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Another week's adjournment has been ordered in the ease in which Kunda Singh, an Indian watchman employed by Messra. Whiteaway, Laidlaw and Company, at their
The Christmas and New Year Store at Des Voeux Road Central. is charged with assaulting a 17-anti-Christian demonstrations at your-old Chinese boy, on the night Nanning and other West River towns were the largest and of the 8th.
nolsiest yet seen, writes the Telegraph's Nanning errespond ent. All school pupils and some labour organisations, took part.
It is alleged that the defendant maliciously pushed the boy through a window, opening out on to a lane at the rear of the shop, and caused the latter to fall & s
Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, ar- rived in Rome yesterday from Athens, via trindisi,
Although the visit, during which Mr. Charcill is the guest of the British Minister, is private, his arrival in Rome is warmly wel Reports to date show no bodily comed in the press, which regard students entered the Allian.e Chapel and tore things up badly. They carried away the seats and Axtures, but later these were r turned by the local magistrate's orders.
tance of 30 feet, resulting In in. injury, but at Wang Chow the it as indication of friendliness of
juries, which at one time it was feared, would prove fatal. After a week's stay in Hospital, however, his condition had passed the crili- cal stage, but he is still unable walk.
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When the case came up before Mr. R. E Lindsell to-day, Chief Detective-laspector Murphy said that it would take the best part of another week for the bay to recover sufficiently to attend the Court. The police applied for an- other week's remand, while they agreed to ball of $250 being grant
ed to the defendant.
Al Naam Heung, the raders endeavoured to enter the chapel a New Year's Day, but as the doors
were barred, they conlented them- selves with pelting the place with stones and tearing down the sign.
board.
The New Year's celebration at
Nanning was the biggest ever seen
and fachided theatricals and lan-1 tern processions at night. The
Anglo-Italian relations,
Mussolini yesterday and had a Mr. Churchill called upon Signor
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VERÐI LETTERS.
AN INTERESTING PUBLICA 'TION.
. Vienna, December 1.--The Zsol
Replying to a remark from the Bench, Mr. Murphy said that this Speeches had to do with the vicnny Verlag has just published a amount was sufficient. Bail was tries of the evolutionary Armies remarkable collection of letters by granted and a week's remand or.and the golden ora just dawning Verdi. Franz Werfel, an enthu- I
dered.
"HANOI" PIRACY.
-POSSIBLE" EXTRÁNITION
CASE.
Extradition of the defendant for trial by French Court, in Indo-China or Kwang-Chow-Wan, which places are included in the itinerary of the vessel involved, was indicated by the Magistrate when a man was brought up on
on China. The. Labour Uniona
their
wery much in evidence, and all siastic admirer of the cumpliser, branches seemed to be well re-his edited it and written an inter- presented. The speeches were esting proface, while Paul Stefan. loud in the favour of Communism, and the participants constantly the Vienna critic, his nade, the yelled "Down with Capitalism and translation. The letters present' imperialism." There was also a highly characteristic self-por contingunt of villagers wito wetp yelling for Communism and thetrait of Verdi' as man and artist. abolition of land rent. They Both as composer and family were especially loud in
man he was strong, self-willed and denunciation of the local official for upholding some of the land-severe, hardly ever making com-'
urds in the collection of oven a promises, but he
never wronged whole the celebration was orderly cond time he wrote to his former" Foduced land rent. Taken as a anyone. When he i married a se-
remand this morning, on charges The New Year was brightened father-in-law in a very decided arising from the recent piragy of by presence in port of two the French coaster Hanoi. " Customs Commissioners-Mr. Carl one,"telling him that there was un Chief Detective-Inspector Mur- | Ma Petterson, whe was just reason for reproaches of any kind, phy regretted that he had no in leaving for Peking and Mr. Horatio since he (Verdi) proceeded accord- Hawking, who just arrived from
ing to his own conscience, knowing Mr. Lindself said that apparent-Shanghai to take over the post. ly there was some iden of the mua
Dr. II. Lechmere Clift has been that he was in the right. He was being extradited.
spending a few days at his hospital very proud, too, of refusing an in Nanning; planning for further order high distinction conferred improvements and advances as the
on him by the Ministers of the In- times permit. He made the trip by the way of Lung Chow, where terior and Education, because the Mrs. Clift, who had accompanied Ministry some years before täd | him from Hongkong, stopped to said that do real opera had been visit the little Chinese orphans to whom she has doroted so many composed since the time of Rus- years of service.
