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JAPANESE, VOLUNTEERS
DISHONEST SPECIAL GUARD. EMBEZZLEMENT OF EQUIPMENT MONEY.
At the Central Magistracy yeater- The Volunteers were no match for the Japanese in a baseball league game play, day before Mr. S. B. B. Makiderry, a Chincin who was a member of the special ed on the Happy Walley diamond yester-
district guard corps attached to Taihang day evening. At the end of the fifth in ning the score was 20 runs to 3 in favour Village, Causeway Bay, was charged with
embezzlement of the Japanese. The Volunteers had a sixth inning and made" some" atonement by scoring two runs.
The score by innings was:—
19-345 8
Japanese Volunteers
I 00 11 25
GOLF
From the evidence it was shown that in the early days of the strike, a self- defence corps was formed at Taibang Village for the protection of the inhabit. ats, who in addition to offering their services as "volunteers, contributed to the cast of the clothing and equipment of the corps. The defendant had been en- icated, with the work of collecting sub, tiptions and placing orders for cloth ing, and it was stated that he collected EBeaumont . E. A. da Roza, the sum of 100 and bought a certain S. J. Jordain A. J. Baker T. Eamount of clothing, leaving a balance in Juces . A Brooksbank; W. Paterson hand of 838, which it was alleged he B. Petheram; A. A. Lopes MR. MET- drum; W. J. Carroll v. J. Bottomley; J.
K.G.C. SUMMER CUP.
The draw for the Kowloon Golf: Summer Cup competition is-
Club's
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H. Gelling » T. H. Trever: K: S. Ro turn it to the treasurer. bertson F. X. Remedios; J. D. Thomp son . F. Oliver; A. C. S. Burford
Pleading guilty, the defendant was sen-
F. E. Hemedios; A. W. Brown . Y. Goulceseed to two months' hard labour. barne; A. W. Roberts e. V. C.-Labrum.
The best 16 cards, medal play (leas handicaps) will qualify for the first round. Those drawn for have to be play ed off by September 14th. ;
JADE.
THE FASHIONABLE STONE FOR A THE
*** BLUE-GREEN " AUTUMN.
GAMBLING RAID SEQUEL.
CHINESE WOMAN FINED.
On the 18th of August, Sergt. Carey was in charge of a raid carried out at No. 14, Graham Street, Central, and
sequel to this raid took place at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon before Mr. S. B. B. HeElderry.
With the blue-green season" which Paris has decreed for the coming autama, there is to be another revival of jade Chung Tsim Hing, & Chinese woman, jewellery. Jads ornaments are particularly was charged with being the keeper of & suitable for the new shades of blue and
green which are to be
fashionable. Jade gaming house at No. 14, Graham Street, earrings are to be worngai, as the stone first floor, for the purpose of playing adapts itself so admirably to the vogue for
long drop earrings, which will accompany fantan. the new sorere coiffures and the mode for the full exposure of the ears.
She was found guilty and fined $80.
The $50 found on her and a sum of 811 A delightful set of ornaments were seen Trebestly in the Rue de la Paix. The ear-rings picked up from the table at the time of
were of the deep, dull green fauri jude, the raid, were confiscated. which, though less precious than the Chinese variety, is none the less beautiful, and very becoming to the blonde woman. They were of a long, flat, oval shape, sot in fa rim of silver, while from each hung
tiny diamond drop.
* PREVARICATION.
EORRY DRIVER-FINED $50,-
At the Kowloon Magistracy yester. day, a Chinese lorry driver was charged with failing to obey a police signal and also with failing to have efficient brakes on his lorry.
ORIGIN OF ITS NAME. Whether it is for its rarity, or its beauty, For the superstition it carries of bringing good luck to its owner for in New Zealand as well as in China it is known as the lucky stone-jade rarely loses for long its hold on feminine favour. Oddly enough, ita name. comes from the Spanish word for colie, Sergeant Hallam stated that whilst he jada, and it was so called by the Spanish was engaged in measuring the tracks of conquerors of Mexico, who brought it back.
with them to Europe. It was quarried theren motor bus which had toppled over in in olden days by the Aztecs, who held that Chatham Road, defendaat passed, entire- when powdered and swallowed in small quantities it was an 'onfailing remedy for that dread disease.
15 ignored the. signals given, and failed to stop. When the lorry was subsequently examined it was found that the brakes, were not efficient. The Sergeant stated that traffic was being held up at the time.
Defendant produced a witness, who stated that there was no traffic held up.
Jade varies enormously in colour, some being almost white, some pale sex-green, some streaked green and white, some of deeper hue, and the most priceless of all now anobtainable and only to be seen in museum specimens, an almost king-fisher blua. Much of it comes from Khotan in His Worship took a serious view of the Chinese Tarkestan, and is carried by case, and said that defendant had called caravans into China itself by way of the provarciating evidence to deny the police Jade Gata, a narrow opening in the most statement. A fine of $25 on each charge romantic survival of all the ancient monu-was imposed.
menta of architecture, the Great Wall of China
The Chinese lapidaries, are very skilled craftsmen, and it is well they should be, for jade in a hard and difficult quartz and needs the greatest care when being engraved
TWO-DAY FLIGHT TO INDIA. PREPARATIONS FOR AEROPLANE SERVICE,
At a district Court Martial at Whitiscussions have been opened between the A Ministry and three different con- field Barracks Kowloon, yesterday,
cerns. ja view to inaugurating the Sergeant Sampel Biebertson, 33th Heavy Battery, B.A was found guilty of being plane service to India early next drunk on August 23rd. Sentence will be
Tenders have been invited for the right promulgated in due course, 2
to operate this new and important air. way, and these are now under review
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SCENES IN ITS CLOSING STAGES.
