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Colonel Ashley and the Eggs. Young Mr. Randolph Churchill's Forest), at a meeting of the Stand. Colonel Wilfrid Asbloy (C. New age has nothing to do with the uttering Committee which is considering truth of one of his reported romarka during his lecture tour in the U.S.A. the Land Utilisation Bill, said: trial.

Seven million eggs are brought into not like to eat more than a quarter England every year, but I should of them. The laughter caused by this comment was renewed when Colonel Ashley pointed out that what he really meant was that only one quarter of these egge could really be considered catable.

The Ferjurer.

Is it not the case that in the last fifty years there has been only one Scotsmans convicted of perjury And he was an Aberdeenshire illicit whisky distiller. Asked by the judge where, he had obtained the six bottles found in his house, he replied: "I was gi'en them by a Without fur- ther evidence a Scottish jury gave him thirty days.

BRADLEY & CO., LTD. for the New Year | Editorial and Business Offices: 1 Farewell gatherings every other friend in Aberdeen.

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DER HENDERSON of BHANGHAI HAY THIS DAY heon, Appointed DIRECTORS of this Company.

For BRADLEY. & Co., LTD.,.

JOHN A. PLUMMER, Managing Director.

Hong Kong, 1st Jan, 1981.

HONG KONG BOXING ASSOCIATION,

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Arranged for JANUARY 30 the RINGSIDE TICKETS will be $6.00 and 70 Cents Tax. 36.70 in All, and the STALL T CKETS will be $400 and 40 Centa Tax, 84,40 in Ali, instead of $5.00 end $3.00, rapectively. The CIRCLE TICKETS will be $1.00 as Usual and 10 Conte Tax, $1.10 in All.

JAMES T. PRIOB,

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To give expression to the usual New Year greetings in a business community at this time is to invite a reply similar to that of the testy major to the breezy "good morn ing "of the junior subaltern. Our own remarks on Deccinber 31st, in

Saturday morning aboard the out going P&O.arons hearty ns ever, and those of us who star behind can reflect, as we dry our homesick eyes that life in Hong Kong still has certain advantages.

THE PROTECTION OF

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AGROWING appreciation of the moral and economic importance of secking the mental and physical welfare of the young is among the most hopeful characteristic of modern civilisation, and Hong Kong by its support of the Society for the Protection of Children has shown that its attitude towards this question is progressive, and that the Colony as a whole is alive to our review of last year's business the fact that hitherto machinery for and this year's prospects, hardly dealing with the problems of child- tered on the side of beaming welfare has been inadequate. The optimism, and suggest an appro- Government has undertaken priate wariness in uttering the usual direct responsibility, and the platitudes of January 1st. Hong various privata charitable institu Kong, however, still has its com- tions have only been able to deal pensations. It is true that the out with a fraction of the cases where look for the dollar grows steadily crime or suffering have been due darker, that the Chinese buyer to parental neglect, ignorance, or prefers cheapness to quality, which

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Sport.

To-day's charity football match at Sookunpoo.

Page 10, Home football programme for to- day.stres

Page 10. Playing in the Shameen Football League, H.M.S. Tarantula beat the Page 10. Shameen Sports Club by 1. goal to

Sir Edward Elgar, Master of the King's Musick since 1924, has been inspired by the birth of little Princess Margaret Rose to write a wil.. "Nursery Suite" for the Orchestra. It consists of about seven short Latest Cables. pieces with the titles of old-fashion- The Chinese Press relates that aed nursery rhymes. It has not you young man of Wuchow was seen to run down the main street and throw himself into the West River. When he, was picked up by the boat. population ho indignantly denied that he wanted to commit suicide. He plunged into the river because ghost was chasing him. He was handed over to the police who took him to hospital..

Spats and the Middle West.

The Great American People are convinced that all Englishmen wear spais, even as the Great White Soul of Russin conceives of capitalists as people holding a top hat in one and mother a bottle of champagne. These visual habits take long to die."

