MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933.
BOY'S POSSESSION OF COUNTERFEIT COINS
Extraordinarily Good
Appearance.
LAD REMANDED PENDING INVESTIGATION
Mr. Wynne-Jones:"The appear ance of these coins are extraordin arily good, in fact they are the best I have seen."
Detective - Sergeant
DARING ARMED `
ROBBERY
Shooting Party Robbed
At Taipo.
THE CHINA MAJL.
PRETTY WEDDING AT To-Day's Short Story.
CATHEDRAL
Miss Doris Peter Chong And Mr. H. R. Landolt.
TWO CHINESE DISARMED OF FLOWER GIRLS AT ČEREMONY
RIFLE AND REVOLVER
On Saturday, at St. John's
a Chinese Police constable as he sat down near them.
Richard Landolt, son of Mr. John|
gladioli and
orange-
THE GARDEN
the aun
The breeze, also
By Anthony Armstrong.
child should
mother. Since then he had bend-
his loins.
Day by day after he fell
HE summer sun filled the his bed; and it was now high sum A daring armed gang robbery Cathedral, Miss Doris May Peter THE Ho Chau-shi, a Chinese boy,
garden of a house that lay mer in his beloved garden. under 15 years of age, appeared took place at the 31⁄2 mile-stone, Chong daughter of Mrs. Peter
at noon, Chong, of Sydney, Australia, close under the warm swelling That garden was his whole life. before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Taipo Road, yesterday Central Magistracy this morning, when Wong Wun-mun. solicitor's and of the late Mr. Peter Chong, hillside. It was a house of old He had made it slowly, year by year, with possession of. 99 clerk and Police Reservist, and a became the bride of Mr. Henry red bricks, soft soaked with the and he had watched it grow under charged
brend his CATC As his counterfeit ten cent coins and 399 friend, Wong Wai-ching, were set. counterfeit five cent pieces at the upon by three unknown Chinese on Landolt and the late Mrs. Marie sunshine of centuries as
done, which, falling the hillside above the road, and rab- Elizabeth Landolt, of Hong Kong. steeped in wine, and serene with have Wing Lok Streat Wharf yesterday.
The Rev. N. V. Halward, M.Cthe beauty of honest, loving toil so early under the shadow of The accused pleaded not guilty bed of a 38 Kleanbore revolver, a
22 Remington Sports rifle, seven)
officiated. to the charge.
rounds of ammunition for the re-i
The bride who was given away that had long ago gone to its death, had also brought death to its volver, $1.30 in cash, a gold watch
her brother-in-law, Mr.making. The sun's warm life and chain and a gold appendage. Andrew W. Ho, wore a dress of poured sleepily over the mellowed, loved and worshipped his garden
charmeuse, with: Wong Wun-mun stated in his re- white satin port that at about 12.45 p.m. yes- chantilly lace coatee and train, roof-tiles, and his radiance beat if it had been the very fruft of
the wide-open Macdonald, terday, while he and Wong Wai- the latter being trimmed with unstinting into who prosecuted, said they were the ching were practising target shoot-orange blossoms finished off with windows at the heels of the scent-il he promised himself that it would first of that kind that had passed jing with a 22 Remington Sports lover's knots in silver. The laden breeze.
not be long before he walked in his through his hands.
rife, three unknown Chinese ap-bridal vell, heavily embossed was The defendant was arrested by proached via a path from Talpo and held in place with
At one room alone in that house garden again. Day by day, as his blossom.
stood suppliant, beating strength receded, he thought of the left the Macno wharf, a search One of the men approached Wong} The bride's bouquet consisted of vainly on drawn curtains and half-pring flooding it with new life. producing a brown paper parcel in Wun-mun and asked if the rifle white
maldenhair latched shutters.
after the winter sleep. which were the counterfeit colns was used for bird shooting, but on fern. wrapped up in little rolls.
receiving no reply, he suddenly Mr. Lawrence R. Dixom, was best frustrated, played tentatively round At the time of his arrest, the squatted and seized hold of Wong man, while the duties of groomsman the shutters awhile, sighed back up defendant told the constable that Mun-wun's revolver which was ly-were performed by Mr. Norman the hill and then came ́ ́sweeping he was to have met another Chin- ing unloaded between his legs, at Stradmoor.
down a moment later with all the time drawing a dagger The bridesmaids were Miss ese outside the Wing On Building, the same
Det-Sergt. Macdonald said this file from under his jacket.
