LAW OF BORROWING.
LOCAL, RENT COLLECTOR'S -
FONDNESS OF SHOW.
"Making the police collect a civil debt is a practice to be frowned on," said Mr. C.A.S. Rus at the Central Magistracy yesterday In a caso in which a man and woman were charged with obtaining money and jewellery by falsa pre- tences.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
OBITUARY.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1927.
COMING EAST.
SUNNING LEGAL ARGUMENT.
MALAYA'S · FLOODS.
HEAVY DAMAGE AND MANY
DEATHS.
(Continued from Paga 1).
COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
ceremony will be performed by at-law,
Idramatiet and author, was born ing daily.
the
in 1893. He
Singapore, Jan. 24.
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They might
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CORRESPONDENCE.
SCHOOL RESULTS.
[To the Editor of the Hongkong Toldgraph.) Sr-In the correspondence
busses in
MR. PERCEVAL LANDON.
London, Jan. 24,
The Government le continuing The exhibition of work by Miss
The death is announced of Mr.
The Coldstream Guards-One-juided and abetted. to asslat rofugees, who have lost H. M. Gordon, the well known Perceval Landon-Reuter
their all in the disastrous recont of the famous British Foot Guard have had the common purpoad of column of your invaluable paper artist will be opened on Thursday
Mr. Perceval Landon, barrister- floods in Malaya.
Regiments,, of which the Colonel committing the simple act of, many letters have been published at Mussrs. Lane Crawfords. The
apiccia! correspondent Public rellof funds are mount-in-Chief is I.M. the King. The piracy, but not of endangering about school results. I hope you
Regimental Motto is "Null Secun-life. Some have boch, identified will allow me to add a few words... Lady Clementi at 11. u.m.
It is not yet possible to ascor- dus" and the Regiment carries the men who took part in the ran- Miss Gordon recently made an March 29, 1869, son of. the Rover
"Pro-education" and "Fairneяs" extensive tour in Northorn India end Edward Henry Landon Hetain the total death-roll or damage, King's colours as well as its own backing of the ship, but certainly claim honour for the Secred Heart The complainant said defendants in pursuit of her art where she was educated at Hertford College, but it is officially estimated that borrowed from her $150 in money was the guest of His Highness the Oxford, where he won his B. A. there have been over 30 fatalities Reximental colours. It has many not that they did anything to en- School for full percentage of the Matriculation bar, Inner Temple, in 1895, From 300,000 heal of teattle perished, the Great War raised Ave Batta-Lordship must hold that the nets about the result of Wah Yair,
was called to the in the state of Kelantan, where honorary distinctions, and during danger life.
Mr. Sheldon submitted that his Examinition and mention nothing and also some jewellery, saying Maharaja of Patalia and that they wanted the latter to make Maharaja of Dhar.
Among her pictures there is one 1890 to 1900 he was special cor- and the damage to rice cropa is lions. a show at the wedding of a cousin of a street in Ley and another of respondent to the Times during $400,000.
The Commanding Officer of the of violence were not committed uut "Render Unto Caesar and. Traders' losses Co. dhe town 2nd. Battalion is Lieut-Col. P. I
with a common design..
"Most Fair" claim honour for War Witness stated that she was told a girl of Simia which reveal Miss the South African war. In the
B. Lawrence, M.C., and the follow; the jewellery would returned Gordon's penchant for colour and latter year he was made privatë the same day as i was borrowed. mexenoni. When she found that it had not therefore, that, although she came caneity he covered the Delhi Dur
It is not surprising secretary to the Governor of New totalled $300,000.
The death-roll in Perak is es- ing are the senior officers: Majora In a journalist tinted at 24.--Reuter South Wales.
The Viscount Marsham, and C. J. been returned she made a search under the spell of Kashmir, she for the defendants and after wall-found parts of Central India more bar for the Daily Mail, and
M. Riley, M.C., and Captains 0. W. H. Lease, D.S.O., M. F. Tre. ing for several hours informed the inspiring in hor art, with their was also correspondent for them police. The male defendant was rict of colour and throbbing life. China, Japan and Sibéria
RV Martyn, The Lord Bingham," In the latter your 1903. Miss Gordon knows the East in in
M.C., and A. B. C. Reynolds. many moods. "She was in Turkey the Times during the Lhusa
he was correspondent for the when Smyyuu was reduced to ashes, in Jerusalem after the Allles enpedition and for the Daily Tac tered the Holy City and in Con-#raph during the visit of the stantinople when the Allies order-rince of Wales, to India, 1906- 1906; In Persia, India and Nepal in ed the womenfolk to leave,
arent collector.
