THURSDAY, JUNE 6 1924
DUCK DIES.
HAWKER CHARGED WITH
CRUELTY.
A FLAT TYRE.
PUSHING HOME A MOTOR CYCLE,
WRONG SIDE OF ROAD.
THE CHINA MAI
MAN
WITH 15 POSTS.
NO HOLIDAY FOR 30 YEARS.
H
Carrying five ducks and two
Mr. Henry Layton Staffurth, a fowls by their lega and causing
Bognor solicitor, who is over 60 unnecesary pain to them was
Mr. H. W. Chaney of Messrs. and who has been elected chair- alicged against a Chinese,, hawker Palmer and Turners was fined man of the Bognor Urban District who appeared before Mr. R. $5 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton Council, has not taken a holiday Lindsell at the Central Magistracy at the Kowloon Magistracy for more than 30 years. Mr. this morning.
this morning for driving his motor cycle on the wrong side of local authority for 29 years and Staffurth, who was clerk to the Salisbury Road at 11 p.m. on blay, also clerk to the school board,
Mr. Chaney explained that ha was, pushing, home his cycle from the Ferry past the Railg station. One of the tyres was flat and not having a pump, he decided: to push the cycle home. engine was running in second:
According to the Police, the man was seen carrying the ducks and fowls by their legs in two bundles. One of the ducks died five minutes after it had been taken, to the police station..
The Magistrate asked the hawker if he would like to be carried by the legs and imposed u fino of $3.
!
STUDENT ATTACKED.
ROBBERS ABORTIVE
ATTEMPT.
Robbers were scared off when they attempted to break into a Chinaq, student's rooms yesterday
afternoon.
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The
An Indian constable sald Mr. Chancy was riding his cycle and not pushing it. He ran up to him and told him that he was riding on the wrong side of the road and would summonse him.
in reply, to this, Mr. Chaney säld if he had been riding the constable 'could not have caught him up.
as particularly wrong and in reply, The Magistrate said defendant
to Mr. Chaney's remark that he Ng Che-ying reports to the Police that three men broke into was not riding the cycle, added! his house at 37 Tung Street. Two that the regulations stated that all of them had revolvers and the right and go on the left.
moving traffic was to come on the
Defen -other-a-dagger fleraised an
"dant's cycle was moying. zların and the robbers look fright
Mr. Chaney went on to say that and bolted. Two of them, how- ever, were arrested When search-e was propelling the cycle and ed a toy pistol was found strapped was not being propelled by the to one of the men's legs..
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ARMS TRAFFIC.
cycle.
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Mr. Hamilton said he found the stimmons proved on defendant's own statement.
Mr. Chaney's record produced showed that he had been previous-
convicted three-times for reck less driving, disobeying police signals and speeding
charge was not very serious but The Magistrate said the present if Mr. Chaney came up again with that record he would be heavily fined.
CENOTAPH LOITERERS.
Much has been said about the loitering of Chinese at the steps of the Cenotaph. An impression has been given that the police TIENTSIN, June 4.
have not deemed it necessary to The Customs detained 58 cases of wine from Genca destined to place a constable on point duty Tientsin Italian firm owing to the there to prevent the steps being, discovery of 23 pistols and 5,000 used as reclining couches. This, cartridges in a false bottom case. lowever, the China Mail learns, is Courtesy Daily Bulletin.
not correct.
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One case of small pax and one case of enteric fever (both Chinese) were notified yesterday.
2.
holds the ments :--
following appoint.
Honorary correspondent to the managers of the Bognor council schools.
Vice-chairman of the Church Managers and Teachers' Associa
tion.
WEDDING GUESTS ILL.
UNHAPPY SEQUEL TO DOUBLE CEREMONY.
POISONED TONGUE?
Nine guests who attended two. weddings at Taunton
became suddenly ill after "the wedding
escaped death. breakfast, and several narrowly
Flook, were married at the parish Two sisters, Violet and Norah
church, Violet to Mr. H. Prangley and Norah to Mr. W. Green, of
Swindon.
About 30 guests attended the breakfast, but only those who ate caned tongue became 11; these included one of the bridegrooms. Sun-dance and thanks to their prompt Doctors were quickly in atten- action all the patients are now [recovering,
Member of the Provincial day School Council. Board of Guardians.
Member of the Westharapnett
A diocesan lay reader.
Hoa. secretary of the focal Ruridecanal Council.
Citizens' Union.
DUE TO FOOD POISON.. Interviewed Dr. John Allen, the borough medical officer, said the Hon. secretary and treasurer of remainder of the tongue has been the Bogner branch of the National sent to the Ministry of Health, whose investigations were not brauch of the Lifeboat Institution.
