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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1919,

November 7, 1919, Temperature 73

No. 17,794. 五拜禮 號七月一十年九十一百九千一类、

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[China Mail SPECIAL].

WRECK OF THE "FAZILKA*

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HOE UN KOWLOON

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November 7, 1918, Tamperature 74

日五十月九未已夫瑞华人國英華中

MY WEDDING DAY.”

Though I am not, so far, even en- gaged to be married. I strange my wedding, frequently, ways a bride.

A general meeting of Sun Com pany shareholders was held yesterday afternoon, Mr. Lau Chu Fak pre-to-be in the Daily Mail. sided. He said the directors were It away girls bure. given full powers by the shareholders, and the creditors had agreed to give them time. All had agreed that there was no real necessity for liquidation wind up be cancelled.

We hike to think tha: when our turn comes we will avoid the mis takes inade by others at theirs. We look out for those mistakes, and say,

SINGAPORE, November 8. The "Fazilka's" crew were landed at Sabang, whence they proceed to Madras. Two of the native memberse proposed that the resolution to At my wedding I won't have this

of the crew were drowned. bullion aboard was salved.

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KAN WAN-PANG APPOINTED PREMIER

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SHANGHAL, November 5. President Chu Sai-cheang issued an edict to-day appointing Kan Wan pang Premier. Kan took up duties to-day,

THE NEW CABINET.

The new Cabinet will be made up as follows

Minister for the Interior.-Tin Man-lit.

Minister for Finance.-Chow Cbi. tsai.

culture. Cheung Chitam.

Minister for Commerce and Agri-

Minister for the Navy-Sah Ching- ping.

Minister for Foreign Affairs.-Luk Ching-cheung....

and that and the other," cataloguing Mr. Tsang Foo seconded. Carried.the irene that have not pleased us Mr. Lau then said the directors, at our friends marriages and I In addition to iguing new shares, will have this and that and so forth." proposed to issue debenture notes.. What did the meeting think?

Already have been present at Mr. Jame Kal agreed.

September weddings that have bot Mr. Yung Sing Kaw did not agree but in others have merited praise.

been above critición iz some details. to shares of a lower denomination :than

For example. I am quite deter $50. Their amests were more than double their bilities, andmined not to be followed by nursery there was no reed to reduce the value heren my nuptials Either of their shares. They had not now, they waser one's train with their as in wär time, to overstock with tears or they turn tail and depart goods, and their surplus properties in long before their duties are done, ar Hongkong and Canton would realize they insist upon being accompanied $200,000. By suspending dividends hy some such pet as a Teddy Bear they could soon have a million and: a 'cr doll.

half in cash.

Anyway, they are apt to be zui- Mr. Ho Laf Shun heavy interest would have to be pro-terest which should focus on the saidenness and to detract from the in- mised to tempt new subscribers.tride. There were 3,000 shares of 8100 each still unsubscribed. He thought fashioned retinue of girl friends.

I shall choose, therefore,, the old- they should be kept in the hands of the present subscribers, by offering admiration for the ante-luncheon On the other hand, I am full of them on easy terms, with 10 per wedding, revived by the royal bride. cent. interest on unpaid allotments.

The meeting adjourned until, Nov. the days when marriages

It used to flourish,. I am told, in bad

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17.

ARREST OF ROBBER

CHIEF AND MURDERER.

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to be solemaised before noon" in order to be legal, but was spoilt by the dreary speechifying that followed the feat of good things.

Give me a morning fixture for my wedding, then a breakfast" shorn of speecbes, and then a dance quite in the time-honoured manner of very cent days and recently revived, ping out after a while to take our with me and my bridegroom slip. fight towards the honeymoon.

In 1917, the Sunning district in Kan Wan-pong will be Minister of the city of Kwong Ho was greatly the Military Board in addition to be disturbed by the appearance of a ing Premier.

notorious robber chief. A large Kan announces that the new Go-number of houses were looted, vernment will make its best endea- inmates were kidnapped and held up

I am determined to fly. literally, your to arrange Peace with the South.for ransom, and over a hundred after my wedding, but not,

villagers were done to death by course alone.

...THE LIKELIHOOD OF

FIGHTING.

of

this chief and his gangs The officials With respect to my wedding dress, were appealed to for assistance and it shall have a tremendously leng a substantial reward was offered for tmiz. Several of my girl friends the capture of the robber chief dead who were married early this year Li Hen-ki, Military Governor of or alive. Neighbouring cities were ordered trains on the chance of even- Fukien, has telegraphed to the Feking communicated with, but he dising Courbe being revived at Bucking Government asking for 600,000 appeared. The local authorities here ham Palace. And, though royal gar- rounds of ammunition and 4,000 were made aware of the facts, When den parties supervened, they found shells on account of the threatened the 3.5. "Chuen Chow" was about the trains immensely useful, and cap. attack by the Canton soldiers.

to leave for Macao yesterday, the able of making almost a second Police on duty at the wharf accident gown. One must be practical as well ally met the notorions robber, and as far seeing in these days, for, uz- he was immediately put under guard, fortunately, parents are apt to be a and is now detained:

little parsimonious as to trousseau expenses.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

[By Arrangement with the Wah Tre

Yat Po.l

I am going to take a very firm line

A SHOP'S CARELESSNESS.cccerning my wedding presente. Focleh tripperies, such as my pre wur married sister still keeps stuffed SHANGHAI, Nov. 6.

