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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1930.
STATION
S.A. V. E.
CALLING!
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TO TAKE UP MOTORING AT AN ABSURDLY LOW OUTLAY, TRY THIS BARGAIN—
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Price $400
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE. STUBBS ROAD.
The
Hongkong Telegraphi.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1930.
EMPIRE 'TRADE.
Plans for the development of in- ter-Imperial trade figure largely
many factors and interests to be taken into account.
DAY BY DAY
BE NOT SO BIGOTED TO ANY CUS- TOM AS TO WORSHIP IT AT THE EX- PENSE OF TRUTH.-Zimmermann
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It is early in the day yet to sug gest the means by which the Im-o perial Conference will tackle this question, but we shall be surprised if any of its recommendations go to the length of fundamental
His Excellency the Governor has changes in tariffs. There may be appointed Mr. E. H. Williams to room for modifications, but the probe a Police Magistrate. spect of Free Trade within the
His Excellency the Governor has Empire being urged does not seem appointed Mr. H. R. Butters to be likely. Fortunately, there are Police Magistrate, Kowicon. many other ways of reaching the end in view, and in this connexion the joint memorandum issued by the Trades Union Congress and the Federation of British Industries would seem to have the gorm of a practical scheme. This is that there should be created an inter- Commonwealth Trade Conference,
of
Lieutenant J.A.L. Schreiber, Royal Artillery, has been appointed one of H. E. the Governor's Honor
Aldes-de-Camp. · ary
TOPSY-TURVEYDOM
Woods Mystery Solved
Quite a Crowd.
The mystery of a "haunted" The 1930 Census figures for Now wood at Amersham (Bucks) has York show that within a 40-mile been solved after nine months. radius of the City Hall, known as. People walking through the wood Metropolitan New York, there is were startled by a voice which a population of 11,006,069. The shricked, "You fools!" Birds were average density per square mile is driven away by the shrieks and 2,921, but for the Manhattan twigs mysteriously snapped off and Borough the rate is 84,383. The dropped on people's heads. Food density for Chicago, the second disappeared when picnic parties largest American city, is 16,219 were not looking. A keeper solved compared with London's 11,250. the mystery by seeing in a tree The increase in New York's popula parrot which escaped from its own-tion, compared with ten years ago, er, Miss M. Puscy, of the Market is 27.8 per cent, and it can now square, nine months ago. The bird boast of a population exceeding seven largest avoids all traps and has become that of the next
cities in the United States. Mauretania's Spied
savage.
a
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Flight Lieutenant A.J.R. Moss to be. Superintendent of the Civil Aerodrome at Hongkong. In Love Lane Cotlage.
Mrs. Violet Ellen Waldron, ap The Mauretania, when she arriv- The forthcoming wedding is an-plying at Southend County Ses-ed at Plymouth, averaged over 25 to be a permanent part of the Em-nounced of Mr. Jens Einar Lyhne, sions for a maintenance order knots, this being the fourteenth pire's economic machinery, which of the A.P.C., Chinkiang, to Miss against her husband alleged that successive castbound trip on which
Lona Elizabeth Jayce No. 13, should have investigatory "and ad- Marmion Road, Liverpool.
he had deserted her in her own she has attained that average speed. home. She said that they both visory powers and which should
Owing to the inclement weather. buryness. After
lived at Love-lane Cottages, Shoe-The Use of Suicide.
hnd they of consist
representatives
the concert organised by the Re-quarrel her husband took all the should be bequeathed to University A note requesting that his body industry, agriculture, and finance, creation Club of the China Light bed-clothes and went into the front College Medical School was left by and of both employers and and Power Co., Ltd., has been room, where he had slept ever Joseph Howard Brindley (29), of
postponed until Saturday, October since. He had refused to speak a King Henry's-road, organisation, 4th.
