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WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterday's weather report, fore. cast and remarks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 6.05 p.m.. stated:--
do not seem to exce) as magazinë- minders The post is not a difficult one being mainly a matter of taking and recording temperatures within and keeping a good watch without. But it is a job to which the stolid Pressure continues highest nest and unimaginative qualities of the the Bonins. The typhoon is situ- British race are better adapted than ated in the Gulf of Tongking and the contemplative mentality of the threatens the coast of Indo-China
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FE. the Governor has appointed Hatless and coatless men may be Mr. Lo Kam Chak to be a Director seen of all sides in Madrid this of the Widows and Orphans' Pen-summer-especially hatless siams, vice the late Mr. Cheng Chouk Hin, I.S.O..
H.E. the Governor has appointed Sergeant John Hubert Bottomley, to be Second Lieutenant in the
1920.
to the south of Haiphong. Another Far East. A certain school of Hong Kong Volunteer Defence typhoon appears to be developing Chinese political thought may even Corps, with effect from August 21, more then 300 miles east of Manila. lay the charge to Britain's account
Local Forecast :-S.E. winds.
of converting Chinese gunpowder, 'moderate, cloudy with occasional
which caused more rain, improving.
A Manila message reports at 1.4 damage, into dynamite, and then in
noiss than
Having recognized the body of her husband killed in an automo- bile accident, and having buried. The prejudice against the custom and mourned him for three days, of doing away with the use of a Signora Roverbolla o! Desanzano, ccat during hot weather still pre- in Italy. had the surprise of her. vails, but is not 100 per cent.life when she saw the supposed corpse walk into the house.älire strong as in years gone by.
and well. After the automobile' What with partisanship, the accident, whereby the body of the imperfection of human vision, the victim was much mutilated by being imperfections of human recollec- crushed under the wheels, Signora tion, the heat of controversy, and Roverbella "recognized" the corpse the desire to win, the merits of real as that of her husband, who she accuracy tend to suffer," the Lord supposed had been taking a walking Chief Justice told a jury in the tour at the time. Her glance at King's Bench Division recently,
p.m. yesterday: "A typhoon inflicting the evil thing upon a coup has received a "telegram from his when summing up the evidence in the remains was a hasty one, on
about 168 deg, Long. E. and 20 deg. Lat. N., moving N.W.
Another typhoon is report in about 128 deg. Long. E. and le deg. Lat. N., moving west..
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The Daily
Hoya Koso, SEPTEMBER 2, 1929.
-THE EXPLOSIVE AGE IN
General Houng Hon Ping, the newly appointed commander of the 2nd Division of the National Army family in the Huppo district to the effect that his aged mother has been kidnapped by bandits under the
torious Wong Sam. The General is taking drastic action to procure his mother's release and to punish
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motor car collision case which had lasted two days. Lord Hewart also remarked: The usual speed of a motorist, when in the witness-box, is eight miles an hour."
car.
account of her emotion, but the authorities naturally believed her. The victim of the accident turned out to be an elderly man of about the age of her husband, since identi- fied as a peasant of a neighbouring village.
Lord Herbert Scott, President of
A..
About 200 members of the Fellow, ship of Old Time Cyclists, all of whom, according to the rules, must have been born before 1812 and have Atlantic Air Lines. owned either a penny-farthing" bicycle or a tricycle, met at Ripley, Surrey, last month. They journey the London Chamber of Commerce, » ed from all parts, some, including Mr. Tom Hughes, who rode from speaking at the inaugural meeting Wigan, arriving on cycles of the of the Civil Aviation Section of the rondster pattern. One of the party Chamber recently, said that the rode ↓
A tricycle and another penny-farthing," but the majority ping lines were already experi
Pnited States transatlantic ship- came to the rendezvous by motormenting with the picking up of mail by aeroplane thirty hours out. from the coast. There was The bathing-suit restriction pro danger that the United States and blem recently bobbed up at San Germany would link up the Old At recent meeting of the Sind Sebastian. A group of ladies and New Worlds vid the Azores, Hindu Merchants Association the addressed a letter to the city and that England, which had following resolution was unani-efficials, asking that all women hitherto been the gateway hetween" mously passed: That their shops bathers be compelled to wear 4 the two continents, would be left and offices be entirely closed on three-piece suit, of prescribed cut of the picture altogether. The every first day of September in re-dimensions No action has been United States was, however, busily membrance of the twenty-two young taken on the request. Apropos of engaged in exploring the possibility: Bindu, merchants who lost their the regulations suggested for of establishing floating aerodromes lives during the great earthquake Spain's famous summer resort, & in the Atlantic for a service be
the United States and Japan on September 1, 1923, and Madrid paper recently printed a tween that all members gather on Sunday, cartoon showing a girl about to Ireland. If this materialised Eng September 1, at 11 am. at Messrs. go into the ocean, dressed in an land would, at any rate, remain in Axiomull's temple to offer prayers.""
