FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1925.
EXTRA
PENSES.
SUPPLEMENTARY SUMS FOR 1924.
VOTES EXPLAINED.
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Canton Charities,
$10,000 in aid of Charitable Services, Grants in aid of Charit- able Institutions:-John G. Kerr Hospital, Canton.
The Chairman: This sam is required under the new arrange- ments for this year with the John In moving the authorisation of G. Kerr Hospital at Canton. The sum of $20,000 will be inserted in the appropriation of supplement the 1926 estimates. We have ury sumns amounting to $2.702,794 been negotiating with the author to defray charges for 1994, the ties of the Hospital for some time, and have arrived at a very Colonial Secretary at yesterday's satisfactory arrangement with meeting of the Legislative Council regard to the amount to be paid made one or two interesting com- for each person sent thate. They very fine work indeed and ments. The heavy expenditure indo a
the Colony is exceedingly fortun- the Harbour Master's Department ate in being able to make use of has been caused almost entirely by their place. the amounts required for the patrol launches, the typhoon moor- ings and the rescue tug. The full] amount due for patrol launches cannot very well be ascertained. The typhoon moorings have now all been laid down and the rescue Lug is to be launched on the 1st October.
Owing to change in circum- stances ne forecast can now be made as to when the quarters for the subordinate service would be erected, therefore the vote for rent allowances would have to be continued longer than anticipated. An increase in expenditure on stationery was due principally to the purchase and type in order that the Government printing department might cope with more of the work with consequent eventual decrense in expenditure. A fair number of Police officers had had to be sent 'Home and this accounted for some of the expendi- ture under the head of passages. Increase of staff during that year in the P.W.D. had also involved expenditure of considerable sums on passages.
A large sum had had to be advrnced in connection with repair of damage caused by typhoon and heavy ruins the year before.
More Recent Work,
After the first reading of the Bill authorising the above ex- penditure had been read and the other business of the Council con- cluded, the Colonial Secretary presided over a meeting of the Finance Committee with consider- ed votes for more recent public work.
Others Votes.
CANNIBAL LAND
THE CHINA MAIL.
MAN WHO RULED HALF- MILLION SAVAGES.
WHITE MAN'S MAGIĆ,
IN RED JAIL.
BOLSHEVIK GUARD
FEERS
THE MOSCOW METHOD,
When the policeman appeared prosecute. The trial lasted frons he apparently took the word of 4 p.m. till midnight. - The magie the Chinese thier before that of trate bat among the crowd in sode Mr. Suter, with the result that the land. I was tried by three passanta latar was charged " under Para-in corduroys with handkerchiefs graph 160 of the Penal Code round their necks.. forcible deprivation of liberty by a painful method which endangered the life or health of the person
I was let off on payment of fine of £46 and told I was free as long as I did not attempt to leave the city. Eventually I managed to get on board the steamer "Glenbeg," which brought me home.
hunter fuck, to escape being gored by the elephants be was almost certain to jump out of the frying pan, so to speak, into the stew. pan. The climate war about the worst you can Imagine, and blackwater fever, tick fever, and sleeping sickness were about as common aa influenza' In Once the ruler of half a million | England.
Aremarkable narrative of im-detained." In about a year and three prisonment in a Bolshevik dun Filthy And No Windows, African savages, John Boyes, a
Mr. Suter said to a "Daily Mail”. Yorkshireman of pluck, enter months I shot over a hundred and geon and a trial before the "Fro
On one occa- letarian Court of Justice" at prise, and the wanderlust which fifty elephants. has sent him roaming into adven, sion, when I was hunting in the Vladivostock is told by Mr. Sydney reporter.
two C Suter, chief officer of the Glen I was searched, put into s ture since his cabin-boy days, has thick bush, I came across
One I managed to Line steamer "Carnarvonshire," carriage with an armed soldier, just returned to England after elephants.
and driyen to the secret police 6FT. WOMAN RIDDLE: fourteen thrilling years spent kill, but the other I was only able who has just returned home.
to wound, and later he made a Mr. Suter was libarated from prison. After waiting two or mostly in the jungle.
