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DIRECTORY & CHRONICLE HONG KONG, JANUARY 12. 1959.

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THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

IT will be a great pity if the New Territories Agricultural Show

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1932.

News and Views

FINE SHERRIES

and even if he werp, not too poor, he refuses to look at anything foreight If British. firma take up this attitude once again they will find their rivals quietly winning where they have failed. Then they ¦ Tale of the Day,

follow immediately, In fow slack about paints which everybody. A famous art eritic we shown a years' time, one may suppose, cuz | knows," writea may think with regret of the little.

London curTCS- picture done by an amateur, and shops will be filled with "beaver-pondent. show at Sheung Shui,which they was naked to give his opinion of it pin," "chinchilla-japin "ses "Two examples occurred at the might have madou success, and

ravival of The, Nelson Touch" at "I can truthfully say replied-opin" and "erming-tapin

But it is safe to prophecy that the St. Martin's Theatre Mr. SUPERIOR PALE DRY where they might have picked up a the critic, that the painter of this

pisture in a very good painter in by that sime feminine fashions will Francia Lister, AB

the soupegrac lot of useful information.

that he observes the Command-have changed, and really smart brother, eagerly sizes a copy of mente,”

womens will bus fur from beavers | The Daily Telegraph for news "What do you mean by that specially trained to look like com. an international orisis of the first men"bunny." When science tries magnitude. He finds it somewhere

with fashion it is to keep pace

near the bottom of an advertise- biting off rather more than it can ment pago | chew.

asked someone.

"I mean that he hath not mada to himself the likenew of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth bonenth, or that is in j the water under the earth," replied the critic.

Lake.

Volunteering to Watch Gold.

mongery,"

Mother Version......

of

J

FULL GOLDEN

of very superior

quality grown and

bottled by Anto R.

Ruiz Y. Hermanos

de la

Xeres Frontera. Specially selected.

The show last week-end had rather the appearance that it draw support from a small circle, of Chiaose who had been cajoled into bringing along their exhibits, and

""Abdominal Ironmongery." who hoped to please someone by

"Presently he reads aloud what shorificing a few cents worth of

An attack on the common cold is is supposed to be this journal's produce.

If the show does not Les English Girls."

being made at St. Bartholomew's editorial opinion on the tront of Ecapital, London, with the support affairs. Again he reads from progress this fondency will in-

If French shorus girls are amoy

of the Medical Besearch Council, page which averybody can see is not ercass till the whole thing becomes Led at the number of English girls.

Attempts aro boing made with the middle one where leading little ridiculous. No doubt nemployed in revues they have been materials prepared at the Medical articles are printed,

impersonate his good deal of friendly persuasion very long time in reaching that Institute at Hampstead to transmit Lator,

frane of mind. For "les English colds to volunteers from among the brother, he wears his decorations. was at first needed to bring in ex-girls" have been a feature of students who are not working in But the badge of an order, which hibitors from bighways and bodgar, lighter theatrical entertainment not the wards. Later, it is hoped to ought to hang close against his and to study evening tio, hangs on a long ribbon but it is impossible to carry on in Continent for many years. This possible approach to the prevention so that it rasts in the region dedi

only in Franco but all over the eclate the virus such manner. The genuine support sudden objection locks suspiciously and aura of colde

anted to what the late King Ed- of the Chinese farmers must be oblike the "roprianla" which tho i

After three weeks of preliminary ward once called "abdominal iron- tained. It is necessary to amusemademoisellas have threatened to trial the experiments have roached a. stage when further voluntotra him and instruct him and give him.

may expect their full quota al a clean lead towards greater profts.

anoeses, shivering and coughs. Filma, pictures, models, lectures English girls are not employed in Playgoers" Problem. and demonstrations should figura foreign revues sa chorus girls babi prominently ou

as members of dancing troupes, be- 1 these occasions,

cause they dance far better than What an attraction a Alm of New French girls. At the Casino do Territory scenes would have been Paris, the Coneers Mayel, and the It is easy to any, like a certain Folies Bergere it is the French! girla who Dose gracefully in: English admirad on a not very gorgeously exiguous costumes, and A few foot below this is the warn that next year's disarmament Con will bathe the drooping glorious gecasion, "we have done it is the English girls who, with

linked arms, wave their vory well" The President of tho about in perfect, symmetry They For Adults Only.

ing: legs. Association pointed to the increase are as faultlessly drilled as a of Vegetable growing since the show platoon of Guardsmen work hard tomime occupies the theatre in the The explanation is that a pan- was started. Bat was the show the end ascetic lives--and usually come afternoons, and a very sophisticat cause of the increase? The Botanical

fed play takes its place in the even- and Forestry Department did very

ings. well, but though they deserved full

Careless. marks for quality of produce, the Bward for imagination would not be so high

Better Dancers.

from Manchester.

