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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1933.
CATHAY DANCING WORK FREE WIVES COMMODITY PRICES
ACADEMY
Selling Liquor Without Licence
PROPRIETOR FINED
It is understood that following complaints by residents in the neighbourhood. The Cathay Dane ing Academy at Yaumati was raid-
Instructional Classes at
various
Y.M.C.A.
to
beon
IN JAPAN
in
This
OSAKA INDEX STILL ON THE DOWNWARD PATH
prices The instructional classes which
Tokyo.-Commodity Mrs. J. H. Hunt, the wife of Osaka continue their downward tla Secretary of the European course. The Asahi puts the aver Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, hus organised for members of the Women's see index number of the wholesale prices of 57 principal articles for nave met March at 134.2, a drop of 2.7 (two tion, are reported to
per cent.) from February. with gratifying results, and of the 150 members of the Women's Sec fall is not as severe as that experi tion, 120 are taking part in the enced in February, yet it brings the
kronness classes. A ed by the Police on Wednesday.
learn French or to re-polish their total loss since the beginning of the It. fully illus year to D.6 per cent. The proprietors, Msssrs. A. P.
trates the extent of the reaction to early knowledge of it, has Sheppard and D. Poweli were sum-evidenced by the popularity of this the abrupt rise last year. Latonel before Mr Butters at Kow-class with lady members, whilst the
Except metals which thanks to loon Magistracy yesterday for sell sewing and embroidery classes are the active demand for war materials ng liquor on the premises without also well supported. Considerable rose five per cont. all groups roven! a licence.
interest has been exhibited in the losses. Textiles, with a drop of Heather-work and art-work class, 3.0 per cent. top the list, followed conducted by Mrs. Hant, and some by fertilisers, miscellaneous and of the articles made by members, grains which suffered 3.5 per cent. and three per cent. and two per cent. including tooled handbags
are outstanding both in respectively. The U.S. banking boxes, design and workmanship. In addi-crisis and the consequent gold em tion, there is a class for instrue bargo has had no direct effects on tion in first-aid work, under the the commodity market here with a raw silk aegis of the St. John Ambulance, few exceptions such as and this has proved attractive to and rayon, The Indian tariff in- members. There is no doubt that crease is also responsible for the the classes serve an excellent pur- drop in rayon prices. pose in the Colony, especially among married ladies who have no
Inspector Booker said the Police were informard that liquor was he ing sold at the Academy, and, with the view to ascertaining this allega- tion, a servant was sent to inves tigate on April 11. He was able to obtain liquor on payment. Another sergeant was despatched two days later and he also was able to ob- tain liquor on payment.
A warrant to raid the place was then issued, and Inspector Booker himself found seven men drinking' in a hack-room. A large quantity of liquor was seized, including over 50 bottles of Asahi beer, a similar quantity of Whitbread stout, sever- al bottles of whisky, gin, port and brands.
$100 Fine.
On behalf of both defendants, Mr. . H. Cole, of Messrs. Hall Brut- ton & Co., plended guilty.
fis Worship: What is the total value of the liquor seized t
Inspector Bucker: About $138.85. That is the agent's price.
His Worship: How long has this dancing institute been in opera- tion I believe it was started Inst December. It was originally on the opposite side of the road Nathan Rond) tr the Yisfun Dancing Academy, but when Yisfun maved out, the Cathay moved in.
A fine of $100 was imposed on each 'defendant.
BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
COOLIE ACCUSED OF
"SNATCHING "
often
NE
occupation and are loss to know what to do with their enforced leisure.
VISIT TO CANTON
Of the 57 articles listed, 13 ad- vanced and 32 declined, with no change for the remainder. Details are as follows:-
Advanced Foreign rice, flour, raw cotton, ahocts, zinc, lead, coal, glass, coment, cotton yarn, mous- seline, steel bars.
Declined: Japanese rice, Korean rice, rye, barley, wheat, soya be- ans, tea, sake, rape seed oil, white
PARTY FROM ST. ANDREW'Scloth, grey shirting, raw silk,
CHURCH.
During the week-end the Rev. W. Walton Rogers, Vicar of St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, will be absent from the Colony, as he is to take a party of six members of & visit to Canton. the Church on They are due to arrive in Canton this evening and during the courec
their stay will visit the Church. Missionary Society's premises at the East Gate, where they will
babatas, crepe, woollen yarn, rayon, cloth, electrolytic copper, alumi- nium, gasoline, lamp oil, sulphate of ammonia, soya bean cake, tum- ber, matting, corrugated sheets, sulphric and caustic soda, ma- chine bil, printing paper, wrap- ping paper, dyestuffs.
