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HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ARTS ASSOCIATION,

NOTICE:

THE ARTS ASSOCIATION THE Not GENERAL MEETING

will be held on THURSDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, 1930, at 8.30 PM, in Tho UNION ASSEMBLY ROOM' of the UNIVERSITY, when

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Tea will be Served Alter tha Mesting. "The Lecture is open to the Public and all interested are cordially invited

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October 9th, 1990.

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WEATHER REPORT.`

and explain how it is possible for auch incidents to happen. On the

Yesterday's weather report, fore-facts given in the statement appear.. cast and recanrks, issued by the Royal Observatory at 0.15 pm, stated

ing elsewhere, it seems to be clearly established that the attack on Mr. HANEKE was the direct result of

The anti-cyclone over N.E. China trade jealousy. Reference has been

has decreased slightly in intensity: Pressure, is relatively low over the Philippine Islands.

Local Forecast; N.E. winds, fresh; line to cloudy,

TYPHOON WARNING,

The following typhoon warning has been received by the American Consulate-General from the Manila

Observatory:-

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Manila, October 11, 11 Cyclone or typhoon S.E. of Naha, moving, N.E. or E.N.E.

BIRTH. HARRIMAN.-On October 12, at Vic- oria Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. G. A. HARRIMAN, a son (John).

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made in our columns on several occasions to the attempts made by

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News and Views *

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According to figures given in the Department of Overseas Trado's issued report on the economic con- ditions in Italy, the value of that country's purchases of British, gramophonva increased. from four

Tire

in 1020.

"The English of Manchester is This is just another example of nut a-pure English." This dictum, the deplorable state of things that million lire in 1927 to ten million coming from Mr. Sidney G. Honey, is going on at Gretna Green," said a teacher of elocition in the city, Sherig Substitute Reid at the Dum-

Mr. Louis Naintre, of Portland prevent trade in chemical fertiliser, will be interesting to many. Mr. frios Bheriff's Court last month in Buch incidents would be impossible Honey's criticism concornsa's passing sentence of nine months Court, W., managing director of "u's," "o's" as imprisonment on Prtor Meshane, the Embassy Club, and famous in in a well-ordered community, and pronounced as

"a's," and "'"

#alias James Wilson, for bigamy, London clubland' as “Ligi," left their repeated occurrence does great

bequests included. damage to China's prestige. It will" There is only ono English," he was stated that the man wont £41,580. His be interesting to learn what ex-saya; "why should not Northern through a form of marriage with £6,000 to his secretary and man- a widow at Gretna Green last agereza, // Mias Azália Surridge lanation is given by the Chinese people speak it1" This subject of

January, bis first wife by Knight, in appreciation of her. Government of these distressing English pronunciation has been air-whom he three children,"valuable assistance" in the man- happenings, and what assurances ed recently at the Cambridge Surg being alive at the time. For agement of his business. He also AKT School. But both the Cam: the defance it was stated that loft 350 guineas to his friend and can be given that they will not be bridge and the 'Oxford accents (as the accused believed that if the solicitor, Harry Gerald Abraham, repeated.

well as the Mancunian) Mr. Honey ceremony was not registored there calla "wrong." No voice, he says, was no legal marriage and that which "stands out" is in good therefore there was no bigamy.. Laste. Neither, he holds, should The Sheriff-substitute described the there be any dialet in speech. It accused's conduct as" hoartless." puts the speaker in the class known as "provincial." Mr. Honey con

THE “ENGLISH" ARMY.

2.

sary,

had

A "missing son," for whom £5000

to buy a tiepin as a souvenir of our pleasant relations."

The ancient Watching Tower of St. Albans Abbey has boon imperill- ed by the ravages of the black beetle. The timbers of the belfry

Sour interesting statistics are pub. Hished by the Royal Society of St. George relating to the composition siders thero is a very great lack of is to be set aside, is referred to in and the timbered vaulting over: of what is generally known as the apeoch culture in the North. "One the will of Mr. Archibald Orr the Presbytery have also been at British Army. The Society does not,

