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MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930.

CHINESE CONSULS FOR

INDO-CHINA.

MONDAY, MAY 26, 1930.

above all, it ensured the regular collection of the poll-tax (which, by the way, is being objected to by the Chinese as being "exces- sive") and other periodical im posts which go to swell the coffers of the Colonial Treasury. No thing relating to the terms of

DAY BY DAY.

NOVEL READING IF IT BE PURSUED THERE IS NO NEED TO DISPARAGE

INTELLIGENTLY, A NOVEL CAN MAKE DRY BONES LIVE-Ernest Baker,

The mv. Hilda sailed from Sin- gapore on May 23 and is expected here on May 30,

Sunday's health return shows the Treaty has been disclosed to two Chinese cases of typhoid fever. show whether this poll-tax or other imposts which have given rise to considerable dissatisfaction amongst the Chinese population of the country in the past, has received attention from the authors of the new Treaty, but one thing divulged is that the French authorities have made a

The Hongkong Interport cricket team returned to the Colony by the

.. Empress of Russia.

The m.v. Monte Piana sailed

big concession when in agreeing from Karachi on May 24 and is ex- to the establishment of Chinese pected to arrive in Hongkong on Consulates at the three principat June 16.- Chinese centros in the country.

As

We are asked to state that at the a Paris newspaper com- King's Birthday reception at Gov- ments, this will mean the surernment House on June 3rd white render of effective control which mess jackets may be worn. hitherto has been exercised through the

system of congre-

FEATURES AT THE

THEATRES.

THE QUEENS.

The Very Idea!

"MARRIED IN HOLLYWOD AT{" Héro are some more gems from

the "writings” of Smith Minor:

New York time is behind Green- Aided by the varied arts of the wich time, becauso America 'was "talkie" producer, "Married in not discovered until much later.

which Hollywood." crowded houses to the

attracted i

The Gorgons wore women-only Queen's much more horrible. yesterday, can be best described as Melba is where Napoleon was

*

a musical comedy on a grandiose imprisoned..

the plot is not The cuckoo is the most selfish acale, in which allowed to offer any serious bird in the world, and never laye difficulties when the major offering its own egga. is the attractive singing and Letters In sloping print aro

Of the dancing.

two latter meant to indicate hysterics. features, there is ample quantity in the production. For those who are not inclined to cavil at the frivolous, the story is also quite entertaining, bearing, strangely enough. a. close resemblance to locale and action, contemporary history in its frock."

ně

slaughtered King Edward

Roger Mortimer and Isabella Kenilworth Castle; the remaine are still to be seen.

She "I must get myself a new

He-"But, dear, 'you bought one J. Harold Murray and Norma only last week. What's happened. Terria have leading parts in this to it?" picture, heading a long list given of actors and speciality artistes. it." "Married in Hollywood" is being shown till Wednesday.

At the World.

She "That?-oh, a moth ato

Solicitor (to a witness)--If & plain-clothes policeman comes At the World Theatre, William ! down your street, where betting Mr. M. H. Large, of the Duro Haines and Josephine Duan star goes on, what happens? Witnesa gations. That control, hitherto Police the theft, by an unknown juvenile lead, Haines has appeared it.

Motor Co., has reported to the

in "Excess Baggage." As -The bookle "greases"—"lops absolute in that it has been ex-individual, of an Underwood type-in a number of notable produc-

writer from his office.

tented to the expulsion of n Chinese individual from the country whenever the measure was thought desirable, will now, under the "terms of equality" conferred by the Treaty, be subjected to Consular

scrutiny with other consequent modifications to the "congregation" system that had hitherto remained unchallenged. In the circumstances, it is not surprising that a elamour has been raised by the French Colonial and Metropolitan Press over the Important point yielded by the French Government under the New Treaty, but the outstanding fact is that the Colonial Govern- ment has been compelled luctantly to yield to the changing conditions of the times.

Lord Davidson.

re-

family are now leaving for the Mr. and Mrs. H. T. White and

United States on the President | McKinley on June'3 and not on the President Taft to-morrOW,

Suffering from injuries to his head received during a fight with his brother, a fisherman was removed alleged that the injuries were in- to Hospital on Saturday. It was flicted with a bamboo pole.

A dog belonging to Mr. Ross of sent to the Ma Tau How slaughter- 2, Aimai Villas, Kowloon, has, been house for observation after it had bitten two young lads, who were taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital for medical treatment.

A two weeks' old baby, which

apparently had been abandoned by its Chinese parents, was found on the hillside at Shaukiwan, at a spot a little above the Fung Keung Rubber, yesterday, and was taken to the Tung Wah Hospital,

tions and his further success in "Excess Baggage" will place him firmly in the favour of the public.

Last screeninga of "Excess Bag- gage" are advertised for to-day.

