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To return however to the more modest proposal, it is evidently not a Utopian idea that the anopheles with its evil parasites should be exterminated entirely from this Yet the official attitude
area.
and clear the Colony of what is a serious menace to the life of every member of the community. When the island has been dealt with effectively then the more extensive problem in the New Territory could
MURDERED MILLIONAIRE'S
ESTATE.
$2,716,400 BEQUEATHED TO WIDOW..
be taken in hand. for with the THE LATE MR, LEE HYSAN'S growth of the Colony and Kowloon,
there will be greater and greater need for accommodation further afold.
AFFAIRS.
The late Mr. Les Hysan's fann- cial standing, was made public: yesterday when his will was re- leased by the Supreme Court. It showed that the deceased left estate
ta Colony amounting
The policy of laser faire must be abandoned, and the Government must keep the publie informed off the the extent of the anti-malarial 84,491,145.85, against which deduc- measures which are now under- tions amounting to 81,744,751:30 had taken, and issue a statement of the to be made thus leaving a pet balance of 89.716,400, which he be fuller measures which are necessary queaths to his wife, Wong Lan if this unpleasant scourge is to be
Fong, of 4, Kennedy Road. subdued.
Three Chinese cases of small-pox were reported over the week-end.
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mises for theweek ending November 3rd amounted to 95,125 tons. and the sales during the period to 77,435
tons.
TRAFFIC CASES AT KOWLOON.
THREE EUROPEAN MOTOR CYCLISTS SUMMONED.
TOOK HIS BROTHER'S
MACHINE AND THE. »
RESULT,
Before Mr. E. E. Wynne Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yester- three European day motorcyclists were summoned for offences against the regulations.
afternoon
CORRESPONDENCE.
A CHINESE CITY HALL.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESE,"
SI-I see in the local Chiarser newspapers that a number of Chi nese gentlemen of this Colmy-are- agitating for the erection of a "Confucian Hal" on A piece of
at East Point, donated by a cartainy land in the vicinity of Lee Gardens
Mr. Kan.
I am afraid this site is too far
Mr. H. A. Gregory, owner of cycle No. 313 was summoned for failing to produce his learner's away from the Central District,, license, and for riding on the and being inconveniently situated Cheung Sar Wan Road without in such an out-of-way place, it is
licensed being accompanied by a
unsuitable for such a purpose. driver. The defendant pleaded
Again, a sum of from $100,000 to guilty to the first summons and explained that he had forgotten $200,000 is needed for the erection the license when he changed his of this "Confucian Hall," and it je the intention of the promoters to coat. A fine of 83 was imposed..
As regards the second summons, raise this amount by public sub the defendant, pleaded not guilty scription. and said that as far as he knew a learner-driver need not be accora- panied by a licensed driver.
'u
WAR
But, why call it a Confucian
It will be remembered that Mr. Lee Bysan was murdered on April 30th, this year, at the entrance of Yue Kee Club. His assassin has up to now not been caught. Two weeks before his murder, the late Mr. Ler Hysan figured very prominently in An action at the Supreme Court brought against him by Mr. Lobo, of the Macao Opium Monopoly for
Why not call it the "Chinese City libel. Mr. Lee Hysan won the case Sub-Inspector Nicol who which turned on the opium mono- responsible for the summons in Ball" or "Chinese Public Hall" t Returning while he was under a banishment order made in 1921 for poly, which has now been taken formed his Worship that the license This would be more appropriate in life, a Chinese was sentenced to over by the Macao Government was issued on the understanding every way, in view of the fact that twelve months' hard labour and 24 The late Mr. Lee Hysan made his that the defendant should take the it has been decided to raise the strokes of the birch by Mr E last will on April 18th, 1995, in cycle to Prince Edward Road, near necessary Building Fund by public Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magiswhich he revoked all former testa Kowloon City, where he was persubscription, irrespective of race or tracy yesterday:
religion. ments. He appointed his wife to mitted to ride the cycle, alone..
It would be well for the promo- Three Chinese who came to blows, be the sole executrix and bequeath-Otherwise the learner-driver must
ters to keep this in mind, when apparently as the result of a quarreled to her all his real and personal be accompanied by licensed Dyer money, were each fined $3 and estate. In the will particulars were driver on the pillion.
their campaign for His Worship did not appear to they start further ordered by the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday to provide given of monies owing to him by
agree with the last clause of Sub-funds, and I wish them success- personal bonds of 150 for their various persons and firms.
A CITIZEN. future good behaviour.
Further particulars showed that Inspector Nicol's statement and Yours truly the deceased had shares in private remarked that he would rather not
Hong Kong, Nov 19th, 1999... "A Chinese who entered the Kow-and public companies amounting to ride behind an unlicensed driver; loon Magistracy yesterday with a cigarette in his mouth was not so $1,200,000, while landed property especially when the mount
Enr 8283,440. Another ridden 'solo! fortunate as the man who got away accounts last week with a severe reprimand amount totalling 82,383,179.98 is from the Central Magistrate. Mr. E. I. Wynne-Jones fined the man $1 recorded as being due from the Lee
Нузал estute соmраnу. for contempt of Court-
...
