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Hongkong, Thursday, June 17, 1926.
ever, a stipulation that their actual recruitment must depend upon an improved financial out- look this year. Early this year there were three retirements: One
of these was filled by a local ap- pointment, leaving a shortage of two even on the 1925 basis. As this made the Department short- handed, the President induced the Government to cable the Crown Agents for a further three trained men from Home, and these will doubtless soon be sent out. It will be seen that one of: the additional five Inspectore who appear in the 1926. Estimates has thus been approved. The Pre sident added that he proposed to wait a month or two before rais- ing again the question of the
other four!
The cream of the joke comes in the final paragraph of the Pre- sident's remarks as "reported in the Press yesterday:
The Board has recommended
tary Board under these condi~" tions? We certainly sympathise with the difficulties that he and the
Board members of the 18 a whole, have to contend with. But we only regret that he had recourse to that significant word considerable in referring to the increases that had been recommended. What are 52 Sanitary Inspectora in a Colony of the size of Hongkong? Why, that number is utterly inadequate to cope with the edrential require- ments of Kowloon, let alone any other part of the Colony:
THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1926.
THREE SALES.«
LITTLE BIDDING IN TWO
INSTANCES. ̧
CITY PROPERTY.
Two lots of property, disposed af with only one increase, in the case of the second lot put up, werd sold at the Chinn Auction Rooms yesterday.
An area of 1,842 sq. ft., com- C, of Inland Lot No. 157 and con- prised in Sub-Section 1 of Section maining building No. 4 Po Wa Street, was sold at the opening price of $12,500 to Mr. Lo Kwan. The annual Crown rent is $9.83
THE CANNON CASE.
CHINESE FOUNDRY MASTER CONVICTED.
A HEAVY SENTENCE.
» After a hearing extending oyer/
considerable period, Li Ták. mastor of a Mongkek foundry," was - Magistracy yesterday of unlawful found guilty the Kowloon
Bossession of six dismantled can-
on and spare parts,
at
Mr. H. S. Fitzroy, prior to his extract from the trial of Steinio address for the defonco, read an Morrison in which the judge in his summing up to the jury said: "Before you can say he is guilty you must be convinced that the ovidence can only be explained upon the assumption that he is guilty."
cannon. There was no doubt that
Why cannot the Government
An area of about 676 sq. ft. for once in a way take the initia- and containing, among other land tive and itself concentrate on theon Sub-Section 4 of Section A of Inland Lot No. 684, buildings problem of public health and
known as No. 49 High Street, was Continuing, he said that the de- sanitation in a statesmanlike sold to Mr. Wong Heung-cho, offendant was charged with being in way? It need not have the alight 82, Wellington Street, for $10,200, possession of what appeared to ba est fear of public criticism. It this being $200 advance on the will have the public behind it all pening price. The annual Crown
rent is $4.55.
"Bidding was very steady at Lammert Bros., auction rooms yes- terday when Sub-section of Section D. of Inland Lot No. 1355 was put up for sale. The pro-tor the manufacture of Bix perty comprised No. 2 Ching Linmachines and he was merely the Terrace (formerly known as No. man who made them and not the
the time!
MISS DORIS WOODS. SUCCESS WITH QUAINTS
1
IN F.M.S.
MR. SALISBURY'S TRIBUTE.
M
Glowing accounts are to hand from Singapore in reference to the appearance of Miss Doris. Woods with Mr. Salisbury's Company in "No, No, Nanette" and the "Sport of Kings."
Considering the short time she had for rehearsals, her excellent performance is the more remark- able and called forth a personal cable from Mr. Salisbury stating. the facts of her success on the opening night..
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2 Li Sing Kui Road).
The upset price of $10,000 was increased to $18,000 at which price Mr. Lee Cheong, of Canton, became the owner.
KIDNAPPED BANKER.
ESCAPES BY LEAPING FROM HOUSE.
they could be used as cannon but
the contention of the defence was that the articles were seized by the Police before they were com pleted.
orders
The defendant received
the
person who designed them,
He then went on to refer evidence given of the raid and. said that the articles when com pleted were not concealed in any way but thrown about the yard of the premises. They were per- fectly open and could be seen by anybody. He submitted that that was not the action of a guilty man If he knew that he had done any thing that was illegal
Everything that the defendant did, Mr. Fitzroy sald, was in accor dance with honesty and he had Shanghai, June 10.-After being done nothing to evade the law, kidnapped by bandits and hold for The man was given orders to make a ransom of $45,000," a wealthy certain machines and the question Chinese banker" escaped from cap-as to whether they were efficient tivity and eluded his captors early or commercially sound, was irrele on Tuesday morning by jumping vant to the defendant, whose duty through the second-storey window was merely to complete the order After Penang the Company of the house where he was detain given and have the articles deliver- leaves for Rangoon, and performed. Although he fell 13. feet to theed. ances open in Calcutta on July 9.
