TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1933.
IMPROVED WATER
PIPES
Dr. Kotewall's Question On New System.
FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL MEETING
The question of the granting of Government permission to property;| owners to instal a new system of) water-piper in residences where! sufficient pressure is unobtainable when water restrictions are in force. will be put forward by the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., at the meeting of the Legislative Coun-) cil on Thursday.
A resolution for additional expen- diture оп the Aberdeen Valley Water Scheme, is also on the agenda, in addition to the first read. ing of two Bills and the second reading of the Bill to amend the law relating to opium,
The agenda, is as follows:
The Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall will ask the following question:-
U. S. TO RETAIN ADEQUATE ARMY FORCE
Officer Personnel To Be Maintained Despite Economies
San Francisco. Commenting on governmental economies here to-day, Secretary of. War George H. Dern gave the opinion that further reduction of army officer personnel would en- danger the national security,
The war department, he said, was making an effort to retain a fighting force adequate to insure the peace of the nation.
ANTI-MUI TSAI SOCIETY
Centenary Of Abolition Of Slavery.
CELEBRATION DINNER
THE CHINA MAIL.
SALE OF OPIUM TO A MINOR
Two Chinese On Serious Charges.
FINES TOTAL $890
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Lau Po, a Chinese, was fined
To-Day's Short Story.
THE BRONZE GLADIATOR
3500, in default four months' hard TT was breakfast time at No. Įlabour, at the Central Police Courl I was breakfast Rest No.
this morning on a charge of "TeMrs. Hacket, who was lumber- tailing opium to a person under ing noiselessly about in a pair of the age of 21 years." The person black plimsolls, dumped a pot of
By H V. Purcell.
TO-MORROW AT THE CENTRAL
'Squeezle, and Fleecem." "Mr. Joseph Hacket,
22, Lobelia-road,
Peckham, S.E." "Old Eliza gasped Mr. Hacket
in question was a Chinese girl. tea down upon the kitchen table when his powers of speech return- Wong Ling, aged 13.
The defendant was also fined and smacked impatiently at the ed to him. "Oo'd ave thought it!" $40, in default three weeks hard outspread newspaper, which was some unseen per- supported by labour, for possession of six 'mace son.
Best-Suit Occasion. "Don't stand there doddering!".
It was obediently lowered, snapped his wife "Go and put on of raw opium, and $50, in default and from behind it appeared the your best suit and quick!" four weeks hard labour, for keep-wizened face of Mr. Hacket. He, "Best suit?" repeated Mr. Hac- ing an opium divan, the sentences stared absently at the kipper ket. "Whaffor?"
to run consecutively.
said that the Department took a serious view of the first charge for?" the girl would probably be later charged with smuggling if she
The centenary of the legal abakwere allowed to continue in her his own mind, when there was a
present course.
Revenue Officer Grimmitt said in front of him.
which lay.cremated upon a plate "Whaffor" shrilled Mrs. Backet "To go and get the money, of "Whatcher staring at it like that course! Whaffor, indeed! Your inquired. Mrs. Hacket. collar's in the right-hand wash- stand drawer. And put on yer "Ain't it good?"
He was debating this question in black tie, don't forget."
Mr. Hacket shuffled up to his In view of the complaints re-tion of slavery within the British
Woman Also Charged.
postman's rat-tat at the street bedroom tense with nervous excite- Old Eliza-good for fire celved that water does not reach the Empire was last night celebrated at
door, and his questioner moved ment. In conjunction with this case, heavily off in response.
hundred pounds, they said! Hed third and higher floors of many a dinner arranged by the houses on account of insufficient Muitsal Society of Hong Kong at with a "counselling and abetting started eating, knowing better than Well, he'd been good to her
Anti-Taang Sze, a widow, was charged. She was gone long that he she left him the lot? Half prapa? pressure whenever restrictions are the roof garden of the Sincere Com-the possession of opium in a min imposed, will the Government grant pany, at which over 200 people were or;" also with possession of eleven play of curiosity. Presently she More than Tom or Flo had, he'd to irritate her by an ill-timed dis- always sent her a Christmas card. permission to such property-owners present,
taels of opium at 13 Koshing came into the room turning a let- swear!
what are the Government's reason?
son.
