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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER

1928

Hart: "What do you think of Tetler? Honesty seems printed' on his face.

Smart: "Yemes,"

With some

typographical

leave England for India to under- Mr. P. J. O'Brien, Inspector of take their second tour. They do the S.P.C.A., had two cases bo- so on the present occasion under fore the Kowloon Magistracy P'RAPS-PRKAPS NOTI much happier circumstances, as this morning, both relating to Sir John was able to state that cruelty to animale In the first of the nine Indian provincos case, defendant was fined $4 and eight had definitely decided to co-in the second case the fine wag operate with the Commission and $10. that the remaining province had not quite decided upon ita course. The old established firm of Recalling the rumpus that was Lazarus, Opticians, will remove allowance for general throughout India when to premises in the Ho Hong errors, of course." the Commission was first men-Bank building (opposite present tioned, the change is indeed very place of business) at the end of "Is this a really exciting”. satisfactory. The trouble, it will October. This removal is made story?" inquired the old lady, as be remembered, was owing to the necessary by the demolition of the librarian handed her the book: non-inclusion of Indians upon the the building in which they are for which she had asked.. Commission. * Happlly. this grievance has been removed by the appointment of an Indian Committee which will

For the theft of a jersey and a pany the Commission throughout long tweed coat, a Chin- "That's right," said the lady. their tour. So, it seems, all is ese was this morning, at the “I like a book with a bit of life in well for the work of Sir John Kowloon Magistracy, sentenced to it." Simon and his colleagues. Sir 2 months' hard labour. The theft John, who is a very distinguish took place at No. 517, Nathan- Percy's mother was getting ed lawyer, might long ago rond, while the inmates of the flat him ready for school. Suddenly (had he not preferred to await were engaged in removing furnishe noticed a bruise on his head. his chances of a Premiership that ture into another house. Defen-

Recom-

now located.

has not yet come. to him) have dant pleaded guilty.

sat upon the Woolsack as Eng-

land's Lord High Chancellor. As

"Well, it dependa on what you: call exciting,” replied the libra rian. "It has three murders in it.

"Percy," she said, "you've been |fighting again l”

"Rot!" sald Percy. "I wasn't

Was all

"Truth" once observed, Sir John At an examination at North fighting at all. That Simon is not quite so simple as his Point held under the auspices of oversight." name might imply, and it may Bronze Medallion of the Society; "-"Oversight ?". therefore be confidently predicted Sept: 26 the following can- "Yes," he replied, "I was sit- that Sir John will direct his Com-didates qualified for the Pro-ting on that little ass, Tanner; mission in a manner highly satisficiency certificate and the yesterday, and I forgot to hold his factory to England and, we trust, Bronze Medallion of the Society. [feet.” to India as well;

In the vicinity of Taikoo ship- yard, near No. 3 Buoy, the police yesterday, discovered the body of a boy of about nine years of age.

The mistress of a cargo boat was fined $23, at the Marine Court this morning, for carrying passengers in her boat on Sept.

creased, and if the excuse here is one regarding recruiting difficul-26. ties it is equally weak, though in

A Chinese boy was removed to the case of the latter class of civil servant there may be a little justi- the Government Civil Hospital yesterday, after being knocked fication for the additional amount down by a motor car at the junc- in view of the fact that a school- tion of Circular Path and Queen's- master must possess definite road, West. qualifications and cannot, obvious-

:

A

L/Cpl. H. V. Morris, and Pte. P. J. Padley, both of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Hong Kong,

She was a very busy woman, and found it most disturbing and irritating when one day she was bitten by a dog. But, despite her accident, she carried on Another embezzlement case, In-bravely with the work in her de volving the sum of $1,900, has pariment. Then a fresh trouble been reported to the police. Ac-|arose-peoplo. in the same busi- cording to Ma Kao of No. 2, West-ness kept worrying her with ern-street, ground floor, a cashier senseless questions. named Lee Cheung, 23 years of "Fancy. were you bitten by a age, a native of Hangshan, and mad dog? a secretary named Po Kwai (48), a native of Pun Yu, collected the money from various shops in the city on Sept. 12, and both dis- appeared.

