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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1930.

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MIDNIGHT on 3rd MAY, 1930

The New Automatic Telephone System will

come into Operation."

STOP USING YOUR MAGNETO

TELEPHONE

AT 11.45 p.m. ON 3rd MAY I

Do not use your telephone at all between 11.45 p.m. and 12 Midnight on 3rd MAY as the Change-Over

will then

be in progress.

AFTER MIDNIGHT

on

3rd MAY,

You must use your Dial

when making Telephone

calls.

IF YOUR TELEPHONE HAS A GEN- ERATOR HANDLE "AS WELL AS A DIAL DO NOT TURN THE HANDLE!

USE THE DIAL ONLY!

The new automatic telephone numbers will be found in heavy print in the second column on each page of the Telephone Directory.”

REMEMBER!

Your automatic telephone will be of no service-

UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT!

Call now at the Company's Office, 4th floor, Exchange Building, and-

ASK FOR A DEMONSTRATION. Read the instructions contained in the

Orange

Coloured Telephone

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WANTED-WIFE AND JOB.

MAYOR'S MARRIAGE BROKER PROBLEMS.

When the Mayor of Southend (Councillor Richardson) promised Jack Sinclair, an unemployed Halifax man, that he would help him to find wife and a job, he shouldered a bigger task than he anticipated.

RAND PIONEER IN POVERTY.

PASSENGERS.

Departures,

MAN WHO FOUND £200,000,000, Per s.. President Cleveland for Seattle and Victoria, vid ports, on

Dae of the four original dis- April 20-Mrs. S. Amador, Mr. coverers of the Rand goldmines, Edward Darvill, Mrs. Jane D. which have been' valued at Teldstein, Mrs. F. C. de Gonzalez, £200,000,000, has been found living Miss Susuna Daland, Miss Florenc in penury in a remote part of the Daland, Miss Garmen Daland, Mr. 1. W. Gorton, Mr. I. S. Harris,

Transvaal,

He is Samuel Honeyball, who for long has been' believed to be dead. Shaggy and unkempt, he tells how, with Frederick Struben, the origin

George V. Hussey, Mr. John M. Harrison, Mr. O. E. Hart, "Mr. Harry Lucks, Mrs. B. Lauritzen, Afr. William Murphine, Miss G. H.. Marin, Mr. Willard de W Price," Mrs. Laura R. Shields, MP. A. M

al finder, he beat the quartz in anTaason, Miss I. M. Thomas. Jose old tin to extract the gold.

Today he has only a pension of 12s. 6d. a week, half of which goes in rent.

Mr. Struben now lives at Spitch- wick Manor, near Ashburton,

Sinclair had asked for the ad- dress of a woman who would give him work with a view to matri- mony. Since the Mayor announced this request, he has been inundated with letters from women who want to meet a man like Sinclair,

“But now the, affair has taken a | Devon. different turn.

When a Sunday Express repre- scutative telephoned the news to From all parts of the country him in Devonshire last night hu har come requests from unem-said: "I barely remember the

name of Honeyball." ployed men offering to take over

Forty-six years, however, have the women who are left after Sin-clapsed since the great gold rush. clair has had his choice.

Mr. Struben, who is a man of eighty, told recently how he led the rush in 1933..

The applicants will marry any woman, a widow included, if by so doing a permanent job is guar- anteed.

Overwhelmed.

"I don't quite know what to de now," the Mayor stated, I intend to consult my secretary on the mat- ter to-morrow."

Quite a number of men aspire to the band of the woman. from Henley-on-Thames who offered Sin- clair marriage and a job on her poultry farm. An applicant from Cleckheaton sent a stamped ad dressed envelope with the request that the Mayor should forward his application to the woman.'

From Paddington has arrived an offer to marry any woman living The writer, who is 38, describes himself as very modest and shy.

A Tragic Widower. A girl who wrote from Enfield (Middlesex), struck pathetic note.

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"other is dead, and father prays every night to God asking him to send a comforter to this

home. She writes:

I should very much like some. one to come in and take things over. It would be very much more like it was before, when mother was alive. It would make us for got the past.".

A Sunderland man in Cardi, aged 27, 6 feet tall, with auburn, hair and blue eyes, says:

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"I came from my native town expecting to do. better. I found that I had jumped from the frying pan into the fire.

"I have looked in vain' for a decent situation, and now I am willing to enter the bonds of ma- trimony with any young woman or widow who can offer me a per- manent situation."

