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THIS EARTH 18,OUR INN, NOT OUR
OMEJ. H. Vincent,
ough supervision to the work of contractors under, them and that lime-dusted mud, with scarcely any adhesivo power, goes Into a building under the euphonism "ime-mortar." There are many One Chinese imported case of who hold that Ilmo mortar should diphtheria and one Chinese case be prohibited altogether, or else of enteric, were reported yester
day. the Government itself should un-| dertake the thorough supervision of all building work-a step which would obviously entail a very large increase in the personnel of the P. W. D. At the moment, the Department's inspectors look out for bad materials and take action where they find them, but
it is obvious that they cannot supervise the whole of the bullding
EXCITING OPIUM RAID.
REVENUE OFFICER'S HARD STRUGGLE.
The Very Idea!
It was reported later that her husband was on his way to the Hall of Justice to boil her out- San Francisco Examiner,
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The story of a fight in pitch darkness on a floor at Jardine's The man with the largest feet in Bazaar, Causeway Bay, was told Great Britain has been discovered.
. During The Tellow Dragon, the Queen's at the Central Police Court this
Carnival week in College magazine, has again made morning when a Chinese was Spennymoor a boct firm exhibited its appearance containing a mass charged with preparing Illicit in their windows a pair of boots, of school news and several interest-oplup...
size 18, weighing 7 lb. 6 oz., and Senior Revenue Officer George stated that they would be presented ing articles.
Watt stated that on information to anyone whom they would fit.
These boots have been exhibited up and down the country for 16
of dangerous cargo.
day.
endeavoured to seize
Although entering in ballast received, he went last night to from Canton, the 2.5. Deli Maru No. 25, Jardine's Bazaar, and made reports that she is carrying 200 a surprise entry into the first floor. years without finding a claimant, cases of spirit under the heading o'clock, and two men were caught forthcoming in Thomas Roper, & It was then shortly after tent but at Spennymoor a claimant was in the act of preparing something bricklayer, aged 35, residing at S It is announced by the Royal in a large pan set over a chatty, East Parade, Sedgefield.
The oflicer said that he pinioned Roper, whose height is 6 ft. 9 work in the Colony. Supervision Naval Ordnance Department that the end of one of the men under ins., on trying on the boots, actually
unserviceable cordite will be is an architeel's duty, but, curious-burnt at Stonecutters Island his arm and, with his other hand, | declared they were a bit tight for
the other, him. ly enough, it would appear that Friday evening "next,
hut the latter eluded his hold and in law the owner of a defectively-
Mr. Bingley, Marylebone magiat- ran away. built house is the responsible The woman, who jumped into The officer soon discovered that | rate, reading a doctor's certificato: the street from the third floor of it was all he could manage to do Lumbar filsonitis"-what on earth person. We cannot help but No. 7 Cross Street, in the course a retain His hold on the first man. is that! Policeman: A "strain- sympathise with an owner who of a police raid, died at the Go-The captive was a Hoklo of sturdyed back." paya a "fair price to a contracter vernment Civil Hospital yester build.
A manufacturer's agent, fined at He struggled and fought, and the fight lasted for fully in North London Police Court for and engages An architect to
quarter of an hour, in pitch dark drunkenness, had in his possession supervise and yet who is vie- Pablic motor car No. 329 ranness. While being careful not to when arrested five, £10 notes, timised by the contractor through into a Chinose girl,
£5 notes, four £1 14, in injure the prisoner. S. R. O. Watt twenty-four age non-supervision by the architect.Queen's Road West yesterday. had to use all his resourcefulness, notes, a gold watch, a cheque for
The girl received injuries which At length he was enabled to twist $100, and a broken umbrella. It is suggested
Mr. Mend. Marlborough-street that architects necessitated her removal to the around his neck and kept it in that magistrate, of a
the loose collar of the man's jacket.
man accused of should be made legally responsible Government Civil Hospital.
position in a sort of strangle hold, drunkenness: Did he give any ad- for the work for which they sub-
dress? Policeman: He did, your nis plans to the P. W. D., and, Helena May Institute on Thursday, allowed himself to be led out to middle of the road.
