MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933.
TRAGEDY AS BALCONY PLEA FOR THE
COLLAPSES
3. Children And Amah Thrown To Ground.
GIRL AND AMAH SUCCUME TO-INJURIES
A serious accident with fatal results took place
Sau
four persons 20 feet to the terrace 'below.
Cheng Tai, an amah and Jensic Honson. a 11-year-old student, died as a result of severe head injuries,
MAN IN THE
PADDY FIELD
Tribute To China's Red Cross Work.
OUTSIDE HELP NEÈDED.
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LOCAL
THE CHINA MAIL.
JOCKEY'S WEDDING.
Mr. A. G. Botelho And Miss B. P. Choa.
REPULSE BAY HONEYMOON.
To-Day's Short Story.
THE OPTIMIST
a serious.
By Michael Kent.
And in long evenings those two
society a lead," says Aubrey. "You "We might give the local dramatic
would go big as Lady Macbeth."
"You'd be a riot in Lear," returns Miranda. "Modern folk mumble.”
Whatever else he did, Aubrey did. not mumble. He adjusted his toupee.
modern? You bet your life we
That toupee, invisibly sprung 'on
A wedding of considerable · in-
are the ABSOLUTE jades Iterest to the Portuguese Com- Fates. Still, it must be would make up fairy tales of how Paris.munity took place at the Cathedral
they would live when fame. had on Saturday)
the Immaculate Conception, dull work spinning out so many brought them fortune. cf A plea for "the Man in the Caine Road, Saturday afternoon, millions of lives with never a A cottage in the country it was, night, when a small balcony on Paddy Field" in the Far East is when Miss Beatrice Patricia Choa Sunday off. 'You cannot expect with an old cat and an old dog, out- the second floor of No. 15, Yuk
Street collapsed, throwing put forward in an article by Mr. became the wife of Mr. Arnaldo them to be terribly sympathetic, cast from more exclusive housed,
and perhaps an old actor who would. L. E. de Gielgud, Under Secre-Guilherme Botelho, brother of Mr.
A. A. R. Botelho, the well known "Do we snip off Mr. Smith of be glad to help with the housework, tary-General of the League of Hong Kong Amateur rider. Surbiton with 'flu' this after-even if the Ghost on Friday night| Red Cross Societies, in a recent The Right Rev. Bishop Valtorta noon, Sister Clotho?" "Oh, no, did not walk very far.
officiated. (number of the League's Bulletin.
Sister Lachesis, not "dur" I'd The bride who was dressed 'in a Mr. de Gielgud has lately re-creation of white georgette and rather save him for a motorbus." turned from a tour of the Farlace, designed by Mme. D'Obry of They must have their joke. After while Ada Honson, 9, also a stu- East. The Cross, he says, is in-Maison des Modes, wore a crown all, yarn-apinning is a dull job. dent, and her brother Gordon
That is how they played with Honson, a student of the Lingnam creasingly alive to the needs of of orange blossoms to match. She
carried a bouquet of gladiolas.
Aubrey Carmichael. primitive social
The Bridesmaids, the Misser University, are now lying at the there whose
Aubrey worshipped his wife, Government Civil Hospital in a organisation leaves them com- Pauline and Louise Choa, Miss Miranda, and Thespis the Muse. "Modern, my dear, aren't we
Botelho and Miss Irene! pletely at the mercy of disease Maria wery serious condition.
That is to say, he was Gittins, wore dresses of yellow hard-working actor, quite in the are. The dead girl and two other in-and disaster.
and green organdy, while the jured are the children of Mr. and
He declares that "the small sower girls, the Misses Patricia second class, and rather tiresome Mrs. Henson, who are at present group of Oriental Red Cross So-land Cynthia Lo, daughters of Mr, about the past splendours of the to an otherwise almost bare head,
stage.
had been a desperate speculation. in the Fiji Islands.
