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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9,
1929.
DAY BY DAY.
investigation by the Chairman of the Provincial Government and. the Head of the Bureau for Civil Affairs, of the qualifications of the candidate, and an estimate from the general Impression he makes in an interview of his capacity for administrative posts. Much stress
THERE WILL BE MISTAKES IN
DIVINITY WHILE MEN FREACH, AND ERRORS IN GOVERNMENT WHILE MEN: GOVERN-Sir Dulley Carlton,
晶
The E. and A. Company's 8.8. St. Albans, from Manila, is due here
.
The P. and O. s.. Macedonia, from Hongkong, arrived at Mar- selles on the 6th December at 6.30
POLICE RESERVE.
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT
WEEK.
Police Reserve Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, CM.G., Captain Superintendent of Police, state:
The Very Idea!
There is a solicitor in Wolver. hampton who is still at work, we are told, at the age of 9. He has boen in the profession for 75 years; and the idea of retiring altogether from business has not yet occurred to him: Perhaps some day when he
old. There are, is seemak, oight other solicitors of whom the youngest has 04 years in the law to his credit.
Chinese Company. is laid on the second point, name-to-morrow morning. ly the Importance of secking out
Inspection Parade. All ranks and selecting men naturally suit-
of the Chinese Company will ed for such posts, which it is on
parade at Central Polico Station on Thursday, December 12th., for
It looks as if the praction of the the monthly Inspection of Equip phasised are of extreme impor-1a.m.
ment etc. Blue Uniform, Cap law were a sors way to longevity. tance. for the welfare of the peo-
When a charge of kidnapping awith White Cover; Belt (without The dust of legal terms seem to ple. Actual election will be from n small panel, selected by the two small boy was again mentioned be Frog). Truncheon, Whistle, Arm- have a tonio inflicuce upon the for Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow-let, Badge, "Pocket-Policeman," system, and though many people Magistracy this morning and Note-Book to be carrini. might perhaps jib at employing a Trovincial leaders who conduct loon
Preliminary against two men, a woman and two Those not in possession of uniform doctor who was over ninety, thore examination.' the training is to be got mainly in the youths, Sergeant Jessop Bald that will attend in mufti. No member are plenty of instances of dia instructed to n.a be absent from this parade tinguished lawyers who have carried that he had been
The, provincial city, presumably in the withdraw the charge as the Police without leave from the Company on with unclouded brain to an nd- Equipment vanced ago, the Into Lord Halsbury, were not offering any evidence. Commander. DOMESTICdministration of minor posts.
The defendants were all discharged. | Officers will make a point of being for example,
present. Thene regulations do at least
Two Russians, who appeared be indicate that the Government is seeking to remedy what is at prefore Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow
loon Magistracy this morning on a sent the weak part of its adminis- charge of atowing away from tration." An obvious criticism of Shanghai on board the s.s. Malaya, the scheme in that the examination were each sentenced to three weeks hard labour. The defendants, who system does not stand sufficiently were found in the steerage, intimat- on its own feet. It is conducted ed that they had been unable to find by the men who really make the employment in Shanghal whore
they had been for four months.
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MONDAY DEC.. 9, 1920,
CHINA'S INTERNAL
ADMINISTRATION.
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The feature programme of the Majestic Theatre, Kowloon," at present is Cecil B. De Mille's beautiful production "The King of Kings." Yesterday Miss Daphne Leigh, the British artiste, sang the Bonga during 'appropriate
screening of the picture, more or lens converting a silent picture in- to a "talkie." The Theatre was packed to the utmost and many patrons were turned away,
T
Wo no reminded of a Frenchman for olec- who was waiting Flying Squad.
He tion to tho Academy, ̈ ̈ ̈
по long Constable R348 E. Campbell has waited.
and you been transferred from the Kow-vacancy occurred. He himself was A friend naked him for a recipe for igon to the Hongkong Section as well advanced in years, and when The weekly Instructional patrol longevity his answer was short anıl from December 7th. 1929 of the Kowloon Section will take to the point: "Become a member place on Tuesday, December 10th. of the Arailemie Trancaise " Brigade Station at 5.30 p.m, sharp, Fall in at the Talm-tsa-tsui Fire Dress-Winter Unform, and Cap with White. Cover.
