1930-07-05 — Page 6

"HEALTHFUL," REFRESHING

and COOLING!

WATSON'S

LEMON SQUASH

made from the REAL FRUIT

with GIN,

or as a GIN SLING.

it makes a drink par excellence.

· A. S. WATSON & CO,.

LTD.

Aerated Water Manufacturers.

VACATION PHILIPPINES

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN

LINE

TRADE BETWEEN · AUSTRALIA AND

CHINA.

JOHN

VOSE

of 17A, Pitt Street, Sydney, N.S.W.

has now opened an Import and Export Office at 4th floor, Kayamally Building, Nos. 20-22, Queen's Road, Central, Hong Kong-Merchants, buyers and sellers, interested in this inter-trade are asked Samples are required of Chinese products and of Australian goods will be supplied.

STOCKS AVAILABLE,

4th floor, Kayamally Bldg

WHITEAWAYS

FOR

STATIONERY.

ΜΑΜΜΟΤΗ

THE MAMMOTH "

WRITING PAD.

These pads contain 200 sheets of fine Bank Paper, ruled or plain. Complete with sheet of blotting paper, Size of WRITING

PAD paper 10 by 8 inches.

WHITEAWAYS SUPER VALUE -

NOTE

THE

PRICE

75

Cts.

each.

THE "MAMMOTH” OPAQUE ENVELOPES

Large 8vo. Court Size to Match

the "Mammoth " Pag.

PRICE

75

Cts.

* Box of 100.

SPECIALLY MADE FOR AND OBTAINABLE ONLY FROM

ז. '

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

The China Mait

[Every evening except Sunday, Annual subscription, excluding postage abroad, H.K. $30, payable in advance. Local delivery free.]

[The weekly edition of the "China Mail." Annual subscription, H.K. $13 including postage $15, pay. áble in advance.]

Published by

The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. Printers & Publishers, No. 3A, WYNDHAM STREET, HONG KONG.

second-hand Austin (instalments partly paid).

Gobo and the Mad Hatter, he is It is notified in the Gazette that the Joyous Ass, a tonic to all the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation concluded between weary souls In these serious United Kingdom and Guatemala times. Would that we had more on February 22, 1929, has been of his kidney!

extended, to the Colony of Hong Kong.

*

COUPLETS.

Time delves the parallels in But we have good cosmetics for

beauty's brow,

that now.

*

*

A celebrated

A Chinese named Chan Kau dancer A Bare

recently

(29), whose address is given as 3, Suggestion. insured her legs Old Batley, was yesterday admitted

for £20,000. We to the Government Civil Hospital Damn with faint praise," assent do not think the ladies of this suffering from head injuries ro with civil leer [Colony have any need to emulate ceived through an accidental fall at The Junior competitor" we fear.

His condition And still they gazed, and still the

wonder grew,

the St. John Hostel of the Hong

* *

her. They appear to have taken Kong University. the greatest pains to show the is not considered serious. opposite sex how plain and lack- ing in grace the female leg can dings are announced-Paul Roger My name is Norval; on the Gram-

The following forthcoming wed-

be. We refer to the stockingless Kahn, No. 4, Banco Buildings, Kow-

To see an Aberdonian beat a Jew.

#

*

ngue which has spread to Hong loon, to Alice Jullen, of the same The dunlewassals have their pri-

plan Hills Kong. Women whom one thought address; George Edward Kerr, c/o vate stills. charming, and whose legs when Hong Kong, to Elizabeth Philip Variety's the very spice of life. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, decently clad seemed as shapely as Langley, 27, Connecticut Avenue, So Cowper says.

Consolidation Ordin-

#

*

*

had no wife.

Of course ho

-JOH.

OLD RESIDENT.

AUSTRALIA.

