THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1934.
TANNER FINED
$150
Larceny Under False Pretences.
LANE, CRAWFORD'S DEFRAUDED
The case against W. A. Tanner for obtaining $40 by false pre- tences from Messrs. Lane, Craw ford, Ltd., was resumed before Mr. S. Balfour at the Central Magis- tracy this morning, defendent be- ing fined $150 and order to make restitution to Lane Crawford. Ltd.
of the sum of $40 being granted 24 hours to pay.
Mr. E. J. Ainsley, Store Super. intendent of Messrs. Lane, Craw. ford, Ltd., stated that he had known defendant for about twelve months, There had been a query about the account from the V. R. C., but when Tanner came and explained to him that the bill was for two days' advertising at $20 per day, he signed it In the manner used when certifying accounts for pay- ment. He said that he signed the account and returned it to Tan- ner. his responsibility then being) finished and the account ready for payment,
Defendent stated that when the programmes were being prepared. Mr. Dixon, Hon. Secretary of the V. R. C. xant a letter to the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd., asking them to allow him to sign chils in the Hong Kong hotel on behalf of the Club.
Tokio-Bound
Maryse Hilt
With Tokyo, Japan, her goal, Mile. Maryse te, noted French aviatrix, took off from Hong Kong for Shanghai yesterday on her Paris to Tokyo flight. She al- ready holds several aviation re- cords.
AVIATRIX TURNS
BACK.
Defendent also stated that ho was placed on the entertainment Committee, on the Committee for the Sports Meeting, and on the Ke. ception Committee. Later he call. ed on The British American To- bacco Company. the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels and the Hong ENCOUNTERS BAD WEATHER
Mlle. Hiltz Now In Swatow.
ENTRIES FOR LONDON TO MELBOURNE AIR RACE
32-Passenger Fokker - For Handicap Event
The Hague, To-day. Two Royal Dutch "sir liners will participate in the London-Mel- bourne
in connection air race with the - Victoria Centenary celebrations, this Summer.
The newest giant fokker air Hiner, capable of carrying 32 passengers, will be entered in the handicap race, and one of the fastest craft of the Dutch gir flect will participate An the speed race.-Reuter.
CHINESE Y. M. C. A. EXTENSION
Foundation Stone Laying On Saturday.
+
WATERLOO ROAD FUNCTION
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Short Story..
THE RAGGED de MOUNTAINS
By Edgar Allan Poe.
URING the fall of the year; of profound melancholy of a phase-
1872, while residing near less and unceasing gloom. Charlottesville, Virginia, I ca His eyes were abnormally large, sually made in the acquaintance and round like those of a cat. The of Mr. Augustus Bedloe. This pupils, too, upon any accession or young gentleman was remark-diminution of light, underwent | able in every respect, and excit-contraction or dilation, just such ed in me a profound interest and jas is observed in the feline tribe. curiosity.
In moments of excitement. the orbi
During the fall of the year 1827, grow bright to a degree almost while residing near Charlottes- inconceivable; seeming to emit, {ville, Virginia, I casually made the luminous rays, not of a reflected acquaintance of Mr. Augustus but of an intrinsic lustre, as does Bedloe. This young gentlemanja candle or the sun; yet their or was remarkable in every respect, dinary condition was
SINCERE'S
STORES
OPEN TO-DAY
o totally TO-DAY
and excited in me a profound In-vapid, filmy, and dull, as to con terest and curiosity.
rey the idea of the eyes of a long-
I found it impossibble to compre-interred corpse. hend him either in his moral or These peculiarities of person up. his physical relatons. Of his peared to cause him much annoy- The Foundation Stone of The family I could obtain no satisfac-fance, and be was continuelly allud- Kowk an Branch Extension of the tory account. Whence he came, Iing to them in a sort of half ex- Even about, his planatory, half apologetic strain, Chinese Y. M. C. A., to be erected never ascertained.
in Waterloo Road, will be laid by age--although I call him a young which, when I first heard it, im. Mr. Lam Chi-fung, the President, gentleman there was something pressed me very painfully. I soon,
(which perplexed me in no little de- however, grew on.Saturday at 3 p.m.
accustomed to it,
Was
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "The Shameless Behaviour Of A Lord," by Michael Arlen.
not
It
al-
Some iden of the progress
of gree. He certainly seemed young and my uneasiness wore off. the Chinese branch of the Y. M. C. and he made a point of speak----
yet there: A. in the Colony during last year ing about his youth can be gathered from the following were moments when I should have facts and figures:-
jhad little trouble in imagining him The membership on the Decem-a hundred years of age. her 31 consisted of 2,117 men and But in no regard was he more 1,066 boys.
