1933-01-17 — Page 7

TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1933.

WEAKNESS

SHOWN ON

N.Y. MARKET

Downward Tendency On All Stocks.

NO OUTSIDE SUPPORT.

RUSSIAN WITHOUT VALID PASSPORT.

Worked In Chinese Garage At Canton.

GAOL TERM IMPOSED.

Michel Zrobridsky, 21, unemploy ed Russian engineer, from Man- churia, was sentenced to 14 days' gaal by Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court this morning, on a charge of entering the Colony without a valid passport. An ex-

BANKRUPTCY

ORDER AGAINST

THE CHINA MAIL

To-Day's Short Story.

CIVIL SERVANT THE LIMITS

OF DOMINION

Mr. R. G. Witchell Publicly Examined.

WIFE'S DEBTS THE CAUSE.

Mr. Robert George Witchell,

tariat Office, was puicly ex-

amined before the Chief Jus tice, Sir Joseph Kemp. K. C.. in the Bankruptcy Court this morning.

By Arnold Bennett.

She nodded again.

T ADY ELEANOR was young,

beautiful, and beauti- "Shall ye get yer costs out of New York, To-day.

fully dressed. She indeed had him?". A heavy tone prevailed on.

a clerk in the Colonial Secre-style, pedigree. She was the "Heaven knows she exclaimed, the New York Stock Market

daughter of an earl, and she had with a sigh and a smile. "I hear yesterday, according to the

married the brother of a baron. he's off to Central Africa." It was impossible that any woman daily report issued by Messrs.

Thoy sat down side by side on E. A. Pierce and Company,

pulsion order, which will take effect

suld be as inocent as Lady the blue sofa in the immense bow- They state: "The weakness after the gaol torm, was also made

Eleanor looked, and Lady Eleanor window. suggests that active traders are by his Worship, on the application

was not. She had seen life. She "Oh, how lovely the garden is!" tired of the long side and also of Detective-Sorgeant Mottram.

had, in fact, had to get rid of the she murmured, turning her head. Mr. E. L. Agassiz, Official Receiv-baron's brother. disappointed with the lack of The Sergeant stated that the de-

She was now

"It's so lovely it makes me want to outside response to the construc-fandant, together with another er conducted the proceedings. free again. Ralph, with his in-cry. But I dare say that's only tive efforts of the market. The Russian, worked in a garage in Can- The examination was closed, and sight into human nature of because I'm so exhausted after this market closed heavy. We would ton. Accepting an offer by some debtor was ordered to pay the sum knew that she would not be voice! What a gentle laugh! You which he was secretly very proud affair." She laughed. What a withhold buying for the present." Chinese of a job in the village, they of $140 per month towards the li- free for long. He admired her could scarcely hear it.

A downward tendency was left Canton. On arrival at the quidation of his debts, which totall-She was so slim, so lithe, so ele shown in industrials, rails, utilitie village, they found that the

The secretary soon afterwards es-ad 84,215. ties and bonds. Industrials show-tablishment did not exist. They

Įgant, so expensive. She had such returned into the room. Mr. Ralph ed the greatest decline, dropping set sail on a junk and without Agassiz, stated that he fell into such a way of looking at a man He continued to talk in a playful, Mr. Witchell, in reply to Mr. a quiet, tranquillising voice, and Burber did not move from the anfa dropped one point to 27.47. Bonda knowing where they were heading bankruptcy through incurring obtrustful, reassuring, apprecia- held up better and declined only for, came to Hong Kong. .14, closing for the day at 80.34.) Police assisted the two men and He also stated that payment of in-after all rather wonderful to ligations to meet his wife's debts. tive of man's strength. It was Utilities declined .84 to 27.81.sent them back to Canton by train.terest to money lenders was Reuter.

However, on Sunday, the defendant large that his salary did not meet who knew familiarly the whole of so Ralph that such a jewel of a girl, returned after having been prehis living expenses. viously warned. When he gave him-

the great world, should be on Debtor admitted that $500 was familiar terras with him. Ralph, CABINET MEETING ON he came here to look for a ship to connection with his wife's intention married a jobbing builder, and of self up to the Police, he stated that borrowed from Amrik Singh, in the brother of Dinah who had THURSDAY.

of establishing a brewery in Macao. Mary who had married a Pruden- The brewery did not function, how-tial insurance agent, and whose ever, although the apparatus for father used to eat in his shirt- producing the liquor was purchased. sleeves in a house of which the The drink was bottled and sold in rent was eight shillings a week! Heng Kong, at a profit of 50 cents He took her soft hand somewhat per bottle, The enterprise lasted violently and she yielded it touch- for about a month and a half, ingly to his violence. Mr. Wtchell, at the outset of the "Had some tea?" examination, stated he was 24 years of age, and had been educated at yet."

Geneva Leader Returns From 1933 Session.

London, To-day. The first meeting of the Ca- binet this year will be held on Thursday.

Sir John Simon, the Foreign Se-

stowaway to Shanghai,

POLICE OFFICER IN SERIOUS MISHAP. Sergt. Edwards's Crash. With Lorry.

