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enn travel comfortably and quickly. from Europe to Asia and to South Africa by aeroplane. The R. A. F. lights to the Cape and back,, and, recently, Mr. Van Lear Black's vlait by air to the Dutch East Indica, and his return to Holland,
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A MAN'S VIRTUE IS TO BE MEA- SURED, NOT BY HIS EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS, BUT 111 EVERYDAY-CON- DUCT.-Pascal.
The local weather forecast up to noon to-morrow, issued by the Royal Observatory, is: S. winds, mo dorate; cloudy, fair to showery,
1927.
MARINE COURT CASES.
GÃOL FOR BOARDING "A'
STEAMER
The Very Idea!
One afternoon a stranger de-
At the Marine Court this morn-barked from a train at a hustling ing, before Lieut. Commdr. G. F. town and headed up the street. Hole, Ling Yau, an unemployed ally he met a man who looked
like a native, coolie of Walchau, was charged with boarding the 8.8. Kun Sangat are you a resident of this town?" "Pardon me," said the strangor, Kowloon Wharf, without permis.
What
sion of the emmanding officer. "Yes, sir," was the ready rejoin. N Defendant pleaded guilty, and dor of the other. "I have been hero acknowledged a previous convic-something liko fifty years. tion for a similar offence in ro- can I do for you?""
"I am looking for a criminal spect of the s.s. Sumatra Maru ón July 21, when he was sentenced to lawyer," responded the stranger. 10 days' imprisonment. In view "Have you one here?" of the fact that the accused had 30 soon repeated his offence, his This morning's Barbour Office Re-Worship inflicted a sentence of two ports, gave 13 arrivals and 14 dopar- months' imprisonment with hard ros, of which seven and five ros labour, without the option of a pectively were British leaving 75 fine.
Refusal to Stop. vossels in barbour, British 38.
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take place this afternoon between The baseball game scheduled to the Japanese and Filipino Clubs has been abandoned owing to the unfavourable state of the ground.
when
At a later sitting of the Court, Cheung Kan, master of the steam- with, (a) failing to stop launch Kwang Kim, was charged called upon by the Police, and (b) falling to report arrival to the Harbour Master's station at Tai "O on August 1. Defendant plead-
The s. Paul Lecat, arriving from within a few weeks, have shown Yokohama and Shanghai, reports what an advanced state has already ons caso of typhoid fever on board. been reached in the matter. The
The 8.5. Empresa of Asia, which British Government is proceedingleft Hongkong on July 13th arrived Apace with its project for the Im-at Vancouver on Sunday. perial Airways routes linking up various parts of the Empire. Air- ship bases are already surveyed, the ships are under construction, and in very few years there should be a regular service in operation. Hongkong is taking steps now for a civilian landing ground at the Kai Tack reclamation area, and in time one may perhaps book here for one's Home leave, choosing either the old Suez route or via Canada, or across Sibarin; but by air, and travelling in about one Afth the present time. A 12 Owing to pressure of other ed not guilty. might take a month's leave and public duties, Brig.-Gen. Mac- Police Sergeant Swan stated that spend a
has gay week in London.naghtën
resigned the he first sighted the launch from clairmanship of the Muni- the station verandah, close off Tai Dreams perhaps; but dreams that
cipal Economy Committee in D. He ordered her to stop by mak- are certainly coming truc.
Shanghai, Mr. V. Meyer has suc-ing the regulation signals, but ceeded him in this position.
these were not attended to, al- though repeated some four of are Hongkong May Beneft.
