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THE HONG KONG
WEATHER REPORT.
DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1929.
Yesterday's weather report, fore. cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 0.33 p.m., stated:
Preceuro is highest over S, Japan and the Loochoos, and relatively low over Tongking and in the Paci Be to the east of Luzon.
Local Forecast: - S. • winds, moderate, cloudy, occasional rain.
MARRIAGE..
and “the day after to-morrow (45: do" spirit. ‹ Loose screws are fatal either in an aeroplane's mechanism or in the pilot's head. They are more immediately and sensationally disastrous than excessiyo sand in cement or laxity by the keepers of high explosive magazines, Aviation,
for The usual morning mail Masno will act be despatched on the 25th and 8th instant.
Two lots of Crown land are to be offered for sale at the P.W.D. on August & They are Kowloon Inland Lot 2204 (area about 13,000
to paraphrase Lord MELBOURNE, has aquare feet, upset price $7,500) and “no d-d democracy about it." It Kowloon Inland. Lot 220, about exists for the convenience of wealthy 18,110 feet, price 890,350). individuals and for business frms
commence
to whom the speedy transport of. It is notified in the Gazette that goods and documents is more im- the Ping On Baadis Insurance, GIBSON-HAZELAND.-At St. George's
portant than questions of expense. Co., Ltd.. will be struck off the Hanover Square, London, on
There can be no control by popular Companies Register; if it fails to Saturday, July 20, by the Rev. H. Copley Moyle, assisted by votes and no sacred monopoly, of obtain a certificate to Prebendary P. N. Thickness, offeg for the dominant political business within two months after EDWARD RUSSELL GIBSON, Lieutenant, Royal Navy. to party. The aeroplane has to be man the publication of this notice." RETA FRANCES MANNING HAZE-nged according to the hard laws of LAND, elder daughter of Mr. science, and not by the whims apd
Hong Kong
A Vieran dentist, Willy Gaga ANOTHER INCH OF
cruk, aged nineteen, has set up a new nonstop dancing record by dancing continuously for seventy- four hours. He beat the previous record by two hours.
Gabriele D'Annunzio, who had
RAIN!
PROSPECT OF MORE.
A very welcome 1.03 inches of been in poor health lately, was rain fell during the 24 houre ending. operated an inst month for appenat 4 p.m. yesterday. Up to 10 am dicitis at his villa, the Vittoriale, the fall had been 0.78 of an inch.
Last night's weather forecast on the Lake of Garda. It was re
from the Royal Observatory was an
ported that the operation was sus cessful, and that the patient was making satisfactory" progress.
follows!-
I
Pressure is highest over S, Japan and the Loochoos, and relatively low over Tongking and in the Paci 6c to the cast of Luzon.
Local Forecast: 8. winds, moderate, cloudy, occasionat rain.. All day heavy clouds were passing over the Colony and rainfal inter mittently. From sunset onwards a lot of sheet lightning was seen.
At the time of writing it is rain- ing hard-and so may it continue all night!
and Mr E. M. HAZELAND. wishes of elected or self-appointed Wong Tien Cheung, a well-known dental clinics for New York child the sky was particularly stormy and ·
DEATH.
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The death is announced of Mr.
rulers. The thing can be done, as resident in this Colony. Mr. Wong the recent fight by was, before the War, compradore Chinese aviator from England to of Reater, Brockelmann & Co. He was the father of Mr. Wong Kwong Nanking without mishap of any
Tin, the Chinese Representative of the Sanitary Department. A native of the Namhoi district, he was 89 years old.
sort.
new
On Friday evening, a girl at tempted to commit suicide by jumping into the harbour from the Praga at about nine o'clock in the morning. The girl, who was about
Mr. Murry Guggenheim, member of the well-known American Jewish. family who made their millions out of copper, bas established a founda- tion to provide a number of free ren. The first clinic, which will be built as quickly as possible, will cost a million sterling. It is in- tended to build one clinic for each of the five city boroughs.
