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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1936.
The China Mail-
ky-first Year of Publication.
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
For keeping an unregistered muilsai, Li Wang-ng, aged 32, “a
Sa Wyndham Street, Hong Kong: married woman was this morning
Telephone 20022
-London Office::A
7, Garrick Street, London, W02 Notice To Contributors
fined $100, or in "default, äix weeks'
Here There
and Inf
imprisonment by Mr. W. Schofield Everywhere
at the Central Magistracy.
The Civil Service Cricket Club CLEMENT SERJEANT-AT-AEMS
Detention uhitil the rising of the All communications intended for publication should be addressed to announces that no Whist Drive
Subscription Bates.
FRANTIC SEARCHES
FOR GOLD
GIRL'S QUEST RECALLS
·OTHER VENTURES
LOST MINES IN PACIFIC COAST REGIONS OF AMERICA
the Editor, and be accompanied by will be held on Thursday next, House is the formal punishment the Writer's Name and Address Christmas Eve. There will be a for such interrupters as the man the public gallery not necessarily for insertion, but Whist Drive to-morrow, however, who recently threw a bunch of as a guarantee of good faith. at which special Christmas prizes leaflets from
will be distributed, and it is hop-while the Commons were debating ed to commence promptly at 9.20 the Government of India Order:
Only if there is a violent scene, or damage done, will a charge be Nevada City, California, by
year-old Jean Kuster of San Fran brought forward, at Cannon-ow?
Detention in the House 'takes, a cisco has set old prospector's ton- mild form. The interrupter is gues wagging all along the Mother Hour Kong, Friday, Dec. 18: 1936: Manuel Rivera Iglesias, has been led to a police room, where he can. Lode on a subject of which they sight mine. A man straying from transferred to Arica, Chile. Mr. if he wishes, spend the evening never tire-lost bonanzas and hid-jan emigrant train broke off a piece
"One-Yext ******
6 Months
KF $35.00 H.K.$18.00
3 Months ...... RES 3.00
Postage Abroad Extra
Geoffrey Shakespeare, the Par-
p.
Word has been received that the local Peruviad Consul. Mr.
Rivera Iglesias will probably stay
land
Admis-
with
*
HE treasure hunt conducted in though he made several trips backc
16his correct bearings.
Silver Hammer
In the same region as the 'Gun-
of rock to hammer his gunsight The objective of young Miss Kus-into position and was astonished
TES
WIS
Pete
in the Colony for a few weeks reading, a book or a newspaper in den treasure.
comparative comfort. Safer Motherhood
more, pending the arrival of hist It is an anlucky interrupter ter is a spot pointed out to her to find the former almost pure, who chooses an evening when the several years ago by her grand-silver.. He kept his secret to him- Casserly, a self for the time being and stayed Many efforts in diverse direc-successor.
House has an all-night sitting.father, Jefferson A. tions are being made to reduce
The University Christian Asso-The Serjeant-at-Arms
can be miner who died recently and nam-with the party. Later he wa
unable to find his way back to the the toll which childbirth takes
ciation will give a carol concert merciful, however, and detentioned her his heir.
Remember this spot, child, 'It vein.` from mothers. That they are
in the Great Hall of the University rarely lasts after midnight."
will make you rich" Casserly was There is said to be à treasure meeting with encouraging suc-
on Sunday.
quoted as saying, And in support of Mexican gold and jewels buried cess was shown at the Confer- at 9p.m. ence on Maternity and Child sion is free, and all are welcome HUNTING LIFEGUARDSMAN
Lt. Col. H. G. S. Ashton. who of his promise, he left a legacy in near the summit of Cahuenga pass. a heavily travelled thoroughfare Welfare at Liverpool when Mr. Mihal Ivanovech Skopechetko, was killed while out with, the Bel-his strongbox for Jean-a single
been near Los Angeles. It has sent to America from Mazatlan to · liamentary Secretary to the aged 49, Fiodř Nikolocvisk Iguse soir last month, had for the past gold nugget worth $5,000. Many Tell Yarns
buy munitions for the revolt Ministry of Health, said that aged 55, Alexis Vasselievitch, aged
where he was universally known
But whatever the girl way un-against Maximillian, and motherhood was safer in Eng-24. and Irene Marimovna Kosia. 30 years hunted. from Melton, chenpo, aged 48, were, this morn- land than in any other country in charged before Mr. K. Keen as "Sam" Ashton
He established this long record cover at the mysterious site can stolen. The authority for this except perhaps Holland. The
at the Central Magistracy mortality for 1935 was 4.10 per entering the Colony without pro-without any break- except for the be no more dazzling or romantic legend is Major Horace Bell, a with which legend so liberally en- An old friars' silver mine, con- 1,000 live births, the lowest
De-ing being in the Life Guards.
