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WEDNESDAY,

VEHICULAR FERRY.

adding to the administrative costs of the Colony. As we have before had occasion to remark, the fur- ther multiplication of cross-harbour services is quite unnecessary, and If private enterprise is able and willing to maintain the vehicular ferry system, it should be given the opportunity of doing so.

DAY BY DAY

1930.

GOD HELP THE MAN WHO LOSES

FAITH IN MOTHERHOOD, IN GOOD- NESS, IN HUMANITY, IN WOMAN- HOOD--Rev. Thomas Phillips.

The P. and 0.8.8. Rajputana, from Shanghai, is due here at 8 am. on Friday.

This Thrilling World

EXTRACTS FROM THE

WORLD'S PRESS

China Press (Shanghai).

Politiken (Copenhagen).

Russian influence in the East is When an English steamer bound. chiefly thought of in connexion from Archangel to the United with revolutionary movements in States with a cargo of timber was China, India, Indo-China and Java. loading at Archangel five Russians But what is perhaps not generally

One case of typhoid fever among It has been shown, by ample evi-the floating population was noti- dence, that with the growth of fied yesterday. motor transport, a vehicular ferry service is essential to the Colony. So long as we are without it, the Colony is needlessly split into two

Twelve months' imprisonment realized or properly appreciated from the convict settlement whe sections. From every angle, the and 24 strokes of the birch was is the fact that the Soviet system took part in the loading hid in the. desirability of the project can be the sentence inflicted, at the Kow. is already securely Intrenched ship's hold. One was found while over vast expanse of the East the ship was in Russian waters established, and inasmuch as it is loon Magistracy this morning on in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and put ashore at the pilot station, a Chinese charged with snatching inhabited by 20,000,000 people, necessary for the due, and proper bangle from a child in Shamshui- the great majority of whom belong while the four others remained development of the Colony, we can po Market. He had previously to Asiatic races. Those Soviets in the hold two days before being

When which are occasionally reported discovered.

the ship not see why efforts should not be served three weeks for larceny.

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as established in disturbed dis- touched at Harstad the captain made to secure à grant under the

In our report of the disappear-tricts of southern and central ordered the stowaways on shore, Colonial Development Fund. That ance of the compradore of the China are still built on shifting: Fund was devised for works of Equitable Eastern Banking Cor-sand. But this Soviet regime in but on the order of the Depart...

poration yesterday, we wrongly Central Asia and the Caucasus is ment of Justice the local polica such a character as this, and as stated that the Bank named is the a going concern, based not only refused to accept them. Five Hongkong at the moment is none successor of the Asia Banking Cor-on force and propaganda but on hours later, at Westford, North tod flush with money, it ought notporation. This, we are now in- definite economic achievements Norway, the captain ordered the formed, is incorrect, and we readily which tend to remold the lives of publish the correction.

to be difficult to convince the Home authorities of the reasonability of from this expecting assistance particular source.

a

FLYING LAW.:

the nomads of Kazakstan, the stowaways into the ship's open cotton planters of Uzbekistan and yawl. The men reached land, Two employees of the Hop Yik Turkmenistan and the polyglot and were taken to Narvik. The Iron Foundry of Pine Street, Tal-peoples of the Caucasus kotsui, Wong Kam (16) an ap- prentice, and Chan. Ping-wo (24) a boiler scraper, were removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital yester- day suffering from burns received as a result of metal which was being boiled over flowing.

.

New-Chronicle (London).

were:

Department of Justice maintains that Russian refugees cannot jobtain permission to stay in Norway, but their application for permission to go to England will

·Tropical Fruits.

A young man without a pilot's be put through diplomatic chan The mangosteen has appeared in

certificate who twice forces an un-nels as the refugees were under Convent Garden Market and while

fortunate pedestrian to throw him-English colours when discovered. self on the ground by flying within

AN AMAZING PARADOX. the new fruit has been greeted

Revenue Officer T. Tallon charg-a few feet of his head deserves all with enthusiasm in some quarters ed before Mr. Whyte Smith this he gets. The Bramley magistrates, -The Sun (Sydney). there has been no general interest morning, a Chinese with the un-in fining him £40 for dangerous in its Introduction to England. lawful possession of eight taels of flying, observed that it was "a very

"It is an amazing paradox that Labour The illustrious margo has also been raw opium. The man was arrest- bad case." But there is far too when the Australian sent to England where it is now ed at the Kowloon Railway station much of this low flying. If the Government are erecting a tarif AUG. 13. 1930. also possible to purchase lichees and with the opium concealed in a man is in difficulties and has lost barrier so high and so thick that specially constructed waistcoat control, that of course la quite an-foreign merchants can neither a number of other fruits, which He was fined $240, or one months' other matter; but as a "stunt" low climb over it nor burrow through residents in this part of the world

imprisonment,

flying ought to be sternly repressed. it, the British Chancellor of the regard as part of a seasonal diet

We cannot have the "air pig" sub- Exchequer declares that in no cir- will the British and which are taken for granted. There have been no fresh deve-stituting himself for the now dis- cumstances

Labour Government place duties The Empire Marketing Board is lopments since yesterday in the appearing road hog."

on food or raw materials, and that, Another step forward in the responsible for the attempts to in- scaffold workers' strike, except New York Times (New York).. therefore any protection which ⠀'

