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Mr. V. Rupchand Informs us that owing to Great Devali holiday, the

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1929.

SCOTS CELEBRATE

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REUNION DINNER

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PRAPS NOT!

Circus Manager: "What's wrong now?"

Londan, Yesterday. In the House of Commons to-day the second read- WHA WOULD'NA `FOLLOW UST! ing of the Widows' and Old Age

Indtarubber Man: "Every time Ushered in to the weird music of Pensions Bill was passed.-Reuter. the pipes (which bear in their the strong man writes a letter he

minstrelsy all the proud warlike uses me to rub out the mistakes." Parla, Yesterday.-M. Clementel spirit of ancient Scotland) the kaggin, has abandoned the idea of forming brown and steaming, was the motif at Assistant: "That hat makes a Cabinet, and the task has been last night's 5th Hallowe'en Reunion you look ten years younger," placed before M. Tardieu-Reuter. Dinner of the Scottish Company of Middle-aged lady: **Then it won't do. When I take it off I

the Hong Kong Volunteers.

It was a grave moment in local

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Absenting themselves from Kow. loon Court this morning two Chinese Scottish history when, to the swirl shall look ten years older." who were charged with cruelty to of the pipes the strange dish was born

on high to the Chieftain, who ducks by putting them in a crate warded the "Stewards" with a "wee that had no matting, had their bail sms' drapple" from a bowl, the reverse of $10 each estreated.

side of which was carefully licked, that no preciona "drappie" night be

Festivity

Admitting that he had stolen an spilt. iron bar valued at $2, from a coal- yard in Waterloo-road, a Chinese Festivity ruled the board, and the was at the Kowloon Magistracy this lighted lanterna and thistles

Gambler (wrathfully): "This is the second time you've served me with meat that ought to be buried! What do you mean by it?"

Walter: "Well, they told me that nothing pleased you more than high steaks."

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and Little Doris was being reprl-

morning fined $10 with the alter-coloured streamers from the romanded by her mother for a con

native of 14 days' hard labour.

transformed the severity of the head-

quarters in which the evening was tinual course of misconduct.

"Don't you know, Doris,” she A special thanksgiving service spent, and an atmosphere of gaiety

said, "that if you keep on doing so will be held at St. John's Cathedral prevailed.

Following the loyal toast, proposed many naughty things your children on Sunday morning in connection by Lieut. II. R. Forsyth, Mr. G.will be naughty, too?" with the sixtieth birthday of the McLeod entertained the gathering with "Oh, mother," returned the Diocesan Boys' School. The ser-"McGregor Shall Flourish,” which youngster, "now you've given your- mon will be preached by the Rev. was accorded vociferous applause. aelf away!"

W. T. Featherstone, head master of the school.

Toasting "The Visitors," Lieut.

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H. R. Forsyth paid tribute the as- sistance rondered to the Scottish Com- A married couple at the boarding- bought their OWN pro- The wed ng will take place at St. pany by the 2nd Batti, K.0.3.B., and house

referred, in humorous vein, to the oc- visions. A sugar basin, contain- John's Cathedral, at 8 p.m., to- morrow, of Miss Jessie To, nieca casion on which the Volunteers and the ing lump sugar, was put on the table of Dr. and Mrs. Coxion To, and Mr. Regulars mounted guard over "Edin- night and morning, and the con-

burgh Castle" in the Grand Tattoo tents gradually disappeared. W. N. Thomas Tam, Barrister-at- when, according to the words of the "Shall I get you some Law. A reception will afterwards speaker they Awayed together." inquired the landlady.

be held at "Villa Magnolia," 190, (Laughter). Sassoon-road.

Pithy Stories

more?"

"It doesn't matter," returned the kusband. "We neither of us take

Mr. R. Sutherland recorded threa it!" The six Chinese men, arraigned on pithy stories, the best being a story

and similar local upheavals is charges of robbery at 869, Canton-related by "Duggie" Grant, the Com- A new man came and took over negligible compared with that of road, the Kwa Ki Firewood shop, on mander of the London Scottish, who

October 7, made another appearance was in frequent conflict with Colonel the correspondence department of a buses, which latter can be press- before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at Clouse during the course of after-din- certain well-known Scottish firm, ner speeches. At one convivial gather and he was surprised to find the ed into service in a variety of the Kowloon Magistracy this morning "Duggie" related that Clouse was greater part of his new quarters ways making for the greater con- ing. His Worship fixed November detailed to capture one particular filled with stacks upon stacks of Overland China Mail.venience of the community. In/22, 23 and 24 for the hearing of the village during the Great War, while faded and dusty flea-the

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Hong Kong, Friday, Nov. 1, 1929.

TRAMS MUST

case.

"Duggie" was ordered to capture an cumulation of other.

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busy streets there is a greater

MANY years and danger in crossing to the pave- Captain Mackehnie, master of the Owing to a mistake in certain quar-much of which was useless.

As he needed the space he at ments from a tramcar. How 8.5. "Charles Hardouin," has re-ters each captured the other's village.

