COLGATE'S
TALCUM POWDER
OVERSTOCK SALE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1930.
NEVER BEFORE A
STUDEBAKER
SO LOW IN PRICE !
1924. Light Six G$1045 1925...Standard, G$1125
1926
G31145
1927
G$1160 1828 Director Bix G$1195
-1929
G$ 995
41
25 cents
AT LOWER THAN COST!
Prices, per tin
and 80 cents
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
The Hongkong Dispensary,
Kowloon Dispensary.
NOW ON SALE
The New
August.
Victor Records.
S. Moutrle & Co., Ltd. CHATER ROAD.
COMPACT WARDROBES
FOR
GENTLEMEN.
These wardrobes are a man's necessity, combining a chest of drawers, dressing table, wardrobe etc. all in one.
Interiors fitted with trouser hangers, coat rod, boot ralls, sliding trays for vests, shirts etc. drawers for handkerchiefs, socks, tie rail, mirror inside door.
No more untidiness, everything to hand. Prices very moderate and we make many different interiors.
INSPECTION INVITED
See Windows.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
AND NOW A NEW STUDEBAKER SIX
to. b. Factory $8951.
-70 Horse-Power
114* Wheel Base.
4-Wheel Duo-Servo Brakes
Ride in this new Studebaker and know its Big Car Pulue!
The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
DEATH.
SHAW-At Home, on August 27th, 1930, G. M. Shaw, formerly of Hongkong.
The
tran.
be
DAY BY DAY
PEOPLE CAN TWENTY
GAIN
TOPSY-TURVEYDOM
bodies of her two children when
As a warder from Mountjoy Gaol their father shot himself. was walking along Berkeley-road, Men of Their Word
sprang Dublin, half-a-dozen men
When six prisoners broke out of Mr. M. Q. Quist, the Consul-Jon him and chained him to some General for the Netherlands, held railings, his chains being fastened prison at Nacogdoches, Texas, they reception this morning at the with a padlock. A placard protest-left a note saying that they would Consulate in honour of the birthday ing against the gaol was pinned in be back again soon. They explain- of Queen Wilhelmina.
his chest. A locksmith was soon ed that they had left to attend to are all back in their calls, having His Excellency the Governor has fetched, and he filed through the crops on their farms. Now they
returned to prison voluntarily. accepted the resignation by Major chains. Christopher Willson, O.B.E., V.D. Did They See the Humour! - of his Commission in the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps.
Girls Fight For a Lover.
those of the municipalities within their areas. As a consequence it is suggested that ultimately the control of passenger road sport may fall into the hands of a composite body consisting of the MONEY FOR ONE WHO CAN USE IT; rallways, the Tilling and B.A.T.AND THE QUESTION, FOR INDIVIDUAL holding company and the munici- AND FOR NATION, 13 NEVER "HOW Law in Their Own Hands:
MUCH DO THEY MAKE?" BUT "TO palities, under the close supervi- WHAT PURPOSE DO THEY SPEND?"
-Ruskin. sion of the Ministry of Transport.
Opinion at Home seems to that the transport problem of the future is going to centre round the The question of cheap travel. abnormal conditions of the past five or six years have given the public for the first time in history a taste of really cheap transport,
Two labourers were severely
A modern version of the fight for and have led people to acquire the
stung by bees when working at travel habit. They have, in addi-
His Excellency the Governor has Bovey Tracey. They were scatter-Helen of Troy was told to Mr. Cam- tion, caused a 'greater dispersion appointed Mr. H. K. Holmes, C.B.E., ing gravel near some beehives, pion at Tower Bridge Court when A swarm him. A constable said he saw them of the population and an improve to be a Director of the Widow's and when one of them threw a shovel two girls of 10 and 16 were before
Orphans' Pensions, vice His Hon- ful against a hive. ment in the average standard of our Sir Joseph Kemp, C.B.E., K.C. attacked them, and they were fighting like tiger cats. He under-
forced to seek safety, one in a lily stood the quarrel was housing through the development
It is notified that at the expira-pond, the other in a laurel bush, young man. Each was fined 38. 6d. before being taken to a doctor for Found he Had Saved His Wife. of remote areas for residential
tion of three months the Hongkong attention. purposes. There
one point Wo Ping Amusements Company, which has aroused some comment, Limited, will, unless cause is shown namely, that the return to a tran-to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be sport monopoly, even a "controlled" dissolved. monopoly, may pave the way to a tightening up of fares, and thus create a danger of people who have gone into the country to live being driven back into congested towns. For this reason, one of the sug-sel employed will exhibit the re- gestions now being put forward
Submarine cable operations are to be carried out in the direction
*..
