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THE CHINA MAIL

LOGIL AND GENERAL,

One case of enteric fever (French) is recorded in today's return of noti fable disease.

A Paris message 13: La Liberte states that M. Clemenceau will visit India in October.

The number of inmotorcars in Reking is fast approaching · nine

LOCIG AND GEMERIL.

4. Sir Charles Flot. British Ambas sador to Tokyo, has left for Tainan, Tsingtao and Shanghai, from which latter place be will sail for Japan. He is travelling alone, privately and po- officially, and making observations of the conditions in the zone of Japanese occupation in Shantung.-

HASTINGS, HODGE

& CO., LTD

FETITION FOR WINDING UP.

TO-DAY'S SUPREME COURT PROCEEDINGS.

BATURDAY AUGUST 28, 1920,

CHILDREN'S CORNER.

My dear Children,

I was glad to have some more let- ters, some of them "Thank you ones for the prize books for the letter writing competition.

HONGKONG-AUSTRALIA.

NEW STEAMER

LATEST ADDITION

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LINE. ***

The E. & A. s.3., " Kazowna "left" I am not puting in any of the Sydney to Hongkong and Japan on

A petition was presented in the tricks this time as the ones that were August 17 and is expected to arrive The death occurred at Tientsin Supreme Court this morning before so exciting that I am afraid that some has just been released from Govern sent, though very interesting, were here on Sept. 4. This steamer, which hundred,reports the Peking Daily Nesca, on August 18, kuddenly, of M. Morvay the acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice mothers and fathers would say thatment Service. is the latest addition to mechanician in the service of the Gompertz, for the winding up of the they were rather dangerous and the Eastern & Australian Line and we The wedding was celebrated at Societe Maritime et Commerciale du firm of Messrs. Hastings, Hodge then Peter Pan might get into are informed by the local Agents

Pacifique. The deceased, who was St. Margaret's, Westminster, on Aug: usually employed on the docks at Co., Ltd., of new Government Build- 10 of Lord Montage of Beaulieu and Esinho, had been in Tientsin for gs. port and export merchanes,

(Messrs. Mackirmon, · Mackenzie & Miss Pearl Crake.

Most of you know Big Wave Bay Co.) that she is a fine vessel 415 feet about six months, and had made a The petition of the Tak Wing firm. I expect so here is a story of a little long, and 52 feet beam, with a ron An addition to the local register large number of friends in the local 96. Connaught Road West, set out boy who went there.-Your loving.

of medical practitioners is Alfred Marie Vadon, whose address is the French Consulate.

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Lt. Col. H. St. Clair Smallwood has been appointed as Honorary Adviser to the Aeronautical Depart ment of the Chinese Government.

French Community.

trouble!

PETER PAN.

nage of 6.942 tons, British register. On the Australian Coast she carried 185 saloon passengers besides 200 in other classes:

UNLUCKY NUMBERS.

JAPANESE SUPERSTITION.

TELEPHONE NUMBER

DIFFICULTY,

that the Hastings, Hodge &......... Ltd. was incorporated in December French people in Haiphong say 1919, having a nominal capital of that last month "America offered to $120,000 divided into shares of $100 HERMIT CRABS AND CUCKOOS. buy the colony of Tonkin, and that each. The amount of capital paid up their offer was received favourably for credited as paid up was $85,000. by the French Government: but an The Company in July 1920 was in- energetic speech by Deputy Serraut, debted to petitioners in the sum of.

Tommy was bathing at Big Wave formerly Governor-General of Indo $4.950, being amount due on a He was only five years old and was

Bay. China, opened people's eyes to rich cheques made in favour of the beginning to learn to swim but most The China Banking Corporation,ness of the Colony and they decided said firm and which were dis- capitalized at P10,000,000, was to be not to agree to America's terms.

of the time that he was in the sex he hondured a presentation. On July opened, for business. at Manila on

was floating about inside a lile-buoy August 16, under Americza manage

7th the petitioners commenced an Considerable excitement pre-action in the Supreme Court and or splashing with the other children in ment.

vailed in Plaza Goiti in Manila at obtained judgment for $4,950 and

shallow water.

Telephone numbers in Japan com- 4.30 in the morning when the police $249.30 taxed costs.

