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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FERRIES & MOTOR IN NATURE'S REALM.

BOATS.

MUST HAVE LIFE-SAVING APPLIANCES.

NEW REGULATIONS.

It is notified in the Gazette that Table E in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,

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which has enchanted us in the work of modern poetry."

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And now we find ourselves saying with Thomas Campbell

(whose name reveals his nationa- Hy) that it is singular that n subject of such beautiful unity, divisibility, and progressive in- Lerest na the description of the

BETTER BRITISH`

TRADE,

ENCOURAGING INCREASE IN COAL EXPORTS.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1929.

MAJOR SEGRAVE"

KNIGHTED.

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of the most notable features of the performance for which he has been knighted.

The Golden Arrow behaved won QUARTER'S FIGURES.derfully throughout the hair-rais ing exploit, the only thing going wrong being the breaking of the tap of the cooling system, resulting in his being sprayed with water.

Major Segrave gained his rank

London, Apr. 12. The Board of Trade returns show that exports for March were of the value at £68,023,000, this

The Very Idea!

It was one of those fashionable functions when everyous tries to outdo everyone else. Ho had never been outside England, and neither had she, but they were) both, recounting their experiences abroad..

wonderful

"And Asia! Ahf Asia! Never shall

I forget Turkey, India, Japan-all of them. And most of all China, the celes

1899 has been further amended as year, should not have been appro being £6,334,000 less than for in the R.A.F, which he joined in tial kingdom!"

follows!

this Table.

March of last year.

priated by any poet before Thom- (1) by the reclusion of para-son." Further, if it was singular graph (v) in regulation 3, as set then, it seems to me even more so forth in Government. Notification now that na poet since Thomson No. 77 published in the Gazette of hins given major attention to this the 15th February, 1924, and by theme, Lowell has miscel- the substitution therefor of the Flaneous grouping of poem following paragraph:-(e) that entitled "Poets of Many the vessel is equipped with life-, Sensons," but so far as I know saving appliances in accordance ne poet has addressed himself in with the regulations contained in the grand processional of the

seasons as they come and go. It the year were of a value of £181,- Exports for the first quarter of (2) by the insertion of the is a deld which could woll be re- following regulation:—

worked. As I have already hint-167,000, showing a decrease of only 40. Every launch or molored, my experience would lend me £769,065 compared with the first. boat, when plying or being used to think that this might well be three months of last year. as a ferry, shall be equipped with the task of some port of Indla Perhaps you have life-saving appliances consisting { or America. of standard life buoys, standard rond the poem on This Day Wil life belts and standard life-savlag Pass" by Tagore in which those rafts sufficient for, not less thau fifty per cent, of the number of persoas the vessel is licensed to carry. The proportion of each of such classes of life-saving ap pliances shall be determined by the Harbour Master in each case,? Every, launch or meter boat, when not so plying or being so used, or which does not so ply or which la not so used shall be equipped with life-saving appliances follows:

1917. He saw much active service Imports were of the value of in one of the famous scout machines. 438,593,000, or £11,923,000 less in nu encounter with enemy airmen at the latter part of the war, how than the same month in 1928.

It may be pointed out, however, ever, he was shot down when flying that Bastor fell in March this at a height of 8,000 feet and was year, whereas last year it fell in April and this hollday would ac-: count for a substantial lessening of trade.

(1) Vesnols in Class I shall be equipped with at least 2 standar life buoys, and with standard life belts for not less than fifty per cent of the number of persons.the

vesket is licensed to carry.

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fiyes oveur: -

"Let me pause a moment

That may fill my basket With the Bowers and fruits

of the

Six Season." Thomson lived in a country which counts itself as having four seasons.

I know not, what it means for India to have "six sea- sons," except at second-hand but my first-hand experience of the American 'year gives me, I think, something by analogy. American. for people still follow the old inherited custom of speaking of But what about the four seasons, this portion of the year which la

called "Indian "aummer?"

If

Imports for the first quarter amounted to £305,975,000, showing a decrease of £3,787,000 compared with the first quarter of 1928.

The most encouraging feature presented by the returns for Mareh is the increase in the value and quantity or coal exported. In value this exceeded £600,000. -British Wireless,

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RUSSIAN FATALLY

WOUNDED.

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badly injured. When he got out of hospital, he became secretary to the Air Minister.

His collar wilted at his own cloquence

"China! How I loved it!" Sho held her ground.:

"And the pagodas, did you see thom?"

"Did I see them?"

She powdered her nean. "My dear. I had dinner with them,"

Magistrate's clerk at Kingston- Are you married or single? Woman-Single. I am a widow. Nottingham woman-I jumped

a ghair, sealed a wall, fell down thirty steps-and came to a full stop.

Woman at Glasgow-It all hap- pened just outside my window. My word! The language Wats highly discouraging.

