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FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1921,

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59-61 Des Voeux Road Central,

ZORION BAD, Įma:

TRANCE) WEST POINT BRANÇA 2543 WORK SHOP

HONGKONG

ODDS AND ENDS.

MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.

Forged "Fivora." "

HOME ITEMS.

An English officer has been arrest. ed in Rome, according to the news. papers. on a charge of forging and cashing a cheque for a very large

amount.

By his will, proved at 458,233 gross. Mr. A. Thoriber Elis, of Southport bequeathed £50,000 to various religious organisations.

VERSE.

TO E Ĉ T.

THE CHINA MAIL.

[On his retirement, after forty-one years in China -

Did you dream when, bold and

twenty,

Straight from home" and

nd peace plenty

and

First you sighted Chinese shores. That mongst this great. ancient

nation

You would find your he's vocation? Do you feel to-day remorse?

TRAMP'S LAMENT.

THE OPEN ROAD.

TOO MANY ENERGETIC TUUNG MEN.

*Old Joe," aged 70, who only winters in London, was the first to hear the call of the broad highway. is tanned face and queer carved walking stick are known to many a village in England a

"I don't go to Scotland," he told a [reporter, "að. I can't speak their

language."

His equipment is simple, a bully beef tin in which he makes tea, and the lid of a biscuit bar which he uses as a frying pan. Slung over the carved walking stick be carries a red handkerchief which contains his

wardrobe.

-

I always start early," he said, be in time to greet the May And then the birds, I like

Could you live your past life over. Would you rather choose the clover And the pesce of English fields: Or the path of strange adventures, Where & man serves life's indentures With his faith for sword and shield?to their song getting stronger as the spring advances into summer. I've noticed since the war one can't 'mate up so well. Too many young men by far. Ther walk too fast for me, four mães an hour,

see much of the country travelling and "-- (expressively) you can't at a speed like that"

You have sailed and you have punted, You have spared and you have

bunted;

ין

And made younger men cry halt ;

our have stalked on steppe, in jungle, You were never known to bungle, Though you once tried boars with

salt.

The art of orgery is advancing on the Continent," a bank cashier told a reporter "For some days past we have had o-notes coming through the bank which can best be described as works of art. Their accuracy is almost in conceivable." Mr. Justice Coleridge! at a recent trial found it necessary in

During a raid on some stables iRound the Yangtze tributarie a forgery case to binepencil the count Dublin the police secured a large haul You have camped with missionaries, erfeit note. He said: "I have been of comparing the note with a genuine equipment. The stores seized Sowing seed-upon the sand;

You have held discourse with pirates one, but having regard to the elaborate cluded 400 bombs. way in which it has been forged I cars. each containing arms, and two And the carriers of nitrates.

And seen fights on sea and land. thought I had better tick the forgery motor-cycles were also captured. with blue pencil. A clerk at thei Bank of England said that the ex-

perienced man usually relies on the text of fre" and "sound." He run the note between his fingers and by the rustle he can almost in- variably tell a forgery.

Access to the Yes.

Aries

munitions, and ́ military

*

Three motor-I

*

| You have watched this giant nation King Alfonso of Spain is safering Marthing forward to salvation. from a slight cold and is unable to And renounce deceit and gaile; leave his room. For this reason there have not been the usual Holy Week! Seen the Chinese take to trousers and Easter ceremonies in the Palace, and their women take to blouses The indisposition of the King is not Cut in foreign Seeziore style. serious, but he is in need of rest.

*

•

Seen our China turn on swivels, For and gainst the foreign devils, The Jewish Correspondence Bureau Known her great and famous men; has received the following-message. Hung-chang. suave. From Warsaw The Government has published a decree in the Monitor Polski, according to which all restric

Like Rowers stretching to the light the newborn States of Eastern Europe "are trying to move towards the sea. Lithuanit in her anxiety to acquire a satisfactory seaboard: has; made a

existence from the Tsarist times, are valuable very 1 exchange for tract of forest territory between now abolished.” Mitan and Bausk. Lithuania desires

cute

plastic. (hang Chi-tung, well versed in

classics.

very interesting offer to Latvia. In tions" upon Jews, which remain Yuan Shi-kai and Sun Yat-sen-

to obtain the little port of Pulangen.

