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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TOTAL
DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928,
DAY BY DAY.
NO WISE MAN EVER SPEAKÉ OF HIS RELIGIOUS FEELINGS Lord Justice Vaughan Williams.
Mrs. L. E. Basto and Mrs. T. R.' Percy have returned to Hongkong, by the sa. President: Madison to day, after several months' absence,
poses. Even if there is none left, the principle on which Nanking's claim is based is not affected, for the Nationalists claim that they aro entitled to retain a large share In other words, that Peking Has no right to the use of revenues raised in Provinces over which it exercises no control or authority. On the face of It, there is logic in. this attitude, especially since it is, on a world tour, is due to leave true that the Peking administration Batavia this evening and to arrive cannot claim to be regarded us anyat Singapore nt 8 am, on Thura thing more than a regional Govern- day. ment. Indirectly, of course, this question might involve the larger Issue of the future control of the Customs
Administration, which, ne cording to a recent statement by Mr. T. V. Soong, the Nanking Mr. J. Pote-Hunt, Shanghai's Government objects to being inde-most successful jockey, arrived in Hongkong this morning on the ss. pendently exercised by any of its President Madison, to participate in
FIAT MOTOR CAR ENTERPRISE.
WORKSHOP AND SERVICE, A STATION FOR HONGKONG.;
The Very Idea!
During the trial of a criminal Caso in Ireland the Interpreter was observed to be holding a mutter- The Importance with which fed conversation with prisoner, leading manufacturers of motorwhat is he saying?" asked the vehicles view Hongkong as the Judge sterdly
“Well, and what did you say?"
·"1 said, "Whist, you fooll Shure, that's the old idiot that's going to hange you
centre for their South China trade, The Empress of Australia, now, further emphasised by the "He is axin' me, me lord, who action taken this week by the local is the quare lookin' ould woman representatives of the Fiat with the red cloak just come into. Factory. For some time, it has Court, answered the interproter beon realised that the showroom rather falteringly, and service station were inade. The late Commander Johnquate for the increased trade ro- Gaunt, of Somerville Warwick-corded, especially during the year road, Bexhill, of the P. and. 0:1927 and in order to combat this Steamship Co., left £8,922 (net per-disability, arrangements have been completed whereby most of the Bonalty, $7,750).
ground floor of David House, in
epitaphs prepared for them by Des Voeux Road, has been taken woman or two have had their over in the Interests of Fiat.
Not only will the facilities for one who calls himself "Konsal the display of Fiat cars be greatly Green," in a book entitled "Prema- Improved, but an up-to-date work-turo Epitaphs, Mostly Written in shop will be included, equipped with Malice." machinery necessary for effecting repairs to cars. This will be in working order on
NO PERIODIC REFILLING rival authorities. This obviously the Hongkong Races.
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1928.
THE CUSTOMS. SURPLUS.
r
would be a matter in which the
Powers would, have a distinct in terest, but that bridge need not be crossed until we come to it. On the point of the Customis surplus, the right of regional authorities to
The Right Rov. G. D. Iuff, D.D., Vicar of Geole, Rural Dean of Snaith, and formerly Bishop in Shantung," has been appointed Rector of Pencombe, Worcester.
Mr. Frank M. Wellor, connected n share would appear to be indis-with Sun Life Insurance Company, pitable, and if political hatreds are left for San Francisco this morning on the s.s. President Cleveland. He kept in check, it ought to be pop- intends to reside permanently in the sible for the principal claimants to States. evolve some scheme on a mutually satisfactory basis.
Hongkong Shivers.
or about the 15th of the present month. The workshop and service station will be under the personal direction of thereby ensuring that all over an export from the Fiat works, hauling and repairing will receive expert attention from a Flat specialist.
The management will remain, the existing staff continuing as heretofore."
The late Captain Alfred Edward Ansoli Baker, of Hill House, Wana- Apart from the institution of ford, Paterborough, formerly this new service, room will be pro- Captain in the P. and 0.-service,vided for the garaging of a cer- left £7,097 (net personalty tain number of vehicles. Provi
sion will also be made for the sale £0,960).
of accessories, spare parts, shell
Some 50 famous men-amt va
There is the Prime Minister's: His fama endures; wa shall not
quite forget
The name of Baldwin till wore
out of debt.
