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WANCHAI TRAGEDY
CURTAIN FALLS ON THE 20 CENTS DRAMA
DEATH SENTENCE PASSED
On London- Bank, wire
The curtain was rung down yester-Bank, on demand day at the Supreme Court in the lank, 30 days' sight human story in which a 20-cent pices Bank, 4 months' sight 1/11 played a tragic role in the lives of Credits.
over the culprit, was brought to a con-i On Berlin- clusion yesterday with his Lordship On deraand.. daning the "black cap" and passing On New York- sertence of death on Yung Kwai-ting on demand the principal'in the cast.
Labourers' Haven
Cross-street Wanchai, is the 12-Wire bourers' haven of refuge. It is there On demand the homeless coolies resort, and for a On Calcatt~- few copper cents, they can have square meal of clams, ronsted ducks. tdead and not slaughtered before being roasted), and other delicacies so dear to the Chinese. The entire street ist lined with fond stalls, and throughout the 24 hours of the day, a seething On mass of human jetsam and flotsam can be found there.
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..£18 n Chartered Bank
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two coal coolies.
Money is undoubtedly the root of
sight
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It was in this labourers' haven of refuge that At Troi, a coal coolfe, was abbed to death by Yung Kwai-ting
These two
were the best of
On demand
30 day's right (private-
paper)
On Yokohama~~”. Gold Leaf, 100 fine On demand
friends, until they quarelled over, (per tael) what was to them, the princely sum of Sovereigns
20 cents. The quarrel led to blows and buying rate) the story went that Yung had the Silver (per oz.) worst of the enanter. Smarting Bar Silver in Hong under the detrat sustained, he nursed
when he
Kong
his grievances, until three days later Copper Cash
found Ah Taol squatting Copper Centa quietly alongside a stall partaking of Rate of Native In-
a meal.
The Ancient Grudge
Like Shylock who said to Antonio, "Once I cates him on the blp, 'I'll feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him," Yung was said to have gone up from
terest
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Nominal
3% prem.
7% p.8.
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behind and stabbed his enemy on the ANCIENT SCIENCE
A life in that
METHODS OF EARLY CIVIL ENGINEERS
New Engineerings Shanghai Docks
H.K. Landa..$61 Shanghai Lands Humphreys Estates 4.K. Realties Chinese Estates HK Territorials Prince's Buildings
cheat with a knife. quarter of the city has no value. To this mass of human derelicts, death is always welcome. Ali Tsci, therefore, did not raise much of a fuss when he received the wound. He walked away
For information regarding the quietly to Tai Yuen Street, where he instruments used in the laying out collapsed and died. It is probable that of the great constructional works his death would have been left un- avenged had not the fatherly Police in-of antiquity we are mainly indebt- tervened.
ed to the writings of Hero of! Alexandria and of Marcos Vitru- Peak Trams (old) Fung was arrested on the same day the first century R.C., and to Sextus Star Ferries
vius Pollio, both of whom lived in Peak Trans (new)
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He was given a fair trial at the Magis Julius Frontinus, the famous writeri China Lights (comb.)
tracy and when he was brought before
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$67 b
.$62 b
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.$23 b
the Higher tribune, a counsel, Mr.on Roman aqueducts, who died China Lights (old) $13.05 b 13% s Hing Shingle, was retained by the about A.D. 106. Euclid, Ar- China Lights (new)...$12 b. Crown for his defence. Seven good chimedes, Eratosthenes, Apollonius China Lights 1928 iune and true citizens were balloted to sit and other great mathematicians of H.K. Electrics (old) as jury in the trial, which lasted two the first Alexandrian School had whole days.
long since passed away, but they H.K. Electrics (new) Yesterday afternoon. the curtain was had left behind them the classical Macao Electrics rung down in this grim tragedy, Yung works in geometry and astronomy H.K. Telephones was found guilty of murder, and his containing those fundamental dis- China Buses Lordship, donning the black cap, pass-coveries on which practical survey- Singapore Tractions ed sentence of death. With the true
Singapore Pref.
