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MEN'S TEMPERS, MARRIAGE WOULD NOT BE WHAT IT IS.-John Oliver Hobbes,
One Chinese case of typhoid was reported to the Medical Officer of Health yesterday,
The Cradle of Cricket.
By a HAMPSHIRE HOG.”
property by criminal alliances and official neglect, emphasise the pri- mary need of a vigilant and courageous Press." This decision
TN these days Broadhalfpenny to dispense, as he says, "punch that proclaims, except for the primary
Down, "the Cradle of Cricket," would make a cat speak," at six- requirements of decency and the
for the most part of its time rests pence a bottle, and "ale such as tho would put the souls of three but- peacefully quleacent amidat technical case where an illegal act
calm seclusion of the Hampshire chers into one weaver."
Nyron's portrait awings on the manqtærades a an expression of The laying of the foundation-atone tille. But to-day it will be set
hostelry opinion, that it in the inalienable of the The Fong Shan Christian rocking again for a while by Down-aignboard of the listle
Institute is to take place on Tuesdaying College, Cambridge, and Ham-which in to-day just as it was when right of every newspaper to say fat 4 p.m.
bledon C.C., who have arranged to Hambledon C.C. used it as their what it pleases--and to take the
play a match on the Down by way clubhouse.
keeping old traditions alive.
The Singing Cricketers. For this match will be used the
One still finds in the room where original pitch upon which cricket as we know it was born. Although they were accustomed to gather the the game
did not originate on old chairs on which they sat to sing
consorBenCES.
Whilst no-one would desire to se undue consideration shown to th type of newspaper which lives on scandal and defaniation, it is well that there should be no ambiguity regarding the freedom of the Press, Censorship in way form
repugnant to British That Ideals, as it is to American.
is why we have consistently op pased the local censorship of Chi-
NEWSPAPUTA,
The ław (53) what a newspaper may or may not publish, if a trifte complicated, is quite delinite. The right procedure, therefore, is for Governments to stand aside and give the
DOWN.
i pujarra perfect freedom. If the
law is broken, there
An old woman, So Teang-ahu (67) was fatally injured yesterday as the result of falling over the verandah of the second floor of No. 1, Stanley Street.
to Broadhaifpenny, it was there shap-glees after matches ended. For all for led gradually into its present form of them were musicians as well as ericketers-and "Merrle England" had not then passed away.
Chlu Tim-sik, was sentenced twelve months' Imprisonment, having returned from banishment, by Mr. Fraser, at the Kowloon Magis trney this morning. The accusel was under a life sentence.
Gå is, of tobacco on which the duty
Historic Hambledon.
That explains why this patch of And cricket bad thon a pictures- greenward on an English hill-top que touch which white fannels have For having had in his possession is known the world over as "the not perpetuated. Hampinion's play- Cradle of Cricket." Its claim to ing garb consisted of tall hat, sky- had not been paid, In Pitt Street ibis proud title is established in-blue cont with black velvet collar, waistcoat, knec yesterday, Tsang On was fined $800, contestably for all time. When the silver-buttoned
white stockings and sil- or one month's imprisonment, by Mr. "Fathers of Cricket" founded the Fraser, at the Kowloon Magistravy | Iamous Hambledon Club, ulgh unbuckled shoes. Great men were this morning.
200 years ago, the game was in ilsithes, the Nyrena, the Beldhamis, the
Their prowess elementary stages.
"Fathers" or and enthusinsan popularised it and the summer game, whose memory eventually brought into existence yet lives on the "Cradle of Cricket,
as fresh and as green as the flower- the game as we now know it.
The corpse of a young Chinese, recovered from the harbour at Shauki wan, has been identified as that of Kwan, a bont-boy, who, according to previous police report, was worn to jump overbeard from a junk on Mon Cricket
INT while being questioned on day
and other
In the early days of the club, jgemmed grass that clothes its plea-
on Broadhaifpenny wasisant slopes. played with spoon-shaped bats of,
|... are amplc allegation of his baving left his regulated size, and there were!
previous employment after overdraw-only two stumps, with a hole be- PHIPPS says ing his wages, ...
remedies at hand. There is no call amongst nay liberty-laving people fo censor either news or opinions beforehand. Indeed,
Jaw any which aims at that end is bad and
ruling now p.11. indefensible. The riven in the United States quite necords with British conceptions of the rights of the Press. For which reassu, we can heartily wel-
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1931.
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THE TOTE IS TOO
FRILLING.
