TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1933.
TEMPORARY GAOL BRITAIN'S
AT LAICHIKOK
$55,000 Required To
House 200.
$65,900 SUPPLEMENTARY
EXPENDITURE
Expenditure of $55,000 for a temporary building to house 200 prisoners,
POPULATION
DECREASING
April-July Figures Show 21,327 Drop.
DEATH RATE INCREASING
MANY MOTORISTS SUMMONED Wyndham Street As Prohibited Aréa,
SPECIAL POLICE PERMITS NECESSARY
were
THE
CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story,
THE FOG
ON THE
BLUMLIS ALP
.
By Francis
Gribble.
above the
As a result of general complaints London.
THOUGH there was a ready agreed to make the journey with from business offices in Wellington
to be played out presently him, The population of England and Street of cars parking at the june-up there beside the at Laichikok, is in-Wales decreased by 21,327 from tion
dazzling They had crossed the pass itself, cluded on
of. Wellington Street the memoranda of April to July owing to the excess Wyndham Street, several car owners both the players were unaware ridge of the lateral moraine that and snowfields of the Blumlis Alp, and were sitting down to rest on the aupplementary expenditure dated of deaths over births.
The vote for this
were summoned at the Central of it as yet, and only one of them towers August 25.
Events appear to have thus an Police Court this morning for caus-knew that the ground plan of a glacier. The hour was growing late, Blumlis Alp amount is entered in view of the ticipated by seven years the pro-ing obstruction. overflow of prisoners from Vic-phecy of Professor A. M. Carr-It was stated that the drivers
tragedy was laid.
and a white mist was blowing up toria Gaol, and the building will Saunders, of Liverpool Universi- often backed into Wyndham Street, true, and Basil Gordon's wife, who reaches of the valley; but, as they George Heriot knew this, it is towards them from the lower be similar to those already inty, who recently said that by which was closed to traffic, and an was waiting for them below at were tired, and as George Heriot existence at Laichikok.
1940 the population of Great Bri-accident Was The total supplementary ex-tain would cease to increase and where a car, unable to pull up on the Gordon himself knew nothing. If down to the shores of the Oeschinen recently reported Kandersteg, knew it also; but Basil claimed to be able to find the way penditure amounts to $65,900. would subsequently decline. steep incline, backed into a wall and any me had come and told him that See blindfold, it Of this, a sum of $8,000 is a con- The decrease of 21,327 com-injured a coolic.
did not frighten Inis companion and friend whom he them into hurrying. And it was tribution towards the $10,000 pares with an increase of 26,578) Tro Chinese car owners
trusted had done work of rebuilding and enlarging in the corresponding quarter of summoned for parking their cars in that a man must not pardon even if the accident happened through him the wrong while they sat and rested there that the St. Louis Industrial School. 1930, and decreases of 2,545 and On Lan Street, off Wyndham Street. he will be would probably have which Basil Gordon learnt the truth. This allotment will be offset by a 1,336 in 1931 and 1932.
It was stated that only four or five knocked him down first and asked saving of $8,160 as a result of
The last of the cold meat and The number of live births re-car owners, whose offices were close for an explanation afterwards. So Gruyere cheese and Alpine honey the Aberdeen Industrial Homegistered was 148,675 and the by, had special permission to park no one did tell him, though many was eaten, and the last bottle of not being ready this year. number of deaths 170,002. The there from the Inspector General guessed the truth, and, it may be, white wine emptied, and they filled A supplementary vote of $1,000 jbirths were 3,441 fewer than the of Police, paying a fee of $20 a he would never have discovered it their pipes to smoke. While George is required to provide for the number recorded in the corres- year for the privilege. This num- had not an accident revealed it to Herlot was fumbling in his side- increased number of rewards paid ponding quarter of 1932, and ber included doctors who had their him. for the arrest. of returned ban-corresponded to an annual rate offices in the King's Theatre Build-The two
pocket for the matches he carried men had come down loose there he accidentally pulled ishees, while $500 is required in of 15.0 per 1,000 of the estimating.
together over the Dunden Pass that, order that further improve-ed mid-year population.
