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hire. Wo would recall that a' gentleman in the Post Office was recently awarded the I.S.O. Need
DAY BY DAY.
BRILLIANT WOMAN VIOLINIST.
MISS HANSEN COMING TO
HONGKONG.
Current press advices just to hand from England Indicate that Miss Cecilia Hanson, the world's Queen's College is holding its greatest woman violinist, has ro- annual boxing and fencing tourna-cently concluded an unusually ment on Friday afternoon.
The Very Idea!
'WHEN ONE 13 IN A GOOD SOUND. we nak if men of his type areiner-RAGE, IT IS ASTONISHING HOW CALM forming their duties satisfactori- ONE CAN DE-Bulwer-Lytton.
I am breathing deeply the frag- rance of a posy of the products of ly? Our efficient Post Office In A Chinese case of typhoid was,
human ingenuity that have found. almost entirely run by loyal ser-notified yesterday.
growing in the pages of the Popular vants locally engaged, and we are
Science Monthly, says a writer in a. Home papar. All these be true in- sure that the Postmaster General'
ventions, properly patented... would be the first to admit it. The
brilliant concert tour in that coun- Item: A mousetrap, patented in Harbour Office has many locally-
try. Tho musical correspondent 1008. It la based on the theory Bishop Costa Nunes, of Macao, of the London Daily Telegraph that the "sound or tinking of a bell engaged mica to every "Sterling-
returned from Singapore by the writing in a recent issue of that is, as a rule, very terrifying to rats pald" official, the Public Works the P. and O. liner Rajputana to-paper says "there is no question- and mice, and that if pursed by such Department, has draughtsmen day. and 'cierks all of whom are am-
Owing to faulty connexion, braced by the China Mail's sweep-telegram to and from Shanghai ing donunciation. The Police are at present subject to abnormal Court interpretera and Magis- delay.
Ing the raro accomplishment in sounds, they will immediately the art und craft of the violiniat vacate their haunts and homes, displayed by Miss Cecilia Han never to return Cheese is tho sen. A recital this on which bait, and to get it, the mouse has playing to put his head through a spring Ungers for
memory
at once so musicianly and so dex-collar: this maps round his pock.
for."
trates' clerks, the large staff of Messrs. Millington, Ltd., have lerous is something to be grateful There is a hell on the collar. The The Sunday Times in its mouse escapes and returns to his been appointed advertising con-issue of May 13th, wrote "it was hole, ringing the bell. The other
mlee then all run away. DX- an unusual and delightful
sultants to the Hongkong Tele- Phone Directory.
The mail from Home via Suoz, by the 8.5. Rajputana, dated June 21, constated of BGG bage, and was distributed this morning..
perience to have one's attention
Item: A Device for Producing Armly held without a suspicion of Dimples, patented in 1896. This is meretricious sentiment being en simply a brace and bit for wearing
wherever désired. ployed." "Such all-round excel-down "a neat hollow" in the face
The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. M. T. Hille, About Hong Kong. Felix Villas, Poktulum, to Miss H. B. Komor, 18, Felix Villas, Fok- fulum.
An Indian youth named, M. was injured yesterday afternoon Malubhoy, twelve years of age, when he tried to alight from a mov- Weing tramcar on the Praya East,
Do you know that—.
The Hongkong Supreme. Court has been housed in three different buildings?
clerks and minor officials at the Supreme Court, in fact in any Government Department in which one cares to enquire, the same set of circumstances prevail.
These are the men..who do the whom the spade-work, these China Mail suggests are not worthy of their hire. The whole thing is preposterous, and the nity of it is that they are not in a posi- tion to defend themselves against RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE.the entirely unjust imputations, which also explains why we feel so strongly in the matter. Types for Motor Cars, & Etc.
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The .s. New Mathilde, arriving real conception of the from Haiphong and Hollow, re any subject will pay serious atten-ports passing a large junk under
45 jury rig in Latitude 20.33 North, tion to the views expressed,Longilaude 111.34 East. She was which are, so violent and so in need of assistance,
the fact, wholly falso..
