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DAY BY DAY.

Do fewer things, do no un- necessary things and do the few necessary things more intensely. Cricket.

On the Kowloon 0.0. ground on Saturday, a match will be played between the Committee nd the Rest.

Actor's Illness. Mr. Phil Gordon, a momber of the company at present appearing at the Theatre Royal, is seriously fill in the Government Hospital.

Rogue and Vagabond.

CHINESE GAMBLING.

VI: The Yankee Girl Pays a

Visit to Macao.

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SEVERAL ACTIONS.

Various Cases Against the Alexandra Cafe.

WOMAN SOLD FOR $40. NOTES AND

COMMENTS.

The Husband, the Wife and the

Other Man.

Interport Swimmingis 22967

The Shanghai team in the Inter At the Summary Court this Arising out of a case in which

port swimming, if it is under morning the onses in which the a man was fined $2 for assault, strength, is doing vory well 80 "South China Morning Post" and a strange story of the purchase of tar. We have seen, in more than one branch of sport, supposedly Mr. E. A. M. Wiliams are suing anothor man's wife for the sum of the Alexandra, Cafe for the re- $40 was unfolded to Mr. C. . weak teams make a capital show- covery of $202.50 and $40.24 re- Melbourne, at the Police Court, ing and score excellent victories. Such teams have a way of rising speotively, were mentioned and this morning,

We left Hongkong at 9 o'olook in the morning.

It wasSunday, and I crossed my heart" black and blus, swear to goodness I'll be true to you," be cause I broke the Sabbath day, and took ship for Macao, to gamble.

The trip down was'nt half as ixon for hearing on Monday wook. It was stated that the woman well above themselves and doing Mr. Nentham, of Messra Ewens had left her husband in the coun- famously. So there is no cer interesting as that which I took,

with Partner, to Canton and Haraton, who appeared for try to come to Hongkong for tainty that victory will ultimately It was thought by the rost with Hongkong, though ap- but it was decidedly interesting the plaintiffs, askod for permission work. A rogue and vagabond found in so much as the skipper showed to amend the claim in the second husband that he wasin Singapore, pearances point that way. By at West Point, was sent to gaol us, with pardonable pride, the case by substituting $105.10 in- but ho made n journey to Hong the way, is it fair that the home kong ou chance and found, the team should be permitted to start, for one month, at the Police 3/8 iron shields that protect him stond of $40.24 as stated.

The necessary permission was missing wife in Yaumati hawking in any one event, twice as may from the rooklossly fired shots at

He asked her to come back to the competitors as the visiting side? Court, this morning.

the ship as she passes up the granted,

Later in the morning Mr. country with him, but the wile This, we believe, has always been Three Card Trick.

river. A man who was caught playing

"Why must you have them?" W L Shenton, of Mesars said, that she had been sold to the the case, whether the contest was the three card trick, was fined

Doneon Looker and Deacon, ap-defendant for $40. He went to at Hongkong, or Shanghai, and it $10, or in default one month's

Botter have 'om than to run pearing for the Tung Cheung, see the defendant and asked him does not appear to make for level the risk of being potted, or of mentioned the case in which his to let his wife come back to him. competition. If the teams are having the quartermasters killed clients were suing to recover Defendant said that he had bought satisfied, of course no one need her for 840 and unless he got the worry, but the system does not

hard labour, at the Police Court,

this morning.

Additions to the Choir.

Among the new additions to the Cathedral Choir are Miss White and the Hon. Mr. Claude Sovern.

Stole a Clock,

A Chinese who went into a brothel at Shok Tong Tsui, and stole a clock, was sentenced to three months hard labour and

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METHODS OF ADVERTISING.

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Irving, at the Police Court, this morning.

The Cleveland.

The H. A. L. steamship Cleve land has been chartered for two farther round-the-world trips, in cluding visita to the Far East. Sho leaves New York on October 10th, and San Francisco on February 6th, 1913,

I asked.

$70.44.

at the wheel and the ship left

In all those cases Mr. Sutherton helpless! (whorent I had vi ions again of things that might Russ of Mosers. Goldring Barlow happen) Was I frightened? No! and Morrell appears for the de- I believe that the Britishers fence but was not in court when have a saying" In for a penny, the cases were mentioned at first. Mr. Shenton-Can I prove the in for a pound," and I was only thinking of the "pound," that case later my lord?

hoped to win at the what-do-you- call-em's-Fan-Tan Houses, at

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our ultimats destination.

His Lordship:-Mr. Russ is

not hore; he may be ill.

Mr. Shenton:-No, he is at the Police Court; I have just left him.

Mr. Holmes:-I was at the Police Court and he is trying to

money, she could not go back.

Pald Half the Money. Mr. Melbourne:-Did you her- bour her?

Defendant:-No.