According to a pußve report issued Three stumps were frat adopted this morning, Mr. A. C. Tinson, of on Broadhalipenny, and for the China Light and Power Company, quaint reason. One day a player has reported that between noon and turned up there armed with a bat
Tuesday, some person studes wide that it covered the wicketi
THE scene is callway book- from a kiosk of the junction of Argyle completely and gave the bowler no fuses valued at $76, and from another stump was added and the width of definable smell of smoke and hurry
ut. Suy Street, aine similar the bat fixed by rule.
and long distances about it. kiosk
too, On Broadhalfpenny. wns Posters invite visits to impossibly the first century ever nzure bays, but it seems as if the A successful open air whist drivescored
and over-arm bowling posters are getting the benefit of was held at the Kowloon Football recorded,
This was slow to the doubt, for there is a heaving Club lust evening. The prize-winners was first see.
the "Fathers.queue assailing the 3rd clasa tanin- were: Ladies, 1st, Mrs. Holland; End, find favour with
Their line window. Mrs, Stokes (after tie with Mrs who termed it "throwing." McKelvic); booby. Miss Brown, preference was for Jobs, Gentlemen, Ist, Mr. Goodman: Bad.!
Road and Peace Avenue three electric chance. After this incident, a third] Tie ulice. There is that in-
fumes, valued at $255,
A
That queue originally had hopes. The appointment of, an uileial
Patting, "break" un à ball origin-[of ratehing the two-thirty, but now Board of Filin Censors in Hong Mr. MacCallum; hooby, Mr.
which, Pratification has kong is a step
we feel Mitchell. The next drive is to beated on roadimifpenny, as, like it seems that the most it can hope wise, did the present method of for is to catch a cold. The venson keeping scores. Originally, scores is Mrs. Ramsbothman. ben expressed by American news- ure, will be welmed by these heat on Wednesday, August 6,
Her name need not be Mre. Rums- proget af at Paperlant design principally concerned. In
Michael the two-and-n-half year were kept by making notches on a F'nited States ༴!ཥ,
Supreme past the position has not been atald son of Mr. and Mrs. Faretn, of ticke notch, for each run ob-botham. It might be Miss Ramu- Hener the expression, botham or even Smith, beepuse abe as a No. 6. Lyenin Bulldings, accordingline.
is a typ. She says to the booking. Court to the effeel that what has times satisfactory, though
clark: reneral cule the system adopted to a report received by the police. "notching a ron."
was bitten yesterday by n small fox to be known as the Min
Money on the Game.
a week-end ticket to "I wau{ worked fairly smoothly. The new
terrier dog which had no collar andl nesota "wag low"
At least I think 1 want is stit
Board is comprised of the Insper was apparently straying. The buy
Broadhalfpenny Down is now the Maritate After
week-end ticket to Marvate, Tional This is regardrid as a de-
turtleneral of Polier, the Secre was given medical treatment.
of Winchester College, a property elsjes vertory for the freedom of tare Sur Chinese Affairs and the attack, the dog ran off and was who preserve it carefully and keep though I'd half a mind to go to
but seen again, despite a search.
My Arthur always Fap the old pitch upon which R Ramsgate. The fresa. The case chates bak Director of Education, an apt com-
many famous games were played inay, "Ramsgate's the place for you. mit. Nice and sheltered-like, he
as
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WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND-EAST RIVERS.
The eighteenth century, The Dow Bays it is.
lies about three miles from
bledon, and remains much as it was
in June, 1777, when Hambledon. captained by Lord Tankerville, mel
'Sandbagged.
L
"But, you see, my Annie, what's
on it All England, caplained by the married a young fellow in a bank, Duke of Dorset, in a match for one lives at Broadstairs, and I says, and glucas, and beat them Well, I says, 'you go to Margate,
by 168 rune.
so's you can hop over to Annie on
The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet
A lonelier and a lovelier spot, if a 'bus and ace the kids and have the water levels on the West River,
a cup o' ten.' I do like
nice cup North River and East River on the would la diflicult to find, or one cup o' of deputy-censors to a dates named:
more typical of the English coun- tryside at fts best. It is an ideal At this point Mrs. Ramsbotham July July week-end resort for hikers, One (or Miss, or oven Smith) is usually
num-
21
22
truth by itself was not a good decisions which leave the exhibitors North River at Tsingyuen 21.2 20.0rcrest of the Down. and look perchance Robinson.