Sharpshooters' Company.
Rifles. All members who have not yet drawn their rifles should do so at the earliest moment by applying at the Police Reserve Office, on any morning this week,
(SD.) W. KENT, A, S. P..
Adjutant.
A gardener's foki living
The weekly instructional patrol ture that personal considerations
but tend to creep in. old Kowloon Tong appcar of the Hongkong Section will take cannot
ed. before Mr. Schofield
place on Friday, December 13th this There is, too, no reference to the
the Kowloon - Magistrate)
Fall in at the Central Police Sta of charge a present abuses by which places morning
tton at 5.15 pm. sharp. Dress-
with. re bought, often in competition, larceny of a bunch of chrysan-winter. Uniform and Cap
themums from the adjoining gar White Cover. and sometimes by a group wheden. The defendant, who was ar put up the money and expect to rested with the flowers in his pos- from what session, admitted the larceny and recoup themselves
was fined $20 or one month's hard their man makes during his in-labour in default. secure tenure of office. Worse in- deed than the corruption in the Turchase of office is this insecur ty in its tenure. No man can be sure that if he sets out to rule well he will be left more than a month or two in his place. More ever, the low rate of remuneration compared with the charges of the office, the magistrate having to ay his own under-officials and
On a charge of larceny of a new- yamen servents, makes it esentialing maching and several articles of that he resort to illegal means of clothing from 248, Temple Street raising money, if he is not to be three Chinese, one of whom lived in the same house as the complainant all pleaded guilty to-day at the Kowloon Magistracy. The first and second defendants who had previous convictions were, given sentences of four months, hard labour each while the other was sentenced to two months.
While the Nanking Government is harassed with the problem of internal strife, its indefatigable ruined. Ministry of the Interior continues
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CANTON AMATEUR
THEATRICALS.
PRODUCTION OF FARCE A BIG SUCCESS.
(The system of stamping home- killed beef with a map of England in special, non-poisonous ink, la ro ported to be entirely successful).
That little map of England stamp»'.
ed
Upon our Sunday's boof Is proving highly popular. Much to the alien's.griet
Leas foreign mont than formerly Must, therefore, disembark At Inst the English butoher men Have really made their mark.
Two and a half million passenger; were detected travelling without tickets on the main railway lines in India in 1928 and a mun of Ba 4,000,000 was collected from them. This information was given by Sir Ernest Jackson, Agent of the B and C I. Railway, in his presiden- tial address to the annual meeting of the Indian Railway Conference Asenciation in Simin on Oct. 11.
The railway had done everything: possible to put a stop to the prae Shumeen, Dec. 8.
tien of travelling without tickets The Canton Amateur Theatrical but, as a subcommittee of the Con- Society again staged the well-ference had reported, no subatein- known fawxe "Lord Richard in the tial abatement of the evil was pos- Pantry" for the second and last sible without amending the Railway time at the Canton Club Theatre Act so as to make the offence
cognizable. last night."
my hoe."
WILTS
Mrs. Th. Brameld's rendering! Willosden Applicant-Can a pro- of the tipsy cook was really de-war tenant do as she likes 1 Magis- Hightful, whilst Mr. W. R. Farmer,trato No, not even if she is pre- as Carter, the Butler, evoked roars Civil War of laughter.
air,
י,
Mrs. Hill in the leading part as A man who endeavoured to cover travelling or other items which litigants regard as the normal
Sylvia Gayford, a widow, played up a very large bald head with very material wa nicknamed a suft. Meanwhile if
her part with a anost convincing amnit costs of
"Greyhound" because ho "madé these regulations become effective,
At the conclusion of the play little hare go a long way.”. there was loud and prolonged ap a beginning at least will have been
Passengers homeward bound on plause for the actors and to a more
the P. & O. Rawalpindi, which made in the return creditable officialdom."
left Hongkong on Saturday, in clude, Lt. J. F. Blackburn, Mrs. J. Bostock, Lt.Cdr. W. D. and Mrs,
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The German Republic.
