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treaty-making body, but does moan that nothing must be settled before it meets. On the other hand, the Simon Report has been put in its true perspective by the remark
HEALTH IS THE GREATEST OF ALL that "a clean slate" for the Con- POSSESSIONS AND TIS A MAXIMI férence does not mean that the WITH ME THAT A HALE COBBLER 13A
BETTET MAN THAN A SICK KINGA barcheaded girl, smoking af a new set of teeth, the cost not to standard text-book is, to be put Bickerstaff.
pipe. drove past Buckingham exceed £20. Palace in a sports model car re- away on the shelf." in any case,
Tenders are being invited for acently. Her passenger there must be no suggestion that
15-foot access road to the Chris- young man, the Conterenec is more than a tian Cemetery at Kowloon City.
in a stage, however important, process. There must, as the Tinics to the points out, be an end theory, for which there has never been the slightest foundation, that
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. D. O. Russell to be Justice of the Peace for the Colony of Hongkong.
a
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Was it Appreciated!
Was A
At a North London temperance meeting a practical joke was the cause of champagne being served in mistake for lemonade.
German
Recognition.
"Name unknown" was the entry made in Essex County Hospital register when a man found un- conscious in a damaged motor-car was admitted. But when a doctor reached the bedside he recognised: the patient as Dr. J. A. Smith, the hospital's house, surgeon... Coals to Newcoatie.
It is notified that the rate for Which Did He Miss? it is invited to settle the future limewashing in Hongkong and Emil Krebs, of the Constitution
A cleansing Department dust of India, subject Kowloon shall be $3.80 per floor Foreign Ofice, who has just died
for the year, starting 1st October, in Berlin, spoke 46 languages var took fire near the Central Fire fluently, and understood 20 more. Stadon. Glasgow, and the driver, with creditable presence of Assisted Incubation
mind, drove his vehicle to the daar A sitting hen, which refused to of the fire station. The alarm was roasted to bells were put on, and a squad of leave its nest, death in a farm fire near Chelmsfremen proceeded to give a dis ford which destroyed five stacks of play of fire-fighting under their own windows. The burning rub. bish was speedily extinguished. Dog Guards Body.
only to formal ratification. It would be disastrous to give the slightest excuse for overlooking the final responsibility of Parlia- ment in the matter..
The point to be stressed is that the Round Table Conference will
The forthcoming wedding is au- nounced of Mr. Alan Prismall, No. 378, The Peak, to Miss Jessle Elizabeth Harris-Walker, No. 65, The Peak.
The Government is inviting ten-clover and oats.... ders for the construction of a steel Moscow Marriage Mortality. bridge, ferry offices, barriers, etc., in
connexion with the Wilmer Street ferry pier.
A
two-year-old
boy, John Thomas Ford, who wandered away from his home at Luxborough, a moorland village near Minehead, was found dead in a cart-track about three miles from his home the next day. The dog which had gone' out with him was found
guarding his body."
Of 9,000 marriages registered in Moscow in five months, there have been 7,255 divorces. Russia now There has been added to the holds the world's divorce record. list of medical practitioners the 46B, Bonham Road. Dr. Yu is a name of Dr. Yu Chiu-kwong, of What Policemen Should Know.
The Prussian police orders now Bachelor of Medicine and of Sur-number 100,000. This, the au- sery of the Hongkong University.thorities think, is rather a tax on the policeman's memory. So the The model of the s.s. Empress orders are to be cut down to 35,- of Japan, by Master Jerry Silva 000. of Kowloon, of which an illustra- tion appears in our Pictorial Sup-A Parret is Some Use. plement to-day, is being exhibited The cries of a terrified parrot assistant, as compensation for in- in the window of the Canadian in a barning house at Southend juries received when he fell Pacific Steamships, Ltd.
were heard by a passerby, who through the open shaft of a sky-
Worth Living to Tell the Tale.
A jury of the Supreme Court have awarded '£22,000 to Mr. Al- bert Pierl, a 19-year-old builder's
be a perfectly free gathering at which all possible solutions can be discussed with absolute Im- partiality, The Simon Report represents the work of two and a half years, carried on by represen- tatives of all parties in Partia ment, embodying a mass of expert evidence collected on the spot, and resulting in unanimous conclu- sions. But its authors have made it perfectly plain that they will welcome a better scheme if it can be devised. With a personnel that contains no-one who has pre viously reported on the problem, the Round
Table Conference should be able to make a further useful contribution to the issues at stake, the more so if there is
like It is gratifying to learn that, anything
representative with characteristic good grace, Sir Indian opinion available during) John Simon has bowed to the deci- the deliberations. But the at- sion of the Government that titude of the British Government neither he nor any other member must obviously be to avoid being of the Statutory Commission shall committed to any scheme until the be invited to participate in the Conference has fully investigated conveyance of women within the and there has not been a case of keep watch. He efected a peris-
SATURDAY, AUG. 2 1930,
THE ROUND TABLE
CONFEENCE.
