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It is announced that the Spanish Government intends to suppress gambling in Spain.
The message COMO through at about 5 a.. yesterday and was to the effect that the vessel left Stone, cutter's at 10 p.m. for Manila, við. |Haiphong and Saigon. At 3 o'clock Mr. Lavin was called for the morn-
ing watch and it was then discover- that he was missing. He was Page 0. inst seen on the forecastle at about Mr. Francis Edward Hatcher-declares that the measures against, in his message that he believed Mr. The Spanish Finance Minister | 10.30 p.m. and the captain states Weetwans and his brother Waltor the export of capital have been Lavin fell overboard about four house near Brimpton Common, on bad lived at Westmead, a lonely most successful.
Pago D. miles north of Lintin Island at the Berkshire Hampshire border. Justice Fectham on the Shanghai
The long expected report by about 11.30 p.m. for nearly 10 years. They seldom Foreign Settlement is now ready,
The manager of the States Steati)- spoke to any of the villagers, had housework and cooking. A garden. no servants and did their own lished in three weeks' time.
and a second volume will be pub- | ship Company (Mr, D. J. Fraser),
er was the only man who had ever
who are the local, agenta for the Page 9. vel communicated with the Com- which stands in its own grounds ported on the 17th inst. that the entered the gates of the house, The Gensan Maru, which had re-modore and the St. Monance was and is surrounded by high hedges. vessel was caught in an ice floe,
sent out with orders to search the Since the death of their mother, has arrived at Faramushing, in the sens in the vicinity. They left Westmead last month. four years ago, the brothers have Kuriles, all on board being safe. It was known in the village that, during their long abseners from the house each year they travelled abroad, and have several times visited Russia and Gormany.
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Mr. Lavin is 31 years of age, and is regarded as a promising officer. Be comes from the East Coast of the United States, and has been
visiting Hong Kong on the Golden Mountain for nearly a year.
MORE VICTIMS OF CLOUD-BURST.
WHOLE HOUSEHOLD PERISHES.
Two of the accused in the Mee- rut conspiracy case have been ad- mitted to bail conditionally upon their abstaining from political For the first time since he em
activities during the proceedings. barked on the campaign of tradic An Unsanctioned Photograph.
Page 9. regulation, which has made such a great difference to the safety of On afternoon recently
Two hundred workers of a dye- Paris thoroughfares, M. Chiappe, named Manon was walking along have gone on a hunger strike until a girling and weaving company at Tokyo the Prefect of Police, has defined a Paris boulevard when a news their demand for the reinstatement the principles which underlie his paper photographer took a snap-of one of their discharged comrades' rules. "I give my protection," he shot of her. She was furious. is complied with. says, "to the weakest, namely, to "How dare you?" she asked. "You THERE would be little romance left the pedestrian, but he must also are so beautiful that I could not
A telegram from Nanking says it about the historic smithy at Gretna safeguard his existence himself. resist it," said the offender. So in understood that the Sino-Nor- Green if the judges who have to guaranteed infallible protection." been expected to end the matter, signed yesterday, and that a similar Without his own help he cannot be gallant an explanation might have veginn Extrality Agreement was
Further disastera following the of that office cannot be in a position straighten out the tangles that The safety zones now marked out But Manon was not to be appous document between Holland and cloud-burst in the New Territorica to make the type of annual review arise from anvil marriages could on the busiest crossing places have ed, and she insisted on the photo China was to be signed last even- HAROLD T. CREART, that might be expected. Nor can have their way. A Scottish judge, Paria much safer than it used to
made the life of the pedestrian in grapher accompanying her to the ing.
Page 9. on Monday are being, revealed. It Water Authority, the duty of getting all the neces| Lord PITMAN, according to the case be. But it has been found that good affices of an inspector, the Republic stated in the course of an
police-station. There, through the
Premier Zamora of the Spanish was stated that ten lives were lost PUBLIC WORKS Department,
in a flood in Mun Haog village Hong Kong, 23rd April, 1831.