Passengers departing by the kindllest interpretation we can Empress of Asin yesterday inchul- place on the comment in question Led Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hum- Mrs. J. Caer Clark, Mr. D. S. Nell- is that the, writer was abysmally phreys, Mr. and Mrs. C. Thwaltes, ignorant of the responsibilities of son, Dr. J. E. Campbell, and Mr.
was Jack Braga, the men, whose cause Hably advocated by Mr. Bragu.
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The
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THURSDAY, JULY 19. 1928
AN UNWARRANTED ATTACK.
In
Flying Clubs,
A Notice to Mariners, issued under to-day's date, is as follows:- Boats, launches and other vessels are hereby notified to keep clear of cables under repairs at the sea wall near Murray Pier during the three days ending July 21.
In his communication to the Press the other day regarding the
At the Marine Court this morn- proposed formation of a Light Seaplane Clubs for Hongkong, Mr.ing, before Comindr. J. B. Newill,
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It was first altunte in a building in Wellington Street, being opened on October 184 1844.
Then, in 1848, it removed to what was at that time known
Exchange Building, in Queen's Rond, opposite the present Yee Sang Fat pre- mises. This, building purchased in 1847 from Messrs. Dent and Company.
Was
The Court continued to alt here until the 'completion of the present Courts of Justice, which were opened by Sir Frederick Lügard, then Gov- ernor, in 1912.
The first barrister to be nd- mitted was Mr. H. C. Sirr, in 1844, whilst trial by jury was Instituted in criminal juris- diction in 1845.
and in
PUBLICZNERLER
date
the more than ever of. the Auer clan.
Item: The Hair Plantor, This is a patented mochine for punctur- ing bald scalps. A length of hair- cut to tastes then inserted in each puncture.
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Counsel 'nt Wood Green, N., to woman: I think your age je 607 The wontan: Yes. The Magistrate: I thought it was 20 by her looks.
Mr. Luke, the Willesden magis- trate: Once we start showing in- dulgence to runaway husbands, there are hundreds of other hus- banda ready to throw up their wives.
"A wife is entitled to the half of every crust her husband has."-Mr, Luke, the Willesden magistrate,
Young Nottingham wife: My husband has often smacked my face, but he has never assaulted' me properly.
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A man in a letter to the Harrods- burg Herald claims he is his own grandfather. Ils letter says "I married a widow with a grown daughter. My father, a widower, married my stepdaughter, thus be coming my son-in-law, and his wife, formerly my step-daughter, "bo came my stepmother also. My wife also became my grandmother, for sho was the mother of my step- mother, and as the husband of any poe's grandmother is called grand- dad, I must be my own grand- father."
The must obnoxious feature Of your annual intensive Olfensivo
la the way in which, one-feels,
You regard us as inciplent
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This year there in another talo
to tell.
At last the worms have turned, So far as you're concerned! In your nurseries bucolic Young mosquitoes
Have been wildly dissipating, And irrigating
R. Vaughan-Fowler made refer-D.S.O., K.N., three mistresses of lence is uncommon," Bites the ence to the steady growth of the cargo boats were charged with-lying Timer of May 11th, while the
Inshore during dark hours, and, Morning Post of the same flying-club, movement in various lending guilty, were fined fined $10 anys of Cecilla Hansen she has In many places the mosquito parts of the British Empire. On with the alternative of 10 days the rare power of mingling her menace has been tackled.. carbolic own personality with the music is found to be effective."--Daily this point, we have recently comeimprisonment.
she plays without in any way Paper.... Creature, across some interesting facts,con-
The master of a cargo junk re-usurping the composer's rights."
While the London press in so cerning the offorts which are being ported to the police yesterday that It has never been the policy of made in Canada to educate the he was injured in the mouth and describing Cecilla Hansen's play- the Telegraph to indulge in detrac- people into a fuller comprehension left eye, following an assault by ing have only confirmed what has tion of a contemporary; on the of the present pince and future two Chinese who claimed to he been previously, sald about this re During policemen. The two Chinese, it is markable artist, it is undoubtedly.
that.
