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lusion, perhaps because the inter- [To the Editor of the "China Mail.") preter probably translated the sen-
Sir Now that the recent typhoon
The mach-married man had been tence more "duleet-wise," thusly: "His Worship wishes to know why has laid low some dozens of bathing dining at his friend's new fat. matsheds at Repulse Bay, it seems After dinner he examined the place, you acted as it is alleged you did worth while for those
whose sheds act?" And the prisoner, being have been blown down to consider whe which was very tastefully decorated. "Ah, old chap," he said. "I wish duly and properly impressed. ther it would not be more satisfactory would at once tell "the truth, the from an economic point of view to erect I could afford a place like this."
"Yes," was his friend's reply. whole truth and nothing but a more permanent type of shed similar truth."
We hope so, though we to that pat up at Repulse Bay by You married men may have better know not. But we would em- Mesars. Shewan, Tomes & Co. on a halves, but we bachelors usually phatically state that expression plot of 20 feet by 20 feet, for the have better quarters." from the magisterial bench such am of $990; similar sheds on a plot as the colloquial phrase complain-of 20 feet by 16 feet being stated to ed of, are altogether inadmissible, cost $750 only.
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STILL WATERS
We were interest- Smoking In ed to note, from Court. what took place in the Kowloon Court a few days ago, that Magis- trates, like more ordinary folk, have their little weaknesses,
Before
ex-
(2) The piers of cement concrets on
which the building rests, and (3) The walls and partitions being of gray flat "Italit" shooting set in frames, and the roof of red cor- If a Kowloon
rugated sheets reinforced against typhoon winds by flat iron bars laid Magistrate so
lengthwise at intervals. himself, presses
The accommodation consists of two what may we ex dressing-rooms and a lavatory. pect from the Yaumati Bench, if
Incidentally, the erection at Repulse and when a magisterial court is Bay of several buildings of such a type provided for that select, and would tend to mitigate the wild wigwam salubrious quarter? We do not appearance of that beautiful bathing- wish that the gentleman who beach.
Yours, etc., adorns such an office may con clude that because
H. E. FOLLOCK. of the language used by his learn-
Hong Kong. Aug-24, 1929. ed (but much-too-colloquially-
inclined) brother Magistrate of
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A man slipped on a banana peet and executed a very funny fall.
He was not hurt, fortunately, but his dignity was somewhat ruffled.
When be recovered, a moment later, a friend was holding his hat and a number of people had formed a circle.
"What do these idlers want?" snarled the victim of the banana skin.
"They are not idlers," explained.
"Here's a his friend soothingly. doctor who wants to look you over, . a lawyer ready to bring an action for you, and a producer of comic filme who would like to sign you up."
"It's a lie!" declared the secretary of the club when confronted with evidence which purported to show that he had appropriated funds which did not belong to him.
"It's a wicked lie, a wicked pre-
Kowloon that he has a right to KOWLOON MURDER varication, an insult, and an injury
emulate, say, the fish porters of Billingsgate! Very seriously de we hope that our warning may prove a potent deterrent.
Wise Or
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TWO CHOPPERS IDENTIFIED
:
I
I did not
even if it takes every penny of it."
and a slander! I repeat, I did not take that money," continuéd the BY GIRL "LIFE"
wronged man. "I shall not let this charge besmirch my name. FATE OF INDIAN P.C.
shall fight with tooth and nail to Another point may also be emphasis
Yesterday. Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith clear my name, and in the end peo- Otherwise ed, while we are resumed hearing of the case in ple will realise that they have ne discussing so grave which a Chinese is charged with cused the wrong party. The above in-a subject and it is this-(none the the murder of an Indian constable take the money, and I shall fight the Has Happened cident brings less profoundly important though named Sapooran Singh on July 16 charge that I did to the last ditch,
to mind that interrogatively expressed): "How on a plot of empty land near the can any of our young cadets who Kun Chung market. smoking in
may at present adorn our magis- The girl, whom accused claimed Court has on several occasions terial benches ever hope to attain to be his wife, but who alleged that been indulged in by coolies, who to the exalted rank of a Puisne he had kidnapped her, forced her to Judgeship if their language is live with him, and then wanted her have promptly discovered that that of the "mere man in the to go with the constable, resumed such a thing "is not done" in such street," unclassical in style and her evidence.
She said that after running away a placé. Almost invariably the hopelessly impossible as forensic
We have phraseology?
said whilst accused and the constable smoker has acted in complete what we have said;"Verbum were fighting, she went to her ignorance of the prohibition, but Sapienti a word to the wise brother's house. When she return- that, of course, has not saved him should not be taken otherwise! from the infliction of the penalty. and from learning that ignorance of the law is no excuse against its infringement.
