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News In Brief.
'An' unnamed Chinese was drown- ed yesterday when he fell, with three "others, as a grappling pole broke, from the side of ss. Tanda. He struck his head in falling The other three were saved.
Mr. F. T. Melwant, managing pro-| prietor of the Hong Kong Silk Store is due to-day by the s.s. Tatsuta Maru. He is bringing a new con- signment of silk "goods for the atore.
On the suggestion of the Minister of Finance, M. Marcel Bordyge, Trustee of the Bank of Indo-China. will be elevated to the rank of [Grand Officer of the "Legion
Honour.
of
Me. Mitchell, of 25 Shek-0, re-i ports the loss of money and jewel- lery valued at $59, from his house. The verandah door was open, he etates.
The body of Choi Kai (20), the earth coolie who was drowned whilst bathing in the old Aberdeen dam, was recovered yesterday, and sent to the Public Mortuary.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1932.
Delay In Reservoir Project Deplored
Sir Henry Pollock's Sharp Criticism
AIR MAIL QUESTIONS
GOVERNMENT'S POLICIES ARE
ANNOUNCED.
At yesterday's meeting of the Legislative Council, the Hon. Str Henry Pollock, K.C... Senior Unofficial Member, on behalf of the Un- official Members, expressed disappointment with the delay in the programme of work on the Shing Mun Valley Scheme (Second Sec- tion) planned by Government for the remainder of the year.
Deploring the delay in the be-1932 from the surplus balances of ginning of the preliminary stages the Colony. of the work, Sir Henry declared. The Motion Carried. that the sum of $75,000 to be voted Introducing a motion for the toofabolition of the principle of the Injured in the right hip by for the extensive work was
trivial. He pointed out the neces-rider-main" system, the Colonial tricycle in Queen Victoria.Street, a Chinese, Tang Yau-tong (15) of sity of doing as much work as was Secretary sald that the Govern- eliminate 7. Chinese Street was sent to hos possible during the coming dry ment's desire was to pital yesterday.
Replying, the Colonial Secretary On the request of the Hon. Sir
season..
waste.
On a charge of the possession of 300 po "piu- lottery tickets with a' view to sale, a young Chinese woman ment will end, however, when the was fined $50 or six weeks' gaol by people find the country being plung-Police Court this morning.
Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Reply- KANIS-On Thursday, August 4. cd into economic ruin.
The farming to his Worship, the defendant at Hong Kong, John Kanis, of.
was going to burn the Amsterdam... age 36. Funeralers are being placed in a desperate said she
tariff war,
tickets. His Worship remarked at Jewish Cemetery to-day at pight through the
which shuts out the English market that, the onus was on the defence.
Ny Gow, unemployed, was sen. (Hon. Mr. E. R Hallifax, C.M.G., Henry Pollock, the matter was. ad- tenced to six weeks with hard C.B.E.) stated the Consulting En-journed to enable the unofficial labour by Mr. Fraser in the Kow-gineers had hopes of the arrival of members to consider it.
supplementary sum of loon Court this morning for the the special engineer by October.A theft of a box of bottles from the Meanwhile, they were being press-$1,818,307.73 to defray the charges of the year 1931, was read for the back yard of a hotel on Peking Road. ed to proceed with the work.
The Air Mails.
first time at yesterday's meeting, The bottles were valued at $10.
During the meeting, Mr. W. E. over which H.E. the Officer: Ad** L. Shenton asked
ministering the Government (Hon. 1.-Will Government Inform this Mr. W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.) pre- The Colonial Treasurer Council of Government's policy in sided. reference to an air mail service-(Hon Mr. Edwin Taylor) in intro- (a) Between Hong Kong and ducing the supplementary vote,
French Indo-China,
gave an interesting review of the (b) Between Hong Kong and Colony's financial position.
Canton, and
The Hon. Mr. Taylor stated that (c) Between Hong Kong and the Colony finished the year in a.
