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A Hint for Colony.
The reports of the various De partments are published both singly and collectively: the latter makes no pretence to being a sort jot Hong Kong "Enquire Within" and time and patience are too
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1931.
justly taken to task, but such is NOT OUT TO BEAT CHURCH PROPERTY IN
the state of sočini morals, that all
men
must tolerate particularly those who ambitiously and success- fully have strivan--the expression of opinion of others' concerning their work.
"Regarding the statement under consideration as an ill-advised and taetless attempt at humour rather than a libet in any sense, the ap- plication to dismiss is granted."
POST & GATTY.
An Indian World Bicyclist.
TO VISIT HONG KONG.
From this rather unctuous 'judi- elal pronouncement one can at
"No I am not out to bent Post American lenst Infer what an means wher. he says that his and Gatty's record," admitted Mr. nelghbour is lousy."
News in Brief.
Sir Peter Grain left for Manila last night by the su. Empress of Russia.
Two cases of typhoid fever were
Both notified yesterday.
were Chinese.
The Graf Zeppelin has landed at Friedrichshafen, says a Reuter message.
SPAIN.
Sales Forbidden by Decree.
CONFISCATION THREATENED..
Madrid, Yesterday. After the interception of in- structions from Cardinal Segara," Ram Nath Biswas; formerly maher, the exiled Primate, for the imme
oh 1
at the Singapore marine court who diate sale of church property in arrived in Penang on August 11 Spain, a decree was issued for world tour having taken bidding the sale of any church eighteen days to reach Penang from property, This is in order to pre- vent religious orders selling vast Singapore..
éstates and transferring the pro- ceeds abrond in order to avoit confiscation as threatened in the draft constitution.-Reuter.
DARING ROBBERY
Women Intimidated With A Knife.
Mr. Biswas, who is mounted on a bicycle hopes on wheel or on feet to visit all the countries of the world thereby getting acquaintance with the manners, customs habits. and mode of living of all the na- tions, He intends going through Siam into Indo-China, Halphong and thence to Hong Kong where he The total output of the Kailan will be gulded by the advice of the Mining Administration's mines for British and Chinese' Consuls as to gone there to repair the verandah, On the pretext that they had the week ended August 8 amounted
and the sales to what route will be safe for travel, four Chinese, one of whom to 104,340 tons, 83,885 tons.
He aims to get to Korea and then armed with a knife, gained entrance to Japan from where he hopes to Street, Wanchal, yesterday, and Lo the third floor of 31, Li Tung
At the Marine Court this morn-
ing. before Commander G. F. Hole, Mr. J. S. Anderson, captain of the
way.
A GOOD HAUL,
Woo
They de
ke steamer to America, where he committeed a robbery. will attempt to cycle through the camped with a haul. of money and
$279.50.
of
a.s. Nanning, was fined $6 for fall North and Scuth before sailing for jewellery to the total value ing to fly the "F" pennant when Britain from where he will begin According to Lo Hing, a con proceeding to the Southern Fair- his return trip..
cubine, who was with her daughter Mr. Bisung is following a new on the premises, she Heard a knock It will interest many to know that route as being an Indian he has at the front door. She asked "Don't But On Women," starring seen much of that "Empire, and will "Who is there?" and the reply was
"We have come Edmund Lowe and Jeanette Mac. have the opportunity of doing so
to repair the Donald, which was recently screen- when he returns via Europe. He verandah." The door was opened, ed at the King's Theatre, is being intends: finishing up his adventure and a man entered. He examined the doorway, and shown at Home under the title of by going to Tibet where he says he the floor near
One will renounce the world and live then three others entered. "More Than a Kiss."
the life of a hermit.
produced a knife, and kept guard over the frightened inmates. The robbers then proceeded to ransack. the place, after which they departed
Knocked down and run over by
Mr. Biswas takes his own time
a public motor car in Wellington for the journey. sometimes doing
fractured his left shin bone and was prentice at 47 Wellington Street,. only four." sent to the Government Civil Roş- pital.
often frittered away in a futile Street, Kong Yim (15), an ap. fifty miles a day and sometimes with a haul as stated above.
in a cablele.
