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HELPING HER HUSBAND. the entertainment of Service men,

Washington, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday. Furthermore, the position in

The exports of the United Lady Diana Cooper, who is elec- Singapore without a Cheero Club States for February amount to tioncaring most actively on behalf ought to make the community $226,000,000, the lowest since of her husband in the St. George's November, 1914, whilst imports by-election, has made her debut here more appreciative of

were $175,000,000, the lowest as a public speaker at a meeting the work being perform since September, 1921.

in the Marchioness of Hartington's 1930, drawing room, at which Mayfair

behalf of the men Exports for February. of the Services in this Colony andere valued at $348,852.000, and domestica who are voters were the instil in all of us a desire to be imports at $281,707,000.-Ren-honoured guests.

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SIR C. ELIOT.

MEETING IN LOCAL UNIVERSITY TO-DAY.

It is advertised that a meeting will be held this afternoon at 5.00

The Marchioness of Harting- ton's butter in a lettor to the Press denfes that pressure was exercised on the household staffs.

The supporters

Ernest of Sir Petler are confident that Sir Mal- colm Campbell's

will support bring the chauffeurs to Sir Ernest Petter's side.

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The Church is also taking a In the Great Hall of the Univer-hand. The Reverend Hugh Chap- sity, all members of which are in-

man announced in the pulpit at vited to attend. Members of the the Savoy Chapel that it was University Staff are requested to religious work to support Captain attend in academic dress.

Duff Cooper, and called on every Members of the University as "Christian" clergyman to express Two Chinese cases of diphtherin defined in Statute 2 to the Univer his views on the "deplorable"! way

News in Brief.

have been notified since the 13th inst.

St. Stephen's College annual sports will take place on Saturday at 2 pan. at Stanley.

The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 03 degrees. The humidity was 90 at 10 a.m. and 88 at 4 p.m.

them. It is performing a dis-

Yuen Chung-ski, of Quarry Bay, tinct service for the men of the appeared hefore Mr. Schofield on Navy, Army, and Air Force-a remand in the Central Police Court service with which it should be yesterday on a summons accusing an honour for the whole British her of having an unregistered mui community to be identified either

in the way of labour or money.

tani.

She was fined $50.

In the Kowloon Police Court to-

Choi Street.

sity Ordinance include-

The Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Treasurer, Deans of the Faculties, Registrar and Bursar.

The members of the Court. The membera of the Council. The members of the Senate. The members of the Faculties. The emeritus anti honorary pro

fessors.

The teaching staff of the Uni- versity.

The wardens of hostels, The graduates. The undergraduates,

day

As A

The University was closed to- mark of respect in memory of Sir Charles Eliot,

M.V. MEMNON.

NOTES ON REFRIGERATING PLANT.

and

vision rooms of about 1,100 cubic jfeet capacity. Owing to the trade

the election was conducted.

to

Lord Beaverbrook, speaking at a meeting in support of Sir Ernest Petter, said Gandhi would be wait- ing for the result of this by-elee- tion to know whether the Conser-

would continue vative party, through its leader, support the Socialist policy.

Captain Duff Cooper, speaking simultaneously, deplored that India had been drawn into party politics. He hoped the British polley in India would never be at issue between

Britons. Reuter.

CAR'S HEAD LIGHTS.

INCIDENT IN THE RAIN IN VANCHAI

EUROPEAN'S TROUBLE

In the Central Police Court this

Comparisons may not always day Yu Nam, a Chinese with thres previous convictions, was sent to be odious, but we admit now that jail for two months for atéaling a our remarks have been prompted sack, a pair of trousers, and a house In Tung by a letter published in the jacket from a new

The refrigerating plant in this vessel. built to the order of Alfred Straits Times in which a plea is

Holt & Co., by the Caledon Ship-morning, before Mr. W. Schofield, made to devise some means The forthcoming wedding is an- building & Engineering Co., con- whereby the European civilians nounced of Carloa Eugenio Xavier, sists of two separate installations, Mr. D. G. McAvoy, of the Asiatic could do a little to make the lives clerk in the Hong Kong and Shang-one comprising two twin CO2 ed for having driven his motor car Patroleum Company, was summon- hal Bank, of 21 Jordan Road. first compressors cooling hold of the soldiers in the garrison a floor, Kowloon, and Emilia Theadorn tweendeck, spaces totalling 44,000 lights on February 28 in Queen's without properly trimmed front bit less monotonous. The writer Cruz, of 9, Nanking, Road, second cubic feet, and another for pro- Road Enat at 9.45 p.m. says: "During the War nothing floor, Kowloon.

