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WEATHER REPORT,
Yesterday's weather report. fere cart and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory, at 625 pm,
stated:-
spent was 8704; the inystery is ex- The University authorities are plained in the margin fewer making a determined effort to rid books purchased." Ten thousand Oxford of the cocktail. Every few dollars was voted for watchan, nights the popular bars are raided but less than seven thousand was and the students routed back to *spent fewer, watchmen employ college. The epicures are attempt The Anticyclone remains to theed," says the marginal explanatorying to revive sherry drinking.
The typhoon note. The legal expenses of the east of Japan. situated between Oshimu aud Kage Crown Solicitor were ten thousand
The first live birds of paradise shim moving S.V.E.
Local Forecast:-S. winde, dollars in excess of the estimate, ever seen, in England have just moderate, cloudy, some showers.
thanks to the famous case of Rxx arrived from New Guinea and are C. CARVALHO TEO. The magnificent safely installed in London at the sara of 8150 voted to purchase Zoological Gardens. They are the books and periodicals for the rare six-plumed birds of paradise. A marriage is arranged between
Bacteriological Institute of
and after years of search two have GRAEME SISSON HUGH-JONES, fifth son of the late LLEWELYN Medical Department has not been been obtained for the London Zoo, Save for the silvery six-plumed head H-JONES, C.R.E.. of Wrex-exhausted during the Year: 1 ham, Wales and of Mrs. HGH balance of $53 remains unspent cushion they are velvety black with JONES of Beckenham. KENT, and
metallic-hued shjeld" of green, GRACE DOROTHEA, daughter of the
bronze and blue on their breasts. lair Thomas Paises FuTHERGILL of Bedale, Yorkshire and of Mrs. FOTHERGILE of Hill, Side, Ripon.
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The Daily Press.
Hoxe Kosa, JULY 2, 1929,
fewer books !
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the
810.000 less that was estimated ;
maintenance of and improvements to roads and bridges show a "saving": gas and electric lighting cost,much
Chandos Arms. England's oldest tavern, is now a motor-coach book-
*
Mr. Calvin Coolidge has com- Safeguarding for the Betting Man. pleted his autobiography, and the The Racecourse Betting Control Commopolitan magazine" will publish Board in England has evolved a it, in instalments, beginning in the most ingenious scheme for the Jane number. It is 45,000 words in safety of backers of horses making length, and the editor claims that use of the totalisator system of the ex-President has established a betting. In order to make it un- record by finishing it in 33 months, necessary for the public who although he gave part of his time patronise the racecourse to carry to writing articles for the Ladies' large sums of ready money about Hume Journal and other publica with them which other frequenters lions. The first article is entitled of racecourses might steal, it has Scenes of My Child been arranged that the official The
and others will deal bankers to the Board shall issue hood," with Mr, Coolidge's college career; vouchers in books of ten, each early life at Northamp voucher representing a unit of bis ton, his entry into politics, his either 2s., 10. £1, £10, or £100. of Massachusetts, | All the betting man has to do is to Governorship and his experiences A3 Vice- ask his bank to furnish him with President and as President. The as many books of vouchers as he amount which he is being paid for the articles in the Cosmopolitan is not disclosed, but rumour places it nt $100,000 (£50,000),"
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requires, and these his bank obtains from the Board's bankers. Om making his bet the backer will tear out of his coupon-book the number of coupons that correctly represent the value of his investment and Secret Aeroplane.
The Prince of Wales has consent- | hand these in at one of the 'receiving. ed to be a Patron of the Inter-offices of the totalisator. If the national Aero Exbition to be held hacker wins he will not need imme- at Olympia, London, in July, and diately to present himself at the He will formally open the exhibi- paying office window and draw bis cipn: A close-kept secret of the Air money. The winning voucher will Ainistry will be revealed to the be marked with the amount he is publie at this "exhibition in the due to receive, and this will be shape of a small aeroplane which automatically credited to his ne has been specially built to fit into count at his bank by payment submarin. For many years ex- through the Board's official bankers"
in much the same
ways his cheques are, cleared through the
·Bunkers' Clearing-house. Should
In somr cases, however. the column devoted to explanatory remarks! is painfully uninforma tive, hence Mr. "BRARA's comments last werk at the Legislative Counciling-office and may soon be made meeting.