WIVES SLIMMING TO MUSIC.
Tunes While They Sweep.
In the course of a letter to the effort to retrieve some important Malay Mail, with which he has comment or figures hearing on
NO ORDINARY FORGE. been very closely connected for the topics of the day. Many a many years. besides being an Departmental report
is de-
It was hot. Apparently A sleep-walker, B
Every step on the Unofficial member of the Federal trived of much of its value by married woman, named Lo Siu-kam road leading to St. Etienne de Council, Mr. J. H. M. Robson the absence of an index. We (84), was found lying on her back Balgorry confirmed the fact, while makes a plea that might not fall suppose, in, the good company of on the side channel behind her the white-washed forge with its on deaf ears if made in this Mr. Robson, that there must be house at 91, Queen's Road East, by furnace glowing red vid with the
a District Watchman, Her hus, sun. This was no ordinary forge HUSBANDS REJOICING. Colony. He points out that at at least one bright young man in band and child wore found asleep where horses come to have their,
ahoes renewed, and the wooden meeting of the Federal Council
"Slim while you sweep" is the every Government Department
wheels of carts are left for their latest beauty alogan at a London Mr. San Ah-wing asserted that who would be willing to under-
Gandhi's visit to London is now
iron rims to be adjusted. This old school of deportment, and husbands "he had looked in vain for a take the task of compiling a com-regarded as impossible, says Reu- place in the Basses Pyrenees was are rejoicing that at last a treat- single industry that had sprung plete record of his particular De-ter and adds that the Viceroy has the forge of bells, not for the ment has been devised which will into existence and which
for oxen labouring persuade their wives to return to decided auddenly to return to Simla churches, but rartment: f his researches are
from Ranchi, in order to consider slowly in the fields, for the sheep, household duties, proving itself an asset to the
to be confined to the four walls his reply to Gandhi, which it le the horses, and the donkeys grazing To the music of drum, castanet,. country as a result of the labours of his own office, he may achieve understood will be a scathing in on the mountains.
For their own voices, lifted in fölk of the Agricultural Department." something worth while; but if he dictment of "Congress duplicity" Three men, all stockingless, two song, women learn to wield the
in every province.
with their bare feet thrust into san- broom, the duster, the stirring There may be no justification for
has to go to the library in the
dals, were working as if there were spoon, or even the dish-cloth in a this criticism, but Mr. Robson
The forthcoming marriages are
no heat without or within; while on rhythmical, way which Is bath elimi says that he has heard Euro-City Hall he is more likely to ton-
tract tuberculosis from the moun- announced of Frederick Charles
the floor, all jumbled together in ming and beautifying.
Sometimes a record is put on the peans make the same statement.
tains of dust among the ancient Young, pf the Claremont Hotel, their different sizes, lay the bells
themselves, waiting for their gramophone and the class sweeps to Kowloon, and Jean Kathleen Wag-second passing through the fur- its tune. "Only a limited number of people
tomes or else bubonic plague staff, residing at the same address; read departmental annual reports
nace. Near by a man was carefully Once the art is learned suitable
was
and fewer still can remember th from the book-loving rodents! and of Lambert Gockchin.. mer mixing a light coloured clay with record are taken home and put on
contents of such reports publish- ed five or ten years ago.” Mr. Robson continues:-
DELEGATION FROM FRANCE,
League of Nations' Appointment.
That by the way.
Recent re-chant, of 14, Fung Fai Terrace, Hong Kong, to Nancy Li, 2, Tram- searches on various subjects,
way Path, Hong Kong. both in 'Government Departments and private firms, make us do- "May I again put in a plea for plore the sheer lack of foresight the compilation of departmental three, four, and five decades ago histories, some of which would in not keeping valuable and constitute useful reference re-authentic records - part and cords for the general public and parcel of the Colony's history — all of which have a definite his up to date for the benefit of torical value in the future. Mag-future generations. It is nificent development work has not too late to make a start now been done in this country during if only the head of each De- the last fifty years, but there is partment will encourage that one no detailed record of this work, bright young man under him to or of the men who accomplished
do the needful! it, available for reference. There must be at least one bright young man in every Government department who would be willing
Mail Commentary.