After a time he thought he would)mand different values according to On July 21 actress and film star, and wife of the up two soldiers and two sailors, the lion and on July 31 the bailiff return-making sand-castles he came across making the telephone number forms Miss Elsie Ferguson, the noted and a number of chauffeurs rounded petitioners ed out a writ of execu- dig on the sands and while he was whether the contination of figures rallway, magnate, Harriman, has latter from ss." Santa Cruz, who are ed the same wholly unsatisfied and ever so many pretty shells of all a lucky or unlucky phrase. The num arrived in Peking and is a guest at alleged to have made off with a the judgment was still unpaid. The by the rocks and pools looking for In Japanese it is "shi ku hakku," o shapes and sizes. He wandered along ber 4,989 is particularly unpopular, the Peking Hotel

automobile. One of the soldiers and Company was insolvent and unable some more.. the two sailors were chased some

"death agony.

Number 42, read as distance. All were caught. The

"shi ni" is also unpopular as it machine, valued at P2200, was re- covered."

means "death."

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The optimism of some people is really astounding. A London our nal announces the formation of a league to encourage prayer for newspaper men.”.

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The name of the China E lightenment Company has been struck off. Apparently the storm of enthusiasm passed and no one was struck by enlightenment.

Mr. S. H. Tolles, passport clerk in the office of American Consulate General since last April, has been raised to the rank of vice-consul by appoinment from Washington. Mr. Tolles will remain in Shanghai.

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in port to-day.

William J. Stumpf, of the Philip pine Refining Company, has been

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liquidator.

pay its debts and the petitioners Close by a large shell there was 3 prayed that it be wound up.

Mr. F. J. Jenkin. instructed by great big limper shel: (which as Mr. Nash, appeared for the petitioner, expect most of you know is Eke In the U. S. Court for China, and having read the petition, explain-mushroom hat. Tommy picked it up Shanghai, Mr. F. J. Schuhl, Commised that the. Official Receiver would out dropped it with a shriek because

automatically

a little green crati came, scuttling out become provisional sioner. passed sentence in the case

of it and made for the water as fast against H. C. Turner, assistant en-

as it could. gineer on the str. "Keketticati," His Lordship made the order in charged with: (1) assaulting the accordance with the terms of the ship's chief steward: and (2) threaten- petition. in the captain with bodily harm. guilty and ordered to pay $10; on On the first charge accused was found the second he was dismissed.

There was once a Government which refused to nationalize the coal mines.

CLEVER THEFT FAILS.

AN ALERT SALESMAN.

A woman was once found weeping bitterly on the wharf in Yokohams and when the cause was incured, it was found that her husband had sailed for. America that day which was the second day of the fourth month, or shi ni, and

His mother was near by and he ran she was certain that it meant death to her shouting "Mammy, look what to him.-Japan: Advertiser.

a funny thing A crab inside a lim- pet shell!"

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"Why it's a hermit crab, Tommy," said his matter.

What's that. Mummy?"

"It's a crab that lives in other people's hous" his mother answer- ed.

But what is hermit?" Tommy asked again, because he was a boy who liked to know everything,

MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE.

PRISONER IN SHIP'S HOLD.

* ཙྪ#

ARE THE MOVIES RESPONSIBLE?

Why won't you 2-STOCKS FOR RETURNING FROM The Indo-China Company's 5.5. Cheongshing" struck a mud barktionalize the coal mines?" asked

BANISHMENT.

A man brought an old tin can to near Swatow when returning to the people. Because it would

the Yokohama water police saying he Hongkong from Tientsin. She-sac- raise the price of coal," replied the ceeded in getting of and is expected wards the Government themselves charged before Magistrate Smith with Government. Very shortly after

A hermit is a person who lives had just picked it up on the shore of Three Chinese were this morning all by himself." replied his mother. Kanagawamachi and that it contained There used to be a lot of hermits a note. The police examined the note raised the price of coal Why are the theft of a roll of gauze valced at who lived in lonely places like caves, which read as follows: "Whoever" you raising the price of coal?" asked ST8. from the people. To prevent the nation. They pleaded not guilty." The first men who spent a lot of time praying, ately and save me, for I am locked the Sincere Company or woods. Sometimes they were good finds this note please come immedi- alization of the mines," replied the and third defendants were further and sometimes they were just bed-in the hold of the American boat.

charged with unlawfully returning tempered and wanted to get away from July, 15 Yochin Takekami!

