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The past month has been very incident. Bürinukk rather dull, A Regatta and two ballehave been the means of driving away the tardium világ of our Canton neighbours; one of the Balls was given by H.B.M. Cónsul J. Bowring` Esquing i HE Mr. Bonham, who with: Mrs. Bonham and, large party of Hong Kong fashionables honoured the Regatta with their presence.

No

of piratas to more massacres frighten the Peace folks at home out of their wits. A paragraph. In our paper will ho doubt. caupo

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.mar.

and Mga Mac e Ludvigeon, are shown after their wed!

eskeChurch yesterday. The bride in the for

"Ohus Botero.—("CHIñe Mán" photo).*-*

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them considerable joy: we refer te that mentioning Shap'ng-Tail's Jetter to Mr. Caldwell no doubt! his promises of nimendment will be greedily followed by the very good" nnd peaceable people, at home from Mr. Cobden down- ward. Our opinion about the, letter is that it is intoniled to cha Me. Caldwell for bát Ucltig ible to catch him. However, with out, feeling very bloodthirsty on the subject, we hope there is a By good time coming for both him and his friend Chilu-po.

Trial of Pirates

A Criminal Seinions of the Supreme Court was held in the new court-room

Monday,

Dn.

Tuesday, and Wednesday. The

razes were of the usual nature,

ew Homuntin Village to be completed soon

notice to applicants for the now con-

Bid Now Homuntin. Village will be Wil two wooks, according to Mr. Chi Chairman of the Kowloon City Fire Rolls and Rehabilitation Committee, yos- tordoyy

ther the new buildings are expected to have been completed down to the last details and inspected by Building and fire, authorities who will give the official green light to refugees of the Kowloon City fire to move in.

The new village, built under

with the exception of the trial of the direction of the Kowloon 14 pirates humanely captured by City

Fire Relief und · Re-

Comdr. Cracraft of the "Rey-habilitation, Committee, was nard," which cases are to be tried, at this Court in future as the High Court of Admiralty has been

abolished.

has there

declared open at a ceremony: on May 16 by the Acting Colonial' Secretary, Mr. R. R. Todd.

Wedding

Ludvigson-Sotero

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PERSONALITY PARADE No. 12--The Attorney General

The unusual experience of cy regulations. His work in the fondness, for tennis and for walks. having served in four British Colonial Service had been in- But despite or perhaps because of teresting from the start, but it these attributes he is firm in -Colonies,.cach possessing dis- was in Palestine that Mr. Grim purpose, while at the same time tinct constitutional peculiari really began to appreciate the he is no cold and dogmatic law- ties, rests with the present At- abrupt css and radical nature of yer or rigid bureaucrat torney General in Hong Kong, the Hon. Mr. J. B. Griffin.""

Mr. Griffin has worked in the Protectorate of Uganda, in the Bahamas (where there is a 'To- in presentative government), Palestine during the Mandate, and In the Crown Colony of Hong Kong and has berved in the Execu- tive and Legislative Councils of all Lour

He has been associated with the Colonial Service all his adult life. His father before him had also devoted his career to the samne task They both found that de spite the drawbacks of service in foreign climes, the "Interesting'. aspects of the job provided sult- able commensations.

John Bowes Griffin, K. Cy is an Irishman who was born in the Nyasaland Protectorate then known as British..Central Africa. He was educated at Clongowes, ope of the leading, schools in Ireland, run by the'; Jesuit Fathers. He later went to Dublin University where he was a Gold Medallist and Prizeman and of which he holds the degrees of Master Arts and Doctor of

of Laws, and to Cambridge,

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his transfers

The Holy Land provided a no; have a single, dull moment there. Three distinct elements

fountain of experience. He did Interest in legislation A Attorney General, Mr. Grifin isex officio a member of

Although he was called to the The Hon. J. B. Griffin, K.C,

Bar by the Inner, Temple in 1926,

lectorate,

both the Executive, and Leriola- Live Councils. The pages of the Hong Kong. Hansard for, the past 31⁄2 years give evidence of the prominent part he has taken in the work of Legislative Council In which a large volume of legis- lation has been piloted by him. Upon such experience, and that given by the Coutts and in the legislatures of other Colonies, it in not surprising that' Mr.Griffin la a very good publie speaker"

He confesses to a fondos for organisation and attention to de- tail. Ho writer occasionally, but claims that officaltiom han cram- pod literary style. His public- dtions include the Revised Eation of 1933 at the Laws of the Uganda Protectorate," and He is at present engaged with others in the considerable task of revision of the laws of Hong Kon="

to

Although he is relatively new

Hong Kong, he has become well-known hero. People up- proclate his fine qualities as a man, quite apart from his emin-

ente ne ne Attorney General. Mr. Grifin is usually cutspoken with a frankness which com- pletely disarms opponents.

