WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1933,
ARTILLERY OFFICER
FINED
Horses Wandering At Shaukiwan.
ANIMALS DECIDE TO WALK BACK TO HONG KONG
NEW £2,000,000 GOVT. OFFICES Big Whitehall Addition Planned.
PRESENT ACCOMMODATION INADEQUATE
London, To-day, It is anticipated that the Gov. Lieut. S. E. Skey. RA, attached
ernment will shortly sanction the R.A.. to the 12th Heavy Battery. Lyemun, was this morning fined 85 preparation of plans for the cop. for allowing two horses to wander struction, on the embankment side loose in the public streets of Shou-of Whitehall, of a new block klwan Road, near Ray View Police Government Station.
barven
NEW TREASURY
ISSUE OFFERED
THE CHINA-MAIL.
IN BRITAIN
£150,000,000 Added To
Conversion Loan, .
ANNUAL INTEREST SAVING OF £934,246
•
London. To-day.
To-Day's Short Story.
BEATTOCK
for MOFFAT..
By R. B Cunninghame Graham.
T platform, stopped for an inter fairly got into pretee
nalf-astonished look
Then a few sand.
ה
hali
HE bustle on the Euston to like them weel, when the mecni- stant to let the men who carried tion in the auld kirk, outby."
The train slid almost impercep- him to the third-class compart-
the Particulars are announced of the ment pass along train.tibly away, the passengers upon the of new Government issue consisting of Gaunt and emaciated, he looked platform looking after it with that Offices costing up the addition of £150,000,000 to just at death's door, and, as they half-foolish, proximately £2,000,000.
the existing 22 per cent Conver-propped him in the carriage be- with which men watched a disap-
tween two pillows, he faintly pearing train. The act authorising the erection sion Loan, 1944-1949, to be sub- said. "Jock, do ye think I'll live with papers rose with the dust al- Defendant said the were supposed to graze at Lyemunj of these buildings was passed 21 and were brought back to barracks rears ago, but the scheme was post- scribed partly by-cash and partly by as far as Moffat? I should na most to the level of the platform, like to die in London in the sank again, the clock struck twelve,
and the station fell into poned owing to the war and the conversion. every evening for watering.
AL present The price of the issue for cash smoke." The horses in question were need for economy.
His Cockney wife, drying her quiescence like a volcano in the in- formerly stationed in Hong Kong the staffs of some departments in subscriptions is £94 per cent.,
cheap hem-stitched, terval between the lava showers. per tears with a in giving a yield of £2.13.2
Inside the third-class carriago all: her scanty and on this occasion, when the roshe Westminster left them, they decided in walk back į buildings on which the Government cent. in interest only, and a yield pocket-handkerchief,
of £3.3.1, or
£2.19.7 per cent,, town-bred hair looking Hike wisps of was quiet until the lights of Harrow is paying rent, while the accom- Tram Sergeant Howell said he modation in some instances is con allowing for redemption in 1944 tow beneath her hat, bought from shone upon the left, when the sick
for 1949 respectively.
Bome window in which each indivi- man, turning himself with difficulty, I said, "Good-bye. Harrow-on-the- found the horses in the back yard sidered inadequate and unsuitable.
His The Office of Works has already of the China Motor Bus Company. after having seen them running in asked the Royal Institute of Bri- to nominale Len front of a tram car in Shaukiwanish Architects
be names wi!! architects, whose Read
submitted to the committee making the final selection.
to Hong Kong.
YUNNAN LEADERS
SEEK LOAN.
Agricultural And Gold Mine Development.
Nanking. To-day. Significance is attached to a peti. tion presented to the Central Govern- ment by the Younan provincial au- thorities for
of the abortion $12,000,000 from the proceeds of the American Cotton and When! Loan to be devoted to agricultural colonisation
development
of
working ara
It is stipulated that the architects nominated shall not be over 55 yours old. The scheme, if proceeded with. will take some years complete.- British Wireless Service,
CAUGHT ROBBING MOTOR CAR.
