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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAP. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929.

NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR

FRIGIDAIRE

THERE ANE DOMESTI MODELS OF FROM POUR TO LIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAG CAPACITY.

OVER.

1,000,000

IN USE THROUGHOUT THE W RLO.

DAY BY DAY.

good fellow himself, he hover finched from his argument nor failed to make a friend. All over the world he travelled, raising WITH A PACK ON YOUR BACK- TO CARRY CARE TO BED IS TO SLEEP

The P. and O. s... Khyber, from

at about 4 p.m. Singapore, is dus here on Saturday"

Chang Y-kan, aged 46, of 1. Belcher Street, has been admitted to the Government Civli Hospital, suffering from self-administered opium poisoning.

A warrant has been Issued for the arrest of Chung Kim-nong. compradore of the es. Ko Chow, for the alleged embezzlement af $1,000 the monies of the Tak On Bank, Wuchow.

CONVERSION LOAN RESULT.

| SATISFACTORY RESPONSE TO MR, SNOWDEN'S OFFER.

OBJECTS ACHIEVED.

London, Nov. 18. Mr. Phillo Snowden the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, questioned In the House of Commons regard, ing the result of the fvo për cent. conversion loan recently issued, re called that the objects of the loan were to provide for the maturity of thirty millions sterling of ex- chequer and Treasury Bonds fall- ing due in January and February next, to strengthen the position of We are informed that the next the Exchequer against the matu Congregation of the University rity of £130,000,000 worth of five of Hongkong, for the purpose of and half per cent. Treasury Bonds conferring degrees, will be held next May and to curtall the volume

on of the floating debt. at the University at 5. p.m. Monday, 13th January, 1980.

to

The Very Idea!

Frinton-on-sea

seems to be finicking as well as fashonable (anys the Daily Telegraph.) A young woman was lounging on the bench the other afternoon in a bathing costume of irreproachable modesty, but supported by: one shoulder strap.

A municipal official approached with an air of grave, remonstrance and the remark, Frinton has al- waya been a two-strap town

[Milk" and buns now provide the gastronomic accompaniment to big City deals, says a "Daily Mirror! writer.]

Now we've settled a matter

millions;

Now the gigantic transaction

is through Stocks' of the world, from Chin-

ese to Brazilians, All stand affected by what

we can do,NA SA Leading financiers henceforth

may fawn on us, "Dev Magnates will quote us with

pride to their sons: " Surely 'tis time for the subject

to down on us

Let's celebrate thinga with hot

milk and buns.

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DODWELL &Co., Ltd. about them and they liked to be Yaurut about 11.30. yesterday and February next, and left over, viously past its prime. The bid-

Sole Distributors

KONS CHINA.

written about.

:

money for Ireland's liberation, | Haliburton. and, at the same time, writing for: his own bread and butter. It seemed, for a time, as any position of leadership was open to his active and supple äbility. But (with journalists as with other pro- fessional men, it is not easy to serve two masters. T. P. had to choose between the career of a politician and the career of a publicist. Which Interest was to predominate? The publicist won It was his pen that became the compass by which he steered his course to a great success. No journalist can belong wholly to a party. Like Dante, he may desire to send his opponents to Hades, ||but, in the meantime, the villains

The cash subscriptions to the make excellent copy. From the

loan he said. amounted approxi-] Arst T. P. belonged to mankind

one hundred and fifty- At a meeting of the Council of mately to and considered that mankind the Institution of Heating and four millions sterling, while the belonged to him. The result was Ventilating Engineers in London five and half per cent. Treasury

A.W.W. Salter, Bonds tendered. amounted recently, Mr. that he found it impossible eitherM.R.S.I. of Messrs. Dodwell and £79,000,000, making a total of two- to haté "or to be hated by his Co., Ltd., was elected a member, hundred and thirty-three millions.

A horse sale was being held, and opponents. He liked to write

The cash subscriptions provided the auctioneer was trying to dia- Jumping off a ferry boat at for the loans maturing in January pose of an animal that was ob- morning, a Chinese girl, Chung as designed a satisfactory sum for ding crept painfullly up to £5, and About the quality of his writing Mui-chuck, aged 18, of 716 Nathan the reduction of floating debt. the auctioneer was about to close there was never any misunder-Road, has been taken to the S.C.A.

