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way of explaining the mystery. I ing, and simast immediately after. Naturally. But according to a tele- MOTOR CAR PROSECUTION
THAT
MOTOR SPEEDING.
Not a word from me about the motorists and the speed limit. The China fail has
fo
OWNER DISCHARGED.
TRAFFIC POLICE IN DIFFICULTY. -
case which was decided by Magistrate Dyer Ball at the Magis tracy yesterday.
The defendant was Mr. G. E. Wilson of Messrs. Robertson, Wilson and Co., of Beaconsfeld Arcade, the charge against him being that of driving mator-car No. 92 in a reckless manner on the Repulse Bay road, near Aberdeen at 6.45 p.m. on the 23rd alt. #
SPECIAL CABLE
DUTCH RUBBIR.
REDUCTION OF OUTPUT.
PRINCIPLE ACCEPTED.
[China Mail SpecialI
SINGAPORE, Oct. 15.
A message from The Hague dated Oct. 10 states that a meeting of the International Union of Rubber
Calture of the Dutch Indies accepted... the principle of reduced production by 25 per cent.
CHINA COAST.
cannot bring myself even to sus-wards, when one of the Pirate's gram that reached Hongkong to pect that he deceived me. I shall eniployees met an unpleasant death day, the Guilds are not going to refuse to say another word" about in the turtle's element, they told take it lying down. They hope by ALLEGED RECKLESS DRIVING. it until he gets back, or until bens that they'd told us so. If I means of a Press campaign to. - writes me.
remember aright others of his men establish in the public mind the It is never safe to left him; to aroid what was left idea that the arbitration they asked generalise too much of the bad joss. The meat and eggs for, and which they regard as pro TENTLE'S I spoke last week were put in cold storage, and one mised by a former agreement. HEAD, about the turtle's Saturday night we appointed for a should be granted by the owners.
head at the Corin turtle dinner at the club. So many They cannot work a Fress campaign According to Traffic Inspector thian Yacht Club, and Said that names were dawn for it that the without, the co-operation of the Garrod the police cannot take further Pirate Gibson's gang of re-organiser feared there wouldn't be Press, and we fear the majority of action against motorists by reason tlers were, now widely scattered, enough to eat, and ordered around the Press i-well, what it usually of their failure to secure à conviction
also hoped that a right home of beef, a bam, and other edibles is, on the buttered side of its bread. in a įwould be found for this intersting to eke out. The long table made relic of bygone local sport: Would a brave display, but only about you believe it, no less than tweet four or five diners turned up: the actual capturers of the beast Gourlay came over from the No. 2 have butted in to assert their prior Police Station, I repeniber, and done its bit. The police have done claim to it. They are much older Machidy was there, and I have theirs, handsomely. You know how now than they were then, but they the impression that the others who things have turned out. Now it is both managed to matinee the of came had happened in accidentally, up to you, the public. their identity. I was on the ex- knowing nothing of the gorge. pelition that caught it."and I The head of the animal was mount- belped to eat it. I also disburseded and hug up in the Club,, al-, some dollars for the taxidermy part though the boys protested as manch of the business. The shell got my as they dared. It fell of the nail chief attention, and I worked on it three or four times, and they said Mr K. H. Digby is gazetted a with various disinfectants for about it was trying to get back into the member of the Medical Board, for a fortnight, out on the lawn we sea. lts, artificial eyes stare balt- three years more used. to have at the CLY.C. Then fully at everybody who goes up taj
A General Meeting of the China (one evening, when I was busy at examine it-and it is recognized
the bar, a fat Dutch shipper, was as a genuine. hall-narked Hoodoo seventh condition in Eating House
A small amendment to the to stop when he was 50 yards
away. He told defendant be Coast Officers' Guild was held in was driving too fast and Shanghai on October 7 at 2.30 p.m. showing a friend how strong dose It had a barnacle or limper stuck
Licences is gazetted.
he replied "Well, what if I am? to discuss the course to be taken by tings sass. He youped on it, and on its forehead. The two surviving the shell was a washiut.
feaptors say they want nothing more
The Sookempoo Valley Resrea-There is no speed limit here. I know the Guild with regard to the recent We went out in a to do with it. And my friend Ah tion Ground is gazetted as allotted to the matter to Inspector Garrod.. He taken by the big coast companies. what I am doing." Witness reported demands of the Guild and the action I was large latch, with Sin tells us that if it is left there, the army, for use every week day.
bad received instructions from theIt is not thought that the Guild will plenty of the usual it will infallibly spoil the reclama-
He renmends! bait. The three top scheme.