1590 model bathing-suit, with a pad- the direct line of the Atlantic air lock around her neck. Standing traffic. But was she content to see by the girl is her mother. "Am I that route entirely controlled on both sides of the Atlantic by the United States and herself to have a part in its catablishment" or management 1
try that never wanted it or used it in olden time. For is not Hong Kong, with all her meritricious splendour, founded upon dynamite } } The dry docks beneath and the sites of the big houses above were all prepared by judicious blasting. Is not Morrison Hill a stately monu- Office):ment to Mr. NOBAL's genius! Houg A China motor-'bus knocked ovar Kong has indeed set a dangerous || 2 Chinese child in Reclamation Lane, and pernicious example which Street on Saturday inflicting in- China followed in all inpocence and juries to the bead which proved with sad results.
fatal shortly after. Another ac- But one hopes that this reaccident occured on the Praya near tionary view no longer prevails the V.R.C. when a man who ran with regard to dynamite, that great across the road was knocked down
by a Hong Kong Tramway "Guy' leveller of material things. There are bus. He was slightly injured in fact, two ways of approaching about the right hand and abdomen. high explosive problems. One is to disregard them and to pursue the old sleepy existance of, say Italy and Spain in the pre-dictator age, while the other is to use them as America, Ir used to be said in old-fashioned Russia and other progressive coun- history books that three inventions trics bave done, to further the on changed the face of Europe and ward march of science, civilisation ushered in the marvels of modern and the interests of the proletariat. civilisation. They were, of course, China has at least ranged herself pro- printing, the mariner's compass, among the pioneers "and and gunpowder. These things broke tagonists of the explosive age, up the medieval Europe-extolled which may be nearer than many by such incurable romanticists as think, superceding this oil age WILLIAN MORRIS, BELLOC and CHES, TERTON-giving in its place the serene civilisation which we enjoy to-day. But the three supposed inven- tions were known in ancient China ages before they came to enliven Europe. They failed to alter the Celestial Empire, but having been thrown at the West, with many and perilons resulte, they have returned
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which twenty-five years ago began seriously to challenge the century- old era of steam.
It was also some twenty-five years ago that one of the cleverest young gentlemen who had ever passed into the Royal Naval College at Dart mouth, designed gunpowder engine." His drawings received the serious consideration of the Lords
Under section 4 of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900. Ordinance No. 1900, HE the Governor has nominated Mr. Edgar William Carpenter, J.P., to he a member of the Board of Arbitrators to determine the amount of com- pensation to be paid in respect of the resumption of Wong Noi Chang Lot No. 5, and Mr. Henry Edward Goldsmith, J.P., to be a member of the Board of Arbitrators to deter mine the amounts of compensation to be paid in respect of the resump- tion of Survey District IV. Lots Nos. 221, 22, 150, 14, 34, 17, and 220.
The Sino-Russian Dispute.