She nodded. "But not a cigarette

cretary, will return from Geneva Detective-Sergeant J. H. E. Ed-the Central British School. He "So that affair's all over and to be present. He will remain in wards, of the Hong Kong Police married a Russian woman in Shang-settled now?" he began, referring England for a few days but expects Force, attached to the Water Police hai, In 1981. He had occasion to to the late proceedings against the to return to Geneva for the meet-Station is lying unconscious in the borrow $700 from Mahan Singh to baron's brother. ings to be held there next wek.

Kowloon Hospital as the result of a meet certain debts incurred by his

The Foreign Under-Secretary, motor accident on the Castic Peak Wife (then his fiance) in Shanghai,|-

Captain Anthony Eden, leaves Lon-Road yesterday afternoon. While and $400 to cover wedding expen- MR. GEORGE GRIMBLE

away.

don for Geneva to-day and will take riding his motor cycle, Sergeant ses. charge of the United Kingdom De-Edwards crashed head-on into a His present salary was £295 per legation while Sir John Simon la motor lorry and sustained a fractur-annum, which was $500 per month. ed skull and concussion of the brain. His wife came to Hong Kong in Yesterday, the Prime Minister, At the time of the accident, Ser-March, 1981, and they lived toget- Mr. Ramsey MacDonald was in con-geant Edwards was attempting to her at Kowloon Tong until August. sultation with several of his Caposs a motor bus travelling in the He had quite a lot of trouble with binet colleagues.-British Wireless direction of Kowloon when the his wife, and this incurred further Service.

motor lorry struck his machine. He dehts. They moved to a boarding was thrown heavily to the ground house in Hankow Road, and from and was picked up in an uncrgent. I there to Granville Road. He was ous condition.

LAID TO REST.

Large Gathering At Graveside.

WEALTH OF WREATHS.

A large gathering was present at present living at the Airlie Ho-at the funeral last evening at

It was learned this morning, on tel. He was seeking a separation Happy Valley of the late fr jenquiry at the

from his wife, and when that is George Grimble, who died on Kowloon Hospital, that Sergeant Edwards has regain achieved he will pay her $100 al-Saturday afternoon at his resi- ed consciousnes, and is slightly bet-lowance per month.

dence at 10, Branksome Towers, In reply to Mr. M. A. da Silva, The Peak who represented Mahan Singh, deb-|

BRITISH TRADE AGREEMENTS Foreign Countries Keen ter.

To Negotiate.

London, To-day. Tariff negotiations with repre sentatives of Denmark, Norway, I Sweden and Iceland have been in ¡progress for some time and at their

conclusion, aimilar negotiations will begin with the Baltic States and .Poland,

Representatives of the Latvian Government arrived in London yes terday for the preliminary dis cussions in advance of commercial negotiations and a delegation from Finland is due to arrive before the end of March.

CONFECTIONERY ROBBED.

Three Men Decamp With Small Haul.

Those present included Govern tor denied that he borrowed the ment. officials and businessmen re money under the representation presentative of the different com- that it was to be put into a brewery mercial activities of the Colony, of his at Macao,

Ralph Furber: came from a hurable family in the Five Totona: now he is a magnato, with a mansion in London

Maidie. Furber, his cousin, redhaired, pugnacious, and pretty, has written bitterly re proaching Ralph for not attend. ing his sister's wedding. So Ralph has summoned her to London from the Five Towns, by car.

Lady Eleanor Raysse is at- tonding a week-end party at Ralph's house.

rough tone to Lady Eleanor, and then suddenly he faced the stand- ing, respectful secretary with her

notebook and began curtly and rapidly to give her a long series of scribbled down about the electric varied instructions, which she light installation, the purchase of Treasury Bills, his new suits, a hammock, champagne, a works dis pute at Newcastle, etc., etc. He poured the orders out of his mind in a continuous stream.

"And tell St. John," he finished St. John was hia principal secretary-tell Mr. St., John to draft that letter about the "Char- ing Cross Echo. He's got the heads of it. I'll see it on Sunday morning. Tell him the figure's twenty-one thousand. Tell him to make it final, and I'll give 'em unti) Tuesday to decide.".

опсе

The secretary departed more fully laden..

Lady Eleanor said:

You know you'll never buy thej The chief mourners were Mr. 'Echo' for twenty-one-thousand. Mr. Silva-Have you got a brew-Eric Grimble (son) and Surgeon It's the oldest established evening ery in Macao-No, I have not. Commander Williams, R.N. (son paper in London, and Steinheil in-law); others present being His won't take less than twenty-six Honour Sir Joseph Kemp, His thousand. He might take twenty- Honour Mr. Justice Wood, Hon. five, but I don't think so. It's Mr. R. M. Henderson, Col. T A. cheap at twenty-six" Robertson, Rev. E. G. Powell, Rev. "Cheap, is it? I know it's losing G. T. Waldegrave; and Messrs. close on thirty thousand a year. P. T. Farrell, W. A. Butterfield, A. And I'm to pay twenty-five thou

Three Chinese men, armed with FATAL FALL

a revolver and two knives, per-) pertrated a robbery at the Tung King Cigarette und Confectionery Shop, 522, Canton Road last night, and decamped with a haul of money and jewellery to the total .value of $125.

