1933-03-22 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1933.

NO SUBSTANTIATION

FOR CHARGE.

Man Arrested For Having 20 Cigarettes.

CHURCH WORK IN COLONY

Victoria Diocesan

MAGISTRATE REBUKES POLICE INSPECTOR

Conference.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SERVANT'S BREACH T-Day's Short Story.

OF TRUST.

Dr. Li Shufan Victim

Of Thefts.

SHERRY

CULPRIT SENTENCED TO TWO MONTHS' GAOL

Victorian Diocesan Con-1 Ho Hing, former servant of Dr. T won't do," said Freddie "O. K.

BISHOP PRESIDES

As the

whirr.

By Peter Fleming.

That's all I want.” Fred-

"What in the world do you mean; The by permitting this casc to beference

was held in St. John's Li Shu Fan, made an appearance Torn moodily. His cigar-die Korn's petulant, incisive voice brought into Court." said Mr. Cathedral Hall yesterday afternoon. in the Central Magistracy · this Wynne-Jones in the Central Magis- The Lord Bishop of Victoria, Right, morning, when he pleaded guilty to ette, half-smoked, as usual, drop-sounded oddly, after the disembod tracy this morning, when he quer- Rev. Ronald Owen Hall presided and larceny before Mr. Wynne-Jones,

ped into the cuspider beside him ied mouthings of the lkie. The fed inspector Hourihan's action in with him at the central table were

whirring stopped. The lights went) The police stated that the accus-

with a disgruntled hiss. charging a Chinese newly arrived Per. N. V. Halward and Mr. P. E. ed had on December 23, 1929, stolen

"Pity," said Mr. Lather. They up.

"I think I get what you mean,' from Canton. with possession of Barker.

a pearl tie pin, a pair of jade cuff were silent for a moment,

He Mr. Lather diffidently. Then "Run through that two packets of 10 cigarettes.

The annual reports of the Execu-links, a gold and platinum watch

last said

his Inspector Hourihan told His tive Council, the Church of England chain, a brown leather coat and a coupla hundred feet again," Korn respected Freddie, and knew

value as 쇼 director to Stupor Worship that he had charged the Trustees and the financial situation sweater from his employer Dr. Li barked over his shoulder. accused because he had been of Christ Church, Shameen were Shu Fan, after which he disappear lights in the projection-room went undi (Inc.). "You want some thing more pictorially effective brought in by a District Watchman. presented and adopted.

led from the Colony.

down he lit another cigarette. "I would not have charged the An interesting resume of the his

The darkness began to

than the dope in that cocktail. It He arrived back in the Colony) accused had he been brought in by tory and work of Christ Church, this month and went to Dr. Li Shu Flick! On the screen before them lets the climax down. He gets a

• police constable, but we have had Shameen was given by Mr. W. H. Fan to ask for work. The doctor an apartment, rich, discreet, faint good wetting, but he ought to be

In more of a mess." previous complaints from the Se-Taylor in his report.

Through the window, immediately had him arrested and Cubist.

the roof-tops of New York at night, Korn drily.

"The custard-pie touch," said cretariat for Chinese Affairs for Preparations for the conference charged.

"But you're right, not charging offenders brought in were marked by Holy Communion- His Worship said the accused tapering honey-combs of light ef-

I guess we'll shoot haphazard. ("Fake?" Mr. Lather. in the Cathedral at 7.45 a.m. and had committed a gross breach of fectively

first thing In-Evensong at 5 p.m., with an ad-trust and sentenced him to two queried Mr. Lather. "No. Shot Ithat scene over again

sherry didn't use in 'Fallen'," Korn grunt-to-morrow; and we'll use

instead of the cocktail. ed). In the apartment a man in evening dress shakes a cocktail, sherry." smiling, while a gramophone is de- livered of the glutinous cadences of a waltz. The telephone rings.

months' hard labour.

TRINITY COLLEGE

by District Watchmen."

Mr. Wynne-Jones said the spector should have used his own dress by the Bishop. discretion as he was on duty yes-

After the roll call, the election of terday afternoon when the accused officers was proceeded with and re- was brought in. He could not unaralted:-Secretary, Rev. G. K. Car- derstand how the Inspector

penter: Treasurer, Mr. P. E. Barker. | been influenced by the District

The following report of the Watchman to charge the accused.

