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LOCAL AND DENERAL.
Owing to night rains, locusta have invaded the district of Lam
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محبت
THE BITER BIT.
CHARGE AGAINST LAUNCH
.COXSWAIN DISMISSED,
POLICE CENSURED FOR " A DANGEROUS
MANOEUVRE,
launch.
السمسمية
$1
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 122.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.
CORRESPONDENCE.
HAPPY VALLEY TRAMWAY
› SERVICE.
(To the Editor of the " China Mall,]
on
J
EMPLOYEE OR PARTNER
Woo, in applying for
$1,000 BAIL CASE,
Hongkong's proposed legislation, with its 9 hour day and other weak points, may not be as complets as some bd hoped, but it is still a great -
A feki of the Hongkong Tailoring step forward. The Government's The Earl of Gosford was a pass.
Company, was obarged before Mr. Sir,-May encronch the R. E. Lindsell this morning, with the task is clearly very delicate: Objects engar by the President Cleveland"
for Shanghai to-day.
columns of your popular and widely embezzlement of $81.90 said to have and Reasons" say "it is obviously
The master of the China Mining read paper on a subject of public beeu collected by him on behalf of
the firm.. Bectatary to approach the problem
General Chen Chiung ming has aud Metal Coy's steam launch utility and importance! cautiously `anil' »lowly in or er tomada the following appointments:-"Stiboite" was
Mr. A. E. Hall, who ap; cared for charged befors Ever since I and my family escapol avoid sparting Inng established Genera! Yip Kuo, Chief of Staff; Oban the Marine Magistrate (Commander, the noisy and overcrowded centra of the prosecution, said that $20.90 was social and economic conditions," einer Lin Yin-bong, Brigade Commander.
Kwok-lun, Chief Aldo-de-Camp; and C.W. Beckwith) this morning with the city of Victor's and established found on the defendant when he was having unlawfully failed to observe my home permanently at one end of arrested, so that the actual amount "too drastic an interference with
the rule of the road.
the Happy Valley, I have watched he had to answer for was $55, juvenile labour would undoubtedly
Mr. G. G. N. Tisson, of Messrs closely and with keen interest the although technically he was guilty of Thr e
bandred Chinese from
Johnson Stokes cause hardship to
and Master, rapid development and ever increas embezzlement of the whole amount. the poorer Holland were repatriated to China by
Mr. H. K. Woo, for the defence, appeared for tho defendant ing growth of the number of the classrs." * However, once the problem thin ss. "Oca'kerk," which sailed from
who pleaded not, guilty. population in this part of the Colony aid that his instructions were that is taken well in hand, further urgrat Amsterdam on August 12, proceed Evidence was given by Lance Sergeant which may well be called one of the the case was purely a question of reforms should follow. The first cuting via Lisbon, Genoa, Colombo, Armitt to the effect that of Septem- finest residential suburbs of this small partnership,
|Singapore, Manila to Hongkong.
Me. Halt: My instructions are cry made, it took Britain 31 years
ber 9, at 7 p.m. when he was on patrol island of Hongkong. duty in the harbour he saw the House bath along the billsides and different. and France 39 to give child workers
Mr. Four Chinese were fined $1 eack Stibnite" crossing the bows of his on the ridge known as Broadwood legal protection. Those were the by Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning police launch. She was about six feat Road have, with thanks and credit remand said: "Bail in the pioneer movements, though, and for having exposed their persons off his port bow. Witness was on his due to certain enterprising financiersum of $200 had been fixed by the Hongkong has the advantage of being while bathing in the nullah at the heat crossing Blake Pier and going and the Government, sprung up as if Inspector, able to study the experience and ex
back of the Helena May Instituta in from West to East. The "Stibnite by magic in a comparatively short Magistrate (promptly): That is Garden Road. periment of other countries Fur.
Another man was came up from astern and crossed his space of time. The development, also the bail fired by me. fined the same amount for a similar bow. By that time thermore, the thing that most delayed offence in a nulish at Pokfulam.
