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Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 1930,

Red-Tape Trammels.

News in Brief.

A concert is being held in the Lee Theatre to-morrow evening in ald of the establishment of a laboratory in Hwa Nan College, Ice House Street..

A Chinese woman named Leung Yau (31), living at 31, Wing Shing Street, committed Bufelde yester- Jay by drinking lysol. She was removed unconscious to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital, where she died soon after admission.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1930.

CHANGES AT CHARING|LION CUBS BORN AT

CROSS.

THE ZOO.

The Passing of "The Arrivals From the East

Golden Cross."

When the Golden Cross Hotel,

Indies.

London, Sept. 27.

opposite Charing Cross Station, The pair of young lons which closed its doors at the expiration of bred at the Zoo last year have its lease, it closed at the same time again produced a litter of three. the final chapter in its long. history. The mother and cubs will be kept The site is Crown property, and the strictly private for some weeks, in building is to be demolished and re-a space in the corridor of the lion radiant Wu Fook was to-day charged be placed by one which will better house, provided with fore

and heat. The the utilise the space and make a much electric light Mr. H. R. Butters Kowloon Court with having caused more satisfactory figure in the mother may be expected to bring to be printed an announcement balance-sheet of the Commissioners out her bables occasionally to the relating to a Macao po piu lottery at 374, Reclamation Street, Yau- mati. He pleaded guilty and was fined $100, with the alternative of two months' hard labour

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BORDERERS WELCOMED TO THE COLONY.

DELIGHTFUL CONCERT.

of Crown lands.

of removal

A

open-air cage attached to the east This is the third time that the end of the lion house before long. Golden Croas has been the victim but, as she did last year, she will of a London street Improvement. probably take them back at once if What may have been the original visitors seem too curijus. house, in what is now Trafalgar The Society has bought from Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kow Square, was pulled down in 1828 Mr. Frost, the collector who has loon Magistracy this morning and replaced by a tall, narrow buil-just returned from the islands of sentenced Chineso

taste of the the eight ding in the "Gothic"

Malay Archipelago, mantha hard labour for having dla- time, with slender tourelles, Babirussa, or wild hog of Celebes, abeyed his deportation order from battlemented roof, and a golden and several interesting birds, some the Colony. Defendant stated that cross incised on the gable. Two of which are new to the collection, he had heard of the death of his years later this also, disappeared The Babiruses, a deer hog, is a father, and had come down here when the construction of Trafalgar | bluish,

animal almost hairless for the purpose of taking his wife Square was taken in hand, and was found only in Celibes and the Buru back to the country.

succeeded in 1832 by the present Islands, where it frequents wet house some little distanca farther jungles. It has two pairs of very cast, in the Strand.

long, backwardly curved tusks. Since the Golden Cross was a Those of the upper jaw grow verti- pre-Reformation sign, it is pro- cally through the upper Up and then bable that the first inn of that curve backwards, growing continu- name at Charing Cross went back ously until they form a spiral curve. a long way into history: There Those of the lower jaw also rise. appears, however, to be no record vertically aid eurve backwarda, but of it earlier than 1843, when the never grow so long. They are At the "Cheero" (City Hall) the sign so infuriated the Puritans that seldom imported, and the Society Misses Aileen and Doris Woods en- the House of Commons ordered its has been without, an example for tertained the 1st Battalion

"superstitious and many year, but in 1884 a pair bred At the Restoration and reared a single, young one. the South Wales Borderers to wel-idolatrous."" come them to Hong Kong. The It reappeared, and Canaletto shows Among the birds, the most re- two artistes, who have been de-It in a view Charing Cross.. splendent are a Hunstein's Magni- ficent Blid-of-Paradise-from-New- to what they think; they may signated the "Soldiers' Favourites"

Dickens' Memories. Topographical writers, proffer helpful suggestions; they fully justified the title for the hall

whose Guinea, ind its near ally, Wilson's even vote for or against rang with thunders of applause as favourite amusement is copying Bird-of-Paradise, from the island

The former has taken of Waigu. the artistes (who are heard too sel- each other's mistakes, have propositions discussed; but there dom) were in their beat vein, put it for granted that the Golden brown head and under surface, their usefulness as part and ting over as they alone can do the Cross of "Pickwick" was either the green throat and breast shield, a of straw-yellow parcel of a public body ceases latest Hollywood hits, and having present building or its immediate large double cape

predecessor. It was neither. Mr. on the shoulders, and two of the automatically. They have ultim-to accede to encore after encore.

They were ably assisted by Mr. Pickwick and his friends started tall fathers transformed into long ately to yield to the dictates of G, W. True, who played the piano from the Golden Cross upon their curved steel-blue "vires."

