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MONDAY, MAY 16,
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MAY
16
1997.
1927.
DAY BY DAY.
HE WHO WAS TAUGHT ONLY BY HIMSELF HAD A FOUL FOR A MASTER.
ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE.
PRESENTATIONS TO MISS
MIDDLETON SMITH,
The Very Idea!
increased efforts and new ventures. Those responsible for the arrangu-
Football followers in Edinburgh ments are to be congratulated, both Ben Jonson.
were alarmed by a persistent for their persistence and the satis
rumour that a match between the factory results already achieved.
The P. and O. 9.5. Devanha, from
In honour of Miss Middleton Heart of Midlothian and Aberdeen Smith, No doubt there is bound to be anHongkong, arrived at Marseilles
the Principal of Stat Tynecastle had had to be post- on Saturday,
Stephen's Girls' College, who is poned. awakening of general public in-
It was alleged that the members terest in the matter by means of a. The San Nam "Hoi, after over-leaving for Home by the ss. Moren practical demonstration such as a haul, resumes her place on the May 29th, a farewell concert of the Aberdeen team had re- was held at the Kwok Sin. La fused to travel on hearing that it Hall on Saturday evening, when
wasa Flag Day in Edinburgh. show entails. This is a preliminary Kongmoon run this afternoon.
there was a large attendance of step. There follows the necessity The B. s.8. Santhila is due to students and representatives for sustained effort, and the tackleave Amoy for Hongkong 10-educational institutions in the ling of problems such as co-morrow and is expected here Colony. Although there was seat- ing accommodation for 700, many Wednesday evening.
had to stand,
at
sideration as to how much actual territory is available for the pro- jects in hand. It is not ensy to tell present whether much land capable of development as orchards, For instance, is readily obtainable. Such knotty problems as suitability of soil, site, drainage, and so forth, also arise, quite apart from general climatic considerations. Then, it is a matter for demonstration whe-
The Talamba from Singapore reports one leper on board among the 300 deck passengers embark ed at the southern port.
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And then this nervy guy Just talked and talked till he'd
made up For all the years gone by.
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Those present included Mr. W. W. Hornell, Vice Chancellor of the. University, Mr. J. R. Wood, acting.
Woman at Clerkenwell County Chief Justice, Hon. Mr. R. H. Court: I shall tell you the truth, Kotewall, Mr. Kwok Shulau, Rev, sir. Registrur Friend: Then I The marriage of Mr. R. H. M.T. W. Peurce. Dr. S. W. Teo and shall send for some brandy. Quy, of Canton, and Miss Anne Rev. G. T. Waldegrave. Walo, of Philadelphin, took place at St. John's Cathedral, on Satur- day.
"A Chinese was removed to the Kwong With Hospital yesterday
at
Miss. Li Luk-wa, the head girl, was responsible for the concert which was much enjoyed.
During the evening two trunks, one carved blackwood trank with
stand, were presented to Miss Smith by Mias LiLuk-wn on behalf of the students. In making the presentation she referred to the untiring efforts Miss Smith made on behalf of the college and added that they hoped to welcome her buck.-(Applause).
Ither some form of stock farm-with leg injuries, received through stand, and a rosewood trank with
ing, such, especially, as poultry jumping off a moving bus raising on a vast scale, would not Chatham Rond. offer better facilities and more
It has been reported to the satisfying results. However, none police that money a property to of these questions can be solved ex- the value of $140 were stolen, dur- cept by actual trial over LI fairing, the week-end, from No. 5B,
Chancery Lane. period, and the pioneers who are now fabouring in the cause are to be commended, and their efforts on behalf of the community call for every encouragement. They de- serve to meet with final and gratify- ing success.
Germany's Pla.
written on the subject by Dr. Luz, of Berlin, mainly in reply to certain statements made by Viscount Grey in his book of reminiscences "Twen
Years." Dr. Luz sets out to prove that Viscount Grey does not tell the full story of those
reason
inevitable-Dr. Luz stales what is now known to all the world, namely, that Russia mobilised first against Austria, that Austrin mobilised ext, and that it was not until the late afternoon of July 31st. that any German order for mobilisation The complaint of Dr. was given. Luz is that Viscount Grey omits this from his book, though he, as Head of the British Foreign Office, must have known it. In other par ticulars, too, there is
The Kwangchow from Swatow carried 22 deck passengers, the crew of s. Kiungehow of the China Navigation Company, from leave during the ship's docking.
