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ANNOUNCEMENT.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1930.
gard to which the Budget fram- BRITON RELEASED BY
THE SOVIET.
But No News Received of His Arrival.
EX-MINISTER'S NEPHEW.
Peking, Yesterday.
ARMS HERE FROM HONOLULU.
Chinese Ignorance of the Law.
ARREST IN A TOWBOAT.
A Chinese, born in Honolula, was
ers have contented themselves with a mere nibble instead of n thorough pruning. The Un- officials have pointed to only a few items that might well be curtail- ed, but there was lacking in their exhaustive speeches to-day an and well considered analysis to support the immediate call for
Master Christopher Jewelt, aged charged before R. E. Lindsell this retrenchment and economy apart 18, the nephew of the former morning at the Central Magistracy. altogether from the question of Cabinet Minister, the Rt. Hon, F. W. with the possession of one shot gun, Jewett, F.C. who was detained by two revolvers and a quantity of personnel. So long as costly the Soviet Oppa (Secret Police) on ammunition. schemes are
Mr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared..for permitted to be the Chinese-Soriet frontier on Sep- rushed through in the guise of tember 25, and detained in a filthy the accused and entered a plen of Supplemental Votes whilst the room, without food or bedding, at "Guilty.”
Mr. Brooks said that the defen- Chita, wired to his parents on Sa- public mind is concentrated on turday last that he was leaving dunt arrived two days ago by the President Fillmore, and, the Budget itself, Unofficial criti-Chita on that day and expected to 5.
Sun-through ignorance of the law he cism of the Budget Itself cannot enter Chinese territory on carry much weight either with day. Up to the present, however, thought he could, take the arms no news of his arrival has been re.back to his native country for pro-
tection. Theig WOM the Government or with, the com-caived.-Reuter.
no, attempt made at concealment. The contra- munity as a whole.
band was packed in a wooden box, jund the weight of it would natur
ally make any police offlcer suspici- cus.
News in Brief.
Three Chinese have been arrest ed on suspicion in connection with вл alleged case of attempted arson at No. 77 Wing Lok Street on Saturday night.
KOWLOON BLAZES.
Two'small fires occurred in Kow- loon within the last 24 hours. At Insp. Andrews said that he had 3.17 o'clock yesterday afternoon, two teen asked to press the case. The wooden huts in the Po Kong Village, contraband was no doubt packed in Kowloon City district, were burneda case, but inside the case there down, but fortunately two occupants were nothing else but four empty got away in time. Two appliances glass bottles and some gunny bags. An enjoyable dance under the under Mr. G. C. Moss were despatch-The defendant was arrested this
ed to the scene, where, on arrival morning on a Shekki towboat, auspices of the Corps of Signals the outbreak was nearly subdued.
The Magistrate held that there was held in the Whitfield Barracks, Damage done is estimated to be was no attempt at concentment and Kowloon, DA Saturday night.
Jover $120.
imposed a fine of $250. There was a mdat encouraging at- tendance of both sexes, who spent a most pleasant evening.
The second fire took place this morning before ten o'clock, when about a gallon of tar became ignited Joseph Gearon, a fireman, and on the roof of a house in Hamilton Street. Two fire engines were sent, Kenneth Stanton, an electrician, both on board the President Grant, and the blaze was subdued in a short time. Damage was done to a were to-day charged before chimney on the roof. H. R. Butters with having wantonly or negligently fired crackers in Canton Road to the danger of the public. The Magistrate imposed a fine of $10 on eich,
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footnotes was commented upon by the Unofficials last year, and an improvement was promised. That
Before Mr. Butters at the Kow promise has not been honoured, loon Police Court this morning, a of the steamer except in the Estimates of ex- Chinese tallyman penditure and a few explanations Hupeh pleaded guilty to the unlaw ful possession of 2.7 taels of raw în the memorandum of the Colon- opium, which was found with him ial Treasurer and in the speech of on board the motor boat, Shing Lec. or six weeks hard the Colonial Secretary in intro-A fine of $80, ducing the Budget. Without the labour was imposed. very fullest information accom- panying the Estimates it is quite impossible for the ordinary citi. zen, let alone Unofficial members of the Council, to ascertain the true position, although, as was stated this morning, it is more necessary now than in previous years for the public to know how the total of personal emoluments held is made up, especially what total increase is entailed by the revision of salaries.