J.
Loud
shouts of "Producer" Mr. G. M.
FL
The whole subject bristles with to give its attention to internal difficulties, but not until definite
The play was an even greater
Motorcyclist as Kingston-I waS are paid, reconstruction. It fins just Is-and adequate salaries
success than on its first produc- sued instructions regulating the end office is for a more certalt
tion here. A full house gave the trying ng ma1 ́a an` actors and producer, a reusing re-unaware that I was going fast
A woman's face, we are told, in ception, and it was generally choice of district magistrates.pesiod, cún much reform be hoped The hsien (county or district) ja for. At present, everything de
Congratulations are to be ex-voted to have been one of the best still her fortune. Some of them are the man himself. If tended to the publishers of
The productions ever staged by the liable. In be arrested for forgery..
"What does it mean when a the unit of civil government, On1ends on
new illustrated C.A.T.S.
сотторон Mr. W. Galloway, as Lord picture falls naks o the choice of good... men for the one can be found who so far súb-Macao Review, a
monthly, which has just made its post or district magistrate de-vrdinates private gain to the pub appearance. The publication is Richard Sandridge, really execlied dent. Probably that the cord was Mon at Bromley-He unbuckled pends the welfare of the country. He weal as to de rough justice in intended to be a review of the himself; and all the others were rotten,
Colony, and
Ita which makes it difficult to diatin-his belt and said he would kill me, Portuguese These are the men who directly the cases brought before him, and news and problems of the little just keyed up to that exact point represent the authority of the to keep down banditry and rob-sponsora hope that it will serve as guish amateurs from profes and I said, "Wait a lut until I got Central Government in its deal-bery, public opinion, will hail him a means whereby members of the sionals.
Portuguese nation and their many ings with the people. It was so un- a good magistrate, and be blind friends may be kept in touch one der the Empire, when the magis.to the exaction of heavy court with another and with problems of for mutual interest. The Revice, which is non-partisan and printed trate was the father and mother fees, and swellen expenses of the people. It is to be so under
in English, except for one page in Portuguese, is well produced and the Republic. According to Dr.
contains, a wealth of interesting reading matter, freely illustrated. Sun's. scheme "for reconstructing
It sells at thirty cents per month. government after the Revolution, these magistrates' are to be elect ed popularly. The emergence of
D. D. Wolf, who was responsible WHO WAS..... the people from the state of
for the production, was heartily acclaimed on his appearance. The BUNTHORNE? pupilnge will be marked by the gradual acquirement of the right
Brown, Lt. C. R. Carstairs., Cdr.- Engineer S. Chambers, Dr. N. Harge numbers of bouquets and of election of its own officers by
While the German Nationalists Dastur, Capt. 1. Hay-Hendry and parcels presented amply testified to the popularity of the produc- Hay-Hendry, Bishop each progressive haien. It does mustered sufficient strength to Mrs. not follow, however, that the compel the Reichstag to consider Holden and Mrs. Holden, Right tion. Our Own Correspondent.
their measure directed jointly Honourable Lord Hallsham and qualification for election will be, against the Young plan and that Lady. Hailsham, Mr. and Mrs. B. as it largely is in England for the clause of the Versailles Treaty C. K. Hawkins, Engr.-Cdr. H. L which places sole responsibility Harvey, Mr. J. H. Kenly, Mias election of a Mayor, public service for the World War upon Germany, Knox, Mr. P. N. Karanjia, Mr. L and prominence as a citizen. The it would be unfair to the German de Luca, Lt.Cdr. C. C. L. Macken- Issued Government and to the German zie, Flight Lieut. L. G. Nixon, Lt.
BLAZE EXTINGISHED IN interim regulations now show that it is the intention of people to construe this tentative Cdr. M. W, Noel, Capt. J. D.
