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There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.

For mooring their boats inshore during prohibited hours, the mas ters of two sampans were fined $5 Marine Court this each at the morning before the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole..

TIRED OF LIFE.

ONE SUICIDE AND TWO

ATTEMPTS.

Tse Foo-chau (24), a native of Waichow, living at No. 130, Nam choung Street, was found in an

the

unconscious state under verandah of the Supreme Court yesterday, having apparently takes opium in an attempt to commit suicide.

He was removed to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital. The motive for the attempt is unknown.

The Very Idea!

The vicar and his curate were

having a round of golf, and at the seventh hole were in bad lies.

The vicar (in the rough) taking his mashie lifted a divot with the ball. His caddie replaced only part of the divot, at which the vicar exclaimed-

"But what about that clod over there?"

"Oh, he's all right," replied tha caddie. "I've had my eye on him -ho's had four already!"

Yet another attempt to commit from a Yaumati Ferry suicide

Railway Passenger-"But how boat is reported by the police in am I to spend two hours in this connexion with the case of Wong wretched hole.”

Porter "Well, it ain't quite in. " Lai-ting, a room boy employed at the Tal Loy Boarding House on order, sir, but would you like to the central waterfront, who threw come into the porters" room an himself from the Nam Shun yester-ave a game of shove "apenny." day..

The wealthy man was on his The ferry was then on its way deathbed, and had called his from Hongkong to Yaumati. The rather profligate son to his side, attention of near-by craft was drawn to the man.atruggling in

explained by the circumstance that she does not call at Chinese ports, being, solely engaged in the STUDEBAKER rice trade between this Colony, Saigon and Bangkok. As a con- sequence, she does not come with in the provisions of the Piracy Prevention Ordinance, which apply only to vessels touching at Amoy,

A fall from the second floor of Swatow, Macao, Kwong-chow-wan,

the building led to the removal Hoihow, Haiphong, the West to Hospital of Lo So (19), of No. River, and the waterways of 8, Tit Hong Lane, who suffered Kwangtung and Kwangsi. It is from internal injuries, yesterday. somewhat strange, however, that no arms of any kind were carried by the ship, although, on the other hand, it is doubtful whether A limited armoury would have been of much use in such a surprise attack as was carried out on the It is advertised that com- Helikon, at a time when practical-mencing Thursday, 24th July, a constant supply of water will. be ly all the officers were asleep. given to all districts in Hongkong. The Helikon's experience serves Wharf supplies will be reconnec-

ted on application, te show that the Bias Bay pirates have still to be reckoned with, and

Charged with being in unlawful their latest outbreak proves tho

possession of a pine tree, believed absolute necessity of anti-piracy to have been cut from a Govern-a measures being continued. In-ment Plantation, a Chinese who ap peared before Mr. Whyte Smith at cidentally, the Chinese authorities the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- would not appear to have succeeding, was fined $25, or three weeks

hard labour. ed either in dispersing the gang or in keeping watch near its head- quarters Had Chinese warcraft been on duty at Bias Bay in the early hours of yesterday morning, it would have been apparent that the Helikon was in the hands of pirates. But the freebooters ap- pear to have had things all their own way. Fortunately, no British subjects were ill-treated or taken ashore, but close on a score of the Chinese passengers have been kidnapped, to say nothing of the losses which were suffered by the others in being robbed of prac-she died shortly afterwards. tically all they carried with them. Much anxiety will naturally be felt for those who have been taken THE BLAS BAY PIRATES. into captivity, and we should like to think that the pirates, despite their "gentlemanly" behaviour,

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The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

BIRTH.

CHRISTIE.-At the Victoria Hos-

pital, Hongkong, on July 22nd, to Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Christie of the Chartered Bank, Saigon, a son. (Straits papers please copy).

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23. 1930.

ed restored to their relatives.

Women Coolies.

•

"I am passing away, John," sald the dying man, "and what will become of you when I'm gone!"

"Don't worry about me, dad," replied the careless one.

**The question is, what will become of you?"...

the water, and, he was eventually picked out by some sampan people, and removed ashore to hospital.

Mystery surrounds the death of Chinese male whose body was found dangling by means of a rope

Two Scotsmen had quarrelled, knotted around his neck, from a beam in a public latrine at and had not spoken to each other Bowrington Canal yesterday morn- for a number of years. Then they ing.

met one day:: Overnight, the man, whose "Come on, let's be friends, identity is unknown, and whose Sandy," said Jock. "Dinna let us The Retrenchment Commission age was about 50, had apparently 80 on like this, advertise inviting proposals or hanged himself, proceeding about,

"Righto," replied Sandy, "we'll' suggestions for effecting econo-the task with deliberation, as so an' has a drink. mies in the administration of any evidenced by the difficult knot hae!" branch of the Public Service. which he passed around his neck, Communications should be ad- dressed to the Secretary at the Treasury Solicitor's Office, Poat Office Building.