THE MOVIETONE

TALKING PICTURES IN LONDON.

́READER'S "DESCRIPTION.

“Yes, I was."

"And yet you're working here'

will, I suppose?" just the same. Writing your

"No," snapped the injured woman. "I'm making a list of the people I'll bite if I do go mad."

Farmer Harris had sent his son Sammy to a high school. Be- fore he went away, Sammy was. a true son of the soil, but when he came back to the farm after his first term there was a slight dif ference, and his father noticed it

"I dunno quite wot t' mak' o' my

"E don't

The body of a Chinese coolie ly, come to the Colony straight (86), was found hanging on from school or college and in an street lamp post on the Peak-road, untrained state. The fact re-near the Peak Tram Station, yes- terday. The body was removed mains, however, that the com-

to the Public Mortuary. mencing salary of $400 a year at present in operation here com- Whilst walking along Con- pares very favourably with what naught-road Central at.1.30 p.m. A reader of the "China Mail" Sammy," he said to his neigh schoolmasters at Home, are pre-lives at the Sikh temple, Wanchai, towing extracts from a letter, these exactly t' same, very 'igh-

yesterday, Mr. M. Buttan, who in London describes in the fol-bour, Farmer Phillips. pared to work for and, moreover, has $40 in bank notes stolen from new talking pictures being shown falutin an' disdainful in is talk. Calls bushes 'folliage' now an there has to be considered the re-him by a man who bumped into in the Metropolis. He says: gular and numerous increases him." that fall to the lot of the peda- gogue in Hong Kong.

"The New Gallery has a won-uses a lot o' other words, the like: derful invention called

o' which I never 'eard before 'e the

"Aw, no doubt 'e be learnin'

But one:

furtively. The man surely look-- ed innocent enough. man watched his brow began to never knew. Even as the mobs

clear. In his own mind, he decid-- ed the newcomer was harmless,

As the result of a sudden squall Movietone. It is exclusive to that went away." yesterday evening, a fishing junk theatre and is really very good. was capsized off the harbour at I had to pay 5s. 9d, to see it; the this 'ere 'aughty-culture' at the Another matter concerning Bu Toi, near Deep Water Bay. seats are expensive at that place skew where e be at," said

Phillips. the way officialdom is looking Those aboard were thrown into but, I must say very comfortable. after itself which calls for com- the water and a woman was "On this film you will see a

drowned.

party of orphans at some U.S.A. Mobsman Mack scanned the ment is the proposal to spend

aport giving a concert on the newcomer with narrowed eyes.. more money on Government

Pleading guilty to a charge of sands. You see them around Since cracking his last crib, he offices. Nobody who has seen having stolen $2 from a man who their plano all the time and then knew the need of extreme cau- The new arrival into the saloon the miscellaneous collection of was sleeping outside the Tai Ping you hear them singing. It was tioned of premises now in use would deny Theatre, last night, a Chinese was rare to hear the American accent

| bar'strolled casually to the coun-- that something better, or more labour at the Central Magistracy

sentenced to three months' hard again!

Then they will show M. Briand ter. He was affability personified.- giving an address at the unveiling His face radiated good-humour, was needed, but this morning. centralised, whilst all the reported improve-

of the Foch War Memorial, You, bonhomie.

Mack "cogitated.

He stared ments are in mind a little more thus. Department, address in French: It is wonder Mr. C. Burford, land bailiff of see his lips moving and hear his Clerical and Accounting Staff,

attention should be paid, we charged a Chinese at the Kowloon ful. You hear the coughs of on- together with the Colonial Secre tary's promise (or threat) that submit, to public demands in Magistracy this morning with lookers and the sneezings of the

connection with these buildings. trespassing on crown land in Kow-horses.