The Beaver-Rabbit.

There is & West End thostret which at the moment is presenting something of a problem to potential playgoors

On its outside wall is a poster :

Bring the Kiddies,

A Chicago rabbit-fancier, Dr. fected a breed of rabbit, with fur being struck with the odd way in Friend, announces that he has per "I rarely go to the play without exactly like a beaver's. Other, rab- which actors, who, as a class, are bits, he claims, whose fur resembles such whales for correctness of do- Can anything more be done in 1958 que tail in recondite matters, ura oftep the Now Territories: The best rien

in China, that was sent in olden. time to the Royal Palace, is grown there. Is that really the best us of the land? Sir CECIL CLEMENTI spoke of on growing possibilities qp many occasions, and Sir WILLIAM PERL thinks that pineapples would flourish. These are expert and authoritative opinions. Sugar cane, cotton and many crops have been mentioned. Perhaps the Associa

thould fail in its objective and either be abandoned or carried on ng the insignificant plaything of ation will investigate whether it is few onthusiasts, with the Chinese farmers blandy scepticnt abqut the This Large Voinms of approximate. whole affair" The object of an ly 2,200 Pages given, in addition agricultural show is to effect con- to the Usual Lists of Firma, an tact between the farmer on the one Alphabetical Lists of Residents side, and his customers, and the in, the Far East containing the Names of neatly

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20,000 FOREIGNERS.

better to let well alone, or if pro- gress is a practical proposition. If it is not then the show has no meaning, but enough,has been done already to give reasons for expect ing a slow, very slow, but fairly' Bakers of agricultural machinery sady change of methods and in- and appliances on the other. åt

Beneath the spreading chestnut

tree

The village smithy moores. No nag, since 1923,

Has been to him for shoeses.

In Circles,

It is stated by those who ap parently know how to recognise a turning-point when they seo one,

faronco will be

turning-point in

"One sip

.

spirit in delight

the history of the world. This is about the fifteenth conference, or has been hailed as a turning point other international event, which in history since the end of the war.

If one is to bake thear definitions Beyond

soriously the only possible logical doduction, by elementary geometry, is that history has executed voral and is still revolving. complete circles since the Armistice,

Perhaps this accounts for fact that the statesmen of the world are running round in circles,

Local Notes and Events

There was one case of diphtheria over the week-end.

The Mayor of Swatow, Mr. T. S. Wong, accompanied by Mrs. Wong. arrived in the Colony by the as President Jackson yesterday.

A tennis tournament (for men only) will be held by the Civil Ser vico Cricket Club on Sunday at Happy Valley, commencing at 30 p.m. sharp.

No European cases of diphtheria we reported over the week-end and the epidemic may be consider Bcation, that of a Chinese, has been made since Friday afternoon.

the big English agricultural showsease in the wealth and produced to be at an end. Only one noti

tivity of the New Territories.

elaborata exhibitions are staged by |be engineering firms whose names are household words among the Arranged, with the initials as well tillers of the soil, and the indus- as Surnames in strict alphabetrial side is as important as the tical order.

CLASSIFIED LIST

OF

MERCHANTS,

AND

MANUFACTURERS

or the whole of the Far East arranged, with addresses, in alphabetical order.

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The R.M. S. Empress of Canada left Vancouver for Hong Kong, i Japan parts and Shanghai, "on January 2, and is due here on Manila at 5 p.m. the same day. January 29. She will sail for

Passengers leaving the Colony on

At to-day's Rotary Club meeting? Dr. W. Bercoviti will speak on

The leland of Hainan."

According to a report made to the police, a Chinese woman hired her sewing machine to a shoemaker residing at 27, Temple Street, for called round to collect her money, the week-end. When the woman however, she found that the man had disappeared and had taken away with him her sewing machine.

A sentence of two months' hard labour was passed on a Chinese when he was brought before. Mr. E. H. Williams at Central Magis tracy yesterday on the charge of stealing a fountain pen from the nocket of a Chinese pedestrian in Wing On Street on Sunday, man was arrested by a district watchman who witnessed the in- cident."

