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would it not be as well to explore the weaknesses and defects of the Corps: apart altogether from the point of the period of annual training? It might be construed as rank heresy—or at least tread ing on delicate ground even to

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23,

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noises not to be tolerated. The principal offender at the moment LATE LEGISLA is the motor car horn perform. erwho lacerates nerves, and "frightens the life", out of peace,

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1,713,900 ESTATE,

Letters of administration have

THE NAVY LEAGUE,

LECTURES ON WORK OF

FLEFT

"A FLAG DAY,

The giving of lectures on both

ful pedestriand whose only fault is that they do not possess motor cara Seemingly, the creation of been granted in respect of sides of the harbour, illustrating Funnecessary noises is an offence Head of Messrs Jardined at the annual meeting of the the estate of a former the work of the Navy, was moot

It was mentioned that a series of blides and letter press con- nected with naval matters had been received from home and it was proposed that this material should be used.

In law. It is an offence against Matheson and Co., to the Hon. Mr. good taste; but the law says, in. D. GM. Bernard, the appointed Hongkong branch of the Navy effect, and in the words of the attorney League, held at the City Hall verger to the dead old lady in Mr. John Bell Irving, of Milbank, KC presiding in the absence of The estate is that of the Inte yesterday Sir Henry Pollock, Church with an ear trumpet Lookerbid, Dumfries, Scotland, and the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak. "One toot and your cot!" Ten formerly of Hongkong, where he dollars for "continually sounding was a member of the a warning device in Chater Laglalative Council, and who died at his home in Scotland Road is sufficient penalty to warn on July 13, 1925, at the age of 79 others to desist from a practice years. He leaves property in the which cannot be justified on the Colony to the value of $1,715,300 grounds of

of an intense love of music and is only making of the place a little bedlam. Of the sounding of motor horns gen erally, there is probably two sides to the question. The driver

The will is dated 14th of Decem- ber 1921 He left legacies to his all feasible & flag day should be It was also decided that if at widow, Mrs Iarbella Thomton Bell held this year in October. Last Irving; his son, Mr John Bell year, owing to reasons with Irving, and his daughter, Mise which they wars well acquainted; Together with his widow he flag day. The local branch in Bella Belll Irving...

it had been impossible to hold the appointed as executors his brothers Amoy, however, raised £10 in aid had been gratefully acknowledged by Sir Vincent: Baddely

has a responsible job. His, not Mr. David Jardine Bell Trying of the "Implacable fund which merely to drive a car, but to see that no one is driven into. It viter rang his bell to let you know used to be said that a bicycle

popularise the Volunteer Corps in he was coming. You simply con the best sense of the word. Indi-tinued on your way. A motor car vidual grievances exist in every driver "toots" to let you know he Corps (for of such is human is coming, but, seemingly, to warn nature), but as these are usually you to get out of the way. The aired far from the parade ground rule of the road seems to be that or the drill hall they may not all swift moving vehicles have always be heard by those who prior claims the pedestrian has have the best claim to hear them none. If this is true, it should be with a view to righting any made widely known, if only to wrongs, real or imaginary. Why prevent the noise of sounding do young men join up in a motor horns.. moment of enthusiasm and then quietly resign within the specified time after showing a merely per- functory attendance at parades? Hongkong.. Wednesday, Apr 28, 1926. Why should some clutch at any

excuse for

8 temporary transfer to other branches of their "firma in order to be provided with an apparently legitimate excuse for

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Whitehill, Dumfries Col. Andrew Bell Irving, D.9.0. Pall Mall is left the on, boeiden much London and James Jardine Bell

Irving, Makerstoun, P

property, the sum of $10,000, sterling.;

He enjoined that after his death all male servants who had been ir hle employ over five years should be given £25, and all male servants who had been in his employ for over 10 years. £500.

Deceased left a large datate in Scotland.

of

already published, the Chairman,

After reading the report,

accounts, said that there was a compared with $642,54 last year. balance in hand of $747.24 as Since the balance sheet was made up however, a further sum of $200 had been collected.

The Chairman also read a letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Freemantle, appealing for help. for the Nelson Day Fund He said that old residents in the CHARITY BEQUESTS.

Colony would remember the Ad- admiral, as he was stationed in The late Mrs. Lee Po-sham, of Hongkong for some time. He No. 7 West Terrace, in addition to trusted that the appeal would re- leaving legacies to members of herceive the careful attention of the family, also made béquesta toincoming committee, and that it charity...

would make as generous a grant She enjoined that $10,000 should as possible in aid of such a worthy tion for the educating of orphans, be set aside for building an institucause."

The Chairman moved the adop the fastitution to be known in the tion 8f the report and the name of her late father-in-law, Mr statement of account, and the TO FIRST CLASS.

