FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1933.
FIRST READINGS OF
were:
!
LOCAL BILLS
Legislative Council Meeting.
TWO ACTING MEMBERS TAKE SEATS
ENGLAND TO CAPE FLIGHT.
Record Not Held By
The Mollisons?
DISPUTE OF STARTING-POINT
Cape Town. The failure of Victor Smith,
THE CHINA MAID
To-Day's Short Story.
NATIVE “SACKED" FROM PRISON
Lodges Complaint After His Release.
"SERVED KING_FAITHFULLY"
Nairobi H
WHITE
MAN'S
MAGIC
By Captain F. McDermott,
dwelling again and be happy. Come out! - Do not be afraid!”
TTEARKEN! O, white men The Hon. Mr. D. W. Tratman, C. the young South African air- Strange illustrations of the
I, who speak from the land of spirits, come to greet you —
But still there was no answer.. M. G., Acting Colonial Secretary in man, to capture the England-influence, of imprisonment upon to tell you a story of long ago.
Cape air record has turned the the African have been among
Then I was ber-lying silent In the absence
on leave of the Hon. attention of local air experts to the evidence put before an Im- had been wisely bent.. Down, down, a gaping wound.
The day was fair and my sapling the silence of death, in ber breast Sir Thomas Southorn, K. B. E. C. M. the question as to who is the perial Government Commission
And beside ber I had bent it, towards the pool-yes, dead beside his mother, lay G. and the Hon. Mr. M. J. Breen, holder of the record at present, on the administration of justice
It Is maintained that neither in native cases..........
where it is dark beneath the great the baby she had fought to protect acting Colonial Treasurer during
James Mollison nor his wife An administrative officer of shadows of the trees. Down, down, from slavery. the Hon. Mr. E. Taylor's absence. Army Johnson ever broke this re-long experience
until the related that).
net was far below the Now I understood. It was the yesterday took the oath of alle-cord. Officially the record is when one native was released water and my trap was set and white-men-the cursed Perurian
ready-
white men. They had done this giance and their seats as members still held by Gordon Store and from prison after seven years"
The fish that came was a great thing in their lust for the sap that: Peggy Salaman if it is held by hard labour he complained that of the Legislative Council.
anybody..
after he had served the Kinga father of a fish and, as he runs like milk from the wounded His Excellency, the Governor (Sir Willlam Peel, K. C. M. G., K. must be confirmed by the Feder had been "sacked" without ade veins, sprang to the task 1 had thing with their tiny snakes that All air records to be recognised faithfully for all that time, he tugged at the bait, my sapling, noble tree, then turns black as the hearts as the chieftain's blood within my that covet it. They had done this B. E.) presided and others presentation Aeronautique International quate reason, or any complaint given it, and lifted him clear into roar cut fire and spit their teeth -the aerial league of nations. against the quality of his work the sunlit air. And there he await afar. Those white men who are so This body has laid down stan-! In another case a native who ed me, head downwards in the net, different from us. Those white men His Excellency the General Of-dard routes for record flights. returned to his own reserve after his last pantings not yet c'er, the who go not in the forest as we go, ficer Commanding the Troops, Ma-ĮThey are:-
serving & sentence in gaol told silvery drops of water still falling with the skin that nature gave us an admiring crowd how he had from his sides. New York-San for-General 0. C. Borrett,
been looked after, fed, and com-
(but who put upon themselves Paris-Saigon, Paris Antana-
As I took him from the net another skin, that sage from them fortably housed. narivo, (Madagascar), Amster-
said, "Here is food for me and my in folds like the shell of a turtles (Hon. dam-Batavia, Fredrichshaven He had, however, one com-wife-of-two-dry-season," and my egg.
plaint, he spoke with enthusiasm baby only six moons old.
Those were the men who had} (Germany)-Rio Mr. D. W. Tratman, C. M. G.)
de Janeiro,
To-day given my wife and baby to the The Attorney General (Hon. Mr. London-Sydney, and London of the kindness of the prison we will feast. I need hunt no more. spirits.
authorities in givig him
Those were the men who a fine To-morrow, if we hunger, I will had taken my brothers and sisters suit of clothes, but complained hunt again." Gordon Store and Peggy Sala-bitterly that when he left prison And while I went through the
as slaves. man were the last flyers to make his beautiful suit was taken away silent, shadowy forest, my heart a flood coming after the rainc, would At.first it seemed that grief, like their start from London.
