TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1927.
TRAFFIC OFFENCES. FOR THE SERVICES.
PASSED STATIONARY TEAM CAR.
Before Major C. Willson at "traffic time" this morning. Mr. R. W. Smith of the Hong Kong Electric Company was summoned
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EXCELLENT WEEK OF
. ENTERTAINMENT.
SATURDAY'S PICNIC.
The following activities have
The defendant asked to be in-mittee:- formed in what direction the tram- en was travelling at the time the offence was alleged to have been
committed.
Inspector James said that both the tram and the defendant's motor ear (No. 1724) were travelling west.
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MAGIC CARPET.,
CAR WITH 'PHONE AND
SODA FOUNTAIN,
THE CHINA MAIL.
WHAT WE MAY EXPECT.
For the best part of two days
BIG PROPERTY DEAL. BEER AND MOTORING
111 HOUSES AT YAUMATI SOLD.
FOR NEARLY 2 MILLIONS.
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of
SIR J, CRICHTON-BROWNE'S ADVICE.
Sir James Crichton-Browne, at al meeting of the true Temperance ing the action of a glass of ale on Scientific Committee, said, describ-: the body, hops might aid in nutri-
sprend and mysterious
The sum of nearly, two million by Sub-Inspector James for pass-been arranged for the week under I have been looking at England dollars was realised yesterday at ing a stationary tramcar outside the auspices of the Y.M.C.A. Naval from the windows of a Pullman the China Auction Rooms at the axletion while at the same time they No. 2 Police Station on July 10. and Military Entertainment Com motor car which has been the of one hundred and eleven houses exerted a sedative influence on the
at Yaumati which were sold in one sensation of every village through lot, by order of the mortgagees. ward off some of the ills the flesh is nervous system, and might thus Tonight, Concert at the 'Cheer whiclt we have passed (wrote the The houses were all newly built heir to in those dyspeptle and neu- 0" (7.30 p.m.); whist drive at the motoring correspondent of the four-storeyed Chinese shops arrotle days, including the wide-
"Daily Chronicle" during mail dwelling houses and consisted "Better. "Ole" at 7 p.m.
Tomorrow, whist drive at the week.)
malady. Nos. 601 to 561 (odd numbera). "chill on the liver." All this must "Cheer O" it 7.30 p.m. and concert
The Pickwick coach which went Canton Rond, and Nos. 1 to 80 Wat be very distressing to those who at the "Better 'Ole" at 7 p.m.
Thursday,, informal dance at the to Rochester a few days ago was Ching Street, Yaumati.
would taboo cakes and ale, but In addition to the houses, there scientile truth must be told at all a memory of the day before "Cheer O" at 7pm, and sing songi at the "Better Ole" at 7 p.m. yesterday; but our Pullman is a certain amount of land not costs, and this was the qutcome of built or included in the Lot, which Dr. Southgate's experiments. One There will be
Binging competition vision of the day after to-morrow. is registered as Sections A and B, would not regret the decline in
The crowds who mobbed it must the remaining portion of Section at the latter.
Friday, there will be a grand have known that they were get- and the remaining portion of Sec-war years if it corresponded with concert at the City Hall when the ting a peep into the future. tion D of Kowloon Afarine Lot No. an advance in true temperance, but "J-Pans" (under the direction of For the benefit of American 49. Its total area is 338,550 square when one saw at the same time that Miss V. Capell) will entertain und visitors, Motorways, Ltd., of Hay- feet, of which 88,035 square feet) there had been an enormous in- the band of the 1st Cameronians market, S.W., have captured and has been built upon.
crease in the consumption of will also give selections.
distilled the essence of old Eng payable in respect of the property deploring it, for alcohol in the The proportion of Crown rent spirits, there was good ground for is $3,965.30 per annum.
The upset price was $1,750,000, and bidding progressed at the rate of $500 until the figure of $1,700,000 was reached. From then onwards the bids were of $1,000, and the property was eventually knocked down to Mr. N. V. A. Croucher for $1,750.000.
Mr. Smith said that if the vehicles were travelling west and as the stopping place for tramcars was on the North side of the rond, be questioned Inspector James's ability to see him pass the trumcur if the Inspector was standing outside No. 2 Station.
Sub-Inspector James had entered the witness box to state his case
On Saturday, there will be
when the defendant reconsidered launch picnic for which tickets at his plea and admitted that he did 80 cents, including ten, may be pass the tramenr. He said at the obtained. Launch leaves Queen's time he passed while the tram was Pier at 2.15 p.m. and Police Pier. stationary, there was no one alight- Kowloon at 2.30. ing from the tram and the road was fleur. He argued that the re- gulation was made to protect pedes- trians and not the tramcars, and there was no offence if he passed a stationary tramear after its pas-j sengers had alighted and got clear. The Magistrate thought other- wise and imposed a fine of $10.
