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Hong Kong Stock Market: Crou chor & Co.'s daily report, Page 7.

Included in the Criminal Sossions trials which will open to-morrow is be indicted on two charges. Page 7. the case of Pto, Paddum, who will

Round the local cinomas.

Pages 3 and &

Page D..

To-day's wirelces programme.

Sport,

U9. Baseball results. Page 70. Comment on week-end lawn bowla games by Green." Page 10.

Home racing notes and news by “ our home racing correspondent,

Pago 10.

Latest Cables.

Count Saito has informally ten dered his resignation as Governor. General of Korea.

Page 8.

The submarines Orpheus and Phoenix left Portsmouth for China:

Page 9 vestorday, to join the new Fourth Flotilla..

and bodywork. 01 which started the race, 37 were left ress to continue the struggle on the second day, and 29 Anished the Couree The race was a decisive success. for Sir WILLIAM MORRIS, for not only did an M. G. Midget win, but the first five places were held by these admirable baby" cars. Of the rest some of the Austin baby cara put up BRITISH MOTOR TRIUMPHS. a splendid performance, but the Morris M. G. Midgets" had the

According to a statement made raco almost from the start, ``, A

by Mr. Ramany MacDonald the British political crisis has been In another branch of motoring

averted

Page 9. British firms have shown remark able enterprise during the past few development. The Road Traffic Act years Messrs Thorynerofts have bookmaker, was sued at Oxford which I had mentioned as being an- has regularised various customs of organised adventurous trips to County Court for £16 118, 11d, byxious to have back, and asked me if Judge Feetham's recommenda a garage firm, & representative of there were any other articles, on tions on the problem of the future driving and, while removing mere Africa during the past year for the firm said that Ormerod seemed which I placed a sentimental value of Shanghai are, being published spood from the list of offences,, has their six-wheeled, commercial vehf. to be prosperous and doing well. I mentioned three other articles on Wednesday.

Judge Randolph: How do you know that? Well, he has a fat, anyone else. He said that they took off at 5 am. yesterday for

The British motor industry is just entering upon a new phase of its

Canada, · Brazil, and parts of

America, seg

in

Bogus Millionaires)

When Captain

Д Ormerod,

is well dressed, and has a car," was the reply. The Judge: That does not mean that he has means. People with nothing ride about in big cars, smoke expensive cigars and give banquets, but a millionaire goes about as if he had not two pence in the world.

which were of no great value to

would be returned."

Good-bye to Latin,

Page 8.

Count and Countess Desibour Koenigsberg on the first stage of their trans-Asian flight. Page 9.

For fear of being pirated, stenm launches plying between Waichow and Ho Yuan on the East River have stopped running. Page 9.

That the Government had receiv ed no request for an International Silver Conference was stated by Mr. Snowden in reply to a question' in the House of Commons. Page D.

Page 9.

made dangerous driving, in the cles Sand dunes, scrub, clay soil, wider menning of the term, and lava beds, some of which areas had never been covered previously crime. At the same time the by any motor vehicles except buyer of a modern British car light. Ford car, were crossed with

The University of Yale has dealt is free from a multitude of out difficulty with three-ton loads

a mortal blow to Latin. The at an average speed of 18 km. an mechanical troubles that were com- hour. Morris Commercial vehicles

University Corporation bas just mon to all drivers, not many years are doing remarkably good work

announced that in future the study of classics will not be required for districts out-of-the-way ago. Thus the public is encouraged in

the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and Egypt, in Finland, the Fiji to take up motoring by provision Islands, the Seychelles, the Falk Bir Joht Reith for America?

that the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy will be discontinued. of better road conditions, and the land Islands, Siam and Sarawak, The Director-General of the Latin has therefore gone the way Damage estimated at from £40,000 ear of to-day can be relied upon aud in various parts of South B.B.C. is leaving shortly for the of Greek In the words of the local to £30,000 was caused by Sunday's to perform work that no road

British motore are thus proving United States and is likely to be fait, the rigours of a competitive windstorm at Birmingham, and vehicle has ever performed before, their excellent qualities all over absent for some time, says a Home and classical age have exacted their steps are being taken to help the The National Government in Can. and this at a minimum expendi- the world, and this is reflected in paper. The ostensible purpose of natural tell, and the students have homeless families.

the export figures Of the 238,828 Sir John Reith's visit to discuss celebrated their victory by a bon ture of energy on the part of the vehicles zoanufactured in Great technical matters and the problem fire of Horaces and Juvenals. In ton has ordered all banks and driver.

