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that
Accompanied by his wife and Notice has been given to the local Mr. Davidson then referred to daughter, Mr. J. H. Davy of the Registrar of the forthcoming mar- the previous Ordinances, where he Sales Department, of the Asiatic rlage of Mr. Leopold Gotley Froat, found the words "Colonial Ships" Petroleum Co., Ltd., sailed for Home mercantile assistant. No. 8, the defined as a class by themselves. on the a.. "Suwa Maru" on Satur- Peak, Hong Kong, to Miss Margaret He therefore submitted day.
Charlotte St. Claire Graham, No. 41, Colonial Ships" should not have Kailam Lane, British Concession, been included in British ships. Tientsin.
GRAVE INCONVENIENCE He further contended that mai-
At the Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday. Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith [imposat a fine of $5 on a Chinese Mr. F. F. Duckworth, of the woman, living at 13, Cooke Street. Hong Kong Electric Co., reported toters of vessels were not compelled the Police that yesterday afternoon rubbish
Hunghent, for throwing into the street.
Mr. A. C. d'Albuquerque e Castro, Consal-General for Portugal in Hong Kong, proceeded on Home leaveon Saturday on the s.s. "Suwn Mara," accompanied by Mme. and Mile. d'Auquerque.
Anwegst local Portuguese resi-; dents who left on holiday on the s.a. "Suwalaru" on Saturday were Mr. J. A. and Mrs. Bertha dos Remedios, Miss Alice d'Azevedo Cardosu and Miss Maria da Conceicao Cardosa.
on
Through some mistake in the finger prints, a young. Chinese was at the Kowloon Magistracy to-day remanded for 24 hours on a charge of theft or a metal watch and chain, the property of a Chinese building contractor in Mongkok Road.
DISMISSED
at Shanghai.
11 and 12 in the morning of July from Hong Kong?—Yes. 24-the date when the ship sailed
was unit for duty7-No,
And you won't deny that King
he loft his motor.car unattended on to sign off a searman in the Mer- Causeway Hl whilst he went to cantfle Shipping Office for miscon- inspect some nugins. When he re- duct, but it would be necessary to turned a few minutes later, he found do so when the articles had run that his spare wheel with new tyre out in the ordinary course of attached, was stolen.
events. The language of that sac- tion was wide enough to provide for that and if it was not accord- SEAMANng to what he interpreted that particular section in the Ordinance to mean, it would be time for the (Continued from Page 1.) Legislature to alter it and to bring
it in line with the law at Home.. It would cause The official log book was taken byence to shipping owners and mas- grave inconveni- Capt. Alexandre at the first opporters if that section were to apply. tunity for endorsement?-No, I am Mr. Davidson asked his Worship to A Chinese coolle
sorry to say. The ship first called Was instan- at Swatow and remained there for a
imagine the case of a C.P.R. taneously killed on a Chinese junk day. The log book was not produc-steamer having to sail at night. anchored near the s.3. "Limchow" ed until July 29 when the ship was and when a drunken seaman should
Saturday. It appears that
turn up. It would then be a case crane suddenly broke, and a flying piece of timber hit the coolie, in-discharged for being drunk between cur the loss or run the risk of be-
Are you aware that King waAR
either that the steamer would have to cancel ita sailing date and In- flicting fatal injuries.
ing prosecuted. Furthermore, the section read, to him, at a mae- ter was not allowed to sign off any member of his crew under witness admitted that at the fast mission of the Harbour Master, Re-examined by Mr. Andrewes, any circumstances without the per- hearing he had said that it would and yet he was allowed to sign on be practicable for Capt. Alexandre & substitute, The whole section ine Office for his discharge. to take King to the Mercantile Mar- was a curious anomaly.
Continuing, Mr. Davidson anid assistant marine superintendent,
Asked to amplify that atatement, that another matter which he residing at the Peninsula Hotel, to witness said that the incident oc- would like to emphasis was the Miss Tabel Musgrave Coward curred on board ship at 10.10 a.m. practice of making masters leaving Calton of Lune Cove, N.S.W., King was discharged at 11.10 a.m. their logs and and articles at the residing at Harbour View, Chatham and the Mercantile Marine Ofce Shipping Office after each trip. was opened from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. This was only a practice and not A strapte telephone message to the enforced by law. He was of the previous conviction Harbour Master for leave to sign opinion that this practice should strong fits of activity which have against her for larceny, a Chinese King off the articles would have cease, because, as in the present led to the intention to close down woman was on Saturday sentenced saved all the trouble.
case, a master left his log and ar Mr. Andrewed: You had also said ticles behind, thinking that every- by Mr. White-Smith to four months" the Naval Base, and pass the hard labour for receiving a woollen that there was no necessity to take thing was all right, and then, six Coal Mines' Bill, may well, if ex-blanket, which had been stolen from proceedings then-meaning Septem-months later, found himself charg tended to Imperial policy, bring a girl living in Temple Street, Yau- ber but were you then aware ofed with an alleged offence com- the Empire tottering to its mati.
the offence committed?-No, I was mitted six months ago. under the impression that the foundations.
