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LATE SHANGHAI NEWS.

Many Interesting Items. ¿Frónu Our Bien Correspondents

Shanghai, June *.

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CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the "Hongkong

T'alegraph "')

A Mother's Thanks.

Sir-Will

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HAVE A BANANA!

Magistrate's Morning

** Snack."

At the Magistracy this porn ing a strenuous denial was made The U.S. Court has recieved

allow me, by a Chinese that he was an word that Judge Lobingier has through your valuable columns (unlicensed hawker, despite the bean exonerated from all the on behalf of my husband and evidence of a police constable of obarges filed by the Shanghai myself, to publicly express my sale of some bananas to

which the policeman Jawyer Fleming. Judge Lobingier heartfelt thanks for, and appreci-| woman will be returning by the ..ation of, the gallant attempt of witnessed. President Gray.

The defendant told the Mag- Mr. T. C. Knight to save the life Shanghai starts hot favourite for of my dear son, Thorwald Emil,istrate (Mr. E. W. Hamilton) that the interport polo, dus to Dalles" last Saturday?

a friend who kept a fruit stall bad ponies. Shanghai

bettor KJO

Although it was not the will of presented him with the bansGAS mounted, and all, except David Providence tbat be should which were poft for human son- have played together in several succeed, his heroic action in in-sumption, as they were not tipe. Interport matches won by Shang-mediately plunging into the seat was his intention to take them from the ferry launch, clothed, come sad stow them away for The American Bar has given and at great risk to himself, or three days until they be farewell to Mr. R. P. Tenney, theagains: a strong current, in an came sufficiently ripe for con- new U. S. Consul to Canton endeavour to resene the drown sumption. British, French and Italian baring. is worthy of the highest representatives attended.

Captain Waard has started on

bai.

à trans-Pacific trip in a Chinese! junk to-day.

The Mission Procurations here: have received reports of a reign of lawlessness in Kiangsi, in the neighbourhood of Kinofu to Nanchang

The British Women's Associa tion bave closed the season with A successful garden party. this ending a remarkable year.

THE YAP TREATY.

Beuter.

PEKING NEWS.

praise.

Yours etc, O. ANDERSEN. Kowloon, June 22, 1922. --

TELEPHONE TRIALS.

On the instructions of the Magistrate, the constable who made the arrest left the Court to fetch the bananas, which, on being produced, appeared to be. quite freab.

The defendant then bared his defence on the taste of the fruit, whereupon the Magistrate took one from the tray, removed the skin and ate part of it. After re- placing the residue in the tray. bis Worship told the defendant follow-that the taste was perfectly good

and fined him $4.

The Human Element. We have received the ing for publication:-

ORGAN RECITAL.

Sir, In the numerous letters that have appeared in the press since the question of increased telephone rates have been under Tokyo Jone 21.-The Yap discussion, I have only noticed

As will be seen from our adver Treaty has been passed by the that one or two of them have re- Privy Council and approved by ferred to the human element that tisements, there will be an organ the Regent Ratification will be enters so largely into the argu- recital in St. John's Cathedral signed, shortly after which it will ment. Granted that the present next Monday evening at 9.15 popalar" be forwarded to Washington.-installation is not abreast of the when there will be a

times, the drawbacks in tais par-į programme. The organ pieces ticular are very much aggravated will include Bach's big Fantasia by the service, or more correctly, in G. minor, Bernard Johnson's oft-times пол

vexatious Pavane. Elgar's Military March service at the two exchanges. No. 1, an Idyll out of a new Suite One can understand and tolerate by the well-known British com faulty mechanical service, but poser Eric Coates, and, in addition when this is added to the short-to other pieces, Lemare's famous comings of the human element and popular Andantine in D. flat. there surely should be something Mrs. Balean will play the low A Peking telegram states that done to mitigate it in view of the Movement from the Meadelssohn Li Yuan-bong will ask the lead-enhanced rates about to be charg-Violin Concerto and also an ing FERD of the

various ed in order to bring it in line Andante Religioso by Thome, the provinces to come to the capital with the new apparatus, and so, popular French writer. to attend a conference regarding in a measure, warrant the charge

The collection will be in aid the provincial autonomy system in rates.

of the organ fund which it has Li Yuan-bung will move into

Complaints are to be heard on been necessary to draw on some- the Presidential Palace dex: mouth, when repairs have been all sides of the vexatious delays, what extensively of late in order etc., through dealings with the to carry out some much-needed and absolutely necessary repairs. exchange operators who. would imagine, strive to annoy rather than please.

The President and the Provinces.

completed.

LOCAL WEDDING.

J

Brown-Boulton.

Considerable interest was

to:

day manifested in the wedding at St. John's Cathedral. of Mr. J. Walter Brown, of Messrs. H. Skott and Co. (son of the late

Mr. J. Brown, and of Mrs. Brown.of Manchester) and Miss. Georgina May Boulton, daughter

formed the ceremony.

од

Oft-times when risging up one! bas to wait some minutes before getting a reply from the exchange and then when the number is given it is repeated serongly so quickly as to prevent correction. with the result that one has to reply to the wrong number and repeat the process of ringing up

for the correct number, with the risk of again being put to a wrong number.

FLASHES FROM THE STATES.

