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Local forecast: — East

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Dr. H. von Borch, German Minister to China, has appointed Dr. H. Bidder to be his personal representative in Nanking

A Chinese who jumped off a tram- ear while in motion at Causeway Bay on Saturday afternoon, felf heavily to the ground and sustained serious injuries. He was taken to the Government Civil Hospital.

...

The Polish globe trotter, Mr. A. E. Pelezsky, who is on a round- the-world-on-foot tour, has arrived at Wuchow. He will travel in the interior of Kwangai and other pro- vinces of South China.

Officials of the American Red, Cross sent 50,000 tubes of vaccine to Costa Rica by the Florida Airlines on April 16. It is understood that an epidemic has reached serious pro- portions at San Jose,

King's Stamp Purchases,

A collection of Australian Com- monwealth postage stamps which was made by Mr. J. R. W. Purves, of Melbourne, was purchased last manth on behalf of the King for al Sir Henri Deterding, the Euro- sum which is said to be in the pean oil king." arrived at San neighbourhood of £9,000. The col- Francisco on April 15, with Ladylection is famous throughout the Deterdingto participate in the world of philately, and was award- opening of the G.84,000,000 Shelled the gold medal at the Inter- Oit building.

national Philatelic Congress which was held at Melbourne in 1928. It is considered the finest collection of

A report from Swatow states that the number of unemployed Commonwealth stamps in existence. there has been rapidly increasing due to the decline of business and Palliative Or Surgery? industrin. According to statistics In urging that work should pro- sommiled by the authorities, the un-eeed at once in connection with 57,400, including 27,510 femalesive Scheme, the Feking and Tien- employed amount at presont to what is known as the Haibo Pallia- The total population of Suntow is in Timer says:-Cortain work can about 133,000..

There are very few forms of transport which are not affected to The weather report, forecast and some extent by meteorological con- remarks issued by the Royal Obser- ditions, and the remarkable develop- vatory, Hong Kong, at 6.30 p.m.ment of air-travel in its "various forms has led to a much more The anti-cyclone is now central intensive study of meteorological over the sea of Japan. A shallow science and practice. Captain depression reminins over Indo-China. Ly never visualised the day when elaborate chartai of air-currents moderate, uvercast with drizzle and ance of air-pilots, yet such infor would be drawn up for the guid mation is now prepared daily in Europe and America, and proves rabst valuable. By the study of such charts, and the forecasts accom panying them, the pilot can see LEGRAND-On April 21, at Shang-how much quicker he can make a

hai, BERTUE BLANCHE LEGRAND, Pasage by an indirect route instead Some handbills, printed in the aged 47 years,

of going from one point to another Chinese inngungs, of a Bolshevik as the crow flies-ar is alleged to nature, were found posted on the As yet there is no great demand walls of a number of godowns at for such reports in this part of West Point. They were promptly world, And Far Eastern torn off by the police. It is wader-

only be undertaken during the meteorologists are mostly concerned stood that the literature has some about the movements of typhoons, connection with Labour Day on much British goods and produce are the feasibility of carrying on other "The methods of distributing so before the next rains must depend Spring and upon its completion

Director of the Royal Observatory Mr. T. F. CLAXTON, F.R.A.S.. | May 1.

almost archaic," said Mr. W. H. works during the autumn and in Hong Kong, bas made a close It is notified that at the expira Harford, a director of Saward, winter. Tientsin was lucky in 1920, study of this subject, and the tion of three months from April 22, Baker and Co., Ltd., the well-known in that the rainfall was so dis- Fathers at the Jesuit Observatories the Ying Wah Lighter and Trans Caxton Hall, London. If British dition of the Haiho without human advertising service, speaking attributed as to improve the con- are famous for their achievements poratation Company, Ltd., and the in giving timely warning of the Yan Yee Tug and Lighter Company, industry, is to prosper in the home cffart. But it cannot count upon approach of dangerous storms. This Ltd., will, unless cause is shown market," he continued, "it will the continuance of this good for week's comference, therefore, should to the contrary, be struck off the to accelerate the disposal of tune. And if the present palliative have most useful results "in stand register and the Companies will be its goods and cut the present ex-scheme is indefinitely postponed, it ardising the excellent work which dissolved.

cessive costs of distribution, In may be found necessary is being already done, and so

other words, it must put its market-two hence to embark upon far more making the labours of meteorologists It is stated that Henri Cochet ising house in order. When Eng costly and extensive works to still more valuable to the comunlikely to play at Wimbledon this land fully wakes up to all that ad-achieve the same results as those munities they serve.

eas or in the French lawn tennisvertising means, the tide of British that could be accomplished by an championships, owing to pressure prosperity will begin to flow again, outlay of four million dollars in of work. He will take part in the and the danger of Government in 1830-1 Davis Cup match, however. Cochet terference and bureaucratic contro! won the men's singles title, at Wim will disappear." bledon last year, an achievement be also performed in 1927.

