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The total output of the Kalian Mining Administration's mines for the week-ended December 21. amounted to 98,885 tons, and the sales during the period to 72,287 Lons.

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The forthcoming wedding is an- announced of Mr. Lawrence James Griffiths, of the P.W.D., residing at Empress Lodge, Kowloon, Beatrice Mary Brown, No. 5, Wing Lok Buildings, Kowloon,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1930,

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MARRY?

OR A WIFE IN EVERY PORT?

HAVE been married for thirty

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who recently retired,

He had made a auccess of his married life, but only after a very The Secretary for India has ap-hard struggle, and mainly on the pointed Sir Alexander Cobbe to part of his wife. He never blamed succeed Field-Marshal Sir Claud his wife for irting quietly when Jacob as military secretary at the he was away for years at a time, India Office, when, Sir Claud. because he knew she needed some vacates his appointment on May 9, Sort of affection. The signißcant fact that all his children, and he had five; took up careers on dry land showed what they thought about their father's career at sen.

Sentence of one month's hard labour was passed on a Chinese at the Kowloon Magistracy-to-day on being found guilty of obtaining $3. from a widow living at 18, Kowloon City Road, by means of a false letter.

The evidence, being Insufficiant. | against him, a Chinese, of no fixed: abode, charged with the theft of a bar of iron from à contractor's shed at Tung Choi Street, was af the ↑

Sailors are always' brave med. When they set out on the marriage voyage they do so without a chart

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them are married becomes one of the most difficult and unnatural parts to play.

Once opon a time captains were allowed to take their wives to sea- with thern, Nowadays we all hope our sops will never become sailors, because we shiver at the thought of the unnatural home life they will lead.

One of the strangest paradoxes of the British race is the fact that the very men who have built up the Em- pire-the sea captains and sailors

are treated so badly In compari son with other workers. The sea- captain gives his life to a very hard career and all he can ever hope to earn, no matter how brilliant he is, will be no more than £1,500- a year. For the best part of his life, when he is at the height of his skill, his average salary works qut at no more than £500 a year.

He must pass through a very tough school to get his first train

very difficult examinations to get his master's ticket.

Kowloon Magistracy to-day dis- Talk on Recent Progressing, and then he must overcome

charged.

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¡A Chinese ex-employee of a shop at 85, Main Street, was at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, aan- tenced to three weeks hard labour for the theft of two black cotton Jackets, the property of a bean curd dealer, at the shop.

Similarly any person who wilą A Chinese farmhouse was entered fully obstructs the public health by robbers early yesterday morning at Tam Mai village, Lok Ma Chow, authorities in the imperative New Territories. Five men forced work of endeavouring to stamp their way in and robbed a Chinese out smallpox is no less guilty of couple. They made off with bably murder Here, the Government amounting to about $40. Querland China Mail. is malding, a tremendous conces As the result of overbalancing

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Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan 8, 1930.

SMALLPOX

In Unity'

There are many first-class – BER captains without work, and there is a steady stream of toys who want to "run away to sea." training ships round our coasta Most of the could do with more accommodation. There are boys waiting to get in.

The second meeting of the World's Evangelical Alifanco Universal Wack of Prayer, 1930, was held in the Union Church, Hong Kong, yesterday, when a small gathering, including the Blahop of Victoria and the Dean (the Very Rev. A. Swain), listened to a most absorbing talk on "Recont Pro-All the rice girls etul love a gress in Unity delivered by the Rev. enflor and sailors always get mar Frank"Short (London Mission) who ried, though they may only apend also conducted the service cha

half their lives at home. They pre- fidelity. sent the best example of conjugel

The speaker referred, at length, to the Lambeth Conference of 1920, and pointed out that this year's one will be of unusual interest to all concerned in the welfare at Christian Unity.

Mr. Young said that progress was.

Lambeth Conference

sion in permitting smallpox pa- and falling into the street while evident in the increase in friendliness fients to be treated in their own hanging clothes to dry on the first and knowledge of the Church's mess

floor verandal of 100, Whitefieldge to the World, gen On principle it is all Road, a Chinese married woman se Andrew's Church, Kowloon, at houses.

To-day's meeting will take place in wrong. Such a system is open to named Chang Yu (28), suffered ep.m., when the Rev, J. H. Johnston all kinds of abuses some, may severe injury to her spine. She will speak on "Our Failure to Realise

is now in the Government' Civil] Unity" be, innocent; others certainly otherwise. The liberty of the in- dividual must count for nought when the health of the whole community is endangered.

Hospital. In a critical condition.

A sum of money in English currency has been taken to the Central Police Station by Mr. 0. Hong Sing, ahopkeeper of 16, Pedder In the official replies given to Street who reported that it was left

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a number of questions at.yester. in his shop, having apparently been day's meeting of the Sanitary left behind by a customer.

money car be claimed at Police Board, it is reassuring to learn Headquarters. that in some respects the authorities are imbued with sensible ideas. The authorities concerned

The Rev. W. Walton Rogers will lead.

UNIVERSITY EXAM.

More Local:

Juniors"

Supplementary List of passes in the local Junior Examination of the Hong Kong University are as under: M. L. Poynting.

Central British School:-No.1183,

and so are their children, and when

Their wives are happy- we look at figures from the Divorce Court, (a cold but real enough teet of modern marriages) we discover that, after parsons, there are fewer divorces among seafaring men than “in any other profession.

