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BIRTH.
BOTTOMLEY. At the Victoria Hospital on July 19th to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bottonky, daughter.
The
FRIDAY JULY 19, 1929.
FOR
DAY BY DAY.
ALMOST EVERYBODY THE
Dickinson,
of the recommendations of the World Economic Conference for the removal of trade barriers" as an Csential step to the process of re COURSE OF LIFE IS FIXED BY INEXOR- storing international trade. In ABLE NECESSITY. NOT ONE IN A this connexion tributes were paid THOUSAND 18 FREE TO CHOOSE THE to the work of the League of LF HE WOULD CARE FOR-G. Lowes Nations and the International Chamber of Commerce to secure these objects, and the Conference pledged its support to the progres- sive removal of barriers relating to the freedom of transport of inter- national navigable waterways, maritimo porta, railways, and Customs formalities. It is worthy Yesterday's return' of notifiable of note that nearly thirty countries diseases shows one case each of typhoid. Both
sold by auction to-morrow.
Cargo from the Lok Sun is being
The furniture of the Instore Eank is being sold by auction on Monday,
have already made express declara-diphtheria and
were Chinese.
tion in favour of the World Economic Conference's reconi- mendations, but, an get, very little has been done towarda putting item into effect. Political considérations, of course, are in a great measure responsible for this regrettable delay, but the day will no doubt come when it will be generally re- cognised that artificial | réstraints operate in the direction of high living costs.
Sunders of telegrams are noti- fied that, owing to faulty cable connexion, telegrams to and from Shanghat end beyond are subject to delay.
A gymnastic display by boys of the Central Britlali School, Kow- loon, was given yesterday after- noon under the supervision of Ser- geant Mills,
Dr. J. W. Anderson, Alexandra Buildings, has pinssed the examina- Lion for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburght), en- titling him to the letters F.RO.S.E
Shanghal's Defence. Miss Ellen Wilkinson treads, daintily perhaps, on very uncertain ground in urging that the Shanghai A Chinese, boy, named Lo Sai-i Municipal Council should be invit-kuen, died at the Government Civil ed to contribute towards the cost Hospital this morning from in- of the Shanghai Defence Force.juries resulting from n fall down There may conceivably be justlee in the staircase of bis home at 83, the plea that Britain's intervention Praya East. at a critical period in Shanghai's history conserved the goodwill value of the Electrical Undertaking, but we are not at all sure that this is not entirely beside the point. In Any event, a far more definite illustration of the benefits derived would have to be forthcoming to
Hongkong Telegraph.ustify even unofticisi pressure, and
FRIDAY JULY 19, 19290.
SHIPPING PROBLEMS.
Important shipping mattera were raised at the recent annual
this, of course, is impossible. The
mere fact that Shanghai has ac-
Notice has been given to the Registrar of the forthcoming wed- ding of Mr. Jacob Vidumsky, of 15, Hankow Road, Kowloon, and Mrs. Sima Mordouchovna Berman, of the same address.
The forthcoming marriage of Ruth Exham, Miss Marjorie daughter of Colonel and Mrs. F. S. Exham, of 373, The Peak, to Mr. John Reginald Laing, te of the Welch Regiment, is announced.
quired, or is acquiring, £10,000,000 from any source cannot be a self- supporting argument in favour of Mike Wilkinson's views, though un-
While a building was being de- doubtedly the round figures must be extremely tantalising in view of themolished at Morrison Hill Rond yesterday, a coolie woman was fact that the British taxpayer has fatally injured by a plank drop. hud to provide several millions in ||ping on her head from the first defence of the Settlement. Like floor. She was conveyed to the Mr. Henderson, we sympathise to a Government Civil Hospital, where
that she died at 5.10 am, to-dny.
We have received from the Edin- burgh Corporation a copy of the 1923 catalogue of hotels, boarding houses and apartments in the city. This is a well-produced publication, illustrated, and has been compiled for the benefit of visitors to Edin- burgh. Copies can be secured from the Corporation Transport Office, 2, St. James' Square, Edinburgh.
