The Very Idea!
The Long Arm of Coincidence- A Merton, Bicester, correspondent writes to a Home paper:
FRENCH VAGRANT.
FOUND WÄNDERING AT
KOWLOON CITY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Marcel Lebon, a young French, man, appeared before Major C.' Willson, at the Central Police Court this morning, on a charge of vagrancy,
Sub-Inspector Biston said the
"My mother, my elder sister, and myself wero bathing one day in the summer holidays of 1912 in a cove of Fintra Bay, Co. Donegal, in rough water. From babyhood | mu first cume to this
must have washed it over my head (1 was only a child), for it was missing when I got ashore, and I was heartbroken.
colony
SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1928.
CANTON AND THE PATENT REGISTRATION CATHOLIC FATHER'S
JAPANESE.
BOYCOTT, MOVEMENT NOT VERY MARKED.
HONGKONG LAW TO BE AMENDED.
ORDEAL.
THE FACTS ABOUT FATHER- LALOR'S CAPTIVITY.
SITUATION IN HAND. Patents Ordinance, 1926, and to TERRIBLE TREATMENT
ployment but was found unmanage-) Soon after the Tainan-to trouble, instructions of the Secretary of his captors were altogether un-
from
One effect of this is to make it
The Gazette contains the draft) of an Ordinance to anied the Registration of United Kingdom |
make certain provisions with re- gard to letters patent granted Canton, June 8."
under the Patents Ordinance, 1892, the following letter from the The N. C. Daily News publishes I had worn a little silver cross is a stowaway and was sub- The anti-Japanese movement (valued for sentimental reasons) souently
It is explained that the Registra-Procure committed to the has really been felt very little heretion of the
des Missions round my neck on a slip-over House of Detention. A short either by the Japanese community Patents Ordinance, Ordinance No. prior accounts of Father Lalor's United Kingdom Shanghai, clearly slowing that Bolge,
chain. I alwaya bathed with it time ago, he was taken out, or by the Japanese firms.
13 of 1925, was introduced on the cood treatment.at the hands of on. On this occasion a wave by a French woman and given em-
able and discharged. The police the Japanese officers of the C-State in order to carry out the founded: fi found him wandering in Kowloon tome Service were recalled to recommendations of the British
Wuchow
If you like to print some first" and Empire Patent Conference, 1922, hand information about the cap City, a vagrant. The application Canton "That night a week's terrific before the Court was for commit-Kongmoon and two Japanese des-and of the Imperial Economic Con-ture of Rev. Father John Lalor, a storm started; a storm that shifted ting the man again to the House of troyers arrived in Canton in addi- ference, 1923. It provided inter Roman Catholic Priest of the Irish tion to the river gunboat ""alia that applications for rexistra mission of Hanyang Hupeh, here dunes and changed the whole Detention. beach. On the first.calm after-
Leben asked how long it was the which has been stationed here for tion in Hongkong must be made are details as given by Right Rev. noon we were prawning at the intention of the poles to keep him over a year. Otherwise, there within three years from the date Mgr. Galvin, the R. C. Bishop of other end of the Strain fully a there, and his Worship said he have been few changes; Japanese of the issue of the patent in the Hanyang. Mgr, Galvin writes to mile from the bathing cove, and would be detained until employment residing in Honam and the city United Kingdom.
us as follows: where we very seldom went, and could be found for him. He would go about unmolested, and, so far,
"Father Lalor, the priest of ours my first "catch was my cross and also be given the axual facilities there has not been a single case chain, undamaged, wrapped round by being allowed to go out at cer- of assault on person of property impossible to register here patents who was captured by the bandits a clump of drifting seaweed."
tain hours every day.
to record...
whch were issued in the United was released and has just arrived/ Lebrin then asked to be returned
Kingdom more, than three years here in Hanyang. He hand a ter There are anti-Japanese meet-before the commencement of the rible time. For the first four to Saigon if it was found Lost there was no work for him to do here. ings in the city almost every day new Ordinance. The present days, the bandita
him Sub-Inspector Ekton said that and one comes across a good many amending Ordinance proposes to absolutely nothing whatover to owing to the lack of proper pass street orators exhorting the people relieve this hardship by providing ent. After these four days he was ports, it had been dilleult to fall into boycott completely all things of that the time limit for making so weak that he could scarcely the officer promised to commugi-however, that the local Govern in the case of patents granted in condition, they demanded that he with this arrangement. However, Japanese origin. It must be said, applications in Hongkong shall, stand. When he was in that wenk this connexion toki a Border storycale with the local French Consularent is doing all in its power to the United Kingdom before the write a letter to me (Bishor keep the situation well in hand and|1st January, 1926, run from the Galvin) asking for a ransom of has issued manifestos forbidding 31st December, 1925, 1.e., the day $20,000. He refused and for over any harm to Japanese subjects or before the commencement of Or-an hour, they held a revolver to their property.
dinance No. 13 of 1926, instead of his body threatening to shoot if The manager of an important from the date of the issue of the he didn't write, but John still
patent in the United Kingdom. Japanese firm, 'here states that the Japanese community placesThe present amending Ordinance fentire,, confidence in the ability of Julso extends the time limit gen- the local Government to cope with orally to five years instead of three the situation, whilst the Japanese years. Consul-General, Mr. Moria, says, that there is absolutely no danger M. 11. Logan, figured in the for Japanese subjects in Canton King's Birthday Honours List, beat the moment. ing awarded the O.B.E. This is
Mr John Buchay in un address never misses an opportunity of clinching an argument with a good Scots story.
