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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 1927.
WEDDING.
MEMBERS OF WELL ENOWN CHINESE FAMILIES.
DR. PHOON SECK WAH-MISS
י
CHAN SUEN LAN."
took place at St. John's Cathedral
OBITUARY.
DR. FO. STEDMAN.
FORMERLY SURGEON IN HONG KONG.
GAMBLERS IN AN EMPTY HOUSE.
HAKKAS UNABLE TO SPEAK
THE TRUTH.”
EXTRA FINE FOR "LYING EXCUSES."
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at
The news of the death in England. Two well known local Chinese of Dr. Frederia Osmund Stedman, families were united yesterday afternoon, when the pretty wedding.D., B.S. (London), M.R.CS, will the Ceutral Magistracy yesterday be received with much regret by morning, Det Sgt. Rozetakny charged 31 Chinese with gambling notification of his death was made in an empty house at Sai Op by cable. The late Dr. Stedman
village. was formerly a surgeon in Hoog Kong.
of Dr. Phoon Seck Wah and Missy residents of Hong Kong. The
Chan Saen Lan..
Ten of the defendants failed to
bail of $5 each was estreated,” put in an appearance, and their
The bride is the daughter of Afr." and Mrs. M. Chan Harr, of No.-1, St. Stephen's Lane, who wore resident in Australia far, 90 years, The family has many relatives and friends in Cantos, Shanghai, and other parts of China, and also in Australia and America. Mr. Char epidemie which was widespread in houso to look for a friend when..
Harr, and Messrs. Ma Ying Pit and Cheang Kon Sang, and other friends founded the present Sincere Com- pany, with which Mr. Chan Harris
still connected.
The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Phoon Sye Leong, who own an extensive business in Singa pore, but have their home in Can tos. The Phoot boys were educated in Singapore, and four of them have "graduated at
the Hong Kong University.
No details are to hand, excepting the fact that he passed away on the nd instant, but it is thought likely that he was a victim of the influenza
England at that time.
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The late Dr. Stedman, who was year...oly age, came to the
The first defendant said that he had been looking for a friend.
"Why do you go to an empty
blers retorted the Magistrate. there is nobody there but gam
The next man questioned said
that he went to call a foki to a
his
Colay in 1883 to join the firm of Drs. Hartigan, Cantley and Cowie feast. (now known as Drs. Harston, Black, Mr. Lindsell; Indeed! What a Balean, Koch, Stuart Taylor, Mor-nderful excuse. Did you find rison.. Gawler and Milward). On
bimi the retirement of Dr. Cantlie in 1897 he had been sent to the house by To, another man who said that he became a partner in the firm the Don, his Worship replied: name of which then changed to Dr. Hartigan, Stedman and Beanie. Bakkea, also made transparently Three other defendants, who were Dr. M. Harston, who came East five untrue excuses to accouns for their years after the late Dr. Stedman,voked the remark from his Worship:
presence in the house, which pro was admitted a partner in 1003,
"I bave come to the conclusion when the firm again changed its unable to speak the truth."
that son Hakkas are constitionally
name.
of the Peace for the Colony, won Dr Stedman, who was a Justive much esteem during his lengthy residence here, being recognised as
Dr. Phoon Seck Wah, the bride- groom, resides at 41A, Bonham Road. He graduated M.D., and BS. at the Hong Keng University in 1922 with his brother Dr. Phoon Seck Foo. His elder brother, Dr. Phoon Seck Wing was given the M.D. degree at the congregation held at the Hong Kong University in January. The bridegroom was years ago. house surgeon at the University from January to June, 1900, All three brothers won the King Ed ward VII, scholarship.
very skilful surgeon. Hong Kong on retirement about ten He left
Prier to coming to Hong Kong, Dr. Stedman was House Surgeon, House Physician and Surgeon Re- gistrar at the Charing Cross Bos pital House Physician at the, National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy: "London; and clinical assistant at Moorefield's Eye Hos- pital
make lying excuses."
