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GOVERNMENT HOUSE
Sunday, July 28:-
Professor W. L Gerrard, O.B.E.. M.D., left Government House.
Mr. Lawrence Kadoorie and Mr Horace Kadcorte lunched at Gov- ernment House."
Monday, July 29:-
Mr. N. E. Young. M.C.. left Gov- ⚫ernment, House.
Tuesday, July 30:-
His Excellency presided at meeting of the Estimates Com mittee.
Wednesday, July 31;--"
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His Excellency received Lt. Col. W. A. Frost, O.B.E, RAM.C., Army Bacteriologist, who remained to lunch.
Thursday, August 1:-
FROM THE GAZETTE
Appointment Ete
It is notified under the Com- panies (Winding-Up) Orinance that a first and Anal' dividend of $5.90 has been declared in the case of he Kwan Yick Manufac- turers, Ltd
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1935.
THE SEVEN SISTERS
To-day's Festival
To-day is the seventh day of the seventh moon of the lunar cateri、 dar, the Seven Sisters" Festival, when all the Chinese maidens will celebrate in traditional style,; ·
During this festival, the maidens of China usually celebrate by meet- It is natided that the rate for ing together, feasting, eating sea. limewashing in Hongkong and sonable fruits, and exhibiting their Kowloon under By-law of the
"Seven Sisters" shields and de- Domestic Cleanliness and Ventil-llcate specimens of needle-work Boor. for the year starting Octaner shilp. tion By-laws shall be $3.80 per and curlos of exquisite craftsman+
1. 1935.
'Regulations, as to grant, fürfel- ture, restoration and other mat- ters concerning the Efficiency De- coration in regard to the Hong- Corps
His Excellency received repre- konk sentatives of the Press. "
Volunteer Defence issued by the Omcer Administer- His Excellency received Surgeoning the Government with the ap- Capt. G. D. G. Fergusson, M.R.C.Sproval of His Majesty the Knig LR.CP. R.N.. who reinained to
are published in the "Gazette." lunch.
Friday, August 2:-
His Excellency presided at Д meeting of the Estimates. Com-j mittee.
Mr. P. L. Collisso, O.BE., funch
ved at Government House.
心
A NATIONAL FILM
LIBRARY
Nothing is more certain to raise
The Government is inviting ten-
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ders for a heating system for the new Kowloon Magistracy.
The number of emigrants leav ing the Colony for the Straits Settlements during the month af July was 6,829,
It notined that the Hon. Mr.
Many of the 14aldens remain awake until niidnight in the hope of receiving a shower of "white powder (manna from the sky Some also try to thread the needle blind-folded, successful attempt heralding an early betrothai!
Many people frequently store bottles of fresh spring water ob- tained at midnight for medical purposes, owing to its purity and treedom from decay.
ORIGIN OF THE FESTIVAL. According to Chinese legend, it is recorded
that long ago, the King of Heaven lived happily with his sever daughters, and one of them, a very diligent girl, married a poor cow-herd, who was a very
Industrious youth.
For some reason or other, the
R. M Henderson, M.I.C.E. MI-couple grew to be very lazy after
ME., M.LW.E. has resumed duty as Director of Public Works.
their marriage, and this therefore,.,
POPULAR TRAIN INNOVATION
the
The Cheap Fare Expresses
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TWO SISTERS
MARRIED
Pretty Double Wedding
A double wedding was solemised at St. Joseph's Church on Satur- day when two slaters were married at the same time
the
The introduction or the "Champ Fare Express" is meeting with all
support that
required. Large number of people are tra- velling by this special "Express” The two daughters of Captain P. that there is very little doubt as R. Regun, M.B.E, M.My Stores Off- to its resourcefullness. The Cancer of the Royal Engineers, and top Authorities report that the Mrs. Regan-Kathleen Mary (and Chinese in that city are making Elleen Constance — became the full use of it and on Saturday brides of Mr. Alan Popple and Mr. upward of a 1000 passengers took | Harry George Harris respectively at the 7.30 am, to Canton, while a a most unique and colourful cere- number who were crowded out moyn.at. which the Rev. Father had to take the "Fel" about an Riganti officiated. Bour Inter. The booking was su heavy that it had to be closed forty minutes before the departure
of the train.