That from him. - The Colonial Treasurer (Hon. was in November 1931. Mollison,
was as a moonbeam within mess engulf me and sweep me away. But Mr. M. J. Breen).
light it was: ao light that I sang-fire, too, comes with tempest-fire of the siraparu, the blue charmer the blazes 'down from the skies to: bird that brings maid and man to strike the wicked in heart. And gether. I sand of the cicadas and thus did the fire blaze within my their mating. I sang of the leaves body. I rose to my feet. I rais (when they grow fresh and green in ́ed my hands on high. And I cried their youth, So happy was I that out in a voice so loud and so strange shouted as 1 neared the huge that I could not know it as my own; palm-roofed shack in which lived all) my people.
C. M. G., C. B. E., D. S. Q.)
The Colonial Secretary
C. B
CG. Alabaster, K. C., O. B. E.).
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs! (Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood).
Cape Town.
Francisco,
Amy and Victor Smith all took off from Lympine, Kent-60. miles nearer the Cape than Lon-
The Inspector General of Police (Hon. Mr. E. D. Wolfe, C. M. G.). don.
The Acting Harbour Master (Hon. Commander. J. B. Newill, N., Retired).
The Director
Either the record routes must; R.be altered or the next flyers to tackle the Cape dash will only have 5 days 8 hours, 37 minutes
of Medical and to beat to establish a new official-ja Sanitary Services (Hon. Dr. A. R.ly recognised record.-Reuter. Wellington).
The Acting Director of Public Works (Hon. Mr. A. G. W. Tickle). Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, Kt., K.C. Hon, Mr. G. G. S. Mackie. Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall. C. M.
G. LL. D.
•
Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga. Hon. Dr. S. W. Ts'o, O B. E., LL. D.
Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson. Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau. Hon. Mr. Paul Lauder,
Mr. A. G. W. Grantham Deputy Clerk of Councils)
SHING MUN DAM SCHEME.
Two Formal Financial Votes Approved.
Renter.
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RADIATOR CAP STOLEN.
Chinese Fined $75
For stealing the radiator cap of] motor car belonging of Mr. LA Hing Pui, manager of the Central Motor Car Garage, a Chinese was
"See!" I called, "what I have brought. fined $75, or six weeks' hard labour. Run to me, wife of my breast! In Look, ◊ my father! at the Central Police Court this morning.
this not six fish in one that I bring! Sub-Inspector Nollath told the you so great a size it is?" Magistrate that the derendant was as I came to the elearnig the cold But none answered. And then arrested in Queen's Road Central, of a raging wind clutched my body. with the radiator cap in his posses For where had been my home-the
There was an epidemic of home of my brothers and sisters motor car thefts in the Colony and the home of my father and mother he asked for a serious view to be there was now nothing nothing
but smouldering ruin!
isjon.
Two motions for further expen-taken of the case. diture in connection with the Shing Mun Dam Valley Scheme, were ap- proved at yesterday's meeting the Legislative Council.
of
Personal Pars.
..
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "The Third Medal," by Alfred Tressider-Sheppard.
"O Jurupari! : Greatest and most evil of all spirits, hear mel And thou, too, Mother of the Waters
giant serpent that carries upon thy back so easily our broad and I ran forward, and shouted:
rushing river. This I swear: That "My wife, are you, not there? for my baby a white child too shall Come out from in hiding. See! die. For my wife a white woman's The first motion was.-That the Mr. K. E. Greig ( manager of the The fire is over and I will protect life shall pay." the Colonial Secretary seconded, Council authorizes the expenditure Taikoo Docks, left the Colony for you from the embere. that the amendment of the Order of a further sum of $10,697.93 in Shanghai, on board the ss. Empress are there not palins and trees in strange calmness. I got my long dated the 10th day of July, 1931, respect of the year 1932 on works of Japan, to-day. made by the Chief Justice under connected with the Shing Mun
The Attorney General moved and
"Tis nothing At that there fell upon me
A
plenty? Soon we will build our
OBITUARY.
