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Despite distress and unemployment the remuneration for outstanding ahility has increased astoundingly. Even in the arts, Sir JAMES BARRIE, Q.M., and Sir HARRY LADER are supposed to be worth at least a million sterling and Mr. BERNARD SHAW nearly as much. Nor can the fortunes of Mr. EDGIT WALLACE and Miss ETHEL DELL AS far behind. But the stateswan, so fur "from continuing to receive a salary appropriate to his position and responsibilities, has had his moderate stipend reduced by income tax to £3.500. At the trial of GERALD LET BRYAN Some seven years ago, suuries of £80.000 were stated to be by no means the high water mark in the world of insurance Was it any wonder that Sir Eure GEDDES, Sir ROBERT HORNE and Mr. REGINALD MCKENNA forsock politics for the City?
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OBITUARY.
MR. CARLOS CABRAL.
film star, who has been on holiday in London, was enthusiastic in con- versation about England and her people. I think your men are the handsomest I have ever met,' said, and your women-especially LATE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER.
she
thier pure complexions-ate lovely, Misa Davies thinks talking pictures are inertiable and that they will be good thing for the cinema. "My next film is going to be a musical comedy talking film," she said.
CHINESE MARITIME
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Wishing to know his relatives has been received at Hong Kong feelings towards himself, a resident | cia Macan of the death of Mr. of Clarence, near St. Omer, sent a Carlos Cabral, deputy Commissioner » telegram to each member of his of the Chinese Maritime Customs,. family announcing his death and the time and date the funeral would while on home, leave in Lisbon. It take place.. At the appointed hour all the members arrived dressed in deep mourning and en-rying wreaths and bouquets of flowers. Their ad pess sooned turned into discontent, however, whe hey saw the " de
ceased send before sprend table feasting.
4. 'well. The mourn
Six cases of small-pax (all Chi-ers thereupon placed their, wreaths nt the foot of the monument erected nese) with one fatality were report. ed last week. Other cases of noti in memory of the village miners fable disease were as follows who lost their lives in the mine Diphtheria, (British) enteric, disaster. (Chinese) paratyphoid, 1 (Chinese); cerebrospinal fever. 1 (Chinese).
A kindly net which saved the life On Monday four cases of small-por of Mrs. Pears, wife of Lieut. Comilr. (Chinese) were reported from Kow-5. A. Pears, was referred to at the inquest at Greenwich on the driver of a car which came into collision A dramatic discovery has been with a tram-car at Eltham. Mrs. made of a crack ranaing down the Pears, it was stated, heard the bore of one of the giant 13.5-inch whining of a dog which was running guns in H.M.S. Tiger. This is thenlongside the car, and had the car ship to which Captain Dewar, one stopped and the dog lifted in. She of the principals in the recent changed her place to the side of sensational Royal Oak court-mar- the ear so that the dog could sit rial, has been appointed. Had the between her and the driver. When discovery not been made in time the accident recurred a large piece a terrible disaster would undoubted of glass was flung into the car with ly have followed. The Tiger return such force that it severed the dog's Mrs. Pears escaped with His association with Sired to Portland one day last month head. EDWARD CARSON was ridiculous and after carrying out gunnery exercises slight cuts. The chauffeur had an in the Channel, in the course of arm shattered and died from hemorr. he came to be regarded in many which an obsolete airplane had been hage and shock. quarters FLY an over-clever self the target. A crack a quarter of an inch wide was found to extend seeker. But when the war broke the fall length of the bore. It is out he threw up his enormously stated that half a dozen rounds had been fired from this gun, but The Tiger is attached to time. Portsmouth gunnery school, and a report on the matter has been for warded to the Commander-in-Chief.
Lord BIRKENHEAD is one of the ablest and most interesting mes of the day! After a brilliant begin ning he fell for some years under
a cloud.
was know that the inte Mr. Cabral had been in indifferent health lor some time; but his many friends at Hong Kong and Macao had hoped that a change of scene and the bracing climate of Southern Portugal would restore their friend to his once robust health. But this was not to be and the Portuguese communities in the sister colonies and throughout China to-day mourn the loss of a genuine friend, a true. gentleman, and an upright man.
Early Career.
