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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1933.

LORD SYDENHAM'S Little Change ARGENTINE

DEATH

Former Colonial Governor.

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Met At Victoria By Prince of Wales.

London, To-day.

New York, To-day.

Lord Sydenham of Combe, The New York Market is again 'G.C.M.G.. G.C.L.E.. G.C.S.I.. steady,

and was educated

Colonel of the 63rd Australian In- fantry.

He was Governor of Victoria, Australia from 1901 to 1904 and Governor of Bombay from 1907 to 1913. He was a member of the Committee on National Insurance of War Risks and was Chairman of

reports Messrs. E. A.

From the

A.P.C. BUILDING BURGLARIES.

OFFICIAL RECEPTION.

Chief

To-Day's Short Story.

LEGEND AND LUCK

By F. Dudley Hoys.

wore,

MILLION diamonds sparkled three youngsters, presented to him to greet the dawn. They by his wife se fate in the year that G.B.E., F.R.S., Vice-President of Pierce & Company.

London, To-day flashed and glittered as the last now, with Christmas 1 them, HRH. the Prince of Wales, In wraiths of night stole away and they were still too young to fend for the Royal Colonial Institute and trading standpoint rails look the the uniform of a Colonel of the the horizon leapt into being. On themselves! President of the National Council best, Many traders feel that the Irish Guards, was present at Vic-every stiff tree the frost lay for Combating Venereal Disease, Market may get another test during torla Station yesterday afternoon heavy. Now and then its grip snuggling a whimpering in the

Three fury balls they died here suddenly to-day from the next few days. In the mean-to welcome, on behalf of H.M. the made a twig snap, the report holt up-stream, their mother on -cerebral haemorrhage-Reuter. time we advise cautious purchases, King, Doctor Julio Roca, Vice-ringing crily on the stillness, guard against rats and suchlike

Lord Sydenham was born in 1848 Industrials, rails, utilities and President of the Argentine fle-Everything seemed held by the marauders.

at Haileybury bonds all showed an upward trend, public, who, with members of his icy rule, except the stream. unlimited, and to keep them suppli- Their appetites were He was a Member of the Air Board rising 31, 15, 28 and 1.17, respec- Mission to Britain, arrived by the And that, to show its indepen-led in these hard winter times was from 1916 to 1917 and Is Hon. tively,

Royal train from Dover.

dence, purled merrily to welcome a task almost beyond even great| Business done was very small, On greeting His Excelloney as another day.

Dolgo's power. only 580,000 shares changing hands. he stepped from the train, the

Reuter.

In the east the light grew strong- Most Decembers had been holi- Prince introduced him and his col-fer. Purple hills rose as if by days, carefree, lolling days with his leagues to the Foreign Secretary, magie. A great army of firs gather-mate, when they awam and dived Sir John Simun, to representatives ed silently like desert raiders from and rolled and cuddled, and only of the Army, Navy and Air Force afar. Their colour and outline be-foraged at odd and to Lord Trenchard,

intervals. This Commissioner of Police.

came more distinct under the morn-Christmas, life was a ceaseless hunt. Ing's fairy touch.

Fame has its drawbacks. Had The party, accompanied by the Down below, the stream lost its Dolgo been an obscure otter, he Prince of Wales, drove in Royal shining blackness, changed to grey, might have raided with some safety earringes to the Carlton Hotel, es-then silver-blue- Without warning in the daytime. But the whole of Police investigations

corted by detachments of the 1st the smooth waters parted, and Cothelford knew his reputation, and dard Bank of South Afrien and lion with the recent burglaries at and 2nd Battalion of Life Guards something round bobbed into sight the local hunt had sworn to get him Earlier in the afternoon, on Dolgo, the etter, wanted air. Lazlly, sooner or later. In heaven knows President of the British Science the Tabaqueira Filipina tobacco

reaching Dover by mail steamer with the ease of his kind, he swam how many "worries" he had led the Guild. Ifis publications include, store and "Elite" Styles, A. P. C from France, members of the Mis-to the rimeclad bank and scrambled hounds a dance, used his blunt claws "The Last Great Naval War," "Rus-Building, have revealed that in both

and "Imperial cases bolt Cutters were used, as the Henry Buller, Groom in waiting to shook a shower, and for a moment

sion were greeted by Admiral Sir up. sia's Sea-Power**

From his reddish cost hel Defence."

