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BANKRUPTCY JURISDICTION No. 3 or 1938.
Re TAIT & COMPANY. Ez Parts J. L. BROMFIELD and F. B. MARSHALL.
FINAL DIVIORND is intended A to be detiam in the Maltese TAIT & COMPANY, A MOY, adiudica ted Bankrupt on the FIFTIENTU DAY of Decembar, 1920
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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory" at stated:-"
who are both unconvinced and im- patient he advises to close the book with a bang and toss it in the fire. but to those more open to argu- p.m.,ment he offers some ideas which are certainly worth careful con- A trough of low pressure extends sideration. Among these are some from Indo-China to Gasm. The references to China, though we note typhoon appears to be about 100 miles South of Naha, moving slowly he bases his comment upon figures
Northward.
no more recent than 1005. Mr. Local Forecast:-N,W. or vari- KNIGHT has visited the Orient, ap nhle winds; moderate; fair at first;parently some thirty years ago, some rain later.
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and estimated the period elapsing before the great change in the Far East would develop itself at from a hundred years. H¢ ninety to now places that morsent at about two, generations from the present by which time the industrial status of the individual in the Orient will have reached parity with the indus- trial status of the individual in the United States. With the same or similar machinery and organisation and the same.
will to perform, the accident of race is no bar to the
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A total estate of £2,797.763 1890 2d, has been left by Major Andrew Coats. D.SO.. a member of the firni of J. and P. Coats, Ltd.. Paisley, who died at Castle To ward, Danoon, Argyllshire, 01 Personal estate' in February 17 Scotland is £2.300.34 135, 10., and in England £297,919 39. Id. Estate duty paid amounts to £1,194,76 95. 11d. There are no bequests of a the life rent of the whole estate public nature, the widow being left
after which, there being no direct heir, it is to be equally divided "There is no doubt that cocaine among the brothers and sisters, or being illicitly brought into this their heirs. Major Coats served in country by the crews of Chinese the South African war with the when giving evidence at the Central of the Couts family have died mil- vessels," said Detective Thompson, Imperial Yeomanry. Ten members. Police Court, Sydney, when Frederick lionaires. Gilbert and Ab Chee were charged totalled £23,544,921, and the death with having had cocaine in their duties paid £8.004,429.
Their fortunes have
Lord Londonderry says politicians ed that common flowers contain have little time to read books be commercial rubber, bag
new cause they are so busy reading rubber mill ready to run tests newspapers. He might have added on gigantic species of goldenrod that a good politician is also an which he recently discovered grow adept at reading the handwriting ing 14 feet high in Polk County, on the wall.. Florida. The rubber mill is a mina- ture plant by which the invento: hopes to extract live rubber from dried and pulverized leaves and stems. "I have just made a great discovery in this giant goldrenrod plant," he said. "I hope to cross- breed it with a variety containing a high percentage of latex to produce an emergency rubber supply for the United States, which farmers can possession. Ah Chee pleaded guilty, grow and harvest in six months. I but Gilbert, who pleaded not guilty. would like to see 23,000 acres of was remanded. Detective Thomp- this new plant growing," was his son
March 97 Chee's fruit answer to question concerning he plans for large-scale planting, either shop in Bourke Street. A detee in Florida or in Georgia, where tive and Gilbert were there, and Henry Ford has offered large it was stated that Ah Chee and Gilbert had arranged to sell 13 acreage.
ounces of cocaine to the detective.
It was recently disclosed in the AK Chee was alleged to have said French Senate that the French that he got the cocaine from a Navy is in possession of several sailor on a Chinese vessel. Witness guns capable of firing a shell 05 produced packets of the drug, and
miles. They are thns superior to said that the cocaine was probably the German weapons, which in 1919. made in Japan, although the labels bombarded Paris from distances of suggested that it was made by a5 and 80 miles. It is recalled, that" German firm. Mr. McMahon. S.M.,
a gun which was being constructed sentenced Ah Chee to six months
in England at the time of the Armia imprisonment, with hard labour. tice was also superior to the Ger- Subsequently notice of appeal was
manı, but was scrapped when the lodged.
war ended.
