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WEATHER REPORT,
Yesterday's weather report, fore- oast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 6.30 p.m.,
sintod:-
An anti-cyclone appears to be forming over N. China, Moderate to Iresh monsoon may be expected along the S.E. coast of China and over the N. China Sea.
winds, Local Forecast:-N.E. moderate to fresh: fine to cloudy.
BIRTHS,
MAJOR-On January 9, at Shang-
hai, to Mr. and Mrs. MAJOR, a
BOTI.
MANTON-On January 11, at Shape hai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. MANTON, a son.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931.
Not the
porters Mr. SHINWELL then made the extraordinary announcement that the high cost of British con! was not the chief difficulty. What then is the trouble !' quality gurely. Do we in Hong Kong nse Chinem and Japanese coal because it is better than Welsh steam, or because wo feel that Far Eastern competitors merit
encouragement on grounds?
sentimental
Audacity!
News and Views
ed was a libel on womanhood."
Wife With A Torture.
In Darkost London.
It
was so dark after the wedding SUMMARY OF NEWS.
of the Inte Herr Hugo Stinnes".
Volunteer Orders. Page 11. The death occurred yesterday of
Pago 7. Mr. J. Hirsc
An address by Mr. Bascora John- son on the social and humanitarian work of the League of Nations was given to members of the local Society.
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daughter, at Marylebone - Register. Offies on December, 17 lost, that, to snap" the bride and bridegroom, The Queen Bee Threatened.
[photographers" had to
use Ash Local. The first prize for successfu} Throata by two unknown wonen
ing given to Miss Iris Houy, who Guards could not see their music unity among schoolboys in post-have resulted in a police guard belights. The band of the Coldstream war des must be awarded to played the leading part in The at the Palace changing of the young Wellingtonian who a few Queen Bee at the Prince of Wales, guard, and played from memory. years ago achieved the double fab Thomtre. Miss Hooy rooived a series of menneing letters, tele- of smoking a cigarette and chang-grams, and phone calls calling on Girl Guides and Revolutions. The settlement at least suggesting clothes with another boy, in her to resign her part "for her own Miss Olive Lawson Johnston, a, better spirit in the coal industry. form, without being detected. To satoty. The writer of one letter
Three armed men carried out a who recently returned from a trip' The Minister of Mines may have day he is driving a motor-car in complained that the part she play-daughter of Lord and Lady Luke,
robbory in a house in Bonhama Rand. to Buenos Aires was sent out from and succeeded in getting away with the Girl Guide headquarters in money and jewellery valued at $100. In the Divorce Court last month
Pago 7. Lord Merrivale granted a deere England to help the Girl Guides London clubs are suffering from nisi and £1,000, damages to Mr.in the Argentine and Brazil: Her Protests against the present water the effect of heavy taxation and ro- Alan MacDonald Mackenzie Pen
duty were made at the Chinese duced incomes, but there are fat derol, who alleged the misconduct of stay in the Argentino was spent in-restrictions and the new stamp The wethers among the lean sheep. They his wife Winifred with Captaintroducing up-to-date ideas into the Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
George Bonton Hatton. Mr. Pen- various echools and other Guide dered, a polo requisites merchant in headquarters The Argentine re- Egypt, was formerly in the Yvolution was so short that the work Club was held at the clubhouse lust cooded to a fortune, and helped her was only interfered with for a weeknight when it was attended by a large number of members and husband in his business. She and or two. The outbreak in Brazil was friends."
Pago 7. Captain Hatton were thrown to gether a good deal, with the result rather more serious, and Miss Law- that the husband was placed at a son-Johnston was asked, therefore, substantial pecuniary disadvantage, to postpone her work for another The O.E.R.'s Grim Record.
warned the Miners' Federation that | Australia. n strike would be the Government's death-blow, while a settlement would Olubs and Cards, be a kind of political blood trans fusion: but whatever may have been said behind closed doors the DEATHS.
real achievement remains. Rozania.-On January 12, at Shang British coal mining industry will hai, JOSE MANUEL ROZARIO, not, however, be saved by political aged 44 years. Kign-On January 6, at Yahgehow, jerrymandering. It needs confid. MARGARET KINO, of China In-enco and co-operation between land. Mission.
owners and men of a kind that will MACHADO.-On January 11, At make it worth while for third
Shanghai, ELIZABETH (Woo Ar
parties to invest capital in scientific ELLEN) MACHAvo, aged 25.
research which should find new and better ways of producing and using our coal. Until the paychological problem is settled the long-standing war in the British coalfelds. will continue, each settlement being only
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UTING ander Instructions. from the INSPECTOR GENERAL OF CUSTOMS, I have THIS DAY Taken over Temporary. Charge of the CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOME for Kowloon and DISTRICT from ME. J. M. H. OSBORNE, Commissioner.
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This Conatormands Ordor of -16th JANUARY.
a truco.
THE BRITISH DYE INDUSTRY.
Tas British dye industry, which HONG KONG, JANUARY 16, 1931. has been since the War the subject
THE COAL STRIKE SETTLEMENT,
MR. MACDONALD'S Government has
Welsh con strike a success which
owe their prosperity to fines and to the increased zest for cards which has come with the introduction of contract bridge. One well-known club will this year havo an income over from fiore totalling woll £1,000!
A symbolla Christmas Card,
Lord Merrivalo said the wife muc
year.
Drunken Driver's Pies.
Pago 7.
The annual ball of the Taikoo
The alleged attempted piracy, an a cargo junk near Pedro Blanco on January 4 had its seque) at Central Magistracy yesterday when twelve Chinese were charged before the Magistrate.
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Convicted of having taken part After hoaring evidence at the in attacking an amalt on Peak Road London Sessions in a case under the and of snatching from her a pair of ear-ringa a Chinese was sentenced Motor Act against Percy by Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday to twelve months hard labour and
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