Other countries which have ex- The robbers entered the shop! pressed a desire to negotiate with under the pretext of making the

the British Government, include purchase, of sweets,

While serv

DOWN HOTEL

STAIRCASE

Death Of Capt. Purvis.

Stevenson, T. A. Mitchell, F. R. B. Band for the privilege of losing Hancock, D. L. Hosle, G. K. Hall four hundred a week!! Bratton, G. P. Lammert, C. Bulmer "But you'd soon turn it into a Johnson, J. L. McPherson, H. Seth, paying concern. Besides, you want 9. C. Pang, K. 9. Pang, K. F. Pank, a daily! Owning a paper would A. W. Smith, F. J. de Rome, D. H. round you off. I quite ace that Blake, J. T. Prior, H. E. Goldsmith, You wouldn't get one that was

Argentina, whose delegation is nowing the customers" Shiu Foon, 2 WELL-KNOWN LOCAL MARINE G. S. Archbutt, L. Forster, IT paying its way for a quarter of a

ARTIST.

Bagram, AL. Shields, D. L. Lyle A D. Humphreys, M. Nemazee, G.

.on the way to England, Belgium, a spinster, was threatened. She, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Ger- together with four other female many, Netherlands, Peru, Santo inmates were bound and put in a The death took place last White, A. H. White, T. H. G. Bray- Domingo, Switzerland and Uruguay. cubicle with a blanket over them,

One robber kept guard over them, while the other two ransack ed the shop.

--British Wireless Service

COLONY'S NEW SOLICITOR.

Mr. R. H. Cole Admitted This Morning.

FLEET MOVEMENTS,

Sir Miles Lampson Returns From Canton.

night of Captain T. G. Purvis, field, C. B. Brown, P. C. Fotts, who was admitted to the G. H. Fotts, Simon Tae-yan, An- Kowloon Hospital at 1.30 pm. drew Tee, and others. yesterday suffering from head in The remains were interred in juries caused by falling down the the Old Residents Section of the Sunday morning. stairs of the Airila Hotel early on Colonial Cemetery, the last ser- vices being performed by Very Captain Purvis... who was Rev. Dean Swann fy 72 years of age, resided in Many wreaths were sent the hotel, and was well-known

locally as a marine artlat;

having exhibited at the Royal

BIG AIR PORT FOR SOUTHAMPTON.

With Europe And East

TO-MORROW'S STORY,

To-morrow's short story will be "The White Cat by. Andrew Soutar

million. Everybody says it's dirt cheap

Ralph seized Lady Eleanor's hand and looked her in the face loweringly.

Listen to me, Lady Eleanor," he said with a mixture of grimness, cynicism, and benevolence. You're Steinheil if that paper going to get a commission out

Bold

me for more than twenty-one

thousand.

Mr. Ralph Hanry Cole, who, has Prior to leaving for Swatow this Society of Artists and the Royal joined the firm of Messrs. Geo. K. morning, the US.S. Fulton fired a Hibernian Institute. Hall Brutton & Co., was admitted to salute of 11 guns to the Commodore. An old survivor of the wind- práctice as 4 solicitor in the Following this, HI Mjaminer Supreme Court by the Chief Justice, Sage, which, arrived from Canton sailed the seven seas under anil and days, Captain Purvis has Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C., this morn yesterday, saluted the port with 21 steam Before the outbreak of the Establishing Connection ing. The Attorney General Hon. gane, the salute being returned Great War, he forsook the sea to Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., moved from Blackbend's Foint, Kowloon study painting, having obtained his the application

The Saga then fired 11 guns, and master's ticket. For a time he The now solicitor was, articled to this courtesy was returned from studied in Paris, his knowledge of

Why do you say such a thing 2 Messrs. Tozer and Dell, of Telgn H.M.S, Tamar.

Because it just came into my mouth, Devon, in 1927. On the ex- The aircraft carrier, H,M.S. absorbing Interest while at sea, the biggest passenger port both in surprised if he's offer

and sky, which had been his Southampton, which is already head, that's all I sho piration of his articles in April last Herades which returned from fleet standing him in good stead, the Empire and in Europe, aspires of everything over year. Mr. Cole served with Messrs, exercises yesterday afternoon, left On the outbreak of the war he also to become a great alr Peacock and Goddard, London, He harbour again this morning for the again took to the sea, but since Local autho passed the final examination of the same purpose.

1918 has devoted his tie

Law Society of England in March, Yesterday afternoon, Sir Miles ing

1032, and was admitted a solicitor Lampson, British Minister to China Ho leas

of the Supreme Court of Judicature returned from

in June, after which he acted as H.MS. Tarantula assistant to Mesara, Reid Shar

&Co. London:

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