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號八卅百弍千堂萬弍第 日四廿月陸年寅丙
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
TIME-TABLE.
WEEK DAYS.
AM Noon
...Dap. 4,40 0.13 10.30 11.40 12,00 ...Dop 6,53
10,99
9.38 10,53
Kowloon... Yaumati...
Shatin
to. Dope
7,02
Tripo
...Dep. 7,16
9.49 11,0%
9.59|11.06.1
Fanling
Sheungehai
...Dep. 7.38 10,07 11.22
Shumokun
AY.
Shumchun
w. Dep. 7.21
Shaangthai
Fanling...
12.09
122
*12.53
Taipo-Market ... Dep. 291
Taipo farket
Taiso
Bhatia
...Dap. 7.39 10.0821118
Art. 7,49 | 10.13 211,29 12.90 17.58
8.0 10.38 11.40 1.56 ...Den 7,93 8.12 10.45 11,47 ...Dep. 1.33, 8,16 10.49 11.51 Dap 7,42 8.28 10.59 1202
11.04 Dap. 7.43
PUBLIO HOLIDAYA
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E-Follo
5,29 7.10
$5.517,81
09 8.04 7.44 6.09748 3.116.24 8.19 738 3.15 5,29
3.91 5.34 0.29 3.
EX
8,00
417
5,18 6,08
3.07
8.20 8.15
8.11 428 3.524 5.19
3.21
5,34 *6.29
19.07
9.95
8.43 11.17 12.21
Yeamati... -Kowloon,ima
Dep. 8.12.
9,58 11.29 12,33
Arr. 8.00
9.08 11.37 12,412.37
5.38 6.53 442 3.38
438 5.51 ·6.48 3.50 5,08 8,03 8,58 $.58 316 811 2,08
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SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDÄYS,
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FX 2.1
PM
Fanling...Dep. 745 11.30 3,20 6.23 Bhatankok...Arr. 8.40 19.25 415 720
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PERJURY LAW KUPPER
DRAFT OF NEW BILL.
PROPOSED LOCAL CHANGE.
It is proposed to introduce into the Legislative Council shortly a Bill intituled an Ordinance to amend the Perjury Ordinance, 1999.
PILSENER
The objects and reasons state:- The Peasion Minute is amended by the
This Bill proposes to effect a minor LIGHT deletion of “clause No. 13" and "the sub-amendment in the Perjury Ordinance," stitution therefor of the following:
revenue for April totalled. 81,653,302, as against 81,940,630 for the same month last year, the respective
1. In the case of abolition of the office expenditure-figures-being-82,656,551-and of-an-other-who-is-borne on the Fixed Establishment of the Colony the pension or gratuity graatable to such officer will be as follows:
$9,936,797.
For the Arst four months of the year the revenue was $6,524,935, as compared with $7,344,628 for the same period last year, whilst the expenditure totalled 87,173,250, as compared with $8,479,007 for 1995.
CAMERA'S ROLE IN THE WAR.
10,000,000 PRINTS BY R.A.F.
A PIONEER OF FLYING,
Mr. Justice Tomlin presided at the High Court over the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, when the claim Moore- of Lieut.-Colonel J. T. C. Brabazon, M.P., in respect of improve. ments in aircraft cameras was heard.- Mr. T. W. C. Carthew, outlining the claim of Colonel Moore-Brabazon, men- tioned that he was a pioneer of flying,! having built the first English machine to flying a mile in this country, while the pilot's ticket which he held was the first issued in England. In the early days of the war he, with three other officers, was employed in the photo- The graphie side of the Air Force.. cameras in use in 1914 were ordinary Press cameras used by the observer. This arrangement was very unsatisfactory- from many points of view. It was not. until Colonel Moore-Brabazon designed
(a) If the officer has completed 180 months gross service he may be granted a pension of one-seven- bundred-and-twentieth of his salery for each month of his service count-
ing for pension in accordance with Clause No. 11, with an addition to such service of one month for each complete period of two months' ser- rice so counting for pension; in no case shall the addition exceed one hundred and twenty months, and in no case shall the number of months to be added to the actual service exceed that which, if added to the age of the officer, would bring that age up to sixty years. This paragraph (a) deals completely with the ascertainment of the amount. of pension grantable in the case aforesaid, accordingly no increase or addition-for example the five- sixtieths of salary mentioned in clause No. 1 paragraph 1 sub-para- ́graph (2)-shall be made. (b) If the officer has not completed 120 months' gross service he may be granted a gratuity of one-twelfth of a month's salary for each month of 'service counting for pension in accordance with clause No. 1, plus an addition of Bfty per cent. thereon.
