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LABOUR AT HOME.
It is gratifying to note from, the latest newspapers to arrive from
Home that the number of unem-
The P. and O. s.s. Mirzapore is due here from Japan on Tuesday afternoon.
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TRAVELS IN SPAIN.
Mrs. Looker and Mies Juno Look-Folding red flags.
Mr. H. W. Looker, M.P., and er have arrived at 10, John-street, Mayfair, London, for the season.
A Memory of Old "Castile."
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"Burned up like brick in an forward to catch another glimpse oven," he said to himself. And of him or to hear another sound of again, "No water." The train him. The Basque strained for- It is notified that the Chief Jus-dragged up into the mountains and ward, too. Disappointed, after a tice has ordered that the next coiled there like a short black scr- while we sat down. grate) at the residential centres. Criminal Sessions shall be held on the gorges. There were then baked and broke our drought of silence.
pent through the pines and through A rill of talk now spurtled forth It was ascertained, in November Monday, June 20th.
stations ankle doop in platform,
"Ay," said the little Basque, of last year, that 989 mon out of
with hard bells to them, and goats 1396 who had passed through the
and chickens and old earthly women crossing his legs and wagging his red-slippered feat at me as an 'nd- centres had obtained some sort of
The sky was. plated with hent,ditional gesticulation to contain his employment. There seems a
the sun blazed like a bugle. Every excitement. "You may well say, few minutes the train stopped at a 'What a volee! What poignancy!" prima facic case for the extension
Recent appointments by the station, the engine fell silent like (I had, of course, said neither, but of these experiments, subject to Secretary of Sta'u, for the halted oxen, so that he and I could he was the kind of man one allows certain safeguards. The co-oporn- Colonies include afiss M. D. feel the flaming air of the pines, to assume the knowledge of one's tlen of employers' and workers' Horne, nursing sister for Hong-feel the heat of the rocks and the emotions.)
earth, and hear the twitter of dust "I shall never forget hearing it organizations should, if possible,
un the white ronds; hear, too, the four years ago for the first time. be obtained, and attention should
peak of chickens on the still pint- It was just such a day as this. be specially directed to training
form and hear the guard crackle The sun unmerciful, Castile like the name of the station, whatever a brickfield, the sky like the walls for those Industries which can
Callado Mediano, Los Molinos, San Inte July, not a drop of water in You know, Castile in it was, rapidly, apologetically: of a kiln. point to an expanding market for
Rafael, Espinar, Ottero de Her- the rivers, everything cracked like their products.
rerds, the dry consonants knicking earthen-ware, clouds of dust, and together like water jars by a little this train, the slowest in the world, creaking and struggling along like a mule team.
Chameleons.
kong.
It is advertised that Mr. A. Ritchie is authorised to sign for Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Mat- thews, in all matters pertaining to their Hongkong office.
The China Light and Power Co. (1918), Ltd., advertise that the date for payment of the final callspring of gurgling vowels." of $3.00 per share is again post- poned from June 30 to November 30, 1927.
Then like a yoke of oxen the en- gine would awake to movement again and step gently out onto the cracked plains, ochre, lilae and pal-
There was more than a little in- terest in the statement, published by us yesterday, and inken from the vernacular press, that leaders the original Chinese version said notorious leaders--of the pirate and bandit gangs on the mainland, having had to five from the Can- tonese troops, sent against them, have new emigrated to Hongkong and lo British Malaya to seek an Tenders are being called for the honest living. The picture called filling in and surfacing of two up, is one of essentially Gilbertian areas for the parking of cars.at ailusion, yet peculiarly appropri- Un Long, New Territories, to ate to this part of the world. One gether with any necessary work in
perspec-connexion therewith.
Whilst tampering with the clec-lid with drought. tric wires of a fan in the kitchen of No. 242, Des Voeux Rond, a Chin- ese, aged eighteen, was electrocuted, His body has been removed to the Public Mortuary.
can discuss its various tives, or aspects, what one will, to
Dr
"Ay Castilla," murmured the man to himself again. He sat back and stared out of the window at the nonotonous plalas. flour after hour of that wearisome, hot and dusty journey northward from Madrid bumped by with almost im- ossible slowneza. Once or twice e fidgeted and sighed. And once exclaimed, "a desert."
