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A thirteen-year-old girl, residing at No. 54, Water-street, has been missing since yesterday afternoon.

cerely felt that he was fully justi- A new tariff will come into force. fed in acting as he did. And the on the Kowloon-Canton Railway

as from July 1 facts seem to us fully to bear out that he acted wisely. He em- phasised that the crew were loyal, though he was probably well aware that in certain eventual- ities the "Union" (more drastic among Australians than else. where) could easily sway the crow to their way of thinking. to the detriment of dis- cipline on board.

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FOR TO-MORROW."

·HORTICULTURÁL SOCIETY'S

MEETING.

EVERYBODY UAN ATTEND.

The "China Mail" has been re- quested to announce that all are welcome members or non-mem bere at the annual meeting at 6.30. p.m. -to-morrow of the Hong Kong Horticultural Society in the board- Matheson & Co., Ltd. room (top floor) of Messrs. Jardine,

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Annual Report.

St. Andrew's Young Men's Club was inadvertently given in yester- day's issue as No. 33, Nathan-road-reads as follows:

It should have been 'No. 333, Nathan-road, Kowloon.

The Socety's 23rd annual report

The annual show of flowers and vegetables was held on Thursday, On another page of this issue

February 23, 1928, at the Hong Kong At Happy Valley on Monday, a Volunteer Defence Corps Headquar there appears a paragraph touch-

learner driver, being tested byers, and was us successful as in past years. The entries showed an increase Government's ing upon the

Sergeant Robert, ran into a tree over recent years, and the standard appreciation of the services of the opposite the Police Recreation Club. of the exhibits was good. H.E. the local District Watch Committee. A pedestrian, who happened to Governor and Lady Clementi again The reference is contained in the stand near-by was pinned against ovinced their interest in the Society by

the tree and fractured his leg. kindly presented the prizes.

visiting the show and Lady Gleinanti annual report emanating from Amputation, it is feared, may be The Committee dealre to express the department of the Secretary necessary.

their thanks to Li-Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.O., and the officers of the De- for Chinese Affairs and is, as it were, lost among much other in-

Two kidnappers, one of whom fence Corps for the loan of the Volun- teer. Headquarters, gid the Porade teresting matter and equally in- succeeded in getting away and the Ground for the show, to the Captain other who was arrested yesterday, Superintendent of Police, for valuable teresting statistics.

It is good, after having forcefully kidnapped Superintendent of the Botanical Gar

assistance rendored by the Police,

to however, to see even this small a six-year-old son from his father, dens for his assistance in the judging tribute to the activities of a body residing at Un Long, New Terri- of exhibits and for the Botanical Gar- of our leading Chinese citizens. tories. Later, the kidnappers wore dens exhibit of ferns, and to all those seen by a relative of the boy and who rendered service in various capa- No doubt, because of the ex-the police was informed.

cities, also to the donors to the prize fund. tremely useful and gratuitous services they perform on behalf A Chinese, found in possession the departure from the Colony, on his of the Government, they receive of a fully-loaded revolver round retirement from business, of its old- frequent personal commendation his waist at Pitt-street, Yaumati,est member. Mr. Lawrence Gibb and but it is seldom that their efforts on Sunday night, was

the Commitice.desire behalf of the. brought Society, to express their acknowledge- are recognised in public. The before Mr. W. Schofield at the ment of the very great services which District Watch Committee ad- Kowloon

Magistracy yesterday Mr. Gibb has rendered to the Society vises the authorities upon the morning. The case was adjourned for many years.

The Committee desire to draw par million and one subjects which for one week, Inspector Fallon havtleular attention to the financial posi must crop up in this Colony ·poa-

magistrates.

The

The Society sofers a great loss by

tion of the Society. The membership

at the end of 1927 was 187 and has sinco Increased to 200. The balance sheet however shows that the Society is now in dobt and an urgent appeal is made to all members to do their best to enrol -new mombars, in order to meet the expenses of the Flower Very Simple Rules, The Society has very simple

rules, which read as follow:-

It will be generally conceded that sessing interest to the Chinese ing applied for trial before two community. The Committee are only an emergency of a very performing, as the paragraph re A moonlight picnic will be held serious character could possibly ferred to emphasises, loyal and by the St. Peter's Church Young justify any ship's master calling much appreciated work. Whilst Men's Club on Saturday. upon a warship to come to its they are proud to serve the Bri-launch leaves Blake Pier at 8 p. Show for next year.

