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Domestic Occurrences
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FACE
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Leading Articles - - - -
1- Shanghai Strike ..............
18-19
Prince Eore..
Brutal Murder...
19
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Local and General..
6
Motor Accident
Social and Personal
8
- Fast-Vessel
Local Service V. teran
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Canton Battle....;
Maring
Death at Home...
123
A Tailor's Fortung ...
"President Polk":
23
Wrong Turn
6
"Plum Job.".
Goreponderos in Ten-Pots in Court
Pretty Wedding..
The Bhangbai Riote Our King The Green Uu.. Back to Stay
Crtle Critisired
7-8 Poor YesT, 48 cm 20 10 10
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Property Bold...
8
Plan 's Orssh
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Health First..
10-12 Bports
.13 Rents Lawes
.12
Plaus ble Roguai....
12
Waifs and Strayɛ....
Water in Milk..
Unique Event/.
Government Gazette
18
In the Bhade
Wok Idle Threats...
· River Mixba
Walsh Notas
Chung Chau Wotes
Rok Trama
New College Sit
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Mohamused's Teachings.
Elke tephen's El
The Wrong Mas -Morphin
American Sta Lash for
LOCAL
THE CHINA MAIL.
AND GENERAL.
to
the
The "Shanghai Mercury" The following witticisma ap- and curious growths with guuried, has met the difficulties of the pre-pear in the currant issue of the leafless branches-udd sent position by cycloatyting its Hongkong University Union grimneys of the picture, which,
Magazine.-- Issues an interesting feat.
Incidentally is contained in a block Where and when did the rumour frame with a tlun-ailver line. The list of notifiable diseases originate that the authorities will for the 24 hours ended Wednes-play an exhibition game of hide The Prime Minister basad day shows one case of small-pox and soek in the City Hall? We dressed the following message to and three cases of cerebro-spinal are also asked to deny that the the "Imp," the new journal of the fever-all Chinese.
official and unofficial members of Junior Imperial League, the first of which has been the Court will play at Tug-of-war number daring the Long Vac.
publishedNothing in the politi cul situation to-day is more en- couraging than the zeal with which Wha, shen asked by the pro-yemig men and women are devoting fessor about the smell of ozone, anthemselves by study and disenssion swered, is bus ich ozone smell."
for their responsibilities towards heir country, their Empire, and the world at large."
The
total cutput of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending May 30, 1925, amounted to 75.121 tons, and the sales during the period to
81,468 tons.
Clubs in the Lawn Tennis
Is it true that can lady under Association are requested to send grads maintain that women should their representatives to a meeting attend to human beings instead of
to be held in the Cricket Club forsing poppy dogs?" Pavilionon. Thursday next at 5.30 p.m.
Who composed the following
immortal lines (—
Then bring a peachy widow on
sports day.
The local branch of the, if oing, with young chicks does Netherlands Trading Society is
not pay in receipt of telegraphic advice from its Batavia office that the dividend for the year 1924 is declared at 7 (seven per cent.) for the Bank.
Asked why he took the eath in the Jewish fashion" (wearing his Jatha Bow County Court witness replied, "The last witness wor sworn that way, and I thought I had to do the same.
The Rev. H. Hayes, addressing Toe Haesting at Melbourne, said he had visited houses in the Melbourne industrial area where the "I wasn't beliving in a dis offat and filth flowed out of the orderly manner. sir, anid unders. He was astounded that such The latest issue of the offender t Govun Police Court.iendly plures existed in a new city. "China"Press"-suffering like I am a bird-man, and I am in the They were worse than London other Shanghai papers from the habit of making professional stams. and it was not surprising that boys became criminals in such surroundings.
Constable He
WILA
effects of the strike-has the noises." following:--As this edition of shouting and bawling, and gather The Bird-Man- "The China Press" is being sented a crowd," to press without being proofread, "No, I was imitating a cuckoo," the reader is supposed to use his Lintelligence.
Woman of Acton-My daugh- ter is in the anav. The Magis tate The Army? Woman-Yes; the Salvation Army.
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FRIDAY,
JUNE 12, 1925.
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ERRING WIVES.
THE LAW AND THE
.HUSBAND.
GOVERNMENT PROMISE REFOLM.
this power to restrain her b doinestic clustisement. This power of correction began to be doubted in the reign of Charles II.
