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GROUND FLOOR.

FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1933.

SLOW PROGRESS.

Д

DAY BY DAY.

LATE ARRIVAL AT- COURT.

contractora." What is the use of Official "pressure" in a case of this kind? Surely there must be

HAN SEEKS HAPPINESS VAINLY penalty clause in the contract. If WHEN HE SEEKS IT OUTSIDE HIM- COXSWAIN HAS TO GO. BACK so, is it being enforced? Alter-SELF.-Bismarck. natively, if satisfaction cannot be

A non-Chinese case of typhoid got from the present contractors, was notified on Wednesday. why does the Government not fol- low the procedure to which we have alluded in another instance--take the work away and give it to an- other arm? To allow things to go do no- on as they are, and to

exercise ineffectual thing bot pressure, appears to us to be the height of absurdity.

The question which naturally suggests itself in cases of this kind is whether the Government is really so helpless as would appear from the fact that this unpardonable dilatoriness is permitted to con tinue. Surely we are not expect- development ed to believe that work in this Colony must proceed according to the whims and fancies of Chinese contractors?Apart from the flaunting of the Government, there is the inconvenience suffered.

Yesterday's health return shows two non-Chinese cases and one Chinese case of typhoid fever.

The forthcoming wedding is an- nounced of Mr. Stanley William Coleman, Peninsula Hotel, to Miss Olga Baker Sadler, Airlie House, Kowloon.

His Excellency Sir Cecil Cle menti proposes to fly from Singa- pore to Java in a Royal Dutch Indian Airways machine on August 27. He will return to Singapore on September 2.

The band of the Somerset Light Infantry is to play on the Hong- kong Cricket Club ground at 5.30 p.m. on the 31st instant, when members will be at home to their friends.

The Very Idea!

A story is told of Toscanini that exhibits the famous conductor's powers of repartee.

FOR LICENCE.

The failure of a defendant to A certain diva of renown, some- turn up at the hour a case was what annoyed at his criticisms, re- fixed to be heard caused the marked in rather haughty accents Marine Court to be adjourned for that possibly he had forgotten that a few minutes this morning. she was a star. "The place for The case was one in which Kong stare, madame, is in heaven!" camo Kau, the coxswain of a motor-boat, the shattering rotort. was summoned before the lion. Commdr.-G. F. Hole, R.N.; for failing to renew the licence of his

beat.

"That man over there has not.

taken his eyes off us since we came

in."

As it happened, the Police "How do you know?"

Officer who served the summons on the defendant was also'not in Court.

In answer to his Worship, Inspector Munro said the Officer was already on his way to the Court and would be there in a few minutes..

His Worship then adjourned the case for a few minutes to await the arrival of the Officer who would have to give evidence of having served the summons.

When the Court resumed the de- fendant had already arrived. He pleaded guilty to the charge.

His Worship:--Why were you not here when the Court sat?

Defendant:- was here very early but I suddenly realised that

A young woman dashed across. Piccadilly-creus. She threaded her way between swift motor buses and cars. Suddenly she stopped in the midst of a jam of motors and a

horsedrawn van, and screamed out, "I'm afraid of horses!''

"I'm the father of seven girls," "Then you and your wife have seven mouths to feed."

"No, we have fourteen. They're all married."

*

A curate at an East-end concert. was giving an imitation of Albert Chevalier,, speaking, of course, in Cockney. Twe Little Cockneys

The eastern half of Barker Road which arrived from Saigon this I had not brought my licence with were listening to him.

has for months past been in a shocking condition as a result of

Capt. C. Boyce of the ss. Haldis, morning, reported to the Police that a Chinese deck passenger jumped overboard during the trip and was drowned.

this partially finished work, much to the annoyance of all who have Caught damaging a tree by to use this thoroughfare. Indeed, breaking off the branches in Ma in parts it is positively dan- Tau. Wei Road, Hanghom, a Chin- ese, who appeared before Mr. gerous to ricksha along it. How Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Ma- much more grace the contractors gistracy this morning, was fired $5, had required the branches for are to be given, we do not know. It was stated that the defendant But we do suggest that it is high medicinal purposes. time the job, begun so long ago, was speeded up and finished.

Mr. Baldwin's Motion. Mr. Baldwin's vote of censure on the Labour Government, not the first one, has been formally

"

Sentence of three months' hard. labour was imposed by Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy tnis morning on a young Chinese, who admitted a charge of stealing $1 from a pedestrian's pocket in Wing Shing Lane. The defendant had a previous conviction for a similar offence,

THE "TELEGRAPH" ART SUPPLEMENT.

To-morrow's Interesting

Pictures,

man

To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will an ad- once again contain mirably varied selection of topical pictures.

One photograph of particu- lar interest will be that of a seven-foot shark recently cap- tured at Taipo.

