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DAY BY DAY,
A MAN WHO HAS HAD A COLLEGE EDUCATION GETS AN ATMOSPHERE ABOUT HIM THAT NOTHING ELSE CAN GIVE HIM; BUT I DOUBT IF IT DOES, IN ANY GOOD-George H. Collin
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CONTRACTOR FINED FIFTY
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The Very Idea!
Two golang rivals were contest- ing the final of the club champion- ship. They were all square at the seventeenth. Driving to the home hold one made a perfect shot down. the fairway while the other sliced
Divergence from the plans of two houses which aro being con- structed in. Yaumati were alleged Yesterday's return of notifiable discases shows one case of diph- against a contractor before Mr. W. thoria (British) and one of small-Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis-into the rough. pox (Chinese)."
A Chiness was fined $5 at the Police Court to-day for taking a pointer bitch across the harbour without a permit. Ho was also fined $5 for lacking a license.
The rainfall, registered at the Botanie Gardens during April to talled 6,68 inches. This was spread over 12 days, the heaviest fall being 4.52 inches on the 21st.
On going forward to investigate tracy this morning, when tho' manager of the Hung Lee firm of the latter player found to his con- sternation that his ball had gone contractors was charged with us-down a rabbit hole. It was impos ing inferior "blue bricks" in the sible to play the shot, and the game construction of the ground, first was as good as over. and second floors of, No. 208 and
"Your niblick, sir?" Inquired 212, Shanghai Street,
the caddie. The defendant said the bricks, boy" replied the golfer in used had been taken from old houses and he did not know that a resigned volco, "hand me a
ferrot!" they were unsuitable for the pro- sent work.
companies are at the moment In keen riválry, and the latter will no doubt feel it a hardship that they are to provide a considerable part of the money "needed to free, the former from the burdens of local taxation. We shall most probably hear more on this particular point. An Interesting sidelight on the Government's policy towards the big industries was recently reveal ed when a body of political experts representing the Conservative As sociations throughout the country expressed the view that there should be an immediate application of the policy of "Safeguarding" to the iron and steel industry. The London Morning Post, commenting on that declaration, said that if the country were governed, us in the past, by a Government with the in- dependence and strength to tako any line they thought right for the such a measure would have been the cortago passing the Monument the good bricks were to be used.
at 5 p.m.
It was stated by Mr. Neville, taken long ago. But, it added, de-
of the P.W.D., that the defendant mocratic Governments had to con- A Chinese girl, named Ng Chi-had demolished three houses and of age, used the old bricks in the new pre- sider not merely their own opinion, fun, twenty one years and the expert vlow, but the mani-residing at 65, Nathan Road, died mises. These bricks were only in the Kwong Wah Hospital yes-permitted to be utilised for the fold prejudices and the stimulatedterday after she had taken a dose top storey, but they were being storms of ignorance and mass-of Lycol believed to have been seif-used for the lower storeys an woli. propaganda. The formula 'recom-administered. mended to the Prime Minister by
"Anna Chriatic" was recently this journal was:-"Let him, with produced at the Little Theatre, New a view to the next elections, deter-Orleans, of which the Director is minę to break those fetters of in- Mr. Waller Sinclair, formerly of Hongkong. The play was a great hibitory pledges which he has success according to the glowing MOSQUITO BREEDING. hammered round his own wrists. Let him make no exception either for agriculture or industry; but merely say that where it is proved
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know. The funeral of the late Mr. J. W.ing contractor, and you ought to Faulkner, of the General Electrie Company, whose death we reported The defendant replied that he
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A chow dog belonging to Mr. W. Simpson, of No. 39, Jordan Road, was yesterday removed to Matau-
The engagement is announced Lilian George, of Miss Dorothy the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George, of Kowloon, to Mr.to the satisfaction of the Govern-kok for observation after the dog George Bartie Frost, eldest son of ment that safeguarding is neces-had bitten a Chinese living at No. the late Mr. and Mrs. Frost, of
4 Wai Ching Street. The man was treated at the Kowloon Hospital. Eastbourne, England.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY. MAT 2, 1928.
A
THE GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY.
sary, it will be imposed. The Liberals and Socialists would, of course, raise a great cry; but the
A Chinese hawker residing at facts of our economic situation No. 89, Third Street, ground floor, was sent to the G. C. H. yesterday would fight against them." How-suffering from severe scalds on ever, the Government has decided his arms, legs and body. The in- toʻproceed on other lines, and time juries were caused by the acci- will show whether it has succeeded dental upsetting of a pot of boil
ing fat.
In pleasing those who have support- ed it in the past.
The French Elections,
Tho French élections Jhave
Mr. Winston Churchill has given proved a signal triumph for M. the first inkling of the steps which Poincare and his financial policy, the Government proposes to take and, with a working majority of
The 5.5. Nanchang, arriving from Swatow; reports one suicido en route, no further detalla being given in the ship's Harbour Office report. Chan Kow, fireman of the Arafura from Otaru and Moji, died from pneumonia on April 26th, two days before reaching the Japanese port.