They were cieties need, and are entitled toM. H. Lo were dressed in pink There is a time with all second- "Four guineas is a lot of money, staying under the care of their expect, all the international co-organdy and Betty Chon wore yel- uncle, Mr. Kwok Wai-sam of Hon-operation they can be given in low.
raters when the verve of youth Mira, but it's not vanity. Bon and Company, 21. Connaught building up national organisa-i
Mr. T. E. D'Almada Remedion grows yellow at the tips, the new matter of business. Road Central.
tions which can raise resources assumed the duties of best man gay ventures become the old, dull part, my postiche will be but a drop in the ocean. It's youth-youth; The accident occurred soon after and develop activities to meet for the bridegroom, while Mr.routine, and vaunting ambition, see- that gets there every time."
Robert Chos acted for the bride. thinks it had better have stuck to
turn inexorably ing fame 11 p.m.. the children having re- those needs. turned from a theatre. Finding it In China, the writer adds, Later a reception was held at rather warm in the house, they where the officials of the Red the Club Lusitano at which were went out onto the balcony for Cross Society keep the Red Cross present a very large crowd
They had not Flag travely flying over their in-friends. some fresh air. been there five minutes.. when, with stitutions in Shanghai by dint
The happy couple left for the rendering crash, the balcony of admirable tenacity and devo-Repulse Bay Hotel where the gave way beneath their feet and tion, the need is greatest of all. jhoneymoon is being spent.
"We shall have gone far to- precipitated them into the terrace,
wards realising the ideal of hu- 20 feet below.
From the nature of her injuries, man solidarity for which the Red it is surmised that the amah struck Cross stands," he says, "If we the road below with her head and can effectively contribute to en- shoulders. She succumbed to her able the Oriental Societies to Miss Marie-Ribeiro-And injuries about half an hour after built themselves up into organ- she was picked up.
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Both giris appeared to have struck the road with their heads and were suffering from severe head injuries, while the boy had a miraculous escape, practically land- ing on his feet, although, one of his ankles was severely twisted, and his left shoulder fractured.
Immediately following the so- cident, a call was put through to the Fire Brigade, an ambulance and the Police.
isations capable of improving the lot of the most defenceless and inarticulate of human sufferers "the Man in the Paddy Field."- Reuter,
£300 MADE FROM
HANSOM CAB
PRETTY WEDDING AT KOWLOON.
Dr. M. N. S. Lim.
of
the greengrocery.
away,
Joyous young men and maidens. miming the new emotions for a new age. tread them down.
It was well for Aubrey that be had his Miranda in that dark hour, someone who in the old days could her own with a landlady at the same darn a sock, study a part, and hoid
Lime.
It's a If I land a fat
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "King John and the Man of God," by George Godwin,
years younger.
So he did his daily dozen, me- She specialised in silver linings morised the latest slang, and did and a faith invincible in the art of everything possible to be forty Aubrey Carmichael, even when the the lean years stalked them down. The new generation found them She was a fountan in the desert.
both a scream, not realising how A pretty wedding took place on
"Not a shop in sight at the mo-they were walking pinioned between Saturday afternoon at the Rosary ment, Mirrie," Aubrey might say on Want and Fear till they should Church, Kowloon, when Dr. Michael his return to the bedsitting room in
come to their appointed place. N. S. Lim, son of Mr. Lim Sinitat, but Hunt Battersby is putting on penses nowadays, it is one way of Brixton after touring the agents, At last-everyone cuts down ex-
a big spectacular show of
at the saving enough to spend for em- Classic. The
An old hand who learned ployment-Miranda was cut out of his job at the Lyceum will stand a the box-office.
Their last defence! The flowing was gone.
was married to Mise Marie Eugenie de Lourdes Ribeiro, daughter Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Riberio.
Rev. Father G. M. Spada officiated.
The bride who was given away by (her father, Mr. O. F. Riberío, was
Echo Of The "Naughty attended by Miss Susie Law
Nineties."
Mr. J. C. Filz Henry, Deputy Superintendani and Inspection Officer of the Brigade was the first INVENTOR'S SMALL REWARD
to arrive. He was followed by Mr. A. I. Cash and Mr. R. H. J. Brooks, Assistant Station Officers,
and
chance then, my love. (tide is with us."
