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THE HONGKONG TELEGRARH WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1929.

NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY.

OVER

1,000,000

IN USE THROUGHJOT THE WORLD.

DAY BY DAY.

HE WHO LETS THE WORLD, OR 1119 owN PORTION OF IT, CHOOSE HIS PLAN OF LIFE FOR HIM HAS NO NEED FOR ANY OTHER FACULTY THAN THE APE-LIKE ONE OF IMITATION. HE WHO CHOOSES HIS PLAN FOR HIMSELF EM- PLOYS ALL HIS FACULTIES. S. Mill.

Salaries Commission is used by the Colonial Secretary only to venture the submission that there is need for some Improvement in salaries, especially in the lower grades of service. The fact that the recom- mendations also involve consider. able increases in the sterling sal- aries of the higher-paid officials, some of whom were exceedingly

Payr. Lleut. Commr, C. H. Rae well off even before Exchange Com-been appointed to H.M.S. pensation was introduced for their Kent. lasting benefit, is not given an honourable mention. We' went fairly thoroughly into the issues a week or two ago. It is unneces sary to recapitulate, except to say. that if where the claims of the lower grades are to be met, we are prepared to say "Ays" with a loud voice. With the numerous boun-

ties accorded to certain of the higher grades, we certainly do not || agree:

The Hon, Colonial Secretary falls unwittingly, we suppose into another blunder in suggest ing that only the Marine. Sur veyor's Office has been charged with being over-staffed. True, this is the only department or

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The Empress of Asia which left Hongkong on the 4th Septembar, arrived at Vancouver on the 21st September.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson were amongst the passengers who left for Australla by the ... Tango Maru-to-day.

CORRESPONDENCE.

"Only a dog; Maskee,"

[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.3

The Very Idea!

Andre Lenoir, a Belgian boy, is stated to be able, at the age of two years, to multiply any two five figure numbers accurately and with-- out hesitation. Whether this is an Sic-Would the young gentle-exaggeration or not one is unable to man, who, on the 24th Inst, at about Bay; but every now and then the 10.25 p.m., run into an Alsatian phenomenon of the "calculating cycle, in boy crops up and astonishes the dog, with his motor Cameren Rond, Kowloon, please world. The fests of these wonder tako the following comments to children appear to be done by a sort heart and likewise any others of of instinct, and sometimes the ap his ilk?

parently magical power is lost as soon as a real knowledge of mathe matica is gained.

Doge, like all other forms of life were put on this earth by the same

A well-known calculating boy was Creator. What His purpose was, is a point on which some humar George Parker Bidder, who was beings find it difficult to agree. One born in 1866, and was exhibited in thing certain, fa, that all forms of his childhood as an arithmetical life are entitled to some considera-marvel. He became an engineer, and tion, and dogs as much as any was associated with Robert Step- Put yourself in the place of the hensen in the London and Birming dog and Imagine your feelings, ham afterward the London and apart from the physical sufferings, North-Western Railway, and was founder of the Electric Telegraph had you been run down by a motor cycle and left on the roadside like Company and president of the L so much dirt, to await the chance stitution of Civil Engineers. assistance of some more human beAmong his best known works are ing or even to die miserably in the Victoria Docks.

agony. 'Yesterday's return of notifiablé diseases shows two British cases of typhoid (both from Kowloon) оле Chinese case of and

diphtheria,

Accidenta do happen and as in this case you may not have seen the dog, until too late, as you were apparently avalding a party of peo- ple in the roadway. Your action after striking the dog, (of accelera- ting and clearing off at an exces- sive speed) to say the least, was in- considerate,

.8.8 Kowloon, Sept. 25th, 1929.

Mr. and Mrs. Taal Yan-tsol, the newly appointed Chinese Minister

Should the above remarks find a to Brazil and his wife, left Hong- a misapprehension. But the In-kong on Sunday on the President receptive place in your thoughts ability to frame definite charges McKinley on the way to Brazil. kindly remember in future that a when every-day observation gives Mr. Teaf is the son-in-law of the dog, though only a dog, has feelings late Kuomintang founder, Dr. Sunjust as we humans have and is en- us strong reason

to doubt that a Yat-sen.

titiled to as much compassion as we of

should expect to receive from our high degree of efficiency or

... is discipline.

maintained In

Fung Fook-tin, managing direc-own kind under similar circum-

stances.-Yours, etc., Gov-tor of the Kwong Sang Hong, has" branches of the

reported to the police the theft of ernment Service, provides the

a motor-pump from his residence situated on Lot No. 182, at Repulse very reason for the demand, WEDNUESDAY SEPT. 25, 1929. which has become more insistent Bay. As previously reported two

other residents were since the Salaries Commission re, similarly victimised. ported, for a Commission to in- vestigate this side of the ad- ministrative costs. It would have been easy, of course, to have ex- tended the terms of reference of the Salaries Commission thus far, Sir Shouson Chow, one of the

V

“AND SO WE GO ON.”

recently

LOCAL WILLS.