Mr. W. Ként, A.S.P., prosecuted
stable was charged before Major C. Willson this morning with do sertion from the Force In 1923. His Worship, after hearing Mr. Kent on the particulars of the de- service the Force, fendant's service with the Fatte hard labour.
A fine of 350 was imposed and an order made for the walls to be opened up for inspection and then reconstructed to the satisfaction of the Building Authority.
FACTORY NUISANCE TO BE ABATED.
.
The Rev. D. Morse-Boycott re- have been reared upon the murecry minds us that all great male writes rhymes.
When old Mother Hubbard in- spected the cupboard And little Bo-Peep lost hor
flock,
And a man with a gun went. duck-shooting for fun
And a young rodent ran up a
clock,::
There was little to show bow. inspiring they'd grow
To the race, generations
ahead,
But they pointed the way to
our, writers to-day Who follow-where they no-
bly led.
The exigencies of London's traffic: may result in the perpetual banish- ment from Piccadily Circus-of-the famous status of Eros, which used to occupy a site in the centre of the open space there. When, some months ago, the construction of a now subway station under Piccadily The manager of the Yick Wo Soy Circus was decided upon, Eros was Factory, of Kip Shek Mel, was removed from his pedestal and charged before Mr. W. Schofield, given a temporary location in the at the Kowloon Magistracy this Embankment Gardens. Since then. morning, with failing to abate a the traffic congestion has increased nuisance by allowing mosquito to such an extent that the authorl- larvae to bo present in stagnant ties are now considering whether water in pools, lars, pots and the graceful atatue with its foun- enrthernware
thetain pedestal (about which a num- premises.
ber of woman flower sellors were The defendant said the nuisance always to be found) does not oc- had already been abated, but it cupy too much spaces to be returned was stated by Inspector Sinton to such a busy neighbourhood. that although there were no signs of larvae on the premises at Defendant at Willesden: You present, there was a likelihood of can't get sober in two hours, can a recurrence. The defendant had you? The magistrate: You are actually drained his premises, but the man of experience, not 1. the water had run on to a vacant piece of Crown land, where it had accumulated,
kongs on
•
"I want an Injection order against my tenant," said a woman at Willesden. What was necessary was tho construction of a sump which each other very well," said Mr. "You and I are getting to know should be emptied periodically. Bingley, the Marylebone magist- His Worship pointed out that rate, to a widow of eighty-two necessary drainage work on his her sixth appearance before him own premises, and could hardly be this year accused of being drunk expected to make channels on and incapable. Crown land.
"You belic your name," said Mr. Platten, the Tottenham magistrate, to a man named Water, accused of
in relieving Industry from the nearly four hundred, the Premier In a case in which a Chinese con- the defendant had carried out the whom he fined 20s, when she made." burdens of local taxation, Citing will be in a position to pursue his agriculture, conl, cotton, iron and programme without fear of cen. steel, engineering and shipbuilding fusion or equivocation in the as basic industries which are in Chamber. M. Poincare accepted difficulties, he asserts that by office a trifle over two years ago, October of next year the depressed when France's finances were in a manufacturing industries will have deplorable state. In the Interim, their rates reduced on an average the strong measures he adopted Mr. B. Pasco, of Messrs. Brewer by seventy-five per cent, whilst have saved the country from in- & Co. has now. returned to bust
ness after an absence of 10 weeks, agricultural producers will have adlvency, and the franc is well on due to a football accident · In
This would appear to represent
the Government's answer to recent criticisms that it is not doing any-
Inspector Sinton replied that the nuisance was not only in respect of the pools of water.
The defendant was fined $50 and ordered, to prevent a recurrence of the nuisance.
DODGED A PUNCH.
INTRUDER SENTENCED ON THREE COUNTS.
The tenant of an upper floor at
drunkenness.
"Kept no books! That is one way of giving trouble to the execu tors and proft to lawyers," · said Judge Cluer, at Shoreditch,
+ *
*
During a sham fight in the old Volunteer days an officer noticed a private standing upright.
"Hi! What
doing there?" he shouted. "Take cover. You'll be shot.”
nro you
The Rev. Francis Roughton, vicar
ing.
More than a hundred people fol- fowed the vicar to the vicarage, and by the time he arrived there he was covered with soot, eggs, and earth. policeman was powerless to help
these burdens entirely abolished, the way to recovery. To do this, February. Mr. Pasco was for- Railways are also to be relieved of M. Poincare imposed almost mer-tunately insured against accident by the General Accident Fire and local taxation so as to enable them ciless taxation, and in opening his Life Assurance Corporation Ltd., to offer lower rates of transit to Jelection campaign Jast month, the for whom the local agents, are what are known as the heavy in- Prime Minister issued a warning James II. Blackhouse, Limited. llustries.
to those who were under the im-
"It's all right, sir," was the re- pression that the high taxation might be relaxed. In spite of this, to the police by a farmer of Pat from sleep shortly after four enemy's colonel's face."
