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Yesterday's weather report, lore chat and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 3.30 p.m.,
stated-
A 907.
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means any
The Passing of Verrey's.
Mr. George Grosamith, in a cable
Verrey's Café, in Regent Street, gram to London from America, states that he has signed an im- is being "wound up voluntarily." portant contract to write, produceIt will be sad news to the sentiment- and act for the Fox Film Company. al Londoner, for until the rebuild- Mr. George Grossmith, the welling of Regent Street it stood to known acter and actor-manager, the last as one of the prettiest ex-
27
many notable
A Chinese girl has made a re- it
by not mark the conclusion of the drive, port to the police that while walk is likely to determine success or ing in Caine Road on Saturday, In 1929 the Communist she met two men who by means failure. Party leadership undertook in grim of enchantment" defrauded of her carnest the job of driving the gold ring, valued at over $10. – The northern portion of the anti-Soviet Union' as quickly as possible
On September 1 this year, the cyclone has moved eastward leaving
a lot more quickly than possible,proposed revision of the law per- has had a varied stage career. He amples of Nash's genteel hand. The was the original " Johnny of delicats woodwork of its doorway a separate anticyclone over China.
to SOME critics to taining to labour in mines in The typhoon appears to be station according ary about 500 miles E.S.E. of Socialism. State industry must be Japan, providing that "no mine-usical comedy. At one time he and curved, many-pared windows." was always painted a soft blue, and Manila. Fresh monsoon along the expanded at a speed never before owners may require their men and shared the control of seven theatres. women employees to work in pits In 1925 he was invited to join the
B.B.C. as advisory director of old-fashioned people used to make SE. Coast of China and moderate
attempted anywhere in the world. longer than 10 hours a day," will go
the blue win- programmes.
engagements at monsoon over the China Sea.
The peasants, whether they liked it into effect. winds, Local Forecast:-N.E.
dows." It stood for a time for all moderate, generally overcast, occa-or not.. must be made to merge
Estate worth £5,430 Da. 8d., in Britain's Minister to the Vatican. sional rain.
Rome is the only city in the world that was delicate in London cook- their land into collective farms
cluding $43,900 in Hong Kong, was for communal working by modern left by Mr. Henry Thomson, late where there are two English Heads ing, and it had
engineer of the Anking, belonging of Missions representing King patrons and many old and efficient to the China Navigation Company George. One is Sir Ronald Gra waiters. It randa a great deal of It was a programme so "Left"
money until Regent Street was FORDE-On January 21, at the that the former demands of the Mr. Thomson was killed by pirates ham, who is responsible for the
fainous restaurants in that street, Country Hospital, Shanghai, TROTSKY faction seemed pals by when the ship was attacked in the general relations between the two rebuilt, and then, like even more it changed its ways and could not to Mr. and Mrs. F. H. FOLDE, comparison. It was certain to enfl Gulf of Tongking on September 26, countries. The other, Mr. Chilton, out every last drop of fighting 1929. His home address was givens Minister at the Court of Pops
Except privately, the make things pay at its new prices in the will as 30, Bruce Street, Pius XI. MATTHEWS--At Swatow, on Jan-spirit in the people whose economie Greenock, and 5. Forbes Place, two must not know each other. and new showinces. The old Ver.
uary 1, to Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
and even physical existence it
Even if Mr. Chilton were not rey's had some ways that new re- For in- good linguist, he cannot have found staurants might copy. MATTHEWS, a daughter.
threatened-the private traders, the Wemyss Bay. NEWTON-On January 20, at the richer peasants, the unfriendly or
The annual meeting of the Sind conversation with the Pope difficult, stance, it was their custom to serve Country Hospital, Shanghai, to simply apathetic intelligentsia. To Mr. and Mrs. H. F. NEWTON,meet, this opposition required a Hindu Merchants Association was for English is one of the twenty- unified party wielding its power held on the 25th instant, at their seven languages with which his
hesitation Club in China Building, and the Holiness is acquainted. Pius XI without sentiment or
as a widely-travelled, scholar, a man election of officers The remainders of the TROTSKY OP- DEATHS.