Velasco, Mr. Heory. Williams. Mr. Furano Yoichi, Mr. Ray- Mrs. Elizabeth M. Lev, Mr. Juse E. mond J. Lee, Mr. Williana" H. Lee,

Pateno, Mr. and Mrs. James Prydo, Mrs. E. W. Andrews, Mr. Vicente S. Abaya, Mr. Williara H. Ander- son. Mr. D... Brown, Mrs. Wil- liam H. Anderson, Mrs. D. M Brown, Master R. D. Brown, Mr. Harry D. Cranston, Mrs. John F. Daviest Mr. John F. Davies. Mr. Frank A. Kraudelt, Mr. "Martin Lauritaen. Mr. Walter A. Lehman, Mr. Blas Mangune, Mrs. Walter A. Lehman, Mrs. M. C. Paschall, Mr. CW. Richards, Miss J. A. Reyes, Mr. A. M. Scptt, Mrs. Mary R goldfeld had been shared by his Mr. B. 1. Tuckes, Hon. Fredrick If his faith in the newly-found Schreiber, Mr. George E. Schreiber, companions, he said, the whole Rand Waller, Mr. Chau Tang Sheung, territory might have been bought Too. Mr. T. Holland Martin, Mr. Mr. Ip To Ting. Mr. Chui Yau

for a song.

In the vanguard of the rush was. M. Hanbury, Mr. J. M. Han- companion of Honeyball's. who bury, Mrs. G. H. Hewitt, Miss died recently worth millions--Sir J. Kathleen Hewitt, Master John B. Robinson.

Hewitt. Mr. Hsu Ling Quan, Mrs. Sally Wildman, Misses T. and N. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. H. Ellis, Mrs. R. S. Parr, Master R. 8. Parr, Jr. Mr. Cheng "Yuen, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Field, Mr. and Mrs. Wong Hang Chow, Mr. and Mrs. C. Chaces, Miss W. Chaoes, Mr. R. V. Swearingen, Mr.J. J. Connell, Mrs. A. E. Brown, Mr. Yau Ching. Mr. Lawrence Cau, Mr. Paul Nyhus, Mrs. Cheng Yong. Mr. J. H. Jessen.

50. POISONED BY BEAR'S FLESH.

SIX DEAD AND 45 IN HOSPITAL

Six persons have died in Stutt gart, and 25 others are so seriously ill that some are not expected to recover, as the result of eating bear's flesh.

The proprietor of a restaurant had purchased at Mannheim" the greater part of the body el, a bear that had been killed.

Later he offered his guests, as a special delicney, roast bear and, smoked bear's ham,

The number of guests who were seized with illness led to an inquiry, and it was discovered that the bear was suffering from a disease which, when transplanted into the human body, has deadly results.

This disease-Trichinosis was at one time frequently communicated to people in Germany by means of pork, but rigoroas veterinary in spection has practically stamped it

out....

The restaurant proprietor inquir. ed of representatives of the Board. of Health if the bear's flesh would have to be inspected, and was told that this need not be done.

Leap From Window. Heat kills the trichina in meat, and in this case the people who ate roast bear were not harmed; while those who ate smoked bear's

Meantime nothing has been heard from the original applicant, Sin-han all contracted the disease. clair. The Mayor invited him to send his photograph, but he has not responded..

THREE YEARS' PENAL SERVITUDE.

F.M.S. STUDENT CHARGED IN LONDON."

Sentence of three years, penal servitude was passed on April 8 on Khian Soon Tana, described as a medical student, aged 35, native of the F.M.S., who was charged with the manslaughter of Elsie Langton Stott, a widow, aged 41, by an illegal operation.

When the accused was originally charged in the Marylebone Police Court on March 13, Mr. Wallace, for the Public Prosecutor, stated that Tann lived with Capt. and Mrs. Durrant, at Lissenden Man- sions, Highbate Road, London, N.W.

Mrs. Stott had been living with her aunt at Athol Lodge, where, for about 12 months, a 19-year-old Malayan, named Chus, had been lodging

One of the victims, in his delirium, flang himself out of a bedroom window.

All the members of the restaurant keeper's family are ill, except one son, who did not eat any of the delicacy

£1,000 A WEEK STAR TO WED.

NICH LONDON HUSBAND FOR MARILYN MILLER.

