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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1928.

way. That explains the pre- valence of street football, A nuisance, admittedly, but under provafling conditions it is hardly surprising that our street urchins should beck a little diversion · on these Hnes. There is in England,

DAY BY DAY.

FORMER RESIDENTS

DEATH.

THERE ARE KONE 80 DANGEROUS AB THOSE GOOD-NATURED FOLK WHO DO NOT KNOW WHEN THEY HAVE SAID MIL, EVAN ORMISTON PASSES ENOUGH.-B. Harvey-Jellie..

AWAY AT HOME

The .8. Tilsondari was docked at Taikoo this inagning for over haul and refit.

The Very Idea!

Dr. Eaglefield-Hull; the pro minent organist, who broadcast recital of modern organ music

We regret to record the death from the Manchester Town Hall on Sunday at his residence, Cross-the other tiny, was practising, of ways, Sunninghill, Borks, of Mr. the organ in an East London Evan Ormiston, former well-church, when the curate came Two Shanghal jockeys, Mr. A.news of which was received yes playing the "Wedding March" for known resident of this Colony, and asked him if he would mind P. Heard and Mr. II, Maitland, the

a bridal party which was almost terday. were among the arrivals by the 5.5, Jatter accompanied by his wife,

President Plorce to-day,

60 years of age, had a long con- Mr. Ormiston, who was about

Just now, big movement afoot sponsored by the Duke of York, for the provision of more playing fields all over the country. It is based on an acknowledgment of the value of outdoor sport in im proving the health and physique of the rising generation, together with a realisation of the point that it is far better that the youths of the country abould en- joy themselves in the open air than seek their amusement in less beneficial ways. The same argu- A 19-year-old Chinese girl was NO PERIODIC REFILLING this Colony, with its thousands of her home at stofor verandal at popular with a wide circle of ments apply with equal force to injured yesterday through a fall

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Mr. M. Manuk, Secretary of the Dairy Farm Co., returned from Australia by the 8.8, Changte to day. His friends will be glad to hear that he is now in good health,

from

duere consented, and after the

He

ceremony the

bridegroom ap

nexion with the Far East, coming to China first in 1891 as a member proached him and put sixpence of the staff of the Mercantile into his hand. Thank yor for Bank of India. He succeeded the the music, guvnor," he said. Hon. Mr. John Purves na manager in 1903, and held this position until 1911, when he severed his connection with the bank to join the firm of Stowart Brothers, bill

and bullion brokers. in Hongkong. A keen sportsman, he was very

Chinese lads who have small Lane. She was removed to the friends, with whom he kept in opportunity of indulging their de-Government Civil Hospital. sire for outdoor games. !

We fully realise the difficulties of securing moro open apuces, especially on the island, because the present tendency is towards the utilisation for building pur- poses of such areas as 'are avail-

Through being knocked down by a car belonging to the Hongkong East yesterday, a girl received Electric Company on the Praya rathor serious injuries, and was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.

A four-year-old boy, C. Lindsay. able. In recent years, quite the son of Mr. Lindsay, living at number of spots which provided No. 4, Havelock Terrace, was hit makeshift playgrounds for Chin- ten yesterday by a dog belonging to Mr. Proven. Dr. Durran ren- cse children have been built over,dered medical treatment to the so that the facilities are decreas- | injured boy. ing rather than otherwise, Lads and young men ;'

In a report made to the police by cooped up in

Chan Shiu-hing," shopkeeper, of stuffy cubicles are likely to deve-No. 303; Des Voeux Road West, it lop tendencies, physical and is alleged that an assistant of the TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1928. mental, likely to prove harmful in shop has disappeared after being entrusted with $6,727 to pay to Inter life, and on this ground the Cheong Shing Firm in Bonham olone it would be a good invest-Strand.. ment if the Government could, *'.