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He was a short, stout little man, Basque, he told me, but this was already clear from the dark blue boina on his head. It looked like
"Villagers were raked together like hot stones or white cinders. Thirteen Not a blade of gras8, hours of it. And then, sir, ima- gine us running into Medina del Campo at the hottest hour of all, and suddenly, unexpectedly, like the spurt of fountain," he said with tears in his eyes, "that voice!"
"Never in my life had I heard Certainly never
anything like it.
in a railway station. It was like water in a desert, a thread of water in a river bed. It was like mule bells on a stunned road, or ox bells -you have heard their watery note?
"The boys went up and down the Agua fresca!
platform crying,
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much length. It suffices to note the. The Hospital Comforts Com- easy change in the life of the Chi-mittee begs to acknowledge with nese freebooter. A faherman one thanks the receipt of $1,000, as a
a pudding cloth, for he was as pale Fresh water! Selling water; but it a basin. was tepid and flat to the cold, eloar day, and a pirate the next; a sol- donation to the Red Cross Hos-and expressionless as ployed in Britain has been steadily dler, a robber, a tailing labourer,pital Comforts Fant, from "An Early in the journey he had taken draught of that voice. Never in It went, off his boots and put on a pair of my life shall I forget it. on the decrease and that with the a brigand, according to his in-
Anonymous Britisher."
bright red slippers, and had blink Medina del Cam--po- No, 1 coming of the "warmer weather clinations or opportunities,
ed his ferreting eyes over the stock can never do it, but wherever I against his inclinacions but under when outside work could be pro-pressure of circümstances. Social For stealing a brass tap belong exchange figures in a Madrid paper. think of this poor, buked-up town ceeded with there was a marked reformers may think of the "re to the Tai Tak Contractors, of le looked at me several times on I have that voles in my thought, It diminution of those in receipt of formed bandit, now maybe draw-Quarry Bay, who have a shed inside the very edge of conversation, but changes everything."
ing a ricksha in the Colony, with the Taikoo Sugar Refinery, a Chin- got no further than exclamation
esc was sentenced by Mr. R. E. that might have been addressed to "I know," I said, moved by his unemployment benefit. There feelings of satisfaction. But
speech. "I remember once a street have been indications that Britain those in touch with the criminal Lindsell to three weeks hard labour, the world at large.
this, morning.
After nearly five hours he took singer in Naples. Something quite out his watch and stared at it a hackneyed, too, the sort of thing is slowly but surely recovering classes here know better, and re-
A Chinese, aged 58, a visitor to very long time. Gradually a ro- you hear in every side, street in from the tremendous set-back, regard such accessions to the popu
lation with mixed feelings. That
The train Europe. 'O sole mio,' I believe it ceived last year, and there will be many who find the mainland to the Colony, died suddenly in Con- collection lit his face.
Stunt-i wus. But in the night it seemed a unanimous hope that the Trades hot for them come here, or go to naught Road, Central, whilst walk was indeed slowing down.
to secking with a friend. The incidented trains, hissing engines, slid back like the cry of a wild bird—-”
There was He could not let me continue: Union Bill now going through the the Straits Settlements;
new pastures, not necessarily dis-occurred near the Harbour, Office. into smoke and cohe.
removed to the the breathing of brakes, a shrug- "You are English. "You perhaps House of Commons will not result honest, is well known. That they lis body was
ging and gossiping of points. remember a passage in the Bible. Yea: "The desert in a disruption of the quiet work form the main element in the crime Public Mortuary.
A chanting curve, and then we Let me see, how.
as the humined under a great dome of shall rejoice and blossom 5 reconstruction. In mail week, sheets of the lands of their adop- tion is also a definite fact. Gang there was published the annual re- | robbers, murderers, footpads.
smoky glass, a station; people rose, and, For in the wilderness When I port of the Ministry of Labour for many of them have learned the
sweeping back, luggage and trucks shall waters break out.' 1926, and while it contained no cruder elements of crime in their
carried by like pieces of wind, till hear that voice, I think always of home territory ere coming under
they slackened, swayed, jerked to those lines till startling discicaures there was British administration. Yet they It is, of much miscellaneous information continue to come in.
