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Depressions lie over Tongking and to the East of Shantung. Pressure gradients ate shallow. over the China Seo

Local Forecast:-Light S.W. or variable winds; fine.

being disbursed to the best advan tage. In Ceylon the Government. Yesterday's" weather report, fore-has drafted a Budget involving an cast and remarks, issued by the expenditure of 121,000,000 rupees Royal Observatory at 3.99 p.m., (about £8,000,000), nearly half of which sum is to be spent on ad- In Hong Kong the ministration. proportion is about the same as in Ceylon. Whether the suggestion of the Unofficial Members at Colombo regarding the appointment of a Commission has been accepted by the Government we do not know, but it is a very good suggestion, WEYLER-On August at Shang- and capable of application to this hai, to Mr. and Mrs. H. W Colony. Such a step, in fact. was WADDELLOR August 20, at Lon-proposed but met with no approval. don, to Mr. and Mrs. JOHN If it should come "about that a WADDELL, a son.

Commission of experts does proceed from England to Ceylon, it will be very interesting te, compare their method of inquiry and its result with what is being and will be done in Hong Kong NEWS CO

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money.

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then discussing. People regard good speech as good manners, Quite or quaite-but what is

good" speech!

* News and Views

Mr. H. L. 0. Flecker, Headmaster of Berkhausted, has been appointed Headmaster of Christ's Hospital (Blue Cost School) in succession to Mr. W. Hamilton Fyfe.

A new exhibition of Chinese books and manuscripts was opened at the British Museum at the end of last month. All the manuscripts except three come from the Stein Collee tion

Lieut. Harold Bromley, who is

Last year there were, 3,003,091 going to attempt a trans-Pacific non-stop fight to America from the

calls on the long distance telephones naval airdrome at Kasumigaura,

between Great Britain and, the Con- tinent and also Australia and assembled his plane City of Tacoma

America. The

the figures for Yokohama and was to fly from at the reclaimed land at Isogo,

current year are expected to The opening of the meeting of logo to Kasumigaura last Sunday the League of Nations Council will be much higher, and it is

that estimated

connection has morning. After reaching Kasumi probably be postponed from Sept- been established by Great Britain gura the flyer will test his machins ember 5 to 8 in order to hasten the with 20 per cent of the telephones several times, and choose his runway proceedings. The business not dis-using people of the world. According to the meteorological exposed of when the Assembly of the perte of the Kasumigaura Naval League opens its meeting, will be Air Station, weather conditions are held over until the sitting of the best early in the morning, and Council which neually follows the Lieut. Bromley probably will start conclusion of the Assembly's session. on his dare-devil fight between the Trana-Ocean Euo Min understands hours of 4 and 6 one moring in the that the report of the mandates course of this week.

commission on the administration Polish of Palestine and the Lithuanian dispute, will be includ ed in the items to be thus treated.

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Mary Pickford may be "America's Sweetheart" but the Australian film industry alaims she was born in Melbourne and emigrated to Canada when she was six years old.

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The Japanese dyer Seiji Yoshi-, bara arrived in Koenigbars on August so on the first stage of his Berlin-Tokyo Bight which he is mak ing in a Junkers light plane. In the afternoon he again hopped off for Kovno.

The number of candidates for the current examination for the. Indian King Alfonso of Spain has sign- Civil Service is more than up to ed a decree reducing the term of standard. Indian candidates num- service with the colours under theber 204. European candidates nüm system of conscription from two years to one.

ber 100, which, in view of the pre-.. sent conditions in India, com- pares very favourably with 116 last

At Budapest, 200,000 people parti-year and 121 the year before. cipated in a procession held in the

President Hoover last week sum- course of the millenary celebrations for Hungary's first King. The moned Mr. Henry Robinson, mem- Papal Nuncia, the high Catholic ber of the Dawes Reparations Coin- clergy, the members of the Cabinet mission, to nasist in the establish- and high officials "marched at the mont of financial credit for the re- head of the procession through the lief of the American farmers in the

were lined by sightseers from all profusely decorated streets which drought-stricken areas. parts of the country.

