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IT is proposed to produce the nav Comia Upers THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH at the King's Theatre on January 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st noxt. The first CHORUS rehears will take place at the CATHEDRAL HALLO MONDAY, OCTOBER 17th at 5.0 p.m. Any ladis or gentlemen who can sing are welcome. [263+

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Husbands and wives-a few words from Tottenham police court to-day: A husband," said the ma gistrate, "cannot be sent to an asylum only on the authority of his wife. If that could be dons the country would not be big enough to hold the asylums we should, need.".

The Magistrate (to a complain ing wife): Can't you talk this over with your husband?

The Husband: That's why I'm herë. She's been doing that for -months.

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Colour Blindness in School.

Tests in colour blindness, which have been conducted in a British school, have revealed that the vic- tims are chiefly boys. Out of 200 pupils examinal only one girl was found to be, defentiye, but there were no Jower than ten colour

An interesting fact blind boys. was that the enlour-blind were far from being dufl. Indeed, some of them were particularly bright pu-| pils

Vitamins

"What are vitamins " asked a patient in an infirmary the other day when the Professor was mak.. ing his rounds. The old man look- nd over his spectacles and smiled. "The alphabet," was his cryptic

Anawer

American Thoroughness.

Many may be unwilling to ad. mit it, but the Americans ото thorough when they set their minds to a thing. They are "telling the world" about their great Chicago tion, which opens next year, and some of us may have already received a sample of their publi- city methods.

all. If that is not thoroughness The Golden Age. who knows the meaning of the word!

Hals in Church,

Laws have just been framed, we learn from a Hollywood message, for the protection of the very

AGED MURDERER'S APPEAL

AMAZING COURT SCENE

AT OSAKA

Tokyo, Sept. 20.There was an amazing court scene in Osaka yes- terday when a man of seventy was 20 doubt, for Shotaro Kunitaune, the murder.

Ecclesiastical authority, personi- fied by the Dean and Chapter of young who make a livelihood for St. Paul's Cathedral, has at last themselves-and, bowed to the inevitable. From their parents also-by playing the now on hatless women will be almost juvenile parts in fim pro. lowed to participate in services,

sentenced to death for murder.

or,

in court,

threatens to call the

He had smiled all through the brief formal proceedings, and his face, broke into a broad beam of mirth as the dread words passed the judge's lips.

killed his neighbour's wile when detected in the act of steal- ing, Sho and will not be approached by a duction. Each day they must be police, and the old man drew a scandalised verger with a whisper examined by a representative of knife, and stabbed her.

the prisoner smiled ed request either to leave the the city Board of Health, and the seats or to secure at once some sui- working day of each is limited to when the judge pronounced sex. table covering for the head. The 20 minutes of actual photography. tence of death. ban on uncovered heads has been If the young actor is under. 30 more or less strictly enforced over days, he and his mother recoivo since St. Paul laid it down that, 215 a day; if he is between 30 and it was a dishonour for a woman 90 days, £10; and if between 90 to appear in church so unattired, days and six months, a mero £5. but modern fashion, and the re. Beyond six months and until they cont heat wave, have defeated all re-emerge as budding Jackie Coo efforts to maintain oven the spirit gans those little ones of Hollywood of his diet. Such a concession to have apparently no carning capa women, made by St. Paul's Cathe city whatever, which seems a trifle dral, should by the deathblow to strange, since to those so young the controversy began so unwit increase of days brings increase of beauty and charm. But Holly- tingly by the Apostle.

wood demanda realism even in the cradle and is willing to pay for. it.

Emigration to South Africa.

The H.A.C.

The 305th anniversary of the Hon. Artillery Company, probably the oldest volunteer regiment in the world.

It was in August, 1537, that Henry VIII. sighed, the charter of "The Guyide or Fra-] ternetie of St. George for the en- crease and saftie of this Realme," from which the company grow.

"Do you understand what I just said?" asked Judge Onishi.

Kunitsune amiled, and nodded his head.

One of the warders interrupted, "I think he's too deaf to hear what you say, sir."

Another warder shouted in the prisoner's ear,

"You've bean sentenced to death, do you understand?”

For a moment Kunitsune looked" puzzled.

Thon ho burst out, Sentenced What for! Just bo- to death 1 cause I killed her? I'm sorry, judge, but I didn't hear what you were saying before, or I would have objected."

"You have been convicted of a terrible crime," replied: Judge Oni- ahi. "The sentence of the court is that you must die."

