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GOVERNOR OF MACAO.
REPULSE BAY HOTEL LUNCHEON PARTY
FRIDAY
CATHOLIC REBELS.
TWO ENGAGEMENTS WITH TROOPS IN MEXICO,
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SEPTEMBER 30,
COMPLICATED CASE.
LANDLADY REFUSES JAM TO LADY LODGER.
His Excellency the Governor of
Mexico, City, Sept. 29.
(BY ROOT, MACWHIATER.) Macao and Madame Tamagnini Sou- The Presidential bureau za Barbosa entertained His Excel-issued
I sco from the last "Linkumdode" a bulletin stating that lency Sir Cecil Clament! and Lady thirty-four rebellious Catholic Herald" just to hand that a case Clementi at luncheon party at fanatics" were Repulse Bay Hotel yesterday when Catholic Father Sedano captured for her room because she couldna' killed and the came up in London about a woman that was sued for no paying rent others present were Major-General and summarily court martialled C. C. Luard, C. B., C. M. G. and executed, after two combats the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn with federal troops in Jalisco and Mrs. Southorn, His Hon-state..
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our, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood The first fight occurred at Los and Mrs. Wood, the Hon. Sir Shou-Mezquites where thirty-eight re- son and Lady Chow, the Hon. Dr. bels, headed by Sedano, were en- and Mrs. Kotewall, Commander do trenenol. Inso, Capt. Whyte, Capt. Forster, Capt. Johnstone, Capt. Dowbiggin, Mr. and Mrs. Servero and Milo. Servero, Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr. C. da Rosa, Mr. H. Rodgers, and Mr. Liang Shi-yi."
The battle lasted four hours and fourteen rebels were killed, and two including Sedano, were cap tured and executed.
The second engagement was at
Port Ezuelo, where 250, rebels at- Federal troops. The former fled to the mountains, leaving eighteen dead and many wounded.Reuter's American Ser-
The main dining room was į tacked picturesquely decorated, the floral and table decoration's being artis tic in the extreme.
The menu was as follows:
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Les Paniers des Grape Fruits.. La Petite Marmite Bearnaise.
Les Filets do Sole Waleska.
Le Chateaubriand, Sauce Bear- плізе.
Les Rommes Souflet...
Le Foie Gras en Truffles Stras- bourgoise.
Les Asperges, Sauce Divinne. Les Paniers Lady Clementi. La Corbeille aux Fruits. Le Cafe.
vice.
MINISTER REMAINS.
SOVIET WILL NOT RECALL RAKOVSKY.
Moscow, Sept. 29. The French Press campaign against Rakovsky has received its final quietus by the official state- ment that the Soviet Government has no intention of recalling him.
Leaving To-morrow, During the short visit to Hong-Reuter. kong, of Whitey Smith and his
[M. Rakovsky, the Soviet minis well-known orchestra, Lady Cle-ter to Paris, whilst on leave, is- menti has paid several Informal sued a manifesto urging the re- visits to the Repulse Bay Hotel sumption by Russia of efforts to dinner dansants, and the orchestra promote a world revolution. The played in her honour, at the French Government protested and luncheon party.
the Soviet repudiated M. Rakov-
At the request of their Excel-sky's views. The French Press lencies Whitey Smith was pre- was not satisfied, however, and sented to them and received high demanded his recall to Moscow. praise. All guests were apprecia- tive of the surprise playing of the orchestra during the luncheon.
More recently the French. Ca- binet issued a communique stat ing that at the moment there was
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OPIUM RAID.
THE ADMISSIBILITY OF A VOLUNTARY CONFESSION.
Holding that the prosecution had they could have produced, Mr. W. not produced all the evidence that Schofield at the Kowloon Magis-
opium without a permit from the tracy yesterday discharged a Chin- ese who was charged with selling
Import and Export Department.
Mr. A. E. Hali defended.
et jam for her ten
Now that sounds a kennin' com- plicated but it's wonderful how some of you country newspapers that a coblie had been instructed. The page for the prosecution was get hold the news the way they by Revenue Officer Brown to pur- do. No, that think for a minute chose twenty cents worth of opium that Alock Forbes was sent all the
way to London to report the inci- from a house in Tung On Street. dent but all the same, I think it's The opium was supplied to the nearly a Linkumdodio was reading the drug a party of officers just little short o miraculous how man and immediately after receiv
week after the thing happened. defendant admitted selling the ing aboot the case little short of a
raided the premises, arresting the defendant for selling opium. The That just shows ye how careful yo have to be, no matter where yo
aro.
opium.