No letters arrived by the Novare CSP. to stop motor cars which were resort to drastic action in the matter, youngest members of the party that it be shrouded by a cor and yesterday, the mail consisting of being driven furiously and recklessly observes a Shanghai paper.
and for the purpose of supervising Referring to the information given These newspapers. Were out for a gel time, are buried at sea.
Arather club that September 9.
trafica European officer and an by the Chairman of the Indo-China than for turtle, and their happy
Indian constable had been detalled Steam Navigation Co. in regard to ebullience rather disgusted our com-
- is going bust, with
to assist him. These instructions the dispute between the officers and RECREATION t a turtle to help mander, who took the jesh seriostialy. He Aid that when we got to the
had been issued because of the many the owners, the N-C. Daily News accidents. the road.
remarksAn interesting pointin Inspector Gariod: Could you tell | the present dispute is that the bead-
HOW
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. D. H. Blake appeared on be half of defendant.
The evidence of Sub-Inspector Davies was to the effect that be saw the car coming from the direc tion of Repulse Bay, being driven at
a speed of between 40 and 50 miles
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an hour. He signalled to defendant
were dated.
The regulations re dogs, made it, is the Indian in May, are repealed, and the 1914 Club regulations are again in force, with
Recreation
CHINTZES, CRETONNES, TAFFETAS. lurking place we must the peak. This club has abeat 21 meubers, the C.V.S. substituted for the C. S.
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delusion that I am regarding them nearly up to the top. We were
that be
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Court of recent accidents some of quarters of the two opposing bodies
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Elis Worship: If you had not seen the Inspector would you have con- tinued the speed on the whole length of the road?
of a motor car, will naturally go to times a week. When sub-Inspector
Chinese
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The coolth after the long spell viveourage it to do so. for the lark of ridge, where neither the Pirate nor sible for all religion and for fairymated cost of $195,000 on 25,000 sq the spot where he stopped the de-/understand why you have so often
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THE DEFENCE.
Mr. Lambert: Mr. Wilson and I
and must tot movegarine I even, smoke. We will never he and has spent a lot of money on
which resulted in loss of lives?-Five are as far apart as Hongkong, and
·Commodore' and Mrs. Bowen months ago a Chinese lad, 17 years Shanghai. The shipping companies said, get a turtle with the noisy making its ground, and was detu
ally collecting for a better pavi Smith gave a dance on H. M. Sold, was knocked down and killed by have their beadquarters at Hongkonz, young bandits along, s Finardon the young bandits on the lion, when it was abruptly told that "Temar on Friday. The 200 guests a motor car on the road. The boy whereas the centre of agitation first land we come to If we have its ground was to be taken and included HE. the Governor and Lady died in hospital. Two months ago among officers and engineers, is
a moter car ran into the side of the Shanghai. them plenty of beer they'll be handed over to the service clubs, Stabbu, Admiral Yoshida and staf
road, injuring three men. The place happy magh, and we can pick while it would be granted the use
Experts, expect the Old Fest where I stopped defendant's car was them up on our way back. This of a Happy Valley ground on was done. I remember swimming Mondays. Thursdays, and alternate Office site at the corner of Pedder near the scene of another accident, a hack with a corkscrew for them. Samplars." It seems true that Street and Queen's Road to fetch car running into the embankment and then reinining the launch. As they have been very shabbly treat much more than sixty dollars a square and breaking its axle. Three persons have affected the car at a speed of 29
this accident miles an hour. we stramed away the three were ed, and have a very solid and foot when it is auctioned next month. were injured in
Another accident on the road was running about raked on the lach, genuine grievance.
Oddities
The Wongneichong recreation not reported to me shouting and whooping anal laugh-
Do you remember the accident to bridge are constantly ground schedule has been altered, and The Pirate said no turtle Hing
would go where there was such a
KALANCED being reported to us, the new schedule is in this week's the Chilian Consul on the 9th Aug.?
Defendant: No, I would have slow- BUREEE. Here one. First Government Gazette. Without a Yes. I personally sent seven
ed down before reaching the band. mise.
We landed on the
score (A) was three in copy of the Custodian's plan, it is persons to hospital.
Mr. C. D. Lambert gave corrobora- Inspector Garrod stated that as a Second was useless to reproduce it. DER VIGIL northern side of ano trumps, aces easy.
matter a fact eigh: people were in- tive evidence for the defence. Be said be tested all motor cars belong- dürebbell-shaped two in no trumps for B. honours: island much further on, and crawl. again easy. The B.side got the It is stated in the Shanghai ver-jured in that particular accident.
