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DAY BY DAY
A fall of earth occurred at the
Chu On Quarry, Kowloon Teal, yesterday, resulting in Fung Yee (51), a stonebreaker, being killed.
The Witchery of
Nuremberg.
HE shrill boot so peculiar to pinafore doors opened to reveal a the Continental mator and the frame work studded with clatter of hoofs and wheels on iron spikes! The enemies of the cobbled streets sound on deaf ears Counts of Nuremberg met their as I lounge in my room in the death behind this same closed iron "Hotel Bambergerhof" in this pinafore. I am indebted to a town (says citizen of the land of the Stars typically German Jenny H. Hanson in the Glasgow and Stripes for a little tin model Evening News).
of the gruesome female. I bought her in the vermilion-fronted Wool- A warm-summer breeze rattles worth's in the main street! The engagemont is announced
the open double between Mr. J. V. Atkins, of the
casement Asiatic
windows.
Like the hymns, оде сап A tall glass of light! Petroleum Company, Hongkong, and Miss A, E, Hendry, beer the drink of the man in the describe this fascinating town an Other street here, stands invitingly cool "ancient and modern." residing at the Peninsula Hotel.
but effervescently untouched at souvenirs, too, await a resting Convicted by Mr. Whyte Smith my elbow, though the friendliest place in my long-suffering suit- The German" guide-books of having stolen some clothing of waiters has just withdrawn case. valued at $2 from the 8.8. Tanda, with a whispered "Bitte Fraulein." Invariably describe this lovely a Chinese was this morning sen-Why all this oblivion, for I possess Franconian city, of dripping foun- tenced to one month's imprison- the acute hearing of an animal? taing and beautiful churches, of Because the magic spell of this ancient aristocratic mansions and ment.
delightfully modern yet peculiarly grey-balconied houses, as "The medieval city is upon me, and I Jewel Box of Germany," and right.. in dreams have beheld the Middle ly so, for it is also one of the Ages!
greatest.commercial towns of the Fatherland.
We are asked to state that, owing to the uncertain state of the weather the all-ranks open-air dance which was to have been held at Wellington Barracks to-night has been postponed to Wednesday, the 10th instant.
Ancient and Modern..
who had to be content with half the total secured by his party at the General Election, suffered most. In any event, the very con- measure of support.
HE WHO LETB HIS HOSTLESS BHINE which Mr. Redwood secured does 18 ASKED ANOTHER DAY TO DINE-- indicate the growth of the Rother- | Bagshot. mere movement, which is likely to be a very serious factor for the Conservatives in the days ahead. In this connexion, there is a re- port that the United Empire Party
His Excellency, the Chancellor intends to fight all Conservative of the University, has kindly con- candidates in future bye-elections.sented to open the new Biology If that is the case, and if the same tember, at 5 p.m.
Buildings on Monday, 22nd Sep
policy is followed at the next Gen- eral Election, we can see Mr. Baldwin and his supporters, hay- ing a very thin time. Such a de- velopment cannot but widen the split in the Conservative ranks.
Coincident with the Bromley bye-election comes the manifesto by the Liberal Party regarding its attitude towards Labour. The main feature of this is an insis- tence on the preservation of the Party as a separate political entity and Parliamentary force. The
An Indian begum would covet I have returned from a visit to the bead necklaces that I got this outline which is given of future
the Castle, where I have looked afternoon in a shop where these policy does not differ greatly from
down from its high, wooded ram-relics of savage adornment lay that of the Labour Party, and A police report to-day states parts upon the tall brown and in shelved glass drawers which for this reason we cannot see that that Lee See-chuen, (19), a mar-white houses with their quaint reached nearly to the roof! Lend the Liberals are likely to win back ried woman, is now lying at the tiers of dormer windows inset in pencils that would make a school-
Kwong Wah Hospital in a serious mellow red-tiled roofs. Bruges boy's teeth water are going home. their lost status. One Liberal | state, produced through the may suggest belfries, Haarlem with me, and my spinster · and suggest windmills, but childish heart will break when I commentator frankly stated, a few swallowing of adeline which she may weeks ago, that if there were an took, it is said, in mistake for other Nuremberg must ever be associat-part with the lovely doll which
medicine.
