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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929.

EUROPEAN HURT

"MOTOR ACCIDENT IN STUBBS * ROAD

TAKEN TO HOSPITAL

Mr. William Orr, ut the Public Werks Department. figured in a motor avertent at 6 p.m. yesterday, as the zult of whien bo sustained a fractured forearm.

THE CHINA MAIL,

SCIENCE EXHIBITION

MOLLY O'GRADY

HISTORY OF FOUR CENTURIES

EARLY TELEGRAPHY:

MAKES DIG EYES AT MAGISTRATE

A PRETTY IRISH GIRL

The National Exhibition of the; A pretty, dark-complexioned History of Science, held at Florence Irish girl, with a rich brogue, who is one of the most interesting that made eyes at everyone in court, in- it is possible to imagine, writes a cluding the magistrate, who put

Home respondent in a

paper. out her tongue to the spectators Mr. Ore was riding his motor Weste examples of all the miracles and smiled bewitchingly, and who cycle combination along Stubbs of applied science which play such shook a reproving finger at a wo- road. When rounding the bend near a large part in modern life, whe-man police sergeant in the case. the garage, the cycle elim into ther in aircraft, telephony and tele-told the history of her life at Marl- collision with a public motor cargraphy, or in the wonderful medical borough-street, London,

She was charged before Mr. which was being driven down the land surgical organisation of the

Red Crows, the one compensating Mead with wandering abroad with road..

We out visible means of subsistence." The collision resulted in Mr. Orr element in modern warfare. being thrown heavily and injured can also follow through the en-having been brought in from Hyde his arm.

Just then a private motor turies the work of the great Italian Park, where she was sleeping.

Leonardo da Vinci, car appeared and a Frenchman, pioneers,

Molly said she was nineteen and whose name had not been ascertain-Galileo, Volia, and Galvani, to nume half and came from Clonmel. ou alighted and rendered assistance only a few of the most important. Four years ago to ale. Orr, who was subsequently who were the first to tread the rug-cross with her, and she ran away helped into the private and ged path of experimental science from her and her step-father with

and blaze the trial for others.

var

taken to the French Hospital."

COPING STONES:

STOLEN FROM AIR STATION SITE

her mother

£63 in her pockets.

was

The modern section of the exhibi- "Why was your mother cross?" tion shows Italy's present stand-asked Mr. Meal.

SHADOWS BEFORE,

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL"

Social Functions To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 pm.

Entertainmente

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

WANTED.

WANTED-Chinese Timekeeper for large Works in Hong Kong. Experi ence essential. Reply Secretary, F.O. Box No. 22.

LOST OR STRAYED

SIAMESE TOM CAT, slightly cross eyed, knot at end of tail,If found, pleage telephone Mrs. Rodgers, Peak

To-day Queen's Theatre: Freedom of the Press;" and Torcat's Roasters at 7.15 & 9.20 p.m. Theatre; To-day World "Hot Heels."

Fo-day Star Theatre; "Corsican Love."

To-day Majestic Theatre; 248. "Woman-Handled"

Home Mails To-day Outward for Europe via Marseilles ("Antenor"), 6 p.m.

To-morrow-Outward for Amer- ica and ports and Europe via Vancouver ("Empress of Asia"), 19 a..

Sports

Sept. 7 H.K.V.D.C. annual aquatic sports meeting at V.R.C., 9

point in practical science. The Molly made more eyes and declar-p.m. Havilion of the Air Ministry is hung ed that she had done nothing

4.15 p.m.

Meetings

Sept. 4-Meeting of Hong Kong Hockey Club at Volunteer Head- quarters, 5.30 p.m.

with tiny modela of every kind of wrong. She said she did domestic Sept. 3-Sanitary Board meeting aeroplane, hydroplane, airship, talwork, and from January to March joon, and parachute now ased in the last was in a situation in Cleve- THEFT BY SKILLED MASONS

civil and military aviation of the Lui Kee and Ho Sang; the two country: the Ministry of Marine

exhibits admirable models of war-¦ $8400666003636**P*0€ earth coolies who were charged at ships, torpedo houts, and slim black the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday submarines, and a model of the appersed again this morning before famous "Cagnotti" catapult for Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, and were launching aircraft from carrier vas- found guilty of doing wilful damage, sels. In a dark roon js a to 103 roping stones in a glarry in working exhibition of all the differ- Ngo Shi Wan Kowloon Cent types of lightbruse and flash-

where the new Air bul.

