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The Government reports on New Territories, which we publish- ed recently make-very pleasant reading and are a striking contrast to the dreary record of banditry and piracy, civil war and political scheming in which the greater pärt of China is involved. The New Territories are small area, about half the site of Hertfordshire, but we believe that their example is of nö small assistance to the Kwang
spread security and open up roads a Government in its efforts to over a province nearly double as big as England and Wales and ith nearly the same population.
Three Chinese cases of enteric were reported on Thursday from Howloon.
Quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals, from Pakhoi on account of bubonic plague and cholers.
A young mui tezi has been'
reported to the Police as missing
since Wednesday from her home at No. 140, Whitfield, Causeway Bay.
A Chinese who was rescued from the harbour after he had jumped from the Star Ferry wharf was femoved to the Government Civil Hospital as insane.
A workinan employed at the Kwong Sang Hong Perfumery at Wanchai lost two fingers while 'eut- ting paper with a cutting machine. He was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.
A Chinese hawker who went for a swim in the harbour opposite to the Harbour office narrowly escaped being drowned. Fortunately for him two coolies saw him in difficul- ties and at once went to his rescue.
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THE NEW TERRITORIES.
Ir needs no great stretch of imagination to realise that life in Hong Kong must have been very much less pleasant before the ac
quisition of the New Territories
resident
PROTI C. 16.
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No. 38, Jardine Bazaar was removed to the Government Civili Hospital. She had injuries which she alleged were inflicted by her
mistress.
A Sanitary Board coolie has been admitted into the Government Civil Hospital suffering from an incised wound, alleged to have been re itself. And yet when the English-ceived in the course of a fight with man succeeds it is to the country
a foki of stall No. 3 at the Central that he generally seeks to return. Market. If he cannot live there he gets out into it by motor whenever possible. The New Territories appeal to the same instinct and not the least of their charm is the variety of scenery. The beauty and grandeur of the mountainous part need no emphasis, but in the Fanling dis trict it is possible to imagine
trees clump of walled village to be English elms, or the flowering shrubs by one of The the streams to be briar roses. hills are not, so very unlike our Downs and Cotswolds while the
any
round
Golf Course and the new country
houses not
.a.
far away have The attitude of the average was very well expressed by Sir similarity to parts of Surrey, The CECIL CLEMENTI in his speech at inland waters and the villages at the opening of the Agricultural the bends of shallow bays passed Show held last December at Sir by the road toastle Peak have ROBZET HD TUNG's country estate something of the quality of Devon. shire's coast. Junk Bay near when he said:"This is a part of
Ireland.
A Chinese district watchman who visited the premises of a labour association at West Point on Thare day night incurred the displeasure of the occupants. They removed his revolver and handed the man over to the regular police, alleging that he bad attempted to extort money. The matter will probably be dealt with departmentally by the police.
JUNE 30th, 1928.
HUSBAND AND WIFE
DECIDE TO DIE.
FISHED OUT OF HARBOUR
ALIVE BY POLICE.
PRESENTATION TO
THE PRIMATE.
SERVICE TO CHURCH AND
NATION.
MEMORIAL AT LAMBETH.
(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, June 29th. A Committee, consisting of the
A sad case was reported to the Police yesterday of a husband and wife who, deciding that it was 'im- possible to obtain a living, made" up their minds to throw themselves into the harbour together.
The couple accordingly journeyed Archbishop of York. Mr. Stanker to the Wanchai Prays, and there Baldwin, the Earl of Selborne, they took the plunge. A Police Lord Dunedin, the Marchioness of launch, in charge of Sergt. Ryan, Salisbury, the Dean of Westming- happened to pass by and at once ter, Sir Thomas Inskip, and the went to the rescue of the unfortu- Rev. J. Scott Lidgett, is inviting nate couple. They were shed out subscriptions for a tribute to the of the water, and when they told their story the Police sent them to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs to see what could be done for them. The husband is only 37 years of
Before Mr. R. E. Lindaell at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Mr. A el Arculli, for the prosecution," asked for permission to withdraw
charges against Cheung Sik Tung
who was alleged to have embezzled 89,161.3%, aid to have been received by him on behalf of a managing partner of the Yoo Tai Hoog firm, of Wing Lok Street. The case had been before the Magistrate before and. Mr. F. E. Nash appeared for the defence. His Worship granted
discharged.