In Laßicting sentence, Mr. Lind-
those who have wasted my time with sell said: "Those who have admit. ted their
ging excuses will pay 84 each and guilt are fined $3 each;
those who have not turned up will forfeit their bail of 85 each.""
the 98.40 found in the house he His Worship also directed thai
given to the Poor Box and that the gambling paraphernalia be confiscated.
LORRY DRIVER CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. COOLIE KILLED AT PRAYA WEST.
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THE NEW RULER OF HANKOW. CANTON'S MINISTER IN SPATS AND HIS DAUGHTER IN BREECHES.
The Cathedral Ceremony. Yesterday's wedding service was fully choral The hymns sung were "Lead us Heavenly Father, Lead Us," and "Love Divine, all Love Excelling." Wedding masic was played by Mr. F. Mason, the Cathe dral Organist, and he was assisted in carrying out the musical pro- gramme by a choir, and by Dr. W.
their bereavement. pathy will be felt with the family is Defendant was represented by Mr. in character.
5. Fok.
The officiating clergy were: the Rev. H. Copley Hoyle and the Rev. Lee Kau Yaa,
MR. A. D. JUPP.
PASSES AWAY AT CHRIST CHURCH OXFORD.
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The bride, who was attended by Miss Elsie Poon, Miss Mabel Chan and Miss Au, was given in marriage by her father. She looked charm. ing in a gown of silver lace (over
It is with regret we record the white satin charmeuse, which was death of Mr. Arthur Denys Jupp trimmed with orange blossom and younger son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. ilver roses. Her veil was of Not Jupp, of Chislehurst, Kent, England, born was sounded hefore the acei- and middle-class Chinese, and even Britain for her Imperialistic sing
AN EYE WITNESS'S SARCASTIC PICTURE. Hankow, writes the Daily Mail" advisers," and whose advice is correspondent in that city, is die reckoned better than their company. The motor lorry driver who was the new Nationalist Government. referred to
appointed with the appearance of I have heard then contemptuously The deceased leaves a widow and adjudged guilty of acgligent driving It is so different from what was barions. two sons Noel Stedman and by the jury at an enquiry held into expected. The people were justified Mr. Eugene Chen And The Chiness. "Lenin's bar Mr. Nigel Stedman the latter of E. Landsell about a fortnight ago, oppressed, so long advertised by the death of a coolie before Mr. R. in thinking the liberators of the whom holds an appointment in appeared before Mr. W. Schofield their advance propagandists, would eas of European civilisation in One of the most polished speci Kenya Copy The utmost sym-vesterday, at the Central Police be Chinese in outward form as well this galaxy is Mr. Eugene Chen,
Court, on a charge of manslaughter,
the new Minister i Foreign C. A. S. Buss
They are neither. The pompous Affairs. Dignified members of the The defendant who was driving a cay of the pilgrims from Canton, Chinese community contemplate lorry at about 3 pr. on January head and the explosion of many fire- nothing Chinese about him, unless attended by aeroplane antics over him with a shudder. Mr. Chen bas 20th, ran into a coolie just outside crackers underfoot, revealed to the it be a slight cast of countenance the Chins Provident Loan and anxious local populate several, dis- which is by no means convincing. Mortgage Co.'s godowns, at Con illusioning and disconcerting facts, He was born in Trinidad, and at naught Road West. The deceased not the least being that their future one time during his chequered and a gang of coolies were carrying masters are a lot of weedy young carcer as an anti-British journalist sacks of pea-nats from a junk into gentlemen in tweeds or plus four it suited him to claim British the godown. the coolies was to the effect that for talking English among them the West. His brilliant eyes blaze
The evideare given by some of Bond-street ties and a predilection"
and spats, with a Borid taste in nationality. after knocking down the deceased, selves.
He locks Western, but he hates
the lorry did not stop and that ne
viciously behind his gold-rimmed tingham.net, trimmed with orange and late of Hong Kong.
