 p.m. 85; while on snake or mouse, and we had to Sunday at these hours humidity was purchase a new one before fur- 94 and 95 respectively.
ther toll was taken of mice in the house. We never came Cross
For the theft of 40 feet of iron another. snake in the house, piping from the Public Works De- though in the garden many were partment stores at Wanchai, a Chin- killed from time to time. ese employee was sentenced to six!
weeks' hard labour by Mr. Schofield,
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in the Central Police Court this Shanghai Land Investment Co. morning.
At the 43rd annual general
Mr. John Wells, passing through meeting held on April 7, the Hong Kong at the present time, will Chairman was in the happy posi- deliver a broadcast talk this evening tion of being able to congratulate on his experiences and exciting ad- shareholders on receiving the ventures in Central Africa. Mr. best accounts the company has so rentals Wells is on a world tour and pro- far presented. Gross ceeds on his way to-morrow by, the and gross profits on rentals ex- ceeded all past records. Refer- 8.8, Taiyo Maru.
ring to the Sino-Japanese con- flict and its effect on the com- pany's properties, the chairman said that there would be a con- siderable loss in rentals, but the loss due to damage to properties would be comparatively small.
CHINESE MADE UMBRELLAS SUFFER FROM BOYCOTT.
a report about which you could that we do so because we are con- get, as the saying goes, all het vinced there is ground for criti- day. and bothered. Frankly, icisms, and that the Society is cri- makes disappointing reading, and ticised because we wish to help that, mainly, because it has on the Society's objects and acti-port and statement of accounts of surely turn up in search of its achieved so little. We have the vities and not pick flaws for the the Sailors and Soldiers' Home The report will Honorary sake of doing so. Our criticisms comes to hand. Secretary that the Society has are made in good faith, and as appear in extenso in the next issue not been inactive, and he in such should be accepted. Almost of the Cainu Mail. stances the activities of the two months ago to a day, we Study Circle Group, the Execu wrote in this column:- tive Committee and various sub- committees. This group and the committees are to be congratu- lated on the work they have done, and we are sure they have done very useful work. But the So- ciety, as a whole-in-so-far as creating interest in the League, and in encouraging the public of Hong Kong to give it that moral! support it deserves and must! have, if it is to be something more than "just one of the many societies of Hong Kong," — it must be adreitied, no matter how reluctantly, has not made a tenth of the progress that wES hoped it would make, when it was brought into existence on November 26; 1930. Its member- ship, at the end of the year under review, stood at a paltry We yet hold to the opinions one hundred and ten; and in that then expressed, and agree with same period it had been able to the Hon, Dr. R. H. Kotewall hold only one public meeting. when he says:— That is far from a satisfactory state of affairs, and if the So- ciety is not to be included among the also rans" of Hong Kong's societies, its Council and Execu-
Manufacturers, of paper um- Not a Good Advertisement tive Committee must be much|
brellas, made on a considerable scale more energetic and much fore
The following advertisement at Fong Tsun, near Fatahan, have appears in a newspaper, within a active throughout this year than seemingly has been the case in
been amazed at the steady decline radius of a thousand miles of in the sales of their products for Hong Kong. It is not a good the year to which the word
the past few months, as they had al-advertisement because of just "Anis" has now been written. } There must be a drive for mem-
ways been enjoying a fair amount one word. Why "probably"? of prosperity, says the Canton berehip, and the retiring Pre-
Gazette. On enquiry, they found sident's good example must be emulated. If the Hon. Dr. R. H.
that former buyera of their goods, Kotewall can put on a spurt and
la the various up-country districts enroll nineteen members, it
in the province, have suddenly should not be impossible for
stopped doing so, owing to the fact other office bearers and members) There is one more observation that these native-manufactured um- of the Society to help augment or criticism we have to make. brellas look very much like goods the Society's membership. Again, And it is this. If the Society, made in Japan. In their enthusiasm there must be more public meet as a whole, has not made the to carry out the patriotic move- |iven to the doings of the luxecu make when it came into exist on the safe side, and so stopped to ings held, and more publicity progress It has hoped it would ment, these merchants decided to be tive Committee and sub-com-ence, (as we hold that it has not), import these mittees. We feel sure the Press the responsibility for that rests umbrellas which have always been of Hong Kong will afford the not alone on the shoulders of the held as native goods. The manu- Society all the assistance for Society and those who are direct facturers of the umbrellas are now. publicity purposes that it can ing its work. The general body taking steps to convince their cus give.
Writing on behalf of the public of Hong Kong must also tomers of the home origin of their China Mall and Sunday Herald, we shoulder some of that responsi-products. Delegates will be sent assure the Society of such help. bility, for it seems to us the public to the various districts with ex Much more also must be heard is too slow to realisa and appre-planations and means of proof; so of the Hong Kong Branch of the clate its duty to its fellow men that the native Industry may be League of Nations" Society, and and fellow-women. Wake up benefited, and not harmed by the
patriotic movement. that much more frequently. It Hong Kong!'
"The League is, at this moment, faced with two tre- mendous tasks. One is the Far Eastern question, and the other is the Conference for the Reduction and Limita- tion of Armaments.
If the League ultimately fails in either of these two tagles shudder to contemplate-the consequences. It is, there- fore, our bourden duty to support the League: it is a duty to the rising generation, as to those who died or suf- fered in the Great War ki order to make this world a better place to live in."
Because They Resemble Goods Made In Japan.
stapictous, looking
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it is always diMcult to know what to say. It is a land of mystery and surprises, but that it has suffered from the world depression is natural. In addition there were serious floods and various military
· operations, all of which inter- fered with business. In spite of these disturbing features there was a further substantial increase in the receipts of the Chinese Maritime Customs, which amounted to taels 246,000,000 last year and which compares taels 180,000,000 in) 1930, though this increase is largely due to increased duties and the continued collection of these on a gold basis. Then the action of Japan in Man- churis, resulting in anti- Japanese boycott, which spread to Siam and British Malaya and proved of assistance Lancashire manufacturers, in- Aicted losses on the importers of the large stocks of Japanese goods. The wide fluctuations in silver also presented difficul-- ties for those engaged in the import trade in China and at Hong Kong. The low price of the metal ruling during the greater part of the year ought. to have given an impetus to exports, but the economic crisis in Europe and America, com- bined with the disturbed state of the country, and difficulties. of transport, checked this... The Commission appointed by the British Government to en- quire Into and advise upon the question of Hong Kong car- rency issued their report in. August and do not recommend atabilisation of exchange in the meantime, but.. make certain proposals for placing the cur- rency more directly on a silver bullion basis than it is at pre- Bent. An interesting feature of the proposals is that the 'dollar should practically cesse to be legal tender, and that the notes of the three Banks of Issue of which we are one- should be given legal tender status."
CROESUS.
THE "CHINA MAIL" OBSERVES
1. That a Japanese aviator ma de a dramatic leap from › an aeroplane on Saturday-He is in the swim, leaping in Leap Year.
2. That the statesmen of Europe and America are gathering
in Geneva-Hhere come gathering knuts in May,
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3. That it is Summer time in Britain, but Winter yet out
hors,
That, according to a contemporary, when the new Shake speare Memorial Theatre is opened next Saturday, the Poet Laureate will recite an "Old." —This, apparently, is some- thing the great William has not shown us how to do,