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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, FER. 9, 1931.
PENNY TRANSPORT.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1931.
trolled the State, the wisest plan would be not to work it for the sake of revenue but merely with the iden of making it self-supporting, any surplus being devoted to improve- ment of the services or reduction of charges.
DAY BY DAY
SPILLING OUR DEST AND BIGGEST AD
The P. and O. s.a. Khyber, from Singapore, is due here at 6 am on Friday.
WE HAVE GOT INTO A HABIT OF
JECTIVES OVER THE MOST TRIFLING As to the financial aspect of the CIRCUMSTANCER-H. E, Austin. question, it is interesting to nobe come calculations which have been made. The total number of passen- gers carried per annum by the rall-
Mr. and Mrs. R. Pestonji returned! waya during the last ten years has from Manila by the .8. President] "** | varied from 2,000 million to 170,000 | yesterday.
million, and the gross passenger re-
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Are They
BEVERLEY NICHOLS,
Really Failures?
ALWAYS wanted to be as But there must be many times
doctor, you know,
when you, wonder, bitterly, why He said it with a sort of shy de-life has passed you by, or when not looking at me, you admit to yourself that you aro fianco.. but at the foot of a small, patient a fallure, and a hopeless one.... fox-terrier which he was holding. If you are an eldish woman, He had just extracted a nasty wheeling somebody else's baby In Mr. J. H. Bunt, of the Y.M.C.A., splinter, from the dog's foot, verya perambulator through the park. returned to the Colony on Friday by skilfully, and he was making sure holding somebody else's little boy the s.. Antenor, accompanied by Mrs. that the job was properly finished. by the hand-if you are always Hunt
Mr. II. G. Sheldon was amongst the ceipts show an average per passen-passengers who arrived by them ger of about tenponce. Even if un-
Antenor on Friday.
der the new scheme the total num-
MACAO WEEK BY WEEK.
sampans
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ber of passengers does not exceed 200,000 million, it is calculated, by,
He was a man who had madò rather tired, and wonder whether allowing reasonable proportions for
lot of money in the City. A suc- they will notice that you are The Chairman and members of the conful man, in the eyes of the inclined to go to sleep after lunch, the various types of trains, that the British Economic Mission are giving gross revenue would exceed that at a farewell dinner at the Peninsula world. A failure, to himself. "If you have only a very tiny ba- always wanted to be a doctor. you ance of Savings Certificates, and present secured by close on ton mil-Hotel on the 27th instant,
know....
sometimes, in your stuffy room lions sterling.
that looks out on to the back yard, Moreover, it la
The British members of the Hong-
In his dreams he sees himself, you clutch your Angers tightly claimed that if the volume of pas kong General Chamber of Commerce white-jacketed, in the operating
to be the end of all this proud, are giving a dinner to the Chairman theatre, a half-circle of students together and wonder what is going sengers and freight increased in
and members of the British Economic breathlessly watching the move painful gentility-you cannot per anything like the same proportion Mission in the Hongkong Hotel Roof ments of his thin, clever fingers. suade yourself that you are of Increase in postal traffic with Garden on Friday night.
Or in the consulting room, listen- "success." Of all the children the introduction of the Penny Post, An unfortunato minbap occurred offing gravely to the woes of distin, who have passed through your the rates. suggested could be ma-West Point last evening when two gulahed patients. He sees himself hands, hardly one remembers you. ..probing daily Never have you had a child of your collided. One was sunk saving lives terially reduced. The method sug-through the collision and the occu- into the strange and fascinating own. Nor a man to love you. gested Tor remunerating the rail- panta were thrown into the water. secrets of the body. Then way companies is for the State to They were rescued none the worse for wakes up, telephones wearily to a
their experience, but their property jobber, executes an order, makes If you are a choras girl, and guarantee as a minimum the pre- was lost."
money. A failure, though you you are thirty years old, if you are would not guess it from his beginning to find it necessary to | sent total revenue, plus an agreed
Liu Shun appeared before Mr. manner.
rouge and powder very carefully percentage on all increase of trafße. Butters, at the Howlson Magistracy,
before an audition," if you hate the new hata that perch on the The whole scheme la most itriguing, this morning, charged with the theft
of a motor-car tyre from the premier For failures are always acting back of the head because of those and In view of the increasing com- of the Kowloon Motor Bus Company One often meets tired, depressed little furrows on your forehead petition of the motor bus services, in: Nathan Road, He admitted the mothers, but one need not waste that come when you stay up too offence and was sentenced to fivo so much pity on them as on the late, if you are beginning to redd, we may hear more of it in the near weeks' imprisonment.
other women, the brisk, alert wo more and mare
eagerly, all the [uture.