Arrested in Connaught Road MRS. JEANNIE SMITH LEAVES Central yesterday afternoon possession of 70 taels of contra-

in

OVER £5,000.

to amounts

A good many people remember, Jacques Inaudi, who visited London In 1893, as a wizard who could do anything with figures. He at least did not lose his gift as he grew up.

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A doctor: I have known of cases where the stress of motor driving· at high speed has caused occasions) lapses of the memory.

A Magistrate: Ninety per cent. of motorists charged with being drunk while in charge of a car nover seem to be able to remember hav ing had more than two bitters,

in

The long white drive of a house a residential village within motoring distance of New York must be unique in the world, writes the Washington correspondent of the London Morning Post. It is composed entirely of false teeth.

Its owner is a dental supply deal- er, and when he took the house he decided to lay down a white gravel path. The estimates given him were so high that he gave up the plan.

Complete on 19 Double-Faced Records servations on the rising cost of Commissioners, believes in pay-fore Mr. B. W. Hamilton at the daughters are appointed execu- the inevitable small boy from next

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As an illustration of the set of

band opium, which were concealed -Mrs, Jeannie Smith, widow, late Suddenly it occurred to him that the Government mind on most

in a specially contrived pocket and of Eriestane Moffat, Dumfrieshire, he could got false teeth cheaper

Hongkong Jeft

estato worth than the gravel, through his busi- matters affecting the public purse,

waist-band, a Chinese was fined the Hon. Colonial Secretary's ob-

$8,000, or twelve months hard $17,600 while property elsewhere neas connexions. The secret went Jabour, on being 'charged be-

£4,049. Two for a long time undiscovered until administration might be regarded ing an employee his full worth, Central Police Court this morning. trixes of the will and everything door scooped a handful of molars is bequeathed to tham Re- and ran homo in great excitement to as admirable.. As an answer to according to rank, and has been

"There is always a claimant sealing of testament-testamenter spread the news. the strictures of Sir Shousonable to subscribe to the Report,

Willesden "woman-Every time Chow and the taxpayers generally, but his comments during the somewhere for chickens." remark has been granted to the Hon. Mr.

ed Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the W, E. L. Shenton, of Deacons. that he

Letters of administration to the my baby cries the man downstairs or as a defence of the steady up. debate would indicate

Kowloon Magistraey this morning ward tendency, admitted, it is saw enough of the working of when a Chinese who was charged estate of Ng Shi, alias Tong Ng-knocks on the calling as though he Government during the investiga with being in unlawful possession shi; late of No. 15, On Lan Street. I could help it. I wouldn't mind singularly unconvincing.

of seven fowls said that he had married, woman, who died inter- if it stopped the child's trying, whole subject is lightly dismissed tion to make him feel a trifle un-stolen them but added that he had tate on May 19, this year, leaving but it doesn't.

When a man asked Judge Cluer in a few sentences, after which, comfortable.. In effect, he plead-walted to see if they were claimed. Hongkong estate valued at $14,900

Shoreditch County Court. how Tong Che-fai.

to stop people annoy- one might imagine from the pre-ed for individual increases and a The defendant was fined $10 or 14 have been granted to her husband, at

Local estate worth $27,100 waning him over his debts the judge vailing tone, nothing remains to scheme of retrenchment, It was days' hard labour in default. be said. We are sorry to bring unnecessary for the Hon. Member

General Chan Ming-shu, in the left by Chiu Pak (or Pat) Yik, replied. "Don't be annoyed.. Do as disillusionment. The general pu to rebut a possible charge of in- company of a party of Cantónia Chiu Kwok-chun, late of No. I do. They try to nanoy me, but

42, Nam Cheong Street, Shamshii- I take ro'notice of it." blic is not to be satisfied with a consistency. On the contrary, the politicians, arrived here yester- po, who died on June 17, 1929.

Irish woman at Willesden-I've 8. Probate has been-granted to his put a shirt on my husband's back couple of platitudes and a few one should not be put into effect day, morning on board the

Sphinx from Shanghai. He mother, Calu Siu-shi, eldest son, and a pair of boots as well. boarded the Chinese gunboat Chiu Chun-shit and concubine, half-truths.

It is not sufficient, without the other.

Dalston debtor-My wife says: Chung-shan yesterday morning Chiu. Ng-sii, all living at No. 237, that she will pay this debt, but of for instance, to compare Hongkong

for Canton. He declined Le Laichikok Road,

course she may change her mind. with neighbouring administrations,

Registrar at Shoreditch, to a One point which was not satisfac-discuss politics, but admitted. that and to suggest that the Colony is torily dealt with at Monday's meet the dismissal of General Chang

boyWhat did your employer en well served because the percentageing of the Legislative Council was Fat-kwei was owing to insub-

ordination and disobedience

gage you as? The boyas a boy, Wife at Coventry replying to her husband's solicitor-You men orders of the Central Government,

are all alike. You are a disgrace to your sex.

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BOAT WOMEN CHARGED AT

MARINE COURT...