¦peculiar than in his personal ap The Ambulance Brigade now con-pearance. He was singularly tall His sists of 60 men at Bridges Street, and thin. He stooped much.
and seemed to be his design rather to Hong Kong, and 30 men and 40 limbs were exceedingly long
insinuate than directly to assert at the nurses
Waterloo
ilis forehead Road emaciated. Branch. During the year, 30,000 broad and low, His complexion that, physically, he had
absolutely bloodless. His ways been what he was — that a vaccinations were performed. For was the third year in succession, the mouth was large and flexible, and long series of neuralgic attacks had his teeth were more wildly uneven, reduced him from a condition of Mile. Maryse Hiltz, the French on, also a cup in a special first although sound, than I had ever more than usual personal beauty
before seen teeth in n human head. Ito that which I anw. aid competition. aviatrix, who left Hong Kong early,
For many years past he had to defraud yesterday morning
In addition to its day school of The expression of his smile, how- for Shanghai. 214 boys, night school of 123 men, ever, was by na menos unpleasing, been attended by a physician, nam- anybody, defendant stated that be encountered bad weather and poor and kindergarden of 32 children, as might be supposed; but it had ed Templeton an old gentleman, could have obtained the cash for flying conditions after passing
for special classes apprentices no variation whatever. It was ane perhaps seventy years of age advertisements from these Amoy and turned back, landing at
whom he had first encountered at were held. three Companies, as well as from Swatow al 4 p.m.
Saratoga, and from whose A library of 5,500 volumes,
atten- Messrs. Lane Crawford, Ltd.
tion while there he either received, or fancied that he received, great| benefit. The result was that Bed- loe, who was wealthy, had an
Kong Brewery, and Fold them ad- vertisements to the value of $40 each.
the
Had he intended
Ralph's Shield for efficiency
the public.
Wis
BLAMED FOR
ACCIDENTS arrangement with Dr. Templeton,
The flyer is staying at Swatow Chinese and English, was complet PEDESTRIANS When Mr. Butt, of the V. R. C. to-night and will continue her ed and made available for use by gave him the account for Lane, flight to Shanghai early to-morrow Crawford's, he did not expect it to morning, weather permitting. be paid by cash, but expected a Mlle. Hiltz arrived here from cheque made out to the V. R. C.Hanoi on Tuesday on When, however, he received $40 from France to Tokyo. cash he retained it, as he had not been paid any of his abare of the
CIVIL AIR LINE $160 received by the Club for the advertisementa
Mr. P. A. Dixon, Hon. Secretary of the V. R. C.. produced accused's letter of resignation from the Club, and stated that this letter was sent;
at his request.
Mr.
her fight LOCAL NEWS
BREVITIES
TO MACAO.
Scheme Considered By Merchants.
Balfour found defendent AERODROME
guilty, in that, although he had not intended to defraud Messrs. Lane,
SITES
SOUGHT
Canton, Yesterday. Crawford, Ltd. had they paid him A number of Chinese merchants a cheque made out to the V. R. C..in Macao are now contemplating
of a civit
Fences. Hir
proper course to re
cover and money owed him by the V. R. C. was to take action against
that Club.
ed the Magistrate to sentence de. are found.-Central Press.
air
It is announced that there will
be no dinner dance at the Repular Bay Hotel on Saturday.
5.10 p.m.
morrow
to-
Traffic Regulations Ignored.
PROFESSOR FORSTER'S
LECTURE
by which the latter, in considera- tlon of a liberal annual allowance, had consented to devote his time and medical experience exclusive- ly to the care of the invalid.
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EXPANSION
MOTOR TRANSPORT
SERVICE.
DR. WU MEMORIAL SERVICE.
OF KOWLOON Ashes To Be Buried At
Report of K.R.A. Issued.
Yi Mong Hill.