At Bo'ness he was dealing with the need for scraping
out all nonsense, as he put it, from
the Unionist programme, and in
which was greatly relished.
A party from Hawick arrived by charubanc at Dryburgh Abbev. They belonged to the Plymouth Brethren, and after signing the visitors' book, put as footnote--- "Miserable sinners adved by the mercy of God."
The Trustees at a meeting sent for the old custodier and asked him who had lioen tampering with the book.
"Och, aye," said the custodier, "I can easily explain that."
We had some folk in a charabane. They called themselves Pleomouth Brethren, and not content with writing their mes they put down, “Miserable sinners saved by the mercy of God.' But I just scrapit it out and put in 'Hawick.'"
on the subject.
FORMER HONGKONG
RESIDENT.
LIEUT-COL. M. B. LOGÂN
GETS THE O.H.E.
From Shanghai newspapers we notice that a former Hongkong resident, ni the person of Jiept
refused,
KOVO
Starvation and Filth..
him to another house, where he "After four days they moved'
was kept in a filthy room for 'over In spite of the provisions of a week. During that week, he got section 12 of the Interpretation only three small pieces of Chinese Ordinance, 1911, Ordinance No. read a day. You can imagine 31 of 1911, some doubts have been how weak the poor father was.
for the work which he did in con From the commercial point of expressed as to the, continuance When he was in the weak gondl anxion with the erection of hut-view, the boycott has also been of rights acquired under the tion, they again threatened him ments for the Shanghai Defence very little, felt. Japanese ships Palents Ordinance, 1892, Ordin-with a revolver and demanded that Force.
gontime to come up to Canton with ance No. 2 of 1892, which was rehe write for the ramsam. He re- Col. Lagan, who is head of full loads: Japanese coul especial-peated by Ordinance No. 13 of fused. And then, they held Messrs. Palmer and Turner inly is an absoluto neccssity in 1925. In particular, some doubts him down on a bad and forced Shanghai, has had a vast amount Canton, and the Chinese cannot have been expressed as to whether lump of oplum down his Mr. Buchan also recalled of experience in various parts of possibly afford to boycott it as the right to register assignments, throat: After a little while he humorous incident at a meeting the world. He served in the South cannot be replaced by any other conferred by section 8 of Ordinance became semi-unconcious and the at Galashiels during the South African War, and then came to qualities. As an example, the No. 2 of 1892, still subalsts, In bandits thought he was dying, s0 African War. An Imperialist China as an engineer on the Bri-Kwangtung Electric Supply Co.,order to allay these doubts secthey took him out and laid him of orator talking about South Africa tish section of the Kowloon-Can-Ltd., which lights Canton, Ionam tion 3 of the present amending the ground, where he was sur- paid. "There is nothing the matterton Railway. After the complet Shameen, cannot use any but Ordinance has been inserted. rounded by an immense crowd. with South Africa. wrong is that it needs a better Messrs. Palmer and Turner, and
All that lation of that railway, he joined Japanese coal. elnes of settler and a better water under his auspices some of the be feeling the boycott so far are The only people who appear to supply."
From a small voice at the backst important and largest build the Chinese retail shops with of the ball came the crushines in Shanghai have been erect-stocks of Japanese goods and cer- ed. He served during the Great tain small Japanese importers in War, winning the Mary Cross, Hongkong of sundry, goods and and leaving the army with the foodstuffs. Talking over thei rank of Lieut-Colonel.
Įsituation with a number of Chinese:
retort-"And that's what is the matter with Hell."
氨 * *
It is a mistake to suppose that schoolboys have a monopoly in the making of "howlers." Sometimes the unconscious humour expressed in jurymen's verdicts is equally, grotesque and amusing, as in the
PRIZES AT WHIST DRIVES.
of different classes-officials, mer-
Vancouver for Hongkong on the The Empress of 'Russia left 7th June, and is due here on the
25th June.
Fenred Burinl Alive. "From there they removed him and laid him on a pile of wet to a field about 400 yards away, straw. He laid there all that day under, the aun, in a semi-uncon- cious state. He was so weak that he could make no attempt to escape and he says that during all that
chants, clerks, students and coplies HOW MUCH DO YOU day a terrible fear possessed him,
-one finds that certain elements. chielly composed of coolies and students are most violently anti-
instance of the foreman who an- HIGH COURT RULING ON THE Japanese and will not purchase anouneed that "death was due to the medical evidence."
