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A SIMPLE STORY BY
ELINOR SLIM.
Kazon; anez MONTERINSTRUCTOR
CHAPTER IV.
13 of the Summary Offences Or- dinance, it is laid down that no person shall between the hours of sunset and six o'clock on the following morning "make or cause, or permit to be made or caused, any noiso whatsoover calculated to disturb or interfero with the public tranquillity or calculated to disturb or annoy any person," We take the word |"calculated" to be the equivalent
Eunice was a clever woman and did not find the social alde of "likely to" when used in this things very difcult: Sha connexion. The question of in- was able to hold her tent does not come into the mat- any lady in the Colony, but she. was not satisfied with just hold- tér, as we see it. And the pointing her own.. as to what is "calculated to annoy must depend on reasoned.. nblity. To take an example- for the resident of a flat to indulge
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DAY BY DAY.
CONVICTION IS THE CONSCIENCE OF THE MIND.-Chamfort.
The rainfall registered, at the Botanic Gardens during Juls totalled 8.37 Inches. There were slight falls on ten days.
Yesterday'e return of notiflable diseases shows three cases of typhoid fever (one Indian and two of Chinese), as well as one Chinese
case of small-pox"
soon with
She wanted to be distinguish Eunice was an idealist, and her ideal was to be known as "some-" body," so she decided that since
The Very Idea!
"He has the most extraordinary said Dr. Watson, medical ideas," officer of Brixton Prison,, at the London Sessions recently, when Hyman Robert Barnovitch, aged twenty-nine, a Hoxton tailor, was accused of receiving silver wore and other articles which had been stolen,
"He think that he has super- natural powers," added Dr. Watson, and among other things that ho can make an old man young simply by exercising his will power. He thinks that he has direct or special
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An extraordinary general meet-communication with the Deity, and ting of the Royal Hongkong Golf declares that he has frequently Club is to be held on the 14th made prophecles which have como Instant to consider usolutions true."
Sir Robert Wallace, K.G., the changing the Articles of the Club.
chairman, passed a nominal sen- lence of fourteen days' imprison- The treasurer of King Edward's ment to enable the authorities to in a little solo-singing of an even she was not very well off, and Hospital Fund for London has re-take action in connexion with Bar- ing would not be an offence, but wasn't very good at games, and reived through the Chartered Bank novitch's detention as an inaano
wasn't extraordinarily good look of India, Australia, and China a person. if he used his flat for the purpose ing, and wasn't really, extraordin- cheque for £1,000 from Captain T. of allowing a whole choir or aary in any other way, she would P. Hall, of Hongkong. brass band to practice, he would have to go in for "Organisation." She discovered that being a most decidedly be permitting a good organiser is a very easy way The late Mr. Andrew Albert NO PERIODIC REFILLING ise "calculated to annoy," even of getting on. So she watched the Smith, of Trevose, Oakcroft Road,
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If the nuisance ceased' long beforether women who were said to be Wost Byfleet, for some years a rice "good organisers" to see how It merchant in Rangoon and Bangkok, nine o'clock.
left personal estate in Great Britain to the value of £64,256, Applying these arguments" to the two cases which have re-
Of course she soon found out of ELECTRICITY RELIABLE, EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE.cently come before the Kowloon that "Organisation" means get- ting other people to do the work Magistrate, we say most decidedly for you while you take the credit. Types for Motor Cars, & Elc..
that the builders have been guilty
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FRIDAY, AUQUBT 3 1928
NIGHT NOISES.
Kowloon's
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Said to have been assaulted by man who is now in custody, Yeung Shing, aged 38, living in an unnumbered hut at Chak Yuen. Kowloon City district, was ad-
suffering from n compound frac- ture of the right leg.
of an offence under the Ordin-mitted into hospital yesterday ance, and we must confess our surprise that Mr. Schofield should About Hong Kong.
Do you know that----
give them so much latitude. It is difficult enough to secure rest and tranquillity these hot nights, under the best of circumstances. To permit noisy building opera- tions in 'residential districte, even up to nine o'clock, is only unneces- aarily adding to those, troubles and trials which have perforco to be borne.
