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DE

MARRIAGE.

This appears to be a courageous move on the part of the financial experts of Ceylon. The Govern- mental surplus balance amounts. to nearly Rs. 44 millions and the Colonial Secretary has presented a budget purposely aiming at a deficit on the year of Rs.

THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1927.

OUR $50 PRIZE.

Result of Tenth New Puzzle.

81,900,000. But, as indicated, ONLY ONE WINNER THIS WEEK. Ceylon is. at the present very

PRAPS P'RAPS NOT!

"Why do you feed every tramp

happily placed in regard to her The "China Mall" has pleasure who comes along? They never do finances. The last budget, for in-in announcing the result of the any work for you."

"No," said the wife, "but it is' stance, was expected to show a tenth Cross-Word Puzzle of the new deficit of Rs. 16 millions. Yet series. This has been won by only quite a satisfaction to me to see a along came an unexpected supply one competitor with a fully cor-man eat a meal without finding

fault with the epoking." of revenue, and the deficit was rect solution. The winner is:- wiped out, leaving the Colony's finances as much to the good then Mr. Fred E. Silva, as they are now! Windfalls like this, however, do not furnish the secret of Ceylon's financial suc cess. The position to-day is the In accordance with the rulee result of organised retrenchment, a cheque will be sent to the and it augurs well for the Hong winner four days hence under re Kong Government's present policy gistered cover, together with the of the "China of a like nature. Ceylon, in the congratulations

Mail." light of her experience and re- sultant well being, can reasonably follows: say to us: "Go thou and do like- wise." It is hoped that we may be as successful.

A lawyer had won a case by elo- Green Island Cement Co., Ltd.,quence and trickery, and a rival said to him, bitterly: "Is there any Hong Kong.

case so low, so vilely crooked and shameful that you'd refuso it?"

"Well, I don't know," the other answered with a smile. **What have you been doing now?"

1

are Tho correct solutions

Across.

2.

•

Madge: Are you going to return the poor fellow's. ring?

Marie (who has broken her en- gagement); I suppose he'll propose to you now, and I thought I'd just

-1, NAIANT; 6, OBDUCE; 11, hand it over to you to save the IN; 12, BORED; 14, U.T.E.; 15, bother.

#

Director of Asylum: Why does he ask?

DR.; 18, GLOAT: 17, ACT; 18,! ROI; 19, EEKS; 20, OBTEND; 22, Attendant: There's a man outside ANN; 24, SO; 26, SURE; 27. OR; who wants to know if any of the MR. HO KOM TONG. 28. TOILS; 30, PIER; 32, SAT; 33, patients have escaped lately.

INNERS; 35, TO; 38, SPINET; 40, TAN; 41, URSA: 49, REP: 44, SNARL; 45, SUPINE; 47, TRUE; 50, SEND: 62, ESNECY: 66, AHA 56, CRUSH; 58, AL; 60, KIN; 62, ANTE; 63; VICE: 64, EN; 65, ASA; GG. R.I.A.; 68, HE; 69, YARK; 70, CHUM; 71, GNATS.

A TRIBUTE FROM QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

WELL MERITED AWARD.

Down.

Attendant: He says someone has run away with his wife.

A new comet has been discovered at Sydney. It has not yet been classifed, being "only visible as a faint spot of light in a powerful

glass." Bat "it presents a diffuse

•

is

"Or the many birthday honours bestowed by His Majesty King George this month on citizens of 1. NITRATE; 2, AN; 3, ABLE; circular mass. slightly condensed the British Empire we feel sure 4. NOOK: 5, TRASS: 6, OD: 7, near the middle." Perh, ps it that none was more thoroughly DUCTURE; 8, UTTER; 9, C.E.; 10, another "Labour Conference" be- earned than the O.B.E. conferred BRIER; 13. ET: 16, DO: 16, ing held in some usual hole-and- on Br. Ho Rom Tong, says the GENIO; 17, ABSENT; 18. R.D.; 21, corner way? "Yellow Dragon," the magazine of NESS; 23, NO: 25, OPINE; 27, Queen's College.

OTTAR; 29, SOP; 81, INEPT; 34, Mr. Ho needs no introduction to RISEN: 86. ONLY: 37, FRUSH; 38. the readers of the Magazine, and SAIN; 39, IRE; 40, TÁLC; 41, US; the space at our disposal is not 42, SPEAKER; 46, N.D.; 48, REST; enough merely to enumerate the 49. USHER; 51, BRASH: 53, EL- known good deeds for which Hong VAN: 54. YACHT: 55, AYRY; 57. Kong, China, and Britain have to UNAU: 59, LEES; 61, INK; 65, thank our distinguished former A.C.; 67. L.G.

pupil. Like his two brothers, Sir

Robert Ho Tung and the late Mr.

Ho Fook, both 0.Q.C's, Mr. Ho

orders were not the outcome is Kom Tong has given much of his

First K.C.: "How d'you get the Divorce Judges with you so easily?" Second KC.: "Oh, I amuse them with bedtime atories."

A butcher, hearing a boy whist- ling outside his shop, said: "What are you making all that noise fur, you young scamp?"