21 YEARS AGO.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE “TELEGRAFIT". FILES.
The following items are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended July 18th, 1908:
The Very Idea!
The Hotel Stevens, Chiengo, one of the largest hotels in the world,
has announced that it will refuse in future to serve patrons with
cracked ice in their rooms.
This action follows a discussion
The rate of the dollar ou demand of club officials and hotel pro- was 18. 9.15/16d.
prietors with the United States Attorney, who explained that under a recent decisfen the service in a lending article on the cost of "setups" of soda wntor, gltiger of Higher Education, the Telegraphale, and cracked leo to which asked whether the Colony could patrons added something alcoholic afford to pay $8,000 per annum for made the house liable to prosecu the education, during six months tion under the Tadlock Law, of the year, of an average of 200 although no liquor was actually boys.
Huld.
The hotel's announcement to
✡ *
The death occurred, from men patrons' saya: "Ico water will ingitis, of Mr. Guy Blood, of still go to rooms, but no bowls of Messrs. Palmer and Turner. Hoice." Several other hotels and had been six years in the Colony clubs in Chicago have taken simi- and was a Lieutenant in Volunteer Corps...
*
the
A Chinese bazaar in Hongkong in, nid of the West River Flood Disaster Fund' yielded $70,099.
SAMUELIAUKLIAI SPUNEREA
THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.
INTERESTING PICTURES
TO-MORROW.
There will again be a varied and Interesting selection of pictures of topical interest in to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement.
The .. Lok Sun, grounded near Hongkong, will be shown in a series of excellent photo- graphs, some of these being official Royal Air Force photo- -· graphs.
Sporting events will include Mixed Doubles tennis, lawn bowls, and the Ying Wah Junior Basketball champion- ship team.
Pictures of the University investiture and of the 16th (Catholic Cathedral) Troop of the Boy Scouts, as well as a photograph taken at the Mauricio-Rosario wedding will also appear.
Last, but not least, there will be some effective bathing beach pictures entered in thở Telegraph contest.
I
#NATUREPERESARIALS SCAT SOFTENERI Am
Mr. Chu Pik-lung pinki $500 for a drisk of lemonadel
The wedding took place of Police Sergeant Brazil to Miss Norah Harley. Sergeant John Lanigan was the "best man" and Miss States the bridesmaid,
*
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lar action.
Some continue to serve leg and soda, but require the purchaser to sign a card declaring, "The undersigned agrees not to this water to mix with Intoxicut- ing liquora.
180
At Olympia Fields, the big golf club on the outskirts of Chicago, even ice water is denied guests, who must go to the fountains to quench their thirst, while at the South Shore Country Club patrons are advised: "We do not keep | ginger ale; if thirsty, drink water
or tea.".
Sen captain (in shipwreck)-- "Women and children first."
Mate-"Yes, but which are the women?"
Influential cireles in France are becoming worried by the num ber of novels in which French women are presented in a bad light.
They believe that circulation of these books abroad has crented wrong ideas about the modern French girl.
Let nobody, therefore, believe
all he hears About Mademoiselle froni
Armentieres,
For the minds of the writers
are tainted.
The tales of Montmartre and the
night-life of Parla
Are creations of fiction like. our
"Mrs. Arria"--- The "Moulin" 'a
"Roure" as it's painted.
·
not
30
Jones, who had made up, his mind to give a little musical party, thought he would inform his cook of the fact, so as to give her plenty of time to prepare.
21 am giving a muslent party on Friday evening, cook," he said, "so shall expect you to do your very best."
ain't sung for donkeys' years, but "Certainly, alr," he said. " you can put me down for "Sonnie Boy' 1"
don't
The monthly water return show- Willesden Prisoner-I ed the contents of island reser-know the name of the firm 1 and voirs to he 485 million gallons, working for, but it in next door to
a "pub" out Hendon way. whilst the consumption per hend per day was 28.3 gallons.
were
Queen's College fees advertised to be $18 per annum for Classes 1, 2 and 3, and 824 for Classes 4, 5 and 6.