The case was accordingly remandel. the police told, should have been greater launch was going astern. Witness than what it now is, were means of reform in Britain scarcely exists
hailed the "Stibnite" to come along communication by both tram and here direct tepresentation in the
Scotta Shipbuilding and En. side which she did. A European on vehicles driven by man power moro government councils of those finan gineering Company, Greenock, launch-board said he was in charge of the easily and conveniently provided,
A fori of the Wah Hing Import and This has unfortunately given cause to cially interested in opposing reform.ed on August 8 the steamer "New- Consequently, the day is not far die chang." which they have built for the by the corowain of the police launch the commencement of certain building fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning. Corroborative testimony was given certain intending builders to hesitate Export Company, of No. 76, Des Fraux Road Central, was charged be Chinesa consting trade. The vessel Ltd. taut cow when the Colony will have je 296ft. in length and of about 2.460 and then evidence was given for the operations in the vicinity of and
ite real Children's Charter making the ons gross. Triple expansion of 1.150 defence by Mr. Frederick Trawbridge, around the Wong Nei Chong village. protection of the young one of thei.hp. will be supplied by the builders,anaging director of the China
Although limas have somewhat Governmet's most sacred trusts.
chased on a large scale, sad although Mining and Metal Company..
Mr. Trowbridge Baid
the Government, having wisely fore You appear to be very desirousStibnite" was coming to Blake Pier seen the approaching usefulness and o'giving as your company in Hang- from Stonecutters. When about 150 prosperity of taia, once a remote part kong" the Chief Justice (Sir William yards from Blake Pier be heard the of the Colony, contemplate the con Fires Davies K. C.) told a returned Stibaite" give two short blasta. He struction of motor roads above the banisher at the Criminal Sessions this then saw the lights of a lauuch be. Falley as well as replacing the lately morning "although the police authori- twarn Bank Street Pier and inadequats sewage drains with the
have shown
you on three Douglas mooring East and close larger and new ones, yet the Comp ny ccasions that they do not want you to the Douglas wharf.
that derives the benefit and reaps the here". The sentence imposed was launch was moving very slowly. The revenue for running electric tramcare three years jail with hard labour.
"Stibaite" crossed the police launch bas, alas, done practically nothing. when the latter was off Douglas Pier. save providing only a ten or twelve Paymaster-Lieutenant 3. T. Crick- They were
minates service traversing on the one a good 50 feet away. ton has been appointed to the gun Witness heard the "Stibnite's" side of the Race Course densely boat Bee, on the China Station, as engines stop and also leard some occupied by graves of departed resi Hongkong's rainfall for the 21 secretary's clerk to Rear Admiral shouting. Then the "Stibnite" went dents and stopping daily at the tome bouts ending at 10 a.m. yesterday Maclachlan, commanding the river astern and stopped at the direction what early hour of 8.15 p.m.
The tots! since gunbat flatilla on those wators of of the police who came around the hill, of whom a large number are Residents at the fout of Broadwood January 1 is 60.57 inches against au China Paymaster-Lieutenant Crich-Stibnite stendi Government Civil servants, have to ton joined the financi.I department her. port side. The "Stiboite of the Navy in 1915, and reached his was
well outside Blake the Bergeant Present rank in 1919. He was latteris Pier and serving on the "Lacia," depot ship alongside and asked the witness
rather uncivilly he thought-why he of submarines at Devonport.
bad crossed the police launch. Wit- Lieutenant-General: Bir James
ness then gave the Sergeant his name Bevan Edwards, KCB, K.C.M.G..that the polica version should be of at least a mile from the balting cleverly altered to resemble a $100 After bearing Mr. Tiuson who asked one folk, a tor's day's strenuous was a genuine $5 note issued by the work, hate to walk home the didance Chartered Bank which had been very
--Powell"
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<REVICA,"
**TRUTH, JE SEDA IN BA
Hasokong, Montivy, Manne 18, 1902.
CHILDREN'S CHARTER,
Condemning the "wonderful blind news" of the educated classes to the 'social evils of his day, Tolstoy ob erv- ed that when people behave badly they always invent a philosophy of life which "represents their bad actions to be not bad actions at all,
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
MALAY
The Canton customs superio tendent's office has been burasdies down.
The share register and transfer books of the Hongkong and Wham. poa Dóck, Co., Ltd., will be closed From Oct. 1 to 9, inclusive.
0.00 inch.
average of 71.74 inches.
The total output of the Kaila Mining Administration's mines for the week ending September 2, 1922,
ameu tad t73,218 tons and the sales during the period to 61,530 tons.
