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THE TYPHOON;
ROYAL SYMPATHY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY – AUGUST
SUPREME COURT."
THE BANK LOAN CASE.
The enze in which the Yik On Bank
MESSAGE FROM H.M. THE KING. claims $73.925.20 from Yuen Hang Kiu,
The following messages have be 'forwarded to us from Government House
for publication:-
Balmoral Castle, Scotland, August
1st
Sir Reginald Stubbs, Government
House, Hongkong.
I am much distressed to hear of the sad lose of life and the damage to ships and property caused by the typhoon at Hongkong."
GEORGE R.L
a merchant, heing principal_ami interest money lent, was continued yesterday in the Supreme Court, before the Chief Justice, Sir William Rees Davies.
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C. (instructed hy Mr. M. M. Watson, of Messrs. John son, Stokes and Muster), is appearing for the plaintiffs and Mr. F. C. Jenkin (in structed by Mr. G. K. Hail Brutton) for the defendant
Witnesses for the defence were put into the box, and the ense for the defence completed.
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The ense was adjourned till today, The following reply has been despatched when Mr., Alahuster will reply,
to His Majesty the King:-
To His Majesty the King,
Balmoral Castle,
Scotland.
KOWLOON RESIDENTS'
ASSOCIATION;
The following notes have been forward- "Hongkong thinks Your Majesty for your gracious message. Loss of life based for publication by the Hon. Secretary not heen great compared with experi. of the Association: ences of the pasi. Damage to property is extensive but not very serious and acept for one steamer sunk in harbour, damage to shipping can be repaired
without difficulty."
STUBE's.
FURTHER MESSAGES OF
CONDOLENCE. "
OFFER OF HELP FILOM AMERICAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF,
To Governor General, Hongkong. Press Report state great damage Hongkong caused by recent typhoon. The Commander-in-Chief of the limited situte Asintic Fleet extends sincere -condolences and desires to place at the disposal of the Governor of Hongkong the resources of the entire United State, Asiatic Fleet, in any capacity, that mar
be needed.
(50.) Commander-in-CHIEF ASIATIC." The following rep'y has been sent :-
* The Commander-in-Chief, 1.8. Asiatic
Fleet.
ཝཱ རཱ
I greatly appreciate your message of condolence and am most grateful to you for your offer of help. I am glad to say that assistance is wat needed. The damage done by the typhoon, though extensive, is not so serious as to require
special measures.
STUBBS.
THE NUMBER OF BODIES, RECOVERED.
THE POLICING OF KOWLOON. "The Dovernment cannot agree that the Kowloon Police Force is altogether inadequate, or that life and property in Kowloon are dangerously unsafe." This statement was made by the Colonial Secretary in a letter sent to the Kowloon
· Residents' Association and considered by the General Committee this week. The Hon. Mr. Fletcher added that the strength of the Police Forer in Kowloon had been increased recently, and would be further increased if the occasion, se demanded.
POSTAL FACILITIES.
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MOTOR "CYCLISTS DEATH. SWERVING IN FRONT OF A
TRAM CAR.
An Inquiry was held at the Magistracy. yesterday afternoon, into the circum stuces surrounding the death of a Japanese inotor-eyclist, named M. Sugita, who met his death as the result of a
GOLF AND GOLFERS.
BY DREAMER."
It is rather absurd trying to write a Golf article in a Colony where golf is almost a game of the past. We 'bayo become so used to having our wook-end spoilt by typhoons that we do not take the trouble to arrange a werk-end's golf."