Ewing, of Roselands, West End, tacked, as well ng furniture in the Southampton. The estato is valued Vestry and Sanctuary. Mr. J. C. apparently, approve that, appella- tion. It has taken great pains to

that at the time of the making of catory on examining the Watching at £55,105. Mr. Orr Ewing stated Rogers, the architest, made the dis- prove that Britain's fighting force-. so for as Foot Guards and Line

the will his son James had not com- Tower, when decay of the oak tim municated with him for some time, ber became visible. He statos that regiments are concerned-ja over-

and that he had no idea of his fortunately the work has boom whelmingly. English It urges that

whereabouts. He directed that if taken in hand in time, and he has the so-called Scottish and Welsh regiments should be reduced, and

James had failed to communicate no doubt it can be remedied. A to impress that personality through with him before his death, the

pen, a time it was not so neces- " he told & Manchester Guar- business the North had its own way, dian representative," because in

but now it has not got it all its own way. It is not as if the North did not possess mon of, great per sonality. It doos, and the one thing lacking seems to be the ability

vacuum cleaner has been carried up ↑

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the modium of speech." That trustees had to hold the share to to the Tower, and is being used brings us to the sort of locution which James was entitled for two to get rid of the dust and dirt in for which Mr. Honey atands, and years. of which he is the only exponent inmunicato in this time, then £5000 extracts the beetle itself. Already If James fails to com- which the beetle flourishes. It also the country.

is to be set aside for another eight four tons of dirt have been taken cancelled the agreement with John years Tames is not traced, the £5000

Leicester City football club have years. If at the end of the ton from the tower. Duncan, their captain. The rules is to be divided among Mr. Orr of the Board left them no alterna- Ewing's other children

A German woman visiting Eng- tive fellowing Duncan'a

or their land eat her impressions to the acceptance of an invitation to become proprio issue. The trustees are instructed Berlin Loka! Anzeiger. Of her tor of licensed promines in Leices to take steps to trace James, The English sisters she says, "It is curious to note how quickly Eng- from the Raith Rovers. He was

Leicester income of Mrs. Archibald Orrishwomen age. In London. & WO- originally a

“Th forward, but has Ewing is to be made up to £1,009 man of 20 always looks 30. graduated into Ma outstanding a year, or in the event of her re Englishwoman does not know bow half-back.

marriage she is to receive £100 a to wear clothes. In every respect she is 10 years behind the Contin- ental oman, in whose style and de- portment war and revolution have worked wonders. On the Contin- at the woman tries to please the man, but here it seems to be the become livelier: the Englishwoman reverse. The Englishman boy has remained the same."

ter. Duncan Canc to

alusions.

year.

the English battalions incrensed nccordingly. The Society has taken the trouble, not only to collect statistics, but to prepare diagrams showing at a glance the precise FOREIGN RIGHTS IN CHINA. composition by nationality of the various Guard and Line regiments of the British (or English) Army. Now that "the tumult and the

It appears that out of a total about the shouting "

**Double of about 117,000 men in military Tenth" has died, we shall be service, no less than 80 per cent. curious to know what the Chinese are English, with less than 10 per cent, of Scottish nationality, 5 per Government has to say about two

cent. Irish, and less than 4 per cent, very disquieting incidents. The Welsh. The so-called Scottish and first relates to the brutal murder Welsh regiments are largely com

A special committee that has been of two women aissionaries; the posed of Englishmen, without cot-sitting at the Ministry of Health Grief-sricken after his father had second concerns an assault upon a

responding numbers of Scotsmen in connection with cancer research drowned his dog in a pool. Albert and Welshmen in English regi has reached soveral unexpected con- John Donovan, aged 11, of Port foreigner engaged in commercial

The investigations show Talbot, ran away two nights and meats. For example, there are that there is a decline in the nam-his body was afterwards recovered business. In regard to the tragedy 7,000 Englishmen in Scottish regir ef women suffering from this from Betsey Pool by the police. It in the North, it is asserted that ments, but only 153 Beotimen in disease and a marked increase in stated that the boy accompanied the number of men. The disease is his father to the pool, and that Chinese officials, when first appeal. English regiments. The Irish regi- found to be more prevalent among when he saw the dog with a brick

ments appear to be composed ex- men of the poorer classes. Another around its neck thrown into the Three stowaways from. London clusively of Irishmen, thought how fact that has been discovered from water he began to cry.. He ran were landed at Queenstown recent- this delicate question of nation-is that the trouble nowadays is to A search party found his cap, and liner, Baltie.

