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CORRESPONDENCE

Forthcoming Piano Recital.

To the Editor,

Hongkong Telegraph. Sir, I have received a letter from a planist, Haroid Scott, who has been touring India for the past two

ceria hore.

THE NULLAN

OUTRACE

[Continued from Page 1).

nothing else matters, Stories and rumours have nothing to do with your responsible duties.

COURT AND EMOTIONALISM.

Secondly: Please put out of

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934.

WOMEN IN THE | FIFTY YEARS IN H.K.

MINISTRY

METHODIST PLEA!

REJECTED

A PROPOSAL that women should be admitted to the Methodist itinerent ministry was rejected at

the Conference in the form of a The question was placed before recommendation by a committee

an in favour of their admission, and amendment expressing the

MR. H. RUTTONJEE FETED BY

PARSEE COMMUNITY

One of the oldest résidents.of the Colony, Mr. H. Ruttonjee, J.P., founder of the well-known firm of wine merchants which bears his name, celebrated the anniversary of his fifty years residence in the Colony yesterday.

The occasion was marked by a local Parseo community in the reception in his honour by the

Gloucester Restaurant the afternoon, and a chiming clock

Fr

RADIO BROADCAST

RELAY OF FINAL TEST MATCH AT THE OVAL

TALK BY R. ABBIT

From ZBW. on a wavelength of 355 metres.

years giving lecture-your minds entirely any feeling, the Methodist Conference at Lel: recitals in halls, clubs, schools any Iden that may have beencester. and hotels and on the wireless. aroused or instilled in your minds that there is a racial conflict in He arrives in Hongkong on Sept. this case, or still more, by the fact 3rd and intends to give some con- that the person whom the accused is alleged to have killed, was a little Although I personally have not though it does credit to the heart boy. Emotionaliam such as this, heard of this artist, his critiques of each one of us, has no place in opinion that there was not Bus and allyor cocktail set, Were & Commodity Quotations... taken from various London and a court of justice. Accused is en-ficient support for the scheme to presented Mr. Ruttonjec as Rou- provincial, Scottish and Continentitled to a fair trial, and a just justify proceeding with it at pre- verdict at your hands and theru can be no question of retaining sent was carried by 189 vates to anything of that sort any more 159. than in an ordinary case before the court,

tal papers show that his per formances are of a high order.

I considered that some arrange- ments should be made before Mr. Scott's arrival and have therefore

reserve the Helena May Institute for a recital to be given by him on Friday, Bopt. 7th at 9.15 p.m. Tho cost of the tickets will probably be $2 and $1, plus tax. It is a long time since a dis- artist visited the !tinguished

music. Colony and 1 hope that lovers will book the date and endenvour to accord him full sup port.

Arrangements have also been made for him to play from ZBW on Sept. 4th and he is to give n recital at the Peninsula Hotel on the oth.

If there are any clubs or schools here who would care to one of his invito him to give educational lecture-recitals, they could communicate with me. From all accounts, his recitals are of interest oven to people who do not profess to be very musical Having travelled so long in India, Harold Scott is under no delusions as to money-making possibilities in the Far East; his fee would be reasonable, in fact he would be con lent with a proportion of the re- colpts, whatever they are.

A. M. BOWES SMITH..

SOUND BRITISH

FINANCES

WEEK'S REVENUE

GAIN

London, Aug. 21.

Thirdly, Remember what the learned Counsel for the accused very properly stressed yesterday. it in a cardinal principle of Bri-

tlab justice that an accused · per- son is inpocent until he is found guilty. ....

CROWN'S ONUS.

It is for the Crown to satisfy this guilt and it is their duty, their bounden duty to put before you such a case us taken as a whole, will lead ench, one of you a reasonable men to say: I have no doubt of his guilt.....

In this case we have

A very curious set of elrcumstances in that there fa alleged by the Crown an action involving five children and it is possible that some of you may be inclined to think: Look what he did to the other children. Accused does not stand before you on a charge of inflicting any injury on any child but Michael Pine. The evidence of hie other children may be relevant and very cogent but what you have got to get in the forefront of your minds is the treatment ho meted out to Michael Pine.

