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TRAMWAYS. ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTERL
MOTOR DRIVER'S TRIAL.
BONUS IN SHARES.
word Certainly suggest that he HONGKONG has decided in his own mind that! the Ordinance should be extended, and 'the only question is for how' long. And as we have already said, the period cannot be for leas than six months.
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STORY OF RIKISHA PULLER'S
DEATH.
on
The circumstances attending the death of the coolle, as outlined by Mr. Kemp, were that at I am, on January 7 the accused (Ho Chin- lun) was driving a car from east to west in the neighbourhood of the Tai Ping Theatre, West Point, when he came up with a taxi and, instead of waiting for it to draw in to the left and passing by the left hand tram track, he went out to the right hand tram, track among the sea-side lines of traffic.
Mr. Komp was proceeding to describe how the driver suddenly noticed a rikisha coming in the opposite direction and ventured the opinion that he saw it too late when Mr Zeitlyn, (instructed by Mr G. K. Hall Brutton for the prisoner) interposed and claimed that this was not in. the evidence. Mr. Kemp disagreed, and continued that the driver must have put on the brakes, the car akidded, swung round and struck "the rikisha, the poller was injured and the car finished up in the sea-side gutter. The paller died in hospital from his injuries.
DISTRIBUTION MEETS WITH APPROVAL..
Following the yearly: meeting It was the contention of the prow of Hongkong Tramways, Lidecution that the prisoner should this morning a report of which have. exercised more care appears on page one) an. extra-account of the wet night and the For the first time in building ordinary general meeting was slippery condition of the road at operations in China, a concrete held for the purpose of confirming this morning's proceedings against pile driving equipment has been the proposed distribution among a motor driver who knocked down shareholders of $5 shares as bonus and fatally injured a rikisha used; this being at the site of the.
In proposing the resolutions to puller in the early hours of the new jail at Ngau Shi Wan, where this effect, the Chairman said: morning. the Hongkong Excavation, Pile
During the past unsettled and The charge against the driver Driving and Construction Co.,abo rmal years it has been Ing. was that of manslaughter, and lit Ltd., is carrying out an extensive portant in the best interest of the was heard before the Chief Justice, contract for the Government. Company to provide resources | Sir Henry Cowper Gollan, at the Sponsored by the Hon Mr. C. against many contingencies and Criminal Sessions, the Attorney Montague Ede, the company has unusual demands, and your General, the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, purchased the necessary plant Directors have accordingly pursued KC., prosecuting for, the Crown. from the Raymond Co. With the a conservative financial policy. installation 40 piles can be driven Over the past 10 years the into the ground to a depth of business of your Company has twenty feet as compared with about two a day by older methods. In addition to time saving, there are other advantages. A spirally
Shareholders have not been call reinforced shell is fitted on to a "pile core" and then driven into ed upon to provide new capital for the earth by a strong steam ham-these developments, which have When the shell is in its been effected from time to time out current resources. In con- proper place the core is with- drawn and prior to insertion of sequence, a considerable reserve
fund has accumulated. - concrete the shell car be
It is the considered view of your examined. Possibility of examin- Directors that, in the light of the ation and the resistance of the general prosperity of the under steel shell to back pressure from taking and the sound basis that the earth form advantages which has been achieved, as these funds even the layman can appreciate. are already employed in the At the new jail site 2,500 of these undertaking the time has arrived piles will be put in. Two test to cipitalise them by the issue of piles were put in on Wednesday additional shares. Before this can evening and work is now proceed-be done it is necessary to increase ing apace. The Company is to be the capital of the Company to the congratulated on installing this requisite amount. completely equipped pile-driver, You are accordingly called here on which a supervising crew of to-day to consider and, if thought three Europeans are at work. fit, pass the resolutions, of which His Excellency the Governor has you have notice, to increase the signified his intention of going authorised capital of the Company Evidence was given by a coolic out to see the work at a later date. from $1,625,000 to $3,250,000 by who said he was present at the the creation of 325,000 additional [time of the accident, the police shares of $5 each to rank equally constable who arrived on the scope with the present shares and inshortly afterward, and an expert pursuance of Article No. 128 of who gave evidence regarding the Indications in 'to-day's cable- the Articles of Association to car marks. grams point to the Admirals capitalise accumulated reserve to the extent of $1,625,000 issuing the Conference in Singapore being new shares to members credited something more than the mere as fully paid up in the proportion formality mentioned a few weeks of one new share for every present ago, As the "Singapore Free share held. Prèss" remarked in a recent issue, It should be mentioned that in the conference will be all the more the year 1910 the issued capital interesting in that the construc- of the English Company, by which tion of the naval base; the the undertaking was then operated, preliminary aviation examination was reduced from £325,000 to
A Sanitary Department motor of that area, and "the recent £81,250. Io actual effect the out- experimental submarine opera come of the resolutions will be to van crashed into a verandah at tions will all contribute data for place the capital back more or less Kowloon City last Saturday whilst in the hands of an unlicensed consideration in estimating the on the original footing,··
These proposals are now sub driver, causing Injuries to the pro- action to be pursued in any com- bined operations over the huge mitted to you and are recommend. per driver, who was seated in the was walking on the the general interests of your man who Australia and the Pacific. The the business-like statement of His environment of Fleets in the East Company in every way.