The funeral took place at Happy devise plans whereby more play Valley Cemetery yesterday after ing spaces were rendered avail-noon of Petty Officer Rowett, of able. The problem is a big one. H. M. S. Tern, whose death occurred It demands consideration quite rather suddenly, following an opera apart and distinct from the minttor was buried with full naval honour, tion for appendicitis, Deceased of laying out grounds for organis- and there was a naval detachment

Tern, and firing party:

THE NEED OF PLAYGROUNDS.

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"What are sheer, stockings ?"

Doar sir, can you ask?. To answer your query

would be quite a task; But, tho tis pragmatic,

willingly try

To frame for your pleasure'

a simpla reply.

"Sheer stockings.

sir

made of silk, From garter to the heel, And, like your "curiosity","

Both cover and reveali

What is believed to be the

constant touch after his retire- ment some years ago." Mr. Oriis- ton was at one time chairman of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd, and of the China Trađena Insurance Co. On several occasions he was elected Chairman of the Hongkong Club.

In 1904, Mr. Ormiston married largest prize ever offered îns au Miss Honam, 4 sister-in-law, of pigeon race was won recently by.c Commander Colin Mackenzie, Cyril Wildgust, a struggling RN, and they had one daughter, minor in the Notts coal district of who was recently married. Deep England. Wildgust received sympathy will be extended to the $2,500 when his pot outdistanced widow and daughter in their sad all other competitore in their bereavement."

· DEATHS AT SEA.

TWO REPORTED BY SHIPS

THIS MORNING.

flights from Jersey and Bourne-, mouth. As his wagos are meagre >> and he had been married early in September, the prize was a wind- fall for him, Wildgust has been a keen pigeon fancler for years, but could afford to keep only fon birds in a small loft covered with black sheet Iron In the back yard. of his home at Arnold. He ins often entered his pets in big races, and as often has met failure until

Two deaths at sea were reported by ships, arriving this morning, but a casualty which happened this event. outside of local waters is not de tailed in the Harbour Offee re-separation from my husband, who

porta.

Willesden woman: Can I have a

The ss. Tanda, arriving from locked me out for four hours? Melbourne and Manila, with 169 Magistrate: Yes, that is certainly January 21st, Git Pew, a deck pas deck passengers, reporta' that on cruelty in this cold weather, senger, died from henat failure

Passing the Murray Parade Ground on a recent evening, when it was for the mofhent free of military footballers, we caughted games. And for the common including fellow comrades of the and was buried at sea: sight of n crowd of Chinese went the Government could do far youngsters making full use of worse than to appoint à Commis- the opportunity by indulging in asion, composed of Chinese and

There were Europeans, to study tho, whole on a pleasure trip to Hongkong by on February 2, the body also be does it mean? A bootblack in an game of their own.

far more than the regulation num-question and make recommends ber of players taking part in the tions thereon.

Cultural Development,

Judge Cluer, at Shoreditch: I' um pot a judge of handwriting, except my own, which is bad.

Man at Westminster County The 8.8. Selatan, arriving from Court. He is in a fairly Singapore, with 731 deck passon- Mr. R. L. Larson, of Anderson gers, reports that one Chinese responsible position. Judgo Sir Meyer and Co., Shanghai, arrived deck passenger died of bori-beri Alfred Tobin: I suppose we all are in our various spheres. What the si. Pres. Plorce this morning.ing buried at. Hea..... Also on board were Mr. Bergio The Nagato Maru, from Europe,position. That may mean any

hotel, holda "a fairly responsible; Osmena, member of the Philippines reports that a casualty occurred Senate, returning from a visit fu between Birkenhead and Port Said thing from a Prime Minister to a Washington, and Mr. Howard S. This was reported to the authort-button boy, Reed, director of the Reed Asiatic Lies at the latter port, but no de- Expedition, en route to Saigon, des

talls are given in the local Jar incessantly for at least ten The lady's tongue had gone companied by Mrá. Reed.

bour Offee report.