1641 sary data e delegated to the Secre-which we reprinted on Thursday he is abusing the privilege in many trouble was apparently smoothed interview that it was unlikely that when every member of a farmer's
tary. The members must, figura from a London paper, is the latest that
places. The Prefect now drelas over. A day or two later, however. King Alfonso would be punished household was
of the protection tively, all shout together if they are
pedes Manon saw her photograph in a for his misdeeds, and that the ques-being washed down to the sea by drowned through must. to urge in the Court of Session trians
not be allowed magazine above the caption, "A tion would be left to the Constitu rhythm of the city's life. Those ta interfere with the general Beauty of the Boulevard." She is ent Assembly. who, go on foot must not waste grapher for damages on the ground
Page 0. now suing the paper and the photo- other people's time by assuming that the photograph was taken ignorant of the reports in circula The British Foreign Office is that they can reduce all traffic to ngainst her will and that it retion of an imminent agreement be down that the pavement belongs to light. In particular she says that C. T. Wang, China's Foreign Minis-police by Cheung Shiu (23), a mar- their own slow pace. It is laid presenta her in an unfavourable tween Sir Miles Lamnson and Dr. pedestrians, the read to vehicles the incident has alienated the affecter, with regard in extra-terri ried woman of Ma Tin village, and the safety zones to both. tion of her fiance,
Page . Ping Shan, to the effect that her husband was drowned in an effort to swim to a sampam which had drifted from its mooring during & torrential downpour. The couple were at the time sheltering in their house and as the water was rising rapidly, hor husband suggested that they should collect the furniture and remove them to safety. He went out but met with the fate stated above. His body was re- covered after the flood had sub- sided.
REMINDER.
to be heard, once a year, in the that the blacksmith's ministerial THE Committee of the INDIAN world beyond, Hong Kong. No onenetivities should be abolished by THE
RECREATION CLUB reminds imagines that the Chairman of the law. But the blacksmith is doing Members and their Friends that the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank no more than any man may do by Opening of the PAVILION by Min. sits down alone to compile his Scota law, which recognises ns valid A 2 AROULLI will take place yearly address. He gathers his in a declaration before witnesses that TO-MORROW, SATURDAY, 25 INST. (Weather Permitting), at 8 r.. formation from the Chief Manager, two people take rach other as man who has the reports of the branch and wife if it ho followed by [645
managers before hing from fellow cohabitation. The fact that Gretna directors, and, possibly, from a rather than Glasgow or Edinburgh word or two from official sources. has been the bourne of cloping The information is selected, collat-couples through the centuries is due [ed, and interpreted, the result being to its place on the border. With Ia speech, to which the world listens, the disappearance of the post-chaise In is no individual view but the its glories were tending to diminish,
H. K. O. C.-TENNIS TOURNAMENT.
OPEN SINGLES SEMIFINAL.
M. W. LO-1. C. FINCHER.
toriality.
Local Notes and Events *
OWING. to Rais This Mosch he British tank in the Far East, is The uge of motoring seems to have nounced of Mr. Frederick Charles and
POSTPONED to MONDAY,
277 Arms' at 4.30 PM.. Those holding Tickets will be entitled to nuo tkom OD MONDAY Booking at MOUTRIE'S—$1.00 including Tax.
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FINANCE CO., LTD...
OFFER OF NEW SHARES.
NHAREHOLDERS Bre reminded
that the 5TH APRIL, 1981,
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revived them, and even the Scots The Chamber of Cominerce is themecives, who need not stir far far less highly developed organisather than their own parlours to tion than the Bank in question, but contract marriages quite as regular the Committee has at its command as any the blacksmith can furnish, wide sources of authoritative in seem to find in a dash to Gretna formation. The Hon. Mr. C. G. S. a restful prelude to the honeymoon. MACKIE, as head of a shipping firm, There would be little harm in that dealt mainly with his own subject, if the safeguards that the law re
him dismiss the question of stabili
an immenso wash which came down from the hillside and carried away which were a farmer, his wife, two three matsheds, the occupants of children and six farin hands.
A report has been made to the
SHATIN KOWLOON 'BUS SERVICE SUSPENDED.
The forthcoming wedding is no The Committee of the Sailors' Looking Back 25 Years.
Soldiers' Home gratefully Mr. Asquith announces that the Pan, of the Chiness Maintime Cus- acknowledges the receipt of the British share of the Chinese war toms, Taishan Island, to Miss Hen. following donation towards the indemnity amounts to £317.00 per rietta Jane Lincoln-Lindsey of 45, funds of the Home:-Military year the annual payments will annum, until 1910, and after that Hong Kong Road, Tientsin.
Area Sports Board (per Captain gradually increase. The British re- E. R. Denkin, Hon: Secretary) stance to the discharge of private The Government has notified the ceipts were applied in the first in- $50.00.
cinams Bince these claims, nount Kni Tack Motor Bus Co. that, ed to £700,000, were disposed of owing to the poor condition of the the receipts have been equally divid-surface of the road past the Kow- ed between his Majesty's Govern- loon Reservoir, the motor bus ser-
8. Dab Chang dies.3.8 miles, vol It is notified that the wreck of the
from Woosung Lighthouse.
