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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

ICAL

TOTAL

DRY FIRE EXTINGUISHER CONTENTS NEVER DETERIORATE

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

PEOPLE DO NOT WORK WELL FÖR

FOR IDEALS, FOR ASPIRATIONS, FOR COMFORTS; YES, FOR LUXURIES-Sir Oliver Lodge,

The P. and O. 8.5. Nankin, from Singapore, is due here at noon on June 5th..

Two cases of typhold and one of small-pox (all Chinese) were noti-

are the consequence of normal causation; but it so happens, that we know so little of the causes that produce them that correct pro-BARE NECESSITIES; THEY WORK WELL phecy is impossible. On the other hand, most gamblers are possessed of a conviction that luck does exist, and, conversely, that some people have the misfortune always to bo "unlucky" But even those who have never won a prize of any kind in a sweep, despite the regular purchase of tickets, often keep on buying, in the belief that fortune will, if they persist, oventually smile on them. We have even heard of instances in which a man has for years concentrated on a particular number without success, but who has kept on buying it because of a fear that, the moment he deserts it, ft might really turn up!

But, luck or no luck, the tempta- tion to woo the Goddess of Fortune

fled yesterday.

By making absolute 115 decreea nisi, Lord Merrivalo, in the Divorce Court recently, made the tolal of cases disposed of in two weeks 284.

Mr. Thomas Hamilton, was fatally burned in the recent train, disaster in South Africa, was the son of a well-known Paisley banker.

PEAK TRAMWAYS REPORT.

PROFITS FOR THE

PAST YEAR.

The report of the Directors of the Peak Tramways Co., Ltd., for the year ended April 30th, 1928, is as

follows:

The Very Idea!

For twenty-five years Mr. Percy Armytage has been a gentleman usher at Buckingham Palace. In that time he has had opportunities of meeting most of the exalted peo ple of the day. He has also collected a fine store of information about the customs and traditions of the court. Added to these, Mr. Army- an excellent style as a raconteur, so that his book, "By the Clock of St. James' "ja one of the most delightful books of reminis

The not profit for the twelve months, after deducting Directors fees and General Managers' re-tage has muneration, and making provision for depreciation, amounts to $52,- 241.16, to which has to be added the balance brought forward from last account, $21,712.69, making avail ablo for appropriation, $78,963.75.

сепсев.

NO PERIODIC REFILLING is one to which the most of us. are cases in which legal action was J. Scott Harston, Mr. A. S. Gubbay and draw

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LUCK.

Perhaps the most amusing and characteristic story told by Mr. The Directors recommend that Armytage is one about Lord Charles the amount available for distribu- Beresford. He had received an in- whotion be allocated as follows:-Pay | vitation to stay at a great country dividend of 10% on 26,000 shares house, and he telegraphed, "Sorry, fully paid up, $25,000; pay a can't come, lie follows by post,"

On one occasion, when Parliament dividend of 10% on 60,000 shares $5.00 paid up, $25,000; transfer to was about to be opened by Queen General Reserve, $10,000; and Victoria, Smith, the coachman, During the year ended March 31, carry forward to next account, brought the coach and horses through the archway into the 99,231 children received attention $13,963.75. by the N.S.P.C.C., and out of 596) Directors. During the year Mr. quadrangle of Buckingham Palace,

up before the Grand' taken only 14 failed.

and Mr. J. J. Paterson resigned Entrance in magnificent style. from the Board on leaving the Beckoning to Mr. Percy Armytage's Colony.

Sir Elly Kadoorie, father, who was in command of the Hon. Mr. C. G. Mackie, the guard of honour, Smith went Mr. A. B. Stewart and Mr. down and whispered:

"Will you do MG R favour, M. H. Turner were invited to

colonel 7" join the Board. In accordance with Rule 95 (a) of the Articles of Association, the present mem-can." bors, Sir Robert Ho Tung, Sir Elty Kadoorie, Hon. Mr. C. G. Mackle, Mr. A. B. Stewart and Mr. M. H. Turner retire, but being cligible,

Dr. W. A. Dow, who was appoint- ed coroner for East Sussex Inst summer, but was unable to serve owing to Il health, died recently in a nursing home.

occasionally suspectible. It is hu- man nature to "have a flutter" nuw and then, and life would be a rather. drab affair for some folk if they did not put their luck to the test. But wholesale, gambling, and the risking of money which the punter

Leonard West, 4, of Rosebery cannot afford to lose, are in quite road, Norbiton, died from in- another category usually economi-juries received when he fell on to cally disastrous and always morally the live rall of the Southern Rail-

way near Norbiton Station. unsound.