position were therefore eliminated. follows:-President: Mr. V. She of tulture, an ardent Alpine elim BURTON-At the Peak Hospital, on
U. Valables is said, with something of the zeal January 26, 1030, the infant TROTSKY himself was sent out of waraut (Pioneer Silk Store): Vice-be-went to the chair of Peter, it
the country, and his followers for President: Mr. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. C. H.
the most part ate humble pie and Messrs. W. Assomul) Secretary of a reformer. He was [8935 MELLO.-On January 26, at accepted party discipline. But the Mr. F. T. Melwani (Mesars., Pohoo-broom. He would sweep clean. In Le loosened, futile relica of an iron Mano, FERNANDO E. DE MELLO, Left programme inevitably gave muli Bros.); Trensurers: Mesars. O. tolerably rigid restrictions were to medievalism to be abolished. The sun of Mr. and Mrs. A. Arise to a Right opposition within K. Gidumal and Wateomal.
Prisoner," it was even whispered, DB MELLO, and late Assistant the Communist ranks people who than it could
would not remain a prisoner long. Purser, s.s. Lungshan. (Lisbon contended that the Kremlin was and Shanghai papers plenas biting off
[8957
swallow. This opposition, too, was
And he has nott
copy.)
throttled. The leaders were shorn PYANKUCHES-On January. 2, at
Shanghai, CARL AUGUST EMIL power, and the rank-and-file Rights dared not assert themselves This opposition by the end of the year was not yet eliminated; per- haps it is much stronger than the 11,country is aware, but at least it was suppressed effectively enough to enable the Kremlin, under STALIN's direction, to begin to put the drastic Left programme into practice.
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RUSSIA'S GREAT EFFORT.
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Thus it was that 1929 saw the un
resulted
1
The total number of voters who will be able to cast their rates in the general election shortly to be held in Japan is put at 12,942,507. The new list of voters to be used in the general election was .com- ploted with voters outstanding on December 20, plus some little modi. fications made on January 13. This total is an increase by 536,296 over the total voters at the time of the first general "manhood suffrage election, in 1929, when the £gure was 12,400,011.
committee
Tan
How
Snakes are no longer a night Snakes an Pots of Mayfair.” mare: they have become the latest layfair collecting hobby. A snake dealer in London said that the de ly increasing. Women are keen and for snakes as pets was great collectors, and they go to trouble to obtain pretty and rare specimens," he said. Snakes give
name
men.
great
B
a half-pertion that was ample in meal of several courses, and charged a little more than half the price for a whole portion, which Also you could sufficed for two. bottle. It had a 78. 6d. table-d'hôte order a pint of claret instead of a
was cooked until it was ordered. During the coaching revival of the dinner, but no disk of the dinner
eighties it was the rendezvous of all the chief whipa and amateurs. King Edward, when Prince of Wales, dined several times
st. Verrey's. It seemed the sort of place that would have a long life, like its opposite numbers in Paris and Venice, but there is no place for the intimate and specialised restaurants among the stony-faced shopping stores of new Regent. Street,
Curious Burials.
