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MONDAY JUNE 16, 1924
PIRATE ATTACK SEQUEL.
AWARDS TO CAPTAIN & CHIEF OFFICER.
Government's Generous Decision.
provided the regulations were
LEGAL HONOUR.
A BREEZE AT FULL COURT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
INTERPRETATION OF RENTS
ORDINANCE.
A BEGGAR'S OPERA.
A CELL SCENE AT THE
POLICE STATION, ·
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DOWN AND "OUT” i
was
LANDLORD'S VIEW.
WORKING OF THE NEW ORDINANCE,
IS "DELAY" NECESSARY?
Following our article last Friday, Some queer specimens of human-in connection with that aspect of There was a bit of a breeze inity were rounded up by the Police the Rents Amendment Ordinance. the Supreme Full Court this yesterday. They all passed under 1924, which governs the appeal of morning on the question of legal the category of mendicants" and house owners to the Governor for When the Government recently estimated at $30,000. The entire ctiquette.
ten or a dozen of them were placed permission to reconstruct, we have promised to make grants for ships ship's armoury was also carried Alabaster K. C. made two points trial before the magistrate.
In a Court Appeal case Mr. C. G. in a detention cell to await their received details of another applica- tion the basic points of which are masters and officers killed or of.
in his address of appeal of which | There were fat ones, and thin given below. wounded during pinde attacks. Captain McKechnie and the he had not given notice to the Court ones, lean and slender; some The China Mail dealt with the faithfully carried out, the question Chief Officer, fr. Robb, were both or to the opposing barrister, Mr. with one leg, others who said they procedure which is best explained were blind and a host of other un-in the words of the Attorney-Gen- Eldon Potter; K.C. was raised whether this measure badly wounded and haul to be
Mr. Potter objected to the points desirables, and members of cral when the Bill came before the was intended to be retrospective, taken to hospital. The "Sanning"
being taken. The second, he Canton's Beggar Guild.
Council. In explaining its purport Inquiries by the China Mail at the left Hongkong on Tuesday, at claimed, was a "dreadful one and Apparently there some the Attorney-General said, inter] time elicited the reply that the 630 p.m., with 300 passengers on apart from this if such points were divalry among the motley crew for alin, "That wider discretion is Government would be prepared to board, bound for Kongnoon, to be taken without notice it was according to the best informed an given in order that the Governor- hear any claims that might leAbout two hours after departure, going to the root of the good faith argument started as. 10 which ofin-Council may be able to allow made, and now to-day comes news when near Castle Peak, about 60 on which these cases were fought them had been arrested the most reconstruction in special cases, definitely confirming the impres of the passengers suddenly rose, If Mr. Alabaster was, allowed to times. sion that the mensure was intend- and firing revolvers, took charge make his points, it would mean an of the party claimed the honour and laying out of a whole block of An old and decrepit member such as the further development ed to be retrospective provided of the ship. Shots were first fired end to such agreements, always that the anti-piracy regula- on the steeruge deck Shortly The acting Chief Justice, Mr. A youth with less experience and buildings which may very well be There desirable in the public interests tions had been carried out. The afterwards an uproar, took place Justice Gompertz, who, supported one leg contested him. news is contained in the following in the engine room where severally. Mr. A. Dyer Ball, Acting was a general squabble, heated even though the houses in the etc., and suddenly block may be in such a condition letler, dated June 13, which Mr of the pirates overpowered the Puisne Judge, presided over the words
end to 2. T. Laurenson, Assistant Secre-engine rooni
the that they can stand for a consider- stall.
Almost count. said that they would give to bring an
their decision on this point later.dispute, *the grandfather of able timo." tary of the China Coast Officers simultaneously pirates appeared in the meantime Mr. Alabaster the rabble grabbed hold of the Guild, has received from the on the bridge deck and in various would have to contine himself to younger man's crutches and strucking out" and "desirable in the Colonial Secretary:-
parts of the vessel. There were points of which notice had been him across the skull. The young Sir.--1 am directed to acknow- [ three Indian guards on board, and | given. ledge the receipt of your letter for a few minutes they prevented The appeal before the Full Court of the 17th of May, 1924, and | access being, made, to the wheel was from a judgment delivered by to state that flis Excellency the house. After a sharp but short | Mr. Justice Gompertz in May in Governor-in-Council has decided ] battle, one of the guards was shot; which judgment was found in that gratin paythents off in the left cheek and the other two favour of the awners Messrs $1.000 ench should be made were overpowered and their arms Yeung Chik-fook and Ho Shing- from Government furals to Capt. renoved. The pirates made a ki) who sought to obtain possession MacKethnie and Chief Officer systematic search of the whole of eleven flats in First Street. Robb in respect of wounds vessel, taking away everything of a brief the grounds for appeal as, incurred on the occasion of the value which could be removed. Kiven by Mr. Alabaster weres-
(1) That Justice Gompertz was piracy of the s.s. "Sanning" on The greatest haul of money was the night of 23rd October. 1927, perhaps made in the compradore's wrong in holding that the three The Harbour Master is being room where from a safe sum of months' notice to quit expired at
any sime, asked to communicate with $1,000 to $2,000 was stolen, the
(2) That the notice did not give These two officers with regard to amount including deposits temexact particulars of the intended
porarily kept in the oilice on behalf
reconstruction.