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The result of the Luna Park raffle at the M.CL. Fête was as follows:-1st prize, sewing machine, ticke: No. 294; 2nd prize, bicycle, ticket No. 154; 3rd prize, manicure set, ticket No. 268 Will the' win- ners please apply to Mr. H. R. Remington, Harry Wicking & Co., Frinces Building (3rd floor),
A total of eighteen dead bodies of Chinese were taken from the harbour by the police during last Saturday and Sunday. Many of the bodies were those of small child- rea apparently dumped in the har bour by the poorer class to sare costs of burial. No marks leading to suspicion of foul play were found on the bodies.
Estale duty, calculated at eight per cent. to be paid on the net personalty amounts to 8217,312, and Court fees totalled another $1,132.40
MARSHAL LI TSAI HSIN RETURNS TODAY.
WARM WELCOME ARRANGED
Marshal Li Tsai Hsin is due to
WAE
Sub-Inspector Nicol replied that
:
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"THE SPORT OF KINGS."
“ TONG TONG DAILY PRESS."]
a licensed driver was necessary to [TO THE EDITOR OF THE instruct the learner rider in the manipulation of the machine
Defendant Cites & Recent Cass.
Sp-In the critique in your
The defendant then informed his paper on Saturday of the perform Worship that recently a learnerce of the Sport of Kings given driver was acquitted by Major Con Friday night by the A.D.C. Willson, at the Central Magistracy your exitic says he thinks the part of Dulcie Primrose might have after having knocked down
The been made a little more sympathe Chinese girl in Wanchai rider in this case bad informed thetic to the ardent wooing of Algie Magistrate that he carried
Sprigg.
With all due deference to your learner's license, and Inspector Alexander, of the Trafic Depart critic, I do not think he can have ment, had informed the Magistrate given the part of Dulcie Primrose
in the
arrive here this morning from the that a learner driver could ride the North by the s.s. Paul Lecat. A cycle alone anywhere
Colony. warm welcome has been arranged
Sub-Inspector Nicol: The fret and several distinguished persons from Canton arrived in the Colony I've heard of it, your Worship!
The Magistrate agreed to dis- yesterday to meet the Marshal.
The Chairman of the Kwangtung miss the summons and cautioned
very
careful consideration, and there were, many, including myself, who thought the handling of this part by Mrs. Chubb was fine piece of work.
A very.
Dulcie Primrose was the daugh-
Private Boarding HOUSE would seem to be a more or less abour, at the Central Magistracy Provincial Government has been the defendant telling him, to hurry ter of the house in its old and
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A Chinese who had been previous ly convicted for running a gambling den was fined $10, or 14 days hard week acceptance or resignation to yesterday for conducting a fan tan
license, and to find out how and the super-natural powers which send game on the praya in Connaught away from Canton for a long time up and pass his test for
Road West. The man was busy and his return had been most What can counting the beans with a stick with anxiously looked for. He assumed where he could ride his cycle along her old home, as a paid Secretary,
this adiction upon us.
It
not be ended must be endured appears to be the local motto. is not in this spirit that the enemy' will be conquered. The problem should be squarely faced, and
IPs. stated. The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, NOVEMBER 207, 1928.
MALARIA
THE problem of eliminating the scourge of malaria is one that should occupy the front place in the work of the administration of BATURDAY, 1ST DECEMBER, this Colony. The continued exist (Weather Permitting), may be obtained at the RACE COURSE, HONG KONG CLUB, ence of it, in spite of the knowledge and CAUSEWAY BAT STABLES.
Entries will CLOSE. at 12 O'clock possess, is a grave reflection Noor
WEDNESDAY, Sist upon our preventive measures, or NOVEMBER, 1928:
rather upon the failure of them.. The finest tribute we could pay to the memory of Sir PATRICK MANSON, whose pioneer work in this field of research, has benefited the whole world, would be to make this Colony in which he worked for so many years, entirely free from the a co-worker, plague of which; as he discovered the cause. Moreover his name ought to be commemorated not only by making this Colony notable example to the rest of the world, but still further by the establishment of such an institute In this island as would fittingly Fatty on the type of research to which he gave so much of his time and thought.
PALLESTA
THE SPORT OF KINGS
ET
IAN HAY THEATRE ROYAL, (NEXT PRAFORMANCES). NOVEMBER 20m, 24TM, BOOKING AT· ANDERSON'S. STAR THEATER, KOWLOON NOVEMBER 220. «BOOKING AT STAB THEATE
a crowd of about twenty people. round him when he was arrested by a detective..
The tendency towards providing London hospitals with private rooms
in which members of the middle
a full
paling days and is now engaged in
by the new owner (magnificently played by Mr. Hannibal) who is a Oyclist Who Took His Brother's duty as Chief of the General Staff in the meantime.
Motor Cycle.
canting old hypocrite. Her father of the Nationalist Armies during his stay in Yanking.
Mr. H. "Pryne, owner of cycle is dead and she is alone in the She feels her relatively 842, wax gummoned for allowing world.
