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THE CHINA MAIL.

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might, balling different opinions, hate indsted an opposition papers. This could not have tended to bodily contentment. Then there is the problem of the soul tor souls) to be saved. Supper that the mind in one head had inclined to Presbyterianist and the other to Christian Science however, being physically inseparable, would they have mang that giritual draw.

SINGAPORE. Jan. 26. The Straits Government has again ing apart which would have seepo- ed so necessary on Sundays? The imposed income tax for the ensuing question of diet comes in.

One year.

THEATRE ROYAL.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921,

CRIMINAL SESSION.

DISHONEST COOLIE SHOT-

DENNISTON PLAYERS,

"NIGHTTE NIGHT,”

CARGO PIDEERING CASE.

SECOND DEFENDANT TRIED,

BARLY MORNING CRASE.

An aerated farce, full of snap and bubbles this is Nightie Night," which the Denniston Players presented at the Theatre Royal last night before an audience that was kept busy laughing might have had alcoholic leanings. and the other Pussyfoot views, but

from the time the curtain went up (even that would be nothing to the

until it fell at the conclusion of the last problem of eating. One body they,

act. The Denniston Players are cap presumably the meat of the one The marriage arranged between fable players, and they understand pauld not have puisoned the other; John Bailey, HB. Vice-Consul at the art of presenting fares, which but with two,neaths to do the eat-Bangkok, and Eileen, daughter of

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MAGISTRATE DISBELIEVE INGENIOUS

STORY.

The trial of Lai Lai, ship's tallyman, one of the defendants in the Holt's · Before Magistrate Orme this morn- Wharf Cargo pilfering case, took place ing a Chinese employed as a coole before the Acting Chief Justice Mr. Naval Dockyard was charged with this morning at the Criminal Session in the electrical department of the Justice Gomperte

having enter house No. 69, Queen's

At the catset preparations were Road East at 5 am, on January 12, made to try the cases of Lai Lai, for an unlawful purpose. and Li Ming, the third defendant. Lance Sergeant O'Conner said that together. Both www charged be and another European Sergeant on two counts for the theft of were on patrol duty on the morning four cases of piece goods and in question. They saw the accused three bales of blankets. Li Ming sliding down the drain pipe in front and two mints to acquire pre- Brig. General R. C. Stevenson, and consists largely of keeping the action was charged on the additional count of the house. When the accused

of receiving stolen goods.

saw them. he ran away. Chase judices, the atter of appetite; of Mrs, Stevenson, will take place in going at top speed. This was the Mr. Wakeman, Crown Solicitor, was given, but as the accused like and dislike, must have raisedRangoon at the end of January. way things went in "Nightie Night" prosecuted; Mr.F.C.Jenkin appeared ignored all warnings, witness fired a serious disharmony. We follow in thought his for their growth to

shot over his head. As accused It fairly took one's breath away try for the defendant Li Ming. The manager of the Hankow

Mr. Jenkin objected to the two still refused to stop, a second shot adolescence, and the time of sweet-Branch of the Yokohama Specie Banking to keep up with events.

men being tried together, and asked was fired. This struck the accused hearting.

Would the two heads hat forwarded a cheque for $3,809.60 The story is one of those light that separate trials be held. It on the back of the neck. He collaps kiss the same girl, or two girls to the Hankow International Famine affairs that gather complications as developed that owing to a misundered, and was removed to the station have to be satisfeil, with But Relief Committee, being the sum they go along, and to tell in full standing, the Crown thought Mr. and thence to hospital now you see where this Indian re-subscribed to that cause by the Jap would require a small-sized volume trials going on together.

Jenkin had waived objection to the The accused admitted sliding down pórter has put us with his tormentanese members of Hankow,

His Lord-the drain pipe, bet denied felonious ing news item. We abandon it

It revolves principally about the ship directed that the two man be intent. He was going to work, be here and now, and will do our best Mr. T. M. Ainscough, British | dashing

Tride Lorraite, an tried separately. The trial of Lai said, when a riesha ran over his foot. to dismiss it from our minds. WeSenior Trade Commissioner in India actress. The play opeas

Lai proceeded; that of Li Ming was Very angry, he took off one of his wish we had never read the borrid and Ceylon, and well known to în-

postponed until 215 pm. to-day. shoes, and threw a Pullman

it at the item.

dustrial and commercial circles in

car. Billy Moffat,

The following jury was empanelled:coole who ducked, with the result the Far East, has completed his visit who some time before, had been 6. Smith, O. R. Benson, 1. F. that the shoe went over his head, to Great Britain and left London on in love with Trixie, and now is Smirke, H. Dreyer, J. Sloan, J. and struck a signboard outside house November, 25 en route for Bombay.