taining Spanish machinery, figure since 1925. It is well to Per passports and had expulsion war period-owing to his soldier than the other lost caches of gold Los Angeles pionee
orders made against them.
He went to France with the dows the Southwest.
Several hundred miles south of the object of a quest by remember, however, that the tective Sergeant Russell said that Minister for Health; Sir Kings defendants were found sleeping in Composite Household Bridge and
the ley Wood, in moving
Chatham Road on a piece of waste was taken prisoner in the disas Nevada City, another woman treas-Daniels, former movie. cowboy, in Bill said
ter which overtook them early in re hunter, Rose White, pursued the hill country near Banning. that Midwives
a long and fruitless quest for the
She received Lost Dutchman's Mise lost Padre mine. though expenditure on maternal
After be got command of the the secret from E. H. "Doc" Bragg, and childhood welfare had in
Possibly. America's No. I lost The Royal Engineers' Old. Com- £2,000,000 to creased from
that 2nd Life Guards, in June, 1921, a friend of her father, as he lay rades Association announce £3,000,000 a year, the rate of they will hold a Carnival dance in his regiment in the following year dying. Bragg, claimed to have mine is the famous Dutchman, in
It Phoenix, Arizona. mortality had not been "sub-
the Peninsula Hotel, on Saturday. ceased to exist as a separate unit-bought the mine from Indians and Superstition mountains, east of stantially reduced No efforts December 28. Music will be by Col Ashton, however, was able to to have taken out $800.000 in goldquently been in the news in re- can be slackened while 3,000 the Band of the 2nd Battalion The complete his normal four years before he was driven away by, an mothers die in childbirth every Royal Welch Fusiliers. (by kind as C.O. of the Life Guards, as the early day racketeer..
More widely known is the Brex-for it It is notorious that the rast permission of Major LAA Alsion two regiments became on amaiga-
D.E.C., M.C., and Officers) and mation.
fogle mine, on the rim of Death Discovered by-a fugitive Mexi- majority of these are the vic-dancing will be in both the Rose In the off season Col Ashtonvalley. Breyfogle, sole survivor can in 1848, it was mined, for a tims of ante-natal neglect,
Room and the Roof garden and
of a prospecting party that tried time by Miguel Peralta, a rich His last ex- ignorance, and bad home condi-
will be from 8.45 pm. until 2 am sports his more recent experiences to cross the valley in 1862, found Sonora land owner.
about pedition to the spot was nearly tions which are aggravated by
prizes will be given for costumes including tranny fishing in the the lode while wandering malnutrition' and poverty. The Fancy Dress will be optional, and
ore wiped out by Indians. The story South Seas and gorilla "bunting" half crazed by thirst. The main hope for improvement showing originality etc. Dress for
samples he carried back to civilisa- runs that only two boys survived in the Belgian Congo. said Mr. Shakespeare, lies in
tion made mining men gasp. Al-and that they were working the those tot in fancy dress will be, the education and instruction
till-starred vein years later when* optional.
