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Faith is sometimes weak and comparable otily 10 a very slender thread: but it is a very precious thing for all that, for it is the be- ginning of great things.
No Rehearsal.
We are asked to state that there will be no rehearen of the long kong Philharmonic Society on
Monday next.
Winter!
According to the Chinese calendar, to-day is the "Begin uing of Winter." It is a well to have some remindor of the fact.
No Licence.
At the Police Court, this iner ing, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, n'number of Chinese were fined $2 each for hawking without a licence.
New Stamps.
!
St. John's Cathedral.
Interesting Interview with
M. Pathe.
PLAYING FANTAN.
NOTES AND
COMMENTS.
the cinematogrAPH complain, naturally enough, that there is no sympathy to be got from the mere oliok-oliok of a Twenty-Eight Gamblers Captur
ed at Wanchal.,
Righteous Retribution. camora, and, moreover, that a single blunder on their part may
To all appearances, Turley, At the instance of Inspector beginning to pay for sons of her” Au interesting visitor, who ruin an entire film.
Occasionally artistos from the arrived in Hongkong the other
eight gamblers from Wanohai Powers intervene, is likely to con- days, is M. Pathe, son of the great theatres and music halle Mc. Hardy, no less than twenty past misdeeds, and, unless the
will take part in these unap- founder of Patho Frores, the plated performanies. For in-were arraigned before Mr. E. A. tinue to pay. The Greeks, and celebrated cinematograpli mstance, in the beautiful co- Irving, at the Police Court, this the inhabitants of the Balkan manufacturers. M. Pathe pro-loured film which is about morning. Eight of the defendants States have a good many old poses to remain in the Colony for to be screened at the Bijou pleaded guilty and were im- scores to wipe off, and it is to be fored with while the wiping-off is Some months to superintend the Theatre-a film no less than mediately fined $2 each or seven hoped that they will not be inter photographing of certain Chinese 2,025 feet long, entitled "Won days in default.
the famous The case against the remainder in progress. It would seem as scenes not hitherto presented at through Waiting"
Russian danseuse Milo. Napier was then board, ani, according to though nothing short of being the ovidence, of the constable, the driven out-of-Europe woull do the European picture palaces,
Daring a talk with M. Fathe, 8kowska, plays the leading part. "Telegraph representative was
M: Pathe is uncertain as to his men wero using the coolios' quar the Turks any good; and even enabled to obtain some ideas immediate movements, but it is ters of the Asintio Petroleum should that take place, they to the workings of an industry
studio and theatre built as a common gaming house. They brutalities in their Asiatic terri that, comparatively new though probable that he will have a tem- Company's promises at Whitfield, will probably continue their it is, has indisputably coms to here just directly, and will get wore playing fan-tan when the tory. Bullies, who love cruelty stay, and already gives employ-seriously to work within the next police visited the place. The for cruelty's sake, have no first and second men were the right in Europe. For four and fa hall couturies the, Turks have thousands of miny
keepers of the gambling den.
ment to
people.
#7
The Start. The honse of Pathé Brothers was started in Paris sixteen yours
porary
| weak or two..
GENERAL SIR IAN HAMILTON.
5
Inspector McHardy said that at consistently abused their power The Hongkong Post Office
p.m. on the 7th inst, along with in Constantinople, and no one the last witness and a party of with a grain of sense or justivo announces that stamps Loaring the portrait of His Majesty King
Early this morning general of police he entered the premises in him will be able to muster up ing the firm's name are to be Sir Ian Hamilton, accompained in question. He saw the defend-sympathy with them, however George V will be on sale after 1080, and the fact that films bear Ja m. on Saturday.
soen in every civilised town in by his A. D. C., and overal ants squatting in a group and hard their fate may prove.
saw the last The Danger. the world, is a very fair proofof its officers of staff, crossed to Kow-gambling. He
At the same time one recog- We are given to understand rapid and entire success: We loon to inspect the many defensive witness seize the first defendant.
He ordered another constable nises the dangers that attend the that schemes are being set on foot have now five factories," said M. positions among the hills. for the further beautifying of the Pathe, "and our average number The inspection will last until to shut the door and all the men probable division of Turkey. In interior of St. John's Cathedral, of employees, is eight thousand; late this afternoon, and it is ex-were locked in. They were all point of fact these dangers have including the erection of an organ this, of course, goes up, to tonpected they will not arrive back taken to No. 2 Police Station. served to keep Turkey safe during The second defendant when the the last three or four decades. thousand during the busier sea Hongkong before live o'clock.
arrests ware mado attempted to One is reminded of the Hebrew Assistant Chaplain Fund, The rates of Subscription to the Hongkong Telegraph" will casing, and, possibly, a rereos.