She was rescued by Mau Lee, the made a

The Bonds tendered in payment on this when he noticed a man large reduction in the elbowing his way through the standing. He was lucid. He was

coxswain of the steamer Yeun

amount of the May maturities, crowd in order to examine the rendable. His sentences were ac- Fat,

animal. which were thus reduced to con-. "Five!" shouted the auctioneer. curate. But he attempted no tricks

siderably less than half-British, "Going at five. Will you make ari Wireless$. of style. If he achieved so un-

offer, air?"

"Well," said the newcomer cau- bounded a popularity, it was be

|tiously, "I don't mind making it cause he understood precisely

five and sixpence." what the public likes. Not one man in a hundred follows a poli- tical argument. But every man in 15 hundred enjoys a political anecdote. Anecdotes, impressions these were his wares, and, for such commodities, there is no Not only Parliament and the better factory than the Parliamen world of letters but all mankind tary lobby. And T. P. knew is the poorer by the death of T. P. precisely the fine line that divides O'Connor. His parliamentary a legitimate disclosure from a record was unique: he was the breach of confidence. With "Father" of the present House of advancing years, he, like Balfour, Commons and of the two which acquired a new prestige. Relieved preceded it. Without a break, he from controversy, he was able to sat as an MP, since 1880, all but reap the full harvest of a kindly five years of which as member urbanity. He has gone to his rest, for the Scotland Division of but his name and his work will Liverpool, which has a large Irish live long. population. What is more, hel continued to represent the historic Irish Nationalist Party in the

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY NOV. 19, 19:9.

THE PASSING OF

"TAY PAY.”

In order to facilitate the .com munications between Canton and the North River districts, says the Canton News Agency, a new zero- drome has been planned at Yuen- tan and it is said that the build- ings will be completed within a few days.

A Chinese named Yeung Hong. aged 27, has been admitted to the Government Civil Hospital, after attempting suicide by jumping in to the harbour from the s.s. Mau Yung. He was rescued by Kong Ping Fung, cook on the s.s. Mau Yung, and Kam Cheung, a shop coolie...

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LATEST WATER STATISTICS.

PAST WEEK SHOWS FURTHER

SHRINKAGE." ·

The total storage in lu island reservoirs on the morning of Mon day, 18th November, amounted to 1,606.73 million gallons, shewing a decrease of 48.87 million gallons during the past week: the amount

collected from streams being .67 million gallons.

<

An Aberdeen man, accused "at Southend of begging, said that he stood and whistled at street' cor- ners. Magistrate-Why don't you go to Aberdeen and whistle? The man, shaking his head, Nae guid.

Judge Thompson, K.C., "at Bow.... County Court, London, advising a solicitor to take a small

order against a debtor-It is no use kiil- ing the goose that lays the sliver 888; they don't lay golden egge here.

Willesden wife-My husband' went off on the apur of the mo ment eighteen years ago, and now I want to be separated from him.

Man at the Thames · Court-Hä ̈ goes out with a young woman and auffers from delusions. Mr. Cairns,” Magistrate Lots of men who are courting do.

In order to encourage the ex-

The week's consumption amount- portation of silk, the Departmented to 49.54 million gallons

The total storage in the main- of Finance is, says the Canton News Agency, in receipt of in- land reservoirs on the morning of structions from the Provincial Monday, 18th November, amount. Government to the effect that com-ed to 514.78 million gallons, show mencing from the 1st of January, ing a decrease of 73 million gal-

Solicitor to a debtor at Bow 1930, likin and duties on silk ex-lons during the past week.

County Court, London-You offer- * ports are to be abolished.

The Week's consumption amounted to pay £4 a month, but have ed to 26.46 million gallons, not in-paid nothing. Debtor-You only The master of a boat, was fined cluding 1.60 million gallons sup asked for an offer. $2,000 or eight months" hard plied to Water Boats at Lai Chi labour, by the Kowloon Magistrate Kok.

