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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1926.
DAY BY DAY.
WE SHOULD ENJOY MORE PEACH IF,
WE DID NOT RUSY QURSELVES WITH THE WORDS AND DEEDS OF OTHER MEN. Jeremy Taylor.".
There was one Chinese case if typhoid fever notified yesterday:
The weather forecast up to neon to-morrow is;--S.E. winds, mode. rates overenst, somo rain.
life, knew of the prodigious work performed by the late Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak in the discharge of his many public duties, and the Colony Is Infinitely the poorer for his passing. There will be none to gainsay that he laboured for the public good strictly in necord with what he saw to be of the greatest benefit. He was typical of the just and fair-minded public men of Britain to whom we as 'n people owe so much. He never descended to axe-grinding and he followed a certain course only because he was convinced of ita.
Lieutenant Commander G. W. superiority for the general good Hobre Smith has been appolyed over the courses proposed by to H. M. S. Moth, in command. others. A champion of equal
The Netherland "Indian Govern rights, and ever jealous of themont has declared Amoy to be an commercial prestige and greatness infected place
Having loft Singapore at 4 pm. on the 25th, the a.s. Jeypore is due here at noon on the 21st instant..
of the port in which he had spent plague. so many years, he was eminently
on account
of
The P and Q. Malwa, which left
BANK NOTE AFFAIR.
HEAVY SENTENCES ON HUNGARIAN OFFICALS.
SOLDIER COMMENDED.
SMART ACTION LEADS TO ARRESTS.
The
.Budapest, May 26, Gunnar. A. Newman was com Sentences of ten yours' penal monded by Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at servitude have been passed on the the Central Magistracy this mor ex-Chief of Police Nadosy andning, for the action ho took when Frince Windischgraetz and two an accident with a car nearly ce years on Geroe, the Adviser to the curred, which resulted in two rection with the forged frane note first defendant was charged with Cartographical Institute in con- Chinese being prosecuted. affair. Two other members of allowing an unlicensed driver to the Cartographical Institute drive a car, and the second was Windischgractz's Secretary, Raba. charged with driving a car with- and other accused have been sen out a licence.. tenced to between 18 months' and one, month's imprisonment.
Barosa, the" Director of the box, said at 4.20 p.m. yesterday he' Savings Bank, and Szoertoye, was coming down Hill Road from Vice Director of the National Béchelor's Fort when he saw car Union, have been acquitted. No. 614 skid on to the pavement at Yn On Terrace.. after which it Reuter
nearly collided with a matshed in which were living two old men. The first defendant was sitting in the back of the car at the time and
APPEALS LONGED.
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Later.
..V
acn-
Gunner Newman, in the witness
Mustard & Co.,Ltd atted to hold the many offices ho Shanghai at 9 pm, on the 25th latences and by the defendants for changed places, and the licensed
Incorporated under the Companies Ordinances Hongkong.
morrow,
did, and there will be more than want, is due here at 6 am. one directorial body in this Colony 16-17, Connaught Road Central which will regretfully miss
help and advice. Added WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT, the worries of
"The marriage" of Miss Alda
to-
his
The closing of the entries in to all connection with the Palace Hotel big business Billiard Handicap has been post- passing through critical times. the nonet until Monday next. work of a public nature which Mr. Holyoak discharged must have
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A Chinese woman was yester. day rescued from the harbour into Shamsuipo ferry in an attempt to commit suicide.
Augusta Franco and Mir: C. A. weighed very heavily at times which she had jumped from tho
Schneider will take place on Saturday, June the 5th. at 3p.m in the Chapel of the Convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor,
No invitu-
The wear and tear of that strenu- on behalf of ous life, mostly
Yesterday Her Majesty Queen
salute in"
Appants have been lodged by the second was driving. Just the prosecution for severér after the mishap, they quickly
a mitigation. Meanwhile all, ex driver drove the car on for a short cept Prince, Windischgruetz, and distance. One of the men In the Nadossy have been Berated-matched, who could speak English,
Reuter..
LIQUOR SMUGGLING.
INTERESTING CANADIAN
House
REVELATIONS.
Ottawu, Mar. 28.
enme out and went with witness to the car. The man asked, the first driver whether he had licenco or not and he replied in the negative.. He then got out and fran away, but witness chased him jand caught him. He handed the man ever to a European sergeant.