POST OFFICE AND THE
ND TH HOLIDAY.
the country I love and have loved Lyeman might be in Southern the application and the man was for many years. I always feel when
But these resemblances are really I cross the Kowloon Range that a load of responsibility falls from superficial. The New Territories are in all essentials Chinese. We iny shoulders and I am breathing a fresher purer air and am living have not tried to make them into an English countryside. The tradi nearer to Nature."
tional British policy has been maintained of preserving order, building a few roads and a railway and then leaving the inhabitants to
PROBATE JURISDICTION. IS THE GOODS OF MARY SIM
English people are unrepentant MACDONALD, FORMERLY OF 33, PALACH COURT, KENLINGTON, lovers of the countryside. When one MIDDLESEX, AND LATE OF 6, LIBSERVATORY VILLAS, KOW is in a patriotic frame of mind it is LOON, OF THE COLONY OF HONG
gratifying to dwell upon the great Комо,
DECEASED..
OTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN
On Monday, July 2nd, the G.P.O. and Kowloon Branch Ofies will be open from 8 am to nooff, and the other branch offices from 8 a.m. to There will be one collection from
p.m.
www.
cities that are foundation of our go their own way. The Government the pillar boxes and one delivery
of registered correspondence at 9 be entirely closed.
age.
THE RED JUDGE.
A CLOSE FIGHT.
MAJORITY OF 43.
LIBERAL: WINS AT CAR- MARTHEN.
(THROUGH REUTER’K@AGENCY.)
The bye-election at Carmarthen, occasioned by Sir-Allred Mond's elevation to the Peerage as Lord Melchett, has resulted as follower Lieut-Col. Jones (Liberal)... 10,207 Hopkins (Labour) Mansel (Conservative),361 Liberal Majority.
10,154,
Sir Alfred Hond was returned as a Liberal at the last election, but Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. later crossed the floor of the House. Randall Davidson."
The movement has been initiated to express appreciation of the character Archbishop's personal and services to the Church and
nation.
It is proposed to make the pre- sentation on the occasion of the Archbishop's golden wedding an
SINGING MAN WITH VODKA niversary on November 19th, and
BOTTLE.
CARRIED INTO COURT.
The following description of a Red judge is translated from the Listok Raboche-Krestyenskoy In spektari" (Workers' and Peasants Inspection Broad Sheet) published [May 23rd) in the Pravda:
This is the behaviour of one of our judges:
the
Committee will expressly stipulate that the Archbishop shall use the amount subscribed to secure greater case and comfort for himself and wife during their remaining years.
It is anticipated that the response to the appeal will also enable a worthy memorial to be placed in. the courtyard of Lambeth Palace, to mark the unique association of the Archbishop and his wife there-
AN OLD MAN'S DREAMS.
PRIMATE AND WORLD "I SHALL SOON LEAVE."...
The People's Judge Tulaeff summoned A sessional court; many peasants came from long distances between 40 and 50 with. kilometres (25 to 31 miles). They arrived punctually at 9 o'clock in the morning, but the judge ar- rived in the evening horribly. drunk (lit. in a beastly state of drunkenness); he carried a bottle of vodka and sang boisterously.
Beholding the assembled people who had waited for him all day long he went up to the judge's table and, rapping it with the bottle, he announced that he was going to bed. In the night, some- what sobered, he returned to the court and was surprised to see some ten peasants still waiting,
He became angry and exclaim-in Go home. I shall not sit cd, in judgment. I sequit you all without the court.” „
NO CHANGE.
HOLBORN BYE-ELECTION.