Tim McCoy at Star. A plausible story is that portray ed in "Sioux Blood," now being screened at the Star, showing Tim McCoy in action as a prairie scout fighting against the Red Indiana. ter impesonated by McCoy who is A long-lost brother of the charac-

brought up by an Indian tribe as one of themselves, furnishes the theme for this romance of an earlier century when the Western the scalp-hunters. The programme pioneers were still at grips with at this Theatre remains un- changed to-day.

ALLEGED THEFT OF COAL.

BIG BAIL DEMANDED IN

KOWLOON.

to the

When a man was fined 5s. by Mr. J. Sharpe at Thames Court, he said:-I have only got 48 8d. The Magistrate (to the jailer)- Take it

Magistrate You were hero a week ago? Frisoner (again charged with being drunk)-Yes,

promised to come back in a week. to pay my fine, and here I am.

Magistrate-What' is your family? Mother-Two schoolgirls and two office boys.

Opposing action at Southwark County Court

both V.C.'B-~-Mr. Mackay Cloutman (for the' plaintiff) and Mr. Paul Bennett the Victoria Cross in the Great (for the defendants.) Both won War. Yesterday was the first occasion on which they had met.

were

barristers in nin

"Father," said a boy who had been silently reading a book of hymns, "why do the saints sit on Satan's knees?"

"What in the world do you mean, sonnie?" said the father.

"Well," said the boy, "it says here that Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his

The theft of a quantity of coal | knees."

value of about $30 was

"Where's the car, dad?" asked Fuk Loi Coal dealers and a coolie the son of an absent-minded pro- who appeared before Mr. Whyte fessor. Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

A particularly mean theft, steal- alleged against two partners of the The former Archbishop of Can-

ing a pair of trousers from a fel- low lodger, earned for a Chinese a sentence of two months' hard labour when he appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

"Why dear me," he said, "I really don't know Did I take it out?"

"You certainly did. You drove it into town this morning.

1

Ar important item in the new of Treaty regulating, in terms equality, Franco-Chinese relations in the Union of French Indo- China, which has just been con- cluded after prolonged negotia- tions between the French Minis-terbury, whose death occurred over ter and the Nationalist Govern- the week-end at a venerable age, leaves behind him a record which men at Nanking, is one concerning will forever hold a prominent place the establishment of Chinese

Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones appeared in the history of the Church, for

for the two partners of the firm Consulates in the French posses he went to Canterbury armed with

and applied for bail. sion, a matter for which the fan unusual knowledge of all sorts

Detective Sergeant Fitches in- "That's very remarkable," re- An electrician, employed under timated that the case was regard plied the professor. "I remember Chinese have agitated for years. and conditions of men and proved Mr. W. C. Gee of the Public Worksed as a serious one and pointed out now that after I got out I turned To the cosmopolitan, with the or- himself a Primate of vision and Department, was fined $5 by Mr. that there had been quite of a lot round to thank the gentleman

Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma of coal stealing from the M.B.K. who had given me

a lift, and dinary knowledge he has dexterity. Attempting to measuregistracy this morning for carrying Yard, where the coal in the pre- wondered, where he had gone!" such matters,

the history of the Church of six chickens in a basket which was it may seem strange that what should, from

England and of its heirarchy dur- too small for the purpose and thus sent case was alleged to have been taken. The defendants had their ing the last half century or so, we caused cruelty to the fowls, the point of view of modern in-are forced to the conclusion that

coal dump inside the M.B.K. pre- mises, having established them- ternational relations, have been a during the tenure of office of the

Fung Kuen, a seaman on board selves in a small way in the coal normal and modest requirement late Lord Davidson the Church the Yaumati ferry launch, Man Lai, business. They had purchased 15 and one which, as such, could have

Friday, whilst the boat was under was the only transaction, accord- Brussels reports that about 8.10 p.m. on tons from the Japanese firm which Paris

Amsterdam been easily yielded, was allowed

weigh in the harbour, an alarming to their books, they had made Berlin to become an obstacle and prolong

was raised that a man had fallen since opening at the beginning of

Copenhagen Утелла overboard, but a search in the the month. unnecessarily the course of the

The defendants were remanded (Helsingfors vicinity revealed nothing of this negotiations.

nature.

till Wednesday, the first two on Lisbon $250 each and the third on $100 Bucharest

of

gathered new power. In his time the world immensely multipiled its pro- blems, its divisions and its sorrows, and with the growth of all these he himself, too, rose in stature. We may observe in the career of the As a matter of fact, the esta-Archbishop how the faith and fer- blishment of Chinese Consulates your of an apostle, however urbace, in Indo-China had been a bone of has been developed into the fibre

It formed

than one

it. As for the old controversies

To understand this system, one which disturbed the peace of Arch-

has

1929, a Chinese who returned to Banished for ten years in May

last,

bail.

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MIRZA?

The name Mirza, a contrac tion of Emir Zadah, meaning "Prince's son," is common in the near East, where is it used. as a title of honour.

