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Crown rent-$62 Per Annum The Lot has been formed into building site for thro buildings, one of which has been completed. The completed ballding counts of six self-contaizod Flati.
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5th December, 1930.
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ANNUAL EXHIBITION A hold at LANE, DRAW ORD'S BESTAURANT (FRONT ROOM) DECEMBER 10TH and 11ra.
The Exhibition will be OPEN from 10 AM to 7 P.M.`
ADMISSION--50 Carrs.
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VACANT LAND at East POINT consisting of RP. of T/Lot 749 and R.P. Lot 78', having Areas of 4,730 od 10,947 Square Feet Very respectively, The Luta
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THE TWELFTH EXTHA RAOK MEETING will be hair (Weather Permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on BATURDAY, 6TH DECEMBER, 1930, Commencing st 120 P.M.
The Fire Ball will be Rung' at. P.M.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Memben are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badgos prominently displayed.
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$2.00 for Ladies, are ob- tainable through the SECRETARY upon Introduction by a Hamber, such Member to be responsible for Payment of All Chile, &c.
to
Members* Badges admitting Enclosurs will not be on sale at the Bace Course,
Members can obtain, upon application to the BYURETARY, Radges (Limited to Twoj for the Free Admission to the Members Enclosure of Wires, Lady Relatives and Friends, Namesont be stated when applying.
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Princess Giovanna of Italy wiA forecast that the Chancellor of in futuro be oaked Queen loan. the Exchequer will end the present of Bulgaria. She adopted the Bul financial year with a deficit of not garian forut, it is oficially an less than 200,000,000 is masla in un nounced, upon signing the civil article in the current issue of marrings contradi
"Lloyds Bank Monthly Review," after an examination of the ro. turns for the first six months of the year. .......... following story is true. Some The marriage took place quiet time ago the Prince dined with aty in Llandudno Inet month of Mrs. distinguished public man whose Dorothy Victoria Hook, the widow bearing is marked by a certain doof Mr. Eric Hook, the airman who gree of pomposity. Afterwards the lost his life in the Burmese jungle Prince romarked very quietly to an his attempt to fly to Australia friend: "At last I realise what it in July. The bridegroom was Mr. must to like to be entertained by Reginald Flest Hopper, a retired royalty."
Lord Melchett's Walks,
dontist, of St. Albans, who was widower. The wedding was by licenco, and only near relatives, were present.
Pierce Charleside Lacy O'Ma honey, Tho O'Mahoney of Kerry,"
last of the picturesque chieftains of Ireland, and one of Parned's or friends, has died at Coolbalintaggart, his Co. Wick low home. The O'Mahoney, havo lived as long as history, and they were first known in Cork as power- ful chiefs and sometimes styled prinock Pierce O'Mahoney daim- ed to be head of the clan ne a direct descendant of Dermot of O'Mahoney, whe loft Ivaghs in 1327 with his clan.
"Big Bl" Ironside,
Major General Ironside, whose name is mentioned in connection. with an import, now command, has catablished what must be a 26- cord. At the age of fity he is still the youngest major general in the Army, although he has been in the menjar-generals' list for oloven years "Big Bill,” he is known throughout the Army is stern disciplinarian. Like Richard Bur- ton, he has eyes which can send a man's heart into his boots. Liko Burton, too, hs is a grost, linguist, speaking seven or eight languages with equal facility.
Air Eurvey of Canada,”
Two seaplanes which hava hoon mapping virgin territory in Nor- thern Canada and making miner alogical and topographical surveys of the Dominion's far interior dur ing the past two months returned 20,000 miles in concer.on with this to Ottawa after having travelled work. Flight Lieut. F. J. Mawdoe-
Abases arise when ʼn government WEATHER REPORT.
is in a position to control judges Yesterday's weather report, foro- and magistrates, for then no one cant and remarks, issued by the
is stle and, there is no impartial Royal Observatory, at 5.15 pumpire between ruter and subject. stated -- G
The absence of a free and respon- A strong anti-cyclone is centredible Press also induces too great. over the Sea of Japas. The
In senso of security in official circles. typhoon is now central to the North of Nabs; it is moving N.E. The Hong Kong Government is in no privileged position. There are public spirited and independent men on the Legislative Council, and
Many commenta attributed to the comment, both editorial and from Prince of Wales are, of course, correspondents, is published freelyapooryphal, but one hopes that the in the Press. There is no danger of a tyranny in Hong Kong under the present régime, but the ovils arising from introducing any form of electoral politics would be illimitable. We who live in Hong Manila, December 5, 9.15 am. Kong aro' quits busy 'enough earn- Typhoon in about 125deg. Long. Eing our livings and filling in spare and 18deg. Lat, N., moving N..
time with a little healthy recrea- Lord Malchett who is suffering Manila, December 5.4.40P.mtion. "Man is a political animal," from phlebitis is not the easiest Typhoon in about 120deg. Long. E. and 15deg. Lat. N., recurving said AntsTorte, but he spoke of easy. of patienta. Phlebitis abould man Court of Honour for Joumallats,
rest. The patient is expected to north-eastward.