This was shouted into Kunit- sule's esta

The recent report of the Over. seas Settlement Committee showed that the outward flow of persons intending to settle out of the Unitel Kingdom fell last year be low the inward flow, So long as the depression lasts the absorptive capacity of the countries of immi- gration is bound to remain low, and it is not surprising to find South Africa following. the exam- pls of the other Dominions and the United States in placing new restrictions on immigration. The new regulation, which asks an im migrant to deposit £250 on enter in the past, is no more than com mon prudence that operates in the bow, and practice in Finsbury Its early artillery was the cross interest hoth of the immigrant Fields must sometimes have re again.

produced some of the effects of war. So long as the bowman shquted "Ware" before firing, he was not held accountable for dam ago to any citizen who got in the way;

It has always been a London re- giment, and the City Corporation at one time chose its officers, in addition to providing it with a

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and of Bouth Africa,

It is a four-page newspaper Baton for His Old Regiment. which is issued weekly, and is de

Field-Marshal Viscount Plumer, voted entirely to items of interest whose name will always be asso- about the exhibition. It has now cinted with the defence of Ypres reached the thirty-third number of in the Great War, has left his, During the war the H.A.C. the second volume, which means field-marshal's baton and all me fought in France, Egypt, Pales that for well" over a year this daly and decorations to the York tine, and Italy, and supplied weekly to every corner of the kept in the officers cess of the while its members gained three world, carrying its messages to first Battalion of that regiment, V.Cs, thirty-eight D.S.O., every firm of any importance at on the death of his wife

forty-five M.G.s.

er, something not quite se severe ? "Can't you make it a bit light-

I'm an old man," he pleaded.`--

The judge's refusal was shouted through the cours

Amazingly, the prisoner smiled

Oh well, if it can't be helped I suppose I must put up with it."

He bowed again to the judge, smiling and laughing, and was still amiling when the warders led him out of court."

22nd. For details please apply to Night Editor (Wanchai Office); | alleged hauntings and other newspaper has been penetrating and Lancaster Regiment, to be from its ranks over 5,000 officers, JAPANESE SHIPPING

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THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER

BANK HOLIDAY.

The Daily Press.

posedly supernatural phenomena, London Office: 23. Fleet Birect but the result is evasivo. No ease

is clearly proved, hat in some. queor residuum of doubt remains. It was Dr. JoHNSON who said-just before the dawn of the scientific ago-"It is wonderful that five thousand years have elapsed since the creation of the World, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it." Allowing a correction or the five thousand years, the words

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HONG KONG, OCTOBER 8. 1939.

A. MAGISTRATE'S FIVE THOUSAND YEAR-OLD

· PROBLEM

in question might be the utteranc either of a modernist Churchman

like Dean INGE, or of almost any Fellow of the Royal Society.

An exhaustive book on the sub

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crisch it is well to remember that OTICE is heraby given that on for the majority of the humón race

Wednesday, 12th October, the supply of electricity to Kowloon fild life still goes on its normal way, City, Kai Taek nrca. Ngau Sbi Wan and the sufferers are the minority,ject "The Mystery and Lore of and the other villages round the font No apology is, therefore, needed Apparitions," by C. J. S. THOMP hills East of Shek Ku Ting Rond. for turning, in this column, from 80 comes to the conclusion that will be interrupted between the hours of 7 a m. and 5 p.m.

the vast but ephemeral events apparitions are created by the which sither elothes some [2038 of the day, such as the LYTTON BY,

Report and the Hong Kong Budget, normal object in supernatural to a matter that will excite human form, or else imagines the pheno menn. The irreverent instance of interest when antiquaries alone will be even aware of those epoch-making pink fauts is an example of accordance with Government documents.

the author's meaning. The angels To The EXCHANGE

and supernatural bowmen of Mons BANKS will be CLOSED for the

are dealt with, and few, who were TRANSACTION of PUBLIC BUSI 1938. TA ANNIVERSARY or 70%

casions soen an enemy soldier, or NESB on MONDAY, 10TH OCTOBER,

in the War will deny having on oc CHINESE REPUBLIC).

the C-in-C. or a friend at Home, Hong Kong, 6th Oct., 1932.

quite clearly, only to find that the image was suggested by a post or shrub or some such substantial object.

While the West has made a failure of clearing up the mystery of ghosts it will be interesting to se

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TRANS-PACIFIC FREIGHT BUREAU HONGKONG.

NOTICE TO SHIPPERS,

One of our local Magistrates was upon to decide whether or no there were ghosts in recently called

a certain house. Fortunately the CREA was clear and the Magistrate was able to find that a rogue was imposing on a woman and, after perinding her that there was e ghost in the house, took the sum of $5.40 for exorcising it. The fine was #10-for-2-practising-sorcery," Often, however, the case is not at

Local and General

Only one case of diphtheria was reported on Thursday.

and

Sentence of nine months' hard his possession of the brooch. fte labour was passed by Mr. Scho- also said he was inclined to be field on a man who committed a lieve Weeks. A conviction W&S The first term of the Hong Kong breach of a banishment order by recorded in the case of Privato Technical Institute, according to its returning to the Colony after being Hicks, but his Worship gave him prospectus, is from October, 1832, expelled in May last. The defend the option of a fine of $25. from March to Juno, 1833. condens pleaded that he had come down

The marriage will take place in Eveline Faith Drakeford, daughter Shanghai in December of Miss of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Drakeford, to John Edmund Jupp, son of Mr. and Mra, J. A. Jupp, formerly of Hong Kong.

to try obtain some warm cloth. ing for the cold weather.

on A tree-

labour was imposed

A fine of 850 or six weeks' hard cutter who was caught stripping the bark off trees on a plantation in Pokfulam. The species is known as fleptapleurum octophyllum and the tree cutter was arrested as bo Mrs. Organ, wife of Sergeant was mutilating the tenth tree. Organ, was bitten by her own dog. The defendant said he was suffer- when he attempted to separate ing from skin trouble and wanted the animal in a fight with another, to use the bark as medicine, dog. She had to undergo precau tionary medical treatment, while the dog was removed to Kennedy Town for. observation.

from the files.