To English people, the name. is most familiar in connexion

·with Addison's beautiful "Vision of Mirza," one of the Spectator papers.

the Colony was given ten months' THREE QUESTIONS ON Geneva contention for years.

of a statesman. This development hard labour and fifteen 'strokes of undoubtedly had its source in the the birch by Mr. Whyte Smith at the subject of more

work of energetic youth, when the Kowloon Magistracy this official representation through Archbishop Tait formed the view morning. The defendant had re- diplomatic channels, and was as that he was both sagacious and ceived twelve strokes and eight often rejected, because the French sensible-an opinion which the months hard labour in October Colonial spokesmen hitherto could world soon confirmed. His destiny not see their way to making a

was pre-ordained, and he went to

A special watch is being kept by Canterbury with the very real sim-the Police for mendicants concession which might have the

who plicity that was the ruling feature seem to have once again establish- effect of undermining the system of the life. He never shut his eyes ed themselves on the

Peninsula of control carefully organized to abuses, though he would point begging alms from people of the houses has been frequently re- WHO WAS over a section of the population out that many of them were in- district, paying particular atten- fused on grounds other than that which, by its prgressiveness, now separable from a body still largely tion to the congregations which of a failure to comply with pre-

leave the churches on bids fair to attain an economic governed by the dead hand. He did morning. At the Kowloon Court, ent kindly state what other condi- Sunday scribed conditions, will the Presid- predominance over the many other much to cleanse Augean stables and to-day four mendicants were each tions must be fulfilled before per- races which go to build up the welcomed every movement which fined $5 or seven days' hard labour mission can be recommended? political structure of the "Union." travelled the right road as he saw in default

Should the water carriage system be encouraged in Chinese tenement Admitting having stolen.a elock houses? to go back to the social bishop Tait, he helped to settle from 26, Nanking Street, a young Will the President kindly des- structure of China,

Chinese who had been given twelve cribe the procedure attending an the them all. He passed through the strokes of the cane in January last, application for the installation of State has been built up on the storms of a great war with un-

was ordered to receive another water closeta?・・・ family system, and in a

wider furried vision. He recognised in dozen strokes of the rattan when What is the usual period which sense, the communal life as form-life a trial, and he acted, and ex- he appeared before Mr. Whyte must elapse between the receipt of pected others to act, as though men Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy mission to the water closet Sub- the application and its final sub- ed by the association

of many should endure being tried. If he ever this morning. The defendant was families in one village, The

came near coining a phrase it was addition. A second lad was sen-

given one months' hard labour in committee for consideration? system is duplicated in Indo-China when he said of our English Col- tenced to eight strokes of the cane wounding his small daughter, Elias Charged. with maliciously inasmuch as Chinese immigrants lects that they were "struck from for the same offence.

Stone, of Belgrave-drive, Eastwood, are formed and segregated into the souls of earnest men as fire

was at Southend remanded in cus what is known as "congregations," from flint John Morley once A number of Hongkong residents tody. Stone, it was said, was according to their Chinese district wrote: "The test of the health of a left for Home on the Mantua on arrested last July, but, although of origin. Over each

people is to be found in the utter-Saturday. Among them were Mr. he was handcuffed, escaped. No congrega ances of those who are its spokes. and Mra, H. F. Harper, Mr. and trace of him was found until he tion a "chef" is appointed who men, and in the actions of those Mrs. A. Kirby, Mr. and Mre. J. A. gave himself up to the police at is made responsible to the French whom it chooses to be its chiefs." W. G. Gerrard, Surg. Rear-Ad- that after his escape Stone was Lindsay, Mrs. R. K. Batchelor, Mr. Rochford, Essex. It was alleged. authorities for civic and other This aphorism may be applied to miral W. W. Kier, Surg. Lt-Cdr. R. concerned in a quarrel between matters appertaining to his own the Church of England with equal W. Higgins, Capt. and Mrs, J. G. gypsies. Missiles ́ were thrown,' group. The system allowed of honour to the late Lord Davidson Mackellar, Mr. C. Mottram. Mr. and Stone struck his daughter, in- effective administration over the which he was guide and custodian, Taylor, Mr. D. Tollan, Mr. G. tend to injure the child."

and to the august foundation of and Mrs. A. H. C. Spooner, Miss Ljuring her severely. Answering the

Spooner, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. H. charge, he said: "I did not in 500,000 Chinese population, and.

Wynne and Mr. L. J. Wagland.

where

there

While he slept, appeared to Mirza, a pious Mohammedan, a vision of the River of Time and the Bridge of Life, across which thou- sands of human souls ware'

continually passing on their way to the Island of the Blest. Three score and ten arches the bridge possessed" Near its beginning and near its end. were many holes and traps, through which those who fell were carried by the rolling waters into a region of im penetrable mist,

And Mirza saw many fall

thus. But those who did not fall or falter. by the way reached the island, where, happiness awaited them, and

peace.