Davies, H. Davis.

No. 69, where it stack. Witness | bappily married to another estimable

Mr. Wakeman, outlining the case, knocked at the door of the house to Among the Chinese New Year roung lady, meets Trixie on the described the process of unloading a ask permission to recover his shoe, In rely on her notes on Mon-police orders issued within the last train. She tells him that she had ship at Helts Wharf. Before the but received no reply. Accordingly day a private correspalden armes Eestist our view that 55 is a fair few days in Cauton, was one prohibit-married his friend Jimmie Bythe ship arrives a list is made out in a he climbed up the drain pipe to get

ing the sale and use of toy torpedoes that morning. They had loved each check book of the goods expected and back the stoe, phone for Hongkong and other dangerous articles and other as youngsters, but Jimmie bad handed to the godown keeper. The Inspector Kent said that the ac- He so that the Hongkong dice another forbidding the playing of gone off to South America. In his No. 1 tallyman, in this case. Lai cased gave him the same story when cars rains at 13 wars of age, cards and all forms of amusements absence, she had married another, Lai, is in charge of the tallymen he was brought to the station. A thing we dh x know, and he allied to gambling.

become the mother of a boy, and As the cargo is unloaded, it is Chinese constable was sent out, but asks us or Coqppare the number of

then a widow, "Her marriage to checked off on the sheets and when be could not had any shoe on the (pedie, why has artnally taken The twenty British ariation in Jamie had been a rush affair. completed, the sheets are collected signboard. Unless the shoe had glue their pension with the mumber of structors engaged by the Naval Avia- and she had had no chance of telling by the No. I tallyman. As the goods on it, said the Inspector, he did not those who have her taken tion Corps of Japan are expected to him of her previous marriage are taken into the godown they see how it could stick to the sign Happy Valley, We leere he is arrive in April, bringing a number until after the ceremony. When she are

called out and marked board as the accused alleged. right in sugesting the rise num of aeroplanes from England with mentioned it, afterwards, he had off

The Magistrate: That excase hers are terribly, digarate. Hat them, according to the Chugai. Work cashed out of the hotel in a rage. The book submitted in this cas does not appeal to me. I have wied pation, a policeman's is a fan-is going on steadily at Kasumigauza, It was characteristic of Jimmie that shows there were expected to arrivalit on at school myself, and it always getons on, and its editions un-where a new field is being prepared had countered by taking her bag and and bales of blankets of distince some other motive. He may have be was highly impetuous. Trixie a number of cases of piece goods, failed. Perhaps the accused had healthy. We were thinking more for the British flyers, ted the the civil arvamis, when

catching the fest train for New York tive marking. It was Lai Lai's been after some young ladies- we white of Hongpong's healthy Owing to circumstances con-

Incidentally, Jimmie had known her duty to collect the various tally! (Laughter.) climate wher work is connected with other engagements, the only as Angelina Balley, and had no sheets and hand them over to Convicting the accused, the Magis parately east and done in ext visit of General Bramwell Booth, idea that she was Trixie Lorraine. the office. The loading of the trate said that in view of the damage Portable conditions,

head of the Salvation Army, to Billy promises to do what he can ship took several days. On the 28th he had suffered, he would be dealt Japan has been postponed for a few to help her straighten out her tangle of December the manager of Holts with leniently and be sentenced to, months. The General will be here with her new husband. He returns Wharf, on information he had re- 21 days' hard labour... during October and November, this to his fiat in New York. Contemplat-ceived, sent for all the books con The accused has a previous con- year, instead of during March and ing a trip to California with his cerning the "Rhesus." He saw that viction recorded against him.

wife, he arranges to sub let the certain marks in the book and April, as had been announced.

[fat during their absence. Along on the tally sheets did not cor- Service, Vot their's is tut the only death of Mr A. Stewart, which oc- Billy's flat, and engages it. Not in the check books appeared to have Shanghai papers announce the comes Trixie, not knowing that it is respond, and that certain marks fatal iob. 1, Sanitary Inspectors,curred at Hankow. Mr Stewart was only that, but she moves into al been erased. A witness, Ko Ya.

Does not the police pension de. pernel vor lenger of service rather than on age?

If we should agree that a math Merter service uld entitle thee in to pension than (in some other brandlies of the Civil

in

the check

book

would tell that Lai Lai proposed to take some of the goods, and conceal the theft by manipulation of the marks.