aboat a
Nearly 700 tons of poisons are Mr. H. L. Hollam, of Rombord the (Essex), while swimming 400 being kept in readiness in Sudan for the next appearance of yards out at Herne Bay (Kent)
locusts.
heard a scream for help, and saw a woman's' band disappear. He dived and seized the woman by the "No Tommy Rot About It"
hair. He found that she was his the The will of Mr. Arthur Bond wife, whom he had left on of Lighting Island about 6 to 15 Yockney, late of the George Ed-beach. miles from Hongkong. The work wardes theatrical company, reads Relics of the Great Plague. will commence on August 29th and "I leave all to my sister Augusta, will take about five days. The ves-and no tommy rot about it.'
gulations signals.
Trans-Atlantic Toy Balloon.
Twenty skeletons were found at Hitchin (Herts) during the widen- Ing of a stream bed. The bones
were
pipes were by their sides."" All are
to be reburied in one large box.
A toy balloon sent.up from Cater-were found in lime, suggesting is that there should be some sub-
Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co.,ham, Surrey, on May 21st, has been burial during the Great Plague sidy to the State-controlled tran-Ltd., advertise that on Monday, returned from New York, 3000 of 1664. All the skeletons' feet sport monopolies, possibly based September 1st, all Departments will miles away, where it was found on were pointing, east. Some
be closed. The Hongkong Dis roof. The sender was Miss Doris 6 ft. 6 in. long. Clay tobacco on taxation of the increased value pensary, Dispensing Department, Robinson, of Caterham Hill. of properties adjacent to the main will be opened for dispensing pre-
seriptions from 10 am to 1 pm. The Biter Bit.
A Leaf Worth Turning Over.. omnibus routes. This is one of and from 6 pun. to 7.30 p.m.
A snake charmer, exercising his
Locking over old books bequeath- the matters which will most likely
News has been received in the art before a fascinated crowd ated to him by a friend a year ago, come before the Royal Commission
Colony that Miss Margaret Gladys Tetuan (Morocco), became so ex-
cited himself that he bit one of the Mr. S. Cunningham, of Cloverdale, on Transport. Whether it will be Eccleshall has passed her pre-snakes. The snake thereupon bit British Columbia, discovered that of 41 shares in a prosperous min- is being increasingly felt that, Trinity College of Music, London. the charmer, who was taken to hos- the pages of one of them consisted
ing company. The shares Miss Eccleshall who was a pupil pital, where he died.
worth about £1,800. however they are obtained, cheap of Mrs. Suiter of Hongkong Wonderful Escape. travel facilities are essential to secured 94 marka, passing with
honours, The examiner was Sir Going into the corridor of an ex-Charter Discovery. the health and mental alertness of Granville Bantock, M.A., Mus. press train when it was running at the people.
Hongkong Telegraph. approved is another matter, but it liminary
1930.
SATURDAY,
Ατο. '30.
TRAFFIC MATTERS.
the
of
The Big Ball Again..
examination at the
are
the
of The Deputy Steward Doc., who, we understand, will full speed through Arksey, near Manor of Prescot, Lancashire, has visit Hongkong next year to con- Doncaster, recently, a three-year-discovered in his office the original duct the next Trinity College Ex-old London boy fell out on the line. charter granted by Henry VI. in aminations here.
"Bing," the only dog who was World War with the American Army in France, was buried with full military honours at Dennison (Ohio). The animal possessed an
The communication cord was pulled and after a search the child was 1448. Under its provisions the Manor enjoys many privileges, one Orders at Canton and elsewhere found on the line, alive but suffer of which is freedom from
arrest Two features of the Road Traffic
forbidding the observation of ing from severe injuries to the for any criminal who escapes to Act, which has recently passed
To-day cricket will be
over-Chinese Maiden's Day, which falls head, bruises and shock.
