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WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929.

DAY BY DAY.

THEKE ARE A GREAT MANY PEOPLE

CORRESPONDENCE.

A Kowloon Complaint.

The Very Idea!

hereditary privilege hgainst which The never ceased to protest, for he felt that his inability to - win a scat in the Commons, the real law WITH MOTOR CARS NOWADAYS WHO making body of Great Britain, in- CANNOT AFFORD TO KEEP A DONKEY,

Speaking at the International terfered with a career of statos-Judge Emden.

Council of Women, attended, by 200 delegates from forty countries, manship. On 1871, when he was The P. and O. 8.s. Mores, from

the Prime Miniator called atten- twenty-four, he was selected to Shanghai, is due here at 6 am. on effective ateps were taken to curb cinematograph films, which were a Sir, Is it not high time that tion to the existonco. of many the exuberance of R. A. officers oc-gross travesty of Western civili- cupying the Mess in Granville Road, antion, the display of which

second the address in reply to the Speech from the Throne. Lord Rosebery was, thirty before the chose a wife, the only daughter of Baron Meyer de Rothschild, and heiress to an immense

estate. She was a charming woman and a famous hostças, and played no small part in her husband's career and in the anuals of the Liberal Purty. She died in 1890, after a long career of kindness and charity. Lord Rosebery was de- Isolated at her loss, for he loved her sincerely. His health gave way and for years he withdrew {into grief-stricken seclusion. One of her children, the brilliant Noil

Friday.

Reports to hand from reliable sources indicate that the situation at Wuchow is quiet.

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The Empress of Russia, which left Hongkong on the 1st May, ar- rived at Vancouver on the 18th May. Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung left for Shanghai yesterday by the M. M. liner Angers. Mr. J. M. Noronha was a passenger on the same bont.

The traffic beacon at the june- tion of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road has been reconstruct ed., It will be remembered that the original beacon was knocked down by a motor car recently.

Owing to unavoidable circuma- tances, the opening of the Great Chinese Circus has been postponed for two or three days. Patrong are requested to watch for the opening date which will be an-

The forthcoming wedding is announced of Dr. D. J. Valentine, Kowloon Hospital, to Miss E, N. Nicholson, No. 45, St. George's is en route to Ilongkong on board Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire, who

the a.s. Empress of Scotland.

...

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph 1

Kowloon?

For a long time past,, numerous throughout the world constituted complaints have been made on this one of the greatest dangers to matter. The police have been in which Western civilisation to-day tervletyed, and I understand that was subject. the Mess President has promised At the last Imperial Conference that the nuisance should stop. Iho suggested that the matter was also understand that the Kowloon one requiring serious considera. Residents, Association were to have tion, and he hoped it would be addressed a letter to the General further considered at the next Officer Commanding on the sub- Imperial Conference. ject. Whether they have done so, I do not know.

The whole influence of Western"

But I do know that last night, races in tropical dependencies of which was apparently Guest Night, the Empire depend on the respect the racket was as bad as ever. Tin which those races were held. continued until two o'clock this If it were gradually instilled into morning.

the minds of those who wero more

I now appeal to the powers-that-backward in many ways than our be, through apparently the only selves that Western civilisation nicdium left to us, namely, the was a vencer and a sham, not only Press, to ask the gentlemen to ex-did we lose all powers of in- reise a little more forethought and luencing and raising in tho common sense, so as to allow lard- human scule those races, but wo working people to be able to rent might imperil the very stability of peace and quietude on these, not the conditions in lands, where nights.Yoursā, etc.,

Eurpeans lived in small isolated INDIGNANT,

communities. Kowloon, May 22nd, 1929, "

FATAL MOTORING ACCIDENT.

CHILD RUNS INTO EUROPEAN'S MOTOR CAR.

A fatal motoring accident occur

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Apropos of an "Interview"" which, appeared last year (Anto Vol. 47, P. 237) on motor drunken- ncas, our renders should note that Ja new defnition of drunkaness was given by a police surgeon last month, who declared that the man in charge of the car was "not

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[A writer describes the figure of the typical John Bull as being un- pleasantly and unhealthily fat.}

Dear John, let critics have their

any

Primrose, his father's favourite, and a man with a great future be- fore him, died fighting in Palestine during the great war. Lord Rose-ounced lator." bery climbed through various official appointments to the post- tion of Prime Minister, but after seventeen months in office he re- tired from the position and from politics. His greatest gifts to posterity are his great historical

As foreshadowed some time ago, works, his biographical studies of the "island" outside the Kowloon red on the Castle Peak Road on socially intoxicated, but mechani Civil Hospital, on May 21st, aten whose careers fascinated him Ferry Wharf which was recently Monday morning, when a Chinese cally drunk." One would have Jevelled is being used as a parking child dashed across the road in thought that only a Robot could 11 am. Patrick Lannigan, during several decades of study. stand for motor nises. The new front of a car driven by Mr. W. J. get "mechanically drunk."-Law aged 38, dearly beloved hus- But curiously, after having play-scheme was brought into operation Waddington, of the P. and 0.Reports. band of Lily Lannigan (nee ad so brilliant a role in politics, for the first time this, morning. Banking Corporation, and was Stonham).

