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The Very Idea!

Two Scotsman got acquainted on a certain racecourse. During the course of conversation one said to the other. "Would ye no liko tao back a winner?" "Aye," returned the other, and handed over a pound note. The first went away to put the money on. Presently he came rushing back. The horse had won at ten to one.

Extracting the £11 from his notecase, he paskett one across to the other Scot. "But'l gio ye the pound began the latter. The other stopped him with a glare. "Man," he exclaimed bitterly, "d'ye no' roulise that if it idna' been for, me yo' have lost yer pound?"

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Much to the consternation of seme of the oldest residents, ple- turesque Garseadden, Scotlarid, is to be demolished. The county council Recited some time ago that the houses were beyond repair, and al- lounted about 100 houses in the new Duntocher scheme to the tenants. Removal notices are being served on Carscadden families us the new houses become ready for occupancy. Garsenden, until a little more than twenty years ago, was a thriving mining village, and is composed of five typical "miner's rows," com- prising 105 houses of one, two and three apartments. There is a sharp division of opinion among the vil- lagers over the action of the county, council.

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Mr. Cairns, the magistrate at Thames Police Court, "yesterday, said to a man who complained if the harsh demands malu en him by a moneylender:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,- SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1927.

CHINESE DEFEAT CIVILIANS.

Perhaps the largest football crowd ever seen in Hongkong witnessed Monday's match

in which the Chinese easily defented a civilian team by four goals to nil. It was a Chinese

holiday in more senses than one.

REGISTRATION OF

DOCTORS.

LOCAL ORDINANCE TO BE AMENDED.

A LENGTHY DILL

(Photo: Ming Yuen):

GET NEXT MONDAY'S “TELEGRAPH.” ·

DON'T MISS OUR SERIAL. STORY.

Next Monday's issue will containi the first instalment of our new serial by R. A. J. Walling, entitled)

PUBLIC LOANS.

NEW BILL AFFECTING SINKING FUNDS.

The Government intends shortly to introduce into the Legislative Council a Bill for the purpose of amending the General Loan Inscribed Stock Ordinance of 1915.

The draft of the Bill is publish- ed in the Government Gazette and in the "Objects and Reasons" it is explained that this Ordinance will amend the General Loan and In- scribed Stock Ordinance, 1913, so as to render it possible to discon- tinuo contributions to the sinking fund of any particular loan issued under the provisions of that Or- dinance when the sinking fund has become potentially full, iej when it is clear that the value of the furd, with further accumula- tions of interest, will be suficient to enable the loaf to be redeemed at the proper time. It is obviously unnecessary to continue contribu- ting to the sinking fund in such

ense.

While it is obviously unneccs- sary to continue contributions to a sinking fund after the fund has hecome potentially full, it may be desirable to continue the con- REFORMtributions. Where a loan is re-

VETERINARY

IN COLONIES.

COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY APPOINTED.

deemable on a fixed date without option of earlier redemption, it is elcarly advantageous to discon tinue contributions so soon as the Where, fund is potentially full, however, as more usually happens, the Government has the option of carlier redemption the question · Ï whether it would be advantageous SERVICE AND RESEARCH.

to continue the contributions turns mainly upon a comparison between London, Oct. 14. the rate of interest borne by the The Colonial · Secretary

loan and the rate of interest cur. has appointed a Committee to enquirerently obtainable on the class of investments composing the sinking the. organisation and fund. If the former is higher, it would be better. to let the fund accumulate and pay off the loan so soon as possible. If on the other hund it is lower, the more pro-"

The latest issue of the Govern-"The Merafield Mystery," which "The next time you want adven- ment Gazette contains the draft of has been specially secured by us ture, go to the Zco and enter the a Bill which it is intended short- for exclusive publication in, this tiger's cage. It will be safer than ly to introduce inte the Legisla- part of the world. falling into the hands of money-tive Council with the object of

The author, Mr. Walling, has into lenders."

amending the Medical Registrabeen for many years one of the efficiency of the Colonial Veteri-

the best-known West Countrynary Services and to make surges tion Ordinance of 1881.