1929 rainfall

Average

58.86 inches

66.94 inches

Deficit ....... 8.08 inches tation will be light signals employed on the Italian £$$$***68***66366363

coasts. A glass case in the naval

I could not stick the

Mr. Joseph A. Huw of the pavilion displays the historie wire- P.W.D., told the Magistrate that the less set which just a year ago was land-gardens. Since then she had twn defendants were put employed working on a Polar icc-ltoe, convey-done nothing, as her

nerves were by Sang Lee. They went boting the news of the "tolia's" late bad. chipping stones, and at the end of to an anxious world, and thus lead- Mr. Mead: Why did you leave? a day wold them: ti eoutETOES, ing to the eventual rescue of Gen-Molly: Crown-Sergeant A "mitt inter-eral Nobile and his five companions. mistress. howed 15 say that Mr. Howe had another part of the exhibition How have you been living- consulted Mr. II. A. Ruse, and the we seo Marconi's fint wireless ap-Folks on the grass keep me. latter agreed that it was malicious baratas of 1961. damage, judging by the number of stenes that were shipped.

His Worship considered that the blame shoul

rest on

Velta's "Pile"

The Ministry of Communications ghibits a model of Volta's "pile," |

Where's your £63%--I've spent it. You are a beggar.

Who gives you money?-Girls.

Sleeping in Vans Where do they get it from 2-

those conse reot from which all applications Molly shot out her tongue, made truetons who allowed such people 10 of electricity have sprung, and big eyes again and declared that

shows the progressive development she did not know.

break stones!

A Skilled Mason

one

of the

two ar: used

of telegraphy in Italy from the early

Furthering. Mr. Howe said that cumbersome machinery of 1850 to the day, where do you spend your If you sleep in the Park during was a the alorse apparatus of the present nights?-Paddington and Edgware. skilled mason, because the wedge in day. This section contains the road in the vans. We get into the the cut of the stones had been done Pantograph invented in 1856 by the vans when they are standing, but cleanly, and he thought that both Sienose scientist, Abbate Giovanni

we can't sleep. Too many men had a good knowledge of stones, Caselli, for the transmission of pie-come, and the police turn us out. The sinnes had been left in theures by telegraphy. The inven- "One man threw water over me," quarry for two years, and perhaps tion was taken up by Napoleon III, she added with a chuckle. that was the reason why the accus and tried successfully between

them

ed thought that they could have Paris and Lyons. Some remark of life?" asked Mr. Mead.

ably clear pictures then taken are here. No one, however, The damage was one of wilfulness on view for a gain, added Mr. Howe, but his seems to have grasped at that time Worship rejoined that in a case the wide practical possibilities of where a man went smashing an. the instrument; the fall of the Ement and honest life."

ather man's house, it would be wil-pire put an end to Caselli's hopes, ful damage without gain!

Why They Ran

In answer to a question as to why they ran when they saw the foreman coming, the accused replied:-

and he died in 1891, poor and for-

gotten, like many another pioneer. The historical section of the ex- All hibition is divided by regions.

ΟΣ

"Aren't you ashamed of this sort

Molly (with eyes of blank sur !prise):

"Ashamed? Lor', no! It's a de-

"It is not honest to live by cadg- ing," ventured Mr. Mead.

Sept 6Chinese Athletic Asao- ciation Athletic Meeting, North Point.

IN OTHER PLACES

CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO

JAVA

A Tokyo cable states that Mr. Sengoku, the former Mitsuga Minister of Railways, has been ap- pointed president of the South Manchuria Railway.

Negotiations are proceeding for the establishment of a new radio station for direct communication between Siam and North and South America. The station will probably be located in Singapore.

Sept. 6 Twenty-third annual

The Rev. A. D. Champión, Areh- meeting of

H.K. Cricket League, deacon of Sarawak,and Brunei, who Post Office Bldg., 5.15 p.m.

was chaplain of Selangor from Sept. 9-Annual meeting of Foot-1916-1919, has gone to Fraser's Hill ball Referees' Assen., French Bank where, for four Sundays, he will Bldg., Queen's-rd. Ct., 5.30 p.m. conduct services at The Retreat.

Miscellaneous

Sept. 13-H.K.V.D.C. Promenade

The members of the Singapore Concert, on Parade Ground, Volun-Bar gave a complimentary dinner teer Headquarters, 9.15 p.m.

Conrad Nagel and Greta Garbo in "The Mysterious Lady,"at the Star Theatre, August 5-7.