Hampstead, employed. Such an
word to her, and he stood up to cat who committed suicide by polson: it brought into existence,
his meals. The husband said that
ing. should be able to discharge His Excellency the Governor has, his wife had told him never to put
under instructions from the SecreThis foot under her table again-so Giant Auditorium. functions of a decidedly useful
tary of State for the Colonies, ap-he stood up! The application was
A New York cinema corporation character and it would have the pointed Mr. T. H. King to be dismissed.
plans to build a 72-storey skyscra- advantage of being always avail- Deputy
Wholesale "Killing."
per on Broadway to house what is described as "the biggest audi- able when fresh problems arise for
Babies who were born after torium in the world.” It will seat consideration. Any attempt to up- Mr. Alfred Holland Skelton, of April 1st will be considered "un- 6,000 persen.
Canford Cliffs, born," and people who died after set the whole fiscal arrangements of South Lodge,
retired merchant, late of Hong-that date will be tabulated as Burning to go Home. the Mother Country and the Do-kong, left estate of the gross value "live" in the 1930 decennial cen- minions is, as we see the matter, of £50,006, with net personalty of sus, according to instructions issu
ed by the Census Bureau. The likely to meet with complete fail-£44,596.
census began on April 1st. Will Dentists Go On Dole?
ure.
kong. From dusk to well past mid.
Police.
Inspector General 01
In the last few days there have been five fires at a farm at Eng- holm (Jutland.)
The mystery puzzled everyone, It is notified for the information
but it is now explained that à. 14- of owners and occupiers of tene-
year-old servant girl was respon- ments that, under the provisions of
Dr. Edward L. Wharton, presi-sible. She was longing for her the Rating Ordinance No. 6 of 1901, dent of the New Jersey State home, and thought the only menas rates for the Fourth Quarter of Dental Society predicts that 1,000 to attain her purpose was to burn 1930, are payable in advance on or years hence babies may be born the farm. before the 31st October, 1930,
without the ability to develop teeth.
The small-pox report W&S:
they work
were
8.9
An extraordinary Post Office
were.
A Glaring Nuisance,
There are some things tolerated in the news these days. This is in Hongkong which would receive
Signs of it are evident now, he de- Rough on the Girl. Observing to the defendant that clares, in the failure of many to most gratifying, as it indicates immediate checking in practically he was fortunate in the fact that acquire four wisdom teeth. Soft that men of all shades of political any other part of the world. One there was not sufficient evidence foods, it says, are depriving the muddle was revealed at Blackpool
of these is the deliberate noise in in the case to convict him, Mr. teeth of the
when a Liverpool firm who opinion are coming to realise that icted on a long-suffering commun- Lindsell at the Central Magistracy formerly called on to do such
awaiting a sample parcel of tinned pork and beans found on opening much can be done to extend com-ity by drivers of cars who unacces-this morning discharged the Chin-masticating fresh buffalo meat,
the expected package that it con- merge as between various parts of sarily sound the horn. A recent ese who was arrested at the Hotel
tained a girl's dance frock. A Post the British Commonwealth. But visitor to the Colony, and one who Asia subsequent to the seizure of Crowd Watches Execution.
several thousand pills of heroin.