the
the matter.
measure
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"This will have a very, great of passengers. The Sanning" (3) That the Ordinance of 1924, moral effect," said Mr. Laurenson, carried a full complement of which refers to the date of a speaking to a China Mail man this | passengers, including a party be-judgment or order, applied อ mornings "and we all very much lieved to be Chinese officials, who | expired notices where the writ Government's revived marked attention. When had not been issued until after the appreciate the generous action in making grants the attack was made, Captain date of the Ordinance. for events which occured before Markethnic had just handed over was introduced charge to the Chief Officer, Mr. These two grants, we believe, have Robl and had gone aft when he been made largely through the was winged in the right shoulder, good offices of the Harbour Master After this he received another and to him we should like to shot in the right cheek. He was express our warmest gratitacie." taken down to the compradore's office, by five or six of the pirates, After the pirates left, the Chief Officer was found to be wounded in three places.
The Sunning," owned by Shit Hing Company. 10. Bonban Strand, was touted by rates off Gustle Penk.. the bouty being
LOCALITY.
A. DENUDED.
FÉLLING TREES IN WONG, NE) CHONT ROADY.
NEW CHAIRMAN
HÒNGKONG CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
MR. J. OWEN HUGHES ELECTED.
Elaborating the first point Mr. Alabaster claimed that the notice to quit was ineffectual because it did not expire with the current month of the respective ten incy and under the Rents Ordinance a contractual tenancy could only
be soterminated.
"Before any powers can be exer
cised to vary the contract between landlord and tenant the existing contractual - relationship" must be put an end to," said Mr. Alabaster, To put an end to a contractual relationship notice to quit must alway be given even if it is only for
increase of an
rent and though the landlord may he most anxious to keep his tenant,
man dropped like a log. Police were aroused and the victim mov ed on a stretcher to hospital.
Now there is a charge of assault pending.
"Further development and lay- pblic interests" bear very wide constructions and it is only natural that landlords will not sea eya toj tye with tenants or even with the Government. The details given below merely instance what one owner thinks would "undoubtedly nt the category. What strikes the China Mail is not so much the interpretation of, the words re- ALLEGED THEFT OF KEYSferred to but the time that clapses | ☀
AND WRIST WATCH.
BANK WATCHMAN,
An Indian watchman was charg- ed at the Central Magistracy this morning with the theft of certain keys and a wrist watch.
The watchman pleaded not guilty and applied for an adjourn ment in order to enable him to obtain legal assistance. watchman in the act of opening a A police officer said he saw the
drawer with the keys.
The case was allourned until to-morrow,
before reply is made. From a business standpoint, it seems that the interval ig rather long although there may have been good reasons for what has beeni desgribed as delay.
Significant Dates.
On April 24, the owner in ques- tion sent in an appeal to the Governor after the Building certifiente that the proposed recon- Anthority had refused to issue à
struction was desirable, this being. necessary according to the Ordin- alice. A week later, on May 1 to be precise, the usual form of acknowledgment was received from the Colonial Secretary's Office to the effect that the appeal | ☀ "was receiving consideration." Nothing further was intimated until June 14 when a letter dated⚫ Mr. W. H. Gale, the American June was received by the owner
that stating
the Building Consul General; has received a cablegram from the American Biers Authority's decision had been stating that the new engine had
upheld. arrived from "Saigon and that the
Road Widening Scheme. aviators hoped to leave Tourade at
Grounds on which the owner, thought his projected reconstruc 5 a.m., this morning.
MACLAREN'S PLANE ARRIVED, tion would be approved, are us
WORLD FLIGHTS.
AMERICANS LEFT, TOURANE?
بو
An area in front of the premises
1 submit that the contractual The new "plane from follows:- rights of a weekly or monthly Tokio reached MacLaren on tenant are as absolute as those Friday according to a cablegram is required by the Government for of a quarterly or half yearly received by the American Consul [enant."
General this morning from the captain of the "William B. Preston" which took the plane from Hong kong..
Mr.
His Chinese worden appested Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne at the Central Magistracy this morning
Mr. J. Owen Hughes of Messrs. with why tarry Wicking & Co. has been!
DREADFUL POINT. A. charged
It was on ting trees in Wong Nei Chung elected as Chairman of the Hong-(wich, Mr. Alabaster sub-divided the second point Gap.
kong General Chamber of Com-into two) that the breeze aiready After they in bin diseluarged merce in succession to Mr. D. G. M. referred to took place. with a caution, the H. Mr. Bernard (Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- Alabaster said that as the Court D. C. Wolfe said he thought that son & Co. Ltd.) who has gone on was not like an ordinary court of the facts of the custs had not been leave.
interim jurisdiction appeal but was, brought to light. He thought it MR. N. L. Watson (Asiatic under the Rents Ordinance, as had not been mentioned that Petroleum Co.), the Chamber's Court of last resort, he intended
dispute the saw a woman going down the hill-vice-chairman, has also proceeded t
regularity side with the trunk of a freshly cut on leave and Mr. G. M. Young of the notice to quit in other tren in her hands, That particular (Messrs. Butterfield & Swire) has respects. He claimed that the neighbourhood was being absolute been elected to serve in his stead. tenant was not given particulars as to the exact reconstruction and ly denuded of trees.
