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BOTTLED SMOKE FOR SPIRITUALIST

KIPPERS.

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Blend.

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THE

Library, Supreme Court

China Mail

BLISHED

1846

HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1931.

No. 27,805

AND

HIS WIFE.

DARING ARMED ROBBERY.

Student Relieved of

$1,000.

SIXTH

EARLY MORNING HOLD-UP.

Unusual Stipulations in Will.

were

He proclaimed himself "n be liever in one God, a monotheist and a convinced and absolute be borough, under the Department liever in the proved facts of of Scientific and Industrial Re-Spiritualism, and a non-believer search, and the goal is now reafter many years of very careful dagger, and the others had

study of the Christian beliefs." ported to be in sight.

I

was

the

SATURDAY'S DOLLAR. The closing rate of the dollar on demand on Saturday was 111⁄2.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

FORT DUNIOP

Local Branch. Pedder Bldg. Tel. 24554.

BIGGER WHALES.

EXTRA RACE TRAGIC SUICIDE OF WHALES THAT HUNT MEETING.

Boxing Eve & Sitting Bull.

BANKER.

Principal Partner Tries to Commit Suicide.

SELECTIONS FOR TO-DAY.

FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES.

Vienna. Yesterday.

1st Races

Sanction, Paul Pry. Crown Prince.

2nd Race:-

Christmas Belle. Mount Elburz. Cloudy Eve.

Death of Old Tom, a Famous Killer."

MUCH INTELLIGENCE.

With the atranding of a killer-

LIFE'S LIGHTER MOMENTS.

Lord Darling on How to

Employ Them.

UNCONVENTIONAL WAYS.

How the "lighter

or

momenta" of

RISKS OF MARRIAGE,

Unusual stipulations

[By Wombat."] Another daring armed robbery

Herr Ludwig Schueller, a whale on a beach at Twofold Bay, life are and should be spent was die- made in the will of Dr. Vaughan was perpetrated this morning Daniel William Bowen Jones, of when four men, armed with ions for the sixth extra race firm of Auspitz Lieben, was strangest partnerships known to Brentford, and Lord MacMillan, The following are my selec-partner in the private banking New South Wales, one of the cussed by Lord Darling, Viscount Glanyrafon, Lianboidy, Carmar knives and a dagger, entered meeting at Happy Valley to found shot dead at Wiener to-history recently came to an end. who were guests at the Journaliste' thenshire, who died on June 3, premises at 230, Third Street, day- leaving 16,968, with net person-second floor, in the West Point

day.

The story of the partnership Board annual dinner at the Lyceum ally £676,

district. Li Chung-lai, 20 years:

Stephen Auspitz, the principal between killer-whales and their Club. of age, described as a student.

partner, was prevented by a human allies seems so impossible Mr. Leonard Rees, who presided, was the victim of their unwelcome

passer-by from drowning in the as to rank among the famous hinted that perhaps the respectable Danube Canal.

fish stories of the world, with the recreations of golf, tennis attentions.

and The winding up of their Bank difference that it is perfectly travel, to which dietinguished pe WAS held to be necessary true.

ple confessed, really covered such consequent on the recent difficul- For many years past the whal-lowlier hobbles as solving crossword ties of the Credit-Anstalt, which ing station at Twofold Bay has puzzles

detective reading was itself saved by Government been entirely dependent on a pack novels.

of killers, who would drive intervention.-Reuter.

