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The s.s. On Lea will be dry docked for annual overhaul and refit at Kowloon on Monday next.
CORRESPONDENCE.
RACING "AT MACAU,
(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.)
The Very Idea!
"You tell me," sald the Judge, "that this is the person who knocked you down with his motor Could you swear to the
Cor.
man?"
"I did," returned the.. com- plainant eagerly, "but he only
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The annual conference of Scot- tish savings workors, due in November, is to be held in Aber-
doen.
whatever way they could towards the amenities at the temporary Y. M. C. A. with concerts, and other forms of entertainment, all of which were greatly appreciated by those for whose benefit they were arranged.
In Hongkong, too, the "Cheer O" has been a centre of activity,
Sir,-As a close follower of the King of Sports for many years I with entertainments, refreshmentà,
have not yet failed to miss a single and the like, that from the 'com- Fresh monsoon may be expected mencement drew willing and un-over the N. China Sea. The local meeting in this Colony or in Masoro back at me and drove on."
cau. I have noted with keen inter- forecast up to noon to-morrow latest how development is being car tiring helpers from the community.N. E. Winds, fresh; fine.
ried out in both ports and more The concerts got up in this con-
We are informed by the local especially at the Macao. Race Club nexion were so popular that they
which has been, in fact, making naval authorities that H.M.S. Cas- extensive, improvements since the had to be held in the Theatre for left England on Monday for Inaugural Meeting, Royal, and full houses were always | Hongkong, carrying relief crews the rule. Hundreds of the men who for the China Squadron. spent many enjoyable hours in the temporary Y.M.C.A. quarter's have gone away, and many others are leaving, but we feel sure that they will take away pleasant memories of bow.everyone tried to make the lads of the Services feel that they were among their own folk, and friendly folk at that. The main thing is that the helpful spirit was roused among the British community, and the example set
for what can be done when there is the will to aid. The time may come-though one hopes that it will not yet awhile-when similar circumstances require another in- flux of troops from the homeland to this part of the world: But should that ever be, one thing Sergeant A. E. Clarke. R.A.M.C.. will be certain that this Colony wishes to thank his friends for will readily take the situation their kind expressions of sym-in hand, and the call for volun- pathy and floral tributes sent during his recent bereavement.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WORK FOR THE 'TROOPS.
With the close of the emergency
A Chinese who jumped from an upper floor at No. 592, Canton Road in an attempt to commit sui- cide, yesterday, was removed to Hospital with serious injuries to his head.
A civic reception is to be given to the delegates.
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The most notable point of the Macau Meeting is the appearance Mr. Vernon Bartlett, who has re- An amusing story was told by of the statement of tickets sold. presented the League of Nations also praiseworthy in comparison The working of the dividends is Secretariat in London for the past with Hongkong whose dividend-five years, broadcast from 2 LO boards are generally not written. up before the first bell.
Another point is the expeditious manner in which tickets are paid. On several occasions in Hongkong
The Norwegian steamer Lerke, registering arrival states on her Harbour Office Re-engh my bets.
yesterday, port that the call was only made for picking up a pilot for the run
to Canton.
on life in Geneva,
In an Assembly Committee, he beginning to feel hungry. There- sald, a very polite chairman was fore he said, in French: "Gentle-
I had to wait some long while to me, we have listened this, morn- ing to some very interesting On the whole the races in Ma-speeches, and I am sure you would cau are keenly contested and I think over the important ideas like some leisure in which to. have to congratulate the racing which have been put before you. authorities of Macau in'encourag-I think we should meet again A Chinese woman was removeding that great sport which is pay- fairly early this afternoon, and se to Hospital yesterday, where she ing backers in quite healthy re-if you will agree I would suggest later died from the effects of an tures." overdose of opium. The suicide who was 61 years of age, lived at No. 13, Wing Fung Street.