We are informed by Sir Paulson of the year. We also have
various theatres in Paris."..
OFFICER'S PROMOTION. escape through a window, but jeweller whose emocess so excited witness caught him by the lege. the envy of two others that they Chater, C.M.G. that his self-im-
Asked as to how much of the
Captain Davis, who has been He asked his Worship for a heavy opened similar.shops, one on each side of his establishmen. Each The rates per quarter and per mensom, proportional," Subscriptions posed task of collecting funds to substance of the comic pictures
enable the Church Bady of St. was photographic trickery, and chief officer of the 8.8. Hoi Tung, penalty to be inflicted.
The first defendant was fined made "glaring announcomente→→ John's Cathedral to engage an how much a faithful representa has just been promoted to the's.a. assistant chaplaint is progressing tion of events, M. Pathe replied
$5 or in default fourteen days one, "Bankrupt stock; must be and the remainder $3 each or in cleared;" the other "normous. default seven days. The charges reductions." But the man in the of keeping were dismisse
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912.
THE CHURCH CONGRESS AND SOCIAL REFORM.
very satisfactorily."
Cautions Useless. Fourteen richshaw coolies wero each fined $1, at the Police Court this morning, for causing na ob-
struction at the Canton Wharf,
on Sunday night, Sergeant Angus said he had repeatedly cautioned the defendants but to no avail.
Remand.
A man was remanded at the Police Court, this morning, ou a charge of being in unlawful poss ession of 157 taels of opium Mr. Otto King Sing, who is en gaged by the defondant, could not attend us he was away in the
country:
A Stowaway.
Alleged Snatching of Money Bag.
Hoi Ming
"
When seen to-day one of the members of the Chi Woo Com rany stated that Captain Davis' promotion
of
that there aro, comparatively few tricke of the trade. "Certain
mark a was silustions are obviously procured
For example, when you see a osteem on the Company's part, in by mechanical ineans," he said. man climb straight up the face recognition of many years of of a perpendicular wall, you are valuable service. very aure that, while being photo graphed, he was really moving along a horizontal plane, painted to represent the wall. Similarly, over the exaggerated speed of a bicycle or motor-car; the effect
SCENE IN COURT. Hysterical Woman and Many
Oaths.
place.
THAT REGISTER I
It is interesting to read in stock exchange report from Home,
dated October 5, how while the
middle was not oasily beaten, Up went a huge board, "Main Entrance". Turkey, in the same way, has always managed to find her safety in the fact that there - Sequel to Assault on an Intend-were many competitors, and no one knows whether the danger attend- ing Emigrant.
ing her disruption may not. At the Police Court, this mor- prevent it even now. The Court over which Mr. Cning, the keeper of the boarding The Optimistic House. is obtained by the original D. Melbourne presides, was the house 78 Ko Shing Street, was otograph being len niore seono of much excitement this charged before Mr. E. A. Irving, slowly (ie. fewer plutographs to morning when a woman named with not keeping a true regest
its height, some one dropped a the minute) than usual; and by Sybil Joseph, was charged with ration of the people using his tension as to probablə war was at the film-machine being moved assaulting a Hongkong gentleman
It will be remembered that card board blotting pad in the two fokia from the same boarding House. "It fell with the noise of A Japanese who was found on more quickly than usual, during by spitting at him whilst he was board the s.s. Tango Maru, without the screen representation. But riding in a ricksha,
According to evidence the de-house were fine recently for a pistol-shot, and the markets re- leaving paid his fare was charg-all our really great scones are ed as a stowaway at the Police perfectly genuine. When you seo fendant turned round to the assaulting an intending emigiant sounded with the shout that war oliags tenaciously to to the iden not go lo Swatow. Court this morning. It was stated Max Linder fall out of a window,rieksha in which the complamant to Singapore because he would had started. Yet the House The Assistant Registrar Ganer-that hostilities will be averted." that he got on board at Singa.or when M. Prince is struck on was riding and spat at him.
Defendant in denying the pore. He was find $100 or in the head with a chair, you may
be quite sure that those things clinge became very excited and al, Mr. Lindsell, said this prose That was over the way with the default six months.
have actually happened. The at the top of her voice screamed oution arose out of a case of Stock Exchange; it believes in point is that such artiales know out that she was willing to swear assult which camo bofore his war only when the firing begins. A man has reported to the hair business; they know how by the God who made her that Worship the other day when two It was the same, we remember, police that while walking along to fall, or how to receive a blow, she did not spit at the com-fokis of a boarding house were at the time of the Spanish-Ameri- Connaught Road, near Wing Lok in a way that you and, I do not." plainant. It was a practice of summoned for assaulting his wit-can War, the Boer War, and the
The Bandits of Paris. hers to expectorate and, if she ness in this caso. According to Russo-Japanese war..