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Marilyn Miler, the well-known American stage and screen actress engagement to Mr: Michael Farmer, and dancer, recently announced her described by her as a wealthy". Londoner, born in Dublin.

Miss Miller is leaving almost immediately for Hollywood, where she will make a new talking pic- ture.

She will then return to New York, where she is under contract to ap pear in a new Florenz Ziegfeld show with Fred and Adele Astaire.

The actress did not reveal the

date on which she will be married to Mr. Farmer:

Miss Marilyn Miller is one of the highest paid musical, comedy atars in America,

Some years ago she was corning £1,000 a week.

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She plays the leading role in the talkie" version of the musical comedy," Sally," now being shown in London.

Her fee for the role is said to have been £20,000.

She first won recognition, for her dancing in London, being dis- covered by Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld The district board of health is in a London night.club.

to be prosecuted.

MAYOR SETS A FASHION.

VELVET COAT TO AID INDUSTRY.

Residents of Oldham, who meet dignified man attired in a short jacket and vest of smooth black valvet, no longer mistake him for a Spanish matador on holiday.

They know it is none other than their mayor, Mr. Isaac Crabtree.

He has vowed to wear this an, conventional dress out of local patriotism, and he hopes to induce other Oldham men to adopt the fashion.

There's Nothing Like Cotton. His velvet coat and vest are made of real Oidhura cotton velvet, pre- sented by a local firm to célebrate the Cotton Fair they are holding. There was no doubt that at first.'' The mayor's fashion lead has Mrs. Stott mothered the youth, but excited a good deal of comment," afterwards they became on intimate an official at the Town Hall told a terms.

reporter, but he is delighted with At Christmas she told him of her his new velvet clothes condition, and on February 3 Chua took her to Lissenden Mansions. Mrs. Statt gave Tann two £10 notes and remained there until Februarying. 23, when Chua took her back to West Norwood by car.

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She was then very ill, but Tann assured Chua that she would be 'ali right. On February 25 she was ro- moved to the infirmary and died three days later..

Death was due to blood poison ing, and in her dying deposition, taken before magistrate, Mrs. Stott described what she alleged Tann did to her while she was at

When Tann was arrested he said She came to me. She is a very ailly woman. She takes drugs and poisons and is very ill. She was desperate, very desperate."

The cost, he says, is light and extremely comfortable, and it looks beautiful when worn in the even

JOHN PEARCE DEAD.

CATERING PIONEER'S LIFE. ROMANCE.

Mr. John Pearce, the veteran London caterer and founder of the J.P. Restaurants, died suddenly at his home at Streathain last month.

Mr. Pearce, who was 84, was speaking on the telephone only an bour and a halt before his death. He then went to bed, and had a heart attack shortly afterwards, dying before a doctor could arrive.

Mr. Pearce, who was a director of Associated Hotels, Ltd.; and of J.P. Restaurante, Ltd., had attend- cd a board meeting of the J.P. Restaurants early in the day..

2s. 6d. a Week Wagas, Starting work at the age of 9, Mr. Pearce's business career, ex- tended over 70 years.

His first job was one of 2a. 6d. a week; but later, as d, green" grocer's assistant he earned as

uch as.48 wook!

As a Covent Garden porter at £1 a week he saved enough to start a coffee stall, which he called the Gutter Hotel Then he bought other stalls, and finally opened a cheap restaurant from which deve laped the famous firm of "Pearce and Plenty," and later the J.P.. Restaurants,

Moreover, it can be washed. Mayoress Follows Suit. "Mrs. Crabtree is now seen in a black velvet dress that matches' her husband's coat. They are both cut from the sains cloth, and toge ther the mayor and mayoress hope. It was a walk-over for me," to give a big lift to Oldham's Mr. Pearce said recently, In those days London badly wanted trade."

Dr. Jordan, founder and secret feeding: Catering was a shocking ry of the Men's Dress Reform state, and there was practically no Farty, welcomed the Mayor of Old place outside public-houses where ཝིཡཏ,ཡ ཨཀདི་ ནི་བཏང་ཡ་ཨ་ཝཏྟ་ ནི་ཏཱ༧༧-€uaMEnnerm་ལཔ་

In 1927, after making his fortuno, opinion."

his

"If the cost is washable, as well Mr. Pearce retired, and the J.P. as being light to wear, it will cer Restaurants were amalgamated with the Aerated Bread Company, tainly be an improvement on jacket of ordinary cloth," he said. Ltd.