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JULY 13, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
POWER, CARRIED TO EXTREMES, 18 ALWAYS LIABLE TO REACTION. Rufus Choatc.
by installing tent to state that. "The current "PYRENE" Tire Gazette contains amendments to Extinguisher. the regulations made under the "PYREND" will Ordinanco," and wo do not kill fire without think it could be fairly argued that damage to the the Government had offected ren- engine, woodwork sonable publication of the nature or upholstory of those amendments in such cases. noon. Water spreads a We know, of course, that publica- petrol fire; sand is inefficient and will put the engine out of action.
"PYRENE' 10x-
The B.I. s.a. Santhia is due here: from Singapore on Saturday after
tion in the Gazette is legal publicatyphoid fever reported yesterday
There were three fresh cases tion and that actual requirements two British and one Chinese. are thus complied with. But we contend that the Government should
tinguisher is small strive to do a little more than this in size, light in-in fnet, might lasue explanatory weight and easy to statements when it changes the handia.
rules and regulations of the Colony by act of the Governor-in-Council. We feel sure that any clear expost tion of important changes in the local law, officially supplied, would find ready publication in the Hong- kong newspapers.
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CONFIRMATORY MEETING.
HONGKONG AMUSEMENTS
LTD.
ing of Hongkong Amusements, An extraordinary general meet Limited, was held at the Queen's Theatro to-day, for the purpose of the meeting on June 29. confirming a resolution passed at
The chairman, Mr. J. M. Noronha, said: This meeting has
The Very Idea!
Speaking at festival diu- ner in old of the Heritago. Crafts Schools, at Challey, Sussex, during his recent tour he re- the Bishop of London said that marked to an interviewer that so excollent were the arrangements made on his behalf that all he had to do was to walk on the steamer and sit tight. My AR Next day, Bald the Bishop, it was reported in all the papers
The American vessel Dewey, ar-been called to confirm as a special that I had said all I had to do resolution, the extraordinary re-wn to walk into the saloon and
riving from San Pedro and Manila, reports the death of the chief cook by drowning at Legaspi, P.I.
This morning's Ifarbour Oflice reports gave 14 arrivals and 16 departures, of which four and seven respectively were British. leaving 71 vessels in harbour, Bri tinh 33.
solution passed at the extraordin- ary meeting on June 29, in ef fect, that Article 148 of the Articles of Association of the company bo altered to read as followss
get tight.
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They stood upon the river bank,
As happy na could be. A goat ran up and picked on him,
And he went out to sea.
ing of the directors shall be decided "Questions arising at any meet- by a majority of voten; in case of The insoluble problem la not equality of votes the chairman confined to mathematics or to shall have a second or casting vota" ethics. Mr. Falconer Madan men. It is understood that, the recon already passed as an extraordinary Ashmolean Museum ceremony re- I will now move that this motion tioned a philological one at the ditioned Kong Ning will be berth resolution as aforesaid be now can-contly. That quaint antiquarian, ed at her wharf at the week-end,firmed by the present meeting as and will sail for Wuchow on or about Mondey, under Captain J. McCarthy.
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The June issue of the Queen's
special resolution.
Mr. E. Reading seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.
Those present wore Messrs. J. College magazine, the "Yellow M. Noronha, P. E. Ost, H. W. Ray, Dragon." includes a further Lo Shun-wan, Ma Telu-chin, (diree count of Hongkong birds, as well tors), Mr. C. S. Rosselet, secret- as other items of school and genary), and Messrs. J. Gomes, J. T. eral interest.
Choy, H. Poon, E. Reading and A. Groves, (shareholders).
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ROBBERS' RUSE.
Ellas Ashmole, the founder of the Museum, counted among his treasures "an umbrolla, a dodo from Mauritius, and a 'squeedo"
What from Scotland,"
the squeede is no one has been able to discover. Ita nearest afinity in the dictionary is "squid," but that la not a monopoly of Scot- land, and obviously Ashmolp's specimen was a local product. If only the spirit of Elias would turn up at some seance and explain the matter!.