Mr. McAvoy, in admitting the was too good for the soldier,|

A newcomer to the Colony, which the vessel is to be em charge, explained that, with the when the Shanghai Force was Cheung Tak, when charged with the ployed, the hold installation has exception of the near wing light, passing through Singapore a theft of a bottle of chocolates from been made suitable for the car the rest of the lights were function- Committee was formed and sub-a stall in Pakhoi Street, told the ringe of meat at 15° F., and al ing perfectly. On going through was raining: Не scriptions collected to entertain Magistrate in the Kowloon Police ternatively for fruit transporta Wanchai, it

Court this morning that he had notion at 32 F. To effect this, two switched off the front head lights, the troops. Now the usual peace-food or money.

He was sent to systems of cooling are employed, because of an oncoming Hong Kong ful attitude of leaving the so- fall two weeks.

namely, brine circulation for dier to look after himself again

meat-carrying. and cold aiy, probably a short circuit that was Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 17, 1931. holds sway." It ought to prove Wai and Chan Kwan, who were for fruit cargo. The ship's pro-werking again.

Three Chinese, Tse Kam, Chan driven over brine-cooled batteries, the cause of the head lights not of interest both to the Service charged in the Kowloon Police vision rooms

Traffic-Sergeant Gulld agreed are cooled in the men here and the civilian workers Court recently on twelve counts of normal manner by means of brine with the facts, and the Magistrate in the Cheero Club to quote the larceny and receiving in Yaumati grids, a small separate electri-imposed a fine of $3.

on various dates between February cally-driven CO2 compressor be- writer's views at some length:-14 and 24, were this morning ing utilised for this purpose.

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CHEERO.

Cannot the Shanghai Force Com-sentenced to one year's imprison- mittee be revived, enlarged and per ment each. manently established, as a means of bringing civilians (ex-Service or not) and Service men into closer contact?

It may appear a trifle belated to refer to the good work done in the Cheero Club for the men of the Services, seeing that a week

I wonder how many civilians in Sin-Day, an enjoyable concert was held has elapsed since the annual meet-gapore have ever spoken to a sol-in the St. Patrick's (Catholic)

dier?

ing was reported in our news columns. Since the days of the presence in our midst of the Shanghai Defence Force we have become so accustomed to the acti- vities of the Cheero Club as al-

In celebration of St. Patrick's

I kid there have been many soldiers who have never met socially Club, Garden Road, last evening.

European civilian during the whole The

artistes included Messrs.

of their tour of duty here, and I have Greene, G. d'Aquino, Lind, and. LI an idea that some of the unfortun- Chor-chi (vocalists), J. Braga

the past would not (violinist), ate happeninga

N. · U. Botelho but for this isolation 'cellolst), and the Glee Party, from have occurred into which soldiers are forced.

Soldiers do not differ from other H.M.S. Medway. people, in that they do not like to be patronised and they do not like passing opportunity of coming in contact

The whole of the plant has been supplied and erected on board by J. & E. Hall, Ltd., Dart- ford, Kent.

NEW SHIPPING CENTRE Development Of Shoreham

Harbour.

London, Feb. 3.

Hotel 'bus.

He added that it was

POLAR EXPLORERS.

LEAVE IN SUBMARINE IN SNOWSTORM.

Philadelphia, Yesterday. A heavy snowstorm

appro. priately marked the departure of the submarine Nautilus, former- ly of the United States Navy, in which Sir Hubert Wilkins and a

We are to have a new import-party of explorers left for New ant shipping centre on the South York for the final trials en route

most to take them for granteeharity" but they do appreciate an Barna has arrived here and may of the long arm of Shoreham Harice.-Reuter's American Service.

An Hungarian musician Mr. A. Caast which entails a rebuilding to a trip to the North Pole under

a

His chief hour which runs parallel to the

on

KING OF SPAIN.

PRECAUTIONS ON VISIT TO BRITAIN.

TO SEE MOTHER-IN-LAW.

London, Yesterday. Extraordinary precautions were

Ten Years Ago.

without more than thought of the large amount of with their fellow countrymen, and give an entertainment.

they enjoy invitations to civilians | instrument is the cymbal-not the sea from the harbour mouth to time and labour expended therein houses for this reason and because it clashing "brass plates," but the the western boundary of Hove. by the Ladies' Committee, with enables them to get away from the national instrument of Hungary. Over £100,000 is being spent on

monotonous atmosphere of barenek the assistance of a few civilian life

It is the size of a plano and is play rebuilding the lock that wAS gentlemen,

Compare a soldier's pay with the ed with hand atrikers after the thrown across the harbour arm in average civilian, and one must realise manner of a superdulcima. Mr. 1930, which served its purposes At the annual meeting the re- that the soldier has very little to spare Barna is also

un expert on the so well that the mudbanks of

either side. have become one of tiring President stated that for entertainment, and in the ease

Xylophone and with glass. married man with a family it is

the busiest industrial centres in the Cheero Club should a marvel how they manage to live.