To this Lord Darling replied with whales passing down the coast a catalogue of unconventional ways into the bay, where human hunt of spending life's lighter moments. ers would take up the chase, the There was, for instance, Mr. Justice killers, apparently with design,, Buller, who sold that the best way co-operating with them.

was to sit in Nisi Prius all day and Such was the familiarity of play whist all night. the whalemen with the killer- "Then there are other people--I INTERNATIONAL PARLEY. pack that the killers were indi-see pictures of them almost every vidually known to them, and day in the papers conducted by two London, Saturday.

even given nick-names, accord-of our most notorious politicians- The Secretary for Mines, Mr. ing to some peculiarity of shape who spend their time lightly in what E. Shinwell, who leaves on Tues- or marking, or according to I may call marriage a l'Americaine. day to attend the Conference of fancy. Thus there were Humpy. They get a vast amount of pleasure the International Labour Office Hockie, Walker, Skinner, Big in a very short time. at Geneva on miners' hours, said Jack, Little Jack, Kinchie,

One man, who spoke the Shun was carrying a Tak dialect,

knives. Li was "held up" and re- He directed that his earth |lieved of $950 in Hong Kong bank bottles indy shown in

should be buried in the notes, three white gold wrist two chief elements of the sume

grave in Castelldyran watches, and one gold wrist Churchyard where

the earth watch. perfect kipper. Quality, I was

The affair occurred at 7.30, and told, is largely determined by the body of his child, Clara, rests, composition of the smoke used and that there should be no after the robbery the men de- in the process of curing. There Church of England service, but camped down Third Street in is already a plant in Aberdeen that two Nonconformist ninis-, the direction of Queen's Road, which can be used to provide aners, the dy tre ministers of West. Two of the men are des- accurate control of the smoke by God," should address his friends cribed as being dressed in black varying the types of wood burnt on his transference to spirit life. silk clothes, the third in snuff- and the amount of air admitted during combustion.

What has hitherto been lack ing and what research workers are endeavouring to supply is a exact knowledge of the requisite substances. One of them, it is now revealed, is a pale yellow oil condensed from many hundreds of cubic feet of a particularly luscious smoke.

The will stated that the testu- coloured crepe silk, and the other tor's wife should lose all inter-In native cloth. The first two est in it if she declined to obey spoke the Shun Tak dialect, the the instructions and suggestions others speaking Punti. "for procedure on life's pathway" contained therein, and same clause admitted her to be

in the SUICIDE ATTEMPTS.

most exemplary character SEVERAL CASES DURING THE every way as regards sobriety, all moral virtues, and non-extra-

vagance."

Dr. Jones then made the fal-

WEEK-END.

ONE ENDS FATALLY.

The Police reports contain

сания

This oil, I was told, is respon-lowing stipulations concerning sible for the proper fragrance of his children's inheritances:- the well-cured kipper. But since Should either of my children, of several attempts at suicide, one kippers are bought at least as that is Douglas and Caroline, ending fatally. much by their colour as by their when they have reached

Chan Chat, a young Chinese wo. tuste, a knowledge of the colour riageable years, intend marrying, man living at 02, Wellington ing constituents of the smoke is they should be warned in writing Street, was removed

ernment of equal importance.

mar-

to the dis-

to the Gov- Civil Hospital euffering that if they make up to, or marry from the effects of opium poisoning, Concentrated Colour.

or both, any loose, drunker, lecherous, or disreputable charac thought to be self-administered. Enough colour for many thou- ter against, or in defiance of, the Tenants on the same floor gave the sands of kippers was shown me in advice of

their mother, they Police information as a small glass tube, obtained from shall lose all interest and hene.covery, and the victim was taken the same smoke. All that was fits under their respective shares away at once, but died within an necessary was to pass the smoke of my property.

hour of admission.

Cheung Sung-ying, a widow living. through a series of cooling tubes,

My reason for this is to try and where its different elements were check and defend both children at 2. Mui Hing Street, was also condensed to either solid or from the designs of any of the taken to Hospital, suffering from liquid. By this means a variety lecherous blackguardism all what is thought of smokes were analysed, and from their effect in producing the "oung men and women come in poisoning.

contact with as a very general particular qualities for which the rule on life's chequered highway skilled buyer searches, the if suspected to be possessed of a necessary constituents of the little money.

to be mercurial Her condition is not considered serious.