the King, who is specially attach the vest of grey silk was exposed. Chief Detectiva Inspector Shan-

ed to the Mission. non explained to a China Mail re

Then he eyed the world with a sort A Guard of Honour was drawn of careless scorn, and rested. porter that by using bolt cutters, the thieves did not bother about the up at the quayalde and military. A mighly veteran, this Dolgo. locks or hasp, and entry in this way to welcome the guests.-British stream.

and civil authorities were present Summer and winter he ruled the can be gained within a minule or Wireless Service.

Wherever his twenty-five balf-a-minute.

pounds of strength and speed wan- dered, the water-folk bowed to dis. to sound effect, and awum clear. cretion and kept clear.

Quite a dozen tender muzzles bore Even pike gave him a wide berth, and as for marks of his fighting skill. It was the voles-they belted at the frat difficult, then, for Dolgo to cruise in daylight, scenting out food, and yet escape the keen watchers.

the Royal Commission on contagious Police Theory On Lock- diseases and also Chairman of the Queenstown Harbour (1914-15).

Committee

He was a Director of the Stan

CLAIM FOR $301 DISMISSED.

Alleged Connection

With Firm

Breaking.

staples were cleanly cut,

in connec-

"All the lock-up shops in that district of the town use the lock Judgment with costs was award-and haps, but I suggest the applica- ed this morning by Mr. Justicetion of a Yale lock to be closed from Wood in the Supreme Court, to the inside" he said.

Chan Ping Cho, defendant, against

whom the Yuen Shing Tai Hong CAPT. BURNETT ON Firm claimed $301.30. for goods sold and delivered.

His Lordship was satisfied on this point and dismissed the claim.

CHINESE MERCHANT

ASSAULTED.

Two Accountants Before The Court.

NAVY TERMS.

Interesting Lecture At Rotary Club.

Hong

Kong Rotarians

were

L

BELGIAN LOURDES

DISCOVERY?

Children's Story Of Holy Apparition.

PILGRIMAGE STARTED.

four

warning,

So he might have had reason to be content if mischievous Nature had not played him a queer trick. was nothing less than the gift

It

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be "An Error of Judgment," by Anthony Giltins.

eyes of

i

But

So far he had been lucky. of supplies were becoming more scarce, and while, the cold weather, lasted only boldness, and

risk could cope

WORKERS BREATHE with the hungry youngsters' des

DEATH.

Perils Of Silica Dust,

of

twisted,

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared for the plaintiff and submitted that the defendant was formerly a partner

mands. Once or in the Wing Tai Shing firm and had,

twice he had

during his term of office, been res

actually raided a farmyard and car-] Paris. ponsible for the transaction of a

riad off a squalling ken. Daring sale by his clients, the defendant favoured with an extremely inter Content of Notre Dame

In a miniature grotto in the little

and foolhardy This Christmas, it at Beau- having bought 15 bags of Rangoon esting address at their weekly

seemed, offered no peace and good the Franco-Belgianį tobacco leaf..

tin at the Cloucester Building raing near

will, but very great peril to Dolgo. Capt. 3r. Cole, for the defendant, sub-yesterday, when

R. frontler are five little Belgian chil-

And yet, resting on the band this. chilly dawn, he lookedin no way 'mitted that plaintiff had not proved Burnett, R.N., of H.M.S. Keppel, dren who say they have seen the

Pasadena, California.

troubled his client had any connection with dealt with the origin of some of Virgin Mary.

His apiky whiskers st An eleven-year-old boy and

The main thing that kills work up proudly. the terma associated with the

His the Wing Tai Shing firm.

small eyes girls aged 9, 11, 12, and 16 respec- men is what they breathe, and twinkled. He studied a holly-bush, Royal Navy.