Jonocked down, receiving injuries society and literature, Lord Rose- It is notified that the forthcom- [from which it later succumbed. berg leaves an impression of having Local Examination in connex- There were four passengers in ing been thwarted of life's best on with the Trinity College of the car at the time, and some Music, London, will be conducted distance beyond Tein Wan village things. Perhaps he lacked incen- by Mr. A. Mallinson, F.T.C., on a big motor velilcle passed tho tive .lo battle with life, the following dates: Theory, cur. Shortly afterwards, a small Hongkong University at 9.30 a.m. boy suddenly dashed across the 2 and became

on Saturday morning, May 25th: rond from the right in pursuit of mental man. There was, may practical, at the City Hall on Jan orange with which he be, `too' mach sunshine in his Friday, May 24th, Saturday after-playing and ran straight into the life, without the deep shadows of May 28th, Mr. Mallinson arrives jammed on the brakes, it was noon, May 25th, and on Tuesday, car. Although Mr. Waddington contrast. His greatest role in the Hongkong on the 23rd. inst.

impossible to avoid running into past few years was that of a

the boy, for to swerve would have Organised by the Osaka Mainichi, meant that the ear would have sort of "unofficial national orator," a tour through Europe is now gone over the embankment.

The child was immediately pick- fermenting in the national mind, prominent Japanese, who left ed up and taken to the side of the Osaka on April 27th and are due road, and it was some five minutes in flashing sentences. His last back in Japan at the end of July; before any other Chinese appeared public work was in the Great War, The tour will cover all principal o the scene. After fist-aid when he threw himself heartily points of interest in Europe, and treatment had been rendered, the

every possible facility for the com- child was taken to the into recruiting and 'Into rousing a fort and

nearest national patriotism., tourists in being offered by Messra. Waddington rushed the victim to Police Station, and later Mr. passionate He had an abiding faith In the Thos. Cook and Son, Ltd., who have the Kowloon Hospital. Unfor- tunately, however, the Injuries Empire and its destiny, and saw the arrangements.

were so serious that the boy later in the Great War a means of mak-

Buccumbed. ing the union firmer than ever. "Blood shed in common," he said, "is the cement of nations." Ile

Mrs. Patrick Lannigan and In- spector Dick Lannigan wish to thank their numerous friends for kindness shown to them during their recent sad breavement, and for the many floral tributes sent,

The

too-tempern-

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Hongkong Telegraph, expressing the thoughts that were being undertaken by a number of

WEDNESDAY MAY 22, 1920

LORD ROSEBERY,

A great Sentsman has passed away by the death of the Earl of Rosebery But if Scotsmen were proud to call him a fellow-coun- ryman, they recognised that he belonged to the nation and to the

Empire; indeed, to the world. Among his own tenants he was the Laird of Dalmeny, but to all who profess any knowledge of national and international affairs, he will he remembered as the statesman,

hoped and prayed for the spread

of a "world-wife British influench which shall be a guarantee of liberty and peace."

Election Nominations. It seems probable that the

the orator, the man of letters, and abnormal heaviness of the nomina-

H

and

time

or

any

as the

on

to

convenience of the

been entrusted with the whole of

BODY REMOVALS,

- OFTEN TAKEN TO CHINESE

DISPENSARIES..

Was

BRIDGE MADE EASY Joy WW.Wentworth

Övercalling Partner's Bld-1.

About your plump, weil-nour-

ished figure.

It seems to me, sneer how they

my,

Full of vitality and vigour; Not, as they think, mere useless

fut,

But British brawn and good at

that.

Should we adopt some slender

youth

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As emblem of our hearly na-

tion,

The young Adonis type, forsooth, To win your crities approba-

tion?

Perchance a léck lounge-lizard

might

Appeal to them as being right. No youthful nation now are we And you, a-hale and stout old

party,

Appear the very man to me

To represent us.

Round and hearty

And, in a big affairs of State, Rendy and fit to pull your weight,

But some would take Britannia's,

helm.

And with some modern hend gear cap ker,

Turning the guardian of our

realm

Into a gadding, giddy lapper. We need not heed their follies,

John.

You can just laugh and carry on.

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According to Mr. F. H. Loseby. it is the practice for Chinese- living in oullying districts to con- vey bodies to the nearest dispen- sary and there dispono of them, paying to the dispensary the fee demanded by that institution.