True it is that some of the oldest, as also of the newest, of our patricians do affect these fussy little gaiters round their feet. I see no objection to this old-world habit. But to the Americans, it seems, spats denote:

(1) Feudalism:

(2) The effete civilisation of the

West.

Senator Robinson, that sturdy Democrat, has got into trouble since his return from the London Confer ence by permitting himself to be photographed in a pair of spate of n delicate pearl grey. This photo Middle West. And the Senator's

been prestige hus shaken.

all we been circulated in the

National Types.

the new Tariff.

the

In a political ríot at Capitanejo, been performed, but the score will in Colombia, eight were killed and bo published early in the New Year 11 wounded.

Page D. by Keith Prowse & Co., Ltd., toj All goods arriving in China after gether with one or two small works 4,30 yesterday afternoon came under by Sir Edward. The Nursery

Pago 9. Six banks in State of Suite" has been dedicated to the

Their de Duchess of York and the two little Mississipi have closed. Princessco, Princess Elizabeth and posits aggregate £1,750,000. Page Princess Margaret Rosc.

Tilden, the famous tennis player, has announced his retirement from He amateur tennis tournaments." It is strange how public opinion has decided to join the filma.

Page 0. persists in taking as a national type.

The Japanese Cabinet have de the type of sixty years ago. Even to-day you will not infrequently see cited to appoint Mr. Zanjiro Hori- the Frenchman of the caricature or kiri to succeed the late Marquis pastor wearing a beard which went Komura as Vice-Minister of the out of fashion in 1870, Frenchmen Department of Overseas Affairs. do not, except on posters, wear an imperial. The German of the cari- cature is typical rather of the Liberals of 1878 than of the lean and anxious Hitlerite of to-day. And even in the year of grace 1830 the Englishman is depicted in Paris newspapers as

a man with the motton-chop whiskers of Matthew Arnold and a stalking cap of the sort worn in the earlier portraits by Mr. Sherlock Holmes.

The Chinese Telegraph Adminis tration and the Commercial Pacific Cable Company have reached an agreement regarding the Company's

agreement has also been reached profoundly with the other two cable companies. Page 9.

operations in China, and a similar

:

Page 0. Proclamations issued inform the public that the octroi and similar taxes. are abolished in Fengtai, Kupeikow and Nankow, as well as Pago 9. at the city gateways of Peiping.

A radio message from the steamer Duris reported to Sydney an alarming earthquake shock through- out the western islands of Now- Gainen on the 24th inst. The shock was accompanied by a tidal wave. eight feet high,

Page D The Apostolic Delegation has re- ceived a telegram from Bishop Mignani stating that the four Fathers and five Sisters who were.

Christmas Day reached Kinnta on the 20th inst.

Page 9. (Continued on previous column.)

rescued by the Government troops

Local Notes and Events ★

There will be no isauo of the Daily Pre to-morrow but publica we take pleasure in wishing our tion will be resumed on Saturday. readers a Happy and Prosperous New Year..

The P. & O. 8.a. Comorin will am. on Friday morning and not at arrive here from Singapore at a

p.m. on Thursday.

ed that in the last year thero eame goods, and that the Government is before the Magistrates 1,142 juvenile applying the screw of taxation!'

offenders, and of these 131 boys and But against that wo at five girls under the age of sixteen least get in Hong Kong three things were sent to prison. One of the barred to all but the very opulent Society's prime objects is to press at Home. And they are things most the Government to consider 'the needful for comfort, namely, ter setting up of juvenile courts and vants, housing and alcohol. We all the establishment of industrial know the sins of the boy and the schools and reformatories. The amali. Chinese servants, the old Government has already appointed hands" tell us, have never been the a Committee, to discuss the neces same sincs the mon cut off their sary steps, and has allocated the pig-tails. They have lost not merely buildings of the former Aberdeen

One death from typhoid was re- Chas dignity, respectfulness and Paper Milla to the Salesian Fathers ported for the 24 hours ended Ds. truthfulness, which belong to every as premises for a reformatory-sember 30. golden age of the past, but even school. The Society has also drawn their skill in cooking. Nor in the up and sent to the Government a case of the women have they the Draft Bill dealing with the whole knack of washing and "getting up" question of the trial of juvenile a suit of whites. But they can be offenders, their segregation from