ed in the mind of the traveller bought in the oldest toyshop in immediate Dissolution it would
with dormer windowsl In the Nuremberg, whose citizena are. Siu Tip-sung (28), an unmarried lilac-scented air the smoke rose among the oldest toymakara in not be a question of a Liberal ma-i
woman, was discovered uncon-straight as a spear from the the world. The remains of the late Mr. Wil jority, but of whether there scious in her cubicle on the second chimneys of these 'old-world
I drink my flat beer, and, in liam Gardner will be transferred.
an effective Liberal floor of No. 7. Yu Chow Street, houses for below; they still seem- from the s. President Adams to would be the Chapel of the Roman Catholic Party at Westminster at all. As- yesterday. At the Kowloon Hosed to crouch for protection, as the mellow sunshine of late after- Cemetery to-morrow. The inter-suredly, he said, the
pital her case was diagnosed as they did centuries ago, at the foot, make my way to the heart electors opium-poisoning, through the tak- of this warlike citadel with its of the town the Hauptmarkt. ment will take place at 5 p.m. (No flowers by request).
would not return Liberals to do ing of an over-dose. The patient well preserved fortifications and Here the great coloured umbrellas still cover the fruit and flower vendors, and little stacks of un- work which can be equally well died subsequently.
From my parapeted eyrie I saw sold cream asparagus (a German done by Socialists. That ià pre- A Chinese was charged before the towering steeple of St. Sebald dish as common as our British cisely the position, However Mr. Whyte Smith this morning and the unique two spired church cabbage) lie beside bunches of
with having stolen some clothing of St. Laurence. The modern wood violets much the Liberals may wish to valued at $30 from a house in Port town enfolded the ancient city in emptied stalls."
on the practically preserve their separate identity, land Street. He admitted having a grey embrace of up-to-date the trend of politics seems against climbed through the window and buildings and streets. I do not Hans Sach's House,
stealing the clothing. As he had think I merited the Wordsworthiar them, tending to a reversion to the served a month's imprisonment reproof of dulness of soul when The early evening light is clear two-party system. Mr. Lloyd previously, he was now sentenced my eyes feasted on the beauty of and Hngers lovingly and the George and his followers may not to four months.
this picture of olden days in its "Beautiful Fountain" modern frame.
twin towers of St. Laurence, the acknowledge this, but the logic of As the Yaumati ferry-boat man
grey pigeons coo me a farewell facts appears to be against them. Chec was passing through the cen- Inside the Castle I had seen as I hie me to the house of
staircases, tral fairway yesterday, near No. 2 winding stone
the Hans Sachs, the singer and shoe- Buoy, the discovery was made that usual lordly reception rooms and maker immortalised in Wagner's a passenger had thrown himself humbler apartments, but the tor- opera "Die Meistersinger." Home- overboard. A seaman, named ture chamber of Nuremberg will ward bound. I cross the arched Leung Wing, effected a prompt re- remain in my memory when I have Rialto-like Fleishbrucke, the Meat
whether the scue and took the would-be suicide forgotten
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FRIDAY, SEPT. 5. 1930.
HOME POLITICS.
It is difficult to draw any very definite conclusions from the Bromley bye-election, mainly by reason of the fact that there was a
Seasonable Workers.
+
towers.
