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SHOULD HAVE FLANNEL
For carrying pigwash in Pei Ho'
Street, during prohibited hours a
Magistracy this morning.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1929.
NÁVY LEAGUE ·
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Chinese was find $2 at the Kowloon NELSON DAY CONCERT BEING
Lam Fat, alias Lam Tak-chuen, who died intestate at Tai Chak
ARRANGED
JOLLY EVENING PROMISED
P'RAPS NOT!
"Oh, a Young Mainwaring is go
Sui Yui Village, Sun Wu District, Mr. M. G. Marriott has been ap- Kwongtung, left Hong Kong estate pointed Hon. Secretary and Treasurering to be married?"
"Yes, famous film actress!" "Indeed ?" Couldn't live without her, I suppose ?"
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to the value of $10,900. Letters of the Hong Kong Branch of the Navy- of administration have been granted League, in succession to the late Mr.
L. M. Whyte. to the widow, Lam Ho-shi.
The "China Mail understands that
"No-well, not without a breach the local branch is now busy making Yesterday Miss. Elvidge was
arrangements for a. Nelson Day run-of promise action, anyhow!" rushing perambulator along
cert on October 21, at which many Nathan Road, when somebody took well-known local artistes will appear. Golf Enthusiast: "And then from away her wallet, which was in the The concert will take place at the Lee the ninth tee I had the misfortune pram. while abe paused to read a Theatre at ... and a most attracto top the ball. I must have caught letter. The wallet was worth £2❘tive programune is being fixed up. flannel has been specially
and it contained £2 and $1 besides) selected to give enduring
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Other roads in the same area have also to have large sums expended on them "in view of the heavy bus traffic."
In Kowloon City, it is further noted, $5,000 is put down for!
At the Repulse Bay Hotel Saturday, Nina and Jacques. dancers, assisted by an augmented
orchestra, will give exhibitions of
A jolly evening is promised at pop-it a whack as found that I had lar prices, and residents are advised to sliced the thing in two." sake a note of the date and keep it
Sweet Young Thing: "Ah, yes. I have heard of that being done. That is what is called "halving the
ojien.
KIDNAPPED ?
the very latest dances. Tables may EVIDENCE AGAINST TRIO NOT
be booked at the Hong Kong, Repulse Bay, or Peninsula Hotels
and by telephone, Central 776.
SUFFICIENT
OLD WOMAN'S GRIEF
At the Kowloon Magistracy, yes
hole, isn't it?"
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Old lady: That parrot I bought
yesterday, uses most violent langu-
Age."
Dealer: "I don't deny that he does swear a bit, but you must be thankful he doesn't drink or gamble"
September 17 and 18 have been fixed for the hearing at the Kowloon terday, two Chinese women and a Magistracy of the case in which Loman were charged before Mr. T. S. Choi, stall 22 Mongkok Market, is Whyte-Smith with harbouring and He: "Do you think your dad would charged with the manslaughter of kidnapping a girl aged 16. and a say anything if I told hing we were Chen Mok, of the same market, on boy aged four years. from
Kau-going to be married ?" cheung-fong village, Shun-tak August 19.
district.
Mr. R. H. Butters, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs,
For being in the unlawful pos- session of eight Po Pui Lottery tickets with a view to helling them appeared for the prosecutor, whilst at a dollar each a Chinese widow Mr. F. C. E. Rendall defended,
Mr. Butters withdrew the charge living at 53 Shanghai Street, was fined $40 by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith against the accused because of in- at the Kowloon Magistney this sufficiency of evidence. morning.
One of the female accused war a granddaughter of the complainant,
The male
were
She: "I don't know, but I fancy he'd say something if you told him we weren't."
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"How old are you, Bobby?" said the visitor.
"I'm at an akward age." replied the boy,
"Awkward age? What do mean??
you
"Well, I'm too old to cry and too
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He: "What is the sense of put-
She: "No; but every woman will when she passes me."
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Notice has been given to the an old woman, who was also grand-yeung to swear." Registrar of Marriages, Hong mother of the two children alleged Kang, of the forthcoming marri- to have been kidnapped. age of Mr. E. Kant Teao, head accused was living with one of the Professr of Philosophy of Sun two women, and the other was histing all that trimming on the back
The two children
of your hat? Do you suppose any Yat-sent diversity, Canton, whose sister. address Hong Kong is No. 1 brought to Hong Kong by their man can see the back of your hat
when he meets you?" King's-terrace. Kowloon, to Miss sister at the instigation, it was Mabel Chan, No. 18, Tung Hing- alleged, of the male accused. The grandmother subsequently came to road, Kowloon.