CANTON TRIBUTE
Dr. Templeton had been a travel- ler in his younger days, and Paris had become a convert,
The O'Keefe-Montomery School
That pedestrians were responsible Kreat, measure, to the doctrine of Mesmer. It was altogether by of Dancing wice hold its annual for the greater number of accidents | Dancing Display at the King's in Hong Kong, was the opinion of means of magnetic remedies that Theatre on Tuesday, March 6, at Professor L. Fonter in an interest-he had succeeded in alleviating the ing lecture on "Road Accidents cute pains of his patient; and this success had very naturally some Psychologial aspects", at the The second annual prize-giving University Education Society of the inspired the latter with a certain CONTINUED
|degree of confidence in the opin- he had, by retaining the cash paid the establishment
concert of the Chung Nan College Hong Kong University last night. in settlement of this account, com-
fons from which the remedies had line connecting Macao, Canton, will be held at the King's Theatre The lecture took the form of a re-been educed. ditted larceny under false pre- and Hong Kong.
on Sunday at 10.30 a.m. It is learned that the Kwangtung Dr. S. W. Tao, O. B, E., L. L. D., conditions in England and America, thusiasts, had struggled hard to
The Hon. view, accompanied by statistics of
Thedoctor, however, like all en- and Hong Kong governments have will distribute the prizes. as compared with the Colony and make a thorough convert approved this proposition, and
suggested that measures, including pupil, and finally so far gained his planes will be purchased as coon Dr. Kagawa, the well-known the instruction and training of point as to induce the suffered to Detective-sergeant Mottram ask as suitable ties for aerodromes
Japanese Internationallet, will pedestrians, should be introduced. submit to numerous experiments. MEETING ON MARCH 8
Canton. speak in the Cathedral Hall
Professor Foriler drew attention By a freqent repetition of these, a
The ashes of the late Dr. C. C. at 5.30 p.m. under the to the fact that owing to the enor-result had arisen, which of late ROOSEVELT SEEKS sponsorship of the League of Namous increase in motor accidents in days has become so common as tosion and development of Kowloon mittee member, who passed away
The continued steady expan-Wu, the Central Executive Com TARIFF POWERS.
tions' Society.
America, the motor now shared with attract little or no attention, but is commented upon in the Com- in Hong Kong on January 2, will tuberculosis the fiscredit of being which, at the period of which 1mittee's report of the Kowloon be buried at YI Mong Hill on Sun- Owing to the reservation of the one of the ten major causes
write, had very rarely been known Residents' Association, the Hong Kong Hotel Roof
an-day, March 11. Garden death.
In America. I mean to say, that nual general meeting of which sa Chinese Restaurant by the Rotary
It la learned that a memorial Statistics prove that in London between Dr. Templeton and Bedloe to be held in the St. Andrew's service will be held by members of Club, there will be no tin service 50 per cent. of the motor accidents there had grown up, little by little, Church Hall, Kowloon, on Thurs-the C. E. C, and the Southwest are due to pedestrisas, ignoring a very distinct and strongly-mark-day, March 8, at 6 p.m... Political Council, and all the pro "Towards the Zenith will be percentage is only 20, and in New
traffic regulations, in Berlin the ed rapport, or magnetic relation, Balance in hand on December minent officials bere at the Provin the subject of an address to be York 80.
I am not prepared to assert, 81. Inst, was $1,670.65 asa com clat Kuomintang headquarters' on President Roosevelt and the given by Mra. O. M. Parkinson, B.
however, that this rapport extend-pared with $1,134.22 for 1982, Wednesday March 14Central Democratic leaders have agreed to A. at the TheoLophical Society's of aceldenta in streets is the pedes sleep-producing power; but this of the year was 361 and $1,198
One of the most frequent caukesed beyond the limits of the simple The total membership at the end Press. seek from Congress, at an early meeting to be held at 17 Queen's trian's desire to reach his destina-power itself had attained great was collected as subscriptions. date authorisations to negotiate Road Central at 6 p.m. this evening. tion with, the last possible effort intensity. At the first attempt to reciprocal tariff agreements with
Kong Ping-nam, a Chinese gar instead of at right-angles; this, the mesmerist satirely failed,
and crossing the road diagonally induct the magnetic somnolency, with $1,134.22 for 1982. The total other nations.