"Sympathy." Wharf, four men jostled agaiasl
Speculativostocksand sharesal- Messrs. Pathe spend enormous lid so when near the complainant, the statement of his witness he him and snatched a canvas bag
overy year in the it was not meant as an assault on had been in the boarding houso that he was carrying containing suns $700 in money. He is an ac purchase of old premises which him. If he thought so at the since Sept. 25th, and he (Mr. ways feel the effect of war tension For many years past now, the Protestant Church has shown, at countant it a Soy factory-inars to figure in fires or explosion time why did he not give her in Lendsell) had been through the of course. A plain man, unvers- scenes, as well as in boats that are charge to the constable on duty register the boarding house ed in the ways of financs, fails to its annual Congress, an evor increasing desire to cope with the more Kennedy Town
to be wrecked or burnt. In "The near the Hongkong Hotel? He keeper kept and only on one understand why impending war Rehearing Granted.
an anemy of hers occasion had he entered the name in tho. Balkins should affect a vital social questions of the day; and, judging from the Home
Mr. Davidson, of Messrs Hast-Bandits of Paris," which was or was
there aineo the man had arrived. He mine in sny, Siberia, or something her trouble had not entered the name every else in Peru. But there it is. papers, the last meeting ut Middlesbrough has been no exception to ings and Hastings, applied to Mr.hibited by Messis, Ramos and and had brought her this rule. The speeches and the general trend of the discussions EA. Irving at the Police Court, Ramon at the Victoria Theatre to cause and debates all go to show that the Church of England has begun this morning for a to-hearing in some time ago, the house blown ruin her. She was bred and night the insu was in the house."Sympathy" is the explanation a case wherein a man and a up by the police was acquired at born in Hongkong and since she The Sergeant found the witness given, but this kind of sympathy seriously to realise that its duty to the poor, the ignorant and the
woman had been convicted on a no great expense, for it had al-had received the summons she there the night he was assaulted. is not of the same order as that criminal is a matter for doods rather than words. This readiness on charge of being in unlawful poss-ready been condemned by the bad lost five pounds in weight There was a second witness who displayed in private life. It is (Laughter.) She had a right to was also a border in the house altogether raore wide and general the part of a great and powerful body like the State Church to ession of arias. His Worship said nuthorities.
he would grant the re-hearing, and "Do you have much difficulty spit she thought. She was pre- who would say the first witness in its nature and more compre- We should fancy it is a sort of grasp the substance instead of the shadow is an indisputable Big would fix the date to-morrow. in obtaining "permission to currypared to swear any kind of oath was in the house several days be-hensive in its embracing power, Mr. Irving :-Are they allowed sympathy that few understand of that health that must characterise every institution that expects Davidson said that the fines on your photographing of dram- that the charge against bor was fore the assault took place.
atic street-scenes; flights and false. Sergeant Terrett had abus to live and to last: The Middlesbrough Congress shows plainly had been paid.
ly a way as sympathy usually is purauite by motor, and so forth?" od her when he came to deliver to have anybody sleeping there and just a few regard in. as kind-
the summons. She knew he would except assisted emigrants?
Mr. Lindsell pointed out regarded. enough that the old Anglican iden of patronising the poor, of seeking
The two Frankins, who begau, M. Patho was asked. to plaster the wounds and spree of the lower grades of society withi
Very rarely," he said. "Sucl be against her. She knew she at the Victoria Theatre on Satur-
It is moot point whether the a tract and a soup kitchen ticket, has been abandoned, and that, in day night, are offering some very econes are worked in deserted was hysterical but that did not that by law the keeper was com- Tired of the Tarifl
arrival and departure of each election of Mr Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, as President of the its place, a genuine man-to-man sympathy-in the literal sense of fine turns-sketches with song neighbourhoods, early in the mormatter; she did not want to be pelled to register the time of
Mr. Melbourne-Bound over lodger the word--has arisen in the breasts of the clergy and influential and dance. After playing with ning, and there is no risk of injury brought into Court.
