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the Colány. Of canditates there would be no laok and, what is more, ability to serve the publië
| LET TIME THAT MAKES YOU would, we are sure, not he waRE HOMELY, MAKE YOU BAGE ing. The time will no doubt | Parnell, ~ come whon some such measure of constitutional reform will be granted..
The weather forecast up to noon to-morrow is: East winds, mode rate; overcast, rain,
DEATH OF MR. A. J. W. HOY.
A POPULAR KOWLOON
RESIDENT.
MINERS REPLY.
A RATHER NEGATIVE ATTITUDE,"
London, April 13, It is with very sincere regret
The Miners' Executive spent that we have to announce the nearly four hours in drawing up death, which took place at the a reply to the Coal Commission's Kowloon Hospital in the early recommendations, for submisalon hours of thla murning, of Mr. A. to the coal-ownere, " J. W. Hoy, the Resident Engineer of Holt's Wharf, Kowloon,
In the meantime, If the oppor tunities for activa participation in
The P. & O. a.s. Devanha, which foft Shanghal at 4 p.m. Voster the affairs of the Colony are few, day, la duo here on Friday at
The reply, which, like the coal- there is considerable scope for noon.
owners' proposale, examines each The and news will come as a recommendation, says that no wage useful work in the Residents' Áš.
The P. and O... Kashgar shock to his many friends, for he is acceptable which does not pro- sociations, of which three now left Singapore on the 13th: Inst. was in his usual good health until vide at least a wage sufficient to exist bero. The Kowloon Resi- at 9.30 a.m., and is due here at tracted a chill. This later develop The miners entirely disagree with about a week ago, when he con furnish a decent living standard. donts Association has a na hoon on Saturday.
ed into pneumonia in both lungs the suggestion that districts should {LET *PHOMENE' BE YOUR record of public service behind it,
Command Orders state that and he was taken to the new Kow-settle the minimum percentage, and whilst the Mid-Levels Associa-Liput, Col. S. B. Smith, D.S.Oloon Hospital on Friday last, opine that the national bodies are |GUARD AGAINST · FIRE ↑
tion, although still in its infancy, O.B.E.; S.M.O., has returned from where, despite careful pursing, he fully competent to deal with the Many a serious outbreak of first has quite justified its creation. inspection duty in North China. pain away at three o'clock the wage agreement question on
be avoided if the necessay
morning.
uniform basis. They do not con equipment is at hand to cope The Peak Residents Association
The late Mr. Hoy, who was 40 sider the suggestion for redistribut The health return for yester with the outbreak in its early has latterly not figured so pro-day shows two Chinaas Osses of Years of an art came to the Taring the total weekly number of stages.
minently as it did some two small-pox (imported). and one Funnel line steamers, and about tical, and disapprove of the sugges- East as an engineer in the Blue hours over five days a week prac Phomemo' proteots life and pro- youre ago, but wo
are glad Portuguese imported case porty; is easy to operate; does,
acariat fever. not injure papers or fabrics and to see that there is to be a
gineer at Holt's Wharf. He had tien to compensate the present the cost is insignificant.
further general, meeting of that The rainfall for the 24 hours en Engineer in Charge for some owners of minerals, except those Your inspection of Phomene'
Mr. Hoy did not take any pro-
press willingness to consider tho the British Fire Extinguisher is organisation on the 26th instant,, ended at 10 am. to-day was 1.55-time past. Of a quiet disposition, who purchased them. They ex- cordially invited.
inch. The total since January minent part in public affairs, but suggestion of multiple shifts and for the election of officers. Inst. is 16.51 inches, against an he was a keen and prominent Free consider that both sides should at the past, Mr. E. B. C. Hornoll, the average of 8,24 inches.
mason. At the time of his death, the eariest possible moment, energetic' Hon. Secretary, has
Surgeon-Lieut. R. M. Finlay- he held the high position of Wor formulate a national agreemont, son is on the way to China to shipful Master of the Zatiand whereby the minimum percentage join the Tamar at Hongkong, and Lodge (625 E. C.) and was also J. can be determined. will resume duty at the Royal Warden of the Eothen Mark Lodge; of the Victoria Chapter; Junior Naval Hospital, from the date of
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HONGKONG.) " |16-17, Connaught Road Central.
DEATH:
HOY-At Kowloon Hospital, on April 14th. A. J. W. Hoy, Resident Engineer, Holt's Wharf, Kowloon,
and Worshipful Master of Zet land Lodge, 525 E.C.
MARRIAGE.
joining.
"
of
Proporty situated at No, Conduit Road, which was put up at Mesers. Lammert's Auction Rooms yesterday was withdrawn, no bid having been received over the opening price of $45,000.
eight years ago was appointed en-
a member of the Masonic Beuevo-
lent Find Corporation; and District Grand Junior Deacon, of the District Grand Lodge of Hong-
kong and South China.
A DEADLOCK.
