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engine, woodwork neglect of the welfare of her FOR ALL BEAUTY" IS. TRUTH.

Shaftesbury or upholstery proletariat that China cocupios Water spreads a the lowly International position: There was a clean bill of health petrol fre; eand is she does today. It has boon in the Colony on Wednesday. inefficient and will well said that the curse of China put the engine out of action.

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The weather forecast up to noon to-morrow 18-S.E. or variable winds, light; overcast, rain, fog.

QUARRY FATALITY

COOLIE'S DEATH ENQUIRY

CONCLUDES."

CONTRACTOR FINED $500.

FOR INSUFFICIENT REINFORCEMENT.

The enquiry into the circum- stances surrounding the death of a Failuro to build Chinese houses coolie who was killed while workin strict accordance with plans, resulted in a Chinese contractor,. ing on the cliff face of the Govern-

named Chau Tat-shing, appearing at ment quarry at North Point was the Kowloon Magistracy to answer concluded before R. E. Landsoll and five counts. He was charged Jury at the Central Magistracy with divergence from plan in this morning.

respect of four Chinese houses on in size, light iron callously care nothing for the duo here at 7 a.m. to-morrow, and The Empress of Australia is

the Kowloon City Road, the diver- The victim was at work on a gorice being insufficient reinforce- weight and busy to welfare of the common peoplo. will barth at the No. 5 Kowloon rock which had been loosened by ment on four room floors and one Handlo

So far as this Colony of Hong-wharf.

blasting the previous day, when it balcony floor. "PYRENE" does kong is concernod, it is extreme-

started to move and the man crash- Mr. P. G. Morgan, of the Public not deteriorate and ly hard to know just where many Talamba, from Singapore, is due mutilated by a shower of othered the place on March 31st and It is now notified that the s.s.ed to the ground, being badly Works Department, said he visit is always ready of the Government's spendingshore at daylight on Sunday.

stones which were dislodged. The found that insufficient re-enforce- question of a safety rope was ment had been laid,' and if he had Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Yates brought up yesterday and the an-not been there, the work would social services." There are arrived from Manila by the s.a.quiry was adjourned for the fore probably have been completed, large direct spendings under the President Clevoland.

and there would have been no. hondings of Education, Public) Health, etc., and under many of fined $3 at the Marine Court this Ton boatpeople wore severally the other Departmental houdings morning for mooring inchere dur big sums are exponded which ing prohibited hours. might be put into the scalo on thio

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The Telegraph,

FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1926.

SOCIAL SERVICES."

The Yunnan Disaster,

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man to be called.

This morning, the foreman said means of checking it. The omis- quarty. The man was killed at and in such a case there would was the only supervisor at the sions referred to bars and floors, 7.30 a.m., work having started half be danger of the buildings collap The plans had been prepared and approved, but they

Was

was imposed, making $500 in all. A fine of $100 on each count

FINE REDUCED.

Mr. Turner submitted that al-

Turner, He painted out that there and reduced the due to $400. had been divergences in two plans

Messrs. Bonjamin and Potts

Mustard &Co.,Ltd. (Incorporated under Companies Ordinances

an hour earlier.. Witness was. not sing.. there at the time. 16-17, Connaught Road Central. side of social services. But we Passengers who arrived by the|

Mr. Lindsell: Was It not your had not been carried out properly. Freeldont Jackson from business to be there when work 18.8. would like to see something more Manila included Col and Mrs.

The defence was that the fore- | started?.

man in charge of the works was. than at present in the way of Frank Griffin, Mr. Frank Austin direct spendings for social ser-

and Mr. L. C. Anderson.

Witness replied that he

to blame. superintending work at a granite RAMOS-Elsa Maria, Bevices, and we have in mind such a

loved daughter of Mr. and simple matterasthe fullerprovision and Mrs. H. W. Looker is report-quarry, about 100 yards from the The birth of a daughter to Mr. crusher at the entrance to the Mra. Adolpho dos Ramos, at of public bathing facilities. This is/ed in Home papers. Mr. Looker, cliff, face... 10.45 a.. to-day, Age 7 months. Funeral will take one of those matters in which the was formerly a solicitor in Hong-victim had been

who is a member of Parliament,

Mr. L. D. Turner this morning Continuing, witness said the place to-morrow at 3.30 p.m. administration can, far better kong.

working as applied for the reduction of the Macau, Shanghai, Lisbon, than private enterprise, bestow D

driller for over a year, and had fine, pointing out that the maximum and Rio de Janeiro papers:

frequently done the job before. Penalty under the Ordinance was please copy.

communal benefit by creating ceremony of the new offices of men to tie the safety rope round omitting to use iron bare in the The inauguration and opening Witness always instructed the only $200. The charge was one of easy and cheap facilities for all the Banque de l'Indochine is to their waists, but apparently the reinforced concrete of the kitchen The Hongkong Government dose take place on Monday, April man had not taken the trouble to and second door verandahs, not take the subject quite serious. 19th, at 12 noon in the Bank's do so on that occasion. In fact Mr. J., H. B. Nihill, the Magis.

