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League of Nations may not quite); | agree with him: His country.re frains because. membership
might possibly involve them in.
WELLNESD
(of, the Kora,
Three cases of enteric fever
the settlement of controversies were notified yesterday-one Bri-
of other countries:" but that tish and two Chineses to many people will seem to be
P'RAPS NOT!
Customer"Do you make life-
graphs 7" the beat possible reason for join- Mr. Allan Cameron, Oriental size enlargements from photo-
manager, CPA, left by the 5.8. Photographer: "Yes, Birzi ing and thus endeavouring to pre-Empress of Husala today.
that's one of our special lines:""; vent these self same controversies Customer: "Well, do this one from developing into something: Mrs. R. H. Short, whose hus-for me. It'à a snap I took of a
band died recently, left for Home whale." much worse than controversy.
It would be well if the United to-day with her son and daughter. States, both in regard to the
Mr. W. T. Stanton, of Dunbar tated customer, rushing into the Look here," shouted an agi- League of Nations and the Inter- & Co., Ltd., and Secretary of the shop, "you gave me strychnine in- national Court of Justice, added Polo Club, left for Shanghai, to- stead of quinine
her weight along, with that of day.
12' and 29.
Then that will be another fourpence, sir," Baid the chemist.
Jones was suffering from diges- tive trouble, and the doctor told him that if he laughed fifteen
other countries, such as Britain, The offices and stations of the France, Italy and Germany, to Chinese Maritime Customs for wards doing what she can in Kowloon and district will be clos- her corporate capacity to helped to public business on March
minutes before each meal his along the good work that is being
condition would improve. done and might be more effective. Mr. P M Pinguet, of Pinguet). One day in a city restaurant ly done if the United States did & Co., left by the s.8. "Empress Jones was having his little laugh not continue to remain outside of Russia," accompanied by his when a man from a near-by table
Mrs. R. J. Patterson left walked over to him.. by the same steamer.
son.
"What are you laughing at?" he inquired.
the League. So many references are made by the new President to American ideals views which are doubtless held by all good Americans—that. it is difficult to member of the Royal Asiatic So-or. "I'd better start, tog, because
Mr. P. L. Mincheng Boey, allas, Boey Peng-lum, of Hong Kong University, has been elected a
It is notified that the bonds for
"I'm laughing for my liver," explained Jones.
H'm!" murmured the strang-
I ordered mine twenty minutes ago."
Wife:
*
specify. We shall therefore ciety, North China Branch. quote only one, in conclusion- one with which all will be in
"John, I'm so dis- hearty accord, namely: "We have the Hong Kong Government Six no desire for territorial expansion 1927 can be obtained at the chief dear?"
Per Cent. Public Works Loan of appointed."
John: "What's the matter now, or for economic or other domina-office of the Hong Kong and
"Here it is Christmas Eve and tion of other peoples. Such pur-Shanghai Banking Corporation. you've forgotten to bring me
home a present to give to you." poses are repugnant to our ideals
An ordinary yearly meeting of of human freedom." If, as is
shareholders in the Hong Kong Irate Householder: "Look likely to be the case, the Hoover and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., will be here, if you don't stop this in- Hoover may not (as has been fre- Administration is guided by such held at the Registered Office of fernal din I'll fetch the police quently stated) be an orator. He high idealism, one may safely pre-the Company (Exchange Build- man." may not; as is the case with dict for it a useful and harmoni-ing; Des Veux-road Central) on many other excellent men, have oua tenure of office, the gift or the art of speaking. eloquently or persuasively in pub-
Overland China Mail.lic, but if he is to be judged by
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BISHOP.--On February 27,. at. the Country Hospital, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. James F. Bishop,
daughter, Joyce Evelyn.
MARRIAGE
March 16 at noon.
Leader of Village Band: "You can't do that, mister. We've got 'im 'ere, playing the drum." Professor C. A. Middleton
Ghost: *I am *SirRupert Smith, M.Sc., will lecture on "Cold in the Tropics, the possibil Murgatroyd. For my sins I am Throughout the whole of na-ity of Manufactured Weather," condemned to pace this chamber the quality of the address that ture there throbs a power urging on Friday, at 5.30 p.m. at the In-floor till dawn of day."
Father (who has paced the floor he has just uttered he must be the organism to self-realisation. stitution of Engineers and Ship- pronounced one of the sanest and In vegetable life we may see its builders. H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, from ten-thirty to midnight): "I In India K.C.M, G.,. Honorary President of Say, that's a bit of luck! Would soundest Presidents
that the dim foreshadowings.
there is a certain creeper which the Institution, will be in the you mind holding the baby?" United States has had for many one can plant in the ground and chair.