Though some accounts say that Cemenceau's desire to be buried in an upright position is in keep- The workers of the Wing Onlittle trouble as pets, for many
They tion," it is a method which has even less often than that. folding of the amazing Five-Year Cotton Mill at Woosung have for types car only once a fortnight, or ing with an old Breton tradi warded a written complaint to the seem to have reduced slimming to a been followed in many other places; Plan of industrialization. No more ambitious economic effort has ever Social Bureau, and Kuomintang;
frogs, a small snake will just stay temary position for the interment been undertaken on se large a scale Hindquarters accusing Hung Tung Perfect art. After a meal of three at one time it was, in fact, the cus member of the in bis case and look ornamental of military captains Again, Ben in humaan history. The plan aims I a to accomplish in half a decade an Training Committee, and amount of industrialization which Ivan Ziang, a committee member and well groomed without further Jonson, the poet, stands upright in other nations-even a country as of the Shanghai Genera: Labour attention. Some lucky anakes are his tomb in Westminster Abbey. rooms. Ardent make fans allow probably one of economy, to save righly endowed by nature as the Federation of the Kuomintang, res enjoying the luxury of drawing though, the reason in this case was their favourite specimens to roam some portion of the heavy fee.then United States-took a generation pectively with receiving a Bribe of or two to achieve. At the same 3,000 from the Wing On Company about on the carpats, while they at exacted for spner. Many people, however, in ordering the disposal time an unprecedentedly vigorous to suppress the agitation among the
and generally do parlour of their mortal remains, have gone campaign was begun to lead or workers, caused by the dismissal of tempt to make them answer to a force the peasnats into collective of their number on January 2
may be anything from a shilling into the regions of downright eccen farma. The process was not always In support of this accusation, the tricks. The price of a snake pet beyond the bounds of the unusunt. The upper layer of pea Daily News says, the written for a grass, snake to several pounds tricity, as, for instance, that seven- gentle. LAST -week a cable from Riga re-
sants, the so-called kulaks," were complaint states that the two per for an uncommon and larger speci teenth-century Recorder of Not-
song concerned gave $1,000 to a
The four-mayed" snake is tingham, Clement Spelman, whos ported that STALIN had made a taxed often to the point of exter statement to the effect that rigorous mination. Some through fear others member of the Union's Standing a society favourite, as he is pretty bed was immured in a pillar in Communist war was to be waged through conviction, entered the Committee to enlist his assistance, and docile. One ardent anake col-Narhurgh Church. But not even in dissolving the Union. It is relector is the Hon. Stephen Tennant. Spelman could claim complete ori- collectives in larger numbers than'
ginality. Several predecessors, who against the capitalist elements the Kremlin itself had planned, ported that, in view of this allega.
were supposed to have forfeited in the villages. The object appears but as was to be expected, those tion, the local Kuomintang Head-
Last March the delightful, un-body and soul to the Devil, whether to be to break down the stubbornaffected adversely by the official quarters has detained the two re- Preservation of a Bucks Village.
programme fought is covertly. In presentatives concerned pending ini
spoilt village of West Wycombe, in they were buried within or with- resistance of the "Kulak " class of the villages particularly the rear vestigation.
Bucka, was offered for sale without the church," did their best to defeat this arrangement by leaving the almost certain prospect of the peasantry, who are not proving was filled with widespread violence
destruction of all that generations instructions that their remains were to be immured in a church wall. amenable to the desperate sacrifices on the pars of peasants who felt Teaching English. themselves ill-used.
We are failing in our duty to of people had enjoyed as they pass Brent Pelham, in Hertfordshire, called for under the now famous ment answered terror with terror. the mother tongue," said Dr. C. Jed that way. Its chief feature is a umerous executions, exiles, im College, Sydney, at the "speech
the seventeenth and eighteenth cen purpose. Probably the extreme of
eccentricity was achieved by Soviet regime at a critical juncture taken by the present Communist wolved-secondary schools, primary turies. Its chief industry is chair Major Labelliére, who died in the
making. It is belf-way between in its history. The condition of the leadership the, individual counts for schools, and even the University. vast domain under the flag of Cum-nothing-no, price is too big for added. "Taking our population London and Oxford, and genera Year 1800. His body was interred eventin success. Thus it comes by and large, I think we are forced tons of travellers will bless the on Box Hill, the famous Surrey to admit that the attempt to teach Royal Society of Arts, who bought beauty spot, head downwards, be
cause he expected that on the Last.. munism is more, strained, than at about that we read of still more any time since the conclusion of the rigorous measures now being taken the English language is a dismal the village for £13,000 to preserve Day the world would be turned civil wars and the liquidation of by the Soviet Government against failure." Dr. Frescott went on to it for all time. The Society paid topsy-turvy, and be wanted to be what are regarded as the capit. say that spelling grow worse and £7,000 at the time, and have yet to right way up for the occasion. By The question is no alist elements in the villages worse. The old spelling drill was find £6,000 to complete the purchase, some process of transference, this story is now usually told of Richard Secretary, longer, as in early years, whether The "kulak" class, having resisted dreary enough, but in the schools but the owner, Sir John Dashwood,
the Soviet system will survive. The the will of Moscow, must be remoy where it was taught it used to be agreed to allow for a time the Hull, who lies under the Tower on ed. What the outcome will be of inught well, and children prided balance to remain on mortgage, the nearby Leith Hill, but Mr. Shameen. Jan, 24th, 1936. (8949.