section 32 of the Suppeme Court Valley Water Supply Scheme (Se Major James J. Doolittle, the Ordinance, 1873, be revised and cond Section; Gorge Dam) to be American air ace, left the Colony approved. This was agreed to by met from a future loan, and mean- for Shanghai at noon to-day on the the Council.
while to be charged as an advances. Tmpress of Japan from the surplus balances of the
Mrs. James Hunter, Colony,
Among the local residents leaving The Colonial Treasurer alse for Europe on the s.a. Empress of The death took place on Wed- moved. That the Council approves
Mr. and Mrs. F. A.nesday after a brief illness of Japan were
The Attorney General moved the first reading of the Bill to further' amend the Supreme Court Ordin- ance, 1932.
blow-pipe, so long that if it were upright on the ground I could not touch the top. Then my darts carefully I wrapped the little wada of silk around their ends. Next the pouch of polson from my girdle. And as I moistened the points 1 beard myself laugh-a wild and frenzied laugh.
He said: This Bill substitutes the further expenditure during Josepha. Mr. Josephs is a well- Mrs. Hunter, wife of Mr. James man when this thorn shall prick
and the Bill was read a first time. Code of Civil Procedure,
known stockbroker.
Yes,
"Where will you be, O white wo
three revised sections for three 1932 of $27,041.62 on the Shing!
Hunter,
your skint What of you child sections of the principal Ordinance Mun Valley Scheme (Second Sec-
About a week ago Mrs. Hunter with a face of milk, when my dari dealing with the method and effecttion: Preliminary Works) which
Mr. J. F. Wright, of Messrs. was taken ill with influenza, and shall pierce your body? Let the of the appointment of permanent sum shall be met from future loan, Wright and Co., share and general her death came as a great shock white man keep his anakes that spit and temporary Judges of the Su and shall meanwhile be charged as brokers, left for a vacation into her friends. She was 56 years and darts.
with fire. For me my blow-pipe) preme Court.
an advance from the surplus bal- Japan, on the 85. Empress of Japan, of age, and is survived by her 20 strokes shall be made in a swift One cratch-and', not] The Colonial Secretary seconded, ances of the Colony.
to-day.
husband and daughter, Ellen.
The funeral took place yesterday canoe before you are dead. Mr. C. C. Clarke, manager of the evening at the Roman Catholic dead-like my little baby. That Eastern Extension Telegraph Com Cemetery in the presence of a That was my wife, too, and she also one down there that was my baby.) pany, left the Colony to-day for large gathering. In addition to Honolula, on board the s.s. Empress the bereaved husband and daugh- Thus I spoke to myself as I pre
is dead." of Japan..
ter, those present included. Mr. Robert Choa, Mr. James Cho, Mr. Ho Wing, Mr. J. D. Bush, M Choa Lip-chee and many ladies. by Fathers Maestrini and Alessis,
The last rites were performed did not want.
BEGGARS TO DISAPPEAR
Istanbul.
The Attorney General moved the first reading of a Bill for the fur- ther amendment of the Code of Civil Procedure. He said: This Bill introduces into our Code a pro-] Beggars are to disappear en- The marriage will shortly take vision taken, with a slight addi-tirely from Istanbul :tion, from the Bankruptcy and Alarmed at the growth of beg- the s.s. Bremerhaven, and Miss streets. place locally of Mr. George Vogt, of Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1913, ging, the authorities have decid-Lisa Boering, of Bremen, who is which Was not repealed by the ed to round up all men, women travelling here on the ss. Coblenz. "Bankruptcy Act, 1914, on which our and children asking for alms.
Bankruptes Ordinance, 1981, was
based. This provision helps to into workhouses and all others Far Eastern Aviation Co., Ltd, in Those who are ill will be put Mr. A. V. Harvey, manager of the perfect the title of innocent pur-will be tried by the law courts. —— chasers of goods taken in execu-Reuter,
tion and sold by the bailiff.
