THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,
1936.
Gossip
and the
Deacon Indicts Vestry
"Veneer of Piety" FOOTBALL RESULTS BEFORE SERVICE
All deacons are not décorous. Some are guilty of lovity. They discuss football results in the vestry with
ministers.
They smoke their pipes at deacons' meetings-and knock them out on the church railings afterwards..
They talk of business, or even lighter matters, up to the man- ment of entry into church. Then they assume that peculiar renver{ of piety which only deacons can assume,
These indictments were uttered recently by Mr. J. B. Gutts, deacon in a London church, when he addressed the autimis sembly of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, at, Birmingham.
" would urge," declared Gotts, "the utmment core over versation Ba the ventry servier.
"SCARCELY FIT"
Mr. pipe on the church citrags, and con- | linte to
11 minister light before elgarette after a service before re-
moving Piz Kown. I have A
"have been in vestries where deacons as they arrived one by one,
that on many occasions.
TRADESMEN'S DEBTS
"If I were called to be a minister engaged in conversations that were 14, would certainly ban smoking from segrely a fil perludes to the artono- church premises,"
sphere of the sanctuary.
"Ministers should discourage
11 their
Mr. Gotts sid that no church sbould owe nny Inoney to toent all tradesmen, The Uns kind of thing in the vestry im-i church
drocahs Toust be known for mediately before service,
frustworthing and honesty.
If
are handling unclean money," said Mr. Gotts, "end m feel that you cannot relinquish it, for God's sake resign the diaconure straight awen.''
"Home deacons meeldes trave much to be desired. I was uskri to go to a meeting of deacons at a church where they had been squabbling for the last year or so. I went. I had made up my mind that we would get into an atmo-be sphere of prayer, When I went I found both minister and deacons Amoking!
like to stroke myself, but do not belleve In smoking at deacons meetings. Nor do I fer to N minister or deacon knock out his
Stan Laurel's
Woman Friend
PAYMENTS TO HIS SECOND WIFE ORDERED
Hollywood, Nov, 15. DURING the hearing of his second wife's maintenance suit in the Hollywood -courts to-day, Stun Laurel the "Laurel and Hardy" film partnership, admitted the exist- etice of a woman friend,
a
He agreed that he had given this woman, whose nume he refused to reveal, presents, including a wateli,
ring, and bracelet,
Pending the trial of his wife's de- mand for alimony of £250 a month. and Laurel's counter-suit for divorce, The court awarded Mrs. Laurel £400 to cover outstanding bills, £150 a month for support. plus a further £30 a month, £150 court custs, and £1,800 for lawyers' fees,
During this period Laurel is permitted to spend £600 a month for living expenses. £100 for fourt
certs, and £500 for lawyers' fees, During to-day's hearing Mrs. Laurel aid that her husband had told her he no longer loved her, and suggested she get a divorce because he had married her only to spile his first wife, whom he really had loved.
MANILA SHARES
The following quotations have been received by Swan, Culbertson ü Fritz from their Manila office after
the elove of the morning session:
Prices in Pesos Buyers Sellers
Baguio Gold
.35.
Antamok
3.65
3.65
Atok
.47A
Benguet
Con-
solidated
.24
14.75
15.00
Ex-
.1513
34
.65
.0275
.21
.73
Min-
.20
Gumaus Gold
.20
1.35
1.50
1.40
1.45
1.07
1.13
..37
D
Benguet
ploration
Big Wedge
Coco Grove Consolidated
Mines
Dayaka
monstra
tion o
East
danno
Gold Greek
Itogon
1. X. L Marsmen
Masbate Mine
ival Re
SOUTCUK
Mother Lode.
Parnenle Gold
20
Paracale Gum-
44
San Mauricio Suyoe
2.35
.30
United Paracale 1.15 Universal Ex- ploration.....
Market: Steady.
.24
88 8 8 8889998 ** **** *
Mr. Golts said that there shonk! complete unity between drarons, The Rev. I. E. Cooke, of Gatley, Cheshire, gaid: "When the Bishop of Birmingham, addressing the con ference
Tuesday uskel the ! question,
"Where B formist conscience? I thought I de
Noteon- teeted something of a slur in these words, but then I thought to myself, [r) ૨૧૩ Try here what they have tried in Germany.
the
Let them try
here to subordinate the churches 19 The the State and to introdur pulsory military training have done over three,
Com-
they
Then you will
wher the Nonconformist ron- | science is**
Mr. Cooke said that some of the dimeulties experienced by Congrega- tonul elurches arose from the fact that they had opened their doors to all and sundry who wished to come In However lightly they held the Taftly,
"31 is to our shume," he said, "that very often these people have entered our churches merely with the idea of being members of the Church Dras, inatic Society."