ter over in her hands.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
as may apply for it, to have the The Society also combined the oc-Street. water-pipea laid first to the top-casion with the celebration of its The accused pleaded not guilty. most floors and thence downwards, eleventh anniversary, and presenta on the first charge, which was dis Hacket, unable to contain himself "Who's it for inquired Mr. instead of from the ground floors tions were made to Messrs 5. C.missed owing to insufficient evi- any longer, "and who's it from?" and upwards as at present? If not, Yeung, J. D. Bush and C. G. Ander dence. Wong Ling, the girl re-
By the way of reply she picked ferred to in the first case, said The Colonial Treasurer will move;
Among those present were that the woman gave her 60 cents open the envelope.
up a knife from the table and alif the following resolution:-
Wong
Shum-kan, chairman, who
to buy opium from Lau Po. the travelled down the page, they be
As her eyes- "The That this Council approves of the presided, Mr. T. Moffatt, vice-first defendant. additional expenditure of $58,487.20 chairman, the Rev. H. B. Wells, one;
gan to bulge. was convicted on "What the Aberdeen Valley Water of the first missionaries to take an the charge of possession of opium ment. Scheme during the financial year, active interest in the Anti-muitsei and fined $300, in default threa
Bush, Hon. months' hard labour: 1982, which sum shall be met from movement, Mr. J, D.
on
a future loan and shall meanwhile English Secretary, the Rev. J. R.
be charged as an advance from the Saunders, Superintendent of the Pu surplus balances of the Colony.
Kong
Orphanage. Mr.
The woman
is it?" he cried in tor-
Mrs. Hacket make a noise like
a
her
To-morrow's story will be
Metcalfe.
Tunnel," by John.
Dressed in his best suit, his burst tyre, and sat down heavily mind wandered back to the grey- upon a wet dishcloth. The letter hounds while Mrs. Hacket stitched
from C. G. NEW SEMINARY FOR fluttered
perveless a black band round his arm. Five | Angers. HONG KONG.
¡quid on Mick Miller for the 6.30. | Mr. Hacket snatched it up and Five quid? What was five quid to read:--
ja man with two hundred and fifty? Pontificial Foreign
Ten quid!' Ten quid at 7 to 2j Missions' Institute.
The Attorney General will move Anderson, the Rev. Li Kau-yun, Mr. the first reading of—
J. E. R. McPherson, the Rev. N.
"A Bill to amend the Betting V. Halward, Messre. S. C. Young,
13. M. Wong, Wat Lok-hing, Mra. Mal Duty Ordinance, 1931."
The Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, will Hang-fan, Dr. Ma Lok, Mr. Mack move the first reading of—
Mui-sang, whose history of the
Missions Institute."
"A Bill to provide for the incor-Anti-Muitsai movement is in course
An Ordinance to provide for the poration of the Procurator in Hong-of preparation, Mr. Wong Kam- incorporation of the Procurator in Kong of the Pontifical Foreign ying, one of the earliest members Hongkong of the Pontificial Foreign
of the committee, Dr. H. Y. Tsao, Missions Institute, will be read for, the Rev. S. F. Tso, who kindly acted the first time as a Bill, at the meet- as interpreter, and others,
ing of the Legislative Council, on Speeches were given by Mr. J. D. Thursday. Bush, the Rey. H. R. -Wells, the Rev.
The Attorney General will move the second reading of→
"A Bill to amend the law relating to Opium."
EUROPEAN FINED
Dangerous Driving On Stubbs Road.
ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED
The object and reasons for the Mr. Saunders and by Mr. S. Clegislation is set out as follows: Yeung, a former chairman of the
The education of adults to priest-
Anti-Muitsal Society of Hong Kong.bodd for the purpose of the Mission A note of progress was struck by work having been entrusted to the
"Re the late Eliza Perkins. "Dear Sir,
WASumm
"We beg to inform you that "Now get along!" barked Mrs.
we are acting in the estate of Hacket, breaking in upon
there
the above deccased, under whose pleasant meditations.' "And come888 Will you have been made a be- straight back 'ere when you get It"| quest.
To a man who has been endea- "If you will call at our office, 'vouring to squeeze out a shilling we shall be pleased to hand it to put upon a dog, five pounds is
wealth. over to you.