Solicitor at Glasgow--Was this Doctor a really serious injury? witness-Oh, no; a common or garden typical Glasgow black eye,

Barrister, in a motoring case at | Shoreditch--My client has to come from Essex in the ear, and fa not here yet. Judga Clùer- Probably he is in a ditch.

No more. fair Phyllis, will }

(urse

When for an hour you've kept

me waiting."

For now see it might be worse, 1 understand your hesitating. An hour-once lodged within

your pale,

Can stretch by fifty times, ch;

girlle!

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Je commenced his career as a racing mtarist round about 1922, the spot at once.. On arrival the coming into prominence by winning

"An hour, once it lodges in the sergeant in charge deployed his the 200 miles race of the Junior men and threw a cordon round the

Car Club. He won count- queer clement of the human spirit, afterwards and then may be stretched to fifty or a area bounded by Avenue du Roi les races

motor-world thinking hundred times its clock length."-- It is Albert, Avenue Joffre, Rue Bour-set the (1) Vessels in Class II shall be good to live in a country which gent, and Route Boumer,

After achieving speed of 166 Mrs. Virginia Woolf.] equipped with at least 4 standard has two summers. Now that this manoeuvre, other police were miles an hour on the Welsh sands. At Daytona Beach in 1927, life buoys, and with standard life live in Kanais, I am almost tempt sent to search the fields to the however, he made a record of bolts for not less than afty pered to say that I have come twest and north of the shooting, 203.79 miles an hour being the

but found no one. cent, of the number of persons where we have two springa! the vessel is licensed to carry, also you have seen winter whert green-

From official reports it la glean-first man to exceed 200 miles an with standard life raft or buoyant the prairie as we come up to ed that the gunmen in the first in- our upon land. His record was deck Rents sufficient to accons Christmuis you will understand. stance used Mausers and subsequently captured by Captain Malcolm Campbell and then by date not less than fifteen per cent. Here we have winter in the air pistol, while in the second Mau- Mr. Ray Keech, but his lateat of the said number.

but the sign of spring on the field.

sers were fired. The watchmen expoit has set a most formidable while we see carried 32 pistols and one had a () Vessels in Class 11 shall We feel winter

figure. We have summer in Mauser. be equipped with at least one host, spring.

Yes, I think it would

The tenant in the house is in auch a position that it can be autumn. readily t Into 'tite water, and not be hard for me to accustom wealthy retired dye-stuffs mer- with at least 8 standard life huays, myself to the thought of six sea-chant. Several years ago he re-KWANGSI ARMY WON'T and with standard life belts for sons.

threatening letters, but not less than fifty per cent. of the seasons In America has a richness since he employed Russian body- number of persons the vessel is more than 1 found when 1 lived guards none were sent him.

That the attack had been pre- Hcensed to carry, also with stan-ear Scotland. But the pacts of dard life rafts or buoyant deck that country, with their four sen-meditated for some time is evidenc ecuts to accommodate not lesa, knew the beauty of themed by the fact that on April 1, than twenty per cent, of the said Thomson was stirred to expres-about 1 a.m., one of the Russian

sion. He wrote well. But I wait| watchmen was fired at by unknown. the work of the poet who will persons at the gate of the garden, These regulations shall Into operation on the first day of come bearing the rich worth of aint the French pollee, on inves- year whose seasons seem to be nis Ligation, could find no clues as to rather than four.-F. S. In the the affair. Christian Sciener Monitor. ;

number.

October, 1929.

come

DR. HARSTON LEAVES

FOR HOME.

POPULAR MEDICO GOES ON RETIREMENT.

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By the departure for Hume to- day, on retruncat from the Colony, of Dr. G. Montague Harston, the Colony loses one of its best-known residents and most talented pro

fesarunai men.

The processional of the cefved

LATE CARDINAL GASQUET.

NEED FOR CARE.

MAGISTRATE'S REMINDER

TO INSPECTOR.

Londan, Apr. 12.

a

FIGHT.

MAY TURN OVER TO NATIONALISTS.

It is reported from Shist that General Hu Tsung-tu's army re- fuses to fight and that it is likely to turn over to the Nationalist or Nanking party.

The NEW Commissioner of Foreign Affairs at Hankow is Li Fang, who was lately at Changsha in the same position.-Naval Wire Teas,

Shanghai, Apr. 12.

It is learned that Feng Yu- A solemn Requiem Muse was cele-hsiang wished to make nomina- brated this morning at Westmin- tions for some of the Hupeh pro- ster Catholic Cathedral for the late vincial posts, the most Important Cardinal Gasquet-British Wire-being that of Liu Chih, his former secretary, whom he proposes as chairman of the provincial gov ernment.

"You see how very careful you teas. have to be in making a charge of unlawful possession," said Mi. 12 W. Hamilton at the Police Court this morning to the inspector in charge of u case in which a Chinese was arrested in possession of a brass counter rail and other

FINE WEATHER.

