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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1920,

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SINGLES ORAMPIONS KIP FINAL.

MCLACHLAN THE WINNER.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

A GALLANT RESCUE.

MAGISTRATE COMPLIMENTS YOUNG

TAIKOO APPRENTICS,

CUSTOMS STATION LOOTED.

PIRATES ÖFF KIRS BAY.

NO LIVES REPORTED LOST.

The final of the operi Bowls Singles A young Chinese woman was this Championship of the Colony was morning charged before Magistrate played on the Police Green yesterday Dyer Ball with attempting to commit morning that the Chinese Maritime A rumour was current in town this afternoon before a fairly large suicide by jumping into the harbour. gathering of interested spectators,

She admitted the offence and said (Shark Stream) off Mirs Bay, hart Customs Station at Shaüchung. the contestants being McLachlan that she was now sorry for her act. (Taikoo), and Muir (Kawloan). Muir

been looted by pirates. A China Mail Inspector Blackman, who prose-reporter this morning interviewed the created a sensation by making ented, said that last night the defen- Deputy Commissioner of Customs who nine points in the first four dant, who was the second wife of a confirmed the rumour that the heads of the game, scoring two sing palice official in Canton, wished to Shauchung station had been attack- les, a four and a three, McLachlan not go to that city in order to take parted, but was unable to furnish any getting the run of the green although in the burial ceremonies of ber particulars as he had not yet receiv take rink was in good condition. mother. Owing to the unsettleded an official report from the Officer HOMES OF THE FAMOUS. At the 5th head McLachlan opened state of Canton, the husband was in charge of the station. One thing his score with a brace and keeping anxious about the defendant's safety the Deputy Commissioner did know, long heads with the jack, scored on and refused in let her go by the and that was that go lives were lost. eight consecutive ends bringing the night boat, advising her to wait scores at the 12th and to 12.9 in bis until this morning and go by the favour. The 13th and 14th heads day boat. The defendant however, went to Muir, with a single insisted on having her own way, fand three. McLachlan scored a with the result that they quarrelled LATEST FROM CANTON,

single at the 15th end make The defendant left. the house and In 1862-as the store records-ng the score 13 all. Mar at this went to the Praya where she jumped

The naval men are joining with Co's, new Pacific finer the "Empress of the tomb of John Bunyan in Bun-point raised the hopes of his sup-Into the harbour. The alarm was Canada" it was at first proposed to hill, Field, was restored by public porters by adding a single and a raised, and a young apprentice em- the military men opposed to Toog Around the World subscription under the presidency couple at the 16th and 17th ends played at the Taikoo Dockyard, Tae Kwong, as tuchun. They are of the Earl of Shaftesbury Therespectively, but failed to keep his named Charles Young, who was holding a meeting at the office of cruise, bor the Hongkongis need of a new Shaftesbury in lead. McLachlan at this point took passing in a tram car at the time, the Naval Minister to discuss plans. General Passenger Agent i the field. for the recumbent effigy well played shots ran to 21 on the the girl at great personal danger the game in hand and laying some jumped into the water and rescued was this morning in receipt of at

of the notorious enthusiast as the telegram from the Management in shocked and optraged charchmen next four ends. The final scores owing to the darkness, Montreal stating that the cruise bas of the seventeenth century called him being McLachlan 21: Mair 16.

"In the meantime,the girl's husband, been cancelled and that the "Empress !

McLachlan showed the better form thinking that she had gone to Canton of Canada" is expected to sail for defaced, in the most literal sense of the two, keeping a better length

WORLD CRUISE CÂNCELLE §.

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SAILING FOR HONGKONG DIRECT IN JUNE.

For the maiden trip of the C. P.O.S.

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MEMORIAL OBELISK AS POSTER

- HOARDING.

Hargkong direct, leaving England in/of the word. The features have than his opponent, who after the in order to search for her, and was

June.

been more than obliterated. In It is not so stated but it is hoped place of eyes, nose, and month there that this will result in the release of is a gaping yellow wound in the a number of berths for homeward smoke blackened stone. It is fortun

17th head, when his chances of win ring were good, lost many oppor- tunities by being narrow and short

Messrs Geo. Gerrard and Inspector

by the night boat, bad left for Canton expected back in Hongkong by Thursday morning. In the mean- time, said the Inspector, he thought it safer to remand the defendant in

her repeating her rash act,

The Magistrate; Has she no other relative here?

passage via Vancouver. The local are that the inscription is well pat Kent capably carried out the duties police custody as a safeguard against |

General Passenger Ages thas telegra phed Montreal for further informa- tion on the subject.