02 the
One of the problems connected back on board. The man was hand-Nuremberg" tower, upon which Bridge, under which the waters big shrinkage in the number going with the unemployment insurance ed over to the police, after the my German guide dissertated with of the Pegnitz reflect the over- hanging wooden balconies of old such enthusiasm, is round or to the poll as compared with the fund, which must continue to be ferry had arrived at Yaumati.
pentagonal! So is the morbid and houses and green follage. General Election. Analysing the one of the prime concerns of the
Lai Kwai, (44), a paintscraper, not the historical or architectural And "so to bed" to rest under figures, we find that some 4,500 Home Government is the position received fatal injuries through a of lasting if not "happy memory!" the great balloonlike quilt beloved" fewer voters exercised the fran- of seasonal workers who have be- fall at the Cosmopolitan Dock yes. "The Iron Maiden" is the occupant of German housewives. From a come a heavy charge on the fund terday. Apparently, a atage plank of this dread chamber and she is cafe nearby the strains of the
a horrible lady! on which he was standing, while indeed chise. The explanation for this is when the number of unemployed at work scraping the hull of the metal person gave one the realis only a German orchestra can Her "Blue Danube Waltz," played as that the contest was fought on the has passed the two, milion mark... Bonneville, broke and Lai was tion of man's barbarous cruelty in render Strauss, lull me to sleep old register which was prepared How the effect is produced may be precipitated into the bottom of the good old days, sixteen months ago and does not realised by quoting the building the dry dock, dropping down a dis- expire until next month. The bye- trade which, in some of its aspects, tance of 15 feet and receiving in-
is seasonal. For years past
the juries from which he died after ad- election has therefore occurred
mission into hospital. building trade has been busy, yet
at the moment there are some-
of
just before the change-over is to be made. Bromley, like most re-thing like 150,000 out of work. sidential areas, has a population Take a builder of cottage pro- which changes fairly rapidly.perty, who is building a row Many people leave to live in other houses. He employs, in regular areas, and many new people come sequence, excavatora, bricklayers, into the district in the course of joiners, plasterers, plumbera, deco- a year and a half. The names of rators and painters. By the time these new residents may appear the bricklayers have finished the on the new register, but they have employer may not be ready to start the next row of houses. Formerly not been able to vote at this bye he would have sent the bricklayers election because it has been run on to do some work in the yard. Now the old. Many others whose he says, "Here is your card. You names were on the old register had better stand off for a couple of have naturally moved, and it could weeks. I pay to the insurance, hardly be expected that they you pay to it, and we might as well would make the journey to Brom that bricklayer consider himself take advantage of it." But does'
ley for the express purpose of vote unemployed? Only for the sake of ing in a district in which they no drawing the insurance benefit. If longer realde,
he were offered another job he would not take it, for he considers
of
It is
It was forecasted weeks ago himself bound to his regular em- that, as a consequence of these facts, several thousand voters other ways in which the numbers
ployer. There are all sorts would not be able to go to the are artifically increased, but when poll, and the figures now to hand all is said and done, the position, is show that this must have been definitely worse even for the work- the case.
In the circumstances, it men, and they are the vast is not surprising that the candi- majority, who would rather work dates of the three main political than draw their money. parties all polled fewer votes. The credibly stated in many Labour quarters that the Government are Conservatives suffered most, with
asking for a plan to be prepared a drop of more than twelve thou that would take off the Fund all sand, the Liberals had seven thou-unemployables and people drawing sand less, and Labour declined "uncovenanted" benefit. Under- more than four thousand. Pecu-this scheme these people would liar interest was attached to the draw a "dole," but not from the conteht from the fact that the Unit-
"Insurance". Fund. The Treasury ed Empire Party ran a candidate who pays every week la. beginning would provide it. The workman who secured quite a respectable to complain that an insurance" backing. His nine thousand votes fund: should have to bear all these were probably obtained from some "bad risks." If the Government of the supporters of all the three propose such a scheme, they will official parties, but we imagine have to depend on the Opposition to that the Conservative nominee, carry it.
The Jewel Box.
Tall, broad, and black, a granny mutch on hér iron head, her
"What's the big idea, Bul?””.
and, to dream of other cities in this beautiful land of Germany, which, in this fortunate time of international camaraderie “like to be visited.".
"Why, I'm the man that'll try anything once."
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