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FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1931.

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IN THE

SOCIAL SWIM

by AUDAX

heard to complain that Hong Kong "Look at Shanghai is a dull spol. with its cabarets and night clubs," they declare, as if they wanted to have that hectic sort of night life

THE CHINA. MAIL.

KONGMOON NOTES.

PASSENGER JUNK TAKEN BY PIRATES?

LIKIN OFFICES CLOSE.

"I once had the opportunity of presenting a murder," the Senior Army Chaplain (Church of Eng land), the Rev. C. Stott Little, told me the other day. It was during the time that he had charge of slum district of Middlesbrough. It was a bitter night in December and hie overcoat was buttoned up at the moderns sit up and take notice. A weather. The launch towing her top, concealing his clerical collar.young married couple in a certain returned to Kongmoon with the joen Hotel decided that life would bad news and called for assist. Just as he was passing down a menn

brighter if only ance. alley-way, he head a woman's voice to ever so much

Whon asalstance, reached

[From Our Own Correspondent.)

Kongmoon, Yesterday, The Kongmoon-Youngkong re- here. The other day, however, gular passenger and cargo junk heard of an incident which would was reported to be stranded out-

make these disgruntledside Gaemoon certainly

owing to bad

screaming "Murder! murder!" He one were a little daring. So they that place, the junk was nowhere retraced his steps and waited our-organised a pyjama party. sile the house from

of weather.

At the same

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Likin Abolition.

It is

All the likin stations in this area bave closed down since Janu- ary 1, and the Kongmoon Customs

and

It was to be seen but kerosene oil was which the on a quite small scale, and every found floating on the sea.

one came in bed garments of varied suspected that the junk was either screams had come. Presently the

Nothing happened, of screaming began afresh and he hues.

captured by pirates or sunk. The opened the door and holdly entered course, except that one lady shocked junk was carrying 50 or 60 pas- the parlour. There. by the light even herself by sipping a creme-de-sengers and a cargo of general

But it was an amusing goods and kerosene, of an oil lamp, he saw a woman, her menthe. hair dishevelful, being chased round experiment and one that might be a table by a man, presumably her allowed up in Hong Kong. Night- busband, who held a kafe in his shirts, of course, should be absolute- hand. Although obviously in ly barred. drunken condition, the man paused when the Padre entered, and mut- Au interesting point was raised are opening stations at Yeung- tered "Good evening, Doctor." at the inaugural meeting of the St. kong, Shaltung Taushan. The Padre took up the rue and did Patrick's Society on Thursday by The Kongmoon Native Customs his best to calm the man by means Mr. J. C. O'Gorman Anderson, of are still functioning as usual. about the the Chinese Customs Service, when All the new Stations are under the conversation 4

time h he asked whether persons not of direct control of the Kongmoon-

but of Irish birth. Custom House. tried, by means of signs, to induce Irish origin, the woman to go upstairs. Instead, were eligible for full membership.

Several cases of people being There was considerable discussion frozen to death were reported to ahe continued to nag her husband, who was still brandishing the knife this point, the Chairman holding the Police at Kongmoon; all the in an unpleasant fashion. Eventual- the view that such persons, as in deceased wore of the poor class.

St. Andrew's Society, were ly the visitor persuaded them

The s.. On Lee, stranded near eligible only for associate member-Wangmoon, did not arrive "make it up," and left

here ship.

until 6 p.m. on Tuesday last. Eventually, however, it was de- cided that persons born in Ireland could become full members of the Society. Mr. Anderson, who comes STOLEN GRATINGS. from Ballydavid, County Water- ford, like many persons of English origin, is proud of his Trish nasocia- Perhaps not everybody is tions. aware that Mrs. Anderson, whom he

Two Chinose appeared before Mr. married in 1921, is none other than E. H. Williams at the Central the brilliant novelist "Stella Ben-Second Court this morning charged aon," authoress of half a dozen best with the larceny of two iron grat-

Mrs. Anderson, sellers.

who sings, the property of the War De now living with her husband on the partment. Sergeant A. W. Fields, "The Man Who Missed the 'Bus," in 1928.

to

the house with the satisfaction that he had But prevented a possible crime..

he confessed to me that it was one of the most uncomfortable

hours he has ever spent!

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WATCHFUL AMAH SPOTS THE THIEVES.

NEW

SHADOWS BEFORE ADVERTISEMENTS.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

IN CHINA MAIL.

Social Functiona To-day Tea Danoa at Hong Kang Hotel,

G.

R.

