1927-03-22 — Page 7

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1927.

MARBLE FLAT.

MISSING CONSTABLE.

GIRLS AS, COOKS.

Alleged Bribery Case Witness.

ALABASTER AND BLACK GLASS

CROWN IN DILEMMA.

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"AID TO DOMESTIC HAPPINESS,"

THE

CHINA MAIL.

EGG LAW.

"COURT'S ANSWER TO

PLEA

"If the Banch can give me a cor- freet definition of new-laid egg I

one has been able to do so yet." shail be greatly obliged, becausé no

This remark was made by a soli- This fut-which has 26 rooms,eitor at Enfield Police Court defend Including B Bathrooms--is on the fourth foot, of Devonshire House, ng George Wheeler, an Enfield and is being decorated by Mr.tradeaman, summoned for, exposing Oliver Hill, the architect, for the for sale eggs marked "new-laid" without including in the description the word "Imported."

A business girls' course is being There is being prepared in Devon Istarted in the department of cookeryshire House, Piccadilly, W., a large at the headquarters of the Institute fat which will be like the palace of Br Hygiene, 28, Portland-place. Van ile dream. There was an unexpected'des where for sorth time cookery classes velopment

the Criminal have been conducted but hitherto no Sessione this morning in the case special attention has boon paid to in which Wong Chilen isthe basiness girl. In conversation charged with offering a bribe to with a Press representative. Mr. ail Indian constable in connection, Seymour Harding, the secretary. with the seizure of opium on de-said so many business girls did not fendant's person defondant has have the time or the facilities for altendy been fined for opium pos- cooking, "They are always bully engaged during the day, so we are

session).

the evening.

Of necessity, when

owner.

Details of the decorations, which have apparently been chosen with- st egard to cost, were given to reporter by Mr. Hill.

A fine of 20s. was imposed.

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS, ANNOUNE NO 'IN' THE “MAIL."

Entertainments.

COLUMBIA NEW-PROCESS RECORDS

·BY"..

LAYTON & JOHNSTONE

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March 22-Queen's "The General"

March 22-World Theatre; venge of Kriemhild."

Theatre;

"Ro-

ish

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March 22-Star Theatre; "The Early Bird Loving Lles."

Murch 22-Jancha, Heifetz at the Queen's Theatre, 9.30 p.m.

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(OH MISS HANNAH

POOR. POPPA

WHEN I SAY GOODBYE TO YOU

JI WONDER WHERE MY BABY IS...

MY PAL HARRY ...

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"LET ME LINGER IN YOUR ARKS

Į SOMEBODY LIKE YOU

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WHY DO LOVE YOU?

race

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"O at the orders made to be- March 22-Theatre Royal, "The wildur shopkeepers, the one relat Last of Mrs. "Chayney," 9.15 p.m." ing to legis la the worst." the soll- Apríl 1, 2.4, 8, 9-Theatre Royal; The walls, floor, and -eeting of citor added "A shopkeeper can-1.M.S. Pinafore," 9.30 p.m. Sir Joseph Kemp, Attorney starting these courses for them in

the dining-room will be of sun-not sell Imported eggs without so General addressed Mr. Justice they marry, the majority of them gabla will be of verdite a dark new-luid. English eggs which have

April Theatre Royal; "H.M.S. coloured marble from Maly. The marking them, yet he can sell as Pinafore." Matinee. 4.30p.m. Wood before the opening of the have to atop straight from the office green marble from Africa, and there been pickled for 6 months."

Sports. case this morning and stated that tool or the factory to the altar, will be a sideboard of the same the Indian constable in question without having had any serious pro-substance. Round the room will

March 26-First, extra could not be found and the Crown paration in the domestic arts, ea stand four lamps of red and golden,

meeting of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, at Race Course, Happy Val- could at present offer no explanas perially in cooking. It might Boongy, with lights glowing in golden-

Hey. tion for his absence. The con-arked that much domestic unhan- onyx bowls. The room will also bel

March. 26--Twelfth Annual stable had beefa given the usual piness is due to the absence of Thiaft by lamps glowing through the SALT FOR THE TEETH Sports meeting of thk. University monthly leave a twenty-four knowledge. We have already about and-coloured marble coiling. hours at 8 am yesterday and had sen Business girls on 11 Hista not reported buck to Police Headwishing to take the course. We are parters. He hud no alternative, only waiting for a safelent number said Sir Joseph, but to ask for an oxirls-sav, twenty-in order-to- adjournment o

emmence the classes.""

Mr. P. G. Jekkin. for the de- The Institute has secured as con? fendant) posted the application suiting chef M. Paul Ferran, chier and stated that the defendaná, who had only come to Hong Kong) in connection with the Races had already brym „aubjected to won siderable inconvenientu. Owing to this undertannte occurrenke he had been detained very consider- ably and it was nicessary that he' should return shortly do his home in the country..

His Lordship'iminated that he would adjourn the case until 2.15 to enable the Cows tel offer some explanation. Failing cubisfae- tony explanation at the witness i absence or actual presence he would have to dismiss the case.