Yuk Hang, as a memorial of him motion was carried unanimously.. It cannot be said that the meet

If such a project failed she en

Officials ing of British merchants

The Consul General for Portugal joined that it should be paid to the severing their connections within Hongkong has received well-Po Chi Hospital in the Tung Koon

The Hon Sir Henry Pollock others to be held to-morrow on the Corps? That such things deserved promotion from his District. In the province of Ewang was unanimously elected Pre- the invitation of His Excellency happen cannot be denied, only Government fast which is of tung, and be devoted to the curing sident for the ensuing year. In the Governor, to consider sugges that no one appears to have the much satisfaction to his compa- of tuberculosis. She further returning thanks he said that his tions for increasing the efficiency grit to lay a bona fide grievance ed with satisfaction in the Colony $10,000 should be invested in pro

triots, and the news will be receiv enjoined that another sum

Arat, official connection with the League was in 1895. of the Volunteer Corps, has been before the Volunteer "heads lest generally. A private telegram perty and the income arising Mr WA. Dowley was elected. "rushed" or that it takes anyone the susceptibilities of others be from the Ministry of Foreign therefrom should be used for the Vice-President by surprise. It is getting on for offended Tis a pity as it only Colony lab week announced the dispensing medicine free of the Committee Commodore Affairs in Lisbon received in the upkeep of the same institution and The following were elected on three months since His Excel-tends to impair the efficiency of fact that Senhor Cerveira de Albucharge.

AJ B. Stirling Messre FA lency, at the annual inspection of the Corps as a whole and to marquerque e Castro has been promot-should be set aside and be invest land, A. S. Exell (hon. treasurer), She also enjoined that $40,000 Perry, J. H. R. Hance, R. Suther- the Volunteers, more than hinted that esprit de coups essential ined to first class consul-general in that he was going to ask for more a small British community.

ed, to form a relief fund. The in- and L, M. Whyte (hon, secretary),

service from the Volunteers,

It was in 1912 that Senhor come derived from the fund should The question of having a Flag On the principle of "first things Albuquerque received his first con- be devoted to ameliorate distress Day on Nelson's Day this year That is a matter of the deepest first, there might be considered sular appointment, and left Lisbon in the case of typhoons, famines, was left to the incoming com concern not alone for the Volun- the problem of popularising the for Orense, in Spain, After six foods, etc. She trusted that the mittee. teers themselves but for em Volunteer Corps of making to Vigo in November in the same financial aid of other rich people, monthe service he was transferred fund would be augmented by the ployers

It cannot be decided that it ought to be instead of pro- September, 1914. Soon after Mrs. Les left over a million upon without most serious con- voking aby lamentations at hay-Consul Albuquerque was pro

the outbreak of the Great War dollars. sideration. In speaking at the ing. "“joined up." --Pride in an moted to consul-general, and in that Volunteers inspection His Excel-efficient Volunteer Corps is never lency stated that the General confined to its officers and mem Officer Commanding. Major bers; it is shared by the whole General Luard, considered and community. But, were popularity years Senhor Albuquerque acted as ber, 1914. For a little over Ave. the Governor himself agreed to be ensured, efficiency even Consul-General at Kobe, and in that the present period of annual the maximum officiency would February, 1920, was transferred to training was too short, and he follow automatically,

Hongkong, where he has remained (the Governor) proposed to see In any event, it is to be hoped

Lever since. whether suitable arrangements that there will be a representative could not be made forthwith for response to His Excellency the prolonging it..

Governor's, invitation to British In commenting at the time on merchants and others to the meet His Excellency's remarks in reing to be held to-morrow. A gard to a longer period of training round-table conference on such an we remarked:

important subles in its relation That may be expected to be to the defence of the Colony must the subject of a conference bebe productive of some good. And tween the authorities and the no one can possibly demur at the Chamber of Commerce. There desire for securing the maximum is, and will be for some time, of efficiency in the Volunteer a shortage of staffs in business Corps, which has already render firms, and it may be argued that led magnificent services to the & longer period of training hot whole community only would be a hardship on

(Colony British labour in this Volunteering the genuine pleasure year, where he remained until "so that it may never end."

firms but a at the same time im-

pede the Bow of recruits to the

Volunteer Corps."

It is gratifying to observe that We this aspect has not been protes

rlooked

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capacity came out to the East and represented his country at Kobe, Japan, where he arrived in Decem-

$10,000 THEFT.

MERCHANT'S LOSS WHILE ASLEEP

BACK TO NORMAL

HE HOTEL GETTING OVER THE FIRE,

LATEST ADDITIONS:

By May 1 this Saturday) the Hongkong Hotel management will have had just four months in which to reorganise, after the disastrous fire of New Year's Day. This does

necessary for "looking around not take into account the period

A new restaurant will be opened when the following will be avail-

CHINESE IMPRISONEDET

service in the Colony has been was charged with the theft of

Consul General Albuquerque's

The case against a Chinese who entirely satisfactory to his own $10,600 from a merchant staying Government as well as to the at the Great Eastern Hotel was Colony to which he has been continued before Major C. Willson able Mr. Wm. H. Gale, U.B. Consul-when the accused alleged that he accredited. On the departure of at the Central Magistracy yesterday Tiffins, noon to 2.80 dally, at $1. General in Hongkong to The had been ill-treated by the police. $1.25

Dinners, 6 pm to 9.30 p.m., cat

Hague in 1924, Senhor AlbuquerEvidence showed that the money que acted as Dean of the Con was handed over to accused's sister; it capacity has efficiently dis-in-law's house where it was found: Bular Body In Hongkong, and in who in turn took it to her brother charged the onerous duties, devolv- when the police went there cro ing upon him. His well-merited Witnesses in the case were cross promotion, announced on the 2nd examined by Mr. McCallum for the instant, will therefore he mutter of defence and at the close he sub in the Colony congratulation for his compatriotsmitted there was no evidence against the accused and asked for bis discharge

CYCLE DEATH,

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