The International Federation of guing little cities, where men of one it with his legs raised in a hori race and language liked to spend a zontal position. Lord Melthott is Journalists in its second congrese, day listening to splendid rhetoric, not an athlete, but he is a grost held in Berlin, approved by a walker. Ofter he walks about the large majority the scheme for the and peeps ending it all with a long corridors of the great build-establishment of an international Boyan.-On December 1. at Shang gierious fren-fight. We of Hanging of his firm at Millbank for half court of honour for journalists,
hai, tu Mr.
Kong bayo no time for such things an hour at a time, bie hands bo- The court is to meet twice a year hind his back, ponoring upon the at The Hague to hear disputes be Let the expert official carry on, problems of business and politics tween journalists of different na and if he does badly we have our and when he crooes the Atlantic and non-journalists of different na tionalities and between journalists
remedies.
he is indefatigable in walking round and round on the decks of tonalities. The president must be a jurist of international reputation The great liners.
The other four members of theey was in charge of the detach ment and piloted one of the ma- court must be journalists. The chines while H. J. Winny took the The survey and photo- Earl's Court Exinition ground court, may pronounce a warning or other.
a reprimand, or it may declare an graphio work was in charge of C. It is satisfactory to learn that the has been left in its unused an offender to be unworthy to pursue MacDonald of the Department Government of the Colony takes a dilapidated condition for many the profession of a journalist,
of the Interior while Sergi B, C. favourable view of the proposal to years, and it is now suggested that H. M. Richardson, of the Nation Dasraway was the mechanic and
it should be acquired no an open set up a Court of Criminal Appeal, space.
entilera oporator. In 1988 Mr. Douglas Hackal Union of Journalists, was un- and that correspondence with the ing, M.P., asid, that the Governanimously elected president of the. International Federation for the Home authority about making goodmont hoped to erect the iness ex- next two year.
hibition buildings in, the world
One of the indiroot results of the this deficiency in our legal machinery there for the Fair of 1931, but
101 dienaber is that Howden air- is in progress. The law is wedded nothing mors has been heard of this Made His Own Funeral Speech!
Paul Nor is anything now to scheme.
Napoleon Roinard, the chip station, in Yorkshire, where to the appeal system; not only of the idea of a scheme Symbolist post, who died last month the R100 was buit, is to
alose down. Over sixty highly skilled English law but every legal code for garden late. The latest plan ng the age of 74, de lis an in the civilised world. For all envisages & Stadium on the site, funeral oration at the Poro La-men-chiefly technical staff-will be At the moment thrown out of work by the decision. their learning and dignity judge and negotiations in this connection chaise Cemetery,
are still proceeding. Any sugges- his body entered the crematorium, The station belongs to the Airship diffident men at heart. They tion of an open space must there- gramophone was set in motion, Guarantee Company, Limited, the Sir liko juries to help them and courts fore remain in abeyance,
and the many well-known writers constructors of the R100, who attended the ceremony listen Dennistoun Burney, head of the of appeal to set them right. It is a curious anomaly that while a
ed to a record which the poet had company, in an interview, said:- Tragedy of Migratory Birds.
Two liners arriving at Liverpool specially made for the occasion. It "We were forced, much against our will, to make this decision. posed, and the more aspiring
and then recited about a month ago. It is impossiblo from court to court, in criminal connection with migratory birde."Dear friends," | spirits sea visions of a little Parli jurisdiction where liberty and oven In the case of the Cunarder An-one of his own poema.. Those pre to say when we shall be able to re- ment. No wish for such expensive life are at cake the decision of a
soma sent, both men and women, were open the station, or even whether danin, it was stated that time after leaving Queenstown a deeply affected as they listened to we ghall be able to do so at all. As and dangerous toys has ever been seriously and widely expressed, and jury should be final. The reason flock of birds, attracted apparent the simple words and voice of one long ng the present policy of the. in that in civil cases the clients pay ly by the lights of the hip, flew they had known so well. This is Air Ministry laste, it will be im the recent Sanitary Board election their own costs, but the State busgainst the rigging of the liner. The first time, in Franco, at least, possible to start work there again. We are entirely dependent on the Many hundred, were scattered over that a dead man has made, his own
French funerals | Air Ministry.. "We have no or- to foot the bill for Crown prosecu- the decks. Doad bodies had to be funeral speech.