That this service will be per- mamently established can
be gauged from the fact that the down train. from Canton carried no less than 983 passengers.
Capt. A.D.-Walker, the manager of the Kowloon Canton Railway when seen said that the or- dinary Fel expresses were only slightly affected by this new in- troduction but the "Fel" expresses still carry as many passangers as it did before the "cheap" service
came into force.
aroused the wrath of the good BIG REDUCTION
King to such an extent that ne Anally decided to keep theni apart and let them see each other only once a year, on the seventh day ol the seventh moon.
Afterwards, as the story says, they were changed from their
The Government has accepted forms into two brilliant stars, and tenders as follows.
were separated from each other by the "Suvery River" or the "Milky Way."
a laugh in a cinema than the re-
The "Gazette" contains the draft production o: an early aiman Ordinance to regulate cer- The crudities of the pioneer reels, tain official signatures and to pro- whose action takes place as in a vide for the payment of fees driving rain. are the bea." testl- | therefor. mony "to the technical progress which has been made, while the cld Alms enable Edwardian life to be recaptured with a precision un- known to the author and a fide Illy not given to the raconteur." Manners and modes will doubtless have travelled as far in the nex thirty years as they have done since 1905, and "the Georgians" will soon become rare pieces in the museum of the mind. For this
reason the project, decribed in.an- other column, to form a National Film Library deserves a warm wel- come. The British Film Institute, which is sponsoring the project. looks upon aims as historical docu- ments deserving preservation just as much as the written word. It this view wins' acceptance, then perhaps the time will come when producers will be required by law to deposit somewhere a copy of each film they make. Just as pub- lishers have long been obliged to furnish the British Museum with a copy of every book they issue,
KELY ON GIFTS
-Repairs to G.P.O. 1.-Messrs. Kwong Cheung Hing.
Repairs to "Clayton Barge."- Messrs. Kwong Hip Lung Co., (1932). Ltd
Supplying and laying
wood block flooring at the New Central British Schoul. Kowloon The China Import and Export Lumber Co., Ltd:
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·Supplying `and laying Terrazzo at the New Central British School Kowloon-Messrs." A. Vannini & Co.
New Trattic Quarters at Lowu.- Messrs. Woo Hing.
Buoys. The
Supply of 3 Launch "Mocring Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company of Hong Kong Ltd.
Maintenance of Water Works.- Messrs. Kin Lee & Co.
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Tenders are invited for the purchase of the Old Government Steam Launch HD. 1.
The vessel will be sold as ane, les at the Government Slipway, Yaumnti, with engine and fittings except boller.
The approximate dimensions of the vessel are as follows:—
Length 52 feet 8 inches, Breadth 10 feet 4 inches. Draft 6 feet 4 inches. Sealed tenders in triplicate will be received at the office of the Colonial Secretary until noon Monday. August 19, 1935.
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IN FARES
Cheaper Travel To Shanghai
Both the brides were given away by their father and Mrs. Regan acted as Matron of Honour. There were no bridesmaids and Messrs. E. C. Keen and P. J. Collings acted as "best man" to the respective bridegrooms. 1
Dressed in angel-skin lace with vells and trains, the brides looked very lovely and the Matron of Honour was dressed in a creation of apple-green angel-skin..
hey were pelted with rice, con- As the newly weds left the church
fettl and a colourful background was lent by the pretty dresses of the ladies present, this having a charming effect
THE RECEPTION
After the ceremony "a reception was held at Gloucester Hotel Din- ing: Room which was very taste- fully decorated for the occasion.
There was a very large gathering present including Col. and Mrs Marsden. Col. and Mrs. Fordham. Capt. and Mrs, E. Hague, Mr. and Mrs Plumer and others to offer their felletations
the newly weds.*
to
The toasts to the brides. and bridegrooms were proposed by Coll Marsden and the respective grooms sultably replied.
