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Pe Sale by Pablo Auction to be held on TUESDAY, the Bre DAY of AUGUST, 1930, ut 3 zx, at the Offices of the Public Works Departmest, by Order of His ExLLENOY THA GOTENCE, of One Let of CROWN LAND at Prince Edward Road, Mong Kok Tsui, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at Crown Rent to be fired by the Burveyor of His MAJESTY - TRX Ko, for one further term of 75 years.
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
*No. 2372.
Kowloon Iplṣnd Lot
Prince Edward Road, Mong Kok Tsui.
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be held on TUESDAY, the STH DAT of AUGUST, 1937, at 9 M., at the Officer of the Public Works Department, by Order of H EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of One Lot of CHOWN LAND at Shamshuipo, in the Colony of Hong Kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1998 with the option of renewal at Crown Reat to bo ized by the Surveyor of His MAJESTY THE KING, for one further term of 24 years less three days,
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TIME.
LEGAL OMISSION IN RUSSIAN BANK CASE.
FULL COURT GRANTS
EXTENSION.
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An unusual point arose since, the.. Full Court of Appeal reserved decision last Tuesday in the appeal judgment of Sir against Henry Gollan, who held that the $300,000 assets of the Russo-Asiatic Bank should go to the London treditors. It was discovered that
POSSESSION OF ARMS.
CHINESE GETS FIVE YEARS.
FOUR ACCUSED MEN
DISCHARGED,
Five years' hard labour and 24 strckes of the birch was the sen tence passed by Mr. R. F. Lindsell and Mr. H. R. Butters, sitting to- gether, on Cheung Teng, a Chinese who faced the charge of unlawful possession of one revolver, automatic pistol, four file daggers, two magazines and 19 rounds of ammunition.
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the notice of motion had not been filed within the legal period of two weeks after judgment, and that the Originally four others were charg appeal was therefore out of time. ed with Cheung Teng, but Chief Counsel engaged in the case ap-Detective Inspector Reynolds asked peared before the Full Court of three Judges yesterday in the after noon, when an application was made on behalf of the appellants (Shanghai creditors) for an exten-
sion of time. '
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were accordingly discharged and the case against Cheung Teng was proceeded with.
permission to withdraw the charge against them, stating that there was not sufficient evidence against them to get a conviction. It was hoped to charge them in connection with some other crimes, but here again In making the application, Mr.no evidence was forthcoming. They Elton Potter dealt with the ques tion of the appeal being out of time. He asked in view of the fact that the appeal had already been heard and on the authority he had quoted that the application be granted. Counsel "said that if the appeal were taken to the Privy Council they would not take notice of the point in question, but if their Lordships desired it, Mr. Sheldon would address the Court.
It was stated that the arms were found in a house opposite the Tin Hau Temple in Wong Nei Cheong Road on July 22. The defendant was arrested inside the house while the other men, were caught in the house next door.
- In admitting that the arms were in his possession, defendant stated that another man named Lo Cheung was also involved.
AUGUST 1, 1930,
CORRESPONDENCE, DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
'A' PLEA FOR THE COOLIE.
· [TO THE EDITOR OF TEL “ KONG XONG
DAILY PRESB."]
IN CITY
BANK FOKI 'ROBBED OF
$10,000.
Quito unsuspected by pedestrians SIR,-The thoughtful observers of passing along Bonham Strand the good-natured and easy-going East at about 3.30 p.m. yesterday, tribe of rickshaw and chair coolies
a most daring robbery occurred, cannot but hail with joy the wel with the result that a Chinese faki come news that an effort is being had $10,000 taken away from him. made in the Legislative Council to The fuki, who is an employee of Chinese bank at 38, Bonham permit them to increase their fares,
It is indeed a matter for gratifica Strand East, was sent to deliver tion that there is at least one a sum of $10,000 to another bank. unofficial member who begins to He had not gone far from his co- feel a little anxiety for their wel-ployers' office when he was pounced fare, and seems to view with dis-upon and attacked by two quiet that even this long-suffering strangera, race may be affected by the present. The robbers, evidently, were in high cost of living.
possession of information regard- ing the habits of the bank's, em- ployees, as in spite of the fact that the $10,000 were secured to the foki's girdle, the thieves managed to extricate this sum during the attack.