"I've lost my dog" answered the boy.

"Well," the butcher asked, "do'

not due in any way to Comrade time and an enormous amount of SWATOW OUTRAGE. you think, I've got your dog'

Borodin-unless we

| money to hie native town. are to see Places far beyond the confines of this Colony have also cause to feel grateful to him.

Com-

CONDONED BY CHINESE

• OFFICIALS,

BRITISH SUBJECT. RORBED.

News of the persecution of a

of

hand

"I don't know, guy'nor," replicil the boy, "but every time I whistle those sausages move."

A very plump woman went into a shop and, wobbling up to an as- sistant, announced:

"I would like to see a bathing

dress that would fit me."

virtue in the readiness of his guards to shoot down the very Since the beginning of the cen- op- creatures who have been used to tury his name has appeared

posite cubstantial suma on practi- further the Soviet cause.

cally every charitable list. He has rade Borodin more than any man fed, clothed, housed, educated, and naturalised British subject who as even buried the poor of the Colony, such, under international law, is

The assistant looked at her and the protection alive is responsible for the out- helped most munificently our hos entitled to

replied: "Madam, so would I" breaks of mob violence in China, pitals, schools, and University, and British nationality is to having, cynically encouraged the Scouts and Ambulance Corps.

supported various trops of Boy from Swatow.

It The acts complained of were According to the European Chinese Reds to employ this has been said that virtue is its own committed at the instigation of the papers, Madame Sigrid Onegin, the Opium Suppression dramatic contralto at the Berlin weapon without regard for the reward, and it must give Mr. Ho so-called

Kom Tong many a thrill of the Bureau, an organisation which is State Opera, can sing in four lan- consequences. Therefore it is purest pleasure when he realises notorious as a menopolist associa- guages and has a repertoire of more

than 1,500 songs. we say, that he has helped so many of his tion for trading in opium. The only poetic justice, as

fellow countrymen and been the victim was Lo Peng-klah, of 4 It is really wonderful what that he should have received a means of bringing joy and light to Jung Lung Street, Swatow, whose Onegin can do, taste of his own medicine. Regret so many sad dark lives; still it is father was granted a certificate of

Knowledge of three languages is will be felt that the lesson was good to see his noble efforts re British nationality at Singapore in

cognised and appreciated in the 1890.

required from French walters this not more salutary, 80 that highest places.

The Yellow Dragon' offers its Lo's house on June 10, stating that

The Bureau employees visited year on the Paris boulevards. Borodin, menaced by the very heartiest congratulations to our

"The tip of the tongue" will then forces he has himself let loose, distinguished Old Boy, and hopes they were searching for opfum, cease to be a mere figure of speech. might give pause to his evil cam- he will have many years of health seized opium that was found on

the premises and dragged him to "A young boy had one leg and happiness to enjoy his worthily the Police station, taking no heed shorter than the other, and he had paign. The Hankow incident, we earned honours."

do not suppose, will deflect his course, for he is ready, if we are

WINTON DENNYS. On to judge from the action of his June 11, 1927, at Christ Church. guards, to shoot down his own Esher, England, Vivienne Dennya, daughter of Mrs. dupes when the need arises, but it Dennys and the late Mr. Henry will do this much good at least, it| Lardner. Dennys, of The Elms, will reveal him in his true colours,| Thames Ditton, formerly of

de Winton, elder son of the Hon. Mrs. de Winton,

of

Slwich House, Brecon.

+

WILBUR PLAYERS.

"THE GIRL FROM CHILD'S" TO-NIGHT.

.

of his protestations that as he was been told that the only means of a British subject they could take treatment was by amputation."

Irish paper. action only through the. Commis-

sioner of Foreign Affairs and the

British Consul

"In a dingy room, with little save

Signed Under Compulsion. a ramshackle bed, a wobbly .table A demand for the payment of a and an ancient sofa, these orphana $5,000 fine was refused by Lo who lived."-Book review..

was then confined in an evil-amell- | Sofa, and no father.

ing cell. The demands of the ex-

At the Star Theatre last tortioners had by this time been re- When Mrs. Kilpatrick heard that

Hong Kong, and Mr. W. Parry so that the lower classes will see night the Wilbur Players scored duced and Lo was told that he her son had won the Calcutta him, not as the disinterested ad- another success in "The High would only be released on payment sweep, she just said "How nice"

of $1,000 and the signing of a state- and went on with her baking. viser, but as the cynical schemer Cost of Loving."

To-day "The Girl from ment that he had been fined for the This shows she is used to seeking only his own ends, even Child's" will be produced. The use of illicit opium. After twelve handling dough. to the point of killing those he story, briefly, is as follows- or fourteen 'hours' confinement, Lo Hong Kong, Thursday, July 14, 1927. professes to befriend. When this

A motorist, stopped at Willesden The black sheep of a family was obliged to accede to their re-

for excessive speed, exclaimed: truth is firmly grasped it will be of position, a typical young rot-quest and he was then released.

