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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1930.
NEVER BEFORE A
STUDEBAKER
SO LOW IN PRICE!
1924 Light Blx G$1065 1925...Standard
1. *$1125 G$1145 G$1160
1928 Director Six $1195
1929
G$ 995
1926
1927
...
AND NOW A NEW
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4-Wheel Dao-Servo Brakes
Ride in this new Studebaker
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The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd/
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, BEPT. 6. 1930.
DAY BY DAY
MORALS AND MANNERS MUST BE
sowN LIKE SPRING WHEAT.-J. W.
The Parsco New Year (1800). falls on Monday next
question, in all its bearings. They have been kept fully acquainted with the Government attitude all along, and they should have gone to Thursday's meeting of the Coun- cil with their views quite ready for expression. If they feared that Gambier. the Government conception of the necessary expenditure was too high or thought it would be better, 'in the first instance, to sound private enterprise in order to ascertain whether the Government' could be relieved of the outlay, they could
The Government is inviting ten just as well have reached these con- ders for No. 2 Police Station, the work consisting of the erection of a clusions months ago instead of police station, including Indian waiting until the Government married quarters.. brought forward its motion, and then asked for farther time which to consider the question.
It has been suggested in one quarter that the main, if not the only, purpose of the scheme would
be to provide better facilities for joy-riding motorists. That, how ever, is a distortion of the facts. It has been pat on record that many merchants believe the scheme would bo a great boon in offering them much better and more economical facilities for trans-harbour dis-
TOPSY-TURVEYDOM
{A "Lively" Ball.
Louis XV. library table, 6ft, 4in. wide which, from an opening bid A police constable, who inter of 200 gns., was finally knocked rupted two boys playing football down for £1,008. This figure re- in the gutter at Liverpool-read, It is notified that the name of Islington, found that their "bali" presented a price of £168 a foot. stone Trading. Limited, has been was a live Mills bomb. When the £100 for Dog's Grave. struck off the Register.
policeman came towards them the boys ran away, leaving behind a Miss Christine Norman, the round object covered with mud film actress, left estate valued at and rust. The officer saw that it £30,000. Her will directa that was a bomb, and took it to the police £100 shall be set aside for the care station, where it was found to be of the grave of her pet dog. She unexploded.
left nothing to either her mother, or her husband.
Frozen Meat.
The appointments of Mr. Justice:
The "Sinking Fund."
A brick and two documents were
Wood to act as Chief Justice and dropped into the Atlantic from the Mr. P. Jacks to act as Pulsne Judge liner Megantic on its crossing during the absence of Sir Joseph from Montreal to Southampton Kemp are gazetted..
Three horses, frozen to death. as they stood, testify to
the severity of the weather in the
The brick was from the foundation region of the Rocky Mountains, Tenders are being invited for Minneapolic, and
of the Simpson Methodist Church, saya, a message from Larmie, the documents Wyoming. The animals, frozen supplying and laying tarmacadam were the paid-up mortgage on the stiff in their tracks, and covered surfacing on the Island Road from church and the subscribers to the with snow, were found by motor- the junction of Tytam Road to Debt Sinking Fund. A service was ists while crossing the plains east
held on board for the singing cere- | of Laramie,“ wards Stanley Gap.
mony.
Killed by Bulb.
His Excellency the Governor has
Lieut-Col. Frederick "Water--No Thanka?" appointed Eaves, D.S.O., to act as Land Officer
Having placed an electric light and Mr. W. J. Lockhart-Smith to unworthy of consideration by Anita Berry, aged 77, of Southend-road, Water as a drink is considered bulb in his arm chair, Mr. Andrew act as Assistant Land Officer.
the Company will be dissolved.
Barcelona she drank from 15 to 20
Maya, Queen of the Spanish Wickford Essex, forgot it, and sat Gipsles. This was the dictum she on it. The bulb exploded with a tion of three months, the Yuet On Barcelona International Exposition. cut, and died in Southend Hos
It is notified that at the expira-delivered while on a visit to the loud report. Mr. Berry was badly Steamship Company, Limited will. And she should know, for she is pital. unless cause is shown to the con now 84 years of age and still hale the struck off the register and and hearty. During her stay at His Lucky Day?