Building în Queen's ly enough, we think, and now that Cantral..

Road he never did tie the rope round trate, said that the defendant his waist but attached it to his pleaded guilty to a charge of the summer is coming on it

shoulder, There was only one

divergence in five different parts might, with much benefit, take a]

The forthcoming, wedding is other driller and he also twisted the premises, announced of Mr. Lawrence the rope round his shoulder. Wit- change of heart. Judged by Home Alfred Collyer, assistant attend-ness had pointed out the danger though there were five different la standards, this Goverment is not ant of the Lunatic Asylum, to to him, and had reported the mat-stances of divergence, the offence over-burdened with work of a Miss Hilda Eva Bugden, who is ter to the overseer quite often. amounted to only one charge.

on her way to the Colony by the but the men would not obey or point, his Worship agreed with Mr. There is a very compelling social welfare character, and it

After legal argument on the 8.8. Malwa, phrase in the report of the Royal could easily seek out new ways

dere.. The overseer had spoken Commission which has recently of justifying its status as

to him about it, The U.S.S. Black Hawk, mother| been investigating the working enlightened and civilised admin ship to the Destroyer. Flotilla of death was perfectly clear, and it Mr. Lindsell said the cause of in England of the National Health istration..

the Asiatic Squadron, arrived yesterday morning from Cavite, would appear that the man had Insurance scheme, that phrase

and exchanged the usual salutes. only himself to blame. If the boing that a civilised nation

The Black Hawk is commanded jury wished to add any recommen-are advised by cable from Shang by Commdr. G. B. Landenberger:dations as to supervision of work must carry the burdens of civilisa-

It is, fortunately, seldom thas

in the quarry, they could do so. tion." In other words, the cost serious railway smashes occur.

A moeting of members of the A verdict of accidental death and organisation of social service in this part of the world, but the Hongkong Gonoral Chamber of as returned, and no recemmen- is something which should be place in Yunnan resulted, as will instant for the purpose

one reported yesterday as taking Commerce is called for the 16th.dations were made. specifically provided for by the have been observed from the nominating a

of State or the Government and story of the disaster, in the loss Chamber to serve on the Legisla that the social welfare of citizens injuries to about a hundred other from the Colony of the Hon. Mr. of nearly thirty lives, as well as tive Council during the absence must be one of the first concerns passengers. It was only by a P. H. Holyoak. of the administration. In Ame. miraculous circumstance that & rica, the land of high wages, the amongst the casualties.

Hongkong man did not figuro

A vordict that death was due to administration spends lavishly on mishap occurred on the main line pulmonary tuberculosis, was re- The cardiac failure, brought about by education and other services, but of the Haiphong-Yunnanfu rail-turned at the inquiry at the it makes little or no provision for grettable that the train was not into the death of a prisoner in way, and it is certainly nost re Central Magistracy yesterday social insurance. Great Britain equipped with first-aid requisites, gaol. The man was committed asked by a City firm to give some Magistrate.

A prominent society man was I don't know Soho."Willesden has taken the other line; it the result being that the injured to prison last September to servo particulars of a young fellow who spends only moderately on educa.had to suffer their agonies for a year'a sentence for returning hud applied for a job...

niany hours before they could from banishment.

Wife "Well, happy Journey tion but in insurance thealth and jobtain relief from their suffer-

He wrote back, "I know. Mr. J. and safe arrival. Where did you unemployment), housing and Poorings. Even when a relief train,

to be excellently connected and put the accident-insurance policy?" Our Picture Page to-morrow well bred. His grandfather was

6 put the ac Law it spends enormously. The was despatched to the scone, will include groups taken at the General S., a cousin of the fourth

there was no doctor

Doings of the great:-Elinor nution's total annual charge for it, and it was largely left to a Miss Mabel Kotewall, and of Mr. related to the Countess of H."

aboard weddings of Mr. H. Lowcock and Lord G. His mother was P., and so Glyn, who has written so much of social services (including educa- manufacturing chemist's repre-M. M. da Rota and Miss Elsa M.

love that she is thinking of copy- tion: is just over £300,000,000, and sentative to do what he could for de Sousa: others of Dr. T. W. "Thank you very much for your to bed, "Of course, it's all right The manager of the firm replied, righting it, never wears her shoes: the Labour Party would have the sufferers until they were taken are

to the journey's end, whero the cudents.

and Morrison Hall letter in regard to Mr. J. We for flappers," she charmingly con- country spend far more would services of a doctor were obtained, football dinner at the Hongkong required for clerical work, and not

of tho Interport would state, however, that he is codes. have the present

insurance That was seven hours after the Hotel, of the Hongkong and for breeding purposes," system transformed into a comwe have been informed,

disaster occurred. From what Shanghai Portugueso

"The collection this morning" cricket

observed the vlear, "will be taken pleto modicul and treatment siderable feeling has been aroused Despatch; as well as some vory Clerkenwell of giving a man of as erroneously printed, in the ser- teams, and of the band of H.M.S. A showman was accused at on behalf of the arch fund, and not, service drawing almost entirely at the alience of first-aid and interesting pictures of war opera- colour a black eye. from State funds. We do not stated that far too few foreigners

medical facilities, and it is further ons in North China..