Both the injured men having The Chairman than soposed Excellency the Governor regard- and the local conditions affecting the two resolutions which were been discharged from hospital, ing the inquiry now to be made their speed, offensive power, abili-secoaded by Messrs. A. A. Alves the case against the unlicensed
driver was resumed at the Kow into the whole subject. His ty to remain at sea, and relation and F. M. Ellis.
This concluded the business of loon Mägistracy yesterday. At a Excellency spoke for, the whole to climatic conditions, all need
careful study quite apart from the meeting.
previous hearing the accused Colony when he said that "what questions of organisation of scat-
pleaded guilty to charges of reckless driving and driving with- we desire is a very full examina- tered units, rendezvous, and the best method of ensuring speedy
out a licence, but was remanded tion.of the situation-not only a
for the evidence of the injured concentration of homogeneous full but a rapid examination, for, units, or unita as nearly CUTTINGS FROM EXERCISE On the charge of reckless as he pointed out, it is obviously homogeneous as to constitute in
driving, the accused was flued $25, very desirable that landlords and combination an effective striking
force. Trade routes and effective!
or, in the alternative, one month's tenants should know in a reason-communication
imprisonment, and ordered to pay systems are
$10 compensation to the injured able time before June 80-how among other matters which can
pedestrian, or a further 14 days" long they may expect the present be most satisfactorily discussed
The Before Mr. R Wood, at the Imprisonment.
Magistrate the system of control to continue." personally by those who will have Central Magistracy yesterday, the cautioned the accused on
to, co-operate to maintain them, heating was continued of the case second charge, remarking that he His Excellency was at pains to and the conference will have a in which a Chinese employee of would in all probability be dis explain that the resolution intro-sufficiency of necessary and im the Societe Francaise de Gerance missed from the Government duced by the Colonial Secretary portant detail to consider to was charged with alleged em- Service.
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BIRTHS.
BACHRACH.-On. February 19, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. Bachrach, a son. BELL. On February, 19, at
L. M. Bell, a daughter.
yesterday submitting that it was expedient to extend the Rents Ordinance until the end of the current year was introduced, not because it was in the particular form in which he would have Proposed it if he had desired to pass it yesterday, but because any "form was suitable for bringing the
EL
THAT COINCIDENCE."
BOOKS.
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.
the possibilities of "combined Mr. M. H. Turner prosecuted," manoeuvres in larger numbers and Mr. M. K. Lo defended. |
The accused is alleged to have and with broader aims, than any one of the three commands can extracted the money from a carry out by itself. In short, packet sent to Singapore in there are possibilities In the January, and to have substituted Admirals' Conference undreamed paper cut to the same size as: of in prosaic pre-war days.
pavement.
men.
CHINA'S
WRAF."
CHINESE GIRL FLIES" TO
FATHER'S AID, "
the missing notes. Some of the A Home picture paper publishes paper used, had been cut from a portrait of a Miss Chu who is " exercise books, and, it was described as China's Wraf and the the son and daughter of the Cheak-man, accused.