What, ask the puzzled merchants spectacles when he pillories Great blossom, and she carried a bouquet
Mr. Jupp, senior, is a partner in the lorry eventually stopped at the foreigners they know and a lot the air. His command of English dent. The coolles gave chase, and the coolies, is the difference between and his blender hands excitedly saw of white roses.
the firm of John D. Humphreys and Water Street, where the driver of Chinese who ape them in every is well-nigh perfect when he talks: Miss Elsie Poon lu Tung wore a Son, and is at present in Hong then returned to the scene of he nationalism live in a British trench native sons of Britain
picked up a Chinese constable ad particular? How can the spirit of he writes it far better than many dress of pearl and apricot crêpe de Kong with Mrs. Jupp, having ar- accident. chine, trimmed with silver lace. rived in the Colohy recently.
A Chinese constable said when he Are they being exploited by a new, coat or American patent leathers 7
Mr. Chen wears white spats below Miss Mabel Chac and Miss Au were
this carefully creased trousers. He Mr. Jupp, senior, spent upwards dent with the driver, the coolies Chinese?
went back to the scene of the acci- type of foreign invader posing as is a credit to his Lendon tailor. attired in mauve and, shell pisk of twenty years in Hong Kong, leav- had adopted a very threatening frocks, and carried baskets of sweeting here about 17 years ago.
He quotes Kipling and Hardy with attitude and that fearing trouble, he even more urgent, questions will despatches, indited from the For
I am inclined to think that many easy confidence. Some of his ironic. peas to match.
The duties of "best man" were after an attack of pneumonis, at They met a European sergeant there into its strido Many rude shocks brain is undoubtedly the ablest of and the driver drove away again in obtrude themselves by the time the eign Ofice at Canton, are real Mr. Jupp, junior, passed away the direction of Queen's Road West, Nationalist Government has got masterpieces of English prose. His carried out by Dr. S. Q. Phoon, the the early age of 24 years, at Christ and enlisted his aid. The three await the inhabitants of Hankowany at the command of Canton's younger brother of the bridegroom. Church, Oxford, where he had com-
went back to where the dead body But for the moment it is sufficiently Russian tutors. Mr. Chen is, of Following the Cathedral cere-menced his duties as a law tutor to the Mortuary.
was and had the deceased removed mony, a reception was held at St. He received his education John's Hall, Hong Kong University,Brazenose College, Oxford.
adjourned. and, later the bride and bridegroom
left од their honeymoon. The
at
fabby youths ordering
The case at this stage was again! old officials about and dashing up ng chances. When I go to see und to them to find these course, a great patriot. Yet he
WING ON SHROFF'S COMPLAINT.
CHINESE HEAVILY FINED IN CUSTOMERS CHEATED HIM their minds are filled with vague
LONDON
bride's travelling dress was of shell ARMS FOR SHANGHAL pink, embroidered with sequins.
Both bride and bridegroom were the recipients of numerous presents. The present from the bride to the bridegroom was a gold watch; and that from the bridegroom to the bride a diamond bracelet.
The Guests,
at the Cathedral service. the numerous guests invited were:
OF $30.
At East Ham, Wing Ah Nang,
A paying-in shroff of the Wing 24" senman, of the Glen Line Do Company had berepet to ded steamer Glengary, lying in King Police that he had been defrauded George V. Docks, was charged with to the Wines and Spirits Depart of $30 by two foreigners who went illegally importing and concealing ment to make a purchase.
interpreters must intervene.
in his secluded room at the Terminus Hotel I must pass 4
erz
gunman " at the door a little Cantonese sorgeant in khaki whose automatic is always poised In, bis. right hand.
-mild,
and down the foreign and native cities in shining limousines.