Sir Joseph „pointed out... ihat somu accident might have be fallen the m01. In the event of the hypothetical explanation that he had been drowned, the f'rown might not be in possession of this; information for a day or two. Was the Crown therefore to have the case dismissed?

His Hondu zaidi be - thought the Brown should be in a position fo offer some explanation by 2.15 pan. Otherwise he would have in! dismiss the 'taše.

The jy were requested to at- tend this afternoon

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DEATH AT 108. &

REMARKABLE FRENCH-

WOMAN'S CAREER.

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The window-frames will be "of desp yellow Verona marble. e- gravel with silver, and the, doors

of oak.

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DENTAL ADVICE BY SIR HARRY BALDWIN.

I measures in dental hygiene The long gallery of the ball has a green marble door and walls of were adopted and intelligently and | Kesk glass-tas backed with steadfastly pursued from early black and silver grey cak. It with years few teeth would ever be lost.

"serne is Heilow, "China, showing barricade on the British Bund at the Custom House.

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Athletic Association. University ground, Pokfulum. 2.30 p.m.

Meetings."

March 23-Fifth annual meeting of HK. Engineering & Construc- sion Co., Ltd.. Mesars, Shewan Tomes & Co., Ltd.. 11.30 nm.

March 23-Sixteenth ANN meeting of the Bank of Canton, Lta., Des Voeux Rd. Ct. 2.30 p.m. March 23-Annual meeting of the Assen, of Past & Present Commar- cial Students of H.K. University in the University Union Hall, 5.15 p.m. March 26-Thirty-first meeting of the Dairy Farm, lee & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.. 2, Lower Albert Rd.,. noon.

March 26-Forty-second meeting for A. S... Wasson & Co. Ltd, Hong

Kong Hotel 1 a.m.

| March 28-Annual meeting of Hong Kong Lawn Teqnis.. Hong Kong Cricket Club pavilion, 5,30 p.m.

March 28-Fifty-eighth general meeting of HK. Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.. Mesara, Jardine Matheson's offres, nonn

April Hong Kong Automo- bRe Assn. meeting. Messrs. Jardine Matheson's officës, '5.30 p.m.

March 29-Annual meeting of the Hong Kong & Whumpona Bočk [Co., Ltd. 2, Queen's Bldg, noon.

March 30--Extraordinary meat- ing of The China Light & Power [Co. (1918). Ltd. St. George's Bldg..

Chater Rond, 2.30 pm.

March 30-Thirty-eighth annua) meeting of the Green Island: Gement Co., Ltd, St. George's Building. 13 a.m.

March 3-Annual meeting of Gande, Price-& Co., Ltd., · 24 Ico House Street, noom

Lammerts Auctions. March-22-Household furniture` fwill be sold by Messirs, Lammert Bros. It their Sales Room, 2:30 p.m. Marth 23-Household furniture, at 101. Austin Road, Kowloon will be sold by Messrs. Lummert 'Bros. 2.45 p.m.

March 28-A valuable collection of postage stampa, will be sold at Metara. Lammert Bros.' Sales Room, 5.13 p..

March 28-Household furniture in No. 5. Queen's Garden, May Rd.. will be sold at 2.45 p.m.

chet to the House of Commons, and be lit by “artificial daylight" from and there would be little to fear Fauce's oldest womanizis dea? The vision the institute on Tuesday the ceiling.

trom either of the two great evila She was Madame thi'ikunk and h;n] fternoons and glycs demonstrations E One of the bathrooms has orange-dental caries and pyorrhoea, ne death has taken place at St. Flisar, lin permetical cooking. He instruc-oloured alabaster walls. an ivory:cording to a paper by Sir Harry where she spent most of her felted about fifty women how to cook red marble floor, and a partly Baldwin read at the conference of at the age of 108, Madame Galand stufa eniten. The majority fuck bath of jude-green marble. Health Visitors and School Nurses lard had a wonderful old age. After were cooks and housewives.

One of the bedrooms will be in Bedford College, Regent's Park, she had reached a century she sang

the Venetian style, with areaded N.W. old operatic airs, danced, did ample

, pilasters of engraved glass, and a justice to the meals prepared for

colour scheme of blue, pink, and teeth would mostly take care "of 1 the gums were healthy the her, nn was a connoisseur of good

grey. Another will be panelled in themselves. Every square inch of wines. She had an extraordinary memory. One of her most cherish.

In he library there will be the gums, behind and before, must

·ed memories was kiss she receiv-burns while her mother was out mantelpiece of yellow marble anave friction and should be vigor- ously brushed with a moderately hard tooth-brush. A heaped up egg-spoonful of common kitchen ault in half a tumbler of Watering class by the Hong Kong Tech would suffice for the process.

NCWB

A BABY IN FLAMES.

How

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a child received fatal

redar wood.

STRANGE BED-FELLOW.

À BOA-CONSTRICTOR AS COMPANY,

sceous,

March 25-Organ Recital at St.j John's Cathedral, 6.45 p.m.

March 28-Formation of survey-

nical Institute, as Room 9, Queen's College, & p.m.

