Sport.
Entries and weights for the Raco' Meeting next Saturday. Page 7. Lawn bowls programme for to- day appears on!
Page 10, The Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Club, Champions in the Caer Clark Cup competition, were defented yes terday by "The Rest." Page 10,
Latest Cables.
Latest home cricket results. Paga
have fallen hy about 48 per cent.
The Dunlop Rubber Co.'s profits.
Page 0. The Labour party retained their sent at the Strollox by-election:
Page 9. By two votes the Australian Gov- ernment survived its firat tussle with the new United Party. Page 9. mitted the Provisional Constitu- yesterday. tion to the People's Convention Page 9.
Marshal Chiang Kai Shok sub.
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Two microphones have been stalled in the London Divorce Court Merrivale presides. One is fixed in in the court, over which Lord front of the President's seat and the other on the ledge of the witness We give an Page 1 of this isne British character. Has he always box. This is an experiment to see a summary of an account by Dr.been adequately armed against our the acoustics of the court can be
Tragedy of the Clowns, JOAN FRY of a recent visit to pleasant little habit of pulling the improved. The difficulty of hearing ton. The Cockney comedian, after The late Will Evans died in Brix- Germany. It is always a little leg of the foreigner who asks ques--witnesses in particular-has been a hard life, once retired to the
more evident in the divorce courts Mediterranean. Where the Nuts Come From!
But he had than in the older courts, and the erection some time ago of a gound pass through the bankruptcy court, Read this description of "Lang.bard over the witness box in the back to the grindstone. So he re- post " da Silva, the Brazilian President's court has not proved a turned to Brixton, the Motherland bandit:
access. If the latest experiment is of English clowns The Brixton af Ho is tall and heavily perfum- of the courts will be ditted with theatrical lodgings is full of shatter-
uccessful it is probable, that most His extraordinarily long hands microphones. The installation is e hopes and worn bodies, full of are covered with heavy ringe, really a small broadcasting set; unemployed opportunista who will some studded with diamonds, complete with loud-speakers and
never again be applauded come umplifiers.
dians, full of luxon Ma's who one believed the world would be at their The right of a wife to refuse to
dainty feet. Yet Brixton is the become a mother is the question ost English, the most unspoilt which the Court of Appeals, thi❘ part of London. It is a town with highest court in New York State, corporate life the suburbs Inek. will have to decide shortly. Mr. The woman who sells papers at the Alfred I. Kahn is appealing corner of the Bireet knows where against the dismissal of his claim everybody lives. The impoverished that his wife had violated a pre-star will find a family welcome in nuptial agreement under which she Briston when the West End ffil consented to, become a mother. The gets. And young clowns, bloom in wife's refusal, was based on cono- these red brick strests in which the mie and personal grounds, but Mr.old elowas die in penury.
"Once Kahn claimed that her action con- I visited a top-of-the-bill comedian stituted a basis for the annulment the day before he died," anys a cor- of the marriage for fraud. Counsel respondent to a London - paper. Brands young girls with his for Mra, Kahn denies the charge of initials if they go about in short fraud, and says there is no State in the dingy gas-lit room which He was propped up on a coach skirts.
law permitting a marringe to be was his whole home. The wife he Haided a wedding service and annulled, because a wife elects to had left years hefore, and who had Pompelled the bridal couple to remain childless. Mr. Kahn alleged now como to nurse him, took no dance before him...
in the lower court that his wife had in by the hand to look upon the Killed a doctor because he dis-submitted to ли
operation. man who had made thousands liked his appearance
Evidence was given. however, that laugh. The next night his agony So there are he-men in the Ameri- he did not live with his wife after ended, and they had a whip-round can Continent.'
the alleged operation.
to bury him."
in
extremo
The Hon. Mr. J. P. BRADA has dangerous to rely upon the testi performed a very useful servicemony of one gbserver, but Dr. Fay. both to the Government and to the if she is to be fully believed, did. Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, But good service by, drawing attention for Mr. Brava's intervention a to the lamentable state of affairs harmless looking item on the now persisting in that country. It agenda of Thursday's Finance Com- is not merely that Germany is mittée meeting would presumably suffering, as all other countries are have been passed, in the following suffering, from an unpierrdented. form-Public Works Extraordi economic depression; not merely nary :--Miscellaneous, Resumption that her discontent has found ext at Fanling: $8,321. The moneypression
politien? would have been paid and then, creeds it is that the people them- slowly, the broth would have sim, selves have fallen into a mood of mered. Rumour would have had it bitterness and disillusionment, As that the Government had subsidiz- Dr. JOAN FRY put it The new d the Golf Club to the tune of phase is psychological. A sense eight thousand dollars, Scon it of injustice is eating to the would have been eighty thousand,souls of the German people." and the rainy season would have This is good neither for the nor duly stimulated the growth of this for us It is neither their fault benustalk of delicious senadal! It nor our fault; and its correction is no doula possible to take two can come only by a practical ap- views of the matter. Mr. BRAGA ligation of those principles of voted against the proposal but the international co-operation whose Finance Committee were of opinion constant repetition in the abstract. that there was no harm in the has rendered them almost without Government taking over from the significance. Everyone knows what Golf Club, at original price, some is the consequence of a nation's land into which the Club bas sunk bitterness. Everyone knows that very ennciderable sums of money nationalion' in Europe is ruining thus greatly increasing its value. Europe politically, economically, The Club only gets л yearly and morally, Buj the knowledge tenancy and if gold is discovered does not temper enthusiasm for a beneath the surface of "The Gem," | nationalist policy. · Armaments and or if n new railway has to be tariff walls are piled up none the driven across Tummy Tucker," less zealously; and the Longue of the Golf Club, despite all it has Nations itself is made to serve the put into the making of the course, very spirit its creation was to de- gets marching orders, and ennnot fent. Dr. JoAN FRY was appalled elnim compensation. It appears, by conditions in Germany-hordes on the surface, that the Golf Club of unemployed monotonously shout is very trusting. Certain matters ing "Hunger" until the police of land registration: have also been silenced them. There are similar simplified and official time will be hordes everywhere. saved. Mr. BRADA seemed to think trophy of war,
tion.
rubies and other stones.