"The authorities are looking into the from banishment.. with first, as the delendants pleaded thinking for a minute. That crab is American boers that came into the "Oh, I see." said Tommy, after matter. They are investigating alt guilty."*

a bermit 'cos it lives all by itsell." harbour of Yokohama daring the month, " "That's right," arswered his of July. The Yamato, which reports "It Hires in any empty the incident, suggests that the note in hours' stocks each. twelve months' hard labour and four mother.

shell it finds. It isn't as bad as a the bus was inspired by some of the The other charge was then proceed- cuckoo which turas other birds out of thrilling movie shows that have been

shown in the town,

arrested in Manda. An automobile, which he is alleged to have been driving, struck a 12 year old Chinça girl, who was not expected to live.

Government. --

"The Ernstument tharges were dear."

The Magistrate passed sentence of

Onse people.

From the Madras Mail:-"On Thursday night," says a correspon Mr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, author dent, a Mahomedan shopkeeper a more sensible moral than the one of Contemporary Folitics in the Far was rudely disturbed from sleep by usually conveyed, that a man should dispense with his wander-East, is now travelling in the Orient some rewdy who was in the act of jabr. stick to one job, and rerasin gathering material for further wit-cutting his throat with a knife." It ing on recent developments. After a is decidedly a breach of good man- and Mrs. F. A. Britton, a daugh, as it were at anchor in a backwater, brief stay in Japan, Mr. Horabe this way, but what can one expected with against all three defendants. a nest if it wants to live in "

ners to disturb a man's slumbers in is will come to China.

BRITTON.—At the Matilda Maternity Hospital, on August 23. to Mr.

ter.

A tool in use does not ruşi

en the idea. However, improve-

from a rowdy? A gentleman, of ment though it may be, we cannot). Three persons entered the course, would have awakened another accept Mr. Gow's ingenious theory. Vladivostok Post Office whist the gentleman before presuming to take

The China Mail. The adage goes much farther back foreign mails were being unpacked, such liberties with his throat.

"TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE"

MONGIONG, Saturday, Aug. 28, 1933,

A ROLLING STONE.

in English folk-speech than the bolding up the staff and plundering

| time when Gray or Cowper were certain bags. An investigation re- writing poem. We would not be vealed that secret documents from surprised to find it older than the abroad were missing. garden roller. Incidentally, we doj

MACAO EXTRADITION.

A census of the foreign popula-

of whom are Chinese. The British number 1,029; Russians, 709, and

Américans, 565. Americans form the largest group of foreigners in the Kanagawa "prefecture outside of Yokohama; they number 315 of the total of 1,105. The British second with 259 and the Germans third

OPIUM SEIZURE.

DISCOVERY ON-SHIP.

OWNER NOT KNOWN.

Ou the arrival

of the 1.5.1

at 5 pm, yesterday. Revenue Offer Ward boarded the vessel and after a long and tedious search, discovered 360 taels of prepared non-Govern ment oplum concealed under the awnings of the vesse

discover the owner of the drug.

Enquiries made on board failed to

VIOLENT QUARREL.

An assistant of the store said that at What a horrid bird! cried.

7 p.m., yesterday, the defendants and Tommy, who had never been to Eng- a woman came to his department and lard and had never heard of a cuckoo asked to be shown some gauze. The before. defendants were all well dressed in "Well it isn't exactly it's fault,** long silk coXIS. Winess exhibited said "his mother. "Because the several rolls. The woman picked up mother cuckoo is too lazy to make a one roll, and spreading it our, held nest of her own. She lays an egg it up so that it obscured witness's in some other bird's nest and then view. but he saw the second delen when the baby cuckoo is hatched he. dant make a roll of gauze from the grows and grows and often kicks out

show case and hide it under his cost. Witness signalled to one of his fokis at the oppisite counter, and the latter detained the second defendant.

The Magistrate convicted the second defendant and passed sentence of three months hard labour. The other two defendants were discharged.

-"' EMPRESS”- ACCIDENT.

FISHING BOAT SUNK.

AN EARLY MORNING COLLISION.

IDLI SHIPS.

OSAKA.

FIFTY-SIX

EFFECTS OF NANCIAL DEPRESSIN.

According to the investiga- the other birds."

tions of the Osaka halur authori "I don't think I like cuckoos ortica, 56 stips, totaling 240 105, hermits, remarked Tommy.

now lie at anchor in the lyour, and **Well anyway my sonny don't of these ships, the authori bother your head any more about them 30 vessels, totalling 20,455, may Say that now," said his mother. We've been be regarded as being lied us sitting on this hot sand quite long the firsocial depression. "ying 10 enough. Come along and have a good mostly small ships, and their splash again.

ing trade consequent upon the is due to the depression in the "P

cial reaction at home.