Inspector Garrud: In your opinioning to the Police Department and the ed up to the ridge in the darkness, leg next call with the thumping macular papers that the rumour in it dangerous to drive furiously on Fire Brigade. He was also technical adviser to the Automobile Association. that read?" the Pirate swearing everytime any score of seventy, 100 for grand slam-regard to the Monarchist coup in
Mr. Wilson was driving at the speed Jutherwise I'd be the must senile of one made a noise, by snapping a
and 100 for aces. Points 200 to 30. Peking was invented by money
Sub-Inspector Davies: Yes. nilians do not count by birth-twig. or kicking Loose Stone.
A got two no trumps and 30 for speculators in order to cause a sud-
Why? Because the road is built of 29 miles an hour. He verified that by the speed meter, the accuracy of on a causeway, with water running which he had tested. He knew Mr. days, but by the fun I've had, and You'd have thought we were an acts Score, leg all, and A. 20 den panic in the market. I must be well inter any second proaching a Boche trench, to take below, but 210 points to the bad.
B.' took another 80 points from!, A new waterboat was launched on both sides. A Chinese walking wilson was not a reckless driver. He million at that." "I mix the Tele. it, by surprise. On the south side them next call, getting them one at the Kowloon Docks on Thursday along the" left side of the road (the had been driving with Mr. Wilson graph chaps are not fretted by the of the ridge the soft sand came down on a no trumper and taking for the Union Water Boat Co., of/Proper side) on hearing the approach since 1914, sometimes four or five as youngsters. I have never pipant 'ondered to dig in. With only uns: 30 for aces. Then A went out with which Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd, the other side. If the car swerves to Davies put out his hand Mr. Wilson
refer to them personally, but heads protruding. The and was three hearts, getting simple hon- are the managing agents. Mrs.
an accident is inevitable. only to their copy, which does seem full of little insects like fleas, that ours and the 20 for rubber, f. Johnstone, wife of the superintendent the same side in oder to avoid the man started to decelerate the speed. Mr. Wilson brought the car to a stand- bit horribly." The moon came up you tot up the scores you will find cf the Company's fleet, performed the walking along that road, are apt to still by the side of the Inspector TRUTE, 'JUSTICE, « PUBLIC SERVICE" to te infantile.
pass the front of the car, resulting in
and spoke to the officer by I gather that what ardily, and presently the beach they came to exactly $10 each side: christening ceremony.
an accident. An earth pit where eaning behind witness. He did not below was revealed. empty and CIRCULATION. převed the roost silent, save for the gargle of the HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCT. 16, 1920.
Residents, Chinese and foreign, coolies had been in the habit of know there was a pit on the road. of the China Mail you living in the vicinity of the cbtaining earth is located near the There were no persons on the road Wax 26 reinark waves, a pleasant gurgle, like, as
should find an article "Trenches" on Jakong and North spot where defendant's car was besides the Inspector. He had not about circulation. This is always Henry Newbolt once said, the called The Beggarman by my Serchuen Roads, Shanghai, bave stopped. ü Sure point with a journalist, ghost of a drink soothing the friend Cheah Toon Lok. It is a petitioned the Chinese authorities to especially when be pontificates as memory of a thirst.
Replying to a question put by Mr.heard of any accident on the road. into thousands, and is read only by bour whispered
My neigh Prose poem, and the key to it is cease issuing licence to, and to take Blake witness said the defendant Even if the tyre of the car burst Mr. Is there any more demeagre hundrels. CHEERIO. "lightful weather any graph, with its talk of proof, means endured some hours of watchful of knowledge without mystery. of
If the Tele-dying for a smoke, after se had of ownership without possession, dancing halls immediately.
was that he has been struck by the idea: steps to dose the bar-roons and pulled his car up with a jerk. He Wilson could manage to keep the car probably passed witness at a speed straight. Witness lived at No. 3
Gascoigne Road, Kowloon. of 20 miles an hour.. where than Hongkong to publish actuarial figures of its waiting, and suggested tEkt, we intellect without beauty, by that all
Mr. Ball: I don't want to interfere ets about this time of the year? actual sales. I shall certainly en-crawl back to the dark side of the pervasive instinct which is respon flats each are to be built at an esti
No one was on the road but himself with your private affairs, but I don't Two accidents had occurred near altriness gives a tang to the pit. I do not think any Hongkong the turtles could see us. We did tales and for romance.