Fined for Speeding.
GIRL IN CHAINS.
WOMEN CHARGED WITH ILL TREATMENT.
The driver of motor cycle No.
Sub-Inspector Stimson of the -461 admitted dangerous driving. Secretariate for Chinese Affairs Sergeant Baker said the defendant this morning charged two Chin- was going at 35 miles an hourbese women living on the second from Murray Barrucks to Arsenal floor of No. 3. Yuk Ming Street. Street. The witness, who was ori- West Point, with ill-treating a 14- ginally 100 yards behind the de- year-old Chinese girl who was fendant when passing the barracks, said to be insane. had to travel at the speed of 40|
milles an hour to catch up with the
defendant at Arsenal Street.
The Magistrate imposed a fine of $20.
AMATEUR DRIVER.
LORRY, COOLIE COMES TO. GRIEF.
land, and have administered it in
lavish and fragrant doses to an admiring company which landed from the "Cedric" at Liverpool, where our journey began.
1127-1927.
Our Pullman is simply an en- larged motor-car with all the luxuries that millionaires might, but do not appear to, enjoy on their travels by road.
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WORLD THEATRE.
"SIXTY CENTS AN HOUR"
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.
brewing as compared with pre-
form of spirits was unquestionably
more deleterious than it was when Couched in beer. In a majority of London cases In which motor- drivers were charged with drunken- ness it was whisky or champagne and not beer that had been at fault. The judicious motor-driver should be altogether non-alcoholic while plying his vocation, but if he must rofresh himself then beer was less hazardous than spirit, because it was less rapidly disabling and more rapidly eliminated.
madam? Raspberry? Certainly! side: "An ice-cream soda. Hour," is a genuine comedian. that as a result of the reports which
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Its most surprising feature is its soda fountain. Perhaps your mind, is back 800 years, looking,
In proposing the re-election of Sir James Crichton-Browne as pre- Peyond the green-edged lanes to. the work of Norman builders, Walter Hiers, star of the Para-sident and Sir William Simpson as when you hear a voice at your mount comedy, "Sixty Cents an chairman. Mr. E. B. Turner said
This comedy is bright through-had been circulated by the com- And for you, sir?
mittee he had in his old age taken Pineapple out and scampers along merrily to
a unique finish. The story is that to drinking beer again. (Laughter). squash?"
of a soda-jerker, a fat young man The white-gloved attendant re-working for a slim saiary. The girl, who was said to have to lift the glass-covered table in take Mamie Smith, daughter of the tires, and a moment later returns of Jimmy Kirk's ambitions is to. bumps on her head, was found front of your armchair, and with bank president of Zavina, out for by the police in chains.
the car sweeping away through an automobile ride. When he The second accused, who said England you feast on West-end hires a touring car at the rate of she was a relative of the other, drinks and Norman ruins, sixty cents. an hour. the whole who was the girl's mother, ad- mitted she assisted in chaining slot machine.
Cigarettes you can get from a family plle in, and Jimmy's day is If you want inspoiled. His second attempt. how- the girl at first accused's request. formation you get it by telephone.ever, is much more successful, for First accused said "I am a Millionaires do not like to be this time he gets a roadster and woman, and can't speak. Will shouted at by guides when tra- rides off in triumph. you allow my husband to speak velling. instead?"
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Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL"
Entertainments. What A Nurse."
July 19-Queen's Theatre: Oh,
July 19-World Theatre; "Sixty Cents An Hour."
But a dark plot is brewing;
Jul 29-Star Theatre, Kowloon: Our courier, when he wanted to crooks are on his trail, for under "Heritage of the Desert.". Sub-Inspector Stimson asked point out to
us the industrial the seat of the very car in which
July 18-Tea Dance Cafe Reg- A coulie was charged before for a date to be fixed for the hear-splendour of
he is speeding is a goodly quantity (taurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m. Port Sunlight Major C. Willson this morning ing of the case, and Mr. Lindsell comment on a Roman road, simplyed Zavina bank, and they are declamation Ground, Wanchai. 9.15 of silver coin. loot from the raid- July 19-Isako's Circus. New Re- with driving P.W.D. lorry No. 822 fix 10 a.m., on July 26. The pressed a button, which lit up the termined to get it. But this is. a without a driver's licence, and accused's bait of $50 each was "listen in" indicator, and, with far harder task than they had an- p.m.
