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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1929.
THE SILVER TORNADO.
THRILLS OF TARPON FISHING
A GIANT HERRING.
STAR” FERRY CO. CORRESPONDENCE.
MEETING
FIVE NEW BOATS IN FOUR YEARS
-$250,000: FOR SHAREHOLDERS.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE- A PROTEST.
[ro raz EDITOM OF THE !! HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. "! *
LA ARGENTINA.
A LIVING GOYA,
GET THAT OUT
AMAZING PERFORMANCE AT OF YOUR MIND
THEATRE ROYAL.
La Argentina danced to a crowded and enraptured house at the Theatre Royal last night, through a series of dances each of which served to emphasise a differ- cat angle of her personality.
Sia-Kindly permit me to refer What would you do if you were.
to the item which appeared in your in a tiny coastal canoe in shark-
The Star Ferry Company, columns yesterday, dealing with infested waters, with a seven-foot Limited, held their 31st Ordinary two inquests which were held 1 tarpon, weighing two hundred- Annual Meeting at the office of Southport, England. weight, leaping and thrashing Mesara Jardine, Matheson & Co.,
The first inquest was held in a lizat | Ltd., at 19.30 p.m. yesterday. about on the end of
case where Christian Science treat- Strange to say, this particular Mr. B. D. F. Beith presided over ment had been resorted to, and type.
of thrill is eagerly sought the meeting and others present the coroner said in so many words were Messrs. A. H. Compton, T. that Christian Science treatment after by deep-sea anglers who journey from all parts of the world G. Weall and C. Gordon Mackie amounted to "quackery. It is to catch tarpon off the Texan, (Directors) and F. H. Crapnell difficult to understand why Chris Floridan, and Mexican consta - (Secretary), with the following tian Science should over be design The tarpon is a species of giant shareholders: Capt C. B. Rigga ated as "quackery" in such cases, herring, but it is not entirely Messrs. C. M. Maaners, JT when numerous similar occurrtaces harmless for all that. Varying in Bagram, F. M. Ellis, O. F. Ribeira, are taking place under general length from five to eight feet, and A. Sadick, C. F. Lec, O. Kitchell, medical treatment. In view of the weighing from one to two-and-a-Lo Kin Fai, Kwok Hing Wan, A. overwhelming weight of evidence the highest interpretation of the half hundredweight, it is remark- Seton-Winton, L. S. Greenhill, Jin support of the healing efficacy of mind expressed in movement, parti- ably strong and is able to cut through the water at over thirty miles an hour.
A Fierce Fighter.
M. Alves, W. S. Bailey, and C. F. Mendham.
The Report.
The Chairman in addressing the meeting said that the balance of Working Account for the year under review was $285,095.22 compared
But whatever she dances, & wild gypsy movement, a stately classic, or an interpretive ballet, La Argen tine is always herself and always Spanish Like Parlors she standa alone in her chosen medium of ex pression, and, different as their interpretive methods are, it is to Pavlova that your thoughts turn when you seek for words to explain hem dagcing. Pavlova tas given u
Right
Now!
A LOT of folks have the idea that because Ortho- phonic music is so good, Orthophonic Victrola
must be expensive.
The fact is, we have Or- thophonic Victrolas on our display floor that any home
three offers you real Ortho- can afford. Model Four-
phonic music at small cost.. Our plan of budgeted pay-
Christian Science, such utterances cularly of the introspective. Rus- ars rapidly becoming futile and the sian mind. Argentina expresses the emotions, especially the vivid emo Southport coroner seems to have tions of that land of romance from overlooked the fact that Christian which she hails. Like the salmon, the tarpon
Science was recognised by the except in superlativer, because it
It is hard to speak of her art thepok of the angles. It is
British Government in the recent so intensely enotional and yet struggle fiercely to escape from leaps out of the water continually
Nursing Homes (Registration) Ach these very superlatives seem to sometimes jumping to a height of with 8373,83587 the previous year. In the second inquest, the in. cheapen, because they are used so twelve or fourteen feet in the air. After transferring $50,000 to re- dividual did not rely on Christian tisements of very inferior art. lavishly in the modern day adrer the fish shaking its head and rat- tling its gilla ere it strikes the sur- serve, $20,000 to general contingency Science treatment, but seems to When you read of Argentiments makes it possible for face of the water with a resound-account, allowing for depreciation have depended on prayer.