Later. A conference between the coal- owners and the miners' Executiva on the owners' proposals has ended in a deadlock with no reported.-Reuter,
progress
A sad circumstance of Mr. Hoy's
CAUSE OF DEADLOCK. death is that Mrs. Hoy and their little five-year-old boy went Home
London, April 18. on holiday about two months ago, Though nobody expected the and intended staying there until owners' and miners' standpoints to joined by Mr. Hoy Inter, Much be easily reconciled, a deadlock at sympathy will be extended to Mrs. this early stage of the regola
tions came as a surprise. · Hoy in her sad bereavement.
The funeral takes place this evening, the cortage passing the Monument at five o'clock,
It appears from a statement issu ed by the owners to-night that the
breakdown was mainly due to divergency of methods in fixing the
done much hard work under the auspices of this Association, for the formation of which he was largely responsible, and he has had the support of enthusiastic officers. It is to bo hoped, there. fore, that there will be a repre- sentative gathering at the forth coming meeting. The Association has performed most useful work in connection with such matters as
The Brunswick House ask us the Peak Hospital, children's to state that the letter on the playgrounds, lighting, ronde, edu- Sanitary Board election, signed cation, means of communication, "Brunswick," which appeared ia our issue of yesterday, did not etc., and it will have an equally originate from that establishment. The wedding will take place at useful future before it, provided
St. John's Cathedral at 3 residents give it their support and The 23rd Heavy Battery of the p.m. on Tuesday, April 20, of officers can be found who are relieving the 25th Battery in when two cargo coolics were ed the owners for a table of figures
Royal Regiment of Artillery is A formal romand was given minimum wage. The miners press.. "Mr. S. B. Tan, son of the late willing to do their bit. It is for Hongkong during the trooping charged before Mr. E. EL Lind which they proposed should con
Mr. and Mrs Tan Cheng- tuan, of Singapore, to Miss reasons such as these that we season 1926-27. The 23rd are sell this morning with being institute, the minimum in various Elizabeth Wong,
eldest hope to see all the Colony's Rasi- coming hero from Malta, and the possession of six Mauser pistols, districts, but the owners insisted daughter of Mr. and Mrs.donts' Associations continuing to
25th are destined for Singapore. 15 magazines, 380 ammunition that this was a matter in the first J. M. Wong, Hongkong.'
clipe and 4,648 rounds of ammuni-place for district consideration. Friends are invited to be carry on the excellent work to Commander H. F. B. Handloy tion. This is the sequel to a It is believed that Mr. Baldwin, present; also at the reception which they have put their hands, is to assume command of the sensational seizure made in the who has been following the nego- after the ceremony, at the knowing that their efforts are of an early date, in rolief of Com-week-end.
sloop Magnolia, China Station, at harbour by the police over the tiations closely will intervene Chinese Merchants' Club, China Building,
public value and are appreciated mander H. B. Robinson, D.9.0., by the authorities. Later on so Commdr. Handley was recently doubt, the scope for interest in an executive officer at Valetta,
Malta. municipal affairs will expand, but meanwhile there is much work lying ready at hand for those who have the well-being of the Colony at heart,
The Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1926.
PUBLIC SPIRIT.
The Shanghai section of the Italian Fascists invited all mem- bere of the Italian community and friends to attend a solemn Te Deum at St. Joseph's Church, Rue Montauban, on Monday to celebrate the escape of the Italian Premier Mussolini.
[quiakls-Retzer.
The Very Idea!
As the commercial traveller Captain Frank H. Newcomb, took the menu card he looked up U. S. N., retired, New York, was pleasantly and quite respectfully reported as missing. He returned at the pretty waitress.
In one day explaining that he and: "Warm day, isn't it?" he re- his wife recently moved to a new marked.
apartment and he was unable to
the liar's closet,
*
Dictator as President,
Regrettable as it was in some
One of the most interesting items of news received here yes- At a meeting of the Council of respects, the Sanitary Board elec- terday was that telling of the the Royal College of Surgeons, on tion hold on Monday had this success of General Pangalos in March 11th, the diploma in value that it served to demon-the election be has permitted for Tropical Medicine and Hygione Yes, it is," she answered, stiffly, remember the address when he be
the Presidency of Greece, for it was conferred on L. T. Yin, M.B., and so was yesterday, and my came separated from his wife by strate the existence of consider is the culmination of one of the B.S., Hongkong, who was a candi- same is Ells, and I know I'm the sudden closing of the door of able civic spirit amongst the most intriguing political experi-date from the London School of peach and have pretty blue eyes, an elevated train. He said he various sections of the comments of modern days. Like Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. and I've been here quite a while went to a hotel for the night and and like the place, and I don't then found af new address from munity. In view of the fact that Signor Mussolini, General Fan-
galos is a Dictator, largely of his In the case which came before think I'm too nice a girl to be the mail carrier. ratepayers hore have so few own creation, and this election the Chief Justice yosterday, in working in a restaurant; if I did opportunities of exercising the for the Presidency is the bridge which Ng Luan sued the Hop I'd leave my job. My wages are The richest ecclesiastic in the francise, it would not have been he has constructed by which heYick Investment Co, and Wong satisfactory; and I don't know if
can return from dictatorship to Po-keung and Wong Fu-kwok, there is a show or dance in tour. British Isles probably is Dr. B. J. surprising if very few people had constitutionalism. He recently judgment was entered for the to-night, and if there is I shall not Plunket, who recently resigned on taken the trouble to go to the reformed the Greek constitution plaintiffs for regission of the con- go with you, and I'm from the account of ill health as archbishop pool Indeed, from the inade- on the American model, giving tract and for payment of $30,000, country, and my brother le donk in of Meath, Ireland. He has inherit- quacy of the arrangements made, tivo powers of an American Pro- costs.