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HONG KONG, APRIL 25, 1930-

WEATHER WISDOM.

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The following tender has been ac- cepted:Mesars. Kwong Cheung

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ALTHOUGH of late years meteorology

a science has received much Hing, $3,200 for repairs to S/Lance has been amended to the end

The Merchant Shipping

of debarring anyone from interfer- ing with or preventing the proper The National Government's Avia-working of the safety valve of a tion Bureau are thinking of estab-launch and forbidding any con- lishing an aeronautical, factory in trivance or attachment calculated Nanking.

to place on the safety valve any greater pressure than is allowed under the conditions of the licence of the launch.

attention, the results-so far as the navigator is concerned-are of an almost entirely negative character, and of little practical value, Thus Captain LECKY, author of the well-known Wrinkics in Practical Navigation," when writing that interesting book in 1881, but there has been great progress both in navigation and meteorology during the interesting half-century. It is still impossible to foretell with

certainty the precise character of

The United Fertilizer Co., Ltd., will be struck off the register three months hence unless cause is shown to the contrary,

Dr. F. R. Ashtop has been ap painted a member of the Midwives

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A moneylender admitted before A woman in a silk dress is said Judge Sir Alfred Tobin, at West- to haunt the antient castle of

about 2,000 per cent. per annum. approach the place after dark. Ordin-minster County Court recently, that Hartshill, near Nuneaton,

interest on debt amounted to many local people are afraid to

for ten zuineas £7 10s, was ad by Mr. J. Moore, whose family io- The judge said: On a promissory The castle, built in 1135, is owned

vanced, and the whole sum is due herited it 200 years ago. It is now, if the first week's instalment is not disused, and the grounds are cul- paid; how much per cent. per an-tivated as a small holding. "T um is that Moneylender: I can't have seen the lady with, the silk say at once. Judge Tobin: Well, dress hundreds of times," Mr. go down and work it out. When Moore asid: She makes a sound the moneylender returned some time like the rustling of leaves. Several later, he said: It would be about members of our family, and people 2.000 per cent., but the money was in the village, have also seen her. lent in 1927. Judge Tobin: Well. When my brother was a lad of 15 ́ er offers 10s. a month. Let Eim pay father went to the Bishop, who told that's very candid, and the borrow he saw her in broad daylight. My that. No committal.

From the current issue of the Gazette wa noto a further amend

the industrial employment ment of the regulations governing Board, vice Dr. Annie. Sydenhams, women and children, whereby the who has resigned.

employment of a child in any dan gerous trade is prohibited, as aISO the employment in a similar capa city of any female young person or woman without the written per mission of the Protecter of Labour.

It is notified in the Gazette that the name of the Chinn Overseas Trading Company (1919), Ltd., has been struck off the register.

The health returns for the 24

hours coded at midnight on Friday, shows only one case of notifiable disease, namely typhoid fever, in

the Kowloon district.

In view of the large numbers of passengers to and from Canton every Saturday and Sundas, the Canton-Kowloon Railway Adminis trative have decided to run an additional express train, which will leave Kowloon at 8.44 a.m., in ad dition to the usual express at &

coming weather even for three days in advance, but it is now possible to forecast with a greater degree of accuracy than was possible in. Captain-Lecay's days the probable direction and fores of disturbances constituting a danger to shipping. True, with the amazing development of the power-driven ship, bad wea Messrs, V. M. Grayburn and ther at sea is no longer dreaded as as members of the Court of them, every Saturday and Sunday, P. S. Cassidy have been nominated it used to be, but the master of any University of Hong Kong for and an additional express will leave vessel is always grateful for infur-period of three years, with effect Canton at 2.45 p.m. in addition to mation which may assist him either from April 9.