Mr. G. Young, of 77 Wong Nei leads to Kandersteg from Lauter- ments should he carried out at Of the births 76,086 were Chang Road, was fined $15 for driv. brunnen. It is quite an easy pass; the Volunteer Camp at Fanling males and 72,689 females, giving ing his car in Waydham Street there are no snowfields to plough before the 1933-34 camp season a proportion of 1,048 males to without a permit. It was stated through, no yawning berg-schrunds opens. The latter sum will be 1,000 females; the average pro-that the defendant drove down to cross, no tangled ice-falls to met by savings under the Arm- portion in the 10 preceding first Wydham Street and parked his car threads, no narrow ledges of rock oured Car estimates for 1933. quarters was 1,046 to 1,000. in On Las Street.
to creep along. The only difficulty Owing to the stationing of a Last quarter's deaths were Lo Wing Hau, was fine $5 for consists in choosing, towards your full-time medical officer at Un 53,536 more than in the preced-parking his car No. 787 in On Lau journeys end, the
one particular Long, it is considered necessary ing quarter, and 16,551 more Street.
[gress alope among many which does for a telephone connection be than in the corresponding quar- Mr. Charles G. Scicluna, of
not lead over a thousand feet or so out a letter, and dropped it on the tween Au Tau Police Station and ter of 1932. the dispensary at Un Long, and 84,307 males and 85,695 females, $7 for causing an obstruction by make quite easily without a guide, sat. He reached out his arm and They comprised Savarin House, Kowloon, was fined of precipice into the Ocschinen See, ground. A gust of wind blew it. It is a pass, Indeed, that you can over to the place where Basil Gordon a sum of $750 has been voted for a proportion of 984 males to 1,000 parking his car in Wellington Street provided that the
females. The death rate was and a further $10 for not having
weather holds picked it up, to hand it back, and 17.2 per 1,000 of the population his car licensed Mr Scicluna said good and you know the way. noticed that it was in his wife's or 1.8 per 1,000 above that re that he was on his way to the Police be trouble. But George Heriot
Otherwise, no doubt, there might handwriting. corded during the first quarter of Station to license his car when he knew the way there were few in that. Gordon would almost cer- There was nothing extraordinary 1982.-Reuter.
was stopped by the police.
Mr. B. A. Proulx, the well-known did not know by heart and Basil ment, never supposing it to be any- Alpine highways or by-ways that he tainly have returned it, without con- amateur jockey, was also fined $Gordon trusted his knowledge, and thing but an old invitation to lunch for parking his car in Wellington Street.
this purpose.
FARMER KILLED AT LANTAU.
Wife Witnesses Her Husband's Murder,
ASSAILANTS ESCAPE.
A Chinese farmer, Wan Kau, liv. ing at Kuen Sun village, Tai-0, on Lantau Island, was murdered yes terday about 6 p.m. by two men who attacked him with a heavy bamboo pole, according to a police report.
Chung Tang Tal, the widow of the murdered man, said that she
THIRTEEN
YEARS OF
SILENCE
Mr. A. R. Wong, of 109 Leighton Hill Road, was fined $7 for the ROUND THE WORLD same offence and a further $10 for not having renewed the license
Strange Recluse Sits of his car.......
And Broods.
"THE MAN FROM AMERICA”
Belgrade,
For 13 years now, Antun Bu-
and her husband were sitting out-ratto has not spoken a single side their but eating their evening word. meal when three Chinese, two men and a woman, approached them.
In 1920 he turned up unex- The two men altacked her hus- pectedly at his brother's house band and struck him with their matia, took up a place in the in Zupa, near Dubrovnik in Dal fists about the body. One of the chimney seats and has refused to men then picked up a heavy bam- leave it ever since. He had spent many years in America, carrying
boo and struck him.
