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DAY BY DAY

THE STRUGGLING YOUTH WHO HAS TO FIGHT THE BATTLE OF LIFE ALL THE TIME CANNOT GO. IN FOR THE ELEGANCIES. OF EDUCATION. -- Sir George Reid,

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merchants in Great Britain. "Any agreement purporting to accord auch privileges to British merchants," It was further stated, "would remain for some time to come a mere paper agreement to which it would be impossible to

The Curat..

jagainst him. The jury awarded

her threepence, each side to pay. Whilst give effect in practice."

"For telling those lies you will part of the cost. There were five drop dead within fortnight. taking this stand, however, the

women on the jury! Mr. M. S. J. Walsh, the Manager These words were shouted to Re- British Government indicated its

of the British-American Tobacco ginald Miles, a gardener, in Chert-[The Curse. consider willingness to

such Co. (China) Ltd., left to-day by sey (Surrey) Police Court by a modifications of the system of the ss. Tjisaroen for the North. woman after he had given evidence

against her on a charge of breaking who accumulated £100,000 during extrality as were desirable and

The Swedish East Asiatic Com-into a church: An inquest was held her strange life, has committed practicable. That was the British pany's motor vessel Nanking left on Miles three weeks later. He suicide by gus poisoning, in New th instant and was found dying on a road at Dork-York. To one of her relatives she attitude just a year ago, and we Rotterdam on the

is due here about September 13th. ing with a bottle, of poison in his left £30. To four others she left the following note: "I wish that know of nothing which has hapi

pocket.

all the harm in the world will poned in the interim to warrant

happen to you and your children," Life-Saving Sign. Any change therein.

Any Hutch in a Storm.

Hongkong Telegraph, to-day, we find the situation de-

The Hon. Treasurer of the St. John Ambulance Brigade acknow ledges the receipt of a donation of $25 to Brigade Funds, by Mr. Choy Hing.

1..

The hanging-sign of the Tanners' Arms, Stanworth-street, Bermond- sey, saved the lives of the licensee

Mra, Rosalie. Barabell, a recluse

A rabbit's resource saved its life.

When "

Tenders are being invited by the and his wife recently. The build-in a Chorley (Lancs) hotel fire. Government for the demolition ofing caught fire in the small hours It was one of several rabbits

and escape by the atairs was im-which were in one room. the brick tanks on the Praya which possible. Husband and wife climb the flames approached, the rabbit were erected during the watered out of the upper window, and jumped into a bucket of water. shortage last year.

after crawling along a narrow ledge, The others were burned to death. elung to the iron support of the The firemen found the rabbit, bewildered and singed, peering sign until help arriveda

through at them from the bucket with its fore feet gripping the Baleful Bales.

The Government is inviting tenders for the construction of a garage for motor lorries at the Kowloon Disinfecting Station and for alterations and additions to the Hunghom P. W. D. Store.

to the

Following the announcement

In considering this matter, it must be borne in mind that when, in April of last year, the Chinese Government addressed the Powers on the subject, much emphasis was laid on the point that China was unified and the National Govera ment established on a firm founda tion. Actually, however, the uni- fication claimed was merely nominal,

dia Docks, who thrust a long spear neck.

Customs officials at the West In-rim and its body in water to the and a great deal has sirice happened

into a bale of waste-paper found Love Finds a Way. to shake the foundations on which

traces of tobacco adhering to thej When mention was made begrooved end when it was with- Mr. L. Jorgenson, of Kansas, the Nanking Government has been fore Mr. Butters at the Central drawn. An examination of thirty- U.S.A., and Miss Allen were built up. At the moment, Nan- Police Court this morning of nine other similar bails which had married at Cairo after having king's authority is disputed in very kidnapping case in which a woman arrived by steamer from Antwerp travelled round the world in was alleged to have decoyed a girl revealed a sensational attempt to opposite directions to meet one many of the Provinces, and. the from Yaumati, his Worship direct-muggle a ton of tobacco into the another. The bride came on a country. In the centre of each bale world cruise across the Pacific, Administration is still fighting to ed that the case be taken

Kowloon Magistracy.

a quantity of tobacco was found. while the bridegroom came across preserve its existence. As we look

Observatory returns show that and the whole was estimated at a the Atlantic.

datiable value of nearly £1,000. at the general condition of China

the average mean temperature dur- When a Hassocks, Sussex, post- Oarsman of 81. ing July was 82.3, the highest man unlocked ↓ letter-box hel finitely worse than it was a year being 92.3, on the 1st.. and the found that a swarm of bees had that James Perkins, aged 78,

lowest 74, on the 24th. There taken possession. ago, with no guarantee of pro- tection to foreign life and pro- perty in the disturbed areas. That being the case, the moment is most unpropitious in which to surrender any rights which in

would

exceedingly volve the position of foreigners interesting to know precisely what in China. With facts as they are, is taking place between Britain we cannot imagine the British or and China regarding the extrality any other Government weakening

a cargo boat.

Bill to that effect has been passed · question. Two days ago, there its position or jeopardising the

Mr. A. Strok, the well-known Twins Die in 8 Days.

by the Senate. Very soon the.. was a report from Nanking that safety of its nationals by any such

farmer, Warren C. Vests, of Twin brothers, James and the British Government

had policy. Let us hope that the most impresario, arrived in the Colony

to-day from Europe, and whilst william Gosden, 78 years of age, Government cheque for £30. He Tampa, Florida, will receive a indicated its agreeability towards that is happening is merely a cohere will be making preparations have died in the adjoining

Ottershaw of

has been claiming that the soldiers draft proposals for the abolition tinued interchange of views with for the forthcoming visit, on Sep-

tember 2nd., of Zimbalist,

the Parishes

ate £200 worth of melons, but Chobham (Surrey) within eight after a long discussion the Senate of extrality which had been made eventual modification, when condi- famous violinist. Mr. Strok is.

decided that £30 damages would by the Foreign Ministry and re-tions warrant it but not before-bringing other big attractions todays of each other.

suffice. vised as a result of discussions of a system the continued operation the East, including two world-re- Convenient Russia.

nowned dancers, from Paris, between Sir Miles Lampson and of which is most certainly needed Dr. C. T. Wang. It was added that to-day. the British Minister had received instructions to go to Nanking in

SATURDAY, AUG. 16 1930.