The after-dinner speaker dron" British Parliament when no other The withdrawal of Admirul this morning for being in posses- The yield from the Shing" Muned on and on: one man · nodded Nationalist remained at West Hilary Jones, from the Americansion of 274 pounds. of dutiable River and streams during the week minster. It is, indeed, strange to delegation to the London naval tobacco. Mr. J. D. Lloyd, who was is 27.33 million gallons.

Disarmament con.erence is a main Court, intimated to his Worship think that of all those merry mentor of comparatively little import- that this was the biggest seizure from Ireland who woke up the ance, though it serves to illustrate of tobacco ever made on board a House of Commons in the early how easily possible obstacles to native craft.

year

The Naval Situation,

Shortly before

to

KOWLOON... · DOCK TRAGEDY.

"KID" MARRIOTT AGAIN. REMANDED.

and presently rested his head on the table. The chairman leaned over and tapped him on the head with his mallet.

The delinquent raised his head a little.

"Hit me harder,” he said. "I can still hear him."

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A wife made some wine and al- lowed three months for it to ma- ture. Then she placed a bottle on the dinner table,

in a wine bottle?" asked her hus- "Why do you keep the vinegar band, testily.

"I can't make out what sort of animal bit you," said the house surgeon to the woman, a wound on whose arm he was dressing.,

"Oh, It wasn't an animal," she replied. "It was another lady.

CAPTAIN

MACHEATH?

"How happy could I be

with either Were t'other dear charmer ·

away."

Buccess may crop up from unex- eighties over the Home Rule issue,pected quarters. Exception ap

the troopship only one of eminence now remains, pears to have been taken in Unit-Neuralia left last night with the with the passing of "Tay Pay.ed States naval circles to Presi- 1st Batta of the Norfolk Regiment rent Hoover's handling of the on board, bound for Sailkot, Inda, He is Timothy Healy, the veteran negotiations, or father to his sub- the wife of Lieut-Col. W.J.O'B. Nationalist leader, who only last ordination of "Big Navy" dis removed to the Victoria Hospital. the Kowloon Docks, was again be

Daunt, the commanding officer, was

Mr. Henry ("Kid”) Marriott, of office gave up

as first ciples, among whom, we believe. As a consequeunce, the Battalion fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith Governor-General of the Irish Free place. The surprise, therefore. Daunt. It is to be hoped that Mrs. this

Admiral Hilary Jones takes his left Hongkong without Colonel at the Kowloon "Magistracy State. All the others who figured consists in the entering of his Daunt will make a speedy recovery of

morning оп

charge In those turbulent days have protest at this late stage, when it

manslaughter, an indict ment against the defendant as a passed on, and now T. P. O'Connor is hoped and believed that the

The local branch of the General result of the death of an Indian Raval situation as between Great Accident Fire and Life Assurance watchman who was shot and fatally no longer remains,

Britain and the United States Corporation has been notified by its wounded on November 10. But it is as a man of letters firmly established, subject only to Head Office that the directors have Detective Inspector Fallon ap- 1 rather than as a politician that slight adjustments to accord with resolved to recommend the pay-peared for the Crown and intimated "Tay Pay" will best be remember-aval Powers. As pointed out by subject to Income Tax:An In Crown Solicitor to apply for a fur- the necessities of the other great ment of the following dividends, that he had Instructions from the ed. He could, in fact, be fairly General Dawes on his return fram terim dividend of 2% on the ther week's formal remand to en- WHO WAS.. described as the doyen of journ-Washington on Saturday, conflict Preference Shares, and of 5/6 parable the prosecution to prepare their alism in the English language. ng opinions remain only on a share, compared with 5/- last year, case.

minor matter, involving 30,000 on the Ordinary Shares, both pay It was intimated that a comumni- Gripped as he was by the drama tuns out of an aggregate of 2,400-able on 1st November, 1929,

cation had been received from Mr. of life and failing of a nomina-000, and on this point, the differ

