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LAST WEEK
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COMPETITION
$150.00 CASH PRIZES
First Prize
Second Prize Third Prize
$60.00
$40.00
$20,00
Three Consolation Prizes $10.00 Each
In addition to the Cash Prizes The Eastman Kodak Company offer a Special Prize which will be known as the
EASTMAN KODAK
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A 1932 Model Kodak 616 with f.6.3 Anastigmat Lens, which will be awarded for the
BEST STORY TELLING PICTURE. SECTION FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. Messrs. Waibel & Co. ("DEFAG") offer six "AGFA" box cameras to be competed for by school-children. These will be awarded to best six pictures in this class. Bathing Scenes. Picnic Illustrations. Local Beauty Spots. Typical Chinese Studies, etc. All photographs / must be of subjects taken in the Colony,
Entries Close on August 31st, 1932.
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CIVIC RECEPTION AT SOUTHAMPTON
London, Aug. 25. The Ottawa Delegation will be given a civic reception on Friday when they land at Southampton from the Empress of Britain, while at the Waterloo Street Station they will be met by Lord Sankey (the Lord Chancellor), Sir Samuel Hoare (Secretary of State for India), and Sir Henry Betterton (Minister of Labour).
The Southern Railway is making special arrangements to enable the public to join in the "welcome home."
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932,
LOCAL AIR MAIL.
S. S. PORTHOS TO CARRY NEXT CONSIGNMENT
The next air mail from Hongkong| to London (via Shigon, Bangkok, Rangoon, Calcutta, Perkia, Iraq, Palestine, Greece, Italy and Mar seiles) will leave on Tuesday by the s.o. Porthos,
While the saving in time from Hongkong to Loudon by this route is considerable, it is greatly ac- centuated on the routes from here to Bangkok, Rangoon and Calcutta, The importance of such air com munication can be gathered from the fact that leaving here on Tues-, day by steamer the mail reaches The report of the delegates will Saigon on Friday. The French be heard at the meeting of the aeroplane takes off on Saturday Cabinet on Saturday morning after morning at dawn and reaches which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Bangkok about noon, taking off Mr. J. H. Thomas will go to gain after dropping her mails and Balmoral and Mr. Stanley Baldwin taking on others and arriving at will leave on a holiday at Aix-Rangoon that samo evening.
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Warm Welcome.
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London, Aug. 25. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, has despatched from Lossiemouth, the following telegram to Mr. Stanley Baldwin, whom it is timed to reach when the Empress of Britain is nearing the coast of Ireland on her jour ney to Southampton:
On the following morning it agnin takes off for Calcutta, arriy- ing there that same evening, thus making the trip from Hongkong to Calcutta in about four and a half days, as compared wih an average of fourteen and a half to fifteen by steamer.
advantage of very little up to the This rapid transit is being taken present. probably because the great saving of time has not been "hasten your arrival in the number of letters to those appreciated, but it is expected that British waters to give you all a hearly greeting after your strengereased as time goes
places will be considerably in- ous labours to consolidate the Bri-fidence in the service becomes mor» on and re- tish Commonwealth, and to iu- prove trade. We all appreciate those fabours which will assure you all a welcome home coming."
If weather conditions are fa- vourable, Mr. MacDonald will y from Lossiemouth to London to- morrow, in order to attend the Cabinet meeting Saturday.
marked,
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The main badly of the British delegation to the Ottawa Confer- ence, which is travelling by the Empress of Britain, will reach Southampton to-morrow and on their arrival in London in the late afternoon, they will be welcomed hy members of Cabinet in Lon-course. don.
paid him $130 to rid hersgif of her existing danger from which she was saved, but later her son was murdered because she had been so foolish as not to take the whole
In conclusion, Inspector Shaftain Two members of the British desaid that the $15 which the woman legation, Lord Hailsham and Sir had paid the defendant had been Philip Cunliffe Lister, are touring paid by the otheer. If his Worship in Canada, and Mr. Walter Runci- convicted, he would unk, in addi- man is returning home in thetion to any penalty which his Wor- Laurentie, which is not due in the ship might impose, for a refund of Clyde until Sunday.
that money.
The Prime Minister, whose visit to the King was to have taken place this week, will leave London on Monday for Balmoral. It is probable that Mr. J. II, Thomas will also be a guest of the King next week.-British Wireless.
CAPTAIN BOUSFIELD
FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY CEMETERY YESTERDAY
Rev. rites.
evening.
An Evil Star,
Evidence was then given by Lau Sub-ching, aged 23, à married woman living at No. 6. Tung Street, bearing out the Inspector's opening statement. She said that the defendant informed her that she was moving under an evil star whose influence could only be diverted by a sacrifice of birds' nests and newly born kittens. He, used a ruler to measure each inger of her palm.
At the close of the evidence. Mr. Sin again put forward the claims of an old established Chinese custom.
His Worship replied that that
The remains of the late Captain Daniel Bousfield, whose death at the age of 72, occurred at the Gov. Custom, connected with religious ernment Civil Hospital on Wednes-practices, had already been provid- day, were interred in the Romaned for by the Legislature under certain conditions in temples, that Catholic Cemetery last
Fr. Rossi intoned the last Ordinance of 1928; and these being in the Chinese Temples
Among those present included over by the Chinese Temples Com- temples were carefully watched Mr. Jim Kai, owner of the Tai Leemittee to prevent impositions. of which the deconsed was at one
His Worship found that time skipper, Mrs. Jim Kai and offence was committed in the pre- Miss Jim Kai, Captain J. Mitchell,sent case under the Vagrancy Act. Skipper of the Tai Lee and Mr. J. He fined defendant $100, and also D. Ishister, Chief Engineer.
bound him over in a surn of $200
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Tokyo, Aug. 25. At an extraordinary session of the Diet the Premier declared that the Japanese Government was prepared for a speedy recognition of Manchukuo.
He explained that the Govern- ment had decided on a three year programme to relieve distress by liberating fumis at low interest and arranging to defer the repay- ment of the capital and intorest in order to re-adjust the farmers' debts, and devising agricultural and forestry enterprises.
The Government will provide free lunches for school children who are unable to provide their own. Renter's Special.
for the period of a year, to ensure against a repetition of the offence. When Inspector Shaftain ex- pressed anxiety regarding the out- lay of $15 he had made
from his own pocket in order to secure the evidence in the case, Mr. Sin gave an undertaking that his client would return the money.
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! 8,000 Į
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1 6,800
7,000
7,000
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& Yoko
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6,500 lat Oct. S'bai, Kobo & Yoko 7th Oct. 8'hai, Kobo & Yoko
17,000
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