T
police outside No. 83 Yuen Chow A Chinese who was found by the Street, Shamsulpo, endeavouring to perform some fancy tricks with a dangerous-looking knife, is now an inmate of the' Lunatic Asylum.
The Manager of the Kwong
viewed will meet with an adequale ported to the police that an em- 6,.Queen's Road Central, has re-
no Portuguese owners in Macau I note that there are at present except H.E. the Governor but in- lications point that before long their names in flying celours. quite a number will be making
Thanking you for your kind in-be late for lunch." sertion.-Yqurs, etc.,
"BACCARAT." Hongkong, Oct. 19th, 1927.
less polite and perhaps a little that we might now adjourn."
The interpreter, who was a little
English version of the chairman's more hungry, gave the following remarks-"The chairman says that if we don't adjourn now we shall
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teers in the good work we have re- Kwul Photo Supplies store at No.THIEF CAUGHT AFTER toff," he called to the chairman
response..
The Loan Success.
ployee is missing. after having, t is alleged, collected $150 from various customers.
A CHASE.
PILFERING FROM A CLOTHES by herself.
LINE:
• A man fined at Manchester for drunkenness handed to the Bench testimonials from a peer and a water supply company. "You're a
when a ane of 5s. was imposed.
Yarmouth woman of her neigh- bour: She is a wicked woman, and ought to be put on an island
Norfolk woman: I am always singing, so is my husband, and the children join in. A Chinese named Lam Kwong Opera or ragtime? Woman: A Magistrate: paid a visit to the roof of a block little of the latest ragtime. of buildings in Cameron Road, Kowloon, at five o'clock yesterday four, made his 113th appearance in Joseph Taylor, aged seventy- afternoon, and helped himself to various articles of clothing and
a police court at Birmingham
.
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As was so generally anticipated, the $3,000,000 portion of the A ship's painter was fatally in- Hongkong Public Works Loan jured yesterday in a fall from a WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 19, 1927.which is at present being raised scaffolding into the basin of the
has been heavily over-subscribed No., 1 Dock
at Hunghem. The -in fact, it was so on the first man was removed to the Kwong morning the application list was Wah Hospital, where he died opened. Those in a good position shortly afterwards. to judge assure us that anything up to $30,000,000 could have been It is reported to the police that a table cloth, the latter belonging when he received, a month for subscribed locally for a six per an exchange draft for $2,000 on to Mr. L. Osborne, No. 15 Cameron begging. cent. loan secured on the general the Sui Cheung native bank at Des Road, and the clothing being the
The British are the best sports ample proof of the general con-ed, while being sent by the Wai employed in the houses. known for several months as the fdence regarding our future Lee Import and Export Firm to The man was charged with the
The traffic, sense is well develop- thefts before Mr. W. Schofield at
ed in "Better Olo," of the-lighter-side-prosperity and development. And their dealer at Swatow.
England. Mr. Francis the Kowloon Magistracy, this Birtles. of-war memory, there has come we cannot resist harking back to
Great mental ability seldom The theft has been reported by morning, when he admitted the the point pre made during the
|accompanies great bodily size.- to an end one of the special efforts passage of the Budget through the Mr. D. L. King. Manager of the offence, made to entertain, and cater for, Legislative Council, namely, that
China Provident Loan and Mort- Sub-Inspector Dorling said the Professor F. G. Parsons.
If every the additional forces which the if there is that faith and co-clock and some clothing from his with a flat roof, and the articles thought he had only to break a
gage Company, of a desk fan, a houses were three stories high,
unemployed man fidence there is no valid reason China situation brought to Jur why the Government should not be office between 5 p.m. on Monday were put on a line on the roof to window to benefit himself it midst. It is pointed out that the a little more ambitious and borrow and 3 p.m. yesterday, at which dry. A cook-boy at No. 23 saw would be impossible for people to men remaining here in augmenta-money to go ahead with much-atter hour the loss was discover the man descending from the root carry on business.--Mr. H. G. tion of our usual garrison, though needed schemes of public improve. ed. The property stolen is valued with the articles. He gave chase, Rooth, Lambeth,
at $106.