It was stated in eyidence at an inquest at Epsom recently on Mr. Robert Charles Campbell Potter (59) of Brighton, who collapsed and died while playing golf, that his death was due to acute pneumonia, his heart being unable to cope with the demands made upon it while
was returned.
FURTHER REGULATIONS. The following regulations have been made by the Governor in Council:-
1. Every person at or in the vicinity of any fountain, tap, dust, source, appliance or other means of supply or distribution of water to the public. shall obey all lawful orders and directions given to him by any police officer or district watchman on duty there, or by any other person authorised by the Government to attend to, supervise or control such supply or distribu
tion.
2. No person shall in any way obstruct or binder any such police officer, district wutchman or other person in the performance of his
the
Aviation does in fact demand a lot of China, or, of any group of or dinary men with the usual hutan frailties and imperfections -But the Chinese, though at present a little
'floods distraught by
of ideas, have been capable in the past of extraordinarily good and thorough work. The qualities that made China's old time pottery un- 15 years of age, was promptly he took exercise. Mr. Potter would excelled in all the world and that rescued by the boatmen. It is re-have no idea that he had pneumonia, built the irrigation system in the ported that she was a member of said the doctor in reply to a ques distans province of Szechuan show licensed house" and tried to tion. A verdiet ef natural causes that China has not always failed ad her own life on account of the where sustained and conscientious cruelty of her mistress.
Britain's latest submarine. H.M.S.duty work has been needed. These quali. |
The Dunedin Museum has secured Parthian, one of six submarines tics must be drawn upon to make her aviation service succeed. If, on through the Fels Fund one of the of the "P" class new being built, famous Easter Island statues, was launched at Chatham Dockyard the other, aviation becomes one'
Only five of these have so far been last month, the ceremony being per- more political plaything, only a
removed from the island. Three of formed by Mrs. Stirling, wife of Ora Canton correspondent has in-further record of inefficiency and
them are in the British Museum, Rear Admiral Stirling (Admiral formed us that the Kwangtung
one in Washington, and one is Superintendent of Chatham Dock Provincial Government intends to
Berlin. Easter Island was dis yard). Before the launchinged by him or them, and as to the embark upon a big programme of
covered in 1888 and it contains short service was conducted by the aviation development. Ali the
some 500 ancient statues or torsos, Rev. C., P. G. Rose, naval chaplzín chief cities of the province are to.
stone huts, and sculptural rocks, at the dockyard. The Parthian is be linked up by a regular service
been deciphered, and megalithic re-built at Chatham since 1908. Each with pictographs which have not the twenty-ninth submarine to be
once on providing aerodromes and negotiations about concessions and mains. Most of the carved faces of the "P" type carry a four-inch
HONG KONG, JULY 22, 1999.
CHINA AND AVIATION."
and work is to be started 'at
corruption is possible. It will mean a vast Air Ministry whose whole staff will be changed with cach successive chief; there will be huge administration expenses, schemes started in one place and abandoned for allegedly better sites, endless
rights, diplomatic difficulties with
landing grounds. The possibilities of aviation in a mountainous coun- foreign Powers, and all the para feet. The island. is now a Chilian
are very high, one measuring 37gun and eight torpedo tubes.
try like China appear to be fully grasped by the authorities; the old fear of foreign devil magie is a thing of the distant past, and the inhabitants of walled cities welcome an aviator with the enthusiasm of an American town for Colonel LINDBERG. Aeroplanes have for years figured in China's civil wars,
phernalia of State enterprise in But if the aviators of China. China can somehow make themselves
convict station.
The news that trunk telephone calla in London are now to be charged for minute by minute, after the first three, is a reminder
3. Without prejudice to authority or extent of the duties of any such police officer district watchman or other person, it shall be lawful for him and them to give orders and directions as to who may or may not obtain water at the means of supply or distribution, attended to, supervised or controll-
quantity to be-drawn or taker by any person therefrom.