PUBLIC AUCTION. DARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sule by Public Auction Dances at to be beld 90 MONDAY, the

3.p.m. at the 19th day of January, 1931,

Offices of the Public Order of His Excellency the Gov

Works Department, by

ernor, of one Lot of Crown Land

To-night Dinner Paninsula and Hong Kong Hotels. To-night--Taikoo Club Annual Ball.

To-morrow-Old Bedfordian Din- aer, 8 p.m.

To-morrow Craigengower Cricket Club Dance,

Sunday Tea Dance at Repulso Bay Hotel ...

Entertainments." Today

-- Queen's

Theatr "Not So Dumb."

To-day Central Theatre The Vagabond King." To-day-World

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Theatre.

"Knight of the Burning Temple," (Chinese picture).

To-day "Protection."

Star

Theatre.

Theatre;

To-day Majestic

May

"The Rainbow Man."

To-day--Concert, Helena Institute, Kowloon, 8.45. p.m.

January 17 and 19-Theatre Royal; Dama Clara Butt.

Home Mails.

To-day Inward from Ameri- en and ports (President Jackson); Outward for Europe via Siberia, from Europe via Suez (Kashgar);

(Kashgar), 6 p.m.

To-morrow-Outward for Europe via Marseilles (Kashmir), 10.80

3.02.

Sporta. See Diary on page 8.

Meeting. February 10--H. K. Land In- vestment & Agency. Co., Ltd, ordinary meeting, Mesara Jardine Matheson's Offices, 12.80 p.m.

Miscellaneous

To-day-Lecture

on

"League

of Nations" by Mr. Bascombo John- son, St. John's Cathedral Hall, 5.30 p.m.

A sense of impending danger is During felt by all of us at times. the first stages of the construction of the new Gloucester Building, a number of accidents occurred due to girders and other pieces of metal falling from the staging. "I Am sure there will be another accident there one day," Mr. D. L. King, the Secretary to the China Provident Paak, published her latest book,M.P.S.C., appeared as the complain-prize distribution, Stanley. 3 p.m.

Loan and Mortgage Co., was heard to remark to a friemi. A day or twa later Mr. King was obliged in the course of business to pay a visit to the Gloucester Building.

Need-

WB8

"Does your daughter speak for eign languages?"

"Not very well-she has learned to say 'Yes' in four languages in case a foreign nobleman asks her to marry him."-

Pasking Show, London.

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ant.

Sub-Inspector Smith said that the gratings were on the path in Mrs. Anderson, whose mother Garden Road,, opposite St. John's a Cholmondeley, has spent Cathedral, which led to Murray her life largely abroad, having Barracks. Yesterday afternoon, travelled in Switzerland. France, Sergeant Fields' amah saw the de- Germany, and the United States. fendanta trying to take the grat- Early In 1914 she took a small part ings up, and she called her mas- in Women's Suffrage work, inter, who had them arrested.

and Miss the

His Worship remarked on the by taking a grating away, especially great danger that would be caused

at alght time.

which Miss Pankhurst Margaret Forbes-Robertson, sister of the actar, Sir Johnston, figured prominently. During the War sho worked for eighteen months in the East End of London that the holes they covered were Inspector Smith agreed, and said and was later on the land. Mrs. about four feet deep. Anyone might Anderson, or rather, Miss Benson, break his leg if he fell in at as she then was, went to America night time.

la 1918, and lived in the States,

chiefly in California, whore several labour on each was passed. of her novels were written, until 1920, Her "Sketches of Travel," which give an intimate light on people, scenes, and affairs in China and the Far East, was favourably reviewed.

Sentence of two months' hard

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To-day-Theatre Royal: Lecture on "Conquering fear and worry" by Dr. P. Fennelly, 9.15 p.m.

To-morrow-St. Stephen's College

MEAT MAGNATE

FATAL FALL FROM WINDOW OF HOME.

MR. EDISON WHITE.

Chiengo, Yesterday. Mr. F. Edison White, President

a fall from a window in his home. of Armour Company, was killed by

-Reuter's American Service.

vice.

SOVIET DEBTS.