The Magistrate replied that the branches produced in Court af pearl to be dead, He would, however, bear the C. 8. P.'s re marks in mind.
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HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
WATERWORKS COOLIE HELD UP.
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A coolie employed at the Tai Tam Tak pumping station reports to the Police that while on his way
To fill vacancies through depar- also that the certificate from the! ture on leave. Mr. A. H. Barlow Building Authority was not at (Hongkong Rank), Mr. B. D. tached to the notice but only Beith (Messrs. Jardine's) and Mr. enclosed. W. H. Bell (A.P.C.), have joined "It was to these points that Mr. the general committee of the Potter objected and the second Chamber.
which he termed a "dreadful point." He had never heard it before and at the first hearing it had been agreed by both solicitors that the tenancy was in all other respects: to that concerning the tenancy a perfectly regular one.
ALLEGED BRIBERY.
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CHINESE STUDENT CHARGED
AT KOWLOON...
A Chinese student who it is alleged attempted to bribe an Indian policeman with $1, appear to Shaukiwan accompanied by eri before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at foki, ha was robbed by two high- {the Kowloon Magistracy this Waymen, one of whom threatened morning. him with a revolver,
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Mr. Alabaster was on his third point when the court adjourned until later in the day. He claimed that the Rents Ordinance was
retrospective, and had always been 80. In the opinion of the Legisla
are the construction placed on the original Ordinance had been too favourable to the landlord and the successive amendmenis had been From the evidence it appears in favour of the tenants. there was a fight between several coolies in Kowloon City Rond The Court decided against Mr. yesterday and when the student Alabaster on the point of the interposed he was told by a con-attaching of the certificate (som
LATER,
The coolie statea that when near- ing the Chai Wan gap on Stanley Road, two men suddenly rushed ant from the bushes and held them
He was searched while stable to move on and then when Building Authority but thought he revolver was being painted at his the constable arrested him for was entitled to further hearing on head and $25 was taken from him. obstruction he offered a bribe the other point he had raised as to
the validity of the notice. Ilia foki was not molested.
up.
The robbers made off up the hill- Ride in the direction of the Taikon Summer Quarters GR Mount Parker,
CRUELTY TO DUCKS.
NINETY IN A SINGLE CRATE
of $1.
Mr. Nash appeared for the defence. The case was adjourned
until this afternoon.
KITE FLYING.
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CHINESE BOY FALLS FROM ROOF.
TWO BOYS DROWNED.
DISAPPEAR IN POND NEAR HOSPITAL.
The danger of becoming too enthusiastic over kite flying a -Two Chinese boys aged ten and juvenile pastime which seems
A Chinese hawker appeared at eleven years, respectively, were popular in Kowloon, was amply the Kowloon Magistracy this drowned while bathing in a pond illustrated by an accident which morning charged with causing near the Kwong Wah Hospital occurred yesterday, when a Chinese 'cruelty to ducks. He was fined yesterday.
boy aged 15 tumbled from the roof $10 by Mr. E. W. Hamilton.
The boys, it is reported to the of No. : Bhanghai Street. He was According to Police evidence, Police, disappeared suddenly in a picked up in an unconscious cun- the hawker had over ninety live pond at the rear of West View dition and removed to the Govern ducks in one crate,
ment Civil Hospital.
Buildings.
When the machine is assembled MacLaren should, given
good weather conditions, be in Hong- kong in six or seven days, the distance being 21,500 miles.
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVALS.
the purpose of widening the road which gives access to the property and the Land Office had, so it is stated, called upon the owner, to surrender that lot in accordance with agreement.
Plans for demolishing the build- ing (of three storeys) and recon- structing a four storey-house in- stead, were approved before March 5, the date of the Amendment (or demolition) Ordinance.
Before the Bill was passed an application had been made for a "new building certificate," which was all that was required at the Per P. M. so. "Pics. Lincoln' on time, but the owner was not noti- Ban Jin, Mr R C. Derreto. Major be issued till over a month after June 16-Mr Eliseo Alampay, Mr Afied that such a certificate would Carrion, Meuses Eugenio norme, Matens his plans had been sent in, and in Girpass, Jose Hilario Lun Seats,, Mr and Mrs Rufino Martinez, Mer the meantime the new law had Mauricio, Domingo FoDee. Cornelio come into effect. Formas, Tas Oban Ngion, Mrs Estber Wright and Jess Salazar. Wolfenn. Messrs Wong Yu, D. H.
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for a few days only.
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Another view of Lieut.-Smith's 'plane being repaired hers prior to the flight to Indo-China.