men who have been childless...advertisements for creams' and At the Central Police Court this sitting bravely, day after day, lotions, and if you close your eyes morning, Mr. Lindsell fined a Chinese
who have Instinctively with a little shudder, $10.000, or nine months' hard labour opposite husbands In default, for the possession of 80 ceased to be interested, making when you think of the future. thels of contraband opium, R. O. pathetic attempts to find "substi- do you not say to yourself as Grimmitt said the man was arrested Lutes"--pouring out a thwarted you pace up and down your cheap coming mut of the Ping On Wharf, maternal instinct on all sorts of lodgings, that you are a fallure? with the opium tied to his legs and things which, in their heart of And is it not true? waist.
hearts, they know to be so terribly
Yes and no. Yes, for reasona feeble compared to.. For possession at 586, Canton Road
which are self-evident. No, for a ДП. And yet they carry They reason that we are all apt to for- of 2.7 tacia of prepared oplum a Macno, Feb. 8.
some ways, get. Which is, that we are all in The Carnival In the main topic of Chinese, Chow Kwal, was fined $210, feel themselves, in
or ten weeks' imprisonment, by Mr. shameful, as though they had been the same boat. We all know dur- But solves to be failures in our heart make their services speedler and Interest at Macao at present. Pre Butters, at the Kowloon Magistracy tried and found wanting.
parations are being made in all the this morning. Revenue Officer Ham never, never, must they admit it. of hearts, because cheaper, numerous suggestions have clubs to provide membera and their phreys said the defendant was an old "Everybody envles us our roses,"
we are all been put forward with this end in friends with festivities on
grand offender, and was the proprietor of they say, na they show you round Blessed City (Bairstow Westminster Special Choir view. One of the most attractive, scnie, The celebrations commence sort of resting place for boat peoples. their nent, deserted gardena.
on Saturday, Feb. 14, and end on Blessed City Part 2.
however, and one which has aroused Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Having a previous conviction for Or, as they become more confd- larceny, a Chinese, Sam Hon, appearing: "We haven't had a quarrel much attention, is what has been
The Chinese New Year Holidays ed before Mr. Butters, at Kowloon this since the day we were married." described as "Penny Transport." taking place at the same time as morning, charged with having stolen Or-but whatever it is, there is The scheme, which is not an en- the Carnival, Macao is well worth a fountain pen from In Sit-un in Pit always a little challenge in their
visiting this year, for, in addition taking the pen by an Indian Warder,
Street, last night. He was seen tirely new one, is based on the printo the Portuguese festivities, the and was arrested by a Chinese con-
voice.
ciple that cheap transport by rail Chinese
You may tell me that half the contribution of quaint stable. Sentence of four montas failures of the world do not realise la as feasible as the Penny Post.games, and the new cabaret with its imprisonment was Imposed.
that they are failures. You may Indeed, the idea is to extend the pleasure park will make a holiday
talk about happy tramps and con- more interesting than those of the Sentence of ten weeks' hard labour tented old people in workhouses postal system to the carriage of past few years..
was passed by Mr. Williams at the and busy old maids. Although I Central Police Court this morning goods and passengers, and it is claimed that this can be done with but financial loss. More than that, it is suggested that with the in-Naval Yard, who has just returned from Germany, where he has spent creased patronnge which would re-
some weeks studying the working sult, the scheme would yield greater of a new dredger which the Gov- is handing profits than are obtained under ex- ernment of Germany
over to Portugal on account of war isting methods.
reparations. The idea of the "Penny Train,"
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Following the issuing of the re port of the Rayal Commission on Transport, in which the railway companies are strongly urged to
of course, is not that there should be a flat rate as low as this, but that a penny be the minimum fare, with
CARNIVAL TO START ON SATURDAY,
An Interesting link with the war provided in the return to Macao. of Mr. Pinto de Sousa, of the Macao
Chinese who was convicted of steal do not wish to write in the strain ing a pair of spectacles from a basket of Tchekov, I do not believe in this which an elderly woman was carrying facile happiness. In every man's in Queen's Road Central yesterday. life there comes a time when ho The man was seen by a district watch takes stock of himself, neither man to approach the woman from cheating nor prevaricating. behind and take the spectacles.
Most of us need not often de-j
haunted by the ghosts of "might have been, by the ghosts of children unbern, of love unfulfilled, of battles that were won in the brain only, of suns that never rose for us, of stars we never anw.
Brownlag wrote it all in three immortal lines, and I must a your forgiveness because I remem bered them so late.
All I could never be All men ignored in me This was I worth to God, whose
wheel the pitcher shaped.
Crime--and the Weather.