She then learned that the defen- dants had gone to Singapore and after they had been detained there she went to the Straits to identify them. In the course of her evid- ence witness said that when she fret made a complaint to the police she was told that 24 hours must elapse before information could be
ex-
One of her pictures of Jerusalem 1908 Russian Turkestan in 1909; affords a cameo of life and gains in Egypt and the Sudan in 1910, additional value by the fact that and the Delhi Durbar of 1911.
A CHILD'S APPETITE
THE BEDS, AND HERTS.
The Bedfordshire and Hertford- slere Regiment. The 1st Battalion is the old 16th. Foot, and the Regimental Badge is the United Red and White Rose During the Battalions.
His Lordship: You have not Yan and sympathise with and found any eas in which a man express surprise at the 100% Was struck down during the con-failures of the Sacred Heart in
the Junior Local. miston of an offence,
Mr. Sheldon:--No.
MR. NIHILL REPÚTĖS.
I wonder why they don't sympathise with and express 901- prise at the 100% fallures of
Mr, J. H. B. Nimili, replying for Wah Yan College in the Inst Senior the Crown said that his bubmis-Local Examination? sions on the evidence, in respect i think it is useless for them to dent on his Lordship's decision re-and do what they can for of No. 7, 9, 8, and 14,'were depen-criticise the results in the paper
thu
arding the law, and he would school which they think deservos therefore deat first with the doc- thor help.Yours, etc. . trine of common purpose. He
glven. Three other witnesses bore the artist had to seck safety in an During the Great War he was with for sweets, ice-cream, and the Grent. War the Regiment raised 18 submitted that the doctrine could
out the woman's story.
No False Pretence.
Mr. Russ, defending, suggested that criminal proceedings had been taken in order to enforce a civil debt. If a person borrowed money and then went away, possibly with the best of reasons, there was no crime. In the present case there was not the slightest evidence. of #false pretencer
NEW INFLUENZA EPIDEMICÍ
PEPS IN GREAT DEMAND,
Now is the time when Influenza epidemies are rife. Dangerous microbes in the air are waiting to find
powerful medicinal fumes which
toms.
Baby's Own Tablets
A RETIRED SCHOOL MASTER.
Hongkong, January 24, 1927 be made to fit the fnets in the the British and French lines in other good things of the table underground cellar before it was 1914-1915 and with the Italian rarely knows reasonable limits. It
The Commanding Officer of the finished, the bazaar where she wasnes in 1917. He attended, the is not always possible to exercise 1st Battalion is Lieut. Col. J. P.
present case.
Sir-In refutation of the seeni- becoming the scene of a massacre.Peace Conference in 1919, and has supervision, to restrain. the childTredennick, D.S.O., O.B.E., and the that in the first pince there must argument advanced by
Quoting from Russell, he said ingly fair and sound yet lop-sided been actively engaged in journalis from too many helpings. A dis- following are the senior officers: be community of purpose, but if Fair" in his letter in your esteem- "Most the work in many foreign countries ordered digestive system is the Majors A. D. Gaye and W. Wany felony was committed in the ed issue of Saturday, I should ever since, attending the Prince inevitable result of this over in Wagstaff, and Captains H. B. commision of another unlawful esteem it a great favour if you of Wales's tour in 1921-1922 Hd was, the author of several books dulgence, with" general lassitude, Dawes, M.C., R. B. L. Hatch, M.C.gel, and if the gang should. have would again spare me a little space feverishness stomach and bowel L. G. Andrews, W. E. Caldbeck, known that it was probable that it in your coloums that I may point of travel..
trouble and pain among the sympE. SC. Grane, H. E. Carey, D. R. would happen, then all were out to "Most Fal" that he is not
Thomas, M.C.. J. C. Preston, guilty.. M.B.E., L. H. Kitton, M.B.E. M.C.,
Justined in saying that I do not A promise to pay in the future weak place in your thront or lungswiftly destroy any germs that may
AA Anstee, M.C., and CM.there several persona engaged in sympathy with the Sacred Heart In the case before them, were seem to have expressed my hearty. mis is why a cough, eid, or chili
celd
Atkinson.. all the optimists would be in jail tablets. Infinenza is had enough, but the nostrils, thront or branchins.
the purauit of a commion unlaw. (School's 100% failures in the and all the pessimists would be the complications-bronchitis, pleurisy Make it a habit to take Peps tablets
ful enterprise? Of course, there Junior Local Examination.