flower which changes in shape and
you to play as you pay. Come ing crash, sending foams and spray and ordinary repairs, the balance There are thousands upon thou the stormy whirlwind of the dance" colour as it swings in the breece, or
in and have us explain. Again and again, the monster available for appropriation, includ- sands who have turned to Christian you may think the French critic has frequently reported of a booked last account,
awn But when you see her war $390,038.34, completely restored. These heal on the stage you realise that this tarpon leaping from the sea and falling back upon the canoe of the
"which" he added, your Directorsings come to pass because Chrisrical rhapsody is no more than angler, smashing it to matchwood propose dealing with as follows:-tian Science is simply the reinstate and seriously injuring or killing Pay a dividend of $2 per share ment of the primitive Christianity ita occupant.
and a bonus of $1.50 per share, found in the Holy Bible and taught absorbing $280,000, and carry for ward $40,038.34.
in all directions.
springs into the air, and cases fire ing $42,437.15 brought forward from Science for healing and have been been playing with words, for the S. Moutrie & Co.,Ltd..
Tarpon are also prone to rise: suddenly underneath a boat, and capsize it. A & tarpon is usually followed by a shark or two, an- other excitement is added to the chase. Sharks and tarpons wage continuons war upon each other, the sharks frequently attacking the tarpon after it has been hooked and his exhausted itself in its
truggles.
.
You will observe in the accounts we have subscribed $2,000 to the Chater Memorial Scholarship Fund, which I am sure will meet with your approval.
The Company's Fleet. One of our older ferries was sold during the year at a proff of $10,500 in excess of book valte,
In April last another new boat,
by Jesus Christ and they are the direct outcome of his words: "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.”
the truth. Argentina's personalit her audience from the moment of is amazingly strong and the gripa her entry. Each succeeding dance goes like wine to your head and makes her seem the more marvel- kous
She is tail graceful and alluring with the deliberate provocation of of her smile, and of all her som the South. The play of her eyes,
person is all calculated, perfectly practised wholly delightful and rever cheap.
Of the dances which she gave last night perhaps the ritual are dance was the most interesting and origin al. The two most encored, numbers however were a delightful pics of burlesque in the Toledan peasant dance, and the sinuous ́ánd. Kavely has its peculiar appeat of nove Andalusian Tango. But every dance. ment, meaning and costume.
(Victor Distributors) Chater Road.
A DEADLY PATENT MEDICINE.
WHOLESALE DEATHS IN
TIENTSIN.
CHILDREN BEING VIRTUALLY MURDERED,
A foreigner who is in a position. to know the facts draws attention
Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and The accident fond of $140,000 has Founder of Christian Science, been transferred to general con-writes in the textbook, Science tingency account and further While it is comparatively easy to 821,000 added. Under its new head and Health with Key to the Scrip hook a tarpon which are most susing the fund may be utilised for tures," "I have never supposed the ceptible to bait consisting of any purpose your Directors con world would immediately witness mulfet-it is by no means easy to sider necessary,
the full fruitage of Christian and one, Very frequently, as soon as it feels the hook, the tarpon
Science, or that sin, disease, and death would not be believed for an s the cance at such a rate that,
indefinite time; but this I do arer, swims off at a terrific speed, drag- more often than not for safety's sake, the angler is compelled to cut
that, as a result of teaching Chris the line.
the Northern Star, was "completed tian Science, ethier and temperance and put into service. This is the have received an impulse, health fifth new boat placed on the run has been restored, and longevity during the past four years. We now the Company to cope comfortably fruits, what will the harvest be, only a woman could realise, and When a child or other helpless per- have a very efficient fleet enabling increased. If such are the present she manages those flowing skirts among the Chinese population, with present day traffic.
every woman in the audience last son falls ill in one of the crowded when this Science is more generally night must have envied La Arge houses or tenements which aboimd anderstood?"
(P. 349).YOUTS, tina for the opportunity she has to in parts of the 1st Special Area,
wear such entrancing 'creations, W. H. ADLER,
and her great skill in the wearing the practice is to buy a certain Christian Science Committee Argentina is a dancer whom you white powder known as
"huci- on Publication for
could see over and over again, and Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Feb. 15th.