Another attempted suicide in the early hours of yesterday morning is reported from 67, Hollywood Road,

ideal kipper smoke could be ac He left his property on trust where a woman took an overdose of curately determined. When the for his wife during widowhood, opium. Her condition 18 not ideal blend of sawdust to produce with remainder on trust for his serious. these constituents has been in- two children. vestigated, the problem of the perfect kipper will have been). solved.

£

PLOVERS' EGGS.

SOLD IN SPITE OF THE LAW.

3rd Race:

Gleneagles, Little Beaver. Boxing Eve.

4th Race:-

Cyclamen Bay. Piccalilli.

The Gronse.

5th Race:-

Fritillery. One-Third. Morning Star,

6th Race:

Boxing Eve.

Little Beaver. Valorous,

7th Race:-

Redskins. Noukhail.

Bay of Bellingham.

8th Race:

Sitting Bull. Gold Key. Fortune Bay. 9th Race:- Tunney. Tay. The Quail.

10th Race:-

Daylight Eve. The Tiger. Peppercorn.

EPSOM

COLLEGE

HOAX UNVEILED.

Culprit Writes Nearly 100 Apologies.

The former pupil of Epsom College whose April Fool hoax

MINERS' HOURS.

MINISTER AND ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION.

Dismal Amusements. that the impression abroad that Charlie Adgery, and finally, Old "Other people spend their lighter failing international agreement Tom, whose corpse was washed momenta reading Burton's Anatomy there would be no settlement of on the beach recently. Old of Melancholy. Its title does it an

A Giant Dolphin.

#

the present difficult situation in Tom was reputed to be over 100 injustice; it is more interesting the British coalfields, was entire-years old, and was known by than many professedly interesting ly erroneous.

the unusual size of his great books. There are some, again, who The International Convention dorsal fin.

prefer to sport with Amaryllis... în had nothing to do with the nego--

the shade. tiations proceeding in the Bri-

"Sir George Cornewall Lewis, The killer, according to tish coal mining industry, in Sydney authority, Mr. David when he was Chancellor of the Ex- connection with which there Stead, who incidentally has been chequer, once said that life would would be a meeting of miners well acquainted with Twofold be very tolerable if it were not for and owners on June 4 to be fol- Bay for many years, is a giant its amusements. Our own lives lowed on the 6th by a meeting dolphin, or small-toothed whale, would be more tolerable were it not of both sides with the Govern-growing to a length of about 30 for the way Chancellors of the Ex- ment. While it was important feet and is one of the most power chequer amuse themselves. Their to get the International Conven- ful of sen beasts. It is very amusements are of a most dismal tion in order to secure uniform- ferocious towards the larger description, especially in modern ity in working hours throughout whales, which it hunts in packs, times." Europe, it could not come into

The "One can hardly discuss whal-

best way of ail in operation immediately because ing on this coast," says Mr. which to spend one's light- the Convention had to be ratified Stead, "without considering the cr moments, declared Lord and that might take two or three remarkable co-operation between Darling, was in what had been years-British Wireless Service killers and whalers in the small called the sport of kinge in the whaling operations which have days when kings were more sport- CAUGHT IN STORM. in the past been carried out ating than they are now, and when It gave Eden, in Twofold Bay. On this there were more of them. FATE OF 23 JAPANESE coast the killer usually hunts the pleasure to everyone in the country- larger whale-bone whales only. side and had been celebrated by FISHERMEN.

"The killers station themselves many poets, including the Poet in suitable positions for the easy Laureate in his "Reynard the cutting off of the whale's retreat, Fox." and then begin to hurry it from

Tokyo, Yesterday.

are fishermen

Twenty-three

hama.

De

MUSSOLINI HURT.

THROWN FROM HORSE IN MORNING RIDE.