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Mr. J. J. Paterson has been pro- visionally appointed an unofficial in the place of Mr. B. D. F. Beith, member of the Legislative Council, who is temporarily absent from the Colony, with effect from April-17

The monthly meeting of the Hong Kong Football Referees' "Associa tion will take place in the Council Office of the H.K.F.A., French Bänk 5.30 p.m. All interested are invited to attend.

him to say, In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy But day in the life of Jack Hobbs, he never had a chance. You hea

Last month included a great Ghost, what troublest thou!" the Surrey cricketer. He and the rustle, she brushes close by, and his wife witnessed the open-s gone." A white thing without ing of a sports pavilion in his legs, about three feet high, is also stive town of Cambridge as said to have been seen moving along permanent memento of his cricket the top of the garden wall prowess. The pavilion stands on sterious noises. have been heard of Parker's Piece, the ground on which people walking up and down the Hobbs learned to play cricket. Jack stairs, and in and out of the rooms. Hobbs, mentioning the cricketing. families of Diver, Hayward, Reeves, hoped Cambridge would never be Carpenter and O'Connor, said be without a representative in first class cricket. To signalise the hon our done him, Jack Hobbs promis ed to take a team of cricketers to Cambridge during the summer and from his charity fund to contribute

100 to the local hospital.

An almost entirely new face has

commanders of the largest Atlantic liners sometimes find it advisable to put the helm over and get the wind and sea behind them instead Building, on Thursday. May 1, at superintendend the installation of a years ago she was attacked by a

A declaration in English con cerning Mr. Ranald G. MacDonald's speech in opposition to the increase Shanghai Municipal Council will be in Chinese representation on the shortly issued by the Chinese Rate

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Locking Back 25 Years.

The cook's

charged before Mr. Orme at the A Chinese cook was yesterday Police Court with unlawfully and by negligence causing hurt or damage to Mr. Passantini. muster, who is spending a holiday in Canton, is the owner of a motor- car, and this the cook decided to the corner near the Bailors and give it an airing." When turning Soldiers' Home the car become un- manageable, and went ahead at a very high speed. It dashed into

She is visiting friends in the been grafted on to a young girl at Colony and will probably stay here the Budapest Clinic, but although for a few weeks. Mr. Magin is a the operation has been remarkably receiving engineer for the Radio successful the girl will never be Corporation of America.

a number of rickshas and Mr.. At pre-able to smile again or express Any Passantini, who was, crossing the sent he is bound for Manila to kind of emotion by her face. Seven rond, at the time, was unable to form of lupus which so disfigured ed down and badly bruized before get out its way. He was knock- her that she scarcely looked human. the driver could pull up his car. The surgeons were able to check the The cook was fined $20, with the ravages of the disease, by a series alternative of fourteen days' ime": of careful operations then grafted prisonment. Mr. Pasadintini has flesh from the muscles of her arms further decided to bring an action and shoulders to replace the parts claiming $200

damages-Hony of the face the band lost. At the Kong Daily Presi, April 28, 1966. same time the skin of her neck was stretched little by little to cover Looking Back 50 Years. the transplated muscles. Finally, the whole of her face was restored, but at the price of an immutable expression,

His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinance: An Ordin

intoxicating liquors; An Ordinance to amend the Printers and Publish

:

A Chinese woman was taken into

of attempting to drive through it.

To-day a conference opens in Hong Kong of meteorologists from various points in the Far East, whose intention it is" to draft a uniform code of visual, and tele- graphed storm-warnings, and pre- pare a uniform code for the trans-Pers' Association, says the Sinance to amend the law relating to mission of daily weather reports.

custody last night and charged with As matters stand at present, masters A Chinese who, it is alleged, triedere Ordinance, 1927; An Ordinance

stealing a bag containing jewellery of ships in Far Eastern, waters find in connection with the "Red May capable of holding property for the to start a Communist meeting to incorporate a Body of Trustees

of the value of 85,000. It appears.. that the various local weather Day" movement, was arrested in purposes of the Church of England,

that a lady left Hong Kong with Details of an adventure of a

ber husband by the French nail; bureaux all ask for different data, the Central district last night. A and to provide for the performance. Sinhalese trader of Pottuvil, a steamer Oxus on Saturday last, instead of having a uniform set notice was later circulated by the of divine worship according to the forest vize 50 miles south of leaving to friends the discharging authorities to "keep a sharp look rites and ceremonies of the Church Batticaloa, with a leopard, are to of the servants and care of the of questions for all observatories out for all gach similar distur- of England, and for certain objects hand. It would appear that on the house, but forgetting a bag con Shipmasters also find that at the bances."