Cloudy, with occasional drizzle, In last. was $1,670.65 as compared probably improving with freak The President would
doner, was admitted to the Kowloon combined with the motorist's desire the fifth or sixth he succeeded membership at the end of the year north-easterly winds, is the wea powered to lower the existing tarif hospital yesterday morning after to reach his dutination in the very partially, and after long-con- was 361 and $1,198 was collected as ther forecast issued by the Royal rates by 50 per cent. for three being knocked down by lorry in shortest possible time, proves that tinued effort. Only at the twelfth subscriptions. Iyears but it would not Authorise Po Kong Village Road. The lorry, everyone is a potential jay-walker was the triumph complete. The report of the general com
Observatory to-day." him to take articles of the free which has not been identified, drove and a danger on the roads, Federal relief will be extended to list or add articles to the laton after the accident.
fendant 10 imprisonment, as he was already under an expulsion order. Defendant said he had in- tended leaving the Colony in any CARO, On consideration Mr. Bal- four decided that a Ane Was the
most suitable penalty.
NATIONAL RELIEF
IN AMERICA.
Federal Aid Planned For Workless.
NEW PROGRAMME FORMED.
Washington, To-day, President Roosevelt has an- nounced that he has re-or-
vanised the national
relief
programme, replacing the Civil
Works Administration.
distressed families in rural areas,
to stranded populations in com
Move For Congress Sanction.
RECIPROCAL AGREEMENTS
Reuter. 1
WANTED.
Washington, To-day.
be em-
munities where industries have died SHIPMENT OF ARMS
out, and to the unemployed in large cities.
President Boosevelt is confident that the recent appropriation of U.S.$550,000,000 will be sufficient to carry out the new programme until next spring.Reuter. Th
EMBARGO.
US. Bill To Be Re-Considered.
Washington, To-day,
to-morrow.
For having in his possession 10
tale of prepared opium in Con- naught Road West yesterday, Ng Yau, an unemployed Chiness, Was [fined $1,500, in default one year's hard labour, at the Central Police Court this morning. The deton- dent was arrested with the oplum tied around bis waist;";
INVESTITURE AT PALACE,
16-Year-Old Boy Present.
London, To-day:
of
Balance in hand on December 31,
"After this the will of the patientĮmittee is as follows:- succumbed rapidly to" that" of the|| physician, so that, when I first be- camé nequainted with." the two, sleep" "was brought about almost; Instantaneously by the mere voll- tion of the operator,, évan? When the Invalid, was unaware of hir presence,
The temperament of Bedloe was aixteen-year-old boy was in the highest degree sensitive, ex among those who attended the in- bitable, enthusiastic, His imagina- The United States Benate, has Two married woman, Soon Pin vestitore, at Buckingham Palace, tion was singularly vigorous and passed, with amendments, the Bill and Tang To, who were remanded yesterday afternoon, when Hia, Ma- creative; and no doubt: It derived which originated in the House of on a charge of fighting, were Jesty the King conte the hon additional force from the habitua! Representatives, authorising Prebound over, in $50 each to be of ours granted in the New
use of morphine,, which he walk London, To-day.sident Roosevelt, in co-opération good behaviour for aix months by list.
d-in grant quantity, and with;
LONDON REQUIEM FOR
KING ALBERT
T
His Majesty King George and with other nations to place an em- Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central The boy
the Duke of Connaught, were re-bargo on the shipment of arms to Police Court this morning. It was farm hand in presented at the Regiem Maar for beligerantal stated that ons of the women King Albert of Belgium, at West The Bill has now returned to the the other in a quarrel over a mont minster Cathedral, yesterday Bri-House of Representatives for 'tish" wireless Service, "2
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WEATHER, REPORT
The Budget proposals for 1984; as outlined in, the Estimates ap- ' proved during the year, bring us a step nearer, to many amenities the necessity for which has been consistently advocated by this Association. It is gratifying to note the provision mads for an extension of the Hospital facilik ties, the further widening of Waterloo Boad, additional phoon warning, and the of temporary""¦: Pós Building, The various during the year
A feature of the year for which the Committee here pre- senta its Annual Report has been the continued, steady expansion and development of Kowlocon, which is still very evident in all directiona... New blocks of flats, continue to spring up all over the Peninsula, while the suburban arwas in the vicinity of Prince Edward Road and aimilar dis- tricts are daily becoming more populous; with the erection of houses," ", villas - and « bungalown along this and thoroughfare, and the colony of bungs
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