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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1930.
SIR WILLIAM PEEL.
Arrangements for Public Reception.
YESTERDAY'S "MEETING.
Nearly every over that area; and which I take Up-to-Date paper in Britain are in contem; ation to be laid. News! published at least between Causeway Bay and Tal
koo (in place of the present single' half a column of line) just so soon as the lay of the first details of the attempted the road, in that district has been piracy of the Halching: That decided upon and laid out by the took place on December 8. Three Government,
I doubt whether I could be chal- months later March 7-out lenged were I to question the persons were present, was held yes- A pubile meeting, at which 60 comes the enterprising, up-to-recessity (on the strength of what terday in the Chamber of Com- date, and original London Daily is said in the article quoted merce room in the City Hall, for the Telegraph with this apicy story all.
above) of having railed tracks at purpose of making arrangements straight from the hurse's
for the reception of His Excellency, Sir William Peel, K.B.E., C.M.G. mouth :-
Sir Henry Pollock was in the
12 CHINESE PIRATES KILLED.
BRITISH SHIP'S DEFENCE.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Paris, Friday.
Going strictly according to the letter of the law as to require- ments in this respect as set out by chair. Mr. A. A. Jackson in his article, the only expense of the tramways territory requiring double tracks
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Tentative Plans, Addressing the meeting the Chair- inan aaid: Sir William Peel will be of rails would appear to be that arriving in the Colony, on Wednes between Percival Street and the day, May 7 next, for the purpose Western Market.
of assuming the Governorship of But I venture to contend that the Colony, and H.E. the Officer even this, what may be termed Administering the Government has congested, area could be served appolated the unofficial members of A thrilling story of a fight by railless trolley vehicles-just the Legislative Council as a nucleus between British officers and as the service, in Singapore is run for the public reception committee. Chinese pirates in Bias Bay,
The general idea is that Sir WII- The institution of these railless liam Peel will be received at near Canton, is told by an trolley vehicles would do away with Queen's Pier by HE, the Officer officer of the British torpedo-the necesalty of laying down any Administering the Government, re- boat destroyer Sterling. Ho
more tracks with rails, and would presentatives of H.M.'s Services, arrived at Marseilles to-day on laying or repairing any which may Legislative Councils, and heads of do away with the necessity of re-membars of the Executive, and a P. & O. liner.
be exlating. As, is is, these tracks departments. After the ceremony According to his story, thirty for the Government-not only the proceed to the City Hall, or some are maintained by the Company on the pler the new. Governor will Chinese pirates, disguised as tracks themselves by a certain width other convenient place, where he ordinary passengers, came on of road on either side of the tracka will be presented with an address board the British steamer Hai--at a high cost to the Company, of welcome from the public. From ching (2,080 tona), and when for the use of all the heavy traffic there Sir William Peel will go to the vessel was at sea suddenly them and on top of this the Goy be sworn in the presence of mem which others may desire to put over the Council Chamber where he will attempted to take possession.ernment demand a Royalty. The officers of the vessel rapid-
While perhaps I
bers of the Executive and Legisia- hardtiva Councils, and any members of ly organised a system of de-opinion on
ly competent to express any the public who wish to attend, fence, and there was
the point, I feel a brisk that
It has been suggested that the such wear and revolver battle, during which on tyres which the railless trolley of 12 Chinese, 7 Britiah, 3 Portu tear reception committee should consist one British officer and twelve of vehicles would have to be provided guese and 2 Indian gentlemen to the pirates were killed.
with, would not amount to anything act with the unofficial members of like what has to-day to be expended the Legislative Coumell. It is fur The destroyer Sterling ar- on rails and the maintainance of ther proposed that the reception rived upon the scene just after the rat tracks as required by the committee should
Government.
appoint the Chinese pirates had set fire
other committees from their num It seems ludicrous to sit on the bors, one to deal with the address to the Haiching. Many pas-top of a tram running between of welcome, and the other with the sengers had already jumped Causeway Bay and Taikoo to-day reception arrangements, overboard, but sailors from the waiting, at one of the crossings on
With regard to the expenses, two the single line running between cours s are open. Sterling boarded the vessel and these points, and watch the buses certain number of people, to guar One to get a quenched the flames. Twenty- which run on that route, crossing antee the money, and the other five Chinese passengers were, each other and passing the waiting that a funncial vote be taken for however, drowned. Those of the tram. Do away with the rails the purpose in the Legislative pirates who had not falen talless trolley vehicles, and the thereabouts; ought to
entirely and run. the service on Council A thousand dollars, or under the British officers' de trams would be passing each other cost, and the Council is quite pre- fence were arrested.
in the same manner instead of being pared to vote the money if you held up every
now and then; and decide that is the best" couras. no provisions would have to be made out of the earnings of the Company for expenditure on track renewals and track making,
A sterling effort Indeed!