Industrials
stoicism of the coclie class, Yung rein is based. How successfully the ceived the death sentence unmoved, principles were applied can be seen Sandakan Lts. And the 20-cent piece which had cost by the roads, canals, sewers, tun-}
harbours, the lives of these two men may have nels,
reservoirs and China Sugars changed hands a hundred times and aqueducts, the remains of which Malabon Sugars may now be reposing in a street beg-to-day testify to the accuracy, per-] Canton Ites gar's alms receptacle.
fection and grandeur of the work Cements (comb.) of the civil engineers of those VOLUNTEER FUND times. Yet long before Hero and Cements (old)
Vitruvius, there had been great Cements (new) constructors. In Egypt, in $700 H.K. Ropes (old) B.C., there existed a "Superinten H.K. Ropes (new) dent of Works" who had charge of United Asbestos the construction of publle edifices and roads, and the Pyramids stand Dairy Farms
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Mr. John Owen, It has come to be the fashion to
lecturer's T16 b
Durham University, .11-serve a cocktail rather than a soup assistant at
meal. was sued at the Middlesex Sheriff's 20 bas a curtain raiser to the .$28 Webster defines
a cocktail as "4 Court in mall week for damages for horse with its tail docked; a person breach of promise of marriage by .95 cts. s passing for a gentleman, but under Misa Hilda Harrison, of Pekin
327 a bred; a rove beetle; a beverage of street, Poplar, E. $2% spirit, iced and flavoured with ..$9.35 b 9 bitters; a preparation of raw oysters [9.40/.45 ss or clams in ketchup and lemon juice, $7.70 b seasoned with tobaso sauce and .$1 bserved in a glass; or a kind of a $7.35 b cloud."
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On the completion of evidez,ce yester-as a monument to the ingenuity Watsons day afternoon. Mr. E. W. Hamilton and skill of long-forgotten de Der A. Wings committed for trial at the next Crimin-signers. The Great Pyramid is Lan: Crawfords al Sessions, So Chung-man, a clerk estimated to have a mass of over Mackintoshs employed at the Volunteer Headquar- 6,000,000 tons of stone. Its base Sinceres ters on charges of alleged misappris 764ft. quare, yet in the four Wra. Powells priation and embezzlement of Volun-sides there is only a mean error of teer funds.
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Mr. O'Sullivan, for Miss Harri- son, said that she became acquaint- ed with Mr. Owen in 1924. They walked out together and amorous letters sumbering about 100 were written to her by Mr. Owen. - In December 1927 they became engag- ed.
Last year at Easter he did not visit Limehouse from Durham expected.
Mother First
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Miss Harrison wrote asking him
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The fruit cocktail, which can be $11.90 bserved before the frat course, is .80 ct. not quite any of the above articles.
It is made by cutting a variety of why? In reply he wrote: 818 bfruit into rather small pieces, put- Dear Hilda,As I see from your $12 n ting all together and serving in last letter you have noticed the $2% s liqueur glasses, when they have change that has come over me, and been illed from the cocktail shaker, it is, I am sorry to say, a great .$25 s
Tinned peaches of pears, raw hatred of your sex. Ever since .$1.40 8 apples, pincapples, oranges, February it has been nothing else or almost any but hell night after night, and it
In his cross-examination of Major angle from a perfect square. How H.K. Constructions R. A. Wolfe Murray, Adistant of the this accuracy was obtained we do B. Ind. $ Bonds.....64% n bananas, cherries H.K.V.D.C., Mr. F. H. Loseby (for the defence) said: "I think it is on record not know, and we
H.K. Govt Loan...36% s prem. fruit is appropriate for the cock cannot go on for ever. I cannot that the Commandant of the Corps has juntil much later times for the been paying him (accused) $50 a year description of instruments from Caldbeck Macgregor: Ord. Til btail. Whipped cream may be add-go on deceiving you any longer.
Our marriage would be nothing as a special reward for good services ? which our own have been develop Caldbeck Macgregor; Pref. 1 bed if desired.
The Adjutant: "I can't swear to ed.
The true origin of the name else but bitterness and unhappi- the sum, but I know there has been a
“Corktail” is probably known to ness, and I can see only one way personal present of some land.”
many, but we
the out before it is too late. repect it for An account of the ancient field be shut of from the dwellings and benefit of those who may not have Major Wolfe-Murray stated that the instruments used by the Greeks and blocks." One of the most interest-heard how it originated.
Once I did put you before my mother in some things, but she has accused had remained on duty through- Romans was given by Mr. B. C. Sing buildings still standing in. A party of English officers, so now all my love and respect and out the strike and was given a reward Walters in a paper to the New Athens, and illustrating this deter-the story goes, had stopped at an hope she will live long enough of $50 by the Government
Mr. Loseby:
think I am right in comen Society in 1921, and laat year mination of the eight points of the inn for refreshments. Mine host's to see me of some use to mankind. saying that friends have offered to Mr. E. N. Stone added further to compass, is the Tower of the Winds cellar being small but varied they One day you will forget me and make restitution on his behalf? Yes, our knowledge by his interesting of Andronicus Cyrrhestes.