driven with Mr. Wilson in the The beg fret of ground in Kimberley Road, fendant. ir that makes indoors seen sinfnt, peper, which has at et a very it, and had a comforting smoke, garuan has no monopoly of it. Kowloon, the property of Mr HL.M.H,
latter's car. Sow is the time to be cheerful and limited field. could do that with though we heard the Pirate, smell, though he is the Christ's own type Nemazee. There are two bungalows
are great friends. I have known tout looking ridiculous: All news ing the scent of it, demand in a and instance. It comes to all that on the ground at present. The Gov- Mr. Wilson, in his evidence, stated since 1912. Sometime Mr. Wilson I have suggested to papers claims to have the largest hoarse whisper who the hurricane brooil and meditate and drear by ernment is understood to have that his car was a Dodge car. It drives with me in my car at Kon SPACHTING. the China Mail a circulation. It is a sort of ritual, was the mutinous dog that had lit day, and live in that eternal city advanced $120,000 to Mr Nematec was only two years old and its food.
who subscribed for a and I would advise the Telegraph up. May be it was our fault that where time is not. I am tempted at 5 per cent. interest to facilitate utmost speed was 38 miles an hour. Answering his Worship, Mr. Lam fosquito yacht, and whose notes to stick to ritual. So far as I can no turtle came. None did, and we to contradict my friend, and to say the erection of the new property. He could get the speed from it un bert stated that if a car was travel. bercón we read the other day that estimate such matters. I do what rejoined the launch, tanked up, and that such Barmecide feasts are the
der favourable circumstances. Heling at 10 miles an hour it could he wants a name for his boat be everybody else does, and keep my steamed off to pick up the maroon-, tre and only sustaining food of the hould christen it the Anophele, eyes open in club, on street, oned threc.
We have failed to carry our pro was driving with Mr. Lambert on not avoid an accident if a person
On soul but in the realm of golden posal to banish golf from Happ the evening of the 23rd. were five yards away in front. gather from what he wrote that trams, and on ferry. If there is
portion As we neared their dreams such contradictions are Valley. The Government Gazettt entering
The Magistrate, said he admitted felt stung. With regard to the ocular evidence there of one paper!
was travelling that 29 miles an hour was excessive NOISE nnual meeting of the R.H.K.1.C., preponderating. I do not need ex
beach, someone cried, seditious and forbidden. Each says it may be played there every of the road he DIDN'T By Gum. they've citizen sits like Simeon at the top day till Lp.m., and on Tuesdays and at a speed of between 29 and but taking all the circumstances into was jolly glad that Contuodore parte statistics. But the main
çar consideration and the fact that there 31ATTER. got a turtle." myth extended that hearty invita-point of this squabble is in dan-
There of his tower, and the babel from Sundays all day. People who are hit 29 miles an hour. as an object on the below is no more to him than the hereafter by golf balls at this place, often driven, his car on the road. there were no people on the road ex- He had was no chance of an accident as was in perfect order. on to members of the defunct ger of being obscured. It deserves beach that looked like one. Non- sound of the sea. Let them be it they survive, will greatly oblige us 1.C. to join the premier club. a paragram to itself. That's the true stating spirit. Ithe next. please. ladies and gents.
Pass un to sense, we said, angrily. It must ashamed of the oaks they desired; by reporting to the China Mail. We he was travelling at that speed only cept sub-Inspector Davies, he would hink it is right to mention, that the
be a bit of rock. But when we but these cannot be confounded want to show what a public danger because the road was clear. There discharge defendant
were no people on the road with the Inspector Garrod :: The Police As one of his friends, laniled in the dinghy it was a turtle for the garden they have chosen. it f
exception of Sub-Inspector Davies- don't mind motor cars gofag at a DELICIOUS. I am sorry that this right enough, and one of the lar-Any dance can read Dunsany, but
When the Inspector put out his hand speed of 100 miles an hour bet we matter sind have gest ever taught here. They told only the dreamers can dream.
Mr. F. Percy Harrold, one of the he did not stop immediately on zbave to look after the pedestrians. It is true us that they played leapfrog until
How dit this most popular members of the British count of the inevitable jerk. He Mr. Ball stated that there was no 3d a lot for yachting here, one way that he did assure the hind Mail they were tired, that they swam
BARMECIDE's phrase, taken from community in Tientsin, is leaving only put on the foot brake. Sub-possibility of an accident on the road nd another, and without inter-
FEAST the barber's tale for Home on retirement shortly. Mr. Inspector Davies was only three feet at the time. Th, he was indirectly responsible that there was no truth in the about in the sea, finished the beer,
in the Arabian Harrold came out to Hongkong in behind him when he brought the car Inspector Garrod cited the case of bose useful career has now closed true that he said he had no inten-went to sleep. One of them hap. Nights, come to be adopted in China, Japan, ard the Straits, and him that he was going too fast and car and added. "I am afraid your
the coming of the CYC Telegraph's first story, and it is and then, after waiting awhile,
1898 for the now defunct Bank of to a standstill. The Inspector told a woman who was knocked down by Hepened to wake and see her wad: sort of synonym for any illusion? į Dic. tell me how the A.D.C. to reassure the tenants. That immediately, and levered her over Scharabac, was under no illusion, Bank of China. He first took up his there is no aperd limit on the road." regulations are no good to us. In Will Sunne kindly made it clear to us that he desiret dling up the beach. They charged The whole point of the story is that after a short spell in Singapore he replied What do you mean? It Worship's decision will have a bad returned to Shanghai for the Imperial is absurd. This is a clear road and effect on the motoring public. The got possession of the was in June. Now in October our on to her back with bamboos. but that in rino teritas, as well as residence in Tientsin in 1902, a ay that Lord Dunsany, sent out contemporary points out, quite She kicked like a horse," they courage. He suffered humbly the agent of that Bank.
