TUESDAY, MAR
SHUNTIEN
LAUNCHED
run.
AT TAIKOO
Vessel For Shanghai To Tientsin Run.
ACCOMMODATION FOR 53 SALOON PASSENGERS
OBITUARY.
Mr. J. R. Hinton Laid To Rest.
BIG CROWD PAY LAST TRIBUTES
The funeral took place yesterday evening, at the Protestant Cemetery, of the late Mr. J.. R. Hinton, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's, the Rev. H. W. Baines officiating.
A further addition was made to the fleet of the China Navigation Co. Ltd, yesterday when the "Shun-
Present at the funeral were: tien" after being christened by
Mr. T. H. R. Shaw (Manager of Miss Stella Fung, was launched at the yards of the Taikoo Dockyard Messra. Butterfield and Swire),{ and Engineering Company of Messrs. K. E. Greig, C. C. Knight, Hong Kong Ltd. She is to be L. C. F. Bellamy, H. R. Forsyth,, placed on the Shanghai-Tientsin
T. E. Pearce, D. L. Strellett, W. F., Simmons, G. F. Hugh Jones, E. W Hamilton, D. W. Tratman, A. C. I. Bawker, H. U. R. Ireland, E. J. R. itchell, B. E. Fielder, J. R. Little, deck amidships, and a short poop W. H. Lock, A. E. Herdman, R. S. and forecastle deck.
Accommodation. in single and Johnson, W. L. C. Knowles, N. M. Macintosh, Mok Kam-taun, Mok Yu- double berth cabins, is provided on the promenade and upper decks for yan, Mok Hing-cheong, Tam Yan- 53 saloon class passengers. There chuen, and others.
The vessel's dimensions are: length 300 ft. breadth 46 ft., and depth moulded 25 ft. She has two complete decks, a long promenade
Is also a lame dining saloon, a lounge and smoke rhom.
There is accommodation
for 44 second class passengers on the poop, and 'twochdecks are berths for 60 steerage passengers,
Flowers were sent by the widow. brothers and sisters, Gracie, Kit and Peter John; Bronty and Marjorie Bere;
HE CHINA MAIL.
ed for Him
Steve Vasilakos, peanut and popcorn vender at the car. ner of the White House grounds for the past 29 years, who was recently saved from a remoral order when President Roosevelt read of his case In the newspapers and intervened with the Police Commisioner in his behalf. He is shown beside his stand.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. F. Bellamy, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. V. Booth; Mr. The vessel, which is lighted and Mrs. J. R. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. throughout with electricity, has a
D. Forbes, Mr. and Mrs. L. Goldman,| double bottom,
Mr. and Mrs. A. Hyde-Lay; Mr. and and three cargo holds with double derricks to each. Mra. C. C. Knight, Col. Keogh and The machinery, which has been Mrs. Keogh, Mollie and Joan; Mr. built at Taike. Dockyard, consists and Mrs. D. J. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs.. of one set of Brown Curtis turbines, J. H. Little: Mr. and Mrs. T. E. driving a single screw through sin-Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Penn; ple reduction gearing. Super-heated Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Penn: Mr. and WHAT steam is provided by two Babcock Mrs. T. H. R. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. and Wilcox water tube boilers, coal D. L. Strellett, Mr. and Mrs. W. F fired by mechanical stakers. The Simmons; vessel's speed is 16 knols.
Mr. A. C. I. Bowker. Capt. I N. Bundred; Monsea. Chan Kimtha
H.M.S. Robin Launching. R. Chenels, H. G. Entes, V. R.
To-morrow.
MRS. ELLIOTT TO CHRISTEN
NAVAL VESSEL
Gordon, W. J. Johnston, W. E. G. Knowles, N. M. Macintosh, H. C. Marke. Mok Hing-cheong, Mok Yu-. yan; Berger Naess, H. R. Sturt, J., C. Saunders, Tam Yam-chuen and R. H. Wild:
GIRLS
TALK ABOUT
WHEN WORKING
Men, Murders And Films.
FACTORY EXPERIMENT
AN experiment carried out re- cently has revealed that when Department: girls talk they talk mostly about the
ILM.S. Robin, viver günboat, will Butterfield and Swire Staff; China. be launched at the Taikoo Docks Navigation Company to-morrow. Mr. Elliot, wife of B. and S. Office Mess: Freight De opposite sex! Commodore Frank Elliot, 0.8.E..partment, B. & S., Taikoo Chines will christen the vessel,
Clubs: President, Committee and. Members of the Hong Kong Cricket Club; and Pentreath & Co.
ARBITRATION AT SUPREME COURT.
----
Third Attempt To Settle Coal Case,
DECISION IN WEEK'S TIME
MUSLIM SOCIETY AND SOLDIERS.
