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BOILER PRESSURE

DISPUTE

CLAIM & COUNTER-CLAIM "IN SUMMARY COURT.

LIABILITY DENIED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CANTON NOTES.

GENERAL COHEN TO REMAIN

FOR A TIME. -

Canton, Feb 12. General Maurice A. Cohen has arrived in Canton and will be remaining in the South for about a month in'connexion with official Government business on behalf of A claim and counter-claim for the the Central Nationalist Govern- manufacture of steam boilers came ment, before returning to Nan- before the Pulsne Judge. (Mr. king Justice Wood) In the Summary Court this morning, when Lau

Train Service.

PHYSICAL DRILL.

SUCCESSFUL CLASS FOR. WOMEN TEACHERS.-'

THURSDAY

LOCAL RADIO.

FEBRUARY 13

SIR CECIL CLEMENTI.

MUSICAL PROGRAMME FOR NOT ENTIRELY A STRANGER

TO-NIGHT”

TO MALAYA

fengsl

Tudor Davies

On landing at Singapore “on February 5, Sir Cecil Clementi re- celved addresses from the Kurdcipal

Commissioners, Chamber of Com- marca, Straits Settlements Assd-

It is a great encouragement to me to be here as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements and High Comunis aloner for the Malay States and to receive so many addresses of welcome couched in such cordial terma. My wife also desires to thank you for the kind welcome which you have given hor."

With the object of awakening in-

A well-selected - programme” of forest in physical education and gramophone record music will be exercise among Chinese women broadcast from Station Z.B.W. to. teachers of the Colony, a Physical night. The full programme is given

below Training Class has been held undór the auspices of the Education De 5.00-7.00 p.m. "European Prociation, and representatives of the partment since October last. The gramme of Victor and H. M. V. Chinese associations and other report of the lecturer and instruo cords by courtesy of Mears. Mautric

local -communities? In reply for, Miss D. M. Jacques (Chelsen and Cos

thereto he said: Cal. of Phys Edue), covering the March of the Caucasian Chief," first term which ended in January, "Dance Orientale has recently been presented to the "Ah! Moon of My Delight.".

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra Department and shows that the "On Wings of Songs ing and encouraging. Physical drill Pensee D'Automme, has, in many of the schools attended "Rhapsody in C, Op. 7, No. 8,”

Dr. Harold Darko. by Chinese girls; not been so woll directed in the past as it might "Reducing ("Trials of Topsy')" have been, and it was with the idea. Kate in the Call Box,

(Herbert), of interesting Chinese women

Angela Baddeley, health-promoting subject that the "Serenade A La Potros (Berenade. teachers in this important and "Capriccio, Class was organised.

for the Doll),”

Vladimir Horowits, There was an enrolment of '28 teachers in the Claas, which has "Yo. Banks and Brand "Bonnie- met once a week in the Hall of "Comin' Thro' the By","

Doon." (Burns),

Sugar Competition.

Queen's College, and the syllabus

Dame Nollie Melba, las included lectures on physical "Imperial March," (Elgar), verbally agreed between the parties The native sugar refinerics are education, including clothing, and "Cantilene Nuptiale," (Dubois), that plaintiff should reduce the complaining very seriously of the practice of_gymnastics and in- price of boilers not soldered from being unable to continue pro- door games. Considering that the "Kiss Your Hand, Madame $21 to $16.80, and soldered boilers] ducing against foreign compoti- work was entirely new to the ten-

Fox Trot from $21. to $10.

tion and they are at present draw-cher-students, a great deal of "Josephila-Fox Trot"

Leo Reisman and His Orchestra: Mr. F. X. D'Almada, jnr., was ing up a petition to present to the interest was displayed. At the "Caprice Poetic Larte navel),

(Last),

Kwong-nol, trading as Kwong Ah It is advised that repairs to the and Co., No. 10, Kwai Wa Lane, Shek Ha Bridge which was partly general contractor, sued the Wing blown up by General Hau King-interest of the students was gratify. Loong Firm, Kap Shul-mun, New tong's troops last December, hava Territories, bean curd manufac-been completed. The express her- turers, claiming the sum of $579.08|vice between Hongkong and Can- as balance due for goods sold and ton which was resumed early in delivered, these being steam boilers. January had been subject to some In a counter-clnim, defendants slight delay as it was necessary to tiff in the sum claimed. They ask when passing over the bridge denied they were indebted to plain- alow down is five miles an hour ed for the recovery of $497.65 as under repair. This is now no having been overpaid and alleged longer necessary, and the through that only 242 boilers wero de express service will be maintained livered. Of those, 233 were tested on schedule. and found to bear only 48 Iba. pressure and in consequence it was

