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H.M.S. Hermes and H.M.S. Bruce left for the North to-day.
The Hon. Mr. C. S. Gordon! Mackie left for Shanghai to-day by the s.s. Empress of Aslu. .
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1931.
CORRESPONDENCE.
SILVER AND GOLD.
To the Editor of "China Mail"] Sir, Wonderfull Yellow and
feathers.
chickens.
SHATIN RAILWAY SMASH.
Jury Return Their Verdict.
PRAISE FOR RESCUERS.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lauder, and white metals may hatch and bring Mius Lauder left for Vancouver
Let
go for the to-day by the s.s. Empress of Asia.
We trust unlike the The lowest open air temperature experience of Columbus when he yesterday was 75 degrees. The solved the problem of making an inquiry resulting from the train The Special Jury sitting at the humidity was 73 at 10 a.m. and 66 egg stand by itself, and every one wreck near Shatia on April 20 last,
at 4 p.m.
said it was so easy they could all do returned their verdict yesterday afternoon, at the Kowloon Magla- tracy.
Entrusted with $3,025.92 to pay it! an account, a foki of the Tung Ping
It is tru: the holders of the Hong Import and Export Shop, 39 yellow can help the victims of the Bonham Road, is alleged to have white.
They know they can do absconded.
it, but they don't. Let us then ask a few questions about the silly Senders of telegrams are inform-and vexed, subject of gold against ed that, owing to one faulty cable silver, a matter which is nothing between Hong Kong and Shanghai, less than a scandal. It reminds telegrams to and from Shanghai one of the miser dying of hunger, and beyond may be subject to slight trapped in his own strong delay.
buried under kis hoardings of gold, In his greed he wanted moren.
Court
room,
od the inquest upon Chan Chu, one The Anding, so far as it concern- of the victims, was one of acciden-
train No. 19.
tal death following derailment of
The jury found that the accident was due to a collapse of the rull- caused by the tremendous head of way embankment, ⚫ undoubtedly
water which overflowed the divert.
Patrol Efficient.
ing wall, end followed the course of The Chinese driver of a lorry
the previous waterfall, undermining Is it not a mere fact of criminal the track who
below. was caught travelling at
The extra- speed of about 25
greed and an uncharitable fallow-ordinary rush of water they found miles per hour on the wrong side of a bending of private policy to hold the to be the result of unprecedented near the Ko Shing Theatre, was supply of gold to operate against rainfall in the area. fined $30 in the Central
silver? Exchange! What does it
matter to to-day.
dealer gold currency
The railway's system of patrol when all their transactions are paid and inspection was a good one and A week's formal remand was
for in gold. They get a £1 sterling efficiently carried out. There was granted in respect of Leung Chuen, or $1 gold for their goods in that excellent co-operation between Rail- who was charged at the Kowloon metal, even if the
payment coats way. Police. Fire Brigade and Police Court to-day with having the purchaser $5, $10, $20 Mex. medical officials after the accident. unlawful possession of one 32 to the pound sterling, or $2 or $4 Special words of commendation were due to Dr. Farr, Dr. Smalley,
shades to the
censura,
Li
Recommendations.
revolver and five rounds of am- Mex to the gold dollar, munition in Reclamation Street, It is a very serious matter, the and Mfr. Arculli. The St. John net result being tragic, or, looked Ambulance Brigade had also done Accidentally falling into theat in another light, positively Gil-[excellent work. The morale of the harbour from the Mongkok Ferrybertian, under present conditions. railway officials, particularly the Wharf last night, Chan Kwai, (24).. Why waste time and money guard of the ill-fated train, reached employed as a foki at a stall in the in trips and conferences that come a high standard. daffodils in her West End bouti-means of life-buoys,
Western Market, was rescued by to ne decision, and only serve to
and conveyed make confusion worse confounded? The jury made the following re- que. and professional men's to the Kowloon Hospital. His Keep the exchangé on, but valorise commendations:— daughters, catch early morning condition is not serious.
the silver. There are a thousand 1. In addition to the diverting and one ways to do so, if it suits the wall being raised, the bottle-neck buses or the 8.15 from Surbiton
Two Chinese, Fong Sze and gold party's policy to act. If they above the waterfall should be widen- for 'the City.