Arrested in connexion with the at-liver thie agonising verdict upon By F. W. MEMORY,
tempted armed robbery by six men at ourselves, but some men are 41, Feel Street on the afternoon of forced, by their very livelihood, It is believed that the dredger January 22 last, a Chinese was to do it every day. If you are an will be utilized in much needed brought before Mr. Williams at the old man, and you have to stand TS there such a thing as crime dredgings to keep the channel lend-Central Police Court this morning and all day long in a draughty hali in remanded for one week formally. It a block of flats, waiting for the
weather-climatic conditions which are specially conducive to
ing to the new port of Macao auf- will be recalled that six men, armed lift bell to ring, you cannot really the commission of a particular class ficiently deep for vessels te enter with top pistols and iron bars, entered think that you have made a vary of crime?
the premises under the pretext" of
BLOTZ
opportunity that is, of course. apart from Intention. Lonely old maids and nervous people in the country go in fear and trembling of burglars on dark or foggy nights. They conceive that this Is Ideal weather for the marauder, As a matter of fact those are.conditions under which they may sleep.com- fortably in their beds,
in graduated scale, on the principle at all states of the tides.
renting a room. When they revealed grand job of life. You may be of the old-time Penny l'ostage. Five Keen bidding for a piece of land their identify the women folk of the honest, even useful. People may
There is and there is not; the services are suggested. The first near the waterfront of the Inner promises raised the alarm, causing the be kind to you, give you little tips great thing conducive to crime is
and bright, artificial smiles. embraces ordinary local trains stop- Harbour was the feature of a re-intruders to abandon their project.
cent land sale. The area was not ping at all stations, for which the great, but interest in the sale was second-class fare would be one unusual by reason of the fact that i penny and the first-class sixpence previously been sold
a portion of this plece of land had to the Kee Then come fast local trains, stop Kwan Company (the owners of the ning at some stations, for which the Macao-Shekkt Highway) for forty respective fares would be sixpence cents a square metre. At the sale which took place on Thursday, 5th and one shilling. Next, express inst. the land realized $5.90 per non-stop Jocal trains (e.g. London square metre. and Brighton), at the respective rates of one shilling and half crown. Then ordinary main line trains stopping at all junctions with local trains, at half
The arrival of the cruiser Adama- stor from
Hongkong will Boon be followed by the dismanWing
of the gunboat Patrla, prior to breaking up. The Patria has seen along service at Macho, and has crown and ten ahillings respectivelony. The graceful lines of the been of considerable use to the Co
ly. Finally, express main line vessel help to form an attractive trains with non-stop runs of about appearance as the vessel lies at an a-hundred miles, with a fare of ten ing of the old vessel will be keenly Ichor in the new port, and the puss-,
shillings for second-class and of regretted. two pounds for first-class. Passen-
Considerable interest is displayed xer tickets, whch would be sold at in the exchange altuation, and the all Post Offices and railway stations. Government In Portugal is said to Hke postage stamps, with no refer-be considering a proposal which was Įkubmitted from Macne providing ence to any destination, would en- for an increase of salaries for Gov- title the holder to a seat in any rnment employees as a temporary measure until a better exchange train of the particular denomina-rate reduces the high cost of living. tion, and to. anter and leave the
train at any station at which it It is interesting to observe that several now Industries have been stops. The goods service would be established at Macao. One of these an extension of the, Parcels Post in the manufacture of batteries for system. The rates suggested vary electric torches, another is an from one shilling per ton for slow plant, and a third is a brick making plant. All the factories montioned services up to a shilling a hundred- are provided, with the latest aloc- weight or more for express services.trical equipment and the managers. If, as might seem advisable, the with knowledge acquired abroad.
In every case has coms, equipped-
scheme wore administered or con- Our Own Correspondent
SHAMPO#
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"Bill's got good business head. He got a swoll raise when he suggested putting the boss picture on the shampoo labels.'
Burglars hate pitch dark nights, for the Styglan gloom handicape. and impedes their operations, more than it aids them. They much pre- fer fairly light nights-starlight or pale moonlight. They are very nervous when they are "cracking |a erth" and are just as anxious to
see who is about as anyone else.
For does help the pickpocket. He› can make his haul, and although the cry of "Stop, thief!"
may be loudly raised, he can generall manage to lose himself in the swir [ling Vapour. This is also the kind of weather. which favours the smash-and-grab thief and the hold- up màn, provided they are not work- ing with. motor-cars.
The bandit, as we know him In this
who
his
country, is another rogue clear weather for Of course for
operationa
hides people from wlew quickly, but it also. ¡mpodes their move- ments, and a motor bandit fleeing from the scene of his crime.is
juat
as likely to run Into a police trap | in a fog an ha is to get clear away, Bafety fret is an abiding principle with these men and they prefer to vi forgo a coup rather than risk? their herty.
Writer of fiction use for and do dark nights as a clonk for thelf (Continued on Pågs 7.)