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MONDAY, MAY 2, 1927.
who, while agreeing with the gen- eral contention that the law of Britain as regards the conduct of
DAY BY DAY.
STRUCK WITH BROOM.
COOLIE'S ATTACK ON
WOMAN.
The Very Idea!
"How many children have you, missus?" asked the school attend-
ance officer of the woman bending
"Well, lemme seo.
There's Char-
A quarrel between a scavenging
over the wash-tube. The P. and O. s.3. Kidderpore coolie and a woman resulted in the is due here from Shanghai to- coolle being charged with assault,
and doing grievous bodily harm, lie, an' Willie, an' Maggle, an' morrow evening.
at the Central Magistracy this Tommy, an' Lizzie, an' Dick, an morning, before Major C. Willson."
DON'T WORK FOR WAGES. WORK trade unions in trade disputes FOR THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF SOMÉ- needs clear re-statement, doubt | THING.-Leslie Shaw. the wisdom of the present Prime Minister in allowing himself to be personded to agree to the Bill's introduction. It ja no secret that been Mr. Stanley Baldwin has averse to the procedure in Cabinet meetings but that he has given way before the earnest represcu- tations of some of the die-hard rank and file. That the Bill is, comparatively, so moderate in ita provisions is directly due to his
influence.
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Thongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MAY 2 1927.
NO GENERAL STRIKE.
A
"Number" exclaimed ibe proud
It is advertised that Mr. R. E.
It was alleged by the complain "One moment, please," interrupt-. Coxon has been authorized to signant that the defendant struck hered the officer. "Just give the non- for Mesurs. Jardine, Matheson
with a broom, causing her injury. bor, please." Co., "per procuration."
The incident occurred at Tai Hung village, Bay View. Sergt. Lang-mother. "Lor" bless yer, I haven't got to numbering 'em yet, nor run ley was in charge of the ease.
A student said that sometimeout o' names neither, by a long after six o'clock on Saturday even way." ing last he was asleep when he
Saturday's return of the Medi- cal Officer of Health contained enses of enteric fever and one of small-pox. All were Chinese.
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The Harbour Office returns for the week-end gave 33 arrivals and 28 departures, leaving 70
were British.
vessels in harbour, of which 23
The Empress of Asia is due Monday here from Manila on morning next. The Empress of Canada left Vancouver on Thurs day and is due here on May 16th.
ut all costs. It is that aspect which is so regreti ble, for Bri-
The weather forecast issued by tain is in urgent need of a period
period ending at noon to-morrow of industrial quiet to take up for the Royal Observatory for the all the ground that was lost last is as follows: S.E. or variable year. Not for the sake of tradewinds, moderate; overcast, rain. alone but for the sake of the social welfare and comfort and susten- aner of the millions of workers whose well-being is dependent on traile, Great Britain needs breathing space from Industrial dissension and friction. It is quite true that the law dees need re-statement and that the powers of the trade unions need curbing, but the Labour people are in no mood to accept such action from the Conservatives and in the larger interests of the country as a whole, we think the Govern- ment would have been better ad- vised had it decided to allow the matter to stand over.
Sacrifice.
rusty in the
Mr. J. A. E. Bullock has pro- sented a handsome sanctuary lamp of brass to the Cathedral, for usa in the side Chapel, in memory of his son, who was lost in Gallipoli in the great war.
A number of waterpipes, valued at $17, were removed from the No. 7 Military Hospital (the new Diocesan Boys' School premises) by thieves, who got into the pre- mises during the week-end.
from Leaping into the street the second fleer of No. 20 Gage
Street,
a Chinese woman
Was
fatally injured, yesterday. She was removed to the Governmeat Civil Hospital where she died at 7.30 p.m.
was awakened by a commotion, and en looking out of his window from the verandah he saw the delerdant striking a woman with a broom.
He went downstairs to the scene,
and found the woman lying on the
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the ment,
And nearly throw a fic, But, when she looked, she cool-
ed right down...
The oven wasn't lit.
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Fashionable London was en- livened by a race between four handsome enlas from the Devon- hire Club to the Kit-Cat Club, by way of St. James'-street, Piccadil- Bond-street, ly, Berkeley-street, and Plecadilly-circus, The race was won by five cab longths by a cab in which the Earl of Northesk
ground, but the man had disap- peared. Witness later saw the de- fendant being brought along in the Another witness, a woman, said custody of a constable. she saw the complainant going to pick up some paper but the defen- dant would not allow her to do so. They quarrelled, and she saw the man hit the woman with his broom. She went to the scene, and found the woman had received injuries
The race was organised by Mr. to her head.
