1930-10-13 — Page 7

MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1930.

CORONATION OF AN AFRICAN KING.

Splendours of the Court of Abyssinia.

PRINCE HENRY TO ATTEND.

MR. R. M. DYER.

PLEASING CEREMONY IN KOWLOON SCHOOL.

PORTRAIT UNVEILED.

Mr. Halifax's Speech,

matter

for

THE CHINA MAIL.

JUNK PIRACY.

CRAFT FROM YAUMATI ATTACKED.

IN CHINESE WATERS,·

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

LONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

and

DRAFT PROGRAMMES, the

Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock

Noon on THURSDAY, 16th Octo

Hong Kong, 11th October, 1930.

NOTICE.

PUBLIC AUCTION

THE Undersigned have received

Tinstructions to sell by Publie

men, and many important points of the kind: hat they have their dangers and you must always re- member two prints when you deal with them.

Firstly, new ideas are as dan- tools. unfamiliar gerous as Unless you thoroughly understand them in all their bearings, they

NINTH EXTRA RACE MEET- may do as much harm as a steam

ING to be held on SATURDAY, hammer managed by a raw ap A pleasing ceremony was per-prentice and secondly-nothing The Police at Aberdeen received-25th October, 1930 (weather per- Race Course, Hong Kong Club and formed at the free school of thewill ever take the place of gouda repor of an alleged junk piracy mitting) may be obtained at the Hop Ying Society in Kung Yuny hard work! You cannot eat and in Chinese waters, on Saturday.

According to Leung Yau, master Causeway Bay Stables. Rugby, Yesterdhiy.

Street, Hunghom, yesterday, when drink kieng, and they are only HIM. King's third son. the fan, Mr. E... Hallifax, C.M.G., useful by way of teaching you to of a fishing jonk, his vessel left Duke of Gloucester, who is due, R. M. Dyer, C.R.E., B.Sc., M.IN.A work more efficiently. Learning Yauniali on the 5th with a crew of

a portrait of Mr. to read and, to write' and to figurelve bound for Waiping, in Walchow ber, 1980.

but strict, Chinese territory. At to leave for Abyssinia on Thurs.C.B.E., unveiled

study of aty kind is better left about 8.p.m., on Friday, whilst the day to be present at the corona-Chief Manager of the Hong Kong will all help in that way:

and Whampoa Ducks

The children attending the school, alone if you only use it to tell vessel was becalmed off To Tau, in Even Chinese waters, eight or nine men tion of the new Emperor, Ray

fare: about 300 in number, were lined up everybody else he is wrong.

One of the Tafari Mekonnen, paid a

on each side of the street leading reading and writing can be so approached the junk in small boats

misused:

and opened fire on her, Fair Treatment.

shots wounded Leung Tai the|THE HONG KONG BRANCH of well visit to the King and Queen

to the schon and presented a smart

the Royal Engineers' Old at Sandringham yesterday. It is

appearance.

Mr. Dyer's object in helping and master's 19-year-old son.

The boata then slipped alongside Comrades Association will hold the first-time that a member of The Hon. Mr. E. R. Halifax and

and their occupants the Annual General Meeting'in the Whilst the Scandal Point Hut, at 6 pm. on the Royal family has paid anf. M. Dyer were met on arrival by encouraging this school, as we all

the Committee of Hung Hom Kai-know, is to let the young families, the junk

to the of his workmen have

a proper swarnted on board. official visit to Abyssinia.

fank, who escorted them

education with which to beg robbers were climbing on board, THURSDAY, 16th October, Col. The Duke is taking many preschool. sents for the new Emperor, in- i Mr. Chan Ping-fai. Voluntary their lives: whether that educa Leung Yau seized a hatch cover and R. B SKINNER, OR E., Chief En-

the way by the tide, so that he did not in the Chair. cluding some sporting guns and head master, made a formal speech tion is to be used or misused is, jumped overboard and was carried gineer, China Command, will be

I imagine, several very valuable Abyssinian

of welcome. manuscripts that have been in

Amongst those present were Mrs. parents. But mong children that know what subsequently, happened Be

R. M.. Dyer, Miss Hallifax, Mr. C. D.have been properly educated and to his junk,

Leung Tai floated about in the sen Britain for some centuries.

