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THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931.
One Chinese case of typhold MAROONED AT CLIFF FORTUNE TELLER fever was notified yesterday.
The quarantine restrictions im posed against arrivals, from Saigon
FOOT.
REVEALS GOLD.
on account of cholera have been Ordeal of Minister and Tells Farmer to Turn
removed.
Whilst engaged In unloading linestones at the Green Island Cement Company's works at Hung- hom, Yeu Med-chuen (36), a coolie, had his foot badly cut, and was taken to the Kowloon Hospital.
His Wife.
RESCUES DANGEROUS.
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Miner...
RICH REEFS DISCOVERED.
Two coastguardsmen on June A farmer at Coff's Harbour, 24 rescued a clergyman and his knowing nothing of mining, was wife who had been marooned at persuaded by a fortune teller to Before Mr. E. H. Williama; at the font of cliffs 300 feet high dig at a certain place, and almost the Central Magistracy yesterday on the Somerset const near immediately struck rich gold, afternoon. Wong Pung, a man, and Minehead for nearly 24 hours.. says a Sydney correspondent. Wong Kam, a woman, we're com- The Rev. C. H: Davis and Mrs. The farmer, Walters, went to a mitted for trial at the next Assizes, Davis, of Petersfield, who had fortune teller, at a show. on u charge of kidnapping a boy.
been on holiday at Minehead, left "Look for a mineral. It will the town at about 10.30 in the make you much. richer than
A Siamese police officer, who morning to walk over the cliffs 'farming," he was told by the stands charged in Bangkok with to Porlock. They had gone a woman, a stranger to the dis- aiding and abetting a man, wanted considerable distance when they trict. for embezzlement, to escape from were caught in a rain storm, and
Mr. Walters was sceptical, but, the country, has been committed in a search for shelter they des- by a coincidence, his daughter. to the Criminal Court to stand cended to the beach near Hurles- afterwards also consulted the trial,
ton Point, a danger spot for holl- fortune-teller, who urged the daymakers. They started to girl to impress on her father Falling out of bed whilst asleep walk towards Porlock Bay, but that he should look for gold.
Rich Strike. Ho Kam-ting (75), of 225 Temple found they could not get there. Street, received injurica which Retracing their steps they dis When his daughter and other necessitated his removal to the covered that they were cut off members of the family insisted The cliff was too Mr. Walters, though still incre- Kowloon Hospital. His condition by the tide.
again consulted the may become serious on account. of steep to climb, and, they remain-dulous..
ed in this position entirely ex- woman at Coff's Harbour show, his age.
posed to the wind and the rain seeking more information. throughout the day.
"You will find gold a mile and
After it had bitten Ho Ching, à coolle, in the leg, a Chinese chow dog, owned by Mr. C. G. Melchers, of 532 The Peak, was, yesterday, removed to Kennedy Town for the usual period of observation.. coolie was taken to hospital.
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In the meantime Mrs. Horria half from your farm on Cold- son, of the Quay, Minehead, with water Creek," she told him. whom Mr. and Mrs. Davis hud "One strike will be rich and an- been staying, became alarmed at other, a little distance away, will their absence, and after sitting be richer. Your mate will be up waiting for them until about with you, but he will not find the five o'clock in the morning tele-reef."
| phoned the Minehead police, who Mr. Walters was now impress As the result of a fall off at once communicated with theed, and with Mr. William Packer scaffolding near a building under Coastguard station at Bossing- he began prospecting in Cold-
water Creek. in Lockhart Road ton. of construction Assistant Superintendent
yesterday. Lai Karh, (16), u coolie, At three o'clock the next after- They had not been" at work Police has proved futile.
of 3, Caroline Hill Road, received noon a woman visitor staying in long when Mr. Packer came out Then, again, it was hoped that injuries to his face and neck, and the district, who was walking of the hole they were digging the traffic experiment at Kowloon was taken to the Government Civil along the top of Hurlestone and Mr. Walters took a turn. Al- Point, happened to look towards most immediately be uncovered a "circus" would make for the Hospital.
the beach below, and Mr. Davis, reef richly studded with gold. ́A greater convenience and safety
who had been trying to attract few days later the men struck an The forthcoming marriages : are
attention by signals, caught her even richer reef a few chains eye. He made signals to her in way from the first. dicating that he was cut off, and the lady at once returned and the THE GLOBE WITHOUT coastguards were informed.