The

At the Crown Land Office yes terday, Kowloon Inlead Lot No. 9772, situated at Pau Chung Stret was sold to Kwong Man Lung, the

the s... President Pierce included well-known fire-cracker manufactur of Taikoo Dockyard, who had been The land has an Mr. James Reid, the late manngerers, at the upset price of $22,500..

ares of about a visit to the Colony with his 45,000 square feet and its annual doughtor:

rental is 8310. It is understood that the firm intends to build an other factory on this lot.

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From the files.

Looking Back 26 Years.

the

The British steamer Mindanao has been purchased by Messrs. Aldecon & Co. of Manila for service in the Philippines.

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At the Garrison Theatro this

evening the Hayes Troupe will give

performance, for the benefit of Master Will Hayes, who broke his arm while performing some time since at the City Hall.

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The German barque Carl Gerhard came out of the Kowloon Dock yer terday and the H.M.8. Esk went f. H.I.G.M. corvette Stoch left Aberdeen yesterday and the P. & O 8.N. Co. steamer Sunda will be undocked today.

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ACCUSED IN ROBBERY CASE. SENTENCED.

A legal point as to whether it was proper to recall a witness after the. Crown case had closed without en uis- ing injustice to a prisoner at the Criminal Sessions, was argued in Full Court yesterday before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp). and the Puiane Judge (Mr. Justice Lindsoll),

We would remind our readers that Willard's Wanderers will pro- The point arose at the close of the duce the modern burlesque Brown Kowloon City robbery case in which and the Brahmins" or "Pop and the jury recorded a verdict of guil- the Princess Pretty-Eyca" at the ty against the first accused, Chung, Theatre Royal, City Hall this even-King Man, and found the other ac ing. The entertainment promizes oused, Li Fat, not guilty. to afford plenty of amusemont, and will doubtless bo well attanded.- Hong Kong Dally Press, January 12, 1882.

hard labour in default was the son- A fine of 8500 or four man bs' tence passed on a Chinese who at tempted to smuggle a quantity of "heroin pills into the Colony, It

was stated that the man had come Looking Back 50 Years. ashore from ono of the rider steamers and the pills were found in the heart of a huge cabbage which he carried openly. The man pleaded that he was carrying the cabbage for someone else.

Mr. Hin Shing Lo was for the appeared for the Crows, defence and Mr. Somerset Fitzroy

At the trial, after the Crown caserat had concluded and when Chung King-man's case had finished, the Lieut. F. O. Reynolds, of the Chief Justice, on the request of the H.K.V.C., is granted leave for jury recalled a Crown witness, a twelve months.

woman, her additional evidence boing that of immediately picking. out the jade ear-drops of which che was robbed, from among four other paira, and it was this additional evidence to which Mr. Lo objected. Solicitor's Argument.

COMMON" COLD.

Humanity, and not least of all sections for stock and produce. the medien profession, must be con- Most flower shows are on a small-gratulated on the fact that, after scale. They have an intimate and centuries of vain pursuit, the elu- personal touch. Friends compte sive demon responsible for the with friends, with the produce of common cold" appears to have been their gardens, and usually a village cornered. Experiments have reach show in England 's really beauti-ed that stage when chimpanzees in ful displays of flowers and crops, America, "and medical students in Sir Henry Pollock in standing The Now Territories Show is on England have been given perfectly again as a candidate for election the scale of a village flower show. splendid colds by a simple inocula the Justices of the Peace. He is on the Legislative Council by But it lacks the beauty of flowers tion of certain "non-fitrablo" or being proposed by Sir Shou-san and the really fine quality of fruitulra-microscopic viruses. No single Chow and seconded by the Hon. Mr. and vegetables" that one finds inculprit has actually been arrested.

W. E. L. Shenton. such an English village function. since the expert sleuths have cause Charged with the theft of a tin No disparagement is intended. The to suspect that a whole gang is at of paint and an empty mail be Now Territories Show is un

From the RFA. Ebenot, the cook exwork, and that responsibility for employed on board was given hibition of what is normally pro its devastations is probably diterm of six months hard labour Alphabetical lists of Cable duced and what can be produced vided; but as a medical authority when he was brought before Mr.

Addresses.

in that district. The Chinese farm has wittily expressed it "it is tracy yesterday.