Britain during the year ended of relaying to the English speaking future examinations the classics money dealers in Canton, Shanghai

nations. It is whispered, however, The British motor car of the near exported. On the other hand, the the chairmanship of one of the large ages. The abolition of Latin in the buying or selling bonds, just issued September, 1830, 13.4 per cent. were that he may be tempted to accept will be replaced by modern langu and other places to refrain from imports of motor vehicles during fan crear antic, combines Ameri: American universities can hardly by the Nanking Government. the Arst eleven months of 1930

cans have frankly recognised for fail to hasten the process of diver showed n' decliné of 24,602, or... 09.

service is botter than their own. American languages. Some of us for the previous year. It has been its doubtful whether Sir John forsee the day when Yale and estimated that during the past year Reith would in any circumstances, Harvard will include English in salary, accept such a their curriculum of foreign langu- vehicles brought into use in Grent or for any cart Eixed in his own ages and when, B.A. at Oxford and Britain were imported vehicles. Of B. Car would be adapt himself Cambridge will signify nothing the good quality of her goods there readily to the competitive and com- more than Bachelor of American. can be question; the next import mercialised service as practised in It will be a popular, but possibly ant step is for the British manu- the States.

difficult, degree....... facturer to ensure that they are made known and available through.

future will make still fewer claims upon the driver's attention. An The Times Trade and Engineering per cent, compared with the figures some time past that the Savoy Hill gence between the English and the Supplement recently pointed out, "its brakes will be self adjusting Its lubrication will be automatic to all parts, and ite, engine will be so designed that the troubles associated with decarbonisation

CDIRECTORY & CHRONICLE be eliminated. Improvements in celluloid paints and in methods of rendering metal parts untarnish- able are now in progress and may be expected soon to reduce the work of cleaning to very small pro portions." The motor industry is beginning to produce vehicles built trouble-frea a basis of mechanisms, and in this connection there is plenty of evidence that British manufacturers are leading the world.

THE following Scholarships will be THE

Awarded on the Results of the

EXAMINA MATRICULATION TION to be held in NOVEMBER.

1821:-

1-One Hong Kong Government Educational Scholarship, open to GIRL candidates from Hong Koog Schools,

2-One Hong

Kong Government Educational Scholarship, open to BOY candidates from Hong Kong Schools,

15th June, 1991,

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This Large Volume of approximate.

ly 2,200 Fages gives, in addition to the Usual Lists of Firms, an Alphabetical Lists of Residents in the Far East containing the Names of nearly

20,000 FOREIGNERS.

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BUNGAN Page. 9. A train from Pamplons hound for Saragossa conveying a thousand Roman Catholics, who had been participating at a meeting held at Pamplona, whore speeches were made attacking the cover the alleged anti-clerical policy, ran the Republican gauntlet of angry crowds at every railway station through which it passed., Page 0.

Local Notes and Events

A Chinees rattan worker was re- moved to the Mental Hospital after trying to commit suicide. The man had been rescued from the harbour,

-A Chinese was sentenced to driving it seems to be that the one month's imprisonment by Mr. dealings of the nations of the Weat Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis. with the Celestial Empire should be tracy yesterday for the theft of a directed by Christianity, and that bicycle.

is much to ask, seeing that they do not do so to each other.-Hung: Kong Daily Press, June 17, 1906. Looking Back 50 Years,

It has been reported to the police Ko, absconded with 8987 that a shroff in the employ of Ly which he collected from a local hotel together with 82,000 which was entrusted to him for deposit in the Bank of East Asia,

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Mr. Allan Cameron and Mr. C. WHAT makes and keops a novel alive, if live it doen, is the interest Gordon Mackie returned yesterday of its characters. Mr. GALSWORTHY by ss. President Johnson. declared for that sound old prin ciple of literary taste in his Romanes lecture. Ho complains that the modern novelist ignores it, In every branch of the industry caring little or nothing for men and women but only for the species progress has been made. The Man. Human feeling and thought wonderful performance of Captain Sir MALCOLM CAMPBELL in his "Blue Bird" when be gained the world's speed record on Daytona Bench, proved that British de. signers, engineers and fitters are supreme in their own particular fields. A new cheap car known as the "Wizard" was recently put on the market by the arm of Hillman, This car was built for the foreign mental and spiritual activities can Jockey Club are reminded of the The ticket office at the Taipo statements of various mattere, all

The forthcoming marriage is an are carefully analysed without the Admission of any such creature as nounced of Mr. George Woodward, an individual. It is a fair des of the Hong Kong Civil Servica, aription of a good deal of preten. and Miss Elizabeth Blyth, residing tious modern writing. The causes at 31, Morrison Hill. which have produced it are obe

vious enough. The first is the Bilk forwarded from here by the revival recently of the English Empress of Japan on May 23 arriv habit of using novels as a medium ed in New York (St. John's Park) for teaching and preaching. The and Hokoken on June 15, having second evil influence is the success been 23 days in transit. of the new prychologies in persuad

ing innocent youthy that all our

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It is understood that the local branch of the Overseas League is arranging an "At Home" to be held early in August. The object is to get together more candidates to be the hostess, for the occasion, for membership. Mrs. Hallifax is and it is hoped that Sir William Members of the Hong Kong and Lady Feel will be present. general meeting to be held at the Club House, Happy Valley, to-day, nt 5.16 p.m.