Hom secretary of the Bognor definitely established that the complete. It had, however, beed Local secretary of the British illness was food poisoning due to the canned tongue. The meat.
infected before and Foreign Bible Society.
Vice-chairman of the Parochial probably was
canning. Church Council.
Secretary-of-the-Bognor Water
Company
Clerk of the Bogner Old-Age Pensions Committee.
A member of the West Sussex County Council.
A member of the West Sussex Education Committee.
THE NEXT WORLD."
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Sir Oliver Lodge's new book, "The Making of Man" (Hodder and Stoughton, 3s. 6d.), containe thoughts on this life and hereafter of exquisite interest.
The doctor added that a well- known firm of dealers supplied the meat and were in no way to blame. On the whole, canned goods were the modern methods of canning. safer than any others, thanks to
REGISTRAR'S LAST LETTER.
| SUICIDE "AFTER PITEOUS
- MESSAGE TO WIFE.
11
My Dearest Girl)—I am afraid I cannot face the future. I know it is a coward's way out;"but "trig now nearly three months since I had any natural real sleep, and I cannot stand my bead any longer.
Darling, I am consoled by the knowledge that time is the quiet He declares man is unfinish-healer, and that you will have the ed"; and he answers his own dear old sons to comfort you. question. "Why is so much human wrong and suffering permitted by Almighty Power?" as follows:
God bless and keep you and mý boys always.
Such was the letter, written to Because in the Creation of man his wife by Alfred George Cam- an exceptionally lofty result was pion, registrar of births and deaths afmed at, the achievement of which at Hove. An inquiry into his death was bound to be slow and painful; ended in a verdict of suicide dur but which was foreseen as in the ing temporary insanity, following long run making all the effort and disclosures in connection with! suffering worth while. A free and alleged irregularities in his noble creature was contemplated, accounts while relieving officer. one who was fitted to become a Mr. Campion was found shot. He companion of Deity.
We had been before the Guardians in connection with the accounts. He had been registrar since last year. When he left home on the morn- ing of the tragedy he told his wife he was going to register a wedding | at Southwick That was untrue, it was stated, because he had been summoned to attend the Guardians at Shoreham.
Months ago orders were given out from Central for a man to be cp duty at the Cenotaph with the object of keeping trespassers off. should overcome our moods of During the cold season his duty sadness and perplexity and realise
evils can be: was rendered unnecessary by the that man-made coolies keeping themselves else.overcome by man. Peking, June 4-The Cabinet where, presumably under cover. It In a deeply interesting passage has requested special meetings of is only recently that loiterers have speculating on the faictions of the the two Houses of Parliament been noticed again "and every Ether he suggests that the material to-morrow at which the Premier morning at eight, a Chinese con-vehicle utilised by Life and Mind will fully report on the Sino-stable goes on duty to keep the "perhaps need not be Matter in any of its familiar forms. It may
Germas negotiations, and if coolies off. Parliament approves, the Sino- German Agreement will probably be signed on Friday or Saturday. -Reuter.
After he returned home and shot be something more fundamental himself in his office, he was dis than Matter, something of which covered by his wife, who also! Matter is only a sensuous found his pathetic farewell letter.
modification."
MAN WHO INSPIRED
MY OLD DUTCH."
COMMERCE AND FINANCE: Vaguely and indefinitely this hav There was a meeting of the
the view of religious geniuses, SALVAGE COMPANY, Sanitary Board yesterday at which
from St. Paul downwards: that Mr. N. I. Smith presided. Others
which they have called "a spiritual A" British present were Mr. C. G. Alabaster,;
company, to be body" is turning out likely to be a K.C, Dr. W. W. Pearse, M.OH, registered under the Hongkong reality.... We probably act on DEATH AFTER 60 YEARS'
HAPPY MARRIED LIFE. the Hon. Mr. A. E. Wond, Mr. Ordinances, is in the course of Ether directly on Wong Kwong tin and Mr. G. formation by Messrs. Bowern & directly. Kennerly Skipton (Secretary). The Co., ship brokers and general Chairman proposed and Mr. Wong shipping agents, of Shanghai, Hencs, on the hypothesis of its
public importance.
and managers
Sir Oliver adds:
Matter la-
there
Kwong-tin seconded that a public s
agents, the Ether's] utilisation, laurine be erected in Man Ming for the purchase of two large and seems every chance that when we Lane, Youmati. This was carried. powerful salvage tug-boats, on have got vid of our temporary There was no other business. of which an option has been secured, imperfect instruments Our real and several large new cargo light existence will be unhampered and ers for operating on the China perpetual. Three Chinese died from cere- Coast, for towing, cargotransporta- There is no next world, save bro-spinal fever last week, and one tion and salvage purposes. The subjectively," he adds, continuing from small-pox. Of four cases of salvage boats are fitted with wire- this train of thought.