On the day of days, however,
The Trans-Pacific Passenger they had permission to cross the Conference, consisting of the barrier and meet each other, and American Mail Line; Canadian
Mrs. Harris, who as Miss Elleen It is then that the little maidens Pacific Steamships, Ltd.: Dollar Regan was formerly on the staff of "China offer up prayers and Steamship Lines. Ltd. Nippon of Messrs. Lane Crawford, Ltd., sacritices in the hope that they will Yosen Kaisha; and States Steam-was given a rousing, send-off by all be given good and hard-work-ship Co. have pleasure in an- her many friends in the firm when Ing husbands!-T.S.M. «
nouncing greatly reduced fares she and her husband left the between the ports of Hong Kong Gloucester Building by motor-car. and Shanghai, effective inmediate- A silver slipper was thrown into 17.
the car, while the traditional old Reductions amount to appro-
boots, shoes and tin cans were at- ximately 50 per cent. Fares of altached with due custom. to the classes on all steamers being cat approximately in half,
FLOODS IN CHINA
"For the third time in five years China is threatened by ver floods that sweep the rich and level plains of the north and central provinces on a scale far beyond the measure of foods in Europe and beyond even the imagination of those who know only the tri- vial spillings of Severn, Tweed, or Thames
Those mighty rivers the Yangtze Kiang and the Yellow River admit no ruling. Winding down from the glaciers and mountains of the Tibetan plateau, gaining momen tum on their way through the gorges on China's western fron- tters. they sweep out on to the plains only some 300 feet above the sea that is still many hundred miles distant. Any unusual melt- ing of the snows Dr torrential of rain may cause them ró overflow for hundreds of miles. Moreover, their powers of destruction are Under a proposed amendment Increased by their powers of sup of the Summary Offences Ordin-porting life, for it is just those ance, "It will in future be an fertile valleys that are most offence for any person to
crowded with China's densely (a) send any message by tele-packed population. graph, telephone, wireless tele- In 1831 it was the Yangtze that
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be quoted in United States Cur- In the future, these fares will rency, but payment may be made in. Hong Kong Dollars to current rate of exchange at the time tickets are actually purchased.
these reductions, instances.
As an indication of the extent of are given as follows:
First Class Fares, all steamers, are reduced from HK$130 to ⚫U.S.$45, which fare ät to-day's of exchange is appro- ximately H.K. $88, Tourist Class fares are reduced
rate
from H.K.888 to US. $25, which works out to approximately HK$48, at to-day's rate of ex- change.
Third class 'fares are similarly
reduced,
MARK I. AND MARK II.
There are three Cave-Brown- Caves in the Air Force.
For the present the Institute has a less ambitious aim and will rely upon gifts. It has been fortunate in acquiring such bistorical speci- mens as The Great Train Rob- bery" of 1903, which for years all ed the "nickel odeons" of Amc- rica. But the Institute has also found how easy a famous fil may be irrecoverably lost unless someone makes it his business to preserve it. That is one side of the National Film Library. I will be, a repository from which the past will rise again in the future. The Library is also to be used for the distribution to schools and similar institutions of non-theatrical films used for educational purposes. This object deserves.. equal com- mendation." Neither broadcasting nor the cinema is yet being ade- quately used as an ald 10 educa-
that 2,000,000 people tion. It has been suggested that
were killed either by the rising It is he who has to-day become in this field the Library will cat (b) send by any such means waters or the starvatior which Marshals. He is at present Com across the path of the trade, any message, which he knows to followed their retreat, and some narrow view, be false, for the purpose of caus- 25,000,000 people were affected. by the ing annoyance, invonvqenience or In 1933 it was the turn of the Library, acting as a stimulus to needless anxiety to any oher Yellow River. "China's - Sorrow." the children, will in the long run person; or
and once again the losses were benefit the companies working for
(c) peralstently make telephine enormous when compared with
When Mark II was a profit.
calls without reasonable
anything but, the floods of 1931.
Group This time both the rivers have Captain he commanded the squa- risen simultaneously, and though
dron of flying boats which few there seems no likelihood that tp Singapore and round Austraila.