An officer who is granted a pension
a camera and could be easily operated or gratuity truder this clause shall be by the pilot that photography from an liable to be recalled to the public service aeroplane became of any use. The ap- for re-employment" plicant's camera enabled a pilot easily
SHANGHAI'S CHOLERA
EPIDEMIC.
MANY CHINESE DEATHS.
B
to take as many as seventy-two photo- graphs in one fight, whereas before nine photographs in the course of a two hours' fight was considered to be very good work Bo important did photography become that by the end of the war there. were no fewer than 10,000,000 prints, re- presenting about 1,500,000 negatives, that had been taken, no military operation would be undertaken without very care- ful photographing of the ground by acro-hearing manch of the cholera situation here, and the two pathologists in the plate both before and after.
Laboratory of the Public Health Depart- ment of the Municipal Council have been working ten hours a day in an endeavour to put the final laboratory authenticity on the clinical or hospital diagnosis of the disease.
Mr. Trevor Watson contested the claim on behalf of the Crown. The de- cision of the Court will be announced in
due course.
SHANGHAI DIVORCE.
In the last weeks. Shanghai has been
1999. Section 10 of that Ordinance makes it possible, when a witness has made two contradictory statements, to charge hin with having made the contradictory state ments and to obtain a conviction on proof of this contradiction, without the neces sity of proving the truth or falsehood.of. either statement. This section originally appeared as section 8 of Ordinance No of 1857. Section 12 of the Perjury Ordi nance, gives a judge or magistrate power to direct a prosecution for perjury and to commit the accused for trial or to admit him to bail "There is no similar power i to order a prosecution for an offence against section 10. Clause 2 of the Hill proposes to give this power.
SERIOUS RIVER ACCIDENT
NEAR SHANGHAI.
JAPANESE FREIGHTER SINKS "SEVERAL LAUNCHES.
OCCUPANTS DROWNED.
The Taitho Maru, a small Japanese freighter, whilst proceeding up stream. at about 2.30 o'clock, on July 25th, got into difficulties with some native craft. Deviating from her course in order to avoid collision with a junk the vessel miscalculated and collided with Messrs. Butterfied and Swire's No 5 doable pantoon. Twó ̈steamers moored "to this. pontoon narrowly missed being streck by. the Taisho Maru which continued on un- behind these vessels. In the mix-up the checked and finally crashed into pontechs
Taisho Mare severely bumped the two steamers aforementioned, and sank two of the company's launches. In addition five sampans were demolished, and a ferry. boat capsized, throwing 'ten occupants into the river. Those are reported to have all been drowned. Beveral other small cargo boats were also damaged by the Taisho Mary and their cargoes lost. Later in the day one dead body was re- covered by the River Police, and a second by relatives of the deceased.-Shanghai Mercury,
· NURSING HOME DEATHS.
2.
PATIENT CONVEYED IN A CAB.
According to the health authorities, Shanghai is at the present. moment in the.
"An inquiry is proceeding, and I hope state of a cholera epidemic. The fact DECREE GRANTED TO ATTORNEY'S does not imply, however, that the that when the investigation is complete mortality rate from cholera is high... On everything will be done that science and WIFE.
the contrary compared with last year the common sense will do to teach people." was made by Dr. In the United States Court for China death rate is considerably lower and duz. This comment on July 28th, before Judge Milton D.ng the week ending Saturday, July 24th, Michael Taylor, the coroner, at an in- a table prepared by the Health Depart quest at Kingston on Mrs. Constance Purdy an Application for divorce was
ment shows that one foreign death Louisa Plowman, whose death was the made by Mrs. Ruth E. Sullivan from through cholera, that of a Russian girl eight since the end of December of Bernard Sullivan, an American attorney resident in the French Concession who others and Ebies treated either in the Mr. Paul Faison appeared for Mrs. tried to throw herself into the Soochow home of the Kingston Nursing Asso- Sullivan. He called petitioner to the Creek not long age in an attempt to com- ciation or in their own homes by nurses witness box and she related that she was married to Sullivan in Honolulu in 1921. Settlement, 8 Chinese in the French Con-
mit auicide, 23 Chinese deaths in the from the institution.
