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There was another link in the

chain of allegations against the accused in the murder trial at the Sessions when his young brother was called as a Crown without the third day's hearing,

Round the local cinemas.

Page B To-day's wireless programme.

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Sport.

Tennis topics: by " Topi

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Latest Cables.

Was

Latest Wimbledon tennis results. Pago. 9. On Wednesday afternoon there Avenue Haig, du extra-Settlement ап unfortunate fracas im read in Shanghai,

Page 9. Loud cheers greeted Australia's Premier as he read to the House of Representatives Mr. Snowden's: offer regarding the Hoover plat.

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Lord Francis Scott, leader of

. It is expected that the Japanese the Konya Delegation which is to Parliamentary Committee on closer to-day, after a Chinet meeting, give evidence before the Joint | Government; will isseu "a"statement union with Uganda and Tan-manifesting its, wholehearted will- ganyika, has protested against the ingness to agree, in principle, with Page 9. idea that the white settler was a the Hoover proposal, man who sat on his verandah and It is authoritatively denied by raked in a large income from the the Treasury at Washington that work of natives. Last year the the Federal Reserve Board has three million natives of Kenya, actually reached an agreement co he said, had their reservations of cerning relief for the Reichbank, 30,000,000 acres guaranteed to them though consultations are continu- for all time, and are free to working and an agreement likely to Neither Sir Austen Chamberinin on their own lande or for white matérialise. or the Prime Minister was at his employers." On the subject of best in the recent debate on the union, Lord Francis Scott said Soviet, and it was left to Mr. Chur- that Kenya desired to be left alone chill, in an unpremeditated speech, to grapple with her economic and to provide the entertainment. Mr. other problems, leaving constitu Churchill was standing behind the tional changes till later.

The Duchess of York.

It

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was characteristic of tho Duchess of York's spontaneous Speaker's Chair when the Prime

charm that no sooner was tho Minister missed him from his place An Actress Is No Lady 1

cabaret over at Victoria League as he was making a reference to, bis.

Ball at the Dorchester Hotel than: opponent's activities in regard, to

Can an actress be a lady Mr the left her place at the head of India, The signal was given to Bernard Shaw thinks not, for in

a long, carefully arranged supper- Mr. Churchill, and with an ex- cabling a preface to the American table and sat down to have a chat THE recent "little war in Madeira clamation, off What the darted edition of his correspondence with with the actors and actresses who the manifold duties which fall to inshed out at Labour members, and is not a lady; at tonst, when she No Dance the Polka" episode. It furnished yet another example of in and sat down. Presently ho Ellen Terry, he says: "An actress had just taken part in the Sec the British Navy during the course "went for" the Prime Minister. is, she's not an actress." He adds certainly was a never-to-be-forgot of its peace role. Actually, the In no time the air was electrical, that a lady is carefully schooled con sight to watch Sir Gerald du affair had nothing whatever to do and the House was roused from its always to hide her true feelings, Mauriar, heavily disguised in a with England and both the Portu- lethargy. Mr. MacDonald drummed while an actress is trained to show long, black beard, guese Government and the revolu- his fingers, and his anger at Chur her emotions to the world. The Heather Thatcher, wearing

and Misa tionarica in Madeira would have chillion taunts, was betrayed by his letters contain many intimate cen-jauntily-poised, toque" and a hustle be quite justified in resenting ashen face a nervous laugh. Anfessions, and Mr. Shaw comments: apparently attached to a spring, as any attempt at interference. The uninitiated onlooker would have "In allowing everybody who cares they literally bounced round the British Consul, of course, was imagined Here are enemies whose about Ellen Terry to read this room in company with Miss Cicely. quite within his rights in asking mutual antagonism is beyond all correspondence, I must warn them Courtneidge, Mr. Jack Huibert, the safety of British subjects and seconds later they met behind the code of manners which regulates famous "stars" This very amus- that steps should be taken to ensure personal relationships." A few act to judge it according to the Mr. Douglas Byng, and other property, and in response to this Speaker's Chair Mr. Churchill's face letter writing in cathedral towns.ing "turn was preceded by request the London was detached was wreathed in smiles, Mr. Mac As correspondence between: stately and well-executed quadrille from the First Cruiser Squadron Donald was gaily and familiarly churchwarden and a deaconess its and a rather ragged version of the in the Mediterranean, and proceed tapping him on the chest. They implications would make its pub barn dance, the latter being per- ed to Funchal... That her arrival, conversed like old friends as they lication impossible," Mr. Shaw formed by a number of young was a source of considerabla com are-or like two actors off stage in- and Ellen Terry met but chee, and amateurs dressed up, for no partii fort to all the foreigners in the dulging mutual felicitations on their then only briefly, during theircular reason, as milkmaids and. parently it was also a source of island it is easy to believe. Ap- appearances before the footlights. many years' correspondence, ploughboys. some satisfaction to the revolution. arics, who proclaimed that the London" had come to support their bid for liberty, and that hor people were wholly in sympathy with them, an assumption. which was promptly When the Portuguese expeditionary met by an official, contradiction. force arrived to try and stamp out tho uprising the London landed n strong party. It was in this step war" might have found legitimate' that both sides in the little ground for protest."