to undertake the task of compil- Not Libellous.
water, with which each bell was to a portable gramophone in any thickly encased before being lifted room where housework is in pro- into the flame.
gress.' Once a month the huse- Attention to the furnace occupi-wife returns to the studio to have small faults in deportment invited me in. Every now and corrected, says the Daily Mail. ed the old, toothless Basque who any
When a woman learns to hold again he lifted out an oval-shaped mass and placed it carefully, still, herself correctly while performing flaming, on the floor. Then came that bugbear of middle age, double evon the most everyday movements, the turn of the third worker, ;
superior to the others in that he chin, will disappear. 4 wore pointed wooden sabots, richly Some women lose several pounds studded with taile. His task was of that worrying superflous flesh in to roli the red-hot bell with his a fortnight; others improve their Paris, Yesterday. The French Delegation, at the wooden sabot on the gritty floor. appearance by learning how to re- his movemente, lax their bodies, by this means Autumn session of the Assembly Very gentle were of the League of Nations has been quick, with just sufficient force to smoothing out those equally worry. appointed as follows:
press the hot clay onto the metal in facial wrinkles. which it covered while yet retnin M. Briand; M. Flandin (Minis- Ing the shape of the bell: Whon
Ten Years Ago. ter of Finance), M. Rollin (Minis-the heat in the clay had died down ter of Commerce) with assisted and the temperature, was exactly Under-Secretaries and experts;
M. Laval, following the lead of right, the toothless Basque lifted iron carrier and Dr. Bruening, is not, attending the bell on an
From the "China. Mail" of.
August 21, 1921.1
To-day's dollar is worth 2/8%.
+
By a score of six to three the
the Assembly but will await his dropped it into a large tub of cold visit to Berlin at the end of water.. The use of the elegant word September to resume contact "The hot and the cold make Canton Chinese Baseball team beat "lousy" (In the Yankee sense) has with Dr. Bruening. Reuter. been held by the Supreme Court in
"has
ing a complete record of his par- ticular department Such re- cords would in themselves repre- New York not to be libellous, sent the greater part of the real Commenting that the law history of the territory now not reached the Utopian stage FRENCH DIPLOMATIC
known as the FM.S
where envy and acrimony are penalised," the Court f giving,
In this Colorly we find a Judgment continued: brief and quite unsatisfactory "The statement that a person is summary of some of the leading lousy in his engagements and en- deavours, meaning that his efforts events of each year in the Civil are not commendable but rather Service List. What we expect to inferior in result, and on the And therein we do not; and, iniciam, is not libellous per se or whole subject to unfavourable cri-
the search for it, we come across fibel at all, t items that appear strangely out “It may be irksome to one's of place in such a publication. pride of accomplishment to be un-
APPOINTMENT.
New Ambassador to Germany.
Paris, Yesterday: pointed, M. Francois Foncet,
The Counell of State has ap Under-Secretary to the National Economy, as French Ambassador in Germany-Rauter.
beautiful tone," he remarked with a wise smile, ds if it applied also to other matters..
Later he lifted the moulded mass out of the water, and, with his own hands broke away the paste, now rendered sooty--and black and Tumpy by the fire, until from, the unbeautiful maas appeared the rich golden-coloured bells
the Japanese team from Hong Kong in yesterday's game at the Canton East Garden.
Although the Japanese team were defeated, its members showed some fine work on several occasions, Good sportsmanship was shown by the players on both sides.
The Chinese did some heavy slugging, and scored the heaviest in the seventh, tunings when three runs were added to their credit.
The Japanese succeeded in making two runs on the fourth innings, but the And to this I agreed, for much Chinese did not allow them to score care and much craftsmanship had again until the very end when on gone to their making-Christian other run was credited to the Japan-. Science Monitor..
ese'in the ninth innings.
"It is the past," he exclaimed; as I commented on the change which had taken place. "Are they not beautiful!"
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