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THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 20 1927.

THURSDAY,

OCTOBER

20, 1927.

DAY BY DAY.

A COOK HOUSE THIEF.

Was

The Very Idea!

must often be that the sense of honesty has been dulled, and the temptation to crime is easier to succumb to in future. „Were

HOPE IS BRIGHTEST WHEN IT

SCOTS GUARDS' LOSSES. DAWNS FROM FEARS.—Sir Walter these people assisted in any way, Scott.

Recent complaints that there passing a

A certain evangelical vicar was It is possible that we should read

well-known Roman There was a clean bill of health Scots Guards Camp, Shamshuipo, on the pavement. One of the a shortage of meat at the Catholic oratory, and met two boys loss of cases of previous convie-

in the Colony yesterday. tions, which are almost a feature

resulted in the arrest of two youngsters, anxious to do the cor- Chinese, employed at the camp who rect thing, greeted the clergyman of our police court trials. There The P. and 0. as. Nagpore is appeared before Mr. W. Schofield with "Good afternoon, father," is already in existence here the due here from Keelung to-dny."

at the Kowloon Magistracy this mistaking him evidently for one of very useful organisation, under

The anti-cyclone is central to the of two pounds of beef steak, Sergt.

morning, charged with the larceny the priests of the oratory, police auspices, known as the east of Japan. Fresh monsoon Kirby prosecuted. waifs' club, and it does not seem may be expected over the N. China

Guardsman Heron, who is in our public Sen. The local forecast is: N. E. too much to nak

winds, frosh: finc. spirited citizens in fortunaté cir- cumstances to inaugurate, with police co-operation, a local as- sociation for the aid of discharged prisoners. The Singapore society has a committee the members of which are drawn from every con-

munity in the place, and on which are well represented.

Chinese

It is not that any local effort would be faced with an experi ment pure and simple. Rather is It correct to look upon the Straits organisation as the pioneer one: it has pointed the way to success, and what they can achieve in the south we should be capable of accomplishing as well.

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Tari Friction,

around

Mr. and Mrs. C. Strafford, Mr. R. Y. Frost, and "Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Brown.

he

The other boy, who was acquaint- ed with the clergyman, corrected his mistaken schoolmate with the

rebuke, "You silly, he isn't a father; he's got three children!"

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charged of the cookhouse, said

larcenies suspected

were being carried out and that yester- Among those returning to the day he left the cook house and Colony to-day by the s.s. Sarpe-watched. He say the second de-

ta a case heard by the county don were Mrs. W. E. L. Shenton, fendant

house carrying some cloth. He woman was alleged to have sold a

come out of the cook magistrates at Nottingham, stopped the man and found the philtre powder to a wife to be ad- ment wrapped up in the cloth, ministered to her husband as a ed the first man, saying that he was composed of baking powder The second defendant implicat- cure for his suggested infidelity. It was stated that the "philtre" urged him (second defendant) to and boracic powder. Maud Sarah take the meat out and sell it. Collinson, the defendant, whose Tic The first defendant denied the husband had refunded 297 which false pretences, was find £20, with she admitted having obtained by the alternative of two months' im- prisonment in default.

A Musicale will be held at the Helena May Institute on Thursday 27th October, at 6.30 p.m. 18th Century Music will be given. vets to be booked at the Secretary's charge. Office, Teas may be had from 4 Pm. onwards.-Advt..

While backing into the motor car parking place in Pedder Street, near the offices of the Canadian Pacific into another car, No. 192 and both Company, motor ear No. 441 ran were slightly damaged. A portion of the rear mudguard of car No. 411 was torn from the car.

!"

Last night a Chinese was ar- rested on coming out of A boarding-house on the water-

Fines totalling $250 were impos-

His Worship held that there was not sufficient evidence against the first man to convict and he was accordingly discharged. The second defendant was sentenced to, two months' hard labour.

SUMMARY COURT CLAIM.

THE OLD OR THE NEW ACCOUNT?

After evidence had been called, the case was adjourned, the matter being referred to the Registrar for an account.