Membership Invitation Extended.
tive Work."
Aviation and Motoring
NEW LIGHT CABIN BIPLANE.
For Two Passengers.
DEVELOPED FROM THE AVRO CADET
Within the past few weeks a new,j
to the
and interesting, addition ranks of small British cabin light| 'planes has taken the air for the
first time.
a
DEADLY ENGINE FUMES
Dangers Of Carbon Monoxide.
PRECAUTIONARY:- MEASURES FOR CLOSED ̈TM CARS
One of the complications which were met with when first closed coachwork came into general › use] was the proper ventilation of the passenger compartment and the bet- ter dispersal of engine fumes.
Not a few fatalities have been due Įto exhaust gases, of which carbon. monoxide is a deadly ingredient. penetrating into the body of a closed car when all its windows were shut. and in colder countries there are from time to time fatal accidents arising from the running of engines| In unventilated garages,
The risk of carbon monoxide pai- zoning in the car itself is slight pro- vided a few simple precautions are observed. There should be no leak- age at any point in the exhaust. manifold or exhaust pipe, and the outlet of the pipe should be placed well to the rear of the car, and in such a position that the gasca have a clear escape and do not blow against any part of the chassis, which might deflect them, and thus cause some proportion of the fumes to penetrate to the rear compart- ment, to the discomfiture of its oc-: cupants.
If it is noticed that the driver or passengers suffer any sensation of sickness, headache, or lassitude, when the car windows are closed, it is wise to Investigate the ventila- flon of the vehicle, and to see that Ithe front floorboards and mát át
snugly.
SCOTCH AUTOGIRO
INVENTION.
Device Said To Be Revolutionary.
FLYING MADE. AS SAFE AS MOTORING
An invention which it is claimed
vanes.
THURSDAY KING'S
THE
MUSIC IN THE AIR...SONGS IN YOUR HEART!
BRAND NEW
SONG HITS
The twinkling toes of the chorus girls: ..... the sensuous rhythm of the hot-cha tunes! Amidst it all a boy wooing a girl while Broadway watches and calls it "acting"!
"TOO MUCH HARMONY
with
the star of "College Humor,
BING CROSBY JACK OAKIE SKEETS GALLAGHER
Paramount
Picture
HOLLYWOOD'S PRETTIEST
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE· APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Chicken
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Mar. 4, Mar.
- 1934 1918"
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Many times, probably, you may overalled rows of factory girls talk have wondered what those neatly
Developed from the Avro "Cadet" open cockpit hiplape, which earned about while they sit for hours on training machine and air tourer, the will make flying as safe as motor
a high reputation -last year as end wrapping chocolates and tof new craft is designed to carry piloting, has been perfected by a young Capone, Small fees. The answer is afforded in a and two passengers at a cruising Scots engineer, Mr. David Kay, of report just Issued by the Industrial Health Research Board under the speed of 105 miles an hour on the Blackford. Perthshire.
Work has Duck heading of "Incentives in Bepeti-power of a Siddeley "Genet Major" been proceeding quietly for severs! Dores
years on the invention, which pro: Eggs, Hen (cooking) per doz, 38 seven-cylinder air-cooled engine. Fuel tanks are located in For 54 weeks some scientific in-wings, and smolding will probably be trol for aircraft with rotating Fowls Hainan
the vides a new system of direct con Eggs, Hen (Fresh) vestigators watched, questioned, and listened to ten girls between Attainment of the utmost in speed
permissible in the cabin.
A company has now been regis- Geese Three previous attempts to ar- At the annual meeting of the a factory.
the ages of 15 and 16 employed at rive at a settlement having failed, Indian Muslim Society held yester-
has not been sought; the idea tered in Edinburgh, to develop Mr. Pigeons, Canton Bang Shun and Co., con)
Girl Guides & Gardening mer day in the Shelley Street Mosque,
governing the design was to produce Kay's patent, which, It is stated, a cabin 'plane which should be as may have a "revolutionary effect Turkers, Cock The following record of topics) chante, of Hong Kong and Canton. It was decided to invite members discussed by the girls affords, on easy to fly as an open cockpit ma- on the design of private aircraft. were again in court yesterday in of the Indian military community of the most interesting revelations chine, to the extent that any ama-
The experimental aeroplane is a Snipe an attempt to
upset an award to join the institution. made against them in favour of S.
of the investigation: Mr. Abbas Khan was re-elected
teur pilot who had qualified for his trim singleseater without fixed Pheasant
Quall Latif Huslan and Arnhold, & Co., President; Mr. Kazal Ahmed, Vice-The opposite sex Subject
Frequency ticket should feel quite at home in wings and a consequent unobstruct- Partridges
ed view for the pilot. 12jit. Al.