CORRESPONDENCE
TRAM TRACKS,
Your etc.;
am
A SHAREHOLDER.
Hong Kong April 5.
News in Brief
The Major
two.
cover the
It has been suggested that a joint addepes of welcome from the whole community be presented to Sir William Peel, andabat it abould be read by the senior British un- officialember of the Counell That will be Mr. Shenton, since 1 myself am leaving on a holiday on April 9, in the Empress of Russia - -
The Resolutions
(To the Editor, China Mail] | Sir, May I be permitted, Local Naval folk through the medium of your Naval will be interested columns, to comment on what ap pears to me to be an absolute Promotion to hear that Com-waste of money in the maintain-
Sir Henry Pollock ther formally mander J. N. Pelly, ance of the present Tramway
proposed the election of 24 members of who has been appointed Main- track?
the reception committed to set in con- commanding the junction with the unofficial members of tenance Commander in the De-in his speech at the annual gen- Police Station yesterday, stated that Portuguese, and 3 Indiana. The Hond The Chairman of the Company in a report lodged at the Water made up of 12 Chinese, 7 British, & Indian Military Hospital, Kowloon, the Legislative Council The 24 14 be vonport Command, in succession eral meeting of the Company on to Commander E. R. Archer, is the eldest son of Mr. Edmund Pelly, of Witham Lodge, Essex, and was born on June 16, 1888 He became a Lieutenant in De-the above meeting, just issued charge of murder of an cember, 1910, and at the outbreak the Company, quotes the Chair
March 18, made references to the nursing orderly, named Kalay Mr. W. E. L. Shenton seconded, and investigations which the Company Singh, of the 7th Company, is the motion was carried manimously. the matter of supplementing the Thursday night.about ten o'clock. are presumed to have made into
missing. He was last seen on
The Hon. Siz Shou-non Chow-pro pased the election of the following present track system by buses.
Chinese members:--Sir Robert Ho The report of the proceedings at
The preliminary hearing of BC.B.E.; Ho Kom-tong, 0.B.E., - Fung Tung, Kt, LLDL Yanichnen, aged Ping-shan, Le Chaung-shiu, L. N. Buddhist priest at 8. Shapo Road, Chau, Wong Kwong-in, Wong Kam
Chinese was concluded yesterday Woon-tong.
Hong Kong. Saturday, April 5, 1930. of the late war was serving in man as having said: (page 3 of Kowloon City, brought against four fuk, Li Yick-mal, Leung Pat-yu, Tan
the cruiser Gibraltar at Queens-the report): town. From November 22, 1914, cently, awarded its coveted Gradus Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy. Osborne seconded the election of seven (4) "The Institute of Transport re-afternoon before Mr. T. S., Whyte- Sir Henry Pollock proposed and Mr.. he was in the Queen Elizabeth, in Silver Medal to Mr. A. A. Jackson His Worship committed for trial at Black, Men, E. Cack, A. H. Ferguson, which he served at the Dar Railless Trolley System, Its Sphere" the Criminal Sessions the first, v. B. Grayburn, Paul Lauder, C. British representatives, namely: Dr. of Nottingham for his paper "The The alarm caused by danelles. During 1917-18 he was The last paragraph of that paper is second and fourth accused, and Gordon Mackie, T-H. R. Shaw the fall of the dollar in the Ramillies. He served after
as follows
acquitted the third. "For pioneer work, the operation
The Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga proposed Mexicanas obscured some the war in the Impregnable at
over light traffic routes with zela-
and Mr. Wong Kwong-tin, seconded that Dollár
The fourth general meeting of the following Portuguese be elected tively few stopa, connecting main the Arts Association of the Hong Messrs. J. M. de Castro Basto, C. A. da minor monetary illa Devonport, reserve destroyers at thoroughfares, also for operation to which the long-Portsmouth, and the Ajax in the necessitates the provision, of less Tuesday at 8.30 p.m. in the Union
generally where the traffic demand Kong University will be held on Roza, A. F. B. Bilyn-Netto. suffering resident of this Colony Mediterranean,
an, and in 1922-23
The
s heir. The chief of these is the was on the port staff at Constan- Mexican dollar abuse. We have tinople. He was promoted in the been led to believe that the Mexi- summer of 1925 after being can dollar coin is legal tender in executive officer of the cruiser Hong Kong, and that its value Caradoc, and his last command s identical with that of the Hong was of the sloop Cornflower on Kong official dollar. The Euro-the China Station pean banks and the Government offices are bound to support that contention. Yet (writes a Cor- respondent) when I tendered a Mexican dollar in the restaurant
Our Naval Hospital
Surgeon Captain T. W Mylės, C.B.E., Professor
Sir Henry, Pollock proposed and Mr
than 400 passenger seats per hour Assembly Room, when Mr. W. Mody seconded the election of the fol In one direction, the motor, bus is
lowing Indians--Messrs.
