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NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR
FRIGIDAIRE
THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.
OVER
1,000,000
IN USE THROUGHœur THE WORLD.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1929.
DAY BY DAY.
INDIVIDUALS HARDLY EXIST ANY WE ALL SEEM EXACTLY
The B. I 8.0. 'Garbeta,' from
CROWN LAND SALES.
FOUR LOTS DISPOSED OF YESTERDAY.
The Very Idea!
A "rebellion" of some days' dura- Lion, In the course of which tho Four lots of Crown land were American flag, torn from the "Book sold by auction at the P.W.D. of Knowledge," was stuck the offices yesterday afternoon.
blackboard, a demonstration boing Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2209, staged by the pupils, in which tho Singapore, la due here on the 24th situated in Prince Edward Road cry of "Down with the English,"
between Tung Choi Street and Fa was raised, was culminated when a instant, a.m.
Yuen Street, was purchased by Mr.boy of twelve lowered his head and The forthcoming wedding is an-Tam Chark Fan of 720, Nathan butted Miss Elisen Fields, the nounced of Mr. George Heaton Road, for $30,200. The upset price teacher; three times, leading to the Hodgson, Chief Officer of the 9.8.was $21,938. The land as an area closing of the Pike Lake School, Mau Sang, to Miss May Baldwin, of about 9,760 sq. feet and ita an- Saskatoon, with the examinations.
nual rental is $112.
incomplete. Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2210 The teacher, an English girl, la with an area of about 20,567 8q. in a state bordering on a nervous feet was sold to Messrs. Chung breakdown, and feeling runs high Yuk Hing, Chia Shan nd Ho Siunmong the parents of the children, Woon of 17, Mow Lam Street, at who take issue with the recalcitrant the upset price of $41.104. The elements in the little school. land is situated in Prince Edward
from the considerations of the necessity for the Base. Another complication, arises from the fact that of the total so far expended,
MORE which comes to close on £2,000,000, ALIKE, BEAD THE SAME BOOKS, only £200,000 has been paid by TRAVEL OVER THE SAME DEATEN
remainder having TRACKS-Mary King Waddington. Britain, the been provided by Australia, Now Zealand and Malaya. And we all know how keen Australasia la on seeing the project carried through, Only a fortnight or so ago, the New Zenland Promler, in stating that his country had already contributed $250,000 to the scheme, and that the Government attached tho greatest importance to the Base and was unwilling to reconsider the amount payable by New Zealand.
Pronouncements.so far made on the subject by the Labour' Govern- ment, since it recently came into power, have been of.a very non- committal character, the last in- timation, by Mr. Snowden, being
that the Dominions would have to be consulted. If their opinion is
of the Peninsula Hotel.
From Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., we have received a parcel of useful fana Issued by Mesura. Scott & Browne, Ltd., manufactur- ers of the well-known Scott's Emulsion.
Rear Admiral Maclean, who is to relieve Rear Admiral Tweedle as Rear Admiral and Senior Naval Officer on the Yangtze River, leaves London on board the P. and O. 8.8. Macedonia on September 6.
• * *
Road between Tong Mi Hoad aud Witness Canton Road and has an annual Division: I made up my mind in the King's Bench rental of $236.
from what I heard with my own
Mr.
Thomes
Inland Lot No. 2013 situated at | Tips. Wong Nel Chong was purchased by
Cairns, the Mr. Wing Siu Hing and Mr. magistrate: Bad language doesnt Wong Siew San of 8, Village Road, matter very much. Some men like for $9,400. The ubset price was
to talk rhetorically. $7,920. It has an area of about
Counsel at Clerkenwell: Your is $12. .
listened to, there need be no doubt Docks was seriously Injured yes-1,980 sq. feet and Its annual rental husband has been unemployed for
of the result, for there is amongst them a complete unanimity of view point on the desirability of the Base
A coolle employed at the Tafkoo
terday, through falling from a
staging on which he was at work Kowloon Inland Lot Na, 2211 was and dropping down a height of 20 sold to Mr. Lee He of 313, Laicht- | feet, into the hold of a new ship kok Road, for $7,500. The upset under construction. It was found price was $6,486. It is situated at
several, months?