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venirs of the occasion.

Little Miss Ruby Pavrl inter presented Mr. Ruttonjoe, Mrs.- The conference, however, de-Ruttonfee and their daughter, Dr.

P. Ruttonjec, with bouquots. cided to appoint a committee consider developments of existing ministry of women,

to the

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Mr. K. S. Pavri presided over the party, and among those pre- sent were Mr. and Mrs. M. J. NOT A FEMINIST MOVE.

Patel, Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Pavri, In presenting the report of the Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mohvowalla, committee which, made the recom- Messrs. R. Postonji, R. K. Modi, mendation to admit women to the F. Mody, N. R. Mehta, J, K. Pavr), itinerant ministry, the Rev, Hick-R. K. Pavri, N. Vessoona, Dastur man Johnson said he felt it would Dinshaw Bomangi, R. J. Master, be against the mind of a strong 51. F. Billimoria, F. N. Cooper section of the Church if women K. Shroff, II. D. Baldiwalla and were refused entrance.

Marriage, he said, was regarded by the committee as equivalent to resignation from the ministry.

"The motive behind the move ment," he added, "is not a question of women's rights. It is not a neither a qualification nor a die- feminiat movement. Sex is

qualification for the ministry."

The Rev. J. E. Rattenbury (moving the amendment which was carried) said that at present sex, without any denial of acx equality, could prevent women being in particular professions. He believed in sex equality, but

did not believe that sex equality "made it suitable for a woman to be a miner or an engine driver,"

MRS. FAIRBURN'S EVIDENCE.

His Lordship then

gave n resume of the evidence before the Court, and, referring to the depositions of Mrs. Fairburn stated that from her evidence it CONTENT WITH A LIVING WAGE. was known that two children were thrown into the nullah and that two children were taken out. But,

athers.

President's Address. Addressing those present, Mr. K. S. Pavri said: The object of our gathering here to-day is 10 | celebrate the golden jubiles of Mr. H. Ruitonjes, and on behalf of everybody present I offer our heartiest congratulations to Mr. Ruttonjee.

4-7° p.m. Chinese Programme. 7-10,40 p.m. European Programme. 7.p.m. London & Now York Stock

··7.05-7.30 p.m. Orchestral, Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Grieg, Op. 40) New Queen's Hall Light Orch. 1 Morning.

2 The Death of And,

3 Anitra's Dance,

4 In the Hall of the Mountain King. Shepherd Fennel's Dance (Balfour) Sleeping Beauty-Panorama

(Tchaikovsky),

Royal Opera Orch. Covent Garden, 7.30-7.45 p.m. Song Recital by Foter Dawson.

1 She is far from the Land. 2 Love, Could I Only tell thee. 3 Bedouin Lova” Song. 4 The Bandolero,

7.45-8 p.m. From the Studio. Mr. R. Abbit will give a general talk about the "Fifth Test Match."

8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report.

8.03-8.30 p.m. Variety. Piano Solo-Love is Love Anywhere Plano Solo-Let's Fall in Love

Carroll Gibbons. Voen!--Gee; Oh Gosh, I'm Grateful

Sam Browne nad Girl Friend. Selection-Love, Life and Laughter

New Mayfair Orchestra. Vocal Duct--Fancy Our Meeting.

Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph. Piano Solo-Billy Mayerl's Own Selection...........Billy Mayer). "Mr. Ruttonjee left Bombay on

8.30-9 p.m. A Relay from Daventry. July 29, 1884, on the steaner (Should Reception prove satisfactory). Berenes, and arrived here on 8.30-8.40 p.m. “An eyewitness ac- August 21, He joined F. F. Davar count of this Morning's Play in the & Company as an assistant the Last Test Match by Howard Mar- day, after his arrival, and after London.

shal." Relayed from. the Qval,

half he joined B. P. Karanfia & Orchestra directed by Guy Daines. working there for a year and a 8.40-9 p.m. The Scottish Studio Company, opium merchants, as manager of their Canton branch.

tired of his junior position, and "Mr. Ruttonjee, however, soon through his business acumen and energy he started a firm of his own, known as H. Ruttonjee & Company, and he soon became well-known in the Far East as a merchant. In 1900 Mr. Ruttonjee went on a tour of the world, and in 1913 he retired from active

9.8.30 p.m. From the Studio.