The longiton Police were at one time known amongst the Chinese "Green Couls" (Lukee)?
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This was in the very early days of the Colony, in 1841, when the Government formally undertook the formalion af what was known as the Colonial Police Force. However, as the discharged English and Indian soldiers' of whom the Force was, formed were helpless in their ignorance of the native language without the assistance of Chinese constables, and as the latter were of the lowest order, the scheme was not u SUCCESS.
Some four or five months later, the services of an In- speclar" of Metropolitan Police (Mr. Charles May) were secured, and he reorganised the Force on the model of the Irish Constabulary.
An eight-years-old little miso's revised version of the well-known nursery rhymo
Mary had a little lamb,
Her unclo was a glutton;
He stole it from her side ono
day.
And turned it into muiton.
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Pat Murphy was having his first flight in an aeroplane. The pilot was taking him over New York City. When they were about 3000 feet
nose dive. up the plane suddenly went into a
"Ha ha laughed the pilot, shouting to Fat. "Fifty per cent. of the people down there thought wo were falling."
"Sure," responded Pat; "and 50 cent, of the people up here Lhought so, too!"
The proprietor of the Shing Kee Dairy Farm, Kowloon City, has re- ported to the police the dient-per pearance of a foki who has been missing from the shop since Tues- day. The man' is alleged to have collected $32 from customera by means of a stolen chop, and to have also taken 20 bottles of milk with him before he left.
Clerk at Highgate to wife who complained of her husband: What is it you complain of? Wife: He does not amuse me.. Clerk: What amusement do you want? Wife: I want him to talk to me. Hongkong is to have a visit
Willesden 'woman: My husband week-end next month from Miss Maude Roy-16 a good worker, but.
drinker. den, the well-known woman pre- Man at Willesden: I want a eher, who is to give a series of summons against a womas in our addresses here. Miss Royden, who hoase for crossing my wife. Sho has been touring America, is the has also turned on the gas and wast- minister of the Guildhouse. Lon-el a shilling's worth.
dan, an undenominational Church, and she is well known for her somewhat unconventional views.
Wife at Highgate of her husband: He scratched me. Clerk: Did you scratch him first-Yes, Clerk: Then tho scratching was mutual.
Court missionary at Acton of a The Hongkong Radio Telegraph troubled husband: I advised him Offee announces that the direct on the matter before, but he is as service to Yunnanfp has now been weak as water. Magistrato: Wo entirely changed to the modern are all as weak as water where wo system of short wave transmission men are concerned. and reception' and that telegrams Mr. Kegistrar Friend at Clerk- sent by this route are no longer enwd! County Court: Do you want
Gene Tunney's Retirement.
building activity, old, craves new worlds to congyer, Gene Tunney, like Alexander of
whilst welcome insofar as it.in-bat, urlike that famous warrior, dicates the return of better times, the spirit moves him not to fur- is not without its hardships for her pursue the paths of battle. The world's heavyweight champion residents of the Peninsula. Yes- finds the time has come when pro- terday, the Kowloon Magistrate fessional boxing offers him nothing was called upon to deal with the further that he desires. Probably second case within recent monthe he means that when his fortune of something over a million dollars, in which residents had been sub- carefully invested, becomes auf-
(in the jeeted, to much disturbance at night ficient
States) to enable his comploto independence of building a consequence
he will have perforce to look back
At first she joined unimportant subject to delay by bad atmos to ask the plaintiff anything?-Wo- operations being continued for
upon his wonderful ring career as a little societies just to learn the pheric conditions. The rata by man: Ilim? Oh, be's barmy, I many hours after sunset. Eleven somewhat sordid, if necessary, ropes, and to get known as an oris route is 60 cents per word don't want to ask him anything.
sender. o'clock at hight was.. In this in- episode in an otherwise unblemish-ganiser. As Acting Secretary of payable by the
No The Registrar: I will assume that ed life. There is just one thing the Society for the Prevention of charges are collected from the you mean he is non compos mentis. stance, quite a common hour for Gene should guard against. We Cruelty to Foreign Governesses, addressee at either end.