HOME ARCHITECTS

AN APPEAL TO PRIME

MINISTER

NEW EDINBURGH BUILDINGS

to Mr. Justice Deane at the Europe Hotel to mark the occasion of his departure from the Colony on pro- motion to the Chief Justiceship of the Gold Coast.

The Hon. Capt. Meadows Frost, M.C, Resident Councillor, Penang, will be leaving for Home about the middle of January, next year. Rumour has it, according to a Penang contemporary, that the ap pointment will go, not to Mr. E. W. F. Gilman as was first believed, but to Mr. George Hemmant.

A cable has been received in Kuala Lumpur that Mr. A. E. Doel, brother of Mr. H. Doel, Police Court Chief Inspector, Kuala Lumpur. died on August 21 at Birkenhead, from pneumonia after a short ill- ess. Mr. Doel had been attached to the Criminal Investigation De- partiment of the Birkenhead Folice for the past 10 years.

up-

The death occurred in the Gen- eral Hospital, Singapore, of Mr. S, G. Spence, acting manager of the Pulo Brani Smelting Works of the Mr. Banister Fletcher, President Straits Trading Company. Mr. There is no shame in poverty" of the Royal Institute of British Spence who has been with the com- asserted the girl.

Architects, in the course of a let-pany for the past ten years, only "Yes there is, if people are poorter which he addresed to the arrived in Singapore from the great Italian Universities have work," said Mr. Mead.

because they are lazy and won't Prime Minister, said:

country a week before. He died "The Council of the Royal In-from malaria. He was married.. all over the place because the illustrating the work of famous as-ed the girl. "I have worked all my given long and serious considera "I am not lazy." sturdily assert-stitute of British Architects have "Oh there were stones flying lent their treasures, recalling

Three leading Chinese auctioneers foreman and the other man (Mr. tronomers, naturalists, surgeons,

tion to the proposal of 1L.M. Gov-of Peking have addressed an open Howe, who helped in the chase) and mathematicians, branches of life, but my nerves are bad."

"Are you a Roman Catholic?" ernment to erect important new letter to Mr. Yen Yu-chi, director science in which Italians have al- were throwing stones at us so we

inquired Mr. Mead. ways been foremost. Bologna ex- had to run for our lives!

Government buildings on the Cal- of the bureau of social welfare pro "I am nothing," said the girl de ton Jail site, Edinburgh, and to the testing against the regulations re- Remarking that he did not think hibits relies of Galvani, of the as-

cisively.

suggestion that the designing of cently drafted by that bureau, the damage was with malice, the tronomer, Domenico Cassini, and of!

famous naturalists,

Mr. Mead: Were you brought up these buildings should be entrust-which require an auctioneer to con. Ulisse Magistrate held that it was wilful. the

tribute 10 per cent. of the commis- Taking inte consideration the ex- Aldrovandi and Marcello Malpighia Roman Catholic?-Molly: Yes, ed to H.M, Office of Works.

sir. tent of the damage ($800) he would A work by the latter was printed)

"The magnificent and unique sion which he receives from every impose the same penalty as if it in London in 1687 by Robert Little when she was remanded for a week

was intensely surprised character of the site demands that sale, to charities.

the fullest advantage. should be taken of this great opportunity of

had been maliciously done.

His Worship imposed a fine. of $25 or, in default, three weeks' im-

prisonment each.

"LET IT PASS"

PICKPOCKET WHO REALISED

HIS MISTAKE

bury, in via valgo dieta Little Brittain."

Pisa sends a model of

Mully

the famous electro-magnet known HAWKERS CHARGED

as "Pacinotti's ring"! Padua -has

on view a most interesting collec- tion of old works on anatomy (six-| Leenth to eighteenth century), rich-

ly illustrated with woodcuts, and

A PLETHORA OF CASES IN KOWLOON

Before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at

Among the passengers who left

adding really worthy buildings to Shanghai recently were Mr. and the capital of Scotland. As a re- Mrs. C. J. Passikides and family sult of many years' experience, my Mr. Passikides, who has been with Council are convinced the best re- the Finance Department of the sults cannot be hoped for unless Shanghai Municipal Council for the all the schools of medicine contri- the Kewloon Magistracy to-day, the of the country is brought to bear cil's service in order to study for

the collective architectural ability last 12 years, is leaving the Coun bute life-like was reproductions of following cases were disposed of upon the problem by means of a the Ministry of the Church of Eng- portions of the human body.