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PIER TOUTS.

DISORDERLY RUNNERS..

TROUBLE AT BLAKE PIER

served, otherwise, the would be unrecognizable.

memorial

of Umpires and scorers.

McLachlan was heartly applauded and congratulated on his win. This is the first occasion that a Taikoo Club player

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NOTICE.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that GENERAL MEETING of Members the SIXTEENTH ANNUAL

will be held at the Club House, North Point, on THURSDAY, October 14,

NOTE-A lauach for the conveni-

An American visitor who spent some little time in seeking out the more famous tombs in the old

The Inspector: Yes, a brother-in Konconformist cemetery said that be

the law, but be refused to take respon judged Banyan's own people would open Championship, previous sibility. have set mere store on the writer of winners being W. Bell (Police). When the girl was told that she† 1920, at:5 30 p.m." "Pilgrim's Progress than to let his D. Gourlay (Police). G. Haxton would be remanded in police custody effigy fall into decay. He disturbed / (Kowloon). W. Russell (Kowloon) and until her husband's return, she saidence of Members will leave Queen's a choir of London sparrows which R. Edwards (Kowloon). During that she was now very sorry for Statue Pier at 5 p.m. had settled upon the mutilated figure. the war there was no competition. what she had done, and would not | "But isn't Wiliam Blake buried here, Saturday next at the close of the placed in the care of her uncle until The prizes will be presented on do it again. She asked that she be too?" he asked.

game Kowloon versus the Rest. The her husband came back from Canton. 3rd and 4th prizes go to J. Grant and A. R. Clarke, both of the Police Club.

At the Magistracy this morning, a "It is believed so." replied the Chinese, was charged before Magis cautious Londoner, "but the exact are Dyer Ball with disorderly bespot is as hopelessly undiscoverable haviour by touring for passengers at now as the place where the bones of

Moses himself lië.”

Blake Pier.

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SOME FAMOUS REMAINS.

HARBOUR ACCIDENT.

LAUNCH SINKS JUNE.

The uncle was called, but he too

refused to accept responsibility. He

said that he could not guarantee that; the girl would not again try to take her own life.

Inspector Blackman said that in view of that, there was no option but to remand the defendant in custody. She would get everything she wanted in her cell until her husband's return. The Magistrate remanded her in police custody until Thursday |morning. and highly complie

The master of cargo boat No. 425 reports to the police that about 12mented Mr. Charles Young as his pm, yesterday, while his vessel was braveland gallant action” ring alongside the "Manila Maru."

at No. 3 Kowloon Wharf, the steam

He pleaded not guilty." Inspector Blackman, who pro It is a refreshing contrast to find secuted, said that there were many that the tombs of ather celebrities boats plying for hire near the pier who rest in Bunhill Fields are in an and keen competition existed among | excellent state of repair. They lack the runners of the various, motoreffigies, recumbent or upright Ect the MISHAP AT KOWLOON WHARP. boat companies to secure passengers lettering of the names has been kept for their boats. "So keen was this at clear and distinct. Hence, one can times, that the runners often became identify the redoubtable Isaac Watts, offensive to prospective passengers.who has ceased from his bee-like All constables or duty at the pier had busyness and lies as still as his own been, instructed to watch for disorder- sluggard; the old Roundhead Gene Is behaviour, and arrest the offen-ral, Fleetwood, who was Cromwell's launch "Taivickyes" going full speed ders. Last night, the defendant. tomb which keeps the ashes of several making a hole which caused the boat son-in-law; and Susannah Wesley. A fahead crashed into his junk, was not employed by any of the mater best companies. but received the Protector's descendants has to sink in a very short space of time. commission from the runner of the paired a few years ago by the City the jukn went down; but some forni been carefully tended, and was re- Everyone on board was saved before Republic Motor Boat Company for

Corporation. every passenger be secured, was seen

The value of the lost cargo is not yet ture and 35 cases of apples were lost. by the constable to accost a Euro

known. pean, to thrust a card in his hand. and drag him to one of the Republic boats.