The Universe is one; it is not so diphtheria, two were British and less and all the latest appliances two Chinese. There were two for this class of work and will much a sequence as a co-existence deaths. Two out of six cases of carry expert engineers and divers What we call 'next world" is enteric were imported. Three were well experienced in wrecking co-existent and simultaneous with Chinese, one British, one Dane and operations. Salvage operations this. one Japanese. There were three will be conducted on the principle deaths. One case out of three of of" po success, no payment paratyphoid was imported. Two Support has been promised to the were Chinese and one British-no promoters by ship owners, insur STRAWBERRY JAM FINE. deaths. During Monday and Tues-ance companies, dock comanies,
day two cases of small-pox and etc., who are interested. It is an- WHAT A, 2lb JAR DID NOT
CONTAIN. two of enteric were reported, all ticipated that the company will be Chinese.
formed and floated as soon as the
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An inquest was held at Lambeth on Alice Smith, 68, a single woman of independent means, of 40, Frog- more, The Plain, Wandsworth, S.W., who was found drowned in the Thames of Brunswick Wharf, Lambeth, on a Saturday evening.
Mrs. Ethel Lubombe, of Wind- Mr. Harry Lewis, who, with his wife, was the inspiration of the mill-road, Brentford, Middlesex, saj fate Albert. Chevaller's famous Miss Smith, her aunt, was very ce song, "My Old Dutch," has just centric. She lived in her own house died at Kingston-on-Thames.
and owned six others. Lately she Married at St. Mary's Church, Newington, on July 26, 1862, Mr. had bad an idea that she was going to and Mrs. Lewis last year celebe evicted from her house.
On March 14 her anat brought her brated" their diamond wedding anniversary at Shepperton, where £800 worth of War Loan and her Mr. Lewis was a boatbuilder for keys, and said: If anything hap
pens to me take my accurities to a of age respectively a wonderful
They were then 83 and 31 years solicitor at Brentford.
A polico-constable said it was esti couple, full of life and energy, and mated that the body had been six very proud of the fact that it was weeks in the water, The woman under their roof, 30 years before, was wearing a man's hat and bonts, that the most celebrated of coster size mine, odil stockings, and a puttea songs came into being, and that round the right leg. Under hør they were the couple whose happy skirt was bag pinned to her cloth married life Inspired the authoring containing a number of pins that
""NEVÉR A QUARREL.” ́ she had picked up. When interviewed by a repre- sentative of the Sunday News on
40 years.
"ZEAPS OF RURRISH.
prospectus and full details are A two-pound jar of "strawberry" the occasion of their wedding The coroner, Mr. Ingleby Oddio, Peking. June 4-M. Bleuler, issued to those who have agreed jam which, in fact, contained not anniversary, Mrs. Lewis, who can said Miss Smith was one of those
whole
to dare and sew without fumy old ladies whom one came the representative of the Russo- to take shares to the company. A obe
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"glasses, said,"" Asiatic Bank has handed to the few shares will be placed on the consisting to the extent of 75 per
Never a quarrel have we had all cross, occasionally, living alone and cent. of apple pulp, was one of Walchieopu a formal protest on be market for sale.
keeping entirely to themselves. She the samples described by the our lives, and when Mr. Chevalier had a good doul of money, and was half of shareholders and · bond-
county analyst at Sunderland came here as a young man tolodge living like a hermit, in a state of -holders in the Chinese-Eastern
Railway Co. against the violation The Committee of Experts when Moore's Stores were fined he said he must make a song about, rounded by old newspapers, of their rights in the Sino-Soviet appointed by the temporary Mixed £20 and costs for selling adulteratus. expect you know it. Every cigarette anda, old boots, and any- Agreement, which it is alleged, Commission of the League of ed strawberry jam.
And so "My Old. Dutch" was thing that she could find and collect was signed without the knowledge Nations and sitting at Prague to The analyst added that it was of the said shareholders and bond study the private manufacture of the worst case of adulteration in given to the world, and the old and take home in triumph. The holders. Copies of the protest have armaments has evolved a system his experience.
couple used regularly to go to only entrace to her house was through heaps of rubbish. She was been given to the Peking repro based on
The defendants pleaded that Loados to hear its author sing.
Mr. Lewis is survived by his own to be very eccentric and ob- sentatives of the eight Powers who
and thus preventing the makers as genuine. signed the Washington Treaty.excessive manufacture.
He returned a verdict of Suicide aromarried, and ten grandchildren, while of Unsund Minxi,
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the idea of granting they bought a ton and a half from wife, four daughters, nil of whom viously was not mentally sound.
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