Kwong, were charged at the Kow- did so, there would be an end to all ed, thus ensuring a qulcker over- In the East girls are slowly loan Police Court this morning with the miseries of the time.
flow, and a direct fall of water into Let inspiritation be invoked to-the pool below. the respective theft and receiving "independence,"
of a brass letter bux, and four lamp ward honest acting for the public 2. That the railway embankment and filing the easier posts in
total value of $12, weal, so as to relieve the present at the scene of the accident should Government or private service. First accused was sent to jail for chaos and misery, and soon a way' be pitched on the land side with in cement, and the cut They make more or less efficient two months with hard labour, and would be found to meet the situa-1 stone set
the second was discharged with ation, without an overflow of dia- running alongside same be widened. stenographers, shop assistants,
cussion. It is simple enough. They 3-The jury are strongly of the clerical workers, or teachers, and
can do it, as Columbus did with the opinion that the railway company the salaries they earn enable When the case was called in the egg!
should thoroughly investigate the them to spend more on clothes Central Magistracy yesterday in The real secret of happiness is necessity or otherwise of strength- which two Chinese constables at to make others happy. The ening the railway embankments, and amusements than the smalli
Aberdeen Police Station were solution of the present crisia is bridges, etc. at other places aub- allowances their parents can charged with assault. neither comi-simple, by the hands of they that ject to action by fresh and/or salt
Move to the other side, water. afford to give them will allow.plainant nor his solicitor put in an created it.
in favour of valorining 4-That electric torches be car- Let us make no bones about it. appearance. Counsel defending one and be
How That is ull.
toried in frst aid boxes and includ- of the constables protested strongly silver! We are all much poorer off than against the
procedure, and His move that way I need not teach. ed in emergency equipment. we were two years ago and we Worship dismissed the
They know better than I.
5.-Huck saws to be carried on science and honesty must prevail in all trains, and that simply have to economise. We awarding $5 to the defence.
order for the victims of the may not like our daughters or
Yesterday Chan Cheuk was present systern to be assisted. sisters or wives to soil their charged at the Kowloon Magistracy, fingers with ink and carbon or with having possession of a chopper. scholastic chalk, perhaps, but we ful purpose, and also with having with intent to use it for an unlaw.
no longer afford to make behaved in a riotous or disorderly them generous allowances, so manner with intent to provoke a RUTTONJEE-At Bulaar (India)
Mr. Hamilton Dinbal Ruttonjee, mother of J.they must join the flesh-pots and breach of the peace.
convicted and imposed a fine of $250 - H. Ruttonjee, aged 69. Deeply
or three months' imprisonment on regretted. Shanghai and Japan
each charge, the sentences to run Papere please сору.
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one of the emergency jacks be carried in the brake van.
6. That a supplementary supply of breakdown gear
be kept ad- visedly say at Taino.
St. John's Brigade Work. The Coroner, (Mr. E. W. Hamil- ton), said he agreed almost entirely with the verdict. The jury's com→ mendation for the St. John Am- bulance Brigade he understood re- ferred in actual fact to Dr. Dovey, He thanked the jury for the tremendous amount of work they had put into the inquiry.
TRAFFIC IN CHILDREN.
Allegations By Director Of N.S.P.C.C.
#
Then, again, women are so easily bored out East when they have nothing to do. Babies take up little of their time after weaning, although many mothers here seem to have a not always
The report for 1930 of Anchor Women and Work.
justifiable confidence in their|
Line (Henderson Brothers), which amaha: Bridge parties
is controlled by the Cunard Steam are de- Before the War it was
Ship Company, discloses a profit of con- moralising, and there is nothing ́sidered indecent for a girl to work to do in the house but get in the
£201,746, after crediting certain reserves no longer required, es com- -except as a dutiful and dornes-
The case in which Private P. J. pared with £252,093 in 1929. Add- way with SO many tic-loving wife. True, there were about. Clearly the only chance of
servants Brain and Private H. James, both ing £1,977 brought in and deduct-
the South Wales typists, and teachers, and post for girls out East, if they are not were
Borderers,ing £246,907 (against £256,485) for "It is much easier to sell a charged with assaulting depreciation, there is £31,550. child in Britain and then lose office clerks, and shop assistants, to lose their youth, their aeuse of Detective P.C. Chan Klu on the Til directors have paid the sight of it than it is to sell but their number was compara-proportion and reality, and are tonight on May 3, in Pedder Street, dividend on the preference shares prize bulldog or canary," said Mr. tively small and at no time con- be saved hours of dangerous Williams in
was concluded before Mr. E. H. for the 12 months (218,858), after W. J. Elliott, Director of the stituted serious competition with ennui, is for thein to take a job Court yesterday afternoon.
the Central Police which there remained a sum of National Society for the Preven- the male worker. In any case, of some kind and not feel like
$17,703 to
be carried forward. tion of Cruelty to Children, at The Magistrate convicted Brain. Again no dividend on the ordinary Bournemouth. they were set apart as people of little worn-out martyrs about it. character given him by his superior
Taking into consideration the good is recommended.