into a garage. This old inn, which Attua experiditure, as compared with estimated outlay, on
dates from the days of the Norman Office):quite a number of public works in conquest, recently ended its carrer 23 + Lavern and upon it were Kowloon is well below the aum Lane,originally allowed; for, but there
plastered the lurid posters of It in are no marginal notes of explana situated at Edgware, near London.
motor-teur organizations. tion. Maintenance of and improve. Its lovely old gables and quaint 'menta to public buildings cost stable yard are much admired by lovers of history. It is said to have been a favourite haunt of Dick Turpin. and Handel is said to have met a friend there who inspired him [less than was expected, but no ex-1 write one of his best composi-periments have been made in order planation appears in the margin.tiens. Like all old inns, it has ita to perfect such a machine and to WHERE THE MONEY GOES.Mr. BRAGA wanted to know how
evolve a method of carrying it.or ghost. these economies were effected,
the submarine without greatly WELL over a quarter-million dollars and as a result of his questions the Hawaiian Live Stock.
altering the construction of the was called for and "voted last week fact wha' revealed that certain.
Hawaii's livestock industry is craft. The machine that will be in the form of additional appro street lamps were not in operation now valued as about $12,000,000,
seen at the exhibition is the out priations to balance the estimated until the middle of the year. It according to
11 survey just coars
come of these experiments, and it and actual expenditure of the was denied that there had been pleted by Prof. L. A. Hecke, of is the most modern development of Colony for last year. Details of any stinting of illumination of the University of Hawaii. The the scieres of war. The grens ad- the accounts have been published, public roads, but Mr. BRAGA was survey gives the census of livestock | vantage of this method of carrying
not altogether convinced by" the us together with "explanatory
follows: 13,000 horses, 8,000 aeroplanes is that they can be trans marks dealing with the increased oficial assurances given-nor, we males, 130,000 beef cattle, 10,000 ported, to any desired spot with or dierensed items.of expenditure imaging, will members of the Kow-dairy cattle, 27,000 sheep and complete segrey, and will thus be set forth. These marginal notes loon Residents' Assocition be com 25,000 swine." Products marketed able to render valuable co-operation with the Flet. Many other ma have been drafted with meticulous pletely satisfied. In Hong Kong annually amount to more than chins which have been kept secret care. For example, the fact that gas and electric lighting costs 93.000.000. Roughly one-third of by the Air Ministry will also be fees actually received by the Har: $140,000; for Kowloon and New the area of Hawaii is devoted to bour Department for Board
Kowloon the bill comes to less than livestock, or "about six times as Trade examinations did not come $4,000 per annum. True. Hongarent an area as sugar cane. Much up to the amount "estimated is Kong at night is a wonderful pic of the land, however, has limited Hawaii imports solemnly explained in the margin tur- one of the most fascinating grazing value n due to the circumstances that spectacles the round the world large quantities of ment, much of
tourist sees. on his travels, fewer candidates sat for examina-
The which comes from New Zealand. A
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF been wholly laid
HONG KONG.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE or WILLIAM KEEGAN. LATE OF VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG, CIVIL SERVANT, DECEASED.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVE
that the Court has, by virtue of Section 5 of the Probates Ordinance 1897 (No. 2 of 1897), made An Order Limiting the Time for sending in Claims to or against the sborr Eslate to the Anting General Manager. AD DAY OF JULY, 1929.
Creditors and Claimants are hereby required to send their Claims to the Undersigned by the above Date.
Dated this 24th day of June, 1990.
C. D. MELBOURNE'
Official Administrator.
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NOTICE.
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PIPING;
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2-Socket and Alternatively Flange
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WATER TOWER:
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CANTON. Canton, 17th Jans, 1929.
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The Davis Cup" Donor.
scen at 'Olympian. Side by side with these will be modern civil machines of every type, from sinal two-seaters to enormous air liners capable of seating over twenty people. An other striking feature of the ex hibition is the interest shown in it not only by aircraft constructors and manufacturers of nearly every country in the world, but also by
the backer need more money he can obtain further books of coupons from the Board's bankers, who will have a branch on each course. No
money will be handed out by the bankers, so the betting public can- not be tempted to deal with the book-makers, Arriving at Tilbury.
tion. Similarly, we note that in Kowloon resident will not dispute Ettle more than 4,000,000 pounds the Governments of various import waiting until the vessel can be various Departments the estimated the fact, but he has good reason to was imported from New Zealandant Guntries Foreign Govern
doubt whether many parts of his in 1999. expenditure apon librarice has not
out. In the own district are as well-lit as they margin we find the terse explana tion Fewer books purchased.” Contrariwise, we find the police have spent more on disinfectants than the sum originally estimated;
News and Views.