According to a Berlin in ssage
J
a monthly steamship service with bilding the employment of children East Asia. calling at Singapore. Ho g in factories. The age limit alone kag, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama. difiers. Britain fixes fourteen years, The first ship will leave Hamburg on Francu thirteen. Hongkong propowa November 1. ten. France's working day for adol scents between the age of
Bitain, from the age of twelve to fourteen, the child's working day in only half that ef en adult, or else one day in two. Hongkong contemplates
then
the
The
came
walk in hot, wet and even occasionally stormy weather a long distance sither to the terminus of the monument. kids can board an outgoing cat. before they, their wivor and small
on two counts of embezzlement of $720 and $161.40, respectively, be tween May & and August 30 last.
Mr. H. L Dennys appeared for the Company and Mr. H. C. Lee for the defendant.
A remand was given, bail being fixed in the sum of $1,000,
A FALSS NOTE.
CHINESE CLERK CHARGED.
A young Chinese clark named Wong
Ho Cooy, who was formerly employed
by the Dragon Motor Car Company, was presented before.the Chief Justice jury at the Criminal" Sions this (Sir William Rees Davies, K.C.) and a
the alleged uttering and possession of mrning on indictments concerning
forged $100 note.
J.
The Attorney General (the Hoa, Mr.
H. Kemp K.O.) prosecuted for the Crowb. The accused was andefended. It is neellees for me to say that forming the subject of the charge According to the evidence the note
of Egert a crescent. 6. Colonel altogether disbelieved the Marine place of a tram car, but as things are, note. Da Fuse 19. the prisoner was
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thirteen and eighteen in len bouts. In Wabu Street, Yaumati, was coming the gross value of £13,342, with not area. But I think the action of the that they are having good returns for good notes. Next day the prisoner
a nine hour day.
Less nations are of one accord in for the Stinnes combine is to insugarate Commandant Royal Engineers. Can Magistente said: In this case, owing they are put to this inconventeace.with some friends at a restaurant in servativ t.. for Hythe, 18953, and to the close proximity of both however mach grumbling they may Yaumati. The room was engaged in a former chairman of the Council anachre to the Blake Pier, which of the Royal Colonial Institute, a who also saw service in China, was in
is 瘺
have amongst themselves. converging Crimean and Indian Mutiny voterau,
point for
his name. When the time came fo number of launches making pen to know has, in conversation tendered the note but the accountant A Government servant whom I bap-pay op one of the prisoner's friends command of the military forces in or leaving the landing, it is impossible The master of the Chung Kee Hougkong, and in the Sudan, and who to lay down hard and fast rules bamed the Tramway Company for was suspicious and would not take it.
not providing for navigation within
more adequate and The prisoner then took the note and money changer's abop of No. 81, died on July 8, aged 87, left estate of
this busy efficient service, inspite of the fact kept it and his friend paid the bill with police launch in going hard-a-port their capital and outlay. to Hongkong at 7.20 p.m., yesterday personality £10,416. to change 76 silver dollars into back
and at the speed given-thren-quarter This Government employee has of the clerks in the Dragon Company's was even showing a $100 note to somer -speed (about-8-knota)-when-within- men who stole his moner. notes, when he was set upon by three The ill-fated "Raleigh," which is 20 feet of Blake Pier, was a dangerous gone as far as to tell me that he and office. The note next turned up in s presently lying on a rock off the coast manoeuvre and liable to cause a yelled out their complaints in the girl if she could change it and when certain of his colleagues would have Yaumati brothel. The prisoner asked of Labrador, was a sister ship of the collision with launches coming up press long ago, had not certain Gover she said that she could not be toki The Hon. C. H. Huston, Assistant Hawkins," flagship of the China astern or those leaving the West side ment orders prevented them from her it was forged. He was arreated The protection of children has not Secretary of Commerce of the United Station. Her loss in a very severe of Blake Pier. So I dismiss the case writing to the newspapers.