Yesterday, his Worship gave Yo see it was this way. The his decision on a point which had woman was sued for no' taking a arisen during the hearing of the 'room that she'd pledged herself to evidence regarding the admissi gointo. Her defence, I thought,bility of the statement made to the was very woman-like, very human. Revenue Officers by the defendant, Sho'd fixed up w the landlady, Mr. Hall contending that that right enough, but when she dis statement was not admissible as covered, that there was nothing do the defendant was not previously ing in the way, afternoon ten, she cautioned by the prosecution. was for drawing back. The drawing room was just by way o' camouflage, she said, and jam was only dished out once a week. She wanted her afternoon tea and jam wi? it when she felt like it. In fact, because she couldan get her jam, she wanted it worse than onything else ship ruled against Mr. Hall hold After some argument his Wor in the world. It hail to be jam ring that such evidence was accept- "nothing.
ed in the local courts.
R. O. Brown pointeil out to his Worship that such statements were always taken by raiders to deter mine the responsible person. This procedure had been adopted for the last seven years,
Tenant for Life. Now, if yon landlady had had ony Worship on the other evidence Mr. Hall then addressed his saveo she'd have put a big pot o'submitted by the prosecution. He jach down in front o' hor lodger emphasised the fact that although every day for a week and thereby
a Chinese Revenue Officer had dis- had tenant for life. But no, covered shells for containing the them in court, wi' the result that the prosecution nor had the twenty she'd principles instead and aired opium, none had been produced by cents, which had been paid to the defendant, been produced.
she lost her case.
How is it that we all have a dosire for the things we cannot get or to do the things we're prohibit-
ឆម.
Yesterday afternoon the dis-nothing to justify a rupture ofed from doing? You tell a kid not tinguished visitors from Macao Franco-Russian diplomatic nego- had tea at Mountain Lodge, and in tiations.} the evening Mr. Ho Kwong enter- tained His Excellency Senhor Bar- bosa, Lady Barbosa and party at Stanley Lodge, Stanley Bay.
To-day His Excellency will have an informal luncheon party at Repulse Bay Ilotel and in the evening will entertain some of his Portugueso friends.
OBITUARY.
1
OLD RESIDENT PASSES AWAY. The death occurred yesterday at his residence at No. 209 Wanchai He will leave Government House Road, of Mr. Patrick Henry shortly after nine o'clock on Satur-Murray, day morning and proceed to
Mr. Murray was 61 Queen's Pier. From there the years of age and was for a long party will put off on board the time connected with the local launch Victoria for the Patrin and branch of the Asiatic Petroleum Company. He retired from the Company a few years ago,
return to Macao.
His Excellency was entertained to an informal tea-party at "the Club de Recreio, on Wednesday, there being a good attendance of local Portuguese residents present. The guests of honour were wel. comed by Mr. E. V. M. R. de Sousa, President of the Club, and dur- ing the afternoon they inspected the new Club house that is being erected at King's Park.
The late
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to do something and as sure apples aren't nuts, it's the very thing it'll sat about doing the minute your back's turned. Miners, for instance, are: prohibited from smoking and taking matches down helow and from taking explosives into their homes. Yet, knowing caught. wi' spunks in their posses the extreme danger, they're always
sion and gelinite in their kitchens. Folks are warned against jumping on the Ferry after the gangway's up, but do they take ony, notice? Not them. If there was no gang- way and they'd to scramble over the rails every time they wanted to go across the harbour there would
be
Much sympathy will be felt for
nn unholy row, though. Telf his son. Mr. P. R. Murray, who is and he wants to spit all the moro. a man by printed notice no' spit at the moment in Shanghai, late Mr. Murray also leaves five read the warning in a railway The As often as no' after a chap has daughters to mourn his loss. One carriage about no putting his feet ia Mrs. A. W. Grimmitt.
on the cushions, the first place he It was generally known that Mr.puts them is on the cushions. Tell Murray had been in indifferent a crowd health for some time, having been
to stand back and it pushes forward all the sick, on and off, during the whole Preach at a man and tell him His Excellency also visited the of the past year. His death will where he's likely to spend eternity China Ginger Preserving Co at be mourned by a large circle of and he puts in overtime sinning Yaumati, where he paid a thorough friends. tour of inspection under the guid- The funeral passes the monu- ance of Mr. Tsu Hoo-cheun, secrement at 5.30 p.m. to-day. tary of the company.