J. A. Fraser at Kowloon Magis-

Serg, W. J. Terrill is permitted ers do their part quite well. They something to have eliminated from

"A party engaged in a most ab-to resign from the.. Hong Kong List of Agencies held by do not come forward in throngs, the fanciful pathology of colds the

sorbing mah-jongg game on the Volunteers on leaving the Colony. A Chinese named Tong Kwai re- second floor of 23, Chung Bau Lane, Far Eastern firms. but at least a good indication is known forms of the pneumococcus, that he was held up in broad day-a.m, yesterday when it was aud loon Tong was sentenced to six rorted to the police yesterday ¦ were rudely disturbed at about 1.30 The burglar captured at Kow- given of what they can

Mr. Lo argued that that evidence grow. Ploiffer's bacillus, and the various light at about noon yesterday when denly discovered that the place was months' imprisonment and four

was material and might have affect European and wealthy. Chinese re streptococci and staphylococci to hy was near the railway at Taipo. on frei. Thanks to a prompt alarm hours stocks. It appears, how-

ed. the jury's mind, and was con- $18sidents also send along interesting which causative significance has managed to steal $20 from his per house were able to get out safely to the police he was roughly hand-she gave in examination-in-chief armed with revolvers being given," the inmates of the ever, that before being handed over frmatory of very material evidence specitions from their gardens, show been so often and so dogmatically, son. The highway robbery occurred before the wooden staircase caught led by the villagers, the beating he and cross-examination. He sub- ing the Chinese peasant what "can sttributed." This laboricus but near Cheung Shiu Tau village. fire and later the Fire Brigade ar received rupturing his spleen, mitted that in exerciting his dis- be done by new methods. To always effective process of elimina"

rived and soon had the flames under After sitting four hours in the oretion in the way he did, the Trial succeed, and even to survive, the tion Has not only narrowed

The police are trying to trace the control. The two upper floors were stocks and passing the night in jail Judge had exposed the defence to the driver of the motor-car which knock- badly burnt out, how must, however, do more than circle of suspension but has sup on Hennessy Rond on Sunday, The At Central Magistracy yesterday,dition becoming rapidly worse Mr. that reason the conviction should be he complained of being ill. He was disadvantage which had resulted in ed over a young Chinese carpenter

removed to hospital, and his con injustice to the prisoner, and for stage specimens from fields and lied research workers with a cul- man sustained injuries to his three Chinese were charged with F. A. Hazeland was yesterday call quashed gardens. One can see these in the

ture which undoubtedly brings and was removed to the Govern the larceny of a motor pump from ed away from Court to take his After hearing Mr. Le's arguments markets. If the makers of agricul- relief or affords protection in cer- ment Civil Hospital in a serious 22, Ventris Rond. An alternative dying depositions. tural machinery and the producers:

condition. It was alleged that the charge of receiving was preferred of artificial fortilirers hope to build thin cases Thas this latest "cure" driver of the car drova off after against the men.. It was stated that. /

does not work invariably in due to knocking the man down. the fact that a particular specios

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on the point, their Lordships decid ed against him, this decision having the affect of confirming the convic the pump was stolen on January 0. A. Chinese Jonn), of: £850,000) hus

tion. up a Chiness market they should!

and, wore recovered two days later been issued at par for the con-

The Court rose and reassembled. surely make a beginning in the New of virus which is invariably roused the police, some neram sutered upon information received. The

According to a report made to when the police conducted a raid, struction of a railway from Shang few minutes later when the Chier

hai to Nanking. 'Territories. At least they

Justice passer sentence on Ching Can into activity in one person, or at cabin of Lieut. O.. H. O. Maneer, three men pleaded not guilty but

King Man. His Lordship said that gather information as to what is one seasca of the gear, remains of H.M.S. Cicals, during the week after evidence had been taken, the Great Britain and France, will in view of erisoner's good previous needed and what the Chinese farmer dormant in another person or at end end stole $1.134 in cash had second and third defendants were each take £1,195,000 of the new history, and also in view of his good

another

and season. Meanwhile, we notes together with the cash-box, convicted on the receiving charge Siamese loan can be induced to buy.

Germany reputation and that of his family, shall take our own favourite mea. It is thought that some Chinese and were each given six weeks £750,000 The price of issue will he be would pass a light sentenc Is the answer already that the sures-which usually end in, allow-workmen employed at the Naval hard labour. The first defendant; aliove 95)-Hong Kong Daily which would he two years impri Chinese farmer is too poor to buy, ing a cold to run its course." Yard committed the theft. * was discharged on bath counts:.. Press, January 12, 1937,

sonment with Bard labour,