The Christian General also wishes to nominate candidates for the ministries of Finance and Education-Reuter. The weather for the week-end!

According to a report from articles of which he was attempt-promises to be good, for the Obser- Nanking the Government naval vatory forecast till noon to-morrow is:--North-east winds, moderate;; forces reached Shasi yesterday.—

Dr. Hurston, on leaving by the P. and O. liner Naldera, accom panied by Mrs. llarston, has association with the severed an Colony which has extended over a ing to dispose. period of 31 years.

ile has been

Yesterday the case was remand fine. extremely pobular amongst all in order that the police mighti sections of the community and his make investigations, and it now professional work has won him transpires that the defendant was widespread and most deserved ap- formerly employed by the manager preciation and admiration. As an of a small Chinese import and oye specialist he has been re- cognised as the leading doctor in export firm who, by means of a the, Colony, and, as was stated at trick, had defrauded several shop the prescalation ceremony at the keepers in Hongkong and abscond- Tung Wan Hospital on Wednesday ed early this week.

last, his lectures and demonstra

In lieu of wages for his servant

Mr.

Hamilton dismissed the

tions have been of great value to he gave him the brass rail and students of the old College of the other articles, Medicine and of the Hongkong University. How great a work be has done amongst the Chinese was case and as the Chinese' was well attested on the occasion re-leaving, the Court called after ferred to when it was stated that him:Take your stuff away." within a period of 20 years he has adding sotto voce "I expect you gratuitously treated no fewer than will get pinched again as soon as 60,000 patients. In other spheres you leave the Court!" also Dr. Haraton has done a fre mendous amount of gond in the Colony, especially in the treatment

of children's diseases, on which he

has been recognised us KÁ AU thority. As a general practitioner,

he has been no less successful

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to any nothing of the valuable work Paris....

he has latterly done with ultra- New York violet ray treatment.

Brussels

Socially also. Dr. Haraton has won numernus friends in the Colony, who will always remember hie bright and cheery disposition and

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his sterline character. We are ex- Copenhagen

pres in the sentiments of the

whole Colony in wishing both Dr. Prague and Mrs Harglon many years of Helsingfors. "health and happiness, on setting, Madrid

daya in England."

HOME FOOTBALL.

In the Scottish League, Hamilton, Hongkang

"play ne at home, drew with Dundoc, Yokohama

the Feure being three goals each Silver (spot and forward) ......25%

·Renter

London, Apr. 12.

Athens Bucharest 1.io Ruenos Aires. Bombay Shanghiat

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Reuter.

GACY

MORVICE FING

►PHAREG U. B. PAT, DUR,

"She says she had to take a job as an extra at first but

she doesn't think that will last very long.”

So when at nine, instead of

eight, You come, I'll say "By gosh!

You're early!"

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To-day's Ghost Story-"Nearly 30 years ago I was obliged to pro- long my stay in a very old coun- try place, on account of a bad feverish cold. The host was com- pelled to go, and this left me for up alone! On struggling dinner one night I noticed, on de- scending, a man standing just in- Ride the dining-room. 1 imagined it to be the footman deputed to wait on me, and I walked leisurely downstairs. The man continued for a time to stand stock still; but as I approached he tied in a curious way behind a screen. I followed, and was greatly surprised to find no one in the room. A min- ute later the footman entered with the soup.

"I attributed everything to my slightly raised temperature; but, ten years later, I learnt that a fore- bear of my then host had, about a century previously, been drinking with his boon companions, when the butler, being sent to fetch fram the cellar some very ald' wine, ahot himself sonner than confess that he had stolen it."

Two jolly young men who had been having a night out and who aad lost the last train home, turned up at an hotel In the early hours of the morning.

"I say," protested the excited manager, pointing dramatically to the less coherent of the twain, you can't bring that man in here... he's Intoxicated, and this is a tem- perance hotel,”

the

"S'all r' ole man," sald other soothingly, "he's too far gone to notice that."

Russlan

Kulik, a Professor scientist, set out last year, at the head of a small expedition, to find out if there was any truth in the reports which were made twenty years ago about the fall of a huge meteorite somewhere in Siberia. Nothing remained of the rumour as the years passed, except á story amon the tribes inhabiling Siberia of the visit of the "God of Thun- Ter." Now, after months of hard- ship, Professor Kulik has returned to Moscow after discovering the devastated area. He found a "dead forest"-hundreds of miles of dead, charred trees, the earth- fantastically bruised, and giant trees in heaps like so much straw. The meteorite, according to the scientist's estimate, is the largest to have struck the earth in the memory of mankind. It wiped out all fo over an area of 11,000 aquare miles, and the impact, he sald, must have been felt for hun- "reds of miles around. Luckily, 't fell in a wilderness, for and it track London, Paris, New York; or any of the worl" thickly papu- latod cities all fe for Wundreds of miles round would have been obliterated..

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