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Putting an end to one of the most heated primary election battles in many years, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court last week ruled that former Governor Gifford Pinchot, conservationist, had the

the Republican" nomination for the governorship over his opponent, Mr. A. E. Brown.

famed

A portrait of the late Lord. Finlay has been presented by the It is announced that General von Middle Temple to the Permanent Here, Commander-in-Chief of the Court of International Justice at Reichswehr, will retire on December the Hague, Lord Finlay was a legally received 1, next, under superannuation reJudge of that Court from 1922-29, gulations. General von Hamauer- stein is regarded as his most likely successor.

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Honours were showered lavishly upon farmer Premier Poincaro on the occasion of his 70th birthday last Wednesday. Large crowds be sioged his home in Paris to watch the endless stream of congratulants. Special postal vans had to be put into service to deal with the mass of gifts and messages from all parts of the world, notably the United States and the former Allied coun-

A minor sensation was caused at Paris last week by the suicide of younger brother of the kidnapped Russian General Kutepoff. He was found dead, having cut his throat with a razor. Like the General, the younger Kutepoff had served in the Czarist army and, it is hinted in Russian emigré circles that his tries. suicide is probably not unconnected with the General's disappearance as was probably the younger man

The Press reports saying that Premier Tardieu would personally !** QUAITE, QUAJTE!”

head the French delegation to the forthcoming session of the League Those curious individuals who re- of Nations Assembly are not con- gard their affectation of a weird Armed by the official announcement of the personnel of the delegation accent as a mark of “Culchaw-made after a Cabinet meeting held or at least hope that others will be on August 21. M. Briand will ac impressed favourably by the alleg-cording to this announcement, be edly cultured tones will no doubt the chief of the delegation with M. derive much comfort from a recent other official delegates and M. lecture given at Cambridge. Whe Pernot, Francois Poncent and Serot as substitutes besides a number of they they are justified in drawing departmental bends of the various any flattering conclusions from the Ministries as experts. address in question is another matter. The value of a "good CIVIL SERVICE COSTS. accent as a social asset was em phasised by Mr. F. G. BLANDFORD, Nor only in Hong Kong is the cost the well-known authority on pro of the Civil Service causing anxiety munciation, who said in England to those called upon to put up the it is regarded as a social disquali- In Ceylon the Unofficial Scation if a person does not speak Members of the Legislative Council the type of English which they were are almost unanimously opposed to the Budget for 1030-1-the financial year commencing on October 1 It appears the Government has in

The principle in pronunciation is view the imposition of income-tax

to give the least shock to the least in the Colony and, on the assump-

number. "Supposing," said the tion that its revenue will be sub stantially increased as a result, has lecturer, "you inct a crossing made all the necessary arrangements sweeper who unexpectedly spoke for spending the money. The Un- the same dialect as we are hearing official Members, however, do not now, you would refer to him as approve of this census

being a very well-spoken, young chickens of

Prime Similarly, if as yet unbatched. They are pre-

Minister spoke like the average pared to admit there will be a vertain amount of new revenue from crossing sweeper you would call it a the tax of 3 per cent on betting-rough accent. On the whole, women which measure has passed its third are more pliable in this way. reading-but they have strong doubts assistant in a milliner's or dress- about the income-tax proposal maker's shop in London is a good being approved, and object to anti-example of a girl of humble origin cipated revenue from this source Leing included in the Budget. The Unofficial Members do not look with favour upon the establishment of a precedent whereby the Govern ment increases its expenditure on the assumption that increased re- venue will be obtained from a source not yet authorised to be tapped.

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who talks English perfectly to her customer, but when talking to her colleagues in the staff room uses

very different English. Many maids talk standard English to their mistresses and lapse into a fruity Cockney immediately they get back to the kitchen."

aware of certain details of that my sterious affair which he feared inight be revealed or which he him self might be compelled to reveal.

The

engagement of Captain Blundell, f Lord Willington's staff, to Misa Helen Guthrie, of Ottawa, is the sixth instance of a A.D.C. of Ottawa choosing a Canadian

bride.

The Paris edition of the Chicago, Tribune carries a report from Washington to the effect that on the completion of Admiral Byrd's re- port on his Antarctic expedition the United States will clair sover eignty over the grea explored by. Admiral Byrd.

...