The company are now playing through the F.M.S. and the book- |ing"in Kuala Lumpur has been
record.
for 1927 a further five Inspec- MÖDEL VILLAGE IN WALES. tors so that if these are ap- proved there will be on paper the ten excess over the 1925- figure as was originally asked for.
REVOLT AGAINST UGLINESS.
WIN
+
bound And
.!
His Worship 'said that the avi- dence showed quite clearly that on the day of the seizure the contri vances were 'cannon and parts of
His Worship was unable to believe the statement, and the 'de- fendant was therefore convicted on the charge.
A fine of $1,000 with the alter- native of two monthe' hard labour,
On the application of Inspector Pincott, His Worship made an or der for the confiscation of the can-
gon.
A Chinese woman who was bitten in the wrist by a dog was sent to. the Kowloon Hospital yesterday for treatment. The animal, be- longing to Miss Remedios, of Peace Avenue, Homuntin, was taken to Kennedy Town.
greund; he was not injured; and was The defendant acted in every way able to communicate with the as an innocent man. Ha had been BOLTON-On May 16, at sea:
police. His captors did not follow in jail for the last month and him because they were sound asleep Counsel would ask his Worship to on voyage Home. Andrew
when he escaped. Adams Bolton, for 20 years
find that "everything was done in The hero of this remarkable ex foreman engineer, Höngkong
Eccordance with the plans.
The ploit is Mr. Koh Sun-ching, a direc-articles were to be used in a state and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.
tor of the Taung Dah bank, 518, that would make it impossible for CARTWRIGHT-On May 4, a
Kiangae Road. He was kidnapped them to be used as cannon, Parkside Maternity Home, W6, Elsie Louisa, aged 82,
Fired by a desire to reform by three bandits near his home at the dearly beloved wife of
the squalor of the Welsh villages, 546 Seymour Road late on Monday When the needs of the Colony the mean-looking, ugly, gaunt night. When he reached the bot B. O. Cartwright, formerly of
tor of the alleyway leading to his Bangkok, following the birth are considered, and when it is re- and unkempt houses and ghastly home at 11.80 p.m., he set his ricsha: cannon and he had ng difficulty in of a daughter (still born).
chapels," Mr. R. G. Williams- membered that the staff of Sani- Ellis, a well-known decorative coolfe to see if the door was unlock finding the defendant guilty. He DENNYS. — On June 10, at
tary Inspectors has been at a artist, is. (aays the London ed. The coolie was intercepted by was charged with possession of the Thames Ditton, Surrey,
truly
shocking minimum for Morning Post") building a little a Chinese wearing foreign clothes, articles and on the question of » Henry Lardner Dennys,
Simulguilty knowledge, the defendant, a promontory of the who flourished a pistol Senier. (By cable).
years, we can only maryel that village on
rugged coast nea: Portmadoc to taneously, three Chinese pulled the asked the Bench to believe that he MORGAN-On June 6, 1926, anybody can lay claim to the use show the miracle of improvement banker out of his ricsha and did not know what a cannon looked
at Wokingham, Berkshire, of the word considerable in a re- that wise architecture could effect bundled. him into a waiting motor ke. William Francis Morgan. commendation to increase the per- in the Principality.
He has car.
H Pushed Into Car. (Late Superintendent. The sonnel by only a trifling ten over shown to a "Morring Post", re- Eastern Extension, Telegraph
Under the menacing paint of the 1925 strength. But even that presentative a model of the ideal Co.)
community he hopes to create and the pistol, the man could not move. considerable increase of ten souls name Port Meirion in the tiny, Meanwhile, the car was started, over the number last year is just unspoiled estuary which lies be carrying off the banker, and with an extra six months' impri a paper increase, for only five tween Snowdon and Cader-Idris. as it passed the coolle, he was hand-sonment without hard labour, was
imposed. My aim (he said) is to bring Fed a letter for transmission to the more have been sanctioned for the into existence a village as beauti banker's wife asking for ransom of QUITE INADEQUATE.
present year of grace and the Pre-fut as any that lie on the shores $45,000 as the price of her hus sident and the whole Board may of the Riviera or, the slopes of band's release. The banker Amongst the questions dealt have to go down on their bended Italian hills, and to make my with at this week's meeting of the knees to the still higher authori-colony of houses as native to the blindfolded, but not sufficiently to soil and as much in harmony with prevent him seeing the route taken Sanitary Board was a query by ties to secure sanction for an the lovely surroundings as any by the car, which passed over Mark- the ham Road bridge into Chapel. He Dr. Koch as to whether the staff additional five not this, year-oh,white-walled township of
was taken to a room on the second of Sanitary Inspectors was dear no! that would be moving far South.