TEN YEARS AGO

[From the Chins Mall” January 8, 1920.J

To-day's dollar is worth 5/-"%%d.

What the China Mall Gossip-saw the St. George's. Ball:-

"Rows of dear little sitting out boxon on the verandahs added a spice of ad- venture to an otherwise decorous "og- casion

Lady Rees-Davies looked graceful and smart in a black velvet gown- showing an under bodice of white face.

··Mrs." Stabb' was in white brocade and Mrs. Pollock in white draped with gold lace.

Italian Convent--No. 1100, Amy Loong Hon-wa (Dist. Biblical Know ledge),

Queen's College:-No: 617, Ho Hung-with pink roses. ****

Mr. Young wore white watiu. Mrs. Halifax a draped gown of smoke grey, satin and taffetas caught

A Chinese preparatory school in conjunction with the famous Man Mo Temple of Hollywood Road, under the auspices of the Tung are unanimous that greater Wah Hospital, was formally opened benefit will be derived by directly by the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow urging the widest measure of im yesterday. Mr. M. K. Lo, chair-wal. munisation by vaccination than man of the directors of the Hos- by angling among the unvaccinpital, presided. Messrs. Clark & ated for notifications which they lu were the architects - for the fine have no assurance will be gen- school building, erally given and which, oven If given, would be given under con- ditions which would largely die count their value."

The authorities also do well to

emphasise that vaccinated per sons, though themsdvés immune, are capable of conveying infection to the susceptible. Let that truth

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Comdr. H. J. Murphy has been re-appointed to H.M.S. Kent on promotion.

"Mrs. Wolfe was in 'a bine satin made In circular fri

Fish tails were greatly in evidence and in most cases spoiled the appear ance of the dressers.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

What Causes "Wheel Trouble?": The Naval Conference: A Brilliant Frenchman: "Winnie's" Exciting Life

ter eclipse even the alient but hitker- to all-powerful and indispensable" Secretary-General of the Qual d'Orsay, Phillipe Berthelot,....

The Naval Conference WHAT is a hot spot"? SOME Interesting facta relative to What is - the cause of the forthcoming Naval Confer- "wheel wobble" and how would

ence In London, havo been given by the Prime Minister, who will himself Mr. Churchill at 55 you remedy it?

be one of the British delegates, and How would you write a inai will be accompanied by the Fordign MB Winston Churchill, who cele letter to a customer who has miralty and the Secretary of Stato month, has been staying with Bir Secretary, the First Lord of the Ad- brated his 55th birthday last

willPhilip Sassoon at Trent, the latter's

If anything is calculated to ensure the whole community giving the authorities the fullest possible support in the campaign against smallpox it will be the knowledge that in 1929 no fewer than 977 cases occurred in the Colony. How much greater that figure would have been if free be brought home to all who prato The Perfect Motor Trader inoculation were not provided by of the inconvenience and loss members of the St. John Am through disinfection! The best bulance Brigade can only be way to remove prejudice and imagined. No

consideration, ignorance is to introduce much therefore, must be allowed to more drastic measures and ensure stand in the way of an effort to that they are rigidly enforced. eradicate the dire disease. The lives of the majority cannot Public sentiment shall not stand possibly be allowed to be for half measures or for half menaced for the whims of the hearted support on the part of few. any one section of the com- munity. Where the lives of all, and non-Chinese alike, Chinese and are undoubtedly endangered, there can be no pandering to ob- Jections on the paltry score of the deleterious effect on clothing of disinfection. Every contact,

or indirect, with a small- lant-la a tremendous, dan ommunity. rethe whole

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Having married while on long leave at Home, Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones, of the law firm of Messrs Wilkinson & Grist, returned to the Colony yesterday by the Lloyd- Triestino Remo," and was accom pauled by his bride.

ignored two letters about an account two months old?

for India.

These are but a few of

the of the SA Sarviolt to the Duke of Weste

questions that had to be answer

include the

the plenary meeting At the Palace of

take place Westminster, and

attractive house near. Barnet, follow

minster at Eaton Hall in Cheshire

When one thinks only of Mr. Chorebill's record as a soldier, states min, and wilter, it is hard, to be Heve that so much achievement can

so short

ed by two hundred candidates sit subsequent meetings at St. James's ting in different parts of the Palace. Delegates will also be pre- sent representing His Majesty's Gov country, for the membership de- | ren

wealth of Austrailay New-Zealand Trade. It is the object of the In the Union of South Africa, the Irish stitute, which is described as a

Free State, and the Government of motor univeralty to raise the

India, B status of the industry and protect the public from

motor engineers.

gree of the Institute of the Motor ernment in ✅ Canada, the Common have been AYAZK KARENA

Among the other problems get

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Incompetent | M. Beland's Invalpable, Secretary

likely A French official who'

play hind the scenes the difference, if any Conference in

pedestrian - In full | Eminence- Grise of)

les, and ond" :sign - Ofice,

For some years' Bli: Lager, har Men (cipled the post

custom

secretary (Chlef de Brandy who has justa to be the Dir

period of

But areallation

compara

Live South coupled with an appres ciation of his seemingly releas brain, makes it easier to understand the exuberança which characterises bis every fresh entry into the eld of national activity

Exciting Careers WEW politicians have had

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