Baid Professor its berries almost startling in this Mr. P. S. Cassidy presided, and tively all give the same account of not accidents. welcomed the following guests: the miraculous apparition and gival. H. S. Haldane, the famous Bri- crimson against the white fall Rotarians J. Carl Pendray (Vic. Identical answers when questioned tish Biologist; in a lecture at the frost, and went nearer to investigate. toria, B.C.), J. M. X. Chollot (Can- separately. The Virgin is the California Institute of Techno Finding their taste lees, attractive ton), Dr. T. Z. Koo (Peking), Pro-most beautiful person we have ever logy.

than their colour, he slid over the "In England," he stated, "ont bank, dived, and left a trail of pop-| fessor Tottenham, Comdr. R. C. v. seen," they declare.

The doctors of Beauraing and of the most dangerous occupa ping bubbles. Ten yards ahead he Ross, Rev. H. F. Foley, Major V. E. Duclos, Messrs. Crone Mastiere have examined the children tions is that of cutlery grinding. came up, gliding with the current. (Shanghai), Bergheer, R. C. H. and declare"We are in presence of Mortality among these workers The stream twined and Lim, Fisher, Wynne-Jones, most peculiar case which is not is 330 per cent, greater than the gurgling past stark dend reads, An alleged assault on a Chinese Cheung and A. E. Bates.

collective hallucination. The chil-average. It is not that they cut brown clumps that had been merchant at the Yuct Wah Board- The Chairman stated that they dren questioned separately give themselves, but the enormous Baming loosestrife In the earlier ing House, Connaught Rond Central had telegraphed to Mr. Bernard identical explanations. They vary amount of disease due to silica months, stretches of lichen gemmed yesterday, led to the appearance be-Shaw, who was arriving in the only on one point; little Albert dust.

fantastically with frost. "The occupations in which Rounding a bend he heard sounds. fore Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Colony on Saturday by the Em-asserts that the apparition is con-i Police Court this morning of two press of Britain, asking him if he tinuous, while the four girls declare there is the highest death rate.nstinctively he made for the bank, Chinese Leung Fat and Mak Luen, would address them, but he had that there are interruptions." are those in which silica dust is swimming cautiously beneath its

This Four doctors, who accompanied generated. written declining, the invitation.

frequently shadow. Then he saw something Mr. C. E. L. Grist appeared for Mr. Cassidy suggested they might the children to the grotto, fricked leads to palmonary tuberculosis." that checked his pace.

their cheeks with a knife, burnt The dangerous effect of gases Ahead, in a widening of the matches under their joined hands in industrial occupations is well-stream opposite the ruins of Bovey and dashed electric lamps rapidly in known, said Doctor Haldane, be- Abbey, was a huge, whirling some their eyes-there was not the cause, death being quick, the in-thing that hissed and fought. slightest reaction. The children quest tells the tale. But inquests Dolgo had seen nothing like it be- remained in an ecstatic trance. do not reveal the cause of deaths fore. Bat,caution rather than fear

When the children naked the which occur from five to seven held him back. Virgin if she would perform a years later.

Wings beating, black-tipped back miracle and cure two of their re- Coal dust, he said, is not so darting in vain, the Something The Italian Cruiser,. Libia, which iations, one blind, the other paraly bad. The phagocytes in the struggled with an unseen was scheduled to arrive in long tic, she made no promise but replied blood carry it away. In South Twice it atretched its neck, laboured Kong on February 11 from Shang"come here the day of the Immacu Africa in fact, workers in quartzias if to rise. hai, has now notified the Naval au-late Conception."

The effort was west- mines are transferred for onejed. Again the beak swooped down, thoritlos in Hong Kong that The little town of Beauraing with month a year to coal mines, so snapping viciously. The stream A stout defence of the popular she will not leave Shanghai until the its 2,000 inhabitants is in that the phagocytes will have foamed about it, ripping away prese, its style of journalism and end of this month, arriving here the vaded by an army of ten thousand some coal dust to carry away, wide circles. its presentation of news, was made first week in March.

devotees and the grotto itself is sur-land at the same time take away Then Dolgo, saw a flash of silver, by Mr. R. T. Barrett, editor of the H.M.S. Berwick and Cornwall of rounded by cripples, blind people, the silica dust which has accu- a gleam of sharp teeth. It was Hong Kong Daily Press, in an ad-tho Fifth Cruiser Squadron, which hunchbacks and consumptives-mulated during the previous enough. He dived, shooting below dreas to the English Association left Hong Kong on Monday on fleet Reuter,

both described as accountants.

the defence and the hearing fixed for Friday afternoon.

was ask Mr. Noel Coward.