| collision' with a trom-car in YeeWoo | In the circumstances I hope my renders Street, Causeway Bay, on August 9th. will realise the hopeless position I was Mr. J. R. Wood (the Corner) presided in when I sat down to write this article. 'over the Inquiry and a representative of In fact E went round to my Editor and the Japanese Consulate occupied a seat explained in polite language that I was "stymied." However, I got no ayin- pathy from him, but was told I had gut to get on with it. I was very worried and wondering how I should reply to him, when I had a sudden brain wave,
the Bench alongside the Coroner. The Jurors were: Messrs, G. Mollis (Foreman), A. 1. Mahomed and J. M. O. Remedios,
The driver of the tram-ear stated that he was proceeding towards Whitty Street, I think you will admit it really was a and when he reached the London Mission | brain wave! I decided to turn ut ny chapel in Yee Woo Street, he noticed dictionary and try to discover the real another tram-car coming, in the "opposite direction with a miter-cyclist behind it. The heaths of the two cars were level when he first saw the cyclist who swerved into his car lines and tried to pass on the outside of his car. Witness sounded the gong several times and applied the electric brakes. His car was nearly stop ped when the cyclist collided with the outside corner of the ear. The cyclist after procectling for another 45 feet fell off the machine.
Dr. Smalley, who examined the injured Rn after his admittance into hospital, said he was suffering from a compound fracture of the left leg. He discovered' An operation. no other bodily injuries. was performed, which, he considered was satisfactory. The deceased was a very fat man with a fatty heart and he never recovered from the shock. He died at 10.30 o'clock the next morning.
According to the widow, the deceased told her in bospital that he thought the tram-eir was going slower than what it really was.
The Postmaster General wrote to the Association stating that in future when ever a mail for Europe, America. Indin or Australia is due to be despatched on a general holiday (other than Sunday, Christmas Day China New Year's Day) by a ship scheduled to sail at or after 1.30 pm, the Kowloon Brunch Post Office will be open for business until, and
Mr. Course, Traffic Superintendent for "close a mail at, 18 a.m. In case of earlier the Tram Company, ntked by the Coron
sailing the office will close about two ander if he wished to give evidquce, said he a half hours before sailing time.
* TYPHOON SIGNALE.
Answering the Association's suggestion that signais should be displayed when the ferry had stopped running during typhoon weather, "the Government wrote that it was considered inadvisable to display the proposed signali from Signal Hill beenuse of possible confusion with weather siguals. The mast at the Water Police Station was not suitable for the purpose. An alteration in the mast at the Observa- tory in connection with wireless tele-
Another Japanese, who visited the deceased in hospital was asked by the Corner who the deceased blamed for the accident. The witness said he blamed the driver of the tram-car for going too fast.
did not think it was necessary that he shanki do so. However, he expressed the opinion that the ear could not have been moving fast, as it was rounding a corner at the tinie and if he had gone, at, any speed the trolley would have left the overhead wire.
The Caroner, in summing up to the Jury, id it seemed quite clear that what happened was an accident, and if any blame was to be attached it was probably due to what the deceased had done."
The Jury returned a verdict of accident at death and said they did not attach any blame to the driver of the tram-car.
meaning of the various words so elosoly- associated with the ganie, that we do not come across in every-day life. Be fore going, any further I must explain that the only dictionary at hand was published somewhere about 1993. Fur- thermore, I learnt that at least forty learned professors had spent years on compiling this work of art, and not ou of them bore the name of any golfer I any of my readers who are about to take up the game, not to study the dictionary too seriously, but rather to study the Rules as laid down by the Royal and Ancient Committee. As an expert, 1 admit they are more up to date.
have ever heard of. Therefore, I warn
To begin with. I looked up the word "links" as so many of my Scottish friends have pulled me over the coals for using the expression Golf links" when I really should have said Golf course." I found that the word links means (i) a fat or undulated stretch of sandy soil, more or less covered with Krass or heather"; (ii) "grounds laių nut for the game of golf." Well, what- may mean in Scotland it ever links is quite evident that even as far hack as 1883 a certain "learned professor real- ised that it meant any ground laid out for golf. Therefore, I shall continue to refer to Happy Valley as a finlf links. provided, of course, the Editor accepts any more of my articles!
