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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1926.

nient exhibits towards them. It is trua that samo of the money in "Mr. Haytora" sweepstake was going towards charity, but the bulk of it was going to provide the prizes and cover the costs of or ganisation.

Roney

DAY BY DAY.

THE SECRET PLEASURE OF

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GENEROUS ACT IS THE GREAT MIND'S CREAT BRIDE-Dryden,

Yesterday'a health return shows one Chinesó case of diphtheria,

The ss. Allpore, which left Shanghai at 4.30 am, on the 11th, is due hora'at 4 pm.on the 18th.

The P. & O. s.8. Khyber, from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on the 13th July, at 7 a.m.

There may be little or no differ ence in law between any of the sweepstakes, lotteries or raffles which take place and for which fs charged for the tickets, but we think every reader will agree that there can be a great deal of difference in the worthiness and The Hongkong Land Investment desirability of the ends aimed at, Co. has declared an interim divi- and it is in that respect, apparent-dend of $2 for the six months

ended June 30th. ly, where our local Government takes upon itself the great respon- sibility of making a choice. Would it not be possible, however, for the

law to be amended in some way, 30 as to make legal provision for those sweepstakes which are not now considered to be pernicious enough to warrant any interfer-

ence? The public has a right to know, just where it stands, ín nh important matter like this. If a certain sweepstake is permissible (by indulgence) now, could it not be made permissible legally? That is the question which the public is asking and it is a question to which the Government might, with much

Passengers arriving yesterday by as. Empress of Russia includ

dr. R. R. Templeton and Bishop

A. Gauthier.

A bullock which was being led by a woman charged into a motor car driven by a Chinese on the Castle Peak Road on Sunday. The animal was injured in the right

1eg.

While 4. Kowloon Motor Bus Company's vehicle was passing a junction in Laichikok Road yester day evening, a number of boys ran across the road and one of them was knocked down. He received injuries to the face and legs.

The health foturn for the past week shows six cases of typhoid

FIGUEIRDO.—At, her residence credit, provide an explanatory (one Indian and five Chinese), of

No. 2B, Run de Santa Clara, answer. Macau, on 12th July, 1926, Mathilde V. Comes de Figueiredo, age 90 years. Deeply regretted. Shanghai, Japan and Lisbon papers please copy.

The Telegraph

WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1926.

SWEEPSTAKES.

France's Day,

which four were fatal;"

two Chinese deaths from diphtheria: and one fatal Chinese case each of puerperal fever, and cerebro

fever.

The July number of the Yellow

US: This number signalises the end of the. Dragon has reached

death of Mr. A..W. Grant, M. Ai, first half year. It records the

of the Queen's College who died acting head master for some time

recently at Brighton. "Laughing Budda" contributes an interesting article on Friendship, Other articles of interest are on Micheal Faraday and Sir Francis Bacon.

THE BANNED SWEEP.

GERMAN SHIPPING.

BIG EXPANSION IN PROGRESS.

MR. J. M. ALVES DENIAL

Mr. J. M. Alves, the President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul With the object of re-acquiring

Berlin, July

requests. us to statd that, tha Society did not ask Mr. Frank Hay- the ss. Rollance and e.s. Resolute, tor to arrange the Sweepstake on each of 20,000 tons, and the .. the St. Leger for the Society's Clevoland of 17,000 tons from thờ Harriman concern, the. Hamburg-

bencult.

On June 9th Mr. Hayter wrote Amerika line proposes to increase its capital by eloven million marks to Mr. Aives na follows:

to seventy-five million marks, "I have been approached by al number of sportemen in the Co-Hamburg-Amerika tonnage to over The transfer will bring up tho Tony to organise a eweepstake on half a million gross, equivalent to the last of the English classics forty per cent, of the pro-wür The St. Leger.'

figure,

It is also proposed to authorise

"A committee has been formed') and it has been "suggested that a) deserving cause must benefit. the Directora to issue six million One of the committee has stood dollars in new bonds. out for the Society of St. Vincent de Faul. It has been put to the vote and after the proposer ox plained the good done by the Society it was passed unanimous

cause."

The Norddeutscher Lloyd is also increasing ita capital by eleven million marks to sixty-five million marks-Router.

SALES COMPLETED.

New York, July 18.

It has been left to me as secreThe steamshipa Resolute, Re- try to ask you if you will accept fliance and Cleveland have been ten per cent, as a donation to the gold to the Hamburg-Amerika Line. by the United-American Lines in Mr. Alves knew that sweepstakes exchange for a financial interest were illegal and in order to in the broaden the basis of responsibility, stockholders of the American. Ship German company. The. as it were, he wrote to Mr. Haytor and Commerce Corporation, which on June 18th suggesting that the is the holding company for the ten per cent, might be divided United-American Lines, meet on equally between the Society of St. July 23rd to ratify the sale. Vincent de Paul and the Hong-Renter's American Service. kong Benevolent Society. He have to confer with Mrs. Hunt, Sir Esma Howard, the British pointed out that Mr. Haytor would; the Secretary of the Benevolent Ambassador at Washington, has Society and added "if she agrees teased White Lodge, Manchester, your syndicate will have the plan- Massachusetts, for the summer sure and satisfaction of helping home of the British Embassy.