The speculative builder I shall floor and thrown on the floor, while numerically sufficient to cope with too swiftly---but for 1927!! And debar from any attempt to spoil his captors stretched themselves the Increase of work in the Colony that, we are told, constitutes
a this settlement on my land. More out and soon began to snore. and to allow for sickness and considerable increase over the dwellings may be added to those I plan, but not until the designs Home leave. In his reply the figures for 1925 1
One can fully appreciate the have been scrutinised and passed. President of the Board made what
Apart from the picturesqueness can only be regarded "as a very difficulties of an official in the that the beautiful coastal scenery remarkable statement. He re-position of President of the and the climate will permit in my minded members that the Govern Sanitary Board. He has not a architectural schemes, I mean to ment had been supplied with free rein. Everything he does give the, houses all the comforts sub-station about 5 a.m. Informa found abandoned in Boone Road,
that modern thought has con- figures in 1925 upon which the must first come under the purview trived.
Both my wife-Mr. St. Loe Board had based recommenda and receive the gracious sanction tions for a considerable increase of the higher, authorities. Thus, Strachey's daughter and I are lovers of Wales, and this project revolt from the in the staff of Sanitary Inspectors, as already indicated, he points out is partly a In these wonderful figures, of that the 1926 Estimates were ugliness in which the Principality which he boasted so much, full considered at a time of great un has been steeped by the builders. allowance was made, he claimed, certainty owing to the strike, and To enjoy the magnificent scenery of the country one must ignore for the incidence of ordinary and he was told that a 25 per cent. the depressing villages and terri- sick leave.
increase at such a time could ble industrial camps. No one Let us consider this consider not be contemplated. Even then has bothered to plant trees; there are no flowers in the cottage able increase as disclosed in the it was made clear to him also gardens, and as soon as a town official minute which he laid on by the aforesaid higher authori- obtaina a little money it breaks the table for the information of ties-that the actual recruit-out into red roofs and the ridicul ment of the pultry five additional bus follies of cham half-timber Taking Senior, First Clasa and Inspectors authorised for this Lodging-houses in England are Second Class Inspectors whole the 1925 strength was 42, ear must depend upon an im-gly enough, but in most Weigh proved financial outlook this year.of the place le powerless to com- seaside resorts the natural beauty In its recommendations for 1926 Then he continues the sad pete against the flimsy and pre- the Board recommended adding chronicle of events, Three Intentious hideousness by which the 10 more to this number: The spectors retired early this year visitor is supposed to be pleased. 1926 Estimates were considered One was replaced locally, leaving
the members:
as
uncertainty
..
at a time of great (due to the strike) and the Pressl two vacancies, And we can 'dent was told that a 25 per cent.
well imagine the amotion in Increase at such a tims could not his voice as he told the members
work.
Alexandrin. The Govern- ment has suspended the recently elected Municipal Commission for
be contemplated. After discus of the Board that he was six months owing to the inability WE DO ALSO DEVELOPING AND PRINTING
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Estim trained, men from Home Who dissolved at the beginning of the Telephone C. 8217
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there
Imes of Cey! how would be the President of a Bari year
was,
4.
Jumped Thirteen Feet, Seizing his opportunity, the Lion, was later communicated to the bunker jumped through the window Municipal police.
distance of 13 feet, and by taking The Chinese police raided-the- arcuitous route and dodging house where the banker was held, about, believing himself pursued. but it was found to be empty. The he reported the uffair to the 5th car used for the kidnapping was
Poets' Corner,
WEST LAKE
(Written Two Years After A Visit To Hangchow.)
Far from waves of mountain high, Over which few-birds can fly; Underneath a Chinese sky-
West Enkeli
Crowning ranges east and west, Feathering olden emperors' nest; Paradise of healthful rest-
West Lake!
Mirror of those perfect scenes; Temples' feet its water cleans; Sight of which the dear babe weans
West Lake!
Spanned by bridges few, but great; Teaches us to love, and hate
All the things that satiates West Lakel
Pontoons of the monk and nun, Gondolas and houseboats run
Neath perhaps a scorching sun
West Lake!
Come you now to visit me: Come from near, cross land or sea; Then your great reward will be
West Lake!
ALEXANDER CLAUDE GREAVES.