His clothing is covered with everything frein religious medals to bullet straps.
His shirts and conts are gaudily cloured, and decorated with gold and silver buttons,
In addition to two cartridge helta and two revolvera he carries a dagger. This gentleman, who became a killer at 14, goes to church every day. And what does he do for a living? A British United Press cable states that "Lamppost" da Silva:
Cuts the lips of his victim so that they shall have a smiling
expression.`·
We Moderns!
Local Notes and Events
Among the passengers who left by At Central Magistracy yesterday the R.M.S. Empress of Russia yes Lieut. Gough was fined 85 for terday were the Hon. Dr. It. H. leaving a car unattended in the Kotewall and Mrs. Kotowall, and street. Several other motorists were Mr. and Mrs. C. Strafford.
Tang Man Tin, driver of n They are private motor-gar, has made a re Their want is aport to the police to the effect that
Hear Murray Barracks on Thurs
fined for minor offences.
will hold a mixed doubles tennis The Civil Service Cricket Club
at 2.30 p.m. tournament to-morrow, commencing,
Two cases of diphtheria were reported during the 24 hours ended Mar 7.
When two Chinese boys were Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with Locking Back 25 Years. charged before Mr. Hamilton at breaking into a store at 249, Lai- that the Royal Hong Kong Golfcondemnation of European civilian- while driving along Queen's Rond, chikok Hond, it was stated that one.
In spite of the heavy rain the Club was handing to other Sports If that civilisation today about 3.30 p.m., a man sudden toy was an orphan while the other's Spring Sower and Vegetable Show Club a niblick with which to bent persist and justify itself, then they dashed across the street and wasThe neighbours alleged that the
mother went out to work all day, of the Amoy Horticultural Society was held on April 19, but only at the Government. But the Colonial policy that has reduced Germany knocked down before the car could second boy was sent out each day the Masonic Hall, Kulangau. Tho Secretary was quite serene about to her present plight and Eurona be pulled up. The man was re- and if he failed to bring home officials were:-Judges of flowers,
versed.
moved to the hospital suffering from the prospect, laying it down that to its present plight must be re-injuries to the head and body. He
Such a reversal is con- succumbed yesterday morning. every case that might arise would. be considered on its merits. We stantly approved. Unfortunately it do not remember what the Jackey
| Club, for example, paid for its land
at Happy Valley, but it is unlikely
is not carried out,
that it would care to hand over its More "Howlers."
certain amount of money each night Messrs. H. F. Rankin and V. O. he was logged and given no food. Savi; vegetables, Messrs. J. G. Mr. Hamilton admonished both de Goetz and H. Rankin; Cou fendants and asked if some armittee --Messrs. W. H. Wallace, A. rangement could not be made with F. Gardiner, H. F. Rankin, and W. regard to the orphan.
Kruse; Hon. Secretary, J. Arthur. -Hong Kong Daily Press, May 9,. 1900.
Looking Back 50 Yeare,
Mr. G. E. Cross, Harbour Master for Amy during the last three years left for his new port at Newchwang, to which he was The Kowloon Magistrate, Mr. E. transferred, last month. During W. Hamilton, has drawn our atten | kis period of service in Amoy, Mr. tion to a mistake in our report, site at cost price., Meanwhile the England's "howler" season is Cross-won many friends, particu- yesterday, of the case in which two The return of the 'Collector of brend has been taken out of the here again. Here are a few per business interests of the port. His Court, for assault. One of the men published in the Gazette. The total Inrly among those who represent the men were sentenced. at Rowloon Stamp Revenue for April last is mouths of the purveyors of Hongpetrated by the boys of Harrow genial good nature; coupled with a had had a previous conviction and revenue
for that month, wad Kong's sceret history. To the, man County School, and vouched for by keen senso of fairness, a desire for for this reason was given six @12,538.22, showing an inorcato, on who knows the truth of every The Gaytonian,"
sehoo! justice, as well as a devotion to months' imprisonment. The other the corresponding month of last transaction, and to whom allanagazine: The Witches in Macbeth duty in all matters, brought for man, who had been a member of year of 82.270.93. The total amount te Water Police, had a clean record collected during the four months at ward, many expressions of high re transactions are ""shady" de hressed a consommer Napoleon disgard and good will from his friend and vergivin four months Need the present year was 847,711.87, as lightful morsel long been denied.ported the rioters with a whiff of on the eve of his departure. He less to say it was the clean record compared with 840,704.19 in this The Government may be deemed grape fruit. Harold mustarded his rics with him the good wishes of and not the association with the same period of 1880, showing an Amoy residente ne he moves on to Police that secured the lighter sen- increase of 80,047.46-ong Kong wise or simple, but beyond that no men before the Battle of Hastings, his new post
Daily Press, May 9, 1881-
the
tence