In a case of suicide another foreman intimated to the Court that "the jury are of one mind- temporarily insane."
Some time ago a passenger was killed in a railway accident in the
eyllence Midlands, and
was adduced to the effect that the disaster had been caused by a broken axle 1) one of the carriages. The jury in this case added to their verdict a rider that "before being used all axles should be tested to breaking point."
Once an English jury were' in doubt as to whether's man's death was due to lightning or homicide, but the difficulty was surmounted
LAW.
With regard to the coolies, they
KNOW?
anything of Japanese origin.. TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS. A King's Bench Divisional can well afford to boycott any Court, composed of the Lard Chief thing, as they never have ane pur-edge paper has been taken from The following general know Justice and Justice Avary and chases to make and in the case of the Daily Express. Shearman, recently decided
students it only amounts to givingi
that if he became unconcinus, they would bury him alive, so he strug gled desperately to keep awake.
In the evening some good soul afterwards came and brought him brought him a bowl of hot ten, and
to his home where he gave him straw for the night. something to eat, and a bed of Next day this same good mun sent him to a the use of a room for progressive up, with a great deal of talk and them, will be found on Page 13 of win taken to one of our Missions. Answers, for those who need Catholic family and from there he whist and whist knockout comise, a few Japanese delicacies.--- petitions for prizes was illegal Our Own Correspondent,
under the Betting Act of 1858.
that
Their decision Wax given on
the appeal of the Bordon, Hamp. MARINE COOKS STRIKE. shire, Police Superintendent against the refusal of the coal Justices to, convict Ivor 'Ewena, the proprietor of the Alexander Hall, Bordon, for an offence 'under the Ael..
Lord Hewart pointed out that
this issue.
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| That's the story as told by him-
1 When did the late M, Jacques self.
Schneider first give his trophy
for an international seaplane conf cat?
2 What was Peter's Bence?
NEW AERIAL RECORD.
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AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING
Who is the patron saint of children?
4
AFFECTED.
5 What is the smallest amount of
Melbourne, June 8..
0
What in ploha land?
7
Give the origin of the quotation,
the player betted because he As the result of a prolonged staked the shilling which he pildstrike of marine cooks, practically
all inter-State shipping, excepting)
by the verdict, "Death from visitato enter against the money prize the series to Tasmania, is at a tion of God, under suspicious cir- cumstances."
standsül-Reuter,
Name the ancient and present "SOUTHERN CROSS” REACHES
capitals of Ceylon,
income tax aver collected?
AUSTRALIA,
Brisbane, June 8.
The "Southern Cross" has arriv
"Pell truth and shame the devil"?ed here, thua completing the first
8 What were the values of the
following old English coins;
| flight from California to Australín.
Mark, angel, noble, tester, proat?—Router,
9 What are amber, aumbry, and
ambergris?
Mr. Justice Shearman--These whist drives are held all'over thef country in hundreds of well- Man, at Bow: When I suggested conducted places,, and provide in- to him that he was driving his nocent amusement to thousands of Mr. Frank Hack, a comedian motor-car recklessly, he said, "[people. However, if the law is well known at seaside resorts, bus know how to drive; I have had an that such games for prizes are been knocked down and killed by 12
betting, we cannot help it.
accident or two."
Registrar, at Bow County Court: You cannot see to speak the truth In this light.
.
after
Willesden woman, receiving advice from the magia- trate: Thank you, sir, that's com- forting.
North Londen man: I would not swear that they were the men. Magistrate: But would you bet on it? Man, emphatically: I would.
Nottinghamshire man
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woman: Did you fling down your fur, roll up your sleeves, and say, "I will fight you, and any six other men?" 'Woman: I did.
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The landlady bustled up to her new lodger as lie came down to breakfast the first, morning. morning, air,"
"Good
wheezed.
she
"Good morning, sld, the lodger.
"I hope you've had a good night's rest," said the landlady.
"No," said the mild-mannored man, "Your ent kept me awake," "Oh," said the landlady, tossing her head/ "I suppose you're going to ask me to have the poor thing killed?"
4.
"No, not exactly," Bald the
gentle lodger. "But would you mind very much having it tuned?"
ja motor eycle at Hounslow,
10 What is the origin of the word
"Bridewell"7
11
What are the Doldruine?
Colonel-Commandant H. Bid-
What was the first book printed Director of Works and Buildings, [dulph, D.S.O., has been appointed
Air Ministry, an from July 7,
in English?
PHOTOGRAPHED AT WEDNESDAY'S WEDDING RECEPTION;
Group' taken at the reception given at the residence of Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung on the occasion of the wedding of Mr. Robert Ho Tung and Miss Hesta Rosalind Hung. (Photo: Ming Zuen).
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