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A wafter employed at, a Chinese cript is identically the The Hop Cheong firm of No. 166, Wing Lok-street, was this morning teahouse at No. 237, Queen's-road Shakespeare's Hamlet!"
"Vell-I ask you, can I help it Bummoned before Mr. R. E. Lindsell East was yesterday removed to the
at the instance of the Yuen Shut Government, Civil Hospital with a he get de' same ideas?" Pur firm of. No. 112, Jervois-street, stab wound in the back, and a
"As I really-Hadn't a chemise to charging the defendants with former foki in the same teahouse, is "manufacturing a forged trade in police custody charged with wear, mother gave me fifty francs mark" which Infringed in the com-causing the injury, and will be pro-to buy some."
duced before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at "Yes, and so plainant's trade mark.
The Magistrate questioned the the Central Magistracy to-morrow, The injured man, it' appeared, wording of the summons, and the police stated that the warrant was works on the ground floor of the applied for by Mr. F. X. d'Almada teahouse and the alleged assailant acting on behalf of the complain on the floor above. Recently they
"So I bought a hat."
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Critical Flapper: Not so hot, old.
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"I wish you'd speak to daughter," maid the anxious Mrs. Brown to Mr. Brown. "I caught her. kis-
it. They could not say who was change places.. As there were more
When once a flapper loves she responsible for framing the charge. tips to be got on the upper floor.
the assailant became dissatisfied. always loves-somebody. Charge Amended. The Magistrate remarked that it and soon there was bad blood be- was quite obvious that there was tween the two waiters.. no evidence that the defendant had "Thrown Downstairs." actually manufactured the trade
Then the assailant. resigned and marks complained of as the goods left the teahouse. Last night he sing the iceman this morning." came from Canton. The charge was alleged to have visited the father. was accordingly amended to one of place with some companions and possession of goods to which a set upon the walter, who in the forged trade mark had been attach-acuffle was alleged to have been
Ted.
"Good heavens!" exclaimed the
"Yes," continued Mrs. Brown. Think of the idea of wasting her
we
"Rastus has run off with mah
thrown downstairs, and then stabbed time with the iceman when Mr. D'Almada who appeared in by his former foki while he lay on owe the butcher sixty dollars!"* Court after the opening of the case, the ground. Bald that he was not consulted be-
The alleged assailant and his fore the charge was framed, and companions then absconded, but fol-wife." agreed to the amendment suggested lowing information given by the by his Worship.
wounded man, the police effected the wanted man's arrest a couple of hours after the incident,
Intended For Javk. Replying to the amended charge, a representative of the defendant firm pleaded that the tea bearing the forged trade mark was got from a travelling trader.
Replying to the Magistrate, Mr. d'Almada said that his clients' brand had been on the market since 1906; and it could not be said that it was án unknown brand.
Information: Received, Asked how the complainants goti wind of the matter, Mr. d'Almada
· QUEEN OF FIJI,
ADVENTURES OF M.P. ON HONEYMOON.
"Why, a thought he WIS younh best frien'?"
"He is, but he don' know it yet."
Josephine Are they engaged?
still Georgiana-Not yet.. He buys orchestra seats when they go to a show!
Wife (to hero who has rescued husband from drowning)-Are you the fellah that rescued. him?
Hero-Yes but that's all right, ma'am.
Wife All right! Where's bir necktie?
London, Jan. 29. How they were presented to the 228t. Queen of Fiji was told to
special correspondent of the "Are you sure it was a marriage Weekly Despatch" yesterday by licensa you gave me last month?"
"Certainly, sir; why?”
and his wife (formerly Miss "Because I've led a dog's lifo Mary Ashley), who has just re-ever since." turned from a seven months' world-tour honeymoon.
They started from New York,
Stranger, (to Red Cap)-How do
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Clerk (to lucky stockbroker)-I
The defendant said that the ten was not for sale here.In Hong Kong, but for export to Java. 'He did not open the cases and so did not know its contents. Delivery of the splendid opportunity of express-goods was accepted by his firm on ing ita sentiments of friendship, March 8 and I was seized by the Captain Ai S. Cunningham-Reid The China Mail.
for the King of Afghanistan is ob-police on the same day. viously a ruler with whom it is advantageous to most of the other Powers to be on terms of mutual said that information reached them visited Canada, Honolulu, the Fijiyou get out of this place, anyway?
Red Cap -Sny, Boas, dey in so understanding. Britain, because from Canton through the Customs.