⚫ square meals! .... has contrary, we think we can justly possibilities of aviation.
never to extort true believed, attempted
Well, well, woman musical genius captiv- claim to have aludiously avolded, the period of a few weeks recently,
ated her audiences throughout as a point of principle, any hint of no fewer than twenty flying clubs, money from him.
with a membership of over six The case at the Criminal Ses- Europe and América as Mign linn- such a practice, and that, with us,
hundred actual and potentialsions in which To Man and La Lau sen has done. It is a new song that the spirit of rivalry has been con- civilian air pilets, were formed in were indicted for robbing a giri Cecilia Hansen's iddle sings-- Aned to the dissemination of news. the Dominion, and the movement, of a gold bracelet, near the Blind she can do all that any man can do As a newspaper, however, we have we are told, is still only in ita Home at Kowloon City, was con
cluded yesterday afternoan. Mr. Peer
Her playing, characterized a sense of duty to the public, and infancy.
Justice Jacks sentenced both throughout, by agreeableness of we cannot, must not, allow to pass This movement has the practical to five years hard labour and 12 tone, clean, secure execution and genuine mualent feeling, has made unchallenged a totally unwarrant-support of the Canadian Govern-strokes with the "eat." ed and gratuitous Imputation by ment, which has agreed to provide
A summons for tampering with this fine artist one of the musical- the China Mail in an editorial com-two light aeroplanes for the use the altered-water mains of Kowly clect, It may be truly said that ment yesterday,
violinist to-day, against theof each club formed, under certain loon Tong, against Mr. le Ping-Miss Hansen is not only the
greatest woman locally-engaged stairs the Tules. These rules-provide that yla, of-No, 320, was mentioned be-
of
a club must have at least thirtyfore Mr, W. Schofield at the Kow-but one of the few really prent Government Service." The China
Music-lovers in the Orient will members willing to qualify as loon Magistracy this morning.overeigns of her instrument.
On a written request from Mr. Mail has the temerity to ask: "How pilots and, no fewer than ionic. A. S. Russ, the case was nd be pleased to hear that Miss Han- } sen is now on her way to the East many of the locally-engaged already qualified and desirous of journed for one week.
and will make her debut in Singa- labourers are worthy of their continuing to fly. There has to be
"You must remember to take off pore in August, while later she will hire" and, referring to the posts provided by the club a flying field
or scaplano station, adequate your hat when you came into a visit the Philipines, Hongkong,
China, Japan and Java. filled by men engaged locally, says housing accommodation for the Law Court. These is a roof on that "Of course, in any sphere of machines. and fally qualified this Court so you don't have to activity they are seldom filled instructors and air mechanics. wear a hat to keep the sun off," The club deposits a bond for the said Mr. W. Schofield to a Chinese satisfactorily." We car only security of the planes, which re- who was seen wearing a hat in express our surprise and indigna- main the property of the Govern the Kowloon Court this morning. tion that such an unwarrantedment. In addition to the standard The man was fined $1. altack on a thoroughly hard-work-provision of two machines for each club, the Government. agrees
paper.
RETURNS FOR FIFTH TIME.
BANISHER ŠENTENCED TINIS MORNING.
nftar
Their insides with crude car-
bolic...
And turning up their wee toes. As for you, your name is
MUD- Have at thee for a scurvy
knave
Tmizard
GOT HIM-
THUDI)
A little man entered a shop and said to the assistant, "I want to buy a present for my wife,"
"Yes, sir," replied the assistant; "something electrical, nerhaps?"
"I think so," was the answer. "Have you any electric chairs?"
Having bought an everlasting wreath, and ordered two coffins, & second-hand clothes dealer in Paris strangled bis mother and then hang- ed himself. He left' a letter to the police apologising for the trouble he had caused.
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SECURED BY MEANS OF A RUSE.