Singapore women who have time to At the monthly dance of the Sussex. The new lock will be de become a permanent institution, spare, would find that occasional Cheero Club of, the Y.M.C.A., held signed to hold back the waters taken on the occasion of the arrival whilst Mr. R. A. Brown referred visits to married families would be in the City Hall last night, mem- which sweep through the harbour of the King of Spain last night.

appreciated. There are plenty of sol- to the appreciation of the work of dlers' wives in Singapore who do all bers of the Ladies' Committee made mouth at high tide,, and the IIis Majesty has come on a visit to their own house-work, take their a presentation to Mrs. D. J. Lewis, largest type of coastal steamers his "mother-in-law, Princess Bea- the ladies by those who made use own and their children's clothes (and in recognition of her services to will then be admitted to the har-trice, who has been seriously ill but of the facilities in the Club. the children are a credit to them); the Club

The gift took the form bour, and steamers will then un-is now progressing.-Reuter. cook everything over a wood fire, and Testimonies of that appreciation do their own washing, even their hus of a small clock of pretty design. load on the very boundaries of are often heard, whilst the best band's uniforms: Their pay does not Mr. R. A. Brown, Chairman of the Hove.. When the improvements

run to "boya" and dhobies.

Club, expressed appreciation of are completed it is expected that evidence of that is shown in the Here, again, I emphasise that friend- increased humber of men who are ship and not charity" is what is Ms. Lewis's services, whilst Mrs. Shoreham will become one of the wanted, but I am sure that the Bellamy regretted Mrs. Lewis's de- most popular trading centres in making use of the premises. It women' of Singapore could devise parture. is to be trusted that the appeal means of extending little kindnesses to these other European "mem" who made at the annual meeting for are not so fortunately situated as I'm sure that the padre they are. more books for the library and would be pleased to put any woman for more public support; finan- who wishes in touch with the married

Letters of administration of the families. nothing can be done cially, will meet with a ready re-through a committee or organisation. local estate valued at $21,800, of sponse, whilst it should not be an appeal to every British civilian to Ho Chiu-yu, trader, have been extend any possible kindness to any insuperable task to meet the de-service man with whom he or she granted to his widow, Ho Chow Shi, sire-ny, the need for a per- Let us have dorm with the iden that Street, arst floor

temporarily residing at 45, Jervois may come in contact.

··manent · · Secretary of the Club. a soldier is someone, to be avoided, The deceased was formerly of 12, Institutions like the Seamen's In- abject, doing his job mlies Wal Fuk Sai Lo You Yee Hong,

British stitute, the

the Sallora and Soldiers' away from home like the rest of us, Canton, and late of Ipoh, F.M.S. and in ninety-nine casės. out of a Ho died intestate in the District Home, and the Y.M.C.A. have hundred, he is just an decent a chap Raspital, Ipoh, on June 9, 1930, permanent managers or, secre- as one could wish to meet.

leaving a widow, two sons (aged 13 taries, and, there seems no roa Having paid the Straits Times and 3 years, respectively), a dhugh- to why the Cheer Club should the compliment of "lifting a a not be brought into line with letter on this subject in its cor-cubines.

MONEY LEFT,

the south, and the new harbour arm will provide accommodation equal to any of this part of thej coast.

•

·LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

From the “Chira. Mot of

March 17, 1921.1.

To-day's dollar is worth 2/3 %..

*

...

It is understood that an agree At the meeting of the Legislament has been entered into betweUn tive Council on Thursday the the Hong Kong Land Investment Attorney-General will move the first Company and Wiseman's, Ltd. for the purchase by the latter of the reading of ge

A-Bill-to-amend the law re-property at 14, Des Voeux Road

Central, in which they and Many" lating to Deportation."......

Bill to amend further the others at present carry on business. law relating to Larceny." It is stated that the Company, was The Hon. Mr. W. E: L. Shenton influenced by the big demand for will move the first reading of shop property, whichstes In "A Bill to provide for the Incidentally advanced the value of the corporation of the Procurator In building in question, and threatened Hong Kong of the Salesian So-to leave the cafe without, suitable premises at the expiry of the lease. ciety