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On and after the 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1929, the above Bus Service will be extended making a Circular Route as follows:-
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BLAKE PIRB, GARDEN ROAD. CAINE ROAD, BONHAM ROAD. UNIVERSITY, PORTULUM ROAD, SAITING-PUN, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, PEDDER STREET, BLAKE PIER; and vice versa.
Route No. 3
The First Bus via GARDEN ROAD will leave BLAKE PIER at 7:45 A.M. and Every 10 Minutes thereafter until 1.1.25 P.M.-
Route No. 4
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The First Bus via PEDDER STREET and QUEEN'S ROAD will leave BLAKE PIER at 7.50 AM. and Every 10 Minutes thereafter until 11.30 P.M.
The First Bus will leave UNIVERSITY at 8.00 A.M. and Every 5 Minutes thereafter until
11.45 P.M.
Fares to and from University ...10 Cts. Each Way. Children between 8 and 12 Years.. 5 Cts. Each Way.
Monthly Tickets at $10.00 per month can be. obtained from the OFFICE and SHOWROOM, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
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'MEET--THE DUKE!" ROUND THE COURTS. WIDOW'S DISPUTED
HONG KONG HOTEL'S INNOVATION.
"The Duke" was on public view yesterday. Quite a crowd of sight scers gathered around "The Duke" in the vicinity of Blake Pier,
"The Duke," be it known, is the latest product of the Vulcan Motor Company and is a 90-senter observa- tion saloon bus just arrived here from England for service on the University Route, on which the face for the whole journey is to be reduced to ten dents.
PISTOL AND CARTRIDGES:
OWNER. FINED $200.
Arrested on the Tung On Wharf on Wednesday, a Chinese who arrived in the Colony by the Korea Maru nad was about to leave by one of the river steamers, was
brought before Mr. E. W. Hamil
a charge of toa yesterday on possession of two short revolvers, one "Mauser pistol and 3 rounds
of ammunition.
The chassis has been specially The police originally arrested two sprang and designed" for overseas [anen, but the older of the two de work and, when fully loaded, is 21 fendants admitted all responsibility inches from the ground. Special brakes and patent linings bare and told His Worship that, the been fitted and, ZA demonstrated younger man
was his
son. The
to a Daily Press representative two, it would appear, had plenty of yesterday the 'be, when carrying a load of 20 passengers, travelling funds at their disposal and had no at a good speed, can pull up within difficulty in finding bail of 8:00 six feet when the foot brake only fixed by the Police on Wednesday. is applied, within eight feet when the hand-brake is applied, and within one yard when both brakes are fully applied.
The engine develops 24.8 R.A.C. | horsepower and 43 Brake H.P., and is thus admirably suited to the work demanded of it on the billiest roads in the Colony:
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The elder defendant was fined 8400, the police withdrawing the ense against the younger man. The arms acd ammunition were co- fiscated....
A YOUTHFUL' OPIUM CARRIER.
Before being despatched to Hong Observing a Chinese youth get a matter of fact, the ting out of a rieksha with a US- chassis was given a 1,000-mile testpicious looking rattan bag.. among the Westmoreland Hills cul. Police officer stopped him and a minating with Kirkston Pass which search resulted in the discovery of has a gradient of 1 in 4. The
a quantity of opium. steepest gradient on the Ieland, likels to be encountered by the
'bus, is in Garden Road where, at one point, there is gradient of
Glass Panes Tested.
in 6.
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It was ably demonstrated, also, that "The Dake" could negotiate this on second gear with ample re serve power.
Among those present at yester day's trial were Mr. R. A. Cooper, F.B.1.0.A., Mr. T. R. Parsons, Mr. E. P. White, Mr. G. Green wood, Mr. Ngan Shing Kwan, Mr. Kong Po Chi Mr. Chúng Sai Say, Mr. Chang Chin. Mr. Julian, Mr. Chang Fuk, Mr. Saunders (of the Police Dept), and Mr. L. S. Leveson.