The society flattered itself that THE WING ON
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The directors state The danger of putting women officer, he imposed a fine of only effects of the general trade depres-tain, he added, but the law still that the baby farming had ceased in Bri- whose main occupation in life was in offices is that it makes them $100 or six weeks' jail in default.sion are reflected in the earnings permitted traffic in lives of little Telephone: 25994.
to smile and bow and generally
self-sufficient than
The fine was paid. pretend to respect their "betters," think they should be. It brings
then discharged. It was not uncommon in those out their essentially practical extraordinary days for a shop as-natures and sterilises in their sistant to drop a mild courtesy male companions all those healthy to her more important customers and charming reactions to sex
the year was maintained on an aver- In a statement made after the whenever she met them in the which is the very breath and
age level, but from October onward meeting Mr. Elliott said; "Mlegi. street, for plumbers to pull their meat and drink of life.
the restrictive measures applied to timate children are frequently With forelocks, and for the poulterer such women, one feels that he
immigration brought about an im-sold, and if the transaction is to send a fat turkey along for should offer her cocktails and a European, was discovered to-The volume of cargo in the Glasgow somen who found children thus A body, believed to be that of was reflected in a drop in revenue. law is powerless." He knew of medlate curtailment of traffic, which completed within 48 hours the Christmas with his "respectful cigarettes and light chat on stock day floating in the Coovum river. New York service has been greatly acquired cheaper than servants.
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MADRAS MYSTERY.
97 European's Body Found In
was for the year, which are considerably children.
below those of the previous year. He could quote case after case The services have, nevertheless, beep of little children who had been maintained.
passed for money from one The Glasgow-New York passenger greedy, clutching hand to an business during the greater part of ether.
River.
Madras, May 8.
The boots, coat and hat were
good wishes." The War changed and shares, instead of getting}found on the, bank of the river reduced, and the eastbound revenue
all that. The shop assistant, now into matrimonial entanglements The body has not yet been iden- suffered severely from legislation TLENUM SORRY
well-educated and as amartly dressed as her best customer, can- afford to hold her head up and go
or patting her hand on moon-tified. light nights.
Ten Years Agoị.
[From" the "China Matt" of
June 5, 1930.J
To-day's dollar is worth 2/6%.
The Colonial Secretary forwarde us a copy of the photograph of the wreath laid on the occasion of the
restricting the import of apples into the Valted Kingdom. Madras, May 9. The body discovered floating In the Bombay service passenger into the best seats of theatre or On the other hand, women are in the Coovum river yesterday, carnitas were satisfactory. The cinema; the plumber can roar the still fortunately essential, nor has been identified at the inquest exceptional political conditions in as that of a European named India seriously reduced the volume ex-gentry into submission from have they lost the inclination to J. A Brown, aged 65, formerly of exports, and the homeward cargo This place on the Council, and the be romantic with the right employed as an officer in the position has been extremely bad poulterer can aloofly pass us by people. Girls are still willing out Madras and Southern Mahratta and rates have been at a very low
The evidence showed level. In his expensive sedan limousine, East, as at Home, to exchange Rallway.
The directors regret to report Mr. Brown had not been keeping It is no disgrace now to work in the monotony of the typewriter good health for some time and that a special examination made at anvelling of the Cenotaph by His shop or office. It has become for the drudge of married life; yesterday morning he looked their request revealed serious defal Majesty the King, on November 11, almost a distinction. Society some even prefer to push the much depressed and was telling cations by a late official of the com- 1920, on behalf of the Governments girls run hat shops with eclat perambulator Instead of the pen, friends he did not like to live. pany. Appropriate action has bean and peoples of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Two hours later his body was taken within the organisation to Malays Mauritius, Seychelles, and perhaps a trifle too much Perhaps they are not so changed found foating in the river. A obviate as far as possible the 90s Weihaiwel, Fiji and the Paciño fuss Lady V-prettily vends after allt:
verdict of suicide was returned.sibility of a recurrence;
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