A Chinese schoolboy named Chan had. They can even be sent off adults, before and during trial, and Man has been arrested for the with month's salary in lieu of the abolition of imprisonment for alleged theft of two women's notice in the sure knowledge that children under fourteen, with sug-sweaters from Messra. Wing On & another will at once fill the vacant gestiona for their being found over cubby hole in the servants' quarters. on probation so that an officer (paid Some of us may wonder how long that will fast. All good things come haviour and report to the Court to an end, and the day may yet down This offer would also try to find when servant registries gather in them employment, and generally Hong Kong ill-gotten gaine equal to befriend them. The aim of such those of such institutions in the an Ordinance would not be to Homeland. At present, however, relieve parents of their respon all is well, servants; and good ser-sibilities but to ensure their fulfil vanta, can still be got in Hong ment; it provides for summoning Kong, Out-of-work factory lassies parents and fining them if the cannot, as in Lancashire, go on the child's offence has been due to their dole rather than lay a table or answer a bell.

In the matter of housing the knowing onor can still pursue the policy of a new fat every other year-when the old one is beginning

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Commencing to-day, the Hong Kong Tramway. Company's motor buses on the Taikoo route will pro coed vid Lockhart Hond instead of Queen's Road. East.

...

Mrs. G. Ashwell Cobban (authoress of "Spangle Arrives," " De Ukelele 4. Werdeock, 1.8.0., formerly of Band," etc.), daughter of Mr. G. fiong Kong has been elected a men- ber of the Author's Society and was present at their dinner at the Hotel Victoria, London.

Mr. O. Whitehead, of 12, Gran ville Road, has reported to the his fiat & woollen, travelling surf police that some person stole from: and a woollen blanket, the total value of which was placed at 847. The theft was alleged to have occur red sometime between two and, three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.

On a summons brought at the Central Police Court by Sub-In-

A report has been made to the spector A. V. Baker yesterday police by Mr. A. C. Braine-Hart- exit doors from the stalls bolted December 28 and 9 a.m. on Decem against the management of the nell, of May Hall, the University, Central Theatre for having two that sometime, between 18 p.m. ̧on.

during a performance, Mr. R. E.ber 20, some person 'stole from his Lindsell adjourned the case for a motor car, which was parked in week, and said that he wouldvin Lyttleton Road, a pump and three small spanners, the total value of spect the premises.

which was placed at 68.

who

Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday son tenced a Chinese, who was con

The funeral of the late Mr. J. H. According to a police report, pro.victed of theft of 820, from a or voluntary) can watch their Leperty worth $150, which was stolen passenger on a tram on Monday, Woodier, custodian of the Happy

from No. 4, Alberton Terrace a few to six months hard labour. Detec, Valley Recreation ground, days ago, has been recovered in a tive Sergeant Lament said that the died at the Government Civil Hos

defendant had been convicted on pital on Tuesday, took place at pawnshop.

two previous occasions. He was Happy Valley the same day, the well-known to the police as being a Rev. G. T. Waldegrave officiating. man who travelled on trams for the The deceased was 56 veads of age and had been in the Colony for the sole purpose of picking pockets.

past 30 years, originally coming out A Chinese watchman named Howith the Welch Regt. Death was Chi has been admitted to the due to pneumonia and tuberculosis. Government Civil Hospital, suffer ing from a stab wound in the abdo men. It was stated that the reason for the assault on the man, was committed because be interrupted a card party which was going on in No. 1 Wharf, Kowloon Gndowns, and three Chinese coolies are now being detained by the Police.

neglect or indifference. At present the work of investigation is being enrried on by a trained Chinese lady inspector. Homes are visited, medical treatment is secured where necessary, and relief administered

•

The exchange on the Hong Kong dollar yesterday opened at 1/1d. but receded in the course of the day 1/1d., making a new low re cord for the last day of the year,

A sampan moored near the east wall of the Kowloon Anchorage, was capsized early on Tuesday morning through the action of the backwash of a passing junk. The crow, how. r, were all rescued by the steam launch Mitsui which happened to

Looking Back 25 Years.

