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FOUND DEAD.
American Visitor's Suicide..
HANGING FROM TREE.
LOCAL RESIDENT'S GRUE- SOME DISCOVERY.
A Portuguese gentleman, who was travelling in a chair up Glenealy at 10.30 last night, made a gruesome discovery whilst on the stretch between Caine Road and 'Robinson Road. On looking into the nullah below, he noticed not very far from the road the outline of a man hanging by the neck from a tree. The discovery was immediately reported to the police:
On visiting the scene, the police officers found that the mag was a foreigner about 40 years old. and that life was extinet.
Amongst papers found in the man's pockets was a passport bearing the name H. E. Gray, From this it has been established that the man is an American, and had been in the Colony only a few thayo.
The funeral will take place this afternoon from the mortuary, where the body has been lying Since last night.
COLONY'S BEGGARS.
FIGURES OF POLICE
CRUSADE...
HUNDREDS DEALT WITH.
The rounding up of beggars has resulted in the despatch to Canton of 202 persons in January, 82 in February, Cz in March, and 234. so far this month; making total of 580 since the begin- ning of the year. In addition there were nearly one hun' dred in the hands of the police this morning, and they will be sent away to-night along with any other captures which may result during the course of the day.
Many of those sent to Canton take the earliest opportunity to return to the Colony, as so far as the records go. 30 persons have been sent back twice; eight, three times; five, six times; four, ten times; and one, a small boy, nine times.
So far 17 persons have been charged and convicted.
The woman who had a cheque for $300 in her possession when caught begging was sentenced to fourteen
days' imprisonment. The small. boy has been sent to Po Leung Kuk. After the completion of her sentence, the woman will be brought before the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, when the cheque will be handed back to her. The money repre sented subscriptions by a. few Chinese sympathisers
An endowment to the boy consequent on the death of his father,
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At an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in Messrs. M. Y. San and Co., Ltd., it was decided to rescind a previous resolution to go into voluntary liquidation, now that an arrange. ment has been come to with the firm's creditors. Concluding his address, the chairman said As from today, the business of the Co will return to its even tenour, this showing the truth of the old adage 'All's well that ends well.'"
This morning in the Supreme Court application for the with- drawal of the petition of voluntary liquidation was made and granted, Mr. Addis, for the petitioners, stating that the debt had now been satisfied and he understood that the creditors were satisfied.
Melbourne; April 27-The Minister of Defence confirms the report that the Australian airforce-in-ordering four seaplanee at a cost approximately of. £8,000 each. They will be of the Seagull Amphibian type. This machine has been adopted in order to obviate the necessity of establish ing a seaplane base at Sydney Reuter.
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1925,
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日六和月四丑乙四十國民中
PEAK HOME ABLAZE.
PROF. FORSTER'S RESIDENCE GUTTED.
BRIGADE'S AWKWARD PROBLEM.
SOLDIERS FROM BARRACKS RENDER VALUABLE ASSISTANCE.
A fire which broke out early this morning has burnt out almost entirely the interior of No. 5, The Peak. Prof. Forster awakened in time to get his wife and children out of the house but most of the furniture was lost. The house was not insured. There was no personal loss of life of injury but Pref. Foster's dog, imprisoned in the drying room, was killed.
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on which he was dependent for his support until his attention was drawn to it. He was chaffed unmercifully by his companions.
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The trouble would appear to from the Barracks and connecting have arisen from the action of the it with the nearest hydrant that boy employed at the house who if there had been water they lit the fire shortly after five o'clock would have had the fre put in a this morning and then left for few minutes, but the pressure was Hongkong. The blaze from the not sufficient to fill the hose and
Chain of Buckets, huge fire he had made is believe all that could be done was for intendent H. T. Brooks, Sub- Several firemen under Super- to have burst out of the rather water to be brought from the taps Inspector R. H. Marks, first police narrow chimney piping which of the Barracks and an adjacent officer to arrive on the scene and passer through the drying room house, the furniture and other in- other police were working with above, and so caused the disaster. flammable material from the might and main together with The amah and coolie, were burning house and that of Mr. Tommies, practically all the morn- awakened by huge volumes of Russ to be taken into safety, and ing raking among the ruins to get smoke issuing from the drying the fire confined to the one house at the heart of the volumes of, room. Mr. Forster roused by as far as possible. their cries, found that the fire had. By demolishing a littlefmasonry debris. The difficulty all along smoke which still issued from the obtained a firm grip of the drying and severing a beam the houses was water, for it was not until room from which flames were were separated sufficiently for hours after the outbreak that leaping. Having awakened his this latter object to be fulfilled anything approaching a jet could wife and children and seen them Mr. Russ was no less enthusiastic bo got from the hose and it was to a place of safety, he attempted about the courage and efficiency impossible to get either the engine, as best he could to stem in some of the "boys." "Everything that or tender farther than the Peak. mensure the conflagration. This has been saved is due to their Tramway. Everything that was be som found to be a hopeless efforts." he told the "China Mail" done in the earlier and crucial task, for the water only trickled man as they stood underneath and stages was by means of a chain through the tap and the flames looked up at what had once been of buckets. cagerly devoured the occasional a roof and surveyed the remnants Matshed Danger. hucketful he was able to throw on of blackened walls and twisted
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Speculator's Troubles Overcome.
NEARLY $200,000 NEEDED.
TO-DAY'S FURTHER MILD
SENSATION.
Thanks to much spadework behind the scenes yesterday, local sharebrokers have goodman, to hope that to-day's (April), there settlement for the month will go through without a hitch.