"If I were to put the woman'a - point of view," "continued 'Lord · Most of the commentators on
Darling, "I am sure that they will the Royal Academy appear to have
not desire to be joined to their The Hongkong University missed what is certainly the most
Senders of telegrams are in- The Government proposes to in- | Insbands more than is absolutely Unior Magazines says: One fantastic picture in the show.
that telegrams to troduce legislation to remove the necessary. They will want to not formed hundred and ninety-two volumes Opens Man and Beast"
are again accepted liability under which a husband is bring actions, got damages, and put of new books have just, arrived withstanding. It is entitled Shanghai
one without restriction of senders at present placed for his wife's them into their own pockets. The from England amounting to the Whither?" and depicts
risk.
wrongdoings. This announcement equality of the sexes demands this value of £66. These are up-to-in a churchyard. Into a grave,
was made by. Viscount Cave, the clinnge in the law.** date books, carefully selected, and surrounded by sorrowing relatives,
Between Perth and Derby, Aus- Lord Chancellor, in reply to a sug- The Lord Chancellor, Lord Cave, cover a large range of subjects.a en is being lowered, while, at They will be available in the the back of the clergyman, there trulia, two cities 1.500 miles apart, gestion by Lord Danesfors that a replying for the Government, said Library soon. The Council wish appears the ghostly figure of a girl what is asserted to be the longest comunittes should be appointed to that the old rule that a husband to publicly thank Mr. B.
Two regular passenger air service in the consider the necessity for an ultera-might beat his wife with a stick Grising froin the ground. Birch. formerly a tutor of Eng-children, are playing near by, a world is operated by the Western tion in the responsibility of hus-no thicker than his thumb had lish at the University, who has onfer is leaning against a tomb- Australia Airways Timited. Thore bands in view of the wide legisla- gradually disappeared, but, another very kindly purchased these stone, and in the middle distance a are six intermediate calling points, tive changes that have been inade injekties had been caused by the books for us at Bristol, and seen football match is in progress. The and a weekly schedule is main in recent years in the status and retention of the liability of the
rights of married women,
husband. If the husband wa to their safe arrival at Hongkong, trees in the churchyard-cypresses ❘tained.
Lord Dunesfors said that the law liable for, his wife's torte, at all to-day was that a husband was re-events in times past he had her sponsible for his wife's wrong money, but to-day the law was doings, even though committed that no part of the woman's pro- without his knowledge or consent, perty went to the husband on mar and although his wife was separ-riage. It was an unjust state of“ ❤ated from him at the time. It was things.
SOCIAL
PERSONAL. AND
Miss W. J. Jack was a passen- | Mr. A. Dyer Ball returned to ger from Sydney on the Arafurn, the Colony by the Kashimir which arrived yesterday.
Dr. J. B. Fearn, who has been on Home leave in Europe and America, has reserved passage on the Empress of Russia, which is due in Shanghai on September 4.
yesterday.
Mr. H. L. Pearce of the "North- China Daily News" staff is in the General Hospital suffering from pneumonia.
..
Mr. B. M. Ede, son of the late the Mr. Montague Ede, arrived in the Colony
yesterday by Kashimir.
:
the survival of some of the old com- "We have heard much of the mon law doctrules which, according rights of wives, concluded Lord Cave, "but I think in this case we to modern ideas, were crude.
Lord Haldane was sympathetic ought to consider the rights of hus- with the unfortunate "husband," | hands.” The Government pro- and agreed that it was monstrous posed at a convenient time to in- that the principle referred to by troduce legislation, to remove this Lord Danésfort should remain. grievince, but it might not be pos Sir Walter Gilbey, at New-
Lord Darling said that this was sible to find time during the pro.. market, presented Mr. Richard a matter of reform that ought to be sent session. Marsh, the former King's trainer, urged by women themselves if they with a cheque for 23,435 and an wanted to be considered as in- A crowd of rowdy students in- album containing the subscribers' dependent people. The law as cluding boys and girls, and names, but-not-the amounts subsumed that married my und augmented by a number of men scribed, as a mark of apprecia- woman were only one person, and and women, demonstrated before tion of his career as trainer for therefore if the woman committed at the C.M.S. Hospital in Hangchow fifty years at Newmarket.
wrong it was committed, by her husband. on June 3 and tóre down the
It had been laid down, Union Jack-flag which was flying
Lieutenant-Colonel John C. in fact, that a man's wife was in in honour of the King's birthday. Faunthorpe, C.B.E., M.C., V.D., a somewhat similar position to a It is to this hospital that Dr. A.D.C., of the Southern Regiment man's pet monkey, and that he was Among the passengers who H G Thompson, brother of arrived by the a.s. Arafura from Mrs. Lindsey, Kowloon, has been of the United Provinces Horse at responsible for the mischief she
Cawnpore, is to compete at the corumitted.. Australia yesterday were Lady appointed.