Then Miranda
would
"We must take the fat with the reply, lean, dearie," said she, but Aubrey Miss Evelyn Riberio bridemaids, "Cheers! big boy. Wire in to your felt the troubled tremor of her while the flower girls were the sausages, and tell me all about it shoulders under his arm. Misses Ireen, Doreen and Phyllis again. But I don't think I'll give In secret, in the dark hours each Kennedy
up the box office this week-not till wrestled with calamity. Landon.
Mr. C. J. See carried out the duties the tide begins to flow."
"These taco old threads are very| of the best man, while Mr. F. P. Miranda worked at a cinema as thin and weak, Lachesis. Shall wej: You may still sometimes see Det.
husam cab driving along the Lon- Kennedy acted as the groomsman.
relief cashier three nights a week.snip them off Sergeant Fitches and Sub-Inspectorlon streefs, relic of the gay days Following the reception which Otherwise the wolf had them.
of the naughty nineties." of was held at No. 6 Knutsford Ter- wong bloods with flowing race, the happy couple left for their whiskers, of the days of top hate honeymoon which is being spent in and Fire Brigade tight tmusers.
Singapore.
McLellan came soon after.
First aid was rendered by Dr. Li Sung, who lives next door.
The Police
Omcere conducted a thorough examination of the
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In 1886 here were more than premises, and 7,000 lunsome licensed; to-day the front rooms of both floors were there are four-and they are to
ordered to be locked,
often in evidence except on such The accident is attributed to the occasions as Boat Race night, or rain of the past few days.
Cup-Final day.
Erected just over a year ago, the building is of moders European churches which formed the main It was not cabs, however, but. style structure of three storeys,
Each floor has two rooms and small balcony built on the cantilever principle, without pillar support.
LOCAL JOURNALIST FAREWELLED
Presentation To Mr. H. Brokenshire.
P. I. INDEPENDENCE MISSION.
Members Arrive In
Colony.
WELCOME BY LOCAL FILIPINOS.
At breakfast, over the bread and dripping, each had something to show for a night of care.
"There are lots of advertisements for women demonstrators, Aubrey." "I have a real hard stab at the movies, my dear, I ought to have done it before. There la big money in films for a trained actor. I shouldn't be surprised...." Aubrey's imagination went off pop -"if we got out of this place next week and perhaps even took a couple Interest in the life of John Hansom athe man who invented this famous
of furnished rooms in Dulwich!" Mr. Harold Brokenshire, former The Philippine Independence In a fortnight, Aubrey, lean, and type of cab 100 years ago, for he night sub-editor of the South China Mission, who, for the past several ascetic-looking in his big-brimmed was an ecclesiastical architect and [forning Post, was the recipient of months have been in the United hat and "sporty-boy" checks, was won a high reputation as a designer a solid gold wrist watch, inscribed States working hard for the of Roman Catholic
ap-the joke of the studios. Churches. From his Collegues on the South proval of the Hawes-Cutting Law Plymouth Cathedral is his work.
He had spurred himself to be con- So, like many another inventor, Kong Telegraph" on the occasion of granting independence
China Morning Post and the Hong in the United States Congress,fident, assertive, and terribly youth- Hanson received little money from
theful. He walked with a spring, He his leaving the former paper. the design of his "patent safety
Philippine Islands for 10 years, told himself that success was made cob."
The presentation was made by arrived in Hong Kong Saturday more often by bluff than brains, but He sold the patent to the General Manager of the Com-morning by the Lloyd Tristino liner he did not realise that fifty seven company for £10,000, but be re
B. Wylie, who paid Conte Rosso,
D'ANNUNZIO'S HOUSE FOR ITALY.
“National Monument
for
are:-
to
is too late to acquire that technique.
ceived none of this money, for any, Mr. Home. after acting se manager of the firm tribute to the conscientious manner Local Filipinos met the visitors The note he succeeded in reaching Few poets have seep their for only a short time, he left to in which Mr. Brokenshire had per- and gave them a roneing reception was a blend of a jockey and an houses become national monuments carry on with his architectural formed his duties and on behalf of at the Kowloon Wharf, where the archbishop. during their life-times.
work.