A
'The latest news, regarding tho
But, it was disappointing to hear commends were afterwards ober. green wreck marking buoy showing 5.6. Limehow is that bad weather ment and the Railway Administravice to Shatin must be withdrawn
ved. But a Scottish irregular mar-
a light flashing green every three seconds is placed 1 sables 388
the Last Day upon which Signed Formation in a few sentences, it may ringe, though perfectly valid, may from the wrees. of Acceptance or Renunciation of the Offer of New Shares made to Share be said that this is time for silence be impossible to establish later on bolders on 29th DzonKSER Leet wat as the matter is sub-jndice. But unless the precaution of registering reach the Company's Bankers in Honka brief summary of the reasons it is taken. The young brids who Kong (Tax Hongkong and Branonäi BANKING CORPORATION) Bccompanied by why the Chamber of Commerce does thinks it so romantle to wed in the a Bòmittance,
not favour stabilisation would have village where true love has so often JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, had an interest far beyond Hang outdistanced parental ira may find
General Managers.
Kong. The exponents of stabilisa=|that in her widowhood she has no tion have been allowed almost means of establishing her legal title CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME, fear field. Two experts have stated to a share of her husband's estate the opposite case, but in open conor oven to his name. The black troversy reiteration and explana-emith, it is said, warns his clients tion in terms intelligible to the of this risk. But from figures Jayman inte necessary to convince given not long ago in the House of the public. Presumably the defend Commons it appears that not 10 ers of silver do not consider it per cent of Gretna marringes are worthwhile to instruct the public. || afterwards registered. That is an
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PRINCE EDWARD ROAD, KOWLOON,
Detached and Bent-detached Villa
Modern Construction with Garage,
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It is easy to blame the public for omission that may well disquiet the obluseness, but it is better to get down to instruction, especially with regard to the reasons for pursuing I an unpopular policy.
judges. It is strange that Scot land, the country of efficiency and thoroughness, should be so hap. hazard about marriage law,
to bo
Joked After Fatal Burns.
'buses
is delaying the work of the Henry tion in China. They will continue forthwith. Thus the emergency
divided until the railway Shatin-Kowloon service of Koswick which was sent out to tow the vessel book and as a result claims have been liquidated. The has been cancelled. it will not be until Saturday Lement's share of the receipts up to
eum of £345,738, being the Govern
session of a ship's fender, resonab-arrive in port.
Charged which the unlawful po fore the Lamchow is expected to the present date remains in the Paymaster-General's 'recount at the y suspected to have been stoler,
Dank of England, pending dirce. fined $25 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton E. W. Carpenter, A.D.P.W. that April 24, 1906.
An old woman's amazing forti- the master of a fishing junk was
We have been informed by Mr.posal.-Hong Kong Daily Press, tions by Parliament as to its dis
tudo after receiving fatal. burna yesterday. The defendnut picaded temporary repairs have been effect
was described at an inquest at Ac- ton on Mrs. Rachel Pullen, aged that be fished the thing out of the
ed to the portion of Taipo Road Looking Back 50 Years.
78, a widow of Purvis-road, Wil- water..
whore Dr. Farr's ear went down Yesterday afternoon an address her daughter noticed a smell of 18den. Evidence was given that. In an advertisement appearing light trafle which must not ex-a indred sovereigns we presented stated that she had been burning and that the road is now open to accompanied by a purse containing burning on March Mrs Pullen elsewhere in this issue, membornoced one ton in weight. and freuds of the Indian Recreation
to the Rev. Dr. Chalmers by old clothes, but said nothing about, opening of the new clubhouse will Club are reminded that the official
friends connected with the congre having been injured. She laughed gation of Union Church as a token and jokod ne if nothing had hap- take place at Sookunpoo to-morrow
When the coxswain of a motor of esteem and gratitude for the pened but a week later told her at 3 p.m., weather, permitting.
boat was charged at the Marine services the reverend gentleman daughter that she had fainted and Court yesterday for mooring his rendered to the Church in a time fallen into the fire. Mrs. Pullen craft to a buoy, without a permit of difficulty, and at the same time from the Harbour Master the souvenir was presented to Mre.
was admitted to hospital on March 10, and diod on Monday from Magistrate remarked that he had Chalmera
The presentation was toxrmin and pneumonia following. gone into the case in Chambers and I made by Mr. Macgregor and ace extensive-burna doctor said it had decided the charge was not knowledged by Dr. Chalmers The was doubtful if earlier attention
Press not having been-apprised of would have saved her life, as the ovent, we are unable to give burns were so sevare: The coroner a report of what was said.-long returned a verdict of acidental Kong Daily Press, April 24, 1891. death.
The general meeting of the Hong Kong University Arts Association will be bold on Monday, April 27, at 8,30 p.m. in the Union Assemb ly Hall when. Prof. ILK.M. Simp- d.C. M-A will deliver his presidential address entitled "Flor. enoo."
an offence. Anybody was entitled to mour to Government buoys pro- vidod they paid a foo. The cass was accordingly dismissed.