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BIRTHS..

sion to press for the election or nomination of a lady member of either the Sanitary Board or the Education Board..

Now that the question has been raised it would be interesting to have the views of other promin- ent citizens in addition to the re- verend gentleman who has taken up the cudgela, in favour of the Indies. We live in an age of pro- gress. If our progress can be. accelerated and our life made healthier and happier by the in clusion of ladies on our Councils and Boards, why not invite their services?

LOCAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION.

To say that missionaries are

sch estimate the bearing

TRAFFIC CHARGE.

FRIDAY, APRIL 30 1926.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The completely turing happiness for them. We

nas upon good citizenship and that closer alliance of good feeling Within the Law, Gilbertian circle must ask ourselves about a thou- f the cigarette sand times a day, Who am I to and fellowship between Chinese

sit in judgment? We must and foreigners about which some and tobacco law was reached at learn to perceive the absurdity, of us talk such a lot and for West-end restaurant the other the impudence, and the preposter which we do so little.

evening. A diner, wanting some ousness of sitting in judgment.. algarettes, wont to the automile To err le human, to forgive ought machine of the cashier's counter to be. Here is the finest but found it empty Informed of form of benevolence, and the finest the fact the cashier opened a case will produce.

form of Satisfaction- sat- of cigarettes and inserted a num- ber of packets in the machine, from isfaction which increases from which the man bought a packet. year to year and only reaches ita Needing a second packet, he asked maximum when life ends... the cashier to change a half-arowa KOWLOON INCIDENT.

in order that. ho-might have a sui- An accident in which four table coin for the machine. In the ricsha coolies were struck by light of the law, that restaurant did motor bus and injured at Gasuot soft any cigarettes after 8p.m. coigne Road had a sequell at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when, the bus driver was charged with dangerous driving and hav ing inefficient brakes.

RICSHA MEN STRUCK BY BUS.

The Beat Care.

.

It is not true that the

They say... following lines are to .be placed over the portale of the entrance to the P.W.D. officesi

Thay sayo.

Quhat saye bhay, Thay half said.

Lat thaim aaye.

The best cure for worry, depres alon, melancholy brooding, says Mr. Arnold Bennett in the third series of his

That is said to have been the "Things That have Interested haughty retort of George Keith, 5th Me" is to go deliberately forth arb mareshal, to those who som

But un

One of the coolies giving evid ence said that the bus must have been travelling like a race horse. Asked whether he would return and try to lift with one's "sym-mented on the extent to which his to the hospital after giving evidpathy the gloom of somebody family had been enriched by grants ence, another coolie said he in else. And let both those who can of Church landa which had been tended seeing a Chinese doctor, as and those who can't do good worke annexed by the Crown he had no faith in foreign medi- make a practice of benevolent doubtedly the Earl Mareshal, who icine.

thought, "Let all think kindly of was recognised as one of the most The case was adjourned.

others Lever criticiée them, cultured men of the age, was never condemn, never judge; on employing a remark of an earlier the contrary, let all condone, ex-date which he had met with in the cuse, justify, seek to comprehend,course of his studies. This George seek to put themselves in the Keith's memory will be kept green place of others. The mental as long as the Marisha College at. attitude has to be "perseveringly | Aberdean exists, for he was its cultivated: It cannot be adopted founder. There is another rhym- by a mere

good resolutioning Scottish proverb which was (Some exceedingly few are seemingly yorified by the later, mis born within it, and allfortunes of the Keiths: I have to say of them is, Meddle: no with haly thingsp that they do not know their

For if ye dee, neck, for something within them is always mysteriously manufac

SHALLOW LIES.

PARTNER TO DELIBERATE FRAUD.

CHINESE CONVICTED..

At the Central Magistracy yes terday, Mr. E. Davidson called further evidence for the prosecu tion: in a charge against a manag ing partner of conspiring to defraud the Him Yick firm of 88,200. It was stated at pre- vious hearings that when deposi- their money the accused put them off with a remark that the affairs of the firm had not been adjusted. Mr. J. T. Prior, for the defence, said that another man was in structed to make the payments but it was not known whether he had done so, as he had not been we might well dismiss the matterseen since the case begant There

or

FIRE AT SEA.

LOST NEAR SINGAPORE.

A weird. I rede, in some shape!

Shall follow thee.