While taking X-ray photographs same results "Then will the Orient of abnormal children to ascertain control large amounts of com whether their skulls were deformed, nodities and credit and become a Viennese X-ray specialists discover foremost" ânancial centre. Newed that the rays themselves caused populations and markets will arise both the mental and physical con- en so large à scale that the whole dition of the children to improve, outlook and balance of indus the rays apparently having pene
worldtrated through the skull to the brain trialisin throughout the will be changed. Meanwhile, Mr. with beneficial results. KNIGHT deprecates the fixing of rates of exchange for currencies-a scheme which in his opinion is doomed to failure in the beginning. and can only lead to further com- plication, distress, and disaster. It is a thought-provoking book, but will find fow sympathetic readers among those who have control of credit to-day
DIPLOMATS, IN DOUBT.
SUPPOSE that in the bullion-vaults THE representatives in Peping of the Treaty Fowers are facing a of London, Paris, Berlin, or Wash more perplexing problem than any ington there was gold deposited to of the long series of diplomatic the sterling value of 1,000 million puzzles which have been set before them when that city was the ae pounds. And suppose, further, that knowledged capital of China. The one Saturday night, by some problem is developing very slowly, strange freak of silent earthquake, fortunately, giving them time to think. The question they must a cavity opened thousands of feet answer is this: How shall we act when we are living in one part of deep immediately under
Chine which does not recognize the vaults, swallowed their contents,Government in another part, but and then imperceptibly closed when the chief foreign Powers have recognized the latter Government again. The reader is further asked as the National Government, of to be patient enough to assume that China? the massive doors giving access to the vaults are left undisturbed, so that no outward sign is visible as to what has occurred within,
those
Would the usual course of business on the following Monday morning be disturbed? Obviously not, for nobody would know that the gold was no longer where it was believed to be. Exchange-rates would not vary more than usual, drafts would be issued and accepted in the cus- tomary manner, cheques would be passed through the clearing-houses, and everything would go on just as if the £1,000 millions was still in the vaults instead of being back
in the bowels the earth.
The diplomats still reside in Peping, although they are on the road between that city and Nanking so often that they call themselves "travelling men.". Peping, how- ever, lice within the territory con-
said that on went to Ah
Two huge abarka,,' captured at The Berlin Opera House on May 8 Coogee, N.S.W.. recently put up was thronged with the flite Berlin stirring fight for their lives, and society which wildly cheered the one had to be shot several times first performance of the French before it was quietened. They were composer. Darius Milhand's new of the tiger variety, and each was
opern Christopher Coloumbus. 13 feet in length, and weighed about After the Inst act the entire half a ton. One had swallowed two audience including the critics show rata. One of the monsters wased enthusiasm unprecedented in the caught is a net set by Shark | history of the Berlin Opera House. Fisheries. Ltd., and the other was "captured on a line set near the
How many are cognizant of the fact that the mining industry is second to none in the United States, and furnishes 5 per cent, of all freight on the railroads?
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Aircraft have often been used to rescue people from hazardous situa- tions. Few, however, have been. pressed into service to save the cor- pornte life of a bank, as was the case recently when an aeroplane from Chicago to Pana. Il carried quarter of a million dollara to stop. a run on the Pana National Bank. This is a case where the factor of "friend in speed becomes the need."
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In an address before the confer- ence of Sunday schools of North Carolina, Bishop Edwin D, Mouzon said the motion-picture industry American morals than any other one and was doing more to tear down thing." He urged members of the Methodist denomination to demand "better pictures-pictures that will uplift instead of tear down."
net at the same time. They are Dogs may shortly be introduced among the largest ever caught by into England to serve as guides for the company. The net, which is the blind. The question has been 1.000 feet in length and 20 feet in discussed by a committee at. St. width, was set about midway be- Dunstan's Schools for the train- tween the island and the bench, and ing of dogs, and also of the men to Berve, have been caught in the mesh, besides the they are
in Switzerland tiger shark, were seven other sbarks, started including a 9ft. blue shark and America, and it has been sug number of stingrays and skates. It gested that, if quarantine restric was a most exciting haul, and thou- tions make importation of trained sands of people witnessed the opera dogs impossible, similar schools tions from the pier and the fore- should be started in the British shores. Owing to the heavy sea Isles. Captain Ian Fraser, chair- the company's vessel, Alpha, was man of St. Dunstan's, regards the unable to go alongside the pier to importation of trained dogs as im Eve the people an opportunity of practicable on the ground that dur- viewing the catch. When the Alpha ing the six months quarantine they reached Botany Bay the sharks were would forget what they had learn left in the held as several of themed. Another difficulty would arise still had too much life in them.
