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"THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929.
"O SOLE MIO!"
TWO MEN GO TO MACAO.
JAY BACKS A LOSER.
*[SY" RAMBLER."]
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A general atmosphere" of holiday. making prevailed among the trip pers when Jay and I stepped aboard the lacno bont. But, as Jay ob- served, the balmy atmosphere was schered somewhat by the faint sug gestion of decaying fish loafing about the precincts of Wing Lok
Wharf.
Pushing through jostling erowds of coolies, we ascended the com- panion-way leading to that section of the upper deck, set apart for saloon passengers, bagged a couple of rattan chairs, and then settled down to a comfortable asp.
Just as I was beginning to dream about an feed Worthington in the Piccadilly Bar at home, there was a sudden disturbance and I awoke with a jerk. Rupert had arrived !
CHINESE SEARCHER
CHARGED.
ALLEGED ATTEMPT AT, BRIBERY.
REVENUE OFFICER'S STORY.
The case against Tam Winga Police searcher, who is charged with demanding 400 by threats from a shop foki was continued at the Central Magistracy yesterday.
The facts of the case, as outlined
the street
KOWLOON COURT.
CASES.
SUMMONS AGAINST CAPT.
E. P. SMITH WITHDRAWN.
ALLEGED ASSAULT AT -
KOWLOON HOTEL.
Captain Edwin Fage Smith master mariner, residing at Row con Hotel, and formerly master of
CORRESPONDENCE.
DANGEROUS ROAD REPAIRS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PREES."]
Six. I consider it in the interest of the motoring publie to protest strongir against the manner in which the repaire to
the Castle Fenk Road are being carried ost. At the heat of times it is a danger-
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the s.. Sanning and later of the ous road, with so many blind Convenient by Mr. T. Murphy at a previous 5 Tin Yat (now at Canton, having corners, but during this week-end hearing, were that the defendant been commandeered), was summon practically half the width of the stopped the fuki of a wine shop ined to appear before Mr. Toad was torn up for a distances of
on April 1 last.
He Whyte Smith at Kowloon Magis half a mile, in which there were searched the foki but nothing was tracy yesterday at the instance of three turns and therefore impos- found. It is alleged that the de- Mr. "Charles North, also of "the sible for anyone approaching to fendant accused the foki of carry-Kowloon Hotel, for alleged assault know whether the road was clear ing Revenue labels and agreed not at the Hotel on the evening of May or otherwise. to arrest him provided $1,000 was paid. The sum was eventually brought down to 8400 and the de- fendant and the fafi waited outside the Lee Yine shop in Shantung Street for the money.
Meantime the fuki communicated with his employers und werd was sent to the authorities and Revenue 'Officer Young was sent to the scene with the result that the defendant was taken into custody.
A Confirmed Mysoginist. Rupert struck me at once 1.5 being confirmed mysoginist. As a pup, he had a few points but they were obviously not a good ones. Seen in the dark, he would prob
Revenue Officer Young giving evi- ably look the same at both ends. dence yesterday said that in con He hore faint traces of various sequence of a message from the breeds of terriers, chows, pays, and Superintendent of Import and Ex- doormats. In the light of day, he
port he went with the proprietor locked profoundly bored. Giving a
of the wine shop to Shantung Street. prodigious yawn, he squatted on
Witness stated that when the de- my pipe clayed shoca, apparently fendant save him, he took to his contemptuous of the fact that atheris, but was caught... passing deck-boy had tripped over him and cannoned into a bridge party.
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I passed Rupert on to Jay, who apparently recognised in him kindred spirit. They went to sleep together.
The voyage dispelled" a fond allusion which I had treasured. I pictured the Captain and Chief Officer busy with compass, sextant, chart and quadrant, or whatever weird instruments these navigators use, plotting out a tortious course among the islands. Apparently I was wrong. The only instruments the people on the bridge" used up- peared to be a succession of pocket handkerchiefs. One otheer would
blow his nose gently and sniff. Shortly afterward, bis companion would follow suit, Scon Rapert took a hand in the game, and even old Jay started the sniffing busi
Smelling the Way. Despite the fact that I was ham
ness.
31.
The roads are badly in need of When the case was called, the repair, but I consider that shorter Magistrate's "elerk informed his stretches can be relaid at a time Worship that although the summons so that cars if about to meet "head had not been served on the defen-
an" can reverse to the full width dant, there was no reason why the of the road instead of having to complainant should not
go on to the metal, or a Chinese, peared. Mr. White, the Manager could be employed to regulate the of the Kowloon Hotel, had tele-traffic. phoned to "say that the summon. could not have been served on the defendant, as he had not returned
have ap
I cannot give full marks, to the P.W.D. officis in charge of the works, but would like to hand him | to the Hotel since the incident. the cost of replacing a slashed tyre, The Manager of the Hotel was having had to drive over the un- informed that if the complainant rolled metal I feel sure that many desired to press the charge. be motorists, who used the road dur should appear and apply for sing last week-end, will support this remand. It was possible, added the complaint.-Yours, etc., chief cleik, that the complainant had not been informed.