the explanatory remark" in the Viscount Minoru Saito, former margin reveals the astounding cause! Governor-General of Korea and of this extra expenditure- more chief delegate of the Japanese Im- Then we perial Government to the Three disinfectant required"! find that although the police were¦ Power Naval Conference at Geneva granted 8600 to spend on telegrams, in 1927, has been elected President only 8449 has been actually expend- of the Japan Russia Society in ed. The reason-again according Tokyo. M. Troyanovsky, Russian to the marginal note of explana- Ambassador in Tokyo, attended the tion-is that fewer telegrams. were tcremony. sent! In such manuer is it made crystal clear to the inquirer bow it comes
about that the 8 Kma
originally estimated do not always agree with the amounts actually and subsequently spent."
The
ments have followed the lead given by the British Air Ministry, and they are arranging national ex- hibits. Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden are exhibits, and negotiations are being already represented by composite carried on with other countries.
The Old-Fashioned Confidence
Mon.
The new landing stage being creeted at Tilbury is nearing com- pletion. The last of the four sac- tions of which it is composed has been floated into position. When completed and in working order it will add greatly to the trufc facilities of the Thames, as it will enable ocean liners to go alongside for the discharge both of cargo and the landing of passengers. At present there are only two methods of doing this-that is, either by docked, or employing Bahters and tugs for discharging. All this will be avoided when the staging in com- pleted and in working order: The mooring of the four sections was Mr. Dwight Filley Davis,, new
a task of no small difficulty, as the Covernor General of the Philip
both to be contended with. The tide and the swell of the river bad pines, arrived in Yokohama last
landing stage will be approached week on the Dollar Huer President
by five bridges erected at diferent levels. Two of these will be elevated Taft, from Seattle, and was met
for vehicular traffic with the shore. These, too, have been constructed by Mr. Edwin Neville, the United
Sir Chartres Biron at Bow Street and Roated into position and are States Charge d'Affaires.
recently expressed astonishment that anchored to the stage, which rises Governor-General attended a series the Intest viction of the confidence and falls with the tide. The total of exhibition tennis matches on the trick men, two of whom he sentene-
length of the stage is 1,142ft. The constructional steel involved in the wurts of the Tokyo Lawn Tennised to three monthe hard labour. Club. Mr. Davis is widely and should have been a Wall Street work weighs 5,600 tons and the stockbroker.. But the same thing value of the contract is 8350,000. favourable known to Japanese be has happened so often with business The work will be completed this cause of his patronage of tennis men from the United States and month, but it is hot expected that and the Davis Cup, which he gave the Dominions that one is surprised liners will be able to use it until that the Magistrate did not take about the end of the year. It is to encourage international tennis
it as a matter of course. The two nearly three years since the work Chief Preventive Officer Clarke matches. Tenal's is probably the confidence trick men's only defence
was begun. So great is the traffic wis that the American hød "asked in the river that it is believed it and a party of Revenue Officers most popular sport in Japan, aiter
for it" as he was so strikingly will eventually become necessary aided a junk over the week-end baseball, and Mr. Davis is possibly dressed, and when they met him he to add to the length of the stage, a tennis patron was telling the whole world hors 60 as to enable two large vessels and made a valuable capture of better known as 3.200 gallons of spirits of wine, than as the former Secretary of much money he had got. They had to draw alongside and be discharged rot "made any special effort. They at the same time. The great which is believed to have been War in the Cabinet of President had just told him the old story saving in the discharging of vessels, The additional appropriations brought to the Colony from Mactio. Coolidge.
about inheriting buridrede of it is thought, will eventually lead called for concern ten different large number of dutiable ciga
thousands of pounds on condition to the enlargement of the stage. Departments. A bonus to E. the rettes were also found on the junk. A Missing Consul
that nine thousands were given GOVERNOR's private secretary and Several arrests have then made.'