Auxillary to the aforesaid objects. afternoon of April 14, the trader, taining jewellery which was left in various porte called at there are

while returning from Lahugala to the bedropm. The servants, were: Two unemployed Filipinos, Filo The question of whether the Pottuvil, a distance of about eight paid of yesterday, and last night different systems of displaying meno Lillamor and Garvacio Cuento, Scott-Sharkey fight film was censor- miles, through forest country, made a telegram was received from Sai- storm-warnings, whereas a uniform were before the Kowloon Magised or not is likely to be decided a halt, half-way by the roadside to gon refaring to the jewellery,

trate on Saturday on signal-code would be much more

remand by the Courts in New York. Mr. allow his bull to graze for a while which, when searched for, could not charges of vagrancy and arrival Henry Sonenshine, owner of the on open ground which skirted the be found. The matter was report- convenient for all hande. It is with at this port without passports on Sport World Film Exchange, has jungle not far from the road.ed to the police, and Sergeant the objects of discussing how March 28. The Magistrate remand- instituted proceedings against the After he had rested for a time, he Toomey was soon at work. He uniformity in these matters can be ed defendants for a week, as the New York Daily Mirror, in which went up close to a bush where the traced the lady's amah to her Police wished to investigate further be claims £30,000 damages for libel animal was grazing, and got hold Chinese lodgings, but he pre- reached that the conference meets regarding the character of the men for alleging that four blows have of it by the rope. Just then, a tended not to know what he in Hong Kong to-day. Delegates

been deleted from the film of the leopard pounced upon him from wanted, and affected the injured- from North China and Manila will that they will received the water reputation as

After signing a bond stipulating fight. Somenshine claims that his behind the bush. He yelled out innocent demeanour which, if it meet meteorologists whose obser-supply from the Chine Merchants filming of boxing bouts has been which disappeared into the forest. Live officer. Sergeant Toomey, how-

specialist in the and his ery seared away the beast amused, did not satisfy, the detec vatorics, are established in South (Nantao) Waterworks Co. as soon greatly damaged by the newspaper's The man austained a few scratches. ever, meant business, and fortunate- statement that he made an attempt | China, and representatives of the as the latter is in a position to

ly succeeded in a short space of Royal Navy and the British Merchants of Yang Cheng, Western by editing the film...

supply water to the village, mer to make Sharkey.look good " Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief time in bringing forth from inder chant Navy will also attend to ex | Shanghai, have been permitted to

Justice, in a broadcast from Savoy the bed the cmoty jewel hag and a "Hill last month on * Law, Ethics Chinese box to which the greater press the point of view of the receive, temporarily, their water.

My age

My mother and Education," mentioned an in- portion of the jewellery had been years. mariner or whose benefit the pply from the Shanghai Water is dead, and I am going out to my genious theory to account for the transferred; and he at once anner- works Co., says the Chinese presa daddy in Saskatoon. I am travell popularity of the detective story, ed the property and assisted the meteorologists mainly works Un--

ing alone, so please be good to me." It had been advented, he said, that handmaiden to the Central Station. fortunately, delegates from Japan, from various sources that Com of her coat hearing the above the crime story, flourishes only in and some of those recovered aro Reports having been received With a label attached to the lapel the detective story, as distinct from Some, valuable articles are missing Korea, and South Manchuria have munists and other reactionary inscription. a 3-year-old child, Jeena settled community, where the broken, but the greater part aro been unable to accept the invitation elements in Shanghai are plotting Baxter, left Liverpool for Halifax, readers' sympathics are on the side I now in the possession of the police, to attend this conference, but no ary days in May in order to stir Albortic last month, Jean and her side of the criminal who is trying drops worth $1,800. Great credit is to use the several national anniver N.S., in the White Star liner of law and order, and not on the including a pair of diamond ear- doubt it a uniform system of com up riot, General Hsiung Shih Bui, mother were to have gone out to to gres of frame per Allantion in this affair, as the Oxus only

He pointed I due in Tramofos his area ENGLISTE

TON AT VARU Ent sitemor, out out, however, tunt Logar meeting of the responsible autho-veloped a serious illness and died. tive story, lived in a community night, and the telegram was seat, Shanghai-Woosung Arca, called two months ago Mrs. Baxter de-Poe, founder of the modern deter arrived from Saigon at o'clock last rities to arrange due precautions. Since then Jean has been living somewhat less settled than our own. the police informed, and the ser Additional military units and with an uncle, and she started on Lord Hewart concluded by suggest geant had secured all the stolen police will be posted at all iraport- the first stage of her 3,000 miles ing that the real progress of property that could be found be ant points throughout the city dur unaccompanied voyage to her humanity depends far more on the fore midnight-Hong Kong, Daily ing next month.

"daddy,"

"conception of-dufy" than of rights.: I'reas, April 26, 1880-

signals te drawn up, the Japanese Government will be quite willing fall into line with the authorities who are represented at the confer