Her husband fell backwards over on business as a protographer. a small bank and became uncon scious, dying shortly afterwards.
The assailants made their escape
up the mountain side..
MISS N. M. OMAR PASSES AWAY.
Sister Of Local Sportsman.
gower
after
Omar
8
Mr. S. D. Fong, of No. 11 St. Stephen's Road, was fined $5 for the same offence. The Magistrate, said that the fine was reduced be- cause the defendant had only been driving for a month.
BRITAIN'S NAVAL CUTS DEPLORED. Africa Station C.-in-C. On Empire Defence.
Port Elizabeth.
4
ON ONE WHEEL.
23-Year-Old Youth's Venture.
Milan.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Fate The Eavesdropper," by D. K. Broster.
...
for dinner, or some equally innocent communication, written at his own tone in which the other exclaimed, desire. But the quick, peremptory
"Gordon, give me that letter, please," impelled him, almost in- voluntarily, to throw a casual glance over it.
The few words that just caught: This eye were sufficiently surprising to induce him to read further, more especially as his companion repeat- ed his demand:
"Gordon, I asked you to give me back that letter."
-
A young man who is going round the world on a monocycle has ar- rived at Riva, on Lake Garda.
His machine consists of a single wheel, fitted with pedals and a saddle, but without handlebars. ter, Herlot," he answered, "and I The only means of guiding it is to mean to do so."
"I have a right to read this let
move the body from one side to
Bazil Gordon was a strong man, the other, movements which ap-and if it came to a physical strug albeit an indifferent mountaineer, pear very difficult:
This youth, who is 23, has al-181e for the possession of the docu- ready covered 9,100 miles through he would get the best of it. George] "Britannia no longer rules the Germany, Denmark, Norway and Heriot was conscious of this, so he ment there was not a question that He gives no word of explana-waves-not even on paper," declar- Sweden, Holland, Hungary, Ru-made no resistance, but waited in tion. He just sits silently brood-led Vice-Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans, ing in the corner. He refuses to Commander-in-Chief of the Africa mania, Turkey, Yugo-Slavia and terror for the inevitable thunderbolt jmove, Only his deep-sunk, Station, when addressing a
Austria cadaverous eyes shew him to be detachment of the Royal Naval hardy and Piedmont to France and letter through. Unless it were a
local
He is now going through Lom-to the last, Basil Gordon read the to fall Slowly, from the first line alive as he sits huddled n his Volunteer Reserve, chimney corner, his neglected Emphasising the need of train-Spain, and will then embark for forgery and for such a forgery no hair and beard now reaching al-ing seamen gunners, he said, “You America-Reuter.
most to his waist, his face black will realise the necessity when I with smoke from the fire, his tell you that they have reduced the clothes turned to rags.
But during the night, when men are trained to become seamen, Navy below the safety margin. If Miss Hafesa Mohamed Omar, no-one is about, he is known to gunners and war comes suddenly, sister of the well-known Craigen-creep out of his corner and move we will have men able to shoot. bowls player, Mr. U. M. stealthily about the room which and in this part of the Empire we Omar, passed away at her residence, is his self-imposed prison. Then, rely on you men to become seamen 355 Hennessey Road, this morning, when he is alone and unobserved gunners. We have the guns and lingering illness. Miss he will eat the food which is re ammunition at Simon's Town. AI had been suffering from gularly placed on a stool at his we want is the man power. If you typhoid fever for the past three elbow. months.
produce that, you have dont your His brother, who has been share towards Empire defence Only 21 years of age, the deceased looking after him as well as he Reuter. leaves a mother, two sisters and five can since his return, has tried to brothers, Messrs. U.M., R.M., E.M., discover the reason for Antune O.M., and A.M. Omar..
remarkable behaviour-but with The funeral which takes place to out success. day, will leave Hennessey Road at
But his brother remembers 5.20 p.m. and will pass the Menu. that Antun was well dressed and ment at 5.25 p.m..
apparently prosperous when he re-appeared just 13 years ago. He can only imagine that the man of allence was robbed of all his savings on the voyage back home-Reuter.