A Mysterions Origin.
If the book holda, the giant herring commerices its leaping tactics. When the monster is dead, it is gaffed alongside the cange and
· towed iskore.
Nobody has yet discovered any- A Motor Ferry Needs".. thing about the early life of the..
That a vehicular Ferry Service tarpon The smallest specimens comeeting the Island and the Main- caught seldom weigh less than four land thus providing transportation pound. Although they are Bonie- times.encountered a long way: "Priders but also, and more important, not only for motor cars and joy. tidal rivers, it is doubtful if they breed there and many authorities consider it probable that the tarpon comes to life near the bottom of abadlow, sandy bays, remaining in its... 42
until it is large nurseryTM" enough and strong enough to evade the attacks of its rapacious enemy, the shark.
Tarpon-fishing is the chief of the sea sports on the eastern side of the American continent. At various resorte, big hotels cater solely for the requirements of tarpon anglers and hundreds of men make their living by acting as boatmen and
Surdes for the wealthy men of leisure who enjoy a sport which has grown rapidly since it first started
[H.A. F.]
in 1885.
HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.
11
FOR WEEK ENDING FEB. 9TH.
Plague.
Rangoon: 1'death.
Colombo: 3 cases, & deaths. Cherbon: I case..
meeting the growing demand to facilitate the movement of various kinds of merchandise and cargo across the Barbour by motor lorry, etc. would be beneficial to the Colony is becoming more evident daily...
Whether it is in the best interests of this Company to branch out into an extensive development of its service of this nature, calls for care ful investigation and the matter is once again receiving the considera- tion of your Directors,
truly,
JAPANESE "RED LIGHT"
ABOLISHED.
IN PREFECTURE NEÄR TOKYO.
Licensed prostitution in Japan met its first decisive legal defeat recently, writes the North China Daily News Tokyo, correspondent, I am given to understand that the when, the Prefectural Assembly of Government at the present time. Saitama, a prefecture adjoining owing to other and more urgent Tokyo Prefecture, unanimously needs in the public interests of the passed a resolution abolishing the Colony, does not see its way to con No new licences are to be granted, sordid "business" in that district. tribute anything towards such a service but is prepared to consider be extended, and it is believed that, neither will those already secured favourably any scheme which may be put forward with a view to the upon the expiration of the present inangaration of a combined vebic will automatically disappear from licences, the undesirable practice Ide and passenger service between
Saitama prefecture. two terminal points on either side of the Harbour
Br. J. T. Bagram seconded the motion and the report and accounts were adopted
Her costumes are extraordinarily Spanish, all beautiful and all co-German good. Ther Sare all essentially to certain evil practices in the ex- tirely different. How wonderfully
Concession, Tientsin,
it will be glad news for all who suntan" or "life restorer pill”, were present last night that she which may be bought at Chinese has decided to nay a second visit drug stores for about 80 cents. to the Theatre Royal on February. These 28th, on her return from Manilla.
E. M. B.
ROMANCE OF SPAIN.
THE “MERE MAN'S” VIEW,
administered to the patient, who usually gets worse, and more powder is administered till the sufferer dies. The body is then handed over to a Chinese undertaker who is simply a coolie, One of the world's most vivid to be disposed of He puts it in.
a basket and empties it into the stage personalities delighted us at the Theatre Royal last night, La creek. If the body is too large to
greatest Argentina is Spain's dancer. She is more than that, for go in the basket, he cuts it up. she has become the embodiment of
The Principal Victims According to our informant, that romantic spirit of Spain, which may or may not be found in reality dozens of cases of this kind occur. but has been made to live in the imagination By Goya and Cervantes, every week. The victims are prin the finest of dance music and a cipally girl babies, but sometimes than any.in boys also. There is no registration tradition greater
of births, nor of deaths, so that the power of one dancez-outside on unchecked, and the extraordin dividual
It is not
ot unreasonable to doubt this slaughter of the innocents goes the Russian balletto hold the at-ary thing is that the Special Arer tention of an audience, through a police remain quite inactive, whole evening. But every mis though the baskets are carried giviig vanished as La Argentina through the streets under their herself flashed onto the stage, notes. Even if they knew that the dazzling us with her grace and dead body of a girl child lay in beauty, the superb art of her cos the basket they would probably feel tunes, the haunting music of her no, prompting to interfere.-- castaneta.