In view of the case being Unadie to give a satisfactory ex-offence was committed in Shanghal. wrongfully brought against the Empire is greatly in need of at planation of the possession of two was not made aware of it untilmaster, he would ask his Worship the moment is a strong, united sacks of quince in Castle Peak Road, October 23.
to dismiss the summons and award Imperial Government, led by a
a Chinese was at the Kowloon
costs to the defendant. He knew Magistracy to-day fined $10 or man of adamant principle, firm 14 days' jail in default. It was dis-necessary to prosecute unless a com- negligible, but it was a question You also stated that it was not that the east would be almost resolution, and utter determina-covered that he had stolen the plaint was made that King was a of principle. tion to keep the Empire together vegetable from a garden on the destitute and becoming chargeable
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DEATH
O'DELL-At the Matilda Hospital on December 30, 1920, Ada Lillian O'Dell, late of Bed- ford, England, alster of Mrs. Lionel Lammert. Home papers please copy.
Funeral will pass the Mosu- ment at p.m. to-day.
Hong Kong, Monday, Dec, 80, 1929.
WANTED A LEADER
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their best, but that best is not good enough, and. their hend-
What the British:
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Road. Kowloon,
With a
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STATEMENT INCORRECT
to the Colony 7That statement was also not correct.
at whatever the cost. Such an
INTENTION OF LAWS man may exist, although we can-
Replying for the prosecution. Fifteen Chinese painters were at not at present see one even with the
Have you any explanation to offer
Mr. Andrewes quoted several sec. Kowloon Magistracy to-day as, to why you had made that state tions from the Merchant Shipping his complexion in the benches of charged with playing "pai kau" in ment? I meant to say that I should Ordinance, and reminded his Wor- any Party in Parliament.
a house at 525, Shanghai Street. see the man first before any action The The first man
was fined $50 for could be taken. type of man to whom we tefer keeping a gaming house while the may exist, indeed, in one of our rest paid fines of $3 for indulging colonial administrative offices, un-confiscated.
in the game. A sum of $6.39 was honoured, but poorly paid, and wasting his ability on a most un- vital community.
ship that the laws were so fram- ed as to accord protection to sea- men. If this laws were made not applicable, it would mean the re- moval of the protection.
You had also said that a complaint was made by the Polica?-Yes, I received it on October 18. CAPT. ALEXANDRE. RECALLED held that in the first charge, King Giving his decision, his Worship Amongst passengers arriving on
Capt. Alexandre, re-called, sald was signed off by mutual consent. the R.M.S. "Empress of Canada" that his statement was in the main in that he had falled to lodge premises the theory that "history of Mr. Paul Sykes, wife
Even without taking as our Kempton, Canada, who is the mother the first hearing. He had no time and he could not hold the master
yesterday was Mrs. H. R. Duff of the same as what he had said at any protest within seven days
of the to tako either King or Dunn to the guilty. Charge dismissed. repeate itself," we may
take Canadian Trade Commissioner in Mercantile Shipping Office for their Warning unto ourselves from the Hong Kong. She expects to remain respective discharge and engage-
In the second charge as to pro- Empira's history as recorded day
here for some months. by day that, unless some person
ment. He thought that the matter viding maintenance, he agreed to would be made all right if he took the views held by Mr. Davidson.. of the qualities indicated, arrives Mr. Whyte Smith on a Chinese at at Shanghal for endorsement.
A fine of $100 was imposed by the articles to the British Consulate He also thought that a "Colonial Ship" differed from a British ship, the Kowloon Magistracy on Satur
to assert our old conquering day for keeping the ground floor of Davidson said that it would be his colonial ship" that section did not In addressing the Court, Mr. and as the "Kwai Sang" was a {spirit, our days as a great Em-149, Shanghal Street, as a common unpleasant duty to make some severe apply. He also found defendant
pire are assuredly numbered.
NEWS IN BRIEF Yesterday four cases of smallpox
po piu lottery den. Fourteen cents, comments on the department of not guilty on this charge. It was the amount seized on the premises which his Worship was the "head," an important fact that King was was ordered to be put in the poor much as he would regret it, but it signed on and discharged in Hong box
was his duty to do so. He sub- Kong. .: mitted that in the first place the pro- The British, Empire is being were notified,
With regard to the third charge, Originally charged on December ceedings ought not to have been he found defendant guilty, but tak put on its mattle. On India the
22, when he escaped, from, the brought at all. At the most, the ing all the circumstances into con- chargeroom of the Shamshulpo defendant was guilty of a minor sideration he would impose a spirit of revolt is amouldering transferred from Shanghai to Hong produced at the Kowloon Magistracy King, but when it came to signing
Mr. W. J. Riddiford, recently Police Station, a Chinese was again technical offence in discharging nominal fine of $5. ready to burst into flame at any Kong as Assistant Canadian Trade on Saturday to answer an allogation on a substitute, defendant was a charge, he found that the man With regard to the fourth given signal. In Chinn, our Commissioner, arrived peoples are in danger of losing R.M.S. "Empress of Canada."