Making Things Clear.

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The moonlight plenilc arranged by the St. Peter's. Church Young Men's Club for Saturday has been postponed owing to inclement wet- ther. It is hoped that this plenic | will take place on Monday, weather permitting.

offor themselves for re-election.

Auditors-The accounts were audited by Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews and Messrs. Linstead & Davle. Messrs. Lowe, Blugham & Matthews and Mezers, Linstead & Dayls offer themselves for re election.

FEATURES OF TO-MORROW'S

TELEGRAPH."

"Of course, Smith, if I possibly

"Keep that big drum of yours quiet as we go out; the ponies are very fresh.""

"Yes; but Smith, what would

Her Majesty and the Frince think of 'God Save the Queen'-without the big drúml"

To which, Smith replied: "I've got these 'orses in, but if that big drum of yours goca I don't know 'ow I shall get 'em out!""

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There had been a railway acci- dent near a country town in America, and a shrewd lawyer,

As wo bellove an American would say, President Coolidge has had the veto axe in hand al

Mr. George Ko has won the ping- Session. The Mississippi Flood pong Championship of the St.

Peter's Church Young Men's Club, THE WEEK'S PICTURES. with an eye to business, hurried to Bill, requiring something like with Mr. Archie Hunt as runner- £70,000,000, is obviously too much up. The Handicap was won by Mr. Francis for a man whose reputation is Archie Hunt with Mr. that he squeezes a dollar till the eagle screams; Mr. Mellon was not prepared to allow in his Budget for the full amount of the taxation reduction demanded; while the Farm Relief Bill is regarded by the

President 49 pernicious.

Zimmern as runner-up.

Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., will be closed on Monday, June 4. Ltd., advertise that all departments The Hongkong Dispensary will be open from 10 am to 1 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. for the dispensing of prescriptions only.

the sceno of the disaster. Ho noticed an old negro with an in- jured head, and went up to where he lay groaning on the ground.

"How about damages?" he began, But the sufferer waved him off.

Lion of topical picturea Rustrating ber done such a t'ing in my life. tain an interesting and varied selec-"Ah nebber hit de train. Ah neb- To-morrow's Telegraph will con- "G'way, baas, g'way," he said:

recent local events.

Yo cain't glt no damages out ob

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By this time next week, somebody will be richer to the extent of more than three hundred thousand sterl- ing as a result of the Calcutta Sweepstake on the Darby. As we have not managed to secure a ticket, it will not be us But there are That he was only called upon to many Hongkong people who have exercise his veto right in the case a lively interest in the draw, and, of the Farm Relief B is due to on the principle that somebody has concessions made during the pas- win the prize, all of them sages through the House. The naturally hold the hope that for very nature of the banned Bill, tune will come their way. The however, demanded its acceptance odds, of course, are tremendous. or rejection just as it stood, or But that does not deter ticket-more or less. President Coolidge, holders from indulging in the allurin returning. it to the Senate, de- ing if somewhat profitiess pastime clured it to be unconstitutional, of building castles in the air. We and said that the equalisation fee, have all done it in our time, but its principal feature, was alto- the great majority of us have had gather inacceptable. This fee rose. to be content with hoping for better out of a method by which a luck next time. And there will be Federal Farm Board would decide many thousand again in that posi-, when a surplus had grown in tion after this year's Derby has any farm products, and would come and gone.

arrange to hold back the surplus, There has, we notice, recently or to "dump" it abroad. The Pacific. Another is central over

Of the Whiteuntide Extra Race me." Meeting at Happy Valley on Satur- day, and Monday, there will be a