It is sur- President; Mr. Fear All, Hon. Films and film stars Mr. D. McNeill, instructed by Treasurer: Mr. K. B. Shefk, Hon. Suicides, murders and accidents
mounted by four blades rotating freely about an almost vertical axis. Local gossip and scandal Mr. H. J. Armstrong of Messrs. Secretary; and Mesara. Shalk Mo-Tocal events Deacons, represented Hang Shan hammed Abdullah and Sh. Moham-Conditions
& Co., in the mution to set aside med Ashraf, Hon, Auditors.
an award by Mr. T. E. Pearce (the)
umpire in place of Mr. A. L.
Shields)
whereby Husain and
Arnhold & Co. received $68,000 BOY SOLD FOR $450.
damages for breach of a contract.
made in 1920,
Mr, Eldon Pater, K. C., and Mr. H. G, Sheldon, instructed by Mr. C. II, Blake, of Messrs. Wilkinson
& Grist, appeared for the respon-
denta.
Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor, Chief Justice, heard the case...
Kidnapper Given: Heavy Sentence;
dialiked)
14
It should be acceptable to many 10 who do not feel equal to piloting The tractor engine used in this 11 the faster light planes.
machine is a 38 h.p. A.B C. Scor- plon
of work Efeatures
(features liked) 5
Outalde activities:-
Rambler
Gir Guides
Dirt track racing Rugby football
Swimming Dancing Gardening
Holidays
Home Ike
Persona
Clothes Food. Money
Charged with kidnapping. Wo Taat was sentenced to 12 months' Shek-kam, a six-year-old boy, Chang Photographs
hard labour and ordered 12 strokes
him for $450.
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MAGISTRATES FOR MOTORING CASES:
Too Much Reliance On Police.
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CHINA'S AIRCRAFT IMPORTS
600 Per Cent Increase In 1933
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FRUITS.
Almonds Apples (California) Bananas (bride's)
1b, 70
Shoulder Baddle Pig's Chitlinga
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23
43
Jan. 6, Jan.
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Brains
Carambola Coconetu
Feet
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Peanuta
Persimmons, Large
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Pumelo, Slam
Sheep'
Lemons, China
Lemona, American Lickees, Dried ... Oranges (Canton) Oranger
Pears (Canton).
Grapes
VEGETABLI
A suggestion recently put for ward was that special magistrates should be appointed to decide motor- UNITED After leen argument, His Lord-of the cat by Mr. Wynne-Jones at
ing casen. Motoriate themselves ship announced that he would give the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.Į
of other interesting
would much prefer to be tried by
Canton. his decision in about a week's time It was stated that defendant, who facts was revealed by the inquiry fee which leads to the present in there was an enormous increase in "specialists, as it is lack of know- Chinese presa” reports reveal that had lived with the lad's parents, Only three workers, out of the took the boy up country and sold ten, for instance, showed, any ten- [equity, en ZE
the import of aircraft and aeroplanen dericy to be satisfied with the work Drivers believe that magistrates parts and accessories into China for its own sake, The most fan with little knowledge of motoring during the year 1983 na a result of portant incentive to proficiency apt to rely far too implicitly the National Salvation through was the weekly wage.
upon the policeman present at the Aviation" campaign. scene of the incident, and it: I felt During the last eight months, Chillies, Dried unreasonable that constables of per- $102,000 worth of machines haps little experience should have it shipped to Ching; from in their power virtually to decide the United States, a what is and what is not correct hoof, the planes being puj haviour in circumstances of same Canton, The year's difficulty The Auto
imported "Into Chi sented Increase of Over the
HAMPTON COURT INSPIRATION.. How Charles Laughton Studied Henry VIIL
London. Charles Laughton has confes ed that he did not take any his- storical conception of Henry VIII for his study of the bluffi Monarch.
WATER REGULATION AMENDMENT. Reservoir Water For Flushing Closets.
A new amendment to the Water
"I suppose I must have read works regulations extends the pri a good deal about him he said, vilege of using reservoir water for in an interview, but for the flushing closets, to rural districts rest, I spent a lot of my time such as Repulse Bay, Shek 0, Stan- "walking about the old Tudor ley, etc. Although the privilege
Palace at Hampton Court, get extended, wall water, where
Lccustomed the sible, la still, to be used for fashi Fire of the purposas: if the author
ting my
tben.
CIVIL QUESTION RECEIVES BLOW,
Cobbler Bound Over.
Charged with, saanulting Wu,
truck driver,, Luk:Mau,,
was bound, over, for jud
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Trips
Chip
Beef Beef
LIST
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Long. Best Boot
Cabbage, Chiness Brinjala, Green
Red
(Shanghai): Cauliflower (Large) pport:(Medium).
(Small) Carrota Celery Chinese.
Birbel Bream Canton
Water Fish
Carp
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