It

EXTRALITY.

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were 175.2 hours of sunshine and

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winner of the first prize in the old-time Greenwich Town Regatta the Optimism Won.

54 years ago, had entered for the In grass-track racing at Ling-Seamen's Hospital Society Regatta field (Surrey) a motor-cyclist won on August Bank Holiday, James Suffering from the effects of

on a home-made machine with two Pimm, aged 81, of Hoskins-street, Immersion as a result of jumping oil-caas used as a petrol tank.

Greenwich, also entered. into the harbour, from the Prays opposite the Fire Station, yester-Tragic Cointidence.

Damages for War Thirst. Arthur Johnson, the gateman at. day, a young Chinese, Chong Ta-

An irate farmer, whose water- was removed to the South Lock, Newport (Mon.);

Civil, Hospital. Ho pulled the dead body of a child melon patch was raided-32 years had attempted to commit suicide bather out of the water and then ago by thirsty soldiers on their but was rescued by Lo Muk-yau, of discovered it was his own son, way to the Spanish American war,

king (18), Government

aged 9.

and

Spanish-American

"It takes less time to get Even the Stork- The brief intimation of the loss married in Soviet Russia than it

does to buy a pound of co-opera- Even the atork has joined the of a quantity of jewellery and, tive bread. And as to a pound general fashion of having fewer money from 51, Wongnelchung of fresh butter!Why, you can offspring. Members of the Road was contained in a police re- Immigration to Canada. port issued this morning. It was get a divorce in half the time." Ornithological Society of Oldenburg, So writes Negley Farson, an near Strasburg, who have been stated that the inmates, whose American, in a book entitled, keeping a close check on the pro- The new broom in Canada has names were not given, lost valu- "Seeing Red," which has just been ductivity of storks, found that old That this is not a correct inter-started to sweep with strides whichables amounting to $709, the theft

stork families who regularly pro published. pretation of the facts is now made are little short of sensational for occurring some time between 1

duced a nest of four or five-have dropped down to one to two, Some obvious in a report from London the new Government has only been o'clock and 6 o'clock this morning. To One King—$d!'

Dr. Leonard Kuttler, surgeon at parent storks have stopped having saying that nothing is -known in power a few days when it drastic action.. If it can be justi. a Cleveland (Ohio) Hospital, was families. The naturalists are about the alleged Chinese pro-decides on drastic curtailment of fied, then blame may attach to the professionally attending Mrs. giving much study to the problem Butler. Mrs. Butler for in Strasburg the stork is the posals, nor of the instructions to immigration from all countries. former legislative body for aggrava- Orville Sir Miles Lampson to go to Nan-The movement of immigrants from ing a problem which must have ap declared that he kissed her and symbol of the new baby, with the

brought an action for damages cabbage patch a bid second. Europe is to be stopped and the peared during its regime. king. There is, however, an addi-various assisted passage schemes tional observation to the effect are to be abandoned. The reason. that the British Minister will given is, that unemployment in obviously go to the capital "if the Canada warrants the step. This negotiations reach definite is the first indication that the un- employment situation in Canada had stage."

reached a stage where it becomes From these statements it may, necessary to check the growth of we imagine, be safely assumed the working population. The action that what is taking place is a con- of the new Government has been so tinuation of the protracted conver- rapid that it seems likely that no sations on a subject which has very great consideration has been LINEN HAND-MADE DRESSES been found to present innumerable given to the question and also that

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the Home Government, which has

difficulties. It will be recalled for years encouraged overseas that some eighteen months ago, settlement, may have something to the Chinese Government presented say on the matter. Immigration Notes to the Treaty Powers to Canada has been more than en- couraged. People have been given urging the carly abolition of

greatly assisted passages enabling extrality, and that the replies them to go to the Dominion at a thereto, although sympathetic purely nominal expense to them- towards the Chinese plea, did seves, and in addition the shipping not contemplate immediate ac-companies have quoted a flat rate tion on the lines desired by of £10 for the passage for bona fide settlers. The constant cry has the Nanking Government. The

been "Go to Canada where there is British reply referred to the work" and it comes as a shock to interference to administration in discover that one of the first acts China by military groups and of a new Government is to place associations which either set up most definite ban on immigra- arbitrary and illegal tribunals of tion. During the first five months their own or attempted to use legal of the 1929 Canadian fiscal year immigration to Canada totalled courts for the furtherance of poli-

109,237. Of this total 47,225 were tical objects rather than for the from the British Isles. In the cor- administration of equal justice be- responding five months of 1928 the tween Chinese and Chinese and total was 112,060, These figures are between Chinese and foreigners. sufficient to indicate the extent of It was added that until such inter-immigration into the Dominion. ference and dictation became less It is obvious that either the pre- vious Government failed to take marked, it would not be prae- restrictive measures before a teme. ticable for British merchants to

porary saturation point was reach reside, trade and own property 'ined or that the new Government has China with the same equality of acted precipitately. In any case freedom and safety as these the new Government of Canada privileges are accorded to Chinese should be called on to explain its

Will the romantic

young man who finds this bottle and note plaar:

Correspond