factors Into, conalderation.

he never had any desire to stay British, Jewish and Arabic-were and practise in England. He formed an ideal early in life to either making an effort to get

along or in conflict. As he enjoys never rude or imperious; his follow in the steps of Jils forced ringside seat, he found the patience-perhaps developed in the bears, and decided after he left) University to devote his career pageant of events of unending in Near East-Is often carried bo terest, even though they presaged yond normal bounds. He will wait to serving the Empire in its outere end of the Mandate. He left for hours to be provided with ramparts. He was appointed. Palestine 'in 1940, to come to minutest detalls before making The Colonial Service in 1926 and Hong Kong as the Colony's At up lils, mind and then he will was assigned to the Uganda Pro torney General, the post he now! make up his mind slowly, taking

all tr. Grima in à modtutn-baut analysing, sitting, Teatromping all hair is beginning to turn grey. He holds. man. He is rather thin, and his relevant matter.

Happicat in his home circle, as gives no indication of the exces- Head of the Legal Department, he there, the rigours of the climate give energy which he commands, hides inhercut humanity beneath did not get him down, and he He is soft-spoken, courtly and a vencer of official unconcern. As congenial.

As Assistati District He Has the mildest of tempers, net always in the sense lo which end. Fathers Orlando Omeer he worker in some of the and is something of a recluse, in strictness in low is taken le wildest parts of the 'country, and that he prefers small social granted but strict, in principle, spent many days among strange

cumo the bride of Harold John Miss Yolanda Chu Sotero be. Ludvigsen-

St. Theresa

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Church, Kowloon yesterday.

The bride is the funshier of Mr. and Mrs. R. Chu Sotero and

himself once more in Africa Thus in 1927, when he had just turned 24 years of age, he thand Perhaps because he

The Pretz on Pirates.

Erected on funds contributed by *Récently," says The Times, "it

been, loudly declared that the public and upon load granted free by the Government, the were no much people as building of the new village started plates, that the character was the in March and 'up to date 133 con- ind. bridegroom the xon at M. Lound the life and work most possesses a keen sense of humour. the Attorney General he is strict

own

etc.

mire invention of blood-thirsty officers, devised to gratify their butcherly propenskits, etc. Now, this fancied denial of piracy, anywhere, is a clumsy ng ment of The Times. No one in his senses ever thought of denying the existence of piracy, and of i rother formidable piraty too, 011 the coast of China, and of one, although much less so, even in the waters of the Archipelago.

What was really denied was, that two tribes of savages wayloid and cut to pieces, on the 31st of July last and whose heads are now officially valued 'nt. the sum or £20,000 were pirates, or, at least, formidable pirates, meriting wholesale

extermination. The

denial of piracy in this particular Instance was grounded on the nb sence, down to this hour, of all evidence of piracy, and on the re- corded testimony of

of Sir James Brooke, that the slaughtered bar barians were unacquainted with firearms, the very boldest of them running away at the report of muskel, confirmed by their offer- ing no resistance, and infleting no

them.

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rele huts, each measuring 13 by 20 feet, have been completed.

Successful applicants will pay a monthly rent of $45, and in this be collected. case of concrete roofing, $50 will

Better houses

Eighty-eight houses of slightly better type, for which prospective tinants"will pay a lump sum when they move in, are now going up on the other side of the nulláh, which di Vides the valley and opposite the new finished structures.

Other huts are planned for the future with the receipts of the rental,

Reverend ofllefated.

The bride was given away by tribes. Their ways and customs gatherings and time to indulge a which to him is the digin thing. her broiler R. F. Sotero while intrigeed him. Also, tours provid- the bridesmaid was Miss Violeted constant thrills, and he 30h Chu Sotero, sister of the bride. ceased to tremble when the no

Mr. E.D.M. L. Soares was the too distant rumble of a lion's best man and the pageboy was rour disturbed his slumbers. He Muster Frank Limi

remained in Africa until, 1933 hy which time he had become Crown Counsel, when he went to the Balários as "Attorney General.

The flower girl was Miss M Ferbandes. The hahay moon being spent in Macao:

B & S Chinese Married in Uganda.

Staff welfare fund drive

Concluding the

the drive for Although settlement. in New raising members welfare funds Homuntin Village is restricted to the B & S Chinese Staff As those who lost their homes in the {-sociation." have recorded disastrous Kowloon City Fire on $6,888.00 in cash and subscrip- January 11, when ¡môre than 20,000 people wéré" rendcred Hundreds of home homeless,

tions.