H. J. Armstrong that he had been tion to the civil service, he made ence is limited to whether the Lee Foon

Pretained for the defence. Was sentenced United States should build three twelve months' hard labour by Mr.manded for one week on bail of The defendant was formally re- his way to, Dublin as a reporter. 10,000-ton cruisers armed with E. W. Hamilton at the Central $500, which as disclosed at the ori The year was 1867. Russell was eight-inch guns, or four 7,500-ton Magistracy, this morning for the ginal hearing, was deposited by still putting through parliamen-ships armed with six-inch guns attempted larceny of a leather Mr. E. Cock in the form of a per- tary reform and neither Disraeli The Hoover yardstick gives Great hand-box from Mra, G. M. Xavier.sonal security as Assistant Mana-

Britain about 330.000-tons in cru-The incident occurred on Sundayger of the Kowloon Dock nor Gladstone had been Prime sers and Amerien about 289,000 while Mrs. Xavier was walking in Minister. Like that earlier Irish-tong, the fleets being regarded as Wongnelchong Road. Resisting man, Goldsmith, young : P. was equal owing to the heavier arma the attempt, Mrs. Xavier beat off ments carried by the American the would-be thief with an um- drawn to London and like Gold-vessels. Such an understanding brella, until a resident came to her smith, we find him in an attic in is half the battle, but only half. assistance. Islington, scribbling hard. With The thing which will be aimed at him, as with many lawyers, the solution of Franco-Italian prob- ages. The conference is called in in London in January will be a

LAWYER, BANKER AND, AN profession that he followed was lems, which bristle with difficulty, the spirit of the Kellogg-Briand

INSURANCE MAN. the path to politica. He panted and the moulding of the Japanese Peace Pact, and the naval

Washington, Nov. 18. for the day when, in Irish fashion, viewpoint to coincide with both Powers meet in that spirit, the

Mr. Arthur Geissler, the Anglo-American and Franco difficulties should melt away. he could throw his hat into the italian requirements. Thus, it is Ramsay. MacDonald received a has been appointed Minister to Mr. American Minister in Gautemala, ring. In the later seventies, the hoped, a five-power agreement classic example of what le pos-Slam. lazy leadership of Isaac Butt was will emerge. It is, of course, aible along the lines of disarmo-. Mr. Geissler entered the Ameri- brought to an end by the Land caaler said than done, though ment during his recent visit to can diplomatic service only on his League in Ireland and by increas-rived from the fact that France, Muckenzie King presented him 1922. For nearly twenty years some encouragement may be do Ottawa. On that occasion, Mr. appointment to Gautemala in ing distress. The Liberaliam italy and Japan all accepted the with a copy of the Bart Treaty be prior to

that he was en- which swept. Gladstone back to lavitation without reservations of tween Canada and the United gaged in insurance business in power in 1880 was contemporary any description: Mr. Ramsay States which has maintained peace Oklahoma City. He is a lawyer MacDonald is also devoting all on an undefended horder for 112 | as well as a banker, in addition. with resurgent nationalism across the time he can spare to informal years, and under which it is Ho was called to the bar la 1896, St. George's Channel. T. Pdiscussione with representatives agreed that America and Canada and he was president of a bank in | O'Connor was returned to Parlin. of the other naval Powers follow should maintain no more than 2 Oklahoma from 1902 to 1000.

ment for

Galway.

Ing the lines which brought him to ships of 100-tona each and one In 1918, he was president of the On the Pit suck. a happy success in the mere elghteentounder, dan and Old National Association of Republi form he was superb. Persuasive, ambitious task of ending old world still has much to learn from can Chairmen Reuter's American well-armed with salient facts, a standing Anglo-American cleave the New. -

Service.

AMERICAN ́ MINISTER TO SIAM.

Of the millions of people who are familiar with these famous lines, how many know that they were first uttered by, Captain Macheath, the bold" bad man of the Beggar's Opera?..

Machenth was # handsome rogue who lived chiefly, by plunder. He was the terror of his fellow-mon, but the delight of the ladies, who always fell under the 'spell of his good looks and swagger- Ing, romantic air..

He loved Polly Peacham, his wife, with utter sincerity, but he still had an eye for "other beauties, whose charms cost Polly a good deal of heart- burning.

At the instance of his father-in-law, he was sent bo Prison. He escaped. He was recaptured. He Was tried. He was condemned to death. He was reprieved.

And at the cad of Gay's. charming opera we find him none the warse for these vicissitudes, promising Peggy - that in future he will remain faithful for ever and a day.