THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927.
COMPANY RESULTS.
THE STAR FERRY CO.," LIMITED.
The Diructors, will; at the approaching meeting of aharu- holders, recommend the following distribution: »
$120,000.00
FAMOUS SCHOOL- GAMES..
WALKING DANGERS.
PROBLEM OF THE' PEDESTRIAN.
The alarming growth in the number of street casualties wŃS discussed by the London County Council recently.
Sir John Gilbert pointed out that
PLAYING RUGBY AT HARROW. The koen discussion which is The Star Ferry Co., Ltd., an-taking place over the proposal to nounce that the net profit, for the adopt the Rugby game at Harrow year ended 31st December 1926, recalls the Interesting, fact that, is £288.091.02, which together with although Harrow's founder, John $82,234.69 brought forward from the previous year, makes a total Lyon, was the first to emphasise the importance of sport In eduka-. of $271,225.71 available for appro- would have no football, in one year in Greater London 853 priation.
people were killed and there were says a Daily Mail writer.?
He strictly decreed that the play 40.173 accidente which were not The General Purposes fatal. of the boys was to be "driving a top, tossing a handball, running, Committee wished to ask the Min- The shooting (archery), and no other." ister of Transport to convene a
Curiously enough, football was conference on the subject. prohibited in England as early as Safety First Council had done a 1340, because it interfered with great deal for pedestrians by call- Theng attention to the dangers of the practice of archery. sport survived at larrow for some the streets. two centuries, until 1771, when Mr. G. D. Gilbert, who moved the annual compotition for then amendment that the proposed Silver Arrow was abandoned bo-conference be called by the County, cause of the low company it at Council, said he made "no-com- tracted from London.
plaint about motorists in general, but a minority of them mado It The true Harrow football, in-very dangerous for pedestrians to The Diretors of the Hongkongdigenous to the school, has its use the roads. There was that Land Investment and Agency Co.,
Fing own peculiar features, which were type which continually wanted to Ltd, have declared a dividend of $2 per share, This, developed in the days before inter-pass every other motorist on the with the Interim Dividend of $2 school matches, and this applics road. already pald, makes $4 in all for to all the older schools which have the year 1926.
their own game.
Pay a dividend of $1.50 per share, absorbing Pay a bonus of $1.50 per shure, absorb- ing Cagry forward to
new account'
120,000.00 31,225.71
$ 271,225.7 £
Land Investment.
A MEXICAN, “EXECU- TION."
FIVE YOUTHS BRUTALLY KILLED..
Figures for July, August, and September showed, he said, that The Harrow game is played 11-there were nearly three deaths per a-side and the heavy clay fields day as a result of street accidents, help to make it as hard a game as the total being 269 for the three can be found anywhere. The ball months, which was a very large is larger than an Association ball increase over, the figures, in the and it may be handled in certain committee's.report. circumstances when the player
Statisties of accidents that did called "afde," and may run three steps unmolested and then either not prove fatal were worse; dur- kick "Larry" or put him down.ing the three months 26,727 per- There is a modified form of scrum sons were injured in the street, and "bases" are scored by kicking making 2,065 per week, or 298 per
day.
Mexico City, Jan. 14. The newspaper Excelsior, which, 18 hestile to President Culles, re"Larry" between two tall posts.
Eton has two traditional games ports that five youths in the town of Leon, said to be Catholics, had peculiar to the school, the Field their tongues cut out because Game and the famous Wall Game. "Whan in poril they prayed to Here the halls are smaller than God," and then were shot dead. the Association ball and in the The victims were participating Field Game there is no handling. in an open rebellion, but the Bath games are played eleven-a- Federal Government and local sile' three "behinds" and eight authorities apparently were not forwards, four of whom form the connected with the "execution."bully"-a sort of scrum-in the
Reuter's American Service.
RADIO TESTS.
#
HIGH SPEED BY BEAM AND SHORT WAVE.
Admiral Taylor, as the" owner and driver of a motor-car and as one who covered 10,000 miles, a year. in London streets, declared that quite as necessary as regula- tions for motorists. were regula tions for pedestrian traffic. In New York pedestrains crossed the street at main stopping-places and nowhere else, and in congested Field and. five in the Wall Game, London streets it was advisable Winchester and Stonyhurst, not-that some similar system should ably among others, have their own be adopted. traditional games and even Rugby has its "Big Side" game apart from that which gave rise to the present Rugby Union code which has become almost universal at public schools. Eighty-n-side was not uncommon in a "Big Side" game and the present fifteen-a-side game was once commonly played twenty-a-side.