It is good to learn from a MosOW
to the land of their origin with Commissioners of the Admiralty, boomerang force. Especially is this and while expressing their thanks true of gunpowder. All three-things to the young inventor regretted that have, of course, been vastly im- they did not see their way to instal message that the Russian Govern- proved in the Weat, and the primi-his engine in His Majesty's ships. ment has agreed to sign-after some tive mixture of sulphur, saltpetre The youthful officer being of a rest-modifications-a declaration draft
ed by the Nanking Government re- and starcoal, which was called gun- less and versatile turn of mind lating to the Chinese Eastern Rail- powder, and was entirely adequate abandoned science and left the way dispute. Many weeks have pass- for rockets, crackers, and brass Service to study art on the advice ed since the air was full of violent anti-Russian slogans, and after that cannon, is now as out of date in of a celebrated painter to whom a
of misplaced early paroxysm explosives circles as Caxton's print pictorial, representation from bis patratism there was silence. At ing press would be amid modern per of CHOPIN's funeral march, in times that silence was ominous
the BEARDSLEY manner, had been then came more unsettling news of linotype and rotary machines.
troops and tunks moving, of air- While the Chinese remained con- submitted. But that was a mere beplanes dropping bombs, and seriaus tent to make guzpowder as their ginning. By now the dynamite frontier incidents Most of these reports were suspect crude pro- fathers had done European science engine may be close upon us. The paganda intended to inflame public strove with all its Nordic initia-youth of to-morrow may be travel opinion, but in the complete absence tive for improvements. So it ling on the cordite motor-cycle and of authentic news from Moscow and Nanking as to the actual state of was in 1987 that ALPRED NOBEL, a in the guncotton two seater. There is affairs, these war-like stories began Swedish engineer, patented his always an uneasy suspicion in the to gain credence. Now it appears truly epoch-making discovery of mind of the thoughtful motorist that the two Governments have been acting more wisely than many dynamite. The art of blasting, both that the earth may be squeezed dry thiaght possible or prohable! They civil and military, was revolutionis of oil, and the last kerosepe tin have been endeavouring to settle We believed ed. The very name of the new ex-be emptied. There are visions of their differentre-as plosive captured the imagination, mouldering mountains of discarded they would-in a manner that does credit to both parties. We can only and holds it to this day. It con-care, of a return to broughams and hope that the modifications asked But the advent of the for by Russia will cause no serious jures up successive visions of real- barcuches. ing rocks and anarchist meetings in high explosive age would banish delay in carrying or these friendly negotiations between Nanking and time of peace, of land mines and such disturbing nightmares. Un Moscow, and that a complete eattle- Kraphic Materiale, Firewood, Old Steel COMPREHENSIVE AND COM-depth charges in wat, Gua cotton ending vistas of still greater speed ment of the dispute will ho an
and cordite, even fulminate of and noise would lie ahead. And we nounced at an early date. mercury, the champagne of explo can comfort ourselves with the sires, which an expert handles with thought that China, awakened out
Hong Kong is quite a simple place all the loving care of an art con of her age long slumber, is doing in which to find your way about-- But to the noisseyr for a Ming Dynasty tea-her best to make these dreams when you know it. cup, have never penetrated beyond reality. It is in such spirit of newcomer it is something of a maze. Especially is it difficult to narrow and technical circles. In philosophic optimism that we should know where to get what you want, popular estimation all high explo- read reports of minor mishaps in whether you are passing through sives are still dynamite.
the Canton magazines..
Dexine, Glass Flate, Tarred Bags, Old Woollen Ragn,
Asbestos Packing Old Iron Matting Drums, New CaurAs Cuttings, Old and Steel. Old Semp Brass, Copper, Lead.
Metals of Sorts, Brass and Gun Metal Borings. Zinc Bottoms and Zine Asher, Tabes, Iron Blocks,
Bmag
Old Cork, Cocoa-Nut
Lamps, Lanteras, Candle Tube, Gis, Old
Old Steel Plates, Old Steel
Gatger
Gisas, Old Bteel Wire Bape sud tings, Dirty Mineral Oil and Oil Ful
Compasses, Watches, Binoculars, Clocks,
Air Pipes and Breast Ropes, Photo
Oil Pomp. Circulating Pamp,
Motors of Sorts, Ebonite Old, Electric Fans, Lamp Bade, Gymnastic Gear, Indicators, Boilers, Wood Working "Machine, Cordage Machine, Lathes, Douglas Engines, Binnacle, Waterproof Sbests, Etc., Etc.
