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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TOTAL

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BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE-- -FIRE OFFICES COMMITTEE --PHYSIKALISCH-TECUNIBRE REICHBANSTALT-GERMANY

LABORATOIRE CENTRAL D'ELECTRICITY-PARIS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1928.

DAY BY DAY.

FASHIONABILITY : 1G: A KIND OF ELEVATED VULGARITY-George Dar-

FAILURE TO REGISTER $9,000 MORTGAGE.

CHINESE COMPANY GRANTED

TIME EXTENSION.

As dbo rosult of a failure to file A mortgage for $9,000 with the Registrar of Companies, Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C., Instructed by Mr. H. L. Dennys, of Mesurs, Hastings, Denays and Bowley, applied to the Chief Justico (Sir Henry Gollan)" in the Supreme Court this morning for an extension of time in witch to rectify the error.

Fan American-trained engineer, has been put in charge of all road sur veys in the province. He has train- cd a number of students. from local technical school, who have lep. taken charge of the supervision of

The P. and O. s.s. Rajputana, 160,000 labourers engaged in grad-from Shanghai, is dus here on the ing work and of another 2,000 who 17th instant at 6 n.m. have dono quarrying and bridge

An amended notification regard- and culvert building. One interest- ing feature of the work is that then the P. and O. 8.8. Naldern, from Singapore, states that she will ar Famine Committee in Kweichow rive here at 7 a.m. to-morrow. supplies and pays the engineering staff, whilst the bulk of the labour in furnished by the localities bene fitted and is recruited and organised. by the Government. This now de- parture is working well, both in

Yesterday's health return shows Kwelchow and Kwangai.

three cases of typhold and one of The Kwoichow programme in aparatyphoid fever. All wore Chin most ambitious one, for it also con-use excepting one Indian case of templates the laying out of another typhoid. trunk road to connect with the It is announced that as a resalt Kwangsi roads on the way to Can- of the collision with the a.s. Otran ton, as it is realised that Kweichow to, the N.Y.K. liner Kitano Maru needs a better outlet to the sea for will be delayed a month for the About Hong Kong.

repair of damuga. her mineral wealth and her agri-

NO PERIODIC REFILLING cultural products. Eventually, a

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Passengers departing yesterday by the M.31. linor Porthos for the North included Mr. W. A. Dobeck, Mr. Bandeller and the Rov. H, F. Collior.

"

. II.M.S. Kent, the new eruiscr which is to be the flagship of the China Station, will arrive in Hong- long on Friday. H.M.S. Castor is due herd on Sunday, also from England.

360-mile motor road will extend from Anshuu-fu to Chihahui, the cost of which will be, over three million dollars. It Is work of this

A Chinese was admitted into the character which is of the utmost value to China, and. it says a great Government Oivil Hospital yester deal for those in charge of the day suffering from serious injuries Commission's activities that such to his thigh. It is not stated how numbered matshed at Lycemus, progress is possible under the diff-the patient, who lives in an un- cult conditions which have to be received his injuries. faced. The need of better means

This morning's Harbour Ofce of communication is nowhere more

Reports gave 14 arrivals and 19 evident, than in China, and the In- departures, with British entering ternational Famine Hellef Commis-only two vessels, but figuring at ston is discharging a really magni- the head of the departures with eight, leaving G5 vessels in hur- fcent function in devoting so much buur of which 24 were British, of its energies to work of this

WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 15 1928 character..

PRACTICAL HELP.

case of cholera having been land. ed at Penang and, the ship, tliore- fare, will have to mass, the Port Medical Officer before coming alongside.

In making the application on be- half of the Fook On Assurance and Codowa Company, Limited, Mr. Alabaster said the mortgage hud been registered in the Land Office, but, owing to inadvertence of the secretary of the Company, it had not been registered with the Regis- Mr. Alabaster went on to read trar of Companies. an affidavit by Yuo Ping-nam, s

2

Do you know that---

Tho Royal Observatory originated in consequence of representations by a number of shipmasters and the Man- ager of the P. and O. Com- 'pany?