The weekly return. of the Mr. A. E. Hall appeared at the Medcal Officer of Health, made up Marine Court this morning, before to Saturday last, contained three the Hon. Commndr. G. F. Hola, R.N., cases of enteric fever and one of were Chinese. on behalf of three mistresses of small-poz. All

deaths from It is with pleasure that we are able to announce that, after an cargo boats who were charged There were two absence of some time, we are to with depositing logs in Yaumati enteric and one from small-pox. case of small-pox and one of receive a visit from one of Mr. Shelter without the permission of Yesterday's return contained one Edgar Warwick's companies. The the Harbour Master.

After informing his Worship enteric, both being Chinese. name of Warwick in connexion that he represented all the three with theatrical fare is always a defendants, Mr. Hall asked for an ORTIGACIONA

It is guarantee that it is first class in adjournment in order to allow him therefore, that we may look for to obtain the facts of the only WHO WAS~? ward to something exceptionally been asked to take up the case this good when the Warwick Revue morning, and he knew very little Company visits Hongkong on about it. Saturday, October 5th for a short

season.

Sergeant Hudson, who prosecut- ed, said he arrested the three de fendants at about 3.30 p.m. yester

The case was adjourned till to- day. They were all cut on bail.

is lower than in the places cited. which ratepayers should be called upon to meet the Colony's expendi We are merely being Irformed that turc on its waterworks undertak Ceylon and the Straits Settlements ings. It will be recalled that the are afflicted by a similar disease Unofficials, at the provious meeting, took up our own attitude that it In a slightly more aggravated form, was not right that present-day AN OUTSTANDING. THEATRI- Moreover, as we have tried to im- residents should be saddled with press upon Officialdom before, such long past expenditure which has been paid for out of revenue, and items as conveyance allowances, that the principle that Govern- language study allowances, rent ment expenditure Should produce allowances and High Cost of revenue giving a reasonable rate Living Allowances, are an import- of interest on capital expended was one that could not be assented ant factor in estimating the lot of to. In his reply, His Excellency the Civil Servant locally, which at the Governor made once shows the fallaty of bringing these points, but he did not make any serious attempt to meet the conditions in Shanghai into the Unofficial argument. He content discussion. The Hon. Mr. South-ed himself with forecasting an in- ern covers himself by making his crease in the price paid for water, comparisons on auch "information and contended that it would be no bardship for consumers to pay for. as is available here," and we their supplies at a price commen,

The Warwick Revue Company would suggest that a much deeper surate with its coat to the Govern analysis is essential to accuracy. ment. It is evident from these left London as recently as January observations, that His Excellency laat It is therefore sure to be Perhaps it is dearth of informa- still clings to the idea that our up-to-the-minute in every respect.morrow morning.

accounts for the waterworks undertakings should Since then it has been breaking re- studied failure to give the percen depends, of course, on the precise tions as elegant in the extreme, be largely self-supporting. Much cards in India and the Straits. The Press describe the produc tages of Personal Emoluments to Interpretation of the words "at Revenue, or the figures.

a price commensurate with its full of clean, clever comedy of a Automatically this brings us to cost to the Government." It is very high order, with some of the

true that if account is taken of neat dancing that has been seen Paris the recommendations of the Salarpaat capital outlay; the balance in the East for many years. The Brussels ies Commission. The Hon. Mr. will be found to be distinctly singing, too,, would appear to be Amsterdam

much above the average, so he Berlin Southern, no doubt for a very good against the Government, but we would indeed be a dull fellow who Copenhagen reason, omits to refer to this rather submit that if the present-day re could not find something to amuse sident is merely charged with the him between October 5th and delicate question until after he sums towards which it is reason-

Bucharest has challenged the justness of the able that he should contribute, the,

Вислов Alres The repertoire is a big one. ; charge that the Colony' Personal financial complexion takes on a

totally different aspect. Under During the season we are to see Shanghai

Yokohama Emoluments absorb an excessively such a method of calculation, it "The Peep Show" "High Lights" New York high proportion of the revenue. looks to us as if the Government, "Alry Nothings" "The Merry-Go Geneva

"Come Inside" "The Milan Toss Round" Needless to say, Mr. Southern does so far from incurring a

comes out very well on the right Whirligig" and "N'Everything". Stockhom not then continue with his genera, aide. It is at any rate gratifying Full detalls will be announced Pr lisations. He does not venture a to learn that no decision is to be in our advertisement columns Madrid further comparison with other ad- taken in this important matter un- during the course of the next Athens ministrations, based on the per-til the whole question has been de week, and in the meantime theatre-

bated in Council. We hope that goers will be well advised to make Bombay centage which would be created by the fallacy of the Government a note of the dates and ensure Hong Kong the acceptance of the Report. viewpoint will then be strongly good seats when the box plans Silver (spot & forward) Not at all. The Report of the pressed homo.

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Many a tamo did Festé suffer from the sneers of Malvolio, the haughty steward, and on that account he had no compunction in conspiring with Sir Toby Belch and Marie to bring the fellow, low. "The whirligig of

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