In the exclusive interview surprise swoop out of the bush prison, in which he suffered the more hours I was deprived of my
UNCONSCIOUS IN SEASIDE below he tells of astonishing hap- and impaled my boy on one of his vilest possible torture, through the money, watch, tie, belt, and other
HOSPITAL. penings in the haunts of elephants huge tusks. The next second he efforts of the Navigators and articles, and was sent under escort and cannibals, and of the recep. had turned and his trunk came General Insurance Co...
to a cell, which was about 10ft. At the time of his illegal arrest square by 9ft. high.
A woman of refined appear Other votes were as follows: tion. he got when he paid a return round like a lash, missing my
ance, nearly 6ft, tall, who refused years to the head by inches.
After that I and imprisonment the riots at It had no windows, but a grat-her name before lapsing into Ins $23,860 in aid of Military Ex-tribe of which he was formerly dived into the bush and stopped Shanghai were in progress, and, ing at the upper end of a shaft in sensibility, lies in a critical cons penditure, B.-Hongkong Volun-
there until the elephant drew off. according to Mr. Suter, he was the roof. The straw bed was in an dition in Southend Hospital. the uncrowned king. tear Defence Corps. Other
made the medium of propaganda indescribably filthy state. There! The ex-ruler of half a million Charges:-
by the Bolsheviks to show that was a table and a stool and a Street building, and a bottle of She was taken ill in a High Uniform. Including Boots, African savages has arrived in
they were "I had even a narrower escape
protecting Chinese wooden spoon. England, writes the Special Com-
There were a Russian and a from which the ambulance mer poison was found near the spot missioner of the "Sunday than this from an elephant when against "British tyranny."
As the "Carnarvonshire" ap- Chinese in the cell, which seemed removed her.: Chronicle."He is not, as may be I was trekking up to Abyssinia
The woman was dressed in supposed, a picturesque pagan on another expedition. I was the proached Vladivostock a Chinese to unuse the Bolshevik guard potentate with a diamond stud last man of my party when, sud-sailor was discovered pilfering the who frequently reminded me of navy-blue costume, and wore through his nostrils and a name denly, the elephant brake cover quarters of the Chinese crew. the fact that the three of us were gold ring with three blue stones like a bad cough, but a short, and made straight at me. My This man was ordered by Mr. bunched together in a Russian on the third finger of her right spare, rather timid-looking York-müle, startled, threw me off, and Suter to be handcuffed to a rail, prison,
hand and a gold brooch with the by the time I had picked myself mainly to save him from the On June 16 I went to the court-Initial "M" embroidered on it shireman named John Boyes.
Sheer bluff and "white man's up, the elephant was not more violence of the other Chinese, house for what was nothing more This initial was also embroidered Motor Transport Section, up- magie," performed with the aid than three yards away. Quick as while a Bolshevik, policeman was than a farcical trial, in which the on three handkerchiefs found In keep of $600.
a flash I threw my hat
Prosecutor at his found to take the man in charge. Public
refused to her handbag. Grant to Mounted Infantry of a clock with a musical box Section. $560,
attachment, won him his king-face and took a header in the $60,000 in aid of Public Works, dom; a gramophone and a know-bush, thinking he would not But he came on, trum- Buildings, 97, Gaol and Police to reckless daring and indomit Extraordinary, New Territories, ledge of sleight-of-hand, wedded follow. Training School, Ngau Shi Wan. able Yorkshire pluck, enabled
$14,000.
Equipment and upkeep of arms, $8,000.
Equipment for Engineer Co., $200.
ing, $100,
Armoured Car
"Books, stationery and print
$400.
expenses,
visit after many
$5,000 in aid of Public Works him to retain it for three thrilling Department, Other Charges, Elec-years. trie Fans and Lights,
During that time this adven- $507 in aid of Judicial and turous "Quartermaine," who re- Legal Department, B. Magis-ceived practically no schooling tracy. Personal Emoluments. and commenced life as a cabin- $150,000 in aid of Public boy" and cook aboard a North Sea Works, Extraordinary-
fishing vessel," ruled the Wa- Kikuyu one of the fiercest and most treacherous tribes in British East Africa-with an iron and despotic hand.
Kowloon, Miscellaneous: 93, Compensation and Re- sumptions, $10,000.
New Territories, Communi- cations:-
114, Roads: (h) Fanling to Sha Tau Kok Road, $40,000.
Miscellaneous—
STARTLED SAVAGES.
f:
His greatest exploit was the taking of a recalcitant chief single-handed, armed only with a .knob-kerrie and A concealed
124, Compensation and Be- sumptions, $100,000. $320 in ald, of the Kowloon i revolver. Magistracy-
Electric Fans and Light, $200.
