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DAY BY DAY.
1928.
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VIRTUE
The P. and O. 8.8. Nellore, from Singapore, is due here at 10 a.m. to
every hope that this opportunity of placing Anglo-american rela- tions on a basis which will ex- clude not only war, but the threat of it, will be seized by British ac- ceptance of the Kellogg Treaty in the near future. Not that there would be a fear of war between the two nations even were the Treaty not signed, but the moral offect of acceptance would be incalculable and would demonstrate to the world that Britain and America are one in regarding the preserva- Lion of world peace as of primary
Naval wireless messages from Iraportance.
Upper Yangisze ports atate that John Richard Groen, in his there has been no further firing at merchant ships for some days past,
"Short History of the English People," written more than fifty
ΠΛΟΥΤΟΥ.
The P. and O, 9.6. Khyber, from Shanghai, is due hore at 5 am. on Friday.
The rainfall registered at the Botanic Gardens during Juns totulled 19.64 inches. There" was rain on 10 days of the month, the highest falls being 5.28 inches on the lat and 3.08 inclies on the 11th
UNMUZZLED" DOGS::
EXCUSES AT THE POLICE
COURT::
Negligent dog-owners from various parts of the city were brought before Major C. Willson at the Magistracy this morning to answer summonses for allowing their dogs to roam about un muzzled in the stroots.
The Very Idea
Long ago the Dutch purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for 24 dollars and a barrel”... of whisky. A bargain for the Dutch, you may conclude. But not Bo
A banking expert figures out that 24 dollars invested at compound in- terest since the date of the pur- chase would by now have increased to a little more thần 1,000,000,000 dollars. Whereas the island was valued a year or two got at only 3,800,000,000. The purchasers or their unlucky heirs, are about 200,- 000,000 dollars in the hole
In the case of a Chinese woman living at No. 67,. Caino Road, who allowed her dog out on the road without a muzzle, the defendant explained that the dog had just been washed and managed to escape into the street. His Wor A dollar or 60 cents too mush was ship Impose a fine of $4. The paid for the island. Not a largo samo owner was flued $6 for not amount, but cheating is cheating, having a licence for the animal. and I feel very strongly that the A similar explanation was ad- Indians should give that amount vanced by a Chinese living in back. Elgin Street. In this case the do- Not that the Now Yorkers are
fendant added that the dog was on
walshing on the contract. They
HAS NO EQUAL year ago, epoke the truth when he said that whatever the Importance
a leash and was taken by a small can struggle along, they say and of American independence in the
boy into the street to bask in the will accept their losses gracefully, sun after a bath. An Indian con- But it does seem, they sometimes history of England, it was of une-
stable was blamed for taking the tell you, with a wistful, yearning ex qualled moment in the history of
leash from the small boy and was pression, as if the Indians might at the world, "If it crippled for a
alleged to have trumped up the least return that barrel of whisky. while, the supremacy of the Eng-pot of boiling water yesterday re-this story and imposed the same
charge. His. Worship disbelieved.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. 1928.
"THE GLORIOUS FOURTH."
tions are reflective of the very real friendship which exists between
The accidental upsetting of a
hours,
DIOCESAN SCHOOL"“BOY"
SET UPON.
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fines as in the other case.
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A young lady was recently can- sidered unsuitable for, a. position solely on account of her good looks. She was highly educated, with a And her references stated that her
qualities were great She was, neil ker sentimental nor as
heartless as a stone,
manner so sedate
Afigure, eyes and face,...
Saw his plain unwelcome duty, and a slacken not the place.
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Doctor"About nine patients:out
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Man at Mansfield: I have been Incubated for six months, owing to an injured wrist. .
He Policeman, at Southend: sang "Because I loyo, you," and afterwarda collected 4s. 10-*
Fortune and Want were the paraes of prosecutors at the North London Police Court.
ish nation," he said, "it founded sulted in the death of a Chinese child, eight months old. The brief a supremacy of the English race.police report fasued this morning"
In regard to a dog owned by a From the hour of American inde-stated that, after being scalded, man living in No. 56, Square Street, which was also found un- pendence, the life of the English the child was removed to the muzzied in the streets, the owner Kwong Wah Hospital, where it people has Bowed not in one cur-suddenly died.
explained that the animal had such a fondness for the streets that rent, but in two; and while the
when it was unmuzzled,
allowed older has shown little signs of les-
to And her voice, divinely gentle, was
ideal upon the phone." Latest information with regard order to be. sening, the younger has fast rison to the sulving of the s., Kochow, eat, it bounded out of the house
once. The defendant, was For the post to be allotted, she was
just the very giri,; to a greatness which has changed received from West River arrivals,at the face of the world..... What the vessel his, been moved clear of
this morning, is to the effect that fined $4.