Wife: No, he has been on the Labour Exchange.
..
DODWELL & Co., Ltd. being completed according to man, that his skull was fractured, and Nathan Road, Mong Kok Taul, and industry is carried on.
Bole Distributors HONG KONG & S. OHINA
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Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY AUGUST 20, 1929.
mre
Three Chinese labourers were seriously burned yesterday fore- noon shortly before 12 o'clock when
tin of spirits suddenly caught front 'n Chinone shop in Wing Hing Street. Two fire engines, one from Central and one from Wan- chal, rushed to the scene in mo to extinguish the flames. The thres injured men were taken to the Government. Civil Hospital.
The annual rental is $34,
CORRESPONDENCE.
Cheung Chau Ferry,
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
Sir, I think it a shame the way "Regular Resident" and "Regular
As Mr. Owen Davies, of the Visitor are ventilating their P.W.D., was walking on the Kow-views with regard to the fine new Joon British School field at King's vessel "Sun Chau." Park early yesterday, evening, he saw a rock snake in the grass, which he promptly chased. The snake attempted to crawl up some rocks but was knocked off into a gutter and Mr. Davies killed it by dropping small rocks on it. When measured it was found to be just over four feet six Inches in length.
In any event, this Imperial matter he was immediately taken to hos-bas an area of about 2,882 sq. feet, should not be made the shuttle-cock's pital. of party politics: even if the Labour Government stopped the scheme, the next Conservative administration to come Into office would restore it. We go further than that, and as sert that If the Labourites again suspend work on the Buse they will lose the confidence of many who now prepared to give them every opportunity of demonstrating their capabilities as rulers. Maybé THE SINGAPORE BASE. a final decision will not be reached
until the naval disarmament qúca tion has been more closely investi- The Labour Government has apgated, but we have an iden that the parently not yet definitely made up Government will not repeat its mis- His mind regarding the policy to take of five years ago. be followed in connexion with the Singapore Naval Base. It will be
Expectoration and nose-blowing recalled that when Mr. Ramsay The Graf Zeppelin.
Among the passengers who passed in the cabins and on the dock are MacDonald was in power in 1924
Even today, when the world is European liner Haruna Maru, Arather passengers. I think it is up through Hongkong on the N.Y.K.not done to show disrespect to the the Government caused a suspen-accustomed to fast travel, to the arrived here from London and Marto. the regular travellers to sion of the work on the undertak-nihilation by aircraft of previous selles on Sunday and left for instruct those who are so ignorant. ing, but that the scheme was again impressions of distance, the flight Shanghai and Japan on Monday,
and If "Regular Resident" pat in hand Immediately the Con-of the Graf Zeppelin from Fried- was Mrs. Edith Woodrow Wilson, Regular Visitor" will kindly send
widow of Inte. Mr.Woodrow Wil-me servatives returned to office. In richshafen to Tokyo in a hunnon, President of the United States, through the Editor of this valued their names and addresses 1924, however, it was relatively andred hours нестя brilliant 1912-1919. Mrs. Wilson, accom- easy matter to suspend operations, performance. Dr.
panied by Dr. and Mrs. paper it may be possible to form. a class of Instruction for travellers Tensler, family, and Miss Lade, in on this ferry.Yours, etc.,
IRREGULAR VISITOR. tends to visit Nanking and Peking if travel conditions In China por Hongkong, Aug. 20th, 1929. mit, and after a long stay in Japan, will return home in October.
Eckener has
LADY MOTORIST ABSENT.
CASE IN WHICH WARRANT
WAS THREATENED.
. Instead of criticising folk who cannot stand the sea voyage, your to lend a Christian hand and pity correspondents should be the first then, as it is not everyone who can confidently resist the agonizing qualms of 'mal de mer," even on a short voyage,
ANGLER'S ENTERPRISE PROVES COSTLY.