A musiente will be held at the which proved to be effective.
Almost choked, the prisoner worship, from the refuge in the failing the Government's decisionNovember 10, at 5.30 p.m. A pro- the officer's car. In the street,
riven. Tickets are to be booked at what, the prisoner put up a last um George Tillyer, aged 11such a suggestion would seem to the Secretary's office. Teas may struggle, and it was was with some months/the infant son of be the only way of getting a be had from I p.m. onwards. W. R. Hillyer, Harbour Office guarantee of good work. It
relief that 5. R. O. Watt at length hnd assistance from another. Euro- Fuglerft will pass the Monu-.
pean, Mr. Fowler. of Jardine's meat at 5 p.m. to-morrow.
Sugar Refinery, who arrived from his quarters nearby on hearing the commotion. The prisoner was then taken to the Police Station.
Incorporated under the Companies.
Ordinamos. Hongkong. 'Alexandra Buildings, Dos Voour Road Contral7
DEATH.
HILLYER-A the French Hes-
Willesden man, summoned for not keeping his dog under control:
pital, on Nov. 2nd.. Peter W. to take over all supervision work, Framme of "Folk Music" will be having recovered his breath some He has just eaten a two-guinea
The
The Harbour Office report of the well-known that a certain class.s. Van lluntz, from Deli and of contractors cannot be trusted. ! Singapore, states that of 2.1: Of course, there has been a greatAsiatic deck passengers, one died decrease in the number of house
en route and was "throwed in the sen." The same ship reports the
Hongkong Telegraph. collapses since the introduction birth of a male child.
WEDNE "DAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1927,
WHOSE RESPONSI- BILITY?
There are one or two rather important paints of public in- terest which arise from the fatal house collapse which took place. at Shamshulpo during the typhoon ralas of August 20, and the nmgiatoriai enquiry which held into the matter' last week. We have noticed in a' contem- porary, comment on the matter which is rather
was
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Being charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning with pro- paring licit opiura, he was se
10. four months'
J
of the present Public Health and
According to a report made to need Building Ordinance in 1903,
but the police, Mrs. P. Kerr of No. | labour. there will always remain the dan 302, The Peak, was attacked yea ger, of inferior work unth someterday afternoon whilst walking qualified, authority is made legally nese who stole a roll wrist watch along Garden Road, by thres Chil
responsible for H. I Would he and gold relét valued at $80, interesting if the Government
The Royal Observatory reports
would publish details as to the that the anti-cyclone is now een-
extent of the supervision at pre-tral over the Eastern Sea. "A. de-
pression has sent exercised by the. P. W. D., and Japan. Moderate monsoon, may formed aver N.E. if the exact position of ewners, be expected over the China Sea. architects and contractors were The forecast locally is: E. winds,
moderate; fine. made plearer than pow seems to be the case.
hard
EXTREMISTS SHOT IN CANTON.
HOW, A PLOT WAS FRUSTRATED.
A during plot to attack the Public Safety Bureau, in Canton, on the part of extremist labour leaders was frustrated on Friday last, and as a result, more than ten persons were ordered by Gen. Li Chái-sum to be shot, says the local vernacular press..
volume of Kipling. That will show you the sort of dog he is.
Recorder, at Nottingham Quarter Sessions: Kissing and cuddling is. only natural between lads and
Insees.
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Schoolboy howlers:-- Mary Queen of Scuts was mar- ried to the Dolphin of France.
Polygamy is a thing, with many sides to it.
The opposite of practical is political.
The Plimsoll mark is made by rubber shoes when it is wet.
Derivation of "hypothesis”— Hippas, horse; thesis placing; put- ting something on a horse.
Ethelred, too, invented the dole.
4 sum paid to the Danes.
Tribularies of the Nile Juveniles,
Profiteering began when the whale seized all the prophet there was in sight.
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neas-Mr. J. A. R. Cairns.