LONG ASSOCIATION.

it is necessary for any ordinary Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.A. leg to be, have led one to pro-

His Excellency the Governor has found disillusionment. Owing to appointed under section 9 (3) of the length of the modern skirt, the Liquors one is practically forced to notice ance, 1911, Ordinance No. 9 of 1911, crooked, pimply, red, veined, the Honourable Mr. Edwin Richard MR. W. J. STOKES SAILS FOR Hallifax, C.M.G., C.B.E., J.P., to: stumpy, -bulging, emaciated, act as Chairman of the Licensing barrel-shaped legs which a stock- Board, during the absence on leave ing, however cheap in quality. Thomas Southern, C.M.G., J.P.

of the Honourable Mr. Wilfrld!

would have done its best to camouflage One would rather

Mr. Alexander Keith Taylor, see hairs wriggling through the Senior Sanitary Inspector of Kow- meshes of inferior quality stock-in the Hong Kong Civil Service. loon, to-day completes 25 years work ings than the offensive ugliness Mr. Taylor entered the Service as of some specimens of "Nature a Police Constable on July 5, 1905 ago was the Secretary of the Mr. Stokes until a few months unadorned." No doubt ladders and was appointed to Second Class Marine Engineers' Guild, and dur are an expensive nuisance and it 1911: From April 7 to September indefatigably for his colleagues.

Sanitary Inspector on March 27, ing his tenure of office he worked

With the sailing yesterday of the pular and useful citizen of Hong 8.5. St. Albans for Australia, a pó- Kong, in the person of Mr. W. T. diation with this Colony. Stokes, has severed his long asso-

may not be a matter of import-15, 1926, Mr. Taylor was acting: ance even if one does offend the Senior S.-L., until his appointment personality and his sterling worth,

As a striking tribute to his genial. fastidious tastes of the male became substantive on January 1 Mr. Stokes was the recipient of

But the legs of the modern maiden do not generally compare with those magnificent limbs to "Who cares?" he replied grave- be seen in the British Museum. ly. "We live only once." He It is not their fault; it is the fault! threw in the clutch grimly. They of the age. The stocking spelled drove in silence, except for the doom to the beauty of legs, and

*

*

*

1927.

"MR. CINDERS.” LAST PERFORMANCE BY THE SALISBURY PLAYERS.

..

at

many souvenirs from various ins- titutions a few months ago, follow- ing his retirement.

BANK TRAGEDY. ALLEGED MOTIVE FOR THE OUTRAGE.

A REALLY BRIGHT SHOW. Overland China Mail.gears. Arrived at Stanley they unless we possess beautiful legs

left the car concealed under a we should be chary of parading successful

"Mr. Cinders," one of the most The principal witness for the tuft of grass. They stole across their defects.

long-running musical prosecution, Ching Chau-wui. the comedies of recent years, is to be only one of the six injured youths the moonlit sands to the matshed

presented to-morrow her father owned, She fumbled

That abominable Star Theatre, Kowloon, by

the to escape death in the Hung Tak Reading at habit, reading at Salisbury Players. This will be the Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday when the Bank tragedy, gave evidence before for the key. They entered; with

Meals. a gallant sense of discretion ha

last night of their visit meals, is affect-:

to the hearing was resumed of the case in Colony. left the door open. (Four closed

ing local diners.

which a Chinese named Li Man- "Mr. Cinders" is one of One cannot take one's tin or brightest and most tuneful shows in amok early on the morning of Em- the pun, who was alleged to have gone walls make a compromise).

Her father, the Super Talpan,

dinner without sitting next to a the Company's very varied re-pire Day, hacking with a chopper creature with a volume propped cess wherever it has been produced. was charged with the murder of pertoire, and has proved a great suc chanced to be passing. He made

at aix persons, five of whom died, his way to the matshed.

up against the cruet stand, It is It contains some very good parts, of only one of the victims, Fung Sik- exceedingly bad for the digestion, which the members of the cast take cheuk, a son of the manager of the His daughter left the young apart from being the worst pos- advantage, and the staging is most Bank. man's embrace and looked stern-sible form of bad manners. It ly at the stranger clinging to her can be disgusting; as for instance father's arm. "What

TELEPHONES- Business Office: 20022. Editorial Department: 24841. Cable Address-Mall, Hong Kong.