Australian producte enjoyed direction of providing this Colony troduce these new fruits into Eng-that both the employers and strik

ers are preparing for the re-open-

On a poll of the students at the under the Conservative Govern with a vehicular ferry service to land. They are produced in various ing of the negotiations relative to operate between the island and the parts of the Empire and in some a settlement of the dispute. Re-University Heights Centre of New ment will be destroyed. But York University to decide "Who is since the prime purpose of the mainland has to be registered with cases their export over great dis- presentatives from both parties the greatest man in the world?" Imperial Conference has always the announcement that the projecttances would have been impossible will meet in the near future to dis- |Lindbergh was placed first, Dr. been the adjustment of trade re- Albert Einstein second and lations, it seems useless for a years ago when refrigeration as we cuss the question. has received the approval of the know it to-day was little used.

President Hoover third.

Prime Minister who has just put A Chinese, Cheung Fuit, was

Other choices of the students prohibitive tariffs 00 British Secretary of State for the Colonies. Science, however, is gradually en-charged before Mr. Whyte Smith

goods and has told the. British For more years than we care to re-abling the most delicate products of to-day with having purported that

Favourite author: 1-Thomas merchant that his trade is not member has this schemie been talk- the world to be sent to the most a bangle was pure gold when it

There 18, of was not, and with attempting to Hardy: 2-Joseph Conrad; 3-wanted by Australia, to discuss ed about, but in February last the, distance places.

Empire trade with a Prime Minis- Shakespeare. Government reached the conclusion course, little likelihood f what are obtain from Ho Min, the accoun-

Favourite play:

"Journey'ster who declares that he does not care who sells him woods-black that it was desirable that such a regarded as tropical fruits becom-tant of the Kung Wo pawn shop

in Temple Street, the sum of $12 End."

India, yellow Japan, or white Favourite novel:

in Australia.

theso service should be instituted with ing so well known at Home as the with intent to defraud. Chuen

circum- already common fruits. Most of Kam-chuen, was also charged with Jones;" 2"All Quiet the minimum of delay. Since then, them are at present only native having aided and abetted the first Western Front;" "Pickwick stances it may be asked what is the use of Mr. Scullin (the Com-

Prime the matter has obviously been the crops whose cultural requirements defendant. Both defendants plead- Papers."

monwealth

Minister) subject of correspondence with the have yet to be studied and under-ed not guilty, and the Magistrate

expense of the taxpayers?”. Home authorities, whose sanction stood. Every one of them presents remanded the case for 24 hours. Greta Garbo: 2-Ruth Chatterton. making a trip to London at the to the undertaking will remove any a separate scientific problem on cause for further undue temporising transport. Still, England together on a question which is of vital im- with other countries far removed from the tropic zone, is gradually portance to the development of the

entering into the tropic's inherit- Colony.

ance, just as the tropics have enter- The previous official intimationed into, the inheritance of far away on the subject, in February last, countries by the successful import contemplated the erection and of foodstuffs not locally produced. maintenance of the piers by the The time will surely come when Government, with the further pos even the most fragile and delicate sibility of the Government also con- of foodstuffs may be sent to the uttermost ends of the world; structing the boats, whilst the ques- Great

in progress

transport tion of the method of operating the methods, refrigeration and pre- service was left for further conservation has been made in recent sideration. It would appear from years and the Empire Marketing the information at present avail- Board is do its share in fostering able that no definite decision has yet even further development. To the Far Eastern dweller the fact that been reached on these vital points. the fruits he knows so well have Inasmuch, however, as the con been successfully introduced into

LINEN HAND-MADE DRESSES structional work is estimated to England may appear of no import-

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take fully two years from the date ance, but a moment of thought re- of commencement, it seems eminent-veals that there is a good deal, of ly desirable that the Government romance behind it and also evidence

of scientific development. should reach an early conclusion on these particular aspects of the scheme. The venture will of reces- sity be costly, and from that stand- point it is somewhat unfortunate that the Colony is at present faced | Paris

Brussels with a financial problem of con-

Amsterdam siderable magnitude, largely caused Berlin by the effects of the drop in the Copenhagen

Vienna sterling value of the dollar. Re-

Helsingfors trenchment rather than fresh com- Lisbon

Bucharest mitments, is the order of the day.

Buenos Aires

London, Aug. 12.

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.34.825

.12.085

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18.165

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It may, indeed, be found necessary Shanghal

Yokohama to slow down on some of the

New York Colony's public works, but, what Geneva.

Milan ever other projects may be affected Stockholm by this policy, it is essential that Oslo

Prague the vehicular ferry scheme should Madrid Athens be started and pushed ahead as

Rio quickly as possibly. We can well Bombay understand the Government deci- Hongkong

Silver. (spot and forward) sion to erect and maintain the piera. necessary to the scheme, but we suggest that there is no call for placing the operation of the service

in Government hands, with the re-

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The forthcoming wedding is an nounced of Mr. Huibert Poth, Ngemplak Hotel, Saerabala, to

sult that yet another Department Miss Bronislawa Lankowsky, of

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on

1- "Tom the

Favourite movie actress: 1-

"My dear I've had to bring Doris to heel. I've forbidden her to smoke before breakfast or drink before lunch, and ugg she goes out. I insist she get back in

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