These five men and two women established commerei al nviation history when they boarded the giant flat- weibon Clipper of the Van American Airways at Alame da, Calif., for the first commercial flight across the Parific to Manila, Left to right: R. F. Bradley, San Francisco; Colonel Charies Bartley, Chicago; Mrx Clara bertins, riemutisburn. Pag Wibur May, Los Angeles; Thomas Fortune Nynn III, Sau Prancisco; Alfred Ben-
Belt, Cranberry, N. J.; Mrs. Zet a Averili, Aberdeen, Washi
KRAKATOA. DISASTER
READER WHO SAW DAY
TURN INTO NIGHT
WIT
OF
DEVASTATION
From A Correspondent.
London, Nov. 8. WITHIN a few hours of publication of the Radio Correspondent's statement that the B.B.C. is looking for an eye-witness of the Krakatoa volcanic eruptions, near Java, in 1883, one was found.
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A Talk on the Early Days of Cricket
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4-7 p.m. Chinese Programine, 7 p.m.
Russian Musle. Sleep my Baby: Moscow:
1312det
He is Mr. Robert James Dalby, of 1pmrich Kond, Colchester; who watched the catastrophe fron the barque Hape, of Liver-from "Koniek Gorbanlok"; On the pool, ip the Straits of Sunda, and still possesses his discharge Volga River: The Volga Boatman;
Caucasin (Wahoft); Russian (Michailowsky).
papres.
This evening Mr. Dalby graphically described to me bis harrowing experiences of 53 years ago—survival from denth in! one of the most celebrated disasters of the century.
" was by the barque, 15 miles away, in Anjer Bay, near Javn Read, at the entrance to the Sunda Strait, The Hope belonged to Eales and Co, and had a Weishman, Mr. Davis, as cuplan." la said.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
LOVE MEASURED BY THOBBIT AND APTION, NOT MY TIME--Lord Arcbury.
Madame Burquin, wife of the Consul for France, returned to the Colony by the P. and O. Have Natiera, having travelled out via Siberia.
Mrs. 11. M. Henderson is to prosost the prizes at the Peak Scheul sư, clarly, iteratorng Mi, f 1 Ba,
Attacked by Tour other men during; a fight at Shatin Gap; Lo Yin, stone- muson, living at an un-numbered hut at Ngau Sti Wan, was taken to the Kowloon Hushtal for treatment.
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!
!
Fut-
2.15 p.m. From the Studio,
A Talk on "Safety First," by Major
.
C.
C. M. Manners, 0.0.F.
1
the Studio. 7.35 p.in. From The Continental Trin.
7.30 p.m. Closing Loral Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
Stock
Was
"DARKER AND DARKER" "For some time We had hears rumbling in the distance, It Monday morning, with the heat eat bug' up everything. Between nine and ten there was a curious
muri2. kiness about the atntosphere ani
viually it became darker darker. black.
At midday it was
uncunny severity,
4.
1. A pretty girl is like a melody;
Only my song: 3. Plano Solo: These foolish things: 5. Rhythm
Love
in my Nursery Rhymes: 0. pitch made the song: 7. Piano Solo: 8.
When I'm with you.
"It had been raiulng sulphur
8 nm. Time, Weather and An- dust which dried our skhus, and we nouncements. could scarcely see or breathe. The
8.93 p.m. A Light Concert. wind rose to a hurricane such as
(Mendels- Roamer I hul
Song I'm n never experienced. Wet!
Kohn)
Malcolm McEachern could not walk about the deck
(Bass); Song-Gentle Zephyrs (Jen- without clutching something.
sen).
...Esste Ackland, (Contralto): "The decks were covered with
Pianoforte Solo-"Die Fledermaus". inches of this dust. Then there were Du und Du (J. Strauss). Ernst von fashes of lightning and thunder of Dohnanyi: Song-The Island He
Herd- maid (arr. Kennedy-Fraser)....... TIDAL WAVE
Joseph Halop, (Tenor); Song--An -"About-- mid-day—there -was- a
Island Shelling Song (arr. Kennedy terrifle bang, the loudest noise I had Fenser).... Joseph Hislop (Tenor); or have ever heard. There was an Violin Solo-Londonderry Air (arr. enormous tide, and, by the light of Kreisler)....Fritz Kreisler: Song- the lightning we could see
water Good-Bye
Turner (Tost). Eva racing past us and bringing down (Soprano), London-The B. B. C. with it all kinds of debris, and trees. Pieces looking like istands Bew
| Dance Orchestra.