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The Chief Detective-Inspector said that as far as their Court was concerned, the ship was expected to return here on Thursday and would again sail within two days. That left them with very little time to carry on with the evidents. and in so far as this evidence would be useful on the charges raised, it would be given by two
From those letters and sees how
Los Angeles is no used to "talk- witnesses from the steamer, in ad- dition to formal evidence of the
I wonder whether the new shade hard Verdi worked as a musician ing big and thinking big" that we
must make allowances for the gu-of brown, now so popular with the commission of the piracy and mur-
and at his librettist's books of
thusiasm that long prompted the undergraduates at the University- de of one of the guards. He did
worda, never giving in to the taste ekim that she had the largest oak of Oxford, which I would term not know if his Worship would
of the public, but taking his own tree in the world, 37ft, din. round cinnamon, will be generally taken consider putting the case over for the next voyage, for he was given
ling and insisting on what he re-the trunk, says the Daily Mail.up as the popular colour for coun The meathly meeting of the quired. Thas the reader gets an to understand that none of the
It is highly probable that the try or plus four suita. Crown advocates would attend,
Kowloon Residents' Association
Certainly it is already the colour insight into the creation of "Aida," measurements of California's lar- owing to work at the Criminal was held last week. Sessions. In their place the A letter was read from the "Macbeth" "Traviata," "Othelin. Best eat have been far exceeded by at both Oxford and Cambridge. those of numerous British oaks, Not only are sports suita being Director of Criminal Intelligence Colonial Secretary, in reply to one "Falstaff," ete. After seventy, he such as Damory's Oak, near Bland-made from it, but I also see it in (Mr. T. H. King) would conduct sent by the Association, stating was, in despair that he could no.ford, in Dorest, which was 86ft. pull-overs, jerseys, and stockings. the prosecution.
The craze
for the diamond round 17ft. above the ground and The case was provisionnily ad-pured to re-open the Kowloon Dis- longer work, but all of a sudden no less than 68ft. round at ground effects in loud designs seems to journed tinturaday morning, pensary in other rented premise inspiration came.again, and as its level.. This monster must have have had its run, and to be giving in the central district. of Kowloon result Othello" and Falstaff," reached its prime about the time way to a jacquard pattern, reduced As the Kowloon Hospital is some.
of the Battle of Crecy. By Oliver down and worked up in two tones "BUSINESS VERY BAD" what difficult of access, and in the with their great success.
Cromwell's time its core had de- of any one colour. Another fea case of accident the delay might friend he was faithful and grate cayed, leaving a hollow 15ft wide ture of the present season is the entall risk to a patient, it was de-ful, and in his last will, apart from and 17ft. high. It was then turn-vogue for knitted wear in dusted cided to request the Government to others, he left legacies to all his ed into an ale shop.
effects The run on blues, browns, reconsider the matter.
and greys, in contrast to the de- signs of other years, is also very atrong.
that the Government were not pre
As a
Viennese friends. He ordered a.
The Clyn Celriog Oak, growing
Chirk Castle, in Denbighshire, had a circumference of 51ft. It must
HARD TIMES FOR HAWKERS.
The China Light and Power Co. "You have got a licence-there is no earthly reason why you has stated that the increase of simple, second-class burial. On on Mr. Bush Baker's estate, ncar should not have renewed it," said voltage will be carried out "with-that occasion the tremendous Mr. Landsell this morning to an out any expense whatsoever to the crowd intoned a famous song from have been planted in the reign of
As lamps of higher. old Chinese who, charged with consumers."
King Egbert, and was still stand lacking a licence, plended that he candle-power using more current his opera, "Nabucco."
must be used, and on account of could not renew it.
