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THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929.
DAY BY DAY.
OLD FRIENDS, LIKE OLD SWORDS, ARE TRUSTED BEST.-John Webster.
terms and subject to satisfactory assurances of good faith. Indeed, he referred to a vast and fertile territory common to men of pro- gressive minds in all parties,"
The P. and 0. Company notifies which they could "cultivato to-
that the 8.8. Tilsington Court, gether." But he added that "un-which Jeft Singapore yesterday at der these circumstances the con-noonis duc here at G a.m. on the ditions of co-operation and under-11th instant. standing must be honourable to all and humilinting to none." Des- pite these "Teelers," however, we incline to the view that the mood of the Labour Party will have to undergo a startling change boforo It consento to any working ar rangement with the Liberals. In any event, the Liberals could not expect a monopoly of consideration, seeing that the Conservatives are numerically much stronger than they are.
CORRESPONDENCE.
WASTING WATER.
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[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.) Sir-Through the medium of your paper I should like to call the attention of those in authority to what I consider a wicked wasto of water, namely watering the K.C.C.
The body of a Chinese who was found hanging from the seawall at the end of Jordan Road, was sent Bowling Green.
Why should gallons of water be to the Mortuary last night. The police believe it to be a case of wasted in such a manner to gratify suicide.
a desire for sport when so many Chinese, aye, and Europeans too, Government passengera leaving cannot get sufficient water for for Home by the s.8, Delta on their daily needs? Saturday, June 8, Include Mr. W. H. Noonan of the Prison Depart- meat and Mr. and Mrs. Elvidge and family of the Harbour Office.
Charged · before the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., at the Marine Court thle morning with Jumping rubbish into the harbour without a permit, the mistress of a fishing bont pleaded guilty and wis fined $5.
The present in passe will take a lot of straightening out. Propor tional Representation schemes would not really affect such situa- tions; the most that they could do Last week's return of the Me-
real
would be to secure a more accur-1dleat Officer of Health contained ate reflexion in Parliamentary five cases of enter': fever and two seats of minority feeling. Much of diphtheria. Two of the entarie cases were Imported, Three of of the trouble is caused by foolish them were Chinese and two Indian. adherence to the old, party labels. The diphtheria cases were also Chinese. There was one death from Fundamentally, there is no
dinhtheria and one from enteric. divergence between Liberals and Yesterday's return contained three Labour, and we find ourselves in further cases of enteric, all Chinese (one being imported) and one of agreement with a commentator diphtheria (Chinese), who recently asserted that the beat hope for the future seems to lie in an ultimate fusion of the main CORNABY-On 3rd June, of elements in the two parties. Pneumonia, at Bournemouth, "Perhaps in due course," says this Zilla, age 6 years, daughter of writer, "an issue will arise which Mr. and Mrs. W..B. Cornaby.will again divide the nation along lines which roughly correspond with the normal cleavage of
from the Conservative, the pro-tained slight injuries. gressive from the reactionary; and
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY JUNE 8, 1920
WHAT NOW?
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Now that Mr. RamsayMac. Donald has been called upon to form a Government, a point which | naturally suggests itself is how long
The Very Idea!
The Barnet Isolation Committee has definitely resolved to terminato. the appointment of Mr. Whitaker as porter because of the presence of his baby in the porter's lodge, which is in the hospital grounds,
When the baby was born the com- mittee congratulated Mr. Whitaker, but told him he would have to find another situation because of the risk of infection to his child.
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Mr. Luke, the Willesden Magi- strate: A man has many privi- leges with regard to his wife, but they do not include abusing her in the street to the annoyance of other
Woman at Marylebone County Court: I could not possibly be what my landlord's wife called me. I am a grandmother.
Is it in such a manner England people. earned her reputation for justice? If not, then let us cartall our sport for the sake of the community until such time that it is no longer necessary to do so.-Yours etc.,
ALSO A BOWLER. Kowloon, June 6th, 1929.
BRIDGE MADE EASY Joy W.W.Wentworth
The Singleton Lead-I.
It usually is advisable to lead a An accident occurred yesterday afternoon shortly after 2, when mo- singleton if your partner has tor bus No. 666, belonging to the bid that suit. However, as a China Motor Bus Company, while blind opening lead without in- approaching the junction of Austin formation from your partner, it la and Kimberley Roads, collided with a play of doubtful character. two ricshas, which were over Tempting especially to the novice, turned, a European Indy riding int is not favoured by the pro- one of them being thrown to the babilities the likelihood is that the dummy holds ground, and it is understood that the declarer or she sustained abrasions to her the high card in that suit.
marked" and is easily recognized by experienced players. The
opinion, separating the Liberal head. Both ricnha coolies AUS- The singleton is usually "ear
Witness at Westminster County Court: I'm Independent. I used to be a bookmaker's runner, but I lost my job.
Mr. Jessop, the Wood Green Clerk: I remember a man who be came drunk on half a glass of beer, and he appeared before the Bench on sovaral occasions.