The defendant said the woman George Gordon, a solicitor, and was going to spread out some rub-president of the Junior Coaching bish and he cautioned her not to Club, a little band who have form- do so. He continued to sweeped a bond to use hansom cabs in.
town whenever they can. along the road and did not know what happened after that. denied the charges.
His Worship said he was quite clear in his mind that the defen
dant did strike the woman with a broom, and hurt her much more He than he probably intended. SAW from the Medical Officer's first report that he was not sure whe- ther the woman had a fractured skull or not.
The ease would be met with a ue of $25 or 14 days. The man would also have to pay $10 com- pensation to the complainant, or ndergo another seven days' im- prisonment.
QUARRY BAY CUP.
DETAILS OF SATURDAY'S
COMPETITION.
Wan passenger.
The party assembled at the De- vonshire Club in the evening, where the route was chosen and the competitors "weighed in" on the club scales, the hill porter act- cabs The four ing as checker. were then brought round and stood abreast. The signal was given, and the cabs set off up St. James'-
street.
"It was quite an unusual experi ence," said Lord Northesk, and The at times pretty exciting. drivers were real old cabbies.
Mine was an old chap of more than seventy, and he thoroughly enter- ed into the spirit of the thing."
The race was in the nature of a trial, and it was so successful that the members propose to invite one another to dinner once a month and hold a point to point race over u different route.
The cabbies were afterwards all presented with a memento of the occasion, and paraded at the De- vonshire Club, where they were presented with a bottle of whisky each.
Although it seems inevitable that there is going to be a great deal of labour unrest at Home if the Government persists, in its in- A great deal is being made by
While crossing the roadway t the cable correspondents of the tention to pass the Trade Union dynamiting of part of the Mis-Praya East on Saturday, a Chinese was struck down by Mr. Davison's Bill it is evident that the organised sissippi levee.below New Orleans, trade unions are having nothing with a view, to saving that city motor cycle. The man was taken to the Government Civil Hospital, from threatened destruction. It whatever to do with another gen-may be explained, for the benefit somewhat seriously injured. The same night, another Chinese was
The competition for the Quarry eral strike. And insofar as that of those who are has already been made manifest geography taught in schooldays, admitted into the Hospital as Bay Cup which was held at the result of being knocked down at Volunteer headquarters on Satur we can take comfort to ourselves that the Mississippi river flows at Queen's Road East by public car day afternoon was won by No. 7
a greater level than a huge arca
City platoon of the Scottish Com- that one great lesson has been of territory on either side, the wa
pany. The competition is confined learned. At Friday's opening of ters being augmented by flood in
Agents for Messrs.to this Company of the Volunteers. the big Conference now being held Season of heavy rain and liable to John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Mesara, Points were awarded for attend Queen Elizabeth..
Caldbeck, Macgregor and Co. have aneu at parades and camps during Presented Mr. 11. Hampton of the training season 1926-27, nurch Messra. Lane, Crawford, Ltd. with past, snad drill and turn-out, fire one bettle of Johnnie Walker control and guard mounting.
Maximum points obtainable whisky for his feat in holing out The
square
No. 312,
As Sole
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Some more "howlers"
G.P. stands for general postman. The mother of George V. was. Version is the name of a star. Saint Michael is the patron saint of Scotland.
The floral emblem of England
at the Bru hole at Happy Valley, numbered 500, 100 being awarded is a daisy and of Wales an onion. in one during the Easter Holidays, the winning platoon under each This offer is available to every-test of the competition, 50 to the
inundate vast tracts unless pre vented from overflowing, by means of the banked up levees, or dykes. The present foods are of unusun height, and vary many miles of land have suffered. rising waters were nearly break
The police stated at Willesden ing through the levee near the big rity of New Orleans, and it was
one who does a hole in one, pro-runners-up and 25 points to the that an accused man had not been hojd a break in the embankment vided this fent is vouched for by third.
charged previously. The man, in- Points obtained by the thre dignantly: Excuse me, I was con lower down stream would sallies the player's opponent, and counter-
platsons were asvicted here only six months ago. To ease the pressure and cause a fall in level.
signed by the Secretary of the competing The earlier mess | Galf Club,
follow:- ups, reporting the dyanmiting of
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Landlady, speaking of her lodger at Bow County Court: She came into my room and swore at me. Solicitor: And what did you do? Landlady: Swore back.