Also lying in FLEET AIR ARM RESERVE STORE, H.M. NAVAL DEPOT, KOWLOON-Old Fabric, Old Clothing. Waterproof Coats Old Mying Clothing, Old Sparking Plage, Old Rabber, Old Aluminium, Engine Steel, Old Braas, Old Copper, Old Lead Phosphor Bronze, Old Fabris, Steel, Tin. Old Tanks, Old Airscrews, Old Aero Wheels, Packing Cases, Assorted Drums (Containere), Etc, Etc.
LOTS MAY BE INSPECTED ON MONDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER, 1929, ALSO SALE OF OLD AND SURPLUS VICTUALLING STORES AT KOWLOON ON FRIDAY, 13TH SEPTEMBER.” Comprising:-Berge, Flannel, Clothing Bemnants, Manufactured Pipe Tobacco (1,000 lbs.), Baudry Articles of Moan and Table Gear, including Electro Flate, Cutlery, Hardware and Table Linen, Also Condemned Provisions Poultry Feeding, &c.
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Mr. NOBEL prospered exceedingly from his discovery. While only eleven tons of dynamite were sold in 1887, the year of its invention, over 3,000 tons were disposed of in 1874 and its popularity has increas ed in like proportion ever since. Moreover, Mr. NOBEL was able, out
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The name of Hontsz & Co., Ltd., has been struck off the Register.
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The total output of the Kailan of his great wealth, to found those Mining Administration's mines for literary and peace prizes bearing the week ending August 17 amount his name, which have been so appro-ed to 98,049 tont, and the sales dur- priately awarded to Mr. BERNARD ing the period to 60,934 tons. SHAW, the ex-KATSER, and similar
Our Shopping Guide,
safe?" the girl asks. Yes, daughter, but somebody might come along with an X-ray replies the mother.
Britain and India
Apt testimony to the work that the white man is doing in the Orient was given by Miss Kath erine Mayo, writer of the much dis- cussed Mother India," at a re- cent luncheon of the English- Speaking Union in London. Americans, Miss Mayo warned, should not be deceived by what they sometimes hear about British administration in India. The United States at times is deluged with eloquence and honeycombed with propaganda by persons who attempt through scandalous allega:
Looking Back 25 Yeara.
Hildesheim Missionary Society,
Miss Martha Postler of the
Sister of the Order of St. John,
and founder of the Ma Pau Koh School (Kowloon) for Chinese Blind Girls, died on July 28th, al- most immediately on her arrival i
in Germany from Hong Kong. We would condole with the late Bliss thus lost an enthusiastic, selfless, Postler's fellow-workers, who have
and truly Christian friend. "Miss Postler, we are informed, came to Hong Kong eight years ago, ex- pressly to work for the blind girls of China, Miss Postler began the good work with five pupils in the Pokfulam Road. West Point. In
and there abode two years, con- four years she removed to Macao, stantly increasing the number of her proteges. In May. 1902 the work was transferred to the new in India a work that has for its building at Kowloon, where Miss Reinecke, another devoted German
tions to provoke a breach of har
mony between the two peoples. "In the words of that Anericna gentleman and unselfish patriot, Gea. Leonard Wood, the Admini stration in India is the Kreatest
performance Christian
of our era." Miss Mayo continued. "Let Americans go home and tell their people that the British are doing
only mistakes those which America
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would make if it had to grapple lady, helped in the care and tuition with the complicated task facing of 38 blind girls-Hong Kong the British They are doing the Daily Press, Sept. 2. 1004. best that honest men can do, and Looking Back 50 Ysard. deserve the confidence not only of their own folk in Britain but ofInniskilling) Regiment will per The band of Her Majesty's 27th American and other people who form the following programme in strive for the uplift of the races."
the Botanical Gardens (weather permitting) this evening. The Band will be positively on the ground if the weather is fine at nine o'clock, but the garden will not be illuminated if it rains dur- ing the afternoon. as the wet would spoil the lanterns. This will be of little consequence if it is fine enough for the band to march to the gardens, as there will be moon- light:
Letters from Lapers.
March-" Glasgow "
Boniseau. Heroid. Petrella.