More Warning Needed
. .4
A certain officer was being court- martialled for absenting himself from first parade and with having been intoxicated the night before.
He made strenuous efforts to prove that he was sober, and his batman, called as a witness, tried loyally to back him up.
"Was Lieutenant Smith quite normal when he returned to his quartere last night?" he was asked.
·"Yessir"""
"Did he give you the usual in-
Be sure and structions to wake him for parade?"
"Yessir! He said call me early.'"
"Did he give you any particular reason for that ?"
"Well, he said, because because.
he was to be Queen of the May!"
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*
With scarcely a sound, the luxur
ed with her brother some time later, accused and the Indian were sitting It is all very well talking together, and the constable A Forensic for such veterans was demanding the return of his 82 "Bon Mot" 28, say, Lord After her brother had scolded the Darling to startle accused for suggesting that she his court and the country by some should go with the Indian, she re- It would seem of his verbal extravagances. But turned to her brother's house, No.
to Kowloon we look for no such 49; Austin-road. that
more frivolity. And having mentioned Threatened by Accused visible warn the learned Lord Darling, perhaps The accused came to the house at ing
should we may be permitted to repeat the 1' a.m., and calling her down, said be given to those luckless and famous bit of witty repartee in that they were going away. Heious car pulled up before the sea- thoughtless ones, in the shape of by "bowled over" in his own court. ed, and went with him. They went man descender advi
which his lordship was very neat threatened her, she became frighten side hotel, and an old, grey-haired a more lavish display of notices"And who is George Robey to Shamauipo and then got on the against smoking in Court. Those asked Mr. Justice Darling, with railway track
one of his irrepressible twinkles constables who are generally and with that abysmal ignorance placed at or near the Court en-which our learned judges affect trances might also be expected to "He is, my lord" (answered a be a little more lynx-eyed in the witty barrister) "the 'darling of matter. It is no light affair for a coolie suddenly to find himself
the called upon to disburse §5, in the
far as the Kow he was a "chicken stealer. This appears to be coming from absence of which sum, he would
loon Magistracy is remark aroused the suspicion of two north just now." probably find himself in "durance concerned all expressions from village volunteers, who suggested
"You're right, of course, sir. It's vile" for a fairly long period. the Bench may be ss from a that accused had kidnapped witness, on its way back!"
the theatre."”
Of English Undefiled
"My doctor advises me to stay where the south wind blows contin- ually" he remarked to the manager. "Does it blow here ?
Throughout the night they walked on the track, going through the
"It does, sir," returned the other. three mile tunnel, and did not reach Taipo until mid-day on July 11. "You are very fortunate to have Chinese territory was not reached stopped at exactly the right place. The south wind always blows here." until the morning of the 12th.
The old man stuck a moistened "Always?" he
Whilst they were sheltering from that, hereafter, as spoke to accused, and asked him if repeated.
So we will all hope the rain in a temple, an old woman finger in the air.
"Are you sure? It
And all because he had been dowell of English undefiled,. that the but accused claimed that she was
ing what the Magistrate himself was longing to do!
his wife,
Jinks: "I hear Smart had a nasty accident whilst running for a
How did it happen ?" train,
Binks: "D'you see those steps ?": Jinks: "Yes, why ?"
Binks: Well, Smart didn't."
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purity, the beauty and the nobility of our magnificent language
The men wanted to the accused up (world-wide known and pleasing even when in its "pidginated" and take him to the Police but There is something form) may be regarded as a sub- accused ran and witness followed. ject far too sacred to be treated The volunteers also followed, where
upon-accused pulled out a revolver: which doubtless sometimes re- What We apparently wrong lightly.
and fired four shots at their Trust with
little quire quite a lot of strength of
this
pursuers. This caused them to give. mind to curb. The occupant of
matter, and if so,
"Yes, I know it," rejoined small up the chase.
Threw Down Revolver the Bench had detected a coolie we trust.
that that Wrong
Later the two volunteers, and four Dorothy, daughter of a minister. in his Court calmly smoking a will
speedily be put
put right. typhoon will be shown at the Queen's others overtook them. This time "He borrowed a book from my cigarette. This was, very pro-Most coolies onbtless are Theatre during all performances to- perly, too much for a British very ignorant, but that they norrow and Monday, Magistrate in a British Court to are offensively impolite we very
Some excellent views of the the recent damage caused by
"My papa's a bookkeeper," said little Albert proudly
Sales Manager: "I think it's a
car."
