THE STAR.
Nicola's New Act.
Nicols introduced a number of
lo Been
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Two New Bills for Thursday.
THE HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH;
RESTAURANT WORKERS.
Guildsmen Charged With Threatening Waiters.
were
now mysteries into his pro The Legislative Council meats
At the Magistracy yesterday gramme at the Star Theatre last on Thursday. The Onters of tho
afternoon, six members of the night. Bis triumph was his great Day aro
Chow Lau Kung Wai (the Res hypnotlo scene. The curtain rises First reading of a Bill intituled (taurant Workers' Guild) and thore, suspended in mid air. An Ordinance to amend the Crown charged before Mr. J. R. Wood a lady stretched out Rights(Re-entry) Ordinance, 1870. with assaulting and using threats lengthways. By means of a wand First reading of a Bill intituled against two waiters, named Ho and a hoop Nicola shows that she An Ordinance to authorize the AP Tin and Wu Hing at Belcher is neither resting on anything nor propriation of a Supplementary supported by wires, nor in any Bum of One million ve hundred Street, to hinder them in their work. Both eqmplainants are way kept in the air by means of and sight thousand five hundred any material force. It is, as Nicola and ninety-four
Dollars and employed by the Tai Tuen re- staurant and belong to another describes it, "a veritable master-seventy-eight Cents to defray the guild, known as the Lo. Chi Lucn piece of magic." Nicola is now Charges of the year 1922 presenting his famous crystal gez- Second reading of the Bill ing act.
Cards and envelopes intituled An Ordinance to provide for the carrying on of the work formerly carried on" by certain
Outhoing his case, Mr. Webster German socleties and persons in anid it was a Guild dispute. Oo the Colony of Hongkong, and to the 19th., after delivering food to deal with cortain properly formerly held or administered by, or used in connection with the work of such societies and per- sons in the Colony of Hongkong and to provide for the control of the persons by whom the said work in to be carried on.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
Of Whi.
Mr. R. E. A. Webster appeared | for the complainants and Mr. D). McCallum for the defence.
house at Catohick Street, com-
plainants were returning to the restaurant when they came scrose: a crowd outside the offices of the first named guild" at Belcher Street. Both complaitaats were seized, thrown on the ground and Bavaulted. They got up and "ran sway. During the assault one mas in the crowd was benrd to incite the others.. to fight the complain ants. He said Strike them. They are not members. Even if we are It was surprising to find mem arrested we will be fined only a bers of the Standing Committee few dollars." In consequence of which is considering the Housing a report from the complainants, Bill ao heterodox on the subject detectives visited the premises f of baths and bathing. Captain the Chow Lau Kung Wui and there Wedgwood Bena complained of arrested all the defendants. After an smoodment that it contained investigation they were released as no provision for a fixed bath, the Inspector was not satisfied which was a réquisite of decency. with complainant. statements. This is, of course, the orthodox Next day, as a result of representa“ opialon. But a storm fell on Captions made to the Secretary for tain Benn. Mr. Lorden said many Chinese Affairs, the police were bouses could not be converted asked to re-arrest the defendants. into flats if a fixed bath was made Five of them were found on the necessary. Colonel Newman de-Guild premises, the other later clared that our grandfathers of the giving himself up at the Police middle class only wasbed twice in Station.
Mr. Webster said there had been are handed round amongst the their lives-once when they were audience, and those wishing for born and again when they died, ill-feeling between the two guilda The Lo answers write their questions. the process in both cases being io of restaurant workers. There are placed on a table; voluntary. Major Malone hold Chi Luen Oi Wai was formed while Nicola with his crystal, that a bath was not a necessity after the unsuccessful strike of gives the replies. Last night but a luxury, and that some of the restaurant there was no lack of eager ques- most healthy people did not wash tioners, and the turn received ajat all. And so on. Such a debate very hearty reception. The is not reassuring to believera in popular Dainty Dares turnish by glenic progress. some rew songs and dances)
Nicola crystal-gazing.
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workers organised by the Chew Lau Kun Wai which resulted in many members of that Guild being thrown out of employ ment. The new guild was formed by the restaurant keepers for the+ which they present with their The Trustees of the British benefit of both employers and em.. accustomed charm, and Ratdolph Museum, having a large colployees who were specially engaged: Wagner gives some newlightening (ection of duplicate silver coins from Canton and other places to sketches with coloured crayons to dispose of, decided that they break the strike. After the strike which are very cleverly done.
TO NICOLA.
I wonder how it really feels To hang suspended by the beets Like Nicola?
