THE HONG KONG
KWANGTUNG'S ARMY.
BIG SCHEME FOR
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SIZE AND EXPENDITURE
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CANTON, August 23.
HONAM,
MILE LONG BUND, WHÅRVES AND WAREHOUSES.
DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929.
DEATH-BED WILL ROUND THE COURTS,
DOCTOR WHO GUIDED
TESTATRIX' HAND..
Mr. Ching Ting Ku, the Canton COURT TO SETTLE QUESTION
Commissioner of Public Works, has submitted a scheme for the re clamation of land, for the construc- tion of wharves and warehouses for
the purpose of accommodating deep sen vessels at Chow Tau Tsu on the west of Honam Ieland.
A summary of the scheme is as
follows:-
1. A bund about 4,990 feet in length at a cost of $150 per foot, a total cost of $640,330.
OF VALIDITY,
An action was commenced before the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) in the Supreme Court yes terday in Probate Jurisdiction to settle the validity or otherwise of
the will of a Chinese widow, who
The plaintiffs, Ching Tin Tau (second son-in-law) and "Cheung
"BARK AND BITE!"
Mrs. Matheson, the proprietress- of "Huntington House" "Stubbs Rond, appeared before Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg yesterday to answer sum- monses for allowing her two dogs to wander abroad unleashed and unmuzzled.
The defendant explained that the
dogs went out on seeing another another animal in Bowen Road. The people in the house whistled
and called to them but with a
MOTOR BUS FATALITY.
CHINESE KILLED IN PRINCE EDWARD ROAD.
NO NEGLIGENCE.
Magistracy into the circumstances The inquiry bold at the Kowloon.
of the death of a Chinese pedes- trian, who was knocked down and No. 2 in Prince Edward Road killed by Kowloon Motor 'Bus
concluded yesterday with the jury's on the morning of July 8, was
verdict of death by misadvanture. could be attached to the driver of They found that no negligence the bus
Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith acted as Coroner.
Amilitary conference is being held under the chairmanship of General Chen Tsai Tong, the Pro-
left estate valued at between $40,000 result. Mrs. Matheson alleged that vincial C.-in.-C. "which all officers of
and 850,000.
robbers had made their way from the rank of regimental commander
Bowen Road to Huntington' and and above are attending. The pro- cheag. The depth of water is 23 2. To reclaim an area of 10,565
that there had been five burglaries ∙ceedings are in private but an an-feet, and the amount of earth ro-Shiu Fan (second san), both of 25, jet the place, and, further, that the nouncement has been made that the quired for Billing is 229,100 square Robinson Road, claim, to be exceu- property "stolen had not been re
feet. The total cost reckoning at tors of the last will, dated June covered. Recently she found dis- Kwangtung army will in future con- 8:30 per ceng will amount to
Mr. A. C. Tinson of the China sist of five divisions and one in- $370.090. If a dredging machine is 30, 1997, of Cheung Ng Shi, alinstinct footprints indicating another. Light & Power Co., Ltd., and dependent brigade, a total of 57,000 used, the cost would be reduced to Cheung Ng Sao, aline Ng Lak, ofiar attempt by a burglar and she ex- owner of the Austin which 74 cents per cheng er total amount Ng Shan Ip, alias Ng She, aline Poplained to his Worship that dogs
was crashed into by the 'bus, when men. Military expenditure is to be
$138,400.
it swerved, said that he went out to limited to $250,000 na a maximum The length of road on the Shing Tong, late of No. 4, Caine muzzled and on the leash were not
test the Company's lines on that with $200,000 as a mean to be aimed proposed bund will be 3,911 feet Road, who died on June 30, 1927, much use. against thieves. Besides road and parked his car as far to at, though for September $200,000 with a width of 100 feet,
and to have the will established this stray dogs entering the place the left as possible. He got out surfaced with stone and gravel,
and had walked about 20 paces will be allowed. A divisional estimated to cost $30 per foct, or The writ is issued against the de-attacked the muzzled animals who when be heard a crash and, turn- general's pay is about $800,
fendant as one of the next-of-kin were not able to, dëfend themselves ing around he saw the 'hus pushing brigadier's $400 and a colonel's
of testatrix, and he contends that and recently three mongrels had his car into the ditch. He had to step into the middle of the road about $900 to $950. It will there-
the testatrix was physically and actually done this.
to avoid being hit by the on- tore be seen that a wise and
mehtally weak to understand the
Sergeant Henderson, at whose inrusbing 'bus. He saw the 'bus The total cost will be $1,570,000. paternal Government ensures that its
stance the summonses against Mrs. strike the deceased but could not The bund will have an area of meaning or effect of the will, and soldiery does not have any super 10.865 cheng from which after de-also that it has not been made ac-
Matheson were taken out, stated say how deceased fell as he had to get out of the way of the bus. The fluity for enervating luxury and ducting 2,775 cheng for roads there cording to Statute provisions.
that a gentleman and a lady were 'bus came to a standstill in the riotous living.
will remaja 8,080 chen for shops and residence.
Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by walking in Bowen Road, when' Mrs. ditch. Considering the lowest price of land at $350 per Mr. T. G. Bennett (of Messrs. Matheson's dogs annoyed them. cheng, the total value will be Johnson, Stokes & Master) was for 82,831,150, and after deducting the the plaintiffs, and defendant con cost of construction there will be ducted bis own care,
The conference is also considering questions of banditry and river piracy auppression. It is understood that the question of using the mili- tary on road making and other re- -construction work is being discussed. The conference is of such import ance that General Chen Ming Shu, who is attending all sessions, has postponed his visit to Nanking till the business has been finished.
RIVER LAUNCH PIRATED.
A steam launch plying between Canton and Fatahan is reported to have been held up by pirates on the 20th inst. 'Six armed robbers
aa total of 8118,900,
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be
a area of 96
each to contain
To build four warehouses, cheng, and to cost $63,000, or total amount' 8240,000.
a profit of 81,900,650.
Annual receipts from the four warehouses assuming that they con tain 100,000 tons of cargo are exti mated to amount to $720,000, that is, each warehouse will bring in $60,000 for expenses, the
After deducting one-third net profit is $480,000.
The rental from the wharves on
the bund per month will amount to $15,000, or yearly $180,000 Canton News Agency.
CORRESPONDENCE.
were tuong the passengers and AIR MAIL FROM ENGLAND.
when the vessel was nearing Lan-
Outlining his case, Mr. Sheldon said that a man named Lai Hau Yeung, previous to gong North, had an interview with testatrix on September 13, 1996, and at her re- quest wrote out a will. Between
this
His Worship said that as long as the dog regulations existed, every- one had to adhere to them Ho fined the defendant $3 two summonses.
011
SUMMONS WITHDRAWN.
week to enable the question of the After being adjourned from last date and June 10, 1927, extent of the landlord's respon testatrix discussed the various pro-sibility to be gone into the sum visions of the will, and gave her mons against Messrs. E. D. Samoon' eldest daughter, Mrs. Lee Cheungment of No. 11, We Hop Street & Company for allowing the base She, to understand that the will to be used for human habitation, was made and signed.
was again before Mr. T. M. Deceased Helped to Sign the Will.
Hazlerigg yesterday. On the night of June 30, 1927, testatrix became seriously ill, The
"A Very Fast Speed. was on the verandah of her house Miss Mary Abwee aaid that she
at the time and saw the 'bus approach at a very fast speed. She eitimated that it was moving at over 35 m.p.h. It suddenly swerved to the left of the road and it appeared that the driver had lost control. The 'bus. hit the Austin which was parked to the side of the road and knocked it into the trians. ditch. She could not see any pedes-
She telephoned to police and for the ambulance.
Also Knocked Over.
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A Chinese coolie said that he was was Carrying saw-dast. He was hit walking behind the deceased, who
by the Austin 7" and thrown into the ditch. He got up in a dazed condition and found the deceased lying on the ground.
About 12 m.p.h.
chuenyu, they produced revolver, [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG family, including Mrs. Lee Cheung fendants as well as against two evidence. He said that he was!
DAILY TRESS."]
She, Mrs. Ching Chung Shi and Mr. Lai Hau Yeung, were standing around the bed, and she nodded to-
and took control. The crew were forced to anchor and the passengers
SI-I read the letter from your were systematically searched and correspondent "Albion" concerning air mails from London and I think over 22,000 taken from them. The the following will be of interest towards the safe where the will as gang made good their escape and him, and perhaps to your readers in kept. It was brought out, and in the passengers were at least thank.general. ful to think that no one had been either killed of kidnapped.
