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WEDNESDAY,

JUNE 15, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

THOSE WHO TALK MUCH ARE SURE TO SAY SOMETHING BEST LEFT UNSAID.Confucius.

Thloves gained ontrance to No, 383 Shanghal Stroot, second floor, yesterday, and stole jewellery and clothing worth $81...

obliged to seek ald from hospitals, or who are recommended by friends who have previously obtained re- lof. There are, however, the hundreds who never come within the jurisdiction of a charity, either through ignorance, of the facilities offered or distrust of same: whilst there are many thousands of the Inhabitants of this Colony who, while they live scoringly above the stage of actual want, are all the tima menaced by hardship, and can barely make ends meet. These are the people who deserve one's full aympathy. They comprise a large

Yesterday morning near the part of the Chinese working classes.

Central Market, in Des Vocux They obtain fair wages,, but their Road, a Chinese boy was knocked living conditions, owing to economic down by a tramcar, and severely pressure, inadequate housing ac-injured his head. He was taken to

hospital.

commodation, and overcrowding of

OBITUARY.

MR. CHARLES ALEXANDER.

The Very Idea!

She: "Is Captain Stern your father?"

Ha: "He was!" She: "Was 7)

He: "Yeshe is a major now !!"

He put his halfpenny in the

bag,

And raised his eyes on high; Thank God I've paid the

weekly rent

For mansions in the sky.

A very wido eircle of old friends will learn with genuine regret of the death of Mr. Charles Alexander, who for many years has been a most popular and well- known personality in the Colony. News of Mr. Alexander's death has been received to-day by tole Senator Whelan, laiting the gram by Mr. A. M. Simpson, of East to review trade conditions, the Kowloon Dock, the cable bo has prorooded to Canton, and willing from Police Inspector John return in time to embark by the Ogg, who is at present Home on s.8. Kalyan sailing north on Satur-holiday. The telegram stated

that Mr.. Alexander died yester

Young husband addressing his day.

day at Broughty Ferry, near wife in a Surroy court: Butterfly L Dundee..

Wife, putting out her tongue: The Inte Mr. "Charlie" Alexan-Bearly i Magistrate, glancing his spectacles: der, who was a marine engine sternly over cr, first carao to the Far East Silence! You both ought to be of the Docks at Singapore. It about 25 years ago, joining ono spanked. was in 1900 that he came to

Mr. Bingley, Marylebone magis the Kowloon Hongkong to join Dock, but he resigned his positrate: Most of the women of Lon tion there six years later, subse- den are quarrelling now the

weather is becoming hot. quently joining the Dock again and serving for many years. He left a few years ago to join Messrs. Nemozee and Company as Chief Engineer and saw ser- vice on that firm's ships until he left. for Home about 18 months ago.

The local health return for yes- terday records three cases of enteric fover, one British and two Chinese. Two of the cases are reported from area, and one from the city Kowloon..

urban areas, are often distressing. This morning's Harbour Office The Chinese who live in cubicles, reports gave 14 arrivals and the too many together to be at all heal-dame number of departures, of which five and six were Britlah, thy, number many thousands. leaving 69 vessels in harbour, Bri- Their diet is simple often through tish 27. sheer necessity. When sickness, pas of employment, additions to the family, or other reasons for a further call on the exchequer of the wage earner, arise, there is seldom any margin to fall back upon, and bardship follows. The remedy lies only in sweeping roforms of a nature that it seems impossible for any administration to tackle. The problem of overcrowding is one that has been discussed almost ex- haustively here, and it is admitted that the shortsighted policy of past years has left the present and future generations with a legney Yet, until of growing difficulty. something can be done te relieve THE COLONY'S POOR. congestion, to increase dwelling ac

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE: 15, 1927.

HELLO BAASANTES

Mr. Li Sin-kun, who was Con- nected with the Ministry of Finance in Canton, arrived here two days The local vernacular papers state that he will leave for Shang- hai to-day.