The latter has similar-tail-ahafts, but the Government, be the Govern-in a marvellous "Jazz" way, calling adventures in May, 1827. ment right or be the Government for enthusiastic applause. Mr. house was demolished in the fellow has Hue feet and a naked blue W. J. Geall was at his best and suc-ing year, and it was therefore head ornamented by bars of short A Papuan frog- cause for ceeded in keeping the audience in beneath the archway of what, for brown feathers.

to the collection, is a wonder, therefore, that the Sani-roars of laughter. Altogether it lack of better. knowledge, we may morth, new tary Board resemble the Dis- was a brilliant auccess, and Mr. call the original house, that the very large ally of the night-jars, started for with soft mottled plumage and an armament Conference in Geneva Brown, at the close, called for three "Commodore" coach

cheers for the ustiates which was Rochester. It was this low gate- enormous mouth beset with hair from the Soviet angle: it is "not responded to most heartily.

like bristles. A pair of rose- The way which, according to the "loqua- attractive enough to the citizen Misses Woods brought the concert clous stranger," was fatal to the breasted fruit pigeons, and another who aspires to win his spurs in to a close with "Good-bye, Boya," poor lady whose head was knocked of Celebean doves, also represent

off as she was eating a sandwich. the arena of civic administration. Contributed.

This is not Dickens's only dealing London. The trammels of red tape repress

with the Golden Cros4. It was and subdue any good citizen with

thither that "Grandma" drove in a broyn and buff, with purple and black tints on the tail, and with hackney coach when she left "No. any consciousness of the vital im-

may

wrong.

It is little

DR, TAGORE ILL.

portance of civic duties. They SPECIALIST'S GRAVE VIEW OF

are a deterrent to personal enter-

CASE.

Dr. Marvin adds that he has understated rather than overstated

ALLEGED ARSON.

on

Last Coach in 1832. That Dickens should write about the Golden Cross was Inevitable. In his days it was as famous a coaching house in the West End as the Bull and Mouth in the City.

A'

The

apedes never before exhibited in Two Sumatran peacock pheasants, new to the collection, are

jungle.

ADMIRAL DEAD.

}

MAN WHO DEFENDED BELGRADE.

5," in "Sketches by Boz;" and did the eyeapote much less conspicuous not David Copperfield stay there that in the peacock pheasants A very rare when he arrived from Canterbury Bully exhibited. prise and initiative. They blanket A message from Newhaven, Con- and find it "a mouldy sort of es bird, although examples have been that Dr. Rabind-tablishment in a close neighbour recived before, is a Pitta, or ant- the best that is in a man, no necticut, states

Dickens, no doubt, then thrash, from New Guinea. Pittas matter how much he may be im-ranath Tagore, the Indian poet and bood?"

educationist, has cancelled all bis had in mind the original inn and are stoutly built birds with strong bued with that public-spirited- American engagements owing not the present one of 1882, built bill and short talle, and with a variegated plumage with many ness so essential to the progress heart trouble. Specialists examined from designs by Sir William Tite, vivid patches of colour."

They are him and ordered a complete rest. as part of an improvement by of a community.

These observations are by no to India as soon as he can safely West Stand, as far as Agar Street live chiefly on the ground in thick. It is understood that he will return which the northern side of the atler larger than thrushes, with which they have no kinship, and was rebuilt. The first and second means intended to discourage any make the journey.

Dr. H. M, Marvin states:-"It Golden Crosses stood on the spol Nominations close to-morrow of the prospective nominees for for the election of one unofficial election to the Sanitary Board at is imperative that Dr. Tagora bein Trafalgar Square now occupied placed Immediately in a position by the south-eastern of Landseer's member of the Sanitary Board. the present juncture; but, rather, where he can secure the type of rest four lions, but their stables ran up

to St. Martin's Lane. Outside the ranks of the prospec-intended to point out the system he needs." tive nominees and their imme-that they will be up against diate circle of friends, it is to be should they be elected by the seriousness of the situation.

The death of Rear-Admiral Picot occurred recently at Toulon. feared that no great stír is be- majority of eligible voters. The

Commander Picot, as be ther ing created. This is not because successful nominee will deserve

was, played a valiant part in Serbia there is an absence of the civic not the congratulations but the

It had been raised to a command in 1915. Ordered to Belgrade spirit in our midst, but rather on sympathies of his supporters in The hearing was resumed being position by William Horne, with a detachment of marines and account of the fact that the Sani- offering himself as a martyr on fore Mr. Lindsell at the Central who took it in 1805, and in time-so two 140-milimetre naval guns, bis enterprises that he he did excellent work in holding up tary Board has no final say in the altar of an antiquated Gov- Police Court yesterday, of the extended

charges of conspiracy to commit also had the coaching business of the Austrian attack.. its regard to

own decisions.ernment-ridden public body. arson brought against the pro- the Cross Keys, in Wood Street, When Belgrade. was abandoned, At the same time the keenest prietor of the Tin Sang Tong firm, and the George and Blue Boar in Commander Picot destroyed his Every trivial thing, whether unanimity prevails or otherwise, critics of the existing disorder of of 77. Winglok Street, his son Holborn, with a stud of 700 horses guns, and. after fighting with his

and two employees.

and a booking office in Rerent marines as infantry in the Serbian, Evidence must be referred to the Govern- things cannot be wholly perment-

was given by a Street.

