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DISS-On September 2nd., at Home, George Dias, aged 61 years. (By enlile.)
The
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1928.
Library are extremely old, many of them are in a shockingly bad condition, and there are hundreds of volumes which cannot make the slightest appeal to the ordinary reading public, of which the greater, number are far more suitable for a museum than a library. There is even no printed catalogue of the books, the titles of which are set forth, in rather bad handwriting, in a couple of volumes. These entries are given in alphabetical order, this system
DAY BY DAY,
PRIDE THAT DINES ON VANTTY, Burg ON CONTEMPT-Benjamin Franklin,
Three Chinese cases of typhold were notified yesterday.
The B.I. 3.8. Takada is due here from Singapore to-morrow at 7 a.m.
The Rov. Father P. W.O'Connor, Roman Catholic chaplain on II.M.S. Hawkins, is proceeding
FORMER RESIDENT'S
DEATH.
MR. GEORGE DISS PASSES-
AWAY AT HOME.
The Very Idea!
Two aerial borpedoes, one loaded, have been found in a vacant office in Bartholomew-close, B.C, and are now in possession of Scotland Yard,
Many of his former friends in Hongkong and the Far East The discovery was made by the generally will learn with regret of caretaker, Mrs. Burns, who states the death, which occurred at Home that she cleaned the room about two months ago, when the last on Sunday last, of Mr. George tenant left, and saw the torpedoes Diss, at the age of 61 years.. Tho under a table. *** and news was received in Hong-"They looked like big peardrops" kong this morning by cable.
about 2ft long," she said, "and I dumb-bells. The late Mr. Dias was formerly thought they were being slavishly followed even In Home with that ship.. He is to be sontor partner in the firm of Die One was heavy and the other fair- ly light. Two days ago 'a man who Bros., tailors and outfitters, which came to look at the room told me. opened business in Hongkong in what they were, and I sent. for a Mr. J. W. Morris, Passonger 1900. He was later joined by his policoman. They are to be taken Agents for the Dollar and Asso- brother, Mr. Arthur Diss, and the to the Arsonal. I suppose the cinted Lines in Hongkong, has business was carried on by the loaded one was enough to blow the been removed to the French Hos-two brothers until just before the house up if it went off." pital, suffering from a severe cold War, when the deceased wont
cases where the title commences with the definite article "The." No index of authors is supplied. In these circumstances, It can be understood that to discover the number of a given book is by no
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transferred to H.M.S. Rodney.
and bronchial trouble,
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Do you know thai-
The memory of "Chinese Gordon" of the "Ever Victori- ous Army" is perpetuated in Hongkong by Gordon Terrace?
It was in the summer of 1880 that General Gordon spent two weeks in Hongkong and Canton and made various suggestions as to the defence of Hongkong, advising especi ally the removal of the Naval Yard, barracks and military stores to Causeway Bay. At this time the military barracks were situated at West Point,
"The police thought they were war souvenirs which the tenant had left behind, and they told me they have had to take possession of hun- fdreds of them in London.'
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Besides a cook, it is also neces- sary in Central Africa to have a... pinte-washier.
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A resident whose dog had been accidentally drowned heard sounds of sobbing during the night, and on inquiring what was amiss he was told it was the plate-washer crying because the dog was dead,
Deeply touched, the master went to the boy arid asked him if he had loved the dog very dearly.
"No," was the reply, "but who will now lick the plates clean, for mo?"
means an easy maller,
Those who are in, the habit of The s.8. Halching, of the Doug- visiting the Free Library cannot las Line, entering from Foochow About Hong Kong,
and Swatow, reports sighting a but have been struck recently by large quantity of crude oil on the the much improved condition of water between Cape Collinson and the part of the City Hall which Lyemun Pass, this having been has been taken over by the Naval apparently discharged recently.
Instead and Military Y.M.C.A.