Inspector Garrod stated that the England the speed limit is 20 miles When this the University thespians who naturally, that the property is sold, said. We oldsters looked at one teasing of the wealthy Barmecide, institution closed, Mr. Harrold wen
speed limit in the regulations was an hour and I din't mind telling at introduced his work to Hong and the tenant, under notice. another, enigmatically, you might and spoke falsely out of false home, returning to Tientsin in 1907 City of Victoria. There is no speed in for 23 miles. If that was
defined as 15 miles an hour within the your Worship that I ng? The China Meile scandal-They add: The negotiations were almost say shyly. The Pirate's politeness, as is done here. Then starting as a broker.
limit beyond the city except the sign considered føst in England 1 con- band bas given tongue, so there in progress before Mt. Lellis left face was a study. However, he wine emboldened him to speak his
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sider 29 miles fast in Honakouz. the Colony and lie must have very efficiently bossed the job of mind honestly and to act naturally. Quite
Mr. Blake asked if the Inspecter especially as the roads can not be amusing known of them." I do not re-getting ber aboard, rigging up He did get lots of real food then. KURSERY imitation
in Shanghai for the Famine Reljef said anything about speed, to which compared with those in England. I adult cognize the logic of that must; but tackle without which it could never dignity was essayed by of course it is impossible for me have been done.
No official intima Fund are the following: Hongkong defendant replied that he didn't catch admit that there was nobody on the NOTES.
THE MAKINE tion. has. our kindergarten con- to argue on that,
been and Shanghai Bank, $25,000: Jardine, it. On a clear road 29 miles an hour road besides sub-Inspector Davies If this clear
That is not a pretty 1- GUILDS. given, but porary on Thursday, but it aspersion on an absent gentleman
there Matheson & Co., Ltd., $20.000; was not furious driving. He had but I maintain that people might TEE KILA story, and I will not
has been a meet- Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., perfect control of the car. He had suddenly came out from the sides of in't quite manage to dustein the is resented by him," he must deal ·
tell it. It was done ing at Shanghai, and it is fairly Ltd, $5,000; China Sugar Refinery been driving cars in the Colony for the road! **Youth is better than seni with it himself. Meanwhile, as his at the Yacht Club. A Chinese well braited along the Coast that Co, Ltd., $5,000, Ewo Cotton five years and considered himself a His Worship stated that he dis anybow" was a petulant fing, friend, I am bound to say that in butcher who was brought Batly there is to be no strike. There Spinning and Wearing Co, Ltd, careful driver. He was a member of charged defendant by reason of the leave it to readers, who mast of a question of credibility. I would refused to do it, when he saw the was a distinct division of opinion $5,000; Yangtzepoo Cotton, Mill, the Committee of the Automobile fact that the road was clear may there irse base their appreciation on sooner trust his word than that of acinal, and she was slain by ama-among the members. Also Dolly" $3,000; Shanghat & Hongkes Wharf, Association and he had reported the was no chance of an acident
comparative qualities of the a formalid I suggested that this tears aba soluztazred 12 is going Home on leave shortly £3,000; Kung Yik Cozzeri, $2.001 matter to the Secretary opy, to decide how very young deal may have been put through draw a veil over that part. The which might make, ⋆ difference, Canton Insurance Office. Ltd., $1,000;
Inspector Garrod asked what would are, and how senile I am. without his knowledge or consent, servants were much mility is not a synonym forage, because I could think of no other about the bad fosa we were invit-industrial peace, however it comes..
perturbed The general public are satisfied with and Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., have happened if a tyre had burst.
Ltd., $1,000.
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Inspector Garred: We cannot take further action against motorists ja furture.
Defendant was discharged.