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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930.
REPRESENTATIVES TO VOTE ON SILVER TARIFF.
[UNITED PRESS.}
Washington, April 19-House members of the Senate-House con- ference committee on the tariff bill to-day objected to the proposed tariff on silver, whereupon a com
promise was reached, it was learn.
ed,
"It is understood that by the terms of the compromise, a House vote on the silver tariff will be permitted. This will be a special action apart from other features of the tariff bill,"
HOT SUMMER DAYS
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BE WISE AND ORDER
NOW CooL AND
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SUITINGS, SHIRTINGS AND PYJAMAS IN STOCK.
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"just another day wasted away"
sadly sang the élever einemsa customer as be rished madly from one of the leading cinema palacca. "I should know by now that good motion pictures are customarily found only at the
Majestle Theatre
where
adolphe menjou
is appearing. in a fascinat«. inglovestory set to music, a symphony in huma emotions in
serenade asongoflovers put in pictures to the soothing strains of marital felicity, with just a hint of the discord of jealousy and aria- picion that makes the story worth the telling."
TO-DAY ONLY At 2.30, 5.30, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
AT THE
MAJESTIC
Nathan Road, Kowloon.
ATTEMPTED ARMED ROBBERY.
SHOPKEEPER BRUTALLY
ATTACKED."
ASSAILANT AT LARGE.
DIOCESAN OLD GIRLS' ASSOCIATION.
FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING.
The fourth annual general meet- ing of the Diocesan Old Girls' Association was held on Thursday evening in the Diocesan Girls' School. There was a good attend-
According to reports made to the Police yesterday, an armed robber broke into No. 10, Tsung Sauance of members. Street at 2.30 am. yesterday aud Mias M. Kucker, Vice-President brutally attacked one of the oc" of the Association, presided, and in eupants of the premises, a shop-addressing the meeting thanked the master died Lai Fau.
members of the Committee for their work during the past year. The
From the story told by Lai Fan.
it would seem that he was attacked į annual report was then read by Mias
in his sleep by blows on the bend | P. J. Anderson, the kon, secretary, He who, in the enpacity of the acting
from some blunt instrument, called out for help and several shop fakir chased the assailant, who lost no time in clearing out of the premises.
hon. treasurer, was also called upon to read the financial report, which shows a credit balance of $1,393.82 at the end of the financial year. These reports were put to the meeting and passed unanimously,
When he was first questioned by the police, Lai Fau gave details of the assailant and probably thought that some person trying to work off an old grudged. There was a profit of $903.00
in the year's working.
WAS
on him, but subsequent to the re- port, a revolver was discovered at the junction of Taung Sau Street and Queen's Road West, and it is believed that robbery was the real motive of the midnight intruder and his associates, if there had been
any.
NETHERLAND CONSULAR
SERVICE.
SOME RECENT CHANGES IN SOUTH CHINA.
The Acting Netherland Consul in Amoy, Mr. C. J. Endert, on his promotion aa Agent of the Nether lands India Commercial Bank, to the Agency in Hong Kong, handed over charge of, the Consulate for the Netherlands, at Amor to Mr. B. J. Israel (new agent of the Bank) as Acting Consul on January
25 last.
The Acting Netherland Consul in Swatow, Mr. A. J. Ramondt, on his promotion as Agent of the Java-China-Japan Line
EO
the
Agency at Manila, handed over charge of the Consulate for the Netherlands to Jonkheer L, W. E. van Heurn (new Agent of the Line) as Acting Consul on the 14th inst.
Mr. J. J. Wierink, Agent of the Holland-China Trading Company at Canton, who has been in charge of the Netherland Consulate an Acting Consul since January, 1929, has been appointed a Consul by Royal
Decree of March 4 last.
WHALE STRANDED..
CROCODILES RUSH TO FEAST
AND ARE CAUGHT.
During the year the Association held bathing picnics and social functions which were largely attend-
The meeting proceeded to elect officials of the Association for the next financial year-The following ladies. were elected-President, Miss W. Robinson: Vice-President, Miss M. Kacker: Hon. Vice-Presi dent, Miss H. D. Sawyer; Hon. Secretary, Misa J. J. Anderson; Hon. Treasurer, Miss M. Grose; Members of the General Committee: Mrs. W. L. Ramsay, and the Misses E Allen, O. Barretto, B. Choo, K. Grose, K. Gourdine, V. Shea and A. Wood.
GIRL SAINT'S STÁTUE.
ERECTED BY PARIS
MIDINETTES."
The quaintest statue of a girl saint stands in the centre of Paris, It has not been erected in a church, within half a mile of the Opera.
or in some old monastery; it stands above cae of the many typical cafés, at the corner of the Rue de Cléry.
This statue is the token of venera- tion set up by thousands of girl workers, who flock every morning from the corners of Paris into the "dressmaking establishments; whence fashion irradiates to the rest of the world...
The statue is of Saint Catherine, and the girls who have subscribed the money are the "midinettes " whose patron, she is. It can be seen from the street, and at noon-when
Innchtime releases for an hour: the needleworkers from their daily "toil
-one can
see hundreds of them looking up at the little saint and silent prayer. stopping for a few minutes for
World-famed Streets. They came from all the neighbour- ing streets whose names are famous the world over the Rue de la Paix, the Rue Royale, the Rue Saint Honoré.
They come in, an everlasting pilgrimage in quest of hope and release, for Saint Catherine bas never been known to fail any girl who has confided in her and who has placed in her hands a deserving
C&BC."
ed by Emperor Maximinus, whose When the girl's hand was claim-
cruelty and whose cult of false goda were his pride, she re- fused his offer, end accepted sacrifice rather than marriage. She was ordered to be slain on the
A marvellous legend surrounds Saint Catherine She was the ex- A whale over 48 feet long was traordinarily beautiful daughter of stranded sometime ago near Bela2 king, and she was brought, in a vision, into the presence of the Holy lang and was examined by the Family to become betrothed to the manager of the Island Trading Infant Jesus, Co., and others, says the Sarawak Gazette. The monster had appar ently been caught by the tide and left behind near a lot of young trees and, in spite of frantic efforts in which many trees were knocked
Unfortunately the bones were not collected at the time, but some have now been obtained and one 'for- warded to the Muscum. This in "the second whale to be stranded near Solalang in the last few years.
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broke in pieces before the unfor tunate girl could be tied to it.
When confronted by the wise men: of the Emperor, she rebuked them with such force of argument that they denied their Emperor and fell at her feet in admiration. A
Thus crowned by the triple crown the scene shortly after the whaleing, she became so popular among of virginity, martyrdom and learn- expired reaped a harvest of 20girls that when she died Franco crocodiles in a short while, many claimed her as the Saint of Gir of these brates having collected to hood"...... devour the carcase.
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Yes the cult of Saint Catherine had never extended to the streets until a few months ago. They a group of midinettes," who used a top room of a café in the Rue de Cléry for their lunch, began the idea of erecting a small statue of their saint at the "corner of the [building where the help of Saint-
Catherine was so many times in- voked. spet de
They consulted the local parson, obtained the landlord's permission and began a subscription list, which As Covered Two dry by ov 30.000 names-names of girls who are at work in the beautiful dress- making establishments of the Holgh burhood Within a week there was enough money to cover the expense and to leave a margin for a charity. fund.
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