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ST. ANDREW'S 'SOCIETY.
SATISFACTORY FINANCIAL
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POSITION.
The Very Idea!
J. R. M. Smith Scholarship, "I said 'Find Ronniel' and the
The sum of $717 has been trans-dog Immediately led me into a forred from the Society's current coppice in Hadley Woods, where I account to a Savings Bank account found my brother, dressed in n In the above name.
residence there should not suffico for official needs. There is ample room on the site for an Imposing block, besides which it is located only about a twenty minutes'
Are you a Glozolian? If so The report of the Committed of life still holds for you plenty of motor ride from the city and notified yesterday-one Indian and the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society exaltement. At this season of would thus be quite convenient two Chinose,
for presentation at the forty peace and goodwill the Glozelinna for those making official colla
and the doopties who declare that hare. His Excellency could, of
Messra Moutrie & Co., Ltd., have soventh annual general meeting at marvellous prehistoric indsat received a telegram to the effect the City Hall on Thursday, Sept. Glozel are nothing but faked trash course, have his business office in that Miss Cecilla Hansen will give 27, has just been published, and are badly in each other's hair and Government Building, where thero a final concert on September 24th. revels a antisfactory Anadefal accusations of deliberate bud faith should be additional room now This will be welcome newa to local position. The report states: are: flying about like snowflakon in that the now storey is being added.music-lovers.
Our holdings in Straits Settle-blizzard. It only remains for the antagonists to repeat the and Much, if not all, of the cost of a H. E. the Officer Administering mont War Loan were realized, and history of tho vow that broko now Government House on the the Government, the Hon. Mr. W the proceeds amounting to $7,969 up our Scelety upon the Stanis
T. Southorn, C.M.G., accompanied 74, plus $2,080.28 from current laua," as recorded by Truthful sito mentioned could be covered by Mrs. Southern and friends, was account, were transferred to a James. A stone bearing the draw- from the disposal of the two dxist-present at the 5.10 p.m. per Fixed Deposit for $10,000. This ing of a reindeer genuine or ing residences, on which so much formance. in the Queen's Theatre
Live a weapon as tho historic money is how continually being yesterday to see the great jungle amount was invested In Hongkong otherwise might prove as effec-
film "Chang." After the perform- Government 6% Public Works chunk of Old Red Sandstone. anco His Excellency said he had Loan. Turning now to prison ac-greatly enjoyed the picture, which he thought was a splendid produc- commodation, we find that more
tlon. money is to be sunk in Victoria Gaol, where quite a good deal has. already been spent in recent times. The latest expenditure is for $41,000 in respect of a new Printing Shop, Then. no less than $67,000 is needed for married quarters at Lafchikok. How much better would it be if these sume stood over until the provision of a much-needed now Prison wan " taken in hand? At its best, Lal- At the Marine Court this morn- chikok is n makashift, never in- ing, before Commdr. J. B. Nowill, tended as a permanent gaol. At. D.S.O., R.N., four fishing boat mistresses were charged with using Trendy the Colony has spent some-drags and grapplings to lift thing like a quarter of a million objects from the harbour bed the Harbour Master. Pleading Ngau Shi Wan site, where it was guilty, they were each fined $5, intended to erect a really modern with the usual alternative, his WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19. 1928 prison, and police training school. Worship adding that all gear Let that scheme be revived, in-seized by the police should be
confiscated. stead of all this money being liter- ally thrown away. Then there will be ample room for married quarters, printing shops and all
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With the enterprise characterle- tic of the firm, Messrs Mackintosh and Company, Ltd, well-known
This sum represents the accrued men's went specinilets, have just. completed an attractive alteration Interest on 500. 6% War Loan to their Tailoring Department. since the inception of the Fund, Tenk panelling has been employed, to good effect, while a fireplace has a been installed in one corner of the showroom. Easy chalra of typically masculine type complete an artistic scheme reminiscent of Clubland.