July 19-Concert at the "Cheer the ear-pieces close to each seat, ticipated, and soon they find them-'0", 150 p.m. Whist drive at the we could listen or not, as we selves bound securely and de- "Better 'Ole," p.m. pleased, A clock told us the posited safely in the bottom of time, and a barometer the wea-their car by the supple Jimmy, who returns to tell the police of his Even Stratford-on-Avon, the find. Then the fun begins. This most American town in England, comedy has a most amusing climax. Jacqueline Logan. In the role of Mamie Smith, is more charming than ever. Ricardo Cortez, Charles Ogle, Clarence Burton and others render efficient support,
without the permission of the extended. Engineer in charge. Another) Chinese was charged with aiding; and abetting the first defendant on both counts.
VISAS FOR GERMANY, ther.
BRITISH,
The driver of the lorry said that he took some workmen, in- cluding the first defendant to. PROPOSED ABOLITION FOR. marvelled, Repulse Bay on July 8. They ar- rived there at noon and all the coolies left the lorry. The wit- ness went
away for a couple of
Rugby, July 18. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Secre minutes, and when he returned, tary of State for Foreign Affairs he saw the two defendants sitting announeed in Parliament that on the driver's seat. First defen- negotiations were in progress with dant was at the wheel and actual- the German Government for the ly driving the lorry. The witness abolition of visas for British tra- shouted to them to stop, but the vellers to Germany-British Wire defendants took no notice. Soon leas Service. afterwards the lorry came to grief against a huge tree. The witness telephoned to the P.W.D., and Mr. Fletcher, Mechanical En- gineer of the P.W.D., went to Repuse Bay with the rescue gang. Extensive Damage. Mr. E. P. Fletcher said that the first accused was a workman em- ployed by the P.W.D., and had
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BARONET'S SON KILLED.
MOTOR-CYCLE SMASH IN
ISLE OF MAN. ·
AT THE STAR.
“HERITAGE OF THE DESERT" TO-DAY & TO-MORROW.
A tale of the West at ita and woolieat. There's
at the
July 20-Whist Drive "Cheer '0." 7.30 p.m.; Concert at the "Better 'Ole," 7 p.m.
July 21-Informal Dance at the "Cheer '0." 7 p.m.; Sing song at the "Better 'Ole," 7 p.m.
July 22-irs. A. T. Hamilton's concert at the "Cheer '0."
July 22-Grand Concert, City Hall, with band of Ist Cameroniana. July 23--Launch Pienic, for the services; parties to leaves Queen's Pier, and Police Pier at 2.15 and 2.30 p.m. respectively.
Lammert's Auctions.
July 20-Miscellaneous goods, Sales Room, 11 a.m.
The Viva-tonal Columbia
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July 20-A valuable collection of PRINTING^ curios, etc., Sales Room, Duddell St., 2.30 p.m.
OF
July 20-About 2,000 postage stamps comprising Old China, QUALITY Hong Kong, etc., at Sales Room, Duddell St., 5.15 p.m.
furniture,
July 21-Household 205 Wanchai Road, 2.45 p.m.
August 4-5-Household furniture, pictures, curios, etc., of the late Mrs. M. J. D. Stephens, No. 5, Peak
Road, 11 a.m.
Meetings.
tourist trophy race in the Isle of While practising for the senior Man, Charles Archibald Cecil Birkin, second son of Sir Thomas
Bebe Daniels, Ernest Torrence. Birkin, Bt., was killed. He was Noah Beery and Lloyd Hughes are travelling at speed round the Featured in the Zane Grey Para- bend at Kirk Michael, and in mount production, The Heritage of the Desert," Jarnes Mason, swerving to avoid a lorry he fell Richard R. Neill and Leonard and was killed outright.
Clapham play in support. So Mr. Birkin, who was 22 years much for the east. of age, was a very clever expon-
Now to the story:- ent of motor-cycle racing on rond and track. He won several pri-wildest A United States marine was kill-1
vate competitors' handicaps at thrills, comedy, a, plensing love the right to ride on the lorry, buted and another wounded when the Brooklands, and competed in the theme and big scenes throughout. he had no authority to drive it. marines, with Nicaraguan senior tourist trophy-race last With the killing of Snap, the dis- Second defendant, who was un-stabulary, repulsed an assault on year, during which he fell and solute son of August Nanb of
July 20-Meeting of Portuguese known to the witness, had no Ocotal, by General Sandino. was seriously injured, owing to "The Oasis" ranch, the long- Co., of the H.K.D.C., at Club Lusi- right to be in the lorry at all. Aeroplanes bombed the Liberais, his handlebars breaking. During kindling feud between cattlemen tano, 5.30 p.m.