I think that I should give up
hope
When bound about with coils
rope;
But Nicola
of
Just gives a wriggle and he's
free,
It must be awfully nice to be Like Nicola:
He knows that his uncanny
tricks
Will get him out of any fix- Doos Nicals.
I'd like to paint the city red But for the bobby's heavy
tread,"
While Nicola
Can do just as he feels inclined. No cell can hold, no chains con
bind
Friend Nicole.
A pair of handcuffs more or less Cause not the least uneasiness To Nicola:
He winke en eyelash and behold No fettere made can ever bold Old Nicola
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And then I wish I knew the
knäck
Of putting peaches in a sack Like Nicola.
I'd take ono bome and let her When there was no-one else
out
about;
But Nicols,
Unselfish, lets the beauty go To oharm each person in, the
show:
And Nicola
In fifteen reconds' time is found Inside the back when it's
bound
Is Nicela,
should be sold at Lucerne by a it was agreed by the leading res foreign firm. The attention of taurants, thirteen in number, not the Financial Secretary to the to engage any member of the Chow Treasury was called to the pro-Lau Kun Wui unless be disassociat., posal. There is an international ed himself from the guild. The market in Lucerne: such is the Tai Yuen restaurant, however, decision went further and refused to ecgage! explanation of their given by the Trustees. A numny one who had been a member ber of members of Parliament of that Guild.
A PUZZLE A DAY, `
concerned with museums have After bearing the evidence the been inquiring whether provincial Magistrate discharged all the de- museums have been given an op. fendants. portunity of securing these du. plicates. Many of them would be glad to obtain the coins, and it has been urged that the pro- viacial centres contribute to the upkeep of the British Museum. Tho Natural, History branch of the British Museum gives its. duplicates to local museums, and Eome think this a better pro- cedure than to offer them for sale by Auction on the Contient on June 18, the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo,
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Yesterday's answer:
"Above are shown 13 vertical lines. If 13 more straight lines are added, the lines may be form- While the, Chinese newspapers od into a word of nine letters, continue to publish details about that signifies a tribe of men. The the Presidential Election, and lines are shown in three rows carefully estimate from day today merely to conserve space, as they the numerous oros:currents, they will form one single word. fail to understand or mention the
The grocer had 39 egge. He fact that the office of President of China bas simply become a prison sold balf (19 1-2) plus half an egg: for the leader of a group, a prison (making 20) to the first customer. out of which the nation's nominal This loft him with 19. Half of Head never issues except as thess, plus half an egg (9 1-2 pius | fugitive, or a corpse. That is not 1-2) went to the second customer, putting the case too strongly, leaving him nine eggs.. Hall of however disagreeable it may these plus balf an egg (4 1-2 plus. sound, says the Far Eastern Times.1.2 equals 5) went to the third It shows how little difference there customer, which left him with is between the last century of the four eggs which were sold to the Manohus and the first decade of last customer. the Republic. Trom Yuan Shih-
kai down to Li Yuan-hung, which
THE OLD STYLE OF means five. occupancies of the CEMENT BIFOCALS. Presidential Chair, no single Pré- sident has understood that the with their disfiguring and annoy- ceremonial part is little or nothing ing dividing line has been sup- un-in a Republic, and that the essence planted by a new lens with two is having the people's eupport. foci called Kryptok invisible Personal contact is the only way bifocal lens. The upper portion of getting support, in China as in of the glass for distance and the every other country in the world. lower for reading, ground from one single piece of glass. The Hongkong Optical Co., "succes. PASSENGERS ARRIVED. sore to Clark & Co, refracting and manufacturing opticians the
Oh, what a life that man must
lead:
He's all that any man can need! Has Nicola!
Suppose be's got a dreadful
thirst,
Per se. Soudas, July 7-Lient. most competent optical manu- He doesn't have to cash up first, K., H. Weeden, Mr. and Mrs. H. factueing establishment in the Not Nicola,
Dimelows, Miss K. Dimelowa, Miss colony-ocated in 53, Queen's He simply looks inside his hat P, Dimelowa, Miss K. C. Elder, Mr. Road Central, manufacture, this And finds a bowl of wine in that, L. Dyson, Mr. King Van Pow, Mro. kind of invisible bifocal lens an Does Nicole! There's nothing in the world ho Graham Brown, Master Graham all prescriptions in either regular
Brown, Mr. Wang Fee Ching, Mr. or Toric forms.
feare:
And then the girls, they're per- Ng Ek Chel, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
fect deare- Oh Nicola!
Wallen, Mr. E. J. Carroll, Mr. E.
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