TWIN BROTHER PASTORS Scarbor:

and

Now be yours the.

peace Elystan Of a passed metaphysician, Who won out where others lost; You can smile and watch the rabble, As they push and fight and squabble On towards the Winning Fost

pastors of Baptist churches, the Rev. Sheats of Campton near Newbury

appointed having been

on the Baltic, which, in conjunction ough will cow have twin brothers & with works to be excented in the estuary of the Sventa, river, would be the means of creating a harbour of Berks, important dimensions. The curious minister of the Ebenezer Church, But in such serene detachment part of this proposed transaction is while the Rev. F. W Shears is pastor Don't break off your staunch attach- that Lithuania really has already a at Columbas-row. port in Memel. But it is administer- ed by the French under the conditions laid down by the-Versailles Treaty

"Shall" and "May.”

Leighton Buzzard (Beds) ratepayers are among the happiest in the country for the general district rate has fallen to 2.5 The total rate is expected to be less than 7s. Another decrease is at Cerne (Dorset), where the Rural District Council and Guardians rate will be 5s. 8d., as against 7s. Old. Chiswick rates next year will be 2s. &d higher, making a total of 175. Gd:

The Federal Government announces

ment

To this tried fraternity; When old comrades meet in session One sure topic of digression Will be. Tales of E. C. T."

Canton, May 10, 1921.

THEFT OF PEARLS.

POLICE COURT CHARGE.

It is strange, writes a correspon- dent in a home paper, where the rights and privileges of Civil servants are concerned, with what persistence the Treasury insist in inserting the dis- cretionary word may in Acts of Parliament where shall to all intents and purposes is meant. Of course, in the Civil Service, this little a general reduction of a third in the cherisired and antiquated foible of the freight rate by Commonwealth steam- The charge against an ex employee Treasury is well understood, anders. It is understood that as a result of the Sun Co., in connection with as it makes no difference, no protest of prolonged negotiations the London $1,000 worth of imitation pearls, is ever raised. But it is different shipping Combination are also sub-and other property, was again before with outside bodies unacquainted stantially reducing rates on all cargo, Magistrate Lindsell to-day. with the nuances of Treasury phraseo but especially on primary products. logy, and in the case of the Pensions Many authorities anticipate a bitter (Increase) Act. 1920, which is studded rate war.

all over with may." many police

and Poor Law authorities are reading The marriage fees at St. John's

Yoshisaburo Hachiuma, clerk at a dentist's at No. 34, Queen's Road Central, spoke of searching for the defendant on three Canton. steam- boats and ultimately finding him on the Kwonghing. He had hidden

into the Act a discretionary power Church, Clarendon Park, Leicester, some of the pearls amongst some entitling them to refuse the statutory

are to be raised from six shillings to patkets of biscuits and sewn pearl increase of pension altogether, or to

The defendant said he did this to pay what proportion of the percent gaines. The vicar (the Rev. H.necklaces into a bed quilt. age increase they please. The at- Jaques) says that the six shillings, teation of the House has been called which included the car's and avoid paying Customs duty on the to the matter by Sir James Remnant verger's fees, was, apparently, the pearls. He adhered to his original only thing in the parish which had story that he was taking them on the complainant's behalf to try and self not gone up hitherto in price, and he them thought it was only fair that it should be raised as in other parishes.

Obstimate.

On being informed that the mana- ger of the Sun Co., was not in Court to give evidence as to an introduction

The war is over (more or less), and perhaps the same can be said for the peace. But the effects of both are

The South African Asiatic Com-of complainant by defendant, with a view to business, the Magistrate still rampant. Govenment depart mission's report was mentioned in again adjourned the case as be ments still litter the fair town of the House of Commons recently desired to hear this evidence, and When replying to Sir Thomas directed the police to subpoena the Bennett, Mr. Churchill undertook to man if necessary. The hearing will place a copy of the summary of the be resumed to-morrow. recommendations in the library. He said that any views that the Govern ment of India might express on them would be communicated to the Union Government which had decided to postpone legislation until next session. JAPANESE SKIPPER FINED.

The master of the as. Persia

Paris, though sometimes in their death agones they have writhed frou one house to another. When patient landlords at last succeeded in getting rid of them they seized upon other premises. The Carlton Hotel was taken by the Food Ministry. There the Ministry sat until the Carlton folk, tired of watching other hotels raking in the shekels, made, a firm

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NO LIGHTS.

AIR EXPRESS.

FLIGHT TO CONTINENT.