Amelie Patricia Landolt, and Miss momentum of fresh curiosity, Now: twe men also drew Winifred Kew, who were dressed in and then be penetrated, but not was a new way of smuggling the The other coins Into the Colony. The real their dagger files, one of them tak-jankle length, peach coloured pearl with his burden of odours, lavender, carriers evidently employed little 1ng the .22 rific from Wong Wai- crepe frocks, with silver turbans and thyme and rose. for the harsh
shoes to match. Each carried a
efficiency of jodoform met and The third accused carried out sheaf of peach gladioli,
Even when they told him his case away the The flower girls were the Misses grappled them on the threshold and was desperate he swore to himself, After the Police had stated that the search and took
with a secret smile, that he would! they believed that the defendant watch, chain, appendage, and $1.30 Betty and Vivienne Lau, nieces of thrust them back.
walk once again In his garden in the knew the whereabouts of the real in cash. Leaving Wong Wun-mun the bride.
on the hill side, After the ceremony, a receptionį
summer, and at the thought ebbing culprit, the Magistrate advised the Wong Wai-ching
Inside the room, in the cool dark vitality had returned, tiptoe with a was held In Lane, Crawford'a boy to confers, remanding him for the men made their way along
path towards Taipo.
Restaurant. The newly marriedness and the clean, hospital smell, hope. Yet week by week summer Wong Wun-mua later, made his couple later left for Canton andja man lay desperately ill. For had approached and hope had report at Shamshulpo Police Sta- Macao on their honeymoon trip. over four months he had been fight shrunk till one day the sun stood tion.
The bride's going away dress was ing, in alliance with doctor of powder blue Burmese crepe.
nurses, a losing battle for life. MISS L. V. DA SILVA AND all that while he had not once
MR. J. L. BOYES.
Customs Officer Weds.
Chinese boys and girls to take the eins off the ships.
48 hours.
BISHOP HALL'S
ITINERARY.
To Visit Canton And Kongmoon.
ching.
PRINCE OF WALES AS CONJUROR.
Hobbies Of Royalty Revealed.
London.
A very charming wedding look ¡place at St. Joseph's Church on; Saturday afternoon, when Miss
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TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "Pearls and Swine," by Rolf Bennett.
pleading, yet mocking, beyond the and drawn curtains, and, with a sudden For stab, he felt he would not walk in left
his garden at all that summer. And a little later he knew he would never see it again; and at that he turned his face away, and for a long
OLDEST MAN IN while would have no flowers in his
THE WORLD
Lucilla Victoria da Silva, daughter Li Ching-yun Dies At
of Mrs. Constancia Maria Gomes da
The Bishop of Victoria, the Rt. Rev. Ronald Hall, will on his re- turn to Bong Kong from Shanghai, call directly to Canton and Kong- moon, holding a confirmation ser vice in each of the two latter cities.
Two Royal hobbies have come Silva and the late Mr. L. L. da He will then proceed from Hong) Kong to Pakhol, leaving here ¡into the news recently.
on
Silva, became the wife of Mr. John! May 20.
wvill They From Pakhol he Journey to Nanning and Yunnanfu. and conjuring,
Maritime Customs. He will return to Hong Kong via Haiphong in July.
are
stamp-collecting-Lewis Boyes of the Chinese The King was once a keen ex- The Rev. Father Antonio Kiganti
pert. So he must have been in-officiated. His Lordship will, at Nanning on Lerested to read the news that a Trinity Sunday. ordain Mr. W. Mauritius 2d. blue "Post Office" by Mr. L. L. Gomes, was attended
Molyneaux to the Deuconate.