The Bill, which is a lengthy one, journalists, he starting his career tons for increased efficiency, with is explained in the "Objects and as a reported on the Western Daily regard to research and adminis-fitable course is to discontinue the Reasons," which states, inter Mercury. Plymouth. Ho rose to

the position of a Director of thetration in the non-self-governing contributions as soon as the fund alin:

The main objects of this Ordin-Westera Newspaper Company, but Dependencies as financial con-is potentially full ance are as follows:

has, in the interim, held many in-siderations permit. teresting appointments in

The man said that the money lenders wanted to distrain on goods, which were not his, as they had been obtained on the hire system.

Mr. Cairns: Let the hire-pur- chuse people deal with them. They will be able to hold their own. against moneylenders

Choir. Boy-"What made you. give up singing in the choir?"

Former colleague-"I was absent on Sunday, and someone asked if the organ had been mended."

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The great bulk of people in this country to-day are living beyond' their means,Judge Crawford.

Britain has become the rubbish heap and burial ground for old' and incompetent foreign artists-Sir Thomas Beecham.

There can be no appreciable re- duction in taxation unless we abandon, the principle of State charity. Mr. Lennox B. Lee.

Princess Elizabeth attracting more general attention that any other royal baby has ever received, Already this eighteen-month-old baby has become a person of affairs. Hundreds of letters have reached the Duchess of York asking that the princess should attend various public functions, such as the open- ing of bazaars, town halls. hospitals, etc. Some of these letters have been directed to the princess her self.

At eighteen months of age very little was heard of the Prince of Wales. He received his first invi- tation to keep n public engagement (it came from Birmingham) when he was fourteen, and it was declin- ed. Little or nothing appeared in the press concerning King George until he was fifteen

But the baby princess already "has achieved a new value, and she is constantly being paragraphed, to such an extent, indeed, tant it has

been decided to start a press-cut- ting book for her. A press-cutting book for the Prince of Wales was not started until he was ten years old, and the wide notice the Prince was attracting in the press at so young an age was considered at the time a very remarkable thing. The Prince of Wales's collection of presa. cuttings is wow probably the largest concerning any one indivi- dual in the world. But this baby niece threatens in this respect to beat her uncle's record.

So extensive has the correspond- ence of the Princess Elizabeth be come that it has become necessary for the Duchess of York to have a second lady-in-waiting whose whole time is taken up, with attending to the letters and allairs of the baby princess.

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A gentleman whose weight was over 20 qtones took up golf as a reducing medium.

One day a friend mat him and asked him how he was getting on

with his new pastime. He replied

Medical

the

The Chairman of the Committee (a) to deal with the powers and English journalistic world. He is Lord Lovat and members

procedure of ine

has written much travel reading clude Mr. Ormsby Gure, Sir Board;

and has been a keen student of Arnold Theiler and Professor West Country lore and folk tales. T. Leiper.-Reuter.

(b) to deal with the appeal to

the Governor in Council;

Scientific Reserch Plan.

London, Oct. 14.

The power to discontinue con- tributions to the sinking fund will in-ot apply to debenture loans re- deemable by annual drawings or by purchase in the market, he capse in the case of such loans the contributions to the sinking fund muy under the principal Ordinance be used for redemption by annual drawings or by purchase.

Since the war, in which he (e) to transfer the medical re-

gister from the Colonial Sec-served with distinction, he has retary to the Principal Civil turned more to fiction writing and

The Colonial Secretary has ap- Medical Officer and

has earned a high place among

writers of light pointed a committee to enquire (d) to exempt the professor" of contemporary

the the Faculty of Medicine of the fiction, combining his wide and into the organisation of University of Ilongkong from racy experience with an appealing colonial veterinary services, and to the necessity for registration style. "The Merafield Mystery make suggestions for increasing The chief criticism of those pro- & West Country lale and is cal- their efficiency. visions of the principal Ordinance culated to hold een which refer to the Medical Board throughout. and the Governor in Council are the following:

(a) Sections 14 and 18 scem in-

consistent, because section 14)

interest

Questions to be considered will embrace repruitment and training

It was unnecessary to make the

provisions of this Ordinance apply to the Public Works Loan Ordin- ance, 1927, which has just become law, because in the case of that loan the fund will not become potentially full in five years, and after five years there will be an