Opium poisoning also necessitat- victimised nearly 100 people missing and are believed to have all sides, thus working it into do well to co-operate with the

after A vessel ed the removal to the Kwong Wah named Harris had a busy time, been drowned

shallow water. The principal ob-human hunters." Hospital of a woman living at 243, for his punishment consisted of carrying 31 persons turned turtle ject of their attack is the great A curious fact is that although Laichikok Road, second floor. Sham-writing by hand 100 separate in a storm 45 miles out of Yoko-mobile tongue, which occupies the several men have fallen overboard shulpo. Kippers, however, are but a

letters of apology.

whole of the interior of the enor- during attacks on whales, the sideline at Princes Risborough,

The victims of the hoax re- The remaining members of the mous lower jaws of the whalebone killers have never been known to The main purpose of the station

SOLDIERS MISSING. ceived letters inviting them to crew were rescued by a passing whales. When the hunted whale molest them. This is of interest is the study of the ways and

attend at Epsom College in con- vessel.-Reuter.

is exhausted, it lies at the ocean in view of the records of Antare- means by which the more econo- Where do the plovers' eggs, some- Two privates of the South nection with the meeting of the

surface with the mouth gaping, tle explorers of attempts on their mical use and more effective pre-times seen in shops, come from, now Wales Borderers are reported as legatees of the estate of a mythi-

und the tongue an easy mark. lives by killers in the Far South, servation of timber can be secur- that their sale is prohibited by the missing from their regiment cal John Sebastian Harris, "a for-

High Reasoning Ability. The high intelligence of these ed. Samples of timber are bent Protection of Lapwinge Act? since Saturday.

mer master at the school." "The

"The whole chase," says Mr. mammals is particularly men- beneath many tons weight, twist- The question is raised by the re- Sub-Inspector Elston later dis-letters bore the name of a non-

Stead, "is arranged most intelli- tioned by Scott in his diary of his ed, pulled, and beaten with fall-port of the Royal Society for the covered two military uniforms. existent firm of solicitors with

gently and systematically and is last expedition, where he de- ing weights.

Protection of Birds, which recalls including tunics, caps, belts, and the address of a boarding-house

Rome, Saturday.

Indicative of a very high order of scribes an attack on the photo- A knowledge of all these pro-the fact that, when some plovers' braces, lying in the Kowloon in Marylebone and Mme. Tus-

Sig. Benito Mussolini was reasoning ability. The same in grapher, Ponting, sand's telephone number.

Naturally many picturesque perties and of the appropriate eggs were recently sent to the King Godowns.

alightly injured during his custom- telligence la manifested in the The uniforms bore the badges

Boy Confesses, methods of seasoning is essential he returned them, pointing out that

ary morning ride when his horse killers' conscious co-operation | legends have sprung up about the before a new Empire tiraber can the taking of plovers' eggs is now of the regiment, and it is con-

A week later a former pupil of after a very high jump fell on his with the whalere. I have satis- killers of Twofold Bay, but there be safely introduced to the home legally forbidden.

sidered that they were the pro- Epsom College confessed to the knees. The Duce was thrown and fied myself that this is so, and is no doubt that in the main they. market. Many promising "The Royal Society. for the perty of the two missing privates. headmaster that he had been re-received minor injuries to his that, the ferocious killers have are based on facts far stranger

sponsible for the hoax, explaining face. wood, I was told, had been ruin Protection of Birds sponsored this

that he had planned it originally ed and Sig. Mussolini was able to THEFT FROM EUROPEAN.

They were promptly treat-learned by experience that they than fiction. ed by premature consignments Act," said an official to an Evening before the home market had been Newa correspondent, "largely at the

as a purely local affair, and had adequately explored.

Insistent request of farmers, Last night a thief entered the then extended its scope to divert receive the delegation of Bulgarian gymnasts shortly afterwards- 18 verandah of a European house in suspicion from himself.