The British Consul at Swatow["Oh, bless my heart: I have only ter, marries a waitress-or a bad day for Borodin and it may

was informed of this outrage on just bought the car." rather gues through a mock- Lo's release and Immediately wrote well be that the next dispute over marriage with a waitress at a to the Commissioner of Foreign The argument had been all on his luggage will arise out of his lunch bar simply in order to Affairs in the Nationalist Govern- Mrs. Brown's side throughout the flight from the land where he has spite his family who have object-ment sending proofs of Lo's claim evening, and Brown was distinctly

ed to his attentions to a rela- to British nationality and asking fed up, wrought so much mischief.

MOBS IN CHINA.

Comrade Borodin having made so much use of mob violence in China to further his ends, it is only poetic justice that he him-

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over

the

tive whom they have destined to that the draft signed under com "You seem to think a cold in the be the bride of a nobleman, pulsion by Lo should be cancelled. head means nothing to a woman," The unfortunate waitress, not In spite of this and subsequent stormed his wife, "I don't know of

British anything more annoying!" self should have received a laste] Lucky Ceylon.

suspecting the deception, ar- notes despatched by the

Consul, the money has not been Her husband peered of mob violence before leaving Our sister Colony, Ceylon, is in barrass her "husband's" father, ties have condoned an act of ing to read.

rives home just in time to em- refunded and the Chinese authori-newspaper he had been endeavour- Hankow. The incident, as re- a very happy position.

There mother, brother and cousin, to which, in the words of the British No?" he countered, with a rare ported in yesterday's cables, arose they have so much money in say nothing of the nobleman Consul "only bandits would have Bash of spirit. "How about lock- out of a dispute over the remov-the Government exchequer that spurious). The usual complica country would be regarded as quite

(who is afterward proved to be been guilty, which in any civilised jaw?" ing of his luggage to the railway they are hastening to devise tions ensue, and, after a lapse intolerable, and which would result Staffordshire woman of her hus- station. An altercation arose means by which it may be spent. of one year, behold the waitress in the instant dismissal and con- bend: "He is sixty-two but I have between the coolies and Borodin's Thanks to the policy of retrench converted into a young lady who dign punishment of the officers found that he is flirting with an- other woman. He is worse than one of them shrieks in the dessert." staff. The latter attempted to ment inaugurated in the years captivates the heart of the bro-responsible."

Likewise behold the

Repeated Outrages. dismiss the coolies, who refused following the war to meet the ther.

The British Consul also drew the converted depression in the main planting supercilious cousin

attention of the Commissioner to A coloured girl rushed into an to accept dismissal, and rushed industries, a large surplus in into a trained nurse resolved to the fact that during the last two American hospital with a broken the building, sweeping the police public funds has been built up. do naught but good in this world years he had had constantly to com- jaw. When asked how the accident aside. The position became des- Now the Colony's financial posi- to make up for all the contumely plain of outrages committed by happened her answers were vague. perate and Borodin's guards fired tion is sound and its credit high, she has heaped on the waitress. Communist organisations against

But there is a fly in the ointment, over the heads of the coolies. This it seems, for according to the stopped the rush, but the coolles Colonial Secretary, Mr. F. G. refused to disperse until the Tyrrell, the machinery to ensure guards lowered their pistols and strict economy, which has oper-ment of United States Marines bad admitted gullt of an offence in "If yoh mus" know," said the girl ated so successfully, has at the here has sent an ultimatum to ameking oplum, had begged to be impatiently, "ah wuz jus natchaly. threatened to shoot to kill. The same time impaired the spending General Sandino, the former Lib. let off with a light fine and had kicked in de face by a gentleman incident thus closed without the capacity of the large departments, eral leader, who, according to the willingly paid the $1,000.

A REBEL'S CHOICE.

Managua, July 13. The Commander of the detach

A Hearty Welcome. CAFE

RESTAURANT PARISIEN hedding of blood. From the which have been unable to accom- American authorities here has been

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The only reply vouchsafed by the Commissioner was one which leaves no doubt that It was dell- berately false.

>

"Was it a large object?" asked the doctor..

Tolrable large," "Travelling fast?" "Tol'rable fast."

"Was 7" It stated that Lo

friend."

modate themselves to the changed occupying American minea and

A ghost is reported to be haunt- facts as given in the cable it will conditions, due to increased re- collecting taxes at San Fernando, be seen, however, that serious venue. In order to restore the The ultimatum calls on the General STRUJCK BY STEAM HAMMER.ing one of the English golf courses. This must be the original bogey, riots might easily have been pre-lost art of spending money the to lay down his arms by Thursday

Ceylon budget for the ensuing foint Conservative Nicaraguan and mer while at work at the Kowloon morning or he will be attacked by Hit on the jaw by a steam ham-

'There is an man in London who cipitated, possibly involving loss year has been drafted so that It United States forces. Sanding has Docks yesterday, a labourer suffer is a professional composer of cross- of life and extensive material provides a large excess of expen- at his disposal 1,000 men Reuter's ed injuries requiring treatment at word puzzles damage. That such grave dis-diture over revenue.

American Bervice,

hospital

Rather a checkered career.