*
A correspondent wrote sugges
Fathering of the Baltic and Inter-
view great extent with the national Maritime Conference,
Shanghai residents should bear a hold at Newenstle-on-Tyne, In
share of the cost of their own de particular, there were pointed refence, but there is a danger that ferences to the manner in which the Labour Government will make the normal expansion of the in-themselves appear ridiculous by dustry has been hampered by "the submitting such considerations to artifice and restraints of high the Municipal Council. General tuif walls, double taxation by sentiments are one thing and action another. Should there be any move Government, and other interfer-
in the direction desired by the ludy Pnces." There were no fewer than
MP for Middlesbrough, it must nineteen maritiine nations repre- eime from Shanghai. 11 may seem | At the Naval Dockyard Club seated, the delegates numbering a trifle anomalous that the poor on Wednesday evening before ating that economical week-enda over two hundred, On the general | British taxpayer should suffer large gathering of friends and Club afloat could he spent in a Hakka outlook of the industry, it was re-added harden in all the circum-Constructive Department, was pre-nointed out that these junks were merabers Mr. W. Latham, of the junk, the hire of which for two days would not exceed $30. He sented, with a handsome silver tea not used by fishermen and ported that world shipping during stones, but the difficulties
were almost insurmountable. When set by Mr. S. R. Tickner, Chief Therefore, not evil-smelling. 1928. showed an iŋergsed employ-
truth is told the main purpose in Constructor, who paid a graceful ment af tonnage, but sea transport despatching the Shaforee was the tribute to his services. Mr. W. was conducted at rates very close defence of the life and property of Bickford, Principal Clerk of the to the pre-war level, and at times British residents. That the de- and a small musical programme was Constructive Department, presided,
below that level, notwithstanding | fence of the entire Settlement 'was | contributed to by Messra, Long- much higher working costs,
involved was, in a way,purely in-year (piano), Stacey (violin) and cidental. The main point, however, Turner (vocalist). Mr. Latham One of the most important is that to authorise any contribueaves on Saturday for Sheerness by the P. & 0. 5.8. Khiva, having matters dealt with by the Con- tion, the Shanghai Municipal served five years here. ference was the question of charter Council would require, the express party disputes, regarding which a sanction of the whole of the rate- plea for the establishment of a com- payers, Chinese, Japanese, Ani- petent arbitration tribunal was Ferican, as well as British, and one adopted. The delegate who in-can imagine the hubbub. We an- troduced this motion showed that ticipate that Shanghai will do the only possible thing-read what at present three different national Miss Wilkinson has to say and codes of law might be involved in a forget it. dispute over shipping contracts. An an instance, he gave a hypothetical case of a Dunish ship carrying flour from the United States to Danzig and the English cargo underwriters claiming damages. Even though unable to obtain redress under the
WATER LEVELS.
FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.
Shluhing Tsingyuen Samshuf Sheklung
10.7
7.3
12.0
5.4
4.6
ROYAL LIFE 'SAVING SOCEITY.
[BRIDGE MADE EASY Joy W.W.Wentworth
Wife at Stratford, E-When an officer served a summons on my husband he threw, it on the fire saying "I don't want anything to do with voting."
Judge Cluer at Shoreditch County Court-Even the Apostle, when he denied something, did it with strong language, so I think
taxicab man would, too.
a
bought a motor car, and that was Counsel at Marylebone County Court-In August last my client
the first of his troubles,
When Scheffel, the famous Ger- man poet, was staying in Italy for the benefit of his health he receiv ed from a friend in Germany an unfranked letter, containing no- thing but the words. "I am well, With kind regards, Yours" etc. Annoyed at having to pay double- postage for such an insignificant piece of news, the poet determined to serve his friond out. He pro- cured a large stone, packed it in a box, and sent it to his friend "carriage forward."
The latter, in the belief that he had been sent a nce present, gladly paid the heavy charge, opened the- (Abbreviations: Aace; K-box, and found to his Horror no-. king; Q-queen; J-jack, X-anything but the stone to which was card lower than 10).