Of sporting events illustra- ted will be the Mixed Doubles tennis match between the U.S.R.C, and C.R.C., and Lawn bowls matches in which Craigengower, Civil Service, Police and, Bowling Green Club teams participated.

There will also be some good plctures of Nicola, the magician, doing his stunt at Blake Pier, whilst a further batch of portraits of success- ful candidates. In the Trinity College of Music examinations will also be givėn.

moved in the House of Commons and has been rejected as every-)

In an attempt to prevent the ar- one expected it would be. The rest of a hawker, a Chinese seized Liberals again gave their support, a constable and could have success- adding to the evidence that there | fully rescued the prisoner but for. Of the dilatoriness of Chinese is some understanding, however the arrival of a district watchman constractors there seems no end. mysterious; between Mr. Lloyd on the scene, with the result that This point has from time to time George and Mr. Ramsay Macbeth men were taken into custody. The second man was fined $25 when Donald. The Conservatives have he appeared before Mr. Whyte been pointedly stressed at meetings gained absolutely nothing but, Smith this morning charged with of the Finance Committee of the once more advocating protection | obstructing the police. Legislative Council in regard to and food taxes, have merely given |**

The many friends of Mr. L. P. Government work let out on con- the Government another oppor- tract. Usually, there is a penalty tunity to state emphatically that Lane, Inspector of Police, are glad clause inserted in most of these they will not be party to safe to have him back amongst them contracts, but, for some reason or guarding in any form and that again after several months' ab- sence at Home, where he had been their old opposition to taxes on recuperating from a spell of seri- other, the Government often ap food has not been shaken in the ous illness. He arrived on the Yaumati and had to go back all pears most reluctant to put it into slightest. It is rather difficult to Rajputana yesterday, looking ex- the way to fetch It.

His Worship:-$25 operation. Some little time back, understand why the motion was tremely fit and again his former Unofficial members sought enlight-ever tabled. Mr. Baldwin must genial self. Inspector Lane will weeks. enment on the delay in the carry-realise that the present Govern-0 over to the mainland to take

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Pictures from Home will show the first Test match in progress, and also the late Sir Henry Segrave on his fatal adventure aboard "Miss Eng- land II."

me, your Worship. I live in

OF three

over-

FLANNEL DANCE AT YM.C.Á.

"What's he speakling like that. for, Alf?" asked one.

"Spect that's 'ow they talks in the country," said the other.

*

"I lent you two eggs yesterday, Mrs. Brown. You brought only one back.".

"Only one! Then I must have made a mistake in counting them."

• •

"Lay down, pup; lay down" or- dered the

"Good dog-lay down."

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"You'll have to say 'Lie down,' mister," declared a bystander: that's an Oxford dog."

English golfer to Scottish oppo- nent, after a very good lunch: "How do we stand?"

Scottish opponent: "I dinna kèn. It's a meeracle."

21 YEARS AGO.

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE TELEGRAPH” FILES.

The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph.for the week ended July 17th, 1909.

The rate of the dollar on de- mand was 18. 8%d.

M. Gaston Lichert, the French Consul-General, gave a reception on July 14th, the French Entional Day.

The Hongkong and Shanghai interim dividend of £2 per share. Banking Corporation declared an

H.E. Ko Yu-lum, the Chinese commissioner appointed to con- duct the Macao delimitation negotiations, was entertained to "dinner at Government House by

Si Frederick Lugard.

•

The Hongkong, Canton and iMacao Steamboat Co., Ltd., de- of $1.25 per ENJOYABLE FUNCTION HELD clared a dividend

LAST NIGHT.

share.

hands and given to another con-issue. If the Government had was lowered to the rescue. After the flannel-dance, held in the of the 8.5. Ulrikka, the master re-

tractor.

known, it was decided long ago to

URIAH HEEP.

Uriah is another of the creat tions of Dickens. Ho occurs in David Copperfield.

ing out of certain work on an ac- ment can never be won over to charge of the Hunghom station. cess path at Lowu, and the explana- Baldwin himself is not quite sure board from the 8.3. Chuen Chow his fiscal policy, although Mr.

Regarding the jumping tion was that the contractor had of some of the finer points of it, of a Chinese fishmonger, reported been dilatory. The upshot was and similarly he must have elsewhere, it appears that within that he had to pay the maximum realised that there was little or no a few minutes of the incident the fine, and, what was more to the hope of the Government being head of the vessel was turned point, the work was taken out of his defeated on what was major round and a boat, under the charge.

of the Chief Officer, Mr. Innes, "Warm, but delightful," was the

consensus of opinion regarding On the arrival in port yesterday. lost on the censuré motion, then 15 minutes' manoeuvring in a most likely there would have been heavy set, Mr. Innes picked up the lounge of the European Y.M.C.A, ported the rescue of six fishermen Mention is made of this subject | a serious political crisis. We would be suicide who was taken last night, from which it may be who were the sole survivors of the gathered that the function--the crews of three junks which wore because of the continued delay in cannot believe, however, that Mr. aboard, suffering somewhat from second of the summer series--was wrecked in Hoihow Strait during completion of the road-widening Baldwin is anxious to promote his experience.