Mr. Charles Butler Riggs, Wharf

AMUSEMENT VENTURE.

NEW HONGKONG COMPANY.

INTERESTS AMALGAMATED.

Announcement is made of the prot

for instance, live long here? If

a member of the staff of the Engi- vacant room in the flat, while await they do, we wonder bus they do it. neering Department of Messrs Jardine, ing their departure. It is not until -Soldiers are pensionable after 21 Matheson and Co., Ltd., and was in then that Billy discovers her presence, years service, which is a long time charge of the Engineering Depart. The complications begin to grow but usually if at least will be ment of his firm, at Hankow. Deceas- serious when Jimmy arives, fran- served at Horus. However, there ed was well-known in Shanghai and tically searching for his missing manager of Holt's Wharf, was cailed. is thing to be gained by anu was formerly in charge of the Engi-wife. From this point on the play He identified Lai Lai as a ship's ing this point, as the thing is probacering Department of Messrs is a rapid-fire succession of embar tallyman, representing the ship's posed organization of a corporation. ably settled. We would rather Samuel and Co.

rassing moments, that end only in a company on board the ship. He was to be known as Hongkong Amuse focus public attention on the state-

properly happy termination just as in charge of the tallymen at the ments, Limited, to take over the ment that civil servants joining up The strange charge of having the final curtain descends.

hatches. Three of the tally sheets par Coronet Theatre, the Eastern Theatre for the war were promised that stolen a bunch of keys and 29 cop- The players all were excellently ported to have been signed by a man on Queen's Road East, the projected their time at the Front with not per cents from a dead man was made cast, and presented the farce most who was not in the employ of the Kowloon Theatre, together with three affect their rights to leave, and that against a coolie in Shanghai. entertainingly. Miss Warda Howard company. These taly sheets have theatres in Canton and interests in this promise is not being kept. We it appeared that a man fell dead was all that could be desired as the no entry, of the goods reported Macao, Mr. H. W. Ray and Mr. M. lepe one of our unofficial members outside a tea house in Kaifeng sparkling Trixie, and Miss Florence missing. These goods

W. Stevens, at the lead of these various projects, will retain the prin- will tackle this matter in Council. Road, and accused had just Chapman was completely successful entered.

cipal interest in the new corporation. Associated with them will be Messrs. I. E. Gardiner, F. T. Wheeler, J. M:

NEWSPAPER AT SEA.

were not

UNIVERSITY.Noronha, and Lo Kan.

CONFERRING OF DEGREES.

It looks so bad, and is so very finished searching the pockets of as Mollie Moffat, Billy's charming unfair.

deceased when a detective came up. wife, who was alternately jealous and

Miss Valentine Sidney HONGKONG The coolie Ead an ingenious defence. forgiving. It was suggested to him by a cus, was splendid as Norah, the maid. tomer in the tea house, he said, that Mr. Leo Kennedy played the part of he should “đồ the deceased aBilly Moffat and did it excellently. friendly" turn" by purchasing some Mr. David Belbridge as Philip Burton josa paper and burning it, for him- also was very pleasing in his part. He was just seeing what funds The company will produce "The deceased had available for this pur-Lion and the Morse" tonight. pose, when the, defective came up and arrested him.-Dismissed with a caution.

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CAP FINISTERRE” TIMES.

ENTERTAINING NUMBER,

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ORDER OF CEREMONIAL.

The Sixth Congregation of the University of Hongkong, for the por pose of conferring degrees, will be held at the University to-morrow

MIROVA AND PODOLSKY. ahemoon.

CITY HALL CONCERT,

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AN EXCELLENT PROGRAMME

The new corporation will take over all the interests of Mr. Ray and Mr. Stevens, in the amusement business in the Colony and China. It is ex- pected that it will be operating seven or eight theatres in Hongkong, Kow- few months. loon, and Canton within the next

and will be divided into 16,000 The share capital is to be $200,000, The activities of the afternoon will shares of $10 each and 8,000

of $5 each. begin at 3.30, when H.E. the Gover-issued, paid up, to Mr. Ray and Mr. The latter will be nor will declare the new tennis courts Stevens, 6,000 shares to the former in the University Grounds open, after and 2,000 to the latter, in considera which an exhibition game will be tion for the lease of the Corocet, the played.

rental of the Eastern, and the From 4 until 4.45 p.. rea will be furniture, musical instruments, served to the guests in the Union fittings, musical instrument;, and Building-

other assets At 5 pm, 2 procession, including members of the Court Council, Senate and Staff of the University will enter the Great Hail. Governor, 25 Chancellor of the University, has taken his seat and declared the Congregation open, the University Authern will be played by the Band of the 2nd Battalion of the

:

After the

NEW SOLICITOR.