and the defendant threw the ment. No one can go around this greatly reduced in numbers, are Colony to-day without realising
clothes away, but was overtaken in still to be provided for, by ex-the tremendous amount of only tim to the banknote
Another Chinese woman fell vic. Chatham Road, when the table cloth was found underneath his tension of the Services side of the half-completed work to which trick in town yesterday.
nothing further is being done, handed $133 worth of jewellery to hard labour on each of the two
jacket. permanent Y. M. C. A. But the and we contend that it is wasteful a man, who asked her to change charges, the sentences to run con- He was sentenced to one month's. little building in Hankow. Rbad, and ultimately expensive, to allow with its red corrugated-iron reef.schemes of improvement to be cover, when it was too late, that some money for him, only to dis- and its cheery signboard, will, for hung up when by spending more.
a parcel which she had believed (ns will have to be done later on) the nonce, be no more. At Monday the work could be completed and ing in it more valuable than blank to contain banknotes, had noth- evening's farewell gathering, when add to the general development a final troop concert
facilities of the Colony. It has was given,
often been said that Hongkong tribute was paid to the many needs an access of confidence, and Managers of the Edinburgh Royal At a meeling of the Board of people who came forward during although the heavy subscription Infirmary in mail week Dr. John March-September for the purpose
Y. M.. C. A. building at Kowloon, revenues of the Colony, which is Voeux Road West, was intercept-property of two amahs and a "boy" in the world.-Mr. Charles Levine.
man
paper.
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confidence She
currently.
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MOTOR ACCIDENT:
Scene School inspection.
Smith (reading)-Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, as his corpse to the ramparts we hurried."
is meant by 'Not a funeral note?*** Inspector (interrupting)-"What
Smith--"Please, sir, there were no invitations."
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"Do you really believe," asked an interrupter of the Bishop of London, "that Jonah lived three days and three nights in the belly of a whale."
STEERING GEAR BREAKS.
"When I get to Heaven, I'll ask The sudden failure of the him," replied the Bishop.
"And" suppose you don't find
about olevan
lose
"Then you can ask him."
From Mr. Arthur Lambton's
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to the loan proves that there is Orr presiding it was reported steering gear of a public motor of making the lot of the Service much of that desirable commodity that among the donations reecived car, No. 897, was responsible for Jonah in Heaven?" pursued his
about, the Government is not help-during the past three weeks was more cheerful, and a little ing to translate that confidence nie by Mr. Thomas H. Whitehead,
an accident, which might have tormentor. leas obviously "in furrin parts." into active commercial dealing by the Reform Cah, London, consist-lision with a traffic signal post at
been more serious but for a col its refusal to spend up to what, ing of £1,000 Registered 4 per cent, the corner of Queen's Road and book, "The Salad Bowl." Yet we think that sufficient can never be said for the self-sacrifi would be considered a very safe naming a "Robert Burns Bed" in o'clock this morning.
were the Colony a business firm, Funding Loan, for the purpose of Garden Rond at cing way in which the ladies and margin in the matter of an over- the hospital gentlemen concerned gave up so draft. If we want to make this
The driver appeared to
The Sunday school teacher was much time and labour to this cause attracting more money and more following prizes, Nos. 4, 124, 147, the pavement and would have col-
Colony a busy one we can help by We are asked to state that the control of the car in the middle talking to her class about Solomon
of the turn, the vehicle mounted and his wisdom. of rendering service to
"When the Queen of Sheba came the men people-by expanding domestical- 244, 261, 332, 405, and 421, in the lided with the wall of Murray and laid jewels and fine raiment who had come out here, in the ly, and it is in this connexion Hidden Treasure Competition at Barracks but for the collision with before Solomon, what do you ultimate way of things, for our that the Government's influence is the Police Stall at the Fun O' The the signal post, which was broken think he said," she asked presently. of real power. So long as the Fair, held on October 1st at the near the base. The bumper of the protection. From personal obser- Government is prepared to sit by Lee Gardens, have not been claim- car was smashed, but no-one was had experience in such matters, One small boy, who evidently vation, we know how hard the with folded arms and placidly ed. Prize money totalling $12, injured. Three military officers replied
promptly "Ow ladies, particularly, worked behind await the coming of better days, so due on these tickets, has been paid were passengers in the car. d'yer want for the lot?" the service bar, in the heat of long will the development of over to the Hon. Treasurer of the
Hongkong stagnate.