July 20-Extraordinary meeting Speaking about the damage done who are estimated to have lost over his convalescence he was the und rustlers breaks into flame. It's to the lorry, amounting to $700, 50 killed and many wounded.-guest of the Governor of the a battle to the death with Navajo of the Hong Kong & Kowloon Taxi-
Reuter's American Service. Mr. Fletcher said that the front
Indians collecting scalps for the cab Co., 35, Des Voeux Rd., noon. island. He was conspicuous at ranchers. The town of White Sage July 21-Meeting of Scottish Co., axle was badly bent, the steering
Brooklands because he always is but a thing of the past-Holder- of the H.K.D.C. at Corps Head- gear was broken, and the radio-
rode in a black silk shirt, on ness and his reign of terror are quartern. 5.30 p.m. tor, crank case, and fan and fan
which was embroidered a white but memories-great things have shareholders of the Hong Kong July 22-Third yearly meeting of column badly damaged,
cat. He competed for Cambridge started in the west--ambitions are Tag & Lighter Co., Ltd., St. against Oxford in the annual about to be realised. The irriga: George's Bldg., noon. coming down from the university desert, on "The Oasis" have been inter-varsity hill climb, and on tion waters, the life-blood of the
First defendant said he return-
ed to the lorry to take something which he had left there. While he was in the vehicle second de- fendant suddenly started the lorry by turning the crank. When the lorry began to move, he (first defendant) took hold of the wheel in order to steer it and
avoid an accident.
Tried To Help.
"SHE IS NOW A HAPPY BABY."
con-
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Lady In Burma Tells How Her
Little Daughter Was Cured became associated with motor-saved-fertility is about to come to
Of Stomach Trouble By
cycle manufacture. Recently he the land. But why go on? Zane- BABY'S OWN TABLETS.
was appointed director of Grey tells it as only he can-he McEvoy Motor Cycles, and at the knows the West, and you will, too, Ma Chain, A
time of his fatal accident he was after seeing "The Heritage of the Burmese lady riding a McEvoy machine, made Desert." living at 129 Pawdowgon, Pazua by the son of the famous artist, daung, Rangoon, states:-
"My little girl had stomach Ambrose McEvoy, who died in trouble, would often cry, and January last.
Second defendant said he had had dimculty in getting her to take nothing to do with the starting food. However,
Kirk Michael bend is a wide since taking sweeping curve on which tourist
The
of the lorry. This was done by Baby's Own Tablets the child has trophy competitors travel very the first defendant who also at-been cured of her complaint I am rapidly in order to enter the fast tempted to drive the lorry. When pleased to say. She is now a straight beyond at speed. the witness saw that No. 1, was happy baby and I am a happy Manx course is cleared of traffic in difficulty he climbed on board mother." to try and help him ateer it.
on race days, but is not closed for Not only do Baby's Own Tablets practice, which, taking place in Magistrate: Your help was so correct infantile indigestion, con- the early hours of the morning, useful that the lorry collided with stipation, colic, wind, and loss of usually has deserted roads. There appetite, but they quickly reduce a tree!
First defendant was fined $50 diarrhoea, relieve croup and colds, three riders who were recently fever, allay teething pains, check were eighty-three competitors on the course including the or four weeks' on the first charge expel worms. and $25 or 14 days' on the other.
Of chemlats everywhere, or post injured, Noterman, Porter, and The other was fined $25 or 14 free, 60 cents the vial, from The Archangeli. The fastest senior days' jail on each charge. The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 80, time was 66 m.p.h., by E. Searle Magistrate directed that the jail | Kiangan Road, Shanghai,
terms run consecutively in the
case of the defendants being un-
able to pay the fines.
Women make bad motor-drivers for the same reason that they sometimes make bad wives-they want more than fifty-Bfty' In Hfe and its highways and byways-Mr. Stanley Wrench.
POLAR CAKE
ITS QUALITY.
THAT COUNTS'
(Norton). Among the junior Freddie Nixon (H.R.D.) had laps of 64% and 64 m.p.h.
For the third time this year, the Durban Harbour coaling. staff have beaten all records, in load-: Ing over 20,000 tons of Natal coal during the past week-end
We trust, however, that they have not been calling a spade.two spades.
NAZI
bers of the Peak Club, at the Club, July 29-Annual meeting of mem-
6 p.m.
Miscellaneous.
July 19-Staff of Prison Depart- ment hold whist drive at Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 8.15 p.m.
When I adventured late last night Into my sitting-room,
T'was dark save for the old moonlight And tense-expectant gloom.
But then I saw a form within, Ensconced in my arm-chair-
Her sweet profile, her lips and chin, Her coronal of hair.
I stood a second rapt with joy,
I saw that it was you-
But when it vanished like thin air, My eyes, they filled with dew.
T'was some delusion of the sight That made me see you there→→ Perhaps a phantom of the night. A vision of despair,
I kept my vigil with the gloom
And saw the morning creep- From floor to ceiling round the room, All night I did not sleep..
July 19, 1927.
H. M. Silva,
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