mendable desire of the
Round Table Conference which is the whole situation. shortly to discuss the future of India. Opinions may differ as to The Education" Bill. the reasonability of that decision,
The Education Bill which was but it is based on the very com-introduced into the House of Com- Govern-mona comparatively recently and ment that the members of the Con- which met with a great deal of ference shall approach with an opposition has been dropped and
Home
papers open mind the problems with according to the
there are strained relations be- which they will be called upon to tween the Prime Minister and Sir deal. There has been considerable Charles Trevelyan, who sponsored speculation regarding the relation- the Bill, as a result of this. The ship of the Simon Commission's main trouble was that the Roman Was alienated by Report to the Round Table Con-Catholic vote ference, but doubts on the point blem with that
the mixing of the religious pro- of raising the were recently set at rest by an school-age. Labour had cultivated authoritative statement which the Roman Catholic vote in the constituencies bat déclared that the Conference will industrial
Shettleston was the last straw for have power to consider not only
the Catholics were specifically told": the Simon Report but any other not to vote for the Socialist can- schemes which are placed before didate. But though the religious
it.
problem probably caused the Bill Some few weeks ago, a belief to be dropped, there is no doubt that the Government got highly in- gained currency that the Simon volved with its own' supporters Commission's Report would form over the question of maintenance the sole agenda of the coming grants. It was a big mistake to Conference, but this has since offer maintenance grants at all. been declared to be incorrect and The Socialist Party, or the intel- has been described as a denial of lectuals of the Party, wanted the the assurance that the Conference reasons. They soon discovered, school age raised for a variety of will be free, as also was a further however, that this policy was not rumour that the Report would be popular with the mass of working 'excluded from consideration. The class parents, so they invented the Government has referred to the bribe of "adequate" maintenance Charles Simon Report as by far the most Trevelyan's estimate of the sum
grants. But from Sir constructive contribution yet made to be spent, it could be seen that. to the problem of the political grants of 58. a week were avail- situation in India, but it has wise able for one-third or one-half of ly pointed out that, however au- the children in their fifteenth year. thoritative and valuable, it is a ket can earn from 103. to 165 a Such children in the labour mar report only and in no sense a week, and Socialist members did. decision of the Government or of not like the election prospects that Parliament. Commenting on the such a scheme of grants would
offer, ! subject recently, the Times sald it did not follow that the Govern-
Capuin A E. N. Howard, ment should cadorse the Simon Secretary of the Anti-Communist recommendations offhand, adding Entente of Shanghai, which is a branch of the International En- that nothing could be more im- tente against the Third. Interna- proper or more completely attional, arrived in the Colony yes- variance with the Invitation to terday by the "Kalyan" on his way to Geneva to attend a Conference delegates from India for a frank and to address meetings in London discussion at the Round Table and elsewhere in Great Britain. On the occasion of the last Con- Conference. By common consent, ferencs of this body at Geneva, the Conference must be made ef- twenty-two different nationalities fective which does not mean were represented, several Govern that it is to be a legislative or ments being represented by special
delegates.
The Penitent.
In a letter received by the Dean of Peterborough, asking for pray- er for a penitent sinner, the writ- er stated: "I came into Peter- borough and, feeling ill,took some whisky, drank too much and fell
His Royal Highness the Grand called the fire brigade. The house scraper in course of construc- Prior has approved the issue of the was badly damaged, but the par- tion. Service Medal of the Order to rot was saved.
Superintendent Pun Evidence of Death. Divisional Ping-chung of the King's College Old Boys Division and Divisonal A police constable at a Southend Superintendent Szeto Chung of inquest on a pedestrian victim of the Y. M. C. A. Division of the St. a motor accident: "He was lying John Ambulance Brigade.
in the road with his feet pointing to the church and his head point Table E in the Schedule to the ing to the cemetery." Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, has been further amended by A Modern Utopia. the addition of the following re- gulation: "41. No launch GT motor boat shall be used for pur-cause the amount of crime locally poses of prostitution or for the is very small, accidents are few, limits of the harbour for such drunkenness for ten years. - purposes."
Wavendon (Bucks) has been re- fused a resident policeman be-
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into a snare of the Devil.” A £1 note was enclosed for a society for the help of women and girls.
The Unseen Eye.
Fleetwood shop from which arti- A shoemaker employed at a cles had been missed, decided to
cope from a celler into a back room and through it saw a man trying to open a safe. He then.
A man's dilemma was revealed
at Willesden Police Court.
His Majesty the King having| been pleased to approve the ap-1 A tin of food, canned forty; signalled to waiting detectives and pointment of Sir Joseph Kemp, years ago, has just been opened in the intruder was captured. C.B.E., K.C., to be Chief Justice of a Landon food warehouse in the the Supreme Court in succession to presence of a group of doctors Unlucky Thirteen. Sir Henry Gollan, C.B.E., K.C. His and oficials, and found to be per
the Governor has, fectly wholesome. Excellency under instructions from the Woman's Right-To Pay. Secretary of State for the Colonies,
A Detroit (U.S.A.) judge, grant-exactly the same time. I cannot appointed the said Sir Joseph Kemp, to be Chief Justice of the ing a man a divorce, reversed the be in two places at once," ho Supreme Court of Hongkong, such usual procedure by ordering the wrote. A police Inspector-And appointment to take effect from wife to pay her husband 16s, a he has also been in 13 other
week alimony, and also to buy him courts. the 1st August, 1930.
"I am sorry I cannot be with you; I am due to appear at another court at
And yet they send their sympathy!