Looking Back 25 Years,

SCHEME

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY GIVES PREMIUM ON SPEED

Tokyo, Sapt. 29.-The new Gog ernment subsidy scherus for the improvement of the shipping standard, which features tho scrap- ping of 400,000 tons, and the build- ing of 200,000 tons, will bo put in operation on October 1st. The Department of Communications has now issued "the following no tices:-

Vessels to be scrapped to be of not less than 1,000 tons, and over

25 years

of age. (An exception will be recognised in regard to age).

Now vessels to be cargo vessels. not less than ·4,000 tons, and over 13h knots speed. Aggregate tonnage to be less than one third, of the aggregate tonnage broken up.. (An exception to be recognised in regard to speed),

The motor car scorcher" detested in all countries, and in

Replacement vessels to be built in none more so than France, where the number of motor-cars-is" pro shipyards in Japan-All materials, portionately greater than any engines and fittings to be Japanese. The screams of an humah pro- where in Europe. So great has 1 The subsidy to bo. granted no

gross tonnago .end cipitated the flight of four armed the nuisance become that in cer- cording to men who succeeded in gaining entry tain districts the peasants have maximum at normal loan. The into 423, Lockhart Bood, with the taken the matter into their own subsidy to bo 748 m ton for. less The Institution of Engineers and object of carrying out an armed hands, and are adopting their own than 14 knots and Y46 for 14 Shipbuilders of Hong Kong, an-robbery. One of the four men had methods for dealing with the so- knots, increasing by Y1 por half nounce that a paper entitled the his escano cut off by a police con- called "road hog." A frequent knot. For over 18 knots the sub-

will be read stable and will be brought before practice among those who are in- sidy in the Institution by Mr. Geo. the Court in due course. It is respired by inalice towards the Half the subsidy to be granted

friends are invited. Buchanan on Thursday, October 13.ported that the police have come motorists is to scatter sharp edged when the ship's keel is laid, and at 6.45 p.mn. All members and across a knife, said to have been stoned or nails in the middle of the balance after completion.

part of the weapons carried by the

In case the scrapped vessel is Tobbers.

not disposed of until the comple [tion_of_the_replacement vessel, the grant of the balance of the sub- sidy to be postponed, co

"Power Economy

II.M.8. Caradoo arrived at Singa after recommissiening for further pore on. October 8 from England duty on the Yangtare. She is due in Hong Kong on October 11 and will duit for Shanghai and Honkow on October 14 Her Commanding Officer is Captain Edward Noville Syfret, Al-Ne

were

be Y54.

the road, with the object of rip- ping up the tyres.-Hong Kong Daily Press, October 8, 1907. of the Nanto Motor Bus Co. to Looking Back 50 Yeast.

As a protest against the failure resume operations (which suspended in. August as a result Some remarkable relics of of losses sustained through the quity (says our Shanghai, morn Sino-Japanese hostilities and labing contemporary) have been sent our troubles), two female conduc by some native friends for our tors of the company have declared inspection, consisting of two very a hunger strike and others threa- curious screen-shaped fans. They ten to follow their example. The are made of open-work in ivory, PENINSULA HOTEL Bureau of Social Affairs is taking the fibres being most delicately

Vessels built-under the subsidy anti-scheme, not to be disposed of or rebuilt unless approved by the Minister of Communications,

if the East, when the seentifio Opiam to the value of 400 was LL Shippers are hereby notified all clear and it is possible to acthod has taken rest, will be any seized on a Chinese junk when the A that members of this Bureau imagine learned counsel declaring more successful. To the East such police boarded her in Harbour on steps to mediate in the matter interlaced in precisely the same pa named hereunder have adopted a with much eloquence and many ideas have meant more than to wines was also found. Brought be Among those departing on home bottom chair. On this are affixed

Thursday. A quantity of Chinese

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citations from pa records that the haunting was a reality and no charge could lie against an exorcist,

Europe and America The belief has been simple and absolute, and

Contract and Non-Contract System effective on and after October 6th, Form of contract for signature can bo obtained from the following Spiritualists often appear in the approach by such minds trained to respect of the wine...

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observa and record accurately may law courts in London and in a recent case eminent counsel argued yield clearer and even decisive re that the phenomena described were suits. Materialism and superstition due to super-natural forces. The are equally unsatisfactory arsede, Judgo held that the medium was, but the land between them evades consciously or unconsciously, prac-

every effort at exploration and tising deception and a libel action | brought by the medium against a survey. Perhaps the East will newspaper making that allegation supply an approach, moro delicato, was dismissed.

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