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SATURDAY, JUNE 9. 1928.

We must all be pleased tended. It is also worth knowing Mr. Johnston thoreupon took a ATI to learn that Mayor that 1,280 visits were paid to ships place of thin worsted, soft and:' Pleased Lam Wen-kol of Canton during the year and that the friable, and giving thirty' turns Intends to open a home Chaplain took over twenty Services round the boy's wrists (suggesting: for beggars in the Kwangtung aboard H.M. Ships. Good work, an act repeated each day' for 'a: capital. He maintains that accord-brothers, good work.

Old Stunts.

month)hold him a helpless prison.

er. After the address, Mr. D. •F.. How. little that is Warron distributed the attendance. Allstar Holland, Isabel prizes. Sir. Cecil Clementi Holland, Maisie Tillery, Dorothy?

new really happens.

ing to Dr. Sun Yat-sen's "Three People Principles," the livelihood of the people is an Important fac tor In national welfare, and as Canton is "the revolutionary base of the nation," municipal affairs has been advocating an extension Henderson and Johnann Holland. should be modernised so that the of the Kowloon-Canton railway; made perfect attendances and a capital may become a model eltyin 1859 Sir MacDonald Stephenson number of others followed with a Well, as I say, we in Hong Kong But before the local Chamber of record almost as good.

Commerce a' schome for connect- must all be pleased to learn about

ing Calcutta, Hong Kong and Pe- the scheme. We have so many

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in the hotel lounge.

beggars we can give Mayor Lam, king by railway. Sir Robert and Incipient ing through, about half his silk worms invaded Wembley; Tragedy. a dozen of them, sitting sixty-seven years or 80 ago ar

They all got up towards dinner- A young lady has rangements were being made to

time and she waited for him. He "Embracery." just been sentenced get the commerca and interests of talked to her while they were col-

to six months' im-the Colony worthily represented at prisonment in the second division the Crystal Palace Exhibition. lecting their hats but he wished for "embraeory". No, dear read- Dr. Koch and Mr. Braga ara she would go along and join the other womenfolk. Perhaps she er, I am not going to recite an- agitating for sanitation reform; in

wished ao, too. Anyway, she other Hyde Park story. It is 1803 our first Sanitary Commis-, simply the tale of a Dublin girl who sion, appointed by Sir H. Robinson, stuck close to him, the others in a party in front. tried to "get at" a jury on behalf became the object of much ridicule walking on of certain prisoners. "Embracery" when they offered a prize of 8400 She was going to Japan, so was is a legal term covering an attempt for the beat scheme for the drain-he, so were the other folk. They NUMBERS to influence a court or jury cor- age of the central district, with had all joined the boat together ruptly by premises, entreaties. out, by the way, fixing a limit to and had soon' chummed up. Now" money, entertainments, threats, or the expenditure on such scheme.well, you know what these trips

out East are, don't you. other improper inducements. . Cannot we think of something So now you know.

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Should Go Far.

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Diligent readers of this BRITISH PATENTS.

column will wecall the

Why Object? effective

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THEIR REGISTRATION IN THIS COLONY.

mannar in which I disposed of a correspondent who attempted to take me to task for using, a split NEW ORDINANCE PROPOSED.. infinitive when no split infinitive

There is a man in Hong Kong who should go far. And if he does go far he will have to thank, more than anyone else, in- cluding himself, his wife. For she in determined he shall go far. "Tean." Now I can understand Her ambition-so I am told-is to

was used. Now if is my sad, duty i It is proposed to introduce at why, if what I am told is correct, see her husband the taipan of the as effectively to dispose of another the next meeting of the Legisla which I think it is.

It appears firm which employs him, and her correspondent. He, objects to the tive Council an Ordinance to that this same vessel, in the course self and family living on

use of the word "says" and its re-amend the Registration of United.

Patents Kingdom

Ordinance, of a few days, was twice fooled Peak. She is preparing for it, and writes." Why on earth should be sions with regard to letters patent

latives, preferring "states" and

1925, and to make certain provi-. within our local three miles limit has been since she came out from in the vicinity of Bins Bay. There home and started married life in the main dictated-I do not "atate" ance, 1892. The short title will object? These paragraphs are in granted under the Patents Ordin- is the Instance of the freighter Kowlaan-but that is all forgotten them or "write" thom.

the

which was well in to shore when She now lives in an out-of-the-way hands they are typewritten, Ino-Kingdom Patents Amendment. challenged by the Navy. She replace and doesn't mix much. She fused to reply in the International is so afraid of meeting the wrong Code and a shot was

put some kind of peoples you know. In her where in front of her. Then she retreat the yarn comes deigned to answer questions, and daily she rehearses what she will by this time the vessels, coastal do and what she will say when and Naval, were within halling they are living on the heights. distance.

