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We have this day been appointed Sole South China Agents for Messrs. JEAN HUG & CO. of St. Gall manufacturers of fashionable lingeries in art. silk and cotton.
November 20, 1929.
DEALERS: - - Before placing your next order ask us to show you our samples and prices!
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in it, but we read nothing about sizes. Not every man could afford thus to emphasise his lower di- mensions.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1929.
Jaffu. yesterday.—A Jew has INSTONE BREWER'S
been sentenced to death for killing two Araba during the August dis-}| turbances.-Reuter.
The occupier of 21, Canton Road was this morning at the Kowloon Police Court fined $5 for allowing her dog to be abroad without a muzzle.
RETURN
FORMAL APPEARANCE IN COURT
REMANDED ON, BAIL
Yet we do not deny that al Enshion of rainbow feet may be coming. Once upon a time there was a Count of Anjou who had such "large corns and bunions"
Mesars. Jean Hug & Co., of St. Mr. Noel Instone Brewer, Barria. that he ordered shoes of long Gall, France, manufacturers ofter-at-Law of Hong Kong, who was and contorted tocs to "conceal fashionable lingeries, have aparrested at Shanghal following the the excrescences." This fashion pointed the Patriotic Trading Co., Issuing of, warrants against him by the sole Mr. A, W. G. H. Grantham, Second "wonderfully pleased light-mind- of 18 Ice House Street, ed persons and lovers of novelty, agents for South China, for their Magistrate of the Central Magis- lingeries in art silk, and cotton. {tracy, arrived in the Colony, In the and before long everybody who
eustody of Detective Sergeant C. was anybody in Europe had his
Mottram, this morning on board shoes made with toes like fishes'
the R.M.S. "Empress of Russia,"
He was produced before Mr. tails. Later, young bloods had
were at the Grantham at 12.30 p.m.. when the such toes that they were fasten-
following transpired in Court. ed to the knee by chains, until an Act of Parliament was pass ed ordaining that no cord-wain- er or cobbler should make shoes with a projection of more than two inches. So perhaps, our feet will be beautiful on the links at Fanling ere long. The wheel of fashion swings round. Shall we see our young men red-heeled like Charles II or square-toed like Henry VII?
NEWS IN BRIEF During 24 hours ended yesterday
one case of typhoid fever, one smallpox, and one of diphtheria were notified.
Wong King, charged with taking into her employment a nine years old giri as a mul tsai at 633, Shang
The "China Mail" has received a
beautiful illustrated catalogue from Messrs. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Com- pany, showing toys and other useful gifts for Christmas at reasonable
readily in the old days and enjoy-hai Street, was this morning at the Kowloon Magistracy remanded for ed not unprofitable years at the
a week. University must be refused. That colleges should decline to take men who are not capable of Mail.reading for honours with a chance of a good class may be inevitable. The standard for men will only be prices. what it has long been for women. fet we may agree with the Lon-charges of robbery at an unnumber- The four Chinese arraigned on
don "Daily Telegraph" that in this ed hut on the. Ma Tau Kak Road, change there is some loss. Uni- were again before Mr. W. Schofield versities ought not to be too at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day. A week's formal remard Was academic. The clever under-
granted. graduate should not be left whol- ly to the society of his kind.
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BIRTH
SEIFFERT-On November 17, in Canton, to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. E. Seiffert, a aon
Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 21, 1929.
LARGE UNIVERSITIES
University years are just be-i ginning. Cambridge is to-day in full strength, and the estimate is that there are 5,000 undergrad- uates in residence, if we include among them the 500 women at Girton and Newnham. The fresh-
men
On a charge of enticing a Chinese male child. 5 years of age, from his mother at Kowloon City, two Chinese, unemployed, Kowloon Magistracy this morning remanded for 48 hours in police custody pending the arrest of a
third person.
Mr. Grantham: You are Noel Instone Brewer?
Defendant: I am, Your Worship. Magistrate: The charges against
Chan Tak, charged with gambling you are? in Jordan Road, a public place, (a) For that you, Noel Instone absented himself when the case Brewer, on the day of August, 1927, was called at the Kowloon Magis-in a statutory · report made and tracy this morning and his ball of led by you on the said date $4 was aubsequently estreated. (which report you were authoris- $1.99 gathered from the gamblera,ed to make by the provisions of was ordered to be placed in the the Companies Ordinance of 1911) Poor Box.
and on behalf of the Instone Banking Corporation, Ltd., did knowingly and wilfully make (otherwise than on uath) a state- ment false in a material particu- lar, to wit, that the total amount of the cash received by the sald Instone Banking Corporation. Ltd., in respect of shares issued wholly for cash, was $876,750, contrary to Section 7 of the Perjury Ordín- ance. No. 21 of 1922.
