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DEATH.

FINANCE VOTES.

NEARLY $260,000 MORE

* FOR 1927.

MORE GROUND FOR 'HOSPITAL.!

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1927-

SHARE IN CAFE.

FIRM WHICH DID NOT EVENTUATE,

SUMMARY COURT CLAIM.

P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!

The Malayan cricketers have taken the "c" out of cricket.

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At its meeting on Thursday the Alleging that he had paid $100 na Finance Committee will be asked shares. in a proposed scheme for the collection in kirk after sermon. A Scottish minister was taking up to consider the following additional starting an "Empress Restaurant," He emptied out the bag and an-

Votes for 1927:-

Police Force: Secret Service and that the firm which was to run nounced: "Ma brethren, collection $2,000.

it had not been formed, a Chinese amounts to three pennies, two baw- Provision made in Estimates named Li Kwal-tin sued Chung Hol- bees and a button! (pages 38 item 27) $16,000.

nam, Li Kui-po and So Kit-san, the Rend yer hearts, and not yer

A further sum of $2,000 will be three sponsors of the scheme, for garments." required to meet expenditure to the return of his money in the Sum- the end of the year.

Įmary Court this morning,

Io had come back to the old Amount provided in Estimates Mr. E. S. C. Brooks was for home town. He had made good in $16,000-Less adjustment to S/W

Fortune and fame 165 $300; Expended to date $15,408 plaintiff and Mr. F. H. Loseby for the big city..

defendant.

were his after ten years' absence. -Balance $292.

He peeped out of the railway car- PlaintiT gave evidence bearing. out his claim. In cross-examin- riage window half expecting a band welcome from his The above is to be met from ation he admitted that the negoti- friends. But there was no one on savings under pasanges.

ation in respect of his dealings the platform. Ah the station-

The excess on this vote is due to unforeseen expenditure.

Police Force: Subsistence Prisoners $900.

Pravision made in Esti-

mates Amount provided Expended to September 30,

1927

Balance

Estimated requirement to

December 31

Excess

brass

of with the defendants had been master! He at least would wel- carried out by a man named Chiu come him. They had been friends Iu-chi, to whom he had paid the since boyhood. He was on the $2,500.00 money and from whom he had ob-point of extending a hearty greet-

2.500.00 tained a receipt.

ing when the stationmaster spoke first:

"Wotcher, Henry, Goin' away?"

$2,281.19

After plaintiff's case had closed, | Mr. Loseby submitted that there was $218.81 no need to call evidence for the de- fence as there was no case to 1.116.00 answer.

His Honour (Mr. Justice J. R.

$ 896.19 Wood) reserved judgment.

. The exceя8 is due to a larger number of prisoners during the latter part of this year than had been estimated for.

The above is to be met from savings under rations for Indian Police,

Police Force: 19 Light and Elec- tric Fans $1,000.

Provision made in Estimates. $34,000.

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"I bought this hat ten years ago.” "Never Why, it looks as good as new."

"Well, you see, I had it newly pressed seven years ago. Then three years ago I had it dyed, and last year I had a new band put

at the restaurant! See?"

SANITARY BOARD. round it. Yesterday I oxchanged it

THE RENTS OF MARKET STALLS.

- A NEW MEMBER.

潮。

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Landlady: "Now I wonder what

I can give them for lunch to-day ?"

Cook: "What about macaroni, ma'am?"

Landlady: "That's no uso. tried that, and they like it?

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I've

"Look here, air, are you the fool

"Well," replied his wife, "I thought from your remarks you were opening it with a prayer."

At this afternoon's meeting of the The amount expended on the Sanitary Board, Dr. W..V. M. Koth above vote up to September 30 was will move "that a committee of the $27.245, leaving a balance of $6,765 for the remaining three Board be appointed, composed of the of an editor who described me as The emigration scheme for months of the year.

President and Dr. S. W. Tao, Mr. the champion lightweight?"

"Well-or-you are the well- Brazil, judging from what we are The average monthly require-Wong Kwong-tin, and Dr. S. C. Ho, able to gather about it, is a soundments have been $3,000 and it is to inquire into the question of the known boxer, aren't you?"

estimated that a further sum of re-adjustment of rents of market

"No, confound you. That's my brother. I'm a coal merchant." one. To Japanese brawn in large $1.000 in addition to the balance of stalls and report to the Board." quantities will be allied Brazilian $6,765 will be required for the ex-

This matter, it will be recalled, penditure to be met this year. •

was brought up a few weeks ago husband in the next room. "what "My dear," called a wife to her opportunities and American A supplementary vote for $1,000 by Mr. J. P. Braga and the motion are you opening that tin with? dollars. The Japanese Govern- is therefore requested.

The above is to be met from was to have been moved by him at

"Why," he said, "with # tin- ment itself will assist the in-savings under passages.

the last meeting of the Board, but opener. What did you think I was dividual settlers. One of the in- Prison Department: Materials in the meantime Dr. Koch had re- doing it with?"

turned from holiday and resumed vestigators who has been studying for Repairs and Renewals $975.