Puerperal septicemia had been reveal- A year later they came to Shanghai cession, 42 Chinese in Chinese territory as the cause of death in each of the crises where ahe secured a job. Sullivan was and 3 Chinese deaths of unknown re-investigated previously. It was aznoun- intending to enter the law business here, sidence have occurred. The lower death-ced in the House of Commons recently but went to Manila when he failed to
rate is attributed by the health authori that the Minister of Health had ordered make a go of the business. From Manila ties to a less virulent type of the disease, an inquiry by one of the medical officers he had worked his way back to America though a counteracting statement is made of his department, and pending the re on a transport. Since then she had only in the fact that the cholern season is just sults of the inquiry the committee of the received one letter from him, in June, 1923. Petitioner was now employed with beginning hers and that the peak of the association has closed the home and sus the British-American Tobacco Company, before the end of August.-.-C. Daily by its nurses.
epidemic is not expected to be reached pended all midwifery and maternity work but had booked "passage on the str President Madison for July 31st, and was intending to return to America.
Mr. L. W. Hartigan corroborated Mrs. Sullivan's evidence and told of having drawn up the papers of admittance to the American Bar Association Sullivan
for
After hearing the evidence his Honour instructed Mr. Faison to prepare on order for divorce.-N.-C. Daily News.
SHANGHAI'S HEAT WAVE.
In the course of an article on the recent heat wave in Shanghai, the N.-C. Daily "Newe, of July 27th, says t
The heat of the past 11 days, together with the excessive humidity, have been most oppressive and unusually discom forting, as most readers in Shanghai will have felt, the temperature exceeding the figures of last year by a very large
degree.
In 1926 the highest was, on the average,
'News.
YOUR GRAVE HAS BEEN
FOUND."
OFFICIAL SURPRISE FOR AN EX-SOLDIER.
Mr. J. Varney, of Aylesbury, has been informed, to his great surprise, by the Imperial War Graves Commission that his grave has been found in France.
He has never occupied the grave, of course, and, according to an official of the War Graves Commission, it is simply
case of mistaken identity.
Probably," said the official, "part of
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TRANSFERRED.
Mr. Stanley. Plowman, the husband of Mr Plowman,, said that towards the end of May his wife was taken ill, and be called in a nurse from the home. She was taken into the home later, and mained until May 30th, when she was transferred to Kingston District Hos pital
Mary F. Lannigan, e certified midwife. attached to the Kingston Nursing Home, who attended Mrs. Plowman," said that Mrs. Plowman was taken to the home
Cine câb
Dr. Taylor: Ton have an ambulance
here --They could not get it.
Why not? I do not know. The nurse said that Mrs. Plowman was
in a bad condition when admitted.**
The coroner: The journey in a cab would make her worse.
the kit which belonged to Mr. Varney, or some of his personal belongings, were found on the body of another man who was killed. This, perhaps, was the only means of certifying the body, and explains Hospital, said that Mrs. Plowman died
the whole business.
Dr. Fercy Davies, of Kingston District
"I was wounded near Pozieres ten from puerperal septicemia. The con- for the 11 days since July 10th, 95.2 while years ago," said Mr. Varney, "and was dition of the woman when first admitted in 1925 the average was 88. The minimum discharged. My mother was informed to the nursing home would make her for the two years was 70.6 and 75.0, re that I was missing when I was actually liable to serions results from infection. spectively. The rainfall was almost in a London hospital. Stül, you see, I There was infection before she was ad- negligible during the period under re am still alive and kicking. The number mitted to the hospital, view this year, although rain fell on on the grave is the same as I had when A verdict was recorded in accordance
seven days last year.
in the Bucks Battalion."
with the medical evidence.
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