H. Har the same time properly train- will make the presentations im- Melbourne, Mr. and Mrs. mediately on his arrival

Scott, M. and Mrs. G. Duncan, Mr.ed by their parents, you are go- until between 7 and 8 a.m. on Menelik Palace, at Addis Ababa, and Mrs. W. Forsyth, Mr. D. Keith,ing to find very few who are mis-Saturday when he was picked up by where a spacious suite of rooms

and Mr. La Chung-kue, and many suided gnongh to think that they passing fishing junk bound for ean better themselves by making Hong Kong. Leung Tai was land- walled in mother-of-pearl and others.

trouble-by encouraging Comed at Stanley and walked from there

for instance, manistic viewa,

or to Aberdeen where he made the Auction gold, and hung with silken tapes- tries, has been prepared for him.

The Hon. Mr. Halifax said: by fostering such things as strikes. report to the Police. The Duke will be the principal

genuinely sympathetic Mr. Dyer, ladies and gentlemen. With guest at numerous ceremonies connected with the coronation, took a peculiar pleasure in master such as you have here, fnir can be secured by which will last for a week. After accepting the invitation which was, treatment

to nie to come here peaceable means, and that is what the conclusion of the ceremonies extended the Duke will undertake a game and unveil this portrait to-day, as his encouragement of this School an opportunity not, really means. If workmen know hunting trip in the uplands of I saw in it Abyssinia, and before returning aly of doing honour to Mr. Dyer and understand we shall have less!

Teak Hatstands, Glass Cabinet, home from Adon will pay a semi- but of revealing a side of his charof rash action such as has been

Described by Revenue Officer Chesterfield Couches and Arm- official visit to British Somaliland.acter to which he himself would only tuo common during the last le the Inst to direct attention.

twenty years in Hong Kong.

Grimmitt as a runner, a Chinese chairs, Deaks, Gramophones and -British Wireless Service.

His efficient management of the

Settled Family Life. named Chan Lin was-to-day charged Records. Pictures. Carpets, Rugs, [Festivities have been planned

his free-handed gen- at Addis Ababa on a huge scale Docks and

But Mr. Dyer goes further. He before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with the Plano, Wardrobe Trunks, Electric and will last a week. The corona.rosity we all know something tion ceremony of the Emperor of about and it is safe to say that sees the advantage, to workman unlawful possession of 30 taels of Heaters, Curios, Ornaments, Wall- Teak Dining Tables, Dining in Wing Lok Street, yesterday. Ethiopia itself will take place in honour has been better earn and employer in the settled family prepared non-Government opium stock, etc.

It does not matter

Accused admitted the charge. He Chairs, Side with Bevelled the Christian cathedral of St. ed. than the one His Majesty the

place King has recently been pleased to

where S'ILL work, that

claimed to be a shop keeper, andrrors, Dinner Waggon. Dinner George, where the late Empress confer on him; but in the motives

should be your permanent The new ruler

this that led him to encourage was declared "King of Kings" school in the way we have heard home, and it can only be that if you said that the parcel containing the Crockery, Gings Wares, Tea Sets, after the death of the Empress.ho has done I see something more can live there in comfort, and com- jopium was left with him by a good Flower Pots, Rattan Chairs and According to present arrange than merely a highly efficient fort must inchide facilities for look customer who was a seafaring man, Tables, Underwood and Reming- He was on his way to Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Ward- rents the splendours of the de- Naval Architect or a very genering after a family. This school is with the request to deliver it to him ton Typewriters, Trunks, Knives with bevelled Mirrors. casion promise to eclipse the last

ous soul, This efficiency and his a great step in that direction, and at the wharf on the praya opposite and Forks, etc.

should help him in his object to get Abyssinian coronation in 1916.]