An army warrant has been of the dull and uninspiring Issued for the arrest of Privato Charles William Bailey' (23) who Museum," there is a bright and has been reported to the police as cheery set of rooms, which cannot having deserted the Queen's Royal falt to attract. That is what a Regiment on Monday last. The Hittle enterprise and the provision Regiment Is stationed at the
Shamshuipo camp. of funds can accomplish. Would It be too much to hope that a like Japirit be manifested in regard to jour Library? If the present City IIall trustees have not the funds, why cannot the Government
Home. Mr. Arthur Diss continued! assume responsibility for the
in the business until it was taken Library? These are days in
over by Messrs. Mackintosh and Co, about five years ago, which it is part of the duty of a
According to a report made to
After being Home for a time, the
"I am seventy-three years of age, Government to encourage cultural the police by the manager of the development, and if the authorities Kowloon Docks, a Chinese ship-late Mr. George Diss travelled for and have never been in a police in the Farcourt before," said a man, accused wright was injured on Tuesday last several textile firms here would take. the matter in when he was struck by a timber East, and often called at Hong-at the Thames Court of drunken- hand, engage professional which was being swung into post-kong, where he renewed old-time ness.-Mr. Cairns, the magistrate: crane. The shipwright acquaintances. He was last hero You have been a bad boy at the Hirarian and reorganise the whole tinn by a
was sent to the Kwong Wah Hassume four months ago, and it was wrong time. You ought to have
whilst Home on leave that he sown your wild eats earller. pital for madical attention.
passed away.
Woman, ut Hastings: I work in On charges of being in possession The deceased, who was a bache restaurant-The Clerk: What, was extremely popularan a waitress?-No, air, I work of three gags, fit for an unlawful lor,
Hongkong Telegraph.institution, it would be doing a
THURSDAY, SEPT. 6 1928
LIBRARY MATTERS.
piece of real work for the benefit of the community. I might even
Wong Cheng, a fireman attached to the Central Fire Station, was sent to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from the effects of an overdose of opium, which is said to have been taken in an at- tempt to commit suicide. According to a police report, his condition is not serious.
Debtor, at Shoreditch: If my wife knew what I carned, 1 should never havé a penny to myself.
Woman, at Tottenham (necused of drunkenness): I admit I had a couple of whiskies. You see, I had been to a Salvation Army meeting in the afternoon.
be found advisable to charge purpose, and of not being able to amongst R wide circle of hard.
give a satisfactory explanation of friends, being of ก most IIis death the anme, four men who were ar: genial disposition.
snall subscription fee to members, but we feel sure that there would be no objection to this, provided there was some assurance that
Important
recommendations really useful Library were made which aim at improving the ser-available. At any rate, our exlat- vice of the Shanghai Municipaling apology for such an institu- Library, particularly regarding the tion cannot but be described an a purchase and 'selection of books, disgrace to the Colony. have, we notice, been made by the committeee of that institution.
Causeway Bay.
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rested at the Sung Wong Toi will be deeply regretted, and much Restaurant, Kowloon City Road, sympathy will be felt for his two were remanded by Mr. W. Schofield brothers, Mr. Arthur Disa and Mr. the Kowloons Magistracy this Harry Diss, who are now residing morning,
lat Home.
EXCHANGE RATES.
This morning's Harbour Office were generally poor, reports With 11 arrivals, tonnage and cur- goes both showed a slump, there being a total registration of only 11,000 tons, while freight records gave only one four-figure return As a result, the librarins is to pre-
under such heading. With nine pare a list of some forty of the Apparently because no Cause- Inwards, one Norwegian register- most popular authors of fiction,way Bay resident has been looking ed a four figure cargo, while the for the President of the Sanitary throughs totalled five, all of nud all the new works of these Board with a dangerous gleam in which were British, with all below Then his eye, the long-suffering house-the 1,000 ton mark. At 9 a.m. authors are to be ordered. particular attention is to be given holders in this district must con- there were 50 vessels in harbour,
tinue to endure the offensive of which 23 were British. to the provision of books 01 smells emanating from the China, In order that the foreign typhoon shelter. The series of population of Shanghal may be questions presented by Mr. Braga encouraged to become familarat Tuesday's meeting of the Board effectively summarised the dis- with the Chinese situation. A graceful state of affairs existing, liberal policy in also to be follow- and the official replies thereto
Paris must be regarded as wholly in- ed in the discarding of old books, adequate, and far from satisfac Amsterdam
Brusadis which are to be given to deserving tory. We are told that while the Berlin local causes.
