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According to Mr. L. M. Smith, manager of the Vacuum Oil Com pany in Shanghai, the road! safety movement in the Inter- national Settlement is establish ing itself. Mr. H. Gate-Duncan, hon, secretary of the Safety League, anticipates that within three months the objective of 10,000 Safety League members

of the tit The Safety, League pledge is follows:-

From Other Pens.

Marriages At Sea.

MONDAY, JANUARY

1932.

In an alleged attempt to end his REMEMBER WILLIAM

fe, a Chinese named Chan Ho ching (19) jumped into the harbour from the Star Ferry Golden Star, en route from Hong Kong to the mainland. He was rescued by a

We wonder where the general seaman of the ferry, and sent to the impression arose that masters of Kwong Wah Hospital. British ships may perform legal

marriages on the high sens. Many On Saturday a thief entered romantic young couples who want the residence of Mr. and Mrs.

THE CONQUEROR.

Chemist's Strangely Worded Will.

A QUAINT LEGACY.

the captain to tie the nuptial knot P. E. Barker in Ava Mansions, The strangely-worded will of are keenly disappointed when they May Road, and stole a silver Mr. Percy Thomas A Croydon learn that he cannot marry them. clock from the drawing room. Achemist who left £13,000, was read In the official log books issued by silver cigarette case, the pro- in the Probate Court.

Some house property which he left to his brothers. The rest of the estate was bequeathed' to en- dow beds in St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

the Board of Trade masters perty of Mr. G. G. Johnson, ia had inherited from his father he

are

reminded that "if such ceremony guest, was also taken,

is performed by them, the marriage! will not be a legal one." Legal marine marriages may, neverthe-

Personal Par.

+

He directed that:-

The surplus income shall accrue

less, be performed by a clergyman Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Taggart and aboard ship, and Section 240 (6) Mr. P. M. Hodgson returned from of the Merchant Act, 1894, requires Manila by the a... President Hoover year by year to increase the num the Master of the Ship to enter in his Official Log the particulara of Mr. T. J. Bridge, Chief Steward same shall be named after the ber of beds so endowed, and the every Marriage that has taken of the Empress of Japan, after kings of England in their chrono- place on board." These entries nearly 30 years in that capacity logical order, beginning with King must be signed by the officiating with the C.P.R. on the Pacific, is william the Conqueror 1068, and clergyman and the master.-A.H.L. retiring.

in the Pinang Gazette.

"The Happy Glutton."

*

"Eat to live, but do not live to eat. The danger of this senseless formula is that it sanctions count-

less outrages every day against health, youth and beauty."

This is

one of the many epigrams which supply the sauce to the book of menus prepared by M. Alin Laubreaux, the French novelist, and served up in

WEDDING.

Ceremony in St. John's Cathedral.

BUTTRESS-BIDDICK.

English edition under the title of the Rev. N. V. Halward, M.C., A marriage was solemnised by "The Happy Glutton."

This is not precisely the moment afternoon, which Erie Frank But- M.A., in St. John's Cathedral this to sing the glories of French cook-

80 forward after the kings, the queens, and then repeat again and again until Time shall be no more. Counsel announced that two brothers had withdrawn their op position, and Lord Merrivate pro- nounced for the will..

CHANGING IN LAW NEEDED.

Justice McCardie and Divorce.

"It is about time the divorce ing, but the book is amusingly player, third son of Mr. and Mrs. Eiderable amendments to

tress, Rugby football Interport law of England had

some con- enough written to appeal to men, A. Buttress, of Harpenden, Herts, commented Mr. Justice McCardie it." and the menus themselves should was wedded to Doris May Biddick, at Leeds Assizes recently. convey many a useful hint to the second daughter of the late Mr. F British housewife.

James Dowden, 42, bricksetter, Biddick and Mrs. E. J. Biddick, of of Leeds, pleaded guilty to bi- If the Englishman is served with "Restholme," Padstow, Cornwall. indifferent food in his own home-

gamy. The bride, who wore a dreas of The woman and this applies to every section Lide blue shadow lace, was given had gone through a form of mar- with whom he "I s to take the utmost of the community-it is his own away by Mr. E. S. Carter: Mrs. riage said that she would be caution en crossing roads, fault. He should take a leaf out H. T. Creasy, M.B.E., as Matron of prepared to marry him again, and to everything possible art of cooking, and then bring best man was Mr., R. H, Woodman, been freed from any sentence

of the Frenchman's book, study the Honour, was attired in green. to avoid cidents: never to pressure to bear in the right quar- whilst the duties of groomsmen passed upon him, he could pro- The and correctly, if, after he had ask a dor to exceed theiter. speed limitake undue risks to

The most conservative estimates Richardson, Mr. A. C. Beck, and Mr. Wife, who was living with an- were carried out by Mr. J. E. cure a divorce from his legal ignore Fre traffic signals:nation through the wasteful cook,

of the wages lost to the British R. R. Davies.

other man. I will fure endeavour to en- ing of the British housewife vary Hong Kong Hotel, where the cus- arise," said his lordship. "It is .courage or

A reception was later held in the 'See how social problems motorists and from 15 to 20 per cent. pedestrihni to co-operate in If only we would tackle this Among those present

tomary toasts were honoured. perfectly clear that I cannot ad- this natiovide fessen stre accidents.

effort to problem seriously we should be do Director of Public Works (the Hon. arms of his legal wife, for she is vise this man to go back to the ing more for national economy Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.B.E.) and As- already in the arms of another. than any anti-waste campaign ever sistant Directors E. W. Carpenter, and it is possible he would not All road ust in Shanghai are launched.--Londoner in the Even- O.B.E., H. E. Goldsmith,

ing Standard.