To & ал who haa travelled all the way from Bye "I. Fleecem.
Lane, Peckham, to the Strand, Fleecem,
Stinger, planning which
the quickest way to turn two hundred and fifty pounds into a thousand, it is sheer grief.
"Yours faithfully,
Messrs.
the speakers, who were unanimous- Institute by the Holy See in Bengal, ITALY MAY BORROW
BRITISH PICTURES
is
A tear came into Mr. Hackevs leye as he left the lawyer's office, Five pounds! Five miserable {pounds! Five pounds and s
hideous bronze' ornament!
ly of the opinion that the Society Burma and other cities in India, could congratulate itself on the re-the Shan States, Hong Kong and sults of the efforts of its earlier Central China the acquisition of members and the manner in which land and other hereditaments and the present body was carrying on premises for the erection and main Correggio's Masterpieces" He wandered along Flest-street
Mr. M. L. Davis, manager of the the work. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Company of China, was fined $20 at the Central! Police Court this morning for] dangerous driving on Stubbs Road on July 23. Mr. Davis, who Wal represented, in Court, pleaded guil ty,
LORRY CRASH IN
GARDEN ROAD:
Ricksha And Puller Crushed,
tenance of a seminary is necessary for the purpose aforesaid and in- corporation is considered desirable.
The Bill follows the form usual in Incorporation Ordinances of this nature particularly Ordinances Nos. 18 of 1927, 27 of 1929 and 3 of 1931. The new Ordinance may be cited
1933.
For Parma?
FOURTH CENTENARY CELEBRATION
Parms..
with the ornament wrapped in brown paper under, his arm, the £5 note tucked inside the breast poc ket of his best coat.
By the time he arrived at Lud- gate-circus, however, his spirits Įbegan to pick up. After all ke was
A request may be made by the 5 richer than he had been when
as the Pontificial Foreign Missions city of Parica to the London he woke up. There were possibili Institute Incorporation Ordinance, National Gallery for the loan of ties with £5.
the Correggio pictures in the Na Properly laid out-
£5 was capital tional Gallery for a 'Correggio ex-
He took his newspaer from his hibition to celebrate the fourth pocket when he had settled him centenary of the painter's death self on the tram, and began to con Farma, Correggio's native city aider the night's Catford selec will celebrate the centenary next tions,
CINEMA "LOCK-OUT” IN JUGO-SLAVIA.
Mr. A. W. Holland, the complain- ant, said that the defendant's car came around a bend on Stubbs Road on the wrong side, just as he
SEVEN MEN INJURED. was.reached it from the opposite direction in his car. Only the Seven Chinese were injured prompt application of his brakes yesterday when a motor-forry. - saved him from what might have lout of control, overturned on the
been a serious accident.
steepest part of Garden Road in Owners One-Day Protest attempting to turn into Upper RECKLESS DRIVING. Albert Road.
Against New Tax
*
As the lorry crashed over on
ning the coolie to the road.
Six Chinese who were riding]
Anna
Giver à bring
THE LITTLE
Lead
Bagle
Performa
DAMOZET
A BRITISH MUSICAL ROMANCE WITH SONG-HITS BY NOEL COWARD & RAY NOBLE
PHOTO SUPPLIES.
Cameras Filin Plates, Papers, de. Developing Printing and
Enlarging Beam
AT 24 HOURS' SERVICE,
Trial Order is Solicited
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year The city's picture gallery Precently uncomfortable thoughts THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE-LTD.
already has a famous collection of instruded themselves between his Correggios and the Parma academy eyes and the printed page:
of fine arts has expressed to the What would she say when she Speeding In Caine Road, its side, it struck a ricksha, pin- PETITION TO PRIME MINISTER Ministry of Education its desire heard of the £5?
that other picture galleries "You hand it over," she would Belgrade notably those of Florence, Milan, say. "Hand it over, jolted the For speeding through a controlled on the lorry at the time were Jugo-Slav film fans recently found Rome, Paris and Vienna should tram. The ornament, disregarded. area at Caine Road on July 20, heavily thrown and, with the themselves the victims of a one-day be asked to lend their treasures rolled on to the floor with a crash Chung Ying San, driver of private ricksha coolie, were taken to the lock-out" when they arrived at for an exhibition of the artists | car No. 2011, was fined $15 at the Government Civil Hospital for their
He picked it up and unwrapped favourite cinemas. The collected works. Central Police Court this morning treatment. Their injuries, how- Cinematograph Owners' Association Parma has already lent some of remembered it well enough, this it to see if it was all right. He The defendant pleaded guilty. lever, are not serious.