go by air mail to Moscow in 1 to
answer to a question as to whether she wished to sign it she again nodded her head. A pen was then placed in her hand, but she was s
There is no air mail from London to Vladivostok or from London to Calcutta. Letters, however, may he sent part of the way by air, the THE RACE COURSE. remainder of the journey having to
be done by boat and trait. A letter weak as to be incapable of writing A start will probably be made despatched from London to Hong her signature. Dr. Cheung Wing fairly soon in laying out Canton's Long vid the Northern route, would Tai, who had been attending tenta long projected race course and athletic ground at Shekpai in the day's, from there it would have trix, guided her hand in writing the Tungshan district. The Provincial to travel by Siberian railway, which signature. Government has sanctioned the pro- would mean 13 or 14 days before The will was afterwards witnessed ject and will go halves with the arrival in Hong Kong. A letter municipality in the cost. There is despatched from London in the by two sisters of testatrix together at present a narrow and unpaved Southern route would reach Karachi with Dr. Cheung. At that time, road from Tangshan to Whampoa in six days and would then have to added counsel, defendant was not but this will be widened from travel by train to Calcatta, from Canton to Shekpui, a distance of where it would be despatched by present, Mr. Lai Hay Yeung then boat which would take 16 or 17 looked at the will, and seeing there days. The London Post Office was no date on it be added the date Directory states that a letter posted and replaced the will in the old by air mail to Calcutta would reach there from London in 11 days. It lady's safe. She died four hours would be seen that there is prac afterwards. tically no saving of time by sending a letter via the Southern route.
Your correspondent asks what is wrong with the air mail service
about two miles, and made into a modern motor road..."
SIGNBOARDS TO GO.
The Bureau of Public Safety has decreed that signboards suspended Over the street have got to be taken" down within three days. The rea- soa given is that most of these
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Corroboration by Witnesses, Evidence being called, Lai Hau
2.
that he had seen hia superior officers Sanitary Inspector Foster stated
and had been instructed" to with draw the summons against the de-
The 'bus driver, after being warn- ed by His Worship, elected to give other landlords who were summon travelling at about 12 mp.h.. when ed for similar offences.
Sanitary Inspector Foster incident. He saw the deceased in approaching the scene of the ac-
tenants would be summoned instead The deceased jumped from the left dicated that poably in future the front of him and sounded his horn. of the owners.
side of the road to the right and when witness blew the born again, deceased jumped back to the left. The 'bus was then too near deceased to avoid an accident but witness but his foot slipped from the pedal swerved and pressed his foot brake,.
Austin on the side of the road, He hit the deceased and then the knocking it into a ditch.
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ALLEGED ASSAULT ON MUI
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TSAI
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No Negligence.
In a case mentiqued before Mr. M. Hazlerigg, yesterday, Chinese woman named Wong Young of 49, Elgin Street were charged Shi and her son Wong Kon Kao with assaulting a mui trai, 7 years of age. A woman living at No. 20, After His Worship had summed taking her into employinent as a resuming the Jury gave Hollywood Road is charged with up, the Court adjourned and on their female domestic servant or alter- opinion that the deceased's death natively as a mai tezi and trans was not due to any negligence on ferring her to Wong Yeung Shi the part of the driver." A verdict Mr. Hin Shing Lo is appearing of death by Misadventure was no- for Wong Yeung Shi and her son, cordingly returned. and Mr. A. E. Hall appeared for the woman living in Hollywood Road. The case was adjourned.
A SMART SCHOOLBOY. ALLEGED BAG-SNATCHER
CAPTURED:
signboards, are insecurely suspend. think most people would agree that Yeung spoke of writing out the will' Smith at Kowloon Magistracy yes local steamers resulted in
there is nothing wrong with the air at the request of testatrix.
He
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the
WHO WAS THE OWNER?
woman were before Mr. T..S. Whyte boy and a purser of one of the
A young Chinese and an elderly
The alertapes of an Indian school.
ed and in times of typhoon or
tețday charged with unlawful storm they are liable to give way mail service excepting that there are identified the document produced as
possession of 62 tails of raw opiuma Chinees who in alleged to have arrest yesterday afternoon, of a not sufficient services to connect our the will.
at 136, Tai Nam Street.