FINED FOR SELLING IN THE
MARKET LIMITS. Yesterday, a Chinese was fishing from the seawall on the Central Praya. He had more than the average angler's luck, for, as he fahed, he was doing a brisk trade by selling his catch as fast as It
1 often wonder when I go into the country how the agricultural All cartera are lazy. Mr. Justice McCardle in the King's Bench Division.
The fate of a certain old silk stocking is revealed by Prebendary. J. A. W. Bell, Vicar of St. Wilfrid's, Haywards Heath, Sussex, who writes in his parish magazine:
There was some little èxeltement in the vestry after the morning service. A silk stocking had been found in the church. Strange articles are sometimes left behind. We believe that on one occasion a set of teeth was found. But it seemed impossible to explain how a stocking came to be there,
However, a little later it was stated to be an old one used for the purpose of cleaning some of the brass in the church.
There are certain stock wit ficisms which, apparently, time will never kill, says an observer.)
You may count on peals of laugh- ter, having done the trick before,
·
If you crack the curate's famous ege with care, And the very name of Wigan will provoke a hearty roar- On condition that your hearers
live elsewhere.
In a tightly-packed compartment,
full of smoke and dimly lit (Most amusing and hilarious
of scenes).
You'll be welcome as the sunshine, and commended as a wit By an innocent allusion to
sardinca.
A nation's economic credit is like a woman's reputation-the more it is debated the more it is endanger- ed.-Sir Josiah Stamp.
It is written that the punishment for man's first sin was that by the sweat of his brow should he eat bread. At this hour that which was intended as a curse for wrong- doing would be welcome as a too tong delayed blessing in more than a million British homes.-Mr. H. Snell, M. P.
as the project had only just been done even better than he personally. bogan; to-day, the position is dis-anticipated, and the feat cannot be too highly tributed. The long finetly otherwise, as we shall show
Journey carried the glant German in a moment or two. The Labour dirigible over vast uncharted re- Party has never taken very kindly gions as far as flying is concerned, to the plan, and on many occasions involved adventurous hazards since after it was ousted from power no weather reports are available in certain its lenders roundly condemned the Siberia, and caused undertaking. But it is one thing amount of apprehension lest the to be the Opposition, and quite great ship should' be obliged to muke 14 Fanding in a sparsely another to be the Government of
populated and communication-luck- the day; and, now that the projecting region of Russia in Asin.
Miss Pearl Woo ngain ild not has gone so far towards completion, Little known mountain ranges had appear in Court this morning when Mr. MacDonald and his colleagues to be crossed; the navigators had her name was called among the evidently realise that abandonment to feel their way, so to speak, but batch of traffic offenders dealt
To-day we are very much in the would not be at all easy. We a trifle over four days finds her with by Major C. Wilson, to an was caught.
swer a charge brought against her However, this manoeuvre, threa-position of the early Christians, should like, also, to think that they offers feted by the Japanese, just by Sgt. George of not having full tening on it did the rights of mur-faced by a frankly pagan world. now have a better conception of twelve days after being given an enthusiastic send-off at Lakehurst
Her case was to have heen heard fees before they can carry on busi-
ket people, who have to pay licence Dr. W. B. Selbie. Imperial issues than they had when held, on the Atlantle coast of the by Mr. E. W. Hamilton last week,ness, was construed as a breach the one detestable vice against United States. The Graf Zeppelin but she was not in Court. In ad- of the law, so much so that which all the powers of good are in Yesterday, we reprinted a tele-will in the course of the next few journing the case for one week, European Pollee Sergeant on his rebellion-Sir Oliver Lodge.
Modern gram scat to Singapore from Lon- days complete her circumnavigation Mr. Hamilton said that if she did bent, was constrained to take action. self Christian, many not label him-
not turn up this morning, he don which stated that the Cement of the globe, but no further demon-issue a warrant for her arrest. Marketing Company had received stration
hat in office.
an order from Sir John Jackson, of
the of
the
superiority
control of her motor car.
