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THE SPIRIT OF CHEERFULNESS.

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C-1858 )"Silver Wings"

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C-1872 )"The Three Musketeers" Selections

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1930.

USED CARS

MAY BE

GOOD CARS

THESE ARE! STUDEBAKER BIG SIX 7 Pas. TOURING 1924 MODEL PRICE $800. STUDEBAKER BIG SIX 7 Pas. TOURING 1925 MODEL PRICE $900.

STUDEBAKER

STANDARD SIX

5 Pan. TOURING 1926 MODEL PRICE $1,000. CHEVROLET SEDAN G Pas. 1928 MODEL PRICE $1,100.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

The Lengkong Shanghai Hotel, Ltd. Incorporatet in Hongkong. 2). Queen's Road C. and Blubba Road.

DEATH.

DAY BY DAY

LITTLE JOYS REFRESH US CON- STANTLY. LIKE HOUSE-BREAD, AND

cord for the first time as recognis- ing that preferences within the Em- pire are of mutual benefit to all con. cerned. It will therefore be seen that if the Labour Government has declined to risk Injury to its forelyn tracy or to add to the burdens of its | NEVER BRING DISGUST; AND GREAT ONES, LIKE · SUGAR-PREAD. BRIEFLY, own people by consenting to a new AND THEN BRING IT-Richter.

sent policy, much has been gaiyed by contact with the Dominion Prem- | iers, and in duo course we may ex- pect to see benefits "accruing Trim the schemes on which it has been found possible to agree.

It has been made obvious from the fonference just concluded that there in need to hold these gather inga mch more frequently than

II. M. Sloop Cornflower is ex pected to return to Hongkong on 20th Inst.

The Empress of Japan is due hore from Vancouver at 6 a.m, on Wednesday.

66

- BEVERLEY NICHOLS relates how

A WOMAN WALKS.

TICE walk?" asked the man

'N of his wife, as she came

in

"All right." "See anything?” "Nothing."

she curso the policeman who was holding her up.

-The road was clear again. As she crossed ovor she remembered. that she had promised to order some more photographs from the shop which she was now approach- Ing. She wont in and gave her order.

She had Atarted at Oxford- At the first corner the The Rev. N. L. and Mrs. Wetkina street.

very fat woman gazing retarned from Manila by the 8.5. w o

Just na she was feaving albe hoard President Pierce.

wistfully into a shop window, her

na woman's voice behind her saying, eyes fixed on a slim, delicate "I wonder if you could trace a. The Bon Line A. Benrinnes in model that could only be worn by photograph for me." "What manic, every four years, since the accumudue here from Singapore on Saturn girl of eighteen. The fat

madame?" naked the woman was nervously, spasmo "Captain, lie was Intion of problems, many of consi-day, 22nd. instant,

cally running her angers down October 1918. That was the date derable magnitude and importance,

her aldey.

It was embarrassing the photograph was taken. makes it extremely difficult to give

a little horrible,

to each the consideration which it deserves. For this reasna, we are happy to note int there is every prospect of the economic section of the Conference meeting in Ottawa | next year, when fresh contact should prove of inestimable value in developlug and expanding the agreements now reached. There may be differences of viewpoint on the best methods to be adopted to foster Imperial frade, but the

Conference has made it evident that there is complete malmity on the

WOO-On 13th November, 1930,

at Seattle, Wash., Dr. Pauind in view. Sing-tak Woo, D.D.S., former- ly of Hongkong, son of the late Rev. Woo Yee Bew and Mrs. Woo, of Honolulu, T.H. (By Cable).

The

Hongkong Telegraphı.

193.4.

New Mayfair Orch'

MONDAY, Nov. 17

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C-1887 "Show of Shows"

C-1893 "Puttin' on the Ritz"

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The Amusement Tax.