ST. ANDREW'S
Congregational Meeting
This Evening
(b) For that you, Noel Instone
A general meeting of the con- gregation of St. Andrew's Church, Brewer, on the 9th day of July, Kowloon, will be held in the Church 1928, in a balance sheet dated the Hall this evening at 6 o'clock.
6th day of August, 1928, for the The business will be:-(1)
period ending the 30th day of April, approve the final draft of the 1928. filed by you on behalf of the Church of England Trust Ordin-Instone Banking Corporation, Ltd.,. (which balance sheet you were nu-
ance 1929.
(2) presentatives of St.
To
To nominate two lay re-thorised to make and file by the Companies Ordinance of 1911), did knowingly and wilfully make a false
Andrew's
Church, on the Board of Trustees. in-Charge, will preside, supported mater' particular, to wit, The Rev. C. B. Shann, Clergyman-statement (otherwise than an oath)
by the Church Vestry.
that the assets of the said Com- pany consisted. af accounts receiv- able by the sald Company which amounted to the sum of $221,360.87, of collateral and security loans which amounted to $304,630 of mortgage and long term loans which. amount- ed to $266,630; stocks, ahares and investments which amounted to $484,831.80; and uncalled capital contrary to section 7 of the Perjury- which amounted to $1.420,940;
BOXER INDEMNITY
London, Yesterday. In the House of Commons to- day Mr. Arthur Henderson said Fourteen persons are reported to that the new proposals dealing have been drowned when a fishing with the Boxer Indemnity were junk capsized in a sudden squall off now under consideration with His Lap-sap-mei, in Chinese territory Majesty's Minister in China. The Ordinance, No. 21 of 1922. GOLF'S NEW TERROR | at 11 pm, on November 17. Ac- question logization must await
cording to a report made at the Tai- the decision of these proposals-stone Banking Corporation. Ltd., pub-
"That is not the custom of this
LIQUOR FOR NATIVES
(c) For that you, Noel Instono Brewer, belng's director of the In-
O Police Station by the master of Reuter.
lished or concurred in making, circa- We are told that men will wear the junk, only he and three of his
lating or publishing a wrong state- shoes of many colours. It has fokls were rescued by * passing
ment, to wit, balance sheet of the been decreed by those mysteri- they came on to Hong Kong.
junk and taken to Macao whence
anid Company, dated the 6th day of June, 1928, for the period ending the ous powers which ordain what
30th day of April, 1928, led by you the world shall wear. When a
Rugby, Yesterday.
on the 9th day of July, 1928, with the In the House of Commons to the sald Instone Banking Corporation, Registrar of Companies on behalf of man goes forth to golf, his feet Colony" remarked Mr. W. Schofield in future may be green or blue or morning to a Chinese woman who Secretary, stated that the Gov-material particular, to wit, that the at the Kowloon Police Court this day Mr. Lunn, Colonial Under Ltd., which you know to be false in a red or as dazzling as his pullover. was charged with carrying a chicken ernors of West African colonies assets of the said Company consisted Thus one more terror is super by its wings. Defendant in ad- were being consulted as to what of accounts receivable amounting to
to Auously added the dreadmitting the offence, stated that she steps could usefully be taken for $221,350.87; of collatoral securities and had just come down from the coun- dealing with the sale of intoxicat-loans amounting to $349,530; of mort- game. There was a Shoe Fair in
try two days ago and did not knowing liquors to the natives of those fage and long term loans amounting London, and the omens of this Hong Kong laws. A fine of $3 | colonies.--British Wireless Ser to $268,630; and of stocks, thares and Brighter feet cult were displayed. | was imposed,
vice.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
Novelist's Grandson: The Polish Dictator: Cockroaches: Great German Actor:
Legal Languor
number 1,650. There is Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond In the early days of Poland's re- The Germann Hamlet
birth as a nation, when a hundred now nothing strange in such SIR Herbert Richmond, who re-
years of submerged identity had left! HERR Alexander Moissi, the great German actor, surprised as well figures. Ever since 1920 there
her people yearning for self-govern- cently became a full admiral,
as delighted a Surrey house party ment, yet devoid of men fitted by ex- have been from 1,600 to 1,800 had as his assistant at the Im-perience to fill executive posts, Mar-entertaining his
recently bursting into song and fellow guests, not newcomers admitted to the Uni- perial Defence College, of which versity each year. But before until recently he was command- the war no one had dreamed of ant, Captain (now Rear-Admiral). such hosts in Cambridge. Then G. C/ Dickens, a son of Sir Henry 1,000 or 1,100 freshmen a year Dickens, K.C., and grandson of was the rate, and the under- the great novelist. graduates in residence were ra- ther more than 3,000.
Не
is
uther investments amounting to $484- 831,80; and of uncalled capital amount- ing to $1,420,960; with Intent to de- ceive shareholders of the sald Corpora- tion and to induce persons to beconto sharehcklers, or to entrust or to ac vance money to the said Corporation; contrary to section 21 of the Larceny Ordinnate No. 5 of 1885.