The price of the existing loan, dual article was marked at seven- Hill. 1 aye liked Harrow for the of which £55,000,000 had been end-sixpence, could only sob.
brother, with the country sun and hill's sake. the ye can scarcely ca' issued by tender before the weekly issues were suspended at wind burn still upon his face, and you wee bit mound a `hill, Joan.” the end of May, is 94%.
This huge hands hanging like hams! His wife who, even in ber grief, still smarted under the Scotch Instalments are apread evenly in front of him, made answer.
"Andra," he said, "gin ye last as variant of her name, which all her life she had pronounced as "Jayne,” payment being due on December 1./lar ag Beattock, we'll gie ye a brow and who true Cockney as she was,
over the next two months, the last
huri back to the farm, syne the bask air, ye ken, and the milk, and, bounded her world within the lines of Plaistow, Peckham Rye, the and--but can ye last as far Beattock. Andra'?”
Welsh 'Arp ('Endon way), and Willesden. moved uncomfortably at
18
The sick man, sitting with the
The first futerost payment of £} will be paid on April 1, 1934.
Holders of 4% per cent. Trea sury Bonds due on February 1 next may convert their holdings into cold sweat upon his face, his shrun- the depreciation of the chief moun the loan as from October 1. reken limbs looking like sticks inside tain in ber cosmos, but held ceiving £108.7.0 of Conversion Loon his ill-made black slop suit, after race. for every £100 nominal of Bonda considering the proposition on its converted, and will receive
on merits, looked up, and maid: February 1'next a special interest "I should na' like to bet feel
European Lady's Basket payment of £1.7.8 per £100 of such fair boss, God knows; but there, the
Taken Outside Shop.
CAPTOR COMMENDED BY MAGISTRATE
gold mines in Yunnan
Sentence of six weeks' hard ta- They ask tha! the Yunnanere Governmen11 bo permitted to bour was this morning passed on negotiate a foreign Joan for this Ho Hou, 26. for theft of a rattan purpures if the Central Government basket from Mrs. F. Wilson's mo- deems it impossible to meet its for car, outside the Wing On Build- elsim on the loan Central News 'ing yesterday.
Agency
ROTARY CLUB MEETING.
Com. A. Bianconi Speaks Of Italy's Progress,
Commendatore A. Bianconi, Con- sul General for Italy, who was the
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be Соп- "Sheer Magic," by stance Enne.
her
Bonds, and on April 1 a full half-mischief of it is. He will na' tell | year's dividend on the new Joan.
ye, so that, as ye may say, His The amount of these 41⁄2 per cent. knowledge has nu' commercial value.) Bonds outstanding is £50,757,000|| ken I look as gash as Garscadden.
Loving her husband in a sort of and holders who convert will ro-Ye mind, Jock, in the braw auld
of ceive a preferential allotment of times, when the suld laird just slip-half-antagonistic fashion. born Conversion Loan.
ped owa, whiles they were birlin' the difference of type between the at the clairet. A braw death, Jock hard, unyielding, yet humorous and The saving on interest, if the total amount outstanding ...do ye think it' be rainin' sentimental Lowland Scot, and the
about Ecclefechan 7
the Ape......sure conglomerate of all races of were converted, will be at the
to be rainin' about Leckerbie. Nae island which meet in London, and rute of £934,246 per annum. Cash applications will be open-Christians there, Jock, a' Johnstones produce the weedy, shallow breed, 1 Sub-Inspector Smith raid that:
Lalmost incapable of reduction, and Con-and Jardines, ye mind?" ed and closed to-morrow. Mrs. Wilson was away from the car'
The wife, who had been occupied yet high strung and nervous, there version applications opened yester- Cor about 10 minuter. Ay she re- turned she saw the accused lifting day and will be closed on October with an air cushion, and, having had arisen between them that in- lost the bellows. had been blowing tangible veil of misconception which,| her rattan basket. from under the
into it till her checks seemed almost though not excluding love, in yet im-) Separate prospectuses are being
Each saw the seat of the car.
bursting, and her false teeth were pervious to respect. She caught him
He issued by the Post Office and by the loosened in her head, left off her other's failings, or, perhaps, thought by the arm but he broke away. was finally caught by Chan Choi, Trustee Savings Banks, providing toll to ask her husband "If 'e could the good qualities which each pos- for cash subscriptions to the issue pick a bit of something, a pork pie, 'sessed were faults, for usually men a motor car coulie.