Among those who arrived hete yesterday from Canton to welcome
an unlicensed driver-bis brother menist position" keenly, is up
The statistics should be classes can undergo operations with the Marshal were Admiral Chan Mr. J. Pryne ride his eyele in against life in general pretty badly out paying Harley-street prices is Chak (commander-in-chief of the Chatham Road on November 1st. and is feeling, one would imagine, growing fast. A Golden Ball" Kwangtung Navy), Mr. Li Man The defendant pleaded that it was bitter and sore. was given at the May Fair Hotel Yan (Chairman of the Revenue taken without his permission, and on behalf of the Golden Square
given showing the geographical. distribution of this disease, over a period of five year; the plan of campaign should be drawn up, and the cost of ridding the place of the evil frankly announced.
?
Into this atmosphere bursts Algie Hospital, part of the profits from Council) and General Chan Hing that he was attending a parade at Sprigge, who immediately starts the Volunteer Headquarters at the making blatant love to her. In it. which went towards providing and Wan (A.D.C. to the Marshal). equipping twenty private rooms at
time.
the hospital. Another object of the It was also stated that General ball, which was under the patronage Wong Shiu Hung, head of the of Princess Mary, was to buy Kwangsi Provincial Government A report was made by Surgeon radium for the treatment of malig bad arrived in the Colony yester
nant diseaseB. So much has been day to meet the Marshal. Commander Grves some two years
said recently about various suppos ago, which proved that the aropheed new cures for the chief scourges of modern life that many people les was breeding in great numbers
all value of this scarcest where it was not suspected, by the forget the abiding and often proved people of this Colony, to exist. remedies. There is no reason to suppose that
of
CROWN LAND: SALES.
THREE KOWLOON LOTS AUCTIONED.
With this
!
not entirely natural, in these cir cunstances that she should recoil explanation, the on the defensive and ward him off, Magistrate decided to dismiss the believing as she does that he is just amusing himself at her ex- summons; in spite of Sub-Inspec pense, during the period of the tor Nicol's protest that he con focal races. sidered the offence to be of s I thought Mrs. Chubb's render- un- ing was very true to life in the serious nature and that an
case of a girl of character, as licensed driver was a danger to the Dulcie Primrose is most obviously public.
intended to be, and the only pos sible fault I could find with a very The Light Went Out! Mr. J. Pryne was then summon fine performance was that the sur render at the end might have been Three plots of land were sold by ed for riding the cycle-without a more complete and the kiss real The forthcoming weddings are public auction yesterday at the license and without a light. A one. I am, etc., announced of Mr. George Bartle Crown Land Office. One parcel of third count was that the cycle was Frost to Miss Dorothy Lilian land situated on Kowloon Inland loon Naval Depot, und Mr. George Bute Street and Sai Yueng Choi guilty to the first two summonses, George, both residing at the Kow- Lot No. 2155, at the junction of unlicensed... Defendant pleaded Tate, of 23, Yangtsepoo Road and Tung Choi streets, was sold but denied the third. The last de- Shanghai, to Miss Dorothy Ads for 814,400. This lot has an area Fears, en route to the Colony by the as Mantua.
the mosquito has changed its FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS.. habitat since then, and if the "Surgeon-Commander, who is now in Singapore, were invited up again for six months he would be able to give a fairly detailed pic ture of the situation picture that might alarm us, but would at least atir us into activity. If the Surgeon has hearable to rid the area round the Singapore Base of the anopheles, so that the incidence of malaria is practically nil, if the authorities of Singapore are
right in their assertion that their town is free from malarial disease, then surely it is possible, in a small compact area such as Hong Kong, to use the weapons Which Manson- and Rose have put into our hands,
WEATHER REPORT.
His Worship: It appears to
"The
of 8.840 square feet and carries with fendant, and owner of the cycle, it an annual Crown rental of $103. handed his Worship the license for Starting at the upset price of the cycle in question which was £13,260, bidding went up at 8100 a dated July 31st, 1928.. ' time until it reached 814,400 when the lot was knocked down to Mr. Tjia Mahyan, 138, Wing Lok Street. be quite in order !!! Yesterday's weather report, fore Two other lots were sold at their upset prices New Kowloon Intend cast and remarks, issued by the Lot No-18 with an area of 4,320, Royal Observatory at 6.45 P. square feet was sold for 88,480 to The apex of the Y-shaped de Mr. Pang Kai Hung, of 77, Laichi pression is now N.N.W. of Tokyo, kok Road. The crown rental on Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2154 the Yangtze Valley. Moderate to A feeble anticyclone is central over this plot is 833 per annum.
$7,931 to Mr. Wong Ming la of the China Beat. fresh monoon will continue or with an area of 2525 was sold for
Local Forssas
723 Nathan Road, The Crown "renta de 240 a year. moderate, fine.
stated t
wings,
Sub-Inspector Nicol: Police clerk informed me that the cycle was not licensed, your Wor- ship.
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summons and in imposing a fine His Worship also dismissed this of 85 on each offence, remarked to "would, in all probability deal with him (defendant) for riding the defendant that his brother
bis cyde without this persiasion
"PRIMROSE LEAGUE.”
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