arr The fact remains, however, collected in baskets and thrown are noted for the length and duders to build an airship, and so
phernalia, Government has every
liner Bakic was midway across the pany then, but if the example of keeping the airship station going.
where become
grossly in orror and the jury wil Atlantic three birds fell exhausted Reinard-who has been called the I suppoes this is one of the results highly technical fally perverse, but, except for the
the upper deck and were taken. Last of the Bohemianeis fellow of the R100 disaster. We are all matter. Time was, at least in EngNow moving and uncertain process care of by the ship's butcher. One od, something may be gained for very sory that this has had to han. land, when a clever amateur like
died but the other two, a chaffinch brevity and for sincerity certainly pen, but we could not do other.
wine.' of the King's clemency--which and linnet, recovered completely. King EDWARD I., who came to the throne at nineteen, or OLIVER CROMWELL, a country squire, could| make a very good job of it. But
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It is sometimes suggested that democratic politics should be intro- duced into Hong Kong. A rauni cipal council for Victoria and an
CRIMINAL APPEALS.
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other for Howloon have been pro-trivial civil action can be dragged reported remarkable experiences in began quite simply with the words,
thowed that there was not the slightest interest in franchise,” and
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taken the matter into the hands of the Government and away from the judges-nothing in Hong Kong can
Success
be done after verdict and sentence are pronounced. The recent case of Mr. INETONE BREWER strongly. Elections, since the English fran- chise was extended on a reasonable emphasises the need for a court of appeal, and the precedent of the basis a hundred years ago, have
of the Criminal Appeal never been savoury affairs. In the days of the pocket boranghs there Court in England should settle all was more bribery but less violence. In America the many cleations cost: huge sums of money and are au economic auisance. In India, ac-
doubts.
Mr. Justica HAWKINS, famous Victorian judge, told an amusing story about a jury. A man was
tore.
Local Notes and Events ★
Mr. Chas, Benson, Far Eastern Manager of the American Express Co, accompanied by Mrs. Benson, returned to the Colony yesterday by 8.3. President Cleveland.
Silk forward from here by the Empress of Russia on November 12, arrived in New York (St. John's
3, having been 21 days in transit.
Messrs. Komor & Komor, of St. For being in unlawful possession of soven tools of illicit opium, a George's Building, are having a Chinese was fined 8000 by Mr.ve days exhibition of porcelain, Williams at the Central Magistracy commencing on Monday. Messrs. yesterday, It was stated that the Komor's exhibitions of pearls and opium was found in tins concealed of pictures are well-known recur
rent events in Hong Kong and the in defendant's girdle.
display of porcelain will well main tain the reputation of the firm. H.E. the Governor (Sir William Some of the latest products of
paid a visit to the Chinese be on view. Y.M.C.A. on Thursday when an in
cording to one of the Round Table found with a sack filled with hens be- Park) and Hoboken on December Peel); accompanied by his staff, Messrs. Williera Rae, of Kobe, will
on
longing to a neighbouring farmer. His defence was that he sat down in
tans.
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Directors..
Conference delegates, the very word franchisa is enough to provoke a
The total output of the Kailan spection of the building was carried the farmara yard and as it was Mining Administration's mines for out. On arrival the Governor was Looking Back 25 Years. disturbance of the peace. It would
November 22 received by a guard of honour com- be casier to run an Empress liner cold day the bone must have crept the week unata
into his sack, and ho picked it up amounted to 125,885 tons and the posed of the Y.M.C.A. company of An unusual stir in the Russian democrative principles-each
and never noticed their presence. sales during the period to 115,180, the St. John Ambulance Brigade. camp at Kowloon early on Thure- At the entrance of the building, the day morning betrayed the fact that course and passenger voling on
Justice HAWKINS, then new to the
party was greeted by Mr. K. L.nothing out of the ordinary rou speed-than the Colony of Hong Beach, did not bother to sum up. Kong.. A huge population is densee aid to the jury, Gentlemen, lecture
Mr. Ph. C. Visar ie giving a Chau (President of the Chinese time was about to happen.. Pre- on "The Fourth Kara Y.M.C.A.), Mr. JD. Bush (Viceparations in fact were in progress ly packed into a tiny arene It do you believe the prisoner's koroum Expedition, illustrated President), Mr. Y. L. Teo, Mr. J. for the departure of the men for fatherland; after many would not be "unreasonable to say story 1 To hinninzement the with lantem slides, in the Groat McPherson and the Board of their
months of Internment. About 160 Russians have been encamped in that Kowloon and the Victoria die foreman said they wished to con Hall of the University on Monday,
sider the matter. After an hour December 8, at 8.30 p.m. trict are the most thickly peopled they found the man
not guilty."