The educationul department in Canton, bas' notified all the local military and civil colleges that they

are to send their scholars to the o parade ground near the Koon Yum We have been informed that Mr. Shan on the first of January, 1908, to get shabby. Furniture removal in kind. This work inereseca month

C. AL Rumjahn, the tennis ex- for a grand parade, All the schools champion of Tientsin, who received are practising drills to compete for an invitation from the Philippine the prizes. Some Chinees Kipling. in cheap, and housewives become by months, and not the least import-bo passing at the time,

Amateur Athletic Federation has perhaps, urged the desirability expert at the job. Even if childrenant part of it is the after care of As from today, the now mooring take part in the Philipppine 1931 of teaching the young idea how to and men-folk object, the thing is children who have been relieved by buoys in the Harbour will, bu National Tennis Tournament in shoot-Hong Kong Daily Press, worth i, for landlords, (though the Society. The aim is construe brought intense. During the past Manila, from January 30 to Feb December 30, 1995. there are worthy exceptions) do tive, and remedial rather than year, many alterations have been ruary 15, has decided not to make

show that there are "A anchor prefers to stay in Hong Kong and The twenty-fifth Victoria Regatta not jump at suggestions of painting punitive measures are adopted when made, and the now chart of buoys the trip, the reason being that he Looking Bank 50 Years. and colour washing. In these days over possible in dealing with both ages, while there has also been an compete in the local championship opened in weather the reverse. of which comes off about the same cheerful; the best that could be said time.

of it being that it did not rain it is oven possible to get a house parents and children. To secure increase in the "B" buoys.

The

after the sports commenced, though local agents of the Fuji quito cheaply. Is there not How public interest leaflets priuted in

According to a Police Report, it had been drizzling the great part loon Tong, as good as any garden English and Chinese have been dis-Paper Co., Ltd, have forwarded. vity, oven to the naming of the tributed. These state the aims and us a large tear off calendar, with Micky Davy, the son of Sergt. of the morning. There was subeient theremometer attached. The latter Dave of the Argyll and Sutherland wind to take the yachts round their roads 1 Surrey Lane was obvious, but methods of the Society, and ex was showing 59 degrees Farenheit Highlaudes, was bitten by a brown course, and the race was a good one, Rutland Quadrant is n stroke of plain what, according to the laws when it arrived! The Red Rose chow dog owned by Sergt. Williams. The sailing cuccs for ships boats of the Colony, constitutes an offerico Barhar and Beauty Parlour also of the H.K.S.R.A., at Jordon Road did not bring out many starters, genius.

other case, and this time the yiotip For rowing not much fault could American asceticism bas nat peno-ngainst children. The value of the scat an attrictive Chinese calendar on Tuesday. There was also one and these events went rather flatly. When a Chinese named Tsang was Jack Hutchison, the son of be found with the water, but to trated to the Colon and the matter sex stock for sale

and the matter services rendered by such a Bociety. of our drinks cannot be forgotten. cannot be overestimated Woli ensard before the Howloon Sergt. Hutchison, of the A. & S. wards the end there was a strong Magistrate on the charge of having ingangers ve yar bitten baiting anyway. At the n England prices for old-fashioned that both the Government and the kanapped mare and Sergeant bow-award, by flaret Garre Samne inconvenience w

caser were treated at the Kowloon anchoring in the middle of the brows e so exorbitant that much civil population will do all that is Goodwin applied for a remand in diner, of the same regiment. Bot caused by one of the river steamers order further inquiries into the ease of what does not relievo the trans in their power to further work by could be made. This was granted Military Hospital, the animals bently course, but she moved away when Atlantic drought is shipped to Hong co-operation, individual effort, and and the man was accordingly re. later seized and placed under obser requested. Hong Kong - Daily

manded till Saturday."

Press, December 30, 1990. Kong. Twenty epolies were soen in financial support.

ration.