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BUILDING SCHEME..

At Leeds. Assizes last month an

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MONDAY, ARY GENERAL MEETING of the paper in which it was wrapped from the beginning Europe has Harold Percy Fanshawe, of Firth The fact of the matter la that action was heard in which Mr. bo held on MONDAY, the 21st day ting) may be obtained at the Race Offices of of May, 1928, at 3 p.m., at the Course, Hong Kong Club, and THURSDAY, the 17th May, 1928, Daily Tribune."

the undersigned on night old copy of the "ChicagoSince the Plymouth Brethren no Robert Tong, a farmor, of Apple- America very badly. Park-road, Sheffield, sued Mr. Offices of the Public Works Depart Causeway Bay Stables.

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of Accounts for the year ended the greatest newspapers in the world. mostly Anglo-Saxon and Dutch, Hall estate near Derby.

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Being interested in such things has been swamped by the progeny 1898, with the option of renewal

The SHARE REGISTER and thought I would look to see whe-of niggers, dages, and the sweep- Fanshaws, said the only real de- Mr. G. E. Paley Scott, for Mr. at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB ED from the 3rd to the 17th May, in it. And there was. There was

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Get On and Get Out?

Mr. Tong had dissolved a partner- JARDINE MATHESON & headed: "In Prohibition the Law pose, the only country in the world

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Sir Charles, continued Mr. Paley General Agents,

This seemed promising, and so I,After it had enjoyed a century or supplied with money as was hoped, one visits for pleasure. Scott, was found not to be so well Hong Kong, 26th April, 1928.

began to read:- "

"Three coastguardsmen accus-recognised that here was the larg-left the country.

so of material prosperity, Europe and he (Mr. Scott) thought later, ed of murder have been acquit-est and most gullible public to be ed in a U.S. district court

Mr. Tong, in evidence, said Sir Florida. They shot and killed a'ceeded to exploit it, and has been French Congo.

in found anywhere. And Europe pro- Charles was now somewhere in the man in a boat they were chas- explofting it ever since. ing. After they had killed the.

Mr. Paley Scott: It is a Even the emigrants, who pour in difficult to get people back from man and taken the boat they did by thousands, have no idea of set there if they do not wish to come. little not find liquor or weapons on thing there. Their idea is to make Mr. Ernest T. Hooley, of Risley board, "In the usual procedure of pro- can and go back home and retire the defence, and asked by Mr. as much money as quickly as thay Hall, Derbyshire, gave evidence for tecting prohibition enforcement, And that is the keynote of all the agents, the United States gave visitors to that country.

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COMPANY, LTD.

It was

Paley Scott in cross-examination

the killers the protection of the Effete aristocrats visit there in regarding a man whose name was Federal Court. An assistant at the hope of finding rich wives. mentioned on one of the documents tornay-general was Washington to nequit the men. plorera, German scientists, adven. Hall.

sent from English authors, Scandinavian ex said he was in his employ at Risley

A spécial jury was picked from turers of all sorts go on long lec- the back counties of the district, ture tours. They embellish their the jolly family at Risley Hall. So Mr. Paley Scott: So he is one of the coast-wise counties being ex- lectures with all kinds of flattery you stuff your farm labourers' cluded. That expedient was for the land of their visit, and pockets with banknotes?-I have used to keep off the jury any, when it is over they pouch the no wealth at all, but I have a good citizens who might have a pre-cheque and write home to wives: wife who has. He did not think it judice against murder, in the "God! what a country!", name of enforcement.

"With the scone thus arrang-

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necessary to obtain a commission note from Sir Charles Markham, as As for the musicians, the fat Sir Charles's word WRE good singers, and the 19

scraggy instru-enough for him. imentalists, they are as a rule too Mr. Paley Scott: Have you ever

ed the Government brought the agents off successfully.

"

This is your scheme7Yes, I

Shot Without Challenge. Please note that this is not some lill-bred to conceal their contempt beard of the brain of a scheme and THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE rag speaking. It is the "Chicago well.

sensation-seeking little provincial for the land which pays them so the power behind the throne, and Everyone wants to grab have you occupied such a position? |Daily Tribune.”

what they can and get away. Nor

-Sometimes. The editorial goes on to demon-can it be said that the cultivated NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.strate that the only surviving wit- Americans help matters much. bought the estate for Sir Charles