.. Provision made In Estimates his seat on the Board. Brazil with an eye to Japanese 30.000.

Another matter to come before To instal was rings in the cook- the Board to-day will be a letter emigration-Mr. Tomokicha Hori,

house in place of wood fires. Wood from the Government relative to the son of the President of the Osaka Ares create a smoke nulsance to the appointment of Lieut.-Col Shosen Kaisha Steamship Com- Inhabitants of Chancery Lane and pany considers that the chances to the prison also, especially the Bravet-Col. J., S. Bostock, C.B.E.,

Printing Shop.

| R.A.M.C., to be a member of the for profitable cultivation on a The above is to be met from Sanitary Board, for a term of three miles an hour, I was not doing 20, large scale, of rubber and cotton savings under light.

yenra, vice Lieut.-Col. S. Boylan Public Works, Extraordinary: Smith, D.S.O., O.B.E., R.A.M.C., are very great. There is not the New Government Civil Hospital, with effect from November 10,

for necessary labour at hand, how-Compensation.

$253,500. ever, to carry out work on rubber

It is proposed, as soon as the plantations along the Amazon 'in financial position of the Colony LOADED REVOLVER. its upper, reaches and cotton permits, to reconstruct the Govern-

ment Civil Hospital and in connec plantations at the mouth of that tion therewith more land will be river as planned by American required.

A favourable opportunity occur-

24, 1927. (San Francisco and could-be-secured-in-any-desired New York papers please copy.) numbers.

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Exactly where the Japanese Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 1927. Government steps in is in regard

to financing the emigrants. It is proposed to advance to the head of each emigrating famliy auf- ficient money to permit him to acquire a small, independent hold- ing of land and the necessary agricultural implements, the loan

Resumption

and

CHINESE SENT TO JAIL FOR

FOUR YEARS.

SERIOUS FAMINE.

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Mother: Are his intentions per- fectly honorable?

Flapper: I'm afraid soj

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Accused: "I was 'not doing 40

not even 10-In fact, when the policeman came up I was practi- cally at a standst[]},”.......

Maglstate: "I must stop this case, or you will be backing Into some- thing. Forty shillings.”

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Mr. Joseph Brook, aged 66, a Joiner, from Audenshaw, Man-

Once dressed like Mother Hub.

bard:

they have a bolder whim: They dresa moro like her cup-

board.

"Joseph, take this letter."

"But, madam, It's raining, and

I haven't got an umbrella."

"Good! Then the more it rains the quicker you will go."

chester, in a case in which old in- habitants were giving evidence, said that he was born on Decem- capitalists, whose idea of import-red to acquire the site of the Yesterday Mr. W. Schofield and bar 29. A good man was born on day Gladstone, Another GULICK-On November 23, 1927, ing Negro labour from North Diocesan Boys School on Bonham Major C. Willson sat at the Kow-that

ease good man, he said, was born the at Shanghai, Dorothy Joyce America is frowned upon by the Road, and the sum now required is loon Magistracy to hear the

for the purchase thereof.

in which a Chinese who was arday before-Diarnell. Gulick, aged 24 years, dearly Brazilians. Mr. Hori's idea is

In July 1926. the Finance Com-rested with a loaded revolver and Mr. Justice Eve: So there were beloved wife of Horace Gulick.] The funeral took place at the that Japanese labourers would be mittre agreed that this sum might 92 rounds of ammunition in hfa pes-three of you-Gladstone, Disraeli,

session, whilst travelling in be offered.

and yourself. I had a puppy born Bubbling Well Cemetery at 4 welcomed by the Brazilians and Imports and Exports Tenart-motor car from Mongkok to Unlong, the same day. (Laughter). p.m. on Thursday, November

***Disraeli was born on Decem ment: 14-Other Charges, Oplum in the New Territories, on Novem- Miscellaneous Stores $300.

ber 17, was charged with the un-ber 21, Provision made in Estimates lawful possession without a permit $1,200.

of the contraband. After evidence Girls when they went out to swim had been given of the stopping of (1) Certain apparatus ordered the accused's car and the search

through the Crown Agents which resulted in the discovery of Now in 1926 did not arrive till the arms and ammunition, as al-

·JAPANESE PENETRATION.

June, 1927, and had to be ready reported following the ac- paid for from the 1927 vote cused's arrest, the Magistrates con- ($150).

victed and meted out the smart Japan, always on the look out

(2) Special apparatus had to be sentence of four years' hard labour. ordered in 1927 in connec-The contraband was ordered to be for new spots to where portions of

tion with work en Distillery confiscated. may be emigrated, has, it appears,

Control. This was not fore-i definitely picked upon Brazil as a

seen in 1926 and had to be to be repaid during the first six treated as an extra indent, country offering favourable op-

The total cost of this appar- portunities. With many parts of years of his stay in Brazil. Sixty

atus came to approximately $150 and the total deficiency the world closed to her sons, in acres of land per family is the area that has been fixed. No de-

from these two causes 13 spite of the more or less command for payment is to be made

approximately $300.