Woman: Yes. That's wot I the workmen to be at their nolay understood that a boxing expert of abe made quite a name for her-
says; he's barmy!
AH
der that too much
KEHAVIORARE VAGABUNDENIUEROAKTI KONTOCONDERE COTTERY
women's college there for some years but resigned in 1900 to
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job, whilst on one occasion they one of America's leading news-self, und got to know ever so many We much regret to announce the magistrate; People will go down on appear to have continued until papers, ence entered Tunney's important people. She used to death of Mrs. John Lake, of the their knees and implore domestic
dressing room to find him rouding say, "I don't know much about American Southern Baptist Union, servants to work for them. well after two o'clock in the morn-Macaulay's History of England, or local affairs, you know, but I'm reported from Cadton as having ing. That residents living near Sinclair Lewla's Babbidge, we are quite a good organisah," and occurred on Monday after a brief by should be annoyed in such cir-not quite sure which, or whether really, she wasn't worse than any illness. A native of Greenville of Leopold (Victoria), lost her wed Thirty seven years ago Mrs. Carr, it was not somo other book, of the others who were doing the South Carolina, she taught in the ding ring in a cultivated padock. cumstances is only natural. They but from that day, the world'saame thing. have our sympathy. Apparently, champion pugilist has been told he
Recently her son, Mr. C. Carr, they are to get some relief now, serious, is said to have literary Is "genteel" and, what is more
Mr. Kuttle used to help all ho come to China. She married the when taking a plough out of a pad
on the because the Magistrate followed aspirations. We doubt the neces could by mentioning casually, Rev. John Lake in 1909 and has dock, noticed something
his mother's wedding ring. the precedent which he establish- afty to search beyond Dempsey and "My wife is an awfully elever or been very closely associated with point of the share. It proved to be ed in the earlier case-namely, of Heeney in order to refute the aniser." And before very long, him in his mission work, especially former accusation, but of the whenever there was any scheme in connexion with the catablish-
The following dialogue, charming allowing the work to proceed up to more dangerous issue we are not afoot for doing good and spend-ment of the leper colony at Tal
p.r. That is something gained, quite so certain. It is sincerely to ing other people's money, Mrs. Kan Island. A lady of fine char- in its innocence, so far as the child concerned, was overheard bat, with all deference to the he hoped that Tunney is not de- Coles-Kuttle was the first name ncter, she will be greatly missed, was
and much sympathy will be felt for in a suburban
be- street magisterial viewpoint, we const-world that the pen is mightier than
finitely determined to convince the that came to one's mind...
tween a little girl (aged, perhaps 5) If she thought it was going to the bereaved husband,
and a man who was apparently en consideration his boxing-gloves, even as they be useful to her, she would get
his way to business:- has been shown the contractors in have proved greater than the elected as Secretary.
Rear-Admiral William Frederick Little Girl (overtaking him): bayonet he, flourished in the Then she'd get supporters, and Blunt, whose death is reported, “Is it 11 o'clock, please?" both these cases.
Marines. So while the champion appeal for subscriptions, and as was in China during the Boxer Business man (consulting Mr. Schofield thinics the feels lie
cannot wait until a soon as the money came in she'd [Rebellion in command of H.M.S. watch): "No, it is just half-past trouble is caused because Chin- formidable'challonger for his title find the pressure of work so great (Esk, and received the China Medal, nine."
Little girl (erestfallen): "When ese builders are in the habit of develops, it were better that he that she'd have to have a typist and On the outbreak of the Great War
should retain the illusion of some Chinese clerks,
he took the Fearless Into action at will it be 11 o'clock?" agreeing to carry out their con literary gropensities rather than
the Battle of the Heligoland Bight. tracts in too short a time. That give a forcible demonstration.
