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Are street accidents, Street Involving motor Accidents. vehicles of all types, on the Increase 7 This question would be well worth considering. Only of late have re- ports in numbers heen received by the police, one following the other, concerning children and older people being knocked down, and in some cases being killed. Is it then the fault of the driver or the pedes trian? It of course depends on the circumstances of the case in question. But, I am informed, some of the accidents have been caused by the carelessness of children, who recklessly dash across the road before even glancing left or right to see if the way is clear, with the sometimes ugly consc- quence. Traffic in cases of this kind is not in fault, as is, ordinarily Imagined when one has seen the dangerous manner in which many of the drivers of the 'buses plying HICKLING. At the Peak Hos-on the mainland proceed along the
pital, suddenly this morning, road. Dr. Alice D. Hickling passed away. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.80 p.m. to-day.
Hong Kong, Saturday, Sept. 22, 1928.
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DEATH:
A LOOK AROUND.
Prosaic as convoy Duty and duty has become in Romance. South China, an cle
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
maybe
The Government
Sir Henry truthfully, said that Victoria" in to be sold
Follock Thursda meeting and fitings..
the egislative
launch all gear:
ing Dean Swann will be the Rev.
Roya G. F. Stopford and F. PAW. Alexander of the Royal Army Chaplain's Department, and Council lost a considerable amount As from Sept 24 Murray Pier, the Rev. HV: Koop of the Cathe of its interest owing to the absence Connaught-road Central, will be direta dent of Sir Henry Pollock, Bir Henry closed for three months for repairs. dral. There will has five brides
had several. matters of Importance maids in attendance, the Misses H. Mahony, Luard, Maclaren, Clarke and Joan Mackie.
to bring forward and these of The first practice of the Reel Club course had to be held over. Being is on Wednesday next at the Helena nowadays an "official" rather than May - Institute from 6.80p.m. to: an unofiolal, member, this pro 7.30 pm sence at the Council board is not We have in Hong precisely quite so piquant as when Gunpracfice by the casat de- A Notable" Kong: a gentleman he is a kind of "questioner-in-chief" fence batteries will take place dur
„Telo,
of the Government's policy. In ing October. Shipping is warned who la, in a way, a
time he will return to his favourite to keep clear. Details are given in link with a very re-role when, we trust, he will the Gazette." markable trio. The allusion is to have completely recovered from the our highly respected fellow-towns-regrettable accident that at pre- H. E. the Officer Administering man, Mr. A. HL Crack, headmaster sent incapacitatea him,
the Government has been pleased toʻ appoint Dr. J. C. MacGown, MB. of Queen's College, whose uncle,
What with Lane, Ch. B. (Edin.), to be a member of the late Dr. Robert Crook, was Where's Crawfords giving the Advisory Committee of the Peak principal of Wesley College, Dublin. The Clock? up the Jewellery Hospital; During hir regime, Dr. Crook had the corner of Fedder-street and
shop they had atte
The friends of Mr. J. W; Morris, among his pupils three young men Queen's-road and the jewellers next | Passenger Agent of the Dollar In- who, in their respective spheres, be to the Blue Bird shifting, the centre terests In. Hong Kong, will be glad of the town is without means of to learn that he has fully recovered came universally famous. They
Entelling the time. Of course you from the effects of his recent fllness were Mr. George Bernard Shaw, Sir can always look at your own watch and that he has already left the Robert Hart and Mr. Harry Furness or peep through the door" of the French Hospital.”
trulya wonderful trio, Or Hong Kong Hotel, but there is no
nice big dial staring you in the H. M the King has not been ad- “G.B.S." as a pupil, we should like face and inviting notice. Perhaps vised to exercise his power of dis- to have known Dr. Crook's opinion; the Government will do something allowance with respect to Ordinance but, as Mr. Crook assures ua, it is about it. Where, I wonder, is the No. 1 of 1928 to amend the. Natur- more likely that Mr. Show would clock that used to adorn the old alization Ordinance of 1902, and Clock Tower? Maybe it is still to provide for the revocation of have us know what he thought of knocking around somewhere or naturalization rights in certain Dr. Crook as a teacher: which, of other, or perhaps it has been presses. course, is deliciously Shavian. Besented to some Civil Servant as a
kind of Long Service Medalla
A bill is to be introduced at the that as it may, in imagination we ke to think of Dr. Crook regarding
next meeting.. of the Legislative. his notable trio and perhaps, In
The Government Council to give effect, as regards. spokesman had outward bills of lading from Hong fancy, mildly dwelling upon their future. Could he, we wonder, bave
good deal to say on Kong, to the proposals of the draft guessed even remotely that the red-
Thursday about the Convention on bills of lading agreed haired youth before him, known as Civil Service. There were refer to at the meetings of the Interna- Bernard Shaw, would one day be a ences to the special allowances re-tional Maritime Conference held at dramatic writer of world-wide cently sanctioned and the refusal Brussels in October, 1922, fame the greatest wit since to grant the same to the junior Voltaire; that the delicate-looking clerical staff. In an organisation Upon visiting the First Branch young man, named Robert Hart, which is, rightly or wrongly, of the "China" Lady Hair Dressing would join Hla Britannic Majesty's notorious for red tape, it is only Saloon at No. 5. D'Agullar Street Consular Service in China and to be expected that there is an and their Second Branch at the ultimately be the founder of the abundance of regulations for the rear ground foor of Kayamally Chinese Customs Service and, for guidance of all concerned. It Is Building, Queen's Road Central, we years, be the best known and most proposed to give avery Saturday in find that not only a good number highly regarded foreigner ever these columns a little information of Chinese but also Europeans visited these two places, and left known to China's millions; or that about what the public has to pay
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The Civil Service.