Relating the incidents at a dinner once wrote to the head office of the ported a case of alleged suicide at few have the "traffic sense" in-sen to the Police. According to him. Colonel Clouse remarked, "In the villancient letters and documents could in London sotne time afterwards, Arm, and asked whether the files of stilled in them to make it a habit whilst the vessel was on a voyage age "Duggie" was detailed to capture, be destroyed or otherwise disposed to look behind, when alighting from Canton to Hong Kong, a Chi- there were 14 machine-guns placed! of and in due course he received a from a tram, for other oncoming

nese passenger named Li Wing-on Quick as a flash, "Duggie" replied, reply thus: "Burn them by all (20) jumped overboard and was "And the village the Colonej waa de- traffic? It is possible that trams drowned.

tailed to capture, 'there were four means, but before doing so please women (Laughter). may be good for long distances

that duplicates are made of them." in rural districts, but even there

Tsang So (26) was at the Kow-

"Young Scotland” joon Magistracy this morning! Kaplying to the toast "The Visitors," the experience of to-day favours charged with returning to the Colony Mr. A. H. Ferguson thanked the Com- During the scripture lesson there the more mobile buses with their before his banishment term had ex-pany for the entertainment they had occurred a passage from the Bible much greater degree of comfort. pired, having been deported from the provided and madu on earnest appeal including the words, "Bread to eat Now that large capacity buses Colony, on Sept. 30 this year for a for "Young Scotland," sent to the and raiment to put on."

Colony, to fill the ranks of the Hong at length the teacher came in her are being built, just as many months' hard labour and 15 strokes Company had proved a useful adjunct tion.

period of five years. Sentence of 8 Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. The valiant struggle towards elucida- people can be carried in them in of the birch was passed. quicker time. Hence the Home papers-as in

to the St. Andrew's Society,

The speaker went on to say that

Dead silence.

To these

"Now," she said, "can any one Having served 10 days' imprison- they greatly regretted the impending tell me what that means?”’ the report of

ment just a year ago for unlawful departure of the 2nd K.O.S.B.2. На Wolverhampton's conversion from possession, a Chinese was to-day at did not know if a Scottish Battalion "Well," she persisted, "does any trams to buses-are continually the Kowloon Magistracy charged would relieve them, but even if the one know what the first part means giving prominence to similar re- with the theft of a coconut broom reverse was the case, the Volunteers-bread to eat?"

The class wa encouraged to from a wholesale shop in Shanghal-wed much to their comrades of the

(Hear, hear).

intimate that it did indeed under- In a Colony like Hong Kong, the Magistrate sent the defendant

Personal Contact

stand the significance of something The cry of the Scottish Company to eat. with its congested and narrow to jail for two months.

should be "Follow us-whe would'na "Come now," said the teacher, follow us? It was only by personal "surely some one can tell me what streets on the island at any rate,

Laet night, as Mr. M. Blake, contact and relationship with their ralment to put on' means?"

placements all over the country.street On admission of the offence regular force. GO!

After a pause, a little girl's hand

TEN YEARS AGO

[From the "China Mail," November 1, 1919.1

To-day's dollar is 4/5 7-16.

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In the motoring section of the "China Mail" yesterday there appeared a brief article with the and with its ever growing popu- ofthe Sanitary Department friends of the regular service that the above heading narrating the lation, it-looks-as-if the era of was-driving his motor car in Scottish-Company-of-the-Volunteers shot. "Please,, miss,"

likewise doomed. Queen's Road East, he accidentally had learned that, while keen and in experience of Wolverhampton in tramcars is its policy of replacing trams by Traffic reform will demand that knocked down a Chinese woman tensive tralhing was a vital necessity ventured, "mething to put on the

named Yuen King, living at No. 49, to complete efficiency, they could be bread-like dripping." trolley buses,. Wolverhampton gradually the trams, should be Tang Lung Street, Wanchal. She useful to the Regular force.

"Don't Help the Bear!" has for six years been following replaced by buses How they received alight Injuries to her head

Major Crake, the Officer Command- the policy of conversion from have outlived their usefulness and was taken to the Government

Ing the 2nd Battalion K.O.S.B., re- can be demonstrated on the occa-

Civil Hospital,

iated the story of the Naval Officer trams to bases, and only now

marooned on an iceberg with a Polar has the last tram track been aion of every race meeting and Nearly two years after the occur- bear as a companion and a broken oar pulled up and trolley buses sub football match, or, indeed, of any rence, an echo of an alleged robbery as a weapon. stituted That city now claims to big concourse at the Happy off the Sa-ku-chau Island, was heard "Don't help the bear and you will see. and kidnapping on board a salt junk "Lord," prayed the Son of the Sea, have the largest bus undertaking Valley or North Point. Loop in Mr. T. 3. Whyte-Smith's Court & damned good fight!" (Laughter).