Incidental Expenses, $120. $3,000, on account of Public Works, Extraordinary. Hong- At the outre, aty. Bong, Miscellaneous: Further asked if it was no. possible for investigation into site for Wire-
less Direction Finder. members to have copies of the financial minutes before the day of the actual meeting.. Over a million dollars was involved in the voles before them that day and they had never seen. them, before. The Chairman said that he would try and get them in the hands of members earn
The votes and explanation on them were as follows:
Victoria Gap Road. $241,750 in aid of Public Works, Recurrent:-
Hongkong, Miscellaneous, 18, Typhoon and Rainstorm Dam ages, $210,500.
Kowloon, Miscellaneous, 39, Typhoon and Rainstorm Dam- ages, $26,850.
$2,606 equal to £804 0s. Od. at 24 on account of Public Works, Extraordinary, Purchase of an Anti-Piracy Wireless Set.
$17,500 in aid of Police, Other Charges:-
Coolie Hire, $1,500.. -Light and Electric Fans, $15,000.
Leaving many hundreds of his own armed soldiers at a distance, he marched straight into the hostile chief's village, right to where the dusky potentate was sitting surrounded by warriors, and promptly clubbed him sepse less.
With hand on revolver he then awaited the onrush, but his extra- ordinary pluck had paralysed the savages, who were already aware that he was reputed to possess supernatural powers. One and all threw down their weapons, and Boyes experienced no further trouble from that quarter.
WALKED OVER HIM.
peting madly, and I thought I was doomed. And then he seem- ed to step right on top of me, and I closed my eyes.....But nothing happened. The great brute had walked clean over me without noticing that I was there.
"As I scrambled up, however, he saw, me and charged again, and I was thrown into the air like a stone from a catapult. Fortunately, a tree broke my flight, and I hung on to
que of the branches and 'waited until the animal went away.
"On this journey I had con- trouble with the siderable
who Abyssinians,
frequently were very hostile. At a native village they decided on a lightning strike for double rations.
"They were stubborn and said that if they did not get what they wanted they were going to leave me in the lurch.
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very well, I said, you can clear out straight away." from the village were surging "All this time angry native
about
Suddenly Abyssinian guide who started the trouble walked away with one of my mules. I could not shoot him because he was careful to take |00000C cover behind the animal, but I made a big display of my guns, and let it be clear that if there was going to be a fight I intended to give a good account of myself.
Scared by my bold front, but still spoiling for a scrap, the natives made a dash at my desert- ing servants. For a few seconds there was a wild melee, and then my boys broke away and rushed back to me for protection. They got it, and that finished the trou- ble as far as they were concerned,
But at the apex of his power .Rewards, $1,000.
his reign came to a sudden end. $6,341 in aid of Public Works, Two British officials arrived on Recurrent, Hongkong, Communi- the scene and ordered his arrest cations, 8, Maintenance of tele on charges of having waged war, phones, including all Cables. personated government without $11,000 on account of Kowloon-authority, taken part in six Canton Railway, Special Expen- punitive expeditions, and com- diture, Repairs to Bridges, Earth-mitted dacoity. work, etc., damaged by the heavy Conviction on any one of these rainstorm on July 17, 1925.
charges meant, death. For several weeks this King Crusoe languished in an evil-smelling "Another time a band of gaol, but when, finally, he was savages armed with old-fashioned
cock, surrounded my caravan and started a war dances preparatory, I suppose, to taking off my head.
$20,000 in aid of Miscellaneous Services, Other Miscellaneous Ser-
ABRAHAM MAGIC.
$4,450 in aid of Prison Depart-brought to. trial he was honour-rifles, which they carried at full
ment, Other Charges:-
New Territories, Miscellane- ous, 50, Typhoon and Rain-vices. storm Damager. $1,400. The Director of Public Works was questioned regarding this work. It did not include the. Po Hing Foug disaster, he said. With regard to the slip at Victoria Gap the Chairman commented
Clothing and Shoes for Staff, $4,000.
Gratuities to prisoners for Industrial Labour, $450. $486,743.95 on account of Pub-
that this way about three times it lie Works, Extraordinary
had given away. The. D.P.W. replied that he thought it was for the last time now.
Hon. Mr. Lang: It is a pity the . road was ever built round that
way.