To-day our friends of the French community celebrate their National Day, and it is our pleasing dutysto Friday next will be open day at éxtend' to them our sincere felicita tions on behalf of the Colony as a Parents nad friends of pupils have

the Victoria

British School whole. It is a happy circumstance been invited to attend at 11.15 a.m. that at this very moment there is when they will have an opportunity widespreid satisfaction being ex- pressed in Anglo-French circles at during the torm. There will not of seeing work done by the children the prompt manner in which the be a lengthy programme, but the debt negotiations, have been adjust-children will give a fow rhythmia ed by M: Caillaux and Mr. Chur- The prosecution against. "Mr. chill, from which it la hoped that

dances. Haytoy for being in possession of there will be favourable reactions lottery tickets, e.. tickets in a

on the frane. The French people sweepstake which he had arranged of the war, and in this connection are still suffering from the effects on the result of the forthcoming it is, not without interest to cast SL. Leger race, has raised the gen-4 glance at the progress which has eral question of the legality and of the devastated areas of north been attained, in the reconstruction immunity of all such comparable castorn France. Figures which undertakings in the Colony. There have been supplied to us by the local French Consulate-General give a seems to be a general desire that good idea of the work that has been the Government should make some actually accomplished and of the statement on the matter in view of still larger amount of work that has to be done before these Depart- the fact that so many sweepstakes ments can be restored to something and lotteries are organised during like pre-war prosperity. When it the course of a year. Of course, is considered that these areas be- it is unlawful for any sweepstake fore the war were the most pros- perous and progressive in France, or lottery to be held, but in order giving employment to six milliona to avoid a harsh and oppressive ap- of its population and contributing plication of the law, the Govern- something like 40 per cent. of its totul industrial, productive and inent has always been content to natural wealth, the importance and present a blind eye to lotteries and necessity of the reconstruction work Aweepstakes rün in connection with will be realised. That so much has

The following vessels are ex- Clubs or charities or social organi-been done, in spite of adverse con-

ditions resulting from the war, is pected to be in wireless communi- on noise and would be unhappy established as the lowest price for sations. There are dozons of in itself a tribute to the vitality and cation with Hongkong to-day: without it. The fact is that the a movie star's wardrobe. raffles held every year, many in fortitude of a people who had so suroes, Corbis, Tamba Maur, average new arrival is thrilled by This is the entire cost of Bessie connection with the M.C.L. and all much to lose and very little to gain Fulda, Talto Maru, Pembrokeshire, the symphony of bangings and Love's complete outfit as the star from the circumstances in which Cheribon Maru, Hanoi, Sunthia, clatterings and squeakings and, of "Lovely Mary," which she is number of charitable worka, and it they found themselves at the out- Songbo, Canada Maru, Van Overs-hurries to write home about it.. would be harsh and arbitrary if the set of the war, Statistics of the traten, Hozan Maru, Hwahcheng,

doing for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, As for the permanent. New The stars entire wardrobe for work accomplished by the end of Tilawa, Giensanda, Nairnbank, Yorker there is ittle he can Government put the strict applica last year show that at that date. Hiram, Taiping, Hosang, President about it, but when someone rises cheap gingham dresses, one hat, do this production consists of two tion of the law into force and prq-seven years after the cessation of Taft, Kotau Maru, Kinshan, ceeded against the organisers. hostilities, approximately 80 per Kwongtung, West Prospect, Tai- becomes a civic hero.

to battle the noises he or she generously estimated to be worth When a lottery or a sweepstake in cent. of the 112 milliards of francs shan, and Shirata:

Which is just what happened in shoes that were rescued by the about ten cents and a pair of run by its organisers for their in-

the case of Mrs. Julla Rice, who studio wardrobe department from dividual gain or profit, then the Government steps in and applies the law. One ought to look at the object of any law in order to judge

not only one but two charitable much good for the suffering poor sanction had been sought and ob- institutions which are doing so of Hongkong,"

tained for its promotion.

upon its executive a number of as the Society of St. Vincent de The Benevolent Society having | There the matter rested as far

tikh community, the idea at the submits that, in the circumstances, responsible members of the Bri- Paul was concerned and Mr. Alves! back of Mr. Alves' suggestion was the statement made that the sweep- that the Benevolent Society would atake was organised "At the re- not associate itself with the sweep-quest" of the Society is absolutely stake unless satisfied that official without foundation.

The Very Idea!