both enjoyable and successful. the recent typhoon. It was stated work on Barker. Road. As is such a crisis and imagine that the

Adverse

conditions that 35 men were drowned. weather Conservatives are not by any

"A date for the hearing of the prevented it from being held on widen that part of the road be- This being so they are probably arred robbery in the Shamshuipo energetic work of the organising

means ready to go to the country. case in which eight men

were the tennis court, as originally arrested in connexion with an arranged, but, thanks to the tween Stubbs Road and the Victoria merely doing their work as the district at the end of last month committee, this was more than WHO Hospital, the idea being to make Opposition and no one can say was fixed-by Mr. Whyte Smith at atoned for by the excellence of it available for motor-cars. In- that they neglect any opportunity the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- the floor prepared in the building cidentally, from time to time, of harassing the Government. The ing. His Worship asked whether and the general artistic effect of lighting and decorative we have heard considerable criticism duty of the Opposition is to point the case would be a committal one the regarding the expenditure of a sum

out flaws in the administration or but Detective Sergeant Meadows scheme.

remarked that he did not know at A goodly company was present, of over $30,000 on this work, seeing what it, believes to be flaws. The the moment, although he rather and to the strains of the Hong- Opposition at the present time thought that it would not be. The kong and Shanghai Hotels dance that very few cars use this road, however, is merely obstructing defendants, were remanded till orchestra, maintained the fun up which was always wide enough for Parliamentary business. Parlia-next Thursday afternoon.

to midnight. the motor ambulance when it need-ment is very much behind with ed to take cases to the hospital. But its work and the congestion will it is too late in the day to object to grow If there are further censure motions which from their, incep- the undertaking now. What is

tion are doomed to failure and pertinent, however, is to enquire have no practical results. With Paris when the project is to be finished. the problems of India ever before New York So far as our recollection goes, this it, with the new crisis in Egypt Brussels work has been in hand well over a to be dealt with, unemployment at Amsterdam year now, and although consider Home and other tasks almost as Milan able propress has been made, formidable, the Government is en- Berlin

Stockholm a walk, over the portion of titled to fair play at any rate and

Copenhagen more than entitled to adequate Oslo the road involved will showi

opportunity to cope with major Vienna that there is still a very issues without being constantly Prague

Helsingfors great deal to be done. Out forced to' debate a subject on Madrid of a total of over $30,000 voted for which it has the strongest views Lisbon 1929, less than $10,000 had been of a nature entirely irreconcilable spent by the end of the year, and with those of the Opposition. not much more seems to have been

done since. According to an off-

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Novelty spot and tag dances formed a pleasing feature of a most enjoyable evening.

WATER LEVELS.

ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST. RIVERS.

The following table, issued by 18.09% the Kwangtung River Conservancy .18.16 Commission, shows in English feet 18.16%%the water levels on the West .34.43 River, North River and East 164.1/16 103%

10 River, on the dates named:

July 16 July 17 41.76 108,25

Shinhing

Tsingyuen

Bucharest Rid... Buenos Aires

.818

Samshul

.6.18/32

Sheklung

40.17/32

1/6.53/64

The forthcoming wedding is an Hongkong cial explanation, "very slow pronounced of Mr. Joseph Wheeler Yokohama gress was made with this work, Morris, of the Peninsula Hotel, to Silver (spot)

Miss Benlah Stich, No. 6,444, South Silver. (forward) despite continued pressure on the Albany Avenue, Chicago,

5.3

5.8

1.9

0.5

1.8. 13

The highest levels on record

1/5% are:-Shluhing, 41 feet; Teing- yuen, 29.2 feet; Samshul, 27.3 1/3/ 2/0.11/32 feet; Sheklung 15.5 feet.

The lowest level on record "at 3/16 Bamshúl is minus 5 feet and at

Bheklung minus 2.7 feet.

ritish Wireless,

"I am well aware that I am the humblest person going," was the phrase most often on the lips of Uriah Heep, who seemed to enjoy. a perfect rlot of humility. Not only was be humble himself, but his mother, his abode, his father's calling, which was that of a sax. ton-all these were 'umble into the bargain

His professed humility, how- ever, morely saved Uriah Heep as a cloak for mean and nefarious" practices, which his position as a solicitor's clerk gave him ample opportunity to indulge. He was a detestable sneak, a forger, and a swindler, who tried to cover with a fawning manner, his true" nature, which was designing," malignant and altogether repti- lian.

. It was left to Mr. Micawber to! exponse this unctuous, monster's villainies.

One would search the annals of Action in vain to find a scoundrel' drawn with such skill as Uriah. Heep has been drawn; it is a por trait which will always serve as a model for the depiction of oily bypocrisy and craft,