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. matter before the Council. Not- LOCAL CINEMA FEATURES, alleged, bore the handwriting of daughter of Mr. Chu Chouk (? Chu
TAYLOR
MARRIAGE.
BENTLEY. - On
́QUEEN'S · THEATRE,
CHANEY ADDS TWO TO HIS
THOUSAND FACES.
more
commonly. spelled Ju Cheuk-man), who was rescued by his daughter flying in an acroplane to his assistance in the recent Canton upheaval,
withstanding this statement, how- ever, we feel that tenants can
The statement made by the construe 'the Government's action
accused in answer to the charge was produced. It was a denial of the offence, which, it was pointed Mr. Ju has been Director of the February 18, at Manchester, to mean that the Rents Ordinance Albert Norman Taylor, of the will be extended for a further six
out, the accused had no opportunity Canton Arsenal and Heungshan
Magistrate, and is a staunch sup China Navigation Co., second months at the least, for as we
of committing. Lon Chaney, the star of "The
After the evidence of the porter of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. 'During son of Mrs. C. Taylor and the have already suggested, the un- Hunchback of Notre Dame," is at accused's daughter, who admitted the last year he has not been late Mr. Charles Taylor, of Manchester, to Dorothy Lilian official members," upon, "whose "A Biind Bargain," which will be her were in her handwriting, Mr.
his best in the Goldwyn melodrama, that two pieces of paper shown to prominent in Canton polities.
In the coup of June, 1922, the Bentley, B. Sc. Hons. (Vic attitude the final decision to some the altraction at the Queen's Turner applied for an adjournment father had to flee but it was not toria), fourth, daughter of Mr. G. H. Bentley and the late extent depends, are hardly likely Theatre for four days, commencing until the arrival of a witness from recorded that he did so in a 'plane
to-day..
Singapore.
piloted by his daughter. Neither Mrs. Bentley, of Manchester to take the view that the Ordin- In this thrilling picture he adds
is it recalled that she flew over ance should not be extended at two faces to the thousand he has as evidence against the accused Canton
to effect a dramatic all, and if it is to be extended, the previously accumulated and it is and asked for his discharge. The rescue. additional period cannot very well safe to say that without the evidence of the prosecution tended guidance of the cast"of characters | MACKAY-On. February 20, at be less than six months. More- no one would recognise him either to point to the accused being
innocent rather than guilty. Shanghai, Alexander Beith over, although it might not be fair as the half-mad physician, Dr. The Magistrate, said that there Mackay, Public Works De-to read into a speech a meaning Lumb, or as the bunchback victim was "that colacidence”—the cut-
of one of the doctor's experiments partment, Shanghai Muni- that was perhaps not intended, we in turning man back into his simiantings from the exercise books- cipal Couneft,
cannot but note that His Excel-prototype by transplanting live and the accused should offer an
explanation. lency heightened the impression monkey glands into his body.
further adjournment was Nongkong, Friday, February 27, 1925. that the Ordinance ie to be The two characterisations, are at made for week.
extended when he said that "itpposite as day and night. The polished physician, is the villian
and London.
DEATH.
RENTS HOPES.
Mr. Lo submitted that there was
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is obviously very desirable land-¦and the simian hunchback is the In attempting to board a lards and tenants should know in sympathetic character. Nor by P.W.D. motor lorry whilst in papers that a Hongkong firm sent a reasonable time before June 80 any stretch of the Imagination motion at Queen's Road, West, in the biggest amount one day
could eliber characterisation be yesterday. scavenging coolle early in the campaign for luids. Anxious tenants, disappointed of this year how long they may connected in any way with was injured, one of the wheels Mesir, John Swire and Sons (of that the Legislative Council did expect the present system of Chaney's roles in "The Penalty" passing over his foot. The man London-Messrs. Butterfeld and not adopt the resolution yesterday control to continue." Whatever or Ace of Hearts," his former was taken to the Government Swire-have donated a sum of
Civil Hospital,
£1,000 to the funda promising them further protection His Excellency's intention, these Goldwyn pictures.
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