Mr. R. J. Cullins, an engineer. was removed to the Government Civil Hospital on Saturday suffer ing from injuries received in a fall down the stairs in the Savoy Hotel.
The ss. Pakhoi, a Hongkong and Wuchow cargo host, while on her voyage from Wuchow, went around hear the mouth of the Samui River on Thursday night, reports a vernacular paper.
shoot,
From Yaumati, another case has inten reported of a Chinese woman attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a large dose of opium. The woman was removed from her home at No. 31, Parke Street, on Saturday, in a serious state.
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Fatal injuries were received by a cargo-ccolie as the result of a fall from the a.s. Hydrangea, on which he was working, on to a cargo bout alongside. The man died at the Kwong Wah Hospital sure hours after admission, on Saturday.
Two armed men broke into the home of a widow at Shapo, on the Jalatid of Aplichau, last night, and
An address in Chinese was read by Miss Diana Hall, the English being rendered by Misa Helen Wu, in which reference was made to Miss Smith's faithful work, and the fact that she was mainly re- ponsible for such a fine college building.
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Solicitor at Bow County Court You are not married?. Woman: Married! I grew up with mother and father and saw their lives; no, thank you.
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Berkshire magistrate: of these women hit your mother? Boy: Please, sir, the one with the Eton top.
Man at Thames Police Court: I had some spirits and they over- took mo... Mr. Cairns, magistrate: I have heard of spirits fallowing people..
A Lincolnshire" domestic ser- vant who stole à sovereign said that it was the first coin of that kind she had seen.
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In replying, Miss Middleton Smith said her sadness was turned to great joy because she felt that A man who was unable to .ap. the friendship that existed bespear at Willesden wrote: I should Itween them would stand the strán be obliged by hearing the magis- of separation and continue for trate's decision. Magistrate: years .come. She expressed Pleased to oblige. Tell him ""£4," thanks to Mr. Lo Kwan-sheung. the hond Chinese master, the staff for their co-operation, the girls for their obedience and helpful. ness, and for their gifts, and also parents for their support. *She concluded by assuring them that if she was unable to return there would always be a warm welcome waiting for any of them who might visit England (Applause).
Policeman, of a man accused ut the Thames Court of beink drunk: He came to the police station and said, "I cannot go any further." Mr. Cairns, magistrate: A good wheeze.
goors are
CHINESE CLAN CLASH. who
HOKLON AND PUNTIS IN COURT.
Besides the shopman, a second. Punti and four Hoklos were
The
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Disease is just as prevalent now as fifty years ago--Sir James Bar
The English elector-hag-a-
uncanny-Sir Robert Horne.
We often secretly nurse small
have similar fallings.Miss Maude Royden.
Political sense which is almost
It is now getting on for 18 years apo since the happening of the in- | cidents that eventually led up to the outbreak of the Great War, and it is, by virtue of the age of time, LOCAL AGRICULTURE. becoining more and more an easy
matter to study those incidents di passionately and draw correct cons It is a pro! many years since theclusions as to who were the diplo
the varing European first public interest, was aroused in mats of
A trafficker in Macao lottery countries nustly at fault and,tikels was fined $50, by Major presibilities of developing the therefore, responsible for the out-w this morning for being in
The great novelty and fascina- New Territories so as to make of break of hostilities, therung has assession of 72 of these tickets,
tion for the Rio De Janeiro theatre-... them a rich area of cultivation, always been resentful of the charge which were found by a waterfront that she was primarily responsible
at present "girls," American and English choras girls cube of supplying the Colony for the war, and altlungis it in searcher concealed in one of his.