NEW COMMERCIAL MACHINE,

Capable of travelling at dóuble the speet of the fastest express train, what is claimed to be the finest com mercial aeroplane in the world, the De Havilland 18, made its first fight to the Continent since the closing of the Airco service in December, says the Aeronautical correspondent of the London Evening News. Its single 450-hp. Napier copine is so efficient that, given a full load. of eight persons, the cost of carrying passengers is only ad per mile more than the existing first-class railway fare.

A new type De Havilland aeroplane, with a single cantilever wing, now building at Stag-lane, Edgware, will carry 10 passengers with the same engine power. With a fall load and travelling at 100 miles per hour the fare will be actually less than first- class railway fare.

JUMP FROM VERANDAH,

SUPPOSED LUNATIC INJURED.

LEAP FROM FERRY.

-EUROPEAN'S STRANGE ACT!».

- RESCUED IN MIDSTREAM.

There was considerable excitement on a Star ferry boat crossing the harbour to Kowloon about 130 p.m 1.W. Hartman, whose address was Teaterday.when a European named

given to the police as No. 36. Nathan Raad, jampet overboard in mid- stream. The boat was immediately stopped and a life buoy was thrown in, and with the assistance of a couple of the seamen, the man was safely brought back on board. He was later removed to the Government Civil Hospital where he is now re covering from the effects. The cause of the man's act is at present an known.

One fatal case of plague and other of small-por, also two non- fatal cases of smallpox, all Chinese, were reported yesterday.

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TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.

ALL preliminary notices of forth-

coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in A Chinese was yesterday afternoon the news columns of the China Mail, removed to the Government Civitare charged for at the rate of $1 each, Hospital suffering from injuries re (as announced in May and June of ceived through jumping from the last year) providing that they do pot verandah of the second floor of No. occupy more than four lines. In 34, Queen's Road East. The man, future if this space is exceeded they who is thought to be insane, is in a will be placed in the advertising critical condition.

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and effective protest. So the Minis "I want to be destroyed and put try went a few yards off-stili in the Champs Elyses, with one of the out of the way, give me poison or a Maru," Captain K. Watanabe, figured Sunk in the Gorges firest views in Europe outside its labourer, when charged at Aberdeen when he was called upon to answer Dishonest Boys

revolver," said Thomas Mackenzie, a in the Marine Court this morning Toy Gus Unlawful... $45,000-Forgery Case many windows. It left behind it with house-breaking "I will kill charge of having failed to carry distinct traces of its passage. Even invself, the first chance I get," he the regulation lights whilst riding at Gap Rock**********

anchor the harbour. He pleaded $10,000 Ball the glass door-plates had been re- told the court. "I want to go below guilty and the Marine Magistrate Searched in the Street moved. Most of the doors were the ground. I am a waster. The Lentenant Conway Hake, R.N.R.) without handles. And there was a sentence will be less drastic," said imposed a finis of $25. rumble of curses not loud but deep Sheriff Laing, sentencing Mackenzie

in certain offices: Meanwhile, the

to 30 days imprisonment.

Ministry was settling down in a terri

fyng manner in its new home. It

said it was doing it provisionally,"

Midnight Disturbance Hard Luck It Trúg Passenger Farthi Got His Own Back Children's Corner. A New Bank

Placky Lady

After the ball at the Nice Casino DRAGGING DISCOURAGED. Gymkhana ...

and when anybody says that in France on March 7 Mlle. Louise Mieth dis-

it usually means a period only just covered that she had lost her valuable Caught earlythis morning in the act Ship's Master short of perpetuity. Annoyed at earrings, sad to be worth £16,000, of dragging the harbour for uncon Chinese Proces being disturbed, it pettishly set itself A reward of £800 was offered. The sidered-trifles in the vicinity of the Hongkong up with kitchen chairs and other un police have discovered that, an hotel Naval Dockyard, Chau Tim, a sampan Constitutio mistress was brought before, the The Work sightly objects. But its finest effort porter found them but feared to re- Marine Magistrate (Lients Conway Salon On Was it connection with the lift, which turn them lest he should be suspected PNR.) Ar the Marine Court | Increaspr was not being used". Un each four of their theit - He/hat been placed to-day Defendant denied the charge Venues shelves were fitted, and the cage fins under detention. The police arrested but was adjudged guilty and ordered New Banding turned into a convenient little office a man who, it is stated, has twinkled. to pay a time of 35 or go to jail for m for the attendant of that floor

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