*

The body was in A state of emaciation, and it is surmised that poverty in his old age had driven the unfortunate man to end his existence.

THREW HAMMER AT A MAN.

+

What'll ye

"I hae a double whisky," aald Jock.

"What!" ! exclaimed Sandy, Dae ye want to start anther TOW!!!

*

One of the two rival village churches had Just installed a new organ. One Sunday morning a member of the church that could hot boast of a new organ met a friend, who belonged to the other congregation.

Concussion and shock attendant on the mishap brought about the death of a 60-year-old Chinese wo- man, as yet unidentified, who was knocked down by a China Company bus at Shanghai Street, Yaumati, yesterday. The woman was taken QUARREL LANDS WOMAN IN said the first man. "All you need to the Kwong Wah Hospital, where

"

A vessel new to the port figured in this morning's Harbour Office Reports, this being the Norwegian steamer Torborg, which, is, now lying at Kowloon Dock. She is owned by Martin Mosvald, for whom Messrs. Karsten, Larssen

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"I hear you've got a new organ,”.

now is a monkey."

His friend smiled slyly "And all you need is an organ," he

A charge of causing grievious bodily harm to a man residing at Shamshuipo was brought against answered.

woman before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

Sub-Inspector: M. H. Hourihan applied for a week's formal

remand and intimated that, during

intentionally thrown the hammer. The defendant was remanded for one week on $50 bail.

HOTEL EMPLOYEES

CHARGED. ...

ACCUSED OF THEFT OF MONEY.

*

From a river bank, quite close to a lunatic asylum, an angler was pursuing his favourite sport.

By and by, in making a big

daftie" passed and saw the Just when he was in despair, a other's plight. "Tak aff yer jacket, ye silly gowk!" he cried.

A woman's quickness of obser,, vation led to Frank Cadd, -'a' soldier, being senteneed at Alder- shot to three months' hard labour for the theft of a suit of clothes. The clothes, which belonged to Corporal Bowie, Royal Corps of Signals, had been stolen when he visited the new Aldershot swim- Two servants of the "Great ming pool. Later Bowie's sister. 18.09% China Hotel at Connaught Road saw a man in Aldershot High- .18.16 Central, namely Liu Chi-ching street wearing a suit she believed 18.10 (40), the accountant, and Lee to be her brother's. She walked .34.484 Chak-lam (35), his assistant, were close to him. Having satisfied .644 arrested yesterday on a charge of herself that it was the stolen suit, 193% stealing $6,300 belonging to the she followed the man and gave

$2.874

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Hotel

They were charged before Mr. him in charge to the first police- 818 H. R. Butters at the Central man she met..

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Magistracy this morning and re-

40.16/16 manded for 48 hours for further than

1/5.25/22 Investigations.

.1/6 Mr. Horace Lo is appearing for WHO WAS 1

.1/3% Liu Chi-ching, who, with the other

2/04 man, has been granted bail in the Mrs. PARTINGTON.

The lengthy respite enjoyed will eventually be brought to book are the local agents. Capt. Tjel-

throw of his line, the hook caught 4 quarrel over rent, the woman in the back of his coat, and despite from the attentions of Bias Bay and those who have been kidnapp which arrived here from Shanghai ant, fnflicting a fracture to his he could not extricate it.

lested is in command of the vessel, throw a hammer at the complain all his exertions and contortions, pirates has been broken by the

in ballast. She carries a crew of leg. The Police did not believe, happenings on the s.s. Helikon

seven Norwegian officers with 31 however, that the woman had Asiatic, seamen. which were fully reported in our issue of yesterday. Fortunately, the event was not marked by any

The lady journalist from the bloodshed, but, none the less, the Philippines who, being a social experience suffered by the ship's student, is perplexed and worried officers and passengers when by the Colony's women coolies Paris faced by pirates armed with labouring under the strain revolvers and knives could not great loads, tends to shake the Brussels

complacency with which this as Amsterdam have been at all pleasant. Fear-pect of the Colony's life is viewed Milan ing detection, the pirates, more-by those to whom it has become Berlin

Stockholm over, threatened death to any of such a common occurrence that its Copenhagen the officers who might succeed in full significance is not realised. Oslo

Vienna attracting passing vessels, and it Visitors to the Colony may see in

Prague is conceivable that if a ship aus-

these things and they may wonder. Helsingfors Usually, when engaged on a tour Lisbon

Madrid picious of the Hellkon's movements of the world, they are so prepared Athens had come up, a very different story for the unusual that they seldom Bucharest might have had to be told.

allow themselves to express be- Buenos Aires The usual procedure followed by widerment or surprise. With the Bombay the Bias Bay pirates is to board Colony's residents merely in the

Shanghai Hongkong the victimised steamers at Chin-role of unconcerned spectators, the Foam

women continue to labour And Silver (spot) ese ports, where the searching of

what Miss Herrera describes as a Silver (forward) passengers is not usually marked

problem remains untouched. The by any degree of thoroughness.women of China, however, cannot In this instance, however, they be compared with their sisters in came aboard in Hongkong, as the the majority of other countries. Helikon does not touch at Chinese Te has been their heritage for