It does not appear from the con- dition of the silver market at Home Monetary Conference of Paris re that much oanfidence is felt in the aulting in action likely to enhance the value of the metal. There is, of course, still room for hope that when the representatives meet again at the end of this month, they may find themselves able to frame such menta, as will, when carried into recommendations to their Govern effect, at least put an end to the uncertainty as to the future of the silver. In the meantime, short, be brought under general rules and market and put to the most gruel inevitable chemical zo

Railway Station was broken into bearing more or less on the present on Monday night and a number of position of silver, will be interest- ling tests on the roughest French actions.

second class tickets were stolen, ing. Since 1878 when the output and Spanish ronds, and over the Admitting with the utmost polite

John Wilson, John Campbell, and Yesterday a coolie who presented of silver from the Nevada mines ncas the ingenuity of fiction of this. worst passes of the Pyrénées. Next school, M., GALSWORTHY declines to John Marson, all of the Argyll and an unstamped ticket at Fanling added to the sales by the German it was shipped to North Africa, believe that it has anything to offer Sutherland Highlanders, have been Station was arrested and it is be- Government produced the great silver at these mines and in the broke into the ticket office," where it had to face the ficry heat which can take the place of the reported to the police as being abloved that this was the man who scare, the actual production of neighbouring States has been as of Morocco and the floods of compelling power of the individual sent from their companies.

character. Unless all the past ex- Algeria. It was later driven over perience of the world is to be con- A mistress of a passenger boat B. Radford of the 12th, Heavy curately ascertained. During the the mountain pasacs of Italy and tradicted by the future he is clearly was fined $50 by Comdr. Newill at Battery, RA stationed at Lyee last five years it dias averaged about Austria, and subsequently subjected right. Thousands of scientific the Marine Court; yesterday, for mun, was involved in a motor ac- £7,500,000 per annum, er about: ons expositions of the species" have conveying women in the harbour for eldent on Monday when the car in half of the silver ascertained to be to those extremely severe conditions hnd their day and ceased to be the purpose of prostitution, which he was riding ran into a wall produced in the world. The mines We, near the A.P.C.installation at in all the United States produced which an Alpino winter can pro The characters aro what we Thor A vide. No new model was ever member from old books, not the A bathing, picnic organised by the North Point, The driver of the car about £8,000,000 worth of silver in author's opinions. Why it is that European Branch of the YMCA, was uninjured. Radford was re- 1880, and the coinage for the firea! £8,600,000. The total amount of subjected to a more searching some authors have the gift of great is arranged to take place this after moved to the Government Civil year ending last June was samo standard dollars coined up to 1st amination, but the "Wizard "

ing men and women thoroughly noon. Similar picnics are to be held Hospital for treatment.

November last was about £14,600, more than proved its stamina

Lamina and real and fascinating company, en alternate Wednesdays and Satur | Balka

000, of which some £5,200,000 had $12 efficiency; it étaerged triumphantly while other authors, immensely able days, until the end of July,

gone into circulation. On the Ist and earnest, can produce, nothing "hig from every test. And the family but sticks, MT. GALSWOBTILY does A Chines was given thres Looking Back 25 Years,

of January the entire silver cur

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List of Agencies held by

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us there is no rute and no method, Williams at the Central Police six years' residence in China, Dr.rency of the United States was and for his own part puts the in Court yesterday, on a charge of To-Timothy Richards contributes an early Eat,000,000 in standard and Somer remarkable performances spiration down to that bypothesis turning from banishment. It was article entitled China and the trade dollars in subadiary comes were chieved by the M G of yesterday, the subconscious mind stated that the defendant was a West to the current issue of the of which some £15,000,000 were in nt the third Double-which is at least more respectable former member of the police force Contemporary Review Unforta circulation, the balance being held. Midget

our face organised by the then its modern version, the un- who was deported for ten years nately, there is a harness about the by the Treasury and the banke

conscious self. The mystery of after being implicated in an armed article which detracts from its in- Hong Kong Daily Press, June 17,

Z prefsiveness. In effect, what he is 1881.NO robbery. at Brooklands: ability in a mystery still Junior Car Ol