An owner from Kennedy Town But, alast the chief had spotted
wavy treesca and a curl, the issues of such a worldwide the channel into shallow water, ap- was also summoned, but he offer-Then he realised the beauty of her chango
may be, not even the proximately 200 yards from her ud no excuse and was fined $4.
original position. Launches were wildest dreamer would dare to engaged in pumping out the vessel dream. But one issue. Is inevityesterday and it is thought that sho THE GRAND DESIGN. able. In the centuries that lie will be refloated within the next 24
of ten don't live through this opera- before us,
the primacy of the
LAST FEW DAYS FOR EMBLEMtion. le there anything I can do world will lie with the English
DESIGNS,
for you before we begin?" This morning's Harbour Office people. English
Dusky Patient-"Yessah. Kindly institutions, reports gave 15 arrivals and 20 de- English speech, English hough., partures, leaving 64 vessels in har- Designs for an emblem to be hand me mah hat."
connexion with the will become the main fen-bour, of which 27 were, British. used in
Tattoo should Old-street magistrate: What did Tonnage was comparatively fair, coming Grand
Wife: Ha tures of the politol, the
80-with British holding top place with be submitted to the General See-your husband do?
f bloater at my cial, the intellectual life of man- inward cargoes, although the na-retary, Mr. J. H. Hunt, Y.M.C.A., threw. half
Uonal through freight was poor. Kowloon, on or before next Tues daughter, and he did not like. It bo- kind." In the trend towards thatThere were heavy shipments of coal day, July 10, when the competition cause she threw it back at him."
Solicitor, at Southend." We all eru, the American branch of the by British and Japanese steumers, closes. Already a fair number of Once again it falls to us to es- English race is playing a great but cargoes were generally poor, designs have been sent in, but know that n man under the in- thefe being only seven through re-there is still a splendid oppor. fluence of drink is not always re- tend
our part, and it is fitting that on this gistries and only three inward of tunity for local residents to send rate: I don't. Solleitor: I ans sponsible for his actions. Magia- our felicitations to American friends on the occasion their 'National Day due recogni-four figures.
in their ideas. Drawings should
sorry; I was spenking from my own. typify the Grand Tattoo, just as personal experience. of Independence Day. It is a tion of that circumstance should
the lion was the emblem of the happy circumstance that although be necorded here in a British Co- HIGHWAY ROBBERY Wembley Exhibition. to-day marks the anniversary of lony where Anglo-American rela
Designs should be simple and consist of a sketch which will im- the severance of the American co-
mediately convey the idea of the Jonies from the British Crown, the
Grand Tattoo. A prize of $30 will relations between the United the two great English-speaking na-
be awarded to the sender of the de never tions. States and Britain have
sign accepted by the adjudicators been on a firmer or more friendly
who will consider the idea rather lian the execution of the drawing. basis. Whatever we may think of the statesmanship which led to the War of Independence, the out- Twice within the last few weeks there have appeared in the Govern- standing fact is that the olit
ment Gazette official notifications
According to a report made to hatreds have been wiped out by setting forth the limits of the city the police by the victim, tre passed the march of time, and to-day withla which the crying of wares three men on the road lending to by hawkers is prohibited. Only the school. The men asked him Anglo-American amity is a force on Friday last these limits were where he was going and, while helping greatly towards the pre-re-stated in plain language, and they were speaking, the three sud- servation of world peace and des- the prohibited area is that lying denly set on him. After over- tined, we belleve, to become, an-North, the
within the following boundaries: powering their victim they bound. harbour; South, and gagged him. They then rob- leven greater factor in this dirée. Caine Road and Upper Albert bed him and left him on the road-
Rond: East, Garden Road; and side. tion as the years pass by.
West, Old Bailey, Cochrane Street, Whilst the two great English and Jubilee Street. It is obvious speak nations may not always that Wyndham Street, On Lan see eye to eye on international is-Street, Pottinger Street, D'Aguilar Street, and part of Wellington saes, such divergencen as exist are Street are within the prohibited for the most part on points of ex-jarea, yet every day dozens of haw- pediency rather than on matters kers frequent these streets and Paris
compete with others in yelling their Geneva of principle. Speaking a common wares. If our renders will for Berlin
Oslo tongue and animated by similar give us talking about ourselves, we Helsingfors ideals, the peoples both of the would like to inform them that the
on June 8th. we reported to the Buenos Aires United States and of Britain find Hon. Captain Superintendent of Hongkong a great deal more on which theyPolice the fact that we were New York agree than 'differ, and the whole suffering from the distraction Amsterdam
caused by hawkers crying in Stockholm trend of their history is to bring Wyndham Street, requesting him Ver
Madrid them closer together, making them to take what action he considered and an influence which counts greatly necessary to put a stop to the Bucharest
Bombay practice. We had a formal print: Yokohama in the progress and development ed reply saying that the matter Brussels of mankind. Differing somewhat would receive attention.