¡ness from the boat affirmed that it Some there are business men,

and told him he ought to build. NOTICE IS HERERY GIVEN was not challenged, and the first lawyers, politicians, etc.--who can-

that the FIFTY-NINTH OR intimation they had of the chase not get away, but those with lei-houses on it. If he had done that DINARY YEARLY MEETING of Was when Jones, the victim, cried qure, and particularly those with he would have made a fortune. the Company will be held at its out that he was shot. The judge a bent towards the arts, gradually

Mr. Justice Branson, dismissing Head Office, Union Building, Hong, overrode this evidence and the Percolate to Europe.

the action with costs, said he ac- Kong, on FRIDAY, 25th May, 1928, carefully-selected jury" held with They come at first on a visit, and cepted the evidence of Mr. Tong. at 11.15 a.m. for the purpose, the Government that the victim had then another visit, and then the "It is true," he added, “It is backed of receiving the Report of the forfeited his life when for what visita get longer and longer, and at only by the evidence of Hooley, Directors and the Statements of ever reason the boat was not stop-last they find themselves living who has had a checkered career in Account to 31st December, 1927, ped!

over here, and they confess that these courts, and he is not one on and of declaring Dividends, etc.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th MAY to 25th MAY, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board,

PAUL LAUDER,

General Manager. Hong Kong, 1st May, 1928.

BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

"The victim has as much right they find the social life of the Unit- whose evidence alone I should be, to his life as any person in the ed States intolerable. And so poor prepared to place much reliance. United States, who has not for. dear America, hungry for culture, But in this case there is the fact feited it by crime,"

anxious for improvement, willing that Hooley was going fifty-fifty

continued the "Chicago Tribune" to put up patiently with all these with Fanshawe." rather petulantly,

foreign insults if the end be jus

IN PRISON.

GOVERNOR OFFICIATES

"He lost it because quick trig-tifled, finds itself alone fighting for ger Prohibition enforcers did not its own soul, with only crude care whether their shots killed animaterial at its disposal. Can you innocent person or not, because wonder that it breeda

a type of the Federal encourages them, be- morality that bewilders the older cause Prohibition sentiment in civilisation?. the country justifies auch kill-

AT WEDDING. Is It Too Late? ings and defends the acts." -

And even 'BOW one wonders It ends up by mildly comment whether it still

Rome. A curious ceremony took may not be place in Turin, where, a prisoner, ing:-

too "Murder and no punishinent. nothing to

late. Can Europe do named Giuseppe Grana, Was save America? Why married before starting his sen- not killers free with the approval of, Nations

the League of tence of four years' imprisonment appoint a small-com- for theft. Grana was engaged to a Government and morality. The mission, with-let us say repre-shop-girl, aged 28, who appeared, conscience of the United States aentatives from Portugal, Albania, neatly dressed, accompanied by two has been given something worse Lapland, and Turkey to visit. the girl friends. than intoxicating liquor."

She had not seen

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One can almost see Sir Austen

that the SIXTY-SECOND OR-; DINARY YEARLY MEETING of the Company will be held at its Head Office, Union Building, Hong Kong, on FRIDAY, 26th May, 1928,!

United States and hold a confer- her lover for a whole year, as at 11.20 a.m. for the purpose,

Dear, Dear! of receiving the Report of the

'ence with the two prospective can- during that time he was awaiting Directors and the Statements of what astounds me about all this cuss the possibility and advis

Dear, dear! Isn't that too bad? didates for the Presidency to dis- trial, Account to 31st December, 1927, not the facts of the case, the ability of introducing a measure of Brozzolo, personally officiated, and The Podesta of Turin, Count and of declaring Dividends, ate, like of which are becoming more civilisation into the American con- went to the prison with two clerks

"The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from but the extraordinary mildness of

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though the editor said: "Listen to and whispering to M. Briand that' By Order of the Board,

this? Isn't it unfair! But still he thinks such a conference should as he were officiating in the PAUL LAUDER,

bootleggers will be bootleggers." be conducted in camera. Natural Town Hall. Three warders acted General Manager.

There is no hint of righteous in-ly. One wouldn't like to think of as witnesses, and the governor of Hong Kong, 1st May, 1928. dignation, no passion, no sugges so drastic a reformation being a the prison acted as best man. tion of carrying the matter further subject of tittle-tattle all over the The bridegroom was allowed to put or doing anything about it. It is world. The sensibilities of the on a dark suit, instead of the pri

He presented as little more than an people of the United States must 80 garb, and looked, well.

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I such an appalling act of HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS. social injustice were to happen in

May 14, 1928.

this country, or any other civilised European country, can you ima- Mr. and Mrs. J. Arellano, Mr their future married life, which is gine the howl of protest that would H. J. Anderson.

Mrs. J. D. Carriere and children.

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