Stationary Refined sugar, soy, miso, beer, beef, woollen cloth, pig. charoval. superhposphate, iron, tiles, rubber, hides and leather.
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During the Vicar's absence the morning services at St. Andrew's Church will be taken by the Rev. G.E.S. Upedell, Principal of the Yaumati Government School, whilst Evensong will be taken by the Rev. W. Nash, of the Diocesan Boys School, Kowloon.
HOUSE OF LORDS:
London, April 11.-Mr. Walter!! Runciman, President of the Board of Trade announced in the House of Commons to-day that, owing to the congestion of business in the House, the Government proposed shortly to introduce a bill in the House of Lords with a view to facilitating the continuance of re- search by the Association of Br- The Association suspended wor recently owing to lack of funds.
On the arrival of the P. & 0. Sirdhana from Calculta on Wednes day, a Chinese woman diserabarkod ar was waiting for a motor-boat when a coolie came from behind and snatched a gold bangle from the child she was carrying on her back. COLONEL KILLED, BY BOAR tish Rubber Manufacturers.
The coolie was arrested and charged before Mr. Butters at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with the theft.
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It was stated by Inspector Roze- skwy that when the complainant felt ning she turned round and saw the defendant. She caught hold of his arm as he was still tugging at the child's wrist, and later handed him over to the Police. Giving evidence, complainant said there was a large number of people on the wharf at the time. She was certain that it was defendant who natched the bangle because she caught his arm. The bangle was not recovered.
DEATH STRUGGLE IN THE JUNGLE
Calcutta, Mar. 18.-News reach. ed Calcutta to-day of the death in hospital in the Central Provinces of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Sey. mour, King's Royal Rife Corps (retired), as the result of being gored by a boar.
Colonel Seymour was visiting India on a shikar expedition. He missed with: bis first shot, the boar charged, and Colonel Seymour, Evidence contradictory in some tripping over creepers, was nevere- respects to that given by complainly gored in the abdomen. ant was supplied by another wo man passenger, who was fiot sure where defendant was standing...
His Worship gave the defendant the benefit of the doubt, and dis charged him.
$500 HAUL AT MONKOK
KNITTING, FACTORY
BURGLED
One of the most daring burglaries committed in Kowloon for several months past took place at the Sun. Ka Ting Knitting Factory, 218, Chung Chơi Street, Mongkok, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Although there was d watchman on the premises, the men forced at entrance at about 3 a.m. and stole a large quantity of aloth
The boar was killed by Colonel Seymour with a second shot with the right hand while his left was gripping the animal's throat.
Colonel Seymour, whose home is at Alresford, Hants, was 10 years of age and was the eldest son of Lord Albert Seymour, second son of the fifth Marquess of Hertford He was educated at Charterhouse and joined the 60th Rifles in 1897. He served in India, in the South African War, and in the Great War, in which he was wounded twice and awarded the D.S.O. He retired ten years ago.
BRITISH RAILWAYS
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A turn of the travelling public towards the railways is suggested by the figures for last December, issued by the Ministry of Trans-
the groperty stolen were fifty-one dozen singlets, fifteen dozen pairs of shorts and a large number of stockings. It is believed that the thieves, who must have taken a con- siderable time to sooure all the property and convoy it from the premises, were seen by a pedestrian, who informed the Police. Within port. twelve hours of the robbery, two Chinese youths, Ng Chung Kau (17) and Lai Kai (19), both unemployed and of no fixed abode, were arrest od on a charge of breaking into the factory. The case will be heard be ford Mr. Butters at the Kowloom. Magistracy this morning I
The total of passenger journeys (excluding season ticket holders) taken in Great Britain in that This is an month was 95,037,804, increase compared with December, 1031,
S 001,428, or 1:0 per cent. Journeys at reduced fares m creased by 2,480,194, but those at standard or ordinary fares decreas
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A cargo_coolie was removed to the ed by 1,488,00 Receipts fron pas Kowloon Hospital with a wound in
engers (excluding season holders) decreased by £19,321, or
the leg on Wednesday. It was later 0.3 per cent
learned that his alleged assailant, was a woman with whom he quar- Freight train receipts amounted relled while they were working on to £8,123,588, a decrease of £300, -
lighter at the Kowloon Godowns. 078, or 5.7 per cent.
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