MR. MAURICE MURRAY WATSON.

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE.

Wiltshires.

In the Supreme Court this morn The Acting Vice-Chancellor ving. before the Acting Chief Justice. then deliver the Congregation ad- Mr. Justice. Gompertz, the Hon. Mr.

ing it when the two beads are on lone boy. Is it possible, however, ELSON-A the French Convent that the habitual cardeisness of

Hospital, Causeway Bay, on

newspaper scribes can be mislead January 26. to Mr. and Mrs. ing us here? Did this reporter take due care to have his premises right. and unquestionably true? Was this unusual birth a case of one boy with a superfluity of limbs, or was BOYD-SHIRES.-At St. John's it a case of twins with a deficiency?

In view of the emphasis recently The passengers on, the big liner given to the darker side of life in Cathedraf Hongkong. on Twins are not uncommon. We

**Cap Finisterre," the former German Limehouse, it should be pointed out Wednesday, Jan. 26, James have not read that Bombay isim. vessel which arrived the other day that the best Chinese opinion is as Boyd, Chartered Bank of India, mune. Might this not have been from home on her first voyage under strongly opposed to the drug traffic Australia and China. Hongkong twins with an arm and a leg. and the Japanese flag. amused themselves carried on by some of the Chinese to Mabel Shires. daughter of the perhaps a torso; bort of the num-in a variety of ways on the trip out, inhabitants of linehoue as are Late John Shires and of Mrs. Her proper to twins?

One way was by the publication of British people, Doubtless

Chinese students The great success which Miss Vera Shires. Leeds...

the originating reporter is con-

the Cap Finisterre Times, a four-page in London bave themselves Mirova, the Russian dancer, and Mr. vinced that the torso is the gravi newspaper.

established am evening school Leo Podalsky, the pianist, attained at tuen 60 to speak of the human Judging by the cheerful tone of the Limehouse for Anglo-Chinese their initial performance in the Colony unit, and referred to this as a boy publication and the numerous diver children. Here the children are recently was repeated yesterday BURNETT -At St. Paul's Hospital, because he could not see two separ-sions to which it relers, everybody taught Chinese character writing and evening at the City Hall, when they on January 26, 1921, Battricia ate bodies. Three legs did not must have had a jolly time. There the history and geography of China. gave a new programme that was re- Burty) Cade. beloved daughter make him doubt. Three urins did seemed to be a continuous programme Most of the children express a keen ceived enthusiastically. Both per of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. C. not shake his confidence in his own of amusements, including cricket desire to go to China when they are formers demonstrated again their Burnett, age 3 years and eyes. He may have been right, of matches. Tug-of-War contests, con- grown up. The Chinese Committer possession of talent that places the months. Funeral will pass the course, but also he may have been certs, races, a big Famy Dress Ball, have secured as teacher for this in the front rank of the artists of the wrong. Hidden in the thing he and last but not least-the thrilling school a lady missionary returned day.

Mr. Podolsky's playing was con saw as one by may have been murder trial held for the purpose of from China. It is stated that after two hearts, with duplication of endeavouring to esublish respon- two years of congestion owing to sistently brilliant in the selections of

organs. is admitted sibility Finis-shipping difficulties the many varied types represented The China Mail. there were two heads, ted that supply for the death of Flossie Finise of Chinese sencen have departed in his programme, including as it did dress, and the graduates in Medicine. J. H. Kemp. K.C., C.B.E., Artor-

plies two brains and therefore, bad swimming bath.

the last two months.

the works of Chopin, Debussy, Engineering, and Arts, will be pre-ney-General, moved the admission of he or they survived, two minds and

Medtner, Stranss-Schutt, and a Bachsented by the Deans of their Facul- Mr. Maurice Murray Watson as "a The Cap Finisterre Times contains

Liszt arrangement, "Lamentations ties. Following this, the Chancellor Solicitor, for practice in the Colony. two consciousnesses, £nd two cen- a lot of amusing gossip and social chat

and Crucia" This was admirably will declare the Congregation closed. Mr. Kemp. in presenting Mr. Bongreso, Thursday, JAS. 97, 1921.tres of control for reflexes. It is and "snappy snippets." It has also

done." So, as a matter of fact, were

and the procession will return to the Watson, said that be had been articled plain that this reporter regarded some advertisements.