hospitable reception. And under the present state of

arged to join Mobiloil League | of Safety,

Here in Hd Kong we have Mobiloil

R. MCN. Henderson.

were the

will be attained. It is further not yet found a stated by the China Press that League of Sat; but we have temperature many interesting suggested re-the satisfactio f knowing that humidity fell to 24 at 10 a.m. and bride was an Ivory dressing set. medies for the relief of congest- the Automobil Association, the was 25 at 4 p.m. ed traffic areas have been various Reside Associations, received, and it is hoped that in and the traffiuthorities are to-morrow afternoon a letter will be At the Sanitary Board meeting many instances these sugges- generally alert the necessity read from Government relative to tions will be carried out, which for reducing set accidents to food licences.

the fees to be charged for special if successful should prove bene- the minimum. It is true that ficial to both motorists and glaring cases dome before the pedestrians.

and get an

The happy couple afterward. left the law, and of conventions gov News in Brief.

for their honeymoon in the Colony, erning these matters, I cannot Mrs. Buttress's travelling dress

advise him to return to the Yesterday the lowest open air coat to match,

being a brown gown with hat and woman who has spoken so well

of him. Was 54. The. The bridegroom's gift to the happen would be for one of the "The best thing that could parties to petition for a divorce, but the difficulty of the Divorce Court is and it is most un- fortunate, as I conceive it in divorce law that where, both husband and wife are equally guilty a judge is not bound to grant a decree, even though the result may be a continuance in

Addressing Dowden, who was Gardens.

who, it was stated, had left his There is a price on the head of wife, on finding.she had been as- Zon cata. If allowed to multiply sociating with another man, the

Miss Luba Pecker will give a

CATS AT THE ZOO.

(

Strange Friendships.

A collision occurred yesterday Courts, but as any systemised on the Castle Peak Road, between

Domestic cats, official and un adultery," That woman drivers are menace to the blic only three and a motor bus. Some damage spicuous feature of the Zoological given an excellent character, and

Mr. F. P. Lenfesty's private car oficial, have always been a con- notoriously careless in the man-may once again mentioned: the was done to both vehicles but no ner in which they drive motor apparently unsuueable fleet of one was injured. cars, is a popular fallacy. How-public hire cars Chater Road, ever, recent statistics gathered near Ice House feet; the dash-aged 50 years, had his toes injured soon swamp the official exhibits and you over for two years, and sug A mendicant, Yu Shing-kwong, at their own sweet will they would judge said: "I intend to bind in America, and representing the ing of rikisha to the Star when he was knocked down by a scare the avian inhabitants. consensus of opinion of hundreds Ferry, on the vioon side of moving tramçar in Des Voeux Road various reasons, however, a few petition for a divorce. I hope For gest you try to get your wife to of thousands of drivers, indicate the harbour, the danger of Central yesterday. He was sent to have been accepted at their own you will get it, and then, after that the worst offenders are pedestrians who have alighted the Government Civil Hospital.

value and adopted by the staff. The a proper ceremony of marriage youths. Many of these, prob- from buses; and he crossing of

Small Cat House has had many of to this other lady, live with her. ably very amateur drivers, are buses past therry premises Planoforte Recital at the Helena on good terms with many of the

these self-appointed peta. One was in comfort. accustomed to dashing about the whilst Ferry Bsengers are May Institute on Thursday, Janu-exhibits, and shared the keeper'a INDIAN FILM STAR GOES HOME. countryside in a manner which hurrying to statery buses in wishing to reserve tables for tea, quaintly contrasted pair would alt The Indian him star, Sheikh

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Membera sanctum with a tame badger. The occasions danger to every road the "cattle pens. When we last please telephone Matren 22160 side by side by the hour, gazing at Iftekar Rasool, has left Paris for user and has been instrumental mentioned the the complaint în

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the fire, or would wander round the Bombay after spending a month in in causing many accidents. By this column a prite correspon-

room hunting for cockroaches, the organisation and control dent wrote doubg our assering, a married woman, Ng King, animals have ever chown any mark the English version of which had In the early hours of this morn- It is remarkable that few Zoo version of the talkie "Lalle Rookh,*** exercised by the local authori- tions; but a persol visit to the aged 25 years, living at 65 Wanchai ed animosity towards domestic cats already been made in Britain,, ties, the activities of speed danger spot du the rush

Road, was taken to the Govern-Some years ago a big black tom was He goes to Hollywood in January maniacs and road hogs have hours convinced of the ac- the effects of an overdose of opium. House, his favourite resting place Song of India."

ment Civil Hospital auffering from a familiar feature of the Camel to star in an Amerionn talkie "The been considerably lessened in curacy of our obsations. Her condition is serious. Shanghai."

being the hump of a particularly tall With these the exceptions, on his appearance before Mr. for many hours undisturbed by his dromedary. There he would eit It is to the people who consi- it may perhepa be oubted whe- Schofleld in the Central Police Court host. At the time of writing two der themselves capable drivers thers Safety Lue in this this morning, a returned banishee cats patronise the Hippopotamus that the main attack of the safe. Colony could accomplish more input forward the exquse that he had House. They amble about amongs ty movement is directed, Mr. the public interest an what is friend herez His Worship hippopotami, but are

Bome from Macao to borrow money the huge feet of the two largent Gale Duncan explained. Many being done already. Any do motorists, when in a hurry.

passed sentence of four months' famillar terms with the more active Hard labour pigmy hippos next door, though Valley and the

they may be observed occasionally water-carriage system University Amateur rubbing themselves against their principal subjects of

Club Will-hold its loge ition at the Univer- once possessed a fine gray

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Ten Years Ago.

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January 4, 1922.3

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