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ALL TALKING › SINGING · DANCING ·
Harry Richman
PUTTIN RITZ
--"JOAN BENNETT.
IRVING BERLIN
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Waring's Pennsylvanians-with vocal-refrain SINGING A VAGABOND SONG
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SLEEPING ON A CAMP BED
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THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930,
COLONIAL OFFICE CHANGES.
THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930.
DAY BY DAY.
THE DARKEST SHADOWS OF LIFE ARE THOSE WRICH A MAN HIMSELF MAKES WHEN HE STANDS IN HIS OWN LIGHT-Lord Avebury.
H.M.S. Suffolk will sail for United Kingdom to-day to refit and recommission.
OBLITERATED HIS RECORD.
HAWKER WHO BURNED A LICENCE.
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The Very Idea!
Governing Colony of Southern Rhodesia and the South African territories of Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and
A true incident of the road. -A Swaziland, as well as matters re-
man on foot was stopped-by a lady lating to the Imperial Conference.
driving a car alone and asked the A deliberate effort to obliterate road to a certain place. She was This marked a further step in
his record of convictions from his told that she was going in a 'direc a long series of changes affect
licence book by burning the part tion opposite to the right one. ing our overseas possessions. Prior
of the page on which the entries "Will you help me to turn?” were made was brought to the "Certainly, I will tell you when to 1780 Colonial affaire were
"No, dealt with by
Yesterday's return of notifiable notice of Mr. Whyte Smith at the you have backed enough." subordinate A
| Kowloon Magistracy this morning I don't mean that, but what am branch of the Home Department, diseases shows one case each of when a hawker was charged with I to do with all these things?" styled "The Plantations Branch"small-pox and typhoid fover. Both causing in obstruction at the old airily pointing to the switchboard.
Police Pier.
This is not a singular instance, Sergeant Barnicle produced the In Frederick Street, Edinburgh, defendant's licence book and not many months ago a motorist intimated that the top half of tho was signalled by a young lady page on which the previous con- sitting in a car drawn up at the- victions were entered had been side of the pavement. Would he burned, thus destroying all record mind starting the car? He did so of all appearances which the man without the slightest difficulty and had made before the Court. inquired what the trouble was. was known to the Police that he "I really want you to turn the car. You see, I can only drive straight. had several convictions.
on, I can't back or turn.”
were Chinos9.
It is advertised that the appoint- ment of Mr. J. L. Qule as secretary of the Peak Tramways Co., Ltd.,
has been confirmed.
the
The damage to Flycatcher No 4
been repaired and machine landed on H.M.S. Hermes yesterday afternoon...
I
In reply to his Worship the de- fendant said that he had been dry.
An accountant of the Yin Chinging his licence over a fire when Chinese Bank of 60, Des Voeux it accidentally caught alight." Road West, is wanted by the Police for the alleged theft of $3,300 belonging to his employers.
At this time there were only two principal Secretaries of State, and their duties were divided into "Home" and "Foreign," the affairs of Ireland devolving on the Home Department, which now under- took also those of the Colonies. has In 1801, the War and Colonial Departments were united under one Secretary, whilst in 1854 the two were separated, with distinct Secretaries Coming to later days, it was in 1907 that the Colonial Office was divided into Dominions, Grown Colonies and General Divisions, the next change of importance being that, already mentioned, of the creation of a separate Dominions Office. Thus have the developments gone on, until to-day for the first time we have separate Secretaries for the two main divisions of Colonial affairs.
Finally, it is interesting to note that of the British Empire, the Self-Governing Dominions have an area of about seven and a half million square miles, with A population of twenty-three millions. The area more or less under the direct authority of the Home Government, including such colonies as Hongkong, amounts to about two million
square miles, with a population of forty-eight millions, all but some 300,000
The Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day was 1.87 inch. The total since is 21.44 inches, January 1st against an average of 25.86 inches.
Arriving here yesterday after- noon from Japan and Amoy, Capt. P. W. Rowe, master of the 8.8. Talamba, reported encountering heavy weather. At Lat. 26° 37′ N. and Long. 120° 57′ E., the Talamba pasaed water-logged sampan.
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The master of a cargo boat was fined $26, wth the alternative of three weeks' hard labour, at the Marine Court this morning before the Hon. Commdr, G. F. Hole, R.N- for failing to renew the licence for his boat. It was stated that the licence cost $26.
The decision of the Imperial Government to separate the offices of the Dominions and the Colonies does not come as a surprise, for square miles of which is in Africa husband of the mother of
that
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The Cotton Corporation.
to
when # Complications arose Chinese, charged with having kidnapped an eight-year-old boy at the Central Magistracy this mor- ning, declared that he was the child. Mer. Lindsell and the police agreed to a remand until Tuesday.
con-
face
the
It was pointed out by Sergeant Shepherd that only that part on which the previous convictions had been entered had been burned.
The defendant was fined $7 or ten days' hard labour in default.
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NAVAL FORCES IN INDIA.
NO CRUISERS SENT FROM
MEDITERRANEAN..
in
And that sort of person is con- sidered capable of driving a vehicle amid the intricacies and perils of city traffic!
