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1981..
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News and Views
No, Ghillies Ball this Year,
At the expanse of an anonymous The Ghillies Ball at Balmoral,
admiror, ang Epstain ay mbalinal monitoons was erected over the which has been abandoned this grave, which is still the object of autumn because of the economy, pilgrimage from all party ot Attendant:"Yes, we never sell campaign, had become mich, a big, Europe.
affair that last year it was held in two sections
Guys The King and Queenslike to in the estate, and the tradesmen from vite to the ball all the tenants on
Church also receives an invitation Ballater. The choir in Crathie
Revolutionary Spectacles.
at anopportune mom economic depression has world and everywhere unemployment has reached appalling proportions. The forces of disorder wou avionny of this junk 1", tory in Spain, and looked like copturing the British Labour Party.
It is good news that, after all On top of this came the Manchurial thers yanra, our opticinne have lad crisis Well might British the happy thought of making sect Istablitea aty that the great acles at the face. It, le said that eatsstrophe,” was at hand. But in the new "bespoke" spectacles are go- England two statcmmon, Mr. BALD- the foes that the handsome appear-A chemist once received a testi-
ing to be so cunningly merged with Ambiguous Testimonials, WIN and Mr. RAMBAY MACDONALD, aned of the wearer will be unim encrificing purry to putriction, com paired, which ran "My brother was at monial for patent medicine, There are certain fama, of course. bined to tom the tide Thor are which could be radically improved death's door your medicine has both ardent roformers lovos of if they were merged with the specta companion picture there are
pulled him through, "****** peacs and trusted for their sin. nelos, ourity. They have hpcu rivals for power, after the honourable tradi tions of political life and the nation at large felt that things would never go fan wrong with DURO GARAGE either in charge. In partnership
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BRITAIN AND THE WORLD.
THE chief result of the general cloction will be to restore work confidence Britain and the British Empire. It gives us splendid opportunity to make good, and to recover all that we have loss The British people have IN THE SUPREME COURT OF shown, so that none can mistake
HONG KONG
PROBATE JURISDICTION.
THE GOODS .DY
HENRY BAGEHOT SWANN, LATI OF. %, OBATSWORTH GARDENH, EASTBOURNE IN THE COURT OF SUBIRI, AND OF 24, OLD BROAD STRICT IN TEM CO LONDON, ENGLAND, Srock- BROKER, DECWAREU,
their meaning, that they have all their old steadiness and good sense. A similar chance was offered after the War, but it was thrown away's and the country that had domin ated the struggle at sen, in finance, in the making of war material; and very largely in the land fight
ahead, and cannot be avoided. Mr. BALDWIN'S message proclaims that British democracy hee vindicated its sanity; the socialistic will-of- the-wisp is discredited, and people of all classes are prepared to win back prosperity, not by legislation but by hard work and sturdy in
dividual effort,
To Britons oversea the chance for which all have been waiting has come. Nuw is the time for enter- prise and initiative; for hacking
all that is possible to roent up the home producer and doing. marketa that have been surrender ed. Frosperity will not come in a day, like Russiaquer, but a steady uphill advance to lost posi- tions must be attempted. Britain has given a lead and it is up to the new struggle to rebuild Britain's us out East to spare no effort in pince in world affairs.
THE COPYRIGHT GARDEN.
ing, frittered away the opportunity Box notes in the new issue of the NOTION IS BEREBY GIVEN gaining the markets of the Author" on a rescat lawsuit make
that the Court has, by virtue of the Provisions al Section 58 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1897, made su Order limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Olaims against the above Estate to the Iêrn Där of NOVEM. BER, 1981,
All Creditors and Others Are accord [ingly-heroby · "required to send their Ohms to the Undersigned on or before that Dato
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will ofare to bear interset.
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Hong Kong, 29th Ook, 1931.
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Free Churches.