Army finally separated from it to ment for confirmation or rejeced by pessimism. The Sanitary Chinese constable who was

He was only 45 at his death in retreat along the mountainous tion. Do the Sanitary Board de- Board has the redeeming feature duty on the early morning of 1828, when he was succeeded by his valley of the Morava, whence ho October 19, when he heard &eon, Benjamin, who daily dispatch-emerged with his men at Salonica to sire to publish placards illustra-of being open to the Press. Police whistle being blown ined 56 stage coaches from the Golden the astonishment and admiration tive of the menace of flies and discussions and deliberations are Winglok Street, On investigat Gross, and horsed out of London all mosquitoes, they are impotent to not carried on behind closed doors. ing he found the ground floor of seven mail conches in addition. a laudable Every debate and every vote are 77 alight. He promptly smother-His fate it was to dwell beneath give effect to such idea: the resolution must, willy-faithfully chronicled in the Pressed the flames with a blanket be- three successive roofs with the

fore the outbreak. Two men same ancient algn; his fate, too, again. nilly, be referred to the Govern- for the benefit of the whole com- were seen to leave the premises after a strenuous and brilliant "Yes," he drawled, "many are the ment-and ignointiously turned munity. The latter are thus ea and when witness had subdued decade of prosperity, following wonderful holidays. I've spent down as not in accord with its abled to appraise both the work of the fire, he went in search of the rebuilding of 1882, to see the abroad, and I've had a good many wishes! Do the Sanitary Board unofficial members and the atti-| The hearing was adjourned wish to express their views on ftude thereto of the Government, any subject under the sun in re-and formulate their own opinions lation to sanitation, these views as to which are right and which must be formally forwarded to are wrong. The community are The funeral of Mr. Reinaldo A. the Government for its endorse-likewise enabled to form definite Rozario, of the Netherlands India ment or condemnation. The views as to the suitability of an Bank, whose tragic death as the

Ten Years Ago. Sanitary Board are not permitted unofficial member for public duties Sunday morning was reported in

(From the "China Mall" of to have a mind of their own. In this and oth directions. yesterday's China Mail, took place

November 25, 1929,1 --- They are bound hand and foot by After all, perhaps we should be at the Roman Catholic Cemetery, the formalism and autocracy of grateful for this little crumb of Happy Valley, last evening.

-Today's dollar is worth 3/6 4. There was a very large atten the Government. It is little comfort in a Colony where the dance Including the foreign and

Mistress: "I don't like to be con- Examination in dry dock of the wonder that unofficial members "franchise" is so remarkably local staffs of the Bank.

The Portuguese community tinually complaining, Mary, but U.S. Shipping Board: 8.5. Lake get a little tired of an antiquated limited, in which case we may be

the master leaves his boots outside reef in the Paracels, and after system of this naturo and that expected to laud the good Gov. turned out in force to show its wish you would remember that when Faulk, which was stranded on s aympathy to the deceased's parents, they yearn for a little freedom of ernment to the skies for most nine brothers and four sisters, and the bedroom door he wishes them ward brought to Hong Kong,

cleaned

shows that the vessel auffered The Very Rev action. They can think what graciously condescending to per-other relatives.

Maid: Very well, mum. But compuratively little injury":"A thes like in regard to the varimit two unofficial members to be Fr. GM.. Spads officiated at the what does he want done when he few plater were damaged, and will

graveside elected by a limited number of There was a large number

leaves them outlede front have to be replaced. The work ratepayers

floral tributes

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duk topics on the agenda;

Its

them.

LAID TO REST.

|result of a cycling accident on

The club bore was on the warpath

inst conch issue from his gates and adventures, too. While I was in when he died. In 1870, the America I hunted boar." stage coach had become a di memory."..

Henry Horne, one of his ex nection with transport by becom- | brothers, continued the family con- ing a member of the Arm of Chap in and Hornt, who were long car- rlers and forwarding agents to the

London and North-Western and South-Western Railways.

door?"

the

"Good heavena!" cried a youthful- member; "but didn't you get aw fully cold?"

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