Former Governor Robert Carey, Republican, and Mr.

H Schwartz, Democrat of Casper, have received their parties' cominations for the U.S. Senate as result of the primary here, it was evident to-day Mr, Schwartz is a lawyer. as the count neared completion.

Local Notes and Events

Mr. D. M. Maynard, assistant U.S. Trade Commissioner, accom panied by Mrs. Maynard, arrived on Monday by 5.8. President Cleve land to join the staff of the local American Consulate in Hong Kong.

The, total output or the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending August 9 amounted to 101,025 tons, and the sales dur ing the period to €1,727 tons..

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A fine of 875 with the alternative of six weeks in prison was the sen tence passed by Mr. Whyte-Smith on a woman who was found guilty of running a""sly" brothel at No. 4. Cheung Lok Street, Inspector been under observation for some Chevalier stated that the house bad. society girls time past and a raid was made on

Sue Carol, who has portrayed

and

through most of her career, gives a new characterization in The the premises on Monday. night. Big Party," the Fox Movietone musical comedy coming to the Queen's Theatre to-day. Miss Carol takes the part of a piano-player in

Sentence of six months" hard chorus girls labour was passed on Acting-Sergt. Ali Ahmed attached to the West Point Police Station, by Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday when he was found guilty of having accepted a bribe of $1.00 from a hawkerin Centre Street.

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five-and-ten-cent ร

store, and

jazzes the newest melodies for the benefit of customers. Dixie Lee and Walter Catlett are the other co-featured players in the pro-

duction.

Looking Back 25 Years.

Sportsmen and others are Te Referring to the trend of modern

quested to refrain from shooting English, Mr. BLANDFORD made the

deer in that portion of Hong Kong interesting statement that the KING A 73-year-old Chinese was brought

which lies west of a line drawn All this is of general interest to

and the PRINCE OF WALES do not before Mr. T. 8. Whyte-Smith yes

through Magazine Gap, and run- ning north and south to the sea in terday on the charge of hawking us here in Hong Kong, but of more

both directions-Hong Kong "Daily talk the same type of English, and without a licence but the Magis particular interest is the attitude an analysis of the Prince's pitrate found that his was a deserving

Press, August 28, 1903. of the Unoficial Members in the nunciation gives evidence of a very case, and granted the man a free Ceylon Legislative Council on the particular. change. Yet the social licence, ordering $4 to be taken

Looking Back 60 Years

On Sunday afternoon last-Colonel question of retrenchment. A sub-environment and the outlook on out of the poor box to pay for it.

Gordon, R.E., paid a visit to the life of the King and the Prince are committee was formed to discuss the same. The pronunciation of The following cases of disease an infant which was being carried Tung Wah Hospital, accompanied the cost of administration, and, a the Prince is that of a young man occurred in the Colony during the by its mother at the junction of by the Hon. Ng Choy MLC., and Centre and First Streete on Mon Mr. Chun Li Eum, when they were and the KING and QUEEN talk a week ended August 23-Typhoid 3 day morning. It was stated that received by the President and Com perfect different type of English. (one non-Chinese) resulting in the boy was in the act of running mittee of the Hospital and a large That an indication of change one death (Chinese); puerperal

a Chinese constable number of the leading Chinese 3 influenza 5 deaths; way when Mr. BDFORD also said that as fever

effected his arreat. His Worship During the course of conversation millions of people heard the E.B.C. malaria

scheme of drastic economics draft- ed. Further, and even more in- teresting, since it parallels local developments, one of the business

non-

A 14-year-old Chinese appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday on the charge of snatching a pair of bangles from the hands of

men with a seat on the Council Pronunciation it certainly made for Chinese); tuberculosis 32 deaths / ordered the boy to be detained for with those present, Colonal Gordon

16 deaths (one

standard English. Speaking per- (one non-Chinese). fectly broadly, the announcers speak

48 hours and to receive 16 strokes of told them that China was not in the birch.

fit state to go to war with Russia suggested that a Commission be

or even any other nation, and appointed to overhaul the salaries very serviceable English. In detail Miss S. Remedios, of Castle