Rifle Brigade" by Mr. A. M. Bowes- Smith.

"A Short History of the London

9.30 p.m. Router Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock & Commodity Quotations.

0.35-9.40 p.m. The Arcadians Overture (Monckton & Talbot)

Arthur Wood and his Orchestra, 9.40-10 p.m. From the Studio, A Violin Recital by Conrado de la Cruz.

Programme.

1 Vallade et Polonaise, Viextemps. 2 Romance in G, Beethoven.

3 From the Canebrake, Gardner, 4 Serenade, Arensky. -10-10.33 pint Dance Music."

Homeward,

"I have been begged," he added, But "to anve the women of Methodism he added, "It does not necessarily from the ministry. (Some follow that these were the same laughter.) No woman can bo a two children because as we follow candidate without the thought of life. the nullah down stream near the third bridge we find there were

matrimony in her mind, and many other people in the nullah matrimony, if it is thought of as Mr. Ruttonjeo has been well "Throughout his residence náre, The Exchequer return of verent and carried down by it.

who had been caught-in-the tor-something that ends the ministry, known for his honest and straight- ceipts and Expenditure during

preventa the ministry from being forward dealings, and through Fox Trot-Madame, Will you Walk? the current financial year up to Dealing with the rescue of the life dedication."

these qualities he met with his 18th August, shows that exclud-other children and of accused, Mrs. Duncan Leith said: "We showed himself a very active and success. From his youth ho has ng selfbalancing items, the total la Lordship said there WAB rdinary revenue, receipts for evidence which identified the

know you would not take us on energetic worker, and the hard Waltz nst avéek amounted to £12,907,885 man who was swept down the nullah because we are cheap. We are life he has led has stood him in Fox Trot-Blame it on Two Brown nd the total ordinary expendi-and the man who

Eyes. was taken not seeking the ministry because good stend until now. out from just inside the tunnel, It would give us a better economic ire to £8,627,761.

who was at present charged be-position. We are content to Income tax collected during fore the Court e week amounted to £2,661,000 same person. as one and the

ceive what every minister is con- tent to receive, a living wage."

nd customs and excise repre-j

Inted £9,108,000,

The total yield of ordinary e ROOSEVELT MONETARY

nue for the financial year to

to

£218.005,371, as com-

red with £222,320,767 collected

the corresponding period of the

vidus year. Ordinary

ex-.

POLICY

diture to date is £261.547,334 Reserve Board Chief Not

compared with £260,974,995,- Zial Wireless. :

COLONIAL TEA GROWING

FRICA AGREES. TO

RESTRICT

Yet Appointed

re-

MORE AIR PRIZES

&

Charitable Disposition,

"Apart from his work. Mr. Ruttonjce has shown himself to be of a very charitable disposition. and he has made no distinction of

tends te verybody spitality he

to

"On behalf of the Parsee com- munity and those present hero, 1

"Sideshows" For England-havo great pleasure in presenting

Australia Fliers.

More than £20,000 in prize money will now be available for competi- tors in the London to Melbourne air race in October and November, apduring the Victorian Contenery of the celebrations.

be

Washington, Aug. 21. President Roosevelt has pointed Mr. J. J. Thomas, Federal Reservo Board. to Vico-Governor of the Board.

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By Waterfall.

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Honeymoon Hotel.

Under a Blanket of Blue. -Hold Your Man..

Gosh! I Must be Falling in Love..

Wagon Wheels.

Rugby Mid-day Press Nows, Further 10.30 p.m. Router Press Bulletins, Londen Stock and Commodity Quota- tions, followed by New York Opening Quotations.