Two Naval petty officers were steered in the direction of Hong- tinies. The launch was then thrown out of ricahas in Arsenal kong, and witness stated further It's an ill wind that blows no- body any good, and with that old cyclo combination collided with the
street last night when a motor that he had ordered her to heave adage in mind we would like to re-
two vehicles. There were no per-bows from a Winchester rifle.
to by firing a shot across her flect upon the fact that the newly-sonal injuries and little damage imposed surtaxes at Shanghai are likely to affect this Colony, bene-
was done to the motor cycle or ficially so far as purely local trade gos. By order of the Nanking Government-of which the Customs Versois expected to be in com at Shanghai are taking full noticomunication with Hongkong to-day surtaxes of 10 per cent on all wore: Devanhu, Kashgar, Empress "luxuries" and 50 per cent, on of Canada, nicking, Kalyan, Pro- tobacco are now being imposed, and sident Pierce, President Polk, Eum one has only to glance, through the sang, Yuonsang, Hiram, Yannlee, published list of what are consider-Kutsang. Paul Locat, Tailwn, Maru, ed "luxuries" to realise that prac-Panung Maru, Honolulu Maru, Saud- tically all articles of daily uso, viken. Tiisondari, Glengarry, Cromer apart from food and clothing, are and Tonkin. now subject to the now inipust. MARQUES-AL the Kowloon Hos. The fact that Shanghai is an Inter- pital, this morning, J. L. Mar- national Settlement would seen to ques, assistant purser of sister, for the Customs are levying be making no difference in this mat Taishan. Funeral passes the the surtax upon all imports. A few Monument at 6 p.m. to-day.
years ago it was considered that Shanghai was the cheapest and best port in the Far East at which over- Sen ships could re-provision for their return trip to whatever their Home port might happen to be, buttiin. of late that has been changing. When the Customs, tariff was in-
Incorporated under the Companies
Ordinances Hongkong. Alexandra Buildings,
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THANKS.
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Mr. and Mrs, Rahim wish to ex
press their deep thanks for the expressions of sympathy and condolence from their -numerous friends, customers and relatives in their recent sa bereavement:
DEATH.
The
Thongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1927.
WORLD AIRWAYS.
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this signal, information was tele- No notice having been taken of
phoned to Tsim Sha Tsui, and an arrest was effected on arrival, by the water Police.
"Woil" said the native rodec- tively, "we think we have, but wo can't prove it on him."
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An Englishman was playing over a golf course in Scotland, and playing very badly.
there cannot be worse players "Dear, dear!" he said at last,
than myself."
"Weel, weel, maybe "there are worse players," said the caddie consolingly, but, they dinna play."
Solicitor at Shoreditch County Court: You know what a lie ls? another Woman, pointing to woman: Yes, every time she openë" her mouth.
when Hackney man,
asked whether he had a dowry with his wife: You can bet she was not on. -- the Drage system.
Solicitor at Shoreditch County Court to a man: How did you become acquainted with the defen- dant? Judgo Cluor: Don't ask. him! They begin with the flood get out. and end with the Ark, and never
Magistrato at Tottenham to a wife: You married him for better or worse. Wife: I married him The prosecuting officer applied to better myself. You see, I was for an adjournment to produce out of work when he asked me. further witnesses, and his Worship Willesden man, anxiously: Am granted the order, allowing bail in I allowed to swear in court? two sureties of $100 each, the caso Mun at Acton: How could I be to be again called on August 10 at drunk? I borrowed 2a. 6d. 10.30 am.
Mr. Luke, Willesden magistrate, Sergeant Swan was also the pro-to an untidy prisoner I advise secator in another case, where the you to go home and do three things master of a junk was charged with have a good wash and shave, put similar offences, and pleading on a clean collar, and then sign guilty, was fined $50 with the alter the pledge, native of two months' imprison-
A theft was carried out at the residence of Mrs. G. J. Harman at time between the hours of 12.30ment. No. 20 Peak Road yesterday. Some- and 1.20 in the afternoon, it is reported that a thief entered the bedroom and stole two gold rings which the owner valued at $250. The rings were missed when Mrs. Harman returned to the room after
Poln
SYMPATHETIC BURGLAR.
Tottenham magistrate: You say that you have never lived with Your husband. Why did you murry him! Wife: I preferred "Mrs." to "Miss."