Does free. The world would be a most and pneumonia-ago swift dendily scensionally whilst ever bad weather are the logical and speediest re-
were. And a large number were te menn to say that in commending unhappy place to live in,
The Devonshire lleriment-The farmed with taided lethal weapons, the merits of others, one must at lasts and you will be able to face the tedy in such circumstances, for Mr. Russ contended that the case If your heal'. throls, you
have wet. chilly conditions outdoors with they quickly, yet gently, cleansest Bation is the old 11th Foot
Were they to expect that rosis- the same time make known to the was one for the Summary Court, sneezing bouts, a raw, are thront,cor unconcern.
the intestinal tract.. accelerate and the Regimental Badge is the tance was likely to be put up? public their demerita? If he does, certainly not one for a criminala dull pain behind your eyeballs, you Free from ait harmful drugs, Peps digestion, reduce fever, stop colic, Castle of Eseter with the motto: The leaders must-have known that will be join me when I express my court. It was so obvious thats be sure intuenen rorms are at are the safest remedy for the threat wird vomiting, check diar-Semper fidelis, During the it was not improbable. The en-hearty sympathy with Wah Yan's the evidence had been carefully work. To kill the germs before they and best troubles of young and old. "have "Lime" to", work suribus mischief Teps are obtamáble in gented glass
prhuëm. prupared.
Great Warthe Regiment raised 25terprise was sufficiently danger-100% Failures in the Senior Loen! Without hearing the evidence in 30 must take Peps infection-killing hotties: Of all English 'and Chin-j Of your chemist or psl free, 60 Battalions.
ous. No jury could find, Mr. Ni-Examination? 1 think "Most ese dispensarien direct from agents: cents the vial, from Dr. Williams" The Commanding Officer of the fill submitted, that a gang of arm-Fair" will not like to do so. another similar charge against the blets.
When a Pen tablet is taken from Messes, A. B., Mander & Co. Ltd Medicine Co., 60, Kiangse Road, 1st Battalion is Lieut. Col. G. N.jed men would be surprised if they Yours, cte. defendants: Mr. Schofield dis-
its preserving silver wmpper and dis- Chin Buildings, Queen's Road charged them.
solved in the mouth, it given
T. Smyth-Osbourne, C.B. C.M.G.attacked a ship and met with re- off Citral, Hongkong.
Shanghai.
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Hongkong, January 25, 1927,
PRIZE DAY.
(Continued From Page 6 slated into Chinese by Mr. Y. P. Mr. Wad's speech was then tran- Law Inspector of Schools.
Vernacular
livered by Dr. Tso, Mr. Fung Ping- Speeches in Chinese were de
shan, and 'the Ion. Mr. Kotewall.
Puot and the Regimental Badge'is the United Red, and White. Rose. The Gloucestershire Regiment. -The 2nd Battalion is the old 61st
During the Great War the Regi-
Mr. Fung Ping-shan said it was Pont, and the Regimental Badge is
ment raised 37 Battalions.
The Commanding Officer of the of the school was represented to
three years ago that the questio The Sphinx superscribed "Exp&...." During the Great War the Rori-intres, D.SO., and the following debted for its institution to Sir Bo Battalion is Lieut. Col. J. W. the Government, and they were in- ment raised 24 Battalions.
The Commanding Officer of the are the senior officers, Majors
2nd Battalion is Lent-Col. R. Wild W. B. Wallace, G. P. Hudson Edward Stubbs, Mr. G. N. Orme, kinson, D.S.O., and the following inahan, C.BE, II. J. Taylor, and Mr, A. F. Wood,
D.8.0., and Captains A: G: de Ben Mr. Kotewall remarked they also. are the senior officers: Majors" "T) J. D. McMahon, A. F. Chapman. seu, E. H. L. Lysaght-frillin, ought to be grateful to His Excel- H.. Binen, D.S.O., and Captains, C. W. Beart, M.C., A. Har- lency, Sir Cecil Clementi, and Sig R. J. Guild, D.S.O, R. P. Power, Wood, J. E. S. Percy, M.C., C. M. J. Shouson Chow. The former, in
Barrington, W. N. Davenport, mediately on his arrival, took up OBE. L. H. Cox; M.G., R. M.
the matter with igonr, going to the Gräzebrook, O.BE.M.C., G. F. M. M. Hutchinson and F. Hall,
length of deciding its curriculum. Mirehouse, L. C. Evans, E. B. Pope,
When Sir Shouson Chow returned D.S,0. and C. ́E. K. Bugot! M.C.
support. They were fortunate to from England he also gave hia.
have two Chinese scholars such His Excellency and Mr. Wood to help in the school work.
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