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(By Tom Clarke)

a Socialist ex-Minister of Mines. hundred years ago last that of any other State except a -sheep-breeder Tasmania.. Its suburbs have He considers, however, that to let named. Edward Henty, who had place-names that are always It go by default would seriously gone with his seven sons from taking you home Kew. Rich- handicap the National Labour Kent in search of fortune over-mond. Camberwell, Mitcham, effort in every other constituency, seas, set foot on the little-known Brigton.

If he is defeated, it will be the shores of South-East Australia On Saturday you go to football first time that a Prime Minister and formed the first, permanent (not quite our game, though) or has lost his sent since Mr. Balfour settlement in what is now the to cricket or to the races at went down at East Manchester in State of Victoria. He ran a Flemington or Caulfield; and you 1900.

sheep farm and a whaling station might be at Highbury or the It has been suggested that a safe at Portland Bay.

Oval or Epsom except that you seat might be found for Mr. Mac-

A few months later an adven-do get a view for your money Donald in the Scottish Universities. turous. Colonial named John Bat- and generally better accommoda One powerful objection to this is man arrived from Tasmania with tion and organisation for your that he is not a graduate..

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MR. FOX AND THE TALKIES

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tand from the natives. Much Its newspapers are in the Eng- farther east than Henty he went lish tradition: They print The recent verdict for Mr. Wilte Port Phillip Bay, and on its chunks of English news. But liam Fox in his patent action. be shores, where Prince's Bridge, there are no Sunday newspapers. fore the United States Supreme

Melbourne, now stands, he said. No Sunday tramway-cara, either. Court is the climax of many years village."

This will be the place for our No barmaids (except a few work- of litigation.

ling out their time). No public The patents were bought from

Included in the 600,000 acres houses open after 6 p.m. There two Germans ten years ago. They chiefs was the present site of Puritanisma

granted to Batman by the local is a challenging undertone of aro virtually the master-patents,

this city. for all talking picture processes goods worth about £200, includ- "wowserism."

Melbourne. He paid for it in Lighter-hearted Sydney dubs it using sound-on-film.

When Mr. Fox lost control of the handkerhiefs., 40 mirrors, 180

ing 40 pairs of blankets, 250 red. Centre Of Culture Corporation which bears his name, knives, 40 tomahawks, and other snobbishly, maybe.

Melbourne smiles back-a little he retained these patents. They things like sciasors, shirts, and she retains her prestige as the She knows were bls personal property and the bankers were unable to seize them.

clothing. The China Mail fore the idea of a Commonwealth

city of big business and the There are likely now to be fur-Henty or Batman, had Govern-

Neither of these squatters, centre of Australian culture. could be conceived The Colony ther lawsuits when Mr. Fox en-ment authority behind, them; but youth and knockabout gaiety. Sydney may be the city of of Victoria, separated from New deavours to collect the vast royalties as the French at that time were Melbourne claims dignity and Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 15, 1934. South Wales in 1851, did not which are now held to be due to supposed to be casting. covetous stability and a touch of Mayfair

achieve full local self-government him.

eyes towards Australia, difficul- exclusiveness about her social, Melbourne's First

ties were one Your Daily Smile!

way or another life-a sort of happy medium the gold mine, and the factory,

smoothed over and both squatters city between the pagan atmos Century

with violent fluctuations of po

were compensated for whatever phere of Sydney and the academic pulation during the gold rush while travelling through Arizona, no- Those were the beginnings of Melbourne has

Governor of West Virginia, "rights" they had to give up. atmosphere of Adelaide... Victoria, and Melbourne the period which largely determined ticed the dry, dusty appearance

fine public State and the Capital City-are/her subsequent industrial de-the country "Doesn't it ever rain as big as England,. Wales, and St. Kilda-road, with its double of this State of 87,884 square miles buildings, gardens, and streets. celebrating their centenary with velopment. No one doubts that whole-hearted pride and enthus- the second-century of Mel-here

Scotland put together. John tracks for tramway-cars, motor- jasın.

Native: "Raih Rain? Why, say, Batman's "village" has now a cars, and pedestrians, is a world bourne's and Victoria's history pardner, there's bullfrogs in this town population of 992,000, nearly half show place. A hundred years in the history of any capital of the

will equal, if it cannot surpass, over 10 years that have not learned to the total population of the State ago what is now the centre of A hundred years Obtainable from all dispensaries Old World are only a single chay-Its first. The Australians are a swim yet.".

ter in a long many-volumed ville race bold in political ex-

to which Queen Victoriagave Melbourne was sold for £500. A tale. For Melbourne the last periment, and capable, as they

her name in 1851.

foot of it costs twice that amount hundred years comprise the have recently shown, of cheerfully bath time): "Narnie, please don't rub

City "Too English" to-day. whole history of what is now enduring great sacrifices in eco-me with the towel. Just blot me."

Melbourne is a thriving city on The shops in atreets like the seventh largest city in the with a whole Continent for a nomle depression as in war.

this her hundredth birthday Collin's-street and Bourke-street. British Empire. Before that the heritage they have the shaping rather foolish for me to marry a girl long ago I lived there, "learning They are as big and as well "Uncle, don't you think it would be

For nearly three... years not are a feast to the feminine eye. whole site it now occupies was of a mighty future in their who was intellectually my inferior to be an Australian" as 1 called organised as our leading London empty; not even the aborigines had a fixed habitation there.) handa.