atmospheric pollution with gases Copenhagen is undesirable. It is Improbable Vienna What is of particular interesthat the amount of such gases in Helsingfors is that a sum of Tls. 2,000 has the area in question is such as Lisbon ... been allotted for the purchase of to cause a danger to health. Bucharest books, this being apparently for This can only mean that the Buenos Aires
Government does not contemplato Shanghat the current year, and the appor-serious measures to cope with the Yokohama New York a decision which is
Geneva tionment will be, broadly apunking, nuisance,
tantamount to contravention of its
Milan half for fiction and the other half own regulations. We know very Stockholin for serious literature. At the well what would happen in the Oslo moment, we are not quite sure event of a private person or firm Prague creating noxious gases in a minute Madrid what the terms of membership of
A Athens comparison. degree this Municipal Library are, lightning notice with a threat of Rio although we believe it is run on prosecution within seven days, or Bombay.
Further. Hongkong something of the kind.
a moderate one.
are
by
consumed
London, Sept. 5.
OPIUM POSSESSION CASES.
LABELS IN FALSE TROUSERS
POCKET.
Several interesting opium cases were heard in Mr. R. E. Lindsell's Court this morning when Chick Preventive Officer Clarke prorocut- ed a number of offenders who were arrested on the waterfront yeater day.
Having observed the increasing. number of tandem cycles on the roads lately, a friend of mino (writes i correspondent to a Home paper) purchased such a cycle with the object of giving himself and
wife. Home
congenial and realthy exercise.
his
With the wife ensconced in the reur of the tandem, the couple on their first run made their way up. the steep hill which is the most suitable approach from their homo to the beautiful countryside,
Pufing, blowing, and pedalling. for dear Hfe, the husband was sur- prised to find that when the brow of the hill was reached, the tandem shot easily along the level,
"Can't make it out at all," be grumbled to his spouse, "I thought both of us would have taken that hill quite easily, and instead, here I am with the beginning of a A Chinese who had in his pos- first-class bout of heart disease!" session thirty-five taels of non- "It might have been me," came Government oplum WS fued his wife's voico. "I was so fright- $2,500, or, in default, six months' ened that we might slip back on .124.26 hard labour. The culprit openly that hill that I kept my brake ou .:34.90 admitted that he brought the nearly all the way."
.12.10 contraband dawa "from Wuchow. 20.30 He was arrested, at the Tai Hing 18.10 Wharf and the opium was founding coat will have become as ex- in certain false tina concealed in tinct as the frock-coat is now, says, the bottom of a large luggage case. 2.7/32
On the same wharf, a Chinese ..47.23/64 passenger off the 8.8. Anjou from .2/7 Wuchow was arrested for posses. .1/10.21/32" sion of 12 tacls. In this instance, .4.85% fine of $3,000, with the alterna-
.26.20
tive of six months' hard labour, 92.65 18.13 was imposed..