The closing scenes of the fotorious Scopes (religion) case, were escriberl
As a screaming farce the trial reached its climax yesterday evening, when Judge A highway robbery took place yesterday by the Civil Aviation Department of the faulston suddenly decided to transfer the morning between Wongneicheong Village Air Ministry, paggam
proceedings from the court room to the and Wengne cheong Gap. It appears It is intended, not only that the new lawn outside. The scene was the most that four man, one of whom was believed service shall offer a zapid means of transladicrous in the history of Anglo-Saxon to be armed with a revolver, hid them-port between England and the Rare, but jurisprudence selves in some bushes, suddenly springing that it shall serve as a feeder for the In the presence of an immense crowd of out upon a Deep Water Bay Ashorman airships, which will link up this country country folk who chewed tum, smoked, and six of his coolics who were walking with India in 1927. along the road. The robbers stole $3.50 from their victima, and all escaped, with exception of one man who has been arrest
SUPERSTITIOUS CRIMINALS. SINISTER PLEADERS FOR
DIVINE AID
«Criminals are amazingly superstitions.
Ņ
in the following terms by the New York Some--the Italians, for instance ovES correspondent of the Daily Mail, in flink up religion and crime. As nigh message dated July 21st: The great begins to fall sinister and shadowy comedy of Monkeyville" is ended. It hurts muy be seen in the great Churc closed, amid the laughter of the whole of St. Peter in Rome, praying for Divine world, with a verdict of "Guilty" against blessing on the project they have planned. Mr. Scopes, whom the judge fined £90 for that night. A similar sight may offem Mr. Beopes was charged with violating the be seen in Notre Dame, París. But Lon- State law of Tennessee at Dayton ("Mondon crooks do not frequent St. Pauls,
or the Abbey keyville" by teaching his pupils in a public school that man is descended from The apaches pi Paris are extraordinarily the lower animals.
superstitious. One of their pet beliefs is will assuredly bring them fuck; and there that to touch a hunchback's deformity is one gang of apaches which carried the severed head of a rat. The loss of this gruesome relie caused great consternation. The thugs and bowris of the East bave some queer rites, one being to pour goat a milk on the ground to propitiste the gud Devi, The Indian also considera it un- lucky to sneeze during the commission of and bellaved generally as if they were a crime, anywhere attending a circus, the judge took fús sest | English criminals will often "give up Royal Air Force machines similar to on a platform in the open air,
burglary if the house is next for those in use for the transport of mails He then allowed Mr. W. J. Bryan (the opposits a church--although to break into m the Near East will be used on the leading counsel for the prosecution) to bed shop or house near a police-station is Great Eastern Airway, but specially de-alled as a witness. For two hours the considered lucky enterprise. (Chst Early in August, an unemployed signed passenger carrying air liners are apostle of fundamentalism was cross Peure even lived near a police station seaman, tramed David Boyd, was fined gradually to be brought into operation, examined by Mr. Darrow (for the defence) while the country was scoured for him. 85 at the Central Magistracy for being and an attractive new craft, that com on such questions as Do you believe The writer his known several burglars drunk and disorderly at West Point, and forms to the official requirements, has the whale swallowed Jonah 1'' sud "Where who have regularly distributed, aims to the magistrate allowed him 72 hours in been planned by Mfr. A. V. Ros, the did Cain's wife come from 1street beggars, and charities, and m which to find the money to pay the fine pioneer of British aviation. It will have Throughout these strange proceedings temporarily successful eximinals who When the three days, grace expired; the accommodation for twenty-four passen-ginger pop" and other liquids were boen punctilious in church-going, Ma man failed to turn up with the money, gert, and will be fitted with three Napier sold among the spectators,
pickpockets carry pieces of coal or ch hat yesterday morning Sergeant Nolloth Lion engines, developing is total of The anti-climax came next morning for luck was walking in: Kowloon, when he saw 1,500 fi pu
when the judge expunged the whole of the defendant in Natham Road Hear The cabin will be fitted throughout with Mr Bryan's testimony from the records rented lips, and yesterday afternoon Boyd Electric lietu, and an elect
cooker will and the lawyers of both sides agreed to appeared before Mr. BB B. McElderry, be provided for the
of hot abstain from addressing the jury who sent him to prison for three days meals while the machupes
the The jury retired for only seven minutes with hard laboure: The defendant said he, two-day journey to indis
will be before finding their verdict. had becer unable to find the amount of the possible when the sITEDR
for nicht fine,
living are completa.
ed,
NEW CRAFT
all appeal was allowed, and will be Sourd in September
Hotel thieves, have a horror of robbin room bearing the number, thirteen. Bome criminals will not do
on Braday and a prison ha tell you that a few days before prisoners will develop
in the belief that they may, thus ezenpa, the penalty C1 wrongdoing.