Mr. Irving:And you say this United States of America in great success in the States they to the public. Of course there
dicatos a popular protest against had not been done? laity.
are now following a month's en-are certain logal restrictions, and in $100 to keep the place for six
Mr, Lindsell-When the de- a high tariff, or whother his suc One of the reasons for this vast improvement is the fact that a gagement bore before proceeding certain spots which may not be months. steadily growing number of the Proteatuut bishops are men who to Manila, and theace for a two used as backgrounds, but it is Defendant-All right, your fendant was in my office I left cess is merely a result of the big
the money now?. have been raised to their follice on their own pastoral morite rather years Australian tour. Everyone ersy to fall in with the rogul Worship, do you want me to pay the room for a moment or two, ¡split in the Republican party
who sees this clever couple porations."
Mr. Melbourne:-Oh no, you Coming to the question of the form will, want to see them again, especially in their farmyard class of artistes that figure in the have only sign a bond." scene. The films at the Victoria various dramatic films, M. Pathe
than by virtue of any special soolastic attainments. Prelates like the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London have borne the
Victoria Theatre.
Christmas Presents.
end
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and the defondant made a threa Those are points which cannot bo ening atatement to him (first definitely decided until details of As Sergeant Torrott was con- witness)he would have him the voting come to band. The front in American politice of late, burden and heat of the day as parochial clergymen in quarters this week are as good as ever, one remarked that posing for the ducting the defendant to the taken to Canton and shot if he question of the dearness of living and a widespread feeling bas whero, all day long, the harsher and more, thoray sides of life wore notably good one being Max cinematograph is now, of course, office to sign the bond, she cried gave evidence against him. May has undoutedly been much to the heing held up for their immediate inspection; and the practical Linder and his dog.
a recognised branch of the acting out "Don't touch me," repeatedly I ask him that?
Mr. Irving-Who was pre-manifested itself at the enhanc profession. People like Max and rushed back towards the knowledge of the ways of their humbler brethren which they gained
People who are in any difficult-Linder, indeed, go in for no Court door screaming out "Mr. Bent?
is largely due to the tariff; and in that manner, is now being used to the best advantage.
Mr. Irving Vory well ly in deciding what to send Home other form of acting. Apropos Melbourne, Mr. Melbourne, Mr. Lindsell My interpreter.pd cost of the necessities of life Led by such men, the Church of England is straining every as a Christmas present can readi-of Max, we are glad to be able Eventually the persuasive powers
Mr. Lindsell:-I left my room in conjunction with this fact we have the equally pointed oircum- atance that the Democrats stand nerve to atone for its somnolence in the past, and already the ly escape from it by accepting to contradict a rumour as to his of the usher, Mr. Michael Waters,
Witnesses, working man is reaping the benefit. Educational advantages have the offer of the China Express death; Max is very much alive, had their effect, and he escorted for a minute or two?
Mr. Lindsell-Did this man for a revision of the tariff down- come more within his reaoli, he is no longer "taught his proper Co. For instance, they will sond and is earning uo less than her in peace and quiet from the
say anything to you in my nb-wards. If it be the case and a good caso could certainly be made. station," and he is encouraged to see nothing but good to arise from home, and deliver duty paid and £12,000 a year by his act door of the Court.
free of all charges, ten pounds of ing alane.
sence?
out along this line that the Am The salaries paid to einem- sport and rational amusements. To go deeper, burning questions Hankow tea for $15; or seven lbs.
Witness-Yǝs
high tariff, then the Tariff Re like the housing problem, unemployment, national hygiene, the for $11 Quantities of chow atograph actors and actresses "social evil," and practical assistance, to ex-prisoners are fall being chow, preserved ginger, or com- vary as much as
Prince Henry;
With reference to the present
Mr. Lindsell-What did ho erican people are tired of the
As a to Kia-chow, it is understood that say? quat-all acceptable presents on the regular stage. do visit of Prince Henry of Prussin met and pluckily grappled with. The old prim dread of draggingll also be rent. Tho' goods will whole, perhaps, more money 18 his Royal Highness is making a Witness-He would take me formers of Logiand, who plead sye-sores to light has disappeared; so bad the old notion that the be despatched by the a.. Nyanza earned by me nbers of the new thorough study of the German national Church was merely a preaching concern; and so long as which leaves on November 13. branch, though theatrical people Protectorate and its hinterland, this new spirit continues to flourish, disestablishment may be re- An advertisement on page 2 of in general are not fond of posing with a view to the possible further
for the cinematograp They development of the territory, Perde 1 as farther off than ever,
this issue gives faller details,
Mr. Lindsell-Why? WitnessFor charging him, The case was remanded.
up to Canton to be shot,
for a relinquishment of the Free Trade policy, will be up against an awkward fact in their Protec tion campaigi
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