,"
Lambeth woman: My grand- father was an Irish, gentleman. DOCTOR GETS BOGUS CALL. He used to wear a top hat in the
police force.
Britain's Foreign Policy. There has been a very clear ex-'} planation of British foreign policy in Parliament, arising out of an Opposition motion for reduction of the Foreign Office estimates. can also be claimed.. that it is a vory gratifying statement of the lines that the Government intends to follow in its dealing with other nations. The whole theme, is one Major H. N. Saddler, R.A., has of peace a definite programme of reported to the police the loss of amity to all, no secret alliances that a Webloy service revolver which might become awkward entangle-he believes had been stolen from ments, and a desire to act as pence his quarters in the old cannery maker in the case of certain coun- in the Kowloon City Road. tries which harbour old jealousies. Britain, as the Foreign Minister has alsted, looks with sorrow on the instances of bellicose ambition that show up here and there, as well war which is still apparent in parts as the aftermath of the recent
of Europe. As for Russia, no dead set is contemplated against that country, and so soon as the 1997, Soviet can perform the obligations
The Portuguese vessel Tai Tak, refused of one civilized nation to another, clearance to which was Britain will be prepared to resume yesterday owing to insufficiency of ing seriously ill at her house in Majesty's service I draw
Man at Mansfield: I am in his diplomatic relations. It is again life-saving apparatus sailed for Causeway Bay. As the man rade "dole." UN-NOTICED CHANGES. distinctly declared, however, that Canton, at midnight, she having ly insisted on the doctor accom-
propaganda made adjustments satisfactory tanging him immediately, the doc County Court: Can you keep the anti-British campaign will have to ceuse the Harbour Department. before there.
be any re-consideration of the decision taken recently and
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Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
Arising out of the jury's finding
At the Marine Court this mor- ning, the master of a trading junk pleaded guilty to the charge of
alternative of 10 days' imprison avigating the harbour without lights, and was fined $10, with the
ment. -
Among the passengers leaving
The vernacular papers to-day tell of a new ruse adopted by Chi- nese robbers of late.
Barrister at Shoreditch: Aro you married or a widow? Woman:
1 divorced him-so he is dead.
Solicitor at Shoreditch? Why the neighbourhood of the Wanchai out of the house; she makes ner-
A Chinese doctor who lives in do you want to got this woman. Market was visited by a well-dres-self agreeable, does not she? aed Chinese on Monday evening Woman: Too agreeable to my and asked to visit the
man's husband. mother who, it was stated, was ly-
tor's suspicions were aroused, and
the
Judge Bairstow, at 'Clerkenwell
Woman: Yer can't
he promised to visit the house in your child quiet in arder that go back home and waff for him. keep a child of three quiet, can short while, telling the man to your landlord can obtain a better
night's rest?
Calling for some friends, the yer? doctor proceeded to Causeway Buy but could find no such house as "I don't now where the Pig and had been described to him. But Whistle is," said Mr. Justice he learned that there had recently McCardie the other day. Indeed, been some cases in which Chinuse there is no such hostelry in 'Lon- doctors had been falsely called and don, though some tavern or other taken to some empty premises in the country is sure to bear the where they had been robbed by proverbial nume, It is a conjunc men lying in wait.
tion that invites speculation (like "Bull and Mouth" and "Goat and Compasses'); but one is very chary about the suggested doriva- tion from "Piggen ("Piggen" being Anglo-Saxon for
The doctor and his friends were. on their way back home about an hour later when he saw the man who had visited him earlier
in the evening. He gave chase,
triet.
"Waasnil"
to have been long used with the general sense of "fragments" or "trivialitica": pig being used in its crockery, and not in its farm- yard, acnse.
Seme few days for the North" by the Empress of but the man managed to escape in milking-pail). The phrase seems
Asia this morning, were air, H. C.the intricate alleyways of the dis- Durrschmidt, Mrs. E. Stone, Mias Quezon, of Manila, Mrs. and Miss Owen, Mr. R. R. Roxburgh and
Peyton, the Hon. Mr. Manoel
Mr. A. M. Stewart.