KOWLOON BUS FARES.
Season Tickets Will
Cost $1 More.
The bride who was given away
Age Of 256,
YOUNGEST GREAT-GRANDSON IS 70 YEARS OLD.
room.
He lay on the bed motionless, and
aunlit sky.
stared greedily at the glimpses of he would not murmur for fear the
It hurt his eyes, but;
nurse should take them from him: He could almost hear the heat out- Iside, yet inside all was cool shadow. He moved slightly, and the nurse spoke in comforting tones. He tried to answer, and was rebuked;| then he felt her hand at his pillow, The oldest man in China, and heard her resume her seat. But his
(Reuter's Special Service.)
Chungking, Saturday.
Once she cleared her
The stamp has just been sold at an by her cousin, Miss Mary Aquino as
here for the highest bridesmaid Rev. Wilfred Stott is at the head of auction
and Miss Yolanda probably in the whole world, mind, his thoughts, his whole being. mission work in that district. price ever paid in this country: Beatrix da Silva, her sister, passed away at the village of were outside in the garden with the
For at one time his Majesty had sower girl. lone of these stamps. He may
Mr. R. G. Ward of the Chinese Kiahsien, near here, to-day. Local sun and the flowers.
The nurse resumed her sewing: have it still. It was bought at Maritime Customs was best man.
authorities differ in opinion as re- Even the rustle of the cotton as it Jan auction and went into his A reception was later held at No. gards his age, but he has undoubt-raced through the material behind collection when he was Prince of 400 Lockhart Road, after which the edly lived for a great many years the needle sounded loud in the Wales. The price paid for it happy couple left for their honey- was £1,450.
beyond the normal span of life.atiliness. which moon,
is being spent în The Prince of Wales is interest-Macno.
He is reputed to be 256 years of throat and the sick man frowned till ed in conjuring. A professional It is authoritatively learned that illusionist has revealed that he no increase in bus farea will occur has been teaching the Prince to when the Kowloon Motor Bus Com-turn a silk handkerchief into a pany take over the monopoly of ser-Union Jack. The Prince's grand- vices on the mainland next month. father, King Edward, also took Season tickets will cost $1 extra an interest in amateur magic. owing to the extended facilities, and Another unusual Royal hobby will be available on all routes con-is that of the Earl of Harewood. verging at the Star Ferry. These He does embroidery. monthly tickets, however, do not
entitle holders to use the routes
extending beyond Laichikok
Reuter.
MACHINE AGE IN RUSSIA.
Favourite Subject For Child Artists.
age.
the silence settled down once more..
With a suddenness almost as of a This patriarch is LI Ching shell a bee arrived in the room. yun, a farmer and herbalist, and The air was full of its blundering he has resided in the district all passage; it hummed now loud, now hie life, being born, it is stated, faint, as it circled the walls. in Kiahsien in 1677.
man watched it uneasily. We are
The
but his last one died a century both want to get back into my gar He has had a number of wives, both prisoners here, he thought, we
His youngest great-grand-den.
ago.
son is now seventy years of age, The bee hit a window pane, and he has more than 70 grand-buzzed angrily, a moment, then be-
gan to climb pathetically upward,] though, there was a way out two I wonder, inches to the right.
Moscow. Modern Russian children al-children. The franchise permits the review. VON STERNBERG THE most never draw houses, the Cen- ing of fares after three years of
SILENT.
tral House of Children's Educa- operation.
tion reveals as a result of their
BRITAIN'S SHYEST
POET.
Lawrence Binyon To
Famous Film Producer
In London.
Another famous
The bee began once more to buzzi
Chinese tradition general. ly, tends to confirm the age of the deceased as 256 years. thought the man again, if it is A party of Chinese pressmen really as easy as that for me, too? research into children's art.
Pre-war children preferred who went to Szechuen Province Perhaps I, too, don't know the right drawing houses to anything else. three years ago specially to inter-way out.
