THE CHINA MAIL) SATURDAY, DECEMBEN ̈ 27, 1989,
HONGKONG'S CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
Heavy Mail Delivery Includes Cards From Home
Hongkong had weather reminiscent of two other festivals on Christmas Day ~lñ the morning with showers, drizzle and overcast skies it was like Chinese New Year. At night, the cool_bright moonlight was more like Moon Fostival than year-end weather.
The rain was not heavy enough to disrupt festivi- ties and the round of traditional Christmas parties. Nor was it enough to prevent children testing their "outdoor presents" for the first time. The weather cleared up in the afternoon.
of a BOAC Bri- The arrival tonnia from London on Christ- last-minute ve brought Christions cards from Home for may. These were delivered by Justine on their one round on
istmas morning. Local
Christmas ends
were
hl being delivered by postman who told a Chime Mail reporter U the Christmas day mail de
even that very was heavier
Christmas Eve's.
For many Christmas day lunch and dinner was more expensive
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Fresh poudry s ihan ustini L $6 and $10 a catty whereas importe turkeys from Arterie were quoted by by British delicatessen shop at $4.70 a Ib. chickens and rapons slightly dearer.
Wêre
Egge and Ash were also sell- ing at higher rates in the pre-
Christmas period.
packed to
were
Churches overflowing.
Midnight services were held la tumber of Roman Cathelle and Anglican churches, At St John's Cathedral, the midnight Communion service was packed with worshippers and many heard the service from the Catherdal porch.
CROWDED
Later morning services were also crowded.
Charities bed another bin Christmas windmill this year with many more residents making dunations to charities instead of sending cards.
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There were also a number of portles for poor and under- privileged children held Christmas Day and Boxing Day. For sporting fans, on Christ- nias Day there Waż a biz Soccer game the Hongkong Sindlum, when A Hongkong Sélection met and beat the visit. ing Japanese team.
Cremaя were bocked out oll over the holiday period.
A Radio Hongkong team of broadcasters visited hospitais į in Hongkong talking to many attents who had to stay in bed dirring Christmas.
1,500 ENTERTAINED Опе thousand five hundred under-privileged children were entertained by the Catholic Young Women's Association at a Chinese dinner at St Mary's School, Kavicon.
TRAIN SERVICES HELD UP ON BOXING DAY: CRACKED RAIL FOUND
Train service in the British section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway was suspended for more than two hours follow- ing the discovery of a cracked rail near Suffolk Road, Kowloon Tong, yesterday morning.
GEAR LEVER ACCIDENT
Oklahoma City, Dec. 25.
The gear shift lever at a car was forced through the head of a man in a car acciderit today and the
adivived and responding to treatment f
local hospitaf.
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Herman Lion, 47, was riding in the back seat ot a car diften by hire Irene Rangel, 42, of Oklahoma City which crashed, inth
a Big station near Kinë- fisher early today.
Mie Rangel suffered head Införlex, but her daughter was not hari.
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thrown WIS against the gent shift lever, which went through his lead, plunging into his left cheek and coming out be- low the right ear.
The streamlined lever handle pushed vital organs Estde instead of puncturlig them, dacbira salā,
They said tnd the lever been another shape, Limon may have been kifica out- eight-U.P.I.
LAD WHO SNATCHED $70 IS
The cracked rail was discover- ed at 10.30 a.m. about 200 yards from the shutbem entrare AT the main Kowloon-Shatin tummel. The stellun was imme- diately informed and traffe was work repair suspended while
was carried out,
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By 12.35 p.m. the rail was repaired and the first up-train left Tsimshatsuf Station at 1.10 The down-train which was scheduled to arrive in Kowloon it 2.02 p.m. reached the Station ut about 3
p.m. ACCIDENTS Three traffic
within curred Christmas Day.
accidents
hour On
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On
Cheng
A 70-year-old man, Kon, received serious head In- knocked Juries when he was
down by a private car in Tung Tau Village, Kowloon City at 3
p.m.