Officer), and Mr. Anderson (chief engineer) remained on the ship until everyone sise. had left and they left the ship themselves about forty-five minutes after the fire broke out. In another fifteen CREW SAVED FROM BLAZING minutes the ship was ablaze from

SHIP

stem to stern, the flames reaching. to the masthead. Frequent explo- the flames: sions were heard, as reached the kerosine and the drums of fuel-of which were also in the holds.

One of the most thrilling stories in local shipping, history was an acted in the Malacca Straits, about 23 miles from Singapore last night,

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The captain and chief engineer donned lifebelts and slid down into

the

the cause of all the trouble intors applied for the return of S.S. CO'S "PENANG TOTALLY China-or that they are primari ly responsible for the outbreak of BURGH-THOMAS - Or anti-foreignism in China, is a April 17, at Pula Bulang, to serions statement. If an extrem, the wife of Mr. A. de Burgh-ist-one in favour of reform by Thomas, M.C.. a daughter. revolution-made the statement, JEFF-On April 21, at the Euro- péan Hospital, Kuala Lumpur,

the wife of J. Jeff, Malayan as not worth a moment's con-was nothing to show that the pro- says the "Straits Times" of April sideration. Similarly if a Russian missory notes were forgeries and 23 when the Straite Steamship Civil Service, a daughter,

Bolshevik a Communistiche thought his client had been Company's "Penang" caught fire the see by a rope from the stern.

easily imposed upon...

од crew How the mate, who was DEATH.

Chinese made it, not much regard |

The Magistrate (Mr. Lindsell) and was a total loss, the But the pointed out that accused hud being saved by several ships which bridge aft got away is not yet SCOTT-On April 20, at 86. need be paid to it:

known, but he was picked up safely, Perak Lane, Penang Isabella statement comes from a Briton-obviously lied in the witness box,

The "Penang which is a vessel The "captain and engineer, who to which Mr. Prior said that the Maria Scott, aged 26, daugh one entitled to be heard; one lies were extremely shallow and of 870 tons grossi, and was built as supported themselves on a gangway, ter of the late Mr, T. A. A wielding a formidable pen and he did not think the man

far back as 1881,. runs between drifted four miles and were in the and Mrs. A. E. Scott, of.

Singapore, Port Swettenham and water over an hour before they Singapore, and sister of Mr. Prepared to justify his 'state-lying by art.

Port Dickson. Yesterday she left were picked up. There Accused was found guilty of a

men. astrong current, and the C. C. Scott, Bandmaster,ments. Leaving the larger issue M. C. P. Penang.

Singapore at four o'clock with

deck rafts or awimming without support general cargo and thirteen passengers. She had a crow of were carried along by it, but. for- abcut Afty Malays and Chinese, tunately a small Batu Pahat coaster and there were 2,500 ting of kero-named the "Meena" also drifted sine in her after holdi

with the current, and saved them. There was, a fresh wind and sea,

Hongkong, Friday, April 30, 1926,

FEMALE FRANCHISE.

Moyle writes to the local Fress. suggesting female franchise. Reuter should cable the news of a lady being elected M.P. for

East Ham North.

The reverend gentleman con- siders that "it is time that

women should be given the vote

WEDDING.

THORPE GERRARD.

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to one side, as beyond intimate deliberate fraud and sentenced to

three months' hard labour, knowledge, except where direct contact has been made with mis- sions and missionaries in China-- does the statement hold water locally? There will be no ques-

At about seven p.m, when the but fortunately, having regard to. ship was nine miles north of the the danger from sharks, there was tion that it does not Whilst It is a coincidence that, on the there is a measure of medical

Sultan Shoal light, the alarm of no moon,⠀⠀ A quiet wedding, took place are was raised,, and fames shot up No. Lack of Assistance." same day that the Rev. H. Copley missionary work being carried on yesterday afternoon at St. John's from the fore hold. The fire-hoses Fortunately there was no lack of

Cathedral, the parties being Mr were immediately got to work, the assistance, several vessels having...... in the Colony, and a large mea- Bernard Thorpe, of the Hongkong boats slung out, and all other pre- left Singapore just after sure of evangelistic work in the Police Force, and Miss Margaret cautions taken, but it was quito "Perang." The Meena" came up at villages of the New Territories, Gerrard, daughter of Mr. and impossible to check the fames. It most at once, and did most valuable missionary effort is principally Mrs. W. G. Gerrard p

is believed that the fire started rescue work. Her Malay captain The bride wore a charming among some straw, and its in-, had a boat out, and also picked centred in education: Few know dress of white charmeuse with tensity was due to the fact that men up on his own craft The little or anything about Christian lace over-dress, embroidered tulle some Chinese, sambu caught alight. Straits Steamship vessel "Calypso education of a primary character vell with coronet of orange blos It was evident in ten minutes and the Dutch steamer "Van Cloon carried on in different parts of soms and white heather. Sha car that there was no chance of ex-bound outwards from Singapore for and the right to sit on public

ried a bouquet of white roses and tinguishing the fire, and the Batavia, alao stood by.. The Asia- Councils and Boards in this the Colony. It is of course not maiden hair fern