Dressing Tables. Chest of Draw generosity combined in these prefathers, aps and grandsons and keep the appointmen: when he was robes mises to set an example which is more generations still to follow one'

R. 6. Grimmitt said that the era. Wash Stands, Book Case, for the good of the concern he another through the opening to life napages but his perspective is not limited to the Docks: he has in/offered by employment in the Docks. Opium was contained in a silk box Curtains, Mosquito Nets, etc.

Each generali should be better which accused was carrying under mind the advantage of the whole than the lest and many workers his arm. When stopped he im- Colony through a far-sighted treat-will no doubt reach a standard mediately admitted that oplum whe ment of his own workmen.

where they can break into a better contained in the box and he knew field of employment than the Docks that the amount was 30 taels. The But it is to the No. 1's, the can afford to offer them; but they oplum was from Macao. Mr. Tsang Yuen, manager of the Blue Taxicab Company, Nathan workmen and their families who will still we to thank the Docks, Roud, uppeared to-day as complain-benefit by this school, that I real- as Mr. Dyer wocht ike to see the Ent before Mr. II. R. Butters in ay want to address myself. Num-run, for their original training case in which, Tso Kam-chung, a, bers of you workmen have found which made promotion possible, motor car cleaner,

was charged Hood employment in the Docks

was crowned.

THEFT OF TYRE.

TAXICAB CO.'S EMPLOYEE CONVICTED.

SIX WEEK'S HARD LANOUR.

with the theft of a tyre (valued at $45). He pleaded guilty. A charge of unlawfully receiving the tyre was brought against Tang On, u licenced motor driver, for whom Mr. J. M. Remedios appeared.

Detective-Sergeant M. Naughton, who prosecuted, said that there was no previous conviction against the first accused. His Worship passed. sentence of six weeks' hard labour. With regard to Tang On, bis Worship fixed hearing for Wednes- day at 3.15 p.m. Ball was allowed in the sum of $200.

A Better Opportunity.

for many years: some have fol- lowed their fathers in the service.

life.

(L

Tradition For' School.

I like to think that this picture Mr. Dyer is giving the sons of will stay in this School to become a those now employed' a better op tradition; even if the name by any portunity than their fathers per-chance becomes ensed or the details haps had of showing themselves of the history forgottan, it will stilli better men than their fathers: an be remember of as a picture of an father myself, I doubt whether "old master" and of one who always they will succeed, but they are to realised that the interests of his have every chance in this world men and their families were ident which has changed so much. Thecal with the interests of the Docks new ideas of to-day have value, (Applause).. of course: they emphasise the dignity of labour, the necessity for the proper treatment of work-

GAS FIRES

CLEAN CHEAP COMFORTABLE CONVENIENT

IN WHEN YOU'RE IN, OUT

YOU'RE OUT.

FIXED

-FOR

FIVE DOLLARS

ONLY

THE GAS COY.

SHOWROOMS ICE HOUSE STREET (Near Star Ferry)}

NATHAN ROAD (cornerst

TIE WORKS?

Mr. Dyer's Reply."

MORE OPIUM.

PARCEL LEFT BY "GOOD CUSTOMER."

RUNNER HEAVILY FINED.

Sincere's.

arreated.

His Worship imposed a fine of $3.000 or six months" hard labour.

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HEROIN HAUL.

ON

FRIDAY, October 17, 1930, commencing at 2.30 p.m..

at their Sales Room, Duddell Street.

A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE..

Comprising:-

and

A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE.

including:

- j

Joss Tables, Curio Cabinet, Tea Poys; Jardinieres. Opium Stools, Chest, etc.

Also

One 1 McInnes-Dobbic Patent Engine Indicator.

On View from Thursday, Octo-

Terms:-Cash on Delivery:

BELIEVED TO BE WORLD'Sber 16, 1930.

RECORD.

ABout £35,000, WORTH,

On Thursday the China Mail re- ported a big haul of heroin by Revenue Officers on board the Italian S.S. Hilda. The seizure comprised 41 large wooden packing cases, some containing tins of jam and others glass. The heroin was concealed inside the tins, among the jám, and Mr. Dyer, in returning thanks, inside hollowed sints of wood placed said he had een interested in between the sheets of glass to pro- engineering education in the Far tect them from breakage.