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At about 2.30 p.m., a 47-year- old pedestrian, Mok Pum, was also injured in the head when private car knocked him down in Main Road, Taipo Market.
пла в отту. A private travelling in opposite directions collided at Castle Peak Road near Six Milestone at 3 p.m.
After the colliston, the car
A mounted slope.
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woman in the CRT Was passenger slightly injured.
FIRE
A Are broke out in a staircase shop at No. 360, Prince Edward Road, at 3 am yesterday. The Fire Brigade put out the blaze. One man was slightly injured. was de- A quantity of stock stroyed.
Vicar of
REMANDED Christ Church
A 14-year-old boy was found guilty of snatching $70 from the pocket of an Amozizan Marino yoifor- day by Mr D, Benson at the Contra! Juvenile Court.
The bot
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remanded In
Police custody until January 2 for a report from the Commis- sloner of Prisons on his sull- ability for admission to a train- ing centre.
Defendant pleaded not guilty to malching $70 from Sgt. J.R. of USS Ticonderoga Mowry, outside the New York Bar on
After the dinner, gift parcela were presented to the children
About 150 poor children were entertained to
Christmas a dinner by the Salvation Army at the Inomson Youth Hustei Wing Sing Lane, Nathan Road Tuesday. yesterday.
Gathering at the spacious and beautifully decorated Hostel hall, the children attended Carol Service conducted by Lieut-Colonel F E. Jewkes.
KMB CONCERT
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It
The Kowloon Motor Bus Band gave a concert at the Victoria Park on Christmas Day.
attended by a large Was appreciative audience.
and
A Measure of Pimm's A slice of lemon
add ice and fill up with Lemonade or 7. UP.
Here's SIMMS with the
SCALPER FINED $25
Chan Sia-bun, unemployed, 26, of 2 Rutfor Street, first floor was yesterday found guilty of selling cinoma tickets at two-and-a-half times their proper prite and was fined $25: Mr Hin-shing Lo at Central Magistracy also bound Chan over in $50 for one year.
Chan was charged with selling two front-stall tickets for the World Theatre on Thursday, out- side the theatre, to two different people, at $1 each. The fixed i
Bereaved
AMBASSADOR
ASSAULTS
TAXI DRIVER
to
Tokyo, Dec. 29.
Ambassador Bolgian
Japan, Raymond Horro mans. Hit
Japanioso driver in the face today after being snarled in a traffic jam in downtown Tokyo, police reported.
MESSAGE
FROM BISHOP
Despite the fact that Bishop Hall and his wife spent Chilitmas at söä de thólf way back to Hongkong, Christmas Day congrega. tion feepived, a special mestega from him.
in a prifted form vero Christinas greetings and a setinon-m-brlet on the opening words of St John's itte of Jésus, taken from the Gospel for Christmas Day.
Bishop Hall anked people to think especially of VCTEC 10 "He ivas in the world and the world was inade by Him and the world knew Him not"
He sold:
mate him
Jésus
«Jesus Christ was already. In the world beford the Arst Chetstipas Day. The World krew Him not. But not know- ing a person is thiert daèsn't any less there-as anyone knows who wakes to find that, unithown to him thiet has been in his unuse Christ is in the world still.
do kot The fact that men know He fi there does not make Hlett ory less there, Atty loss The Ambassador confirmed ho active, any less loving towards had "trouble" with Shigeru theft. Wetmate, driver for a televi-
manufacturing sion but refused to say whether hit the mari.
was
"He is in Hongkong. He is in company, Macao; He is in China, as He he always has been. In Hongkong there are 10 non-Christions for every one Christiart. But the fact that only
person in Him makes no elever knows difference to Our Lord Jesus presence my this City, hor to his
for every active lové being in it.