.נ

SHIPS ASKED TO REDUCE SPEED.

to

minutes, and the doctor was be ginning to show signs of im-" patience. At last, he looked at

'don nie, madam, but my time is not? my own. You have given me. d your symptoms in sufficient detail. and now, perhaps, you will kindly'.

erah"

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"match," but the youths were just as keen on doing their beat for their particular side as the most enthusiastic expert at the

We may be pardoned if we accept gume. Their grim

earnestness in principle the theory that the This morning's Harbour Office had its amusing side, but it also Government regards an awkward reports gave 24 arrivals and 10 SHANGHAI DREDGING. a watch, and remarked:-"Par served to show how anxious these query as effectively disposed of, and harbour of which 28 were British.

departures, leaving.73 vessels in-.. lads were to indulge in outdoor confined to the limbo of forgotten Tonnage was unusually high, sport. They were no obviously things, once Its conscience has been while British vessels topped the enjoying themselves that it was eased by an answer given to a Mem-numerical return and also the rather a pity to see them soon dis- ber of the Legislative Council. Too Cargo registries with the haviest inward and the second best

The following Notice

"Marie," put In her husband, placed by the military footballers, often, the simple process is com- through fright. All vessels car-Mariners, No. 1 of 1928, has been to hear your tongue any more; he bluntly, the doctor doesn't want Not that we would for a moment pletely successful, but we are re-

ried cargo.

issued by the Commissioner of wants to look at it." Customs at Shanghal under date suggest that this particular | minded of a question recently put to ground should be given up to the the Government by the Hon. Mr. Hur Douglas Fairbanks' new ple- Notice is hereby given that the

Although not so long as "Ben- January 28:

At the age of oighty, Mr. F. E. Chinese, providing as it does n W. E. L. Shenton in respect of the ture, "The Gaucho," which begins a Whangpoo Conservancy Board's Hillier, of Fareham, ie the father very convenient central venue for gift of a valuable collection of pic-run of five days at the Queen's dredger Hal Hu will commence of a bouncing baby boy. He has Theatre to-day, is longer than the dredging operations over an area been twice married and has had our sport-loving Tommies, who tures and prints of Hongkong in ordinary film. Special times have of the main channel of the fifteen children in all. Mr. Hilller, deserve all they can get in the accordance with the wishes of the therefore been arranged for the Whangpoo River, extending from a who began work when eleven, qtill way of

recreation facilities, late Sir Paul Chater, by the opening four performances which will be point about 500 feet above No. 5 motor-cycles over an area of 100 given daily. These special times Astraca Channel Buoy to a point miles, following his calling as a Our only regret was that there of the new Club de Recrelo premises are 2.30, 6.00, 7.36 and 9.30, and about 600 feet below Tungkou commercial traveller. Plenty of was not room enough for all. on Saturday. The Government had the picture begins promptly after Buoy.

work, exercise and not too much to confess, although it must have the overture.

During the course of these sleep, he says, is the secret of his We cite this little instance to been well aware that wide distribu-

operations those in charge of good health. point a reul need here in Hong- tion of the collection was never con- Mr. Oscar Schuetze, prominent River are required to approach: "When the Queen of Sheba came

vessela navigating the Whangpoo kong-namely, the provision of templated by the donor, that it had businessman and landowner and a

no scheme for a permanent repost restdent in the Philippines for many duced speed, also to sound a long before Solomon, what did he say?" the vicinity of the dredger at re-and laid jewels and fine raiment more playing fields for the Chin-tory. The very bluntness of the years, died at St. Paul's Hospital blast on the whistle, in order that asked the Sunday school teacher ese children of the Colony. The reply indicated that the powers in Manila last week at the age of the dredging master may arrest One small bay answered Ow relatively limited accommodation that-be had no intention of locking 62 years, Mr. Schuetze came to the the lateral mation of dredger if much d'ser want fer the lot?"