Cautioned in July, an elderly competition.

land in Canada. He is to enter A Chinese appeared at the Kow-

In view of the present draining Chinese woman hawker was fined! loon Magistracy this morning be-of Lake Nemi, it is not without in- $4 for selling within the Shamshui- or more of a small group of de- next autumn for his theological "If designs are produced by one Wycliffe College, Toronto, early fore Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith on terest to study the machine devised po market limits. charge of stealing five ten-cent in 1829 by one Amnesia Fusconi of

partmental architects however training. Three hawkers were fined $2 able and well-intentioned they may pieces from the pocket of a young-Milan for salvaging the treasures each for causing obstruction. be--the result will almost inevit- presumably to be found in Cali-Two hawkers were fined each ably be a routine building of the The younger lad was watching gula's palatial house-boats, and a for hawking within the market ordinary type. :a medicine dealer in Temple beautiful ideal reconstruction of limits. street, near the junction of Public the largest vessel in an oil paint- Square-street, when accused took ing by the architect, R. Arcaini. the money from his pocket and Motorists gaze with amazement ran away. He was intercepted by the archaic-looking three-wheel- a District Watchman. On the wayed vehicle labelled 23 the first

er had.

The death has occurred of Mr. G. Malcolm Watson, who, only a week before, was entertained at a "The principle of competition in luncheon attended by a host of cele- Another, who had been pre- the case of buildings of outstand brities on the occasion of his retire. viously convicted,

was fined $5 ing national importance is not only ment after 40 years' experience as for a similar defect.

advocated by the Royal Institute a dramatic critic. Mr. Watson, who A fourth was cautioned,

and its allied societies, but has was born in Glasgow on October been accepted for many years by 22, 1853, joined the staff of the St. the national Government, and my James's Gazette in 1887. Two years Council desire to urge H.M. Gov- later he was appointed dramatic ernment to adhere to the principle critic and in 1899, began to contri- in the case of the buildinga now bute regularly to the "Daily Tele- contemplated on this very import- graph”. Mr. Watson wrote many.

plays. ant Edinburgh site."

to the Taumati Police Station the motor-car made in Italy, in 1892. accused offered to give back the It is fitted with an internal combus-

A Stone Age axe, a Bronze Age 50 cents to the complainant and tion engine of 22 h.p., and the spearhead, and a rib and a tooth of "at it pass," but the zealous D.W. builder, Dr. Enrico Bernardi, a mammoth, all found in the insisted on charging him.

Padua, toured Italy triumphantly Thames, have been given to the His Worship. in pointing out in it at a maximum speed of fifteen Kingston Museum. that the accused had served three miles an hour.

months' jail in 1928 for a similar offence, sentenced him

to six

of

A young Chinese girl was fined Galileo's First Telescope

$5 for selling chicken entrees in Rome, where the first Society for Shanghai-street, without a licence. months and ordered the return of Experimental Research, the Ac- the money to the owner.

MODERN RUSH

cademia dei Lincei, was founded

in 1608, has sent a rich and varied collection of ancient astronomical to be carried out by his pupils after instruments of all kinds, but the his deathThe telescope, barely a Dr. Lang, Archbishop of Canter-chief interest naturally centres in yard in length, is a slender tube bury, was given a civic reception the large octagonal hall where covered with faded red leather or- at Dover on his first visit to the Florence displays a selection from namented with gold arabesques. town since his enthronement, the priceless collection of scientific With it, in 1610, Galileo made his Dr. Lang said that British pec- instruments and inventions con-famous discoveries of Jupiter's ple to-day were being hurtled out nected with the immortal name of moons (which he named the Medi- of their hold upon things that Galileo. Here we have Galileo's cean planes), and of Saturn's ring, were unseen and eternal. Feo- first telescope invented at Venice in Ancient astrolabes, the armillary ple were finding it almost im- 1609, through which hin awe-struck sphere of Girolamo della Volpaia possible to be still in the per- contemporaries saw "things visible (1554), Coronelli's beautiful terres- petual rush of modern life. “I but most distant brought within trial and celestial globes, and the venture to plead rather earnestly, easy vision" his geometrical and fine telescopes designed towards he said, that one of the most military compass his air-thermo- the middle of last century by the practical ways we can serve our meter, invented in 1602, and the Florentice astronomer, Giovanni country is by keeping still and pendulum clock, which he designed Amici, are among the Florentine

daring the last months of his life, exhibits.

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