His Worship then adjourned the The proprietor of the wine shop
summon until the afternoon. corroborated the story of the de-
Neither party appeared at the fendant bolting on seeing the ReConst in the afternoon and our re
venue Officer.
presentative was informed by the The witness went on to say that when the defendant was arrested he Magistrate's clerk that the sum- pleaded for mercy explaining that mone had been withdrawn by eom. it was poverty that had led him | plainant. astray and he had an aged mother and a large family to support. Witness added that he did not know the defendant and had no wish to press the matter.
The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday afternoon when the case for the prosecution will probably be completed. Mr. F. H. Loschy who defended yesterday indicated that he had three witnesses to call it
necessary.
Probably Jay and I would have done far hetter had we not looked
THREE MONTHS FOR
SNATCHER.
A Chinese was sentenced to three
OWNER DRIVER. Hong Kong, June 5.
SOLDIERS AND RICKSHAW COOLIES.
SQUABBLE OVER FARES.
Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton this. morning, Private Maxwell of the K.O.SB was ordered to pay a to n rickshaw coolie who was in
jured in a squabble in Queen's Road Central. near Ice House Street on Saturday night."
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months hard labour by Mr. Whyte Maxwell WAN charged, with S. Moutrie & Co.,Ltd.
Smith on a charge of stealing a
Private King" of the same handbag and, alternatively, with Regiment, with "refusing to pay receiving stolen property.
his proper rickshaw fare and with Detective Sergeant Fitches said assault. The rickshaw coolies told that Mrs. A. Gomes had her hand the Magistrate that the defendants for an old Chinese gentiemar, with bag aratahed while she was walk hired their rickshaws from the
We, bad a straggling grey beard previously been told to keep aing along Kimberley Road at about Sailors' Soldiers Home. jook-out for such a personage, and 7:30 pm, on Sunday. The insident Wanchai, and rode up to Ice our informant had said that this was reported the next evening and House Street, when they walked old gentleman would help 08
"dead cert defendant was arrested in Temple away without paying. On being mightily by giving tipe." But there were several old Street, Yaumati, with the purse approached for payment, Mar
attired in struggling hidden in his girdle. A bunch of well took a gentlemen
rickshaw's seat and the process of elimination to Jay.
and
pered by a bad celd, a strange beards and bald heads, so I letters belonging to complainant was struck one of the coolies, and cut
03 him!
odour reminiscent of a glue factory,
also found in: defendant's pocket. A Passing.." Pip, Pip!" Causeway Bay at low tide, an egg-
Jay whispered into the left ear He was arrested by a Chinese detec- destructor, and Western Market of the first old fellow we encoun- tive, and in answer to the charge tickled my nostrils. I sneezed vio-tered. but he merely grinned and said that He did not know the purse
The next old leatly and then the "odour" be replied, "Ne Savec."
chap glared at Jay and went off wo came a positive smell.
with his beard in the air. Another turned quite nasty, while two mere decided to form a limited liability company; linked arms, and shuffled in high dudgeen "to have one."
I thought it was about time to:
It was Mano, three hours ahead on the starboard bow, and the good old ship was smelling a course direct to the imposing parade of Macao soles drawn upon the Bund
to welcome her.
On arriving, we threaded our way carefully between the soles Basking in the sunshine, ignoring the clamouring smell which they tent up to high heaven.. Then we made
motor tour of the island.
MAGISTRATE'S SYMPATHY,
Mr, Whyte Smith ler off a woman
his head. -
Chater Road.
LOCAL WILL PROVED.
MR. T. A LOUGHLIN'S.
"ESTATE.
The soldiers claimed that they
Letters of administration have paid ten cents each to the coolies, been granted to Mr. T. G. Bennett. who wanted more. One of them solicitor, Mears. Johnson, Stokes threw the seat of the rickshaw at & Master, in the estate of Mr. Maxwell who retaliated by throw- Thomas Alexander "Loughlin, late"
of 260, California Street, San ing it back at the coolie." से
His Worship discharged the de- Francisco, who died on August 29, fendants on the count of failing 1928.
Deceased's will appoints Mr. to pay rickshaw fare but ordered
interfere so I asked Jay what he with a caution when she explained Maxwell to pay compensation of Walter Chick, of San Francisco, as
had said to the old birds.