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I heard the other day of a new "convention" at bridge, says a writer in a Homo paper.
It was explained to me by a light-hearted player at the beginning of a rubber. I WB3 asked if I knew the Pamith convention. On confessing my ignorance, my partner said:
"If I have a very bad hand I shall say, Partner, I've got 14 cards, and then it is your duty to reply, 'And I've got 12' Throw your cards down quickly and we'll get a re-deal."
Needless to say, this "conven- tion" is not accepted in the best card-playing circles..
Guide"See that house over
Old Lady"Yes. What' about
Guide "The man who lives there buried 50 wives!"
London, June 4. Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, stated the House of Commons in reply to a question, that the British naval forces in there?"
Indian waters had not been
recently strengthened and no it?" cruisers had been ordered from the Mediterranean to India.
Mr. Alexander also stated that no changes were contemplated in respect of the status of Malta as a naval base.-British Wireless.
'HORNIBROOK BOWLS WELL.
AUSTRALIANS OPPOSED TO
MIDDLESEX.
London, June 4. Suffering from an injury to his
The Australians hold the advan- caused by being hit by a the stone, a Chinese was removed to tage over Middlesex in the match hospital yesterday and his assai- which started at Lord's to-day. lant arrested. When the incideat Middlesex batted first and made a was mentioned before Mr. Whyte total of only 103. The batsmen Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy failed to score runs off Hornibrook this morning a charge of assault who took seven wickets for 42 rune, was brought against the assailant who was remanded till Saturday.
increase its
On a charge of keeping 63, Bat- tery Street as-a common gaming house for the sale of po-piu lottery
When stumps were drawn for the day the Australians had made 128 for the loss of four wickets--Reu- ter.
EXCHANGE RATES.
it has long since been evident Mr. Thomas will be in charge of
such some
step would
the bigger responsibility, whilst eventually have to be taken. Lord Passfeld's concern will be Chief interest lies in the fact with what has been, for that Mr. J. H. Thomas has been venience, referred to placed in charge of the Dominions Colonial Empire. Office, a post which, if we are to judge from his previous handling well of Imperial affairs, he is qualified to fill. What has really happened is that the Government has disposed of two issues at one The announcement yesterday that stroke. The separation of the the Lancashire Cotton Corporta- Dominions and Colonies Offices is tion is again onc, the finding of a fresh posi-capital for the purpose of absorb-tickets, a Chinese was fined $150 ing seven more companies further by Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow- demonstrates the determination loon Magistracy this morning. It of the industry to extricate itself was stated that the premises was Paris from the slump and to recapture a distributing centre on a large Brussels
Amsterdam the trade which has been lost. scale. The man had a previous
Berlin Copenhagen Of all the depressed industries
Vienta the cotton trade is perhaps making
Fines of $25 each were imposed Helsingfors time the biggest bid for its old
by Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow- Lisbon supremacy, rationalisation and
loon Magistracy this morning on Bucharest publicity being two of the weapons Cpl. Nawab Khan and Private Buenos Aires
Yokohama Mule Corps, New York called into the fight. The recent Bulla of the 13th Cotton Week had the desired effect who were
both charged with Geneva tree by breaking off Milan con-and was helped tremendously by damaging
branches on the hillside at Ma Stockholm clusion that Mr. Thomas has the practical interest of the
Tau Wai. The second defendant Oslo had enough of criticism and that Queen. It is impossible for was also charged with offering a Prague Madrid he may have intimated to the Britain to do without the income bribe of $1 to a constable but was Athens
which is derived from cotton.cautioned on this count. Before the war the exports
tion for Mr. Thomas another.
Bearing in mind the recent con flict between the Left Wing of the Labour Party, as represented by Sir Oswald Mosley, and the Lord Privy Seal, when the point at issue was the allegedly un- satisfactory handling by Mr. Thomas of the unemployment problem, it does not take much imagination to reach the
conviction for a similar offence.
Rio
Bombay
Hongkong Silver (spot)
London, June 4.
123.92 .34.816 12.08%
.20.36 .18.16 .34.145
192 108.26 318 42.13/16 2/0.13/32 4.85 27/32
.18.10
25.125
.92.73
29,155
163%
.40.125
1375
.5.51/64
.1/5.25/32
....1/3. .16.8/16 .15.11/16
British Wireless.
WATER LEVELS.
Prime Minister his desire for a
of change of post. Our own view is
cotton manufactures, excluding For the second time within à that Mr. Thomas is not to blame wearing appeal, amounted to near-year, a Chinese who appeared be- Silver (forward) because he has failed to make a ly a third of the total volume of fore Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow- deeper impression on the unem- exports of all British manufac. loon Magistracy this morning, was ployment issue; he has done as tured goods. The proportion has stated to have disobeyed his order of banishment and returned to much as any man or group of dropped, but in 1928 it was still the Colony. In June, 1929, he men could do in the circums-25 per cent. These figures have was given twelve months" hard enormous significance for &labour and twenty strokes' of the tances. The problem is of world-
while this morning he country which lives by exchang-birch, wide magnitude at the moment, ing its manufactures for food and was given another year's Imprisone and it cannot possibly yield to raw materials.
with 24 strokes of the It is only by ment quick treatment. A recognition export that the cotton trade in of this fact has possibly made England can live as it has lived
birch.