[TEXOVOH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, June 28th. The bye-election at Holborn, caused by the elevation of the it ting Conservative member, Sir James Remnant, to the Peerage, resulted as follows:
Mr. Stuart Bevan, K.C.
(Cons)
0,365 Mr. Allott (Labour)
2,238 Mr. T. E. Merton (Liberal) 2060
SEARCH FOR ARCTIC FLIERS.
WHY THE R.A.F; HAS NOT ASSISTED.
MACHINES UNSUITABLE.
(THROUGH XIUTEK'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, JUDA
Asked by Commander Ken-
London paper to hand gives worthy in the House of Commons the following extracts from the aged Primates appeal on behalf of to-day, why British aircraft had the Revised Prayer Book:
not co-operated in the rescue, "of
"I am an old man, and we are
told that old men dresar dreams," the stranded crew of the Italia, says the Archbishop of Canterbury Sir Samuel Hoare said that the message to the nation publish Air Ministry and the Admiralty, in” edunder the title of "Our Hope
and Meaning," in which he makes conference, came to the conclusion final plea for the New Prayer that the ice-bound conditions nulli
This judge continued his "de. Book (Hodder and Stoughton, ed. aed the likelihood of effective Air
bauch" for days on the whole of his circuit, and the writer states that he is not in a position to describe it all." He tells us, bow. ever, that on many occasions the usher cried, "Order! Stand up! The judge is being carried into
court."
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ARREST IN COURT.
GIRL ACCUSES A SPECTATOR
There was an unusual incident at Stratford, E., Police Court both when Francis Green, aged 25, and Bernard Webb, aged 25. labourers, of Plaistow, charged with stealing a watch and cigarettes from a public-house in Ley-street, Ilford, Essex, during the licensee's absence.
When a Miss Balls, who lives at Ley-street, was called into the wit ness-box to identify Green and Webb as the men she saw on the premises, she said: "There is one," pointing to a man in the body of the court..
A young man rose and asked, Do you mean me?"
Mis Balls: I do; I am positive. Mr. L. Walden (clerk): Have
arrested.
him
Inspector Thomas at once detain ed the man, and Green and Webb
while the man was charged with taken, to the back of the court
When the three were put into the being concerned with them.
dock, the third man's name given as Walter James Kirkman, aged 28, of Warmington-street, Plaistow. is
WIS
Miss Balls again said she was positive as to the identity of Green
and Kirkman.
Kirkman: I can only say you have made a mistake.
said Detective-Bergt. Hancock Kirkman had told him he knew Green and Webb and came to the. court, to hear the ense
The men were remanded.
LEGAL DELAYS.
that the Court has, by virtue Prosperity, not London only, but has not, for example, bought upa.in. "The Money Order Office wil litigants are denied, their legal of Section 8 of Ordinance No. 2 the industrial centres of the North large tracts of land and converted of 1887, made An Order Limiting such as Wigan and Hartlepool. If them from paddy fields to market the Time for Creditors and Others to
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in their Claims against the abere American progress is mentioned one gardens with a view to making the Eriate to 21ar DAY OF JULY, 1928. can remember the spirit of enter- Colony economically independent..
All Creditors and Others are accord.. ingly hereby, required to send in theirprise that has turned a sleepy old Claims to the Undersigned on or before town like Coventry, with its legen
that Date, A
.
Dated the 22nd day of June, 1928, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Executor,
Prince's Building, Hong Kong
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WEATHER REPORT. Yesterday's weather report, fore- except for rice which is easily imcast and remarks, isqued by the ported. If such a change could be Royal Observatory at 5.20 p.m.,
stated dary traditions, into a mighty bive brought about it would be to the Pressure is highest to the east of factories, while on the borders advantage of no one so much as the of the Bonins. The depression is
central over the Yellow Sea of medieval Oxford motor works, farmers themselves, but there is no
Local Forecast:-E.Wwmde, moderate, fair.. have arisen that challenge Detroit question of forcing the pace.
net).
| Force aid.