Our informant speaks of two There was a big audience and at cases in one family, a girl and a once the dancer gripped it, for she boy, who died last month of has the genius of personality which huei-suntan "
treatment,
There was the usual opposition from the keepers of such dens and the subsidiary trades, like drinking halls and houses of assignation, that fatten on the licensed system, The confirmation of the appoint and the invariable argaments that, ment of Mr. B. D. F. Beith to the when the red light regions are Pnom Penh 3 cases, 2 deaths.Beurt of Directors in plaes of the abolished, the decent women of the Infected rats: Macasser (1), Bom. Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, who place will suffer, that sly prostitu bay (0), Rangoon (5), and Colombo resigned during the year, was pro tion will increase and that disease (9).
posed by Mr. F. M. Ellis. and will in consequence flourish were seconded by Mr. A. Sadick and trotted forward, but it was point-sweeps one into her own mood. It whose bodies were summarily dis- carried unanimously.
Cholera.
Calcutta: 23 deaths. Negapatam: 1 death." Hangoon 4 deaths. Tuticoria : 16 cases, 11 deatha, Bangkok: 17 cases, 9 deaths. Pnom Penh 1 case, 1 death.
Small pox. "Basrab-"8" cases, 2 deaths.
Bombay: 38 cases, 23 deaths. Calcutta 13 cases; 7 deaths. Karachi: 16 cases, 4 deaths, Madras: 64 cases, 6 deaths. Negapatam: cases, 3 deaths Rangoon: 3 cades. Vizagapatam: 6 cases/ Colombo 1 case,
Samarinda: 4 cases.
"Haiphong: 14 cues, 11 deaths.
Poom Penh: 22 cases, 14 deaths. Shanghai: 8 desthe
Canton: 16 cases, 1 death,
Micio: 14 deaths.
Dairen: 1 case, 1 death
Mukden: 3 cases 1 death.
Mr. C. M. Manners then propos ed, and Mr. C. F. Lee seconded the re-election of Mr. T. G. Weall to the Board of Directors. Carried “unanimously, MO PA
C. B. Riggs.
ed out that Saitama Prefecture originally did not have a licensed quarter and that there had never been these evils then......
gave it to the child!".
End.
was the gift of Sarah Bernhardt,posed of. There was a third child Irving and Caruso at one end of the in the family, a healthy little boy, scale, of Lauder and Nell Farren, but our informant one day noticed of a past age, at the other. And that this child was sick too, and The victory was achieved largely Argentina's mood was "a" joyous asked the cause. “Oh," aid the through Christian efforts, particu-vitality, alluring, impudent and infather, there was a little of the Mr. C. Bernard Brown, A.C.A., larly through those of the Japan one delightful pensant dance de medicine left in the box, so we was re-elected auditor for the Women's Temperance Association licious clowning, ensuing year on the proposal of Mr. and of the Salvation Arm the The ritual fire dance, when her Medicine Sold Without Check. A. Seton-Wiston, seconded by Capt. latter har thundered gunst fingers moved, like tongues of Jam, The medicine, thought deadly this system for the past are was the most thrilling, and the 18th
The attitude of the Government Century bolero the most fall ofin its effects, is sold without check,
and administered by unskilled par- towards this system, which has charm. flourished in this country for La Argentins is most formate ents. It causes sickness and con- generations, defnitely changed in in her skilful and modest pianist, valaions, followed by death No 1926 when the Government devised Carmencita Perez, and both these doctor is called in Severe restric and passed legislation whereby the ladies received an oration of landtions are imposed on the sale of She inmates of these houses were en- not often heard even from our good, morphin, this being, according to tiger titled to protection. Although the natared Hong Kong audiences. They our informant, one of the few use- legislation does not go very far, had carried us away for a wholeful steps taken by the Nationalist and yet it has been regarded, as the thin evening to the sunshine of Spain Government, but this life igeza da sot de end of the wedge in the attempt and we could only how our grati restorer" which kills is sold with
out sint-North China bunday, that Woman Well, they make a to tear down the unsavoury citadel tude in applauso,
Times fumy Tow
that the trade" has built up..
The meeting terminated with the announcement by the Chairman that dividend warrants would be ready to-day.
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