A coolie was charged before Mr.in a cupboard unused, 1 cannot ac- Lindsell this morning with the cept. Premier Kan Wan Pang thinks larceny of a roll of silk, belonging to peace between north and southa dealer's shop at No. 213 Queen's my Kat of wants" will be such ex- What I shall indicate when I make possible.

Road Central A salesman of the pensive necessities as kitchen chairs, All countries have now agreed to shop said that on Wednesday morn pots and pars for cooling, and house. China's revised customs tariffs. For ing, the roll of silk was brought out hold linen; for I know my parents the signing at Washington, Mr. Yung from a show case to be shown to a will gladly waive the cd prerogatives, Kwai acting Minister, is proposed as customer. It was not purchased, long in a wobbly condition, of stock- commissioner.

The American loan people, in Nothing was known of it until the latter.

was left on the countering the bride's dowercheet with the deference to Consortium protests, evening, when the Police came to the waive salt surplus security, and will shop with the roll of silk, and toldly approves They are a modern Of cheques, I cannot conscientious- be content with tobacco and wine that a man had been arrested with method of swirling responsibility,

the possession of it.

to the deraands of the recipient. and too often painfully inadequate

revenue.

DEVASTATED FRANCE.

FORTHCOMING ORGANISED EFFORT IN HONGKONG.

Freliminary arrangements are al ready in hand for the organised effort to be made shortly in Hongkong`on behalf of the War devastated areas of France. As a result of ber appeal, Mrs. Taylour has already enlisted the practical sympathy and co-opera- tion of several well known European and Chinese residents of the Colony, and, at an informal meeting, yesterday, the following General Committee was selected, with power

and

His Worship: How did the Police manage to go to the right shop?

Inspector Cashman: There is a label, with the name and address of the firm, attached to the roll.

Defendant said he was given the roll of silk by a man to be brought cver to Yaumati, and while he was leaving the wharf he was arrestă,

His Worship: But yesterday you said you bought it from Canton?

His Worship sentenced him to six weeks' hard labour.

GARDENER'S DEFENCE

- AGAINST WILD BEASTS.

A Chinese was charged before Mr.

Because the hastily arranged wed- dings of wartime fostered forgetful- nes upon the part of those who might have sent presents and did pot, I shall, in consideration of the hardness of the times, revert to the old practice of sending out my in- vitations & month before the wed- ding. They will be proper invita. tions too, printed in silver upon Thugh-edged paper, not a mere All friends will be welcome at the church" kind of wholesale bidding, but a befitting inauguration of an ideal wedding day.

JAPAN-GERMAN LINE.

to add to its number, to take in hand R. O. Butchison this morning with the general arrangements for the the unlawful possession of a revolver. collection of as large a sum as pos- Defendant said he was a vegetable the N.Y.K. will dispatch the "Defa

It has already been reported that sible: The Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, gardener in South Africa and he gos-maru" to Europe as ite first K.G. (Chairman), Commander Beck bought the revolver as a defence steamer on the Japan-Cherman line with, Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, Mr, against lions, tigers and wolves. He in the early part of this month, H. W. Bird, Mr. J. L. Crockatt, Lieut. had no intention of using it for any We understand that the steamer, Col Crosse, Mr, H. B. L. Dowbiggin, other purpose.. Sergeant Aris sald

Mr. R. M. Dyer, Mr. H. G. Matheson, the defendant was a cook on board which is now in Kobe, is loading Mr. F. A. Perry, Mrs. E. D. C. Wolfe, the s.s. Glengyle." When he was go for the German port. The Miss Hazeland, Sir Robert Ho Tung. searched, the revolver was discovered consignment is said to consist chiefly Mr. Ho Kom Tong, Mr. Ho Kwong, in a sock, and tied round his waist. of edible oils, which amount to about Mr. Chau Sai Ki, Mr. Chow Sau San, His Worship imposed a fine of $50 600 tons.

Mr. Yip Lau. Chune, the Hon. Mr.or one month, and confiscated the Lau Chu Pak, Mr. Lo Po Kwei, Capt. [revolver. Basil Taylour (Secretary) and Mrs.

Taylour (Organiser.)

A FAVOURITE RUB DOWN.

Miss van der Flier, a visitor to the Colony, who is herself keenly ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN.TR golfer, the football player and the all round athlete know the interested in, and has devoted much TT may be impossible to prevent an rolus of Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It is service to, the devastated areas in accident, but it is not imposible to just the thing for rub down after a France, has offered to co-operate with be prepared for it: Chamberlain's Fain. hard game All soroneas disappears Mrs. Taylour, who is very glad indeed Balm is not beyond anyone's purse, and like magis and sprains and swellings are to avall herself of the help of auch an prepared for almost Anything Forsale any other treatment. For sale by all with a bottle of this liniment you are cured in one-third loss, time time by enthusiastic worker.

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