DANGER YEAR OF MARRIAGE.
A recent collector employed by a wealthy Chinese living at No. 62, Bonham Road, abeconded on June 8. His employer has since received a letter from the fugitive stating that the total amount of rent which he had taken with him, was only $200.
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I
I wonder if the
a standstill. The little man was at writer of them (you understand?) the windew shaking with excite-had perhaps heard a voice." ment. He leaned in and then out. We sat silently for a long time He turned his head in again and inclosed in the lazy, sporadic din of cried, "Listen!" And again, tho station. I began, "A railway
porter-" Public motor car No. 418 was "Listen! Ah-""
But the little Basque cut me discovered by a policeman to be in
I listened his voice commanded short: the harbour just outside Wing Wo
"I know what you are going to Street, at 6.30 p.m. yesterday. Itand at the moment I heard in the
ény. The Anglo-Saxon always is reparted that the driver was distance and above the peeling clat- backing the car and it vent over ter of the station a porter's voice betrays himself: if there are "drawled by muttering, are voices you do not see fountains the Praya wall. Fortunately the loddening under the glass, Another streams you see turbines. If there driver managed to jump clear be-porter
"Medinadelcampo," fore the machine toppled over.
all in one but concert halls, radios, drawing breath. Eut in the distance this
rooms, barbarities. Yes! Three weathy men have already offered to pay that porter's complete tuition at the Conservatoire in Paris-"
"And-?"
A storekeeper of the Tung Tai Engineering Works, at Whitfield, was arrested and charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning with manufacturing Po Pui tickets same. and also for possession of He was fined $100 or in default two months' hard labour, on the first charge, and $20, or fourteen days, on the second.
other voice, leud and with the rich
"Listen," cried ness of a choir.
"A marvel! the oxcited Basque.
This time I Oh, what a voice." heard it clearly as in a cathedral the chanting of a response:
on subjects of far-reaching impor-course, hard to put a check on them, and so long as they live will inter- tance. The fluidity of labour, honestly here, no-one sadly impaired by the industrial fere with them. The difficulty is to know how many of these ex- strife of last year, is not yet re-
pirates intend always to remain stored even to its pre-ccal dispute honest. But at least they get. position; and in the opinion of the under the regime of the "Imperial Ministry, one of the most urgent of ism" that is so much slandered in immediate problems is to tackle their own country, a chance to turn over a new leaf, and become this "Frozen" labour and unfreeze good citizens. it. It is realised that employment exchanges must be made "as effi-,
The Ministry cient as possible.". is evidently making every effort to ensure that the Exchanges shall discharge the function for which they were intended not less ade-
I stood up in wonder and went to the window to seg what man live quately than they now discharge
ing had so fine a voice And again: Has parriage a' danger point? their responsible (but adventiti-
"Medina del Campo! 1" Analysis of divorce cases heard
said the Basque, "Ah, yes," ous) function of paying out Un-last month suggests to a London. The health bulletin of Eastern what quality, what richness. There
It shows: employment benefit. But they journal that it has.
Ports for last week, issued by the he is carrying a crate of chickens About 60 per cent. of the mar-
Principal Civil Medical Officer of You see? The tall one, the dark have had a discouraging year.
ringes concerned were childless.
Health, contains the following The number of vacancies dealt
The average age of the parties cases: Plague, Colombo 3, Rangoon one with a blue sash and white
slippers." with (about one million) is well involved was 35.
and Bombay 2 each, and Alexan- 1 saw him for a moment as he below the level of the two previous
1; Cholera, Calcutta 39, stepped into the dria
37. Negapatam 5. each, Karachi and Bangkok 3 Saigon 2 and Tourane 1: Small- pox, Calcutta 38, Bombay 31, Ran- goon 23, Karachi 11 and Madras
years,
All
these
DIVORCE CASES POINT TO.
TWELFTH.
More marital crashes occur round about the twelfth than any Haiphong
other year.
Commenting on this review, a leading K.C. told a reporter that his wide experience of Divorec Court work encouraged him to agree that most marriages that failed were childless.
"With the other facts I would
2.