10.40 p.m. Cloke Down.

WORLD JEWRY

MENACED.

Bir. Ruttonfee with this chiming clock and cocktail set. 14 Д memento of the occasion, coupled with the wish that he will enjoy DR. GOLDMAN WARNS many more years of health aud happiness".

Mr. Ruttonjee, in a brief speech, thanked the gathering for the handsome presents, and said he The latest side race to be or- would treasure them always. He Kanised la from Melbourne to also thanked them for the kind The White House at the same Mildura whose citizens are offering reception they had arranged in timo announced that consideration a prize of £200. Mildura, 300 miles has not yet been given to the from Melbourne as the pisse fics,wishonour and for their scad London, Aug. 21.

question of the appointment of is a big, irrigated fruit-growing Mr. Eugene Black's successor in contre the suggestion of the Inter-the Governorship.

OR the River Murray. The inscription on the cinck hali Tea Committee, the gove

Thence, competitors will race 250 was as follows: Presented to milca to Ballarat for another prize, H. Ruttonjas, Esq., J... by his Parsee friends and well-wishera on the occasion of his 50 years' residence in Hongkong. Aug. 21, 1884-1954.

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as yet, unspecified.⠀⠀ re-

Mr. Eugene Black recently ents of Kenya.. Tanganyika, signed and it has been suggested la and Nyasaland have

to limit their total planting that there was disagreement bo

tea to 7,900 acres and to tween Mr. Black and the Ad-ranged are from Australia to New ft the export of ten med ministration on monetary policy.- -the currency of the ten Renter,

schema-Reuter,

SHIP'S IN TOUCH

"ollowing steamers expected to coless communication with to-day:----Carnarvonshire, Cabire,, Shunan. Balaklava, Pittsburg, Changte, Chung- Tibaiak, Rosalle Moller, Maru, Yingehow, Limnoa, [Maru, Kitano Maru, Asama npura, Aramis, Pres. Jellor po Maru, Ardent, Pres. Taft,

de of development

ito, possiblities were first

Other "alde" ruces already ar- Zealand for a £5,000 prize, from Melbourne to Canberra for a gold cup valued at £100 and from Sydney to Canberra for a prize stil to be

[PEKING' ANTI-DRUG | determined.

CAMPAIGN

RAID ON JAPANESE PREMISES

LUCKY POTATO

PATCH

RAIN, TURNED. IT INTO.

GOLD MINE

Peking, Aug. 21. The Chinese police at Chunhun raided a Japanese firm yesterday Originally a potato patch, a piece and discovered 25.5 taols of heroin of land near Ballarat, Victoria, nine tuels of oplum and a set of Australia, has Just been sold for smoking instruments.

The police arrested Mr. Okamo£50,000 Thro

owner of the Arm, a

the Spanish physicist in Tho. Korean

Korean.

SEMITIC RACE.

Genova, Aug. 21.

There has scarcely been a timio in the history of the Jewish people when the menace to its very exist once has been as great as to-day declared Dr. Goldman, President of the United States delegation, when addressing the opaning of the Third World Jewish Con- ference here to-day;'?'',

The cause of this anti-Semitic wave of fooling, which is sweeping the world, are partly economic and partly psychological, and have, a. political, element in them.

Or special danger to the Jowe was the idea which had gained DIESEL BUSES FOR force i some states of employing. violence against the people of the SYDNEY

ancient faith, and the tendency to oppress the minorities generally.

Jowry, after centuries of ns.

FOLLOWING LONDON'S

----. EXAMPLE

The London Passenger Transport Beard's success with buses power- ed with Diesel compression-ignition Longines has prompted an order for four of such buses from the Now South Wales government for Sydney's streets.

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minion, was more vulnerable than when "Its people led their, former individual and secluded lives, for then they were a body and could resist in one way and another, the persecution of their enemies, Dr. Goldman edid. Now they were helpless in many places. It was time, he added, for a raily- ing of the tribes in every land, that they might help one another.

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