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mack's on the ground that he was wearing trousers instead of knee breeches.

St. Erkenwald, whose festival; A new form: of punishment for falls on the last day of April. is profiteering has been discovered sometimes styled the Patron of by the Czecho-Slovakia legisla- London," though the title is cure. Observing that threats and claimed also for St. Mellitus, moral appeals were wasted upon remarks the Daily Chonicle. Herbinoceros-bided profiteers, and seems to have suffered from gout that money fines simply mean the and a visit to his litter. long licensing of profiteering on easy preserved in St. Paul's Cathedral terms, the legislature has enacted was once considered a certain providing that persons infringing cure for that ailment, as well as the law against profiteering must waste their for fever and agus. Pilgrim sweep the streets for periods of month to one year. energies trying to purify the streat, Ludgate Hill, is believed from one horse races: it's the human races to mark the route taken by The colprits (to give & free that need purifying. bi stricken pilgrims from the mouth translation of the news item) who of the Fleet River to S. Erken have been giving the public the wald's shrine.

dirty end of the stick must now bandle it awhile for themselves.

The reformers

Becuri.

A suburban dairy boasts that its milking is done by machinery. Presume the machinery has a

Does anyone remember how

handle that goes up and down.long it is since we had an incident

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Oranges are Dow at their best,

of Dr. A. and Mrs Boultos. In reply to a ring for a certain of Horncastle, Lincolnshire. The number the word " engaged" is Philadelphia fuqsired. Rev. V. H. Copley Moyle per-joften used when one may have A New York schoolboy, who in London comparable with the and many a lover of the fruit has

reason to think that it is not has married hi 45-Fear-old The bride, who was given away engaged. I proved this to my teacher, says he will complete bis by Mr. G.E. Wetton. was attired satisfaction very recently when education. He will-Litt! Boch in & white accordis pleated rung up for a number of a firm Arkansas turtle. georgette frock, trimmed with and was informed that the num

Again we confess that we shall ilver and orange blossom, herber was engaged; at intervals of never be able to understand the veil being surmounted with s a few minutes I rang up for Irish: they seem to kill each other wreath of orange blossom. period of more than an hour a joyously as they used to kill She carried a charming bouquet when, at last, I got through. The the

was following day I called on the whân Record. of white flowers and attended by Miss Jessie Roger, manager of the firm and ascer A paper claims that usually Miss Peagy Bridger and Misstained that his phone bad not dark-haired women marry first, Leslie Bridger as bridesmaids, been in use more than ordinarily We should say that it was the who wore dresses of cream net at the hour mentioned, and then light-headed ones-Washington and lace with hats to match and only for a minute or so on each ferald. carried baskets of pink and white occasion,

flowers. Mr. P. W. Ramsey wAI I have tried on several oc- "best ban."

casions, for over an hour on each, Subsequent to the ceremony.to 'phone across the barbour a largely attended reception was without succeeding-the reply Riven by Mr. and Mrs. "engaged" being given from the W. A. Eustace at Tregunter exchange on each ring up. Mansions, where Mr. and Mrs.

Brown received the congratula when I have had my boy en- An operator has ignored a ring tions of many friends. Later.deavour to get a certain number, the happy couple left for Cheung after having been given & wrong Chau, where the honeymoon is

one; after a short interval I asked

be.ng spent, the bride's going for this number and got it. away dress being of tussors, with "hat of fancy straw.

INTER PORT CRICKET.

Shanghai Coming.

Things have got to such a pass in my household that, at times. I, with others, dread to use the phone, and, unless the matter is pressing, do not use it.

Favourable rosulls through complaints msds to the Clerk-in- charge are very short-lived and A short "Blue go the Hon sometimes scarcely discernible. Secretary of the Hongkong Cricket Club sent invitations to Shangbai scription to the Telephone Com- In cases where the present sub- and the States inviting them to participate in a triangular cricket pany is quoted (£10 is the sum

mentioned) my agreement with the Company is for £12 per

anom.

tournament at Hongkong next season. A communication has been received from Shanghai Ay. ing that they will send a team down about the end of October or in the service, where the opera-

I trust that some improvement

beginning of November. No reply tore

sre concerned, will be

has yet been sent by Singapore. brought about when the new neither is one expected for & week rates come in force.

or two, owing to the fact that the

qarious clubs in the Malay States have first to be communicated with..

Yours etc.,

"EQUITY."

Hongkong, 22nd. June, 1922,

British

constabulary.—

refusal of admission to two men longed to be in some such place as in golf suits" at the Paris Malta, to eat it fresh from the Opera? asks & writer in a Home tree, says a London writer. Now paper. Dress rules used to be there seems to be a hope that this pretty strict over here, especially may soon be done in England, for at the Opera, and, down to the Mr. Lionel Rothschild bas orange war anyhow, there were still seedlings growing in his garden restaurants where people not in at Exbury and thriving, even after evening dress were consigned to having experienced. a frost 25 the grill room. But the war broke degrees below freezing-point down all the barriers, and they do Moreover, these bardy young not seem to have been set up plants, if they only equal the and the great Duke of Wellington will please the palate of the most again. Once we were stricter.parent stock, will bear fruit that

was refused admission to Al-[critical epicure.

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