Mr. Cooper reported most satis. factorily upon the toning influence of the glass panes in the windows when the sun glare was at its height.
In all, the new Vulcan 'bus should prove highly popular with residente,
Produced before Mr. Hamilton
yesterday the youth pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of the drug and added that he was only 18 years of age. His Worship observ ed that the defendant looked more like 18. If he were to sent the boy to prison it would be for a year. In view however, of the practise of smugglers of engaging youthful carriers, His Worship intimated that he would think over the ques tion. The youth was
remanded until Saturday morning.
THEFTS FROM SERVANTS' QUARTERS.
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Two Chinese youths were before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at Kowloon
stealing Magistracy blankets, a clock, a wrist watch, two metal pipes, two jackets and two pairs of trousers from the servants' quarters at 313, Nathan Both defendants pleaded Road. Builty.
Inspector Marke said that the de fendants were seen in the street
"DREAM OF LOVE." carrying part of the stolen pro
perty. One was arrested but the other escaped. Later the other LOVE AND THE TELEPHONE the stolen property was recovered.
man was caught and subsequently
Both defendants had been caution- ed a fortnight ago for stealing and
A QUICK MOVING ROMANCE. His Worship after remarking that
[BY OUR FILM CRITIC.]
leniency had not been appreciated now gentenced each to receive twelve, strokes of the cane and one month's imprisonment.
HIT WITH A CHOPPER,
A Chinese was charged before Mr. Whyte Smith with "assaulting another with a chopper and caus- ing a superficial wound on his shoulder.
You will enjoy "Dream of Love," which is now showing at the Queen's, if you like Ruritanian " romances.
It is full of incident and excitement and is well staged throughout.
The story is not unfamiliar but is none the worse for that. The His Worship imposed a fine of Crown Prince. Mauritz-of Burit | 810 or 14 days' hard labour and re- ania-falls in love with a beautiful | marked that he did not regard fight- gipay girl, and too late realises thating with sticks as serious but when his duty to his country precludes a man used a chopper it was an him from performing his duty to entirely different matter.
hur. After the great war we meet Mauritz again as an officer in the army of his country, now, ruled
over by a dietator. Adrienne, the
gipsy, now become a famous actress
TREMENDOUS FIGHT IN GAMBLING DEN.
plays at the theatre, and Mauritz, A crowd of tyenty-seven Chinese now free to declare his love fudsere before Mr. Whyte Smith for happiness for a short while. But gambling at 114, Canton Road. there is another lady, a countess, who also finds the young prince in teresting and is intriguing with him to restore him to the throne. When she discovera his affair with the actress she betrays the plot to the dictator and Maritz is condemned
One of the defendants gave his address as No. 9, The Peak, while a second said he was a "boy" at the Peninsula Hotel. The chief de- fendant was fined 860 or 5 weeks, while fines of 82 were imposed on each of the other defendante.
Detective Sergeant Humphreys
to be shot. By a swift change of told His Worship that there had
fortune's wheel, the revolution
been
a
WILL.
EVIDENCE ON CHINESE
LAW CITED.
PLAINTIFFS WIN THE CASE.
The action in which two plaintiffs, Ching Tid Tan (second son-in-law) and Cheung Shiu Fan (second son) are seeking to establish the validity of a will made by a Chinese. widow
was continued before the Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) at the. Supreme Court and concluded at the morning sitting. The defendant, Cheung Shin Ying, the eldest son (adopted) diapated the legality of the will and contended that the testatrix was physically and men. tally unable to understand the effect of the will when it was signed,
Mr. H. G. Sheldon (instructed by Mr. T. G. Bennett, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master) appeared for the plaintiffs and the defendant was not legally represented.
-Mrs. Ching, a daughter of the testatrix, gavo evidence of the will being taken out of the safe, the key to which was kept under the old lady's pillow, and the signing of the document during which Dr. Cheung held the testatrix's band.
when the soliciter arrived and open- Defendant: Do you agree that
ed the safe I was not allowed to go. near t-I did, not notice that, but perhaps the solicitor can explain.