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from the left-hand traffic rule in Eagland, which differs from that to which the dogs had been accustom ed. It may therefore be necessary to import young dogs of the right reed, and train them after they have passed through their quaran tinr, or to find the right kind of dogs in England.
Baseball has been regarded as an exclusively American game and the national sport of the United States; but it looks as if Japan could lay claim to calling it its national sport when 220.000 fans will turn out to witness a three- game "series for the secondary school baseball championship. And the number would have been even larger but for the fact the first game was played in, a drizzling rain and drew only 40,000 spectators.
Local Notes and Events
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for week ending April 26 amounted to 111,384 tons, and the salen during the period to 130,005 tons.
Jaded appetites seem to be the The Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga will. Tashion during this warm weather, be sailing for Shanghai to-morrow and accordingly Lane, Crawford's on the Empress of Canada for a have thoughtfully arranged a "Cold holiday, extending over six weeks. Buffet at their restaurant where Mrs. Braga is also sailing on the a variety of delicious dishes are at se vessel for Vancouver, and Mr. ranged in such a manner that poor Noel Braga is proceeding by the 2 sensible appetites are quickly forgotten and Empress to Europe pid Canada to- hot-weather meal morrow. Mr. Noel Braga is Secre- tary of the China Light und Power thoroughly enjoyed.
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troiled by General YEN HSI SHAN, who has defied Nanking, and is in open rebellion against the Govern mats have travelled back and forth, ment there. Thus, far, the diplo
from “rebel" territory into that controlled by the recognized Govern. ment, without protest from any Chinese group. But the diplomats are waiting nervously for the time General YEN'S "Foreign when Office asks: Why do you live in our country and not recognize our
The Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. Government!" or when the Govern: acknowledges an anonymous dona. ment at Nanking asks:- How cantion of 32 given in recognition of you continue to keep your Legations assistance rendered by a British in rebel territory and still recognize naval rating. our Government as the National It might be months, years per Government of China!
Two cases of typhoid and three There have been haps, before anyone would open the difficulties galore in the past in to the Medical Officer of Health diplomatic cases of small-pox were reported vault-doors and discover that the China. Diplomats have declared during the 24 hours ending mid- gold had disappeared. Then there time and again that experience night, May 12.
Tuberculosis continues to elsewhere was of little use, because would be a Grst-class sensation, diplomatic procedure in China was UP followed by a panic, followed again necessarily irregular as compared Lady Peel are holding a reception Health's returns for the week end-Looking Back 25 Years.
His Excellency the Governor and ravages amongst the local Chinese population. The Medical Officer of by a reassuring statement from the with traditions elsewhere. For at Government House on June 3 ing midnight, May 10, show that
were two Governments Treasury and leading tankers ex-years there
in China, one at Canton and the 9.30 p.m. in honour of His Majesty plaining that satisfactory arrange- other at old Peking. The latter was
the King's Birthday. nients had been made to meet fully recognized, but the former was always appealing for recognition." the exigencies of the situation. 1n Consular officials living in the mare plain und expressive language, territory controlled by the Canton the man in the street would say Government had to deal directly that the community had done with- with that Government, whether it was recognized or not. But the out those gold reserves so long that present situation exceeds all pre- it could do without them altogether. vious ones in irregularity, and This interesting little parable is therefore increases diplomatic per
plexity. The diplomats must con- told by Mr. W. L. P. KNIGHT to Linue to live in Peping for some a book wherein he argues with time. The Legations are firmly considerable ingenuity and interest established there and have valuable property and their archives there. that gold has no quality in relation There is no room for Legations in to currency that is not possessed by Nanking the Powers will have to other commodities. All issues of build, and appropriations for such public currency, he contends, should building take time.