8. pan. London-News and An ""Gradually there came a kind of!
nouncement. trilight about five o'clock.
9.20 p.m. "Marching with
8.30
Falling from the hillside at Eastern Hospital Road, Causeway Bay, Lam Kin, nger 30, was removed to the Guvernment. Civil Hospital yestering crotte; employed by the Stick Tse Fook, 31-year-old earth-carry- day
contractors' firm, was taken to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday", after A widow. Mak Kai, 50, was brought he had been cut by a chopper wilded befors Mr. K. Keen at the Central hy another man, who has been ar- Magistracy this morning. charged rested. with possession of two battles af dutiable liquor. Defendunt pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a fine of Arrested in Nathan Road on Tues sã, or, in default, to serve 14 daysday, Chan Shu, 36, widow, was taken imprisonment.
and Revenue Officer Want to the Yaumatt Poller Station
rearched. Tied around her legs were prosectati-di.
was a tremendous tidal wave, and,į 2,855 po pin tickets. Brought before) Committal hearing in the case in Magistracy this morning she was
Mr. Wynne-Jonty at the Kowloon if one of our cables had parted, 1 Sousa" played by the Band of
should not have been here.
II. M. Grenadier Guards, which Sam Wing. 38, unemployed, is ined $250, or three months"
9.30 p.m. From the Studio. hard "It cleared up-next day-and the charged with returning from banish-out. Inspeelar Shannon pro-Sumatra const, once beautiful with?, The First of a Series of Talks on
leves and mountains, was
The Early Days of Cricket." by desert.
R. Abbit.
9.15 p.m. The London Plano- Accordeon Band.
ment for life was fixed for 2.30 p.m. seculed. on Wednesday, December 2, by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magis tracy this morning. Defendant, de-
Before Me. Keen at the Central
ported on July 31 of this year, pleaded Magistracy this morning, Man Yiu, that he had returned to exhume the 31, unemployed, pleaded guilty to a in the Catong about three years ago. remains of his mother, who had discharge of unlawful possession of
unemployed,
pist
There
now
n
"On both sides everything was and
destroyed. The line of palms casuarinas Irad disappeared. The
whole place was unrecognisable." R
The appeat had been made to find speaker for the "I Was There"
quantity of fish maw. Det-Sergeant Cashuman stated that the commodity was very expensive. On a request from the proseculing officer, Mr. Keen remanded the case until Monday, 'so that the owner might be sought.
actica
.
STILL COMPLAINING
Oslo, Nov. 27.
Campus Moon; The Cubalero; Six it Medley No. 1: At the Close of i long, long day: Diddle-Dum-Dev. 10 p.m. London-Big Ben. "The Dweller in the Darkness" by Production by Reginald Berkely.
(Electrical Record. John Pudney. ing).
Appearing on remand before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magis- tracy this morning, charged with damaging the road near Deep Water-
10.16 Variety, Bay, Chin Num, aged 32, and Lan |ling, aged 44, both
For the unlawful possession of 45
Song-It's Like Reaching for the were remanded until Monday. Ser-culties of pine wood, Chiu Tai, 45-
The German Minister, under in- Moon. Francis Langford; Vocal geant Brown, said the repairs to the year old widow, was fined $12, with structions from Berlin, has protested
The Mills Bruthers; Band Solitude... The road, which defendants were ordered to do, would take at least ment, by Mr. Himsworth
now the alternative of month's imprison to the Norwegian Foreign Minister-Six Hits of the Day Frimo Scala's Accordeon Band; Yoxtelling another two days. Defendants were Kowloon Magistracy this morning Prize to Herr von Ossietsky, who has Player....George Van Dusen; Vocal the against the award of the Nobel Peace Song The Yodelling Mouth Organ arrested when they were caught dix-The defendant was arrested in just been relsised from a
German sing up the roat! fur old cable. Plantation No. 9.
Customs Pass concentration camp, thought the Gov-Duct-The Legionaires..... Warner tead, in the early hours of yester-ernment has nothing to do with the
and Darnell; Song-Rore Murle. A stall fully
tree was day. The value of the trees was $10. awarding of the prize-Reuter.