N.R.A. meeting at Bisley in July. Cruise and Rear-Admiral Sir Guy. Gaunt, M.P., who came from Sydney to Hongkong,
Mr. A. Crawley.. Assistant Naval Store Officer, now serving at H.M. Dockyard, Sheerness, has been appointed to Singapore for duty at the RN: Fuel and Store Depôl.
WILL IT SPREAD?
The last big blaze started in
Western Mail, Cardiff-
DOMESTIC CHASTISEMENT. This officer, who has been com. The husband was, by the old law,! The following tribute to Mrs. manding the Auxiliary Force at allowed to give his wife moderate Fenton appeare in the current Lucknow, is a well-known big correction, on the ground that if issue of the Hongkong University game and sporting rifle marks he had to answer for her mis Miss M. Bernard, Paris; and Union Magazine:-Mrs. Fenton man. He captained the British chievous behaviour the lay thought the same house. Mrs. W. P. R. Harrison, from has always been a popular figure team which competed at the it reasonable to entrust him with Manchester, were passengers op in the University and has ren- Olympic Games in France last the President Lincoln which dered pronounced services. Not year. He has shot for India with arrived yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. long ago, she was the guardian the Service rifle and is the 1924 Roberts Dollar travelled with the ofthe Union's piang, floral champion at the Running Deer boat as far as Shanghai. decorations,, and other proper Singles.
ties, and she always gave the News, has reached the Colony Union A smart
appearance. The University Council at its of the death of George Willis, Lately, she was kind enough to
a former Inspector of the Hong- act as Hostess at the Eliot Hall meeting on May 21, accepted with kong Police Force, at his re- "At Home For the players regret the resignation of Profes- eidence, Heathfield Avenue, she madis the pretty costumes, or R. K. M. Simpson from the Dover Joining the Force in but she did greater service by post of Associate Editor of the Unior Magazine. The Vice- October, 1902, he rose to the rank encouraging them in her own of Inspector two years before his charming and sympathetic way. Chancellor duly appointed Mr. George Keeton to the post. The retirement on pension in August,
Council on March 31 appointed
1923. Mr. Willis was 57 years The following seems a tribute
old at the time of his death and to Mr. A. H. Barlow, Manager of Mr. Ong Chong-keng to succeed
is survived by a widow and six the Hongkong and Shanghai Mr. M. B. Osman as Editor of the 129 children
Banking Corporation The home English Section of the Magazine, papers publish the portrait of and Mr. Lau Mo-tsung as Editor The Bishop of Victoria and Sir Frank Nelson, M.P. for of the Chinese Section of the Mrs. Duppuy expect to be absent Stroud, as among the early. Magazine. Mr. Lau subsequent from the Colony from June 11 to arrivals at the House of Com-ly tendered bis resignation, and the early part of September. The mous to hear Mr. Churchill's the post was filled by Mr. Lee Bishop is visiting Pakhol, Lim-Budget speech. Sir Frank is the Pak-hung, who was appointed on
June 2. Ehow and Yunnanfu for con-only Bangkok man in the House, 26-27 firmations and other work..says the "Bangkok Times." Hel
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During his absence the Rev. C. B. was a young man in the Hong- Spot-stroke billiards champion Shann St. John's Hall, Univer- kong Bank away back in 1906 to of the world in 1889, and the first sity of Hongkong, will be in 1910, under Mr. A. H. Barlow player to make a four-figure charge of the Bishop's correspon. He was then a bachelor, with a break, W. Mitchell, has been re- dence.
taste for amateur theatricals and fused the old-age pension on the lawn: tennis. On his first leave grounds that he has spent a long Andrew Cathedral, he got married and was trans-time abroad. He has appealed, Singapore, has been the scene of
Bombay He let the and an inquiry will be held
fa very pretty and interesting wedding. The contracting parties were, two well-known members] of the American community, of Bingapor the bric
Mr. John Byron Jar
fornia, director
Company Lt
Ming Eti
the fay
d saw his future-Shefflekt Mitchell retrives, 15s: market
subcribed by local Hla in fil-health thing to
ROYAL YACHT." NEARLY FOUNDERS."
The People asserts that the Royal Yacht the Victoria and which de antiquated and unseaworthy, nearly foundered, in a "on the way, tu Gonon, where the King and Queen, who od “averíand through Prafied embarked-on-her-for-the Canaan, crole," She was unable to accompany the destroyer contand had to halter Gibraltar, owing to the in
to the impossibility of
The paper hope the the'r Majcsties: wiff apond!!
wwwan aknale be verapped. "The Dally sketch, stated that fight, which is a poor samboat, and babayad badly
Mediterrazioad will be broken up in ber
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