The complainant, Chau Tak-chiu, was present in Court with his face

swollen and right eye injured.

POPULAR PRESS OF

TO-DAY.

Local Editor Talks On Journalism.

ITALIAN CRUISER

DELAYED.

Fleet Movements.

at the Helena May Institute yes-exercises, are expected to return to terday afternoon.

part by Friday afternoon.

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Mr. Barrett claimed that the H.M. Sloop Bridgewater arrived CHINESE EDITOR FINED $50. REV. C. I. BLANCHETT who had no right here in Somerset

best brains of British journalism from Chinwangtao on Monday. "to-day were to be found with the

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popular press, where a descriptive ECONOMY NECESSARY IN touch was required and Gold fashioned verbatim reports were *banned.

TERRITORY: ACCIDENT.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Mr. Lai Yui, the Editor of the

Hong Kong Shul Po was this morning fined $60 by Mr. W. Scho

Impressive Funeral At Canton.

jsurface towards the battle.

The Somethinga stray swan

-drew up her leg and lunged. The other was held fast in the jaws of a giant piko. She had met her match jand was woskaning fast. Soon that seled tiger of the fresh-water

field, in the Central Magistracy, for One of the most impressive would drag her down, a goodly publishing, an indecent advertise funerals evor witnessed, in Canton Christmas All for his voracious

was conducted on Monday mor- belly,

Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassament.

In a report to the Police yester- day, Ng Tin Choi stated that while driving a China Motor Bus Company vehicle along the Au Tau Main Samuel Hoare, stated that the Gov-

dor at Washington, were present. Defendant, who was summoned ning by the Right Rev. Bishop "Cama a ̈ swirl, a line of bubbles. The meeting will be resumed by the Secretary of Chinese Affairs, Hall, when the remains of the Rev. The pike lost its hold, swept round to-day--British Wireless Service. pleaded guilty.

C. Blatchett, for thirty-three to meet a fury that whistled and Federal Constitution For India. Dot. Sub-Inspector Elston pro years missionary of the C.M.S. and scratched and bit. It saw Dolgo's

The Secretary for India, Sir secuted.

for over twenty years Chaplain of sleek head and tried to dodge. Balk- Christ Church, Shamees, were laid ed, it made a frantic snap,, caught

· Road, New Territories, a Chinese emment intended to lay a White Thirty-two cases of smallpox to rest.

the other's tail in its fawa. Dolgo Baaman, who was riding a bicycle, paper before Parliament, contain-| (23 occurring the Kowloon and 9 li¦..... Many wreaths were sent.

wriggled, dlved. He came, to the suddenly swerved and was knocking their full proposals for a Hong Kong), with 9 deaths" were

surface in one wild leap jerked free, ed down by the motor bus, He was Federal Constitution for India and notified to the Halth Authorities

let out a tearing blow that caught removed to the Kowloon Hospital to invite Parliament, before the during the week ended February 4,

the pike across the gill. Spitting with a broken ankle.

Easter recess, to set up a joint select Other returns are as follows:- "Probably some rain' 15 the tury, he dived again, a devil committee of both Houses with diphtherin 8 cases, 3 deaths; enteric weather forecasted in to-day's re-of fur and teeth and claws. When power to confer with the Indians fever 5 cases, 1 death (one Import- port, issued from the Royal Obser-ho came up the water was stained and to examine and report uponed); meningitis 7 cases, 1 death vatory, which predicts, north-east red, and his teeth were sunle deep these proposals-British Wiraleas (two imported); tuberculosis 58 winds, moderate; fine at first, cloudy in the diving pike.. Service

deaths

Nine cases of small-pox and one

case each of diphtheria and enteric fever were notified to the Health Authorities on Monday,

later.

WEATHER FORECAST:"

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