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atrike one as being the fairest possible.

Tarlif Reform Agaln.

much in evidenco. Since Mr.

The atatement by Mr. F. E. Smith, that the Unionists will not Did you know she was mar-assume office without a definita ried ?-No.

mandate for Tariff Reform, is full Do you know this man here of interest. The more so because (the complainant)-No, I do not of the confusal issues now so know him.

Did you buy her?Yea, your Chamberlain's famous declara- Worship.

tion of policy in favour of Imperial Preference, there have been three General Elections, and it cannot be overlooked that ench resulted in the return of the party opposed tooth and nail to the dis- Liberale, of course, argue that tinguished statesman's ideals.

How much did you pay for her?

get a casa ramanded so that he-Forty, dollars.

Groy-blue skies, clouds that drifted slowly, their fleece-lined edges, that were so softly out- lined against the beyond and that seemed to creep noross the can come down hers. heavens, pashed gently on by across the bows of our ship. the wind that erept refreshingly

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At this moment Mr. Rusa!

adjournmont for a week. appeared and said:-I want an

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Who did you buy her from?- Kwa Loi.

Is this the man (complainant)?

-No.

Did you pay $40-No, I paid $20.

command of the sloop Clio on her ever guesses will not be far wrong! on Monday week. He would her if sho would live with him that it is unjust to read this.

ecommissioning, in succession to Jommander H, R. Voale,

Leave.

Wo were few on board. It was

Mr. Shenton:-I can no ressou why it should be adjourned."

those three successive viutories iodeod luxurious to have the New Commander of H.M.S. Co. run of the ship," and I was perit was a fresh cass, adjourned it

His Lordship, remarking that And you owe $207-Yes.

for their party implied a conclu- Inspector Gourlay said that the sive rejection of Tariff Reform, Commander G. M. Marston has mitted, (through the skippor's for a week.

story was that defondant told this! assumed command of the cruiser kindness), to make myself “st

Some time afterwards Mr. woman when he met her, that he while, on the other hand, the Unionists contend that the issusa Juno in succession to Commander home." 10. Mackenzie, D.§.0., who pro-

Shonton suggested that the case had $100 lent out and lie would on these occasions were so mixed Did I do it? ceeds to the Far East to assume

Somebody guess; and who could be taken with the others have it collected and give it to

moaning into them. like to have then all fixed for the Tho defendant was a priest who We took one course, the English same time so that his clients worshipped at peoples houses, What Mandate ?.

But, even taking the stand- and French boats took another, would suffer no disadvantage if When the complainant went to

the defendant to got his wife point of the protagonists of Tariff The leave of absence granted but we were'nt far behind thom there wore a question of going back the latter offered the former Reform, what assurance have wo to Major F. C. Sambourne-Palmer, when we rounded the point and

into liquidation.

$20 to allow the woman to remain that another General Election 8th Rajputs, will be amended to made for the dock at Macao!!

His Lordship-They are all with him. Both the complainant will furnish a clear, unmistakable read from 14th Sept., to 31st Oct., There seems to be some rivalry

and his wife denied all knowledge mandate? The fact is, that, as, between the three companies, but old cases.... inclusivo. Station leave is grant-me for the Britishor"

Mr. Shenton-No, they are of any asla by Kwa Loi; they did ed to Lient, H. G. Bagnall, R.G.A.,

not know such a man. from 20th September to 4th Octo-time,

I may be prejudiced, and I may ber, inclusive.

change my mind; (after all that Hawking Within Market Limits.ie a girl's prerogative), but I dont

A man, who was caught selling think that I will! vogotables in Kimberley Road,

Junks! Narrow lanes of om, within the limits of Taim Tes and our skipper had a most diffi Taui Market, and who showed sultin swinging landing to make. letters from two ladies in Kow- loon, stating that they bought vegetables from him, was fined 82 by Mr. O. D. Melbourne.

conditions were unfavourable and

Damaged Water Cart.

every

ricksha was entirely carried away by impinging itself on an awn- ing I again said,quite conten-

new casos,

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His Lordship -Oh, no; thoy are all cases.

Mr. Shonton:-I submit that there is no reason why my enso should not be heard on Monday! week.

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His Lordship-If thore is any reason why, I should like be to hear it.

ed for Monday week.

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Mr. Melbourne (to complain ant) If your wife goes to the defendant you don't mind?

Complainant:It is for her to

Boy.

