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Hong Kong, Tuesday, April 16, 1929.
BUDGET ISSUES
those slogans with which all are familiar panaceas for this and panaceas for that: the hastening of both the Millenium and a New Utopia in which "man to man the world o'er will brothers be and a' that."-perhaps!
TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929.
AN OLD DEBT
INDIAN MONEY-LENDER
SUES CHINESE
IMMEDIATE EXECUTION
HANDY FIRE ESCAPE
محمدية
DEMONSTRATION ÁT THE
BANK'S MESS
VALUABLE EQUIPMENT ·
can furnish a useful idea of the ines upon which the Government will frame its programme for the General Election-how the pro- cess of "window dressing" for the newly enfranchised flappers in
A debt which had been out- A valuable fire equipment was particular will be carried out by standing for about four years the subject of a demonstration the Government. With the in-was claimed by an Indian money-held at the Hong Kong and troduction of the Budget the lender at the Summary Court this Shanghai Bank Mess yesterday morning before Mr. Justice J. R. by the Superintendent of the Fire General Election battle may be Wood. The plaintiff, Indar Singh, Brigade.
said to have opened in earnest claimed the sum of $1,640 from It is a handy fire escape for During the next few weeks we Lau Sing Cheung and Cheng which Messrs. Jardine, Matheson The de- may expect to be inundated with Cheung, both of the Sun Garage & Co. are the agents.
on a promissory note signed on monstration showed that if build- political speeches of every shade April 15, 1925. Of the amount ings were equipped with such a of opinion, but the great majority claimed $1,000 was the principle device, all risks such as of us will doubtless be thankful and $640 being interest at the taken in the King Edward Hotel: that we are not there to be mixed rate of two per cent. per mer fire would be eliminated.
sem for 32 months. up in the exciting fray.
In order to bring the case with- in the jurisdiction of the Court, (the sum of $640 was waived. Mr. I. M. Hall appeared for the defen-
Device Described
were
The device is manufactured by Messra. John Kerr and Co. Known as the "Davy" Automatic "Science is destined to play an
Fire Escape, it is intended to be important part in the reconstruc- dants.
fitted to the inside window casing, tion of theology," said Rabbi Plaintiff stated that after the three or four feet above the sill. Enelow at the annual convention acte was signed he handed $500 It consists of a mechanical brake of American rabbis. "Chicago to Cheng Cheung, and had receiv-controlling the rate of descent Tribune."
cd from the same man $65 as pay for a steel cable, to the end of ment of interest. The last pay-which a "life belt" is fastened. Mr. Daniel C. Dow, Secretaryment he received was in October. This life belt is made of harness. of the Distillers Agency, Ltd., is 1925. Both defendants then. left webbing and is placed over the staying at the Peninsula Hotel. the Colony and went to Kwong
Chow Wan.
A valuable collection of postage. Cheng Cheung said that he had stamps will be auctioned by Lam-signed the note merely as a wit mert Brothers on Friday at 5.15 ness. His maater Borrowed the money and had asked him to sign p.m.
as witness. He had never raid anything to plaintiff and he had never been asked to do so.
A fatal accident occurred at one of the timber yards yesterday morning, a coolic losing his life through some timber falling on him during his work, it is stated.
An extraordinary general meet ing of shareholders in the United Asbestos Oriental Agency. Limit- ed, will be held on April 24 to adopt a resolution to wind up the concern and appoint liquidators,
Harold Layton. a pupil at the Central British School, success- fully passed a recent examination for Naval Yard apprentices, being second on the list. The boy at; the head of the list was also a pupil at the same school.
His Lordshin gave judgment for plaintiff for $435, and said Chat rilaintiff could apply for im- mediate execution since the debt was four years old and that de- fendant had made no attempt to pay it.
D.O. G. A.
REVIEW OF SUCCESSFUL YEAR
BATHING PICNICS
head and shoulders and beneath the arms as a means of support for the person using the escape.
The device is automatically put into action by the presence of "weight" at the end of the cable, that is, by the weight of the per- son, but the speed at which the. person is lowered is independent of the actual weight concerned.
The internal mechanism, of remarkable compactness consider- ing the service rendered, com prises a sheave, netuated by the pull exerted by "weight" at the end of the cable, but checked by a series of yours working in con- junction with an automatic brake controlled by centrifugal force.
Three Persons Per Minute Both ends of the steel cable are equipped with life belts, and, as the action of the mechanism is reversible, one of the belts is al- The Diocesan Old Girls' Asso-ways ready at the window level elation held their third annual by the time the previous descent meeting yesterday evening, with has been completed. It may be said at once that the
In this way the carrying capa- Budget introduced into the House Members of the Chinese Sugar Miss Kacker, Vice-President, in
city of the escape can be main- After the secretary's report tained at the rate of three per- of Commons yesterday is practic- Merchants' Society met on Sun the chair.
day at their headquarters in Des ally devoid of anything in the Vieux-road in celebration of the had been read by Miss P. Ander-sons per minute, descending one son, the Hon. Treasurer, Mise at a time from the third or fourth fourth anniversary. nature of surprises. The Betting Society's Tax, which created such a furore Speeches were made by Messrs. Robinson, presented the state floor of the building.