We learn to-day that after 'pains- East ever since i infancy which extended back over 60 years. This taking work, which involved, the was in the life time of the Dock Co., jopening of every one of hundreds of it having been in existence, before ting of jam and the prying of score of plywood shells, the examination that period.

"The Dock C.. had been the of the contents of all the 41 cases has pioneers in educating Chinese en been completed.

It le understood. that the total gineers in Hong Kong, and one could

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LAMMERT BROS..

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong. October 13, 1950.

LIFT FATALITY. ONE CHINESE KILLED IN CHINA BUILDING.

ANOTHER INJURED.

the result of 2 As

lift accident in the China Build- ing yesterday afternoon Chinese workman

was

-one

killed

and another received serious in- juries. One of the lifts in the building had gone out of order and the two workers, employees of the Hong On Co., were given the tark their job from early yesterday, and everything went well until about 4

find men who had been trained in amount of heroin in the "consign of putting it.right. They were at the Kowloon Dock all the way from ment" is in the vicinity of 800 lb. Suez down to Julia, through the and the value of the drug seized is Straits up to Hong Kong, and even calculated at about £35,000. This

roof of the lift to complete the right across the Pacific to Sans believed to be the world's record when the men mounted to the

haul of heroin,

job. Francisco.

The Younger Generation.

H.K. AMUSEMENTS.

INCREASE OF THE CAPITAL

APPROVED

Whilst they were thus engaged the counterpoise weight of the lift suddenly collapsed and crashed on which consisted of several hundred to the two workmen. The weight of pounds of metal hit one of the men on the head and killed him out-

He with always ready to further education,aut took a great pride in the Hop Ying Free School, which was founded principally for the children of workers in the Dock.

At an extraordinary general meet. He expreghid the wish that the younger generation would take full ing of the Hong Kong Amusements, right. His body fell to the bot- The other man was in a semi- advantage of the tuition they would Limited, held in the Queen's Theatre tom of the lift shaft. receive by attending the school, this morning, resolutions in con-

unanimously approved.

and hoped they would be a credit to nection with the scheme of arrange conscious condition when extricatt their predecessors who had not had mant by which the company's capitaled by the Polico. He was also in-

lon la critical the same privilege. He had been is to be increased to $1,000,000, wore Jured in the head and his condt- the meain of carrying out numer ous extensions at the Dock during the past few years, and he trusted the coming generation would reap the benefit of this in due course. resolutions passed at a previous near the seventh floor with such

Mr. J. M. Noraha, who took the The lift was near the first floor chair, stated that the first business level at the time of the accident

of the meeting would be to confirm

and the weight came down from

meeting on September 27 last, as

It might be heresy to say so to the

force that it crashed right through presence of the Colonial Secretary, regards necessary preliminary the roof of the lift. but he was a great believer in free elimination of certain capital hold- education, and hoped that in due ings, t course all education in the schools

The report of the previous meet The actor had been somewhat ge in the Colony would be freeing having been read, the Chair miss, and the prompter had bopn

man put the maction.

rather caustic about it... The nex Free Education.

In concluding fit Bald he would was reconded by Mr. Dact embraced a garden scene, The do what I could to help the Hop Biggar, and carried without any actor approached the prompter ere Ying Free Schiobi and was sure the dissentient. It began, and ex:laimed for every members of this op Ying Bociety Resolutions in connection with the body to hear

and the Committe of Kaifonga scheme to increase the capital, abI BAY, old man, I'm a bit hazy (Supretio about sty part in the scene, but if were fully alive to the benefits the ject to confirmation by Children would derive from atten- Court were then ready Bance at the school. He wished the man then put the motion, secon school along and successful career, by Mr. James T. 8. Choy, which was

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hair you'll give me the cue with your usual smile where I begin By racked da "I'll be quite under

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