That would be a The filmy distributed
HARBOUR RESCUE
Τα distinguish them they are
graphy or wireless telephony which flooded-perhaps the most disas known as Marks I, II and III. grossly offensive or of an in-trous food ever recorded. It was Mark. I. is, of course, the eldest, decent, obscene or menacing char- reckoned acter: or
cause and for any such purpose as aforesaid,
Some excitement was caused on month. Saturday night as the 8.20 pm
ferry Solar Star was approaching
the Kowloon side when
an -
The penalty is a fine not ex- ceeding $100 and Imprisonment the floods will be so severe, as in for any term not exceeding one 1931, and though, greater precau- tions have been taken to prevent it, the damage is serious enougn. Already the death-roll is in thou- sands, but mere numbers" mean little. Where China is concerned We are all fatalists by the very Kaaltations of our feelings.
known Chinese male was seen to ITALIAN PLANE, LEAVES
fall into the water,"
but Mark II
the senior in rank.
one of the select dozen Air Vice-
mandant of the R.A.F. College, Cranwell.
Marks I and II are brothers and both started the careers in the Navy."
AT THE REGISTRY
rear render and set up a merry clatter as the vehicle "moved off. The send-off of the other happy couple was
Mr. and Mrs. Popple also being at- tended by the traditonal rites ap- propriate to such an occasion.
no less enthusiastic,
Mi:
and Mrs, Harris left the Colony on Saturday evening for Cheung Chau, where the'r honey- moon is being spent.
SURVEY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
dulgence the House of Com
Sir Samuel Hoare's plea for in-
mons ought to be heard with sympathy.
He has had to plunge into the deep end of the pool for whirl- -pool) or foreign affairs with: no opportunity of wading from the shallows. One may offer him con solation by reminding him that, had he plunged earlier at almost any moment during the past five or six years--he would have found himself in pretty rough waters. For. international relaons rarely as sume an aspect of unruffled calm
Nevertheless our own Foreign Secretary is curiously optimistic.
Roving all over the pacts and that cover the map of the world, agreements, actual or possible,
he still regards the peace problem as one and indivisible; still banks on the collective system; will be- lieves that the League of Nations provides the necessary machinery for that system; still talks of its having been gradually built up "with great care and patience."
Is 10 rop now falling to pieces with great rapidity. We are en- couraged by Sir Samuel Hoare'not to believe that a
What then, of the threatened little war? What of Italy and Abyssinia
Two Chinese couples were mar- ried at the Registry on Saturday. The Foreign Secretary, in the Mr. Wel Wen, or the Sih Nan part of honest broker admits the College and residing at No. 5 Ba- need for Italian expansion, admits bington Path, the son of Mr, Bhu the Justice of some Italian grie King, a retired merchant, was vances against Abyssinia, and then ventures, to ask. Are these things suelent cause for plung- ing into wata
Answer came, there none. And. we are therefore, emboldened to put our! question, which is
his
How can one believe in a lectus raton bellero derided by those who rega as insipid Tual tonic to be taken a
"But for the timely rescue made The giant Alfa Romeo Savola + by Mr. W. E. Feers and a Chinese Marchetts" machine of the Italian seaman the man might have been Air Force took off gracefully from a victim of the sea.
Kal Tak yesterday moming on its kind and size to land in Hong married to Miss King Chuk Yee of the same College and staying at When his plight was known Mr. hop to Matching for a visit to Kong. Peers dived overboard fully clothed, the Italian Mission situated there,
No. 18 Hill Road, top Boor, she is During the week of its stay here the daughter of Mr. King Hon who Despite the man's attempt to carrying as a passenger Captain the three engines of the giant is himself a teacher. The fathers reach a life buoy which had been. Drago Air Attache at the Talan eraft have been given an over of the bride and bridegroom were thrown in his direction the cur Embassy in. China, serta
hauling, the
thoroughness of witnesses at the ceremony rent cafried him away. Eventual- Remaining here exactly a week, which was evident when she took In the other ceremony the con ly, however, Mr. Peers, with the theSavola Marchetts caused
Coff.
racing mules were Mr Les Ban. help of the Chiness seaman, considerable interest, being the Choup Captain Scararoni is in mo, an electrical engineer, of No brought the unfortunate man centre of keen admiration. The command of the plane and 4578 Bonham Road, third floor and aboard in an unconscious condition plane has accommodation for 30 sccompanied by Captain Tondi Miss Daisy Chan King-yue, of No. and was rushed to hospital, passengers, and was
the first of and a crew.
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