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"Song of Love,"

for plaintiff and Mr. F. C. E. Ren-Provincial - Governicht asking conclusion of the term an examina-"The Fountain, dall defended.

them to place heavy protective tion, was held by Miss L. «M. Sig- Mr. D'Almada explained that on duties on imported sugar,

gins (Ausley Phyn. Train Col); January 7, 1929, Lam Kwan-mau, It is stated that 53.430 picula and aleven out of the fifteen who defendant's representative, went to of sugar were imported into Can-ant for it, misceeded in passing. plaintiff's shop and asked him toston during January, and that this make a boller to a certain speci-amount represents 70% of the fication, the price being fixed at consumption of the Province * $24.82.

That boller was made and Many Biar refineries have delivered, and when it was teated already been obliged to close down it was found to bear G0, Ibn. pres-through bankruptcy. - sure, Subsequently, defendants) approached plaintiffs and asked

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It has been decided to continue the course next Term, for it is felt that with the. Chinono teachers of the Colony better in atructed in us antter of physien! education and practico responding benefit will be derived by to school girls under their charge.

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Staniny ftoper,

Alfred Cortot.

By Lucy Lanbella Marsh Royal Dadmum, "Serenade," By Lambert Murphy. "Choral Sung," "Andantino in G Minor (Franck),

(Wesley)

Dr. Harold Darke, "Don't Be Cruel to A Vegetabuel,"

(Sarony). "Don't Do That to the Poor Puss Cat,"

(Sarony and Eyton),

Leslie Sarony, "Just Got the Chain (Lauder), "The Pirate,"

Sir Harry Lauder. "Oh Could I But Express In Song,"

(Malashkin),

(Marruerito Radclyffé-Hall. Robert C. Clarke),

Feodor Chaliapin,

them to make a similar boiler of The following appointments a thinner metal. The order was have been made in the local Pro- executed but the thinner boiler only vincial Government: Mr. ILAU bore 18 a pressure which was Sung-chifig; Commissioner of known to defendants because they the Department of Education, to VERANDAH COLLAPSE. "The Blind Ploughman," were told by plaintiff that a boller be Commissioner for Civil Affairs; made of thinner metal would not Mr. Kam Taang-ching, Member of bear such great pressure as a thick-the Provincial Council, to be Com PROMPT ACTION BY MEMBERS "Blue Danube Waltz," er boiler. Bollers were delivered missioner of the Department of from time to time and the last pay-Education. Mr. Tsang Hin, the ment was made on May 30 last year, present Commissioner for Civil the amount paid being $200,

His Lordship suggested that the real point at issue was whether the contract was for boilers warranted to bear 60 lbs, pressure, as alleged by plaintiff, or whether the con- tract was for boilers warranted to bear 48 lbs pressure, as alleged by defendants.

•

"Cavatins,"

Arthur Meala,

(b) Etude in C Sharp Minor- "(n) Etude in E Flat Major

Op. 10, No. 11,

Op. 10 No. 4,"

OF ST. JOHN.

Affairs, will proceed to Japan tolol St. John Ambulance Brigade The effective organisation of the study economic conditions there. was never better Mr. Wong Kee-sho will be the new

demonstrated Member of the Provincial Council.than on Sunday when the ver(a) Etude in F Major

Visiting Lecturers.

be arriving in Canton next week Three well-known lecturers will in the persons of Mr. and Mra, Both Mr. D'Almada and Mr. Sherwood Eddy and Mr. Kirby Rendall agreed that if this point Page. A series of lectures will be was settled it would dispose of the given during the week at the whole of the case, and his Lordship Y.M.C.A., the Lingnum University, the True Light School and other colleges and schools.

made a note to that effect."

The case is proceeding.

MACAO NOTES.