fand quits a number-of-Latin-girls,- with all its needs so far as the main desired here to go into the anka- ments on which she bases that re-
are doing fairly well as Chinese food staples were concern-pudiation, it is worthy of note that
imitators of their American and English sisters. el. Later, there arose the question a very important book has just been
Things started for the box of making more out of the big
office recently when a troup of truela of available land, to include
American chorus girls arrived in lo after a stand of a few months farming projects, and orcharding
Police witnesses describing u :
in Buenos Aires' vaudeville houses. enterprises. Much has been donety-five
disorderly affair which occurred in The troup was advertised locally already by pioneers, whose names
Mrs. Pearce, of No. 406, The the Western district yesterday, as "As nove 'Girls' Americans,' are well known here, and we have very tense days between July 29th..Perk, was bitten yesterday by said that as many as a hundred the "girls" being left in the seen the results of their patient and August 8th,, 1914, and that, by terrier owned by Mrs. Creasy. Chinese were engaged in a battle
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word English. The of these omissions, The dog was removed to Kennedy royal between what appeared to be "girls" was soon coined by the work front time to time. Every-ves a false in pression. On the Town for observation, together two factions of Hoklos and Puntis. Brazilians to mean, as one news- thing has, necessarily, been done on vital mutter of the mobilisations with Mrs. Pearce's dog which had
The fight was carried into a paper put it, "Anything young schiewhat small scale, yet, the the last net which made war come into contact with the terrier.shop near-by, much to the discom- and feminine, happy and knowing fort of an aged shop-keeper, who a few words in English, almost enthusiasts claim, what they can
told the Magistrate this morning naked and almost pretty, exception. perform in an acre of land should
that he was beaten black and blueally nice, and to be seen, heard be possible in u hundred acres.
and had a white jacket, which he and delighted in." With that goes a great deal of
produced, torn to shreds. He also said that very unwillingly he was, truth, auzi, provided it can be
dragged into the conflict, and had shown that production of crops is
to fight for self-preservation.
on a seale which can be made ac- tually' profitable, apart from the mere Successes of experimenters to whom, it may be, expense of pro- of complete frankness and fairness after intimidating the woman and in the first instance, and used his injustices hecause we ourselves duction is no immediate object, to Germany, says Dr. Luz. There then there seems no reason why the is, apparently, little or no question her family with a show of re territories adjacent to the urban of Britain's responsibility, becausevolvers, ransacked the place and
with escaped Britain did not come in until after districts should not be made pro-war had actually started, but there amounting to $150 in value. ductive of fruit, vegetables, general farm produce on a large scale. At the very least, it appears likely that, organised effort, with the due meed of encouragement from responsible quarters, would enable the Colony to draw upon its own areas for the immediate needs of the masses of the population; a matter which gained prominence during the 1925 boycott, when the shortage of certain food stocks for which we depended on outside tor-
Mr. Will A. Page, giving evidence in the New Law Courts, described" ritories, was so gravely emphasised.
Mr. Bernard Shaw as a "publicity There has been a revival of inter-
seeker." It Is a charge to which est in this subject lately, and an
It la with much regret that there can be no defence. Mr. enthusiastic band of local residents,
have Shaw has sought publicity in Hyde many old residents will with the co-operation of Govern-
learned of the death of Mrs. Alex Park, on the platform, in the The Spring Vaccination cam- ment officials, have been at work
paign in Canton has closed with Rodger, news of which has recent papers, in his plays and books; and he has got perhaps more than he wants. The worst of seeking both in experimentution and in At the annual meeting of the better results than in previously heen received in the Colony.
The late Mrs. Rodger, whose fame in one's youth is that one déveloping the results of previous China Provident, Loan and Mortyeurs, says the Canton Gazette.
rage Company held on Saturday at According to reports to the City husband was for many years the sometimes has it in old age. successos. Silk production, fruit the office of the General managers, Bureau of Health, 21,000 tubes manager of the China Sugar Re- crops of special types (such as prize Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Co., of vaccine were prepared, of which finery, first came to the Colony
The Nellore took a number of bananas, and even figs), and better-the adoption of the report was pre-17,000 were used for vaccination, in the early eighties and left here posed by the chairman, Mr. C. A. The total number of persons in 1915, when her husband retired. quality vegetables, have been made da Roza, seconded by Mr. F. M. vaccinated was 51.634.