Thongkong Telegraph. dollars in sinking piles on the without the written permission of
UNECONOMIC.
Jury Service Anomaly,
About Hong Kong.
Do you know that——
A General sat with the Governor as Judge at the first Criminal Sessions over held in Hongkong?
Major General D'Aguilar, .C.B., after whom D'Aguilar Street is named, arrived in the Colony in December, 1844, as Commander of the land forces- in China, and distinguished himself by rendering valuable co-operation with the civil au- thorities in repressing, crime. The Arst trial by jury here was held in March 1844, Major-General D'Aguilar sit- ting with the Governor to try the cases.
He left in 1849, after much useful service, and died at Home in 1855,
The lighthouse on Cape D'Aguilar was lit for the first time on April 16th., 1876.
bathing costume, hanging from a tree by a dog chain," This story was related by Herbert Beaton at the inquest at New Barnet on his brother, Ronald Ernest. Beaton, aged 17, of Woodville-rand, Now Barnet. The dog had been out with his brother and had returned alone. It seemod very restless and kept running to the door until Mr Bonton followed it. The jury returned a verdict of suicide whilst of unsound mind, brought about by the worry of unemploy- ment.
A doctor says that women røver talk in their sleep.
While mere men do, the fair
BCX don't
Soliloquise, in phrases odd, When at their will, as is their
wont,
They drift into the Land of
Nod.
They do not blurt out bits of
rot
Or murmur secrets in the
night
(A sign, perhaps, that men
have not Such capable
quite).
digestions
Women, in short, have naught
to say
When fast asleep, "as oft
have men---
Which is as it should be, for
they
Poh Tiong Hock, one of the de- fendants in a Supreme Court cas In Singapore in which Tan Leng Yew sued Poh Leng Seng and Tan The Government polley of apendelse needed.
Leng Seng for $6,000, has been sentenced to six weeks' rigorous ing considerable sums of publie
imprisonment for perjury. The Roney on patching up old build-
man was repeatedly warned to speak the truth, but continued to ings Ix again emphasised in the
make statements which were au proposed Budget appropriations An extremely unusual and In contradictory that the Judgo in- for the coming year. This is par-teresting ceremony was witnessed tervened. The claim was dismis ticularly noticeable in the case of at the Supreme Court yesterdayer with costs.
when the Chief Justice, in accord
Hess amounts paid out to Government. Почас, Mountainance with time-honoured custom, This morning's Harbour Office winners of the Scholarships. Lodge, Retorla Gaol and the was presented with a pair of reports gave 14 arrivals and 17
General Account.. makeshift prison at Lalchikok. It white gloves to mark the occasion departures, with British holding of a maiden Criminal Sessions top place, recording six under ench in a policy which we consider to calendar. The rarity of the event heading Tonnage was fair, but Society now stands at $1,292.07 to The balance at credit of tho
Felix, apparently eager to dis be the opposite of economie in the is indicated by Sir Henry Gollan's freights showed a slump, there which must be added the sum of play his prowess as a mouser, had long run, for no matter how much revelation that in 25 years as an being only three inward cargoes of $10,000 invested in 6% Hongkong Ind his first victim lifeless at the administrator of the law, yester four figures and the same number Government Public Works Lonn, feet of his new mistress. Pamela money may be sunk in this way, day was the first time he had of through freights abovo the whilst £500 in 5% War Loan 1929. (aged 7) curiously studied the there will always he calls for taken part in such a happy cere 1,000 ton mark, British topped 1947 is held for account of the late prize for more. The fact of the matter is mony, while the Colony's criminal, the inward cargoes and Japanese J. R. M. Smith Scholarship Fund. asked,
records show that on three pre-monoplised the through freights,
The sum of $1,003.07 was that many of our public and off-vious occasions only has the need with two British entering from
reason
were
the
Must have a break just now
and then!
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and a few moments,.