Shanghai?
much more favourable position. 2-Has Government ascertained than could have been hoped for at which formerly absorbed about 90 The marriage took place yester whether the French Government the beginning of the year, although per cent. of the Irish primary pro-day afternoon of Mr. Arthur Ed-and Chinese Government are pre- the actual expenditure was in. ex- The China Mail. ducts. From his latest utterances ward Perry and Miss Violet pared to co-operate in such enter cass of the revised estimate. He had every hope that the 1932 Bud- Catherine Chan, the ceremony being prises, and if so on what terms? it appears that De Valera is aiming at the Registrar's Office. A recep- Anancially assist private enterprise the exchange
3-Is Government prepared to get would be balanced, provided was maintained
5 p.m.
Hong Kong. Friday, Aug. 5, 1932.
The Misfortunes Of The Irish Free State.
I
in any or all of the above air around 1s. 3d. and conditions re-
mained normal;"
at the establishment of an Irish tion was subsequently held at Lanej Republic, and it is using the threat Crawford's restaurant, where of Irish influence in the United large number of friends gathered to offer the happy couple their con- States as a big stick. In the gratulations. negotiations with Britain.In this
1
lines?
N
A..
At a time when the Empire's he not only under-estimates the in- A dismissed fok from the Li leaders are endeavouring to consoli- telligence of the Irish-American but Cheung Sun Laundry Shop was ap prehended by police and clothing date the British Commonwealth of also ignores the fact that the valued at $22 was found in his Nations and wield the Empire into majority of Irishmen intend to re-possession. He had been discharg- ed from the laundry about two days a strong economic group, the Irish main loyal to the Crown. Also, previous for stealing clothes. He dispute threatens the harmony realization is growing in the Free was fined $50 or one month by Mr.j pervading the Ottawa Conference. State that De Valera is prepared to Fraser, The latest developments, have in-sacrifice Ireland for his own tensified the gravity of the situation selfish vanity. The remedy is and the possibility of the defection "clear
De Valera will have
'A
YORKSHIRE AND KENT
BOTH WIN.
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The approximate expenditure to The answer given by the Colonia!
June 30 was $15,392,000 which was Secretary were as follow
1. While the Government is not | $2,098,830 below one half of the prepared to institute Air estimated expenditure of $34,981,- Mail services, it remains 667 for the year. The under- -ready to accord sympathetic expenditure," he explained,
consideration to any practi-principally due to the rise in the cal proposals that may be dollar. put forward. In the absence
New Ordinances.
2.
Personal Pars.
#
Mr. J. E. Fry, an Australian traveller, arrived in Hong Kong.on the N.Y.K. steamer 3.5. Hakone Maru, from Singapore yesterday.
."
Mr. A. M."Dilling, accompanied by his wife, son, and daughter, was among the passengers arriving on the s.s. Hakone Maru yesterday afternoon.. Mr. Dilling is a lawyer and consulting engineer from the States.
A
Was
of concrete proposals, the The first reading of an Ordin- policy cannot be more close-ance to amend the Foreshores and ly defined.
Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901, an Or The French authorities pro- dinance to amend and consolidate pose to
carry out experi- the law relating to Factories and mental flights between Hanoi Workshops, and to the employment and Hong Kong and it is of women, Young Persons and possible that proposals will Children in certain industries, and be put forward' in the light an Ordinance to make provision' of the results obtained.
for fixing the minimum wages
No information is available re where the wages paid are unrea- ' garding the attitude of the sonably low, were read by the At- Chinese Government."
torney General (Hon. Mr. C. C.
3. No undertaking can be given | Alabaster, K.C.).
but the sympathetic con-
The Attorney General moved:- sideration referred to in the
That the amendment to By-laws first paragraph of this reply made by the Sanitary Board under contemplates the grant of section 16 of "the Public Health. financial assistance if an ap-and- Buildings-Ordinance, 1908, on plication meets with ap- the 5th day of July, 1982, relat- proval.
ing to Prevention of mitigation of Work To Cost $9,200,000: epidemic, endemic, contagious or The Hon. E. R. Hallifax, C.M.G., infectious disease, be approved. C.B.E." moved (a) That this Coun He said: "Such a declaration cil approves the construction of has been made in connection with the works connected, with the Shing the cholera epidemic and appeared 3fun Valley Water Supply Scheme, in the Gazette on June 24. On 2nd Section, at an estimated cost July the Sanitary Board added of $9,200,000. (b) That this Coun- two additional paragraphs to the eil authorizes the sum of $76,000 by-law: and these paragraphs re- out of the said sum of $9,200,000 quire the approval of the Legisla to be charged to a future loan and tive Council."