The annual exhibition of the Hongkong Art Club is advertised to take place on December 10 and

11.

eho

assistant. killed in

The woman spoke in a quiet, flat voice; and she did not onco raiso "One day," she thought, "I may her

er eyes from the counter. bo like that, I may have to go "Oh she thought, as she went The forthcoming wedding is to the out-size department, and outside again, "I do hope that they announced of Mr. Hugh Cecil listen to the attendants telling and the photograph for her. I do

indeed." And Rabbetts, of Shanghai, to Miss polite lies about my figuro

thought how Lucille Slégman, also of Shanghat.1 may pant for breath when I

long It all seemed, and wonder- clamber lato a 'bus, and never seed Captain had been the a challenge in a man's eyer... woman'a lover, and if he had been, She hurried on.

what she had done without a photo- In the next block there was a graph for all these years. Or per- haps there had been an accident, that would be She shivered

She went into the park. There

Mr. H. R. Ekins, of the United Press Associations, is a passenger from Manila by the .s. President Pierce. He is being transferred to Shanghai.

The

P. und 0. Jeypore, from Singapore is due here at npon on Thursday, and the same Company's liner Kalyan, also from Singapore.

motor-lorry on

Road

• *

it

ladder over the pavement, and hat nearly everybody was passing out-a firo maybe. alde it. She watched them. terrible Quite sophisticated-looking girls alightly. would stand aside and wait their Wo turn rather than pass underneath. was a fresh, gusty wind. It swept Smart young men stepped into the away the clouds from the sun gutter, One old woman was blew the leaves in a whirl about on the same day at 6 pan.

delayed for nearly three minutes, ber fect, it brought the blood so crowded was the little patch of mounting swifty to her checks. Wong. Hing (37). a married

pavement

There were a thousand things to Chinese woman, died in hospital

As she watched, her mind was Rec yesterday from injuries received stimulated by this phenomenon. And to love whenever the wind was blowing-it turned the lake through being knocked down by She remembered dark, evil super- from a sheet of steel into a gay,

the Castle Peak Atitions in a book she had been swi

swirling se of adventure, it recently.

reading, and then through a mist brought out the

the swift Hold in the seemed to ane herself as a children's hair, it turned the doga

girl, pressing her

nong from placid household pata into the are bedroom window and wild forest creatures that they cry were, it let loose the tongues of "Come away, come away

you the trees. It reminded the rich of moon their security, the poor of their mustn't look at the through glass."

|raggedness—or did it perhaps bring She walked on.

even to the poor a sense of chance A taxi drew up just in front of and freedom, as though, perhaps, her.

As the door opened, and the over some distant hill some wind "fare" emerged, she had a glimpse was racing towards them, bearing

There good tidings on its wings?

She turned home. "See anything?" "Nothing."

hear nurse's

new

wha seeks a $1.20 seat at a cinema following cases, the deaths being snenied, that he was very proud

For how, she thought, can one explain these things-to a mant

BREACH OF POSTAL REGULATIONS. -

CARRYING LETTERS FROM KONGMOON,

The Government's proposals for applying the Entertainments Tax io Hongkong call for little comment In a general way. The rates An elderly Chinese woman was decide upon are much higher run over and killed by a train yes than expected and we find it difterday at the junction of Castle ficult to believe that the avowed Peak Road and Yuenchow Street. object of raising $300,000 by She was identified as Tong Sze, a native of Pak Tin village, in the means of this «pecial luxury tax New Territorien. has been at all an important factor in the arrangement of the sche Early yesterday morning the dule. It may also be charged, Fire Brigade despatched two en- justly we think, that the gradua gines to Mount Davis, where a scrub of the inside of the taxi.

fire had broken out. After half was a beautiful bunch of bright tion is far from equitable. The an hour's work, the firemen succeed-pink paper carnatione in a little No surprise will be occasioned by seeker after amusement able and ed in isolating the fire, and confin-silver vase, and tiny draped side the fact that the Imperial Confer-willing to spend $4 or $5 for ed it to a small area where it was curtains, and spotlessly clean (though somewhat inconvenient) ence has concluded without any admission to an entertainment is eventually put out.