"Rambler, oid bean." he re- that the water' which she had un. 85 adding that Maxwell had used one of the executors to deal with plied solemnly, "I simply coulda't lawfully obtained from street too much force and that had the
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resist the temptation to ask cach hydrant was to be used only for coolie 'died as a result of the a
of the old boys whether they slept
with their beards outside or inside cooking purposes.. His Worship re- the bed-clothes "
sault, Maxwell would have been marked that he was very sorry for found guilty of manslaughter. No wonder the old fellows were One's prevailing impression while eress and our joss was out for the such people as defendant, knowing driving along the main motor road rest of the afternoon. With but 10 their difficulty of getting water, but' was that of being in A small vents left between us, we leaned they had to abide by the regula CHILD KILLED IN CANTON Mediterranean town. Houses of over the rail and watched pictures. tions. It was better to have a pink, yellow, white, and pale blue, que Macao fade slowly astern. In all with bright green shutters, with qualor old churches raising tur- retted towers above blue and red roofs, and the ruins of a 17th cen tury mission dominating the whole created a charming effect.
Fan-tan Dives.
But Macao hag little further to offer the matal visitor beyond goats, soldiers and fantan houses, We entered one of these, delectable places, ascended a ricketty flight
of staire, and took our seats among a number of Europeans and well-
to-do Chinese who were sitting on "balcony," which ran around the
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addition to memories of the fan little water now thin none at all tan "dive," the gentle odour of in a month's ́time. Macao soles kept our minds in mellow mood,
Another steamer passed us in the ANOTHER OPTUM · CARRIER. darkness, the round of a ̈ gramo- | phone playing "O Sole Mio" wafting dreamily across to us on the "Boleful" breeze. Jay quoted seftly:-
Ships that pass in the night With a little pip pip' they are
gone !!!
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Arriving by the Canton express, a Chinese was arrested with 21
sion.
taele of raw opium in bis posses
Defendant pleaded guilty, and the Magistrate imposed a fine Game to the End, Resounding sniffs on the bridge of 8630 or four months' tard, told us the gallant ship was scent labour.
four sides of the room, busy recording the breeze for traces of Wing ing results upon pada.
For the beneft of the uninitiated,
ADULTERATED MILK.
ROAD.
BUS DRIVER EXONERATED.
his property in the U.S.A. Dr. Dermont. Loughlin, deceased's brother, is mentioned as the other executor to administer estate in England.
Property left in England. amounts to 59,447. 48. 3d. The local
estate is naacased at $10,800. Deceas ed was unmarried, and bequests ́are made to members of his family,
“MAN. WOMAN AND SIN.”
TO-DAY AT QUEEN'S,
At the inquest held at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday into the death
The whirl and bustle of a great of a Chinese girl who was knocked down by a China Motor Bus in American society life, and a plot metropolitan deily; details of Canton Road on May 20, the jury centering round official Washing- returned a verdict of accidental ton are the features of John Gil- bert's latest role as "Al Whitcomb," death, and exonerating the driver. reporter, in the new Metro-Gold- Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith was wyn-Mayer picture "Man, Woman the Coroner, Mr. E. S, C. Brooks And Sin," which will be screened from to-day to Saturday at the watched the case on behalf of the Queen's Theatre. parents and Mr. F. H. Kwok appear-
It is a story of romance, thrills ed for the Motor-Bus Company. and hazard, part of the story being The child was said to have been laid in the composing rooms and playing on pavement curb and press rooms of big dailies; where suddenly ran out into the road. linotypes and racing presses are The driver said that he was travel busy night and day. ling at about 10-12 m.p.h. and The Embassy Ball at Washington As we stood on the doorstep of 18, Haiphong Boad, was summon although he applied his brakes and in reproduced on a georgeous acale. the table while a heap of small our flat, we felt the smell growing ed before the Kowloon Magistrate swerved across the road he was un- The motif, however, is & romance bras coins is "shuffled" and stronger. Puzzled, we locked at on a charge of zelling adulterated able to avoid the child.
of youth and love; the story of the Police evidence was to the effect reporter who loved the lady society counted out in groups of four. The one another and then, padding zumber of coins which are left along in the moonlight and follow milk. On application of Mr. F..that the brakes were tested almost editor, and a development that after the last complete group has ing our tracke, we saw the gallant d'Almada, Jr., who said that he immediately after the accident and hinges on this love.
Sam Ku West and his Paradise keen counted decides the winning Rupert tail in the air, with the had just been festructed to appear were found to be in perfect order.
Two
wo passengers on the 'bus stated Harmony Fill appear during. wander. The odds paid appeared mangled remains of agon to be 3 to 1 less 10 per cent.
Macao's Best dangling in his ed on jeanly of detenuant, the are that the driver had done everything each performance,
possible to avoid the accident. are being charged. was adjourned for a week. jawe!
it is well to explain the game briefly. One backs any number from 2 to 4 placing the stake in
Lok Wharf Soon the wharf emell grew stronger, and we knew we were nearing home. Almost, the wharf odour eclipsed the gentle aroma of Macao sole, but not quite.
a haaket which is lowered to the No smell on earth could kill the "croupier" below. Crowds of Chireents of Macao's fish market. nese of the coolie type hover over
(Continued on next Column).
The proprietor of the shop at
Ordery prices