CLAIMS AND COUNTER CLAIMS,

Rugby, Yesterday, The eleventh meeting of the Anglo-Soviet debts and claims com- Public Works Tuesday completed seventeen years sub-committee dealing with bond- - Department, on mittee yesterday decided that the

in the Government Service. He holders' claims and Soviet counter- received his appointment as Assis- claims should commence its work Mrs. Shenton, the charming wife tant Land Surveyor on January. 13, on January 26 and the sub-com- of the Hon. W. E. L. Shenton, the 1914. He was seconded for Mill-mittee dealing with miscellaneous less to say, he felt apprehensive well-known Hong Kong solicitor tary service the same year and left privats debts, claims and counter about it. Every now and again he and Member of the Legislative here on October 10, returning for claims on both sides, early in would glance up at the scaffolding, Council, is one of the most popular duty with the P.W.D. on January February-British Wireless Ser- expecting it to collapse on his head.hostesses in the Colony. The 12, 1920. In the midst of his conversation dinner parties which the Shentons he forgot his fears when all of a give at their picturesque home at sudden something like a black Shekko are always brilliant affairs, streak whizzed through the air and landed in a heap of sand net more than a foot from where he was atanding. It was a heavy iron apanner, and so great had been the force of the fall that it was com- pletely buried in the sand. Ja didn't remain in the building a minute longer than was necessary after that!

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which cannot be said of all, the social functions in Hong Kong. Recently Mr. and Mr. Shenton entertained Lord i to, tiffin at Shekko.. An old friend whom they met some years ago in Shanghai, Lord Li belongs to the old Chinese aristocracy and once held a high post in the Imperial Government.

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Mr. Shenton's ruling hobby is, of course, horse racing and he is to be seen at nearly all the meetings at Happy Valley, where he has a private box. All sorts of racing notabilities, owners and jockeys, meet there after, the last race to have a whiskey and sods and a cha about their losses or "makings." I

It is surprising how many well- known people one sees at "Maca" on a Saturday night. Last week this popolar cafeteria was full of familiar faces. There were Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar, J.P., the bullion broker and Mrs. Bonnar, a sister of Mr. C. C. Hickling, of Butterfield And Swire's. They have two. was there at the meating before children, Elleen being one of the

last, when Mr. Shenton, told, me

most popular members of the that he was getting twelve ponies younger set in Hong Kong and a out for his stables, some of which strikingly pretty girl. Their son he intends to run for the big meet- John used to play a great game for ing. In February. Mr. Shenton, the local Rugby Club at scrum-half, whoso interest in horser is not so but he was recently transferred to deep as that of her husband, is a Singapore, much to the regret of keen wireless 'fan," and has a sur his XV. Mr. Bonner retired from prisingly intimate knowledge of the the Colony a few years ago, but on principles of radio, belog, fully ac his return was immediately given quainted with every part of her a seat on the Exchange.

"get,"

Mr. A. W. Bummers, formerly connected with Messrs. Thos. Cook and Son, Ltd., and who was the frac Hon. Secretary of the Hong Kong Flying Club, has been placed in charge of the South China heid quarters for the Aviation Division at the L. E. Gale Company, Fed.

Among other people whom, I noticed in "Macs" was Miss "Joey" Lack, the blonde-haired daughter of Mr. S. Lack, Superintendent of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. She was in riding kit and had just returned from the Fanling Hunt. Misg, Lack an exceptionally good rider, and horses are her first love. Her brother, Tommy, is one of the Inc. U.S.A, of Shanghai and Han- sturdleat little fellows in the Low. Mr. Summers has opened Colony, and can box and swim with offices in Union Building

the best of them, in spite of his TAKRA tender years

...] Mr. B. H. C. Hallowek, BA

BAE (Trinity College, Dublin), The younger residents and now First Class Land Surveyor of the tomer

particular

are often (Continued at foes of west Column;).|

at

at Ngau Tau Kok, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from lat July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed

by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less three days.

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SHOOTING AFFAIR.

TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN CAINE ROAD.

INQUEST SHORTLY,

It was officially stated at Polico Headquarters this morning, that Chan Hang-sik, pawn-broker in Shek-ki, who was shot in the neck. by a bullet in the Caine Road shoot-

ing affair at 2.30 on Wednesday. afternoon, died in the Government Civil Hospital yesterday morning at

9.30.

It will be recalled that a mer- chant, San Fong-hing, aged 41, and living at 127, Caine Road, drew a revolver and fired at his account- aut, Lei Kwai-ching, who was kill- ed on the spot. The pawnbroker was the next victim; after which the merchant is thought to have shot | himself through the head.

On enquiries made, the China Mail learned that the date of the inquest has not yet been fixed.

DROUGHT RELIEF.

U.S. BILL PROVIDES FOR $45,000,000.

SIGNED BY PRESIDENT.

Washington, Yesterday. a Bill providing for $45,000,000 President Hoover. to-day signed for

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