Further, indications were pro- vided yesterday afternoon that one interested party had caused a sensation. However, others were promise and this morning, the successful in effecting a "com-
work of clearance started.
gentlemen came along to smooth' It appears that a number of
matters over: arrived at last night, when it was. Figures had been
estimated that a sum of early, $200,000 Was needed. This morning, one or two of the volun- teers were rumoured as having. altered their views somewhat, with the result that there was a further mild sensation. In the end, matters panned out as expected,
BATHING COSTUMES
A large stock of Woollen. and Cotton Bathing Costumes is now being shown. One-piece style with skirt in the newest colourings—some. are really loud; but we havS neat designs for those with more subdued tastes.
PLAIN BLUB JABGER COSTUMES
To-day's settlement covers a huge turnover, approaching that wITH RED OR WHITE TRIMMINGS of previous records. Trams and Cements occupied Electrics,
pride of place by reason of the big volume of business done in these stocks.
Until later in the day it is not
Rusa-in fact the same beam runs from the front one gets little "Tommies" for when they first Possible to predict if there will be
throughout and at 6.30 there appeared little hope of saving either of the houses, or any appre- ciable proportion of the furniture; but welcome help suddenly came from an unexpected quarter.
"Splendid Help." Companies B. and C. of the East Surreys, on paråde for physical and rifle drill at. Mt. Austin Barracks, just below, observed smoke issuing from the house, and were ordered in a batch to the scene. It was largely due to their efforts that the fir: was eventually got under control and
Just above the two houses con- cerned is a large matshed and the Plano Saved.
inflammable parts of this had Approaching the two houses been stripped off by the inkling of the desolation within. arrived on the scene they held The houses are of atone aed the out little hope of saving `eithër exteriors have been little affected house, and there was a possibility, except at the back. On the lawns with the wind blowing from the this morning were, spread out the houses on to the matshed, that articles of furniture which had this also would be burnt. Little been saveti, a piano with hardly in the nature of flames would a scratch on it seeming strangely appear to have emerged from the out of place" in the centre, and house, however, for the windows even more so a pathetic little were all closed and the fire, more knife board leaning against it. or less bottled up, had eaten its The piano was pulled through way through walls and flooring one of the windows. "Goodness and when it had finished on all knows how they did it, look at the the inflammable material that the distance the windows are from Tommies were not able to get the ground," said an Army officer away it died a natural death.
Tommy's Luck.
"We seem to strike it lucky in
were at
n deal of the furniture saved, for who observed the reporter's owing to their proximity they glance. In his shirt sleeves and were "on the scene a good time showing signs of the energetic helping people with fires," said. before the firemen..
part he had taken in the struggle the Tommy on duty near the The manner in which the with the fire, he was never-garden wall over which tables, Tommies worked is best conveyedtheless recognisable as Lieut. chairs and other articles were by the words which Mr. Forster Chitson. With the troops being passed by a chain of willing. used in talking to a "China Mail when the bugle had blown the workers.
"When we representative as they both stood fire alarm and they had proceeded | Wellington Barracks we turned mong the debris. of the shell to action were Majors Paton and out on two and helped to put them which had a few hours Lefore Drake, Capt. Shinton and Jieuts, out.". been his residence: "The boys Chitson, Cope and Cambell. were just splendid, they turned too with a will and did all it was humanly possible to with the limited supply of water. I don't know what we should have done without them."
The Comic Touch.
Early this afternoon even the heart of the smoke had been got Even a confiagration involving at and apart from groups of auch an unfortunate loss as this spectators and men on duty little was not without a lighter side. I was to be observed out of the Sitting on a beam to sever con- ordinary from afar off. nection between the houses, house, still stands with an air of Lack of Water.
& Tommy was sublimely solidity and one has to get at the Such was the speed of the unconscious of the fact that back or underneath to appreciate "boys" in fixing up their hose he was severing the very beam the extent of the damage.
WHAT THE PEAK URGENTLY NEEDS.
Equipped with "baby" fire engines of this type, the Hongkong.brigade would be able to reach
the most inaccessible parts of services in the fighting of fire.
without delay and would be able to perform invaluable
The
any surprise, but it is felt that things will go through smoothly.
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MOTOR BUS ROUTES.
UPPER LEVEL SCHEME" FORBIDDEN."
A PETITION REȚECTED,
To link up the upper levels with the City of Victoria by Bridsh made motor buses capable of seat. ing 36 passengers each, a scheme merchant has been refused per formulated by a local Chinese
mission by the Government.
It was the intention to form a company with a capital of $500,000, to run the buses from Pokfulani Road (outside the University. entrance) along Bonham Road, Caine Road, Lower Albert Road Garden Road, Queen's Road Central, Queen's Road West and then back to the starting point. This route. meant encircling a part of the mid levels and the centre and western parts of the city, but not clashing with the tram lines. In the petition it was mentioned that the buses could seat 16 first class passengers and 20 second class, the respective fares being 10 cents and 5 cents. There would be twenty permanent stops along the route.
However, as stated, permission was refused. According to one report, the applicant was informed that the Government did not see fit to permit any further bus services the city of Victoria.
CLAIM FOR WAGES.
KWAIWAH CREW GIVEN JUDGMENT.
Members of the crew, carpenters and engineers of the Kwalwah who applied for wages due to them, were given judgment in the Supreme Court this morning by Sir Henry Cowper Gollan (Chlef Justlen). AND
The Registrar was appoloted to take account of the amounts due and to make a report.
The compradore of the vessel was also allowed wages, but His Lordship stated that his claim in Tespect of an alleged deposit of $2,000 was not recoverable" in this action. Other claims by the compradore, under the Headtog of wages," His Lordship. aald he could not allow but in view of the peculiar circumstances of the case, he would fallow-in- Amendment of the claim to allow of them being recoverable under the heading of accessaries.
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