A curious report has been made, Tong Lung Street was roused ply. "I've got me foot on tho the country has showed itself, in Heng valley, New Territories. o'clock yesterday morning by a no uncertain manner, to be favour-According to the report, the farm-noise on the staircase. Then a able to a continuance of that er found his bull killed in the man's face was seen peeping thing to keep alive those British policy, and the returns are to be stable and he stated to the police through the lattice work above the of Galleywood, near Chelmsford, industries which have not been interpreted as a great tribute to that he believed that the animal doorway, and the tenant punched and his wife were pelted with sout granted the benefits of the Safe-31. Poincare's real achievements. was killed by dynamite, placed at it with his fist. The intruder and eggs by irate parishioners guarding Act. It has long been Probably in no other democratic there by another villager. The dodged out of range, and, the next after a stormy Church: council meet. country in the world in thegamative was stated to be revenge, moment, footsteps were heard apparent that the
Government days could a parliamentary elec-
scurrying down the steps. would have to do something for tion so exclusively concern itself Sontence of three months hard Out in the street, a District agriculture; us Farmers'. Union all with the career of a single states- labour, was passed this morning Watchman stopped the man, who man. His success is the more by Major C. Willson, at the Central was leaving the house in a great over the country were up in arms creditable since it was obtained Magistracy, on Tsang. Yuk-fai, an hurry. The man offered as a bride him. Mrs. Roughton and a number against the Baldwin Administra- coincidentally with a change in accountant of the Fuk Wah print to the watchman a jacket, a watch of women aympathisers were also tion for failing to carry out the the electoral system from scrutining arm, who was arrested on a and 70 cents, comprising the loot pelted. Prime Minister's assurances that de liste, or large constituencies warrant on a charge of embezzle being taken, away.
with several members, to scrutin ment of $380, maney belonging to
parishioners' grievances The man was charged before steps would be taken to restore d'arrondissement, smaller const-that firm. The defendant had Mr. R. E. Lindseli, at the Central the children's trest in the school- were that the vicar refused to allow this industry to a state of pros-tuencies with a alngle member. nothing to say in answer to the Police Court this morning, and room, enforced the resignation of a perity. So marked did the cam- The now systent was thought to charge.
was sentenced to six months' hard bell-ringer, and discouraged whist be most favourable to the Leftists, paign against the Government be- but the movement of the Chamber
labour on charges of larceny and drives and dances. Passengers arriving here to-day bribery. For disobeying an order come that many hitherto staunch to the Right is definite indication by the S.S., Arafura from Australia of banishment, issued only last The vicar sald to the demonst supporters of the Conservatives in of the desire for a stable Govern were: Mrs. K. J. Hall, Mrs. A. L. year, he was sentenced to a tors that he intended doing his duty rural areas declared that, unlessment with a strong programme. Reeves, Miss E. R. Uren, Mlus M. further term of six months' hard as minister. The crowd before dis
The Communists have been the A. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. J. E labour.
persing turred the vicarage gatos. something were done, they would principal sufferers, and on this the Campbell, Mrs. C. E. Murray, Miss vote against the Government at the electorato is to be congratulated. 1. Murray, Miss E. Hanson, Mr. H. next General Election. Whether The National Union majority will the farmers will now be content enable M. Poincare to set France's
financial house in order. with the assurances
of relief eighteen months ahead, remains to be seen.
The aim of the Govern
A Chinese hawker, thirty years of 1928), issued under date ment In seeking to secure lower was picked yesterday afternoon May 1, states: Under the provi. Joi ngo, was drowned in the Taipo | freight rates on the railways for while he was passing the Old stons of Ordinance 10 of 1899, River on Monday afternoon. the products of industry is moet Fire Brigade station on Des Section 22 (6), it is hereby ordered coramendable, but wo
T. Squire, Miss A. F. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nelson, Mr. A. A. Turner, Miss Francis Clark and Mr. and Mrs. Luis Aboitiz
In his report to the police a Chinees alleged that his pocket 23
A local Notice to Marines (No..
MAN DROWNED.
FATAL SWIM IN TAIPO RIVER.
The
WEATHER REPORTS.
BREAKDOWN CAUSES A
SUSPENSION,
It is notified that the service". from G.O.W. Royal. Observatory The deceased went to the river W/T Station, is temporarily sus- doubt Voeux Road Central, and three that during the typhoon season, at about 1 p.m. on Monday for the pended owing to a breakdown of
machinery. choques, two of $500, and one of 1.0, June 1 to October 15, cach joint purpose of gathering shells whether the motor-bus companies $1,000, were stolen from him. vessel over 60 tons lying in Hong- and swimming. At about 2.45 p.m. Meteorological traffic with" will feel very comfortable over the Later, the police detained a sus-kong harbour shall have on board he was seen to be in dificulties, ships will be worked by V.F.S. Lact that the tax on petrol ia to be pect, in whose possession $42 was the following crews-At least one and waving his hands frantically. Capo D'Aguilar W/T Station on
found, but no trace was found of certificated deck officer,, and deck the source from which the relief to the cheques. The man emphati-and engine room crew sufficient to rendered, and the body was re- The 300 metres telephony ser-
Ha aank before help could be the railways le' to be made possible, cally denied that he was the pickwork the anchors and to raise covered, and removed to the Kow-vice is suspended until repairs are
'The railways and the motor-bua 'pocket.
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