Wet week-ends prove

blessing in disguise

Mr. Griffin married at an early Mr. Weatherman has certainly been unkind to

Hong Kong sportsmen'during."

'the' last

or so in that he has always turned on the tops during the week-ends" and, sometimes oven during week-days.

age. The ceremony took place ini Uganda. He has two daughters." One is with him in' Hong. Kong the other is studying at London University. In the Bahamas, to his duties as Attorney General wete added those of Chairman of the] Development Board which guld-

However the Water Authorities cd the Colony's main industry of travelled in the United States and to Him as he has lessened their tourism and In this capacity he of the Colony must be grateful worries over the Colony's water Cubo.

of supply The three and a half years of

With more and more

water

in

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injury on those who attacked products in

The object of The Times is to age's offices in the hope of find. Restaurant. West Point, at which him the additional experience Daland) and the Jubilee (ons, the

confound proved pirates with aus- pected pirates the Intrepid mariners of Fokien wielding the

ing accommodation in the Colony's unique settlement.

A general meeting was beld

prizes in

in the form of allver cups

na Governor and as

reservoirs beildes embroidered Bugs and met acting

Colonial Secretary and on three Mainland) budges were given to the mem- occasions as Chief Justice. Just many other smaller ones all over the Island and the Mainland .. According to officials all hut bers who were foremost in the as "the family, was settling down restrictions" on the use of water The new People's Central

to the West Indian life. Mr. Griffin received a summons to have been gradually lifted add more than the ordinary courage,of, mated that each hut will accosts by Meares Fin-bun, Chairman of rassed to Palestine to become beginnink 'trofl' today whter w Government of "Chilnx'hab ac-

old civilleation of China, and far ha

have been allocated, It is esti

China, with the unarmed and tutored savages of Borneo tomodate a family of 10 persons,

include in one

category stout

Junkt carrying 18 to 20 guns, and the war-bots' or fishing-boats of savages, that carry not even a single musket or matchlock. Her

New US Taiwan

is Sir Jatdek Brooke's account of service by NWA

drive.

Hong Kong

meeting was presided over

cumulated some HK$28,000,000, In his speech, Mr. the Solicitor General and reside bo on the Mains from "0.30'ah worth of Chinese products in the Association.

to 9:30 plin. daily. thanked the donators of in Jerusaleiri.

week. Hong Kong, according to yes- subscribers for their generousity

Sportsmen, especially Both Mr. and Mrs. Griffin, des-

Kiu and praised

lawn bowlers and tennis terdity's independent kind

pite

the End affection for their the "mem their enthusiasm Bahamas and the prospect of players are possibly sad but Yat Po" ** 9515

the grateful at the same time, when- The newspaper said that the regarded his belief that wartime travel; He als

games, stocks include túng.cll, hog bris- general welfare, would be pro- transfer with enthusiasmi because over rain cancel thos moted and a better future of the it gave the opportunity, long league or otherwise, as they les cargla lignea, tenseed oil, wished, for, to visit the Holy realise the crying need for water feed 3, raw silk, ten, feathers, Auscelation could be foreseen,"

In The Atat three prize-winners Land He reached Palestine umo. Malayan race, and commanded by today a'new United States-Talvenares Slick Chung, Tang Wei hon) January, 1940.“Whiló máty pen ong Kong at the present its tungtsen, antimony, Iron

of their redoubled

schedule service beginning Tues and Tee Kang-lo. chiefa, Abu Bakar," he, with a day, but dealed it was being set

Bays crew of 13-men, chiefly Illanung, up for the evacuation of Ameri

found living ashore at Talang cans, with a small boat and a huge long six-pounder in her, which fred. The

one of the wor boats of the Illacuns, certainly the most formidable of all pirates of the

Long-

Taipch, May 21 North West Airlines announced

Talwan manager,

Mr.

Dutch tugboat missing

in

Landslides

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are

tin, copper, and manganese ore. Being sportsmen in every sense did not realise it at the time, ple Mr Griffin was one of the few of the word they will be the The mineral crea form part of the stocks of the former Nation- who sensed in the outbreak of first to realise that "ond cannot war the unicashing of forces eat one's cake and have it". They allst Resources Commission which which would compel an eventual know they will be able to make has switched allegiance to the at HK$20,000,000 sold the valued at termination of the Mandale: The up for their lack of exercise in new regime: Thettes alone

Ways and during Wed twice must have separated her David Edwins, sald lbag, sought

"war" provoked new Toyalties and many other pressures and encouraged the re- later days.