Police said Herremans
near his resi- driving his car dence in Mejiro when he was caught in the traffic congestion
Police said when the Ambas sador's car came to a standstill for a few minutes in the crawl- ing traffic, he leaped from his car and beat up Mr. Watanabe, whose car was in front of him. -U.P.I.
Glenn Ford
Heads Film Poll
Hollywood, Doc: 24. Glenn Ford and Elizabeth Taylor headed the list of box office draws in a poll published hore, by the Motion Picturé Herald.
For the first time
one
NEW HEART
living
"Our Lord tells us that act even a sparrow falls to the ground without our Father-
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the love of God entold every living soul in this city, rich and poor, young and old, good and evil alle. Enfold then with the same patient passion of love that is infinitested forth in the life and death and rising ngid of Jesus Nazareth.
"Let us never lose heart then because our own efforts car, do so little and help so few; The Kryster pus overwhelmarg and Love of the Divine feart 6t God without which hot a sparrow fails to the ground has his own hidden way of helping even the most forlorn,
lose "Let us noi
heart but over an rather take new heart; den determination. Let hope, new
The Vicar of Christ Church, the Rev. T. W. Beaumont last England flew to Saturday following news of his father's death, it actress who has not even made an American firm is included in was learned yesterday. the top Brigitte Bardot. Mrs T. W Beaumont flew to England yesterday to join her husband.
The list, in order of votes polled among cinema managers and owners is as follows. Christmas services wtre 1. Glenn Ford, 2. Elizabeth taken by the ftey R. Trueman, Taylor, 3, Jerry Lewis, 4. Marlon the Rev. George She, head-Brando, 5. Rock Hudson, 4. Wh- muster of DBS, and the Rev. liam Holden, 7. Brigitte Bardot, James Pun.
8. Yul Brynner, 9. "James Ste- wart, 10. Frank Sinatra--Reuter.
Mr Beaumont's father came to Hongkong to attend his son's ordination service at St John's Cathedral on October 30, 1935, then Mr. Tim Beaumont was ordained pricet.
It was learned yesterday that Mr and Mrs Beaumont "would return to Hongkong
Jozitrary.
Nationalist Official Here
ín
Franc To Be Devalued
Gouilist
us redouble and more than re- double our prayer, our deeds and words of love and our giv- ing for these about us in such dire need of body and of sxxl,"
NEW AIRCRAFT
FOR U.S. AIRLINE
Paris, Dec. 28. The French franc is widely Mr D. Carson, local manager believed to be in line for a of Transocean Airlines, returned "face-lifting operation aimed yesterday from a business con- at making it more fit as the cur fetente at the company's head
office in San Francisco. for new-look rency
Mr Carson, who returned by France.
at Talpel, on- The word "devaluation" was KKA by way
nind as the noiced that Transoccan would frane slipped replace their pressat fleet of Constellations on this Okinawa- New York route with Bocing double-docker Stratocruisers.
He added that this servico would start on January 1.
Dr Yang Lang-kung, Mem-in everybody's ber of the Legislative Yuan of value of the
CPA from Bangkok on his way to Taiwan,
the Nationalist Government in steadily on the Stock Exchange. Taipei, arrived yesterday by It currently stood at 412 to the dolar after slipping 20 points from 462 in one week. The
Nir Yang
represented official rate is 420.-U.P.1. Formosa at a recent meeting of the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organisation in Paris.
price for these seats is 40 cents Malayan Minister
He had five previous convie- tions of a different nature,
Goodwill Mission Here
In Colony
My Ong Yoke Lin, Minister of Labour and Social Welfare of the Malayan Government, arriv- ed by CPA from Kuala Lumpur on Christmas Day on his way to attend a meeting of the General Council of the Commonwealth Sanlogo Claret and Dr Fran- Parliamentary Association circo Léza, ärrived by FAA on Barbados, West Indies. Christmas Day. They were mel The meeting will begin early
The Cuban Goodwin Mission to "Hongkong, consisting of Mr
at the airport by the Hon. Kwok in January and will last about a Chan.
week.
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