"THE GOLDEN RED."

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Willesden magistrate: Did you give your wife that black eye? Husband: Never in my life. It is years since I gave her a black eye. Nottinghamshire man: I said a lot but did not use any - expres- sions.

Woinan at the Thames Court: You know people do not rise early on Sunday mornings. Mr. Cairns, magistrate: I do not myself.

Mr. Registrar Friend at Clerken- that a man was at another court for well County Court, when informed

using bad language: Oh, that is nothing, letting off steam a bit. I suppose a constable was round the

corner.

clerk: Were you drunk? Man: Tower Bridge magistrates' According to King's Regulations I down that you are drunk after one was. King's Regulations lay it drink.

Schoolboy "howlers":

A train is a cart moved by vapour.

heart.

The liver is south-east of the

Spanish ,doublets were coins. issued in the sixteenth century.

Hindus are natives of India who wear towels on their heads. These towels are called turbines.

Peace is not a luxury but an absolute necessity.-M. Briand.

Parents cannot keep their

-Rev. H. B. Hamer.

The conference at present sit-front, and taken to the Police ting at Geneva which aims at Station where a search dis- giving practical effect to the re- closed that he had certain metal In the Summary Court this morn- solutions passed at the Economie parts which, were identified to being, before Mr. Justico Wood, Lee Conference held six months ago those of a machine-gun. The man Fak-hang, trading as The Tak will assuredly bave the good will be charged before the Magis-Chan Stall, sued the Sam Tor Tea- wishes of all who realise that trate in due courac.

house for $860.40, the balance due there are many impediments to

for goods sold and delivered. international trade which could? A pickpocket who pleaded guilty BRADLEY-DRAKE.-At

Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared for ftan- be swept away without harm to to a charge of stealing a fountain the plaintiff, and the defendant was goon, on 19th October, 1927, anyone and with great benefit to pen from a Chinese in Wing Lok represented by Mr. D. McCallum. Charles Bugh Granville, many.

It is now proposed to Street, was sentenced by Major C. The principal.point at issue was second son of the late Major draft Convention providing Willson to two months' hard labour, whether certain payments made by H. V Bradley and of Mrs.(with necessary reservations) for Another pickpocket who managed the daferidant, and admitted by the Bertram Foster, of Guernsey, the abolition of prohibitions and to extract $40 in notes from the plaintiff, were paid in respect of Channel Islands, to Dorothy restrictions on imports and ex-pocket of an unwary pedestrian in the account on which the writ was Margaret, only daughter of ports such as are a survival of the Des Voeux Rond West was given issued, or whether they were pay- Mr. and Mrs, A. M. Drake, late war. It is not intended to three months.

ments made from time to time in also of Guernsey.

deal with tariffs at this stage,

accordance with a ten days' eredit though to anyone who courageous- The following ships were expect which plaintiff agreed to allow the ly faces the issue it is the greated to be in wireless communication tenhouse in respect of more recent question of tariffs that is in with Hongkong to-day: Talamba, transactions. greatest need of revision. Let as. Kashima Maru, Mishima Maru, assunie, for a moment, that the Ceylon Maru, Deli Maru, Aki Maru, conference does succeed in secur-Taikwa Maru, City of Lincoln, ing undertakings for the abolition | Kumusang, Katsang, D'Artagnan, of "import and export prohibi-Coblenz, Chaksang, Svale, Cremer. tions and restrictions." surely itSacchow, Tiisondari, Hosang, Emil is obvious that the flow of trade Kirdorf, Suiyang, Sikiung and Pre- will not be greatly helped unless sident Jackson.

walls the great tariff

are also broken down. A glance AID TO EX-PRISONERS. the world to day proves how greited by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow-FINE SETTINGS IN STAR FILM, children in glass casca nowadays.

and serious is this question of loon Magistracy this morning, on We see the United States a Chinese who was arrested in a

If only we discovered the means France at differences similar Po Fin lottery paid at 24 Temple his way to the top in busineri, quiet we should do a great service

The story of a man who fought

of keeping troublesome women to these which have of late exist Street. Kaumati. Detective Ser-only to lose hold through a girl, whiched between America, the Argen-geant Mottram explained that he "The Golden Bed," which comes Luke (Wildesdea Magistrate.)

the community. Mr. W. B. tine and other countries. When- found the defendant actually writ-

The man was charged to the Star Theatre to-day as the ever any country puts up a "pro-ing tickets.

