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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FİRE-WALKING.

AN EYE-WITNESS' ACCOUNT.

If, when another festival, falls due, Venkatasami tells me it is going to snow pink. I shall not be rude to him, as I was on the oc casion of the "fire-walking."

THURSDAY. APRIL 28,

1927.

LIQUOR: SOLD WITHOUT| SHANGHAI BANKERS

LICENSE.

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GOVERNMENT LAXITY IS

SUGGESTED.

CHINESE FINED $300. » The proprietor of a distillery at Kowloon City was- prosecuted by the Revenue Department before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on a charge of selling liquor without a license.

COUNTER MEASURES AGAINST HANKOW,

The Shanghai Chinese Bankers' Association, saya the Sinwanpan, has issued the following mani- festo "The authorities at 3'- Our native "boy" had been extraordinarily communicative. In

chang and Hankow have lately broken English he had given his

issued an order announcing that, version of the origin of the affair;

commencing from April 18, only how in the long ago one Arjuna

the notes issued by the Central Bank should he accepted, and no had taken a solemn vow to re- venge before sunset on the morrow

specie will be allowed to be used in business transactions. This the slaying of his favourite son by a rival Sainyadhara, writes Mr. Mr. W. J. Carrie, senior asai-proves that these authorities, who in the mave introduced communism, are W. H. Ludlow in the Westminster tent Superinterdent

attempting to upset the financial Gace It Arjuna failed to slay ports and Exports Department, market and to wreck the founda- his enemy he would make a sper-prosecuted, and Mr. W. B. Hindtions of the country. Apart from facular exit from this life by cast- defended.

severing their business connexions Mr. Hind pleaded guilty to with the

at various banka ing himself into the midst of an To his aid came

technical offence, and in asking Hankow, the members of the As- Chermous fire. Siri Krishna, who, at midday on the for the imposition of a nominal 'sociation have decided that, com- ! day of combat, "threw a disr overtine, said that the defendant ha mencing from the day on which the sun," a picturesite way of de- held a license in 1921 and 192

this decision was reached, busi- seribing a solar eclipse. Sainyad- for which owing to a misunder-ness he carried on with the banks) Jura, thinking night had fallen standing he paid $550 each year in the various provinces, except;

those at Hankow. The Asnocin- and that his opponent had failed instead of $100. to accomplish his ayowed object. By agreement with the Police,tion emphatically points out that came out of hiding. At that mo- who were then in charge of the is-its members will unanimously pro- "ment the "dise" was removed, Sansuing of licenses, the defendant tal-financial transactions. yadharn, taken off his guard, thus was permitted to carry on business Fearing that outsiders may mis- the situation, this fel an easy victim, and Arjuna for 1926 without any further pay understand was saved from a fery death. Itment, This year he had 'waited manifesto is issued for the was thereupon ordained that, in for a reminder from the depart formation of the public." like manner, his faithful followers ment but had received none. would be granted immanity from harm at the "Gre-walking" festival to be held annually in celebration

of the event.

"Sahils better take great contu plenty rain come when walking

Protection for Banks.

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In order to avert the financial

crisis through the declaration of a moratorium at Wuchang and Hankow, General Chiang Kai- shek. Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Army, has sent out a eiular telegram directing the military officers Cheklang,

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Mr. Carrie, applying for a maxi- mum fine, pointed out that al- though for 1924 and 1925, $150 had been paid in excess for this license, yet the first year, the business was in other hands, and finished," said Venkatasami.

was not sold to the defendant till A couple of miles from our 1925. The defendant had writte bangalow we found ourselves in

a letter to, the Government Te-Aahwei, Kokien, Kwangtung, etc., the midst of a motley crowd of questing the repayment of the to accord protection to the foreign- Hindoos, all in holiday garb. $150, but no further action was styled banks and the native banits Here were the religions mendi- taken by him to obtain his money in their respective jurisdictions. rants and the crippled beggars al-

He had not applied for a license He has also issued another order days to be found on fefe days. for 1926 or 1927, and therefore to his financial department to de- Close by were the pedlars of was liable to the Government for vise ways and means to sweetmeats and children's Loys.the sum of $800, minus the $150 fund to meet the military ex- And, of course, there were the in- for 1925 which he (Mr. Carrie)

penses and to redeem the notes doubt thr

branches evitable tom-com players and the had no

Government issued by the various

of the Central Bank. performers on weird wind instru- would willingly refund. ments.

Mr, Currie pointed out that even But our chief interest was een-had he been allowed the repay. fred upon an exortus hontire of hops and bundles of orushwood, burning fiercely in the middle of a roped-o enclosure.. The fire

Laxity On Both Sides. half-naked was fed by severi

His Worship, said that the e piests, the wood being replenish- Was some Jaxity or both sides. ed trent 'fire offerings of hundreds The defendant had been allowe!

ment of the twe exiesa sums, he was still Hille for the payment of $100 for 1926.

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ng natives, men, women, and chil-ta carry on business for 18 months. den Baby オド whom, after without being checked by the to- solemnly walking thrice round the vernment. arena, howed low in prayer at rath corner at the square.