the apry youngster, Harry Furness, and pay heavily-for. The pre fully satisfied with their courtesy, would become an artist of distinc- cedence of officers in British skill and sanitation.
on and one of the most popular Colonies fa determined by local en
of London's caricaturists. A actments, Royal Charters, Instrue the Hong Kong Government is To commemorate their gallantry worthy and a wonderful tria indeed, tions either under the Royal Sign
reason to be very prouð.::
The General Officer Commanding
The Bishop (precedence of an honorary nature, accorded him by courtesy),27
The Chief Justice, The Commodore,
HUSH!!
SINGAPORE COMMENT ON GUNS
Says the Straits Times"--All unwittingly, we have revealed a dark secret; we have disclosed a plan which has been the subject of Members of the Executive Coun- exceedingly confidential commun-
The Pulsne Judge, Members of the Council,
Ications of the utmost gravity, of dispatches which have made strong Legislative mon tremble with fear at the awful responsibility with which they have
of whom Dr. Crook had every Manual and Signet, or through the erecting a tablet at St. Peter's Secretary of State, or by authori Church, West Point, to the memory tative local usage. In the absence of Robert A. Black, Chief Engineer of the asKochow" who was During the past two of any special authority, Governors killed by pirates in the Ling Yang Daggers or months there were usually guide themselves by a gen Gorge West Byar onthas lit. Sep- - Knives quite a few cases or table of Colonial precedence. tember, 1927 and cros Fover the
where bad charac ters were charged with the posse
grave of Harry Conway. Chief In Hong Kong, the Officer of the "San Nam Hol who sion of daggers and knives. In
Precedence list reads some lost his life in the attempted pira′′ this kind of offence, it is often n
for Oficials thing like this of that vessel on the 17th January "delicate question to decide be-
The Governor or, 1928, when on a voyage between tween a dagger and a knife, There and their is a great difference between the Ladies. in his absence, the Kong Moon and Kau Kong.
Omoer Administer two. In the case of daggers, under the arms ordinance, the culprit la In the Government, liable to serve a maximum penalty The Commander-in-Chief of the of ten years hard labour. But in China Station, the case of knives, such as the one brought up at the Central Magis the Troops, tracy on Friday, the convict was only sentenced to three months hard labour. According to the police officer prosecuting, the knife was the same as those used by butchers in the market. For this ment of romance was.
reason the defendant, although ell, Introduced a few weeks ago when armed with a butcher's knife and Lieut the Hon. the Master Napier, gage, which gave no ground for MERE SCHEME SOLO doubt that he would use them to who with the 2nd Batt. King's Own Scottish Borderers, was enlight" sentence in comparison with (now the Director of Medical and about
commit a robbery, only got a The Principal Medical Officer been ddled--we have said things I was surprised to see abled to accompany his bride, Miss that advertisement in Violet Muir Newson, on the final the papers concerning stage of her voyage to Hong Kong. an amah, with Peak Following an unwarranted "scaro" experience, wanting a job, wash, or a few months ago, the Canadian all, what great difference is there office is determined solely by off The Daily News"
cial rank, irrespective of official mentioned that baby. Surely the P. R. A. might Pacific Co. arranged for a detach in the legal point of view?
precedence, or dignity, by right of guns, which were com have got together and extended a ment of British soldiers, under the
birth. The wives of such officials, perimentally during thi Judging by the quesit should be noted, even though belys friendly hand to the deah lady? command of an officer, to act as
Mr. JP. tions and answers As it is, somebody in Humphreys protectors on Empress ships leaving Braga's that formed so large they enjoy precedence at Home by defence
Questions, a part of the bust right of birth or by dignity con told us abo Buildings or Kowloon Tong, or in Hong Kong,for Shanghai. At
that the decision had be Wanchai, may secure her, and the Shanghal, the scart disembarks ness of Tuesday's ferred by the Crown, take their the glad tiding
meeting of the Sanitary-Board, Mr Places according to the precedence
some time ago and thi poor thing will immediately start and then takes passage back on the J. P. Braga, himself an energetle of their husbands.
caution had k against a leakage degenerating, sticking peas with next Empress bound for Hong member of the Board, evidently be Heves In keeping himself, the Beard one chopstick, using her his and Kong. I so hap
Influence and the public generallyin todek most horrible:of all, developing an, Master Napier had to take his with quite a few topics that really of Women, brothels in Hong, appalled: inferiority complex. If the HK men to Shanghal for one trip. The matter It was pleasing to note
Kong as there used crime in 75pdrag that Mr. Braga thanked Mr. Carrie to be and draws the conclusion that on a's O. M.A. A. are worth their salt boat he had to back on was
(Head of the Banitary Board) for the influence of the womenfolk. : is they will at onco get busy on this the mpress-
ada; on which the time and patience devoted to felt mor days in keeping Blas Newson was coming here for, obtaining the information - which men the wedding.
had been requested. If, as is not t doubtless the case,
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