for one at the moment. We under islands in 1895 to inspect and es- at present available can no doubt stand that many of the pictures are tablished himself in business. He he considers it advisable. In this be explained in part by the fact of historical interest, and relate founded what is now the Brins- connexion attention le called to

not only to the development of Roxas store and later took his em Harbour Notification No. 6 of a home. Mrs. Baldwin. that it is only in recent years Hongkong, but bear certain relation playeos in as parters in the bug-1924, describing the signals ex He is the truest patriot who that the Chinese have shown any to Portuguese enterprise in the Farness. In 1919 he sold the store to hibited by a dredger in operation. marked desire for outdoor recrea-development of trade. If the Gov double the par value of the stock.

Past, and their assistance in the his partners, getting approximately The dredger will commenco wins most friends for his country. tion, and that. by the time the ernment is quite determined about influence of football and such | the nature of the arrangemonta with regard to the housing of the Chater Collection, though inevitably BANVARD COMPANY'S disappointing to the great per- contage of the population Interested gest that it could well improve upon in cultural mattera,, we might sug- the steps at present proposed, by installing a number of pictures of the type referred to in the new

games began to be felt, very few open spaces suitable for such pastimes were left. So far as the provision of grounds for organised sport is concerned, there has been a great deal done during the

past four or five years, but, even premises of the Club de Recreio.

working in the middle of February, 1928, and it is expected that the time required for the be five months. accomplishment of the work will ***

EXCHANGE RATES.

London, Feb

SEASON.

TO OPEN IN HONGKONG TO-NIGHT.

Parla

Brussola Amsterdam The Banvard Musical Comedy Copenhagen Berlin.... Vionna

so, the supply still lags far short We are sure the Portuguese com-Company; with ita noted beauty

mont's interest in their cultural wel

Milan'

of the demand. At the moment,munity would fully appreciate that chorus, arrived from the South by Helsingfors

action as a gracious gesture. H. E. the Kashima Maru last evening, Lisbon, however, we have not this particu- the Governor referred on Saturday and is to open at the Theatre Bucharest lar aspect of the question in mind, to the Portuguese community as a Royal to-night

Buonos"Aires: Our ples is that something, be most valuable clement in the popula- "Katin, the Dancer is to be the Shanghai attempted in the direction of lay Clementi has at hand an oppor be an extremely colourful produc Nowo

tion of this Colony, Sir Cecil opening piece, and this is said to Yokohama ing out playgrounds for Chinese tunity of displaying the Governtion. The Company is 23 strong Gentra boys, and girls, too, if necessary fare, in addition to their physical and includes talented dancers and. Stockhoff who at present keenly feel the lackwell-being. The housing of appre brilliant musical and comedy Oslo of such facilities. With the re-priate pictures in the new Club dostara.

Recrefo would be of mental praft The management states that Madrid markable strides that the Chinese to the members, and would enhance nothing like this Company has Athens have made in the realm of fonts an already pleasant interior, Goothe been seen in Hongkong since the Rio ball, it is not surprising that once said that grace makes a man old Bandman days. Booking is in Bombay

Hongkong irresistible. May: we add - that full swing at Montrie's.. youngsters should begin to take it can do much to render Officialdom

Epecial late trams to the Peak Bliver (spot)

[Bilver (forward) to this sport in their own little bearablo?.

have been arranged for each night.

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"It is woman's function to make

Sir Hörbert Samuely Jazz jingling, jangling enormity fit only for the place it. emanated from George Robey.

If I did not forget divorce cases, I try, I should be a very unhappy man-Mr. Justice HillPPSC

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28.85 It is groyhounds, horses, or froga. -8674 --Mr. Austin Hopkinson, M.P. 5.50/64 There is more reason to fear the 1/6 Bolshevist from Glasgow or Lon- 2/04 don than the Bolshevist from Cena 28:1/16 tral or Eastern Europe Hon, R. 26 Forke (Canadian Minister · of ireless. Immigration);