From a selfish point of view, said Mr. N. L. Smith's appointment as in the world so far as route mile-lines are limited in their actual at Kowloon yesterday, when three age is concerned.

utility. And in the case of

Chinese were charged with having the speaker, he would say that the Assistant A been concerned in the affair, Mr. the more the Regulars would rejoice be--

more proficient the Volunteers became gazetted. tramcar the Horace Lo was for the defence cause they would be more able to help There is room for thought for breakdown in one the traffic authorities as well as whole tram service is dislocated Detective Sub-Inspector Dorling the Rezulora in time of trouble.ton Goods-It is satisfactory to re- for the general public in this for some time-again to the in conducted the case for the prosecu Colony. The principle must ever convenience of the travelling tion. After some formal evidence the

hearing was adjourned, be kept to the forefront that publici |quick vehicles go to the centre of As the utility and convenience the thoroughfare, but that their of the buses rapidly outweigh speed is necessarily regulated by those of the trams, so will the that of the slowest vehicle. But community become more "bus —when à tram stopa, everything minded." Traffic problems must else stops. Traffic generally is be tackled as soon as they arise. Valley Cemetery dislocated, and the travelling They do not allow of a drifting |***/ public is inconvenienced. Then, policy that spella mere retrogres-

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are chicle that

MRS. JANE BENSON

Funeral At Happy

(Laughter and applause),

.. Postmaster-General

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Cotton Piece Goods and Fancy Cot-

port a very firm and advancing Home

In conclusion, the Speaker made market. Recard prices are demanded an earnest appeal to young Scotsmen for everything, so that the phenomen- in the Colony to support the Volun-ally high exchange does not make teers and swell the ranks of the Scot-dealers' bargaina look dear, consider tish Company In particular,

ing to-day's replacing values.

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The Artistes Mr. McLeod gave other excerpts The Superintendent of the local fiom his repertoire and Mr. V. C. Cable Company has mollified us. His Labrum proclaimed in song that, associatca" "“explanation" that the in- - "When a man's thirty-five he's too old struction to cancel certain telograms:

to be young and too young to be old," was issued to the other papers Hos Mr. D. Harvey with a ukulele sang late to be effective" is withdrawn, and "Her Han" and Mr. G. V. True ren-the Superintendent himself How as- The funeral of Mrs. Jane. Benson, dered two or three items on the piano-sures at that the instructions, to the papers were sent out simultaneously, it has to be remembered that re-sion--sheer obstinacy in cling-who died at Shameen on Tuesday, forts in a creditable mamer.

as we said they should have been. pairs to tram rails involve a furing to the ideas of past genera-testant Cemetery, Happy Valley.

took place yesterday at the Pro

CRINOLINE WAGER - Ha compliments the "China Mall on ther hindrance to other traffic, tions. "Facts.

being the only one of the two' even- The ceremony was conducted by

Miss Mary Waters, the 21-year readers did not get those telegrams ing papers to "play the game," Our which is often most undesirable winna ding" is a true enough the Rev. C. B. Shann., when time may mean not only saying of traffic as of most other The chief mourners were Mr. and old daughter of a South Wiltshire until 24 hours' afterwards, which we money but the saving of life.

farmer, won a wager by walking regret; but they have the satisfaction Mrs. C. E. Watson (son-in-law and local problems. Any extension daughter), Mr. A. E. Benson and through the crowded streets of of knowing that when they did get Trams cannot be diverted in of the tram service in the Island Mr. Oscar Benson (eldest and second Sallebury on market day wearing them, they got them honourably. emergencies. There was

her, grandmother's Early Victorian the is unthinkable... Not only

Bosons, respectively); striking-instance of the King but there must be an evolution Sympathisers present Included In- broline wedding dress and poke Now in spite of the inadequacy of bonnet. the water power, the drainage system Edward Hotel fire. Buses could gradual though it may bin the Stapleton, Mr. and Mrs. F.. O. Dof the family, learned that Miss vate house on the Peak, the pipes are spectar C. Pain, Mr. and Mrs. F. W- Three years ago when a friend is at present being installed at a pri- proceed by Queen's Road or the direction of replacing trams by Gourdle, Mr. and Miss B. Braga, Watera presided over her birthday said to be six inches so that if the Praya, but the tramcars we

were buses. And, naturally enough, Mrs, E. Abraham, Mrs. Passmore, party in her grandmother's wedding system is universally adopted later, stopped for some hours, as they any facilities for the extension of W. Smith, F. P. Leufestay, J. J. through High Street and Silver trembles to think of the condition of

Miss Edna Carroll, Messrs. C. Kow, dress be challenged her to wear it this will have to be relaid. also were on the occasion of the bus services must be given to Saunders, R. Drude, C. Mackenzie, Street, Salisbury,

these pipes and the adjacent house; Kong Hotel, fire nearly the company that cast aside all W. Goldenberg, H. P. Harris,

12 the water supply is so bad that it cannot even four years ago. Moreover, trams other considerations except the Walace Hansen, and W. Jo gave his wife lecture on any case ratepayers protest emphatic

meet. present needs-in are noisy and cumbersome. And convenience of the public during large-number of wreaths was much that he has had to give up who have influence and kare how to feconomy. It impressed her 50 ally at the favouritism shown to people their utility in times of strikes the crisis of four years ago,

Carroll.

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