Trouble between a coolie of the Mr. Thomas impatient of criticism, in the past. The position is nothing Kowloon Godowns and an outside and in the circumstances he can like that of the United States, where coolle which occurred on Monday the home market consists of 120 last had a sequel before Mr. Whyte hardly be blamed. In his
new million people buying almost the Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy. post, at any rate, he will still
whole of the national. product. this morning when the Godown be able to work in co-operation Britain has barely a third of that employee was charged with as- with those who will have more population, and at the same time sault, the victim being alleged to have received a superficial stab immediate charge of the unem-has machinery enough to send wound in his neck. The defen- ployment problem.
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ON WEST, NORTH AND
EAST RIVERS.
The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet the water levels on the West River, North Elver and River, on the dates, named:
Sbiuhing Teingyuen
Samshui Sheklung
East
June 8. June 4.
12.5
9.2
8.9
..7:1
6.7 0.7
1.1 The highest levels, on record are:
cotton goods throughout thedant, who had instructed Messrs.Shiuhing, 41 feet: Taingyuer, world. The prime. question for Lo and Lo to defend, was remand-29.2 feet; Samshui, 27.8 feet; Shek-
lung, 15.5 feet.. It is interesting, in view of the the cotton trade is the disposaled till Wednesday.
The lowest level on record at separation of the Dominions and of the surplus that remains over
Samshui is-5 feet and at Shek- Colonies Offices, to recall that it and above home needs. Coupled
"I am unemployed and a man lung-2.7 feet; was only about five years ago with this is the need for reduced aeked me to bring this parc-1 ashore for him," is what a Chinese that the Secretaryship of State costs and rationalisation is is alleged to have said when Re- A Whist Drive is held every for the Dominions was created, as Corporation would appear to have was going off the Chuen Chau every Thursday, at 8 pm, at the means to this end. The Cotton venue Officers stopped him as he Tuesday at 8.30 p.m., and a Dance a. result of which the Dominions already done much to restore the yesterday, The parcel, which "Cheero" Naval and Military Can- Office was set up to take over shattered fortunes of the industry was found in a basket under a pile teen, City Hall, All Service men from the Colonial Officethe and to have taken bold steps of joss-sticks, contained 70 taels are welcomed. The, Hon. Trea business connected with the Self-which should eventually place the of prepared opium. A fine of surer of the Ladies' Committes of $8,000 or imprisonment for eight the "Cheero" gratefully acknow- Governing Dominions (including Lancashire cotton trade
months was ordered by Mr. Lind-ledges the donation of $26 from the the Irish Free State), the Self- thoroughly sound basis again, sell at the Central Magistracy this Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, and $20
morning.
from Mr. W. W. Hornell.
on a
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Who was he? Bluebeard
Old Lady-"Goodness gracious!
Guide "No, ma'am. He was an undertaker."
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Woman Shopper (to Assistant): I say, young man, there's a ladder in these stockings.
Exasperated Assistant: Well, what do you expect for 2s. 11d.-- a marble staircase?
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Man at Stratford: My wife aggravates me, Tho Chairman' (Mr. W. W. Green): Mine does sometimes, but I simply smile.
Woman at Willesdon: I would. rather be shot, and go into the workhouse, than live any more with my husband.
Mr. Campion, the Tower Bridge magistrate: Why do people about to break a window always wrap up the brick they use in paper?
Woman to witness at Chertsey: For telling all those lies you will drop dead in less than a fortnight.
WHO WAS
TOMMY LUCK?
Cherokee Sal, the only fein- inine inhabitant of a Califor- nian gold-mining camp, died Boon after her son was born. The arrival of a child caused consternation
the Lmong miners, ready as they were to cope with almost any other contingency; but in sports- manlike fashion they decided to adopt the infant,
little. realising the changes which this was about to work in their mode of life,
They christened the child Thomas Luck, and entrusted it to one of their number, Stumpy, who was half volun- teer, half conscript for the post of nurse.
Stumpy did his duty nobly. He scrubbed and papered and white washed his cabin until owners of neighbouring 25- tablishments felt obliged to do likewise. Scrupulous clean- liness was insisted upon in the baby's vicinity, and visit ors who turned up with un- washed hands and grubby shirts
were frowned
at severely. Rackety, camp con- certs were abandoned. lest The Luck's alumbers be dis turbed. Swearing was reduc ed to a minimum, in case his pure ears should be con- taminated.
All through a long, golden summer, Roaring Camp knew marvellous tranquillity.The child grey big and strong in the balmy air of Sierras. Often the miners would carry him out into a clearing of the woods, and sit watching. him play with his toys, the sunbeams, the pine-cones, and the blue jays...
But in the winter a great. flood swept down the valley, carrying trees and houses be- fore it, and in spite of valiant efforts to save him, The Luck was drowned in the arms of his rescuer,
The Luck of Roaring. Camp" is one of Bret Harte's
best stories.