Mr, J. M. Remedios appeared Burd Street.
snatched a handbag from a lady in Colonica, and that the delays in
Mrs. Lee Cheung Shi, eldest behalf of the two defendants and delivery of mail are due to service
According to the report made at transport. If an efficient air service daughter of the testatrix, said that pleaded not guilty on behalf of the the Police Station, the two men were operating from London to she had heard from her mother ist defendant and "guilty" Hong Kong, there is no reason why several times that a will had been behalf of the woman. Mr. Remedios saw the alleged snatcher at work and on realising what had taken letters should not reach this Colony prepared but had not been signed. said that the woman had offered to place instantly gave chase and
On the night of her mother's illness, y a parcel for a man but stop arrested him, the document was brought out from Bed on the way before delivering the safe, and she expressed a desire the packet at the first defendant's to sign it by nodding her head. She room for a cup of tea. It was was handed a pen and while the Revenue Officer arrived.
while she was there that the signed the will Dr. Cheung held her hand.
and drop, perhaps onto the heads of unsuspecting pedestrians, A secondary reason is that these hoards are strong up under the verandas in haphazard fashion, and the streets of Canton thus present an untidy and confused pista.
VOLUNTEER POLICE TO BE
DISBANDED. -
in 12 days.-Yours, etc.
,
R. VAUGHAN FOWLER. Hong Kong, August 28.
ARTIST AND PATRIOT.
DEATH OF MR. POON TAT MEI.
The Volunteer Police Corps, form. ed after the Communist upheaval of December, 1997, is to be disbanded. It will be remembered that the corps did extremely good work in restoring order and public confid- ence during the confused days that. The funeral took place yesterday followed the retreat of Chang Fat with impressive Chinese ceremonial Fui and his - " Ironsides." Since of Mr. Poon Tat Mei, a well-known
worker for the National Revolu tion..
The defendant asked his Lordship if the Bench would cross-examine the witnes. His Lordship replied that he could not very well do that. The witness had given ber evidence on cath which His Lordship would the defendant disapproved it by questioning the witness.
on
The first defendant was the prin cipal tenant of the fat and the second defendant" was tenant. The defence asked for the discharge of the first defendant.
TO LOOK FOR KIDNAPPED SON:
That his son had been kidnapped and that he came to Hong Kong to search for him was the excuse give by a banishee to Mr. Whyte Smith for his' return to the Colony before his time was up. Defendaut had been banished in 1927 for 3
His Worship decided to deal with the case against the first defendant in spite of Mr. Remedios' plea that then a capable police, force and a painter and formerly an ardent have to accept as the truth unless there could not be joint possession.. years. reliable garrison have supplanted
Evidence was given by Revenue Sergeant Jessop enid that the the need of this force. It has, how
Officer Young, who said that the defendant should have either writ ever, been kept "in being." each Mr. Poon, who was only 40, died The next witness, Dr. Cheung, first defendant aid originally that ten for permission or have come district, raising its quota for arms on Monday. In the days of the said that he occasionally attended the parcel belonged to his wife and straight to the Station on his and equipment, and supplying its final struggle against the Maachu testatrix, and was called in at about later put the ownership on the arrival. If he had been straight- contingent of men. The Municipality dynasty he founded and edited the 12.30 am. on the morning of her second defendant.
forward in the matter he would. have now decided upon the disband Citizens Press in which the cause death. After giving the old lady an. His Worship remarked 'that it merely have been sent away again. of the Corps and the handing over of the Revolution was ardently injection, he suggested that Dr. Wan looked as if there had been an His Worship imposed a sentence of its weapons to the military advocated.
should also be called in. The will arrangement between the defend-of seven months hard labour. authorities,
Mr. Poon never held office and was put in front of testatrix, and ants. As the prosecution had not after the Republic was founded his witness was asked to hold her hand called the Chinese Revenue Officers interest in politice gradually sub while she signed. At first witness who wore in Court during the pro- sided, and for the last ten years he refused to do this, believing that it ceedings, His Worship, was afraid had devoted himself to painting and would not be legal, but he was as he would have to accept the second the study of Buddhism of which sured by Mr. Ching that it would be defendant's ples. creed be was a sincere devotee. A in order. Witness did as requested good business man, Mr. Poen was the proprietor of the Po Kwong photographic studio in Queen's Road Central,
OFFICE HOURS.
Commencing from September 1 the office hours in all Government Departments will be from 7 to.11 in the morning and from 2 to 0 in the afternoon. This is a modification of the original order in which work was to begin at 6 a.m.
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GAMBLING HOUSE.
A Chinese was fined $100 or two months' hard labour by Mr." Whyte Smith for keeping a common gam-
The first defendant was discharg-bling house at 450, Shanghai Street, and was also one of the attestinged, while the second was fined $1,850 | A second defendant was fined 850 witnesses...
or, eight months imprisonment in or a month's imprisonment for The case was adjourned until 10.30 default:
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