We all know that the Empire de- tective" tarif against imports with keeping a house for Po Pi principal film in the new con-pends upon good Rugby.-Mr. A. C. there is lottery purposes, writing tickets, tinuous programme, offers many Wallace, captain of the New South from another country bound to be friction and retalia- and possession of tickets, a convic- lavish settings, having been pro-Wales Rugby team

duced by Cecil B. De Mille, a direc- tion. Great Britain has lately tion being registered on

tor noted for striking effects. put on a tremendous tariff in-charge.

Among the more impressive A big-game hunter, who was con- crease against the imports of silk, and would it not be fair and just

This morning's Harbour Ofice episodes are the dazzling "candy templating a trip to Africa, "called if China, whose silk industry is reports gave 17 arrivals and 19 ball," the millionaire wedding and at a sporting goods store and bought thus hit, in turn imposed a high departures, of which five and six a grim fight on an Alpine crag.

a large quantity of cartridges. duty against the artificial silk respectively were British, Ton-Rod La Rocque plays the leading which is imported from Great Bri-nage was less than for either of role as the ice-cream vendor who tain and elsewhere? But China the past two days, and inward becomes a candy king, and Lillian has not tariff autonomy, and there argons were low, with British re- Rich and Vera Reynolds share the again is cause for serious in turning the highest individual honours as the two sisters whose op-ternational friction. The coal figure. Through freights" ware lives become entwined in his des- luing interests of Britain have better, but British ships carried tiny. The story of "The Golden lately complained at the high duty less than 1,000 tons total. There Bed" is taken from the popular a posed by France against Dri- were 58 vessele în harbour at 0 novel of marriage of the same all those who had been helpedtish coal, whilst not a few fancy am of which 22 were British. by it, but the president could tet: urticles of French manufacture are heavily laxed by Britain. them that the prison records There is an incessant commercial proved that during the three years war played by tariffs a war th the Society had been in existence endangers international peace and goodwill more than anything not one of the discharged prison- else. It is becoming increasing ers for whom employment had ly certain that the world will

There is a great deal Hongkong might fonder over in

a report in Straits papers to hand by last mail, concerning a meet- ing of the Discharged Prisoners Ald Society in Singapore. At this meeting, the honorary secretary. reviewing the work of the past six months; referred to the

ex-

cellent results achieved. The success that had attended their cloris had been most gratifying, he said. It was not possible for the Society, with its limited portunities, to keep officially in

touch with the after careers

nach

A Chinese who was convicted of the unlawful possession of po piu tickets twenty days ago and was fined $15, was again before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning, charged with a similar offence. On this oc- casion he pleaded that he only had

name.

SMUGGLED ARMS.

CAPTURED BY POLICE. Acting on information received,

been found through the efforts of shortly have to get to real grips 25 tickets in his possession and it the police yesterday ehased a sam-

with this tariff problem and have the Society had been convicted reckoning all round. There is again. That was a record that not.the slightest doubt that tariff

walls make for ill-will and fric might well be considered

tion and that Geneva will have to couraging, and it was still more consider them later encouraging to learn from indivi-though it sheives the issue now.

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ori even

EXCHANGE RATES.

dual members of the committee, that so far as they had been able to ascertain from employers, the conduct of re-employed discharg- ed prisoners had been uniformly satisfactory and that no single

Paris caso had been reported of any Brussels man proving unworthy of the Amsterdam

Borlin assistance the Society had given Copenhagen him. There is something in that Vienna

Helsingfors which suggests itself to long: Lisbon kong. Why should not this Bucharest

Buenos Aires Colony have a similar body to get

Shanghai ito touch with all who leave our Yokohama prisons, and attempt to set them New York on the path of rectitude? It is Milan well known that many a criminal Stockholm

Oslo becomes so from necessity. We

Prague must have scores of persons con- Madrid Athens victed in our courts every year, Rio for petty pilfering which the Bombay temptation of extreme poverty or

Hongkong Silver (spot) actual hunger has driven thom Silver (forward) to. After their discharge, i

Geneva

London,. Oct. 20.