Overland China Mail of incoming and outgoing Ferry announced of Loonld Grigorievitch passengers. Instead, the latter Cotowez, mechanical engineer, 336, are still subjected to the menace Lockhart Road, and Lilian France Stella Elms, 334, Lockhart Road; of' rikishas rushing in to the and of Germano Augusto de Pinna, Ferry entrance and to the danger 1, Kimberley Road, Kowloon, and of buses being permitted to drive Haria Luiza Gutierrez, of 8, Wing on to the "cattle stalls" the while Lob Building, Nathan Road. pedestrians are hurrying to catch their buses.
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Chief Officer A. T. J. White and Coastguard A. Creber has tened to the top of the cliffs, and found that the visitors were entirely cut off 300 feet below an With Mr. D. S. Edward has joined the isolated look-out station.. rapidly growing numbers of skill- his companion hanging on to a It may interest motorists and ful golfers who have performed the rope, Mr. White descended the traffic authorities here to learn hole-in-one fest, having done this on cliff by means of cliff-lines, at
One of the interesting things that the results of a novel ex- Monday at Deepwater Bay. Mesare great risk to himself, and Mr. in the Medici Society's exhibition periment have just been an- Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., Ltd., Davis was then hauled up.
of old maps and globes at their the local agents of the well-known
The second rescue was more nounced by the Selangor Auto-and popular, Johnnie Walker dangerous, as Mrs. Davis was too gallery in Grafton Street is a fac mobile Association. At the last Whisky, have duly presented him exhausted to help herself, and simile reproduction of the famous Mr. White, who had made a globe which Martin Behaim con- meeting of the Committee a with a commemorating bottle. --
structed whilst Christopher second descent, had the difficult member reported that, as ar
task of bearing her weight up America. This glober which is Columbus was discovering ranged with the C.P.O., he had After being detained at the
over the cliff face, and a perilous Hunghom Police Station, in een mission was finally accomplished still the pride of Behaim's native the Malacca Street-Java Street the Kowloon Docks, a Chineic, The visitors were then taken to Europe to Jaran, with no dry taken a turn at point duty on nection with an alleged theft from muccessfully at about five o'clock. town of Nuremberg, shows the Atlantic Ocean. stretching from Hong Kong, Thursday, August 6, 1931. corner and that he was going to whose age name and address are the Coastguard station, where land intervening except the do so again at the Old Market unknown as yet, was removed to their immediate needs received Azores, and is the latest on which Square-Rodger-Street corner. He the prisoners' ward at the Kowloon attention, and later they return no trace of the continent of
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Traffic Control.
It is recognised, or should be, that the first essential to efficient traffic control is co-operation on the part of drivers of vehicles and co-operation on the part of
pedestrians. Regulations are
had noted that the worst offen-he is suffering from an overdose of
ders, as regards traffic signals, opium, and, it is stated, he is unable A WEEK'S DISEASES, were the cyclists and the next in to speak. order the pedestrians. The rik-
In connection with the jewel
sha pullers, on the whole, tried to frand, which took place on July Typhoid, Diphtheria, and
follow the traffic signals.
the Bulgarian, Vasili Palecek, was
Tuberculosis.
America appears.
maps, by Blacu, Speed, Blome,
made in the interests of both certained. thất for the last nine in the. Kowloon Magistracy, yester-The offlelal, return of diseases coloured by hand.
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sand maps of the sixteenth, In the collection are a thou-
seventeenth, and eighteenth cen turies. Most of them are printed?-
Ortelius, and other celebrated cartographers, that have been In this connection he had as-again. brought before Mr. Fraser,
delicately and often brilliantly Thirty.com- day afternoon, when he was con-and deaths during the weak end-prise Michael Drayton's "Poly- months or so, a policeman had voted on. two. charges of larceny, ed August i is as follows without discrimination, and the
been on point duty once a week at and was sent to jall for three more numerical and even Beem.
the office of the Registrar of months' with hard labour. ingly irksome, these become the
Vehicles to give instruction on
expiry of the sentence he is to be Typhoid fever.
Diphtheria more desire there ought to be on
deported from the Colony.
Tuberculosis traffic signals to rikisha pullers the part of the community to
One of the typhoid cases was im awaiting licences. As regards We pro requested by the manage-ported.. study and understand them. The traffic signals generally, he con-ment of the King's Theatre, in view Summary to August 1. attitude of passive resistance to
sidered that "wings" should, if of many "local" rumours that are trafic rules and regulations is possible, he more generally in-current, to state, omphatically that out of date and, besides making troduced and that in particular for sale, lease, or disposal in any agures
the King's Theatre building is not to August 1 give the following the possessors of it look ridicul
the rikisha "pullers appeared to way whatsoever, and that any ad- ous, are calculated to obstruct the authorities who have a duty hand signals...
understand them better than vertisement in the newspapers re-Typhold
garding the sale of a building in Small-pex to perform as stewards of the
Queen's Road with theatre. accom-Scarlet fever The Secretaries were instruct-modation does not refer to the Diphtheria...... public as a whole.
ed to write to the Traffic Depart- King's Theatre.