FOR SALE: One of the greatest just created a bathing suit nifty of

at St. Joseph's Church, Garden the country, only 8 years old and

A pretty wedding was solemnised Mules ever seen in this section of black velvet. Of it she says:

"The wearer, emerging from the

estimated for expenditure in re-

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Road, on Saturday, the contracting her height is 16 hands, has a 14 water in wet velvet, looks like a parties being Mr. William George inch ear and the style of a race beautiful glossy seal. And the Jarvis of the Chinese Maritime horse and when fully grown will hathing season is almost upon us, Customs and Miss Mary Rothe of weigh all of 1250, has been worked too!" Kingstown, Co. Dublin. The Rev. some and so gentle any person can Fr. Augustin Placzek, rector of St. go in the pasture and put a halter Joseph's, officiated. The witnesses on her-advt in Tennessee paper. who signed the register were Mr. Jesse Wiltshire of the Prisons De partment and Mr. H. G. Wheeler,

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construction and rehabilitation GENERAL WU TE-CHEN. work had been expended. This shows that in spite of frequent poli- tical changes and fluctuations of the franc, the intrinsic wealth

VISITED BY HIS WIFE.

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of the nation is on an upward plane, After a period of three months, of the manner of its application.. and it confirms the belief of the the whereabouts of General Wu

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Finest English Cheddar Cheese

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Selected Gorgonzola

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Choicest Roquefort

Emmenthal Gruyere

Petit Gruyere (six portions)

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Fresh English Sausages York Cut Hams

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SPECIALISTS IN PROVISIONS.

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He hopped into the barber's

chair-

And started. In to chatter, but

A rather friendly sort., The barber cut him short..

Speaking of the base of sound for which New York is famed,· there is an opinion held by many...... that average New Yorkers thrive

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A dollar seventy-five has been

has done more than any individual the junk heap.

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in Manhattan to slay the giant As for stockings, she wears the discords.

long ribbed cotton kind that have Thus far her success has been way of turning green under whistles, school buildings and Imited to Hodson River ferry sunlight, and they are full of holes. hospital zones,

Unfortunate. It was the young

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He was

though the strictly-minded man will people that the country's ent-To-chen have been definitely locat. And that is no mean accomplish barrlstor's first case.

barrassment is but a temporary ed by his friends. It is now shy that all laws ought to be on-situation which will pass away like learned that the General is detainment. She all but lost her health briefed for the defence, and so forced at all times and not be left a bad dream as the day approaches ed in a fortress in the Whampoa to the discretion of any ofheial. when France will become revitalised military ared, and, except that his and rejuvenated as a result of the liberty is denied him, the condi- But, leaving aside the strictly-mind- troubles through which she has tions of his imprisonment are not

unduly irksome. "

A crypt below the pavement of Britton'a-court, Whitefriars- strect, is all that remains to-day

making the fight.

nervous was he that he broke down It seems that Mrs. Rice had in opening his case. !! cupled an apartment on River- side Drive. The tooting of whis- ly colleague whispered.

"Read it off your brief," a kind- ed man for the monient, we passed,

ties rasped terribly upon her For a time this succeeded, until find that the object of the gaming

A friend who went up to Canton nerves and, looking into the ques- the unfortunate young man read laws, under which lotteries and

with Mrs. Wu Te-chen recently, tion, she found that no one had this passage: "Counsel should bearing an appeal to General ever tried to find out whether the avoid putting defendant into the sweepstakes are illegal, is to pre-

Chang Kai-shek, returned last whistling could be stopped. She box, as he cannot be believed on vent social demoraliantion by gamb of the great Carmelite Priory that week to Hongkong with the in- swung into a fight and was re- oath and has a long list of ling and the organising of

formerly spread over a consider formation that General Wu has aponsible for corrective legislation. previous convictions."

ble area, from gambling for private profit:

Flect-street to two ipoma, furnished as comfort Then she went after the nolže.. Verdict for the plaintiff organised lotteries ran in Canton which is perpetuated by Carmelite-at his disposal. Interviews were pitals and schools and created Indian seal hunters have return-

The Thames-side, and the memory of ably ns could be wished, pinced makers in the vicinities of hos-

and Macno are, without any seri- street. The walls of this under-not granted, but an exception zones of quiet.

ground chamber are of hard chalk appears to have been, made in the Flat wheel cars, needlessly noisy ed to Port Angeles with a strange blocks, and the domed roof is sup. case of Drs. Wu, who was able motors and shrieking street ven- tale of a sen beast twice as big as various Club sweepstakes and social ported by eight moulded ribs of to obtain permission, to see her dors now claim her attention and an elephant with eyes that open raffles which are condoned here can- dark stone that meet in a carved husband.

perhaps she may be able to do and shut like trap doors. The In- not, honestly, be put into the ente rose in the centre. An ancient Норев are expressed that something about it. If she does dians said the monater nearly up gory of serious social vices which blocked up, la traditionally said his way to liberate the ex-Com- by a monument some day.

doorway in the west wall, now General Chang Kai-sheks will age she will doubtless be Immortalized zet their boat. ought to be prohibited, and there is to give access to a subterranean missioner of Police at an early

Age limite do not apply to per reasonability, if not consistent re- passage extending to the Temple, date,

Give no thought wherewith go sons entitled to proference because But this is pure conjecture. Simi gard for the legalities, in the bene lar stories are told of acores of fast week and again left for meant to apply to motion picture From a U. 8. Civil Service ad in

Mrs. Wu returned to Hongkong shall be clothed that was never of millinery or naval service. volent tolerance which our Govern- other underground chambers.. Shanghai on Monday

The

actresses. Claire Windsor has the New York Times.