It is - stood that quite a number of K ocean-going ships are tied up at Köl Yokohama, and other ports, but exal figures are not available.

So they took hands and ran into the water and had great fun, as every one does when they go bathing.

PETER PAN.

AN ICE-CREAM DREAM.

are

not suppose that either Gray or The Canton Civil Administration Cowper mentioned the garden in has instructed the Police Bureau and plement often enough to indicate the magistrate of Namhoi to arrest that rolling-stone was the com- the directors and manager of the rolling stone gatuers nomon name-for it and what we South China Insurance Company, a Hoss." What is the derivation and retain of a rather extensive study local concern in Canton. It is alleged the full import of this well known of old English leads us to deny that that many merchants have been deYnet wah" from the Northern ports saw? What is the general inten: sach a name ever was in common traded of large sums of money by tion of those who use it? What use. The point has been deemed the staff of that company. do they mean by rolling, and what worthy of notice in the Times do they mean by moss? Especi Literary Supplement, for July 22, ally, most especially, what do they and it makes a subject sumciently tion of Yokohama, taken August 1. mean by mess? Suppose it were appropriate for a Saturday, when ives the population of the city, couched in another form. Suppose our readers will mostly be turning

outside of the Japanese, as 7,409 half they reminded us that the stone their minds to more immediate that stays in one spot gathers problems of recreation. 12055. We should til under- stand that they spoke about travel. ling, but we should still be at a loss to know what they meant by moss. Something desirable or something

The fishing Banca "Mariposa" as I had a lovely sleep one day not? Offhand, they are generally Before the treaty was made be-with 59.

run down and cut in half by the just after a hard morning's play understood to mean money, wealth, tween Portugal and Great Britain,

"Empress of Russia when he big With other little boys, property-things for which moss in 1894, covering the extradition In the U. S. Court, Shanghai,

Canadian-Pacific liner was nosing And while I slept I had a dream,

THE 6.9. ILIPORE." a curiously chosen symbol. As a of offenders, the need for some the Commissioner, Mr. F. J. Schuhl,

her way past Corregidor, on her way 1 thought my bed was pink ice cream, fact of experience, do the bome similar arrangement between Hong-commented upon the fact that im

SUCCESSFUL TRIAL RUN. A male Chinese Riving at No. 25, 19 Maria.

And round it stood my toys. slayers acquire more property than kong and bacao frequently made prisonment for Amexicans in Shang Nullah Lane, Wanchai, was yester The Mariposa," according to de the travellers? If knowledge, ex-itself evident. In 1881 the Macao bai was not sufficient punishment and day removed to the Government Civil scriptions given, was to port of the My Teddy Bears (I've two you see? Scheduled to leave Hongkong for perience, a broadened mind, a sense Extradition Ordinance was passed, that work should be found for the Hospital suffering from injuries to "Empress." and moving slowly. Due Were exting quick as quick could be; London our October, the P. &0. Co.'s of proportion, be assets, surely it so that face was no longer a prisoners. Albert Poster, fireman on his right thigh alleged to have been to the darkness at that early hour of And all my dogs vēre mare. 5.3. "Alipore," was built by Palmers is the rolling stone that gets them. sanctuary for Hongkong criminals, board the str. "Waban," made his inflcted by soother Chinese in the the morning about 4.30 o'clock-Old Flop, who runs on wooden Shipbuilding and Iron Co., Ltd., at

Mossy stones can have only an and Macao offenders escaping to send appearance, charged with course of a quarrel

the Empress" failed to sound her wheels

their Jarrow Shipyard, and taken 10 aesthetic value, and their admirers Hongkong had to go farther or being drunk and disorderly and after The alleged assailant, has been warning signal, not noticing the banca Was eating with loud joyous squeals-sea on July 15 for her trial, must visit quiet, damp places to fare back. It appears that even police evidence had been submitted arrested and will be charged before until about 400 metres from it. When I caught him by the hair."

The working stones, then in 1881 the makers of the and imprisonment for a month.