Born at Macan about fifty years ago, the late Mr. Cabral's father- held a high position in the Govern ment of the Colony. He came out from Lisbon as the colonial trea- surer and, in conjunction with that office, was appointed to the chairs
&. PRIZE Jucrative practice at the bar to take nothing wrong was noticed at the by aeroplane than men. On the Airtinguished position in the medical
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Personally I do not like meek men." But it was an overbearingness of temper and a too" complete con- sciousness of their personal abilities that caused both these wen, Lords
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of Latina and Mathematics in the Macao Lyceum. Mr. Cabral, sur., wae married at Macao and had a large family of boys and girls. Two- of the farmer (including the deceas- (ed) were 'educated in Portugal. and Within the last four years more than 40,000 women have flown in in Lisbon the chly surviving son, Imperial Airways machines, and Dr. Fernando Cabral, holds a dis- to-day more women are travelling
After the completion of his studies Union line this year 54 per cent.
in Portugal, the late Mr. Carlos of the passengers have been women, a against 42 percent. last year,
joined the Chinese Maritime Cua Recently business women from Cabral returned to Macao azd the United States chartered an aero- Propaganda work is not confined plane to go to Paris. The biggest tothe service at Lappa. In 1905 he to diplomacy or big busines: it party of women numbered 1. and arried Miss Anita Garcia; daugh appears to be considered necessary they were accommodated in several ter of the late General and Mrs. even in connection with sport-and Decial machines. A Croydon traffic areia, by whom he had a family cricket at that. W. H. Ponsford, oficial said:-The number of young of four boys and three girls. From the famous Australian cricketer, in American women who fly to all partsMnean, Mr. Cabral was successively
hai, Peking. Chingwantao an article in the Mellourne Herald, of Europe is particularly noticeable transferred to Hong Kong, Shang. forecaste nine certainties in the Bret They seem to be on the look-out Takhei, and it was while at Hong Test match-Woodfull, Kippax, for a thrill. They are improving as travellers, though sometimes Oxenham, Oldfield, Gregory. Blac-air kie, Grimmett, Ryder, and Pons- ther get a little dustered and leave central ford. He feels certain that the per- their belongings at the sonnel of the first cleven will not offices." be retained throughout the "series. Spin bowlers are the greatest danger to batsmen on Australian worsened until the sad news was wickets. Blackie, who is forty-six, received at Macao by telegram o is the only class off-apin bowler Sunday that Carlos Cabral had worthy of consideration for the peacefully passed away, As soon as Australian eleven. There are," the news was received in Hong Kong
"only two continues Ponsford,
Hown at half-mast out of respect bowlers of the spin type in the the flag at the Club Lusitano was English team-Freeman and White.
for the memory of the deceased.. Freeman had very little success on
"A Good Man And A Just" his previons visit, and apparently
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of an
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At Pakhol. The strain and stress arduous and difficult time, at Pakhoi where he acted as 'Commissioner he had begun to suffer before he aggravated an illness from which was actally transferred to that port from Macao. It was at Pakhoi that Mr. Cabral rendered distinguished. service in the interest of the Chinese Maritime Customs and of the. Chinese merchants there, munist ascendancy
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'devil."
I doubt pace, with no class brains, and served where he whether Hammond will be at all was most needed he came into his dangerous on Australian wickets." It is clear that the Australians are own alike with his colleagues and engaged in a form of propaganda MOLLER.-On September 25th, the public. It is no blame to him similar to that which heralded the
York-terrace, Regent's CHARLES HENRY CHRISTOPHER that he has left office. A self-made tour of the last Australian tense in England. English followers of the MOLLER, uger. 65.
man, without inherited fortune, game, will be well advised to dis- count in advance adverse criticism Lord BIRKENHEAD does not practise of the M.C.C. team. Ponsford is the Spartan virtues, and in that he apparently whistling to keep up his
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ext statesmen paat and present. The incident shows that now, as in the past. Ministers of the Crown should
MOISEIWITSCH CONCERT
TO-NIGHT:
Benno Moiseiwitsch igen route to
plished linguist. Besides his own vandalism of the desecration of the ly English, French and Chinese. and Catholic cemeteries. The agita language he wrote and spoke fluent foreigners' graves in the Protestant For his valuable services to the tore sought to levy all manner of illegal cractions. It was then that Portuguese Government and com. munities in China, Mr. Cabral was Mr. Cabral showed the Communistic elements that they had reckoned made a Knight Commander of the Most Ancient Order of Christ. His without their host and ranged him- memory will be long cherished by self on the side of justice and the Chinese merchants, whose apprecia- his friends of all nationalities as a man who never spared himself for tion and gratitude Mr. Cabral any friend and on whose loyalty and earned sincerity they could implicitly trust. Of him it can truly be said that "be was a good man and à just.”
MR. R. C. WITCHELL.