Be sure of getting copy of the of veterinary officers, their condi-unlimited power of redemption by

tions of service, the organisation purchase or by drawings. Telegraph on Monday.

of research and intelligence, and

the setting up and support of any A STRANGE REUNION. institutions required,

In framing their recommenda-

PARACHUTE-JUMPER'S THRILL AND CONSEQUENCE.

gives the Colonial Secretary A very distinguished gentleman, power to strike off the regis. Colonel J. Ricardo Seminario y A., ter, if he thinks fit, while sec- Inspector of Peruvian Consulates, Lions, the committee have to hear tion 18 provides that alt ques-sailed from Hongkong for Europe in mind that the principle of Lions reapecting the liability via Suez on the s.s. President Wi-altimate creation of a colonial sentimental fetion, it is usual- of any person to be struck off san on Tuesday. Colonel Jaclentine and research service hasly a tiny golden-haired child brings together the the register khall be decided Ricardo Seminario y A travelled been approved by the Colonial who

In the movies," AS

in

by the Medical Board. sub-extensively in Japan and North Office Conference, and that specific father and mother who have ject only to an appeal to the China before coming to Hongkong proposals fer the formation of drifted apart. But they order Governor in Council. : and after a two weeks' stay in this agricultural, scientific and re- these things otherwise in America 011 his trip search services for non-self-to-day (says the New York cor- f) Section 14 provides no ap Colony proceeded

the Monchester with respondent of dependencies, peal from the striking off by around the world, for the purpose governing

Guardian.) the Colonial Secretary. The of studying the conditions at the which the veterinary service must

Miss Myrtle Jarbod is a profes necessarily maintain close laision.

sional parachute jumper, and re- are now being framed.

cently was practising her profes- sion at Dayton, Ohio. When she

general intention of section 18 various poris en route. seems to be to give an appeal

Lo the Governor in Council

The committeo includes Lord

from a striking off, but the summary.conviction, it seems pre- appeal riven by section 18 isferable to use the word "offence" Lovat, as chairman, the Hon. W. Icaped from the wing of an aero only an appeal from the Medi- in this section, because there may. A. Ormesby-Gore, Under Secre-plane she landed in a field, and a eal Board.

be purely summary offences, eg,tary for the Colonies, and Sir crowd gathered as crowds will.

Professor Leiper, and other (e) It is doubtful whether there illicit dealing in opium, which Arnold Theiler, Professor Buxton,

is any power to strike off an would justify considering the ques- unqualified person who obtain-tion of striking off a registered Veterinary experts.-British Wire ed registraion by fraud, unless practitioner. The new section 14, less.

he has been convicted of that therefore, uses the single word

offence, and the conviction "olence". may be impossible owing to

The Medical Board is given

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his absence from the Colony. direct power to strike off, subject (d) The Medical Board has no of course to an appeal to the Go-1 express power to censure arernor. The section in the princi- practioner.

pal Ordinance merely provides for

(e) The Medical Board has no a report from the Medical Board

express power to publish the to the Colonial Secretary. proceedings or the result of any inquiry held by it.

The Medical Board is expressly given the right to publish the result

(f) There is no previsión as to of any inquiry held under this sec-

COUPLE DROWNED IN RESERVOIR.

ABANDONED MOTOR-CAR FOUND NEAR BY.

The finding of an abandoned

the limit of time for appeal to tion, either with or without an ac-motor-ear on moorland-road. at the Governor in Council or for count of the proceedinga. With Withnell, between Blackburn and the procedure on such appeal. out The new features in the new publication

of section 14 are as follows:

express statutory power

3 censure

the

at

or an

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Chorley, led to the discovery of a double tragedy. A search of

made for the owner, and after proceedings

conceivable lay several hours two dead bodies, one

of a man and the other of a woman,

and racther, Richard Stump and Among its members were her father

separately, neither being cognisant Mrs. Alice Merrill, who arrived of the other's

presence. Their jubilation at secing their child come to earth unharmed caused them to look upon one another, with more kindly eyes than in the past, and they were remarried a day or two later,

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In the interval since their divorce 20 years ago each had remarried, and the second husband and wife had both died.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

The Medical Board is given po- inquiry might

members of the Board were found in Roddleworth re The following general know

wer to censure. It seems obvious the

that this power might be of great open to a claim for damages for use in keeping up the standard of libel.

the profession, as a case might

servoir, which adjoins the road, and is about a hundred yards from where the car was found,

near

Section 9 of this Ordinance in- clearly call for censure but not for creases the maximum penalty for

an offence under section 17 of the Apparently the couple, who 'have as Harold Brooke, striking off.