"Worse, than foolish, Thomas, my it. It is not the best city in stores. They have capital behind lad," was a reply, "worse than foolish Australia for that. It is too them going as high as £3,000,000. Melbourne, therefore, is the pro-

Impassible." duct of a single century, which

English. It has a Governor They have resident directors in Itself is proof of good pioneering,

from England, an Archbishop London, specially sent there to of sturdy settlers, of men with

Gus: The horn on your car must from England, a public-school keep in touch with latest deve vision and with faith in the fu

headmaster from England. Its lopments. ture. This was the leading

climate is more-like ours than (Continued on Page 10.)

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FIRE BRIGADE DISPLAY

Huge Crowds Witness Thrilling Rescues

KOWLOON CONTINGENT WIN CHAMPIONSHIP

The

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Good Idea Small Girl (addressing new nurse at

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AT LIBERTY FOR SIX MONTHS

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

The Isako's Circus, which has Mrs. A. B. Osmund, of NO 41B. been giving performances at Wan Hillwood Road was fined $10 for chal since October 26, is being allowing her dog to wander un- well patronised by the Hong Kong muzzled in Hillwood Road, at 1.10: public. Last night the manage- p.m. on. October 20. welcoming H. E the GO

ment had the pleasure of

The thrilling rescue of men from They have created for my sub-a "burning building" and a breathe BUT HE COULD NOT jects in Victoria a great heritage taking motor-cycle chase featured which it is the duty of the pre- the annual fire drill by

ESCAPE THE LAW sent generation to conserve and Kong Fire Brigade at the new No Arrested after six months of Mrs. Borrett, Brigadier. Thackeray minus, Leung Kan Fuk, an 18-

the Hong

For, stealing 25 dog spikes from C. Major-General Q. C. Borrett, the Kowloon Canton Railway Ter- develop for the benefit of those 2 Police Station compound at Wan- freedom, Sam Yu-ying, unemploy. 0. C. British troops in Shanghal, year-old unemployed, was senten- to follow."

Probably nowhere in the world presence of His Excellency the default 40 days' imprisonment, by A. D. C. to the G. O. C. was also Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kow- chai yesterday afternoon in the ed, was this morning fined $20, infand, Mrs. Thackeray Lt. Hebert,ced to one month's hard labour by is there a more intense national-Governor, Sir William Peel. ist sentiment than in Australia. Among those present were Capt. Magistracy, for stealing e quit of

Mr. W. Schofield at the Central present. But that this can co-exist with R. F. Walter, A.D.C., the Hon Mr clothing, the property of Chat Charged with having snatched a

loon Magistracy this morning. an affectionate love for the T. H. King, Chief Officer of Mother Country and a

For allowing his dog to wander deep Fire Brigade, the Hon. Dr. 19, and for stealing two black No. 464. Hennessey Road, Wong ber 29 without a muzzle, Mr. F. Chun, in Thompen Road on March hand bag from Miss Ada Choy, of in Ashley Road at 7 a.m. on Octo- once more by the spontaneous Chow Chun-lin, Siu Ping abeung and son on June 9.5 loyalty to the Crown is shown Kotewall, Messrs. Tang Shiking gauze Jackets from the same per Fuk Sing, an unemployed printer, H. Carvalho, of No. 15 Ashley welcome given to the King's son, au Ping chal acclaimed as he was during his

was sentenced to six months' hard Road, was fined $10 by Mr. E. W. Accused, who pawned the cloth labour by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis State drive through Melbourne's! His

ing for $2, was arrested on Tuesday at the Central Magistracy this tracy this morning. on information received by the morning. Police.

spected"

squad of Guard of

Clocking 50m 1-5 secs. the

streets by the whole population. What whimsical, cynical re mark would have risen to Lord Kowloon and the Mongkok Fire Melbourne's lips if he had been Brigade won the Motor Escape told that the infant settlement

Competition

on the Yarra to which he gave The Hook Ladder Competition his name would in a hundred f

years attain its present size and was carried off by the Kowloon Fire

prosperity? We will not apecu

Brigade Four teams the Central,

late. But he would certainly Mongkok and two from Kowloon

COLONY'S LEPROSY PROBLEM

Committee Appointed

Government Civil Hospital suffer.

The anticyclone has deer In Intensity, but pressure

attempting to commit suicide by were admitted to the Government Two coolies, Mo Siu-lo and Rescued from the harbour after

Chan Chol, employed at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank site, jumping into the water from the Civil Hospital yesterday suffering Star ferry launch, "Night Star Chinese male was removed to the different periods of the day at 9.45 pm. yesterday, an unknown they fell from scaffolding during from body injuries sustained when

His Excellency the Governoring from the effects of Immersion. have been as sceptical of the ful-competed in this event. The win has appointed a Committee con filment of such a prediction as ners' time pras 4 mins 27 secs. sisting of the Secretary for Palmerston, whose first remark The Championship Shield was Chinese Affairs (Chairman), the While attempting to board a highest over the Yan to his secretary, on entering the won by the Kowloon Fire Brigade. Director of Medical and Sanitary moving lorry, Cheung Shing, an a depression is situated old Colonial Department as its At the conclusion of the events Services, Mr. M. K. Lo and Mr. earth coolle employed at the east of Hokkaido. The typ Chief, was: "Tell me, Fitzgerald, the prizes were distributed to the L Chor-chi, to enquire into the Government Civil Hospital's new where are these d-d Colonies?" successful

situated about 70 miles ams by His Excellency Incidence of leprosy in the Colony building site, was taken to the Manila, moving north-west A truer understanding of what the Gov the future held in store and what salute In

His

to to suggest methods for dealing Government Civil Hospital yes-cording to a Royal Observatory Later took the with lepers found in the Colony terday, suffering from injuries re-report this morning, to-day we happily see firmly es tablished was of very slow growth. Australia herself. had also to pass thro

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