Women's Rights in Mexico,
It is supposed that there is ne it is interesting to see that the more logical limit to women's rights, but
only clamouring for the right to adranood women of Mexico are not voia, but have already resorted to the code duello in satisfaction of wounded honoured dat
one of them witnessed a surropči- Two young women were rivals for the attentions man and tious kiss given to the other A with all proper formality, and the challenge was given and accepted women, with revolvers and seconds, met for the duel outside Moxico City. The revolver of the challeng er jammed and her opponent fired five rounds rapid, three bullets meeting their mark
the reports that the rather denso boy received From his crammer, who was laboriously preparing him for The Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Churches of Eng
n naval codeship. The end line of his first report said "He's try land has accepted the invitation of ing. This gave his parents re the Archbishop of Canterbury to newed hopa in their son. At the appoint representatives in order to end of the second term the report resume the conferences with ropreread: "He is still trying" This sentatives of the Church of Eng. brought more joy to his home. At vindicated at a price. land which were, by consort, aus- the and of his third term's report Fended in 1925,
were the words: "He is very try,
Fairy Tales Loss Ground,
The Council states that twilling," soak the realisation of the hopo ex Pressed in the Archbishop's letter- taken towards at least fuller un- that some further step may be derstanding and fuller spiritual co-operation, or, if it may be by God's Will, towards even closer union.
It is urged that discussions on unity can have little effect unless. unity. they are accompanied by acts of
Threat to a Surrey Beauty Spot.
The proposals of the Guildford ural District Council to construct a60lt by-pass road through the beautiful district of Shere have ad- vanced a step further by the notifi Beation that, the Ministry of Health
is to hold an inquiry at Guildford.
A recent exhibition of some two thousand Soviet children's books in Moscow showed that considerable progress has already been achieved in training the young thought along Communist lines. The Life of Cenin, the Young Communist, the Young Pioneer, were subjects fre- quently encountered in the books, There was also a distinct shift from fairy tales and animal legenda to books with pictures of machines and new construction enterprises.
Disillusioned":"
***Highbrow.
Ong woman is now in hospital and the other in gael; but, once again, women's rights have been
Elgar and His Dog.
Books by self-confessed dog lovers are usually much too devout and trenely for ordinary mortals who keep a dog" but Mr. Rowland Johns's new work which has just been published, will find a wider public than is usual with this class of book. It is packed with stories about, famous people's dogs.
Bir Edward Elgar we learn, nl- ways has a grey Cairn sitting on his desk when at work because it
helps him to compose."
Du Maurier's Towolen
Likeable, too, ie the story of a vow mada by Sir Gerald du Mau riar in a moment of panic when he Mr. Gene Tunney, the retired "If that dog's all right, hơ
lost his dogsha heavy-weight baxing champion of swore, "I'll let every one off, who Shero Parish Council, Shore
the world, must be the first "high- owe me anything" He found it Rural Preservation Society, and brow to have visited Russia with within two minutes, but kept his many of the local residents have. He is reported to have gone to said Sir Gerald to the author
out being "led up the garden,"
word."I let all my debtors off, weites a correspondent already Moscow in the hopes of finding and there was one man who owed strongly protested against this un-pansocs for the world's troubles, me-well, never, mind!”! necessary, wasteful, and beauty tion is to be taken to oppose the destroying project, and further a scheme at the public inquiry
Proposals of this kind, if adopt ed, and involving a huge expendi- prescat time, coupled with the fact ture of the nation's money at the that such a road is absolutely un- necessary, and would serve no useful gross extravagance, as well as purpose, would be nothing short of wanton destruction of one of Eng- land's beauty spots."
The Queen's Dancing-
The people are proud of the Queen's dancing. She knows all the Scottish dances, and just before the
have a practice. ball her Majesty and the Princes
The gardeners, who are expert" dancers, are called into the ball room for the rehearsal.
They are warned in time and
and to have been completely disil- lusioned.
PARAS AMIA Gilbert Obilds Doad, Many people never quite known what to make of Mr. Tunney's al
god thighbrow" proclivities. But this news certainly stamps him as "highbrows" Or perhaps it means one of the world's least gallible that he is not a highbrow at all, but just a shrewd and commonsense observer.