If the "Government in the Wah Hospital Committee, per Ho of Mary Dugan," and, incidentally, Tai Lung shop, No. 30 Hing Lung be secured against an equal value North begins to press for recog- Sing Chau, J.P., 860 Hon. Dr. once supported Barrymore on the Street, appeared on a summons to of actual commodities. General nition, the diplomats will be more R H Kotewall, C.M.G., LL.D., stage in The Copperhead" are answer a charge of unlawfully re-
embarrassed than
also among the players. Other tailing a certain spirituous liquor. ever before. 825; Tang Shiu Kin, 850. recognition of the principle of When the Government at Canton
stage and screen celebrities are to wit, gin, without a license. A equipoise between gredits and coro demanded recognition, the diplo Some time between 10 and 12 Mitchell Lewis, Eugenie Besserer, boatman went to the defendant's modities would, have the effect of mate at least could deal, with them p.m., on Monday night, an electric Ullric Haupt, Carroll Nye, Claud shop and bought a bottle of gin for releasing nearly £2,000 millions of gently at a distance. But now they fan was stolen from the lounge of King, Chappell Dossett. Sifincy forty cents, paying the money to are in the very centre of the "rebel Messrs. Lane, Crawford's Restar Toler and others. Alexander Tolu the accountant, and the shopmar human effort as a first instalment Government. The Northerners rant. After a series of inquiries boff, a famous Russian architect, game him a bottle. Detective-Ser- of its results-that figure represent have been considerate, the diplomats Chinese lift boy of Exchange Build visiting the set, stated that it was geant Toomey executed a search warrant on the defendant's shop, ing the value of the world's gold feel. They have moved very slowlying was arrested, and he will prob the most perfect acting cast" be
in establishing their "Foreign ably be charged with the theft of, had ever sees... A unique mingling and found ten hottles of whisky, holdings,
Office" giving diplomats time to the fan at the Magistracy this of the technique of the stage and two dozen pint bottles of porter. sereen marks the production, which five bottles of beer, ten bottles of Mr. KNIGHT, it will have been consult their home Governments morning..
about eventualities. The Government
in Barrymore's first effort in a full sherry, two bottles of gin, four perceived, is of beterodox views an
The Ladies Committee of Union feature length picture. Willard bottles of champagne cider, a dozen at Nanking has been equally con economic affairs, and he frankly siderate in omitting to nak embar
Church desire to thank the many Mack wrote the adaptation, taking Schnapps gin, two bottles of Ger sad denen date angripening instions ahent dinlents friends who by contributions of the four acts of the stage play man, beer, and eight bottles of with everybody's approval. Those who keep their Legations in rebel clothing, etc., or by support in other and spitting the heeltyd brandy The defendant
cities" But if China continues ways helped to make the recent scenes, shifting the locale with every mitted being the master, and said. divided into two parts, with rival Jumble Bale the success it was. As few words of dialogue so that the that the liquors found were for his Governments foreign diplomats the result of last Friday's sale the stage effect of speech is heightened own use. Fined $100, in default may be forced to solve a puzzle more Committee has been able to con- by the quick action and shifting two months hard labour; the "li- perplexing than any before present.tinue its generous donations to the locales, advancing the story as in auor found to be forfeited-Hong
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48 Chinese died during that time of La Compeditora Oriental Cigar this malady. There were also four Factory started in Kowloon recent- deaths from typhoid fever and threely by Messrs. J. C. dos Remedios from small-pox;
& Co., of 24, Queen's Road Central, is now placing its digars on the One of the most famous figures on local market. The cigars are made the American stage directed a cast from Manila leaf by expert. Fili- of players whose names are tradi- piao cigar-makers brought ever tional in theatredom, and many of from Manila for the purɔ̃ose, and An advertisement appearing else them famous in motion pictures, as the brands put on the market. where in this issue states that an when "Lionel Barrymore directed while comparing favourably with ordinary general meeting of the Madame X" showing at the the best makes of the Manila fac- Chinn Coast Officers' Guild will be Queen's Theatre from to-day. Ruth tories, have a substantial advant- held at the Guild Office David Chatterton played the title role. age over them in price, there would House, at 5 p.ro. to-day. All mem-On the stage her name is a house- appear to be a future before the hold word. Richard Carle, once factory-Hong Kong Dañу. Ives, the Broadway star. of musical May 15, 1905. bere are requested to attend.
The Hon. Treasurer begs to ac comedy, Lewis Store, e famous knowledge with thanks the following actor and later a screen star, and Looking Back 50 Year." donations towards the funds of St. Raymond Hackett, who played the
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