An express goods train from glasses of Cazalla (a dry brandy) London to Leeds collided with Lam Kwan (62), described as a daily without any ill-effects. As s cook employed at 12, Sai Woo smuggler operating near the fron-motor-car at the crossing gates at Street, suffered fatal injuries when tier between Spain and Gibraltar The car crashed into the gates Horninglow, near Burton-on-Trent he fell from a cockloft, while as Anits had no equal in her day. after being taken to the Govern-4016, has been grown in Shrop- struck the back of the car leep, yesterday. He died shortly A giant pumpkin, weighing over which cross the main Burton to Derby road, and the express- and ment Civil Hospital...
shire.
carried it nearly 100 yards. The car driver escaped with facial in- juries.
tribution of goods; that there would be less pilferage and damage to cargo as a result of its operation; that much of the present littering up of the Praya with merchandise would be done away with; that cattle and swine, of which over 30,000 are transported across the harbour. annually, could be more easily dealt with than at present: that firms requiring motor trans-
Work was proceeding on the up-¡Steel "Mushroom.” port to transact their business on
per dam of the new Aberdeen Re-
At the rate of more than 400 both sides of the harbour would be servoir yesterday when an accident able to do with fewer lorries than occurred resulting in the death of tons a week, the steel framework a workman, named Mak Kal. Ap-of what is claimed as 'London's at present in rush hours; that the parently a pulley block dropped largest office building is being
fire-fighting resources through the breaking of a suspen-erected in Grosvenor-road. must. confess to some Colony's measure of surprise that the could be brought into full use onion line, and it struck the un- Fatal Nocturnal Prowl. Unofficial members of the Legisla- either side of the harbour in case most crushed by the heavy weight tive Council have caused the of emergency: that the handling of the object. Played by Reginald Foort on New Gallery Cinema Organ vehicular ferry scheme to be held of hospital cases between the main- A Cottage for sale...
Gracie Fields up by requesting, further time in land and the island" (averaging Cryin' for the Carolines (Film "Spring is Here")
which to consider the matter in about fifty per month) would be,
Ave Maria (Bach-Gounod), . .De Groot & Edward O'Henry Cavalleria Rusticana-Intermezzo
Violin & Organ-with Harp & 'Cello
A Cockney Girl at the Cinema
Where my caravan has rested
Wish Wynne
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Around the Corner
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I pitch my lonely caravan
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THE VEHICULAR FERRY.
An Old Church Legend.Reginald Goss-Custard, FR.C.o. all its bearings. Often do we much more satisfactory; and that hear criticisms of the Government the Post Office and Imports and Played on the organ of Alexander Palace, London,
for delaying essential schemes of Experts Departments would find March Past of the Highland Regiments.....Pipers of the development, but on this occasion the service of decided value. Sure- Scottish Command Tattoo Selections Cameron Highlanders it is the Unofficials who are provingly this is a sufficient answer to
Reginald Foort the stumbling-block.
We could those who contend that only joy- Played on the New Gallery Cinema Organ
quite understand the attitude of riding motorists would benefit from those who wish time for further the scheme. The Empire Party Song
..Leslie Sarony consideration if the Government
The plea that the present is an had hurriedly brought forward the inappropriate time in which to push project and attempted to rush forward with the scheme strikes through the financial vote. But us as indicating the danger of if there is one matter in this allowing retrenchment considera- tions to stand in the way of es- Colony which has been more thoroughly, threshed out than in-sentialities. We can quite believe other, by Officials and Unofficials that it may be necessary for a time alike, it is this vehicular ferry to slow down on some aspects of scheme. It is therefore the height the Colony's development, but the of irony that when the Government vehicular ferry service does not at length makes up its mind to come within this category. It is start the undertaking, and suggests absolutely necessary to the due and a method of financing the construc-proper expansion of the Colony, tion of the necesary piers, obstruc-which will remain cut into two tion should emanate from Unoffi- cial sources.