Executive Council was submitted Honours For Colony's His Worship discharged the arm by Rev. N. V. Halward :—The !

Music Pupils. cused.

bad

LOTTERY TICKETS

SMUGGLED.

Novel Method Of Concealment.

.......

HEAVY FINE IMPOSED

How

New Kowloon Church.

1932.

AWARDS.

He stops the gramophones, moves

to answer it. "Ask her to come right up." ... A knock. He opens the door. A girl frames herself

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

Dark

To-morrow's story will be "The Promise," by Ada Negri,

Executive Council has had two meetings since the last Diocesan conference.

The following are the results of consciously in it-blonde, lovely, The chief business

the "Diploma" Examination, of the terrific ir a hundredweight of furs. has been in connection with the future of St. Paul's Church, West Trinity College of Music, London. They shake hands.....

:held in Hong Kong on December 3, Dialogue: slick, insistent, Point and a new church at Kowloon,

economically out-lining a situa- "But would smart guys like that) Tong. It is considered there is

Passes:-Miss Doris Lai Wun tions. She questions. Hebe drinking sherry?" need for a church in that district.

Chu, Miss Margaret Stickland, Miss evades: les clumsily: is cor- "In New York? Hell, it's dernier Irene Ung.

nered: confessus. Her face, huge, cri. Old English custom, and all! A suitable site for a church has

Miss Irene Ung, who has now incredulous, outraged. "With Sy-that. By the time this picture's been definitely reserved by!

the wish passed the full examination, has had via! My God! You took my kid released the great American public It is A fine of $1,000 or in default is the Government.

the conferred upon her, by the College, sister to a joint like that!

will just about have gotten to hear months' hard labour. was impos of the Executive Council that

the Professional Diploma of Asso-One hand, in the approved style, of it. Like the backgammon craze, and by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central subject of church extension

is at her throat. With the other, you know." Magistracy this morning, on an un-the relationship of the new church Ciate (A.T.C.L.)

Miss Maria Gomes, having pass-swiftly drawn back, she flings the "Oh," said Mr. Lather. Freddiel employed Chinese for amuggling, at Kowloon Tong to the existing

the Colony be dis. the Practical work and Musical contents of her cocktail-glass in moved in social circles beyond his into the Colony, 5,400 Macao Po-piu.churches in

at the present meeting of Rudiments Paper of the Licentiate his face. Dazed, hurt, wronged, ken. Mrs. Lather would cussed lottery tickets.

iploma. has been awarded the bis dripping features monopolise terested to hear that sherry was Bourihan Inspector

waid the the Diocesan Conference.

Honours Certificate.

the screen, angling for sympathy; going to be fashionable, tickets, of a total value of $2,200. It is also suggested that it might were concealed under the accused's, he possible for the Missions to Sea-Miss Caroline Mary Braga, having the audience must understand that passed the Practical Work and this man is Not All Bad. His white

Crogan had worked in the Stuper trousers by being tied round the men chaplain to hold services for the Musical Rudiments Paper of the tie droops, disproportionately be-Mundi Studios for nearly a year thighs with pieces of thick milition. Happy Valley area in the Chapel of Assoriate Diploma, has been award-'draggled.

the Resurrection and also in theed the Pass.Certificate.--- Missions to Seamen Chapel.

INDIAN VAGRANT IN COURT.

Former Police Guard

In Hong Kong.

An Indian vagrant called Adam,

The report concluded by recon-

mending increases in the V.D.M.A./ quedas of St. John's Cathedral and St. Andrew's Church.

The report was adopted.

Budget for 1933.

Considerable discussion Looki

BANKS AND UNIONS RISE TO-DAY.

Investment Securities Firm On Exchange,

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be in-

now. His friends told him that he was lucky to gel the job; they did NEW YORK DONS COAT

not expect him to keep it. Crogan drank. He was a queer fellow, an OF GLOOM.

Irighman, with a chalky-white face and stiff black hair which stood up (Continued from Page 6.)

fon his forehead en brosse and

looked as if it never grew.