was 17
across
*
•
to a tatute passed by the 31iabination, though the regulations de only providle for their joint assis Besota Legislatur in 1926, the sigurd for
suppression clation in the event of an appeal "scandal sheets." This stalate against the decision of any indivi- provided that an injunction could heal member of a deputy. It is lo br hoped, in view of the arrange. be obtained against any
ment contemplated for first cen- paper publishing obscene, mali-sorship previews, that the Board
cudgavour, N far eious, scandalous or defamatory will
16 reduce the matter. If the newspaper could possible, ahow that its statements were true ber and its motives good, the injune-minimum. The employment of tou
West River at Shishing 33 may stand on the historie pitch on sandbagged by Brown or Jones, or tion would - not be granted, but many is able to lead to frivolous
objections. to a mixture of de-North River at Samshui 11.2
inlles
delightful scenery where they East River at Sheklung
7.3 to where in the far distance the lene. Two years later, the issue
The scenc wondering exactly
changes. Another arose in connexion with allegnstand, and costly appeals--at $5 The highest levels recorded are: mysterious solitude of Oki Win-
queue is hoping to get on the two- thirty. This queue je doing ita tions by a newspaper that there reel.. The differing attitudes of Shiuhing, 41 foot; Tsingyuen, chester It fills the skyline,
29.2 feet: Samshui. 27.3 feet;| On the edge of Broadhalfpenny is hoping in front of the tote at Ascot. woll-different persons is well illustrat-Sheklung, 11.5 feet. alliance between
a memorial commemorating its his-
It is a more fashionable phalanx The lowest levels on record arg tors, and on the opposite side of known criminals and Governmented in Americn. Maryland censors
matter was taken bar kisses on the neck, as obscene, minus 5 feet at Samshui and the road stands the ancient Bat and than the first-excited and frilled to.
death. It is largely female. officials. The
wink at a drinking scene. tainua 2.7 feet at Sheklung, but
Ball in which old, John Nyren used to' court, and the legality of the Kansas censors cannot stand the
new- statute was upheld. The
sight of a whisky bottle, but re- evi- paper refused to offer any
gard kisses on the neck as highly dence, and merely relied on its entertaining. In Virginia all pas-" constitutional rights. I lost the sion must be blessed by a mar- doesn't day, but appealed, and the Supreme riage ceremony. Ohio Court has now over-ruled the like pictures dealing with gnol | outbreaks-which are liable to State Court
enuse & little heartburning here The Supreme Court ruling is and considers an actress in her] interesting, and especially the underwear as indecent, though terms of the decision given by the lingerie advertisements Chief Justice, Mr. Hughes. Hellowed to pass. New York, of all may places, will not have scenes, show. says that public authorities bring the owner or publisher of a ing a policeman or an official ae- cepting a bribe. Pennsylvania, newspaper before a judge upon the strictest boned of all, is likely charge of conducting a business to bar anything. It is the lant- of publishing scandalous or de- mentioned tendency which needa famatory matter, and unless the to be guarded against, and the owner or publisher is able and local Board should aim at a con- disposed to bring competent evi-tinuity of policy.
donce to satisfy the judge that
are al-
the charges are true and are pub, His body a mass of wounds, with. lished with goud motives and for here and there, weals obviously of recent formation,, Chang Tak-bul, 16 justinble ends, his ́ ́ newspaper years of age, described is appren- can be suppressed and further tice at the Woon Koe Building Yard publication
at Naushiwan, Kowloon City district, made punishable. was yesterday admitted into the Most important of all wAS hts. Kowloon Hospital. The cake is boing
Investigated by the polles in con statement that the expression nexion with an allegation of assault "freedom of the Press" has always and illltreatment. meant at least immunity from
censorship in advance. In giving Lance Sergeant D. N. Watts, of the his declaion, Chief Justice Hughes Argyll and Sutherland Highlandera, living at 92, Carnarvon Road, the added that "the administration of owner of a chew dog, reported to the government has become more com- police yesterday that the animal was uffering from fits, and, suspecting hd-bed it removed stain the plex, the opportunities for mal- rahloss feasance and corruption have mül. Matankok depot for observationising
gent
Terribly Twee."
Suddenly its smooth progress to one of the tote windows is checked. Why, if it isn't our old friend Mrs. Well, she's probably a bit younger this time, and her name is not Ramsbotham or Smith, but Ramsbotham-Smith. She has a daughter on her arm and ten shil- lings in her hand.
"My daughter and 1," says Mrs. Ramsbotham-Smith to the tote clerk, "think that horse with the cerise and bronze jockey looky terribly twee. Don't we, dear Now do tell uastop pushing, you rude man →→→→do tell us whether you think we should hack it for a win or a place or for several places?
"You know, I'm frightfully superstitious-aren't I, dear? and very subject to day-dreams-**** Will you stop jostling, you
'gauche. person?
And I have been torn
between that horse and one with green sleeves. I mean the Jockey has green sleeves-don't I, dear? but my cousin, Sir Percival An- chovy-Brown-one of the Wilt- shire, Anchovy-Browns, of course, says the poor thing has work quarters. So really, I wondered if;
cross marks the spot where, the lynching occurrod,
Jaggat Singh, an Indian guard) | employed at the A.P.C.; Instalation, North Point, appeared on «reniknd before Mr. Schodold yesterday after: Inoon on charges of mammalting;:"Babe
Inspector H, Rogers, of Bay!V! Police Station, damaging his Milfor
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