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To show the measure of atten- tion which has been given to this project, let us recall that it was as far back as March, 1927, that the Government sought the views of the Chamber of Commerce on the question, and that, as a result, a conference was held between Gov-
separate entities so long as we are without such facilities, which are a commonplace in all modern cen- tres bearing any resemblance to Hongkong. As to the question of cost, it is quite conceivable that the advantages of the system could be secured at a much less figure than the Government suggests; it is even possible that private enter- prise might take on the whole
ernment officials and business men, project. These are points, as we at which every aspect of the sub-
have said, on which the Unofficials ject was dealt with. True, there ought to have made up their minds was some disagreement on the na-long ago. The main essential is ture of the proposals then put for
that the service should be in-
ward, but the main Idea was ap-stituted with the minimum of de proved, and it was even urged that lay. the possibility of establishing, not
areng
one, but two vehicular ferries Table U in the Schedule to the should be kept in view, having re- which applies to junks and other Merchant Shipping Ordinance, gard to the wide distance separat- Chinese vessels, has been amended ing the western district from the by the insertion, after regulation of development eastwards. 12A, of the following regulation:- Then, in the following year, the contained in these regulations no "128. Notwithstanding anything Government issued 1 Sessional vessel licensed thereunder shall Paper on the matter, and this was without the permission in writing of the Harbour Master, endorsed followed up by an official communi-
on or entered in the licence book of que in February of this year, in the vessel, carry more than ten pas- which the Government made clear sengers to or from any port or place in the Colony from or to any port or its view that the construction and place-lying to the eastward of a line maintenance of the piers should drawn from the southern boundary of the waters of the Colony due be under its control. Surely, when north to Tailong Head, thence to these facts are borne in mind, the Tailong Point, thence to Collinson Unofficials have had plenty of opgate Head, and thence to Mirs Head (on Bluff Island), thence to portunity of considering the whole
Point."
fortunate man, whose skull was al-
COLONY'S CREDIT
BALANCE.
MAY RETURNS DISCLOSE AN
INCREASE.
What Waste!
Over 500 gallons of whisky,
valued at over $2,000, escaped into
a Speyside burn. A steam tractor, conveying a consignment of the spirit from Cardow Distillery to Station, suddenly Two cats were asphyxiated in Knockando the kitchen of a Southend house swerved over an embankment and. after one, wandering in the dark slipped down 40 feet on to a rocky ness, had stepped on a gas-oven bed of the Knockando Burn. tap. A dog was revived by arti-A "Proper" Marriage." ficial respiration. Looking After "No I.”
Although warned by the Town Clerk that the action is illegal, Salford councillors have decided Finanial returns for the month to grant themselves free passes of May show that the Colony's on corporation tramcars and credit balance at the end of that omnibuses. month was $10,701,839.17, com-i pared with $10,462,076.80 at the Police Station for Sale, end of April.
Manchester Watch Committee, The revenue for May was $2,128,692, compared with $1,825,-finding that the police-box system
operating in Manchester has met 046 for the same month last year, with great success, have decided whilst the expenditure · was $1,888,929, as against $1,959,764 in to dispose of a number of local
police stations. 1929.
For the first five months of the Expensive? year, the revenue was $10,125,844, against $9,965,287 in 1929, the re- spective expenditure figures being $9,086,857 and $7,826,822.
The chief lot of the day at the sale of the contents of Lansdowne House, London, proved to be a
Mr. Sidney Jones, of Ilford, and Miss Dorothy Howells, who were married at St. Mary's Church, Bath, revealed to the bride's par- ents just before the ceremony that they were married at the Bath reglater office last June. The bridegroom explained that they did not feel properly married tiйi there had been a ceremony in church. where Innocence is Bliss.
Seeing a child dragging a violin along a street in Nice, a con- noisseur examined it and found
it to be a Cremona instrument wearing the date 1630. The child's parents had been given the violin by a former music-master, and, thinking it was of no value, had stored it in an attic, where the child had found it.
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