It was in 1877 that these re- presentations were made, the Government being requested" to arrange a daily dropping of time-ball. The Surveyor Gen- eral (Mr. J. M. Price) there- upon draw up plans, in con- formity with which the Obser- vatory

subsequently Vas established at Mount Elgin, Kowloon.

"

The scheme was somewhat. expanded in 1881 by Major H. S. Palmer, of the Royal Engineers.

The Very Idea!

Nowspaper and magazine editors often receive letters containing. strange and unusual requests. It Is not so often that executives of man- ufacturing concerns are similarly favoured. Recently, however, ono of them found the following com- munication upon his desk:

"Mr. General Manager," Mr. Manager, Western Electrid!Co.,

New York City. S

"My Dear Good Gentlemen: "Good morning," kind sira; my name is Peter. I am twelve years old and go to school every day. am also a good Boy Scout and do good deeds every day. I like animals and at very kind to them, and will not allow anyone to harm them, 1 do good deeds in other ways und also help my mother with her housework and cleaning. I like to invent things." "I built, a little. radio and I can got good results. ·

"My good gentlemen, I like to ox- periment, and I am now thinking up some idea with a telephone, D'I am poing to kindly ask you to please help me out by sending me two of your desk telephones; another boy and myself are going to experiment with them and try to favent some, new ideas My dear gentlemen, will you please grant our little re- quest; we are trying very hard to invent this ided, and we cannot do it unless we have two telephones, my good, kind sirs, any kind of old ones that you have no use for will do, any kind of old desk phones that you cannot or have no use for will do, so will you please be kind' and' Bend me tliem; I will always think of your kudness and good will and if our little Ideas are good after wo try them out we will tell you all about them. Please send them, won't you, kind klra?

חיי

Thank you. ""Good-bye and good luck to you. and the Western Ilectric Company.

"Yours truly,

The medical officer on duty in the eye, ear, and throat departinent of one of the London hospitals was about to examine a man who com- plined of severe pain.

who put it away with his other Always.

securities.

Motorist, in a letter to the Strat- His Lordship granted the ap-ford Rench; "Please send me the plication.

constable's evidence and the amount of the ane."

ST. ANDREW'S TIFFIN PARTY.

PRESENTATION TO MR. A. K.

HENDERSON.

He talked about Paris and

Brussels

And made himself fully au

fuit

With the charms of Lucerne,

then decided to turn

To a handbook on "Ireland in

May."

He read up statistics on

+ elimate.

Reflecting how much he could

spend

On the Tamous Five Towns or

the

North and South Downs, The Trossachs, the Rhine or

Southend.

He studied the guidebooks,

and posters

Among those leaving by the M.M. Ber Andre Lobon yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Porry, director of the Company, which Mrs. Peterson, Mr. Marchal Lebon, stated that by an indenture of Nanking and Canton.

Mr. II. J. Leonard, Mr. Walter mortgage dated May 8, 1928, made All Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's Hamilton, Mr. Join Silva, Mr. and between the Company and Ng Yuk- "Now, my man," asked the doctor, diplomacy and personal Influence Mrs. Desmedt, Mrs. A. G. Hashlinching, the Company assigned to Ng is it this car that's causing the

Yak-ching ground registered in trouble?" failed to keep the Moderate leaders and Mrs. N. Gornych.

the Land office. as Sub-Section 1 "This 'ere what,, guvnor?" in- Some idea of the magnitude of in attendance at the Fifth Plenary For carrying 105 ducks in two of Section A of New Kowloon Inquired the patient." the splendid philanthropic work Session of the C.E.C. of the Kuo-crates, thus causing them unneces-land Lat No. 435. The asignment undertaken in China by the In-mintang, and thus any prospect of sary suffering, a Chinese was this was subject to n. proviso for Solicitor at Shoreditch: Does ternational Famine Relief Com-combined obstruction to the move morning fined $7 by Mr. W. Scho- redemption of the premises on mission can be gleaned from the for the abolition of the Provincial Gold at the Kowloon Magistracy. payment by the Company, at the your husband swear habitually?

