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PAYING "SPEEJEE.”
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The report for 1928 of the So- cioty, for the Propagation of the
WIFE ENTITLED TO BE THE HAPPY WARRIOR.'
TOLD.
HUSBAND'S ALLEGED
SECRET.
London, Apr. 25.
Gospol in Foreign Parts mentions A defence that a wife was cutitled an instance of how much needed to be told about her husband's help can be given the Society by alleged mode of life while ho was
| A TEST FOR LETTER WRITERS.
London, Apr. 20, Mr. Baldwin was the guest of the London Press, Club at luncheon caterday, following his speech at Drury Lane.
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Immediately after the loyal
in merry mood, lighted bis familiar pipe, whereupon one of the officers of the Club (Mr. Percy Rudd) rosé Mr: Willings Wallace Watt, anand said: "All the pipe smokers oil export, clained damages for in the room would like to take a alleged libel from Mr. Robert Cyril whiff with Mr. Baldwin."" Longsdon, of Norman Court, Balin bury, Wiltaleira..
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elting the example of the parlen away from her was made in a libel toast the Prime Minister, who was WHITE SPORTS of Oxhey, near Watford, which action which failed yesterday in the has undertaken to support the King's Donch Division. lumber campamission for # period of years,
The Report is full of excellent stories. From Tobago comes per haps the best. "I was Celebrat ing, when I suddenly became aware that someone wns behind
Mr. Watt complained that while me. My big black churchwarden had come up in his bare feet. he was in Casa Blanca, and Morocco, He bent down and whispered libellous statements concerning him-pond to the toast of his health, sald quite loudly, Parson, you forgot self, which were contained in your regalla? Then I noticed that letter written by Mr E. A. Browne, I had forgotten my stole."
The Chairman (Mr. G. F. Alli- son) presided.
The Prime Minister, who was
cordially received on rising to res-
ho felt as ho did when he wont to dine at his old college-Trinity an official of his company in Casa that in no corner of London could there be more learning, knowledge and wisdom. (Laughter.) "It op presses me," he continued, "for I am not one of the intelligentsia."
The ringing of the church bell lanca, to Mr. Longsdon, were ent- Mating in one back part of Ausmunicated by Mr. Londedon to Mr. tralia was so alarming and un-Watt's wife and to other persona usual an
occurrence that the
It was suggested in Mr. Browne's local fire brigade turned out. Ietter that Mr. Watt hnd committed Then there is the old Canadian misconduct with a domestic servant woman who, at the sight of the while living at Caen Bianca elerygyman, defended herself with a broom and had to be told what a Church of England clergy-mublished man was, as she felt sure that he privileged occasions, bonostly be-
lieving it to be true. was a tramp..
In a merry reference to poli- Mr. T. J. O'Connor, K.C., for Mr. ticians waiting for the Press, he But the chief need of the Sol ciety is for people at home to Watt, said that Mr. Watt returned said he understood that money. emulate the old African native homo in April 1928, and he Wai
cus
Mr. Longaton pleaded, that he the alleged libel on
Last Christmas he received a card from the gun-room of д battleship. He wrote back, "I am can say, because, like me, you do more grateful for your card than all the dirty work and get all the [kicks." (Laughter.)
who talked about paying his then shown by his wife Me.might be earned with compara- "Speejec," which proved, an in-Browne's letter, which had boentive case by contributing anything quiry, to be his monthly payment nent by Mr. Longsdan, not only one overheard at the Club, and much as ho disliked dinner parties, as a return present to a mysteri- Mrs. Watt, but to Mr. Washington it might be worth while for a and far-away benevolent Singer, the chairman of the com-thousand a year to give an occa- deity called the S.P.G. The So-pany, and to a firm of solicitors.
sional dinner party. ciely will welcome donations, however small, and it is in urgent, need of workers who will go out to assist their vast wark on near ly every continent.
LOCAL HOCKEY.
"Not A Word True,"
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The other day he read a littlo new volume of poems "Not a word of that letter is verse in a true declared Mr. O'Connor, "and which, though not written apropos Mr. Longedon new admits that it is of an election, seemed to him not true, but he says that there was peculiarly applicable to an election a duty on him owing to his friend-in ship for Mra. Watt to disclose these incts to her."
No evidence was called for the defence.
The following hockey team will
Mr. Justice Horridge, without meet H.M.S. Sirdar on the Marina ground at 5.30 p.m. on Monday.leaving the case to the jury, ruled W. Borrowman, G. A. L. Plummer, that all the occasions of the pub. L. F. Nicholson, A. N..Other, lication of Mr. Browne's letter were LA. R. Duncan, E. R. West, A. R. privileged. He said regarding the Botelho, W. A. Nowera, G. Walers, publication to Mr. Singer that it G. E. R. Divett and E. C. Fincher. was clear that all communications Referee: A A. Dand. The team passing between Mr. Longston and will play in white shirts.
Mr. Browne and Mr. Longston and Mr. Singor concerning the conduct of Mr. Watt were matters in which they were all interested by reason of their common business interest tion to the wife was perhaps more The question of the communica difficult.
In a message received in London in connexion with the anniversary of Byron's death, M. Venizelos, the Prime Minister of Greece, Bays "The name of the poet is coupled for ever with Greece and Greece's
which about two thousand candidates were seeking the suf frages of their fellow men and women.
Of all the cocks that greeted dawn to-day.
How many will be here a year from now?
How many preen their feathers on the heap,
How many strut the yard, how many crew?
"Very good," Mr. Baldwin con- tinued. "I will offer a small prize. To anyone who will tell me within a week who wrote those lines-they are by a modern writer will give a tin of my own tobacco. (Laughter.)
"While on the subject of prizes, and not wishing to curry favour merely with working journalists, I history, and its place in the view is that if there is obvious in will offer another prize, open only
Pantheon of our gratitude is a deeply marked one."
While un a week-end visit to Hayling Island, Mrs. Bessie Good- hew, of Windsor, was cooking on a spirit stove when it exploded and set fire to her clothes. She was no badly burnt that she died a few hours later.
"I think," he said, "the right
terests in the person to whom the communication in mnde, which to newspaper proprietor. causes him, or her to be a proper "The prize will be a volume of recipient of a statement, and if the Wordsworth, and the subject will statement is honestly made, then be "The Happy Warrior? (Laugh- that statement in privileged." |ter.) Who wrote this? Is it Mr. Justice Horridge further a poem, or is it prose? Can you ruled that there was no evidence of give any three consecutive words malice against Mr. Longadon. He from that poem in their right entered judgment for Mr. Longadon. with costs
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Being a voracious reader of the papers, Mr. Baldwin sald, he had been much more Interested in them in the last few days, because of the fiction appearing in them, "I read on Sunday that my wife was at Perpignan," he proceeded. "I got up at six o'clock on Monday, and found that she was on the way, to Berifn. We were rung un all day and asked if it was true. It struck" me that someone might have asked that question before they put it in.""
He did not mind a little fiction, but, was a little hurt that some magnate of the Press did not ring' him up. He would say, "Is that the Prime Minister?" and, on ré- colving an affirmative reply, would say, "I am sorry you have been tr-r-roubled."(Laughter.),
Continuing, Mr. Baldwin conf- fessed that he was not particularly fond of publy and did not care about by photographe. He supposed his portrait must be worth something, or people would not want to take it, "But I never get a bean," he concluded, amid laughter.
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