The young

Vice-Chancellor's room. all his offerings. Especially pleasing

in November, 1910, and had been this phenomenon as simply as man in Cabin 451, "Scotch and good

were Chopin's "Nocture" and Following is the list of graduates: connected with a law firm' in London bygone tumourists regarded, the locking," wanted a young lady with

"Polonaise." Mr. Podolsky is Degrees of Bachelor of Medicine for four years. He had then joined French chichivache that fed on whem to take walks on the boat deck: The news of the death of Mr. D. particularly skilful in playing and Bachelor of SurgeryFok Wing the army. At the conclusion of the good women and was consequently Miss N.Y.K., Young, pretty, afec M. Mickle, a constructional engineer pieces of the lighter type, and Kan, Chen Ah Po, Ip Kam W. Liwar he was demobilized, and was all skin and bone, and that he has tionate." desired a suitable com- in the service of the Standard Oil A newspaper item tells us that left us in a state of horrid uncer-panion, male preferred; 4

The Lyric Page" and "The Fairy Ping Sum, Phoon Seck Werg, and admitted as a solicitor in December, "grass Company of New York, has been Tale" were most charming.

Wang Chen Tsai (in absentia). 1919. He believed that he had com- a boy born in Bombay of Hindu tainty. His chimera offers more widow" wanted a "talkative male received with great regret. Mr. Miss Mirova confirmed the deep Degree of Bachelor of Science plied with all requirements, except parents had twil beads and three problems than he in his simplicity companion"; and Burlington Bill," Mickle was attached to the Hongkong Impression she had made on the Engineering). Cheung Him, Lee that he had not given the customary arine and three legs He died soon ever dreamed of. Our mental tor- in the fo'cs'le, sought a top het. office of the Company. He died at lovers of classic dancing in the Chung Chee, Lui San lu. Man Shu four months' notice to the Law Society Let us on no account ture is mitigated only by the re- Finally there the advertisement of sea on board the steamer "Japan" Colony, by her delightful interpreta Sing, Tsi Sung James King. Yeung and the Registrar. It was his under- be tempted to incarn the death of fection that as the boy for bye) Miss T. T. Stewardess, who asks on Monday. N this boy. Flis superfluous fiths are not living, we may dismiss our

tions of Paderewski's "Minuet," Kwai Chiu, Yu Shui Chic, Chun standing that both had waived this Anyone want a good wife, who can. Mr. Mickle had resided in the Grieg's "Anitra's Dance," from the Wing Ching (in absentia), Fung Tsang requirement. The only exemption he would almost certainly have handi- speculations if we like, and do cur sew buttons on, merd tears. &c.?. No Colony for a number of years and Poor Gynt Suite, Chopin's "Valse," Fu (in absentia), Lo Kun Un (in ab asked was that they be waived by capped him in life's race, especially best to forget them. It is, how-offer recessarily rejected." -

had a wide acquaintance. For the Dvorak's Humoresque," and sential and Sung Zau Yoen (in abHis Lordship. now that India is trying to oust its ever, one of the gruesomely fas The "Cap Finisterre" is being last two or three years he had been Godard's "Mazourka."

She is at sentia). paternal government. "There may cinating problems that are hardest operated by the Nippon Yusen Kaisht carrying on work for the Company her best in pieces which give occasion be truth, speaking generally, in the common belief that

dismiss. Two heads, two brains, as agents for the Japanese Govern- in the Straits Settlements. His bome for a demonstration of the grace of two two pairs of eyes.

Had be for rent. She is a-sister ship of the was at Hollysprings. Mississippi, and her arms and shoulders, and ter beads are better that we he lived, they would have to Cap Trafalgar, sunk by the "Car The ne tire fam in 1996 He was dances which brought her this oppor

nd ourselves Jiginctively doubt quired two newpers to read, and mania".during the war.

about 59 years of age.

unity were indeed exquisite,

'TRUTS, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE

QUEER PREMISES AND PROBLEMS.

after birth.

OBITUARY.

MR. D. M. MICELE.

JJ

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Addressing Mr. Watson, His' Lord- Degree of Bachelor of Arts---Chan chip said: I have much pleasure in Chun Him. Chan Kwan Po. Wong To approving, admitting, and enrolling On, Huang Tak Sie (in absenca) you as a Solicitor. I trust your pro- Tsing Ning Man the uscittion, and lesstonereer in in Dolny will be William Thoms (in absentia).

pleasant and profitable,