At least ten Chihli hstens and plete burial of the Yellow Peril during the first three years, the

dents under this vote were 66 Shantung hstens are now facing have yourself. heavier than usual this year a serious famine due to drought not at home now!" scare, the South Americas have repayment instalments coming in

owing to special apparatus and locust according to official re- for a long while been the object the second triennium, when the

required for · tobacco" In-ports received from responsible "Madame, the children are very vestigation and control. bodies by the China International [naughty." of investigation by Japanese emigrants should be well estab- The above is to be met from Famine Relief Commission. The "Send them to me and I'll play officials with the aim of emigra lished. The success of the scheme savings under Other Charges: affected area covers one half of the them something on the piano."" tion. At one time or other the depends upon two main factors:

Opium, Packing Expenses.

total area of Shantung and the "That's no use, madame, I've al- Imports and Exports Depart-catastrophe renders nine million ready threatened them with that." Argentine, Chile, and Paraguay the willingness of the Brazilians ment: Other Charges, Candles and persons destitute. These visita- have been mentioned as likely to accept Japanese at all, and, the $100.

Batteries for searching purposes tions have seriously intensified the Manager? You weren't too clever effect of the war and banditry, from last night, didn't seem to know your places for the experiment of a question as to whether that good- Provision made In Estimates which the population is still suffer part. gigantic scheme of Japanese will, if granted, will extend to

$400,

Ing. Specific figures for the condi- Actor: Know my part? Ha, ha, settlement, though apparently no- allowing Japanese labourers to consequently the expenses have hand.

More searching is being done and tion in Chihli have not yet come to hat Why, I know it backwards!

Manager: Yes, but we're not thing in a) Governmental or or- take up land and definitely settle been increased.

playing it that way. ganised manner was done. In the in the country. It is a vast pro-savings under Other Charges: The above is to be met from case of Brazil, however, it seems blem, as the United States dis- Binding Permits. that real action is intended. The covered when her, officials looked 860.

Fire Brigade: 9 Rent of Stations "A man there was, some people

thought him mad, excess of usable population is, one into the question of Japanese Provision made in Eeti

The more he cast away, the more may venture to say, Japan's settlement in California.

mates $1,800.00 he had."Bunyan.. Amount provided in Estla greatest problem,exceeding in;

importance her much-discussed

naval ratio as one :of

the world's leading Powers.

SELF-DENIAL

In-

Estimated expenditure for

November and De- ber

matea IMEENDE #1,800.00 Expended to October 31. Balance

1,668.23.

NINE MILLION PERSONS DESTITUTE,

BE LIBERAL

Mother (very angry): Behave yourself, Willie. What would your teacher any if you were to carry on in this manner at school?

Willie: She's say, "Willie, be- Remember you're

The scene was a village fair, and an exhibition of knife-throw- ing was the "star" attraction. wall and the kalfe-thrower took The victim was secured to the

his stand opposite him. His in-

tention was to outline his victim's figure with kniven.

E-5-5-2

There was an excited murmur as the thrower. poised a knife. A moment later, and a knife was

Charges, 26—-Sleepers; $ 281.77 Sleepers $200.

Provision made in Estimates quivering just by the victim's ear.

$22,000 YEA

There was deep silence for a 300.00 Estimated amount required to moment, and then a voice from the

pay a fee to Mr. W. R. Davidson, back of the crowd- 68.28 M. Inst. C.E., Assistant Chief Ea-Lummo, e's missed 'iml

The fundamental seriousness There, over did and never will of the question is well in exist anything permanently noble and excellent in that character stanced by her insistence upon which is a stranger to the exercise: The excess on this vote is due gheer, New Zealand Government

Excess the retention of what she holds in of resoluto self-denial.

to rooms rented at Kowloon to ac- Railways, for submission of a re- WHEN DREADED CROUP Manchuria, an insistence which

commodate European Sub-Oncers port on the use of concrete sleepers she has signified her readiness.to

from January 21 to March 5, 1927, on the track of the Kowloon-

COMES:

The body of a Chinese woman inclusive at $45 per mensom Canton Railway.

thing of "dread; thatïërmes in the back with armed force. In no

up from the sea off A supplementary vote for 309 Is This expenditure could not be metallic cough, a choking resping for WWW * night without warning,) Just a hoarse, way can she afford to forgo any

yesterday, and is be-requested which it is proposed to foreseen when the Estimates were breath. threat of sund that of the person who meet from savings under Sube prepared and Supplementary. Vote foreign area or foreign Industrial is still missing, from that plerle Head B, hose

CARREZANA is maked, forts power absorption Party which had to jump into the The above is to be mete from pe

water when

boat caught savingsinn

“means

that she ha

•"rolled of knowinie: that tijere bottle of Chamberlain ä Courh: Rant In the