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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1930.

FRENCH CONVENT VAN LEAR BLACK'S

MACHINE.

SCHOOL.

BATCH OF PETTY THIEVES.

MRS. SOUTHORN DISTRIBUTES INTERESTING DETAILS OF BIG HEAVY SENTENCES ON OLD

THE PRIZES.

FOKKER.

FR. GALLAGHER'S PLEA BRITISH PROTOTYPE.

The annual prize distribution! of the French Convent School was held this morning, when it was reported that the past year had been most satisfactory. Excellent progress had been maintained in all phases of the school life, several pupils having won cesses in the Matriculation and

sa Trinity College examinations.

Present with Mrs. Southern were Bishop Valtorta, Mr. E Ralpha

(Assistant Director of Education), Mr. G. P. de Martin, Father Gallagher, S.J., and the Rev. Mother Superior.

OFFENDERS.

SCHOOLGIRL'S TRICK.

The aeroplane which Mr. Van' Lear Black is using on his world

Heavy sentences were imposed in tour la a Fokker F. VII-3m, a high

a number of cases by Mr. Whyto winged monoplane, and is engined Smith at the Kowlon Magistracy with three 300 h.p. Wright Whirl-this morning, the offenders having winds maintaining

a cruising been previously speed of 100 m.p.h. and this with extra tanks giving it a range machine in particular is provided stealing.

of 1,200 miles.

When an

convicted

for

GANDHI'S MARCH IN] TO-DAY'S WANTS.

BARODA.

FILMS BANNED BY BOMBAY GOVERNMENT,

PASSED BY CENSORS.

of

Bombay, Mar. 20. The local Government has ban- Bombay Presidency of three films, ned the public exhibition in the depicting the commencement Gandhi's march on the 12th instant. The films have been produced by three different Indian film com- panics,

the films.

.25 WORDS

$1.00, "($1.50 If Not Prepaid) The following replies have been received :—

544, 545, 547, 550, 555, 566, 599, 595, 598, 618, 634, 639, 642, 650.

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A coolie charged with the theft

The ban has been imposed in Mrs. Southorn presented the prizes, and was afterwards thank-

of a chicken in To Kwa Wan Road,spite of the fact that the Bombay The principle feature of this ed in a delightful little speech by type of machine is the simplicity was given a term of three months' Board of Film Censors approved Miss B. Hollands, one of the of maintenance. The huge main-hard labour. youngest students, who also pre-plane is in one piece, and con-

Gandhi at midnight crossed the sented her with basket of sists of wooden spare and ribe. On two charges of stealing cloth-flooded River Mahi in a boat, from flowers,

This, with a periodical coat of in the Hunghom District, a Chin-waded three miles through water plywood being used for covering.ing from the verandaha of houses which he was lifted and carried ashore, while the other matchers varnish thoroughly protects the

ese was sentenced to two months' and mud. interior of the main plane and wo prevents deterioration. No hard tabour on each. It was stated)

Jawaharlal Nehre, the president bracing wires are used in the con- that defendant "fished" the gar-Gandhi this morning and accom of the All-India Congress, met truction thereby eliminating the danger of collapse by the parting ments down with a pole.

panied him at the head of the of a wire. The main petrol tanks

column to Karell, where the party. unemployed are carried in the centre of the was charged with stealing cooking;

FOR SALE. Chinese

will halt all day long. plane. -

Before crossing the Mahi, Gandhi | FOR

SALE-Four new utensils from 59, Lalchikok Road.addressed the villagers of Kan- Gowns, three at $20.00 each, one at The fuselage is constructed of it was stated that the defendant kapur, and said, "This will be the welded steel tubing, portion being braced with trian-through an open window. He re-life, and I have undertaken it on

$45.00. Write to Box No. 631, care the cabin gained admittance to the kitchen fast religious pilgrimage in my

of "Hongkong Telegraph." gulated tubing, allowing a clear cently served a term of imprison-foot according to tradition." He view for the passengers, and the ment for larceny. He was given added that nowadays it was the rear portion is braced by high three months' hard labour on the fashion to make pilgrimages by tensile steel wires. The whole is present charge. covered with doped fabric. The

aeroplane, but by making theirs rubber and tail planes are also

A fine of $25 with the alterna- afoot, the Gandhi party were constructed of steel tubing covered of three weeks hard labour was gaining much more. He exhorted imposed on a Chinese who ad-the villagers to be ready to manu-) mitted stealing four pine trees at facture salt as soon as he reached Laichikok.

Jalalpur and directed them to do so.-Reuter.

Prior to the distribution of the prizes, the pupils of the school gave an enjoyable programme of musical items, songs, recitations and dancing, amongst those taking part being the Misses L. Shenrer, G. Grimmett, H. Pinheiro, M. Branca, E. Johnson, E. Carrol and V. Bradbury..