u careful analysis of recent cases way and was seen no more alive, ly from the westbound White Star They had, they ality is decided we confess to not be found more in the part of the the pool was then dragged. It is said, set out from Landow in search kaowing. A man whose name is body between the mouth and the believed that the boy returned to of work, and renching Liverpool ant MEETING to be hold on 25ru 0CTO. | situation. Later on they made a O'FLAHERTY may be no more an canal. The experts do not know and thus met his death,

stomach affecting the alimentary the pool to recover the dog's body boarded the Baltic and hid in the store at the storn of the liner. Irishman than one named Monnas the reason for these facts, and they

They had no food with them, but is a Welshman-ather than that hope that renney will be availablir

found water in a locker. Hunger both originally come from Irish and roscard. Some attribute the in-setts sailed from Liverpool for home Saturday,

"Siamese twins from Massachu.drove them forth at midnight on and while prowling Welsh stock which may have settled crease to tinned foods, but this is recently after a visit to their grand round the ship in search of food in England a hundred years ago,

purely guesswork. At any rate the father in Aberdeen They are Mar- they were found by two stowards. action would be taken were given, and inter-married with English--or case is well worthy of research, and blondes, whose home is in Holyoak, them to be provided with a good change in the incidence of the dis- garot and Mary Gibb, 18-year-old The Baltic'e commander ordered but it is said nothing was done to even actually alien-women. Una benevolent millionaire is boing Massachusetts. They are save the two women who had beentes we know precisely how this looked for so that the new clues may panied by their parents. The the ship's hospital until the liner

be followed up. carried out in analysing the con- question of racial sub-division is

(1)-To receive the Report and Accounts for the Year ending 31st August, 1930. +2)--To sirat. Officer for the Ensuing

Year and other General Bariner. By Order of the General Committeo M. I. DE VILLE,

Hon. Secretary.

Hong Kong, 1st October, 1990, . (9971

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

DRAFT PROGRAMMES NINTH EXTRA BLOEMEET ING to be held on SATURDAY, 22 OCTOBER, 1980 (Weather Permit ling), may be obtained at the Rios COURBE, LONG KONG CLUB, and CAUER WAT BAT STABLES.

ENTRY FORMS for

Entrion CLOSE at 12 O'slook NOON, on THURSDAY, 16m OCTOBER, 1930.

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HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

OLABSIFICATION OF PONIES.

ards to Classify PONIES for

MEETINGS SEASON,

I in the Intention Ped to for assistaner to rescue the the REMAINDER of the EXTEA unfortunate women; showed in Membors desirous of entering their difference to the seriousness of the

Ponies for Class Races at the EXTRA

BER, 1930, are requested to Notify th

SECRETARY by P.M. on MONDAY, 13 OCTOBER, 1990, stating the Names of the Ponies for which they requira Classification.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN, Secretary. Hong Kong, 10th Oct; 1950. (9365

Bernard Shaw says "It is the best life of Wilde, Wilde's memory will have to stand or fall by it." OSCAR WILDE.

definite promise to send troeps after the bandits, but it is said no really strenuous effort was made to effect

Promises that further

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carried off. These allegations are

a very serious character. It is not fair to blame the Chinese Government for its inability to prevent kidnapping. Such incidente happen even in the United States.

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position of the British Army, it impossible to judge the necuracy of the conclusions drawn.

BO DE be able to conduct enreful

accom. meal, and they were lacked-up in.

twins are joined together at the reached Queenstown. They wera hip, and X-Ray examinations have went back to England on the stone recently to cross the Channel columas Consequently an opera.

Soven young students left Folke- revealed a morging of their spinal White, Star liner Cedric. in small, collapsible rubber canoes. ton to separate them would be They were accompanied by a Folke fatal. The twins are clever singers "Small profits, quick returns,""; stone fishing boat. A dense midst and pianists. Although insopar proved a winning motto ta an To assume untionality from the overhung the Channel when the ablo physically, each has her own eight-your-old Aberdeen confidenes racial flavour of a

began attempt

and persisted lides of things, though their read trickster. "Please can you changa naine may be

throughout the day. The sea wasing and tastes are amazingly a penny for two halfponnics?? was very misleading, nor is the place calm, and the canoeists, made good similar. Baby illnesses were the his approach to strangers. “Why of birth more reliable guide. A progress until they were over half-only afflictions they had together, do you want them ?" asked inquir would-be recruit for a crack line way neroas the Channel. On their for since they reached more mature, ing folk, and few generous hearts approaching the French coast they years Magaret has had influenza, resisted the appealing reply-"I regiment whose name in PERLUUTTER found the sen choppy, and within while Mary romained perfectly want to give a halfpenny to my uay be much more. English than five miles of Boulogne the canoes well; Mary has suffered from pneu brother." The youngster bad another named Sair. The latter were taken og in The party nionia, while Margaret did not hundreds of coppers when his

reached. Boulogne safety.