The Cantonese students who call themselves a Government aro sa dif- ferent from the great mass of the
by the flower of China's population people they desire to dominate as
Charming Miss Chen, chalk is from cheese. They look at
Nor could Mr. Chen's daughter China through Western eyes and charming though she is-be hailed and restless longings born of a de as representative of their country. their own ends. They cannot even sire to Westernise the country for Fresh from an American college for talk with the people of the north latest Paris fashions with true women, Miss Bylvia Chen wears the Western grace. She entered Han Nasty Types.
kow with her father, clad in well- Hundreds of guests were present on the vessel forty-eight revolvers "According to the complainant's were one homogeneous type. Some discomposure of the local
It might not be so bad if they eat riding breeches, to the great Among and 4,750 rounds of ammunition.chased from the Wines Department, American slang, who talk breel: Mr. Woo the
Chinese story a bill of 3.30 for goods pur- are aggressive young men, full of dignitaries. The Hon. Sir Shou Son Chow, Mr. said the Glengary arrived in the of the two customers who made thise of a more restrained type and jpean futors and tailors. And there Mr. H. J. Fleet, for the Customa,was handed to the shroff, and one of putting pep into the worn young secretary to Minister Chen, W. W. Hornell (Vice-Chancellor, docks on a Wednesday, and in the purchase, tendered a $100 bill. The be the imprint of an English are many like him, equipped with out institutions of China. Others is, another finished product of Euro- the University), Professor and Mrs.
shroff was handing out the change, bea afternoon the vessel was searched when one of the customers asked heavily marked by their intensive into two classes the Cheerios K. H. Digby, Professor and Mrsby Revenue officers. In a wooden to have a sno bill.
university. Still others are as tags of speech which divide them C. X. Wang, Professor J. Anderson care protecting the hot water pipes The shroff, not having this parti- training in Moscow's college for " J. E. Addison (P.C.MO.), and munition were found on the crew the $100 note. Being changed at a Chins by the methods of the mission moved from Chinese ways of living. and others from the University, Dr. in the hold the revolvers and am-cular note on hand, consented to Asiatic propagandists Then there
Bee-you-inters
Not Chinese. many representatives of the local being questioned, the prisoner ad money-changer's shop in the street.
is a fourth type, Westernised in They are a thousand miles re- medical profession, Miss M. Sloan, mitted the ownership of the reval Chinese who accompanied the two Mine F. S Dupuy, Miss Graubelds vers and ammunition. He added customers eventually returned with American-educated student con Next morning, with one secord,
schools
As Kuling, for one night, they stay- They do not blend well The ed at a Chinese hotel. No more. Miss Middleton Smith, Miss Pope, that he had brought them from the money, which was handed, all siders his colleague fum Cambridge they moved down to the best Euro- staff and students of St. Stephen's Hamburg, that they had been taken in a wad, to the shroff. The 50 too slow. The latter is Inclined pesa hotel Girls' College, representatives of to the Glengary the motor-boat, bill was handed back to the cus to look down on the product of the the Chinese Church and of the bos and that he was going to take them tomer in addition to the other notes United States, with his nasal accent to provide them of its best. Steam pitals in the Colony; Mr. and Mrs. to some friends in Shanghai.
Hankow was warned ia advance Ma Ying Piu, Mr. and Mrs. Ma Prisoner, who caused some trouble the balance of £38,70
and coins which went to make up and informal methods of address, heat, brass bedsteads, and a private Wing Chan, Mr. and Mrs. Choy by refusing to plead, eventually Hing, Mr. Choy Cheong, Mr. Mok pleaded guilty and made no departed did the shroff count the Communist factory as a gloomy they arrived at the Terminus Hotel Not until the customers had des being rather vulgar. Both con- bath were some of the little essen- Kou Sang, Mr. Kwok Chuen, Mr. fence.
aider the graduate of Moscow's tinis required by the officials when noter. He then found it is alleg and narrow-minded person.
All this work. Their motor cars LIC
To Jack Mau, Mr. David Chan See, He was fined £350 58, the trebleed, that he was short to the extent Mr. Wong Kwok Shun, Me Cheang value of goods, the default of pay of thirty dollars. Kon Sang, Dr Jew Hawk, Dr. 6. ment being ninety-one days in The shroff stated that the cur F..Lee and others
prisonment.
tomers appeared to be Portuguese
three pity the students who have the finest in the city.
never been abroad. All four unite All of which is magnificent, but
associated with the Government as it is not Chinese, in heartily detesting the Russians the puzzled people of Bankow say