DEATH IN ENGLAND..
for freeing them from
the tyranny of the Bolshevists. Before his departure from Pakhei
Mr. Cabral, was presented with a scroll by the Chinese General Cham... ber of Commerce who made a great demonstration of goodwill and ap preciation on the actual day of his departure.
"
His Last 1liness, When he left Pakhoi on long sick The sad news was received in the Colony yesterday of the death leave, the late Mr. Cabral was of Mr. Robert Charles Witchell, at already a very sick man, so much
so that when his friends met him.. Home on October 19th..
The late Bob. (as he was gener-on board the ss. Teas on his ar
Bress. erive salaries to some degree com- Hong Kong where he will be play-ally known) Witchell was senior rival at Hong Kong they felt
Hoxe Kore, Ocrosza 24ru, 1948.
FIRST-CLASS BRAINS."
LORD BIRKENHEAD'S recent with drawal from the Cabinet in order to secure his financial position has drawn attention again to a com- paratively new departure in British
The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club politics. England has always been will hold its 24th annual general meeting of members at the Club well served politically, thanks to House, North Point, on Wednesday, the readiness with which her ablest October 31st, at 5.45 p.m. Sons, whether of the leisured
To
Was
parable to those they might expect, ing, at the Theatre Royal, to-day Sanitary Inspector, and was at alarmed at his condition. From the to the Kowloon Hospital where, to earn in other walks of life and and on Saturday under the direc- Home on leave at the time of his ship he was immediately transferred
death Born and brought up in sufficient to meet the inevitable ex- tion of Mr. A. Strok. He is no ordi- the Colony, Bob was very well after a month, he rallied slightly
He
all round and was medically advised to pro- penses attendant upon their posi-hary pianist but a master whos known.
reed at once to Portugal. With his. tion. In democratic countries where playing is a revelation. He has
sportsman having taken a very this has not been done the political perfected his art and is still a feld has been abandoned to the young man. Brilliant and difficult Prominent part in rowing, swim wife and three daughters, he left adventurer had the windbag with compositions are interpreted faw-ming, water polo, cricket and box by the M.M. str. Chenonceans early of the Interport Water Polo team, seilles There was a whole host of results that are painfully apparent. lessly, and all the time the art of He was at one time captain in May last for Lisbon vii Mar We cannot afford to have this type Moiseiwitsch reaches out
steamer to bid good-bye to Mr. of men at the head of affairs in hrace with the ardour of an old and had led the Victoria Recrea friends on board the French mail
tion Club team in the league, for friend. As an indication of hist
Cabral and his family, including Great Britain.
popularity in this part of the number of years.
The late Mr. Witchell was born H.E. the Governor of M'acno. world, Moiseiwitsch is the only in May 31st, 1883, and entered the Senhor Tamagnini Barbosa, of Cabral had been a artist who has returned to the Hong Kong Government Service in whom. Br.
It Orient within the space of fourteen 1000, He was made Senior Sani- staunch friend since boyhood.
Inspector in October, 1928, was, alas, the last farewell that was months. Two very popular pro- grams have been selected for his He was also a keen volunteer said on that occasion. recitals here and it is generally ex and rose to the rank of Company
In Portugal, pected that Moiseiwitsch's short Sergeant Major during the war.
Mr. Cabral looked forwarded to a season here this month will eclipse
Mr. Bob Witchell was the son of even the reception tendered him on the late Mr. Josh Witchell, who at of the. King Edward Hotel, which in Hong Kong.
position is now being held by Mr. Jim Witchell, brother to Bob, Mr. Bob Witchell, like brother Jim, was a linguiet. He spoke several Chinese dialects with he placed himself under treatment-
He will be remembered of his younger brother, Dr. Fer The weather report, forecast and fluency. remarks issued by the Royal Obeer-best as Honorary Secretary to the nando Cabral. For a time his con-
dition improved, but received V.R.C.. which post he held over a vatory, Hong Kong, at 5.20 p.m.
long period with very great success. setback on the death of his sister. yesterday state-
Mr. Bob Witchell leaves, besides the late Mrs. Carvalho, widow-of-
Mr. C. F. Carvalho, of the Hong daughter (Mya, Pinquet) and son who is now in Kong and Shanghai Bank. From his brother. Hong Kong, for whom the deepest that time onward his condition (Continued on previous column.) sympathy will be fett.
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in Lisbon where they were pursuing. happy reunion with, his four boys.
completed the Lyceum course with distinction, his eldest son topping the list in the final exams in 1927.
Sodh after his arrival in Lisban,
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