4.
And Lord Birkenhead's-
No doubt in Heaven's vault some
glittering prize. W
Walts till Lord Birkenhead:
shall deign to rise, Unless, perchance, the high
celestial Lords
Have turned flamboyant words
to flaming swords, Here is another Cabinet Minis-
tor's:
A sad day for Alexander,
And many another 'dead com-
mander,
Joalousy's rife in heroes' hali
Winston Churchill has bluffed
thom all,
a length of brass piping from a shinoil, while free air will be avall And yet another reads:-
For stealing an oil pump and gasoline and Gargoyle lubricating undergoing repairs at Taikoo, a able for customers.
Chinese was to-day sentenced by Mr. R. E. Lindsell to four weeks'
hard labour.
The Colony and its residents shivered in unison at eleven o'clock on Sunday night, distinct earth tremors and the lowest temperature recording of 1928 being registered at almost precisely the same time. Although the shocks vibrated large A. Chinese, living at 587, Shang- buildings sufficiently to pause a few hai Street, described as a pattern maker, was sent to the Kwong Wah moments alarm, the Royal Observa- Hospital yesterday, having been tory dismisses them with the com-bitten by three dogs, which rushed ment that no shock would have been at him from a matshed at Kowloon An old issue has been revived in felt had the force of the vibration
Tong..
consequence of the demand put for- been spread over three seconds ward by the Nationalist Govern-instead of one, as was the case. Mr. ment in Nanking that the Customs Claxton might be asked if he can
not dismiss the sudden cold snap surplus revenue should no longer with equal ease and celerity! We wholly go to Peking, which is ne-
were scarcely prepared for winter. We knew that some sort of weather cused of utilising it for the purpose might be expected, but had been of financing ita military campaigns deluded by a temperature of 77 de- A paint scraper who against the Nationaliste. It will Krees on Saturday into thinking moved to the Government Civil that winter had begù cancelled al-Hospital from Talkoo, following an be recalled that some seven or together. Many apparently came accident, died in the hospital an eight years ago, when the late Dr. to the conclusion on Saturday that hour after. admission. The man Sun Yat-son was in power
the Weather Clerk is feminine gen- fell from a staging whilst acraping der this year, and endeavoured to the side of a ship, and sustained a Canton, the Southern Government help her make up her mind by fractured skull. demanded a share of the surplus, wearing white trousers and cissy' shirts. The result appears to have
in
The Hongkong Interport football teams, soccer and rugger, arrived in Hongkong this morning on board the 8.8. President Madison. Tho Chinese Athletic eleven, which lost to the Shanghai Chinese, was also on board.
1
was re-
ALLEGED LETTER
THEFT.
·SMALL BOY CHARGED THIS MORNING.
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this morning, a Chinese youth, scarcely higher than the dock, was pro- secuted for theft of letters.
his Worship, said that he had been Mr. Hin-ahing Lo, addressing instructed by Mr. James Hail to appear on behalf of a lady doctor; Leong Wai-kwong, who charges Mr. Le said that he considered the the little boy with stealing letters. affair as serious and added that he understood that Mr. Alfred Hall through illness, Mr. Hall could not was defending the boy, but that,
appear..
·
Kere Einstein Hes:
At least they laid his bler
Just hereabouts
Or relatively here.
For Dean Inge is written:—
Surely for him among the saints
Will be a special niche. Who had the courage to espouse
The causes of the rich. For Suzanne an unkind cut:-
When Death crlad "Game and
Bet,"
Suzanne complained “A Let," -But Death would not be cheated;
So here she lies defeated.
For
Lady Oxford and Asquith the author writes:- Dread Death alone could place
embargo, Upon the tongue
and pen Margot.