"Where is the other part, Ex- Mother?"
Mother.
"The part that makes it go."
East Ham man: I asked him to make me a gult of clothes, at a reasonable price, and now they would only at a boy, Tailor:
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cin) buildings have had their day, for presentation of gloves arisen. coast ports in ballast. At 9 a.m. pended during the year in assist- "What other part?" asked and the sooner that is realised, It is not given to everyone, there-there were 65 vessels in harbour, ing distressed Scotsmen.
The annual Ball was held in the the better. If for financial ren-fore, even In a life-time, to attend (of which 20 were British.
City Hall, on Wednesday, 30th the court under such pleasing cir-
Robert Burns' Rong they cannot all be replaced atcumstances, attended by such in
At yesterday's meeting of the November, and the moment, then the obvious teresting ceremonial. On the Sanitary Board, the Chairman Mr. Birthday was celebrated at the thing to do is to spend as little other hand, it is not everyone who W. J. Carrie submitted a minute Volunteer Headquarters.
The late.J. R. M. Smith Scholur as possible on them until auch desires to do so, and among these to the effect that wells at Nos, G
WAB won
this year by we would number certain local und 8 Wing Kut Street were to be ship timo as it is possible to oreet new business men who were
closer, on account of the insanitary Elizabeth Lee McCubbin, and the Boy's price. com- buildings. This allocation of big palled
Thames Court solicitor: Wo are conditiona prevalling, Mr. Carrlo amount of $117.33 appears under be present yes-
of the fact mentioned that the walls were disbursements.
told that in the next world there suns for the maintenance and im-terday y
Your Committee deeply regret will be no marriage or giving in that they
list dug several years ago, for furnish- the on
Cairns, magis- provement of old premises is, to far jury service. It is somewhat ng water for a Bush system, but to record the deaths of Messrs. J. marriage. Mr. say the least, extremely, wasteful, astonishing that numerous "good had fallen into disuse. Mr. Wong G. Garraway and D. W. G. Gerrard, trate: That is why it is called Kwong-tin, addressing the meet-
Seventy-nine new members were Paradise. To take the Governor's official men and true" should be warned ing, suggested that owing to the enrolled during the year whilst 18 Solleitor nt Mansfield (to residences first, there has in re- cials were well aware that they from wells withough unfit for subscriptions collected amounted to
prosent "dry" season the water we're made life members, and woman): I am obliged for your answer. Woman: Then I am sorry, cent years been considerable ex- would not be required. Obviously drinking purposes might be utilised $1,674,00. The Committee would I spako. penditure an Government House. it was quite unnecessary, That for washing and cleaneing and he again invite the aid of all members business men should be called suggested that the wells be allowed For the coming year, a further
away from their normal duties, if to remain. The question was $18,500 is required to carry out only for an hour, to waste their eventually put over until the next certain alterations and improve-time reveals something wrong meeting. ments. Then there is Mountain with the Colony's jury system.
to attend the Court when the off-
Probably, the fault does not lay
Lodge, His Excellency's summer with the oMeils of the Court, but,
residence. For the current year, a sum of over $18,000 is needed for the installation of a hot water
EXCHANGE RATES.
with the rules under which they are required to net. The jury sys- tem has rightly, been described as one of the 'grontost achievements Paris and central heating system, and in. British jurisprudence, but the New York other items, whilst for 1929 a fur-working of the Institution in Brussels ther $5,500, is to be asked for in Hongkong is far from ideal. We Genova..