COMING AND GOING.
NEW SENIOR OFFICER FOR
WEST RIVER.
NO PRUSSIAN LOAN.
REPARATION OBLIGATIONS.
Berlin, Sept. 29.
The hitch is due to difficulties centring round Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles, whereby it Passengers arriving yesterday asserts the revenues of the German by 3.8 Kashmir from Europe in empire and cluded Commdr. M. L. Clarke. constitute the first charge on re- constituent states D.S.O.. H.N., the newly appointed parations obligations. It is under- Senior Officer on the West River, stood the President of the Reichs- to relieve Commdr. Fitzgerald. | bank does not favour the German Others on board disembarking public borrowing abroad from here, were Lieut. C. H. Drake, considerations of currency stabili- Mrs. E. Lauder. Mr. E. J. Sprad- ty. These joint views have bury, Mr. J. Scarr, Dr. and Mrs. parently influenced the States De- T. W. Ware, Engr. Commdr. P. W.partment at Washington.-Reuter's Warwick, Surg. Lieut, Prentice, American Service. and Mr. T. Soong.
A previous report indicated that Mr. W. M, Hewlett, C.MG., also there was i certain amount of travelling by this vessel, is the opposition from German banking newly appointed British Consul circles to this loan being sought to, Nanking.
abroad.
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STORAGE WON'T DO? AWRIGHT, THEN I'LL GET STRICTLY FRESH ONES RIGHT"
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SAM, G'WAN OVER T' TH'. FARM FOR SOME EGGS!
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R. O. Brown pointed out that even if the defendant had been searched and the twenty cents pro- duced it would not. strengthen the case for the prosecution. substantiate the charge.
Mr. Hall submitted that it would
His Worship remarked that the prosecution did not produce all the evidence that they could have done and discharged the defen-
dant.
NO MOTOR WAR.
GENERAL MOTORS OFFER OLIVE BRANCH.
New York, Sept. 29. Wall Street, which, ever since Ford plans to build a new type of the announcement that Mr. Henry car has been anticipating a bitter automobile war between the Ford: Company and the General Motors Corporation, is much interested in the reports of a speech by Mr. Alfred Sloan, President of the Corporation, at Milford, Michigan,. in which he intimated that there was plenty of room in the automo-. bile market for both companies, the with cars falling in their respec-
tive price fields.
more.
All of which louis me to think that the M.C.L. have gone wrong way aboot getting folk down to Lee Gardens this incoming Saturday. Instead o' enticing people there they should have warn ed them of the dangers o' eating Kandy in the open air; they should have been told that the Black Bot tom was bad for the thyroid gland; the ears and that Chinese dragons that massed bands caused wax in
advertising on these lines, the Leo Were a menace to digestion. By
Gardens wondaa' have been big enough for the crowd.
As it is, it's too late now and canna be helped.
THE LEGIONARIES.
LARGE NUMBER RECEIVED BY THE POPE.
Rome, Sept. 20. Legionaries have been received by Three hundred and fifty American the Pope-Reuter.
Unnecessary
OH, NOT SO'S YA CAN, NOTICE IT!
HEY!! HAY!
This was interpreted as extend- ing the olive branch to the Ford Company, and it is inferred that: so long as Ford's new model does. not invade the domain of the higher priced cars built by the Corporation, for example the Chev-, tween these two giants of the motor rolet, there will not be a battle be-
Service. car industry.-Reuler's American
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CHASE NATIONAL ABSORBS THE MUTUAL.
New York, Sept. 29. The Chase National Bank has absorbed the Mutual National Bank, the merger involving a total capital of $134,000,000.--Reuter's American Service.
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