Hong Kong, Saturday, June 9, 1928. and stay there.

I am told that

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A laudable ambition, aa

His

Brother.

Former Hardship.

By pther be the Registration of United

Ordinance, 1928.: typed, corrected in the proof, ar-

The old Ordinance was. intro- ranged in order, placed

on the duced on instructions of the presses, printed, and distributed Secretary of State. to carry out to the reader. Next critla, please. recommendations of the British Empire Patent Conference, 1922, and of the Imperial Economic Some personal interest Conference, 1928. ~ attaches to a digression "Who and what in the name of

In the course of last It provided inter alia that ap- the Saints are you?" demanded the

Sunday evening's sermon plications for registration in bloke on watch. Then he got a Two

all will agree. But I can in Union Church, Kowloon, I. or three years from the date of the Hong Kong must be made within good look at the skipper on the Snags see two snags in the way informed. In illustration of his issue of the patent in the United bridge of the freighter. "English,

of its satisfaction opening study of the Psalms, the Kingdom. One effect of this is to eh?" he went on.

Firstly, "hubby" shows no pro- Rov. J. Horace Johnston brought make it impossible to register. "No," came the reply. "Scotch."nounced desire to be taipan and into the pulpit a printed copy of here patents which were issued in All the Navy could reply was to live on the Peak; he is a good the Hebrew Bible, and an inscrip- the United Kingdom more than three years before the commence- tell him to get out into deep water natured, hard-working fellow, and tion inside the cover led him to ment of the new ordinance.

I really doubt whether he con-mention that the volume had been The present amending ordin- siders he could fill the role. presented by the British and For- ance proposes to relieve this hard- Which shows you how Secondly, the faipan in question eign Bible Society to his brother, ship by providing that the time limit for making applications in H.C.-His Column. Chased A careful you have to be shows no signs of obligingly pass the late Rev. G. P, Johnston and Hong Kong shall, in the case of Gunboat. Take another instance, ing out for years and years and was peculiarly sacred to him on patents granted in the United one, which I may have years. Which is a pity, so far as that account. Mr. Johnston's Kingdon before Jan. 1, 1926. run. Local Billards none of the local mentioned before in these frag- the Indy is concerned, isn't it?

brother began his Ministry with from Dec: 31, 1925, (the day be Championship, Clabs fa anxious ments. A Naval wireless happen-

great promise as assistant to Dr. fore the commencement of Ordin about taking ed to be returning to Hong Kong

I see in the shipping Alexander Connell, of Regont-ance No. 15 of 1925) instead of from the date of the issue of the charge of the open billiards cham- from evening exercises when she A Famous papers constant refer- square Presbyterian Church, Lon- patent in the United Kingdom. pionship this year. Some Clubs, spotted a vessel, without lights,

ences to the "Cutty don; the premier Church in the

Removing Doubt, of course, have not the facil- making into Bia's Bay. It was then

Sark", the famous old Denomination. He worked with The present amending ordin- Ities; others, it seems, do not like dark, you must understand. Our tes clipper, now in honourable re-devotion in the Congregation and ance also extends the time limit: the idea of throwing their pre-ship pushed a gentle reminder tirement. But what about her al-in a Mission attached to it, and, generally to five years instead of

three years. mises open to non-members, as across the other's bows and chas- most

famous sister, the being "run down," was invited by

In spite of the provisions of they would have to do if they con- ed her, meanwhile training "Thermopyle"? Where is she one of the Members to spend a section 12 of the Interpretation. ducted the championship. All couple of pieces of useful artillery these days? When she passed few days at Great Marlow, on the Ordinance, 1911 (Ordinance No. these excuses, however, constitute on her. Just about the time that from under the flag of the Aber-Thomes. The following morning 81 of 1911), some doubts have:: no solid reason why there should a serious shot was due the mys-deen Line she went, I understand, he went for a swim before break- been expressed as to the con· not be a contest this year. Why tery boat thought fit to put on a to Victoria, B.C. registration and, fast. Two boys, sons of his host, tinuance of rights acquired under not hold it at one of the Hotels, few lights. Then it was seen that arque rigged, was used for carry-watched him cross the river with dinance No. 2 of 1892) which was the Patents Ordinance, 1892 (Or- and in this connection I have been the British Navy

was chasing ing rice and flour for a Montrealease and, when he was half-way repeated by. Ordinance No. 13 of asked to advance the claims of the Chinese gunboat, also on pirate, concern to and from the East, back, heard him shout and saw 1925. In particular some doubts Palace Hotel. Here there is a patrel!