NEW BUSES.
H: K. HOTEL SERVICE AUGMENTED.
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We suffer very much indeed from Beethoven-Mr. Joseph Hol brooke.
in the Leung Kwong collision case,
confirmed that a Chinese returning emigrant The vernacular press reports we are constrained to sympathise by Parliament. It is on the whole who had gambled away his con- very heartily with the Captain of a good case, well put, and should siderable savings, jumped over- that ill-fated ship in connexion with dispose of criticisms that have been board when the s.s. President directed against the present Gov-Lincoln was approaching Hong: his plea that he did not know that ernment, owing to a show of firm kong on Sunday, and was drawn the anti-piracy regulations had been ness in refent cases--in Egypt and ed. amended in 1924, so as not to re-having aroused the old suspicion to some extent China,, for instance
A Chinese woman residing at quire certain grilles which had pre- that the Conservatives would not 384, Reclamation Street, reports viously been necessary. It is hesitate to plunge the country into that between 8 and 6 p.ni. yester known that the amendment was The best answer to that unfound and stole a gramophone, some re- hostilities at slight provocation. day someone entered her house made without any reasonable pub-ed belief is to be observed in China cords and a few pieces of cloth- licity being given to it, and to-day, where, "If anywhere, Bri-ing. The total value of the loss we would like to comment on the tain has carried out a policy of is placed at $70.
conciliation and profound regard fact that the Government is too for the preservation of interna- prone to content itself with a bare tional harmony.
icial announcement in the Cov-ago we regretted that there was not more consideration paid to the ernment Gazette, as though by so claims of Germany for a review of doing it was fulfilling its duty of the terms of the Treaty of Ver
Builles, and it is gratifying to note eping the public informed of its that the matter of the evacuation deerees, There may be a few of the Rhineland is one of the con- people in Hongkong, who peruse sidered items in the Government's
While painting the s..
Sui the columns of the Gazette for Programme. There is also the de-
aire, re-affirmed, to obtain Yang, which is anchored at Kow-
The Universities have to-day diversion, but it is safe to say that satisfactory disarmament agree-loon Bay, Chinese fell into the.
become vast dancing clubs.-MÍ, the vast majority of the public ment at Geneva. Ever since the sen yesterday and was drowned.
H .C. Herklots. Two nearly new Thornycroft Armistice, Indeed, it has been the A report has been made to the
Films were our the publication,
(Germany's) policy of successive British Govern-police by the master, Captain passenger buses, capable of seat-only means of regaining the good- could not tell its size or shape and menta to stress the follies of hosti-Lumsden.. So for the body hasing twenty persons cach, arrived will of other peoples.--Herr do not know whether it is published lities while An avenue of peace not yet been recovered.
in Hongkong from Shanghal Fritz Lang, weekly or monthly. It is true that the bigger nations were of similar remained. We would that more of
yesterday, and they will be put on The wise ones of this world A poultry dealer, arrested by the run by the Hongkong Hotel should employ the charm of youth the newspapers, in the course of view.
Mr. P. J. O'Brien, S.P.C.A. Inspec- either between Repulse Bay and to ensure a happy life after the their search for news, scan the
tor, in Nathan Road yesterday, the Hongkong Hotel, or from merry "thirties" are gone-Lady' Gazelle and give publicity to all
was fined $5 by Mr. W. Schofield Felix Villas to Blake Pier.
Augusta Fane, that they think of interest.
morning for causing unnecessary be examined by the Folice and Sir W. Joyneon-Hicks. at the Kowloon Magistracy this
I would like to have seen Dr. These buses, which have yet to Johnson report my speeches.------ there are times when the announce-
pain and suffering to fowis by licensed, will probably be on the ments in the Gazette are so cryptic,
overcrowding them in a crate.
If you want my tip, beb.against road by the end of the week, involved in references to previous notiñcations, and so hard to under-DEPARTURE OF MR. DOUGLAS ported to be in wireless communi- regular service will be garaged for
The following ships were ex-when buses which have been in an early general election. Sir W
Mitchell-Thomson, M.P.
stand without a prolonged search
cation with Hongkong to-day-repairs and overhauls.