Office official suggested that the had resided in some of the biggest
Shouting, “I die innocent," Felix mistake must have been due to two whilst there is general agree-
According to the health bulletin Bergeron, who had been convicted parcels bursting and a hurried cart to ment as
the
incities in Europe and America, ex- end
pressed amazement at this form of of Eastern ports for the week of the murder of a mill-owner ander exchanging their contents. continues view, there
to be
his wife was guillotined in public torture that residents near main ended September 20, two cases of at Dunkirk. Bergeron had insist Door As Ship's Rudder, Every considerable divergences of roads or in the heart of the city plague, both fatal, were reported ed that an accomplice, who had been Pluck, tenacity and skill in im- opinion as to the methods to be have to bear. A case of glaring at Rangoon. Two non-fatal cases sentenced to life imprisonment but provising a rudder under conditions were recorded in Alexandria died in gaol three months ago, of great difficulty were responsible adopted. The Empire Free Trade abuse of the horn and siren is that Cholera cases were (deaths in (6);
could have made a statement that for the safe arrival at Grimsby of movement represents one idea, but which authority, with a capital A, parenthesis): Calcutta, 9
would have cleared.. him of the the stream trawler Witham. During we much doubt whether an impar- appears to tolerate in the vicinity Chittagong. 2 (2): Iloilo 2 (3); murder charge. It was just before a gale in the North Sea the vessel tial consideration of the scheme of the Star ferry wharf, in Hong-Manila 4′ (nil); Shanghai, 22 (1) the knife of the guillotine fell that was rendered helpless through a Bergeron made his last proclama- rudderpost breaking, and was in would show it to come within the night, hire-car drivers tout for Baghdad, 1 (nil); Calcutta, 2 (1)tion of innocence to the crowd that danger of drifting on a lee chore. Cochin, 1 (nil); Karachi, 3 (2); gathered to see the execution. The skipper, Mr. Jack Howard, set realm of practicality. No doubt fares in a most insolent manner-Madras, 8 (3) Negapatam, 6
A copper penny of 1849 (Queen to work to improvise a rudder from Lord Beaverbrook and his erusa-insolent insofar as scant attention (nil); Penang, 1 (nil); Batavia, Victoria) realised 24s, at a sale at a trawl door and succeeded in dersi are encouraged by the increas-is paid to the pedestrians who de- (nil).
Glendining Dumfriesshire.
navigating the ship to port. ing attention that is being given sire to use their right of way in the street. Cars suddenly dash up. to the question, but there is as yet cross one's path, so that one has to no indication that the proposals jump aside in some cases to avoid which they put forward are likely being knocked down, and all the to commend themselves to the time the incessant blare of horns, either to attract the attention of a Dominions.
possible fare or else to warn the The Australian Premier, as one
mere foot-passenger to skip aside, of the delegates to the Imperial goes on, unchecked by those who Conference which opens next week, have the power to put a stop to this has stressed the importance of the intolerable nuisance. For resi- economic side of the gathering, and dents in the locality it is a con- has expressed the hope that steps when no ferry has hove in sight. start racket, with short intervals will be taken for the development It is a test of endurance, in which of inter-Imperial trado. Neither human nerves must eventually give he, however, nor any other of the way. Summed up, it is a disgrace Dominion representatives, has so to the place, and should immediate- far said anything which could be ly be put a stop to. construed as an endorsement of the Empire Free Trade scheme. This is scarely to be wondered at, since we can envisage many objections' from the Dominions to any plans for removing all tariff barriers as between the various parts of the Empire. For example, those Do-
The motor-ear belonging to minions which are building up their terday reported to have
Mr. C. J. Tacchi, which was yes- industries would not welcome un-stolen from the Pedder Street hindered competition from the Mo- stand opposite the Post Office,
has been located. ther Country, neither would some of
A search party last night came them look with favour on a scheme across the car in Hing Hon Road, which would result in duty-free just off Bonham Road near the raw materials and farm produce of the road. It was not damaged. University, parked by the side
coming in from other Dominions.in any way.
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LOST MOTOR-CAR NOW DISCOVERED.
PROBABLY TAKEN FOR A JOY-RIDE.
been
dis-
Existing treaties have also to be The theory is that someone taken into account in this matter, for a joyride, eventually parking must have taken the vehicle away
and here we come to another im-it at the spot where it was portant consideration from the fact covered. that the delegates at the Imperial Conference are in reality men who whilst to-day representing various Governments might conceivably in the near future have no such status. It will therefore be seen that when the Conference comies to deal with Empire trade, as it must, there are
The Bishop of Victoria (Hong- kong and South China) and Mrs. Duppuy, hope to leave, England On November 12, the London for Hongkong on November 18.
Group is arranging a farewell meeting to bid godspeed to all workers in the diocese who are sailing this autumn,
"Marriage is a monopoly.
"Yes, dear, but apparently not in restraint of trade.”