Ago.

Found swimming in the Har- our near the Star Ferry wharf, Hongkong, a ship's engineer, named Mr. II. Heggum, was taken to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday. It is not yes known how Mr. Heggem cane to be in the

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Mr. Alexander was twice mar- riod, ils son by his first wife be ing the Manager of a large tea estate in India. His second wife was formerly Miss Barrington, who, together with the two child- ren, are at Home. Much sympathy will go out to them in the loss they have sustained.

Of a genial and hearty disposi- tian, the late Mr. Alexander was widely popular. He was an en- thusiastle bowls player, being one of the founders and a life mem- ber of the Kowloon Bowling Green Club. A native of Aber- deen, he was a typical Scot in custom and speech, and will ba much missed by all who knew

him.

In connexion with the armed robbery at Tai Tong Wu village, FAMOUS HUMOROUS WRITER, Shautaukok the day before yester day, when two cows and two bulls were stolen, a police report stater that the two cows have been found

on the hillside. So far no arrests have been made,

At the Marine Court this mor- ning before Commdr, G. F. Hole, the master of a fishing boat plead ed guilty to using bright lights in a prohibited area, to wit, the Northern Anchorage, and was fined $5, with the alternative of fiye days' imprisonment.

The vernacular press states that several of the labour unions" in Macao, which included the barbers' and the mechanics' unions, were re- cently proscribed by the Macao Government, resulting in some of the officials of the unions being ar- rested and some deported.

London, June 14. The death has occurred of the

author, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome.--

Reuter.

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woman. Wife:

Wife, at Willesden: I caught my husband with Magistrato: Is he sorry? Not a bit; he's outside with her now.

A motorist, stopped at Willesden for excessive speed, exclaimed: Oh, bless my heart! I have only just bought the car.

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Solicitor, at Bow County Court: I suggest that your lodger is..not a heavy drinker. Landlord: Not when they are shut.

A. delicate situation has arison: for Lord Birkenhead respecting

the cigar 18 inches long with which he was presented at the the tobacco trade". dinner Piccadilly Hotel, London, W.

at

It would take, it is estimated by experts, about four hours to smoke in leisurely, fashion," as cigars should be smoked, even longer. Such a period of leisure is rarely available to Lord Birkenhead in his work as Secretary for India, but it was stated on his behalf that Lord Birkenhead intends sooner or later to smoke the cigar at one "sitting."

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The well-known novelist and author, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, died

It is splendid to see England to-day from cerebral haemorrhage.oneé more. The Bishop of London. British Wireless.

A woman of 21 is generally more.. mature in mind and body than a man of equal age. Mr. F. A.. Macquieten, M.P:

The late Mr. Jerome Klapa Jerome was born at Walsall in 1859, the eldest son of the Rev. Clapp Jerome, and was educated

It la dreadful that the surface. at Marylebone Grammar School,

He started life as a clerk and of our beautiful country should be afterwards became a schoolmaster, so disfigured by a quest for then an actor, and finally filthy lacre. Mr. John Graham

(93-year-old Durham Coroner). journalist, editing the Idler in conjunction with Mr. Robert Barr 1892 to 1897, also editing To-Day, from 1898 to 1897.

was

marriage, a daughter.

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commodation and etabilise rentals at levels within the reach of the The poor are always, with us, poorer classes, and to improve the and every big city has its pro-health of the general community by blems arising from economic condi- lessening overcrowding, creating tions' that draw a sharp line be more facilities for free treatment, tween the comfortably-off and the and marketing cheaper foodstuffs, needy. Yet it can be said that it cannot be said that the great certain factors operating in the problem of our needy has been more East make the contrast of proverty than touched. alongside wealth more marked, and in China, more than most other

French Coal Embargo, countries, the mass of the popula tion exists on a very small margin The British coal. Industry is ex- periencing the truth of the saying above absolute destitution. To

that evils never come singly. the credit of British administra Just as it is trying to settle down

