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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1927
ONE GOOD TURN—.
WEDNESDAY
ship, and sook the arrest of the responsible parties with some as- surance of prompt and successful action. That day may yet come, whon political and other concerns have resolved themselves into some form of stability in Kwangtung. So far as Hongkong's arrest and deportation of pirates is concerned, it is a matter for congratulation in
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any case that we have so early been able to get rid of desperadoes from our midst. At the same time, the authorities here, it should be em phasised, very promptly acceded to the request from Canton for aid in the matter. We only trust that this action on our part will receive as much advertisement in the Can- tonese press as have the propagan dist outbursts previously manufac- tured for our detriment.
Schneider Cup.
attained by a self-propelled instru- imagine a speed of 300 miles per ment. It is hardly possible to hour-five times as fast as an ex- press
SEPTEMBER
DAY BY DAY.
AH THE YOUNGEST HEART HAS THE SAME WAVES WITHIN IT AS THE OLDEST; BUT WITHOUT THE PLUM- MET WHICH CAN MEASURE THEIR DEPTH-Richter.
The weather forecast up til noon to-morrow is "North-east winds, moderate, fair."-
The Chairman of the Chinese Mission to Lepers, (Hongkong thanks a donation of $160.88 from Auxiliary) acknowledges (with the Students of St. Stephen's Col- lege, Hongkong.
...
Theatre the
To-night at 9.15 in the Star
Forbes
Russell Comedy Company will present the charming love story, "Pag O My Peg. Booking is at Boutrie's and Heart," with Miss April Vivian as the Star Theatre.
In a message received from the British Astronomer-Royal at Bangkok it is stated that most probably the British expedition will to either to Malaya or Sumatra, and not to Slam, to study the total eclipse of the sun in 1929.
past
A Chinese apprentice plasterer Civil Hospital yesterday suffering was admitted to the Government from serious injuries to his face down a flight of stairs in a new and shoulders, caused by falling
28: 1927
FARMER CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN DUPED.
A COMPLICATED, MARRIAGE
ISSUE.
The Very Ideal
"Am dere anybody here- what wishes prayer for dere failinge 7 asked the coloured minister. Buss
"Yas," sub,"responded. Brothor Jones, "Ah's a spendthrift and Ab throws ma money round reck- less like,"
Disaster resulted from, a second matrimonial venture of a Shatin farmer. A widower, he arrang- dd, through a go-between, a mar: riage with a woman of Shaukiwan, "Very well, we will join in who had told a pitiful story of hav- prayer for Brother Jones les aftah ing been widowed by Canton offi- de collection plate has diala who shot her husband.
round."
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the farmer, the woman ran away," After living two months with
Nottingham husband: I have and the husband, in the course of never assaulted my wife; I have enquiries, is alleged to have dis-only thrashed her three tinies. covered a number of surprising Man fined at the North London facts regarding her past life. Court for committing damage: I These, it is alleged, were that her am not a man of milk. I am a former husband, who was stated man of blood.
to have died an untimely death, Woman at Willesdon: We live was living, and that he was noon bread and margarine, but my other than the man who intro husband always expects a hot duced himself at the nuptials as dinner when he comes home. the woman's younger brother. Complicated and unusual as the tase wna,. It was but one of those affairs which the local courts are not infrequently called upon to deal with, and coming under the category of "flying the pigeon."
white
Rate defaulter at Wood Green: I shall now be able to pay as my daughter has married a man in a good position.
A party of long-sentence con- victs numbering over-40 left Camp. Hill Prison, Isle of Wight, recently
which the object was to secure the weeks' visit to the prison hotel at As applied to the present in to return to Maidstone Prison. stance, it denoted a conspiracy of They have anded their three
money that customarily changes Camp Hill, where they greatly hands at these native weddings. enjoyed the freedom of life in In point of fact, the first husband Parkhurst Forest, doing light. in the case was charged with sell- | gårdening and forestry work, ing his wife, and the woman with when the weather permitted. whereby a sum of $75 was obtain conniving out. an arrangement They travelled in motor coaches.
ed under false pretences from the farmer as a wedding dowry.
wedding present, over and above the $75, he gave his bride "a suit of clothes, and, possibly, a dollar." Saturday morning.