,34.426
192
„707%
18.19
....275
Sentence of, eight weeks' hard .1634 labour, failing the payment of a ,20,225
fine of $150, was imposed by the 6.29/32 Magistrate on a third man, who .1/5.18/16 was arrested at the Tai Hing
.2 Wharf with eight tacls. .26%
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a subscription basis, the fee being more, the Medical Officer of Silver (spot)
But, compared Health finds he cannot express Sliver (forward) with Hongkong, Shanghai is deep concern at the practica of digging for clams in this con- evidently much better served than taminated area since the shell-
chiefly About 40 long sentence. convicts we are here. The very fact that fish the Library is run by the Munici- by those that catch them, and, from Maldalone prison were taken if cooked, are not dangerous. In to Parkhurst Prison recently for pality. is a recognition by the the alternative, it is admittel, there an annual change of occupation. authorities of the value of such is a danger of Causeway Bay be- They wore dark grey civilian suits, institution to the public. coming a source of an epidemic of and some were smoking. They had typhold. Again, In this connexion, an enjoyable motor-coach ride, and Here in Hongkong we have our we would refer the M.O.I. to his as they crossed from Portsmouth Free Library, but no-one would records showing the origin of local to the Isle of Wight they wero in- claim that it is either up-to-date capes of enteric. Afterwards he terested in the rachting scenes.
might be able to explain why we or in any way attractive. It is have escaped the epidemie so long.
an
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'In another generation the morn-
a writer.
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My morning coat has served
ma well-
And thereby hangs a tale: For years I've known its camp-
hor smell,
Whene'er It did nyail,
In answer to my wife's doerces
For marriages and obsequies.
But, when my son mankind's
estate
Has reached, he will rely (I hope) on coats more up-to-
date-
No tail will hang thereby. I'll hand him mine, one day, to
store
As evidence of what I bore!
A few more schoolboy "howlors": A monastery is a place for mona- tors.
At the Yuen On Wharf, revenue officers found a Chinese who had one hundred bogua opium duty labels concealed in a false pocket Tho garment in in his trousers. question was shown by C.P.0. Clarke to the Magistrate, who then enquired of the defendant why he had concealed the labels in this Defendant sought to explain extraordinary way.
False doctrine is when a doctor that the trousers belonged to a
An appendix is a portion of a friend and he was unaware of the gives wrong stuff to a man. existence of secret pockets, Ane of $100, with six weeks' hard book, which nobody yet has dis labour as the alternative, was im-covered of any use.
A
Marriage is a Sacrament where a priest unites a man and women in fatal union.
An ibex is where you look at the back part of a book to find out any thing you want.
run as part and parcel of the City As to the question of dredging, the considered its attitude in this reposed.
Government's chief concern is spect. It is absurd, on the face of Hall, which in turn le in the hands whether the shallow water pro- things, to run an excellent series of
A grass widow is the wife of a The Canton Bureau of Public vegetarian. of a body of trustees of whom thejudices the usefulness of the shelter arterial roads over the Wanchai ro- pubile knows little or nothing. for small craft during typhoon clamation if the only outlet at the Works has prepared détailed plans A casserole le a garment worn by We have no den of what the finan-weather, and not whether the ex-eastern end is the present thorough-for the construction of a steel curates.
posure of noxious silt at low tide fare, already, partly by reabridge to provide access from the An incubus is a thing that luat- elal resources of this body may is a prejudico to public health, son of the tramway junction, Bund to. Pearl Park on Dutch cho chickens.
Immortality Is running away be, and it la possible that there There is, however; a very simple badly choked at certain times rolly, and tenders are being in-
and desirable solution to the proof the 'day. The typhoonvited for the contract. Oue of with another-man's wito, aro no funds which can be set blem of the Causeway Bay shelter, shelter, if really necessary, can the conditions of the contract is The children of an Archduke are aside for the much-needed im- which is not confined to the mat easily be removed to another part that the bridge must be completed called Archdeacons.
ter of pollution. A mistake was of the harbour. Development of within three months from date of provement and development of the made when the goheme for the re- Causeway Bay must be undertaken the contract, a specific penalty Library. By far the larger pro- clamation of the area was dropped, at some time or other, and it being imposed for each day a delay portion of the books in the and it is time the Government re might just as well be now.
beyond the contract period.,
Discomposed. Is how you look after you've been dead a long time. Dimples are dents on girls faces like pimples inside out,
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