outrage of this character is brought to the mutice of Chinese officials, effective steps will be im- mediately taken to rescue the could be the son of a comparatively victims and punish the offenders, recont German immigrant whose It is alleged that, instead of show name, prior to 1914, was Schr, whereas the young PERLMUTTER may ing a desire to help, responsible come from a family which has been Chinese were indifferent when apeettled in England for generations, pealed to for assistance. This is a and become thoroughly Anglicised most damaging allegation, and the except for its name. No doubt the Chinese Government will be expect ments in the British Army is very territorial-nomenclature of regi- ed to make an early statement in misleading, but in it really any reply to such a serious charge.. thing to worry about if a York- shireman joins the "Somersets," Then there is the Swatow in-

develop oven a temperature.

Local Nor

game was discovered.

and Events

The annual general meeting of At the annual general meeting of, Looking Back 25 Years.

will be held at the Club House, on the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club the Ex-Service Men's Association The annual meeting of thờ”. Monday, October 20, at 5.46 p.m..

which will be held next month, a Kowloon Cricket Club took place resolution is to be placed before the night, Dr. Swan, presiding over e at the Seamen's Institute Inst members proposing the closing down good attendiner. The Chairma

Church to moet Miss Summerville

her arrival in the Colony as the bride of the Rev. N. L. Watkins.

annual meeting of the Club, and, considering its age, he though it was in a very satisfactory condi tion. The talanes at their credit was also satisfactory. They had · done very well in coming out s Icond in the league, although in his opinion they should have won the shield.-Hong Kong. Daily Press, Oct. 13, 1005,

A large quantity of datiable gold- watches and fountain pens, valued at thousands of dollars, was seized by the Customs officials at Shum Looking Back 50 Years,

An Englishman joins the "Welch " The Guild of Martha and Mary of the social club owing to the remarked that that was the first cident, in some respects much more Fusiliers, or a Scotsman enters the are giving an "At Home in St. heavy expenses entailed in its serious than the tragedy in the ranks of the Irish Guards 7. If John's Cathedral Hall on Thursday, operation. Should the proposal be North, though fortunately, and for the nominally Scotch and Welsh October 16, from 8 to † p.m., to adopted; however, the Association tuitously, not attended by any loss loyal Society of St. George urges

giments were reduced, na tha nembers and friends of St. Peter's wall continue its other activities. of life. Roaming bauds of ruffians should be done, and English bat in remote parts of, the country are talions increased, then the logical obviously difficult to control, but process would be also to abolish the equally inaccurate local titlen borne the attack on a German trader took by English regiments. For better at the free school of the Hop chut on Saturday afternoon whenment official lins recently been seen place within fifty miles of Swalow. let things remain as they are, Ying Society in Kung Yum Street, the Canton-Kowloon Railway express by several persons wandering about The full story of this outraga utare illogical and allow Hunghom yesterday when the rain arrived at Shunchun from the back, slums at alt hours of the NEE wolunt,and regimente a man my lord Replay Dawn Gefahrger, die NY METREAT VILARRY RE again the allegations are so serious proud traditions they have but the C.B.E., unveiled a portrait of Mr. seized goods, which were said to speculation has been indulged in, as that the Chinese Government must honoured titles they bear, as in Dyer, C.3.E., B.Sc., be the property of a certain depart to the meaning of this sign of the M.I.N.A., Chiet Manager of the meat store at Hong Kong, were times"Hong Kong Daily Press, take official notice of the affair,dividual units of Britain's army. Hong Kong & Whampoa Docks, taken to Canton for confiscation, Oct. 13, 1880.

A pleasing ceremony was perform-

A recently appointed Govern-

he intended for a diegumo. Much