News In Brief.
The U.S.S. Sacramento, Coastal Patrol Boat, arrived in the Colony yesterday from the North.
A catalogue of England and Aus- tralian flower and vegetable seeds has been issued by Measra, Graca
and Co., of 10 Wyndham St., Contain-
ing a useful' table of times for 'sow Ing.
Convicted on a charge of having taken part in a transaction for the
ting (11), a man named Fan Eang,
CHINESE LEAPS OVERBOARD,
Suicide From Canton Steamer.
overboard
INDIAN GIRL SCIENTISTS.
Admitted To Institute Of Science.
Bangalore.
motive was imaginable-It left him absolutely no room for doubt. The truth-the hideous truth that he had never so much as guessed or dreamed of--tood out before him in all its ghastly nakedness. He felt like a man dazed, and pressed his hand against this forehead, doubting the evidence of his own senses Bot when he had read it through a for research work for the first time Then he tore it in two, and put the Girl students are to be admitted fearful discovery he had made. second time at last he realised the
in the history of the Indian Lasti- pieces in his pocket, and stood up in tuts of Selence at Bangalore. his wrath and faced the man who¦
This is one of the frat reforms had betrayed him evidently inspired by Sir C. V. Raman, the eminent Indian Phy-valley was fast thickening around The fog that streamed up the sicist and Nobel prize winner, who them. Already, though they were recently took over the Directorship standing only some six of seven of the Institute.
yards, apart, they could barely dis Miss Bhagavati, a brilliant' gra-inguish each other's figures in the duate in science of the Bombay dimness. University, is the first woman 'stu- Hasil - Gordon wasted neither Reasons why British rose trees pariure.
dent to take advantage of this de-breath nor time In reproaches or are best for British gardens are
recriminations, but bluntly, and pas given in a guide to the rose gar tor, will be the first warden of a
Lady Raman, wife of the Direc-sionately began: den in Regent's Park, which the hostel for women students which
"You scoundrel!” Empire Marketing Board issued
The other stood dumb before him, and he ci tinued:
BRITISH ROSES ARE WORLD'S BEST.
Garden Of 16,000 Trees In London,
in co-operation with the Office ofs to be established shortly-Re- Works
ter
therefore transplant satisfactor- They are thoroughly hardy and
They are already adapted to soil and climate..
LOCAL ESTATE.
Chinese Resident In U.S. Leaves $2,000.
You scoundrel! If I treated you as you deserve, I would fing you, down on to that glacier, and leave your bones to rot there till the Day of Judgment
As he spoke he advanced a step or two along the narrow Hige of, the moraine, and the other
A second-class Chinese passeng
about 22 years of age, jumped kind. Of all the varieties sold They are supreme of their sale of a male child, Wong Kan steamer, Tung On, at about 11.16 over 70 per cent, are, of British Massachusetts, USA. who died in knew that that threat, at all eve
from the Canton on the Continent and in America
Lee Tong late of Boston, an equal space before
Thoroughly frightened an earth coolie, and Leung Ho, 76, on Saturday while the vessel origin.
that bity on May 19, 1981, lift local could not be axecuted by the widow, were sentenced to twelve was on its way to Canton," months and six months imprison Captain Muir, Master of the hundred varieties of roses to be A petition by Daniel John Lewis.You won't do that. Gordon,"
The guide describes over estate valued at $2,000, 17:41: erior cras ment respectively, by Mr. Wynne. Tung On, at once stopped the ship found among the 16,000 trees solicitor and lawful attorney, for stammered out. You Jones at the Central Magistracy yes but no trace of the man could be given for the garden by, British letters of Administration has been remedy, but you won't do that.. terday afternoon.
found.
growers,
granted
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