Mr. Gilbert Childs, the actor who was one of the original Co-Opti- mitta," has died in London,
Wilde's Grave.
the stage for more than half's co- Mr. Childs, who bad, appeared on tury, was also known in the United States. He joined the Co-Opti
mits”; when they started "at" the Royalty in June, 1991, and played continuously in the company to the The removal of the thirty-seven the "Co-Optimists, at the Vaude- and of 1924. He reappeared with year-old ban on "Salome," which opened at the Savoy at the end of ville Theatre in 1929 after three last month, is bound to revive in-years illness. terest in the author PPARAA
Oscar Wilde died in Paris ou Boep at 5/- Each. Nov. 30, 1000, and was buried in Good class shoop at. Ashby-de- Bagneux. Cemetery. Ten years | Zouch market recently sold at 6s. | later the body was removed by Ro-ench,... Ong farmor allowed six of
bort Ross, Wilde's faithful friend his sheep to go for 80.
and literary executor, to Pere-la- It was the annual sheep sale, and Chaise, where many famous men never have prices been so low for
·lie
sheep
Local Notes and Events
The Hong Kong dollar remuined! Three cases of typhoid were re- unchanged yesterday, the official ported on Wednesday, quotation being 11, 2-5/8.
Owing to the China Exhibition, the Concert arranged for Thursday November 5 at the Helena May In-
stitate is cancelled.
from the files.
Looking Back 25 Years. • * ́***
Mr Putname Weals, the woll known authority on Manchuria, baa sent along and interesting telo gram to the North China Daily New which our contemporary publishes on October 26th as "prac tially the first uncensored report by an acute and independent observer, on conditions in North Manchuria Whilst employed in demolition and the Russian provinces beyond, work on a site near the Sikh Tomas they have existed since the bas sustained injuries when the slipped presents a picture of Russian ple on Wednesday, s Chinese woman clusion of the warrWon and fell down the hillside. She was thorities everywhere at a loss för taken to the hospital where she was want of instructions, suspicious, and detained
jealous of each other, and all with out any patriotic hopes. The 20- ghbourhood of the Japanese (on the mich river Tumon, north-east frontier o
world. Strike followed strikt, and it clear that an action for infrings-dress up" (in kilts), our exporters were starved while ment of copyright in a landscape miners and operators fought with garden was successfully maintained their employers over suma infini by the authors of the design. "The tisimal compared with the value of Court held that the garden in the trade that was irretrievably question was an architectural work
of art and as such lost. It was a sorry exhibition of
was protected folly and greed on both sides.
by the Copyright Act, 1911.” Britain became the hope of Com Fortunately it appears to have been mumist vemin, who were encour two firms of professional practi- aged by the growth of the Labour tioners who were in dispute over party, and the steady decrease in the matter; it was not a case of a
The master of the an Iowa In prosperity, Elsewhere the World private individual saying to
him
When charged before Mr. Fraser ports a capsizod junk in Lat, a dog. Revolution had fallen dat. Bepub. self "That looks a nice garden, I yesterday with the theft of a length O N., Long. 116 deg. 46 E., dan Ecan Germiny, France, Spain and think I'll make one like it," and of cable from Stonecutters, an old gerous to navigation. HE SECOND EXTRA RACE Italy would have none of it, but then having to pay for his borrowed man named Lai Kom was given two MEETING will be held (WEA while Britain rejected all forms of inspiration by, an, action for in- weeks imprisonment. It was stat THER PERMITTING) ARBA violence, this stupid internecine fringement of copyright materialed that he was employed in the fort Prita, Macao, on BUNDAY, 1or strife NOVEMBER, 1931, Commencing at
British Rapped Bri
industry, It is evidently plagiarism on the and bad never bocê in trouble bo. lowering the country's prestige professional scale which becomes fore The First Bell will be Bung stuntil "Britain is finished," became dangerous apparently the amateur the elegan of her rivals and every horticulturiet is at liberty to in-
Awook's formal remand was MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE,
strike was exploited an evidence dulge to his hearty content in that granted by Mr. Schald at the Cen
tral Police Court yesterday in the of waning power. The world that Imitation which is the sincerest t for generalious had booked to Briform of Battery This is perhaps case of four men who were arrest in for a lead saw disunion at tions arising out of this form of are alleged to have gone to com just as well; it actions and injunced at 158, Johnston Road whers they Home and a puzzling alteration artistic endeavour, became general