(Savile-row says that well-dressed men should have 48 shirts.].
The putting on of shirts is apt
To strain their fabric, I agree, Most laundries, too, I've under-
stood,
Regard them as a terrier would. Yet, even so, I've only three.
Then why the deuco should well-
drossed men
Four dozen of them order lu?. Ha ha! I know! My light has
shone!
Some forty odd they must put
on-
Those horses that so seldom
win!
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Last year produced champions in every line of sport, in political cireles, terary circles, in aviation and other industries, but here are a few you probably never heard of.
Herr Fritz Solner, of Berlin, pte Mr. N. S. Brown, who has been warning signal is clear, so that a 300-pound pig in ten days. An- in charge of the Hongkong of ee of the declarer, immediately draws other of his countrymen ate seven Messrs. Butterfield and Swire ince trumps and dislodges all of youra. and a half yards of
sausage. in the retirement of Mr. G. M. Young As a result, your blind singleton about half an hour. has gone on Home leave and will lead not only proves to be failure possibly be later, transferred to the in itself but probably helps to unravelled his way through two and Francesco Marini, an Italian, Shanghai Office. Mr. Brown has establish that suit, for the do- a quarter miles of spaghetti in one
then, if the issue is one which moves men deeply, we shall find ourselves back in the two-party system." But it may be that, as consequence, the Liberal Party, as auch, will cease to have a separate taken an active part in local affairs in recent years, being Chairman of entity.
Sovlet Business,
Important contracts
entered
into by the Soviet Government and American business interests this week are calculated to cause further deep thinking on the part
clarer,
the Hongkong General Chamber of At times, the lead of a singleton Commerce and a member of the is an advantageous play. Know- Court of the longlong University. Ing when not to lead a singleton He has now resigned both offices, guides you in the proper course, It will be remembered that he pre-1 Bided at the dinner given in honour of the visit of H.R.II. the Duke of Gloucester at the Peninsula Hotel. Mr. Brown left on the Empress yesterday.
Labour will be able to retain allice. The Liberals, as we all know, hold the balance of power. How will they use it? When the result of
A large number of Hongkong the election became known, Mr. of the British industrial leaders residents left by the Empress of
The greater the number of
sitting. A glass jug, containing two gallons, was emptied of beer in 23 1-5 seconds by a Parle an.
Other records went to Price McBride of Manchester, for piece 1000 times on playing one a pit no without stonping; Pietro us in your hand, the greater Lueci played a trombone 6 hours 20-minutes. while treading the necessity of playing from your and longest and strongest suit, regard-water; a Polish jazz band played. less of the singleton. The effect continuously for over 33 hours, of this procedure is to weaken the declarer'a strong hand and drive out his trumps..
his
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As a school in a small mining town a teacher was speaking to a class of five-year-olds on their at- titude at prayer-time.
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hands."
Remember that there is nothing | Lloyd George asserted that his who made up the recent trade France yesterday, including Capt. party would not exercise its power delegation to Russia. The first and Mrs. A. W. Austin, Mr. N. S. more exasperating to the declarer
Brown, Capt. II. F. Bloxham, Mrs. than seeing the trumps in
"When you kneel down," she said Whon In her most reverent tone, "you unfairly, realising that the Gov-contract guarantees the purchase. E. H. Beavis, Capt. G. Brown, strong hand vanishing. ernment of the country must be by the Soviet of over £6,000,000 7. V. Beer, Mrs. T. G.. Bennett, you hold four trumps, do not, as a should close your eyes and fold your
worth of: Ford cars in the next Mrs. C. Bernard Brown, Mr. and rule, lead a singleton. carried on steadily. Before the four years, and the construction Mrs. G. Cushing, L. D. R. M. Cameron,, Mr. and Mrs, Allan election, he had undoubtedly laped of a Ford factory in Russia, and Cameron, Mr. R. H. Charles, Mr. SAND FROM NULLAHS. "Please, teacher, mother don't fold that the Liberal strength would be the second is concerned with the and Mrs. E. R. Duckitt, Dr. W. H. such that, even if Labour were reorganisation of Moscow's auto Dobson, Major and Mra, B, F, the strongest unit, Mr. MacDonald mobile plant. The negotiations Duckwall, Rev. W. T. Feather- Huskard, would be practically compelled to which enabled these transactions stone, Col. J. Med.
C.M.G., D.S.O., Mr. C. E. Holmes,
MAGISTRATE QUERIES A
PROSECUTION.
She was about to read a child's prayer, when a small voice piped:
her hands nor shut her eyes when. she says her prayera."
The acher hesitated, but before she could reply, the voice continued: "Sho just looks at father and says, 'God bless every poor 'ooman as a- a got a mon like theef.
