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A POSTAL COMPLAINT.

[To the Editor of the "HonES ALUMIN

Tek graph."}

Sir.-The community of

MALINI THE MAGICIAN.

FIRST HONGKONG APPEARANCE.

On Saturday night, 8th March. at St. Andrew's Hall, City Hall,

Yunnanfu and province have Milini, the magician, will make suffered and are suffering to a degree that is becoming more his bow to a Hongkong audience. and more unbearable. The loes This much travelled artist has of articles impossible to procure made an instantaneous success

this

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1919.

LAUNCH FIRED ON IN DAIRY FARM NEWS.

HARBOUR.

MAXIM GUN_USED.

There was an exciting chase in the harbour on Friday evening at 5 p.m. between two launches, the one the Tau Fat and the other No. 1 Police launch.

"On the evening in question, the No. 1 Police launch was on patrol between Patung Island and Ahchow. The Yau Fat was seen approaching, but no sooner did she see that it was the police launch than she altered ber course and steered in the direction of Tailong. Tho Police launch steamed up and enquired of the other where she was from, The crew replied that they were from Tai-0. The sea was choppy and the Yau Fat was allowed to proceed on her course unhindered.

After she had gone a little distance, the Police detected something floating on the waters, picked it up. It was and picked up before it was wet, and on being opened, the parcel was found to contain opium. It was attached to a sinker, in concealed tins. The Yau Fat, in trying to sink it, put too much rope, and consequently the stuff came up on top instead of sinking 10 the bottom. When it Was picked up, the bun- dle

mistaken was

for Bugar parcel. At any rate. The Police launch chased the Yan Fat, and when the latter! refused to stop, twenty shots were fired from a Maxim gun on the bows. The Yau Fat turned round to go back. This was off Tailong near Chung-chow, or Dumbell Island...

The crew of the Yau Fat were arrainged on trial this morning before Mr. J. R.. Wood. There

launch. were no passengers on board this

Inspector Gordon prosecuted at this distance-loss of money, wherever he has appeared. He and Mr. M. K. Lo defended. and the inconvenience caused by is acknowledged to be at the Mr. Lo said he was not fully sect-instructed as yet. It seemed to outrage. are past the top of the tree in his conception of folk supposed to be ion of public entertaining him, from the opening of Inspect- living in a civilised age, and Some of the feats credited to or Gordon, that there was nothing mong civilised people, I refer to Malini seem to be impossible. against his clients. The opium the constant pilfering which occurs

With playing cards he has no was picked up in the sea. in the Parcel Post service be-

in bewildering his tween this province and Hong- difficulty

kong. Things have come to such calooters, and the closer the

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Mr. Wood-That may be. Mr. Lo-As I say. I was not fully instructed as to the facts. My clients deny all knowledge of the opium. They deny knowing" anything about the opium. I do not know the attendant circum- stances. I understand that the master of the launch is not before your Worship. The coxswain and the assistant coxswain have been I understand that the arrested.

the more Malini pass that one doesn't feel scrutiny

Malini works inclined to claim his parcel upon appreciates it. notice of its arrival here, feelingwithout any assistants, and an almost certain of the disappoint-almost entire absence of para- ment that awaits him upon phernalia. He has a wonderful opening it viz. that half or two pair of hands, and with these thirds of the beat of the contents alone he baffles his audience. have been removed I could

A Java paper writes of one of quote instance after instance, Malini's performances "The launch is detained by the Police. proving the above, but that would

great Jansen was present at the I have already applied for the of the launch. take too long.

performance, and decided not to release

not is I do

understand Malini-which

what 1 see under Post Office notices, play after

launch has got to that the Director General of Pe certainly the greatest compliment the

King "Advises that only parcela one performer can pay another." do with the proceedings.

Mr. Wood (to Inspector Gordon): which are extra strongly packed, It is stated that the one great fea can be accepted for transmission ture of Malini's entertainment is-Are you going to bring a charge

the absence of cumbersome apagainst the owner?

being

to Yunnanfa." Naturally, one pliances, his sole props" wonders what might be safely his wonderfully dexterous hands. termed "extra strongly." Covera As a card manipulator he is "of wood boxes are carefully lifted, claimed to be a master hand, and contents removed-nearly all of he entertains his audience for them and cover neatly nailed two hours using mostly only downsgain. Cloth covers well sew-cards; and sustaining the greatest ed, are ripped open, and, in the interest throughout. His work absence of a tailor on the job, are is said to be full of surprises. left yawning. Even tin boxes

But the situation becomes

worse instead of better. No-one Yuansufu!

The writer, two

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The Sydney Daily Telegraph Many women who have thin have been jabbed and pried open, says As a showman, Malini, blood, and whose nerves

Napoleon of magic, is re- unstrung, complain of a sensation with contents, if left at all, left the

"stifling." It is an to go their own way. Might one freshingly quaint: as a magician around the heart which they des ask what is "extra strongly," he is decidedly baffling. His tricks cribe as

are original and bis humour is alarming symptom of anaemia, and why is all this precaution pleasing. Malini, unlike the or thin blood, which disappeare necessary on so short a journey, usual mystifier, has no assistants when the blood is built up and

the anaemia overcome. and with no apparent reault? If and no stage paraphernalis."

The first place where anaemia one of the many oppressed might The season will be for five suggest, we fear that something nights only, and the plan for the thin blood shows is in the lips more than precaution re packing season will open at Mostrie's and gums, which become blanch- ed, and in the membranes that is necessary to bring about an on Wednesday, 5th March.

line the eyelids. You may be end to this scandalous practise !

naturally pale and still be healthy, but when these membranes lose their bright red colour your blood is exempt from the effects of the days ago, received parcel from is deficient in quality or quantity. evil practices of the guilty party, Hongkong which had been very Thin blood is a danger; it or parties. Missionaries, doctors, well wrapped and sewed in cloth, invites disease, because it is too merchants, foreign and Chinese, but appeared with one end having weak to fight the disease germs all bear more than their share of been ripped open, inside wrap invade the system. To build up low from this source. Only pinga badly torn, and instead the blood there is one zemedy recently, parcels arrived here from Jof being $45.00 worth of that has been a household word England, having safely run the articles, we found about $15.00 for a generation, Dr. Williams* blockade of Han submarines, and worth, and the parcel half empty. pink pills for pale people. They after apparently passing the Is one to patiently go on accept tone up the entire system, make Hongkong Post Office in good ing this state of things? One the blood rich and red, strengthen condition, reached here with learns from authority that the the nerves, increase the appetite, WEDNESDAY, nearly everything of value remov-parcels are always tampered with put colour in the cheeks and lips,

March 12th. ed. These articles were each before reaching the Chinese drive away that unnatural tired wrapped and sewed securely frontier: hence it seems that it!

Tens of thousands of weak wo more than once to ensure their should not be an impossibility men, and men too, have regained arrival in good condition, instead to trace the theft to its source, health and strength by the use of of which they did not arrive at and up 4. Hoping fhat is Dr. Williams pink pills for palin all again, a wood box was peletion of only a few of the people during the past shifte opened, neatly nailed downstances winch omstantly years. Lautan gin your own March 14th. sgain, and reached the owner

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