Passengers arriving from Home ing body of men should be allowed to provide an additional plane for to-day by the P. and O. línar Raj- to appear in the columns of a local each one obtained by a club on its putana included the Rev. J. J.
A Chinese, who within the space own Intitiativa. Thirty Moth Hodgins, Captain W. H. Williams, machines already have been order-ient, R. C. Gordon, Mrs. D. Lof three years, had been sent to
West Ham magistrate to a mÁR The whole article is undoubtedly ed for distribution when condi- wills, Miss E. F. J. Hendy. Miss prison four times for returning based on an absolute fallacy, but tions are met, and more will be N. Johanssen, Miss M. Friend, from banishment, added to his re-
obtained as they are needed. Mesars. F. Webster C. C. Kirke, cord by making a fifth appearance of sixty-five, accused of damaging nevertheless, it is a fallner which Hamilton has the largest club, Mooulie, D. Wilson, S. Stacey, J. before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this plate glass window: Would you
morning at the Contral Magistraeyan: I should like to kiss youy
like to say anything more to me?.. must be quickly and emphatically with a membership of over eighty Gillatley and E. T. Koskin.
to answer a like charge. repudiated. Does the China Mail The cost of membership ja nome-
On the defendant pleading A report was made to the police what high, but flying has to seized realise it is casting a slur on men, the imagination of the public that yesterday by the Very Rev. Dean guilty, his record was read to tho who, in many cases, have devoted there is no scarcity of applicants Swann that twelve palms were Magistrate. In 1923 and 1924 tho TOPEE AND LONG COAT. their whole lives to the Govern-anywhere,
stolan from their pots at St. John's defendant sorved two terms of im- ment Service? Is it necessary to It will be understood, of course, Cathedral between 6 and 7am. prisonment for larceny, point out that the locally-engaged that the flying-club scheme in yesterday morning. The thieves which, he was banished from the staffs have built up the solid Canada is devised, in the main, for rooted the palms from their pots Colony for ten years. That was practical purposes, quite apart and in doing so damaged seven of in February, 1026. In December foundation on which the Govern- from any valup it will have in the flower pots. The palms are of the same year, he was found By means of a clover ruse, a by the police in Hongkong and Chinese managed to obtain a tapee when brought before the Magis and a Chinese long coat from a inent of the Colony resta, that they the provision of flying facilities as valued by the Dean at $50, are the permanent structure of the pleasure. These clubs are re-
garded in the Dominion as an The P, and Oliner Rajputana, trate was charged with imper- married woman residing at No:27, various Departments which alone excellent medium for dotting the which arrived here this morning, is somating the police and: returning Hollywood Road, yesterday,
*The man presented himself at can guarantee smooth working? country with little groups of on her first trip to the Far East, from banishment,
efficient pilots and adequate land- ahs having been hitherto on the On completing his sentence, de- the address named during the after- Does anyone imagino that our ing fields, thus opening the way Marseilles Bombay run. She is a fendant was seat away in 1926, noon and claimed to be an office Cadets, who fit from post to post, to the unhampered extension of splendid bont of the Ranpura and but he again found his way back, boy of the woman's husband. Ho from department to department, commercial aviation; There is the the Rawalpindly class and last resulting in another spell of im said that the husband had sent. other aspect as well-the creation year took the King and Queen of prisonment. In August, 1927, he him home for his topee and long could carry on without their of a new and profitable. vocation Afghanistan from Bombay to Mar-was sent away once more but was coat and these were handed over "permanent under-secretaries" ds for adventurous youth, so that heilles on their first visit to found in Hongkong again by the without questiona saa
On the husband returning home from work, the trick was revealed. we might call them? These are club membership may be said to Europe, The Pand O. Company police, who deported him in March
Defendant was now sentenced to and a report was at önce made to. the men the China Mail dares to result in training for a profession are replacing obsolete vessels on this year for the fourth time.
at the same time that it provides a the Far East run by some of
their newest and finest ships, twelve months and twenty strokes, the police, suggest are not worthy of their now outlet for sporting instincts.
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