antimacassars on the seats. on the filso able to afford a bigger con-

health agreement being reached

The League of Nation

It was really a very tribution to the Exchequer. bulletin of Eastern ports for the

Pretty taxi, Ho tarif issue. That was expected.

she glanced at its owner. and she proportion, than the individual | week ended 8th instant, shows the was pale, and as he drove off he since,

as the official message of

to be coughing. Sho Saturday stated, the Dominion Pre- and has to find a further 20 cents indicated in parenthesis:-Plague,

the Contier-in order to maintain high salaries Berat 1; cholers, Bombay 1 (1) if he felt that it was like a little

Tamatave 2, Alexandria miers realised before

1(2), indeed of his taxi. She wondered enve opened That "the British Gov-for Government servants. The Calentia, IL (6). Shanghai home, gliding through the streets, erament held particular views on Legislative Council is given power smallpox, Tomatave, 1, Basen 1 and she wondered how mony At the instigation of the Post- to recast the scale of duties, for Chleatta 3 (3), Cochli 10, Madras people thanked him for the carna-master-General who was represent the tariff question, which took into

request for in- 2 (2), Negapalam 2 (5), Peuruz tons and the antimacassars and ed by Mr. T. M. Perpetuo, a Chin consideration the interests of itstunately, and

the draped curtains. She would se passenger from Kongmoon by formation regarding receipts from 4 (1), and Shanghai 1. people." Expressed in other words, this source at the end of the first

have liked to take a ride in it, so the B.8. San Nam Hoi appeared be this means that the Dominion Pre- three months of operation is likely

Mr. Lynn Franklin, the newly that ale might thank him at the fore Mr. Williams at the Central Mogletracy this morning ona appointed American Consul at end. miers and the British Government to provide a justification for some

Chefoo, who relieves the presant There was a traffic block now charge of being in possession of 58 view the maller from different amendments. Of special interest consul there, Mr. Leroy Webber, The policeman held out his hand. unatamped letters.

Defendant said he was in a hur angles, and that they have not beenre the provisions regarding sea who returns to the United States. It seemed that the stream of cars able to adine their viewpoints, tickets issued by clubs. This is expected to arrive at his new would never end. As she watch-ry before leaving Kongmoon and

to purchase During the progress of the Con-ears to affect football clubs post and Raume charge about the ed, she saw the policeman drop ind forgotten"

middle of November. Mr. Frank his arm for a brief moment and stumps. more than any other, and, in this in has been for the past few then raise it again. Ile locked ar According to Inspector Bright, ference, more than one of the Em-connexion, we are not sure

years stationed at Saltillo, Mexico, though he were raising a heavy a coolie was arrested early in the pire delegates indicated that they whether the Colonial Treasurer or previous to which he was attached weight, and she suddenly realised morning with two sacks which con- could hardly hope to induce the the respective Hon. Secretaries to the American Consulate General that all over Loudon hundreds of thined the letters concealed among

policemen's arma must be

the contents. The coolle Informed Home Government to bring about a are presented with the greater at Hangkong.

She had never thought of that the Police that the sacks belonged complete revolution in the fiscal po problem. After consideration, it

Ko Man was charged before Mir.before. She stepped into a dark to the defendant.

It was stated that the offence did licy of the United Kingdon, and it is our view that the tickets issued Butters, at the Kowloon Magistracy shop entrance and tried

holding clubs this morning with having returned out her own arms. Long before not occur frequently and the pro- is now stated that they are not dis-to members of football appointed with the results of the entitling them to admission at frem banishment, and also with the the traffic moved on again, she felt secution did not ask for a heavy

Never again, she thought, pomlty. football matches are not taxable, theft from 624, Canton Road, of tired.

