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WEATHER REPORT,
Yesterday's weather report, fore cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 0.15 p.m., stated:-
* News and Views *
Golden Eagle in Berlin.
|SUMMARY OF NEWS]
Local.
A very notablo ‘event in the eighty sighth anniversary of the religious life of the Colony was the founding of the Union Church, of Victoria (the Rev. C. R. Duppuy, Kennedy Road, at which the Bishop D.D.) was the Prencher. Page 5.
To-day's wireless programme.
coolic, alipping down the main [street Mafia Norfolk" village,· ́n
his bamboo pole, would be greeted bucket hanging from each end of
as a comic turn. The joke would' soon wear them, 'and in like manner the neighbours of a model parish
The Prince Consort's Book. The anti-cyclone is now central in China' might come to tolerato For the first time for 30 years There is. a young man about over Koren. A depression still lies the strange experiment, and to a huge golden eagle has taken up | Town who will not be at all pleasod over Tongking...
take its ways for granted, but with temporary residence in Berlin. by Lord Burnham's giving away Local Forecast:-S. E. or variables much intention of emulating The beautiful robber has made its the information that the golden winds, moderate; generally overs
it as an average Englishman has beadquarters on a lonely boath Look the figure of the Prince Con- cast; occasional rain,
of joining the Quakers or the close to the River Spree, where it sort on the Albert Memorial holds "Peculiar People," for whose man- finds ample delicacies in the shape on his kane is a catalogue of the ners and principles he may have of wild ducks. It has been seen Great Exhibition. The said ingeni. Sport.
over various parts of the city, ous youngster has won countless where It has created almost as half-crowns by betting that the title much excitement as the Graf
of the volume would not be guessed Zeppelin.
in three. The Bible, Tennyson's Idylls of the King," and Queen Victoria's "Leaves from the Jour nal of our Life in the Highlands." the most frequent guesses. There is no
record of anybody guessing correctly.
BIRTH.
Scort. On April 11, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Scorr, a daughter, PEARL DIANA.
considerable respect.
Colonel Morco, of the British Economie Mission, referred in one of his speeches to "the escape from agriculture," maintaining that the desire, particularly of women, to DEATH.
get away from the farm and the field Chun-On April 17, at 29, Shelly was the psychological background,
Street, CHAN CHEW, late Manag. to urban and industrial develop ing Director of Himly, Ltd. ment. "Butt.a pensafitry is, with all Funeral will pass the Yat Pit| disadvantages, in a more desirable Ting Pavilion, Kennedy Town,
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HONG KONG, APRIL 20, 1931,
A Madge Konda) Filmy-
Strenuous efforts are being mado te induce Dame Madga Kendal toro appear in a talking film. She has visited Eletree to see her. old-young friend Mr. Seymour. Hicks at work condition than urban slum dwellers. he toured in America with the Dr. 'BUTTERFIELD is, therefore, on Kendals in 1880-and this may be
the right track when he seeks to the this end of the wedge. But it make rural life less penurious and is doubtful whether Dame Madge monotonous and tims to counteract will yield to any such temptations. the pull of the city. In these days She is in marvellous health, but she it should be possible to reconstruct made her first appearance on the the village on new lines, giving its stage in 186 and was playing inhabitants bus services, wireless, Ophelia at the Haymarket in 1869. electricity for light and power and amenities that compete with those, of the town. We have tried in Eng-| land to stop the rush to the towns.
The Gaps Royal.
Bees favade Church.
Paga 3.
Local footbal) results.
Page 10... Forthcoming inter-school sports.
Pago 11.
Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Club. win Caer Clark Cup. Page. 10.
Latest Cables. ~
H.K.C.O. Tennis Tournament; Programme for the week. Page 10, Full details of Saturday's racing.. Pages 6 and 7. The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club defeated the army yesterday."
Page 10, Championship honours wero finitely suspended in the smallish Football League. Results and Divine worship has been indo secured by the Arsenal in the Eng township of Agnes Banks, near League tables appear on Pago 4. Richmond, New South Wales, owing pied by two large swarms of beca to the church building being occu- While a servies was in progress recently the bees, undeterred by the singing of hymns, warmed into the church and worried the organist to such an extent that she was
take a place among the congrega- tion. The bees were determined to take possesion, however, and they were soon attacking members of the congregation, who fled in dismay. The minister endeavoured to stay in the building, but the attentions of the bees forced him to join the congregation, still in his clerical robet, outside the church, says a boss are still in triumphant posses message in 4 Home paper. The sion, and so far all efforts to dia- lodge them have failed.
still suffering from the effects of The city of Chicago's finances aro lax administration.
Page B. Rain interfered with play in the Davis Cup tennis matches between Athens and Australia. Pago
The unemployment service in the and co-ordinated.
Page 0. of the New York Muscum of Fine Mr. Edward Robinson, Director Art, has died.
Page 9. Three French military officers have been arrested at Koenigsberg for having photographed soldiers Page L drilling.
London's Café · Royal has just by such methods, but success has been sold, lock, stock and barrel forced to leave the instrument and nited States in to be reorganised not been marked. If Dr. BUTTER-(prubably several barrels), to the FIELD can accomplish this mighty proprietor of a large London hotel task in Chinn he will ear his considerably farther west, with placo in the history of the which so far as business arrange. world. If improvements, such as nients are concerned, it will be he envisages, can be brought to the amalgamated. Thus this famous Chinese peasant before the fascina-eld resort reaches another stage of tion of the modern town becomes its history. Some Café Royal wait A DELEGATE to the National Chris known, a phase of social develop, scveral of them veterans of tian Council of China, which rement,, which has been the cause of thirty years' service, have decided cently met at Hangeliow, urged many of England's present dry Christian forces in China to set distresses, may be wholly avoided by themselves to construct a Christian modern China.
RURAL CIVILISATION.
rural civilisation in that country.
It was argued that the peasantry
TINNED FRUIT,
launch a restaurant on their own account no great distance from their former home." One or two of these men, were grave and court- Jy ducal butlers and their experi- ence as diplomats must be almost unrivalled.
were being exploited by, atheistic communism' and hy lenders of an "aggravated urbanism," There THE world has moved a very long Nightmare. was need, in fact, for the peasantry way since a Victorian rhymester of China to rouse themselves and to look after their real intercats. We all know how the countryside of England has been sacrificed in the interests of the town, but in China, where the population is overwhelm ingly rustic, such a process would be enormously detrimental to the welfare of the nation.
Metaxa in a Talkie.
To avoid political complicatione, the question of King Alfonso's place of residence will be decided immedi- ately.
Page 0.. The Portuguese Government and the Government of Chile have re- cognised the Spanish Republic..
Page 9.
Within 24 hours of the time Lord Willingdon was due to arrive at Delhi, a bomb exploded in the main station, seriously injuring four coolies.