He had already offered
the
My dreams for the world shall soon be leaving are rich in hope," he adds. "My heartfelt prayer is that ere I say my nune Italian authorities the assistance dimitti I may somehow-and not least by our new Bbok-be helpful of the Royal Air Force later on if to the younger folk whose pathway it was thought they would prove gleams with promise."
Speaking of the changes made in the Occasional Offices-those for Baptism, Corfirmation, Marriage, Childbirth, Sicknese, and Death- the Archbishop says:
useful.
Commander Kenworthy asked why if small nations like Norway and Sweden "could assist in the
These last-named improvements search for Captain Amundsen, the will bring new mesaing into British Government had not sent great incidents in home life, se
we find, for example, that the an aircraft carrier to Spitzbergen. place of both father and mother to co-operate. therein is recognised and pro- vided for much more amply than before.
Sir Samuel Hoare pointed out that the Northern countries. had Consecration Prayer.
machines suitably equipped for Replying to the argument that in the Alternative Order of Holy Com landing on ice and operating in the munion the Prayer of Consecration Polar regions, whereas we had not. is inconsistent with true Reforma. Our flying-boats would be useless tion principles," he says:
Further Efforts.
I say quite distinctly that, in in undertaking rescue operations my deliberate judgment, there is in the conditions existing in the nothing in the prayer, as we now
Arctic. propose it, which is contrary to Reformation principles and to zound Anglican doctrine. In my view it looks not towards but away from the doctrine of Tran- substantiation..
Were Is parish pricat after
Osto, June 28th. The giant Italian - seaplane
Marina has left Tromsodin
the authorisation of the New search of Captain Raoul Amend- Book I should hope to make sen and Commandant Guillaud, regular use in the parish church
of both forms of the Communion who have been missing for twelve Service.
dare. Dealing with the question of Re The seaplane will conduct its servation of the Sacrament, the
search between Norway and Bear Archbishop saya s
ROME, June 28th.
Most fully do I admit the exist Teland. ence of dangers in connection with Reservation. And it is
It is officially announced that the therefore our deliberate policy not only to discourage, but, as Citta di Milano has re-established; : far as it is in our power, to pre-communication with Nobile's party, vent any use of the Consecrated who are now ten miles north of Elements except for the Com Cape Leigh Smith, and 13 miles munion of the Sick, and any from the position where they were forms of prayer. Devotions, last reported, Aderation. Benediction, Exposi
BERNE, June 20th. tion, which make the consecrated A Klemm-Daimler light aeroplane,. Bread and Wine outside their owned by a resident of Berne, von liturgical use the focus of wor Muehlenen, is being despatched to
King's Bay to search for the Italia bip.
Welcome Bad Weather,
Howe, June 28th.
JUDGE BLAMES LITIGANTS.
"The public seems to think that What Rejection Means.
Having expressed his dislike of rights because of delays in these the kind of controversy which has courts," said Mr. Justice Charles centred in the new Prayer Book in the King's Bench Division.the Archbishop concludes
"That is not so," he said. Since I have been raised to the Bench I have found it is the other way about. Cases come on for hearing too quickly to suit parties and they apply for postponements. That is where the delay occurs.
Of four cases in the judge's list for hearing two were postponed be cause the parties were not ready to proceed.
The Citta di Milano wirelesses that the Breganza is still ice-hound at North Cape. The weather is bad with fog and northerly wind. I will frankly, acknowledge that There is no news of Mariano's if the Church's Measure were walking party. The ice-breaker now to be again rejected by Krassin is due at Spitzbergen on Parliament, the prospect of con June 30th fnsion and of the spread of law. The seaplane Mariano I made a
lessness looms large and ugly.
TROMBOK, June 29th
It will be remembered that the seven hours reconnaisance fight House of Commons rejected the along the coast, partly to test her Prayer Book measure by a big wireless. She returned to Tromsos
at midnight. majority.1