This device can be used for Ho Ju. Shum Pak-ming, and Hement of accounts of the Associa
tion, from which the pleasing fact| lowering unconscious persons as at Home when it was first intro-Kwong.
was gleaned that no less than a well as invalids if the life belt is duced, is to go-that was only to
In appreciation of his services sum of $1,189,93 appeared on the properly secured and they are be expected. It has proved a dis-
as an active member of the Hong right side of the book, and that then put out at the window. tinct source of embarrassment to Kong Electric Recreation Club, the profits of the year deriving
from various social functions: the Treasury. It has profited suitable gifts were presented to
amounted to $300. only those who were sly enough Mr. W. H. N. Mardoch by his
The Head Mistress, in com- colleagues during a "cricket" din- to find a loophole out of paying
ner at the Hong Kong Hotel.menting on the satisfactory state of affairs, remarked that the As- their just ques from a Govern- Mr. Murdoch is shortly leaving sociation had had a very success- ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT ment point of view. The burden for Home on holiday.
has been shouldered by the honest bookmakers--a reminder to the religiously inclined by Mr. Winston Churchill that even
а
ful year.
MRS LANGTRY
SHE WAS BORN
a citizen of the greatest Empire no change in the duties on coffee, by members of the Indian and the companion who was in the world.
chicory, and cocoa.
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with
POLICE RESERVE
WEEK
"First Aid to the Injured." Class for instruction in First Aid will be held at the Company's
Headquarters to-morrow, at 5.30 p.m. sharp.
She knew, from her Leading Sick Berth Attendant own personal experience, that the
The following orders have been w. Tibble, of H.M.S. "Tern," who various entertainments had been
well organised. She urged that issued by Hon. Mr. T. H. was wounded in the arm when his ship came under fire on April the present Entertainment Com- King, Acting Captain Superinten- 13. was taken ashore at Tchang mittee should encourage bathing dent of Police:
Chinese Company bookmaker can be as honest as (Upper Yangtze River) and picnics in the near future, and
hoped that they would continue Strength. Constables R16, any other man whom the Govern- operated upon at the Rankin to be as much appreciated ps in Chung Man-iu, and R42, Foon ment in its wisdom taxes for the Memorial Hospital for the re-
the past,
Ping-kong, have been permitted Mrs. M. K. Lo was welcomed as to resign, having completed one Normally the average resident benefit of the country at large. In moval of the bullet.
year's service, with effect from of this Colony takes but a very place of the Betting Tax book-
When a Chinese was yesterday the new President.
April 9, 1929. Mr. E. W. superficial interest in Home poli- makers are to be called upon to charged before
committing a tics or Home finance. Keen on pay a licence duty for their tele- Hamilton with
breach of his hawker's licence at both he may have been long be- phones amounting to £40 per Cheung Chau ferry, he made the fore he came out to the Orient, annum, which is estimated to aliegation that the Indian police- BURIED IN PLACE WHERE but with the passing of the years produce £500,000 per annum: an man arrested everybody, even
Signalling. The Signalling passers-by like himself! He was amid the peculiar environment of insignificant sum, indeed, cem-ordered to pay the usual fine.
The funeral of Lady de Bathe Squad will attend at the Com- Dany's Headquarters for practice this Colony he becomes indiffer-pared with the original estimate ent and apathetic. Political of revenue from the Betting Tax. Sir Robert Ho Tung, it is re- (Lily Langtry) took place in mail in Morse and Semaphore under Minor concessions are to be ported, has purchased Puniah week at the Church of St. Cr. Sergt. R15, Ow Yeung Kin- Saviour's, St. Heliers, Jersey, of heng to-morrow at 6.30 pm. speeches and Budget figures leave
Building, Granville-road, Kow- which her father, the Very Rev. sharp. him bored. There is a tendency made to drink licence holders, loon. The building was original-W. C. Le Breton, Dean of Jersey, Annual Examination in Part 2. to forget that although so many payers of harbour dues, and tele-ly the quarters of the European was rector when she was born. The examination in Part 2 of miles from Home he is still a unit phone users in rural areas. The officers of the Indian Regiment
mother, and youngest brother. the Company's Headquarters on of the Empire and that, whatever super tax and the Income-tax re which always form part of the She was buried beside her father, Training Course will continue f garrison. Behind the block were; The chief mourners were Lady Thursday, at 5.30 pm. sharp the course of political events in main unchanged. The abolition tennis courts and gardens. The the Old Country, Imperial ties of the tea duty will be given building has, however, fallen onde Bathe's only child, Lady (Ian) under Chief Inspector H. J. Pater-
Malcolm, her eldest grandchild, ovil days and is badly in need of
ing School. imply Imperial responsibilities as effect to on April 22, but there isrepair. At present it is inhabited/George Malcolm, and Mrs. Peatson, Principal of the Police Train-
Indian Company her during the last sixteen Parade.Members of the In- Filipino communities.