Appeal to Pupils.

1

with fabric.

The annual report was read by Father Gallagher, who subsequently addressed the child- ren. He said 012 could see, from the report, what a magnificent The standard F VI is con- preparation for their life was given structed to carry two pilots the girls by the school. He would eight passengers, but Mr. Van Lear and remind them that not all could be Black's machine has been internal- Knitting Factory of Yee Kuk Street An employee of the Kai Cheung clever, but they could all be good.ly, arranged to carry four passen- was sentenced to two months' hard Although they might not be able

for a com- labour for stealing four spools of to master all the subjects in the Kers, leaving space school curriculum, they could master ergency rations and any other

partment for spare parts, ém-woollen yarn from the factory. goodness. He appealed to them material which may be required. to make the school proud of them At the forward und of the cabin is by their lives afterwards, by being good girls and good women.

a door communicating with the the lavatory.

rear is pilot's cockpit and at the

He hoped they would not forget the school after they had left, for he would remind them that the Sisters, who were giving their lives for the moulding of their charae. ters, never forgot their pupils. He hoped they would keep in touch with their school teachers, and he suggested that in order to do this, they might form a Past Pupils Association. By living holy and pure lives they would make their school very proud of them.

These machines can be left in the open without deterioration, this is being proved in actual operations under varying climatic conditions. A life of 3,000 to 4.000 hours has been obtained, before reconditioning became advisable under conditions in Canada and other countries, where the ma- chines are not housed in hangars

Salt Tax Necessity.

New Delhi, Mar. 20.

PREMISES TO LET.

evening

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It is significant, in connexion A GODOWN at Whitfeld Road con- with Gandhi's anti-salt tax camsisting about 2,500 sq. ft. next to paign, that the Assembly by 57 to. Kwong Sang Hong Glass

Factory. Admitting the theft of a quantity 30 has refected an Indian member's Please apply to Kwong Sang Hong of dried chestnuts from the Kow-amendment to the Finance Bil Ltd. Ion Godowns, a coolle who was em for the suppression of the Govern- ployed on the premises, was fined ment salt monopoly. The finance $5 or seven days' hard labour in de member, Sir fault.

George Schuster, The chestnuts were stated pointed out that the amendment to have been lying loose in the go would involve a loss of revenue of downs.

seven crores of rupees.-Renter.

A contructor's coolic employed in the Kowloon Docks was fined $10 or fourteen days' hard labour for stealing a space belonging to an- other firm of contractors.

A fourteen year old girl appear- but are anchored out in alled before his Worship on complaint After distributing the prizes, weathers, both winter and sum-by a school mistress at Teng Fung Mrs. Southorn expressed great mer. pleasure at being present. When Messrs. A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd., she came to the French Convent, Manchester, are licensed she always felt the French Sisters this type of machine in England, to build radiated cheerfulness. She can- and it is known as the Avro 10. gratulated them on the splendid re- The power is supplied by three sult of the year's working and wish-Armstrong Siddeley "Lynx" en ed them and the pupils as success-gines. ful a year.

Annual Report. The annual report was as fellows: -The enrolment and regalar atten- dance during the past year have been most satisfactory. The maximum on the roll was 250, and there were 240 present at the annual inspection. There is no doubt that where there is regular attendance at a school, there is bound to be

This has progress.

Mr. Kingsford Smith, the pilot of the first non-stop flight from America to Australia, has recently acquired four Avro 10 machines to operate on an air line in Australia.

LOCAL ESTATES.

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Central,

A "PREHISTORIC MONSTER."

COUPLE FRIGHTENED IN A WOOD.

Paris, Feb. 17. Near Bordeaux, a couple philan- dering in a wood were frightened to be a prehistoric monster that. out of their wits by what they took suddenly came on them.

Street, where the defendant had Local estate to the value of messages. It was stated that some-yeung, late of No. 1, Kung Hing been in the habit of running $26,700 was left by Wong Wan-

the mistress lost a key time about the Chinese New Year Street, Fatshan, Kwongtung, who jewellery box and from time to time 1928. Letters of administration to her died intestate on December 24, small sums of money missed. She suspected the defen-Wong Lau-shi, of No. 37, Jervois had been have been granted to the widow, dant and laid a trap for her. The Street, Hongkong. girl was seen to take a marked note from the box and was arrested. interpreter, who died at No. 630. Lai Chiu-ki, alias Lai Kwok-lun, The note and the missing key were Canton Road, Kowloon, on August found on the girl.