He arrested the enthusiastic
Cruelty, in its many forms, ja
Warwick
Aunt Phyllis had taken Peter to ten at a resturant, and he had al- ready had four cream buns, but, seeing him looking disconsolately at his empty plate, she asked, "Would you like another, dear?"
forefathers-M1', As the ease had already been angler and charged him before Mr.nearer to Christ than were, most of airahip over Aero-partly heard by Mr. Hamilton T. M. Hazelrigg this morning with his planes for long-distance travel Major Willson this morning said committing a breach of the Hawk- Deeping, Lut, the contractors for the Base,hould be necessary. The Graf he would not interfere. He aders' Ordinance. for 127,000 tons of Portland
Zeppelin has made four Atlantic journed the case for another week, cement, the first consignment to be crossings, and
no-one seriously delivered in 1980 and the reat to be doubts that she will add the first spread over a period of five years,afrship ertasing of the Pacific to That fact seems to indicate that the her already long fist of achieve. contractors, at any rate, do not ex-ments. She is, of course, the first- pect work on the base to be stop airship of any dimensions to he ped. There are, none the less, seen in this part of the world, und there is reason to hope that her
VAGRANT AMERICAN
SEAMAN.
SENT TO THE HOUSE OF DETENTION.
The culprit denfed the charge, and turned his pockets Inalde out to prove that he had not received a cent from the alleged transactions, The Sergeant saw you with his own eyes making those two sales, and I believe what he said," re- Joined Mr. Hazlerigg as he imposed a fine of $4 or seven days.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris
many Labour and Liberal M.P.'s arrival will mark the dawning of a who would like the scheme to be now era in mail and passenger acr-beat-up on me, and I wanted to "I had a captain and a mate who dropped; indeed, we rend in the vices to the Fur Enat. If circum-get out before I was forced to go | leading Liberal organ that if the stances rendered it desirable, for into hospital," said Walter Edward
Government decided on that course, instance, Dr. Eckener could bring Schultz, an American seaman, when Brussels Mr. Lloyd George and his followers his gigantle charge to Hongkong charged with vagrancy before Mr Amsterdam
T.M. *Hazlerigg at the Central Berlin would support the decision. But, from Tokyo in less than twenty-Police Court this morning.
Copenhagen Schultz said he left the R.B. "Gold- Vienne despite the apparent assurance of four hours, and it should in the not
too distant future, be possible byen Star," when it arrived here on Helsingfors a suficient backing, we very much airship to bring Hongkong within the 16th Instant, trasting to the Lisbon doubt whether the Government will six days of. Landon or less! The United States Consul to help him Bucharest go to this length. For one thing, Graf Zeppelin undoubtedly will be out. He submitted that he had Buenos Aires
Shanghai perfectly good reasons for leaving there are practical difficulties in the the precursor of a new
fleet ofthe slip. way. A memorandum recently vessels, excelling her in size, ap- Detective Sergeant Whant In- New Y issued, showing the financial posi-pointments and spoed. Britain, formed the Magistrate that Schultz tion, disclosed the fact that cancel Germany and the United States was sent to the police by the U.S. Stockholm lation of contracts would lavolve, are all keen rivals in the develop Consul. wllo requested that he bec
accommodated in the House of De Prague ment of airship services, and three tention until arrangements had Madrid compensation, etc.,
expense or four years should find such craft been made for sending him away. Athens totalling between £3,000,000 and taking their place in the front rank The Consul also said that all ex-
Rio Bombay £1,000,000. Obviously, it would of travel facilities to all parts of pensos in respect of Schultz's keep
Hongkong be the utmost folly to throw away the world. It is only a matter of would be found by him...
Silver (spot) Schultz, who had said that he silver (forward) such a huge sum, with practically time before this vision becomes a had no money, was accordingly sent nothing to show for it, quite apart' reality.
in
to the House of Detention,
okobama York
"No, thank you, auntie," said Peter, mournfully, "I'm feeling I don't want to keep the ones I've had."
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A denfold indy went to live near one of the naval ports. Shortly, afterwards a battleship fired London, Aug. 10, salute of ten guns. The old lady, 123.844 who Hved along, got out of her 34.87 chair, amoothed down her dress, patted her hair, and said sweetly, "Come In."
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