Hongkong Communica-
tions:-
ably acquitted.
After these experiences Boyes returned to England. A rover all his life, however, he found it impossible to settle down, and once again he set sail for Africa. This time he tried farming, but it was not long before he was once more seized by the wander-
sponsible hands, he started out on ahuzardous elephant-hunting trip to Abyssinia and the Belgian Congo,
"When things looked blackest a Somali boy, I had, with me calmly walked up to one of the chiefs, took hold of his beard, and said Abraham What it meant I have not the slightest idea, but it
Widening Garden Road be-lust, and, leaving his land in re-stopped the circus all right."
low the Tram Station, $14,000
Miscellaneous Quarry Plant for That Tze Hom. Mr. Bird: Not at all; it is
. Mui
Government Quarry, one of our greatest assets.
$90,000.
Portable asphalt mixing plant and tractor, $20,000.
Purchase of a Cubitt Car, $2,743.95..
Government Flats. $157,170 in aid of Public Works, Extraordinary, Hong- kong, Miscellaneous, 40, Compen- sation and Resumptions.
Resumption of Marine Lot 122, Remaining Portion, Praya -East, $110,000 04
oug
New Territories, Miscellane
Purchase of New Kowloon Marine, Lot. No. 4, etc., $250,000,
In this large sum, sald. the Chairman, is-included also the sum paid for Queen's Gardens, which is one of the best bargains I think we have ever made.
The houses are ready to accommodate a number of Government ser- $10,800 on account of Public vants. Eventually we shall have Works, Extraordinary, Hongkong 30 flats, where we shall be able Miscellaneous, Alterations to the to house 800 Government ser kitchen at the Government Civil vants, and if we had to build Hospital
For nearly fourteen years little or nothing has been heard of him in England. How he fared after he plunged into the jungle the thrilling adventures and hair- breadth escapes he had-ls now made public for the first time in the exclusive story he told me at the home of his father-in-law at Hull
Before he left Africa for Eng- land on "his present trip, Mr. Boyes made a tour of his former kingdom of Wa-Kikuyu. Very few of his old subjects are left, but the lone white man who organised their army and dealt justice with “flame and the voice of thunder" is still regarded with awe.
was rather surprised to find," stated Mr. Boyes that the tribe bears me no abimosity.” 'I asked several I spoke to, if they remembered who was the first white man in the country and they said, 'Yes Boyes. Co
"In order to reach the Congo from Nairobi," he said, "I had to trek through Kenya, cross Lake Victoria Nyanza, and then strike I also asked them if they re- right through Uganda to the membered what he did, and they Blue Nile. I had heard that go replied Yea, he burnt whole had been found in the distsich, vinges Surely, I said, he and I determined to have a go at fanust have been a bad man to do houses for the whole of these, $3,940 on account of Public that if the elephant hunting did tha6 But much to my surprise xay at a low estimate of $250,000 Works, Extraordinary, Hong not come up to expectations. But the nativer would not have it. a house, you can see we should kong, Communications, 20, the prospects of ore soon receded No they replied, the people have to pay $750,000-
Roads:Extending 20 feet rond into the background when I were bad people they deserved Hon. Mr. Bird How many from Magazine Gap to Victoria Arrived at my destination. There i rooms are there in the flats?"
Gap.
was no doubt about, the elephant Alas, Kikuyu's former glory The Chairman: There are two $31,500 on account of Public hunt being a success for there and war pom hae Bagsed away large rooms and big verandabs. Works, Extraordinary, New Ter must have been thousands of The native chiefs now fide about Some of them are sub-divided, ritories, Miscellaneous, Improve them. Herd after herd' I saw in American motor-cars. but the rooms are very large, ments and extensions to Lai Chi and the sight fairly made my
Kok Branch Prison
fingers itch round the trigger, k $1,804 in aid of the yote PublicPitching my Camp on the Works, Extraordinkry, New Ter-British side of Lake Alber
Hon. Mr. Bird: What class of Government servant will occupy
The Chairman: Anyone with ritories, Miscellaneous, 128, Mls- Edward, I stafled in to dò
these fata,BAN
from £450 to £800 a year.
shall pet: so much in rent
them. It is a very good bar
We purchased for $282
think the junior Chiness member
will tell you we hay
cellaneous Works*
Tancy shooting SMK 888,000 in aid of New Terri- “At best, de waN A
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