Salesman: What makes you think so?"
Sales Manager: “Their neigh-
accused threw down his revolver and para the men approached. They again alleged that accused had kidnapped Whilst on her way to market much doubt. Fines are inflicted
she was his wife. Eventually they. tolerate and, promptly, the de- mainly to remedy what may be yesterday, an amah was accosted by Witness, and again accused said that good time to sell the Joneses a linquent was fined $5, even described as "aggressive" a footpad on Pokfulam-read, and compromised, the volunteers allow though he stated, by way of ex- wrongs: they should rarely, if robbed of a pair of gold car rings Ing accused and witness to go on planation, that he had just enter ever, be inflicted when the in which were pulled from her ears accused agreeing to let them keep ed the building. I too," said the fringement is almost certainly the with some force. The ruffian then his revolveri Then they walked bouns have a new one.”
back to Kowloon, result of harmless and thought walked away quietly.
Grandmother had finally yielded Magistrate (probably with a sup- less conduct, even when they jar
From the dock, accused persisted New streets. In Kowloon has his claim that the girl was his to the repeated urging of a grand- pressed sigh) would like to upon the personal tastes or long- smoke, but I am unable to do so ings of an occupant of the Bench! been named Boundary, Cornwall,wife. She would naturally not reson to accompany him on a test Suffolk, Kent, Somerset, Devon, cognise him now, in bis present flight Up and up they went until Dorset, Norfolk, York, Cumberland, light! here. It is therefore small
If Magistrates Lincoln, and Stafford. There is a wonder that the coolie should
The Dignity intend as of Rutland, Quadrant, a Surrey Lane, have been fined, for, surely, what
Of Language course they do and an Essex Crescent.
B
a Magistrate may not do, it is not for a coolie to attempt..
to
A quarrel between two Chinese on
A Robber Chief" The girl indignantly denied this and started to curse and abuse accused, calling him a robber
chief!
the youthful pilot leaned back and" shouted: "Do you realise that we are up 17,500ft.?
"Oh, I don't mind that," she said cool enough so that you might turn bravely, but don't you think it's
off the fan?".
round
the dignity of their Courts, surely Mrs. Leung Tsu Shi, widow of No it is not too much to expect that $14, Canton-road, 1st floor, Yaumati,
Mr. Fitzroy, Assistant Attorney, they also maintain the dignity of Hong Kong, left $17,700 in Hong General, who prosecuted, produced
"How do we know the earth is But perhaps the their office by using langage that Kong. She died at No. 17, 1 Po Shu
twa choppers, one of which was The Day day may come is at least Parliamentary Sam-lane, Honam, Canton, on April identified by the girl as the one
"We can see that from the globe." Like Caesar's wife they should be 1923. Probate has now been which they used to chop food whilst May Come when Magis above suspicion is this respect, granted to her son, Mr. Leung Sing they lived in the shack. This
Although the mistress of the trates, while especially as their spoken word is,
cho, a ship's compradore.
weapon bure thick clots of blood on house was constantly laying in a patiently listening to the mis- as a rule, intended to be impres
the blade, and when it was handed sive and occasionally even meant demeanours of their fellow crea to convey something more solemn. fures, may be permitted to soothe But if, as happened at the themselves with a few whiffs of loon Court a few days ago, his
in one man, named Lung. Yu, alias Worship addresses My Lady Nicotine What the
CHIANG KAI-SHEK phrase, to a prisoner in the dock Charles Teu, being killed. He was Court may then lose in dignity, as "What on earth did you do that knocked down by a blow on the
Shanghai, Yesterday. will pro be compensated by for is it to be wondered if the chest, and died soon afterward. It
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek arrived the Bench being occupied by a prisoner deludes himself into he is believed that death was due to a
Heving that the Magistrate in weak heart being affected by the early this morning from Nanking fully, "I may eat hearty like, but no blow. The aasallant is being de entered a Shanghai sanatorium for a tranquil and Magi
tained by the Police
short rest eure-Reuter. happy state of mind.
tends to enter upon an easy-going little chat with him
the second floor of No. 7 Tang Tak an, yesterday afternoon, resuked
horror and refused to touch it.
to the girl she backed away in The hearing was adjourned.
invariably empty. So she spoke to cook about it
"I am sorry to have to mention it, cook, she said, but don't you think the food disappears rather quickly In the kitchen ?re vendeve
supply of food, the larder was
The cook was very much annoyed. "Look here, ma'am," said she wrath
one could call me gorgeous!!