Mrs. A. H. Elston attended the Chinese, who had taken boat tic Petroleum Company, whose There can almost be unhonoured, but it is certainly

The officials saw the blaze from Pulau Colony." imagined a flippant smile on the unsung. Day by day, teaching in bride as matron of honour and stations, let the boats away. faces of many who read this sug. the vernacular is carried on by was attired in mauve crepe de tackle became tangled, and the Bukom, sent out the tug "Horcules," chine with hat to match, carrying European officers, had to cut the the Harbour Board sent a tug, and Hines to free the boats. Had it not Captain Chalmers, the Senior a bouquet of larkapur... There gestion. And yet, the reverend devoted Chinese teachers under

the supervision of foreign Chris-were no bridesmaids

been for the fact that men were Boarding Officer, went out in

The blaze was clearly, gentleman has written in all seritian missionaries The larger Mr. W. H. Nolloth attended the clining to lines and tackle in the launch. ousness. Much water has flowed schools are more in the public bridegroom as best man.

water around the "Penang" Captainvisible from the top of Mount under the bridge of public opinion

gaze by reason of the class of The Rev. H. C. Copley Moyle Ura would have attempted to beach Faber

the ship and he did in fact try to As far as can be ascertained no since the hectic days of the education taught and the influence

Following the entertainment of do so, but had to stop the engines lives were lost. The two boats of Suffragettes. The war

came they have on the lives of hun- friends at the residence of Mr to save the men in the water. The the "Penang were towed back to Singapore by the "Hercules," which along and gave a new angle to the dreds of Chinese of both sexes. and Mrs. A. H. Elston, Happy anchor was then dropped.

also brought back the captain, the - Overpowering Furnes. whole question of women's rights. The strike may have found school Valley, the bride and bridegroom

"After a short time it became in chief engineer, and the second en- Moreover, the women have proved boys in these institutions tinged left for Repulse Bay, the bride's that they can be capable mem-with the spirit of nationalism and going away dress being of beige peasible to stay on the ship. The ginger (Mr Murchie) The chief crepe de chine with shoes to heat and fumes were overpowering, officer went to Muar on the "Meena," bers of public Councils and Boards Inclined to assert, what we may match and powder blue hat and the fumes were blown aft by and several others to Malacca on both at Home and in the overseas easily describe as a feeling of On Saturday Mr. and Mrs. the wind, so that it was impossible the "Calypso, but everyone appears Dominions. Lady members of Patriotism. To ascribe any ill Thorpe leave for England by the to get forward at all. The Chin- to have been accounted for.

ese coolies had already left the Officers Lose Everything.

The captain, officers, and crew Parliament are no novelty either effects from such manifestations 3.8. "Macedonia."

ahip and since they had taken the to missionaries would be as un. at Home or in Australia.

boats the Malay grew and Euro- lost all their belongings and a cor- pean officers were left to save them siderable amount of money in the selves na best they could Rafta case of the officers The arst news and everything that would float of the disaster was received at were made use of, but some of the Sing

Here in Hongkong the problem st as it would be absurd. Al if it can be termed a problem the Institutions we have in mind of female franchise does not at are staffed, as a general rule, by first sight appear to bristle with enthusiasts in a cause who de many difficulties, So far as rote their lives to educate and in- actual membership of a public fluence The boards or com Council or Board is concerned mittees invariably include Chin- there are doubtless greater rea- ese who appreciate what da being sons for than against ladies. The done, and appreciate it in a re- and practical manner average man who delighteth in ma public service is usually in the by

large sums

dilemma of having too

Some of his

In the fire. have to be saC well. On ne ladies have the them maat: have Η του

officiated.

A BAD MONGREL.

BIT THE HAND THAT. FED IT.

EUROPEAN ATTACKED."

Malays had to swim until they were message from the Van

The fire. lasted picked up

Captain Ure and his officers told morning when the

Straits Times" repre tive, her disappe Among reports of attacks by this morning that all the Malays dogs yesterday, one has it that behaved splendidly, an

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