The local office of the Eastern especially so whilst the Emperor there are a great many words in Road, has made a report to the and personnel of all Public Depart their published littich I would police that whilst she was wall Extension Australian and China resided at Peking, as it was top ments as is now being done in pronounce differently but that ing along Des Voeux Road Central Telegraph Co., Ltd., has received accessible to any nation at variance Hong Kong But there was this always happens. think the B.B.Cast evening, some person snatched from the head office the following with China. There were only two committee has done it work ex- her handbag, which, together with information concerning the Im things that China had to do now." difference the suggested Commis tremely well. I think the ideal the contents, was valued at 345. perist and International Communi. Remove the Emperor to a more sion was not to be composed of busy accent is that which betrays neither One man has been arrested in con- cations, Ltd. The estimated traffic secure place than Peking, or pay a local merchants and others who, your mother's birthplace nor your nection with the robbery and he receipts for July, 1830, amounted large amount of money to any

father's income."

will be brought before the Magis- to 2437,220, as compared with nation that likes to pick a quarrel with their own affairs to attend to Very neatly put, but if this is trate in due course,

with her. If China did go to ww £514,901-for the corresponding daily, can have little time to spare really so, it means that when the

period of last year. The aggregate she would surely be beaten, and the Before Mr. R. E Lindsell yester- receipts from January to July Emperor taken prisoner. At pre- for such an exhaustive survey of majority of people have achieved facts and figures as ia, necessary if an ideal accent speech will be more day four Chinese were charged this year amounted to £3,244,943, as sent China was not prepared for or less uniform. For birthplace with being in possession of a compared with £3,023,143 for the such an inquiry is to be made and income are almost the only two knife, a dagger, pointed pieces of corresponding period last year. properly. The Colombo unofficial variable factors in forming our iron; wire and potatoes which were

characteristics, for instance, or carried for an unlawful purpose.

war. Her gunboats--which were white elephants were of no earthly Use, and he strongly advised the sale of them, and with the money

legislator suggested that Commis. manner of speaking. Physical alleged by the Police to hurpose. If the "Fuzzy Wuzzys of Africa to purchase a million rifles and then sionors be sent out from England even intelligence, play little part in The defendants admitted the pos could be tamed sufficiently they equip their men with them and to investigate conditions in Ceylon it. But one wonders, if a uniform session of some of the articles and would cut a wide swath in the make military display. When accent, say, a wireless announcer's on the application of the prosccu- distance events of the next Olympic i properly instructed, those men and presumably men with expert accent, would be an entirely desir tion, they were all remanded for Games. This is the opinion of could work the gunboats, which it Ernest B. Schoedsack and Morian the present time they could not. knowledge of administrative work,able thing. Standard English might one week.

C: Cooper, film directors, who lived He prognosticated more difficulties fully qualified to comment upon damage English prose considerably,

just a standard bread damages When a wharf coolie appeared among these people while making with Chins in two years time. He and criticize the explanations given English digestions. But one has to before Mr. R. E. Lindsell on the location scenes for The Four said he had been away from China by various departmental beads of weigh against all this the vast charge of assaulting an electrician Feathers, which is now showing for eighteen years, and he came Buchers snobbery that, nunify in Canton Bond on Monday night, to crowded houses at the Central back to find they had been ancep The duty of the Retrenchment ing accent would destroy arcadant's fort showed baby Tatar They are seleascanners using that time. He ured

artizans and white collar work was his second offence for assault. and, assembled in a long line, Ere those present that his hear Committee

now functioning in

ers were, as far as speech was con- Remarking that he was a danger easily capable of running to earth with China After remaining at Hong Kong is to investigate the cerned, indistinguishable they might fous man and a fighter," the Magis the iboxes, or mountain goate, found the hospital about an activities of the Civil Service, and meet one another on more comtrate sentenced defendant to one in the Red Sea Hills, Hundreds of and a half, the gallant-Colonel panionable terms and to their month's imprisonment and bound these natives appear in the loca returned to the hotel where he is to ascertain whether the annual mutual advantage Quite or him over in the sum of $100 to keep tion scence of The Four Feathers, staying Hong Kong Daily Pre

the peace for 1 year, expenditure of-some-827,000,000 is Quaite:!?!

their motzete ocravish

EW Mason's novel.

August 27, 1880