tish Government in this particu- and will call at Station Pier, Kow assistance. So far the consensus larly desirable. capacity, the loon, at 8.10 p.m. The destination of opinion seems to be that such authorities, we feel sure, are will be Repulse Bay. As this an emergency was not present proud to receive the benefit of picnic is being held on a Saturday their experience and judgment as night, the usual picnic at 4 p.m. when Captain Daniels' wireleased representative members of their will be cancelled. his message. "Most of the pas race. The mere existence of such sengers," we read, discounted a body as the District Watch

At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- Committee is sufficient reply to terday, before Mr. W. Schofield, the idea of danger and declared any Communistic or anti-British Inspector Fallon applied for the annum payable on election or on Janu- that it was unnecessary to sum-doubts that may exist in the withdrawal of a caso in which a Society shall be expended upon an an- mon a warship. That was their minds of others regarding the suspected thief was charged with nual exhibition of flowers and veget opinion when they were safely position of Hong Kong vis-a-vis scaling the drain-pipe, of, a houseables and for other purposes connect-

close

the Chinese.

In

1.The Society: shall be called the

Hong Kong Horticultural Society and

shall have for its object the encour- agement of gardening in Hong Kong.

2-Any one Interested in horticul ture is eligible as a member,

8The subscription shall be $5 per

ary. 1" in each year; the funds of the

Reclamation-street, Yaumati.ed with the object of the Society. The defendant had fallen and tracte managed by a committee compos- 4 The affairs of the Society shall tured his spino, and the medicaled of the President, Secretary, Trea- The exchange banks will be officer thought he would not be in surar and nine others elected annually. closed on Monday.-

a-fit-condition until the end of this at a general meeting to be held not year. The charge, was accordingly, later than June 1 In each year. Three

to form & quorum.

A Chinese boy, aged 18, living at dismissed.- No. 27, second floor, Graham- sireet, has been reported missing. since Monday.

on

A Chinese woman was arrested on the second floor of Sincere's allegation that she had attempted yesterday. afternoon,

the

to steal a plece of silk. The police are now investigating the charge.

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"LOUGHBOROUGH.”

COLLEGE'S, EMPIRE SCHOLARSHIPS.

1928 AWARDS.

in port, and passengers, as is well-known, are inclined to re- gard incidents on board a ship from quite a different angle when at sea and when

5-The committee shall have power proximity to land.

to appoint sub-committees, and in case Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Hindle and of the resignation or otherwise of any Superficially regarded, there is

son wish to convey their thanks for member of the committee. they are om- powered to fill the vacancy in the something decidedly grotesque in¦

the many expressions of sympathy meantime. a panicky feeling, creeping over

The revenue derived by the de-and-beautigul floral tributes from

contribution of $100 to the partment of the Secretary for their many friends, also the Rev. funds of the Society shall entitle the the British officera, a loyal crew Chinese Affairs in 1927 was $22,318 Bros of St. Joseph's College, the contributor to life-membership. and the many male passengers and the expenditure $11,584, ataff and children of Quarry Bay that the "Jervis Bay". had on

School and members of the Taikoo CHANGE OF RULERS. JAMES-On June, 22, at the board in face of no matter how possession of clothing, suspected of bereavement. They also wish to A banishee, who was found in Club during their recent sad Country Hoppital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. P. E. R. James, much obstreperous conduct or the being stolen, was sentenced to six thank the doctor and sisters of the HOW PORT OF CHEFOO a daughter,

part of a mere handful (eight to months' imprisonment and twenty Victoria Hospital for their kind-

TURNED NATIONALIST. | LAYTON.---On June 21, at Country bé precise)-of scallawag stow strokes of the birch for returning mess to their loving son, "Billy"

Hospital Shanghai, to Mr. and aways discovered on board and,

to the, Colony.

PANIC IN THE STREETS. Mrs. J. T. J. Layton, a son,

when discovered, determined to

Chefoo, June 16. do no work. One would imagine

The Nationalist flag was hoist- that a very little organised pres-

ed here on June 13 with the usual BRIERLEY-MOORE.-On June

preliminaries and seemingly sure would soon give them their 20, at H.B.M. Consulate-Gen-

without any difficulty or trouble. erai, Shanghai, Thomas Holt- quietus. And such indeed was

The three Chief Magistrates Brierley, to Alice Hansen, the case, for it was not until the

(the Taoyin, Chief of Police and daughter of the late Mr. and stowaways' insolent activities tracy, in fining a fruit hawker $10, Scholarships in the Faculty of office and others were put in their The Entrance Examinations for the Chinese Superintendent of This morning at Kowloon Magis- the award of. British Empire Customs) were removed from Mrs. Lewis Moore, of Birming had been speedily and effectively Mr. W. Schofield ordered on the re-Engineering, Loughborough Col-place without the least disturb ham and Shanghai.

curbed and they were put under commandation of a Sanitary Inspect lege, have now been completed and ance, re hatches that they became really, that the sale of fruit by accused

Crackers were fired when the to be discontinued, owing to its awards made, KAISER-On May 27, at Schwyz dangerous. They set about doing inferior quality.