The world is full of unthankful- ·
If you swindle them they will Do not try to deceive the public. never come again. Mr. G. H. Downing,
We must not have women as Sun- day school leaders who, say "We can't beat these short skirts." Miss Florence M. Hunt,
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The vernacular press states that in view of the present money mag- ket, crisis in Canton, the Canton The Chinese Post Office. Government has decided to pay The Public Safety Burenu TE. back in cash, two million dollars ceived information that the labour There is probably a great deal of the ten millions Government extremists were organising an at- misleading, in the suggestion, when has been Treasury Bonds, which were issu-tack on the Bureau for the sole
ninde at Shanghai. that the Nation-ed sometime ago. although there are some vital
alist Government of Nanking
purpose of setting free a few of points arising to which the at- desires to take ayer entire working Workers of the Chinese section are coufined in the premises.
The inebriated individual halted the imprisoned extremists who tention of the public and Govern-of the Chinese postal system short-of the Canton-Kowloon railway
before a solitary tree and regarded nem might well be directed. The first eliminating the foreign have sent an appeal to the Canton the streets, especially the Wai. O result that he saw two trees. His The Police were sent to patrol' its intently as he could, with the. facts of the case were that the
in a near concussion of the directors and other employees.Inawernment, asking for an increase Muloo, in which the Bureau is attempt to pass between these re- outside wall of a house collapsed, would be following the line planned recently given to the workers of the day evening all pedestrians were causing a general fall of floors; is known the Chinese desire to have Canon Government is considering This had the effect of preventing with the like result. When this
for the Customs service, which it
brain. Canton-Sumshui railway. The
He reeled back, but presently aubject to a thorough search. sighted carefully, and tried again, threa entirely under their control. The the matter.
whole subject is also bound up with
any attempt by the labourers to had happened a half-dozen times, the misjudged and mistimed agitu- tion for self-government." If one the month of October, at the Bo-nothing of an
stir The record of rainfall during
up further trouble and the unhappy man lifted up his
alarming nature voice and wept. may call it that, which is pervading
took place. China these days, whereby every tanic Gardens, shows that 6.46
"Lost, last!" he sobbed.. "Hope- In order to put an end to labour lessly lost in an impenetrabló activity with which foreigners are inches fell during the month, the associated is sought to be "purged heaviest fall being on the 11th disturbances, General Li Chai- forest." There is a good deal of the "unequal when 2.53 inches fell. Rain fellum; it is said, ordered more than treaties" foolishness connected with on only seven days of the month,ter of the prisoners in the Public The these and related matters which are and there has been no rainfall Safety Bureau to be shot. agitating the half-baked politicians since the 12th.
executions took place on Saturday morning.
etc. and the deaths of
of China, so that every student de- sires to have the least suggestion of outside control definitely abolished.cinemas for the last time to-day Pictures showing in the local
Chinese. It was stated in evidence by Mr. H. J. Fearee, who is at present acting Building Authority, that the outside wall was not really intended to be an outside wall but only a party wall, and
The Cairns Bowling Club was that three years exposure to all
convulsed with laughter recently, weather had caused deterioration
when one of the vice-presidents ex- tended a very hearty welcome to a Lo the so-called lime-mortar. The
member of the South Brisbane plans wert, of course, originally
Club, who was visiting the green. The vice-president elaborately ex- passed by the Building Authority, But the men higher up have a clear-are. "The Dark Angel" at the World STOLEN SHARK'S FINS. patiated on the many virtues of and the building was no doubt er conception of the issties in Theatre, with Ronald Coman and
the metropolitan clubs, but when volved, and they see more than Vilma Banky as the leading play- inspected from time to time by more polities in the schemes for neers; and "The Splendid Crime"
the visitor was at length called upon to respond, it was discovered that inspectors of the P. W. D. and .nesuming sole responsibility. Both at the Star Theatre, with Bebe
he was not in the circle addressed. the Customs and the past office are Daniels playifig the role had work WAS
discovered. It
4 A fine of $10 or in default four-
The Brisbane bowler. later turned urranisations of the revenue-pro- lovable girl crook. must be remembered that there [ducing type. The former happens
teen days' imprisonmont was the up but the vice-president declined
to "
his repeat
eulogies and As will be seen by an advertise-sentence passed by Mr. R. E. Lind- is no obligation on the part of to be a safeguard for certain for-
eign loan services. the P. W. D. to inspect buildings not so hedged around, and apparent-Italian Convent, Caine Road, is theft of two catties' of shark's fins has" remarked the visitor
The latter is ment elsewhere in this issue, the sell on each of three Chinese who Panegyric.