In the summer of 1847 he spent ing in 1810, a thousand years various other considérations,Die" "severn)"weeks in London,"from"
The defendant said times were no
latert
An innovation which will appeal more particularly to English Sportsmen, or fellows living in a rainy climate, is the introduction of a golf gult nude from sunguard
bad that he could not even realise Committee expressed sonte doubt which he wrote some interesting Our famous Fairlop Oak, in cloths or gabardines. I have seen the wherewithal to buy a news to this statement, if the present letters. He complained of the Hainault Forest,, for many cena number worn at Addington, cost per unit is maintained. it climate and the smoke, which túries a picnluking resort for East Huntercombe, and Sunningdale, licence when the old one expired,
was agreed to write to the Com-"choked" him, and called London Londoners, was 181.6in. round; and they have much in their fay- Sergeant. Nolloth: That is true your Worship. Business had been any for some assurance on this the city without the sun.". On though so many ares had beenjour. They are rain proof, they
point.
the other hand, he described it as built-in its cavities that it became drupo excellently, they can be ob very bad, and hawking has not been profitable during the past Committee reported that they had
The Children's Playground Sub-a "magnificent city,"
weakened and split in 1804, reductained in the most unusual colour year. A good number of people interviewed the officials in charge its tremendous size, its wealth, the massive arms.
This is not a city, it is a world: -ing its girth to. 36ft. It hud 11 combinations without being in any way loud or agressive, and they old hawkerg-have been to the concerning the plot of land promisbeauty of its streots, the cican- Hawkers' Office with petitions,
The Duke of Portland's park will make splendid trousers, so ed by the Government in the vicini-liness of the houses-all this is in- at Welbeck Abbey had been the that a man may order a fourpiece ty of Holt's Wharf. The Com- comparable, and you Fined $2. You have got to re-mittee decided to write to the dumb on visiting into the midst of home of several of the greatest Buit consisting of, jacket, waist- new your licence, or else you can-Government, to accept their offer its magnificonee the banks, the oaks in Britain. One of The Twe coat, and plus fours as well as
The Magistrate (to defendant):
not, hawk.
aro struck
Porters had a girth of 38ft, the trousers, thus providing himself and to enquire if the Government docks. Who can resist this na-other of 34ft. The Green Dale with it that will do duty on al- 'HAS WEALTHY FRIENDS. will proceed with the development tion? The surroundings of Lon- Oak in the same park was found most all outdoor occasions. Replying to a plea for leniency of the plot in accordance with the don, the scenery close to it, are
to have a girth of 95ft. 101n. Five from an aged Chinese on account plan, soon as funds are avail- beautiful. I don't like many of miles away, in Sherwood Forest, of his age and circumstances, Ser-able for the purpose. They hoped the English habits, or, rather, they there were spme. 10,000 fine old geant Nolloth, at the Police Court that the planting of the trees this morning, said that the mamight be undertaken at once. who was charged with hawldng.
of 34ft. 4in.
are not it for us Italians. What onks, the king of which had a girth an absurd impression it makes when occasionally the English are copied in Italy!
Caps are again having a revival. The Prince of Wales has recontiv ordered a flat top with rather a large peak, the latter formed from
a material that will not warp in
the rain or break with continual
poultry to the detriment of the New York--Otto Urban. took
It would be interesting to learn wear. He chose a cream groun 1 legitimate business of the loans, detective lessons by mall. He The recent premiere at the State which are to-day the biggest treas with a dark blug and cinnamon was nevertheless able to obtain bought a revolver. Then he shot Opera of Verdi'a "La Forza del in Britain. Some monster Goliathovorcheck. Personally, I think. assistance from some friend or re-himself accidentally, and when he Destino" was a great success. of an oak, well known to local capa are Infinitely superior to the lative, in finding his ball of $25, recovered was arrested for possess. The new book of words by Werfel, countryfolk but never brought to soft felt hat for golfing your Mr. Schofield imposed a fine of ing weapons. Bo he has given which, if one may say no, is up-to-public notice, may well exist in a There is no brim to dap up and $8, which was double the penalty up his correspondence school date, is considered superior to the thicket of one of our old English down and furthermore in rough "Inflicted on a previous occasion.
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