Apr 9-Annual "dinner of Queen's College Old Boys' Associa

ed from General La Fayette when at work and her father-a night | lapis lazuli. at ten years of age she ofered a worker-was asleep. was describ bonguet to the here of Americaned at an inquest held at Becken- ilpendence, who was making aham on the 23-months-old child political four in Auvergne.

Only recently shoutook a trip to Office workers of St. Hugh's. of Frederick Ernest Leat, à Post the Riviera. To the last her mind was lucid. She read the

Kout. Anerley. papers without spectacles and took The father stated that for

* Wadduwa, "Jan. 20% particular interest in political hup-eight years he had lived with his The story of how, a youth was

A warning has been issued by the tion, College Hall, 8 p.m. penings. Last year she was photo-wife and four children in one caved from a perilous situation by London District Committee of the graphed with conscripts of the 1927 room. On the Wednesday, having the timely arriyal of his fiancee for General Workers' Union that any

FOR COUGHS AND COLDS. class, and promised to celebrate come home from night duty, he

whom he was waiting, which is said ember who attends the Minority with them their release from mili-was left with the baby, whom hetion in Wadduwa is told by a co-enried.

JHEN changeable weather or ex- WHE to be the one subject of conversa-Movement Conference will be sus-

posure to cold and wet results in service promise which took to bed, with him. About

If any branch appoints bronchitis, start at once taking Cham judging from her state of health at mid-day he was awakened by the appears that a young man, who commendation for its disenfran- for over fifty years, and strongly res, ondent of the place. He writes: legates to the conference, a re-berlain's Cough Remedy, Been in use the time it was given, there was

baby's screams, and found her was keeping an appointment with hisement will be forwarded to the recommended for stubborn, weakening able to keep.

coughs. For sale everywhere. with her night-clothes alight. He self down to sleep an she had long assumed that she had picked up

delayed to meet him. He awoke to a piece of burning paper, and had

find a boa-constrictor resting its dropped it on the chair. It was

tary

every probability that she would be standing on a burning easy chair his fiancee, near a jungle laid him- bieneral Council.

A RECORDER'S PROTEST.

" the present barbarous ante not his wish that his wife went

of our law on the subject, I have no to work. She did so because of alternative but to send you to the depression of living in one prison," said the Recorder, Mr. room.

E. G. Hemmerde, K.C., at Liverpool Mrs. Leat agreed with her bus Quarter Sessions in sentencing band's statement, and said they James Whitworth, a labourer, aged had ried hard to get a house. "I 40, to a year's hard labour for being feel I cannot remain every day an incorrigible rogac.

in one room" she added..

Mr. Hemmerde added:

T desire one

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head on his body and looking in- youth remained perfectly will and tentiyent him. The terror-stricken while he was in this position the † giri arrived and with the assistance of villagers whiẩn che justily sum- toned the snake, was killed. The couple were married two days after.

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WEALTHY SCOTSMAN'S WILL..

Under the will of the late Mr.

more to make The coroner recorded a verdict Edward Clark, a member of the protest against the barbarous law of accidental death, and express- which compels me to pass these ed the hope that for the family's firm of Messrs. R. and R. Clark, Idiotic sentences on people who are sake the mother would soon suc printers, Edinburgh, the follow really mental cuses. It is time ceed in getting more accommoda- something was done to bring our tion

criminal law into line with more

civilised European countries.

"It is ridiculous that a man who

is a mental case should bu sent to

do hard labour which can do him

DOG BITES. A COOLIES

FI

ing sums have been left:

£10,000 each to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the Heriot Watt College, Edinburgh, for the purpose of furthering the teach- ing of typography, under the

nc possible good, simply because the A dog owned by Mr. Chet of No. auspices of that college.

people responsible for the adminis-11 Castle terras) was yesterday

A like sum is bequeathed toj

tration of justice in this country taken to Kennedy Town for observa- such institution in London as the will not take the trouble to look tion after having, bitten a coolia.trustees may see fit; and a fur

The coolic received treatment at ther sum of £10,000 may also be the hospital.

Into the matter."

DE PINEDO'S FLIGHT.

PEDDER BUILDİNG THEFT.

Mr. Graham Brown, architec, of The Marquia Di Pinedo, the Peddor Building, tob floor, had a Tamous Italian aviator, has arrived Remington porta blo typewriter

Manansa, March 21.

from Guajaramirim, thus complet stolen from his premises yesterday. Ing the first and most difficult fighting over the Brazilian, wildernesses. Routers American Service.

KEEP IT HANDY.

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O not forget that there are more bottles sold each year of Chamber lain's. Cough Remedy than of any

A salesman of a rice shop in New other cough medicine. Have you a Street is alleged to have absconded battle of it in your home? It is good with $189 which he collected on befor the children and the grown ups half of the shop between February ton Evers nsor 18 a friend. For anle "20 and March 14.

everywhere.

available to endow a printing: school for Edinburgh,

£5,000 for Red' Cross purposes, £3,000 to St. Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh, and £1,000 each to the Edinburgh Sick Children's Hospital and the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers.

The trustees are directed to distribute the residue among charitable bodles and purposes în Edinburgh or London, it being expressly provided that in doing Bo the University of Edinburgh may be treated as a charitable purpose.

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