The Magistrate (to defendant): "Remanded until Tuesday, the 20th inst., at 2.15 p.m. Amount of bail: $500 and two securities of $1,500 each. Mr. Brewer: I thank you, your Wor- jship.
THE AIR MAIL
35,000 Letters Leave London For India
up by the emergency. shal Pilsudaki was the man thrown anly with German lieder, of which Those who had personal experience he has a large repertoire, but Eng
lish folk songs. --as the writer had of Poland and the Baltic States in those difficult in German, but his English, though to play Hamlet in London days cannot but regret that the Brixlow and deliberate, is quite good.
Rugby, Yesterday. tish Coalition Government failed to He is a light, wiry man, with
The first Indian air mail on the re- realise the influence which Marshal Pilsudski held in Poland and the re-conventional German in bla appear now leaves Karachi on Tuesdays instond mass of long hair and little of the vised Imperial Airways Service, which Ilance which he placed on the ad- ance; he was born, as a matter of of Sundays, arrived at Croydon 'Aero. vice of a British officer, General
fact, a few
miles from Trieste drome to-day in a big Armstrong- Carton de Wiart, V.C, then head of
Since before the war he has not Siddeley air liner which had flown the British Military Mission in War- saw.
been in Britain and has never appear across Europe from Athens, the mail, ed there in pubilc. Had General Carton de Wiart been The last foreign Hamlet London (which was the second largest yet flown able to obtain from London a clear indication of the British Gov.
saw was an Italian, who played the from India to Londen, consisted of ap part at the Globe Theatre En aproximately 3,500 letters. British ernment's view on Middle European blonde wig, but, unfortunately, he Wireless Service. affairs, the influence and prestige of met with very poor support. this country in Poland might have been very much greater.
Alas! continuous vaciliation mádo Litigation General Carton de Wiart's task an impossible one; the golden opportum. ity was lost and quickly seized upon by others more far-sighted.
Cockroaches
.
THOUGH the judges are back at
.
"
TEN YEARS AGO.
(From the "Chian Mall" November 21, 1919.)
Sir Herbert himself is a son of the late Sir Williant: Richmond, A similar expansion has taken the painter. So here is a double place at Oxford. By general ad-{ departure from the usual position mission" the colleges at the two of naval officers springing from földer Universities are now as naval families.
large as is compatible with effec Sir Herbert during the war tive work. The complaint has commanded three ships in the been heard, indeed, that in the Grand Fleet Commonwealth, Con- A little time expansion something of the spirit queror, and Erin.
knows when the Law Lords will re- the Law Courts, It is not yet and the charm of University life ago he presented a lion cob,
sume the hearing of appeals in the Simba, to the Zoo. The animal has beed lost. The modern un
House of Lords, for there is at pre- travelled with a correct naval cer
sent little there for them to de dergraduate,
To-day's dollar is worth 5/- 1/4d. not so much
tificate and an official number. Is there any more disgusting Insected from the divergent standpoints of Fortunately (or otherwise, as view. one of a community as one of a Under "Date of volunteering"
than a cockroach? Even the En-
counsel and litigant) the Judicial Lieut. F. C. Roberts, a Hong host is tempted to live in cliques written "Had no option," and
cyclopædia Britannica, generally the Committee of the Privy Counell Kang boy, who recently returned most fair minded of judges, has not knows no and coferied rather than general under "Religious denomination"
such paucity, else the from active service, left for Home a good word for them.
Cock-
Tanks of the unemployed might ex- rouches, we are told, "are nocturnal perience an unsccustomed accretion by the Empress liner. good fellowship. The particular appeared the word "Glutton." creatures, secrating themselves in with the indecorous spectacle of type of teaching which distin
chinks and crevices about houses, K.Cs beating the big drum and blow suing from their retreats when the fog their trumpets, a thing discounwho had just lost his son that "a A contemporary says of a man gulshes Oxford and Cambridge,
lights are extinguished, and moving tonanced by the profession. the system of college tutora,
about with extraordinary rapidity la
Such scarcity in appeals to the large mead of sympathy will go out FEW statesmen have played a more search of food. They are voracious Supreme Courts as has been the to him." We believe always in. could not be organised to provide prominent role in shaping the and omnivorous, devouring or At
destinies of their country than--Mar- least damaging, whatever comes their. Bot the falling off in litigation is sympathy that sends out to the case this year cannot be recalled. practical sympathy and perhaps the for any further large increase of ahal Pilandaki, the Polish War Minis way, for all the species emit a dis attributed rather to the question of bereaved a large drink (even of the students Yet already many ladster, whose projected visit to Italy is agreeable: odour, which they compounds, shilings, and gronce, than to
arousing no little interest In War-municate to whatever article of food the advent
Heaven-sensold fashioned liquor) is as practic who would have been . admitted www.-
or clothing they may touch."
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