It was Indeed, the hugeness of the

Ja square, jutting little face like a place was becoming such a night-dog's. Pale blue eyes, small and mure that began 10 wonder hostile, met you when you glanced Investment securities were again whether the stage door was in

fat it, warning you off, so that the extra firm in the Hong Kong market this London. That hugeness, and the most casual glance stood convicted pending his departure to India. money should go out of the Colony morning, according to the Hong spectacle of elderly men eating as a stare. People, as a matter ofj Sgt. Mottram in charge of the luntil institutions within the Co-Kong Stock Exchange official sum-ice-cream and watching lms atfact, were apt to stare at Crogan. caso said the accused had just been lony were placed on a firm footing.mary.

11 a.m., are my prevailing impres-There was an unnatural intensity discharged from prison. Juving The speaker instanced the Dioce- Banks and Unions forged ahead sions. I saw a fragment of a film about his pallor under the cap of served a one month's sentence for san Boys' School, where of 15 to the extent of 15 and 10 points entitled "The Bitter Tea of fierce black hair. It was so com- slowing away from Shanghai to children who paid no fees, 14 were respectively, "while minor issues General Yenor it may have been lete, so unrelieved. Instinctively, Hong Kong on an American vessel. barders. She had been unable to were steady and enquired for at "The Bitter Yen of General Tea" hat in vain, you looked for a touch

Adam was formerly in the Palicejobtain particulars from the Dio-current rales. Guards in Hong Kong but had been cesan Girls' School. The Headmis- discharged for a very bad record, tress had referred her to the Se-

was this morning sent to the House place on the Budget for 1933. Mrs. of Detention by Mr. Wynne-Jones 'N. Evane considered no

jeretary who had no idea of how;

LINESMAN BURNED many children were receiving free

instruction or residence.

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.

$87,734 Required.

A

and a very efficient corps de of blue about the jowls, a shadow ballet, which looked, however, like on the upper lip. That tight, performing fleas in Paddingtonamooth skin suggested at once Station.

clown and a corpse. How Time is Killed.

He was not, and did not deserve New York does not know, save 10 be, popular. He was a secret surreptitiously, the cocktail hour. man, inscrutable and ulterior as a

so time must be killed by the idle feat: not just aloof, keeping his until lunch. Conversation among distance

firmly. definably;

but

BY LIVE WIRE.

Referring to the previous speak- fer, Rev. W. Rogers, Secretary of China Light Employee's the Diocesan Girls' School said the

At to-morrow's meeting of the such seems to concentrate exelu always edging away, furtive, un- Death.

position was that each year an apFinance Committee of the Legislasively on Hollywood, alcohol, and gracious; avoiding, not rejecting, {peal was made to the businesative Council supplementary esti-the business depression. All are the world around him. orms of Hong Kong, and it was mates to a total of $95,664 will be real except the second, which may Wong Sheung. an electric cable reasonably well linesman of the China Light and Neither school, as far as he was

responded to.asked.

There had been a time when he be synthetic and correspondingly was certain of employment for} Power Co., Ltd., was fatally injured aware, had ever appealed to Con-Transport of Government servants. mere fashionable restaurants of There was a theatre in New York Of this.$87,734 is required for dangerous. The lack of it robs the three or four months in the year, on Sunday night at Castle Peak, ference for grant. The schools The $100,000 voted under this head the necessary tang and of what where they used to put on a

stood on their own feet, and had proved insufficient by the amount might otherwise be a considerable pertory of plays for children in live wire and was severely burned. dune so for many years.

He was rushed to the Kowloon

(now required. The estimates were approved up- Hospital but succumbed to his in- Juries shortly before 2 a.m. yester day morning.

when he came into contact with

News In Brief.

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Mr. P. E. Barker and of Rev. G. T. Waldegrave, after further discus- sion.

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And so to the heaven of each other's arms they fled from the hell around them!