HONGKONG HARBOUR, victory of the Nationalists as evi- Nares, Mrs. M. E. Normington,
Reginald Bunthorne was a the Government to develop a kind donce that the Republic is in any Mr. F. Normington, Brig. General
Spontaneous combustion of the
vain young man to whom admiration was the breath of of civil rervice, from whose train-way losing its prestigo, or that and the Hon. Mrs. Portal, Comdr.
representative German opinion in-J. N. Pelly, Mrs. P. Potts, Mrs. A. bunker coal was believed to be
life. As neither his looks ed ranks men will be chosen for tends either to repudiate any of Swann, Sir Richard Threlfall, Dr. the cause of an outbreak of fire
nor brains were at all re- official position. In this way an its accepted obligatians or to cast and Mrs. B. E Tottenham and Mr. on board the Norddeutscher Lloyd freighter Lahn widlet at sea
markable he was compelled to approximation to the old examina- recklessly into discard the hard-
between Shanghai and Hongkong. use considerable ingenuity in wrought reparations agreement
Good work on the part of the order to satisfy his love of tion system combined with choice which was effected under the but a fraction more than the neces
praise and flattery. He posed by the people may be reached. leadership of the Young Com- aary 10 per cent of the electorate officer and crew of the steamer
In these provisional regula-mission. It is obvious that the to require the Reichstag to act prevented the outbreak from ass an aesthetic, artloving Nationalist effort to arouse the upon their proposal. The vote, auming serious proportions and tions, issued for use during the German electorate upon the two moreover, commended less than 70 when she arrived in port early on was sponsored percent, of the normal Nationalist Saturday morning, only one of period of pupilage and pending fold roferendum
essentially as a gesture. against strength. While the formal re- her hatches was smouldering. the elaboration of a satisfactory the Republic gesture, which be ferendum is certain to swell this The master of the vessel notified, examination system, four points fore the referendum is completed total, there is every indication that the Fire Brigade of the occur
the German people will not lend ronco, but intimated that the may very likely disclose a are stressed; the provisional y weakening of the Nationalist themselves to such an
unwing
outbreak had already been extin- this Lem of examination, the selection cause rather than its strengthen project, The test which
gufahed.
Everything went well until of men of ability, the method of ing. The linking of the question referendum is putting upon the
of the war guilt clause--which in shoulders of the young Republic about 6 am, to-day when fire again appointment, and the system of due course must be repudiated by should, indeed, provide a fitting broke out. Twp firefloats want preliminary training, A general international agreement and not event with which to crown the out to the steamer, which was by national legislation with a eleventh anniversary of the estab- renunciation of the Young Plan, lishment of Germany's democratic moored to Buy A 6 and the which surely deserves support at regime.
The Republic has served stamped out the blaze without this time, may have been shrewd Germany well, and in a happier very much difficulty polities, but it is not reflecting atmosphere than when Woodrow The Lahn already had steam credit to the Nationalist move-Wilson first used these, words it up in readiness for her departarea foolish young ran ment either in Germany or out. can be said to-day that Germany for Europe to-day and was taken Thus, in the preliminary test, the is doing Ita part to make the world to Kowloon Wharf where she fa
now discharging her cargo. Nationalists were able to summon ante for democracy.
written examination, more de
pecially in the art of politics, in economics, administration and kindred subjects, including of course, the Three Principles, la to be followed by an oral examina. tion. This seems rather to be an
FIRE ON GERMAN FREIGHTER.
It was W. S. Gilbert's chief 'delight to lash the folbleg and follies of his day and genera-- tion. In the character of Bunthorné, the fanciful pos- turer of the opera "Patience," he has satirised the type of person who adopts an affected style of dress and thought merely for the sake of drawing" attention to his otherwise very ordinary self,
creature, a poet; babbled lot of incomprehensible, but impressive nonsense; dressed In early English, style, and went about with a lily in his hand. Foolish maidens felt wildly enamoured of him; copied his style of dress, listened to his pooms and even decked him with flowers, until another, und handsomer poet appeared upon the scene.
Though Reginald tried by own prestige, the maidens every means to uphold, his fled and he was left lament ing, a suitable fate for such.