had called a one-day suspension of its Correggios to London for the bronze figure of a gladiator which Inspector Alexander said that ne
performances to introduce a new 10 Italian art exhibition held at had stood upon. Eliza's sideboard. followed the defendant's car from
per cent, tax. on cinemas.
in 1930- Praps he could sell it? Then his
Arbuthnot Road to Castle Road.
The defendant travelled at an aver- age speed of 30 m.p.h. along Cafne Read, all of which is a controlled
area.
RAINFALL FIGURES
A total of 15.68 inches of rainfall
were recorded at the Botanical Gardens during the month of July, according to a statement issued by
COW MOURNED AS HEROINE.
Enters Burning Shed To Rescue Calf.
Delhi.
Burlington House
The tax was imposed in order to Reuter
cover the deficit in the budgets of
the national theatres, which show AUSTRALIAN RABBIT constantly decreasing returns, while the cinemas are always full
The theatres already receive con- siderable subsidies from the state, paid out of a 20 per cent. tax on the gross revenue of the cineman, which
heroine" of a fire here,
A cow is being mourned as the also pay 18 per cent. in other taxes, MAX' delegation, which has come to
EXPORTS.
eyes fell upon the base. The plate on which the title was inscribed had moved aside in the fall and a {cavity-, was revealed. Mr. Hacket felt inside quickly in the hope that this bad been Eliza's secret bank
£520,000 Trade In 10 Alas I was empty.
Months.
At Camberwell. Green another thought struck him... Where was Sydney, NSW. he to hide the money away from The fire started in the house of Belgrade to present a petition to Stewart), reports that for the first, Well, lay it out? She'd have that
The Minister for Commerce (Mr. her sticky fingers until he could the Director of the Botanical and an Indian workman. The people ran the Prime Minister, maintains that 10 months of this financial year, Forestry Department. The heaviest aide and then saw, that workman the cinemas will be run at 155 0,765,000 pairs of frozen rabbits doors. Better make up his mind 'auit off him sa soon": as he got in- The people ran outside and then rainfall was, on July 1, when 3.86 saw that the flames and spread to if the additional 10 per cent tax and bares, valued at approximate quieldy. In the bottom of the is retained 17 £520.000 were exported from the ornament? The very place! He * The one-day "lock-out" is Intend- Commonwealth Compared with unobtrusively took the five pound from inside the blazing shed came danger of the Alm palaces closing for the corresponding period last. It inside
The cow emerged in safety. Buted to make the public realise the 6,537,000 pairs, valued at £402,000 note from his pocket and slipped the bellows of her abandoned call.
The owner of the cow tried for permanently-Reuter.
inches were recorded.
REATLESS ADOLF
...Madrid.
the cowshed.
Personal Pars.
YEAT, N
At Rye Lane he descended from { A German athlete, Adolf Herr, some time to keep the animal, back;
Btrict supervision by Inapectors the tram Whistling cheerily, he has walked all round Spain. He has but ane escaped from his hold and
of the Department of Commerce stepped off towards Lobelia-road taken two years to achieve this, bolted into the burning shed to re-
ensures that only the best carcases Mrs: Hacket opened the front His next excursion will be to walk acue her calf,
The forthcoming marriage be are shipped In addition to Great door as he set foot on the step. round Africa whither he now pro- When, eventually, the fire had, tween John Cheng, merchant, of 5 Britain, there was a growing de- | "Well?" she gasped, taking hold ceeding. He reckons that it will been put out,, the bodies of cow and, and 7 Caroline Hill Road, and Glory mand last year for these products of his shoulders and pulling bith -tako hiru several yearA to accom calf were found lying side by side; Tang, of 27, Wellington Street, isjin Canada, Ceylon, British Malaya, insidă.
plish-Better.
announced.
¡Belgium, and France-Reuter,
near the dearway, Reuter.
(Continued on Page 10).
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