4. No person shall in any way falsely represent that he has au-
of water to the public. thority to attend to, supervise or control the supply or distribution
The Public School Spirit.
into a closed guild of their own and CRD secure government of aviatora by aviators, under plimate State supervision, like the British Navy for example, there is no reason why they should not be able to render Mix, who has been appearing at through a master clock, charges the great service in the economic Minneapolis with his famous horse subscriber according to his "tele and CHANG HSVEH LIANG, the pre-awakening of the country, Japanese Tony, declares that he is entirely chrones" and "telas" of talk. A world and asking him to explain
sent Chairman of the Manchurian Government, brought the air force
electricity
The Head Master of Eton (Dr. Alington) distributed the prizes at Government agents at Los An
St. Bees School," Cumberland, last. geles are suieng Tom Mix, the cow-
month. In an address to parents boy film star, for defrauding the of an American device which is and scholars he said he did not Government of £20,000 and £15,000, said to be working very well in the think people quite realised how com which they allege were withheld State of Washington. A little me-
plete the English public school system. from his income tax returns. Tom ter, controlled by
was, not how very jealous of it in- tries were. He had a great many telligent members of other coup- people coming from all parts of the
what the public school spirit meant. "telechrone" consists of
one These people considered that they minute's talking and a "telo" of had discovered something which was fifteen seconds talk. Even the worth having if they only knew how Lo get it. Referring to the value of most hard-boiled gossips have been public school life, Dr. Alington ac-deterred from their previous said the real thing boys learned
custom-very prevalent in Ameri-
was how to get on with one another. It was perfectly obvious that most" en-of camping conversationally on of the troubles of the country came the wires by the thought of the re from the fact that people did not lentless little." telos" ticking up get on with one another and did
nat try. Serious allegations against Por every fifteen seconds. Yet running. expenses have been reduced, and suguese officials have been made to many more subscribers have beep Looking Back 25 Years. the Southern Rhodesian Govern obtained because of the dwindling
·THE TREATY PORTS OF
Inspector J. A. Lyon, of the ment by a one-armed British sab of exasperating Number engag- Sanitary Board charged a CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO. CHINA, SIAM. STRAITS
H.E. the Governor has appointed ject named Parlett. Mr. Parlett,ed replies which previously came with carrying on an unlicensed SETTLEMENTS,
It is certainly to be hoped that MALAY
"Mr. N. L. Smith to be Head of the while on a hunting trip, by acci- to people who wanted to put a call On the 18th instant, it appeara, STATES, NETHERLANDS aviation may suit China better than INDIA, BORNEO, THE other peculiarly Weatern methods Sanitary Department and Regis dent shot a cow elephant, which is through in a hurry.
a protected animal.. On going to report the occurrence, Mr. Farlett, according to statements made in the Southern Rhodesian Assembly,
The 67th Annual Issue
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aviators have made good." in innocent. He says that his returns! of the Fengtien army under his spite of many pessimistic forecasts are made out by his woman a direct control and himself took part that they were temperamentally countant and he knows nothing in its operations. Now it is hoped unsuited for such work, and what about it. The agents are also tak to employ aeroplanes for peaceful Japan has done China can do if ing proceedings against the
countant, as she is believed to have purposes and Canton, always enthu-only she gives her mind to it. siastic for new ideas, is in the van
been responsible for incorrect re
The Southern
turns in the case of other Holly wood stars. capital has a flourishing Aviation Bureau, with four British machines among its equipment, and it was The name of Mr. J. H. Bottomley from that city the "Spirit of Las been added to the list of Au. Canton made its historic flight thorized Architects. round China.
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"John D." Philosophic,
man
dairy business in Wanchai Road.