With regard to the augmenta tion of existing taxation and the imposition of new taxes, it is to be feared that the Unofficals to- Miss E. N. Earl and Mr. F. S. W day did not brave the lion in his Smith invite all friends to their wedding at St. Andrew's Church, den with the same ardour as It may have Kowloon on 1st November, 1930 at many expected.' 2.30 p.m. and afterwards at 2 been that the apparently inevit Humphreys Bullding! Carnarvonable increase in. revenue to meet Road, Kowloon.
one item of expenditure alone, besides the bogey of the Official majority, may have unconscious ly moderated the tone of the Un-
Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 20, 1930.
Six weeks' hard labour was the sentence passed on a Chinese at the Kowloon Police Court to-day by Mr. H. R. Butters when he pleaded guilty to the larceny of 14 planks of wood from an unenclosed woodyard in Yaumati. The accused had ser- ! ved two weeks' jaji at the
beginning of this month.
A delightful concert чуда
in the sail
of loft the Naval Dockyard on Satur- day on the occasion of the presentation of swimming, bil- liards, and tennis prizes won dur- Some excel- ing the past season. lent talent was revealed, all con- fined to the Dockyard staff and their lady relatives and friends.
The final wind up of a most suc- cessful lawn bowls season at the Craigenzower C.C. took the form of a dance on Saturday night, when a very merry time was spent by a large attendance of members and friends. During an interval in a pleasant and well selected dance programme the prizes won during the past season were formally dis-. tributed.
WOMAN STRANGLED.
ASSIZES CASES.
VILLAGE MURDER TRIAL POSTPONED.
CAT FOR ROBBER.
The assizes opened before Mr. Justice P. Jacks in the Supreme Court this morning.
The first case called was that in
A case of murder was reported to the Police on Saturday night from Kowloon City. It appeared which Tang Yang, an aged Chinese that the inmates of the house went woman living in Autau village ie to the theatre that night leaving a charged with the alleged murder-
Mr. Fitzroy told his Lordship..... woman alone in the house. They of her husband. returned at about 10 p.m., and found that the woman's cubicle that as Mr. F. C. Jenkin had been door was locked from the outside. assigned to the defence only on some- Saturday last, and also because Suspecting that there was
the woman's committal thing wrong they reported the mat- since
there had been certain develop- ter to the Police.
On arrival, the Police broke ments which the Crown required open the door and found that the time to Investigate, he would ask Woman had been strangled to that the case be put over to the defence knew of his application death. A man living with her had next Session. He added that the since disappeared.
and raised no objection,
STOP PRESS
Bombay, Yesterday.
It is reported from Kalwan village in the Nasik district of Bombay, that a mob of with bows, 4,000, armed arrows, and spears, etc., ter- rorised the villagers against The paying forest fees. headmen of the village were tied to trees and flogged.
Two policemen are miss- ing, and it is believed that they were murdered. Armed Police have been despatched to the scene.-Reuter.
Brussels, Yesterday... A sensational allegation is made by La Libre Belgique that a sequel to the meeting of Madame Hanau's creditors is that a Bank has been founded in Belgium whereby Madame hopes to recoup her losses and repay her French creditors. This Bank is established under the aus- pices of three firms, the Managing Director of one of them being, one of Madame the Harau's backers in Gazette du Franc. Reuter.
London, Yesterday. The death had occurred of Captain James McGregor, late Commodore of the Glen Line.-Reuter...
Richmond (Virginia),
Yesterday.
For being the unlawful receiver TALK ON THE BUDGET official speecheay Certainly there
of a mah jong set which he knew was to-day almost an R to be stolen from 586 Canton Road, To-day's full dress debate on tire lack of creative thought first floor, Ho Muk-shing (25) was of originanty. a ten-to-day sentenced to five weeks' hard the Budget by the Unofficials was or
labour by Mr. H. R. Butters, at the not very illuminating or enlight-dency merely to take Increased Kowloon Court. The complainant' ening-not even very helpful taxation for granted, beyond a was Chau Kwai, master of the Chi Accused pleaded except in regard to one item pious hope that an alternative Fat Shipping Co. affecting salaries and exchange. A might be found for, the increase that he was told by somebody, who
stole the set, to pawn it. There vast area of ground has been in the assessment tax:
A Chinese was charged this covered, but, within the short was an entire absence of a united space of time at our disposal to Official front that the Govern-morning before Mr. R. E. Lindsell plucking the feathers of a dove day it cannot be expected that ment should altogether forgo ex-at the Central Magistracy with we can do more than generalise, penditure which, whilst it might while the bird, was still alive. leaving detailed criticism, where be passed over in normal years, said that the bird was dead for thought necessary, to another could very well be deferred to a some time before he plucked the feathers. Evidence showed that day.