Her Bluenose skipper was

one him disappear below the surface. have been expressed as to whe- Digby, out of Nova Scotia. After Knowing him an expert at awim-ther the right to register assign- Ordinance No. 2 of 1892, still ed that the management would be Not Worth should not be relating that she was sold to the Portu-ming under water, they awaited his ments, conferred by section 8 of gucse Government as a training reappearance but he never road subsista. Section 8 of the present willing to convert the spacious

these yarns in this ship. If she is not broken up and his body when found indicat amending ordinance has been in- dining room into a billiard room

would suggest that our Macao ed that he had died of heart- serted. In order to allay these

doubts. and remove the chow chamber up- You are charged: seven shillings friends bring the old "Thermopy fallure in the act of swimming. stairs. If this was done there and sixpence for a book full of la" to local waters. Such a trip would be ample room for the run these and like ramblings you will to scenes, so well known in thei ning of the championship. What feel that you have been done in past might put new life in her Striking Object Union Church, |

championship-sized table and an-

other is on order. I am inform-

about it, ye billiardista?

Offers Invited.

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the eye.

I really think we should find a "guld woman" for friend "Wullie" Kay,

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timbers and, indeed, buck her up considerably. Those of us who love these old square-riggers and rentember the days when there was

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a larboard watch would, I am sure,

Lesson

The Minister of KNIVES & DAGGERS.

Kowloon, believea IN POSSESSION OF THREE In an appeal to CHINESE ARRESTED IN RAID. the eye as well as to the ear for

THREE YEARS. “KARDI”". besides the Hebrew Bible above referred to, he produced a diagram In a raid by a party of detec to represent graphically the protives, on the Yee Chan restaurant minent place of the Paslms in Ola on May 26, the three men ar- Padre Waldegrave Testament Revelation. The most reated were found to have knives and daggera - in their possession, has made a good job striking object-lesson of the day and one of them a coll of wire of his report on the my Informant says, WAS at the Yesterday afternoon the men Missions to Searen morning service, when the Sunday were brought before Mr. Schofield

be glad to see her,

cannot too heartily commend the practice adopted at Home for twice within a short carrying posies into courts of law while bas he in public bemoaned during the summer months, from his bachelor, fate. The first ecca May to September. This custom originated more than a century ago Bion was Burns Nicht, when he toasted the ladies; the second c-8 protection against jail fever, Good Work, Cesion was young Robert Ho which was prevalent in those days. Brothers. Tang's wedding during the week Throughout the summer judges when our martyr to single bleased and court officials walk in in Hong Kong during 1927. Not School was present and the force and Major C. Willson, at the Kow- aces toasted the bridesmaids with buriches of sweet smell only has he drawn up an interest of habit was exemplified a way unlawful possession. Found What are we going to do about it? lng flowers and herbs, Right ing statement, which has already that neither the children hor their "guilty they wore each sentenced Saggestions received care of this here in Hong Kong, the pro- appeared in The China Mail, he seniors are likely to forget. The to 3 years hard labour.

cedure should at once be adopted, has also supplied a

supplied a number of boys were asked if they could Sergeant Mottram was in charge particularly in the police courts, useful statistics. I learn, for in-break a thread. Of course they of the party of detectives. I referred last week where smells are as overpowering stance, that 28,228 beds were oc- could, and one of the older boys, |-- Fooling the in my usual', mild as they are varied. I would also cupled at the Seamen's” Institute, having had his hands boued by a ♥ A Chinese baby about one monifi manner to the hesit like to see good, old-fashioned during the year under record, that thread, burst the bond with ease, old, was found by the Police, at Anvy of one of our posle carrying in the Summary 118. social events were arranged for But when the thread was given the Junction of Kowloon City-read and To Kwa Wan-road, apparently in coming to grips Court when especially offensive the men, and that 5,310 seamen two or three turns, he only tread abandoned. The child was sent to pirates aboard the litigants are performing

took advantage of them and at- himself by an effort that hurt the Kwang Wan Hospital,

office.)

loon Magistracy, and charged with