The case was adjourned until
RECORD BY BRITISH RAILWAY.
I am proud to be a member of the Conservative partyMrs Parkhurst,
Three hundred MacDonalds are worth three thousand of any other set. Mr. Baldwin.
The work of making Shakespeare real to the people lies in the hands Nugent Monck.
Bible readers will be interested, no doubt, by the latest theory that the manna which supported the Israelites in the wilderness was the exudation of a parasite of the 'taniarrisk, but many will be surprised, perhaps, to learn that it is still gathered and used in considerable quantities.
Britishers do not very often give themselves praise for speed, pre- ferring modestly to hand out flat- tery to others in this respect. But it is the sober truth that Britain
A report has been made to the now possesses the world's records police by Leung Kai, a rent collec for speed both on land and in the tor employed by Mr. Lee Hy-san, air.
Major Segrave's 207 miles that sometime during the per hour achieved by motor car on week, someone stole Daytona Beach, and Flight Lieut-Building, in Kennedy Road, a from Lee enant Webster's 281.49 miles per quantity of door, bolts and window hour achieved on Monday at Venice fasteners valued at $136. in the Schneider Cup seaplane race stand supreme to-day as represent- ing the highest achievements of
In a fit of temper, a young mankind in this respect and Chinese living at 282 Tai Nam perhaps a little pride in these Street, second floor, threw a rice matters will be forgiven Bri- bowl at his father, inflicting such tishers as not too unbacom serious injuries that the old man
Both denied the charges when ing, but only natural.. Many had to be removed to the Govern arraigned before Mr. R. E. Lind- will be the sincere congratulations ment Civil Hospital. The youth, sell this morning, and after a extended to the designers of the it is learned, has since decamped.very prolonged hearing the case wonderful engines and planes which can hurtle themselves through the
was adjourned. "Before this, the Pictures showing for the last farmer in evidence gave details air at the really collosal speed of time to-day are Viola Dana's "Aof the wedding, stating that as a of the amateur societies.-Mr. nearly five miles a minute (a speed Noise in Newboro" at the 6.16 and actually attained during trials) and 9.20 performances in the World also to the intrepid aviators who Theatre and "Hotel Potemkin," the make such things possible.. Ob- unusual German film with Vilma" viously, the pilots expose themselves Banky in the leading role, at the The casual reader of the news-
to certain death for if anything Star Theatre, from 2.30 to 8.30 went wrong nothing could avert a only. papers here will possibly pay little terrible disaster. The machine- heed to more than the news value would be smashed if it came into of the report in this paper yester-mendous speed--the greatest ever contact with the water at that tre day that eight Chinese pirates, who were arrested in the Colony recent ly, were deported on Sunday to Canton, by the local authorities. This was a follow-up of their arrest by the Hongkong police, on the re- quest of the Canton Government. It is recalled that the men boarded such a plane would be able to fly this morning gave 11 arrivals and A new railway record was set a Cantonese gunboat, and, in league the whole of the way round Hong- 25 departures, of which five and up yesterday when the London,
kong island. Over 140. yards per
six respectively were British. Ton-Midland and Scottish Railway in with the crew, pirated the vessel, second! When one contrasts taisnare shownd a reduction, with poor troduced a non-stop run of 2991, seizing a huge sum of money, meteor-like speed with the wonder British freights, the heaviest of miles between Carlistle and Lon- amounting to a quarter of a million ful 44.7 miles per hour attained the day being in Japanese and don at an average speed of 52 miles
when the Cup was first competed American vessels. There remain an hour; as a feature of their trade, and the merchants there dollars in banknotes, Behind that for in 1913 it is vividly demonstrat in harbour 62 vessels; of which 22 railway train service to and from handle large quantities of the bare announcement lay several ined what tremendous progress has are British..