The defendant was fined $25 or gathering, as they recognise that even though the Colonial Tren-suit-cuse, a string of pearls, nine when she sat in a car, propped every Government in the Common-surer is specifically granted the articles of clothing, and four pieces up against the cushions, would one month's hard labour,

of cloth, the property of Kau Shuk- wealth must accept; the principle of power of assessing what amount ying, married woman. The defen- looking after its own people first.of the annual subscription re-dunt was banished in March, 1921. presents the right of admission.for a period of ten years. He now The tarif issue is one on which

That is to be his difflculty...... It pleaded guilty to both charges, and the Dominions And the Mother

may readily be contended that no was sentenced to four months' im- Country must at present agree to payment is made by club membersprisonment on each.

differ.

for admission to matches, that the

CRYSTAL in de- cidededly the vogue -and we have now received a con ign- ment of the latest artistic designs in other aspects of the economic is of the public, who are required on Saturday morning after spend- to pay, and members of the club, ing over a month in the North. It ane which have been handled in such who are not, and that the tickets be recalled that Gen. Tang went to Nanking in the company

cluding:

Salad Bowls, Decanters, Flower Vases, Perfume Sprays, Candle Sticks, Nut Bowls, Water Jugs Sweet Dishes, Powder Boxes, Rose Bowls, Vinegar Bottles, Etc., Etc.

Every plece in guaranteed HAND-CUT

It will pay you to make an early selection.

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

General Tang Yin-wah, the

fint if there has been at the Con- | tickots issued are solely for the Commissionor of Reconstruction ference a failure to adjust conflict- purpose of enabling ticket-sellers in Canton, arrived in the Colony Ing viewpoints on tariffs, there are.

to distinguish between members by the s.s. President Van Buren

a maimer as to warrant the belief issued are in the nature of passes of Gen. Chen Ming-shu and at-

hold

that the dellberations will have The argument may be supported tended the All-China Industrial shown the

way for en-operation by the submission that any mem-and Commercial Conference

Auspices the

of which will be mutually bene-ber of a club has

privileged there under the

Ministry of Industry and Com right to make full use of the club's morce, Gen. Tang returned to ficlal, Marketing organisationa premises and grounds. without Canton the same the Colony, the Dur. wili be improved, amongst payment obviously, and the Ing his sojourn in various other schemes for assisting further submission that pinying Commissioner paid

visit to inter-Imperial trade, whilst the members,

Who various factories and among those and members

visited who the Fung Koong whent quota system seems likely to neither play nor watch play, are bor Manufactory at Shaukiwan, be given a trial despite the fact that not spared the full subscription North Point, one of the largest ft Is scarcely the kind of project to fee. That these latter represent rubber

a

by

Sta

which we should have expected the a large proportion of a club' mera-nufacturers in China.

borshin is demonstrable on any

companied

of the Fa Labour Government to commit it- Saturday at any of the lending Saturday afternoon and was wol-

Keong Rubber Manufactory self. The Australian and Canadian grounds. The regulations on this comed by Mr. Fung Keong, the Premiers, we observe, welcome this point appear, with others, to have proprio

proprietor and general manager, plan as an alternative to a tarif on been adapted from the Home Mr. Fung Ju-wing, the sub-mana- whent. Then we have the under-regulations without special refer- ger and Mr. Tang Chi-nam, tho ence to differing local conditions. anlos manager. He was thon con- taking given by the Home Government, and reciprocated by the Dominions, to retain existing preferences for at least three years,

This is noteworthy for the fact that it places the Labour Party on re-

ducted to various departments where the manufacturing process from the raw material to the Professor and Mrs. R.K.M. Simp son were amongst the pasengers finished product of the rubber soled sheets were minutely ox- who arrived here by the Blue Fun plained to him, who seemed to nel liner Aeneas from Home, onahow a keen interest in this par Saturday.

ticular industry.

RES GEMİ AF?

"Now don't tell me anything let me make

mistakes first.t

the