S.
charged Sergeant Sherry
before Mr. T. Smith, ut the Kow- this morning,
| consent to a Coalition Government, were not ushered in with a fan-Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Kirkpatrick, no elaborate Mr. F. Keller, Dr. K. S. Kwan, Hon with several of the ministerial fare of trumpets, posts allotted to the Liberals. But arrangements were made for the Mr. C. Mel. Messer, Mr. and Mrs. Chinese
the American re-. Manners, Mrs. M. L. Mc Whyte although Mr. Lloyd George and reception of
presentatives, and the absence of Eachran, Mrs. H. C. McCallum, loon Magistracy his little group resemble the tail
diplomatic relations between the Mr. and Mr. Eldon Potter, Mrs. A with removing sand from a nullah directing traffic on a busy corner.
Piercy, Mr. W. II. Peters, Mrs. M. at Kowloon City. which wagged the dog, they cannot United States and the Soviet ap-Rankin, Mr. D. M. Ross, Dr. S. P. reasonably hope for any such out-pears to have been entirely over-Spencer, Mr. II. Seth, Mr. G. and was told that it was the same His Worship queried the charge come. They thus find themselves looked. The information is of Swire, Major General J. W. Sandi- buck in pretty much the same posi-special interest as throwing an-lands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Mr. R. tion as they were in 1923, when other aide-light on the inherent Sutherland, Mr. W. A. Stewart, Mr. E. des Vocuk, Mr. M. M. Wal Labour took office for the first Russian antagoniam ta anything on and Mr. C. D. Wales.
and everything British. No, onc time.
grudges the Americans their orders contracts, even though British trades went to Moscow, saw what
If past Liberal utterances are to be taken at their face value,
A white-gloved policeman was When giving the "go" sign he would always call "Pedestrians this way!”. Irishman who had been standing on After a while he noticed a big as one previously brought by an the kerb for a long time. He finally "Pedestrians this way, Why don't officer of the Public Works De-called to, the Irishman and said. partment.
His Worship asked if the sand you get a move on." was not taken from the bottom of the nullah, and if the sand had not
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT IN merely collected there.
KOWLOON.
EUROPEAN LADY THROWN FROM RICKSHA,
Sergeant Sherry agreed, causing his Worship to remark that the defendant, by removing the sand, was improving the bottom of the | nullah.
Sergeant Sherry replied that the charge had been brought because of a similar prosecution some weeks ago.
Tia Worship warned the defend- ant that he was not to, interfere with nullahs, and discharged him with a caution.
PROBABLY SOME RAIN,
The Irishman shouted back:- "I've been waiting here for an hour, and all you call is Presbyterians this way. When the devil are you going to call the Cathollca 7"
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| Labour cannot hope to last long in they were permitted' to see, and office. In January last, Sir Her-returned to England with empty bert Samuel definitely asserted hands and order-books after that "in any
eventuality the most polite, but evasive reception. Liberal Party will not again lend After the event and with the
A European resident, Mis. Eus support to the installation and negative results known, it is per maintenance in office of a Socialist haps easy to express surprise tice, was injured as the result of day afternoon, at the junction of Goverment," adding that "what-that representative British busi-a collision which occurred yester ness men believed in the sincerity Austin and Nathan Roads, Kow- ever solution is found it must of the Soviet invitation. Yet, loon, between a motor bus and a be other than that." This
WAB bearing in mind all that has ricksha in which she was travel going even further than Mr. Lloyd transpired between Britain and ling.
An account of the mishap has George in his speech at the Liberal the Soviet in' the past decade, Conference at Yarmouth, fast au-the fiasco should have been fore-hean handed in ut Police Head quarters by Sergeant Meadows,
: Amsterdam tumn. The Liberal leader then re-seen. The whole purpose of the who was a passenger in the bus.
The officer states that the bus! The Royal Observatory reports Stockholm pudiated with vigour the idea of officials whom the Brilish trade
in highest to the Vienna deleglion interviewed appeared to overtook and ran into a string of that pressure "repullng the experiment of, 102." be that of securing from them about five rickshas, which were north-east of, Japan, and relatively Madrid That experiment, of course, was some help in obtaining diplomatic thrown into confusion as a conde low over China. The typhoon is Bucharest The soc: Yokohama. the installing of Labour quite un-recognition by Great Britain. As quence. Mrs. Eastace, a passen situated between Tokyo und Kochi, Bombay conditionally. It is to be ob- a matter of fact, very few of theer in the first ricksha, which removing north-eastward.
ceived the full shoek of the im-ondary in about 100 miles west of served, however, that Mr. Lloyd real delegates had anything to peet, was thrown from her seat Naba. The forecast till noon to-Brussels
ma-Milan George, in his declaration, did not do with the proceedings which and injured in the head. Her morrow is-S. W. winds,
derate; cloudy; probably some Copenhagen were conducted between the heads puller received an abrasion on the rain.
Prague rule out the possibilily, as ond
of the Soviet Government and knee, while another coolic was among others, that the Liberale, at certain members of the louring similarly injured, some stage or other in a Pariia-party only. It will be a long The report states that the bus ment in which no party had an in-time before the remainder are in- Company. The two coolic who concerned belongs to the China dependent majority, might again duced to indulge in another auch were injured-have been takon to
Hospital. support a Labour Government on wild-goose chase.
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