Having found out the meaning of the word links," .. nccording to the Scot- tish idea, I wondered what the dictionary would have to say about Golf. Here is what it says: Golf-n. Scottish gamet played with a gutta-percha hafl," and clubs resembling hockey sticks. A series of holes is nunile in the ground from 100 to 200 yards apart, usually on the circum- ference of a circle, sometimes half a mile or more in diameter, and a ball is driven into one after the other in regular order by each player, each having his own bull
and set of clohs from which he makes his selection, according to the stroke to be played. The player who drives the ball from one hole to another is the fewest strukes scores a point, and the player who makes the most points wins" Well that's Golf, and it does sound sim- ple, doesn't it. The circumference busi- ness makes one realise, according to my
graphe was under consideration, and the AN OVER ZEALOUS INDIAN dictionary, that Happy Valley, apart
display of the suggested signal would he" considered in the same connection,
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WHY BUILDINGS COLLAPSE. A SERIOUS-DIVERGENCE FROM
APPROVED PLANS.
WATCHMAN.
COLLECTS AMMUNITION FOR THE POLICE.
from being rather too long, is as near perfection as possible. For confirmation of this ask one of the meinhers of the sub-committee!
Now what is a putting green Let us turn it up, A putting green is "the Ghillab Khan, an Indian Police watch-smooth ground, usually covered with tarf nan at a Japanese mess, found himself around a hole in a golfing ground." T at the Magistracy, yesterday afternoon, hope our Green Committees will read answering a charge of having in his un-
this definition carefully. Of course, it lawful possession nine rounds of ammuni need not be covered with turf, but ap tion.
parently it is supposed to be awooth. Who was it who once said. Some are smooth and some have, turf, but others they have neither " However, that does not really affect us in Huugkong.
Mr. D. Burlingham, Assistant Supéria tendent of Pulite, prosecuted, and Mr Lee defended.
overboard.
Since the hum and up to last even ing 46 bodies Save been sent to the public "mortuaries at Hongkong and Kowkcon, They are the bodies of people who were "drowned, "electrocuted or killed in house
lapses during the typhoon. This total) floes not represent the total of the typhoon Menth roll. A number of junks as Had I arrived three hours later, the already reported, were sunk at sen and work would have been completed and I it is quite probab's that the bodies of could not have seen what they had done. those on board will never be recovered. In The roof would have probably fallen in yesterday's issue alone we reported over and there would have been a collapse." wy fishing people having been drowned at This was the statement mule by Mr. sea, and then are a number of European Neville of the Public Works Department and Chinese, crew of the 8.8. Zeong Sung to the Magistrate (Mr. Melbourne) when still missing,
he appeared in Court to prosecute, the Two further deaths, due to the typhoon On Hing contracting firm of No. 31, were contained in yesterday's polise re- Aberdeen Street, for making nu unlawful ports. In one case the master of a junk, divergence from the approved building No. T225X has reported that at & a.m. plan' in connection with the erection of on the day of the typhoon, his junk was a garage at No. 16, Caine Road. sunk and his little daughter nged six-ir-Neville said that when he arrived at the building he found the workmen yar is missing. She is believed to have covering up the reinforcement for the roof been drowned. The rest of the sccupants with cement. On examining the work he were saved. In the other case the police found that the bent iron bars had been hand them over to the Police at Central I had to do was to look up the .menn-
put in in reverse fashion and that 1 inch bars were used instead of 7 inch bars.
In reply to questions by Mr. Burling were used instead of ham, the defendant denied that anything Only four bars Beven. The reinforcement work, Mr. was thrown. overboard. Neville described as being 50 per cent The Magistrate considered the under strength.
The Magistrate said it was a very, very proved and imposer a fine of $100 serious case indeed and imposed a fine the alternative of three months of 850 and made an order for the whole sonment with hard labour. of the reinforcement work to he pulle down and to be rebuilt, in "accordance with approved plan.
at Shaukiwan have recovered the body of an old man aged 67 years from the fore
shore.