That Milan month ago, but Copenhagen in outlook, they are none the less was nearly a
nothing whatever has apparently Prague animated by a common desire; and been done in the matter. On
Lisbon nk the roles which they are called Saturday morning, when we were Shanghai upon to play are complementary marking the prohibited area on a Silver (spot)
map according to the latest gilver (forward). one to the other-each has its notification in the Gazette, thera distinctive value. At the present were no fewer than three hawkers moment, we can see fresh evidence outside our office competitively
Cries By Hawkers.
bawling for the sale of marrowź,
A highway robbery' occurred last night at 10.15 in Homuntin, when a Chinese, thirty-two years of age, employed as a "boy" in the Diocesan Boys' School, was attack- ed by three men and robbed of the sum of $20.50.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Vienna
.18.21
A boy scout who gave evidence at This seems to be an excellent the Old Bailey auid that there was opportunity for members of the an outbreak of a shin complaint in local, Art Club, drawing students his camp, and they called it and those who use their talents to "Tickeyitis." A barrister: Why? illustrate magazinca and, similar Boy: Because the first boy who had publications..
it was known in the camp as "Tickey." Recorder. This adds to our vocabulary.
INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATED.
AMERICAN COMMUNITY TAKES A HOLIDAY.
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An assurance is given by the United States Department of Com- merce that the whole world is rapidly learning to chew gum, with Great Britain,. next to America, setting the pace. The pastime was confined nimost entirely to America before American soldiers went to
In celebration of the anniver- France, but has now spread to sary of the Declaration of Ambri-cighty foreign countries,
Victims of a nervous habit in can Independence in 1776 the ma- jority of members of the local other lands, it is stated, now re- American community are taking a quire annual exports of chewing London, July 3,
general holiday to-day. The U.S. gum from the United States valued .124.20 Consulate
at £400,000, whereas before the war General and most 25.28 American places of business are they masticated only £40,000 worth .20.42 closed, either all day or from tiffin- each year. The desire of Ameri- eans to chew, however, is over 198 Lime.
whelmingly greater than that of the ..37424
Warships in harbour "dressed British people, their nearest com 47% ship" in honour of the occasion petitors. The estimated annual 2/0% and at noon salutes were fired. consumption of gum here is ap- 4.877/16. At eleven o'clock this morning approximately 70,000,000lb, ör
.12.095
the Consul General, Mr. R. C. about one hundred sticks for every 18.17 Tredwell, was at home" to mem- man, woman, and child, while the 94,625
is not far from 950bers of the Consular Body, and total value. friends at the American Club, In | £20,000,000,3), 1/6% Duddell Stfect. This afternoon,
.1/10.27/82 at the restaurant of Messra. Lane, One Australian is worth more to' .8402 Crawford, the Americans will be British trade than 100 Chinamen or .02.75 "at home" to the community in 400 Russians Mr. L. S. Amery,
.18.10 .1044 .2.7/82 .5.57/64
general.
Holiday
275 ..27.6/18 —British Wireless.
of the identity of ideals in the cor-fruit and sanitary paper. At all to be built in what has always
Will Was
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We are in sight of a generation which might be described as a geniu eration of omniscient babies-The Bishop of Durham,
A very large proportion of the ́ work done in this world is done without any kind of enthusiasm or. warm-heartedness Viscount Cecil. I am not one of those fasty old Bishops who say every time I tie the marriage knot, "There is an other couple gone wrong." The
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dial reception which has been hours of the day these men come been a business district, and it Thos. Cook and Son an interesting given by Britain and the British and go without the slightest certainly ought not to allow the photogravure supplement of the Bishop of London.
hindrance, and between the hours present invasion of hawkers to Dhaka Mainichi and the Tokyo Dominions to the Kellogg Treaty of 8.30 am, and 11 am, and again threaten the business value of so Nicht Nicht giving detailed in- It was at the theatre, and the ♫ thoroughfare as formation of the round-the-world young man had seen the play be for the renunciation of war. in the afternoon between 4 and 6 important There may be slight points of dif- they come with greater fre. Wyndham Street. What is the trips which these two journals have fore, He let everybody for five reats around know that. He had quency. If the few Chinese rest-use of the Governor-in-Counell organised.
In all, there are four parties of a pretty girl with him, and he was attaining that end, but that both Lain Street and we would speak of which is not enforced? It should tourlets, each comprising about 40 trying to amuse har At length he "Did you ever try listening to a nations are in agreement on the these streets particularly), are too not be a difficult matter to teach persons, and besides visiting the said
lazy to go to shops or market to hawkers where they may or may Olympic Games in Amsterdam the desirability of doing everything purchase their supplies we do not not shout-they know it already tourists will make stays in Russia, play with your eyes shut? You've possible to ensure world peace, see why business offices should according to the action or inaction Germany, France, England, Swit no idea how funny it seems!"
face sat just in front. He twisted there cannot be the slightest doubt have to suffer as we do Our of the police. It is wholly zerland, Italy and the United A middle-aged man with a red
office is in the business city and because of police inaction States, At the moment, the negotiations we should be protected just as that hawkers have ver The entire arrangements for the bimself about in his seat and for the conclusion of a pact em- much as the man, an office in daned beyond the limits set down trips have been placed in the gap glared at the young man p
Young man bald he, "did you bodying that desire have not been Fodder Street The Government on each man's licence We have able Sands of Thos, Cook and Son,
was at fault years ago in evir a right to ask that this Regulation, whose tourist services are world ever tay listening to a play with
wide!
your mouth shut? finally concluded, but we have allowing Chinese. Lenament hours Lalíall be anforced.
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