suburbs and many a yard of crazy were all charged with attempted liab Princes have arrived in Yoko paving might be hastily covered robbery. Actually the situation was less with coconut matting lost a neigh serious thin it appeared. The sup. bour who laid his down first should The case in which Chinose inter. We note that the British steamer plain the recent extraord pression of tho General Strike to to iglawyer for a writ. Even proter of the Sanitary Board Office Clenorchy, which arrived here from rumour that the Japanese are
run his showed that the country had no same way as someone else might be a pawnbroker was continued at treasure to the amount of 850,000. spite of its 76 forts and 38,000 men
in charged with obtaining 870 from Fooshow on Saturday, brought on paring to seize Vladivostock intention of standing either revolu dangerous, and trouble might be in Central Magistracy yesterday, when,
In the province of Primorsk where tion or trade union interference that matched the roses of the mas
store for the owner of the binores further evidenos, by witnesses for The Nouveau Mondelli left Kee 70,000 Russians have settled The Price of Admission t to the Public with Parliament, and the "Zinoviev next door. Indeed, if the idea of the prosecution was taken. The de lung on the 17th September The practically no development org cula Kantosuro is § 2500 BR BR and w
Children under the Age of 16 Year Letter". election was “a sound copyright in gardens were applied Monday afternoon when the case been heard of her since, and fears tion of the prevailing Russians per
fendant was remanded again matil Courier regrets, to my nothing has, has been attempted another indicator will not be permitted in either Enalokum kide the pants," a
Admiral closely there might be other during the Meeting.
developments why not copyright in will probably conclude,
are entertained for the safety of the aimism. Mr. Weals'ay observi ** V.O. would put it for the arrangement of easement cur
tion may be relied on the free pörs” meddlers. Moreover when tains, in the setting of a dinner. A fine of $400 or four months'
w of Vladivostock cannot have been table for a full-dress affair, or even hard labour was passed on a Chi- From a table of meteorological making much difference to the trade in the way the washing is hung out noso women af Central Magistracy observations taken at the Govern of Manchuria far as the other on Monday mornings. It is just as yesterday when the wash chargedmont Hospital and published in ontruice ne Newchwang is concers well that those possible risks should | with the possession of 2,370 Chinese 1 Baturday's Gazette, it appears that od-Mongkong Daily Freu, Oct. be reduced by a plain understand | lottery tickets.” It was stated that | 12.23 inches of rain; fell in ... tha - 30, 1005, 9 ing that infringement of copyright"| the woman was arrested on in 1 month of September last as com-juni usually turng on an intention to formation received and the drawing | pared with 18.04 inches, in the same, Looking-Back-60–Yesri deriva dimmercial advantage rather for the tickets, would have taken month of last year and 2213 inches - Advices, have been than personal pleasure from the place, to day. The value of the in Septembergi 1879. -- // eng kong Shanghai to the affect that. application of the borrowed defignz seized licksta was $1,291, dod it “Dolly Preat, Oct. 30, 1881.
Members are noticed that they and their dies must wear their Badges Prominently displayed att
No one without Badge will be admitted to the Mamber Enclosure,
Radgoal admitting Non-members to
through the SECRETARY. UPON
the Members, Knalorum at 81 Each are between strength acid, weakness in panie might, "spread through themit an armed robbery. The men
sation by a Member. Foreign and Empire affairs. Members can obtain upon application to the SECRETARY Badges (Limited to wo) for the Free Admission to the Momber Enclorare of Wives. Lady Belativos and Friends
Rio and Refreshments will be stail uable in the Enclosure to Safet
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE.
No Dogs will be permitted on the Bacs Course
STRANEES.
The 8.6. “TA‡ SHAN” will leare Hora: Kong at 9 AM. Returning fron Macão at 5.15 vm.
By Order,
WAL, ALEXANDER,
Recretary zor Hong Kong, 27th Oct; 1931. [1376
the Labour Party got into office socialistic schemes were pigeon holed, and, until the recent lapse, Government was conducted with commendable etoadiness
*
*For all List the British, cognomis: stuntion: continued to cause grave anxiety the world over. If Britain
Bahami on the 21st inst.
Kores) and exaggerated upon
their doings, produces & state of nerves, which helps
(Continued on pre