28, 1929, left local estate worth! On recording a conviction, his $12,300. Probate has been granted the brute to

An armed search party discover- Worship said that the question was ed to the executrixes appointed in It had been seized for a debt owed be a dre.edary. what to do with a girl of the de-the will. Lai Yeung-ahi, his by a circus. But the creditor soon fendant's age. The case was ad-"secondary mother," and Lai Pun- repented of his success, for what journed for 24 hours for further shi, widow. The estate is left to can one do consideration.

with a dromedary? the care of the executrixes for The happy thought came to him to them to deal with in their dis- auction it. But you cannot que cretion.

tion goods in France without a licence. Prof. W. Brown, M.A., B.Sc. pounded the dromedary. But in So the police.stepped in and im-

who gave us most help- a morning posset. And, mighty gaged in business in Hongkong, the Arts Association of the Hong-

child-

a civil, they do ask me if I desire and a member of the Legislative kong University on "The Mac-to do with it. It was too big to go advantages to see my play amaking.

So, at i Council here, and at one time cabean Period in the History of into an ordinary stable, so pend- she mentions that the classrooms and six of the clock. I to the Play chairman of the China Associa-Palestine" on Monday, 24th March, ing a decision as to its future fate dormitorien were all in good condi-

House to my very great content, tion, who died on Dec. 5, aged 72, Room of the University. The lec

at 8.30 p.m. in the Union Assembly they turned the dromedary loose in showing both cleanliness and where I do meet the actors who left £72,906, with net personalty ture is open to the public, and all

been the case all during the year, as the tests given in the various

classes

have shown very satisfactory results.

The pupils have enjoyed perfectly

good health and we are greatly in

MR. PEPYS IN HONGKONG.

XIL

This day betimes to the Club

Sir Gershom Stewart, K.R.E., of Sloane-street, Chelsea, S.W., M.P. from 1901-23, for many years en-

debted to Mrs. Minnett, M.O.S., who where I find Stewart Goss, the for the Wirral Division of Cheshire R.S.E., A.M.I.E.E., will address their turn they could not tell what

kindly visited the school twice during chirurgeon and Mr. Hannibal over

the

year

And

ful suggestions regarding

ren'

The

eye-sight and the adva

of physical exercises. In her report

tion,

entil

And some I do | £71,834. large have acquaintance with hefore, of

whom Mistress Fny mighty pretty

And

good ventilation, important factors play the parts.

a school where there is o number of children.

The annual inspection was made

DA Mistress Pepys be one. by Mr. A. R. Sutherland on the 7th and 8th of October last. The fol

I kiss her hand and did wish her lowing extracts are taken from his bushand bad not been there, for I reports:"Building and Discipline, would fain have kissed her cheek, excellent. In the Kindergarten De- 8o daintily she act. I find my old partment the singing is very good. acquaintance Mr. Marcel do play All written work, drawing books, map King Charles, which shall be well, drawing, ete; is well done and care- I think, as he hath a royal presence fully cor

corrected. Reading. and Colloquial throughout the school Mr. Finter, who I do remember to recitation, and a merry laugh. There too was the inspection were west beat bu in one of the King's ships and

given Arithmetic is well taught.

The he, I learn do play Polling the school is very efficient. Mrs. Suther-potticary. And I find him a mighty land kindly inspected the needlework civil young man, who buy me of and was very pleased with, the ex-strong waters. cellence of the work shown."

wure,

mo таку

As we drink he tell curious stories, and what strange things

Yet I am

in

The preparatory class for Chinese Lord!

continues to be a great success.those sailors do. There are

two divisions, A and B doubt something of his verity. ánd the speelal prize for progress in English presented by Mr. Ho Kun- Then come Mr. Ascherson who, tong, 0.5.F., na been awarded to I hear, do be a lieutenant in the Mias Gertle Chan, and the Anna Irigato "Suffolk." Though why

Memorial Prize to Miss Theresa Tam. they call him Torps I know not

Examinations.

for he in no manner torpid, but

as merry a fellow as ever did pay

At the University Exams., held in for a glass for me. But Lord to Novombor, three pupils passed in the hear him speaking French so apt senior division and eight in the junior in the part of Mr. Humphrey. And division obtaining several distinc- tions. For the first time in May lasten they present mo to Mis- four pupils were presented for trese Howard Johnston, who do

seanity College examination for play Mistress Knight, above all

the

music, one junior and three for the that ever I see. intermediate. All passed

for

and

And Mistress prizes Chubbas Mistress Pierce did much these have been very kindly delight me in the supper scene. vided by Lady Ho Tung. Miss Edna There too I found some mighty Carroll was the winner of the Lugard pretty girls who play the maids' Scholarship for the year, 1929. The parts, but, to my vaxation, who evening classes

for Pitman's short should come in but my wife, peor hand have been well attended during wretch, and I have no more dis the year and the same may be said course with the players. So home, of the classes for French.

In 1929 the school was again' hon- mighty comfortable in my mind cured by distinguished visitors and by that Mr. Hannibal and all will do friends interested .in education, the piece right well. And so to

bed. (Continued on Page 8.).

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