two chief varieties white; and green, teresting considerations," one of been made since. The average speed of the winning plane on Mon- which was the fact that a vessel day was 281 miles per hour, and
Hitherto the world record has Money, jewellery and clothing
The general belief among the to the value of $131 was yester been claimed for the London and natives is that the little white supposedly armed
for service when it remembered that the course day stolen from No. 122, Welling- North Eastern Railway's non-stop grains fall from heaven in the against law-breakers was itself & is readily understood that even lieved that the thieves entered the to London.
included over 20 "death corners" itton Street, second floor. It is be- run of 268 miles from Newcastle form of dew. victim of piracy. But the chief more wonderful speeds were attain-house by lifting the door ledge.. point to consider is the proof of ed "down the straights."
Another notable, non-stop run Britain This they did through a peep hole on British railways is the Great efficiency in bringing such law-which we can all be proud and it is enough for a man to insort his tween London and Plymouth.
regains the Cup in a manner of in the door which was large Western Railway's 226 miles be- breakers book where orderly rule hoped that when the race is contest-hand. prevails. One is presented with the next year in British waters, the very telling contrast between the in the race for even greater speeds. stealing fourteen pounds of brass train, who were
"Old Country" will not be behind Pleading guilty to a charge of London, Midland and Scottish case of a piracy, on a British 'ship. As the Air Minister said in his con- nails from the Naval Yard,
still wearing when the Cantonese authorities are gratulatory message the world has Chinese was sentenced to four a banquet by the company on a their overalls, were entertained at unable to apprehend the freebocters had "one more proof of the unsur-week's hard labour by Mr. H. E.reaching London, after their who flee to Chinese territory, and nel and material."
passed excellence of British person- Lindsell this morning. Inspec achievement--British Wireless. the case of piracy of a Chinese ves- sel, when Hongkong's guardians of law easily trace and arrest the
train--and one has to building, which was in the course translate it into the world of prac-of erection in Tai Pak Terrace, While a Star Ferry boat is getting tical everyday values to judge. Kennedy Town. only half way across the harbour
"STAR" FERRY OVER- HAUL.
SMALLER BOATS IN TEMPORARY USE.
The Harbour Office reports issued
tor T..F. Allen, who prosecuted, said that the defendant was, at tempting to smuggle the nails out of the Naval Yard by tying them round his legs.
A
THREE HUNDRED MILES NON-STOP.
Scotland.
London, Sept. 27.
The drivers and crew of the
EXCHANGE RATES.
In Upper Mesopotamia, Kurdis-. tan, and Persian border manna is plentiful during Septem-- ber, October, and November, when the folk go out in the early mornings and gather it by spread- Ing sheets beneath the trees and shaking the branches.
It is used as a substitute for sugar or honey, and the collectors find a ready sale for all they do not need for their own use.
Bitlis is the centre of the manna
From a London trade news- paper
Eggs are firmer, white chickens have made good prices, but old hens are very depressed.
The weather again?
A lecture on haberdashery pins. was delivered recently at the summer school of the Drapera Chamber of Trade, haid" at "Cam-" bridge, by Mr. A. H. Riddle, of Messrs. Ryland and Sons. He said that Queen Elizabeth, in the days when sheep could be bought for 28., paid is for 300 ordinary dress pins. In the year 1370 the Pinners were incorporat- ed into a City craft or guild .124 The Pinners were protected by .3494% the law which forbade the im
12.13%portation of pins and Charles L .20.43 received from the Guild £500 a 18.17 year, which he handed over to 84.52% his wife. Thus arose the term
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"pin money." .27.85
London, Sept. 27.
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.47.29/32
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Who says there is no more" genuite English humour?
A provision dealer in Earl's .4.80% 26.234 Court neighbourhood, London, dis- 89.15 played this on a window. sign;- 16.09% "When visiting Shakespeare's 18.44 England, ent England's Bacon." 1846
wanted men. It is a lesson which we trust will be taken to heart at
The following ships were expect- Canton, where there is still too
ed to be in wireless communication much tendency to hold aloof from
with Hongkong to-day-Saarland, Paris the
Kashmir, Athos II, Chicago Maru, Brussels rapprochement” which this.