Inspector P. Grant explaine that when the one man got out of.....
was later found. the car, the other drove off, but
others, doubtless had much to do Mary celebrated her Afty-ninth auditors engaged by the According to an interica report
Tangshan, Canton.
of Commons" "Customs The first defendant admitted the tions will be subd. but all friends with the rather indifferent health birthday. At noon a will be welcomed at the Chapel which Mr. Holyoak had, suffered honour of the occasion was fired Probe Committee" to investigate charge, and said he did not know liquor smuggling in conpection the other man had not got a The second defendant and to reception afterwards at for severn! years past, and the by the warships in harbour.
with the business of certain Mon- licence. the China Baptist Publication
The Kuomintang has issuvi a Building. Tangshan, thoughi comes that we are ati ra- Sonicly
ther prone to take the public, ser- circular netice to the affect that treat companies engaged, presum said he had a learner's licence, but Canton.
United States, the Dominion has true. vices of our prominent men very the Whampoa Political and Miliably, in the export of liquor to the Inspector Grant said that was not tary Academy will not accept any been defrauded of huge sumu in much for granted.
nore, students for the present. Her in Hongkong there is an inertia, brod of long-suffered res
· THURSDAY, MAY 27 1926
TIME'S HEAVY HAND.
excise taxes. The Auditors found The master of the launch that the incomplete records of one Company showed sale values of Kwang Hip Loong Was
The defendants were Anet $25
mending Gannor Newman, Mr. cachor fourteen days. In com
traint, regarding publie life, and fined $5 or five days for failing to/over $7,000,000 worth, mostly for Lindsell said it was a pity people: very few men indeed are, willing observe the rule of the road in the export "to Mexto via Detroit, and did not always help the police as
to come forward to shoulder the harbour. burden of doing what is needed.
Three cargo bout women were
For the theft of wires from that portion of the Hongkong Hotel now under the builder's hands, two
to fourteen days' hard labour ench, Chinese workmen were sentenced by Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy this morning.
the auditors opine that at least apart of the liquor never. loft Canada and that the Dominion
The hal done
'TO-DAY.
Dollar on demand 2s2:13/16d. Lighting-up
7.01 p.m.
The Viry Idea!
The absence of any direct repre-aummoned af the Marine Court was defrauded of possibly $1,800,- The Commons' Committee is Time hus laid a heavy hand on sentation on the administrative this morning, before Lieut. Com-000 unpaid excise taxeY.
probing further.-Reuter's Ameri too near the foreshore.. They this Colony daring the past two body and the generally, disfran-mander G. F. Hole, for mooring. days by the deaths of the Honchised state, Induces a communal were fined $1 each, er one day car Service. Sir C. Paul Chater and the Hon, laziness regarding public life that imprisonment. Mr. Percy Hobbs Holyoak. The throws a very unfair burden on There life story of Sir, Paul Chater (a the few who are willing. brief outline of which we attempt are just a few men, well-known to elsewhere) cân be said to be the fall, who are of the kind ready to aturg of the rise fute prominence render service if it is found of and commercial greatness of this value, and to men such these
The health return for last week Colony, for his was the financial the community owes much. The
The average man thinks that the to stop students from peeping in a genius which lay at the back of late Mr. Holyenk was an outstand-shaws seven cases of small-pox..
fatal, four chesterfield is just something to girl student's window. No doubt
the police will look into it. practically all flongkong's biggesting oxample of this type. There of which four were
the faith are times when, in the ordinary cases of diphtheria (two fatal), fall back on.
two deaths from rabies, three enterprises, His was
For the first time in the history even in young and difficult days, run of everyday life, much that cases of typhoid fever (non-fatal)
is worthy goes for little else than and one hon-fatal occurrence of at the breakfast table. You said of philately, football is illustrated that saw a future Hongkong as
fcerebro-spinal fever. All were the commanding trade catrepot merely a matter of routine..
takes something, either untoward of South China, a thriving and
bitsy seaport with Docks and in- dustrial enterprises. all flourish ing under the protective hand of
out of the ordinary, to jolt us to the realisation that we
have
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Italian Chinese excepting one' ense of small-pox and one Indign occurrence of typhoid,
The masters of three moto:
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"Blub-blub-blub," said the baby
a mouthful," snapped little brother, on a new
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series of Hungarian stamps. In addition to football, The governor of Constantinople hurdling, diving, skating, fencing has abolished wedding gifts. This and sung are portrayed. is part of a programme to encour-
A Cornishman who swallowed i age marriage and national econo-
Most men know about half as
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been exceptionally well favoured, boats and one steam launch were my. Although gifts are prohibit- collar button has had three opera- Britain and in cooperation and and the passing away of the late summoned at the Marine Court for the mid to matrimony conies tions, all of which failed to locate Sir Paul. Chater and the late Mr.ying outside two others' alongside in the curtailment of expensive it. If this sort of thing keeps up the industrious with *ndwill
he will unaoubtedly have to buy a the s.s. Tai Ping. They were fine 1 festivities. Or three days. The
new one. Chinese, it was that faith which Holyoak has turned our thoughts inspired and directed him into big to the untiring worthiness of two master of another stean: launc business and commercial enter-outstanding personalities, who for was fined $10 or ten days for al
way without
a: certificated prises the success of which has so many years, made it a labour of lowing the Kwong On to be under
love to help shape the destiny and engineer on board. greatly benefitted this Colony. While it is true that he amassed fortunes of this little Colony of great wealth, it is also true that which we all ought to be proud. he devoled it to local purposes, that he was ever a generous benefactor of local charitable and social acti- vities, that he identified himself
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New Cement Apparatus.