General Elections are at prosent carried out, it is possible to infer anything from the results. One party contend that this election was fought on such and such a question, while the other submits that a totally different issue was For the Wife to Decide. et stake. How, therefore, will tho So it is for your wife to choose Unionist party decide whether or whether she stays with you or goes no they have a mandate for the He did it.

with the defendant:Yes; but if policy to which they are pledged ? We in the the US.A. are

Mr. Shenton-Well there are I didn't want her back I would Two years' ago' Mr. Balfour gave Au Ordinance having recently boon passed by the Legislative

acoused of exceeding the

and Boveral actions against the cafe; not come here looking for her, an assurance that a Tariff Reform speed limit in autos Conncil which has as its object the 'prevention of disfigurement of

Band Concert Abandoned. taxis, but believe me, I've this isa simple case for meat sup-

The woman said she was not Bill should not be ennoted with- landscape and harbour by advertising postere, sky-signs and similar

ill treated by her husband but ont submission to the Referendum, The band concert that was to never had such a wild ride plied.

Mr. Russ said he was not pre- left him to get work, as in con thus pledging his party to a devices, it should intorest many in Hongkong to learn that quits have been given in the Public in my life se, pulled by one coolie

go on with the case, sequence of the floods he could totally now departure. From this recently varioue municipalities in France have been dealing with the Gardens last evening had to be in a rickshaw, and pushed by two pared to abandoned same problem. We gather that at first the new cult in advertising state of td on account of the others, I was literally whirled though it would probably be pro- not keep her. No money passed it would appear that the party between herself and the defend intend to fight the next General, The case was provisionally fix-ant. She admitted she told de Election on ordinary lines, trust was warmly welcomed, especially the appearance of really artistic cellency and Lady May with suite through the cobble stoned streets, pared in tims to meet them.

It was hot a8,well, I'll say

fendant she was not married. to the result, and if fortune lies posters in the dull and smoky streets of suburbe, but when big, attended the Gardens but the that it was hot!

Mr. Molbourne:-If she told with them, subsequently intro- striking, loud-coloured placarde began insolently to thrust themselves the performance was not given.

And when the "roof" of my

this man she was not married it duce a Tariff Reform Bill, submit in the midst of the quietest and most charmingly rural scenery of

PAYMENT IN COOLIES.is not much use going on. it to a Referendam, and abide by the country, a general outery arose. The result has not been, as in, A fine of $2 and an order to

Inspector Gourlay-Yes, he the decision of the people thereon. But Mr. Smith now implies that Hongkong, prohibition of these eye-sores; instead, heavy taxes, pay $4.50 by way of compensatedly deo-lighted.

This morning, in the Summary know afterwards. amounting practically to fines, are imposed, and thus, while the evil tion was imposed on a Chinese at I was almost thrown out, but Court, before Mr. Justico Gom- Mr. Melbourne:But this man popular consent to Tariff Reform is in this way kept in check, a source of revenue is, at the same time, the Police Court, this morning, after all, who cares? I'm seeing pertz, the case was mentioned in goes round to the defendant after is to precede assumption of offico. for damaging a water cart be- things Chinese in a Chinese fash which Wong Hong Chi, trading wards and tries to make a bargain It is difficult to reconcile the two longing to the Sanitary Depart-ion, and if this is the fashion as Tai Ying Chan, brought an with him.

standpoints. A little more light The evolution of advertising is a most interesting study, and in ment. The damage, was caused

me for it."

action against Wing Chang Chan Inspector Gourlay-But he is needed. considering it there are a number of decidedly engrossing points to through the defendant leaving Oh Gee, the emells! A hot and Lau Tsan Yau, claiming the had no money with which to pay A New Military Centre.

As many of our readers are be noted in connection with this question of defiling the landscape baskots in the roadway and cane-sun always begets them, but to sum of $1,016, balance of money $40 for her. She says that no

ing an obstruction.

New York nostrils they do lent to the defendant by the plain-money has passed between them quite familiar with Aldershot, it by aggressive posters, M. Gerin, who is Professor of the Science of

listen loud."

tiff. The plaintiff waived the sum in the transaction at all. She left

in possible that they will not all Advertising at the Commercial Institute of Paris, expressed some Captain W. M. Stewart, High- At last, and finally, we reached of 816 to bring the matter with her husband's protection to a cer interesting views on the subject in a recent article which appeared landers, wife and 2 children, left the gambling house!

in the jurisdiction of the Court, tain extent and went to get work. Bree with the "Pall Mall's" somewhat sweeping statement in one of the Parisian journals. After admitting that the attack on the command por P. & 0, 8.8. A large Red Lantern on which

Mr. Crewe, of Megers. Hastings Mr. Melbourne-Tell defen-

that its position:: 20 his particular domain is justified, he goes on to look at the matter Sardinia on 18th instant for was insoribed "Gambling House"! and Hastings, appeared for the dant this woman is married and strategically bad as it well could from an advertiser's point of view, pointing out that in this question England. Major O. H. Lawson, I looked at Partner; he looked at plaintiff, and Mr. D. H. Lewis, of that she belongs to her husband, be, We do not quarrel with. of poster-advertising the advertisers have unwittingly become the Lieut. H. G. W. Dillon, 5 Indian me, and we both held our breaths Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and and if he harbours her he is on our contemporary's argument.....

titled to be fined $100 or in that the East Coast requires some Officers, 1 Sub-Assistant Surgeon, lost Strong-arm St. Booker" pinch" Master, for the defence. victims of their own audacity and enterprise. Professor Geria lays 198 rank and file, and 12 fol- the place!