Government in Moscow is as stable these harsh measures against the themselves upon being able to spell which is met by the present rents
Hull's burial, except for the site, as any in Europe, and more stable peasantry it is not easy to foresee. eren hard worde. To-day, with of the village. The repair and up had nothing unusual about it.
Fortunately for the Government, wider eurriculum, we were falling CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME than most. The question rather is the harvest last year was excep-back. In particular reference to keep of the old buildings, however, requires a good deal of money, and whether it will emerge from the tionally good, and sufficient grain the form advertising had taken, he the Society is now appealing, for £90,000 to complete. the purchase present period of intensive recon-has been stored for the supply of quoted some of the signs he had struction, of prodigious strain and read needed for the city popularead in city streets. They are in- and to restore and repair the houses tion-but another sawing must pretended to be clever," he said, but and recreate this beautiful little sacrifice, as the communized, highly cede the next reaping and realia they show a perverted ingenuity." industrial village. An anonymous donor who has already given £500 industrialized nation envisioned by tion of this fact may result is the "PEAK MANSIONS"
to the fund has offered to contribute the Kremlin leaders, The Comtern orders of STALIN being modi
fied by those entrusted with the ir-roomed & Fire-roomed Apartments.munist Government - “ablished "
difficult task of enforcing them.
10 per cent. of all additional sums received up to the end of the year.
TEPPOLICE NON TENDENT the Council is prepared to receive Application from any Competert Parson, tion and Experience.
The Govern
who in required to state Age, Qualificare-year plan" of national recon- There were thousands of arrests, Prescott, headmaster of Newington long village street of houses, ent. And Tremeirchion, in North Wales, Galary for This Post is at the Rate of struction. The New Year finds the prisonments: In the task under-day" last month. We are all is- tages, inns, and shops, mainly of have lent their charches for this
H.K.$500, with an Additional II.K.$150,
House Allowance Per Mensen. Applications should be addressed to the SECRETARY, and Applicants must be prepared to come, to CANTON for a Personal Interview with the Council on request, Tragelling Expenses being defrayed by the Council.
By Order of the Council,
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Our Customers with A BETTER KATE by Isening TICKET FORMS. EACH BOOK of Tickets Costs FIVE DOLLARS and contains TEN 10 CART-TICKET, FIVE 20 CHYT-TICKETS, and TEN CINTME
the farine.
New Year, just as the Nanking Government has abolished" the old-style New Year in China. The wheels of Russian trade and pro- duction did not pause to signalize | the expiration of 1020 or the dawn of 1930. The time or stock-taking was on November 7 last, when the thirteenth year of the Bolshevik revolution was ushered in, amidst greater celebrations.
But millions of individual 'Soviet
News and Views.
The Danish Minister to China has left Shanghai for Hong Kong,, e route for Siam, where he will meet the Crown Prince of Denmark.
..
Port and Starboard."
The Shamrock a Food...
11
Looking Back 25 Years.
Notwithstanding the present tightness of the money market, we.. carn that Messrs. Soares & Co. bave been successful in selling some large and valuable land in Kow- loon. Kowloon Marine Lot No. 47- was sold in December for $250,000, and the same firm have just con- cluded the sale of the adjoining Job No. 49, which fetched $101,018.25-Hung Kong Daily Preas, January 29, 1905. Locking Back 50 Years.
Mr. David Wright Smith, auther of The Law Relating to the Rule of the Road at Sea," stated recently that he had obtained 2.000 signa- tures to a petition which has been
When so many national symbola are presented to the President of the disputed and demarded the shamrock Board of Trade against the propos in its ancient religious associations Seven cases of small-pox (alled helm changes at sea, and that he is also, it seems, in jeopardy. The
Travelling in the country on onC Chinese) were reported in Victoria has received dozens of letters from absence of the shamrock from the new Irish coinage has been much
Occasion we came acroGH a stone during the forty-eight hours ending masters and officers who are new
abroad. "I contend," said Mr. criticised, but the explanation is to bearing the following curious in- midnight on Sunday.