AUTOMATIC PHONE PROVES SUCCESSFUL.

andah of three houses in Queen's Rond collapsed ne a romlt of motor lorry collision. Tho work to publio antice, of the Brigade is seldom brought annual inspection is usually well although the attended and membora aro often seen carrying out their duties at various times. It is an undoubted fact, however, that the Brigade in one of extreme usefulness and that valuable work in an unostentatious its members do a great deal of very

way.

Op. 25, No. 3, "(b) Etude in A Flat Major........

Op. 10, No. 10,"

Benno Molscivitch, "Tristan Und Isolde,”, T

(Inolde's Love-Death),

Marin Jeritza, gramme.

7.00-8.00p.m. Experimental pro.

8.00 p.m. Chinese pigramme. 10.30 p.m. Close down,

$10,000 MARKET.

FOR THE RESIDENTS OF KOWLOON TONG.

The Government proposes

I have only been in Singapore, twice before, once when thirty years ago, na a newly appointed cadet, I passed through on my way to Hongkong, and again four years ago as Governor-Elect of: Hongkong when I travelled from Ceylon. From the days of my boyhood Malaya was well known to me. You just reminded me of my father's younger brother, Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, who was |Governor of this Colony" from

1887 to 1893. He was,

before that, the Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements, and like my- self cama to Singapore from Hongkong.

Now, Sir Cecil Clementi Smith

also my Godfather and as a boy was not only my uncle but he was

I learnt from him about the Far Eant. The history, the scenery and the geography of Malaya liy

ed in the word picture which he drew and the lessons which" he taught I have never forgotten. Se to-day I am not come as in entire stringer but rather as one already used to this land by family tradition, as one comé'with the expectation of making a new home and fading one's realliation of the many dreams which one has dreamed. I-pledge myself to work heart and soul and I rejoice that I shall have your loyal co- operation...

LOCAL HOCKEY.

CLUB DEFEAT THE ARMY. IN SIM SHIELD MATCÍ.

The Hongkong Hockey Club rather surprised their supporters by winning decisively in their match with the Army in the Sim Shield, which was played on the U. S. R. C. ground yes. terday evening in conditions which were not very favourable, the slip- pery ground being a great handicap to the playera.

The civilian team had lost their first match to the Army, but yesterday they fully deserved their victory. They were the first to put on pres. auro, and made several raids on the to declining many

Army, goal, their forwards, however, opportunities of

The first lecture will be given from the Municipal Broadensting Station by Mr. Sherwood Eddy on "The Future of Imperialism" and

We have been privileged to will be the first lecture to he see reporta from the various, Divi- broadcasted from the Canton aions describing their work during Municipal Brondeasting Satlon Sunday's ocident and it is reveal- both in English and Chinese, theed that the Hon. Secretary, of the interpreter being Mr, S. C. Leung, Indian Division of the Brigade was erect a permanent market at Kow-scoring by wild shooting or breachen, Macno, Feb. 11.

the Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. the first arrival, although some loon Tong at a cost of $10,000. A For the greater part of the first half The new Macao automatic tele- Mr. Kirby Page, who is the passers-by were present at the sum of $1,500 was provided in the the play was confined to the Army phone service seems to have pro-Editor of The World Tomorrow, a time. Together ved its worth and whereas at the New York monthly paper, will panions the member of the Indianporary market at Kowloon Tong, equal to the occasion, and kept their with four com-1929 Estimater for a small tem area, but the milltary defence was time of the inauguaration of the give a series of lectures on the Division dug for three feet to but in view of the rapid develop opponents out. new telepliones in December last Futility of War and on the life rescue one man who was buried. Itment of the district and corres there were barely one thousand of Mr. Mahatma Gandhi, the took forty minutes to extricate

The teams changed over with the score sheet blank, but almost imme- subscribers, now by reason of the well-known Indian Nationalist. second min, this being accom-the inhabitants, it

ponding increase in the number of diately after the resumption the Club numerous applications which Mrs. Eddy will also lecture to the plished largely by the Fire Brigade. essential that a larger and per during an attack on the

considered were rewarded by Divett scoring have been received further ex-girl students at Lingnam Univer-The St. John mcruber casted in manent market should be erected. Further ralds were made by the Club

Army tensions are being made.

ity, the True Light School, and giving first aid to the three men The laying down of a submarine the Y.W.CA-Our Own Corrca- until

players who were combining better. cable between Macao and Taipa|pondent.