Cerebro-spinal fever. 13: It is cónceded that in this
Puerperal fever us 8 ment stating that a member of
Paratyphoid fever. 1 Colony occasion frequently arises the Committee had investigated for criticism of modified regulathe system of trame control, and day afternoon
tions or fresh rules and for call-
The returns from January
Olbion, or a chonographically de- Cases. Deaths. scription of the tracts, rivers, forests, and other parts of Great Britaine," in which every stream has its nymph, every hill ' Its '. shepherd, every town its crowned queen, and every forest its Diana. Thomas Fuller, too, that distir- guished divine who was the author of "Fuller's Worthies," appears as a cartographer, with the attractive little maps he published in the middle of the seventeenth century in "The Sight of Pisgah," illustrating the crossing of the Red Sea, the fall of Jericho, and other events In the early history of the Israel, ites.
Cases. Deaths,
.109.
30
14
9
3
78.
24
B
Ten Years Ago.
(From the "China" "Mall”
Auguri8, 1921.3.
At the Central Magistraty yester-Tuberculosis 1,074 is said to be growing. It is one The desire for map collecting the case in which Seventeen of the typhoid caseS two Chinose partners of the Li
were non-Chinese, as were three of the least expensive of hobbies, ing attention to instances where to congratulate the Traffic De Hing Company were charged with scarlet fever cases, one small-pox the range of prices in the Medici
partment on the work that is alleged uttering of forged certi-
collection being from five shill- the traffic authorities appear to
being done. It was agreed to sugy ftates of the Government Analyst case, ono cérebro-spinal feverings to about ten pounde
Observer. hamper themselves or irritate the
gest that the question of the with tendens submitted to the-Rowe, and 25 diphtherla cases. public by too much laxity in the cyclists should be taken uped before Mr. Schofield. The loon-Canton Railway was conclud-
CHINESE GIRL THIEF?" matter of enforcing regulations. strongly.
Crown's case was conducted by Mr. How many times, for instance, It would be equally interesting Somerset. Fitzroy, whilst Mr. F. C. Whilst a larceny case was being has comment been made of the to have the results of a similar Jenkin (instructed by Mr. F. C. investigated at the Central Police nuisance created by the public experiment by a member of the strate expressed the opinion, that, ese girl, aged 14 years, was accused,
Rendall) defended, The Mag- Station yesterday, in which a Chin car drivers in Chater Road Committee of the Hong Kong as far as he couldoo, the defen woman entered and Identified the nuisance (and even peri!) worse Automobile Association! than the trick cycling mania in Yaumati. It may be suggested that the stationing of a Euro pean traffic sergeant at the Junc tion. of Ice House Street
Chater Road, would
hot entirely abolish,"
these pests within
News in Brief.
and
The lowest open air yesterday humidity was 88 at
p.m
achts.They are wn to eve
BEuropes
on ordi
a recent
dents had not defrauded any person. clothes the girl was wearing, as
her's
To-day's dollar is worth 2/9
while on his way to his home in Ngachanlong village on Thursday,
arge of a Chinese motor driver employed'
the by Chev M. Alves of No. 40,
Over a thousand application and Subsequently a freeh entry forms were malled to farm-theft was preferred aga ers in the Calgary district for the girl, and the original charge drop Austin Road. Kowloon, was attack- ure annual Board of Trade standing Pad as there was not enough evi-ed at the junction of Mataukok grain and good farms competitions dence and Kowloon Roads by two men 88 this year, says Ji H. Hanna, secre- These facts were related to Mr. armed with daggers who came
tary of the CalgaryBeard of Williams this morning. Trade. Last year about 80 farm Scrgoant MacDona
ers took
in the competitions pearance of the girl. ted that a similar His Worship
and
year: caution, and
rises girl had no
former he bent back to Simishul
Detective down from the hillside. While ono the ap man pinlong the man's arms, to Sale Edos, the other after rat administered threatening death if an alarm was Singens the Trized." Petőle à gold wrist watch Lie Colony valued at 01554 and searched KI native place; pockets, atoning:$4,70 in