A reader has sent us some in- teresting information with regard
to a coment works in England
| cinsely with all that tended for which is stated to be saving from
NICARAGUAN REVOLT.
INFORMAL AMERICAN
INVESTIGATION.
Washington, May, 26.
think they do or about twice as much as they think their wives much as said wives actually give them credit for.
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Her mother told her that if her sweetheart ever started to get aen- timuntal she should immediately sit on him. He did-and she did.
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The vaccinating season is now on in Hollywood and film girls are
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The. "esthetic value of a young woman in France is 100,000 francs, according to a correctional court. A girl, 17, run down by a motor car, received injuries that left her scars on her neck and face, Sho first auet for damages and then her parents sued on their own account for diminished "esthetic value" of their daughter.
Six years after its start, the
ed, containing 400 pages each. Open diplomacy at such a rate is
successful. as to bury itself. only likely to fail if it becomes so
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UNLISTED STOCKS BECOME
LISTLESS
Headlines in the New York Sun.
Willesden Magistrate-What re lation are you to the defendant? Witness Mother-in-law by mar
having a perplexing time finding a League of Nations has registered The Senate Foreign Relations spot on their anatomies which 1,000 treaties. Thirty-five volumes good, and that he gave back to £6 to 210 per day by cleaning the the Colony much.o. that which begases coming from the rotary Committee has directed. Senator won't present the acar for public of them have already been publish-
An old-fashioned girl in film- had earned for himself. That he kilna in which the cement is burn-Borah informally to investigate view.
ed or roasted. It appears that the Nicaraguan revolution, "after was a hard worker all can testify these gases contain a considerabig the Committeeman Mr. Moses de- land is the one who gets vaccinated and that, in his slightly younger amount of dust, and, although clared he was informed that the on her thigh. days he spent much time in work they were formerly passed through American Marine had closed the
Customs office there. Mr. Moses At the offelal opening of the dust-settling" chambers, only 4 ing on behalf of the public weal is small proportion of the dust was wanted to know what had happen- Ideal Home Exhibition Princes borne out, by his record of service | caught, the bulk being carried to fed to the Customs' receipts and he Maric Louise accepted a beautiful detailed elsewhere. It is not the chimney and discharged into also understood that a gun-run- basket of rubber roses,
atmosphere. Apart from creating ning expedition had recently left possible here to pay tribute to all a nuisance to the surrounding New Orleans for Nicaragua. PRESIDENT TO TALK AT CONFERENCE
"Reuter's American Service. he did'or inspired, but Hongkong neighbourhood, it constituted a has lost the most outstanding per, sérious loss of raw material, a point amply confirmed after the
A local option drive has been sonality of its history, the greatest intent form of dust-col-reds of tons of dust are soon col-
Tsarskoe-Selo, once the favourite holiever in its prosperous destiny, lecting apparatus had been lected, the monetary saving being summer home of the emperors and started in Germany. That sounds- It seems correspondingly large. The reader ompresses of Russia, is now a play like a dream. But It is expected and a man with man admirable put into operation."
that prior to entering the sending us this information thinks ground for the children of the to obtain 8,000,000 signatures to qualities worthy of widor omul chimney, the gases coming from that it might possibly be of value Russian masses.
petitions addressed to the Reich atng. It would be, a fine,broad tion.
the rotary kiln are passed through to the local cement company, and
The best way to get people to minded thing if they would include Few of the many people whose the collector, which cleans them states that the new apparatus in
thoroughly and retrieves no less patent dust, collector made by telling you about their children is Limburger cheese in the petition, lot is not cast among those in oil than 5 lbs. of dust per minuto. Davidson and Co., of Belfast, and, bo start talking about your own. The next number on the pro cial places or who do not come with the kilns working 24 hours is applied to the chimney serving
gramme might be a drive against actively within the circle of public a day for months at a time, hund the cement kiln..
garlic in Italy.
OF STATE HIGHWAYMAN Headlines in a Michigan paper. ringe."
Iowa City police have been asked