After his resignation the the gathering wished him". every vcasel berthed.
Nothing daunted him. He would Опе of these ie Gabrielle company was less successful and be success in the future.
Those comprising the Mission butt in on busy producers with the D'Annunzio," who lives in retire returned to it and once more ite Mr. Brokenshire Jerves
sonorous suavity of George Alexan- ment on the banks of lake Gardn prosperity returned with him. For Japan to-day by the 8.8. Nankin.
Hon. Manuel L. Quezon, Preef-der. "You're looking for someone The Italian Government has just this be received £300-all that he He will return to Sydney after andent of the Philippine Senate and to play. Young Devil-may-care" "in approved decree for the ex-made out of his invention.--Reuter. extended holiday.
Chairman of the Nacionalista the Yellow. Jumper. I'm your man. propriation of the house at Peseuru in which he was born 70 years ago.
(Government) Party.
Give me a try out.”
and for its upkeep by the State as a national monument.
$
D'Annunzio at present lives in the Vittoriale," a house present-
ed to him by the Italian nation,
which he has converted into "a temple of witness to the vietorica and the sacrifices of the war." No unauthorised person is allowed to approach the house. In the lake nearby is anchored : D'Annunzio's private gunboat.-Reuter,
HIGH COST OF U.S.
GOVERNMENT.
Represents 40 Per Cent. Of People's Income.
#
New York.
DOG DINES OFF SERMONS.
Vicar's Good Friday Dilemma.
Hon. Sergio Osmena, Presidenti Pro Tempore, Philippine Senate, and Vice-Chairman of the Na cionalistas.
“Can you dívë off a thirty-foot| cliff?" asked Anstruther on that occasion.
"I'll start taking swimming lessons to-day," said Aubrey?
Can you beat it?
Hon. Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ⠀
People began to call him "the Hon. Ruperto Montinola, Minor- New York.
ity Floor Leader, Philippine Senate. Optimist. If he had been content with utility parts it would not have The Rev. Dr. Darlington said
Hon. Emiliano T. Tirona, Minor been so funny, but Aubrey was out Due to a substantial increase in that for a thine it looked as though ity Floor Leader, House of Repre for fame.. Resolve, perseverance, Federal, State and local Govern- he would be forced to preach his acatatives.
determination, and a technique ment expenditures and a sharp | Good Friday sermona without the With them are their respective founded on the great masters of the decline in the income of the people benefit of a manuscript because of families, as well as their technical Edwardian era, were to make him of the United States, the cost of the playfulness of his black-and-advisers and private secretaries at long last the Blue-eyed Boy of government in 1032 represented white wire-haired 'terrier, Sandy, numbering about sixty' in 'all S Elstree! 40.8 per cent, of the people's in- Dr. Darlington left the manu
3-Day Stay In truth it does take some resolu- come, according to figures made scripts of his sermons on his desk They expect to stay in the Colony tion to tramp half-way from Brix- public by the Alexander Hamilton on Thursday evening, and when about a week, doring which time ton to Elstree every day to save bus Institute.
he went to get them on Friday the local Filipino Club and the fares, but it helped to kept that The income of the people in 1982 morning he found only a few Filipino Community will be their schoolboy gure. Then, having Miss-Mouazzez, a Turkish law was put at $37,200,000,000. The scraps of chewed paper. Sitting hosts at a banquet to be given at lunched on an egg sandwich, he yer, has been appointed a Judge cost of Federal, State and local beside the desk, beaming the Peninsula Hotel in their came back to impress Miranda with of the Istanbul Criminal Court. government in 1982 was innocently at his master while try
This is the first time a Turkish $15,000,000,000, compared withing to disengage the last traces of honour. They are due to sail for the thought that he would be cast woman has acted as Judge, of a 15.8 per cent. in 1920 and 8.5 per the manuscripts from his mouth, Manila on the Empress of Japan" for a really fat part-to-morrow penal court-Router.
boon, in 1918.-Reuter,
was BandyReuter,
leaving on June 9
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