It was stated that one of the ducks expiration of one Chinese year Wife: Oh, no; he leaves off at

times.. annual report of this well-known Branch Political Councils, dis had been trampled to death while from the date of the mortgage, of organisation, which has just been appeared in demonstrations of others had their legs protruding the rate of $10 per $1,000 per The day after I was stopped 1 sold the sum of $9,000 with interest ut Stratford motorist, summoned for not having an efficient allencer: issued. Owing to civil war and pique. A Reuter's. message this from the bottom of the crates.

Chinese lunar month. political unheavals in most parts of morning states that at yesterday's

The affidavit continued that after the machine to a polleeman,

Man at Willesden: A summons, A most interesting treatise, on it was registered in the Land Office please, against a woman for annoy- the country, the past year has been meeling, a resolution was passed

Chinese-painting, entitled "Ancient it was handed to Ng Yuk-chingance. Maglatrate: When? Man: ane of the most difficult which the requiring the closing up of the Chinese Art," has been written by Commission has experienced, but it Councils at the end of the year, Mr. The Tsan-tai and published in anya much for the excellence of the marking the final triumph of the the form of, an art-paper booklet. Leftists in the clash of interests. which has been printed by the general organisation that the Com Marshal Li Chai-sum followed the The chapter of technique is most | South China Morning Post Co., Ltd. mission has been able to account example of Mr. Chang Ching-klang, informative, The booklet soils at for the work of eight out of the undoubtedly within the past few $1. thirteen provincial committees months the dominant personality. which labour under its auspices, at Nanking, and Mr. Ll Shih-chong. Naldera with malls from Home, On arrival to-morrow, ble P. and It is satisfactory also to read from and resolutely refused to sit at will not immediately berth at the the report that the Commission in the meetings of the Conference. Kowloon wharf, but will anchor in determined to continue its acis regime at Canton is the most Kowloon Bay. This is due to a tivities, for it is put on record.that striking example of the system

Members of the Hongkong St. as long as the Government, absorb which has been so vigorously at

Andrew's Society gave a compli e by the solution of more urgent tacked by the civilian element of

mentary and farewell timin at the the Kuomintang. His Government

Hongkong Hotel to-day to Mr. A. problems, does not consider it a

was practically independent, doing

K. Henderson, Vice-President of duty to assume the task of relier-

nothing more than lip service to, Sometime during last week, har-the Society, who is leaving the Colony on retirement on Friday. ing the distress of people affected

the Central Authority at Nanking, hour thieves succeeded in remay- by natural calamities (made still and if his wise adminstration has ing 450 fathoms of rope from the The function was attended by worse in many districts by the ef- brought peace and much prosperity $260. A further report has also

8.5. Bator. The rope is valued at about fifty members of the Society. In the absence of the President [fects of civil war), the Commission to the two Kwangs, it also contri- been received by the police that a of the Society (Mr. D. Templeton), will not fail to continue, with all buted nothing of material benefit length of rope valued at $300 was who fa Home on leave, the chair. the zeal of which it is capable, to the Party as a whole. The stolen from the s.s. Suisang, the was taken by Mr. J. W. C. "Bonnar theft occurring within the last (Past President), who was sup- of the Moderates, the work to which it is devoting withdrawal

few days..

port by. Mesars. R. M. Dyer, K. E. Greig, D. Gow, B., Wylle, P. Todd wille having the effect of widening itself,

It is not our intention to analyse the breach, merely consolidated On the return of the .s. Yuct (members of the Committee), E.

During a religious revival in the various spheres of activity in the Lefllat domination of the On from Canton yesterday mor- M. Bryden and A. Ritchie (joint Captain Hon. Secretaries), and the Rev. J.

America some local hooligans took which the Commission has been Plenary Session. Thero was still ning the skipper:

it upon themselves to create a dís After the tiffin, the Chairman turbance where a popular pastor. busy during the past year, but quorum, and Marshal Li Chai-Cornand, made a report to the Kirk Maconachie, there is one

by delivered a brief speech express was preaching. As they took no aspect of a work sum must have been well aware palice to the effect that a pus-

senger committed suicide that the field was being left open jumping overboard while the ing the regret felt by all at Mr.notice of appeals to them to behave, which is worth taking special note

to his antagonists to force any steamer was near Sampan Island. Henderson's impending doparture the minister went forward, and re- of. We refer to the encouragement decision, they chose upon the re- The passenger's name is given as after 32 years. In the Colony, and proached them with their miscon which it gives to the construction maining delegates. Why be adopt Chan Ting-chung, and his age as presented him with a allver qualch, duct.