It will be remembered that the default three months.

strengthening though with down the axiom, upon which he bases all his toaching, that "an lowers, 26th Punjabis, proceeded

Defendant:-She can come to Canterbury, Colchester, York and And we played!

defence was that the money wh advertisement acts upon the public in proportion to the state of mind to Canton on 16th instant,

4. number of other military Top-side work it was too. I to be wiped off by deductions no and she can go to her husband in which it finds the reader," and this doctrine of receptivity.

stations situated within an hour, Judgment for Plaintiff. was reminded of spiders weaving when the defendant gave the (laughter.)

Mr. Melbourne-Bound over has the corollary that "every article shares in the estimation of the bayer the favourable or unfavourable circumstances accompanying Hing and Co., in the Summary baskets on little strings swang up Singapore and that the plaintiff, in a personal bond of $100 to be

In the case of J. Osawa v. Cho a hopelessly intricate web as the plaintiff shipments of colies for ita advertisement.” Good impressions, he points out, strengthen the Court yesterday afternoon, Mr. and down to the curious sing-song by going out of the business, had good behaviour for six months points in favour of Alderabot are suggestive efoot, and bad ones destroy it. Consequently, a tourist Justice Gomperta gave judgment ories of the croupiera. (Holy deprived the defondant of this

that it is but forty minutes. whose eye roves over a lovely valley or river, and finds it cannot get in favour of the plaintiff for the lockets, would at the Monte Carlo means of making the paymenta

RULE OF THE ROAD.

railway run from London; ite round or through a hoarding that interposes, will probably remem- amount of the claim less 85.84, men be insulted?)

Mr. Crowe asked if his Lord-

surroundings form one of the.. ber the subject of the advertisement. But his recollection will be which the defendants claimed

Ice cream, bear, oigars, cigaret. ship would give him a morning or At the Marine Court bolore bost manoeuvring grounds in associated with intense irritation, and every time he remembers the should be allowed for shortage in toe, cakes,ad libitum.

afternoon next webk as Mr. Commander C. W. Beckwith England; it is a magnificently article, he will also unconsciously feel an after taste of his anger at delivery. A stay of execution No wonder --At 10 por cent. Morton Smith, of Messrs. R.N., Ng Ngan was charged with healthy spot, and train-service the aggressive advertisement which spoiled a beautiful view. We until noon to-day was granted. why should'nt they?

Dodwell & Co., could not appear unlawfully failing to observe the from there to Portemouth is quick ourselves have heard of instances of this sort in Hongkong, people

Bat the faces!

to-day to give evidence.

rule of the road with his steam and easy. What the "Pall Mall swearing that they would never ase "So and So's" goods, so great A Chinese who went into a What inveterate gamblers the His Lordship: After the case on launch in the Harbour on Sep- seems inclined to leave out of Ite has been their irritation at certain forms of this "aggressive shop and stole a pair of boots, fell Chinese are

Friday, say not before 11 o'clock tembar 18. Bottes de calculations is the fact that the advertising," which have been adopted.

into the hands of the police, and The only place that I have'nt Mr. Lewis-I don't know

Defendant pleaded guilty days when infantry were expect- It is a distinctly arresting theory which Professor Gerin advances, he was recognised as a man who been rudely stared at is in the what is the position of the evid- Ohan Yun Tin, who made the ed to make long marches through and one in which there is more than would appear at first sight. had returned from, banishment. gambling house at Macao, and it ence in the case, but I can call complaint, deposed that the de- the country, are over, and that The deduction to he made from it, according to the professor, is that At the Police Court, this morning, reminded me of little old Now other evidence of boarding bouse fendant stood right across his trains, boyoles, and motor cars huge sums of money spent in the sort of country advertising to ho was sentenced to one month, York, because every ons is too keepers who will prove that the bows, making him stop his have pragtfoally done away with which we have made reference would be better employed in news imprisonment and four hours busy in both places trying to win plaintiff refused to take ocolies engines to avoid a collision, the difficulty papers and magazines. But even in this form there is a right and stocks for the larceny and to six the joy get (otherwise from them in the fourth and the Ape of $10, or in default a by distance wrong method of advertising And unless the right method be months for returning from banishe known as dollars); so bother with ifth month,

sentence of 14 days hard labour, most army men will: berw www.imposed; chosen the results will be bitterly disappointing..

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presented