The Colonial Secretary seconded,
and the Bill was read a first time,
FORGED BANK. NOTES
Hong Kong, accompanied by his wife, left the Colony at noon to-day
on the ss. Empress of Japan. They
are en route to Europe.
ول
DEATH OF MR. W. S. CUFF.
Verdict At Inquest.
on
pared my weapons. A fine bow. I whose fight I could stake my life took, too, and some arrows
My ish I had forgoten. Food 1 through the jungle-how far I do I travelled awiftly
not know, Three times the moon and darkness came, and still travelled-far from the land of my [brothers, far from the 'region of my
tribe.
Then one day I came to the water again-the Mother of the Waters
A verdict of "euicide while of herself, sa broad and deep, it was. |
The Attorney General moved the first reading, of a Bill to amend
Mr. F. E. Skinner at the Kowloon afternoon returned by a jury a dwelling. But not a dwelling further the Probates Ordinance, An hotel-runners was charged at Cricket Club this evening at 6.30 which investigated the circum- such as we know.
Its thatching 1697. He said: This Bill makes the Central Police Court this mora-p.m. Mr. Skinner, former Hon. stances surrounding the death of was strange to my eyes, and there a number of amendments in the ing with uttering two forged 10 Treasurer of the K.C.C., and a keen Mr. W. S. Cuff, whose body was seemed to be no way to get within
A presentation will be made to unsound mind" was yesterday. And near the edge of the water was
Principal Ordinance dealing with Guilder hank notes at 817 Des Voeux cricketer, leaves for Home to-discovered. at King's Park on the it to be no way to
the administration of estates, Road. Two other Chinese are also morrow by the Glen Duce.. which have been suggested by the charged with siding, and abetting Official Administrator and approv-the first defendant
ed by His Honour, the Chief Jus- An application for a remand until tice.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the Bill was read a first time. Public Works Loan.
Monday was granted.
A WEALTHY BEGGER
An aged woman who was charged at the Police Court this morning option the Bill gives them, may ex- for begging, was stated by Inspec- change their Conversion bonds, tor Hourihan to have insisted on The Attorney General moved the Those who do not exercise that op- begging from him at West Point. first reading of a El to make protion are to be paid off. The new On being taken to the Fouce vision for the redemption of the Conversion bonds will be made a Station, she was found to have bonds issued under the authority Trustee investment.”
2.$28.16 in her possession.)-
A fine of $5 was imposed.
WEATHER FORECAST
morning of June 1.
And as I watched it, I saw that The jury empanelled consisted, which made the same joy race in my of Messrs J. H. Little (foreman), veins as comes from drinking the Conrad Bitzer and T. J. J. Fen fermented juice. Near to the wick. -
dwelling was a child, a white child that praftled and played in the sun- light
Now should my vengeance begin. Still keeping within the screen of forest," I drew my blow- pipe forward. Carefully I inserted, the dert of death
£100,000 RADIO STATION
·FOR MADRID
Medrid
A new 100-kilowatt radio sta--But even as I was placing the tion costing £100,000 is to be owpips to my mouth, something of the Publié Works Loan Ordin- The Colonial Secretary seconded,
erected shortly in Madrid, Lac, stopped me. Perhaps the child had ance, 1897. He said: The bonds and the Bill was read a first time.
cording to a Home Office un-een a parrot fly overhead. Fer- Jesued under the Public Works Supplementary Appropriation
nouncement. Loan Ordinance, 1927, were made A Bill authorising the appropria
2 hand it may even have noticed me The existing station is a pri- among the trees. redeemable at any time after Oction of a supplementary sum of
But it stretch- vate concern, but the new one, ed its tiny hands towards me and fober 31, 1982, Thie Bill makes 8517,015.80 to defray the charges Fair to showery, with moderate will be entirely under State coniughed--just as my own little one provision for the redemption of all of the year 1982 was read a second South or variable winds, Is fore-trol Income from licences will used to do stretched its tiny outstanding bonde on August 1, and third time, and passed without casted in the report issued from the go to defray the cost of construc hands towards me and laughed. 1988, Bondholders exercising the comment
Royal Observatory this morning. - tion. — Reuter,
(Continued on Page: 10.).
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