years of her life and who is adian Company are reminded of This year is an exception to the
Very sensibly; it will be conced-
Mr. F. Munford, architect and large beneficiary under her will. the parade to be held at the Cen
There was nothing official intral Police Station to-day, at 5.30 general rule as regards the intro-ed, the grants for the mainten- surveyor, was the plaintiff in an the character of the congregation. p.m. sharp. duction of the Budget in the ance and construction of roads action heard at the Summary
The weekly instructional patrol House of Commons. The immin- and bridges are to be increased Court yesterday afternoon before it was a very simple assembly of He islanders, few of whom remcm- Mr. Justice J. R. Wood. ence of the General Election takes from 33 to 60 per cent. There claimed the sum of $150 from the bered her as a high-spirited, girl of the Kowloon Section will take the Budget out of the rut of the will also be an additional grant of Hing Chei & Co., building contrac- whose beauty when she was only place to-day. Fall in at the Taim- sixteen was already famous sha-tsui Fire Brigade Station at commonplace for once in a way, 15 per cent. for schemes that in tors, as fees for professional ser
5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress-Winter Lying on and heaped around uniform. The triangular fight between tra- valve the drawing in of 50 per vices in connection with a build-throughout the island.
ing at Shamshuipo. Defendant
The weekly instructional patrol ditional Parties is creating a decent. of men from the distressed proved that several small sums of the coffin were masses of wreaths gree of interest that is by no areas. As a counterblast to the money had been advanced to the in which tilies of the valley and of the Hong Kong Section will at the head of the coffin rested a at the Central Police Station at means confined to the "free and scheme of Mr. Lloyd George for plaintiff, and the claim was thus arum lilies were prominent, and take place on Thursday. Fall in
His Lordship gave independent" electors at Home, reducing unemployment, it will reduced.
5.15 p.m.sharp. Dress Khaki judgment for $30 to plaintiff cross of lilies of Malcolm!
wreath from Lady Boot, who was uniform. notable as it will be by the acces remain to be seen how this idea without costs.
with Lily Langtry when she died Sharpshooters' Company sion to the roll of thousands of of Mr. Churchill works out in
StrengthConstables R441, Ho Tuberculosis was the cause of at Cannes, was inscribed, "In more or less irresponsible flap actual practice. He advances no the death of an Indian prisoner memory of the most beautiful Wing-tsan, and R442, E. A. pers. Thus, we would have to go new theory when he asserts that, named Nur-Ahmed in Victoria Lily, from Florence Boot." Miss Sykes, have been taken on the back almost to the stormy days unemployment can only be re- Jail. Yesterday Major C. Win. Ellaline Terris and Dir. Seymour strength of the Sharpshooters of the Gladstonian Home Rule duced normally by a revival of in- son, O.B.E., and a Coroner's jury Hicks sent a beautiful tribute, and Company as from April 2 and 10,
held an inquiry. The jury re there were wreaths and crosses respectively.
Revolver Practice. The next Bills and the Farnell sensations dustry, as against temporary turned a verdict in accordance from friends at Cannes, from to find a parallel to this year's public works for the alleviation with medical evidence. Nur Jersey relatives, from the Jersey revolver practice will take place General Election for the intensity of employment in certain areas. Ahmed was sentenced to death on Green Room Club, from the on the Kennedy-road Range on of public interest at Home and It is not, of course, possible August 11, 1925, for the murder parishioners of St. Saviour's and Sunday, May 6, at 10 a.m. Belts
of an Indian Guard, but the sex-one, the largest and most beauti-and Holsters to be worn.
Defendu Class.The next De to criticise fairly a Budget tence was commuted to one of life ful of all, was inscribed “A tri-
fendu Class will be held at Police Already we have been given an speech, however important, when imprisonment. He suffered from bute from Jersey admirers.
An urn containing the ashes of Headquarters on Monday, May 6, inkling of the revivified Liberal we are favoured with only a sum malaria during 1926 and 1927 and
tuberculosia developed in Feb- Mrs. Langtry's brother, Clement at 5.30 p.m., under Sergeant. J. Party's platform for the General mary, good as that summary ruary 1928. He gradually be Martin le Breton, who died in Hunt Dress Mufti
(So.) W. KENT, A.S.P., Election, whilst the planks in may be. But the broad outlines came worse until death inter- London some years ago, was placed in the grave with the coffin. the Labour platform comprise may speak for themselves. They vened
abroad.
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