State, with a party of American one to the British Navy, which at the against the defendant." Ong acientists, is dae bare on Wednesday, moment cannot afford to lose such a laws beyond their control." How true! opposition. Reforms were regarded as
on the United States Cost Guard magnificent cruiser. She cot nearly attacks on
the hitherto sacred, Cutter Mojave, and after remaining million and three-quarters a year For years Hongkong's governing classes have seen child labour can-principle that the child was the pro. three days in Hongkong, will go to ago, her maiden commission le ng her last one also. It is possible that she dition here could they possibly have perty of its immediate physical,
may be replaced by the hurrying up ovadlooked them—and for years have parents, for them (as Shaw puts it) to The return ot notifiable of one of her two sister ships awaiting concladed (often quite regretfully) do what they liked with it as far as it diseases for the 48 hours ending yes ompletion-te Effingham" and the that nothing could be done in the face would let them, so that "ite condition terday, shows one case of plague, and "Frobisher."
anabi diphtheria (both in the Victoria was that which adults recognize as the district), and two cases of enteric most miserable and dangerous fever (one in Victoria and one in politically possible for themselves: Kowtoon). All the patients were namely, the condition of slavery." So firmly was this iden held less than a
but merely the results of unalterable been achieved
of local economic conditions,
6.12
It was this attitude, still comfort-
withuat
Canton.
Chinase.
*
ROBBERY THWARTED.
ARMED MAN SENTENCED.
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F
ARMED ROBBERS.
1
on July 12 and denied that the note What most of the residents here,
Was bia. who can il afford the laxary of
The explanation offered by the automobiles, want are:----
1. That a five minutes traucar a clever forgery that he persuaded prisoner was that the note 'was such service instead of the existing tire his friend to give it to him in some one should be immediately pat order that he might show it to other op. :
2 That the service should only that was why he produced, it to the | people as an object lesson. He said stop in the evening at the hour of girl in the Yaumati brothel. As was reported on Saturday, an 9.30 pm, or 10 pm. instead of the Not convinced, the jury, after a Madame Pavlova has sailed from armed robbery at Taihang was early hour at prosent fixed so as to few minutes deliberation, returned a Southampton in the Canadian Pacific thwarted by Sub-Inspector Shaftain enable folks to get an ear dinner verdict of guilty and the prisoner was ably intact about the time that Hong-
Liner "Empress of Scotland" for a and some detectives on Friday night, tram service. dancing tour of the Orient. She will and the result of a amart piece of
3. That more rails should be put on ment.
sentenced to seven years' imprison- kong became a British Colony, that
cross the Pacific from Vancouver in work, one caused the conditions which led
of thres alleged the present track to szable two cars The offices of the Suprema Court the Canadian Pacific liner "Empre a armed robbers Was artcated. to pase one another and a new track write century ago in Europe and the United are to be open daily from 10 a.m. to of Canada." She is going to Tokyo, This man who put up angry observer to
a stiff should be at once laid on the Broad- of A Lancashire towa in States that parents had the almost I p.m. during the Long Vacation, ex- and will also visit Harbin, Peking, fight against the police, was dressed Wood Terrace side, passing all the those days the stinging rebuke that unrestrained disposal of their children. copt on Public and General Holidays, Hongkong, Shanghai, Manila and like an electric fitter, and a fully load-European residential quarters with "anything like the squalid misery, Children (or wives) could not, without and on Saturdays, when they will be Europeas ballerins to visit these the crown of his large khaki eunbat up the trunk lines on the ses front when the office will be entirely olosed, Javs. She is the first famous ed revolver was fovealed hidden in convenient balting points and linking the slow mouldering, putrefying death elaborate and costly special arrange open from 10 am to noon. The places, and her appearance at the when it fell off in the course of the either along the Bowrington Canal or by which the weak and feeble of the manta, own property, or dispose of Long Vacation commences on the Japaness Imperial Opera House is struggle. working clanes are perishing here, their own persons, or invoke the 20th instant, and terminates on the awaited with great in crest. She will On Saturday, the man was charged In asking you to publish this letter 466, Reclamation Street, Baumati. it never befell my syna to, behoki ar protection of the criminal law 17th October (both days incloure.) aubsequently tour India, and may before two Magistrates (Maste. Lind.I my imagination to conceive." Those as against the dominant male
proceed to Australia before the is seen cell and Ainsworth; with the unlawful head of the family, were the days when the Home
Arrested on Wednesday last for again in Europe." for
possession of the weapon without a worker
permit. ill treatment, tyranoy, was compelled to toil, any with his wife and little children, cruelty short of actual death, and 193 taula of my opium, found in a screw geared turbine steamer of 5,400 carrying it for a friend.