Said one man to another: a day. One is very sorely tempted its tendrils will grow along the
In connection with the murder
*
"I'm going to lose all my
* *
Editor: "What have you there?"
Youthful Poet: "A sonnet
Editor: "Well, the window'a
of a Chinese gardener employed addressed to the west wind."
Mr. Chau Ping-un, compradore, at Eli Cottage, at present unoccu granted probate to the local estate were produced before Mr. T, S.
No, 12, Hing Hon-road, has been pied, the police have effected the open."
arrest. of five suspects. They
to compare him, in the light expe- the ground the creeper will make department, Hong Kong and
surface. If one places a stake in Mr. A. Hevey, assistant, fittings friends." cially of this notable utterance, for it, and if one alters the posis China Gas Co., Ltd., left by the the back and said. cheerfully, His partner slapped, him on not only with his immediate pre- tion of the stake the creeper wills.s. "Empress of Russia" to-day, 'Don't be pessimistic, eld man. decessor, Mr. Coolidge, who did alter ita direction towards it accompanied by Mrs. Hevey: Mr. Why ever do you think that ?
"Sure of it." the other sighed not appear to be mellowing with Similarly if one cuts off the lead-F. C. Clemo, station superinten
ing shoot of a larch sapling, the dent, generating station. China
ruefully, "I sold my car last time as he ought to have been, or next highest branch will alter its Light and Power Co., Ltd., with
night." with the somewhat shallow direction from horizontal to verti Mrs. Clemo and son, travelled by
cal. There is an urge even at the same steamer. Warran Harding, tho aloof
this low level of life to completion Woodrow Wilson or with the and realisation. "The Methodist swashbuckling Theodore Roose Recorder" (London), velt; but comparisons; as Dog- berry reminded us, are apt to be "odorous," so we shall refrain.
"People who drink too much We do not know which to ad- of his father, the late Mr. Chau Whyte-Smith, at the Kowloon coffee," said the teacher, "get Yam-kiu, alias Chow Yam-kiu, Magistracy, yesterday, formally what is known as coffee heart, mire more the obvious sincerity alias Chau Tseung-sham, alias charged with murder and remand and men who have too much that pervades the whole of the Chau Yat-fai, who died on Octo-ed for a week.
tobacco get tobacco heart." new President's address or hia ber 16, 1928, at No. 9. Taiping-
The oldest pupil waved his shan-street. The value of the clear exposition of American estate has been sworn at under
Yesterday Mr. T. S. Whyte- hand frantically. ideals--both are most admirable. | $48,200..
Smith had before him at the Kow- "Well, what is it, Herbert ?" HELM-BLYTH-On February 27; And President Hoover, to a much
loon Magistracy a Chinese tally. the teacher asked.
"Please, miss, if a boy eats lots at H.B.M. Consulate General greater extent tharr was general-j
An attempted armed robbery man of the 8.8. "Walshing," and at St. Andrew's Church,
a Chinese residence at. No. charged with the unlawful pos- of sweets, will he get a Shanghai, by the Rev. T. Wy believed, has evidently a far 290, Queen's-road Central, was session of 2.5 taels of prepared heart?"
A fine Hall, MA, William Henry wider and nobler conception of frustrated by the female inmates. non-Government opium.
Mother: "No John. One help. Helm to Joan Walker. Blyth. his country's ideals in their rela-Five men and a woman, who had of $300 was imposed with the
previously visited the house on alternative of four months' harding of plum pudding is enough for tion to international affairs than the pretext of renting a cubicle, labour, and confiscation of the a small boy."
John: "It Вестив funny, he was commonly credited with were alleged to have been con-drug was ordered.
mother. You say you are anxious An Engagement, is announced having. In plain terms he very cerned in the attempted raid.
The men tackled the women in Mr. W. J. Carrie, succeeding that I should learn to eat proper- between Jessie Elizabeth, elder properly told his countrymen the house, but they overlooked Mr. G. R. Sayer as head of the ly, and yet you won't give me a daughter of Captain and Mrs. what must have been to many of an amah, who dashed to the Sanitary Department, presided chance to practise." Harris Walker, of 6, Basilea,
very unwelcome admis- verandah and blew a police fover yesterday's meeting of the Lyttleton Road, Hong Kong, and them a very
whistle. This unnerved the Sanitary Board. There were also Lancelot Henry, Assistant Superin- sion, namely, that while crime would-be robbers and caused present the Hon. Mr. H. T. "How to live to be a hundred." tendent, Hong Kong Police, elder was increasing, confidence in rigid them to bolt from the house. Creasy (Director of Public son of the late Mr. Harry Caithrop and speedy justice was decreas- Calthrop, Indian Woods and Forests, and Mrs. Calthrop Calthrop, ing.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
March 19, 1029.
but all friends are cordially invited and enforcement of to the reception to be held at Eighteenth Amendment
at
..