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Patrick Kinsella, aged thirty- eight, a vulet, was remanded at EXTENDS CONDOLENCES TO Marlborough street Police Court
VICTIM OF THEFT.
on a charge of stealing from a Easily the best medium Negrt has had to date, from a
Berkeley-street service flat, a seal- A very smart capture was relat-skin fur coat, the property of Mr. strictly story point of view, theed to the Kowloon Magistrate this Frederick Hynde Fox, a merchant Paramount success, "A Woman of morning when un unemployed | banker, who valued the coat at the World," which will be screened Chinese was charged, before Mr. 187. in the Star Theatre for the Inst W. Schofield with larceny of a time this evening, claims attention number of articles of clothing for its note of drama and for its from No. 622, Shanghai Street, light comedy vein. The picture in during the early hours of yester
day morning, gain. in full of interest, the director having
creased to 71% per cent. some years ago, the advantages of Shanghai were disappearing and now that all such things as prints, brushes, ing- truments of very kind, soap and countless articles needed by ships are to bear a heavier duty, it is not at all inconceivable that Hongkong, as a port offering cheap ship-chand lery, will stand to
THIEF TIED TO THE MAST.
Sub-Inspector Dick informed his
i.
It was stated that Kinsella attempted to sell the coat, under the pretence that it belonged to Mr. John McCormack, the famous
vocalist.
than
We are more prosperous than house on rising at 4 a.m. yester-we used to be Mr. Churchill. day found a quantity of clothing There is no borough more strewn about the floor, She call-maligned
Poplar. The ed her master, and it was Inter Deputy Town-Clerk, discovered that several articles Anything that, stands between had been stolen. On the Police | God's sun and God's little children being informed, a vacant house I would abolish.-Mr. Lloyd adjoining the complainant's was George, searched and in the rear of the floor, the defendant was found with the missing articles at his side.
trade from the many ships making made a skilful blend of the come Worship that a small girl of the call. Hongkong has already and the dramatic. benefitted by the food embargo which was imposed against Shang- hal produce being shipped to ports in the hands of the Northern fac- tion, such an article as flour, in particular, being sent up from here to Tientsin in large quantities. The Shanghai Chinese will doubt- less soon realise that when the Nanking Government orders the im position of duties on goods which can be obtained at places outside their jurisdiction they are only driving away the trade on which they rely for their revenue..
DRAMA OF THE CITY.
"THE PEOPLE VS. NANCY ·
PRESTON."
The references to the possibility of a Pacific air service, from San Francisco to Manila, which have been engendered by the successful "hops" "from California' to the Hawaiian Islands, revive the inter- est that was born some few years agó, after a British airship had Blown across the Atlantic to Ameri- en and back. There has long been a controversy as to whether aeroplanes or airships are the more likely to take the place of ocean liners when air travel becomes the order of the day, and it is still open to pro and con discussion. The project for a U. S.-Philippines service is likely to be accomplished before long, and a glance at a map of the Pacific will show how easy it is to carry on a flight after re- fuelling at Honolulu. The difficulty The prison doors opened slowly, is really the long stage of over reluctantly, and out walked Mike 2,000 miles from Frisco to Hawaii, Horgan, & free man. Followed weeks of struggle to caru an honest but there is a acheme--proposed by living, the heart-breaking search Colonel Lindbergh of trans-Atlantic for a job, hounded by detectives, fame--for
Hea landing-places for but happy withal in the love of aircraft, and these should materi- Nancy Preston, widow of his pris- alise in the not distant future, on pal, and her young son, Busby. Then came privation, perseru Such facilities are particularly de- tion and disappointment, till a sirable for the heavier-than-air last a job. Then suddenly a rob- bery; a murder, and a "frame up." machines, but alrships of the com-Once more the prison doors swung ing ern will not be so dependent on open. But this time-the rest is half-way bases. Indeed, it seems the story of "Nancy Preston Vs. The People," "which is showing at accepted fact that luxurious the World Theater for the last time travel, and prastically anfe jour to-day, at 5.15 at 9.20-only. neys for long distances across oceans and continents, will be done. in airships specially constructed for the purpose, while the aeroplane will be more of a secondary feature, more desirable only where speed of movement and hasty landings are desired, and best over comparative- ly short stages of up to 1,000 miles, But both lighter-than-air and heavier types of craft are assuredly coming into their own in the sphere of practical aerial travel.
an
"THE MERRY WIDOW."