were charged jointly with the in the course of erection, although ly offers easier plucking, It has to holding its annual bazaar on Satur from a shopkeeper at No. 2A
"Oh, that isn't ber real name, system as it staruls to-day was or will be opened by Mrs. W. T." qualities of materials specified to anised by foreigners, and only Southern, and there will be all Inspector Grant, who was pro-
was the reply; "we call her "Dawn' In answer to the Magistrate, because she's always breaking!" which contractors are supposed within recent years passed out of manner of attractions in the matrsecuting, said that the second and to conform. And if a P. W. D. That it still pays its way is prob
practical foreign, administration.ter of side shows. Inspector finds that a contractor
of
THREE MEN SENTENCED..
there are certain standards and he recailed that the Chinese postoltiny and Sunday next, The bazaar Eastern Street.
third defendants were employed in ably owing to the fact that a cor-1 The theft of $600 from
the shop. The second defendant box ก la using inferior materials then tain amount of this direction by which was placed bohind the barthird defendant, who in turn threw stole the stuff handed it to the he can cause a prosecution to be tire nationalisation of the postal Naval Yard, was yesterday re- defendant could gather it up.
foreigners remains.
With the en of the Officers Club of the Royal it into the street, so that the first made against the offender as is service China would be faced with ported to the police by the No. 1
the likelihood of a steady deteriora- bar boy. The money was the the charge and were sentenced as frequently done, but, if after a tion of the system, owing to the
All three men pleaded guilty to building has been erected and the likelihood of control passing into Property of the Club and was stated above. Building Authority has issued an the hands of administrators with given to the boy to settle some occupation certificate, and if after much as can be squeezed out of Post by the club have been missing one intention the exaction of as accounts. Two coolies employed three years of weather exposure Office revenues. Ona northern since the theft.
paper sees therein the inevitable ruination of the postal service, first-
a lime-mortar party wall collapses,
A delayed Harbour Office report
it in manifestly unfair to blumsy a gradual overtaking of savings of the Swedish vessel Atlantic,
in that regard our contemporary was guilty of an unwarranted
conserc.
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"What a pretty name your maid
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Paris
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Brussels
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DEATH OF A GERMAN PRINCE.
Visins ... Helsingfors Lisbon, Bucharest Buenos Aires Shanghai
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Milan.. Stockholm Oslo
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RESULT OF MOTOR-CYCLE ACCIDENT.
P. W. D. officials. We think that by expenditure, and then a collapse states that she was carrying 1,600 when the revenue-producing, ma- tons of coal for local discharge chinery suffers a breakdown. It is and 3,000 of coal for Canton, to be feared that this conclusion is from Chinwantao. This is the
Berlin, Nov. 15 the inevitable one. It is not a pro- vessel which was fired on whilst mising outlook, for trade and other uploading at Whampoa some fow
Prince George Wilhelm Von We would argue, however, that interests will be considerably affect- days ago. Her report this morn- Schoennich-Carolath, the second Madrid the law in the matter of buildings cd by disorganisation of the postsing states that she is in ballast son of the ex-Kaiser's second wife, Athens ought to be much more explicit, graphs: yet in recent events up presumed that discharge was.com-Silesia, as the result of a motor-Hongkong
similarly to the purely Chinese tele- from Canton, and it is therefore Hermine, by her former husband, fio... has died in hospital at Gruenberg, Bombay because it is no secret that some north we are undoubtedly being pleted without further Interfer
Silver (spot and forward). architects do not give close en shown the writing on the wall
ence.
cycle smash-Reuter.
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