Willesden man, fined for keep- ing a dog without licence: There goes my shirt. I have been weeks saving that 7s. 6d. for a new one. Green for driving at thirty-six Motorist summoned at Wood
miles an hour: I was just run- Mr. Lo, in reply to his Worship ning into my garage. on similar grounds to those now been the opposite to that expected,
Woman at Willesden: Can I Lieutenant Henry Buckle, A.M., said the two letters which the toy being put forward by Nanking, and the very contrariness-a drop of 28 of H.M.S. Albury, Firat Mine was alleged to have stolen, were have a summons against my hus- that an agreement was eventually degrees in practically as many sweeping Flotilla, was due for registered letters. They had been band for threats? Magistrate: He said it was his Are you afraid of him? Woman: renched whereby
hours-suggesting that the lady promotion on Dec. 28 to lieuton-recovered. Government retained 86.3
EXCHANGE RATES.
SIN HENRY-POLLOCK RETURNED UNOPPOSED
*
*
A dear old lady made it her
In the hospital. On a recent occa sion she approached a much-band- aged person who was sitting up in. bed, and after a little preliminary talk, she kald to him very sym- pathetically"]. suppose your wife must miss you a good deal?
"No. mum," came the prompt
the Central Weather Clerk theory is one not ant-commander, Lieutenant Buckle duty to tell his Worship that the Only to a certain extent, and that per lightly to be discarded. In fact, recently sorved in the Titanic, boy's mother was also arrested, as is the range of the revolver I cent, the remainder being alloted the weather is not exceptionally depot ship for the China. Sub- she was suspected of being an he know he has in his possession..
After being a little complice.
North London man: My wife to Canton. Matters continued on suddenness and severity of the drop
cold for this time of the year. The marine Flotilla.
time at the Police Station, she was left me months ago, and has gone. discharged, for very good reasons, to live next door. Pa this basis for about a couple of in temperature recounted largely D. W. Griffith's famous produc- but if something new came to light Judge Crayford, at Southend! years, when the arrangement was for crowded cabins on the ferries tion. "Way Down East," with there was a possiblity of getting What are you prepared to pay?
and chattering teeth. The warmth Lillian Gish In the leading role, hold of the mother again. interrupted as the result of a on Saturday 'was within 2.3 degrees will be screened at the World.
Man: Same as before. Judge political crisis in Canton. Follow of the record maximum for Jan- Theatre for the last times the the boy, through the interpreter, I were a publican serving out Mr. Lindsell then explained to Crawford: "You speak to me as If ing this, various claimants enme held by January 23rd, 1905, with the 6.15 and 9.20 p.m. perform. that he was charged with the liquor,
sary since 1884, the record being evening. The orchestra plays at forward and it became impossible 79.3 degrees. The coldest weather ances, and an interpreter attends the property of the complainant, a Welling-borough: When travelling larceny of two registered letters, Superintendant. · Macleod, at to determine between them, al-recorded in January in the same at 2.30 and 7.16 p.m. though the surplus which had mean- when the thermometer dropped to period was on January 18th, 1893,
married woman of No. 9, Kung Wo in a motor-car expect. n bigger Terrace,
fool than yourself to come out of time accumulated was finally dis-exactly freezing point, 32 degrees. the 8.8. President Cleveland for adjourned until Friday morning at
Among the passengers leaving by
The heuring of the ense was a side street. posed of by joint arrangement be- The Royal Observatory line stated Shanghai, and the U. S. to-day, 11 o'clock, ball being granted in game trespass: I would rather be Derbyshire miner accused of tween the North and South.
that the cold may be expected to
were Mr. A. F. H. Mills, woll-known. continue for several days, but pro- English novelist returning via the the sum of $1,000.