"At the present time pedestrians stepped off pavements just where they pleased and often without looking one way or the other, and thereby did that which was unfair to motor trafic. It needed to be impressed on the pedestrian that when be left his proper place which was on the pavement, a great responsibility rested on his shoulders.
Rugby, Jan. 14. Officiul tests by the British Post Office between aliort wave and Beam wireless stations in England The idea of playing Rugby at and Australia began to-day. For Harrow is not, of course, a new seven hours daily for a week, high one. Inter-school matches have. Breed telegraphic communication necessitated the playing of a by-bear will be conducted over a limited amount of Rugby and Asary tramway-car putting down or distance of 11,000 miles. „
sociation for many years, but the taking up passengers. The police
He would make it an offence for motorist to drive past a station-
The minimun speed of transmis-new and more sweeping proposal were constantly summoning motor- sion each way will be 100 words a minute, but it is expected speeds ex. is bound to rouse the opposition ists for most trivial offences; it. ceeding 300 words a minute will of the very strong forces of tradi- would be better if they prosecuted be attained-British Wireless.
TAXATION AT HOME.
THE, F.B.I' INTERVIEW WITH THE CHANCELLOR.
tion.
BED COMFORT.
ARE WE LESS FASTIDIOUS?
To-day beds are standardised but 20 or 30 years ago quite number of people had their beds built to order big, capacious beds.
for dangerous driving, for this would be a great deterrent.
The amendment was defeated by a large majority, and the re- commendation of the committee, as amended, was passed.
ENTHUSIASM.
dyspeptic
Rugby, Jan. 14. The Federation of British In- dústries decided yesterday to seek an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and urge that the loss of revenue resulting from the coal stoppage should be fe- garded as a capital loss, to be spread over a term of years, and that if an increase of taxation on finding beds to his liking, he A dainty laxative, certain in ac- became necessary it should not said, are the old-fashioned hotels tion yet mild a gentle liver stimu- take the form of direct taxation-in remote places. British Wireless.
- Have ever heard a A. commercial traveller was give three rousing cheery for any- lamenting to me the other day thing? Is the man with a torpid bout the smallness of the beds liver ever au optimist? If your in modern hotels, suga Iome brain is sluggish because of a writer. He is not a big man, but clogged system how do you expect he likes a big, roomy bed, and the to take a real live interest in daily only places now where he can rely affairs?
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lant; Pinkettes will clear your
A bedstend manufacturer with system, brighten your outlook, whom I discussed the subject give new zest to life: Chemists agreed that big bede are no longer everywhere sell Pinkettes, or post PETROL EXPLOSION. in demand. At one time, he said, free, 60 cents per vial, from Dr.
CRASHING GIRDERS CAUSE
FATAL SPARK.
Tampico, Mexico, Jan. 14.
it was common to get orders for Williams' Medicine Co., 60, Kiang- "out-size" beds, but people to-dayae Road, Shanghai.
did not bother much about, com-
fort.
In this era of smaller beds big
men are at a disadvantage when they go away from home. I know
A spark from the crashing to a man about 6ft. 3in. In height who
gether of two steel girders which
seldom takes a holiday because of
were being removed, caused the the discomfort he suffers in trying 'explosion in the petrol tank of the British steamer Essex Isles, to sleep. Thirty-seven longshoremen were
Here and there we come across
killed and the ship set on fire people who are faddy about their Reuter's American Service.
beds. There are the hard-bed nten, unable to sleep in any Bed that is not as unyielding as a piece Mr. Warwick Reynolds, the of pavement. And there is the op- black and white artist, died recent posite, school-the soft-bed on- ly at Glasgow. Aged 46, he was thusiasts, who insist on a soft, horn in London and went to Glas- billowy feather bed in which they gow after having atudied art incnn. sink deeply.
London and Paris. Although he But the most extreme bed fad. specialised in animal studies, he dist I have heard of is a man who was best known as an illustrator can sleep only by compass. He of books and journals. He had has his bed fixed due north an Hiso done some admirable water-south and goes to considerable colours, and the Glasgow Corporn-trouble to see that it is in exact tlow recently bought one of his line with the Poles. At home he works. His unimal etadies wore his north and south marked on powerful and distinctive. He the bedroom walls so that he can' apent much time at the Zoological gleep serure in the knowledge that Gardens studying animals and his bed has not been afiffted a their movements.
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