Was there any money under the "pillow as well as the key-I do not
know.
Defendant asked how much money was spent on the funeral but the Judge said the Court could not go into that.
Dr. Tso on Chinese Law,
The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tao, called as an expert in Chinese law,' said. that there is no law requiring.cer. tain forms of execution of a will. The word "will" in the Chinese sense did not have the same legal meaning as in the English sense. The Chinese terms" were chuk shu. Chuck meant the intention of a per- són to expresa wishes by word of mouth, particularly with reference to the disposition of property after. death. Reducing to handwriting was the meaning given to shu by Dr. Teo.
Thero was a law in China with regard to the distribution of pro- perty which definitely set out that the head of the family had power to dispose of property as he thought. best. There was no law setting out the form of a will and therefore any writing which purported to show the intention of a person would he held as a valid will, if the document was proved to ex- press the sentiments and wishes of a person. In that event, the docu- ment might be signed by the testn- tor, or by someone acting for him, or it need not bear tesfatol's signa ture at all. ·
Recalling the facte given in evi- dence as to the manner in which the will was prepared and signed, Mr. Sheldon naked witness if that evi- dence were accepted by a Chinese Court, would the will be considered valid?
Witness agreed and went on to say that even if certain portions of the evidence were omitted the remainder would still be sufficient to stamp it as a valid will accord- ing to Chinese law.
Defendant's Submissions, Questioned by defendant, Dr. Teo said that he (defendant) as the oldest adopted son was not the head of the family while testatrix was alive.
Defendant suggested that in Chine a woman was submissive to
"
or
her father before marriage, to her husband after marriage and to her planned by Mauritz and the Coun-which some of the Chinese detectives
Bons in old age. "tremendous fight" in
Replying to this, witness said the teas comics spontaneously just in time to save the hero, bat, instead
were injured. Over 100 people
word chung did not mean " submis- sive" but "go with ' "live were on the premises and the fight of dying with his lover's name on might easily have developed into a
with." his lips, the young prince has now to live without her as he is once
very serions affair.
His Lordship remarked that such more royalty who cannot marry
a sentiment was contrary to humen nature. "the stage." A solution which is
that not hard to guess, but which is refreshingly original for the films,
is arrived at.
that they had gone into the premises Some of the defendants claimed
to inspect some pictures which were on display in abservance of the Chuchow festival.
MEDICINE VENDORS
DISAGREE.
Two Chinese, described as medi- cine vendors, were before Mr. Whyte Smith for disorderly con- dust,
Nils Aather plays the Prince It is not a part which demands mach beyond an ability to wear smart uniforms and look generally roman- tic, but he makes the best of it. The central figure is really Adrienne the dancer, who in the person of Joan Crawford, becomes a most at tractive figure. Aileen Pringle has It was stated that the defendants the role of the Countess, and some sold medicine on the Yaumati very ugly fracks. Carmel Meyers Ferries, and one-objected to the appears once or twice as the interference of the other who "friend" of the dictator and looks established his business on the most alluring. The dictator bir same boat. They created a disturb self, the villain of the piece, is ance and were told to stop but re- played with the deepest villany by fused. Warner Oland.
His Worship and that the first The settings are as magnificent as defendant should have taken hie we have learnt to expect them to grievance to the Company for be in this type of picture, and in settlement and not struck the second places artistic in arrangement. defendant.
What a lot of trouble the telephone His Worship fined the first de- does cause in modern life, and how | fendant 82 and ordered both to`ziga convenient it is in the making of bonds, for their future good be- a play 1-
haviour.
Defendant contended widow had no right to dispose of property left by a man, and such property must be left to the sons to deal with.
His Lordship gave judgment for the plaintiffs and directed that the costs be met from the deceased lady's estate.
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