away to the poor in America." The Sonetimes the people of Hawaii American had apparently never acting pay of the Officer Adminis
get mad, and sometimes they laugh, sering the Government explains an
Mr. V. F. Viccnjes has passed when other good American citizens increase of 86,732, (against which
the final examination of the think Hawaii is a foreign land. $1,43€ has been provisionally voted) Sceiety of Incorporated Accoun- Publie addresses, mailing lists, detective that at least a dozen sue slippers-with a cup of tea and a In the Senior Clerical Service there tants and Auditors, held in May, and sales matter coming repeatedly trick men every tourist season, but like rain, and bowls, moreover, cesses are made by the confidence little cake at each spell-do not is & defcit on wages account of ar. Viccajce left Hong Kong for to the attention of Hawaiians pro-enly one or two cases reach the absolutely refuse to roll across a
thousand Engiand after graduating na
ride ample evidence that many magistrates because the victim is bog. It is remarkable, however, dollars is wanted in the Coloi Bachelor of Arts, Commercial D.. American have a very vague, and isually in a hurry and does not what a little time it takes for the Secretary's Office, where $10,000 1
want to wait for the case and apoll rain to percolate through the turf been spent on steel fling-cabinets partment, in the Hong Kong Uni- often inaccurate idea, of the status his holiday when there is no chance into the sandy soil beneath it at
Also the Kowloon Club's green. versity, in December 1625. Mr. of Hawaii. The local newspapers of getting his money back. The Treasury is able to show a
take particular delight in daying many victims would rather do any Civil Service C.C.. has challenged Vicenjee has a’wide circle of friends the misinformed. Captain Thomas (hing than prosecute and have their the Kowloon Bowling Green Club, balance on the right side, and the
in Hong Kong who will be pleased Johnson, master of the Dollar innocence exposed to their club-and the contest is arranged to take Audit Department needs only a
to learn of his latest success.
liner President Madison, is the mates at home, let alone their place at Kowloon this afternoon. Inodest $2,000 extra for wagen-or
source of the latest laugh. Some wives. (women, it may be noted. The two, C.S.C.C. teams are "personal emoluments"-due'
never seem to be victimised by con- flows:-A. Gibson (skip), W. four months ago, on the vessel's Certain alterations to the rules of last outward voyage, the captainfidence trick women). The common Brand, J. leidic, and L. E. Brett; new but unspecified appointments the Kowloon Golf Club were made found it necessary to sizu on a belief is that the victim is usually Macdonald (skip), 31. Melver, The Post Office, shows an actual yesterday afternoon when an ex-The man was signed an in the tricksters before they begin serious Reserves: J. Smith and F. Robins Filipino interpreter at Honolulu. lunched or dined very well by the W. K. Wooley, and R. Duncan.. expenditure $30,000 below the
traordinary general meeting of usual manner, but two months work, but that is by no means the Hopa. Kang Daily Press, July 2 TERESSALTO, And the HONG estimated figures, and the Imports members was held. The effect of the later, when the President Madison case. Again and again it has come 1804 KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through Export Office comes out alterations is that in future the next called at Seattle, Captain out in Court that all the refresh Looking Back 50 Years,
Johnson was haled before the Comments taken together were in tea their London Office, at 21, BRIDE $38,000 on the right side, mainly annual meeting will coincide with missioner at that port, and in shops. The confidence trick men The Chinese love for dubbing LANE, FLEET STEKET. E.C. 4, are pre-
due to its opium business The ex- the beginning of the golfing season formed he had been fined 8100 be- seem to use very little finesse. There people with nicknames may, in pared to give Bubscribers and
penditure. of the Harbour Depart (August) so that a new Committee signed en before the American American loat £170. One incident cusable,
cause the Filipino had not been Visitors advice regarding accom
was a case not. long ago where a certain cases, be considered ex-
especially 45 it modation available, motoring faci ment is $151,000 within the estim and Captain will be elected at the Consul in Honolule! Captain in the trick was that a man came quently happens they are witty lities, suitable shopping centres,
ate, but this is largely explained start of the season. Another rule" Johnson said the protests he made up to the first trickster and the and characteristic, but when they American in the Strand and, hold- take upon themselves to speak by work contemplated not being amtended yesterday calls for siteen were of uo avail, so he made it a done wants hang lumber ar the aurum for expoint to seck out the loputy.5.but cave kope, inquized share ifte highly remeted offris at this....
traordinary meeting, whereas ori-Collector of Custom Horatory, be cald gerir registered: The erover th standing. In the Supreme Court ginally the rules required thirty and obtained an affidavit to the velope was addressed to "The Pope (drunken cat), such coazie abuse
at Rome." Even that did not spoil ought to receive a check-Hangi the estimated expenditure on the Mr. J. H. Hunt accepted the effect that there is no American
Consul in that port!
the trick.
Kong Daily Prett, July 9, 1879. library was $900; the actual amourt Captaincy at yesterday's meeting.
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