Smith," that the shipmasters' and be found in Mr. Nathaniel Colgan's scription:-Chung Shan Chi Mo. officers' representative of Eave been represented at the find no great antiquity for the being given us of the origin, and societies researches on the subject. He could Inquiry led to the following history intrnational conference which pro- tradition that associates St. Patrick object of the same. In the middle posed the change. They applied for with the shamrock, and no warrant of the river which was flowing past representation, and it was refused in any extant life of the Saint for
was a rocky island, which was for many years served as the burying- is unthinkable that these men the incident in which he is said to should have had no voice in the con- have used the shamrock as a tyre plate, of the people around. But the river was infested with pirates, sideration of technical matters re of the Trinity. The shamrock. like
and it became necessary to take stern measures 14 exterminate lating to their own profession." Sir the haggis, is first mentioned in
them. No other way seemed open Walter Runciman, who has spent literature as a food. It was enten most of his life at ga, has written at times without any preparation. that the proposed change would not and also as a breadstuff when baked but build a fort on this rocky The earliest passage island, but to do so would be to only lead to confusion, but to loss into cakes.
We have when it is mentioned as a symbol disturb the spirits of the persons of life and properly.
along well enough with occurs in the journal of Thomas whose Inst resting place, the island was. The matter was, however, of port and starboard. Every na- Dinely, an English traveller about tionality understands it," writes 1081, where it is recorded that on such moment that the idea of mak- could not be given up, so a plan Sir Walter, and we ought not to St. Patrick's Day "the Irish of ing that spot the place of defence experiment with so sacred a cus- all stations and conditions wenr
was adopted which it was supposed tom, but continue the heritage that crosses in their hats, some of pink,
some of green ribbon, and the would fully meet all ends. A tomb
was opened on the river's bank,. has been left to us by better and more experienced men than those vulgar superstitiously wear sham "In my opinion it will be the they likewise eat (they sny) to vited to enter. Then the tomb was cause a sweet breath." It was not closed and the stone crected with who are advocating the change. roges, three-leaved grass, which and the spirits of the departe, greatest mistake that has ever been suggested in nautical affairs." The autil 1727 that the legend of the the above inscription, which may President of the Board of Trade shamrock as a symbol of the Trinity be translated lomb of the collect- has agreed to consider the points first made its appearance in literaed spirits."-Hong Kong Daily
iture
Frest, January 29, 1860. raised by the petition.
A Chinese girl had citizens, if only through the habit her weddressed in Hollywood of a life-time; paused to look back Road at about 6 p.m. on Sunday at the terribly rough ground cover-evening. She raised an alarm and ed in the past year, and to look the thief was promptly apprehended
by a Chinese constable. shead, apprehensively, at the ter ritory, even mongher, from all in- Mr. James McGregor Forbes, who dications, that stretches before them died in Scotland on October 31,
1028, left Hong Kong estate worth got in the present year. They realized, 844,500; Resealing of the trust if they had watched the course of disposition and settlement of the IS HERE, BUT WHAT SHALL
events intelligently, that 1929 markante has been granted to a local BE DONE FOR THOSE WHO
solicitor. CANNOT AFFORD THEM?
ed the opening of a drive towards TEMBERS of the Committes at. Communist ideals more ruthlessly tend at the Society's Room, vigorous, more desperate than any. Troxas. These Ticket Booka cati be Cry HALL, EVERY MONDAY and obtained from Our Office at the CORNER THURSDAY, at 10.30 to receive thing sines the ruling party, under GIFTS of BLANKETS, Part-worD LENIN, was obliged to retreat from Clothing, etc.
war communism into the New HONG KONG BENEVOLENT
Economic Policy in 1921. They SOCIETY, (EST. 1899.
must realize, too, that 1020, while
of NATHAN STREETS, YAUMATI.
Books will be Ready for Sale at the
[8925 End of the Month..
HOI and PAK
[8248
Mre. Row of the Marble Hall Boarding House, Middle Road, that she lost a gold ring set with a how loon, het reported to the Police diamond, between 2 and 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon somewhere he tween the Boarding House and the Star Ferry. The ring is valued at $300.