The defendant said that the Islands, New Zealand, Australia, many ways of gittin' outta dis place of its geographical position, is now travelling trader's name was Chan Ceylon and Egypt, and ended up dat what I can't hardly see is how able to take his Majesty in hand Cheong, and He had, not dealt with in Paris.
I asked Mrs. Cunningham-Reid you remains in it. after he has seen most of Europe this man before. He also produced what impressed her most in the and, in the way of entertaining a bill which gave the brand of tea whole world.
amount of good things lately? and so on, should go one better tained tea bearing the Yuen Con "The Grand Canyon, Colorado, suppose you've pulled off any The Broker-1 picked up a good than the Continental Courts at Lam brand. He did not discovers the most wonderful thing I
the difference because he did not have ever seen in my life," she thing lately. It stood at 44 when which Amanulla stayed. From a
said. "It thrilled me more than open the boxes. In the ordinary anything I saw during the whole diplomatic viewpoint, however, course of events the boxes would the palm must go to Russia, the not have been opened here but of our trip even more than the
Pyramids." Soviet having extracted a promise would be forwarded to Java as they
Moustache Shaved,
A Good Defence.” '
"And the hottest place," she from the Afghan ruler to rest awhile at Moscow on his way back
Replying to the Magistrate, the went on, "easily the hottest place,
modern to his kingdom. This was un-defendant said that the goods were was Fiji. We took off everything family visitor asked a
young miss. doubtedly a clever move, or at not ordered by His firm. It was we possibly could
"Oh," said the child calmly, "the least is considered so in political ed in their capacity!
consigned to his firmi to be forward-
as forwarding interrupted Captain Cunningham-boy next door has the custody, of circles.
agents and Java merchants. “ Reid, sadly caressing his upper the doll and I'm awarded
The Magistrate remarked that lip.
lollipops a week alimony."
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"Including my moustache!"
Politics and diplomacy apart,
the defence was a good one, and "Never mind," she retorted, this tour of the Afghan monarch the defendants had succeeded in "I've grown my hair long to make is one which is likely to benefit shifting the onus from their up for it." the world at large. It opens up shoulders, Afghanistan to modern civilisa-
I discovered it, and last week it
it?
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Clerk Good heavens! What was
Broker A thermometer.
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"Where is your doll, dear "the
three
The jury had been out, on the case all morning and was still un-- "Fiji is the most attractive decided. The vate stood eleven to one old one for acquittal, but Mr. d'Almada said that he would place," he continued. "Although be satisfied if his Worship would It is so hot, the heat is absolutely codger stubbornly held out for a merely order the confiscation of the dry. We were granted an audi- verdict of guilty-
ence by the Queen of Tonga, who The sheriff came in at dinner goods complained of
The Magistrate accordingly made is ruler of a part of the Fijis. time and inquired what they would the order and discharged the de- "She is twenty-two years old; have to eat.
and she weighs as many stone! "Wn-a-B," said the foreman, die- In great state, she opens parlia-gustedly. "you kin bring us eleven CORRESPONDENCE.ment each year, driving to it in an dinners." Then he added, reflec
old Ford car, with her traintively, "and a bale of hay." spread over the hood, the rest of RELIABILITY TRIAL,
fendant.
The average reader of the news. tion; it brings the ruler of the papers has, we suppose, followed country into the open, as it were, the tour of the Emir of Afghanis and it should also lead to a better tan- and his Queen and suite understanding as to what and through India and Europe to Eng-Where Afghanistan-is and what it land with a kind of casual interest stands for. The close proximity usually devoted to the movements of this little country of 250,000.
her suit following on foot behind. Doctor (examining unconscious of Royal personages. It has been square miles to India naturally
"Before leaving she presented engineman)id that automobile seen that H.M. Amir Amanulla gives Amir Amanulla and the Bri-To the Editor of the "China Mail"]"
Sir-The Committee responsible us with a beautifully woven hit his engine? Khan, from the moment he left tish something in common; past
for the recent motor cycle reliab!-"rafia" mat which is the main his capital at Kabul and crossed differences on the North West ty trial is indebted to do many article of clothing of her sub- up to let the train go by and the the North West Frontier into Bri-Frontier make this point only too local companies and residents for jects!" tish territory at Peshawar, was apparent, though such events as assistance in the trial that writing every bit as good as it is at these enter in no way into any personal letters of thanks is almost Impossible. Some who took an consideration of the Royal visit active interest in the event are 10,000 Feet of Film.
accorded throughout his journey
in the great Dependency most re-
.