The Scholarships are tenable at flag was hoisted and this caused a Loughborough for the full perfod alight panic as the people thought Switzerland, Wilhelmina as much damage as they could Kaiser, late of Kalee Hotel, and even went so far as to set fire

You must not learn to ride a of the Diploma Course, and the that the Southerners had arrived Shanghai,

bicycle in Shanghai-street, said Mr. Governors of the College have ap- and were opening fire on the to their mattresses. This was w. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis proved the following Awards for streets. Shops were quickly clos bad enough, as such an action tracy this morning, when a Chinese 1928:-

ed and a large number of Chin- might easily have lead to damage youth was charged with riding on

ese began to rush to the foreign section for protection, but apart even greater than the stowaways lad was let off with a caution.

the wrong side of the road. The High School...

from this slight panic the pass- themselves probably contem plated. And when it la learned, as it was in the Police. Court at Colombo, that beneath the The mystery surrounding the stowaways was a large oil urgent calls from the "Jervis fuel tank" which had it been set Bay," one of the substantial liners afire "there would have been recently transferred from the little hope for the steamer," also Commonwealth Line to the ship for the electric cables which had ping Intereste controlled by Lord the stowaways, in their vandal- Kylsant, is a "mystery" no ism, severed, the ship would have longer. The whole story has been Janye

gone adrift helplessly revealed and the culprits punish- ed, though, in our opinion, by no

In face of such facts, it is in means adequately punished. If comprehensible that there should there were something even ap- be any doubt as to proaching unanimity regarding of Captain Daniels judgme the correctness of Captain sending for a warship, which

action in calling for the Daniels

tless all the better thus assistance of a British warship,

than in lying there would be practically no Colombo Harbor point in now con the Incident; but it is

Hong Kong, Wednesday, June 27, 1928,

THE JERVIS BAY”·

AFFAIR

opinion is very varied as

ther or not he acted

Whe

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allowance is made for that he had some 700 passen.

crew and avaluab cargo and ship under hischar

For the theft of a tin of con- densed milk and two books, alleged in Shamshuipo, a Chinese was fined to have been committed in a theatre $10 with the alternative of 14 days' hard labour, at the Kowloon Magis tracy this morning.

1 W. R. Paracne, Devonport

2. C. A. H. C. Ogilvie, Spennying over was a perfectly peaceful

moor Sec. School.

3, A. C. Wesley, Wolverton Sec, School.

Godfrey, Ilkeston

Fone,

A New Officials?

The following magistrates have been placed in office to take the place of the former officials

Mr. Wen Kuang-klen as Commis sioner of Public Safety:

Colonel Sze as Military Comman

Mr. Ch'en Chien as Taoyin to at tend to all civil affairs:!!*

Mr. Ta'no Tungfeng as Judge of thor Supreme Court

G. Keer of Finance;

Grammar School,

4. W. T. Paddock, Cheltenham

G. D. A. Secondary School.

GG. II. C. Ireland, Royal Mili- Much sympathy will be felt with, V. E. Symons, B.Sc., Rhodes

tary School, Sanawar. Mr. J. T. Hindle, of Talkoo Sugar University, South Africa. Refinery, and Mrs. Hindle, on the 8 J. R. E. Taylor, Penarth which took place yesterday morn Russell, Loughborough Junior death of their 12-year-old son, Secondary School, and Ing at Victoria Hospital, after a

Collage. brief Illness. The funeral took place at Happy Valley last evening.

Call British subjects resident in any ed that their soundness The Rt. Rev. Dr. C. R. Duppuy part of the Empire and are of the be

and Mrs Dappuy left: Hong Kong value of $75 per annum. yesterday for a holiday in Japan Applications were received from was They called on the NYK. a large number of the Public and issued Korea Maru. Dr. Dappuy has Secondary Schools in England, not been well and the rest is Bouth Africa, Malta, Palestine, taken

at home and ap

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