Menado Maru, Taikwa Maru, Amsterdam Colony has always been willing to
Hirundo, Aeneas, Coblenz, "Hai- Berlin consider. It tells of the value of indulged in considerable specula- President
Passengers on the "Star" ferries ning, Lahore, President Madison, Copenhagen
Cleveland, co-operation, and the possibility of tion this morning, when it was Pierce, Hopsing, Hesser, Mausang. Helsingfors
President Vienna extending such harmonious mutual noticed that both sides of the President Monroe, Anhui, West Madrid ald. One good turn deserves, an-utilised for the embarking and dis- Chinhua:
Hongkong wharf were being Cajoot West Sequana, Khyber, Bucharest
Buenos Aires other, and one hopes that should charging of passengers, and also
Shanghai the time come for this Colony to the two Kowloon wharves. It
Yokohama Chinese youth, who had
New York seek reciprocal action on the part was surmised that an experiment three previous convictions against Geneva of our: near neighbours, it will not up the service still more, when Mr. R. D. Lindsell this morning Stockholm was being made to try and speed him for larceny, appeared before Milan... two boats left the Kowloon side charged with theft of a pair of Oslo It is significant that the last within half a minute of each other, trousers. He was ordered to re- Prague Bias Bay raid, which had to be their places being quickly taken ceived twelve strokes. The lad's Liabon carried out by the British navy Hongkong side.
by boats returning from the record showed that he had been Athens
out of prison only a few days' Rio without the co-operation of the On enquiry, however, we were His Worship warned the youth Bombay
ha Chinese authorities, has not receive informed that the re-arrangement that if appeared
Hongkong again ed the storm of criticism which was the larger forries had been taken there would be no alternative but
had taken place because one of on a charge of larceny, there Silver (spot and forward) levelled at the British on the occa-off the run for overhaul, and two four or five months' imprisonment. sion of the first punitive expedition.of the smaller-type ferries had There is reason to believe that the been put on to take its place in Canton Government realises, as do order to keep up the five minutes been squatting in Sai. Kung Rond, of being implicated in the armed audience rose and denounced the going, "a ricksha coolle who had A Chinese arrested on a charge At this mint the Irish in the the law-abiding Chinese on the of the wharvea was required be-Kowloon Cosy he tend and collided Lachikok Road, on September 8, the Bghts were turned on wh
schedule, and that the full use Kowloon City, yesterday, suddenly robbery committed at No. 177, show. The film was stopped and
be withheld.
mainland, that our motives have
cause of the extra boat,"
Without looking where he was
2.7/16
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purporting to illustrate Irish life: Pictures of an Irish plenic had been shown and the picnic was represented as breaking up in general 1ght with fists
-British Wireless.
been entirely disinterested, and that
with a man and a small boy, causing was committed for trial by Mr.the Irish present gave expression All the four big ferries will be slight injuries to both. The puller W. Schoßeld at the Kowloon to their views In inmistakable we have been actuated by the overhauled in their turn, and each of the ricksha was charged before Magistracy yesterday afternoon, will take about three days, making Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon
terms. Apparently no violence necessity of doing for ourselves about 12 days in all. During this Magistracy this morning, with
was used, but the frightened what those who should act have con-time the use of the two small dangerous driving, and on a plea Tho s.. Tal Lee, on the Kong- is generally belleved that management telephoned to the sistently failed to do for us. It vessels will be available, so as to of guilty being entered a fine of
police would be a happy day when this accommodate passengers during $10 was imposed, his Worship re- moon run, will dock at Kowloon for the newly-organised society for marking that this was the second annual overhaul and refit on Sature prevention of unjustifiable The boat which is at present case of a ricksha puller not looking day, the service being maintained alcale of the Irish caco hag be- to Canton about piracy on a British overhauled is the "Meridian Star" where he was going.
by the sis. On Lee.
gun oporations.
Government could make a protest
the rush hours.