Hong Kong and reported the affair,
Prospective Son-in-law: "I quite and all three accused, were ar-
fail to
You see your objection. His Worship 'discharged accused. admit that my character is without When she was informed that the blemish." is considered essential for malaria clothing and 45 cents, the property
The Father: "Yes, that's just prevention and to raise sites to of a married Chinese woman living accused were being released, the
Nice thing it would at 284 Tai Nam Street, Shamshuipo, old woman was overcome with grief the trouble. proper levels to keep pace with
An unemployed coolie was and implored them to tell her where be for me to go through the rest the rapid development of the dis- sentenced to one month's
of my life with you held up as a hard the grandchildren were.
Mr. Butters told the Magistrate shining example!" trict." Even under cem teries labour by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith
a slight possibility there is a vote of $6,000 (new at the Kowloon Magistracy this that there was
morning. areas) as "uwing to the increase
Not being able to give a reason- Overland China Mail. "filling in large areas," the official able explanation of the possession rested.
Explanation being that "this work of a box containing ten pieces of
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CORRESPONDENCE.
AIR MAIL STAMPS
in population" it is necessary to open up new areas for burial.! And, as in Kowloon, so in New Kowloon, the sum of $15,000 is in- cluded in the Estimates, for dis- tributing water mains, "the work being necessary in view o the rapid extension of building opera-so many availed themselves of the tions."
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of getting back the boy whom, it "Got the price of a bed on rer, was believed, had been sold in the guvnor?" the tramp asked. Colony. The girl had been sold plied the traveller, out of the Colony to Swatow and there was little hope of ever getting
her back.
Mr.
To the Editor of the "Chins Mail."]
Whyte Smith was very Sir,It was interesting to see sympathetic and patiently explained your comments on the first Air Mail the position to the old woman, who from Hong Kong in your Saturday's left the Court crying bitterly. issue. It is pleasing to know that
opportunity to send letters by the
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Customer: "You Bay this material is the. latest fashion?"
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Air Mail, but I am sure that had CHARGES AGAINST QUARTÉTTE Under the Public Health and there been a stamp for the occa-
OF CHINESE Buildings Ordinance, a sum of sion many more would have used Hong Kong, Wedursday, Sept. 11, 1929. $100,000 is included for compen-it for the sake of a new stamp for
CASE FOR THE POLICE Two tramps were sitting by the sation and renewals. The off-their collection.
Three Chiness men and a wo wayside, when one said to the other: cial note states that "this Vote is from Manila. Letters were stamped the armed robbery
In 1928 an Air Mail came here man, charged in connection with "I say, Bill, there was a time when
on the first I was better off." necessary for the acquisition of with Philippine stamps with a floor of No. 18, Eastern-street, West
"When was that?" asked Bill. Point, on August 24, were again] "When I sat on a hot stove by In the official notes on the buildings and land necessitated by surcharge L.O.F. an aeroplane and
What is the good of stamping Central Magistratey, yesterday.
before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the mistake." works provided for in the draft the Town Planning lay out of New 1928 in red.
Kowloon, and for the alignment our Hong Kong stamps with Air
The first two accused were A young married woman was tell- Many of them will be but be struck by the frequency of and widening of existing streets. Mail?
thrown into the paper basket as
charged with taking part in the ing her friends of her first quarrel It is impossible to estimate ar the phrases "Growing Import-curately the requirements on this
British stamps were when they had raid, with three other men, not in with her husband and how, after custody; the three men jointly with making it up, the couple had planted "Buy British Goods" on them. ance" and "Badly Needed." The Vote, but it is desirable to resume
Yours, etc.,
the unlawful possession of three re-a tree in remembrance of it.
"I wish former phrase is used, naturally: such vacant land rather than wait
volvers and some ammunition; and
done we had
that," PHILATELIC.
the woman to the greatest extent in dealing until costly buildings have been
Hong Kong, September 11.
with receiving stolen whispered another young woman to her husband, "what 2 splendid property. with the work to be carried on erected." This is a policy that
MEN'S WEAR
According to Divisional Inapec-avenue we might have had by now! next year in Kowloon and the will commend itself to all. Had
tor Bloor, the first floor of No. 18,
"Boy, take these flowers New Territories. For roads in such a policy been in force a de-
Eastern street was occupied by the! To the Editor of the "China Mail.") Sir, I may sound very "nice and Chin Hing Transportation Co., and Miss Dolly Footlights, room Kowloon, for instance, the sum of cade or so ago the town planning proper to assail the action of the the five robbers gained admittance "Gee! You're the fourth guy wot's $150,000 is included, with the of the mainland would have been Magistrate in permitting the wear on the pretext that they wanted to sent her flowers to-day,"
"Ek? What's that? Who sent explanation that it has been much more satisfactory than ing of "Cissy" or tennis shirts in discuss business. Suddenly they found necessary to increase this it is to-day.