by the of theft of 15 bars of Iron, the pro-solutely within his rights.
perty of a building contractor at
Duna was not signed on in Hong their privileges
Whoever the person might haro and security
195, Tai Nam Street. Mr. White-been responsible for Instituting and after a few hours out, he was Kong. He was first taken to sea, through the abolition of extrality from a hawker at Ki Lung Street,
For the theft of 12 rattan baskets Smith remanded him for 48 hours. the proceedings, the selection for signed on the articles. Therefore righte. In Nigeria, we have an unemployed Chinese was at. the
a section under which the charges had to deal with's most disagree- Kowloon Magistracy to-day fined recently returned from leave, has Bired.
Captain J. R. Vedder, who has were framed left much to be de-the charge must also fail.
The captain was charged As to the last charge, he would able phenomena of native unrest. {***
$10 or two weeks' hard labour. resumed his appointment as Adjet with wilfully and wrongfully leav-impose a nominal fine of $2. In London, at the meeting of the
ant of the 3/15 Punjab Regiment, ing a seaman behind, or, in other A Congregation Social, under the vice Captain A. E. Wernicke, M.E.E., words, forcibly putting a Naval Conference on the First of auspices of the St. Andrew's, com-who has been, officiating in that ashore, and the penalty for an January, there is a grave dan-bined Clubs, will be held in the capacity, and has now been granted offence of that nature was a fine ger of our being committed by Eve) at 8.45, All are welcome. 12. next year.
Church Hall to-morrow (New Year leave from February 12 to October not exceeding $250 or six months' the Labour Government to rash
imprisonment. Of course, it would be childish to suppose that, promises and agreements.
A small outbreak of fire-occurred the defendant in this case would in time of emergency, may wellised $252.16. This sum will be Dockyard yesterday afternoon, in was
St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, real on the s.s. "Szachten" at the Talkoo be imprisoned, but all the same it To-day's dollar is worth 4/- 10%. prove our undoing.
donated specially to the Church of the forehold of the vessel. The Alexandre to be prosecuted under Bents-Singapore Crown Colony
most unfair, to Capt The most superficial observer England Waifs and Strays' Sepiety. "Szechuen" entered the dock for such a charge. The language of like Hong Kong-can exercise rent would be inclined to agree, surely,
some slight repairs, during the the charges was moat ridiculous. control. So can the Government of that, although the Government Plantations 93 and 90 respectively the fire and originated. The fire Continuing, Mr. Davidson said man-eating sharks who own house
For trespassing in Govaramont week ond, and it was not known how has been strutting about the poli- - Chinese woman and a man were float and appliances arrived prompt that the second charge was a most property: hare? Is there any good res ALL SHIPS AFFECTED India Why should the Hong Kong Government remain indifferont to the tical arena like a too-enger, tned $10 with the option of 14 extinguished without much difficul. important one, as It affected all son why it should not put the KTOW ON
at the Kowloon Magistracy to-ly on the scene, and the flames wars newly-created Prefect in the days hard labour mach Lower School, It has accomplish- Ak
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ty. Some slight damage was done ships in the Colony and particular, our Scrooges, and forthwith insugues. by the are....
ly British.. ships. If that section ate a scheme of rent controlt. A heart ed nothing. The majority of its To-day Tang Cheuk (80) a
of the Ordinance was made ap-breaking, finstance has just been leaders, lick the essential quali-agistraty charged with the can of New York City, and St. John's, Hong Kong could discharge any Der Vieux Road. They got notice that rattan dealer, was at the Kowloon Mr. and Mrs. John Baldwin Orr plicable then no ship registered in families in one block: 66, 12 houses in brought us. It affects about Bity They have lawful- parmission an automatic Newfoundland, the parents of Mrs, member of the crew unless due from yarnary 1 their rents old
plitol, in Nelson Bir Mongkok Roger, Culver Tredwell, the wife of provisions were made for their be much bighots Top floor room He was remanded for 24 hours, the American Consul-General, a maintenance ~He was sure that called from 146 to 86 mont
rived by the as "Empress of the Ordinance was never meant to ronts Jump from $75 to $180. In this by the R.M.S. Canada Mr. and Mrs. Orr will be bé construed in that light, and the case the murgsition is that the Canada... which arrived the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tredwell explanation wakan easy one as lead the
terday included for about a month at Shak-0, before slip must have been made at the P. Heard, the inttor proceed to Sydney, where time when the Ordinace was be and Miss Mr. Tredrell has been appointed ing prepared, and it was very in
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