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Mr. Carrie said that he had af-ground, unter waya exhibited his

sign-board Communications. having begun bearing the Heense number issued service three weeks ago, is in emi- In 1985, and unless the actual cient communication with Shang- license was inspected it was diff-hal, says the Canton Gazette. guli to know that the man had no Messages, commercial and private, Beense.

are being received and transmit- ted at most hours of the day.

The formal ceremony of inau- guration will take place at 1 'clock to-day, 28th inst. The programme includes an inspection trip through the receiving and You pay no attention to the fact transmitting plant, which, it is ex-that you are not fit, that some pected, will be of high interest to thing ails you which may be dis- the guests. High officials in the sipated by simple measures. You city will attend the ceremony,'

Mr. Carrie

Just before sundown and it was a glorious sunset that even- ing--the sound of more lom-toms woth be heard, in the distamer Slowly a procession could be seen making its way from the lake a

I Worship replied that there mile so distant. As the procession was still same laxity in one of drew near we could distinguish the Government departments. the village godtiessey-seven of

intimated that it them.

Aanamuna, the presiding was not the Government why deity, Chandusveramma, Mayes-wanted them to get licenses, but veranno, Maramma, the goddess it was the proprietor's day if he of cholera, Udalanma, the goddess wanted to carry on business to of swollen necks. Kokkalamma, the apply to the Government, goddess of coughs, and Sukha- jamma, the goddess of small-pox ånd measles. Each of them was carried shoulder thigh by stalwart henrers, accompanied by the chief priests.

is Worship said that as the offence of not having a license was punishable, it was for the Go- vernment to see that he did not

01} business without carry license..

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A fine of $2000 was imposed.

DUKE OF YORK IN AUSTRALIA.

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The approach of the procession was the signal for the attendant priests at the fire to make out the glowing embers over a spare some 12 yards square and several inches think a veritable fiery "curpet." At one end of this earpet was a shallow trench filled with water.

Thirty or forty men and youths, dressed alike in saffron coloured robeg and wearing garlands of

After the serious business of Howers, held themselves in rundi-presenting the Speaker of the nes on the opposite side. These House of Representatives with a were the devotees who had taken replica of the deapatch bazes ned a vow to walk through the fire in the London House of Coum vas, barefooted.

is a town of His Majesty's ruter-

GAY "RAG" BY MELBOURNE STUDENTS,

Melbourne, April 27.

A short "puja" by the priests, est in the new Parliament build- Then suddenly a shout, and fu leasing at Canberra, the Duke of York time than it takes to write the was given a rare ragging when tom-lom men and the musicians he was made a Doctor of Lairs sut up an ear-splitting din, and of felbourne University. the ziowing carpet became alive Surrounded by hilarious stu- with the shouting, yellow-clad peo-dents, the Duke of York rode in an ord ple. Many of the latter carried through the grounds tiny children in their arma. Each brougham, escorted by two ancient journeyed over the course three nags, cach mounted by three un- times, dipping his feet in the dergraduates, followed by live sacred water at the end of the sheep, goats and cows, and a ban- trip.

ner declaring "If the Duke cannot go to the country, the country must come to him," which was a reference to the complaint that the Duke and Duchess of York are not seeing sufficient of the country districts of Victoria.

I was all over in three minutes, after which the induo onlookers besieged the men, begging, for good luck, pinches of saffron that had been earried in their loin cloths.

The fire-wallcers eertainly were

The mob continually slapped the no injured in any way, for they Duke of York on the back, refer- mingled with the crowd as all pro- ring to him as "the brother of our ceeded homeward; and I have horsey Prince," and asking him since mado careful investigations to convey kind regards to "the old and am satisfied they do not use man and his missus." any fire-resisting preparation on The Duke of York was made a their feet.

member of the Students' Associa-

I do not pretend to understandtion, and swore "to share my ciga- how they came through the ordeal rettes with less fortunate mem- unscathed, for the heat was in-bers."

tense. But I do know that Ven- The students went up a chorus katasami was right in his weather of "Goodbye Albort!" us he left, forecast.

The engagement is announced of the Rov. C. B. Shann, of St. John's Hall, Hongkong, and Miss Mabel Dewing, of the Diocesan Girls' School, Hongkong, daughter of the late Martin L. Dowing Esq, of Reepham, Norfolk,

and two undergraduates dressed like the Duke and Duchess of York followed in a car driven by a student in a red uniform and wearing 13 bearskin. The "Duchess" was so well disguised that the crowds were completely hoodwinked until they saw a grin- ning figure perched at the back of the car.Reuter.

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he said to you.

attested by thousands. They are "But why not come to me in the a proved remedy for ailments aris- first place? Why wait until I aming from watery, impure blood or compelled to tell you that you disordered nerves, such as anac must stop away from business, or min, nervous debility, indigestion, give up all your social activities rheumatism, also for those irregu Had you come to me when you first larities of health which afflict wo- The Hague, April 27. The First Chamber has passed began to be run-down, I could have men only. the Bill authorising adherence to given you a tonic that would have the Washington Labour. Conven-put you right in a jiffy.” tion, subject to reservations. Reuter.

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