Reading Cards-3.
How you can mirror-your part-
MORE KOS.B. PASSES.
A second class of candidates from' "B" Coy, 2nd King's Own Scottish Borderers, was presented for ex- amination for the R.L.S.Ss. Pro- ficiency certificates and bronze ner's probablo holding from his medallions at the Kowloon Dock bidding is further exemalified in Bathing Bench yesterday afternoon, the following illustrations:
Partner's Bid: Initial опе Weather conditions were almost ideal; taking into consideration the spade, fact that the class had been trained against time and had not been to. gether very long, the candidates performed the necessary tests in a meritorious manner which was a credit to themselves and to their instructor,
Your Hard: Spades, Q J. 10. Partner's Hand: Spades, A XX X; hearts, X X X; diamonds, X X; clubs, Q X.
attached a label on which was written "On receipt of the news, that you were well, the accomTM panying load rolled off my heart."
EXCHANGE RATES.
Parik
Geneva
Stockholm
Partner's Bid: Initial one heart, Oslo Your Hand: Hearts, A J 10. Partner's Hand: Spades, A X: Madrid hearts, K Q X X X diamonds, Athens
Rio XX; clubs, X X X X
Partner's Bid: Initial no trump, {
Bombay Your Hand: Spades, KJ 10, Amsterdam
Hongkong
London, July 18,
.123.85%
.25.22 02.74%
.18.00%
39.25
1/6.26/82
1/11%%
.12.08%
.20.86
18.20.
.14.40-
Helsingfors
.102
„100%
Вистоя Alres Shanghai Silver (spot)
.47%
2/4%
.24%
-British Wireloen.
The following recommendations July 17 July 18 have been forwarded to London .. 20,8
for certificates and medallions:- 7.0
Cpl. R. Sabben, L/Spl.. W. Trigg. L/Cpl. R. MeIntosh, L/Cpl. hearts, K ; diamonds, K JX; Borlin
Copenhagen Ward, Ptes. G. Scott, J. MeKonn, clubs, K QX X. F. Osbourne, A. Smith, T. Murray; hearts, A X X X; diamonds, ho
Partner's Hand: Spades, A X X Vienna and 1. Bellekambers. The in-X X; clubs, A X. structor of the class, Pte. A. H. Partner's Bid: Doubles oppon- Dorsett, will be recommended for the Honorary Instructor's Corti- ente" one spade bid. ficate.
Danish, German-or Amerienn`law, The following table, compiled none of which could make the ship by the Board of Conservancy itself responsible for the damage water levels in English feet, an Works of Kwanglang, shows the elaimed, if ever the vessel, on a the West, North and East Rivers subsequent, voyage, touched at an on the dates named: English port the underwriters could have it arrested with a view of bringing legal proceedings in England. Another difficulty arose as to what legal code was applicable when more than oné nationality was involved. For example, it was
An entertainment is to be given pointedly asked whether, if a claimi the roof of the European was preferred against an English Y.M.C.A. next Thursday when, on behalf of the members, the Hon. ship carrying cargo la Copenhagen Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., will bið for an American firm, the case be farewell to Mr. P. Sands, M.A., the treated under Danish, English or assistant secretary, who is shortly leaving for England. Members and their friends will be present at a special dinner in the building prior to the concert.
American law.
The tariff fasuo was raised in a resolution which expressed approval
on
·
Your Hand: Spades, J X X X; hearts, X X diamonds, K X, X; These ten passes bring the num-clubs, X X X X ber of King's Own Scottish Bor- Partner's Hand: Spades, X; derers qualified up to twenty one, hearts, AJ X'X; diamonds, Q 10 including two instructors: this X X; clubs, A Q X X.. must be considered a good start, Partner's Bld: No trump after and should be an incentive to fur opponents spade bid. ther efforts,
Your Hand: Spades, X; hearts,
9 X X X; diamonds, A XXX;. clubs, X X X X..
Partner's Hand: Spades, KJX; hearts, A 10 X; diamonds, KQX;; clubs, Q 10 X X.