At the same Court on the plea that it is against produced revolvers and bound and the others?" "Oh, they didn't send the interests of the high traditions gagged the inmates, who were im-pany names. They just said: Vote to meet the requirements of time there are new build-
'She'll know who they came from."" of British Courts of law. In this prisoned in a cubicle. the "rapid development" that is ings in course of con-may enter a disclaimer against The robbers then ransacked the "Well, here, take my card, and tell taking place. Miscellaneous struction where a better align- the sentiments expressed in your premises and, opening the safe, her these came from the same one drainage works will absorb ment would have added to the columns on Saturday? The Bri-helped themselves to a large sum of that sent her the $180,000 to meet the require- width of the street and it seems tisk Court may not be the place, as money in Hong Kong and Contor the writer of the article on Satur-currency. One of the acensed was ments of the "rapid development" surprising (to the outsider at any-day said, where fashions are set, arrested the following day at No.
During his vacation a lawyer met that is taking place. For an ad- rate) why such plans were sanc-but that of itself is no reason for 12, Chung Hing-street, and the an old friend in the village, and their conversation drifted to a dis- 100 line Telephone tioned by the Building Authority, condemning the precedent sought arrest of the others followed ae Exchange switchiboard for Kow- The same applies to the granting to be established in the principal the result of information received. cussion of the natives.
My One Magistracy of the Colony. loon $5,000 is required to meet of permits for building in front view, is that it seems a pity that the Eastern-street, and the others at
was taken in a house in farmer came under their view.
the "normal expansion" A sum of existing dwelling houses. First Magistrate did not make the No. 99, First-street.
$15,000 for distributing Although the rapid growth of the concession at the very beginning of The case was adjourned after
same evidence was taken. is necessary mainland is emphasised in nearly the Summer. "owing to expansion" in Kowloon every Vote, the Public Works sible place to be in with the CONTRACT PROFITS
The Magistracy is the worst pos- In New Kowloon under mis- Department appears to make it humidity at 99 degrees. Mostly it cellaneous drainage works is the self a party at the same time to is crowded to excess with all shades sum of $50,000 to provide for unnecessary congestion in the of humanity. How can the Court drainage works of a small nature, future. Why should this be? connections to sewers, and to stormwater drains, and to provide generally for the drainage of the areas in New Kowloon "which are being rapidly developed for build- ing purposes." Nathan Road is to be widened northward to Nam
ditional
of water
mains
baxes,"
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A young
"He's a fine-looking fellow," sejā the lawyer.
"Tee-s," assented his friend. "Well, anyway, he has a mighty good head."
"ought to be good," was the reply *That man's head is brand new-he's hever used it any."
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CZECHO-SLOVAKIA AND GERMANY
“Now, nin” said the Cross- officials be expected to perform their duties satisfactorily in such
examining counsel, "be careful! Czecho-Slovak and German cotton Do you swear that this is not your an atmosphere 7 It were unfair to
spinners are already 'profiting hand-handwriting?" expect them to do. so in the somely by the textile deadlock in
"I'm quite sure it isn't," cante Mr. David Locke Newbigging, orthodox stiff collar and shirt. England. Firms using Englishi
the reply. of No. 192, The Peak, is to be Cannot justice be dispensed in a cotton realised that the sources of married in Hong Kong, shortly, to tennis shirt? The "prisoner at supply were threatened, and placed
"Does it resemble your writing?" Miss
"I can't say it does.” Lucy Margaret Wright, the bar" is permitted to dress as he numerous orders with Czecho- Berton End, Alton, Hampshire. pleases: why not, then, those who Slovak spinners in substitution of
sit in judgment upon him? Why the English supplies. Letters of administration to the needlessly drag in the "dignity" of German-Swiss spinners are also Cheong Street at a cost of $5,600 estate of Ching Chi-hing clias British Courts of law? Nothing offering raw material to Czecho- "to meet the needs of ever- Ching Woon-man, who died in in the way of attire can ever pre- Slovakia. Big firms of stocking see i specimen of your hand- increasing traffic." The widen testate at No: 7A, Tai Wong Street judice or affect the dignity of the makers at Prague, which usually em- writing?"
No sir, I wou't!” ing of Castle Peak Road at a cost East on July 11, last year, have Court. of $5,000 has been "rendered been granted to the widow, Wong
necessary
by
Waichiu.Hong Kong estaté development." amounts to $14,000.
Why should it? :.
Toura, etc,
INTERPLEADER. Hong Kong, September 11,
ploy exclusively English thread,
"Do you take your oath that this writing does not resemble yours?"
"Yes, sir."
"Ne z, sir, will you kindly let me
"Oh, you won't, eh? And why
"'Cause I can't write."
are concluding contracts covering several months with Czecho-Slovak won't you?” producers.
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