In London, there was a motion be Fore the gathering that, if the Go- verument persisted in putting the Bill through Parliament, a general strike should be called. The Chairman (none other than, Mr. George Hicks, the Chairman of the General
Council of the Trades Union Congress) moved that the suggestion be discussed; but this, in the words of Rouler, was re-adat 1,0 feet of leves at Poy-
Among the dras, suggested that this plan had | jected by an overwhelming majorved successful, but apparently for Hone by the .s. Malwa yester [ity. In the mid a resolution was there has not been much change, day were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bell. Mr. and Mrs. L.C.F. Bellamy. Comdr. FW. Bromley, ndapted declaring that the pro-and further dynamiting is no gr.
The fire control test took place visions of the Bill must inevitably sure. Of chief interest, howevd 11.8.0., R.N., Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Lis the sacrifice made of big tracts Field, Mia. Hegarty, Mra. G.F.
at the minature range and consists lead to widespread and consen-[of prosperous farmaland in orderHole, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Howe, Mr.
ed of an N.C.O. taking up a target order for trated resistance on the part of to save the city. No doubt it is fr. F.R. Jones, Mr. A.C.H. Lay, and giving the range
a question of comparative values, the Rev. and Mrs. G.R. Landany, organised prade unionists, and also where the commercial worth vastly Mrs. C.C. Luard, Mr. J.A.D. Morri
The guard mounting test was
The world's shortest love story pledging the Conference a con- outweighed the rural.
With one son, Mr. J. Murphy, Mr. T. Murphy, extremely well done and the work
one of It tinue the campaign against the can easily sympathise with the Mrs. I. Newton, Mr. G. Nisser af of No. 7 Flatoon aroused very told in eleven words is contained in
London's daily newspapera. Bill with the utmost rigour. That, thousands of people who have had W... Pattenden, Mr. J. Power, Mrn.vourable comment from those the "Agony" column of
present. 1) evacuate their homes under AN. Reynolds and Miss W. Robin-
The judge in the fire control repds:
Con- Clarke of course, was a mild and plati-Compulsion, some of them offering on.
of the Canoe.
Couple, Cupid. test was Lieut. tudinous resolve as compared to resistance and yjelding to threat
King's Own Scottish Borderers.gratulations. Car. Church. Choral. that calling for a general strike of force, or the fear of engulfment
There is home on
Mr. W. L. Pattenden, who went eat. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O., Cake. Champagne. Confetti. Con- by the released floods.
the Malwa yesterday Major P. A. Wolf Murray, and Linent." and we are glad that the majority also the pity of so much fine cul has resigned his position as mem-Regimental Sergeant Major Par- of the delegate's had been instruct- tivated territory being said wasther of the Church Body and Hon.
Mr. Fleet Goldsmith, owner of In time the water will drain of Secretary of the Cathedral. He ed to that purpose. There can the lavee be repaired, and the
by Lieut. Col. Bird, and officers the racehorse Escaped Lunatic-a of departments
Church life, be no question that it would have hard-working farm folk renew the will be very much missed in all other tests. The salute was taken been wrong and illegal for the or- crops they formerly grew,
an asylum-sold his mare. Florence the sacrifice has been made, forays Cathedral Notes. His work present included Captain D. C. name which he declares he chose as Chairman" of the C. F. M. S. Legan, 2nd Lieut. A. Mackenzie in memory of his own escape from gunised trade unions to call a gen-the benefit of others. It recalls and a helper at the Socials has (No. 5 platoon), Lieut. K. S. Mor-. for fifteen guineas at the Plump-. rison (No. 7. platoon) and 2nd on meeting. Mr. J. Hackett, the eral strike for the purpose of de- the case of the Belgians who made been splendid and he has been ar-eut, G. Duncan (No. 6 platoon), Seaford trainer, was the purchaser, feating mensure introduced into breaches in the coast dykes in ranging the duty of the Sidesmen.
The visitors included Mr. and dor to stem the German advance This last named work is being the House of Communs by the law-on their left ask, and thus in-taken over by Mr. W. Jackson, and Mrs. H. M. Dyer, several other fully elected Government of the undated land which for many the Hon. Secretaryship of the Ca-indies watching the competition land, and such an net could only years had been toilsomely won thedral has been undertaken by with interest. Tea was served in
from the tea. That served as a have precipitated a disastrous and
supreme example of self-sub- regrettable clash. It is for the ordination for the general good, purpose of preventing such as and was inspired by a great patri, tism. One could moralise further obviously subversive to the gen-on this subject. it auffices to re- We find eral good order and welfare of mark how, everywhere, the country that the present men- this law of sacrifice for others in DEPARTURE OF MISS INNESS.
time of dire need: sure has been introduced.
But
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Saturday last on the retirement of of Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co. Buenos Aires wise for the present Conservative
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