This was revealed this morning one of the most versatile tons for the general election will at the Polico Court when the

Department

A workman and his friend had · gifted men

strongly of our in itself be an important factor Sanitary

If your partner makes a bid, and just left a meeting of one of the case against in the disposition of the parties pressed their

eccond hand passes, any bid made New Spelling nocieties. They pass- his other. If

ten days honce. Eliminating for Chinese woman who removed a by you thereafter should have only ed a building with MDCCCXCVII Premiership awas of relatively purposes of study the candidates body without permission from one object in view-to furnish curved an It. brief duration, he succeeded never who have been roturned

Shauktwan. Un-

such information as will aid in "What does that mean?" asked opposed, there are 1,723 con- The prosecution stated that a determining the best game-going the workman. theless in giving a new direction testants for 608 seats, or almost child had died in a sampan and declaration,

"Eighteen hundred and ninety- to Liberalism, for he can with three for one. The most striking that the woman had removed it By making another bid you are seven," vouchsafed his friend, truth be described

first feature, though it is not apparent without first obtaining the permis not endeavouring to prevent your "They're overdoin' this new spell- Liberal Imperialist, and, though quota of 513. The Labour Party The matter was a very serious one, Proper information should be wel

the surface, is the Liberalston of the Sanitary Dopartmant, partner from playing the hand. Ing business," said the workman. long rotired from active polities, has placed 570 candidates into the said the prosecution, and the comed and never resented for Counsel in the King's Bench he left his imprint on his Party field, but since it is accepted that Sanitary Department expressly games are often lost by the failure Division: Did you say that every

the Socialists will offer the asked that a serious view be taken of partners to exchangé it. What is of greater moment is that greatest challenge

The thing would be O.K.? Conser of the case.

expression, "the partnera are âght- by his rare and scholarly disquial- vatism, this was to be expected. Mr. Loseby, representing the ing" is erroneous. It is merely an

Witness: No. I do not know tions on Pitt and Chatham, Crom-Much lena was it supposed, despite defendant, said, he understood honest effort to determine the best

what O.K. means. Mr. Lloyd well and Napoleon," he did much formula, that the Liberals would living in outlying districts to re-

George's " cure-all was the general practice for those game-going declaration.

Mr. Justice MacKinnon: Nor No matter what declaration your do I. not only for political biography, enter so strongly into the fight at move bodies to the nearest dispen-partner has made there may be but also for political philosophy, all points, though it would seem sary. At that place money was lurking in your hand a bettering Clerk at Wealdstone: Have you As a writer said of him when he from recent Tory opinion that the demanded, and, if paid, the dispen-bid. Your hand may contain a paid for your house?

Government fa pleased rather than sary took over the bodies,

danger signal of which your celebrated his 80th birthday, his otherwise.

Man: No; it is mortgaged, The Conservative

The After considering the case Mr. partner should be apprised. scholarly instincts, his practical party managers view the situation L. Smith the Magistrate order moment the Arat declaration is Clerk: Have you paid your experience of statesmanship, and freshly-discovered confidence on

with complacency, basing their ed a remand unti! to-morrow. made, you should endeavour to rates or gan bills?

visualize your partner's cards. Man: No, but I have the sum- his classic style combined to pre-the belief that the increase in

With a knowledge of the minimum dace works which will live as per the Liberal vote which will ing regarding the election is not requirements for an opening bid monses in my pocket. haps his most permanent memorial. at the expense of the Socialists. achievement of Tory expectations, curds, the least you can do is to. naturally follow, will be largely running high, and for complate and an examination of your own Lord Rosebery was only twenty It is fondly hoped that the Torics this would require rousing. Those make an effort to "read" your the first talking machine, na? years of age when be succeeded to may once again benefit appreciably electors who are most excited be accomplished at the bridge the first talking machine, but partner's holding. This cannot Pa-"No, my son, 'God made the title, a handsome, captivating, minority election in the case of anxious to go the poll are un- You may be forgiven for making could be shut off."

from the electoral system of about the election and the most Lable without concentration. *** Edison made the first one that wealthy and ambitious young man. three-cornered contests; in fact doubtedly the antagonists of the errors in playing but it is un- His ingrained Scottish caution im- that the progressive parties, will Government. Unless the apathe-pardonable to fail to make a real be the death of one another in tic elector is made to cross the effort to draw some inference from pressed him with the immense re many of the doubtful seats, Home street to the polling booth, the your partner's bid even if that in- find no dificulty in determining sponsibilities of his position, and papers to hand reveal that it is Government's work in the past ference be wrong.

the beat game-going declaration. the applied himself for several upon this reasoning that Mr Ave years is not likely to earn

Baldwin elected to prophecy them more than a strict Party greatest thrills and pleasures of ventions and guides you too.com Reading cards is one of the By following certain accepted con- years to an Intense course of Conservative, majority of 46 when vote in which event, with the bridge playing. This ability to reducs guesswork to a minimum. study, interspersed with travel, to speaking at Drury Lane. We are women's vote an uncertain quan- read carda in possessed toen high

It is not mandatory that you study conditions and people, not numbered among the strong tity, anything might happen. No degree by these players who have make a declaration every time Shortly after he reached this moment, but it does seem to us that but Mr. Baldwin should be fight be developed by any person who essa valtelesu hand or you have critics of the Conservative Govern majority is the most likely verdict, so-called "card sense," but it can your partner has bid. If you pos jority the young poer took his Mr. Baldwin is building his ing as if he feared even worse than is willing to master the conven- thereafter may be damaging and o partial score, a bid made by you seat in the House of Lords, int, not in the nir, on very this, and not as if he were already tions and probabilities of the game

unstable ground. National feel back in the Ministry,

and to draw inferencca. Experts

retrogressivo.

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