BITTEN WHILST READING porta. In common with all other generation after generation and

IN GARDEN. passengers, they appear to have they accopt it with a stoicism

Jackie Odell, the son of Mr. and been searched on board before the which might at times even conceal

Mrs. H. Odell, living at Pokfulum ship left, but there are grounds for toiling. We are forced to the con-planations, as to how they had ob- Alsatian

a desire to be allowed to continue

Failing to give satisfactory ex-Road, in a house situated on Lot thinking that

was attacked by an many, if clusion that indeed any, of them carried arms. for existence is, in the majority of appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith bour, Mr. Mognaschi, yesterday, the mere struggle tained a bangla, three men who Alsatian dog belonging to a neigh- The reports speak of the gang cases, responsible for the fact at the Kowloon Magistracy this evening.

The boy was sitting on the lawn, numbering about sixteen all told, that the many Chinese women morning on a charge of possession reading a book, when, without work at the most menial tasks. of the bangle were fined $25 warning, the dog sprang at him and and the fact that some of them Stern necessity must be the urge three weeks' hard labour each.

bit him in the chest. He was im- the galley when a woman toils in the heat that a friend had requested him to Queen's Building and given pre- The first defendant indicated mediately taken to Dr. Woo, of would tend to show that they were of the day breaking stones, carry: pawn the bangle, which he had cautionary treatment. hot well supplied with weapons. Ing giant loads or doing work given to the second defendant, Such arms as they had may, morè- which in many other parts of the who in turn handed it to the third to the Kennedy Town depot for ob- The dog has since been removed, over, have been secreted in their world is that of a man, and some defendant to pawn." It was while servation.

times with a tiny bundle of the third defendant was in the luggage. In such circumstances, humanity strapped to her back shop that a detective appeared on the few firearms smuggled on If the outside observer pauses for the scene. board, seeing that there were in one moment to consider he cannot Detective Sergeant Fitches in- all some six hundred passengers, but deplore an economie situation timated that when the first defen- dant was subsequently arrested he could easily be overlooked. It which makes this necessary but told two different stories to the

he may not be aware of the titanic police. would, therefore, appear that there atruggle for existence which the

not

secured knives from

is not much room for criticism so poorer Chinese wage daily or of

16 sum of $5,000. 15%%

-British Wirelcas.

THREE MEN AND A BANGLE.

· SATISFACTORY “EXPLANA- TION NOT GIVEN:

J

LAD ATTACKED BY

·ALSATIAN,

HELIKON RESUMES

VOYAGE.

CLEARED FROM HONGKONG

LAST NIGHT. "S

After lying at Kowloon Bay the far as the searching was concern-the glut of labour for tasks both how the standard of living can

whole-of yesterday afternoon, the ed, although the subsequent events great and small. Our visitor be raised to such a height that her way to Saigon, left Hongkong 9.8. Hellkon, which was pirated on no longer labour. for that port yesterday evening once again stress the necessity of from the Philippines asks whether women need

such things must continue. WeThere is always the inexorable law with over 80 passengers, every possible precaution being ! are forced to acknowledge that the of supply and demand and it must taken to guard against passengers years seemingly bring little to conferred that the possibility getting arms aboard. The fact improvement in this particular of a solution of the problem even that the Helikon carried no guards economic problem. The women in the distant future la so remote and was not fitted with grilles is still toil and it is difficult 10 sec as to be at Inaccessible goal. ⠀

Capt. W. Anderson is in com- mand of the vessel with Mr. J. S. Kirkpatrick as Chief Officer, Mr. and Mr. G. E. Marr as Second En- W. Anderson as Chief Engineer

gineer.

In the winter of 1824 a storm of unusual violence. raged over. Devon, and the seas ran enormously high. The town of Sidmouth was flooded, and most of the in- habitants took refuge in the upper stories. Not so the dauntless Mrs. Partington. Shood in pattens and armed with a mop she prepared to push away the Atlantic Ocean as fast as it invaded her kitchen.

The Atlantic might rage, but. Mrs. Partington was also annoyed. Like King Canute "shedefled the waves" and equally with King Canute she was routed. As Sydney Smith said in his election at Taun- ton in 1831:—"She was. ex- cellent at a puddle, but she should never have meddled with a tempest."

The speaker was comparing her action to that of the House of Lords in refecting the Reform Bill, which was bound to be passed sooner or Jater. Multitudinous are the Mrs. Partingtons of this world, the people who wante time and energy in defying the inevitable, and opposing the march of progress just be cause it inconveniences them personally for the time being. An American writer has adapted the character of Mrs. Partington to a story of his own, making of her a sort of, Mrs. Malaprop, which, waS- ingenious of him, but unwar ranted by fact.