The Reuter. Aimai Villas and decamped with a question of punishment. was left visitor's coat containing, among in the hands of the headmaster, worms, other personal property, a silver who decided that the boy should on the preservation of wood by snalk, caterpillare, and slugs, but presentation cigarette case. send a letter of apology, to each an olly Bubstance obtained from plovers eggs were reckoned such a The theft occurred after the victim. the new process of low tempera-delicacy that fields were ransacked host and his family and guests "The suggestion that the let- ture coal carbonisation. This for them, and the plover was pre-had adjourned from the verandah ters should be written by hand oil has two qualities very valu-vented from rearing chicka. to the dining room, thus proving was made by the boy himself," able for the purpose. It contains "There are still, unfortunately, that the movements of the inmates an official of Epsom College said. tarry substances which

are an some loopholes in the Act.

had been kept under observation "The original hoax' letters were

Madrid, Saturday. effective, immediate antiseptic, "The Act says that plovers' eggs by the thief outside.

duplicated, but he insisted

The Vatican has declared per- and a quantity of paraffin wax,must not be taken and exposed for

making atonement by writing sona non grata Spain's new Am- which it is hoped will retain this sale for human consumption. be- KNOCKED DOWN BY TRAM, hundred separate letters.

bassador, Senor Luis de Zulueta, antiseptic within the wood over tween March 1 and August 31,

have no idea how many he has The reason is not stated, but it a long period of years.

"This, for all practical purposes, A Chinese woman living in First completed up to the present.

is known that Senor Zulueta, who Inside a

formidable boiler is the time in which plovers lay Street, who was carrying a bale of "On the morning that he inter-is of the highest standing and beams of timber are impregnated their eggs.

paper from a godown to a sampan viewed the Headmaster the boy morality, had cut adrift from with this oil at high pressure. "Plovers may lay them earlier: at West Point yesterday, was ac rang up one of the victims, a The beams are then removed to say, in the last days of February, cidentally knocked down by a tram, woman who was ill, and apologis mere denominational religion. the testing laboratory to make or later, after August 31. But any- and later died from bar injuries in ed to her personally for the in- certain that their mechanical one whe exposes plovers' eggs for the Government Civil Hospital." convenience caused by his joke." strength has not been imparted. sale is calling near the wind.

Wood Preservation, Experiments which will last

whom the lapwing (or plover) the best friend in all seasons,

Loopholes.

for 40 years are being undertaken "The plover lives on

to

:

or

1

VATICAN & SPAIN.

NEW AMBASSADOR NOT WANTED.

PAPAL NUNCIO LEAVING.

The Papal Nuncio is shortly going to Rome to report on reli- gion in Spain, and it is believed that he will not return.-Reuter.

Edmonton land sales for the first

Finally they are planted out in "It may be said that the plovers' 'Tax collections In Saskatoon dur the station's "graveyard," a plot eggs come from abroad, but people ing March this year were double on the ground, are still often raided of ground studded with many who eat them say that these for those of the corresponding month of by men and by rata. Our watchers hundreds of wooded posts. eign" plovers' eggs taste remark last year, according to D. 8. Gem often find plovers' eggs bitten by quarter of the year amounted in Here there is every inducement ably like those gathered in Britain. mell, city, assensor, who reports rats, and even plovers themselves value to $85,110 as against $20,647

Mfen and Hats.

approximately $62,000 collected by killed by rats or some other enemies for the similar quarter of last "In fact, in spite of the Act, many the city's tax department as against "Farmers agree that it pays them year, according to the figures of the 2,281 In Mr. Gemmell's opinion, well to see that plovers eggs are not city's land department. Rente for "the large collections during March destroyed or taken. No other birds city-owned property in March show- fndicate that property ovrees have are so useful to them the whole ed a total of 38,782, being an in- "Plovers' nesta, which are always plenty of money for eksentiala,” year round."!!

icrease of $169 over March, 10830,

to rob from both earth and wea ther, and only after a prolonged trial under practical conditions will the new preservative be pass ed as 100 per cent

people in the country are still an aware that the taking of plovers" eggs la legal

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