deliver a lecture on and M. B. Talsti. As el Arcalli
"Art--Its Place In Modern Life."
unassailable; its adoption for a Nolse will services all over the country is convlacing · proof,
All interested are cordially invit-address on behalf of the whole com- Sir Henry Pollock proposed: that an Where traffle warrants. vice giving between 400 and 1,000 after the meeting.
ased to attend. Ted will be served munity be presented in the Theatre passengers. seats per hour in ene direction, with a corresponding it crease in the number of passenger At the Central Magistracy yester-so seconded that the address be read stops per mile, and particularly day afternoon, Mr. R. E, Lindaell
Bir Shou-son Chow proposed and, Dr. over routes containing sovore
reason
Royal at the City Hall. Sir Robert Ho Tung seconded.
gradients there appears to be sound started the hearing of an extrad by the senior British unofficial member. for seriously considering the tion case in which the Canton au Chau seconded that the reception com- Bir Henry proposed and Mr. T. N. adoption of railleas trolley vehicles thorities are seeking the surrender mittes do appoint from their members "Routes requiring services giving of a Chinese who was alleged to have two sub-committees, one to draw up over 1,000 paksanger seals per hour
in one direction would seem to be been ccacerned in an armed robbery the address of welcome and the other the realin of the tramçar, running at Sheung Chung Ha village, to make the arrangements for the cere on double
track,
and expressions Namtao, Po On district, at 1 a.m., many at the Theatre Royal made recently by eminent author on March 7. Mr. F. C. E. Randall ities on the subject of road par defended, and after some evidence senger transport indicate that the
the heavy traffic demands in being high value of the tramcar in 'deal had been led the case was adjourned ing safely and economically with to Thursday, more widely recognised. making special reference to the From the fact of the Chairman
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requirement of providing a Average of about 2,500 passenger between the Wester seats per hour in each direction
⠀ of Surgery > at of a local hotel recently I was in- Haslar Hospital since February, formed by the "boy" that its 1927, has been appointed in value was only ninety cents. Discharge of the Naval Hospital at satisfied with that statement, I Hong Kong, and is succeeded by went to the bureau and asked the Surgeon Captain A. R. Thomas, cashier to change it for me. OBE hitherto in medical charge After a great deal of argument on board the hospital ship Maine. and vague explanation, the clerk Surgeon Captain 8. F. Dudley, handed me a Hong Kong dollar O.E.E, who has been appointed Percival Street (Wancha protesting that the foki and to the
since 1927 be assumed that
traffic is betw mention and
Chinese banks would accept the
dollar
CENSUS COMMITTEE
Theatre Arrangements
Sir Henry 'Pollock proposed and Mr.
as T. Dobble seconded the formation
of an address, sub-committee, and Bir Henry, Pollock proposed and Sir Robert Ho Tung seconded the formation of a theatre sub-committee
Bir Henry Pollock proposed and the Hon. W. I. L Benton seconded that Nanking, March 17,1% the whole of the theatrs be thrown open The organisation of a Census and to be public (with the exception of arket and Products Committee for the specific for the recaption committee, the Execu
[arthe stage which is to be reserved
Councils, rep Navy, Army Kad (Alt)
rest
task of ascertaining the density of five and
distri
population in overlong throughout the country as well
the special productoz. there
Authori by the
in an order issu
the Minist
Karst two roWY OL arved for membera Her Body and their wiynd
And Sir Henry: the expenses
ficial vote for the