More than 1,000 people attend- tion be it said that the starvation to a period of steady" output in

ed the funeral at Guildford of point is seldom in evidence in order to repair the ravages caused by the prolonged strike of last year

It was when he took to writing Alderman James Baker, a' former Hongkong, whatever it may be in there comes the blow that France

books, however, that he made hie Mayor of Guildford, whose alder. Chinese territory. One has only to has put an embargo on the impor-

mark, and his "Three Men in a manic scarlet gown and three- tation of coal except under licence

Boat" is perhaps the most popular cornered hat were buried, with read the records of the missions to It so happens that all along the

of his worka. He issued "On the him. the poor that work on the main west coast of France

are little

We are informed that the resi-Stage and OFF" in 1888, "Idle so seaports into which English col-1 dance known as "Shuitong Villa,' Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" in A sailor saved his officer from land, especially those that do

liers take a very large proportion situated at Sassoun Road, Mount 1889, and "Three Men in a Boat" drowning. "To-morrow," said the much good work in the north in of Britain's annual coal export, Davis, was bought by Mr. Kwok in 1889. A number of other works officer, "I shall thank you for

pro- followed in fairly winter, to realise what a huge and if this market is closed against Hin-wang yesterday. The

regular saving my life in front of the en- problem this aid to the starving the British exporter then the coal perty comprises 37,000 square feet, sequence, the last of his better-tire crew."

"Anthony. booka boing industry is going to be severely having garden and fenals court known and near-starving really is. And, it hit. Most of the coal raised in and will be known as "Diligent John," published in 1923. They'll half kill me."

later issued "My Life and Times," should be noted, the great work France is, over in the eastern dis-Home."

an autobiography. Of a few plays has gone on for years undertricts of the country and it is the

The title of Mr. Cochran's new heavy cost of railway freight and "It is understood that a quantity he wrote, the best known is "The foreign control, many a destitute the higher initial price of the coal

of seditious literaturo emanating Passing of the Third Floor Back." revue, "One Dam Thing After Another," pays, by the omitted Chinese family being rescued from Itself that has made the French from Hankow is passing through.

Mr. Jerome K. Jerome married a

We go to freezing alive by the distribution market an open and profitable one

the Post Office for delivery to Spanish lady, Senorita Georgina letter, the homage which frivolity for the British exporter. And now of food and comforts. Fortunately, the importation of foreign coal members of the Seamen's Union, Nesza, the daughter of an officer offers to puritanism.

one, child of the word in full. Gilbert dared not Hongkong knows no extremes of into France is stopped except at present serving on board river in the Spanish army, in 1888, and all sorts of expedients to avoid the say "Damn," but he talked of "the licence-in other words steamers running out of Hung- there under

kong. Action is being taken in cold, else the lot of our needy would

big, big D." His time spelt the against a tariff, for one presumes

Freedom of Walsall. be the harder. As it is, one can that the importation of needed the matter.

As recently as last February, he word with a dash, and bold spirits sec, on any winter's day when there foreign conl will still go on if the

The Welch Regiment, from the visited. Walsall, the place of his coined the double form, "dammit," tell-tale n. Even Mr. Masefield has been a fall of temperature permit fee is paid. In this matter,

of course, the French Government, Peninsula Hotel, carried out a birth, to receive the freedom of or "damme," again avoiding the achieves & euphemism with his somewhat below the average, like the Government of every other route march this morning to Lai-the city.