The police, said the Inspector, had received many complaints lately and he would like to make an example of the defendant.

The Magistrate imposed a fine of $5.

REPORTED TO THE

-POLICE.

LOCAL MISHAPS.

KILLED BY RAILWAY ENGINE.

Jumped Into The Sea-A Chines woman aged 42 years. was yester day removed to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from the

The American visitor was dis- appointed that there is so little of the storied urn and animated busc in Bunhill Fields. The winged cherube of the more pompous styles of grave- yard architecture have: not lighted here. Neither the tearful angles nor the stone coraccopia were in keeping with the simple faith of these early Nonconformists.

But

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CANTON RAILWAY.

RUMOUR DENIED.

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he was puzzled to account for the THROUGH COMMUNICATION TO-DAY. .fewness of epitaphs. The only inscription-that-was-at-all-out of the --- common had a medical rather than A report was current to-day that a poetical interest. It read:

a train was derailed on the Kowloon Here Lyes Dame Mary Page, Canton railway at Honghom this relict of Sir Gregory Fage. Bart. morning, but inquiry at the railway She departed this life March 11, offices in Kowloon this afternoon 1728, in the 56th year of her age. elicited a denial of the rumony. In 67 months she was Tappd 66 It is understood that the trains times. Had taken away 240 gallons leaving Kowloon to-day were expect of water without ever repining at ed to go right through to Canton, her case, or ever fearing the the damage done to the line the day operation.

before yesterday having been re- Faired.

JOHN WILKES MEMORIAL. The case of Bunyan's effigy is not

MANCHESTER WEEKLY

MARKET REPORT.

Messrs. James F. Hutton and Co.

20. Ltd., Manchester, report on 1st Sept.

By Order,

R. E. MACDOUGALL,

Hon. Sec. & Treasurer. Hongkong, October 12, 1923.

NOTICE.

CONSELHO DE ADMINISTRAÇAO

DAS OBRAS DOS PORTOS DE MACAU.

TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that the

Calling for Tenders to convoy ground purpose announced for, to be dredging products for reclamation

open on the 12 instant has been postponed for 19th October, at3 p.m. Harbour Works Department, Macao.

Macao, 7th October, 1920.

HUGO F. DE LACERDA, The Secretary-

HELENA MAY INSTITUTE.

AFTERNOON CLASSES.

NOVEMBER DECEMBER.

Sentiment in the cotton markets. remains distinctly unsettled and there have been wide and frequent fluctua tions in values. The general un- satisfactory outlook continues to 5.39 r.k. Monday-Canking. dominate the situation and there is a very evident uncertainty and Lack of conndence. On the strength of adverse crop детя and bullish weather reports, 2 sharp

Tuesday.-5.cisis & Papelar

Lectures Wednesday-Religious Meet- inga Thursday-Sick Fursing." advance was made in the middle of Moroso CLASSES:

Friday Needlework & Chinces the week but with New York peculiarly sensitive to weakening in-Thursday, 137, Rading Circle.

Wednesday, 10.33, French. Suences at present this rise has been

Friday.

10.30, Needlework. more than lost and there does not MEETINGS AND POPULAR LETTRES: appear to be any likelihood of prices

Nor. -Locute to Children. becoming more stabilised until the

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political and labour outlook, clears. The latest crop report by the Nation- al Ginners' Association estimates the condition as 69.0 and the crop as 12,750,000 Bales against. 76.5 and 13,000,000 Bales last month, which indicates a normal deterioration for the period. A fairly good crap is in fact expected if there are no early frosts, and in addition the quality is THE Undersigned have received in

effects of an immersion in the har the only one which is expressive of bour. The woman was alleged to an age grown forgetful of the great. have jumped into the sea from Praya men of the past. In Ludgate circus LATEST SHIPPING NEWS. likely to be better than the last as the

East after a quarrel with her daugh- there is an obelisk which the people ter-in-law. Her condition is not who scurry across the traffic-thronged e'erious,

thoroughfare scarcely notice at all.

ARRIVALA.

The .5. "Amherst." Capt. Thos.

tons of sandalwood.

most critical month is nearly 'past I don' without serious damage through bad weather.

16.-Lecture to Adults.