Section 14 of the principal Or-principal. Ordinance to $1,000 and been identified dinance gives power to strike off a six months' imprisonment. The twenty-four, of Bolton-road, Bury he had given it up.

When he placed the ball where he registered practitioner who has maximum penalty in the principal and Marion Stanhope, nineteen, of could see it he could not hit it, and been "convicted of any felony or Ordinance is $100. This seems Grosvenor-street, Radcliffe, when he placed the ball where he misdemeanour". The meaning of much too small for such an offence Munchester, met their death with-

the term misdemeanour is not as wilfully and falsely using a out being seen by anybody. could hit it he could not see it.

quite clear. Some authorities, (e.g., title implying a qualification to According to the landlord of the Russell) treat it as including all practise medicine or surgery, The Health bulletin of Eastern offences below the rank of felony, The new section 18 which is in- Hare and Hounds Hotel, the first while others, (e.g., Halsbury and serted in the principal Ordinance building the travellers would reach from the meore, the car came late Ports for last week, issued by the Kenny) regard it as applying only by section 10 of this Ordinance at night and was left standing with Principal Civil Medical Officer, given to indictable offences below the deals solely with the question of the lights full on. It was there If the terin has appeal to the Governor in Council. the next day, and when the police the following cases, the figures in rank of felony. paronthosis being deaths: Tingue, the wider meaning, the expression Section 11 of this Ordinance pro- begun, investigations they found Baescin 1 (1), Rangoon 4 (4), Bombay "felony or misdemeanour" includes vides that all professors of the the two bodies lying in shallow. 2 (2), Bangkok 1 (1) Cholera, all offences, except, perhaps, piracy Faculty of Medicine of the Univer water, some few yards from the Basrah 1 (1), Madras (3), Rangoon jure gentium, and there seems to sity of Hongkong shall be deemed edge of the reservoir. (1), Bangkok 2, Baigon 7, Laurenco-

be no reason why the single word to be registered practitioners." It

The couple were strapped to- Marques (1), Shanghai (2), Amoy offences" should not be used in-isnderstood that those professors Chen Wang The Smallpox, stead, If on the other hand, the are entitled by the terms of their gether so tightly that the strap Bombay 2, Madras 1, Negapatam 1 (1), Rangoon 8 (1), Bandiermasin storm misdemeanour does hot in agreements with the University to could not be unfastened, but had to

cluda offences punishable only on practise as consultants. .: (1), Moil 1. :

be cut.

ledge paper has been taken from Answers, for those who need the Daily Express. them, will be found on Page 16 of this issue.

1 Whore in London is there a chair which daten to 1000 B.C., and to whom did it belong?

g What tree blossoms only in ita thirtieth year, and then dica?

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In what famous commercial build- ing in tho City is thoro a public picture gallery!

Who first gave the Bible that name?

Whence come the lince: "True as the dial to the sun,

Although it be not shined

upon"?

@ What verso in the Bible was

Icnown as the "Neck"" voraet

7. Who were the Abbassides, and what character familiar to our childhood was the most famous of them all?

8. What animal will dis of sufoca-

tion if its mouth bo kept open? . What were scutago and tallage in England?

10 Who wore the "Thirty Tyranta"?

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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? Do you know:-

(1) That the famous London Company "THE QUAINTS" open at the Theatie. Royal on Tuesday Oct., 18th at 9.15 p.m. in the Musical Comedy "OH JOY.”

That they have come direct from LONDON to CHINA,

(3) That with two exceptions they are an entirely, new Cast of specially selected London Artists.

(4) That their Repertoire consists of the latest

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(5) That they have a galaxy of gorgeous dresses

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(6) That they have new Scenery by ZELKA and

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