"Wal," said one of tho.

interrup 28. He was formerly a maflor on suitably inscribed. of much-needed motor roads in cd this course it is difficult to ex-the Chinese cruiser Chungaban, Mr. Henderson made an appro- ters, "we heard that you were work- various parts of the country plain, though probably he has his flagship of the Cantonese Navy: priate reply, saying how much he ing miracles here, and came to see Under this heading, splendid pro- own ideas on the capability of tho

appreciated the honour the Bocloty if it was true," gress has been made. As an ex- Leftist group to put their resolu-Mr. J. M'Queen from Hongkong has done him by arranging the ample of what is being done, let tion Into effect. At the moment dockyard is appointed constructor tifin and also expressing this sin

there is considerable doubt as to at Chatham Dockyard, in place of cercat thanks for the gift. us turn to the section of the report whether this can be accomplished Mr, J. Mayer, whom ho previous which deals with Kwetchow, one of other than theoretically. It is ly relieved at Hongkong in 1925, the Southern provinces. Here wo fairly certain that the Kwangs! Mr. M'Queen before that year had Clique will not concede an inch of been since 1921 on the construc find that not only have soldiers and their present powerful position tive managers' staff at-Rosyth boy and girl students been employ without a struggle, and the pros-Dockyard. Mr. Mayer, on relief, ed in road construction, but that pect of open defiance of the CEO is promoted to senlor, constructor, their efforts have been backed up cannot be lightly disregarded. It and is, succeeding Mr. A/Nicholls la interesting to enquire Marshal na warship production superinton- by a force of 50,000 farmers and Chiang Kai-shek'e attitude in the dent for the Morsey District,

In the Summary Court this mor- ning, before Mr. Justice Jacks, the town people; and, despite the lack present eruption. At one time he

Yan Hing Firm, 50, Lyndhurst af good engineers, a really good relied to a very large extent on

A Chinese lady dentist in the

The Bellflos Old Girls' Associa«« the active support of the Genro person of Dr. Ruth S.. Kwok has Portuguese Navigation Company, tion has decided to be responsible

Terrace, printers, sued the Sino- start has been made.

Within a To-day, he appears to have allied opened a practice in Tientsin D 18, Jubilee Street, for 3382.21 ni for the maintenance of a stall at pace of eight months, several himself with the group in which Kwok is a Hongkong girl, and was the amount due for goods sold and the C. L. fete which is being milles of good macadamized road, Mr. T. V. Soong da a leading first educated at St, Stephon's Col delivered:

We held towards the end of Septem-, with stone walks, have been con-guro, and to have genuinely cut lege. She proceeded to the United C. A. S. Russ conducted the

from adrift

the militarists. States, and was a student for five case for the plaintiffs and the de

ber. This is the first time that structed, whilst half the grading Whether circumstances will allow has been done on the 210 miles of him to discard his role of soldier years at the Dental College of the fendants were absent, the Association has offered to as- University of Pennsylvania,and The manager of the plaintiffsist in this annual bazaar al- Strunk motor road from Anshun-matter of deep concern to well-China; A very 'up-to-date X-Ray his claim, and his Lordship gavo fhave been prominently identified in the near future must now be a after a year's practice came toArm gavo evidence in support of though the students of the school. to Kweiyang and then on to Tsunyi wishers of the Nationalist Gov-apparatus ja Inetañed in her omce judgment for the plaintiffs with with the efforts of the M. C. L. in and Tungize. Mr. W. T. Wang, trnment.

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"No, sir," said the pastor, we do not work miracles, but," taking him firmly by the collar, "we do çast out devils!"

If wo were to have a Govern ment consisting of, lot us say someone like St. Paul as Prime Minister, and a Cabinet of Saints and Apostles, In three months time we should be screaming out for Lloyd George, Mr. Stacy, Aumonter.

former years,