Mrs. Wilson gave corroborative of 21⁄2 per cent. Conversion Loan
or a nice sausage roll, or something judge each, other by
good to be held on the Post Office regis-tasty," which she could fetch from points, which, seen through preju evidence.
the converslon At the request of Sub-Inspector ter and for
the refreshment room. The invalid dice of race, religion, and surround- that issue of 4 per cent. Bonds having declined to eat. his brother, ings, appear to them defects. held on that register.
having draws from his pocket a The brother, who but a week ago The amount so issued will be ad-dirty bag. which were pepper-had left his farm unwillingly, just ditional to the £150,000,000 to be mints, gave him a "drop," telling when the "nceps were
wantin' issued through the Bank of Eng him that he "minded he aye used heughin' and a feck o' things re- land.-British Wireless Service,
spenker at yesterday's Beary Club Smith, His Worship commended the motor car coole, Chan Choi, for his meeting at Gloucester Building.
the ac- dealt with the industrul develop-valuable help in catching
used. ment of Italy during the last ten years.
Rotarian T. B. Wilson presided CHINESE WIFE SUES and
welcomed guests
wern
SIKH HUSBAND. Rotarian Edward Shim (Canton) and Messrs. S. D. lgglesdon, G. W.) True and Leslie Ross.
Dissensions Follow Second Marriage.
The Commendutare spoke of the progress made in various indus. tries, but more particularly of the great "back to the land"
move.
MAINTENANCE UNPAID FOR THREE MONTHS
ment. Already, he said, Italy's wheat production had been raised from 6,000,000 tons to 7,000,000 In the Supreme Court yesterday, tons, making her almost self-sup, before the Pulsne Judge, Mr. R. E. porting. Reclamation of marshy Lindsell, the Chinese wife of a Sikh named Bhagat Singh, living at 472
hand by the Government and it was expected that, within the next three years, Italy would be free. not only from swamps, but from
3.
AN INSANITARY BAKEHOUSE
Caterer's. Manager Pleads Guilty.
FINED $50 AT CENTRAL MAGISTRACY
Into
LIQUOR SMUGGLER
CAUGHT.
Fisherman Deportee With Bad Record.
their
quiring to be done, forby a pucklo sheep waitin' for keelin'," to come to see his brether for the last time, sat in that dour and seeming apathe- tic attitude which falls upon the countryman, torn from his dally toil, and plunged into a townL
Most things in London,' during the brief intervals he had passed away from the sick bed, seemed · foolish FOUR PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS to him, and of a nature such as a
the malaria which had been a A. el Arculli appeared for the, de- for allowing the troughs, tables breach of the Deportation Ordin- |
tional plague for centuries.
fendant.
jence.
self-respecting Moffat man, in the Chan Sing, 68, a fisherman, was hebdomadal enjoyment of the "pre this morning fined $2,500 and given sections" of a Free Church minister, one year's hard labour on two could not authorise. land had been taken vigorously ip Lockhart Road, claimed $60 main-
Summoned at the instance of the charges of importing dutiable - "Man, saw ye e'er a carter sittin' tenance for the months of June, Health authorities, Mr. D. M. Good-quor and possession of dutiable on his cart, and driven' at a trat, all this morning pleaded guilty be-quor, before Mr. Balfour at the instead o' walkin' in a proper man- July and August.
{Central Magistracy.
ner alangside his horse?" had been Mr. H. Lo, of Messrs. Lo and Lo, fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Cen-
Accused was also charged with a his first remark. represented the plaintiff while Mrtral Magistracy and was fined $50
The short-tailed sheep dogs, and the way they worked, the inferior and utensils in Messrs. Lane Craw-
Inspector Vincent said that the quality of the cart horses, their The plaintiff's case was that the ford's bakehouse, at 15 Burrow Police were asking for a committal hoes with nardly any calkins worth partice, after living together for Street, to become dirty and in an in this case as the accused had the name, all was repugnant to him. AN UNREGISTERED some years, were married accord- unhealthy state.
very bad record.