Hi Honour imposed a fine of $25 Magistrate in due course. see thêm.

the bridge officer on duty aboard the Then-splash-he went into a pool the stones that are useful, are Ordinance foresaw the British Accused will be returned to his ship

Empress" first caught sight of the Orice cream, pink and "soft and cool, moesless. But why do the Eng Portuguese Treaty, and expected if she leaves before his term of

banca, he swung the vessel to avoid He made a great big hole, Ish speak of rolling stones at. all? it to be concluded perhaps earlier imprisonment is finished.

a colision, but is the fishing vessel And somehow I slipped into it England is not a land of avalanches. than it was.. So they put into the

was eighty feet over all, and the run And down I slithered, bit by bit The rolling stone, the stone that Ordinance the extraordinary clause

ning light was shown, astern instead Down, down to the South Pole: of in the bow, it was presumed that

CHINESE INJURED.

ALLEGED ASSAILANT ARRESTED.

WAS:IT SUICIDE 2--

RESULT OF POST MORTIZE.

-MORPHIA OR COCAINE POISONING.

The dead body of a Japanese woman who lived at No. 35 Connaught

Tolls so that moss has no chance (section 19) empowering the Gover- An illuminating sidelight on the to grow on it, is not such a familiar nor in Council to repeal the Ordi-influence of gun and munitions phenomenon that it should give nance any time he deemed it ex-makers on governments is thrown by rise to such a familiar bit of im- pedient to do so. As thirteen years the autobiographical chapters in a agery. Mr. James Gow of Hamp rolled by before the Imperial treaty recent life of Sir Hiram Maxim, stead inform us that in the writ was concluded, it is no wonder that says the San Francisco Chronicle. The ings of Gray and of Cowper we may this clause got overlooked at the devised a complete means of stopping Road Central, was yesterday removed

great": inventor tells that he háð: learn that the common name for a time. It is inconvenient to have the erosion that destroys great guns by the police to the public. garden or lawn roller used to be the a special set of extradition rules for a few rounds. Armament maken.A post mortem examination was rolling stone (with a hyphen or as one place, like Macao, and the and military men agreed, he says, held and the em one ward, like rollingpin). He sug- lawyers say that the general ex- that his invention would do the work. gests that the parable was origin fradition law (which will apply But they were also agreed that he

[attributed to ally drawn from this homely imple-directly the local ordinance is re- could never get it adopted, for reason poisoning. ment, which is in saca regular em-pealed) provides simpler and better that neither, gun-maker or official of ployment that it never gets moss-procedure. Accordingly, what want cannon to last. Mazlin male gon and that the original inten. I should have been done in 1894 is no charges, but contents himself, wirts

case is bellegad

WALLA BOATS will call on

on of the adage was that a man now done. 26 years after. In to remarking that the reason to the Beginning August 15, who kept his faculties at work day's Government Gazette the attitude on the part of the Govern would not grow stele and feeble, Governor proclaims the repeal of ment officials are; obriccal.” He may be right. That is certainly that, ordnancer

Invention never was adopted.

all Ships flying the

die bow was being cleared. At the | And there I mer » Polar Bear -- rate of speed the hig oceanger was Who said. Young gentlemen, bewire travelling, 'k was impossible to avoid This place belongs to me, t the collision. Some lives were lost."

So if you're wise you'll climb that

32 stick

And my advice is, just be quick- Or scramble up that tree."

LOCAL APPOINTMENTS.

** A gum tree is the thing I cried, So Polar Bear give me a ride, The King has approved the

Until we reach that tree.!! ment of Mr. A. B. Lowe as unofficial I jumped upon his back and found MLC. vile" Mr

is way I lay in bed, all safe and sound, Commander Beckwith's appoint And Mother stood by me, rentes Harbour

PEIRRA PAR

Waltor Conway Hake Why is the middle of a tree trunk like

Because

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thest from the bark.

NEW P. & 0. STEAMER..

The "Alipore" is 400ft. in length moulded is 32t, and her depth mould- between perpendiculare, her breadchi - ed to upper deck 31. She carries

about 5,200 tons deadweight on a draft of 25ft. 3in. She is of the two- ̈ deck type with poop, bridge and fire- castle; the accommodation for ope Cain, saloon, stateroom, &c. is far house on bridge deck; the officers and engineers being accommodated In steel house on bridge abreast engine and boiler casing: the seamen and fire- men, ko, being berthed in poop. The vessel has triple expansion ́en- gines supplied by Falmers Company, the cylinders being 27in; 44m., 73in, | by 48in. stroke, steam being supplied" by free single-ended boilers 15H. 6in. diameter by 11ft. 6in." long, 180 lbs, working pressure, Howden'e -forced draught; and generally has been completed to, the special requiremeKS. of the owners: -

The trial was in every respect sup- Dessful,grid at its conclusion the ves sel WAS DIZER over by the owners.