they wore

The proposal was recommended and passing with more attended by doctors.

by the Public Works Committee Owen Hughes put them further head Island has been completed, and

Four members of the Motor Carand. has been approved by the Marriott was later sent through to other cables that have been newly

Drivers Association Division were

Secretary of State.

rive the Club

lead of three goals. The Army were a beaten team by also present at the accident, while do fower than ten members asked at its meeting this afternoon to the Club

The Finance Committee will be now, b but they made occasional visits

Skipp

was left with AN ausistance.

the lead, The Army ro- turned to the attack, but failed to acoro and then Francis, through ■ brilliant solo effort, added a fourth goal for the Club, giving them victory by four goals to one.

received will be laid underground

in different parts of the Colony

to supplement the lines already put down.

Paris

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EXCHANGE RATES.

London, Feb. 12.

.124.15 .34.80

.12.12%

.20.376

.18.175

.34.545

.198 .108.26

.818

4213/10

At St. Lawrence's Church at Brussels ... Macao work is proceeding with the Amsterdam erection of a magnification marble Berlin altar, the gift of a devout Hong- Copenhagen kong family of Catholics. The Helsingfors

Vienna work of construction has been Lisbon entrusted to Messrs. C. E. Warren Bucharest & Co.; of Hongkong, the well- Buenos Aims known suppliers of marbleware, Shanghai and is being carried out with all Yokohama possible spood.

Now York Rev. Father F. X. Soares, through Geneve whose good offices the gift has Milan been made, is personally attend-Dalo

Stockholm ing to the work, and it is expected that the now altar will be com-Madrid peted within two or the months, Athens when the service of consacrating Rio

the altar will take place...

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The ordinary annual general meeting of shareholders of the International Race and Recreation Club of Macao ia advertised to take place on Saturday, February 15th, when it is believed that resolutions will be passed in an attempt to revive the flagging

Prague

Bombay

Hong Kong. silver (forward) Silver (spot).

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4.86 3/10

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-British Wireless."

GARDEN ROAD.

"buafness of this concern.-Our Own WIDENING TO BE COMPLETED

Correspondent.

- THIS YEAR

"

CHICAGO ROUND-UP. by the Government in the 1929 A sum of $6,000 was provided

Estimates for widening the lower portion of Garden Road, adjacent to Murray Barracks. The work was commenced in December, but there was no expenditure before the end of the year.

́ ́ANOTHER BATCH OF SUS-

PICIOUS CHARACTERS.

Chicago, Feb. 12.

Eight hundred more suspicious the work commenced last year and It is now intended to complete sharacters have been arrested, the Finance Committee at ita following another police drive, meeting to-day will be asked to admilar to the one organised on approve a vote corresponding to February 10-Reuter's American last year's vote ($6,000)- to meet Service.

the cost of the work.

of the Mongkok Division, rendered to approve a vote of $10,000 to redu chance in front of goal, |

QUBO NEA SERVICE SHE -

ALLG-UI PAY OFF,

finance the scheme.

Just an old-fashioned girl.

Both

The Club's victory puts them on level terms with the Army,

esch having defeated the other once. beat the Navy in the first round, and have yet to meet the Naval player. for a second time.

Hongkong "A" XI for Friday,

The following will represent the Kangkong. Hockey Club "A" team versus the H. K.'and' B. R. A. at the Marina Ground on Friday, February 14th, at 4.45 pm:

C. E. Moere, T. E. Rowell, G. Ban kin (Captain), A. A. E. Botelho, E. G. 8. Dalo, G. A. I Plummer, S. J. H. Fox, Maj. Kerrich, LG, Frost, H. Owen-Davies and K. IL Batger,

BAND CONCERTS, SIX TO BE GIVEN THIS YEAR IN KOWLOON.

The Finance Committee of the Legislative Council at its meeting this afternoon" will be asked to approve - among other supplement) tary expenditure a vote amounting to $1,200 for the provision of six public band concerts during the year in Kowloon,"

All arrangements will be under-: taken by the Kowloon Residents" | Association and Government haa agreed to subsidize the project to the extent of not more than $200 per concert conditional on admis- sion being free to those who do not wish to pay for seats. N

Government retains the broad- casting rights of the concerts. It is hoped that they may become self-supporting in-course of time.

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