Mr. H. L Pereira, brother of Mr. of the Irish Free State from the to be ejected from office. Unfor- F. D. Pereira, the Hong Kong In- Commonwealth disturbs the tunately any such move requires terport cricketer, arrived here on equanimity at Ottawa. The Free time and in the interim the coun- the s.s. Hakone Maro yesterday Stute delegates to the Conference try will suffer for the folly of a
afternoon.
have been tactful, but their em politician who is not even an Irish- barrassment is apparent.
Their man. presence is almost ridiculous in view of the tariff war now proceed- ing, between Britain and the Free State, and not until there is a settle ment will they be able to parti cipate on the status of the repre- for England at Melbourne in the sentatives of the other Dominions. 1928-29 Test series in his Teat
debut. settlement is out of the
Bowes (9 for 62) was in irresis- question until De Valera is.
table form and Leicester were dis brought to reason, or is forced missed twice for 295 out of office, the latter con- Since his selection to tour Aus- dition being the more prob-tralia Leslic Ames, the Kert stump- er, collected two centuries." On able. Already there are signs of Wednesday he hit up 130 to lay the Japanese Warships Fire growing discontent among the busi foundations for the Kent total of ness and agricultural sections of 76., Glamorgan could do no better the Free State and the reaction than score 207 runs få two innings against the bowling of Tick” the farmers, particularly, Freeman: The little man took 13 bodes ill for the presumptuous and wickets for 84 runs and is now well opened fire on volunteers last JAPANESE STEWARD foolhardy Republican leader. Then on the way for his 200 wickets in night, and aircraft were despatch- ed from Mukden to bomb a concen- too, De Valera is in a minority in The Gloucester revival, which tration of 2,000 of their number, the Dail and, even though the mall commenced on Saturday with their who are reported to be preparing Labour group (holding the balance meritorious victory over Kent, was to renew the attack on Naicheng. of power) have been paid the price continued to-day when B. H. Lyon's It is alleged in Japanese circles men inflicted a big defeat on Mid- that Marshal Chang Hsueh-lang for their support, the Government dlesex, Strong southern challengers has furnished the volunteers with is by no means secure. The Re- for the championship.
$500,000-Reator.
Chinese Success. publicans include the worst elements
among
a season. NA
Goddard was in magnificent form with the ball, claiming-7 wickets for
FRESH FIGHTING IN NORTH.
On Troops.
Dairen, Yesterday.. Japanese warships at Yingkow
O Peiping. Yesterday.
sanctions an advance of this sum The Colonial Secretary seconded: of $75,000 during the financial year and the resolution was approved,
MURDERED.
Suspect Is Missing
From Vessel
CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Annual Meeting Yesterday.
Mitsura Kojima, a steward, was The annual meeting of the Chin found murdered aboard s.s. Hakoneese Chamber of Commerce, was half afternoon. Mr. Wong Kwong-tin presided.
in Ireland and secured most of the 19 runs in the Middlesex second, in Five hundred volunteers oc- Maru one day out of Colombo, it Festerday.
votes at the last election from the nings. Sinfeld claimed 122 of cupied Tungliao after a three-day was learned on the vessel's arrival more ignorant classes. The
mass of the people in the
ant of cur
tural districts
Gloucester's total of 334, which battle, in which they captured and here,
runs on the first innings. Then destroyed Japanese armoured Another steward, Shojire Kojima, gave the home county a lead of 157 train, according to Chinese Press no relation to the deceased, is Goddard in an inspired spell dis- despatch
missed "Mis
ex for 63: tch ru
on the Tungliao-
Suspend
missing. It is thought he jumped overboard to evade captures
orted
inity
The murdered man was found in clasa "cabin with a wound" the back
The accounts for 1981 were
dinary meetingi
passed. An
the