Solicitor at Clerkenwell County There is much of interest in the series of six pictures showing win-Court: Have you any more wit- These incidentally were the only May issue of The Yellow Dragon,ers being led in.

nesses to call? Man: I have the major issues before Congress, and Queen's College magazine, includ The Bishop of Victoria will bo town hall. Mr. Registrar Friend: the President attacked them all.ing an account of the Inte Mr. Leoen in another photograph dedient- Then let us have the town hall, in Hy-aan's connexion with the Ling the new Anglican church at the witness-box. A borough coun College, a very readable article on Koruptin, and there will also becil clerk then entered the box.

continuation of The a picture of the building. Spring, a

Judge Cluer at Shoreditch: You lowering Plants of Hongkong and

The 1st Battallon Queen's Reglare seeking to tell me what passed School and sporta notes.

ment will be seen on their way to between two women, which is not

evidence-goodness Sentence of six weeks' hard lab- St. John's Cathedral for the un- our was imposed by Mr. W. Scho-velling of the memorial tablet to what passes between two women. field, at the Kowloon Magistracy men of the regiment who died in ditch County Court if her husband this morning, on an 18-year-old

wow heavily in debt. The wife: Happy is the wife whose husband Chinese, who was found in the staircase of No. 5, Austin Avenue

is not. at 1 o'clock this morning. The de- fendant, in reply to his Worship, admitted that he had gone there to steal.

STILL MORE RAIN,

"South-east winds, moderate; overenst; rain," is the Royal Obser- vatory forecast up to noon, to-mor row. The daily report states- The anticyclone has passed into the

21 YEARS AGO.

The

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE

"TELEGRAPH" FILES.

China in 1860.

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Another picture will show the Wanchai Memorial decorated with wreath on the occasion of the American Memorial Day.

FLEMISH ARTIST'S

EXHIBITIONS.

TREAT FOR LOVERS OF ART

IN HONGKONG.

It would be extremely difficult to find discrepancies between his work and the originals.

only

knows

A solicitor asked a wife at Shore-

Willesden man: Give me time and I will pay the fina. Magistrate: You are meeting trouble halfway. There is no fine yet.

Maxistrale "at Willosden: Why did you not appear yesterday on this charge of drunkenness? Man: I was getting over the day before, air,

Barrister at West London County Court: I would hold no brief for any one who, embezzled money. Judge Sturgess: I have, and been successful.

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Most married men and all. mar. For many years, Mr. Kots was the Peking University. He holds plcation of a wife at Westminster the Professor of Life Studies at ried women will appreciate the ap- Police Court recently: Desiring a the Chinese Presidential decora- tion, the Order of the Excellent summons for maintenance, she Crop, and the Order of Leopold Bald: "While I was in the bospital my. husband got the house in auch (Belgium).

a muddle that he could not face it, and he left last Friday.".

All the women in court smiled. broadly, and the men looked foolish. Even Mr. Gill, the magistrate, seemed slightly embarrassed na he auggested that the busband would probably return when things were EXPLAINS POSSESSION OF straightened out again. The wo

The well-known Flemish artist, Mr. A. Kets, is showing an exhibi- tion of his work at the Hongkong Considerable amusement hts been some correspondence in one ineney for the purpose was to South-West Manchuria. The de Hotel to-morrow, on his first return been caused in the Taxation De of the London newspapers concern come first from a fund of $400,- pression over the Gulf of Tongking to the East for four years...

has deepened slightly.

partment in Adelaide owing to the ing systems at roulette, and one 000,000 and when this was ex- Formosa depression has deepened

While in Europe, he has made receipt of an indignant letter from writer asserts that he is in pos-hausted, from an equalisation fee, and moved to the north of Oshima. many copies of the masterpieces a country orchardist, protesting of Rembrandt, the portrait of King bitterly against the injustice of an session of n method, tested over a levy on all growers of the crep

Charles II by Van Dyck, land- item in his income tax assessment, twenty thousand chances, which which produced a surplus. Of

scapes after Hobema, and still-life "super tax, £1/8/." He concluded drawings after some of the famous his letter as follows: "I do not will produce almost mathematically the eve almost of the Presidential