Local Notes and Events ⋆

Two cases, both Chinese, of typhoid fever were reported during Wednesday.

It is still in the early stages of development and the plans made by Sir PETER CHALMERS MITCHELL the Secretary of the Zoological Society, provided for improvements over many years to come. Soon it will be famous throughout the world. The superlative position is

The dollar was yesterday quoted well considered. There are nearly putting ashore of this British naval at 1/01d; there was no change

But, as far as we are aware, the two thousand animale already in force was distinctly welcome to the during the day. residence. They are in wonderful Portuguese. It was a sort of health and they have begun to affair within respectable bounds, "holding the ring to keep the breed. There are six wolf whelps and to suppress any attempts at left on Saturday by the R.M.S, Mr. J. D. Murphy of the C.P.R. in the dark pine-woods, and arson or looting. On the whole, the Empress of Canada on six months' brown and black bears have made little battle went off very well, the

platform lounges in the trees in their paddock. African zebra are galloping freely around. Old and young wallaby-the latter an tame

new

Amongst the passengers who ar- against forty-cno in 1904; but that rived here by the Blue Fannel liner, is based on expenditure on Antenor, from Singapore yesterday plant, and in a quite useless cal Was the Colonial Secretary of the

Scott, C.MG., who is proceeding Straits Settlement, Hon. MAJ.

bome vid Canada on leave. Ho is accompanied by Mrs. Scott.

Looking Back 25 Years,

Lo

damage done by gunfire compara casualties being light and the leave.

It will not be easy, except for

tively trifling. The London's party Major HB, L, Dowbiggin, those who take a special interest kept as much in the background as 0.B.E., was the host at a dinner possible, and when the war was

in the subject, to sift from the

as squirrels-sbound. They sleep in quietly returned on board. given by him to the officers of the mass of detail in the annual re

The episode over, the cruiser was

culation-Hong Kong Daily Pr June 25, 1900.

Looking Buck 50 Years,

Recently an Imperial adict was promulgated decreeing the period of mourning to be observed for Hor late Majesty the Empress-Regent, widow of Hicor Fung. For one hundred days the people were en- joined to go unshaved as an cut- ward and visible sign of their sorrow for the loss of a lady they

wattle buts and dugouts which will able to depart for Portamouth,ong Kong Volunteer port of the Inspector of Schools a had never soon and only heard cf. bo electrically warmed in winter, where, according to programme, Corps at Volunteer Headquarters suficiently clear bird's-eye view, as a mysteriously grand personag

she should have arrived a month on Tuesday evening. Amongst the That a hundred and fifty nino on whom the common, gazo must Thus a bit of Australian bush has carlier for refit. A mere incident many other guests attending was thousand dollars was spent in 1905 not be cast. Some fifty or sixty been "Englished," and the Zoo in the round of naval life, it is experts have found that, though true, but sa incident with a useful Major-General Sandilands, Gezeral on, the education of Hong Kong citizens ef Foothow, feeling their beach and oak are useless for food, little moral at the back of it. Dur Officer Commanding.

youth, in 83 schools, and that the unshorn patos far from comfort ing the various political turmoils thorn and elm givo Antipodean in South America Inst year British

average attendance at these schoolsable-knowing we how so dom Two young girls, who wore ar increased considerably, are facts these docroos were rigidly enforced animals just the form of vitamins cruisers were detailed for the pro they desire..

tection of life and property, and rested by revenue officers with worth noting; but the ultilitarian-thought this one, which doubtless so tactfully was this mission dis Animals from every continent charged that virtually nothing was opium in their possession, were minded reader, will want to know appeared to them unreasonable aro represented. As a writer said heard about it at home-the most charged before Mr. Schoßeld yes moro. That upper grade schools might be violated with impunity

convinning testimony to of one part of the Park, "sub- Yet on one my testerday. The sider, who gave her attract more scholars than lower and accordingly set the barber, to stitute acacia for thorn and

n and you

and you which shall be nameless, loyal go as 16, was fred 80,000 or im-grado schools sounds well, as also work. But the disobedient on might be in za Indian buah jungle, warship threatened to bombard apprisonment for a year. The younger that some of the private schools makened without their host save for the gorgeous bank of revolutionary town in the morning, gave her age as 18, but, the Magisare turning to the new method" caught in the act of being shaved,) they were taken to the vemen, ham... but when morning came a British flowering trees. The deer moving cruiser lay at anchor between her trate, expressed doubt and accord-hatever that may be, as against booed fined, and only released in and out of the open glades or and the towo, which was most aningly remanded the case until to the time honoured classical after their hapless craniums had

education.”. The net cost of pupils been woll painted and varmishod., lying half-revealed, and half conving since hostilities had to coday. The two girls and between in Government actiocle was a little Hong Kong Daily Press, June 26,

tinue without a naval bombard- cealed in the dappled shade brought ment.

them 112 tools of opium.

over forty-six dollars per head, as 1881.