On Sabbath, too, he had received: MUI-TSAL ing to Sikh ritual in March 1980. Inspector H. L. Lockhard of the
Revenus Officer Grimmitt said-be shock, for, after walking miles to Last year the defendant went to Sanitary Department said he visit had been asked by the Superinten- sit under, the "brither of the U.P. India, providing for plaintiff dur-ed the premises on September 14, dant of the import and Export Do minister at Symington," he had ing his absence, and returned with accompanied by the Chlef top-partment to take a very serious found Erastian hymn books in the tor and the Medical Officer of view of the case as the accused pews and noticed with stern repro jan Indian wife.
The three lived together for Health, when he found the bake-had had four previous convictions, ation that the congregation stood about three months when, accord-house in a very unhealthy state for the same offence. On June 10, to sins, and that Instead of sitting Wong Mel-lum married woman ing to the plaintiff, she was asked
When inspected this morning, the 1932, and on January 6, 1938, the solidly whilst the "man wrastled in of No. 9 Prince's Terrace, was this to leave.. She removed to 178. Jaffe premises were found to be in reaccused had been convicted for im- prayer stooped forward in the morning fined $50 by Mr. Schofield Road, Wanchai, and up to June last gulation with the Ordinance.
porting liquor into the Colony and fashion called the Nonconformist for keeping an unregistered mul-received $20 À month main-|
on both these occasions the junks, lounge. "je tsal, Wong Ping, aged 16, at her tenance from her frisband.
had been confiscated. . house,
Mr. Lo said his case was that the j
Woman Offender Fined $50.
L
Sub-Inspector Frater of the wife wap: ill-treated and asked to DOLLAR REMAINS Secretariat for Chinese Affairs leave.
UNCHANGED.
said the girl, Wong Ping, made a Plaintiff, gave evidence and sold
report to the S.C.A. that she was that after the separation, she and Silver Prices Gain 1/16.
an unregistered mui-teal.
her husband continued io vfalt nach
She was formerly presented by other her own mother, to a sister of the defendant and remained with her
His, troubled, spirit had received
t
On the present occasion, the ac- Prembled pis he sermon, used's junk was found to contain which, though short, and extending a pump and eight kongs for keeping to but some fyw-and-forly minutes, the liquor in, with rubber banda at, had still been powerful, for he said; der to keep them from sinking when brither, ya ken, of ranting |tached to the necks of each, la or- *When you wee, shilpit mecnister
put overboard for concealment Plaintiff's Dental No change is indicated in the Accused was remanded until Sa
local dollar, which opened, on dé- túrday morning, Cross-examined she denied that in the country for one year.”. the marriage took place on, condi-mand this morning at 1/4
Brought to Hong Kong, Wong tion that she accompanied her hus Spot and forward silver gained Ping was made to assist two other band to India and that shd, was 1/16 yesterday,, apot cloning yes mul-tast in the defendants: house. aware that a Bikh whose wife terday at 18%, while forward silver She was not paid any regular proved childless was entitled to cloand at 18% wages, but was given small marry again. Had alle known this The London on New York, gratuities from time to time. she would not have married him:1rate, quoted on Monday' fak
8. L. Fraser said that the de- She would not go back to him if G64,74, yesterday | fendant had instructed the com- he was going to pontinue his ill. G84.75, while the New plainant to tell him, when be call- treatment, and fe
London-rate closed yest
veil, that she was a domestic servant~ Judgment was given for the '2+-G$4,78% as compared Land 'not a 'muiltaadi
plaintiff, with 'coats;
G$4.75 on Monday,
York
GUN, PRACTICE
It is notised from Boyal Art
out duri
Being North of
son, put by Symington shook the congregation over the pit mouth, ye could hae fancied that the very slowin in bell just girned." Man, he gar red the very tour to use about the <die sirk, andy, badna "the big
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