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The ruinous to the health and the safe a suggestion of realism which the an eight-year-old Representatives of the Executive visitors included Bishop Valtorta, liquor is ruinous to the pocket. Chinese girl was taken to the Kow-Council for the Diocesan Confer M. Soulange-Teissler (the French Many

children (who ars, never, satisfied loon Hospital yesterday evening anence for the ensuing year, the fol- Consul), and Father G. Byrne, S.J. "speakeasies" charge a dollar for bling stage fauna) adored and re- of the well-regulated with the usual perfunctory, shem- a result of being given a yellow cor lowing being elected:

Mrs. Wellington, who was accom-[any sort of alcoholle drink. Tosive acid by her mother in mistake

In membered. The Bishop of Hong Kong, Rev. panied by Dr. A. R. Wellington, dis-order to be doubly sure,. I visited accomplishment, and he enjoyed V.V.E.$.O.P.

It was Crogan's one. for castor oil.

G. K. Carpenter. Rev. N. V. Hal-tributed the prizes.

with a companion a still better re-doing it. Doubled up, aweating, ward, Rev. W. W. Rogers, Rev. G. Amongst those present were Ad-gulated one, where each drink was raking his throat with ancouth A Chinese fowl hawker was fined T. Waldegrave, Mr. W. C. Clark miral Berthelot and Madame Ber-two dollars. The proprietor was noises, he heard :35 in the Central Magistracy this Sir Henry Pollock, Lady Pollock, thelot, Mile., Barthelot, the French running the show from Sing Sing; laughter, saw, through the gauze- the children's morning by Mr. Schofield, for Mrs. J. R. Wood, Mr. J. H. Hunt, Consul, M. Teissier, the Fathers of but it was as decorous as the most covered eye-holes in his stifling THREE STAR cruelty to six full-grown ducks, by Mr. John Pau, Miss E. S. Atkins, the French and Italian Missions, exclusive London club or restau- mask, the flicker of small, applaud- putting them into a basket big Mr. H. Taylor.

rant and far more gorgeous. The ing hands beyond the footlights, enough for only two.

two whiskies-and-rods, we ordered and was content. It was a queer at the bar cost four dollars-about recipe for happiness, but Crogan twenty-six shillings.

[never came near finding another.

So Yip-mul, & Chinese woman of No. 11, Pitt Street, was last night conveyed to the Kowloon Hospita}| auffering from injuries to her face and left hand, caused by a fall off the first floor verandah while gather.

ing in clothes off a line.

Conference adjourned after pray- fer by the Bishop.

CHINESE GAOLED FOR SOLICITING

BANK INSTALLS “PILLBOX”.

Pitman, New Jersey, A local bank has installed a steel Perhaps in these times four Perhaps that was why he retained, {"pillbox,” made by the village black-nights on Broadway are enough.

smith, in a small balcony in the]

even after he drank himself out of that job, some hint of the loved mimicry in his bearing. Was it in his gait, or in his figure, or Darwin. rooted .......... in the man him- crushed self? You could not, when you

bank. An ex-soldier has been post- HELPED HIS INJURED CAPTOR. ed in the box with a rifle, shotgun| and automatic pistol.

Constable Reid WAS

Lum Fan, a young Chinese office assistant, who used his spare timeį It is the rat attempt in this part] The weekly bulletin issued by the jat night soliciting sailors in the of the state to fortify a bank against a tree by his horse, and came to think of it, be sure. But Medical authorities for the week Wanchai District, was sentenced to against hold-up men.-Reuter. ending March 18, states that out ofj8. montha' hard labour by Mr.

95 deatha, 59 were for Tuberculosis, Wynne Jones in the Central Magis-

28 from Small-pox and é deaths out tracy this morning.

WEATHER FORECAST

broke several bones, when he was somehow, when you heard that bringing a prisoner to Darwin for Crogan had once, played animal trial.

parts superlatively well, you were The prisoner belped the black not surprised; it was as if you of five cases of cerebro-apinal fever. The accused had one previous Moderate south-east winds, with "rackers" to carry the constable on had been given a clue to something There were only two cases of en-conviction for larceny in a dwelling cloudy skies are forecasted by the a stretcher to the next town-baffing and arrecting in your im teric fever, both of which proved'in January, 1982, for which he was Roral Observatory In the weather though he could easily have escaped. pression of the man. -fatal.

bound over for 12 months.

report issued this morning.

(Continued on Paps 10.)

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