In the same ship he also took part She was quite clever, and never in the Christinas Day raid on
"What on earth does a bricklayer may be the case, but we think it Having read many modern books, failed to remind the volunteers Cuxhaven in 1914. In command of Crawford At Edmonton, County want with a jazz set?" asked Judge we malise how difficult it some who used to come along and help, the old battleship Jupiter he saw more probable that they often times must be to resist the urge that it was much harder to much Lervico at Aden and in the
Court recently. employ too few men on the job but there would always be the dan supervise than to do the actual Suez Canal. In command of the
Willum Wargrave, a bricklayer, In hand, with the result that they gor, in Tunney's case, of carrying work. But she never did any of cruiser Gloucester in the Grandstrument makers for the return of was sued by a firm of musical in- the methods of the ring into be the work; she was always to busy Flect, he was present at the battle have to. work at night in newly-chosen sphere, to the ever- order to fulfil their obligations. lasting distress, perhaps, of in-
supervising.
of Jutland. Later he commanded jazz set which he obtained under
the instalment system. She was getting on splendidly. the crufsers Achilles and Berwick, cost £13,of which he had paid £2, In any case, we contend that there individuals who have not seriously When Angela came down from employed chiefly on tho Atlantic but no payments had been made is no reason why building opera-Aa. Tunney says, he is young find how firmly established her trained for auch shock tactics,
Shanghai she was really thrilled to Convoy Servico.'. enough to make a fresh start in sister was in Hongkong society, other fields, but were wo in his and almost felt jealous about it. THIS WEEK'S PICTURES bricklayer's improver by trade, but fortunate position, we fancy wo she wrote home and told her should cultivate the art of spend- father that Eunice was now living ing a million dollars.
tions should extend beyond nor mal working hours. They should coase at sunset. To permit them to continue up to 9 p.m. in close proximity to occupied houses is totally unnecessary. After all, there is no particular hurry for tho rebuilding of the "New Jerusalem." Contractors
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the life of a real lady, and he MANY OF INTEREST APPEAR ought to be proud of her.
She also suggested that he
His many friends will be glad should come out and atay with to hear that, according to a Eunice for a time, now that he telegram from London received in was so lonely.
TO-MORROW.
Many picturca of topical interest will appear in to-morrow's Issue of mayHongkong yesterday, Mr. Leang He was lonely because, soon the Telegraph.
since March.
The act
Wargrave told the judge that he had been out of work. He was a
played in a Jazz band.
Judge Crawford: It will be in Your own interests, and also in the interests of your neighbours, no doubt, if I make an order for the re- turn of the set. Obviously you CAB- not pay.
An order was made for the re- turn of the set within seven days.
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beneft by being granted conces St. Stephen's College, who passed and mother had parted company, taken at the wedding of Lieut. J. Sal-wah, a former student at the after Eunice left home, father These will include- photographs sions such as the Kowloon Magis- the Matriculation examinations in She hadn't been able to stand his Hale, R.N., and Miss Moira Frend: The Secretary of the Sikh trate is inclined to make, but the the Hongkong University 1024, language and his habits any some excellent snapshots of the Temple has written pointing out. public deserves primary con- subsequently entering, the Uni-longer and had gone to live with swimming gala held by the K.O.S.B. that there has been no recognised sideration in
Oxford, has her sister. a matter of this versity College,
on Minden Day; a group of the No. gathering of the Sikh Community passed his final examinations, sort. If our readlog of the law obtaining the B. A. degres (Arts)j
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is correct, it should be possible with honours. Mr. Lenng is the But of all this, Eunice knew trophies; and a group of the Botani-Khawas Khan. Misconception may through another to put a stop to noisy building on of the late Bir Chen Tung nothing. It was just a little aur-cal and Forestry Department staff. have arisen
There will also be pictures show association being confused with. Leung Shing, K. C. M. G, K. C. prise Angela had in store for hering Chinese, queued up at street the Khalsa Diwan, which repre activity after sunset. By Section V. O,
(To be Continued.).
fountains for supplies of water.sents the Sikh community here.
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