Strauss.
In the annual report of the me- dical officer in charge of the Leper Asylum at Kuala Lumpur, which cover a year not, notable for any great change in the settlement, testimony is given to the steady in- crease in its development on mo. dern lines. The Institute for Me- dical Research is carrying out in- vestigations on reactions in leprosy and in other directions with a view Overture-" Zampa" to determining to what extent the Selection- Ione clothes, etc., of lepers are instru- Valse Die Grellenbanner" mental in spreading the disease. These investigations, it appears, Grand Fantasia "Voyage to
L. Werner. Hong Kong" were prompted by the fact that in
Michaelis.. the past very stringent brecau- Galap Berlin" tions have been taken to prevent : L. WERNER, Bandmaster. the inmates from lending letters or The following is a description of goods of any kind to their friends Herr Werner's grand fantasia "The outside. The report says: "Fifty Voyage to Hong Kong" :-Gun slips of paper, as nearly as possible Fire Reveille Soldier's Dream- en a liner or whether you are just resembling the size and texture of Fall in, Bugle, and rush of men to starting a five year contract and one-dollar notes were circulated fall in" Quick March"-Bands. wishing to furnish your fat and among the inmates for the period playing Regiment to the railway- buy your summer wardrobe. On of a fortnight. These were then station-1st Band playing " The Page 2 we are publishing a Shop collected and piece one square Girl I left behind me"-2nd Band, ping Guide, which will appear centimetre in area was cut from "The Old Folks at Home"-3rd daily and in which many of the each. These small pieces were each Band. "Home, Sweet Home " leading businesses in the Colony subjected to the action of antifor- The Regiment arrives at the rail-
publish their card "stating just min for 48 hours. At the end of way-station" Halt "Train namo, address and the business in this period the residue was washed, ady to start" Steam "-Guard's which they specialise. Nor do we placed on a slide and stained for and engine-whistles heard-Train think that the Shopping Guide will lepra bacilli by Ziehl Neclsed's starts slowly and arrives at the be of use to newcomers only. Though method. In not a single case were place of embarkation-Regimental one soon learns enough to get along acid fast organisms discovered. In Band plays regiment to steamer,
us who view of those resulta it was felt with, there are very few
Good-bye Bweetheart "Steamer really know where to go for every that the rule prohibiting letter going down the river Imitation of thing we need, and a glance at writing was unnecessarily cautious.
the engine-Imitation of Bea- the guide will probably start many
now been A system has
in birds-Land fades. Isle of beauty. new trains of idens. While can- troduced whereby letters writ Fare thee well-Concert at sea.
ten by the inmates Yaming in Hong Kong one meets
are plae Song, "Near thee. near thee " special box which is Air with clarinet, flute, und cornet.
variations, "Mazurka." &c. &c. Storm at sea, including Captain's word of command. stilors shouting after posted in the ordinary way. Hoy, Hor." boatswain's whistle, autoclaved. The letters are there- This extra safeguard, though pro- children crying and alarm bell bably unnecessary. makes it doubly Storm abates-Calm-Thanksgiv sure that there is no possible ing-"Himalaya Polka Land danger in allowing the inmates to sighted-Air," "Cheer, boys, communicate with their relatives chor-Finale-Hong Kong Daily or friends,"
Presx, September 2, 1879.1
advocates of the dynamic as against According to the vernacular ladies and gentleman of all ed in & the static theory of life. Now, Press, Lau Fat Tsai, a notorious nations, and the lady on our staff taken once a week to the Institute after many days, explosives in bandit chief who has terrorized the who obtained the big majority of for Medical Research and there their metamorphosed form have East River districts for the last spaces wishes to thank the many the orders for our shopping guide returned to China, are stored in her ten years has recently taken refuge people approached for their unfail arsenals and used in her wars Bo in Hong Kong. His followers haveing kindness and courtesy-both been dispersed by Canton troops those who accepted and those who far, perhaps, the results are die and an order has been issued for prefer other methods of bringing appointing as Canton or many oc bis arrest. Detectives are making, a their wares to the notice of the
public casions, would testify. The Chinese thorough search for this man.:
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