Hongkong Women's Guild and the past summer, and through-
Ministering League. out with a wonderful patience and brightness, often hiding a weary spirit, which had its reward in the knowledge of the gratitude which
all the
men have
CRIMINAL SESSIONS
CASE.
PLUCKY YOUTH COMMENDED BY CHIEF JUSTICE.
This morning's Harbour Office reports gave 19 arrivals and 16 departures, of which six and four nage was a little below the 50,000 respectively were British. Ton-
mark, with eight nationalities in
THE NORWEGIAN ELECTIONS.
Paris
much
EXCHANGE RATES.
London, Oct. 18,
.124.06
.34.87
12.10%
.20.98
.18.17
.84,50
.1934
Lisbon out-Bucharest
.2.7/10
782%
Buenos Aires Shanghal Yokohama New York Geneva
47.29/82
....2/0
..1/10% ...4.87
25.24
Milan... Stockholm
.80.10
· LABOUR'S BIG GAINS. Brussels
Amsterdam felt for this touch of home. A sentence of eighteen months' the return, British vessels carry-
Oslo, Oct. 18. Berlin The members of the Y.M.C.A. imprisonment with hard labouring a fair share of the freights hitherto are that the Conservatives Vienna.
The results of the elections | Copenhagen was passed by Sir Henry Gollan on and the highest through cargo of have lost 19 seats, and Labour has Helsingfors committee also laboured prea Chinese named Tang Sang, who the day. There remained 60 veg- gained 20. digiously in various ways to was charged, at the Criminal sels in harbour at 9 a.m. this cater for the needs of the Services, Sessions, with assault with intent morning of which 22 were British. standingReuter. and perhaps not the least part of their effort was the arousing of a wider public interest, and the
collecting of funds for the support
to rob.
A number of results are
The jury returned a verdict of
Large sums of money have been guilty without retiring.
remitted within the past few
Sir James Barrie's fainous story, Shu Wah-yl, one of the principal days from Canton to the Colony, "Peter Pan," as announced in our witnesses in the case, was con- mastly to the local foreign banks, columns, is to be filmed at the gratulated by Sir Henry Gollan on states the vernacular press. of the good work. Next there his pluck in grappling with one of cording to the estimate of a well- Tuesday, October 23rd. to 25th.,
AcQueen's Theatre from Sunday to Oslo were the many people, possessed his attackers in spite of the fact known banker here, it is said that and parents intending to take their grad Prague that he was being threatened with from Wednesday, last week, to children to see this classic aro ad Athens of varying types of musical or a knife. His Lordship added that Monday, a sum of approximately vised that the best performances Rio histrionic talent, who gave up a if a little more courage was shown $1,350,000 said to have been for the youngsters are the 2.30 and Bombay great deal of their time, and made by all persons when attacked by remitted from Canton to Hongkong, 6.10, the later performances being Hongkong self-sacrifieing effort
robbers, the Court would have while large sums are still coming more heavily patronised by the Silver (spot). in some
many fewer cases of the type to down every day from Canton, adds grown-ups with the result that Silver (forward) so as to contribute in deal with.
the report.
seats are harder to secure,
cases,
18.09 .18.50
.1844
28.50
368
5.15/10
1/5.15/16
.1/11%
25,15/16
.20
-British Wireless.