All communications, should ba addressed to the Newspaper En- terprise, Ltd., to whom all remit- tances should be made payable.

London Offices:-The Far East- era Advertising Agency (London), Ltd., 36-38, Southampton Street, Strand, W.C.2.

Hong Kong. Saturday, July 5, 1930.

ADVERSARIA.

A local

A Common who is

Local citizen of Animal.

would

when the over-excited reader, Mammu say?" she demanded coming to the part where the dignantly.

Bristle.

•

Man takes the Girl into his

News in Brief.

elaborate.

cipated for to-morrow, when local playgoers will be able regretfully to bid adieu to this jolly and brilliant Company.

"WHEN KNIGHTS WERE BOLD."

Ten Years Ago.

(From the "China Mall," July 5, 1920.)

To-day's dollar is worth 31.

*

Ching gave evidence corroborat- For East Successes.. ing Mr. Somerset Fitzroy's opening This play was personally produced statement for the prosecution, to by Mr. R. B. Salisbury in Calcutta, the effect that he was awakened by where it scored an immediate suc being slashed across the left side cess. It played to crowded houses in of the face with a chopper. He Dombay, Madras, Singapore, and then saw a figure, which he identi A subaltern of ten-well, we have seen real ladies Shanghai, and, of course created a fied as that of the accused, slipping Down and der manhood in a under such circumstances lift furore in London when produced away. There was a light in the

local regiment is their forks laden with food to: there.. Two of the leading parts in room, so that he could see clearly. cultivating a mous-riflees other than their mouths. by Bobble Hale and Binnie Hale. could suggest any reason for this the London production were taken Asked by the Magistrate if he tache. (Do not repeat this; it is Usually it is somebody else's book, These parts are taken in the present attack, the witness said that a mo- supposed to be a secret). Every and is generously bespattered performance by John Mills and tive might be found in the fact "Without fear, favour or malice." morning he gazes fondly in the with butter and soup. There may Betty Hare, who Have delighted that he had refused to lend the

local audiences in other shows. accused money, Mess mirror at the silky hairs. be an advantage in this vulgar

A splendid performance is anti- writer, To-day he had at least three more vice, however, in that it makes

The case was again adjourned. a good than he had yesterday. No more

one oblivious of the quality of the this can he be called (with the scorn

food. Island, neverthe- that old Homer is wont to use) & leša has per- "beardless boy." His manhood petrated many howlers." In is on his upper lip, although it is The Assizes for July will sit on 1925 he published a guide book difficult to detect at over four Menday, July 14.

There was goed attendance at the Star Theatre last night for the 74d. on Hong Kong. There was as yards' range. Oné only per-

second performante of "When much of the author in it as there ceives it when he fingers Its appointed Mr. Edwin Taylor to be bury Co.

- His Excellency the Governor haa Knights Were Bold" by the Salis In celebration of the Fourth of was Hong Kong; the author part silken fringe with an air of ner- Deputy Colonial Treasurer, with custom cannot stale, and it is American community of the Colony. This is a play which July, a reception was held by the was accurate, but the Hong Kong vousness or pride; we cannot tell effect from July 3:

every whit as amusing to-day as at the Hong Kong Hotel yesterday part was not. For instance, the which. One day, no doubt, it

it was years ago when it first afternoon. author says with the careless will be as splendid and flourish (Hong Kong University) whose

Miss Leung Chum-ha, M.B., B.S., took London by storm!

There was a large attendance of fomancing of the amateur: "Asing as

In the part of "Sir Guy Grant Americans and their friends. H.E. a warrior's moustache address is given as 11, Seymour Anderson had a lot to do and did the Governor and Lady Stubbs were:: regards fauna, among the groups should be men will respect it; Terrace, has been authorised to it remarkably well; while his un- also present.. of boulders and in some thicker watch the indications of its

practice, medicine in Hong Kong." limited vitality, and amusing undergrowth, small packs of twitches with anxious fears. One

modern gags made the part one: It is reported from Taipo that long laugh. jackala may occasionally be seen day this subaltern may be a seven foot shark was caught yes“ Alleen Raymond was excellent making off when disturbed, at a General for, as the saying has it, Island House. This is the second "Millicent" and we were glad tand reign of Queen Victoria.