Prescot after committing crime, through the House of Commons, shadowed in England although to-day, on the seventh day of the The Miracle.
even murder. It also enables Pre- have received a great deal of there will be seven
scot tradesmen to sell produce toll- first class seventh moon, following a Nanking
determination to eliminate all the Born blind, deaf, and dumb, and free in Liverpool markets. notice, namely, the abolition of matches în progress. For the the speed-limit for motor-cars and big ball will be trundled on to superstitious festivals have not living more than 13 years without
dimmed the enthusiasm of the anything more than a faint glim-Dog He70, of fields to mark the Chinese in Canton or Hongkong-mering of outside ideas, Cornelius institution compulsory dozens third-party insurance. There are, opening of the football season and Large numbers of Chinese girls Ferreira has had his sight given decorated for his services in the
were shopping along Queen's Road to him through a delicate operation Central and Lyndhurst Terrace in a Cape hospital. however, many other features of the winter game will again take possession of the sporting element
last evening and throughout this: this enactment which are deserve in the country. Football starts morning, making preparations for Father Murders Children. ing of equal attention, inasmuch as to-day with no Innovations and banquets this evening, with cere- At Brive, in the Correze depart extraordinary sense of smell, and they have been framed with the few changes, yet there is no doubt zonial offerings to the daughter meat, a peasant strangled and often warned the American troops of the King of Heaven, whose afterwards hanged two of his of the approach of poisonous gas. idea of safeguarding pedestrians' that its apell will prove as potent, beautiful romance with a cowboy children in a barn. He then told After the war it was awarded a rights and regulating public pas- if not more so, than in previous forms
the main theme in the his wife to get straw from the barn. pension of £12 a month by the years. During the past seasonlegend.
Hardly had the mother found the United States Government. senger services. The Act is
there have been several transfers cognised as one of the main legisla of costly players and there has tive accomplishments of the past been a general re-shuffling among session, and now that it has been the teams in order that last passed, it should be possible to bring into force many provisions which have hitherto been lacking in the law dealing with road
traffic.
to
1
season's performances may be im- proved upon. The buying and selling of players still continues, but while football is a profes- sional sport and while clubs are
rendered sufficiently prosperous Let us outline some of the fea- by their supporters to pay huge tures of the Act which have not transfer fees, the practice will come into so much prominence as endure. During the close season, however, there has been a grow- they deserve. The measure. re-
ing tendency to search round for quires the Ministry of Transport local talent and the majority of to frame a "Road Code;" endows clubs have signed on young play- the Ministry with wide powers, ers in the hope that their teams which should enable it deal, will be accordingly strengthened. amongst other matters, with the That the present teams are not the various growing noise nuisance; and wise. representative of
towns and cities is an unfortunate ly limits the hours of drivers of
fact, but there are slight indica- public service vehicles (as buses,tions that attempts are being charabanca and the like are now made in some quarters to change to be called) and of goods lorries this state of affairs. The ideal- to a maximum of five at a stretch would be, of course, for the pro and a total of eleven in twenty-fessional footballers to be four. More far-reaching, how presentative of their towne as. professional cricketers are repre- ever, is the division of the country sentative of their counties, but into a dozen traffic areas, and the the ideal is a long way from establishment of area traffic com reality. It is a somewhat striking missioners charged with the duty fact that attendance records were controlling and regulating broken during the last football public passenger services and season, despite widespread in- fares, and of eliminating wasteful dustrial depression. The opening competition with other forms of of the season to day sees an even transport. The Act, however, Teater proportion of workless and it will be interesting to see gives municipalities rather wide next year what effect this has on powers in the matter of extending the football season. The in- their services which will have the dustrial situation misy not in. effect of making them relatively theory augar well for the success Independent of the area commis- of the season, but we incline to the view that. in practice it will sioners. As a consequence, we
have little if any adverse effect read, there is a movement afoot
on the popularity from the among the large bus companies spectator's viewpoint of England's to amalgamate their services with national winter game.
of
allow
The Fourth (or was it the Fifth)-"I'll love you forever."