DIVORCE BILL PROTEST
bill to be presented before Parlia shot to death of mothers through maternity and child welfare centres, and
Speaking at a church meeting ment because it does not coincide. Each year the Dons' Club, a service organisation. perhaps next to this in import-
Londoa Diocesan Secretary to the charter. It will mean cheap and stages a "search", for, the lost easy divorce and the break-up Dutchman in which hundreds of Mothers' Union, declared:
persons participate- "We shall oppose the divorce our home life."
year.
the war.
turned his
attention
to.
other
4
has fre-
cent years through tragedy befall-
ing persons who set out to look
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ance is a fully adequate supply ST. JOHN AMBULANCE at Staines, last month. Mrs. Akers, with the conditions of our Royal Phoenix
trained midwives
maternity nurses.
The mid-
wife, Dame Janet Heseltine →→ contended, is the first essen- tial for sound treatment whe-j
ther or not the mother is at tended by a doctor." Hence the supreme importance of the Salaried Midwives Bill
Readers' Wander-
Years
of
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Acknowledgment Of Donations
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HE The Governor $30, Mr. Tsoi librarian, Mr. Savage, of Edin-Wai Hung (Per Mr. Ip Kwai Chung) burgh, this generation of Siim- $100, Mr. Ng Hoj Lan (Per Mr. Ip fans and bikers is, after all, Kwai Chung) $100, Mr Chin Shing! not indifferent to literature. Foon (Per Mr. Ip Kwai Chung) $100, Mr. Pang Yan Ting (Per Mr. Ip Yet here, too," the contera-
Khai Chung) 3100, Mr. Enok Goo porary disrespect for authority 50, 3r. K. T. $40, Hak Ying Ker. reveals itself. Modern youth am, Tin, $20, Anonymous (Per neither obeys nor disobeys ad S.CM. Post) $25, Mr. P. K. Kwok vice, but goes its own way and 520, Hon. Mr. M.:K. Lo $10, Mr. Yung has its reward. From 16 to 30 Taze Ming $10, Mr. - Yung Hin Chin itpasses through "wander-$10, Mr. Nga Shing Kwan $10, Mr. MH Lo $10, Mr. F. F. Duckworth years of literature, sampling s16, Hon. Dr. Kotewail $5, Mr. Ip Lan this and that until its taste is Chuer $5, Mr. Funk Ki Cheak $5, somehow formed.
Mrs. A. Whittaker (Per S.CM. Post) 33. Mr. Kwok Hoe, Kam Tin $2.50, On the whole" this is healthy sign. Miscellaneous Per Mr. Chan Ping Kwong $81.57. browsing may lead to some initial neglect of the great masters, but it must stimulate and develop the critical facul- ty. It is on this, M. Savage thinks, that the librarian should;
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Your Daily Smile!
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Tea for Two
EXPLANATION OF TO-DAYS CARTOON
The Highest Coastal Elevation South
Of Maine
TOAD Hill in Staten Island, 430- T
feet high, is the highest natural elevation of land in the city of New York and at the same time the highest point on the At lantic coast, south of Maine. The
A strange item of news I read the ill rises from the Richmond Road- other day was the 'marriage, die wi
Miss, Bread to a Mr. Batters:
Eed overlooks New Dorp and the
After you have toasted the bride, Moravian cemetery where the Van
fyou com
Was it Mr. Ismim? It was not
have three guesses at the derbilts are buried
CATE
best mom
ous, absences from home, Louisette
Lefevre, Paris Arl,- decided to end
the tortures of jellousy.
-She fired three shots at him thinking him dead, gave herself up to the police
But when the police
they found
Bechase she zau
ammette's
avat
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“BELIEVE IT. OR. NOT” by Robert L. Ripley
HIGHEST POIN
COASTAL GROUND BETWEEN MAINE AND FLORIDA
IS IN NEW YORK CITY... (TOAD HILL STATEN ISLAND
430 FEET
---HARDY
Arka
ON WIDE CAMPAIGN BY
Agated,
BOOKS FOR
THE OZA
POTATO
WE WITH A PADLOCK
· ABOUND IT.
Found by 3.0. SVEOM,
Newark We
BABY'S BATH TUB
IN CONSTANT USE FOR 165 YEARS. Camed by WBCOINES
Jacksonvill
MISS ATHRYN OSE
FLEW
MORE
THAN
MILES BEFORE SHE
IN A STREETT
CAR