Th

report added that local bianks. I learned also that six for CAB :approval, enables North Balinini (Illariunt) bents had been West Airlines to extend It's Orient

amergence of old Trictions.

Mraders apprehensive less tha The Duteb tugboat Anna towing! Mr. Grifin admired Palestine

new Government decides to dump to Talang and had had a friendly operations from Tokyo to Taiwan the barge "K.S.0" has been mins from Arst contact. Quite as Conference with Sherif Abu

and Manila. Bakar Mundy, Vol I, p. 307;

ang alice lust Friday when she from the religious associations, With the heavy rains, another these stocks in the local market. This "boat with the six pounder

"The

weakly United

Teft Macao in the morning for the beitity of the Palestinian problem arises to confront the 45 ch a move would result

"stump in, pelets. Slates-

Soveto that would have shivered her Talwan rugbis are, not designed Hong Kong.

winter was a thrilling experienet. Ideal authorities,

During the past wook, several The Netherlands Harbour Works In the Holy Land, too, were the planks at the second shot was

of Christianity which

landslides and the Telodament A CIRCUS TOWELS deemed so formidable by Rajah Evacuate American, personnel, 'Brooke, thui “ilie questi narose.

of Huge rocks because of nor are they offered by the State Company in Hong Kong, owners shrines In his mind "whether" by any D

Department. They are part of of the tugboat, have sent out a from earliest youth had impelled

erosion, have caused at least Sri ur new decorated towels. two fatalities and Injuries to pin mide, Maypole

in lovely colour 'comblantions'). means he could include her crew our expansion of a programme circular to all the ships plying his curiosity, and respect. As atr

Catholle.

many, Sleps have been taken to A. to inflict in her consort, and which, fastest service, to the United asking them to look out for the During his stay in Palestine he in the puntslinient he meditated designed to give Taiwan the between Macao Hind Hong Kong Irishman Mr. Grin is a 'devout

safeguard against further restaura Bloom missing vessels, punishment, as it turned out, con- Stater. We are hopeful of ex-

petitions of theže, accidents, as was sisted in summarily putting the tending to Hong Kong soon, Many small vessels have been lost no opportunity to visit anth revisit such places' as" Nazareth, chief to death and the crow In Four-chained Skymasters will recently intercepted and detained Bethlehera, the Sea of Onillee

Nationalist warships patrolling

the main events OR The worship" are not interfering the New Testament took place threatening to fall on a number Kini Large Colourful EACH TOWELS with large vessels on regular runs In Jerusalem he frequently visit ofraduttora huts: 1. Utwein Hong Kong and Macao, ́. ed the Church of the Holy Sepul The Government are now

ehte Büllt. According to tradition, parth to break up the rock on the exact spot where nearly eliminate the danger,

the dead. He spent

tha caze at Shaukiwan'at Puppy Kitchen Clown&Balicen the Ma Shan Village, where wands Dijke, land." Temple,” and “

irons" But the recorded testi- be used in: "now" service. by Chingeart River Eglun and the Cardon of Gothsem a huge dranite: ·baulder Balls Towels in STR

mony of Sir James Brooke goes United Prese for nothing with The Times on

the contrary, Irklelf its own wit-

ness and client out of court In

order that it may bawl in own clous, chronicle over

reached untruths tho

not a public car without interruption,was lentedat Labuan,

The vast difference between single pizates has appeared on

louder into the England. Since the British Bag

Chinese corsairs, and Malay piratais ita const. The fro blbar that

plainest and men bateko idatent from: LEBARE

manner by the

of the most aggravated character, word slaughtered a!!!w to say nothing of pirates without loss of a man" word, firearms, is proclaimed, in the of the battle at least fact the highway becomes that some. five hundred Voyage milority of th up and down the China ses at never which Borneo and the more knew piratical islands off form the Labuan Southern barrier, are yourly per instance formed and no

kndwn to "hive

the

where

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NATHAN PHOTO SERVICE OPENSOR, ulory, keeping sil with MAYOR OF BOMBAY

IN HONG KONG

Acocktail party on the oc other Christians and piletims whe casion of the opening of the yearly retrage the tragic pathway Nathan Photo Service, 301 for the Passion. Also, he inade Nathan Road, was held at the Arab and Jewish friendships: He Mr. S.K. Patil, the Mayor o aid premises yesterday tried to ppreciate their cultures, Bombay and indinber of the Ine The studio, situated in Nether their ideologies which more than dlan Legislature, has been sphd-

the Christian approach to thing

BRUNOYAT Bond, 18any other, have; félped to mould; Ing a few days in Hong King and

requipment (in- Feuding 180veral modern: chiargui and outdoor canetary The Hudi turated by several of the

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