It is mixed their drinks into one hurried may meet someone more worthy of It has been refused by the Government, pamphlet on Roman Surveying octagonal in form, and bears figures liqueur, for they had no time too than I am. It is now I see how Asked for his personal opinion of the Instruments," published by the representing the characteristics of tarry, and raising his glass to a the difference of our religion would accused, Major Wolfe-Murray said: "University of Washington. Press, the winds, to which they were trusted him and looked upon bim as a Seattle. This pamphlet forms a inscribed. The building was sur loyal hard worker.”
part of Vol. 4 of the University of veyed by Stuart and If the accused had applied for help Washington Publications from tire Officers of the Corps, he would Language and Literature.
in Delambre speaks of it as "the most Mr. curious existing monument of the Certainly have obtained it.
Ravett;
At the conclusion of the evidence, Noble has been at some pains to practical gnomonics of antiquity M Loseby said that having had the so to the original authorities. Hero, and, in a sense, It may be regarded whole facts of the case put before him, Vitruvius and Frontinus, and deals as the oldest meteorological station. he hoped that Mr. Hamilton would not in turn with instruments for deter in the world.
commit.
mining the true meridian, for
His Worship replied that he felt it linear measurement, for measuring
his duty to commit the accused florizontal and vertical angles, and
DOCKS TRAFFIC
pheasants under a glass-case on the couple of resplendent stuffed sideboard, one of the officers drank
To the Cocks Tails"-4.B.
always come between us.. ceiving that letter Miss Harrison Mr. O'Sullivan said that on re- was prostrated. It was the first intimation that he did not love her. At no time had 'the question of re- ligion been discussed. In 'fact Mr. Owen had attended the Roman Catholic Church with her. The President of the Board of Miss Harrison said that she was Trade has appointed a committee a ward orderly at the Poplar- to consider the increase during re- Institution. She said she had spent cent years in the number of deaths] £60 on things for the home she was
GAS POISONING --
2160 damages.
Station-sergeant Charles Bacon,
The Judge at the Sessions would, no with levelling instruments. Roman doubt, be given the full facts of the surveyors depended on the sun to In the first half of this year the ascribed to poisoning by.coal gas looking forward to. case and even if the accused was not give them their true bearings, and seaborne traffic of the Great West supplied for domestic purposes, and The jury awarded Miss Harrison legally represented, everything in his the two devices, the sundial and ern Railway South Wales Decks to make recommendation as to any favour would go before the learned the gnomon, both of which are amounted to 19,500,408 tons, or measures relating to the production Judge.
generaly credited to Anazimander, 1,248,000 tons more than in the wor and use of gas for domestic, púz- who lived in the sixth century B.C., responding period of last year, poses which might be taken with of the Metropolitan Police (South- ROCKETS TAKE PLANES
were in common use. It is Vitru- This increase was chiefly due to view to diminishing the number of wark), jumped into the river at vius who gives full directions as to the expansion in coal and coke such deaths. The committee con- Yarmouth and saved a boy from Berlin, August 10. the method to be employed in con- shipments, which were raised by aists of The Rt. Hon. Sir Evelyn | drowning. Rockets were successfully used strueting them and setting them 1,321,000 tons to 15,172,244 tons. Cecil, G.B.E. (Chairman), Sir John today to make a Seaplane take up, and who calls attention to the Export traffic was raised by Robertson, Professor & V. Wheeler, off Six rackets fixed underneath fact that a dis) can be accurately 1,270,000 tons to 16977,708 tons, and Mr. F. J Wrojtesley, K.C.; the wings were fired off where set only by taking the equinoctial but imports reduced by 78,000 tons with Mr. H. L. Spence of the Board upen the machine immediately shadow. By the dial, the four or to 2,528,610 tons. Oil shipments of Trade, Great George-street; took off.
eight prinopal points of the com- were lowered by 116,000 tona to Westminster, ab secretary,
It is claimed that a heavily pass could be determined, and from 398,049 tons and imports by 128,000 laden seaplane, which otherwise these the architect could lay out tons to 467,134 tons, but arrivals Sundry Council are to construct will be unable to rise, could be the streets and alleys so that "the of iron tre were increased by a swimming pool on Rivermead similarly "rocketed."
disagreeable force of the winds will 154,000 tons to 569,664 tons.
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