The "Nagasaki Mara," a twin- He pleaded guilty and asid be was twelve or fifteen hours a day, under scarcely even for that.
• in his cabin' on board ship by tons, which Hests. Wm. Denny and
The Magistrats passed sentence of revolting sanitary conditione, amid
Bernard Shaw defines childhood as compradore of the ... "Shingming" in March last for the Nippon Yusen
Scuior Preventive Officer Watt, the Brother, Ltd., Dumbarton, launched two years hard labour. dangerous machinery left unfenced"a stage in the process of that con- was charged at the Magistracy on Kalahs, of Tokyo, is expected to run for the sake of economy, and in an tinual remanufacture of the Life Stuff Saturday and Oned $1,000. atmosphere deliberately made an- by which the Hamas raon is per- opium, which was valued at $780, was anoceeding sister ship-the Shang The her trials shortly. This vessel and a healthy has and steam to facilitate petuated." It is the State's paramount confiscated.
the unlawful powersion of 33 tacle of or prepared non Government opium, and
some other similarly wide street.
CUNNING LINE OF ESCAPE,
Three armed robbers entard No.
may assure you that I am voicing at, a.m.. yesterday and stole jewel- the sentiments of the majority of theory worth $41 from a Chinese woman residents here, and I earnestly appeal while she was asleep in her enbide. When the woman was aroused, to the company, having this monopoly, to make early arrangements for the one of the men pressed her down provision of an all-round, faster and and pointed a dagger at her more efficient service, which will, if natt. After securing the cabide door on the outside, the intruder not at the present moment bat or a not far off day, repay them in the dashed into the kitchen where they way of faren.
gained a lane at the back of the house Should the Hongkong Electric by sliding down a'bamboo pole which Tramwaye Company let my appeal had been placed against the window, COURISM B.C. bui Haru"-are to be 19-kast lineri,
past without taking steps to meet theThe womsu gave the larm and other manfacture. Had not the few nobler interest in the lives and welfare of ita H. E. the Officer Administering They are
rarrying passengers and mails.
people's complaints, I suggest that inmates of the house rashed to the spirits, notably Robert Owen and rising generation, not so much pleas the Government and many prominent service
intended for the
"Cousins, socording to a well.ourable and popular Colonial Boore kitchen just in time to ese the rabbers between Lord Shaftesbury, awakened the of humity, that have led to the recitisans were present at the memorial Japan.
Shanghai and known Baptist missionary in China, try should bring pressure on them to disappear into the gloom. When the
| faðir their dutkaganda de
police arived, a thoroughs-arrhại thờ bot it ia national conscience, Britains might form which guarantee the child its service for theister: Arnold Hughes, stood that when completed they will fors the birth of Chilet. For in the idents of the valley to continue this not be found.
under was.practised. five-hundred-years bow In conclusion I lavite other rolane was made but the men could have waited long for the industrial | rights of" nurture; protection against was held in the Rheniah Mission and Kobe-the first at the beginning, Hollowing: "On the bathing tub of correspondence, and shout out their]
headmaster of Ying Wa College, bich each sail from Homburg, to Shanghai Confucian classio (600 B.C) oxers the
Agislation that has sinces led the world neglect, and cruelty, and exemption Church yesterday a somoon. The of November, and the second at the Tang these words were engraved -and, has now at laat reached Hong. from premature hard work. That this is preacher was the Rev. T. W. Pearce beginning of December, if they are - If today you can TVnovite your kong.
is proved by the fact that Britain. who raid that the late Mr not-delayed in any way. It is expell Every civilized country, with a few began to punish cruelty to animals than he had taken out of it and the passage to Shanghai to 36 daya, and
Hughes bad always put more into life pected that they will reduce the Then dit day by day, Al amelal exceptions, now has ita in- before it began to pazish parents' College was now the poorer for his that te Kobe to 40 days, thus setting original," says the Morning Post.
-Yes, let it be dally renovation." " dustrial legidation affording protec- cruelty to their childres. And now having left it..
"It is "triple sentence in the op new records for these routes,
grievance till they do get what they fare entitled to
Thanking you for the space for this. insertion, and enclosing my carl.
Yours, oto
FATER OF A LABGM' FAMILY. Hons September 15.
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