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QUEEN'S REVIVAL NIGHTS SUCCESS.
PICKPOCKET GETS HARD
LABOUR.
It was impossible, continued Inspector Dick, for ono mun, to have gained access to the floor from the adjacent house without the assistance of another and in his statement, the defendant gave the Police the name of a second man but the latter could not be found.
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Even the electric hare may have its share of sympathy. An old lady. has written protesting against the new sport.
She is apparently under the Im- pression that the hare is given an electric shock to make it run fast.
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Mr. W. A. Rubick, on Aldershot grocer, who began work as a shop assistant, has bought the Theatre Royal, opposite the shop he now owns.
nearly thirty years in the same street, and most of his customers in the early days were the theatre patrous.
While n steerage passenger was ascending the gangway leading from the steerage to the unner deck of the s.. Hydrangea, which came in from Swatow this morning, he felt a tug nt hin chest, and was Just in time to sce, a man extract nome notes from his breast-pocket. The passenger immediately seized the man, but not before the notes had been passed to another person. It had been necessary for the
Cries for help brought the ship's Police to force the lock of the He has carried on business for guard to the steerage, and the de-vacant house and it was therefore fendant was brought to the deck, presumed that the man mentioned where he was bound up with ropes by the defendant had a key to the It was ex- flat, which he locked immediately and tied to the mast, plained that this step had to be he left. The complainant, said taken as some of the man's accom- the Inspector, had earlier seen a plices tried to free him.
man leave the place, who, on being
"The lease of the Kingshot Syn- minutes time and took the man to with the complainant and then and also own the Hippodrome, The police arrived in twenty informed of the theft, sympathised dicate, Ltd., who rent the theatre the Central Police Station. He calmly walked away There was expires next March, and I have not was later charged before Major C. no doubt, concluded Inspector decided what I shall do if the Willson with stealing $14 from the Dick, that if that man had been premises are not resold by then. complainant, and was sentenced to arrested the Police would have may even run the show myself." three months' hard labour.
had the second burglar in custody
The defendant pleaded guilty, was sentenced to three
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The defendant's record showed that he had a previous conviction and against him for the same offence months' hard labour.. quite recently.
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The experiment made by the Queen's Theatre In holding revival nights of pictures which have won Ayer Weng (Development Co... 19% Hongkong special favour in Hongkong, is pro- ving a marked success, judging from the welcome given yesterday to the first of the pictures to be
"The screened again, It may be only a few years henco Widow," Erich Von Stroheim's that we in Hongkong can book screen version of the famous stage seats in some form of aircraft for success.
à journey to any part of the world. It has been demonstrated that one
Merry
"The Merry Widow" will be shown in the Queen's Theatre for the last time this evening.
Jimphs,
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"I have made the deal on speculation." he said.
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A Dundee man tells the story of two Dundonians who, after death, went to their appointed places.
One of them on meeting the other remarked "This is an awfu' cracked up place. It's nae much better than Dundee." "
"This is not Heaven," observed his companion dryly.
The rainfall recorded at the Botanic Gardens last month was .28.61 no less than 21.85 inches. Accord
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6 68/64ng to figures supplied by Mr. H. 1/6 27/12 Greon, the Superintendent of the .1/11 Botanic and Forestry Department, .4.85 19/12 It rained on no less than twenty-
the 25.21 six of
thirty-one days. 88.25 The greatest fall was on the first 18.12 day, when 4.23 inches was regla .34.50 tered, the, next highest being on 192.70
371 the 24th with 4.04 inches, whilst 796 on the 25th and the 80th the re- 47% cord shows 3.45 inches and 3.66 2/6 Inches respectively. There were. .1/10 11/82 only two other occasions when .25% the daily rainfall was over ond British Wireless. inch.