Service. the bird was still warm when more prosperous year than 1981 With the senior Unofficial promises to be. Even in recent taken to the Police Station. A fine member, the Hon. Sir. Shou-son Supplementary Estimates there of $20 was imposed. Chow, we regret the non-appear- has been an official tendency to A Chinese was brought before
He
ance at this important stage of rush through schemes that can Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central the abstract showing, with an only be called extravagant at the Maglatracy for having returned from banishment before the expiry propriate footnotes, a comparison moment, however desirable they of his term. On looking over the between the approved Estimates might appear at some future time. man's record, the Magistrate foùnd. for 1980 and Estimates for 1931. In regard to these we have looked that only a few days ago, he was As the senior Unofficial member in vain for any Unofficial demur. sent away by the Kowloon Magis- stated in the Council Chamber Certainly there was no unit-trate. He asked the mon if he en- joyed remaining in jall since the to-day, the abstract presented ed Unofficial demand that the Gov- had had already ten years of it last year enabled us to tell at a ernment must cut its coat accord-Sentence of 12 months and 24 glance how much of the total in- Ing to its cloth and leave costly strokes of the birch was passed, crease in personal emoluments is schemes to more propitious years due to the creation of new posts, than this or next year,” how much to stipulate Incre In short, we fall to find any ments, just as it enabled us to ground for implying that the find out how much saving was to Government's policy is that for be effected by the
of exercising as much thrift as is tradition warrant, was this morn - by the abolition posts, how much by reductions consistent with efficiency Very Ing discharged on the application due to new appointments, and recent Supplemental Estimates of CID. Murphy, who said that how much by other readjust tell quite a different, tale, las do the man had volunteered to return e to Sydney to stand his trial. He ments. It was pointed out to the Estimates of expenditure for would be leaving to-morrow. He day that the scantiness of the next year Estimates with re was accordingly discharged..
His Lordship allowed the case to stand over.
A Brutal Robber...
The next accused was Ng Lam, who pleaded "guilty to charges of stealing 43 cents from a Chinese girl named Tong Nam-on (6), and causing serious injuries to an amah named Ho Chi, whom he at- tacked with a chopper during burglary at 210, Lockhart Road, Wanchai on the night of Septem- ber 4.
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In passing sentence, his Lord- ship described the accused's attack on the amah brutal, and passed Bentence of three years' hard labour on each count. In addition, he was ordered to receive 12. strokes of the "cat" on the second. count. The jail terms are to run concurrently.
Theft of Earrings.
The case against Au Nam of theft of a pair of earrings at 11, Swatow Street, Wanchai, om the early morning of September 10 was then proceeded with.
The accused claimed trial, and after a jury was appointed the Court proceeded with the taking of evidence until the tiffin hour when an adjournment was made.
THEFT FROM CAR.
RECEIVER. STONES THE DRIVER."
PROPERTY RECOVERED.
To-day Wong Fook was charged before Mr. H. R. Butters with the The well-known sculptor,
larceny of a radiator meter from Mr. Edward Virginius, is
public car 475 which was parked on dead. Reuter's American
Salisbury Road, or alternatively, with unlawfully receiving it. A Valentine (New Orleans),driver employed by the Eagle
Yesterday. Earthquake shocks have been felt here, and in a' num- ber of towns in South- Eastern Louisiana. There are no casualties and no. damage. The epicentre is believed to be in the Gulf of Mexico - Reuter's American Service.
Washington, y
Yesterday... Yester
It is officially announced that taxation receipts for the first quarter of the fiscal year have decreased by $62,472,000 as compared with the same period last year, Wang Sal-cheung, an elderly The chief drop is in Income Chinese who was wanted in Sydney for alleged embezzlement Reuter's American and who had been before Mr. RE Lindsall at the Central Magistracy
on several occasions under an ex-
Service.
Garage, 27 Canton Road,, was the complainant.
Accused pleaded that somebody else stole the radiator meter, but he helped in the recovery of it.
Detective-Sergeant P. Kellet! said that the driver saw the accus- ed near the car outside the Stär Ferry wharf. He went up and dis- covered that the radiator meter had been stolen. He suspected the accused, and at once approached. bim. The accused replied that he knew where the article could be found, and took him to an opium divan in Reclamation Street. It was found to be there. Then the
accused offered to find the man who really did the stealing He took the driver with him to a hillside at the back of the Mongkok Toul Police Station, where, after climb ing a little way up, he stoned the complainant, and ran away. was arrested later in Hong Kong..
His Worship passed sentence of three months Hard labour on the charge of receiving stolen proper
He