Machines such as aeroplanes, view Li, found him in excellent) London. ships, dirigibles, and motor cars health, and he had the "appear unhappily, and he signed to the Hollywood are the favourite subjects of ance of a man of between 60 and nurse. She piled her sewing on the table in a little white mound, stuck Agure recently in London is the present day juvenile artists.|| 70 years of age. Joseph Von Strenberg, the pro-Tramcara, are evidently consider. The old man could only account the needle into it and leant over ducer who made Marlene Dietriched out of date. Their next for his longevity by the fact that him.
"Yes? What is it?" Laurence Binyon la retiring. famous,
choice la landscapes. Third in during one of his trips to the Most people know him as a fam-
Sternberg began his film suc-popularity are pictures of men, mountains in search of herbs
out!" during his youth he discovered OUB British poet. But few cess by making a very cheap and last of all are houses. know any more about him. Mr. picture called "Salvation Hun- The Central House has 150,000 and ate a rare plant. This, he Binyon is shy.
ters." It was not a very great children's drawings, frore, which believed, gave him long life In addition to writing poetry,
commercial success, but its artis-the study was made.-Reuter Mr. Biryon is keeper of the De-tie qualities brought him a good
Go To Harvard.
London.
partment of Prints and Draw-
Hollywood contract and alnce ings at the British Museum. He then he has never looked back. has been associated with
the
He has made so much money,
Museum for forty years. Now especially since he directed Die-
a Reuter message announces that trich, that he can now afford a
Personal Pars.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Lee arrived in
he hag accepted, the Charles ng trip through Earope, collec- the Colony to-day by the B. Pre- Ellot Norton Professorship of ting modern sculptures and pain-sident Lincoln from Manila. Poetry at Harvard University for tings, of which he is very fond,
more
fornia.
For several decades, Li hus sat in Buddhistic méditation, and hej maintained his health-and-facul- ties until the time of his death.
FORMER A. S. P.'S $21,600 ESTATE
His lips formed the words "Put It
She smiled with
complete sympathy and complete stupidity.
"Yes. It's only a bee, ANNUR, He frowned, was about to make great effort, but closed his eyes wearfly, instead, What did it mat ter? At once the woman bent down to him, like a mother over a help
| less infanti; jotakin kohda y Wire-1
"Don't strain yourself!"'" she proved with a smile. “It's not good for you!" With a crackling - of Letters of Administration in the starched linen she settled him more. a year in miccession to Mr. T, 3. to add to his collection in Cali-
Mr. R. II, Wild, manager of the goods of Khan Sahib Nawab Khan, comfortably. A faint odour of Eliot. He would do no
South British Insurance Co., Ltd., a former assistant superintendent perspiration came to him above the than confirm the news.. Mr. Bin- "I have had 20 years hard and chairman of the Fire Insurance of Police, Hong Kong, of Ludhians, lodoform as she reached an arm, yon is modest.・・
work in the film business," he Society of Hong Kong, arrived back Punjab, India, have been granted across. He perceived It gratefully. He speaks to strangers In mo- told someone after his arrival in in the Colony to-day from Manila to Sardar Sahib Mohinder Singh, Animal health, animal heat, instead nosyliables and he seldom makes London, "and now I am just tak-by the an President Lincoln: assistant superintendent of Police of that soulless hospital/reek. He any public appearances, Te Ling a long rest. I do not intend
Hong Kong, for the benefit of sighed and lay quite still. The more than 60 years of age, yet he to resume work untu I feel à re Mr. H. Geere Pipe was a passen- Masemat Hashmat, widow of the nurse returned to her sest, and orice Tooks scarcely 45. His poetry newed desire to create some ger by the L. President Lincoln, deceased. and his quiet life have kept him thing really big and outstanding." which arrived in the Colony, from the local estate was valued at forth. young-Renter,
Manila' this morning.”
$21,663.
-Reuter
more the cotton ran softly back and
(Continued in Pase'10).
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