Before Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kowloon Major Sexton, who was in charge of the camp, saw the areas in the world. The Chinese There was also a butcher as Exeter
Among the passengers arriving Kowloon Magistracy yesterday a pack tight and British architects who appeared as a furyman at here yesterday by the sa. Hawn Chinese was charged with having warriors on board, and the Water haild tall houses. The sites are persuaded his colleagues to convict
uses. The sites are nearly every assize and generally pindi from the North was Mro. Bassaulted his wife at 133, Tai Nam Police returned the arms and am either won from the ses or excavat-in every case, He once admitted Thompson, of the Advertising and Stroot, on December 2. Giving evmunition which they hold for them.. that he never followed the proceed. Publicity Bureau, who has been on dence, the woman stated that aho The sailors, as they proceeded to far seven years, but lived apart home, enlivened the short mareh od from the rocks, and every avail-in becaure the judge and lawyers a longthy business visit to England, i had been married to her husband the vessel which was to carry them "able" foot of ground is used as it bored him and the witnesses
from him last month, On the day with music on various instruments. When charged at the Kowloon of the assault she was walking up. They appeared to be glad, at the is got ready. The governing body all lying." His idea of the matter must hava freedom and power of was this. "I look at the prisoner Magistracy yesterday with being in the stairs carrying a bucket of thought of again seeing their na and I think, you are there, and I unlawful possession of two tnels of water, when someone trod on her tive land, but the lovetaking was rapid action, like that vested in am here, I don't ever intend to bo opium, a Chinese stated that it was heel from behind. Sho turned round marked by many expressions of re- a military command. The only where you are. You must have given to him by a man in Jordan and saw the defendant, who threw gret at learing the homitable shores, possible course is what experts con done something to get the polica on Road. He was fined 80g or one pepper and powdered glass in her of our Colony. The cruiser Aime face. The case was adjourned. weighed anchor about midday on your tracks and it is better for the month's imprisonment
Thursday, when the Russians took sider the right course, Very often likes of me if the likes of you are the public wish must be understood put where you can do no harm":"" A Chinese was brought before Mr. A motor accident which resulted their last glimpse of the hand on It in not suggested that Hang Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy in a private car being badly which they had spent so many The water Iamine was
Kong juries are lacking either in yesterday on a charge of being damaged, occurred at Johnston, pleasant daya Hong Kong Daily in point. But in any community conscientiousness or in intelligenco: in possession of 80s Ths of tobacco Bond, Wanchai, yeaterday morning. Press, Don, 0, 1005, the fixed and reasonable will of the At the same time, a proportion of on which duty had not been paid. A lorry was following a tram-car Looking Back 50 Years. citizens always prevails. While the seven good men and true often He was remanded for a week, bail going eastward, and following close-
allowed have a very incomplete grasp of being
at $5,000.
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ད་ behind the lorry was the private We learn from Messrs Douglas the Government carried out its own the English language and none the The cass in which two rickeha No. 9 Police Station, and the lorry have received information that car. The tram-car pulled up at the Lapmail & Co. that they water policy during the crisis, all of our legal methods. was forced by goneral demand te whole trouble of jurios, is that one coolies were charged with throwing stopped behind it. The driver of the unknown reck upon which or two men often dominate the stones at two Indian constables in the private car, was, however, taken the Douglas truck in the push on with the Shing Mun Valley others. We do not think, there are, Jordan Read was concluded at the unawares, and not having allowed Haitan Straits has born found scheme and with the harbour pipe many miscarriages of justice, but a Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when much space to pull up ran into the by the gunboat Magpie.
leaf the lorry. The windth
windshield further markcular Lars Riven, buk Couro ormarathi guilted whole at the
general sense of security and. European gavo evidence to the effect of the private car was badly burdens of expecial tv-130 time was a cry that no Government no grave error is likely to pass unthint he saw one of the ricksha fered but the driver escaped intoamer from Amery-Hong Kong
jury. The lorry was not damaged. | Daily Preu, Dec. 0, 1850. Fullera struck by an Indian: corrected. could have ignored.
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