Flemish artists. election, when agricultural votes

see why I should pay super tax. I a profit of twelve louis an hour are much in demand, the Re-

have never used it in my life--I with a louis unit. Whatever the publican Party is seriously, alarm,|

have always used bone dust.” merits of sucli systems, however, ed at the possible effects of the vebo, particularly as the New no player can in the long run over-York Bonators, from a State which come the mathematical advantage is likely to suffer by Farm Rellef, the Hongkong Telegraph for the The following items are from which the Monte Carlo bank has were strongly in favour, no doubt weck ended June 1st, 1907. assured itself, for it is to be Democratic candidate, of Mr. Al. to gain the rural, votes for the doubted whether there is any Smith. The retiring President is, was 2e. 2 d.

The rate of the dollar on demand method which will not some day or however, rather clever. In his other touch the maximum and col that it embodied a "formidable Waterboat Co., was launched at criticism of the Bill be declared The Tai Luk, for the Union lapse like a house of cards. All array of perils for agriculture, Kowloon Dock, being christened by DEFENDANT'S STORY that the player can do is to avail which were all the more menacing | Mrs. Ritchie. himself to the full of every because they were obscured in a

mass of ponderously futile bureau- Mrs. (later Lady) May presented mathematical advantage in his cratic paraphernalia." Ponder-the prizes at the Victorin British favour; and if he is carefulously futile bureaucratie para- School, at which Mr. E. D. C. enough, he may postpone the evil phernalia-fancy being obscured Wolfe, as Inspector of Schools, de-

in that! We feel sure that the livered an address. day. Of infallible' systems, the

farmors will agree that this could name is legión, but the Casino still not have been permitted. In the A Revolutionary Society burnt manages to pay its shareholders a same connexion, we are beginning the yamen at Ung Kung, near handsome dividend. Whether we to realise why the British are Swatow, and

often accused in America of Mandarins. are dealing with roulette, cards, or subtlety. sweepstakes, It must be remember- ed that the caprices of fortune are due to nothing more than the limits of human intelligence. As one writer expressed it, no-one really imagines that some swerve of the atom, or some other form of miracle, conditions the point. at which the roulette-ball stops, the

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According to a report made to the police yesterday, two diamond rings, valued at $3,000 were stolen from No. 1 Leong Fai Terrace, the residence of Mr. Leung Tat-hing. The theft must have occurred bo- tween 9.30 am. on the evening of May 29 and morning on May 80,

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Hongkong and Shanghai Bank shareholders approved of a regolu from ten to twenty million dollars. tion to increase the Bank's capital

BELIEVED.

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man missionary agreed. Any man who has been left alone in a house Satisfied that the story told by for a couple of days will understand the defendant was correct, Mr. W. exactly why this particular hus Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis band left home: murdered four tracy this morning, discharged the

Chinese, who was charged on re- Tam, the caddle, watched the mand with being in possession of latest convert to the Royal and with contempt. a motor cycle lamp, reasonably Ancient game suspected of having been stolen or "Tam," whispered the club "pro.,"

"What's up now?" unlawfully obtained.

"Him, Indicated Tam. "He'll The defendant, it will be re- H. E. Teen Chun Hausn, Pre- yesterday that a former tenant had "He's doing rather well for a be-

membered, told the Magistrate niver mak' a player!"

"I'm not so sure,” said the other. ident of the Board of Posts and given him the lamp in lieu of s Communications in Peking, was month's rent. This story was sub-

ginner,"

They watched him miss his appointed Viceroy of Kwangtung stantiated by the defendant's tel-stroke in heavenly silence. and Kwangsl;

low-lodgers when the police made

“Ah tell ye,” snorted Tam, “that enquiries after the adjournment of ye'll niver mak a player o' him. the case yesterday.

D'yo ken what he says when ho Under the circumstances, his misses bis ba'? He fist says Tut-

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according to the surmise of the Mr. Henry Keswick was appoint person who made the report, Aned an unofficial member of the card turns up, or the sweepstake-amah employed at the house is de-Hongkong Legislative Council, in Worship discharged the defendant. Itut!" ball comes out. All such results 1 tafried for enquiries.

place of Mr: W. J. Gresson