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representatives The
of the
"Medina del Campo, ein- nin-ut-os."
VII.
I craned
MORE EXCITEMENT.
HUANGPU SHOOTING
INCIDENT.
"He refused to accept. Said with something of that arid Castillian pride and mockery, I have here my conservatoire, pointing to the glass roof of the station. They sought him for the cathedral. 'No,' said he, 1 have here my cathedral.' There you have the Castillian gen- ius."
Then we heard the volta again, a fine rod of water rising:
"Medina del Campo," and sinking down again like a fountain in the heat.
appearance.
V. S. P.
The Olive was carrying seven- foreign passengers, including a number of ladies, when the animo- sity from the shore was. made ovi-
In respect of the Ministry's other activities, little that is new is recorded... The Industrial Court Issued during the year 107 deci- xions; the Ministry settled twenty-
To make the Huangpu in its dent. When a safe return was four cases under the Conciliation not agree, however," he said. "In Colonies, Protectorates, and Man- Act; sixty-seven employers were the first place statistics must be dated Territories now in London upper reaches safe for yachting made back to Shanghai, however, on board the house- prosecuted under the Trade Boards unreliable, as we are dealing with for the Colonial Office Conference seems to be the immediate problem the matter was taken up with the
the failure of so many of the
were the guests of the Covernment confronting lovers of this sport British Naval authorities. From
who find yacht racing an exciting passengers Acts for attempting to cheat their hasty marriages of the war and at dinner on May 10 at Lancaster enough diversion without the intro- boat at the time, it is understood that the result of this complaint Then Ilouse, St. James's. Mr. L. S. duction of rifle fire.. afterwards. things immediately employees.
again the new Act giving equal Amery, Secretary for the Domin- An incident similar to that re- was the despatch of a naval launch would have astonished our grand-divorce rights to women tends to ions and Colonies, presided over norted on the preceding Sunday which proceeded to the spot and fathers, though, very properly make the cases before the courts the company, which included Mr. took place on the Sunday just past. returned the fire of the stragglers
H. Marriott (Straits Settlements) A few soldiers stationed in on shore. they do not astonish us. Perhaps not typical of the normal.
It is also understood that the "Speaking without relp from Dr. R. O. Winstadt (Malay States) the area skirting the the most interesting new develop such statistics, I would say the and Mr. S.B.B. McElderry (Hong- Railway Station and the Langwha Naval authorities, ment is the training scheme for danger year in marriage is round kong). After dinner Mr. and Mrs. Pagoda who had collected on a matter under advisement and an young unemployed men. This, in about the seventh. It is certainly Amery held a reception at which small loading wharf on the river other day or two will show what the company numbered over seven bank indulged in their favourite steps will be taken to safeguard official parlance, "has achieved a earlier than the twelfth."
hundred. Besides thone named pastime of indiscriminate firing private launches, etc. in that por- large measure
of the boats in the tion of the river. of success," and
above there
also among when one were evidently there is something in it.
those present Sir Ernest and Lady yachting party passed by, Four! It is offelally announced that the Birch, Sir Stanley and Lady Bois, rifle ahots altogether were fired at At the Marine Court this morn- Non-residential centres have been firm of Sir John Jackson, Ltd., Sir Frederick and Lady Lugard, the Olive, the handsome opened at Birmingham and Wall- London, has been awarded the con- Sir George and Lady Maxwell, house boat belonging to Col. M. H. ing before Lieut. Commander G. F. send, whore "handyman" training tract for the construction of the Sir Matthew Nathan, Sir Frank Logan, but fortunately none of Hole, the master of fishing junk in the use of various tools and ma Nag Hamadi barrage on the Nile, and Lady Swettenham, Mr. and them registered on the Olive and No. T1755H was
40 miles north-west of Luxor.
the Hon. Mrs. Archer, Sir Travers the incident had no serious con- mooring alongside five other boats terials is provided: and residen- This firm put in the lowest tender and Lady Clarke, and Lady Pig-sequences other than the brief by the s.8. Apoey. He admitted anxiety on the part of passengers the offence and was fined $3 or gott...
while the shots were putting in an three days.
tial contres at Claydon, and Brun- for the work, £2,027,800,
Hankow
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summoned for