believe that jury service is an im- Amsterdam
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Stockholm is no reason why it should not is budgelled for in order to con- be made as easy for him as pos- Copenhagen:
Oslo struct a motor road to this rosi-sible. It is an unfortunate fact Vienna deneo. This latter item seems a that the majority of jurymen are Prague
unwilling; the more reason, thero- Helsingfors big sum to pay for what, after all, fore, that conditions should not Madrid jean hardly be described as allow him to leave the precincts of Lisbon necessity. It may well be that the Court with a grleyance. The Athens both Government House and unsatisfactory operation of the Bucharest
Hongkong system does not bogin Rio Mountain Lodge are in need of and end with maiden calendars. Buenos Aire
Hombay improvement, but we would much It applies to every Criminal Sas Shanghai prefer to see the minimum of sions and to every inquest held in Hongkong the Colony. It seems to us that Yokohama money spent upon them until such 08 unnecessarily Targe Jury Silver (spot)
Wo
in bringing forward new names: Thames Court that he was robbed A coloured man stated at the
All Scots in the Colony should make it their duty to become of 28. 6d. while selling mascots,
which brought "good luck."
Members of the Society.
The accounts have been audited by Mr. E. D. Black to whom our thanks are due.
London, Sept. 18,
.124.20 .4.80% .34,90
25.20 EUROPEAN LADY VICTIMISED
DY CHINESE. .12.09%
KOWLOON SNATCHING.
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Mald-"The furniture man is
Mistress "I'll see him in a minute. Tell him to take a chair." Maid "I did, but he sald he would start with the plano, and radio."
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A proposal to establish camél rides for the entertainment of Mrs. Withors, residing at Gan residents and visitors at Brighton Club Hill, Kowloon, was the victim has been made to the authorities. 18.19 of a snatching incident while she The camels, it was stated, would 18.10 34.42% was walking in Nathan Road yes be equipped and attended by 103% terday evening, as a result of native drivers, exactly as they are 1924% which she lost her handbag con- at the Pyramids, and the drivers 29.31% talning $16.50 while the thief would be under the control of a shetk, who is one of the most .107% succeeded in escaping.
The victimised lady was walk-popular guides in Egypt.
The Watch Committea adviso 20/32ing along by Rose Terrace, short the Council not to accept the prot .47.11/82ly after seven o'clock when a Chi-
posal. .1/5.81/32nese came up from behind" and 2/7 anntched her bag, which she was ..1/11% carrying under her arm at the Yesterday's return of the Medical .1/10.25/32 time. The man Immediately turn Officer of Health contained two
.28%ed tail and ran away. He disse of mallpox and 20% appeared down one of the aide of enteric fever. All wore Ghinesc. streets and, up to noon_to-day,"no Ten cases of infectious disease arrest had been effected;
were reported last week. Six of these were of enteric faver, two of smallpox and one each diphtheria
British Wireless.
one
time as it is found possible to list is prepared every month. Silver (forward) erect an entirely new official resi- Probably sixty per cent. of the gentlemen warned.are. dence. Sir Edward Stubbs,
never called upon to serve, but believe, had an idea of a new nevertheless are required to be in necessary to call the exact num- Government House on the site of constant attendance, not all day,ber, in accord with English prac-At the Magistracy yesterday and puerperal fever. All were Chin- the Old Military Sanitarium at but for a period every day, or as tice. We seriously suggest to the afternoon, Mr. R. E. Lindsell found eso with the exception of the Magazine Gap. The site seems to the Court directs. The require authorities that the regulations that, there was a case against diphthoria case, which was British," ments of the Court could be met covering jury service should be Leung Wai, charged with kidnap. Two of the cases of enteric fover us admirably adapted for such a efficiently, we feel, if the exact examined with a view to disposing ping an aged villager, whose ex-were imported. Thure word five purpose, being close to the main number of jurors required, with of present anomalies. An effort tradition is applied for by the Can- deaths, from small-pox, five from motor road to the Peak. Indeed, ja small addition to meet possible in this direction, we are aure, ton authorities. An order for the enteric lover and one from puerperal challenges, wore warned, and no would be greatly appreciated by commital of the accused to. await fever, loven deaths were reported we see no reason why one. дож
extradition was made.
from Lafluenza which is not notifiable; I more. "At" inquests, it is only the community generally.