caught poaching rabbits "than Since those days, no attempt lasmises fine weather, whatever that United States, Mr. W. H. Trenchard
stealing fowls. been made to repeat the experiment means, some-time to-day. Presum- Davis, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Way, ably if we try to convince the wea- and the Interport golfers, Mr. M. W. of a percentage sharing of the surther by what we wear, we shall get Budd, Mr. A. B. Blinke, Mr. A. V. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL business to visit the poor patients plus, but the position of the foreign nowhere, and if by what we don't Pettitt, Mr. H. R. Malcolm, and Mr. Powers in the matter was, in the wear, we shall get there even sooner. K. M. Cumming, discussion which followed the Can- ton rupture, made clear, The Diplomatic Body at that time set Its face against any interference with the Customs Administration, in ylew of the fact that its revenues Paris
New York were security against foreign loans,
Brussels but it also held that the allocation Geneva
Amsterdam of the surplus, after all obligationa
Milan had been met, was a purely Berlin domestic matter with which it had Stockholm
Copenhagen no right to meddle. This admis
Oslo sion was naturally viewed by Dr. Vienna Prague Sun Yat-sen and his Ministers as
Helsingfors lending some support to their con- Madrid
Linkon tention, and, of course, the Nan-
Athens king Nationalists now take the Bucharest same atand. It will thus be seen Rio
Buenos Aires that the issue is one solely between Bombay rival Chinese factions, for Mr. Quo Shanghaf Tai-chi emphasises that there is no Yokohama Hongkong idea of interfering with the fande Silver (spot) which go to the service of foreign
Silver (forward) Ioank. As
understand the position, the whole of the surplus at present goes to the credit of the Peking Government, but it is dif- ficult to any what proportion of it,', after meeting domeatle loan obliga- tlon's, fa available for military pur
Wo
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, this morning, a: Chinese was sentenced to nine months' hard labour and twenty strokes, for returning from No opposition to the candida- banishment. The defendant was ture of the Hon. Sir Henry London, Jan. 31,
banished in 1926 for three years, Pollock, K.C as member re- 124 bit returned within a few months, presenting the Justices of the reply, "she's got a wonderful aim 4.87% when he was imprisoned and then Peace on the Legislative Council, for a woman."
34.97 again banished for ten years. The has been forthcoming, and Sir 25.32 present is his second return to the Henry will therefore, serve for a
Fined £2 at Glasgow, for beg- .12.085
further period. Colony since 1926.
ging. Harry Livingstone was de 22.05 .20.46
Nominations closed yesterday, scribed as a walking, wardrobe. .18.20 Ng Sing, the chief of the Chinese Sir Henry being proposed by the He was wearbig five overcoats and .18.20 District Watchmen attached to the Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard and three pairs of trousers, and had 18.325 Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, seconded by the Hon. Mr. A. C. on him £4 in silver and £2 15a, in 84.675 died at the Tung Wah Hospital Hynes. Sir Henry Pollock will coppers. His numerous pockets, 164% yesterday morning, after over 30 shortly act as Attorney General which took two police officers two 103% yours Government service. Sub during the absence of Sir Joseph hours to go through, wore filled 28.675 Inspector. Andrew, who is in Kemp on leave, and a temporary with: nivos, purves, rings, .2.11/32 charge of the watchmen, and about vacancy will then occur.
.007% two hundred of the deceased's
matches, keys, and other articles The Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, which weighed In all almost a 700 colleagues and friends were pre-a nominated member of the Council, stone. .6.29/82
sent at the funeral, which took will shortly be leaving the Colony 47% 1/6.1/16 place in the afternoon,
..2/7
for Home; and although no oficial announcement has yet been made,
A racehorse may be described as 2/014
The death has occurred at Edin-it is reported that the Hon. Mr. un equine speculation. Mr. 1/11.1/16burgh of Captain David Landales W. B-L. Shenton may be nominat Justice M'Cardie
20% Neilson. Captain Nellson retfred ed for the seat.
.....20% two or three years ago from the -British Wireless.
TO-DAY.
demand
Dollar on Lighting-up
2/-'5/16. 6.11 p.m.
services of the Peninsular and
I am generally made nequainted with Indignation wherever it arises.Mr. Baldwin..
The British workman' on the
Oriental and British India Com- panies, after having had communð Forthcoming weddings announc-whole turns out more goods than of their biggest ships. During ed Include that of Mr. W, R. N. any workingman in the world. the war he was torpedoed when Andrews, office assistant and ac- Mr. Frank Moore, Leicester. In command of a hospital ship, and countant, Harbour Department, for his services in the Royal Naval residing at 10 Broadwood Road, Reserve he was awarded the Royal to Miss J. M. Wynne, 26 Broadwood. Naval Reserve decoration, Boad.
Ever since Eve was produced by depriving Adam of a rib, woman has hindered man from putting on side. Mr. Douglas Woodruff.