the head of the State the excou-with interest at 8 per cent., and this restaurant, and he weighs 200 ed property valued at $4,000,000 pounds, and last week he nearly under the will of his aunt, Lady it sooms that official opinion in-sident and making the Senate and
killed a customer who tried to make Ardilaun, widow of Lord Ardilaun, clined to that view. But in the Chamber purely legislative-
The War Office announces that love to me. Now, what will you & member of the Guinnes family, actual fact there was a big rally own plection as President and K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.0, the fam
bodies. He has now socured his Major-General Sir John Fowler, have?"
Too man dropped buck limply in ́ ́ ́A bad memory is the skelton in of voters so large that i con-can take up the reins of governous Director of Signals with the his chair, siderable proportion wore unable ment with powers almost British Armies in France, and "I'm not very hungry he said. to exercise the privilege by reason as Dictator, but with the added has been promoted to the rank of will do."
aquivalent to those he
had more recently G.O.C. in China, "A cup of coffee and a sandwich Some Place Else is the spot of the fact that the presiding sanction of constitutionalism. " Lieut.-General, in suecession. tö officials could not keep pace with One may be permitted to doubt just General Sir John P. du Cane,
how far the election was a free K.C.B., promoted. the demand for voting papers.
one, and whether any elcated body This anxiety on the part of thein, Graece will over be given the public to take an active interest wide powers of, the American
Hongkong passengers on the in public affairs must be regarded Senate, but General Pangaips has &0. ss. Kashgar, due to ar- East London policeman, of a
shown a way to Dictators that rive on Saturday, include Mr. reveller-He stood in front of a Headline in the Salt Laka as a gratifying sign, and we are they may be pleased to fellow. It and Mrs. S. W. Cressey, Mr. Allan sandwich, shop window singing; Tribune, convinced that if the elective has to be admitted that Parlia Chapman, Commdr. F. C. Darley, "When you and I were seventeen."
mentary institutions have not N., Mrs. S. Eccleshall and child, Prisoner, smiling-I must have Scientists in Denmark are amaz- principle were extended to some worked well in Latin countries, Miss A. M. Gubbins, Mr. I. N. thought they were railway stationed at the attainments of Bengt of the seats on the Legislative partly owing to electoral laws and Murray, Mr. J. S. Macdonald, Mr. sandwiches.
Stroemgreen, 16, son of Professor Council, it would be all to the partly owing to reasons deeply J. B. Newton, Mr. R D. Read,
Ellis Stroemgreen,, director of Lieut. R. H. Ryan, Mr. N. H. benefit of the Colony. We do not embedded in the Latin character. Ross, Lieut. R. Todhunter.
Copenhagen's astronomical obser vatary. The boy has constructed. desire to see any fundamental and Italy-not Fascists by any Thoughtful men in Franco, Spain
change in the Constitution of the means-haye contended that ·A· melodramatie thriller, en
an electrical apparatus which auto matically registers movements of Colony, feeling certain that de. Parliamentary politics on the titled "Wild Oranges, is being British model have always been scrooned at the Queen's Theatre,
Dorothy Butterfield, 9-year-old the stars, thus saving astronomers long and patient watching through spito its drawbacks in some hybrid growths in countries in which the leading parts are skater, has been suspended as an the telescope, regards, the Official majority whose contributions to European taken by Frank Mayo and Vir amateur by the committee of tho plan is the one best suited to the olvilisation have been made ginia Valli. It is noteworthy for London Skating Association.
under stern Caesarjan systems, good acting and effective settings, case will be reviewed again next peculiar situation existing. But The difficulty has been to find an but those are worthier of a better season. It is charged she received nieco before, have you if some of the members were effective alternativo, and it may theme, There is also a British pay for a demonstration at a fair Guest. "No, Charming girl". - elected by popular vote, the be that the Greek General bus new film and a Buster Brownrecently
doar, but a triffar gone a long way towards comic. From to-morrow to Satur change would, we feel convinced, solving this philosophical pro- day The Last Laugh will be Some people are finished singers, Men have to speculate: an to work to the general advantage of blem. Strange, but, perhaps, true. Iscreened.
knees and Bars.
where we all desire to be-antil At an Oxford Town Hall con we get there. And then we want. cert, £16 taken in a silver collection to be some place else, Included 600 threepenny pieces.
Sister got a shingle, then
Mum followed in a hurry. Father's hair has vanished, so He doesn't have to worry
and some ought to be
Her
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