From the Opera "recent events in the Colony The Post Office furnishes loon district. Defendant pleaded

"They then showed motor boat an guilty and was fined $5 or 6 days which have led to a careful review example. There are not enough with hard labour.

racing and tank displays, and you could hear the motor boats of all our financial matters may Post Office Boxes, as is evidenced result in a recommendation for

The Chinese Recreation Club chugging away on this sort of by the fact that behind the desk

In the latter in- will hold the annual "At Home" gramophone. considerable expansion" of the latter branch of the Service at the Post Office there is a wait- which was to have taken place last stance you heard the noise of the ing list containing names of ap-week-end on Saturday, October trees being felled by the tank on Total increases amount to $92,489, plicants who requested this facil- 20. H.E. the Officer Administer its way to its position. It really a tidy sum seeing that we are

ing the Government will be pre- was awfully good. I don't sup-

Hong Kong yet?! budgetting for a deficit of two and ity as far back as January sent and a series of tennis pose you have the Movietone. in a half million dollars. The actual last. Firms, we understand, matches has been arranged.

"They then gave M. Bonelli } have the preference over indivi- A re-hearing of the case, in presenting his part from the "ge the wee laddle a three- amount, however, is not so much the point at issue as is the prin-duals in regard to the allo- which a Chinese was fined $500 opera "Pagliacci. He had a won-penny pocket-money every week.

"Mon, that's a lot for him!" cation of vacant boxes and of six months' hard labour last derful voice and you saw him in ciple involved. Why the Govern- ment has thought fit to raise the perhaps there is some justifica week, on charges of keeping a clown's costume and his lips

tion for this officially-imposed common gaming house and pos- moving all the time. He received in the gas meter. He thinks it's

a money box" session of 120 "po piu" lottery a wonderful ovation at the close, initial salaries of Cadets from

selection. But there is no tickets, was granted at the Kow-some crying out Encore!' as it £350 to £975 is not made clear in E

It was quite.

the

reason, so far as we can see, why loon Magistracy yesterday. Mr. he could hear. estimates. The excuse adequate provision should not Hin-shing Lo (instructed by Mr. weird. A comic, The Pathe given by the Colonial Secret-

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boxes over the heads

The newcomer,beamed round.. "What'll you have?" he asked those nearest to him at the bar. "Drinks on me, boya,"",

With a awift movement, Möbs-- man Mack was out of the bar making himself less adjacent.

The detective had blundered. For he wore the kilt and Tam of a Scotsman.

"Aye, But I mak' him put it.

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J. M. Hall) appeared for the de Gazette and the New Gallery News' completed the programme ary, that the increase has be made for all applicants. The fence.

and I think I got my money's been deemed necessary to meet present state of affairs lends recruiting difficulties is not a very itself to an undesirable form of At the Kowloon Magistracy worth 15,

"I also went to Mme Tussaud's good one. The state of the Home censorship on the part of official yesterday, an application for At Mme. Tussaud's

leave to appeal was granted

We are in receipt of a hand- employment market is known to dom, though even this does not against the judgment, which was new Cinema. It is a gorgeous everybody and it is obvious that work as efficiently as it might delivered in the case in which the place. The orchestra is on a mov- the public schools and univer having regard to some "firms" Chung Wah Battery Companying platform that is out of sight some booklet from the Canadian-

were recently convicted on when the lights are off. When acific Railway Company, describ we know which have obtained charges of infringements of the playing the sound seems to come ing their new hotel, "The Royal sities are turning out any number

of "Eveready" marks. Mr. C. A. S. from the bowels of the earth and York" now in course of construc of young men with no special

long waiting Individual applic Ruas appeared for the defendant na it gradually grows louder the tion in Toronto, Ont. It is expect ants. It seems strange that a company, who were fined $100 orchestra appears on the plated to be opened on June 15, 1929. has the bity; It is situated on the Government which obtains its form, rising upwards. A huge building, in the heart of

After fully 21 years, service in Mme Tussaud's third largest amount of rey

the Colony, Inspector William very good orchestra in North side of Front-street, and Spear, of the Folice Department, deed and a topping Cafe and connected with the new:"Union lings is retiring on pension. He will be Buffet Bar. I think I like it the Station by a subwayT hould leaving for Home on Oct. 13. In-second best in London-1 con plated building will cont

respector Spear Joined as constable sider the Rialto as the premier 1,000 luxuriously

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