In acknowledgment of the pre-

"Odtan," huddled groups of coolies shivering aclf-governing country, has the chikok, accompanied by brass and at street corners, clad in several right to exclude or tax whatever pipe bands. Leaving the Hotel at sentation, Mr. Jerome referred to

"So you're feeling perfectly well suits of rags, but barefooted, and imports it chooses, but it remains 6.30, and clad in shorts and shirts, his early life, and said: "When to be seen whether the consumers the troops attracted a great deal sufficiently educated I went as a

You ill-nourished. No wonder that the of the coal are content to permit of attention on the line of march clerk on the London and North- again, and never touched the incidence of pulmonary disease is their interests to suffer by this by their smart and soldierly bear- Western Railway at ten shillings a medicine I gave you, eh?

week. But youth is a diacontend- made a grave mistake, Mrs. Smith, embargo. It is very bad luck for ing. Bo great. Much is done by local South Wales in view of the exter-

ed age. I ran away and went a grave mistake."

"How 80, doctor?"

you'd taken "Why, if charities to lessen the hardships sive contracts they had signed for

Whilst cycling in Nathan Road, upon the stage. My salary there got it was often fifteen borne by the Colony's poor, the supply of the French railways, Yaumati, last night, a young Chin--when

and it is to be hoped that the

woman knocked pedes- shillings (a rise of fifty per cent.) medicine, you'd have known what Institutions like the Society of St. French authorities will find that trim which en down a pele I believe I might have become a cured you, and, as it is, you haven't Vincent de Paul, for instance, the economics of the situation

After a year or two I re- loon Magistracy this morning. It me. deserve the support of all who can make a relaxation of the embargo by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow-matinee idol, but fate preserved the least idea."

necessary. The representations afford to make a donation, however which have been made by the Bri was said that the defendant was turned to London, this time chiefly several tish diplomatic representatives warned prior to the accident and with pawntickets in my pockets,

in various directions, quented aread. Chinese charitable bodies, such as ought to have some effect, especial- told to practise riding in less fra- and after scratching for my living

eventually a journalist.

"We did not then anticipate that Paris the free hospitals; and in recently as regards the honouring of the existing contracts. With summer

A concert will be given on Friday years, following on references in time in England, with industrial the Press to the lot of those who plants working anything but full night at the Cheer-o Y.M.C.A there would come a time when the Brussels

time and with

Chater Rond, by the Taikoo Enter- entire Press of the country, prae- Amsterdam a falling export have

tainors. The entertainment is betically spealing, would be in the Borlin .... to sleep in the publie

market, coal mining interoats are

There are ing organised by Mr. E. Howell and hands of one or two rich nien, and Copenhagen verandahs at night, there is an having a lean time.

Lisbon arrangement for the distribution still large numbers of unemployed among the artistes taking part are public opinion be broadcasted to Vienna

miners-men who were never re- Mr. G. McLeod, wall-Inown in the British Isles from one contral Uclsingfors

Bucharest Buonas of blankets to those needing them; absorbed into the industry after musical circles here, Mr. W. John- station. In those days one man

Shanghai and other means of ameliorating last year's atoppage-and the pro- stone, Sgt. Donmall and Mr. Min-owned one paper, and believed

was a noble and interesting pro-Yokohama their conditions. Yet there muat spect is by no means bright. It isney. Mr. Fountain will be at the what he published. Journalism

this situation which makes the piano.

fession, and but for an incurable Now York be a largo acction of the population French embargo serious and which

According to the vernacular tendency towards romancing, that' 'which is seldom, if over, reached by prompts the keen hope that it will charity.

Oslo not result in a greatly diminished press, there have been a good many had been my trouble over alace I Milan

cases of kidnapping reported to the was a boy, I might have struck Stockholm import of British coal..

Police in Macao recently, and des- to it. Most of the those of the poorer

"As it was, I drifted into the Prague arrests this practice pite some classes who come within the radius of the helping hand are such as arc Money and jewellery to the seems to be but slightly checked writing of plays and books, and to Yesterday, while the 6.s. Sui Tai that I owe this red-letter day in in touch either with church, bodles value of $176 was stolen from was leaving for Hongkong, a kin my life. I am glad my guardian

room at No. 124, Connaught Road or members of charitable organisa Central, yesterday, the property tions, or who fall sick and are of a Chinese.

small. There are ulso

became

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