22-Musical Afternoon. 30.-Lectura t Adults. D.c.7-Tex Dance.

14-Tecture to Children 21-Musical &fter0000.

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•structions to sell by Public Auc-

-WEDNESD !T, October 12, 1923,- commencing at 11 a.m.,

A Severe Fall.-The police yester-It is a seedy and shabby obelisk. It

The situation..so far as the cotton day found a Chinese woman, aged has all the stains, with none of the about 34 years, lying unconscious in dignity, of age, and its top is blunted, Jones, 241 tons, arrived this morning to much lower prices for the raw

supply is concerned is not too good at their Bales Rooms, Daddell Street, in that it does not appear to point 2 cases Hydrogen Peroxide "St. Stephen's Lane. An examination so that it has become a broken and at 7.45 3,m. from Sibatik with 290 material. For the present season

revealed that she was badly injured | useless needle.

9 cases Jam about the body. From, enquiries | The Ministry of Munitions Auction

however, the supply promises to be 10 Dozen White Cotton Turkish made in the vicinity, "it was learned Sales are amounced on the postera

quite adequate as there was a Towels that the woman had fallen from the that plaster its base. "To such base

million 2 rolls Cotton Repp The ss."Taishia Maru," Capt, T. carrying over of six Hillside. She was immediately re-uses" Yet this obelisk was raised Torii, 1006 tons, arrived this mortales at the end of July and moved to the Government Civil Hos- as a memorial to a man whom Lon- ing at 8 am. from Chin Wan Tao. pital where she received medical at- doners less thau a century and a half tention. Her condition is hot seri-20 idolised as the champion of

popular libertý.

QUS.

Killed Instantaneously.-The dead

The Middlesex Election is til drawn ̋ upon by political orators, but a grateful

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DEPARTURES.

| the consumption by the Continent is still far from being equal to pre-war years. The secretary of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange in amual cotton crop review states that the American commercial crop for the Chinhua." Captain, year ended July last was. 12,443,000 the consumption

body of a 12-year old Chinese boy city's memorial to John Wilkes is Harding, salled for Bangkok via Bales and was yesterday removed to the Kow- hidden under a display of sales bills. Swatow at 10 am, to-day with 200 exceeded the previous years by loon mortuary. He was accidentally The obelisk to the worthy Robert "knocked down by a 'small train at Waithman (died 1833), another Lord tons of general cargo. Cheungshanvin and killed instan- Mayor of London, which also stands taneously. The engine was towing in Ludgate circus, is similarly em- The s.s."Siberia Maru," Captain, twelve waggons laden with earth at played as a poster-display stand. Nagano, sailed for San Francisco vis the time, and was proceeding to the Help Westminster Abbey," it Shanghai at noon to-day with 1,900 new reclamation "pitch near the spot appeals on one side. Join your tons of general cargo. where the accident occurred. County Territorial Regiment," it

Abeged Robbers' Den.--The five enjoins on the other,

alleged armed robbers who were ar- rested by Inspector Wills on the first

-CHILDREN'S COLDS."

GLEERENCES.

2,135,000 Bales. The Crop last year was the poorest in grade since 1913- 1914. In the yarn and cloth, markets there is no important development to report. Continued unsettled cotton vaines" cannot be expected to stimulate buyers into anything

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THE Undersigned have received in- Boots Wood, Corner

structions well at their

of Loe House Stroet

like general activity there is how Chinam Bauff Bottles including many A Prinze collection of about 150

a mass zare speriment wa

with cabinet Owner leaving the Coloty Particulars from the undersigned Termos

ever - still “na - fair being done in the lower makes, chiefly for India, and enquiry remains on an extensive scale. Prices continne irregular both for yazı and cloth but are practically unchanged, The Dutch,cleared threat of a coal strike-still hangi

floor of No. 21, First Street, West

The aa.. "Lokmang." Br. cleared Point, on Saturday, in the possession. WHY let the children rank their little to-day and will call for Haiphong via

W bodies to dresat therese Hoihow at 9 am, to-morrow.

of a revolver and three daggers, 888s manier whom you can so easily cure

and ropes, were this morning. form- their calda with a bottle of Chamber-

ally charged before Magistrate Oreos lain's Coughs Homedy! For me by all to-day and will sail for Shanghal as over industry and is not conductive

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