Inspectors Gauld and Lyon sent an Indian constable in plain clothes, to buy milk at the shop; and a bottle was sold to him for ten cents. The will to succeed which made The defendant said he did not sell was more he did not keep goats.. John D. Rockefeller the richest man any milk to the Indian, and what in the world will enable him to He had, certainly, 20 cows, but he live to be at least 100 years old in used these for supplying milk for his children, (Laughter.) "How the opinion of John K. Winkler, many children are there?" asked whose biography of the senior Jr. Kemp. "Upwards of ten, Rockefeller.
appeared
recently was the reply. Mr. Kemp convict- July 8, 1929, marks Rockefeller's ed the man and ined him 8100 or anniversary," writes the three weeks' imprisonment.-Hong 90th
"Just as he determined at Fong Daily Press, July 22, 1904.
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declaring Bangkok to be a place at which an infectious or contagious disease prevailed.
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was placed under an armed guard and threatened with imprisonment, while his native boys were arrested Fearing that he might be treated as Mr. Brewer, of the Clan Lamont, was treated in Portuguese West Africa, Mr. Parlett abandoned his kit and escaped over the border. ministered An even more serious,
are inquiring into the matter.
Now that the weekly promenade upon an earth whose expansion he concerts in the Botanical Gardens matter has been the part that the
bas largely directed." The given by the fine Band of the 27th railways have played in the civili
While driving his wife about on author destroys the accepted story | Iniskillings have, through the wars. They have become the toys
shopping expedition in his that Rockefeller began life as a courtesy of the officers of the poor boy. His father; be says, was Regiment, become a regular thing, [of the contending war lords; the The name of Dr. A. P. Guterres, hackney carriage, a taxi-driver of well-to-do, having established much to the gratification of the chief campaigns have been in the of 82, Catchick Street, Kennedy Cleveleys, near Blackpool, was small fortune by vending patent community, the question of the medicine. Each of the three sons utilisation of the bandstand railway mes, and both the length Town, Bachelor of Medicine and stopped by the police and told that of "Doc" Rockefeller were to re-naturally crops up. The elegant and severity of these wars are Bachelor of Surgery of the Univer- it was illegal. He said that his ceive 81,000 from their father when little bandstand in the Botanica! partly traceable to the increased sity of Hong Kong has been added wife had paid her fare like any he attained bis majority, but John Gardens was erected in 1866, and D, showed such business sagacity cost, we believe," some · sixteen facilities for transporting troops to the list of local medical practi- other pasenger. The driver was
that he was given his patrimony hundred dollars. It was a gift to and munitions. It is, in fact," an
then summoned et Fleetwood ses when he was 18. Winkler says the Colony from the Parser.com. arguable, proposition that China,
sions for making "improper use of Rockefeller has become so accustom-munity. But though it is a pretty and certainly ber peasants and "Charged with unlawful possession a hackney carriage licence, and ed to outliving his old friends that ornament to the gardens, it has be now" look upon death as calm seldom been used by any of the LARGE EDITION (WITH
artisans, would have been better off of 40tuels of illicit opium a the defending solicitor said that ly as one watches an antumn leaf Bands that have at various times MATS & TREATIES)... $12 if not a mile of permanent way bad Chinese was fined 84,500, or, in defendant had no income, while his duttering to earth." The author played la the gardens. The reasons $84 over been laid in the country. default, 12 months imprisonment, wife was of independent means and sets forth part of the Rockefeller why it is not used are that, in the philosophy of life as follows: "I first place, it is stuck in a re- If all that can be said of China's by Mr. E. W. Hamilton on Satur employed her husband to drive her don't let anything bother me, mote nook of the Gardens, on to
about and paid her fare. He add I keep chceful It IN true high a level for the Band to be Apasta al aviationémán Air service was concealed in bundle of stitice and ont chaltals, and she be the death of an old friend, but ly the sont is tog lave and praw
calls for relentlces efficiency. There wood carried by the s. Amherst has a perfect right to employ her I make new friends and people are the sound from rising. The Hong
husband." The case was dismissed. very kind."
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