"I can't see vice papers, on behalf of the arch- It," said the magistrate. "I Bup- fiend" propose hero to deal with the are employed on this difficult

poja one eye Is blacker than the other."

con-

meraber of the

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hai that the Semambu Company a final dividend is 20 donts, making. 30 cents for the year and that the Montoukou output for March was 18,870 tons.?

The Very Idea!

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| findings of the Royal Commission, stretch of railway. It is to be In the "Strand" Captain

"New gathered earth worms" or with the interesting Minority hoped that the lessons of this Evans, the companion of Scott,

were among the remedies mention. disaster will be taken to heart by who was formerly in command The Mayor of Bedford, Alderman ed in the edition of the Britis Report, but we have referred to the railway administration, and of H.M.S. Carlisle on the China Gilbert Barford, laid the last brick Pharmoonpain, a new version of the question of the cost of social that at the very least there will Station, reveals some of his youth at the top of the new chimney, 160 which is being prepared, Issued

in future bo adequate first-aid ful escapades, showing how the feet high, at the Luton Bleaching early in the eighteenth century. services at Home, because we equipment on all trains, so that child was father to the man, for and Dyeing Works, of which he is Others which are not likely to re would like to look, for a moment, in the event of further mishaps he ran away from home three the head. The chimney contains appear in the modern edition were (at the question of governmentci the sufferings of those injured times, sponding one night in 94,000 bricks, and the Mayor live hog lice," "frog's liver,"

social services generally,

may be reduced to a minimum. Brentford Workhouse among the ascended inside by a sling used in "flesh of live toads and vipers," trainpe, another in Barking the building operations, and after "burnt cork quenched in aqua police station, and a third in laying the last brick broke a Union viti," and, grueaqmely enough, High Barnet polico-station, where Jack from the top.

even man's bones calcined." The 'was allowed to sit on the He should have been thankful ho horses until he was fetched didn't break his neck. home.

The proportion of Great Bri tain's expenditure on social sor-j vices is extraordinarily high-

one of the highest among the nations of the world-and it is that which stamps' the country

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SHIPPING NEWS.

VESSELS WITHIN CALL

At noon, the following vessels

The girls are content if they

only get

A parmanent wave thats

fair

But wo poor men would be

satisfied

If we only had permanent

bair.

How long should a stage kiss last? is a question which has been agitating the London theatrical profession.

Tho matter was brought to a head by several actresses who are decidedly opposed to realistic em braces on the stage, and who, when kisses have to be given, insist on only those of the "peck" "variety. These actresses Gave encountered

A fatal accident took place at as the home of beneficial ad- were expected to be in wireless Kennedy Town on Wednesday ministration.

In any country communication with Hongkong to afternoon, the victim being a Chinese coolic woman living at which is not great or in which

day: there is lax and corrupt ad-Cloon, Samedon, Yamagata Maru,was being pulled along Catchick City of Peking, Assaye, Van Belcher Street. A two-wheeled truck heavily loaded with iron ministration the spending on Albert Sarraut, China Arrow, Yook

Street by a number of coolios social services are invariably low, ang, Beyo Maru, Ceylon Maru on ropes in front and by others Old Scotch Beater (recovering opposition, however, not only from and it can, therefore, be takon as

Konan Maru, Empress of Australia, pushing behind. The rope on from a collanse, the result of a other actresses, but from producgra Anking, Tjisaropa, Tilpanas, which a woman had placed her alight shooting accident) What's and directors who insist on realiani. an axiom that the more Merlonus, Adastrus. Talambo, weight snapped and sho. was that yo has been giving me? One producer contended a kis the higher and more beneficial is Hawail Maru, Tonkin, Amboice, over her body, killing her on the If the landlady didn't open his during rehearsals he held stop

loch, Jeypore, Santhia, Glenamoy, gat clear of the truck a wheel ran

tinue at least sixty-five seconds, and its administrative system and the Tjisondari, St. Albans, Kingyuan, spot

bag to aco what luggage was in it, watch.

HERIA WHIPHYN Ladipe. country sponds on social servicos Hakacaki, Maru, Arafura, Glenfal-thrown down. Before she could Whusky? And me unconscious Ping scene in his play should con

Salon