Since then Mrs. Rodger had resid-Hongkong people Home, including the subject of very successful de Crawford, and carried nem. con.
ed at Kirn, Argyllshire, where she Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Keeton, Mrs. Mr. Barker proposed and Mr. monstration in recent years. Now
Five more bodies were picked passed away on the 9th inst. after G. Aubrey Mies A. E. de Dyer, Cleland seconded the confirma- we learn of the possibilities of cotton of
up on Saturday by the Water a lingering illness, survived by her Mr. M. H. Hourihan, Mr. McEwen the appointment to
cers arrived on the Nellore from Board ton crops. As will be seen from a the
of Mesara, A. Police in the vicinity of the Leung husband and five daughters, two and Mr. R. McEwen. Several off-
them Shanghal. Among Continuing the of whom are unmarried. L. Alves and T. B.. Wilson. The Kwong disaster. report of the activities of the com-
Four daughters of the late Mrs. Colonel H. Ensor, C. B., C.M.G., retiring directors, Sir Robert Hosearch yesterday, the police aleo mittee who are arranging a New Tung and Mr. C. B. Brooke wore re-recovered the remains of four Rodger were married in Hongkong, D.S.O., Major Patlow, it. W. Leach, During the two namely the late Mrs. William Group Cupt. E. D. Robertson, Fly- Territories
Mesars. Linstead and other victims. Agricultural Show, elected. there is a great deal of faith in the Davies, and Messrs. Percy Smith, days, nine dead bodies taken to Nicholson, Mrs. T. E. Pearce (who ing Officer Hamilton and Lieut.. Seth and Fleming were re-elected the Mortuary were identified as was at Home when her mother Grey. Mr. H: W. Ray, who has been possibilities offered on the main anditors at a remuneration of being those of passengers on the died), Mrs. P. S. Cassidy, and Mrs.en a trip to the North, also re-
ill-fated vessel.
G. B. Dunnett.
turned on the Nellore. land, both-as to further products $1,000 euch.
later
property
charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with disorderly behaviour. Punti said that he was attacked bambon smoke-pipe in defence.
Four Chinese policemen, who made the arrests, gave evidence.
They all testified to having met with considerable resistance in Three Chinese, alleged to have the execution of their duty. One been concerned in the armed rob of them said that one of the bery committed at No. 97, Kow-Hoklos bit his hand. toon City Road on Friday were remanded for one week, on
Just,
The old belief that the House of Commons is the Guardian of the public purse is now an unreality,
Lord Hugh Cecil
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The theatre is dangerously ill. The gods of our time are petrol. eggs, buster, wheat prices, and After hearing another state-railway sharea.-Mme. Bramson. their appearance before Mr. W. ment, his Worship observed that it appeared to him as if the Hokios Schofield at the Kowloon Magia were the aggressors. He fined the coat) can't wear this, Maria, Mr. Honpeck (buying new over- About $20 tracy this morning.
four Hoklos $5, and bound them worth of stolen property has been
over. The two Puntis were not it's three sizes too big." recovered.
fined, but were also bound over in a sum of $50, to keep the peace.
is, for the whole of the German race, the very important question of vipe what they assert is unfairly blamed for prime responsibility. Perhaps it is not quite realised how deeply and sincerely the people of Germany resent the charge charge which ought by now to be capable of dispassionate and his torical investigation. If ever the peoples of Europe are to allow the breach of the Great War to heal completely, they must settle this
While riding on a motor-trail- er proceeding along Tai-O Street, matter of war guill in the light of historical truth, and for that pur-Samshuipo, on Saturday, a coolic pose something more is needed in employed at the Kowloon Tong the way of an enquiry than has Estate, was thrown off his seat and was seriously injured when been held up to the present.
CHINA PROVIDENTS.
BUSINESS AT SATURDAY'S MEETING.
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the wheels of the vehicle passed OLD RESIDENT PASSES AWAY. over his body. He was taken, in (a critical condition, to the Kwong
Wah Hospital.
Mrs. Henpeck-"I can't help that! Remember it's got to go over the radiator of the car in cold weather, and that's what we've got to consider first.
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