Shipmusters, even in China, are Automedon, President among precedent issues, that the
Grant, When this work has been carried not perturbed by mud-It is one Among departures an Monday Haining, Empress of Asia, Des-out, the new buses will be re of their kindest enemies. But at busy newspaper man cannot be for Manila were the American sau, Ixion, Namsang, Carnarvon-tained for augmenting, and speed-Shanghai too much of a good thing. bothered to make himself an inter-Douglas Jenkins, and his wife and Tacoma Maru, Tamba Maru, Delo-
Consul General at Canton, Mr. shire, Takliwa, Altai Maru, ing up the service.
Is enjoyed in this direction. Dr. preter between the Government and daughter. They left Canton for gou
Chatley told the Junior Institu- They are specially bulit for tion of Engineers the other the public.
Hongkong on Sunday, bound for Novara, Unio.
this work, and are fitted to meet evening his experiences in dred- Manila will travel to America by the States on furlough, and from
the convenience of passengers, ging and cutting through mud in the U.S. transport Chaumont,
having overhead racks for small various parts of the world. At
Ehanghai the depth of mud seemed to be endless. Who he put a The public will no doubt ap-drill hole down to the depth of preciate the efforts made to cater 300 feet he still found nothing for their wants.
but mud. Chinese rivers nearly As muddy as Chinese polities.
ever even see
But U. S. CANTON CONSUL
ON LEAVE.
JENKINS.
Maru, Hakozaki
Maru,
parcels and luggage.
· EXCHANGE RATES.
This Colony is very largely ruled by Regulations, a great number of our Ordinances. giving power to the Governor-in-Council to make regulations which, when promul- gated, have all the effect of law. And scarcely a week goes by but the Gazette contains either some perhaps not showy, his work was Borlin new, amended or rescinded regula- of the greatest value, particularly Vienna tion under one or other of the fto his nationals who found them Helsingfors selves in dificulties owing to the Lisbon... menecing situation that arose at Bucharest one time in Kwangtung. He has Buenos Aires been Senior Consul at Canton, and Shanghai is succeeded by Mr. J. C. Houston, Yokohama for a spell at Canton. from Tientsin, who was formerly New York
Geneva Mr. Jenkins is well-likod by all Stockholm
Billan who got to know him, and they Oslo gave him a hearty, farewell, with Prague a long period of send-off parties Madrid" and social events in his honour. Athers
Mr. Jenkins goes on six months leave, after four years ht Canton. of the most critical times the city. He served there throughout some has known, with the strike and Paris boycott, the Shakee affair, and Brussels
Amsterdam more recent events, and, thought
Copenhagen
Colony's many Ordinances. And it is left to the free will of the English newspapers to give pub- iicity to those announceraente, or, as very often happens, refrain from publishing them on the score either of inordinate length and technical phraseology, or because the particular newspaper man in whose hands the Gazette has been put for "clipping" does not find the subject matter of sufficient interest. There have been scores of occasions Carolina.
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The widower had just taken his fourth wife, and was showing her round the village. Among the places visited was the church- yard, and the bride paused beforo a very elaborate tombstone that. No further hendway has been had been erected by the bride- made towards a settlement of the groom.
strike of the European floating Being a little near-sighted, she. 80.25 staff of the China Navigation Com-asked him to read the inscriptions,‚...‚' .18.13 pany, it was stated this morning. and in reverent tones ho read:- .18.78 The s.s. Shantung, (Captain "Here lies Susan, beloved wife of ..18.37
W. T. Hodge) the last of the ves- John Smith, and Jano, beloved .28.3234 .307
sels of the fleet to complete her wife of John Smith, and Mary, 6.27/82 voyage, arrived this morning from beloved wife of John Smith." .1/5.55/04 Shanghai and tied up to B.12 buoy. He paused abruptly, and the 2/0% It is understood that after dis-bride, leaning forward to see the .20 | charge of cargo, hor officers will bottom line, read to her horror-
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