"And the shingling over there
home."
Fireman-No, the driver slowed
enginemån fainted,
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Bride fon honeymoon): This climb is difficult, could you get me u donkey?: The Treaty of November 22, unknown to us and in view of these Mrs. Cunningham-Reid told me Bridegroom (tenderly): But I gal treatment allied with ex-
1921, affected two years after circumstances the Committee is that, on landing In Honolulu, she am here, darling, lean on my treme cordiality: Then, in Egypt, Amanulla conducted his success compelled to ask the courtesy of was decked with a lovely wreath shoulder. he was greeted with unprecedent-ful coup upon the assassination of thanks to all those who assisted in flowers, which she had to wear your columns to express sincere of fragrant "lels" garlands of
Movie Director (to Scottish en demonstrations of sympathy, his father Habibulitih, put all dis- the organisation and successful until she left, when, according to actor): In this scene you give away this being the first time
custom, she threw them over-i's hundred dollars. agreement at rest. Then Afghan running of the trial." that Egypt had occasionistan and Britain decided to re-
To a number of local companies, board one by one, as a symbol that The Actor: Where's my doubleT to express its sentimenta spect one another's internal and the names of which have already she would return some time.
appeared in your columns, the "As well as keeping a diary,' "Do you believe in the power of for a Mussulman king who
external independence, to recog Committee expresses its thanks for she said, "we took 10,000 feet of prayer?" is veritably independent; then nise the boundaries then in exist donations to the award fund and film to prove that we do not pre- "I would "If you'd gone home an came magnificent receptions
ence (always up to then a sore also for facilities they generously varicatel in Germany, Italy and France, the point), and to interchange Lega provided to lighten considerably "We loved New Zealand. Every chancelleries of each country tions. As a result complete course.
the difficult task of marking the one is so genuinely loyal to Eng-"Did the accused give you the land, which to them is Home impression of a drunken man on the vying one with the other in gen-friendliness to day reigns between The Committee niso owes 'n deep "In Egypt I had the novel ex-night of the affair?"
"Yes, he was wearing a watch erous exemplifications of cordial-the two Towers, a friendship debt of gratitude to the numerous perlence of crossing the Nile in a ity. On reaching England afterwards sealed by the conclufocal gentlemen who gave up their trolley, over the Assouan Dam with an illuminated djal and was
sion of Trade Agreement allowing time to act as checkers, marshals, (the building of which was largely trying to light his cigar by it.' Amanulla, as to-day's cable shows, the Importation Into Afghanistan observers etc., to local motorists ananced by my grandfather, the was received with all the pomp free of duty of materi required who placed cars at the Com: late Sir Ernest Cassel) accom- Experience may teach and circumstance attending his for the strengthening of the mittee's disposal, to the Police Depanied by three shiny black tur lesson, but the world doesn't care rank, the Prince of Wales meet country and the export of British partment for its interest and very baned. Arabs.”
goods' into Afghanistan.” ing him at Dover and His Majesty the King awaiting his arrival in the capital.
STELLA DALLAS.
ready co-operation, to the Press for
Its sympathetic Interest in this
Four ago."
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to hear you recite it.
you
one of your engagement to Brown?
Aunt Helen-Have you told any-
Edith Not a soul, except Mar EASTER 7 BAGS garet, who thought be was going to
propose to her.
first event and to all those who so RUBBER. ENQUIRY willingly offered 'their services and The object of the Afghan tour Ronald Colman's popularity by whose assistance the trial was REPORT PUBLISHED BEFORE has, of course, been a matter for with Hong Kong dineth-goers carried through to a successful
was proved again yesterday when conclusion, speculation from the moment it "Stella Dallas was shown at the The wide publicity which these whs announced. That it has tre- World Theatre, with this British thanks will receive may convey to The newspapers learn that the Mendous political significance star in a time role Alice Joyce the many helpers the Committee's
and Jean Hersholt also win hond deep appréciati or their er
out of his mountain fastnesses "Stella Dallas" will be screened Amanulla has given the world a for the last time"
H. G. SWINBU)
(Trial Secretary).
London
London, Yesterday....
"Nahl the street orator Committee of Civil Research en- quoted. As sayi quiring into the rubber restric- “Opinion” “Any enable it to publish the interim re port before Easter Reuter.
| ignorant of the
which ser lives."
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