•
sweet-
A man lent, a friend a book, Meeting a little later, the friend Works), the Hon. J. P. Bragi, told the lender that his wife was Before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith In HA Fawcett M.O.IL), Dr. reading the book in all the spare This he was saying to
at the Kowloon Magistracy yes W. V. M. Koch, Dr. S. C. Ho. Mr. time she had. The lender was de- of Tiverton, Devon, England. Americans regarding the United terday, two Filipinos pleaded Wong Kwong-tin and the Secre- lighted.
The Marriage of Miss Jean Ho States, and He told them of his guilty to charges of stowing tary, Mr. J. Watson. The busi- A month later they met again, Tung, daughter of Sir Robert and determination to appoint a away to Hong Kong from Manila ness was of a routine character and the lender again. inquired
about his friend's wife.. Lady Ho Tung. and Mr.. W. M. National Commission of Investi- on the s.s. "President. Jackson." Capt. W. H. Thomas, of the
"She's doing wonderful," re- Gittins, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. gation-extending over the whole Dollar 5.8. Line told the Magis- At to-morrow's meeting of the plied the friend. "She looks over Gitting, will take place on Tuesday of the Federal system of juris-trate that as soon as he had pass Legislative Council the Colonial a hundred now, and she isn't fifty
No invitation cards will be issued, prudence as also into the methodsed sentence, the Company would Secretary will moveThat the yet."
take charge of the defendants report of the Finance Committee the and be responsible for. their re No. 2 dated February 28, 1929, Impatient Customer: "Can't (Pro-patriation. The next ship for be adopted:" The Attorney-Gen you serve me? I'm in a hurry. | "Idlewild," 8, Seymour-road, at 4hibition law) and the causes and Manila was the s.s."President éral will move the second, reading Two pounds of liver."..
Butcher: "Sorry, madam, but McKinley," due to sail next Tues- of Ordinances to amend the abuses regarding them." These days Accordingly, his Worship Supreme Court Ordinance; 1878; there are two or three people in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 6, 1929. matters were the most unples passed sentence of one week's im- the Bankruptcy, Ordinance, 1891, front of you. You surely don't
santin fact they were the only prisonment on each defendant.. the law relating to the taxation want your liver out of order!?!
of tobacco, and the Watchmen topic's touched-upon that were
On China New Year Eve, an Ordinance, 1928, and an Ordin- Mrs. Jones: "Have you filed unpleasant during the course of
armed robbery occurred in the ance to consolidate and amend those divorce papers for me? If Fres, Hoover's long address and surgery of a Chinese doctor at the law with respect to unclaim so, I want you to stop them at
ed balances. We shall be -very much he did well to say what he had to Nos-53, Jervois-street, when, four astonished if the consensus of Bay regarding their at the begin men gained admittance by one of cose opinion, in America and eige-ning and get Lover. He did no their number pretending to be a
patient suffering... te that veins. They go where, with regard to President with an obvious sincerity Hoover's Inaugural address is should appeal to his countrymen money and other pro Hot to the erect that it is one of and cause them to take heed of $800, Due to the pro
of the Police a sus the most notable and most sensi-hid wise, words warning. It rested with
p.m.
PRESIDENT 'HOOVER'S
ADDRESS
ble, while being at the same time, would be noted that the new Pre- one of the most idealistic pro aldent had much day nouncements, that has ever been America's
made by any President of the
United States on the occasion of
прод
of his high
resident's
ited: President throwing
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Worship gave
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Lawyer: "Are you back with The return of the number of your husband?"
Mrs. Jones: "Oh, dear, no, but cases of notifiable diseases, (apart) from small-pox) which occurred he has just been killed by a in the Colony during the week motor car, and I want to sue for action ended March 2, shows five cases damages."EGADA YAN
of diphtheria and óné death; three
WAA
And yet his name is famous ?”
cases being Chinese and two Bel "There's nothing, very striking tish; four cases of enteric ever abbut that little man over there, and one death, one case being is there?" British and three Chinese, one case, Chinese, of paratyphoid fever: one case, Chinese; of cere
inalevers and, three, csseg De-al fever and ore death. #her beings Térích andɔtwo hinese
me is known every.
"Smith
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