terday in a stake net, opposite as: "Rowena" and Betty Hare n great pace. Now we flatly deny "one heir leads to another." We time within the truth of that statement. It understand that he is known in sharks have been in the vicinity: quite got over that nasty motor) A few weeks that see that Kenneth Birrell had; sheer myth. The only his Mess as "Walrus." But wel on the previous occasion one was accident, and played with his species of that animal to do not think that this can be right hand of a fisherman who

stated to have bitten off the usual verve as "Sir Brian."

With a cast of 15, it is Impos sible to give due praise to all, but we must admit to a feeling) We first met in It is notified in the Gazette that of gratification at finding no few At the monthly meeting of the The Joyous Mac's. He had at the expiration of three months ter than three local amateurs play K.R.A. It was decided to commis

ABS,

from date the Kin Lee Motoring purta! the stupid grin of Lighter. Company, Limited will, un Pield as "Katle"; Doris Hunt, the portraits of the

These were Nellis alon a well-known R.A. to paint the genius.

Helesa cause is shown to the contrary, who was particularly good

thirteen as founders in oils and suspend them

to

call.

Bamples

18

Tel. 21671.

Donations and Subscriptions must now

be sent to the Hon. Treasurer, Mrs. H. E.

Goldsmith, 525, The Peak

HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY

be found in the Colony, is the meant seriously. jackass, a

very common type,

which may be

Been making off at

a great pace generally at about 90 miles an hour in the direc

tried to lana it

....

Mr. F. Q. Salisbury of Hong Kong, has been commissioned to paint 12 parels of historic incid- ents in commemoration of the life

Ten Years Hence.

From the China Mail of July 5, 1940.1

tion of Repulse Bay. It may be detected by the apots on its face, was for ever bending spoons and be struck off the register and the "Alice"; and Dick Barty who scor on the walls of the new Kowloon its slimy hair, large feet, and drawing rude pictures on the company will be dissolved. It is ed a big success in the dual role City Hall, a site for which has inability to drive on the correct menu cards. "I am & Govern- South China Trade Protection As Monk" His success was all the gula Hotel.

also notified that the name of the of "The Dean" and "Peter the been earmarked next to the Penin side of the road.

ment official," he said apologetical-sociation, Limited, has been struck more remarkable since he took up ly. That explained everything; off the Register.t

the part at five days notice, and A member of the Aero Club duce some of his amusing local tracy with speeding on a flight to was sufficiently at ense to intra- was charged' at the Central Magis

It happened in sympathy was the only other in At about noon yesterday a Chin In a Matshed a matshed at gredient needed. Whatever heese, Identified as Wong Foo-chau yoga, with great effect. Ropulse Bay to the danger of at Stanley. Stanley. The said was funny. If he but men (25), staying at the Tung Nga To-night the musical comedy, other planes He was discharged

Handsome tioned the word "dollar you boarding house, was found un "90 This is Love," will be given with a caution. Youth of the piece goods firm laughed. When he added that gardens, North Point. He was tury Company were here before, An Order by the Governor in

conscious In the Ming Yuen lleving soon. It when the Salle had taken the fair daughter of the dollar was in a bad fix, you taken to the Government Civil we can strongly recommend it to Council notifies that in future un- his Super Talpan to keep him nearly shrieked. He has a senso Hospital where he died at 6.30 those who like a really bright and offcial Justices of the Peace are don't mow what of humour, that fellow, and is without rogaining conscious: amusing show, with pretty expected to do duty, on alternate papa will say "she murmured, simply wasted in his particular morning to ascertain the cause of excellent topical songs.

ness. An autopsy was made this dresses, clever dances, and some days at the Magistracies in view Ahyly stopping into his coss

of the necessity for reducing the Department. into Launcelot death, and a Coroner's inquest will

AOWO personnel of Government Servants. be held in due course.

company.