We are now in a position to state that the body which was sighted from the Harbour Office on Monday afternoon floating down the Harbour was not that of a European. but a Chinese, there covery of which was reported in yester day's 'issue.
BLAMED THE TYPHOON.
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According to Sergt. Cunningham of the Water Police, the defendant was airested
Some little while ago. 1 rentember, two on board a sumpan on August 7th. He
members of the Golf Club lind a "fierce was in company with another Indian and Controversy in one of our conteraporaries when he approached the boat he noticed
as to what "bunker" was. What a something being. thrown when he searched the defendant heit is all there: A bunker (r. necording pity they did not borrow my dictionary; found, in his pocket in addition to the
to the English version) is "a large fixed" ammunition, a piece of paper with jagged receptacle, as n Bin or the like, but, edges, the inference being that ammuni- according to the Scottish idea, it was and tion had been wrapped up in it,
is formerly a sand pit on the grounds The defendant in the box said on the
where Golf is played now used of long grass, water, or other obstruction on such evening in question he went an a visit to the sa. Alica with a Indian frien. grounds." I do not say that this is in They stayed on the ship until 8.30 pm strict conformity with the ideas at St Just as he was leaving he noticed nine Andrew's, but, nevertheless, it is in the rounds of ammunition lying on the hold. He picked them up and remarked to a
dictionary. firemag: "I will take them along and
Station,"
Having got so far I felt that I was in a position to speak authoratively, andi all
ing of the word hazard. This was quite simple up to a point. I found the word hazard" and I found it's tean- casing was a gambling game played with a dice-hox, and two dice, by any num- withher of players Personally, I have al- impri-ways heard it referred to as sixteens,"
BLASTING DURING PRO- HIBITED HOURS. SANG. LEE CONTRACTING FIRM
FINED.
A representative of the well-known Sang Lee contracting firm appeared at the Magistracy, yesterday morning, in answer to a summons for carrying out blasting operations during prohibited
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and it ja only used at the 10th hole, generally speaking Until I can find Another dictionary I am not going to take up the question "When is a bunker hazard." as the only answer appears to be When it's a diee-box"
Having got myself rather tied up,. 15 decided I would wander from the course for a while and look up the meaning of the names given to various clubs. The first club I came across was the cleek by-the-way it was spelteleik,” which very nearly made nic miss it altogether). A eleek, or rather eleik, is (i) a large hook," (ii)" Golf club with er iron head, used when the ball lies deep in the sand or benidė“ atstone,” · ·I "am ‹in- clined to think that the professor who wrote this did so after an extraordinarily good tiffin. Naturally, I wondered if he carried a niblick and if so what he used it for. Niblick," he described as “ The defendant said they wished to get. (folf club with a cup-like "iron "head" for
came down, through with the blasting before the minjorking the ball out of tight places." I have no comment to make? The pro- fine of $25 was imposod.
fessor has me cold.
THE HICE MARKET.
Messrs. Win, G. Hale, and Co., Ltd.. of Saigon, in their latest circular, which A Chinese, who was prosecuted by Mr. is dated August 1st, say: During the last Burford, land bailiff, for trespassing on
fortnight, our market has fluctuated largely Crown land told the Magistrate (Mr.A heavy fall of about 20 cents per picul Melbourne) yesterday that the delay in took place, owing to the bad news re- hours.
ceived from Hongkong and that one of A European Police Sergeant told. Mr moving a quantity of camphor wood which the most important millers was reported Melbourne that the blasting took place he had stored on Crown land, without to be selling at very low prices. But two opposite the London Mission in Bonham permission was due to the typhoon, days later the market rose again, and Road at 11.30 am, which was half an closed firm, the prices in Hongkong being hour before the time stipulated by the better, and a good demand coming from Regulations. Singapore.
MF. Melbourne's comment was: "The typhoon is responsible for 'n lot of things The defendant was fined $5 and order ed to remove the wood.
during the last fortaight for August and 10,000 tons have been sold to Japan,
September delivery.
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