Charles Kullman (Tenor); Organ Krown brought into the Central Magistracy
Solo Serenade....Quentin M. Mac- this morning ancl used as evidence
Lean; Vocal-Knock, Knack, Who's There?....The Rocky Mountaineers: Humorous He hadn't up till yester- Tucker; Dulcimer day....Sophie
For the theft of two brass door! against Ng Lal-sum, 18, unemployed, handlies, un unemployed man, Si Tu- who was charged before Mr. K., Keen with damaging trees in Pokfulam, 27, was brought before Mr. K. Road near the University playground. Keen at the Central Magistracy this. Sergeant Matches stated that many morning. Defendant
TRAFFIC MISHAPS
to
admitted the Jumping from a moving lorry No. Solo--Leobner March....Old Styrian charge and was bound over in $50 for 3102 at Stanley yesterday, Tung Kun, Hackbrett; Vocal-Wandering Shoes trees in that district had been cut a year.
Del.-Sergeant Pilkington aged 20, a coulie, received injuries.The Hill Billica: Double Pianos -Fox Trot Medley....Iver Moreton down by persons unknown. Defend said the brass handles were stolen which caused his removal
the ant chopped down the tree with two from No. 112 Queen's Roud Central, Government Civil Hospital. Chan and Dave Kaye. choppers. Another man Wag with the residence of Chan Chun-foo. u Yee, aged 62, was, niso taken to the defendant but succeeded in evading shop-keeper,
Government Civil Hospital after he had been knocked down by car No. DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES 1507 in Des Voeux Road West. He Leung Chuen, 36, unemployed, ap received severe head injuries, and peared before Mr. K. Keen at the his condition is serious. Central Magistracy this morning on a
arrest. Defendant was ordered to pay a fine of $20 or to serve ́dix
weeks hard labour.
A fine of $25, or a month's hard charge of having stolen $38 from Li labour each, was imposed by Mr. Fat-po, a traveller, in Des Voeux
A drain
11 p.m. Close Down
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The following wave-lengtha and frequencies are observed by Daventry.
Blen Prequency Wavelength
4.500 k.c.
45,59 metres 0.310 K.R. 3155 meter
1,545 kx.
1130 metres
Kish
GSE
GXF
CAG
ILTON 1.5. 25.33 meiren [1.485 k.e. 28.28 maires TALLER k.. (0.03 meizra 17.780 k.c. 10.46
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W. Schofield at the Central Magis-Road opposite the Sincere Company
A young married woman, Mak Lin- tracy this morning, when Ng Kong, store yesterday. Defendant pleadedt kiu, 19, was brought before Mr. K. aged 39, and L Shing, aged 48. op- guilty. Det-Sergeant Pilkington sald Keen at the Central Magistracy this peared on remand on a charge of that defendant extracted the money morning,
having charged with nossession of two gouts' carcases, and from complainant's lower right-hand dumped nightsoil Into For obtaining the sum of $15 from two parts goat, Inspector Leung Cheung, a shop feil, by virtue 11. 11. Hourihan produced a cerce incket pocket. After taking the Arbuthnot Road behind house No. 16. of a forged letter, Cheng Hol, 19, un- from the Colonial Veterinary Sur-money defendant tried to escape Sub-Inspector Baker said the police employed, was brought before Mr. K.geon, and said the animals had ap-. by running into the Sincere and P.W.D. had received many com Keen at the Central Magistrucy this parenlly died from, fever, Defen- Company store but was arrested plaints from European residents of morning. Defendunt admitted the dants
arrested in Cadogan by charge. Det.-Sergeant
who is Pilkington Street, Kennedy Town, on Wednes asked for a 24 hours' remand for day morning last, carrying the meat further enquiries, which was granted. in a basket. His Worship ordered
that the meat be destroyed.
were
fokls there. the
Defendant, Arbuthnot Road as to the dumping of under police super-night soil in the street. Pleading vision and who had seven previous guilty, defendant was sentenced to a convictions, was sentenced to six fine of $15, or one month's Imprison- months", hard-labour.
ment.
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$1.470k.. 13.97 metres.
16368 .. 19.06 Seire
1.540 k.t. 19.68 metzen 4,110 k.*. 45.10 matres
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De Ben. De you Remember 1a A Ballad Concert of the 'Nimatier. A Welsh Natebook, A talk by Megan Lloyd George, M.P. The 11.B.C. Empire Orchestra: (Continued on Page 4.)
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