.124.05 .31.98 .12.10%

.20.38

represented the joint investment of himself and a few friends. A fine pan, which was heading towards of $50, or four weeks' hard labour the Praya at West Point, in the in default, was imposed. Another hope of making a seizure of cer- man; who was arrested in Wanchai tain, arms and ammunition which last night, for possession of 45 were being carried. tickets preferred to have his bail of $50 estreated.

WEDDING.

BRADLEY-DRAKE.

The boat had left the is. Es quilina which arrived from Ger- many recently. In the course of the chase a sack was dropped over board by the sampan and this was retrieved by the police, On being opened it was found to contain, three automatics and 620 rounds of ammunition.

The people on the sampan man-

The marriage took place at Ran-aged to get away, it is learned.

Another seizure of six automa-: goon yesterday between Mr.tic pistols and a large quantity of .18,17 C. II. G. Bradley, of the Hongkong ammunition was also made yester- .34.61 Audit Department, and Miss Doro- day on the Ping On Wharf. .198thy M. Drake, who arrived in Ran :2.7/16

goon from England a few days 786 47.29/32 before."

LOCAL WILL.

to

"I usually deal with your head office," he remarked to the man in charge. "But I dare say you will be able to send these for me?"

"Certainly, sir.”

"Well, I want them to go to Nigeria."

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The other looked blank for a minute or so.

"I think you'd better give the order to our head office, air," he I ventured. "Your see, we've only a small boy with a bicycle here."

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A motor car knocked over locomotive weighing 7,000 kilos at Louvain. The car, driven by M. Martin, a Brussels business man, was travelling at 100 kilometres an hour when it collided with locomotive on the Tervueren road. The impact was terrific. The locomotive was derailed, and then fell over into a ditch on top of the car. M, Martin and his wife, who were returning from a hunt, were the car. The crushed beneath driver of the engine was badly wounded in the legs.

Lacken, where two teams came into Another accident took place at

travellers, none of whom, however, collision, wounding twenty-three

was seriously hurt

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the hospital. Someone stepped on 'Mac-''Bill can't come. He's in

his pipe during the game.”

Belle "I don't see how that would make him have to go to the hospital."

Mae "It was his windpipe."

..2/0 The bridegroom, who has been

TAILOR LEAVES $8,300. 1/10.23/32 stationed in Hongkong for some 4.87.6/32 few years, where he has made a

Real estate to the value of $8,300 25.26 wide circle of friends, is the was left by Kwong, Chong Tack,

"Douglas Fairbanks' splendid .80% second son of the late Major H. Va tailor, formerly of 98 Jervois adventure film in full natural .18.08 Bradley, 2nd King Edward's Own Street, Hongkong, who died at colours, "The Black Pirate," is .18.06

Gourka Rifles, and of Mrs. Ber Poon, in the Hol Ping district, on again the chief attraction at the 1644 28.48 tram Foster, of Guernsey, Channel July 18, 1927.

World Theatre to-day, the orches- 306 Islands. The bride also comes, Probate has been granted to the tra playing at the 5.15 and the 9.20" 6.20/82 from Guernsey, being the only widow and concubine, the deceased performancos, and a Chinese inter- 1/5.16/16 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. having left a will giving them preter attending at the 2.30 and

1/11 Drake.

power as trustees to deal with the 7.16 performances. "The Black 25.3/16 .25%

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley expect to estate as they think it until Pirate" will be screened until arrive back in the Colony early in Kwong Yau-lau, the testator's Saturday, after which it will not December.

oldest son, reaches the age of 21. be seen again in the Colony,

-British Wiroleau.

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