Nor, must another source of
repress a
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The affair lasted only a few minutes, and before the public as aware what had happened, the two robbers had decamped with the
money.
evil go unnoticed concerning these people. Time and again ore cannot of pity at the way sense they are abused and exploited as human beasts of burden," How often we have seen rickshaw pullers in particular going from one end of the city to the other for the paltry sum of fifty cents at the схредс of overstraining their strength, and thus hastening the An alarm was raised, but it was end of their short span of exist af no avail, for the robbers had ence. The same remarks apply to by this time put a good distanco the chair-carriers, who have to between them and their victim. exert their last ounce of strength to climb an interminable stretch of billy road so as to earn 25 to 30 cents. If they raise their voice ever so little for an increase of hire, they may be threatened with the fist, the boot, or the truncheon
Sir Peter Grain (the Presiding Judge) remarked that in his opinion the Privy Council would Mr. Lindsell: What have you got of the "cop." take immediate notice of such a these arms for, robbery.!
Defendant I didn't know what point and decided to hear Counsel.
Mr. Sheldon said that the judg-Lo Cheung intended to do with ment was delivered on February 5, them. 1930, and the notice of motion should have been filed within four tren days, e, February 18, but it was not filed until May 13, to which date the extension of time was
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Then, again, have we not seen on the streets a matter of daily occurrence-these coolies being treated with incredible severity for the slightest deviation at the hands of the police, and subsequent heavy fine in the Courts.
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To-morrow the latest 'addition to the C.P.R. fleet-the- Empress of Japan-is due in Hong Kong from England on her maiden voyage. On Tuesday evening next a num ber of leading residents will have dinner on board, and arrangements are being made to broadcast the speeches to be made on this occa sion.
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It is an ambitious effort, au never before in the Colony has an attempt been made to make use of the microphone on board ship. If all goes well, listeners will be able to hear the band of the Empress play. and listen to the speech-making in the great dining-saloon on board ihe Ener. It will be a novel and most interesting occasion, and every effort is being made to ensure good reception.
him arrested. From letters founded community. Something shoulding before and after the reception,
on the premises it was gathered that defendant was a seaman. The revolver and pistol were loaded.
It was ascertained that the house which was to have been raided by the robbers contained $500 in gold and a large amount of silver and valuable property.
Mr. Reynolds told the Court that the police had been told an armed robbery was contemplated on a house in Connaught Road. They kept watch for several nights and on the night in question they reid Counsel went on to quote authori-ed the defendant's house and had ties to support bis argument that it was within the competence of the Court to grant an extension so as" not to cause any injustice.
Asked for his views, Mr. Jenkin, [9690 who appeared for one of the respon dents (London creditors) said that he had no objection and would leave the matter in the hands of their Lordships. Counsel further said that the Attorney General, appear. ing for another respondent (Official Liquidator), was not present in Court owing to being away at the Legistatice Council meeting, but he (Mr. Jenkin) was also speaking on behalf of Mr. Alabaster...
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The Presiding Judge' granted the application for extension of time ou the understanding that it was not to be taken as a precedent. His Lordship stated the grounds for this devision were that the appeal bad already been heard and that the application had not been opposed.
BURGLAR CAUGHT AT
"KENNEDY ROAD.
PAWN TICKETS DISCLOSE SERIES OF THEFTS.
BOMB", "ATTACK ON
WITNESSES.
Hong Kong has changed, is chang ing, and mast continue to change, and it is high time that more con- sideration should be shown to this lower stratum of our highly-develop. be done to regulate or check the abuse of these coolies. In the case of the rickshaw pullers, for in- stance, trafic for hire might be divided into zones, which should not exceed certain limits, such as the pullers from Wanchai not going" beyond the Central Market, thence to Des Voeux Road West 8 an- "other demarcation, and so on.
The Chinese General. Chamber of Commerce took extraordinary pains the other day to appeal to the Government to retry the Hang Tak case, but why not devote their at teation and energy to a far more worthy cause in improving the miserable lot of the rickshaw and
STARTLING DISCLOSURES" IN chair coolies, whose average life is
EXTRADITION CASE,
said to be not much longer than seven years, and why not set up clinics to protect those coolies from perishing prematurely of tuber- culosis and varicose veins Yours.
WORTHY CAUSE. etc.,.
Hong Kong, July 31.
The case in which extradition proceedings are being taken against three Chinese who are wanted for alleged murder at Taifu Village," Namhot District, was, reaumcd yes- terday when Mr. Hin Shing Lo, Counsel for the defence, contended CURRENCY AND BANKING, that the undue interference with witnesses the arrest and detention [TO THE EDITOR OF THE of certain of his witnesses up- country-had perverted. justice and crippled his defence.
The Public Prosecutor, Mr. Somer set Fitzroy, explained the absence
DAILY PRESS."]
HONG KONG
As a result of the arreat of Hoof Tam Thong and Tam Wo; two Banking Corporation to act as a
Tock (28) on Wednesday, the police believe they have at last caught the man who has been responsible for so many burglaries in the Kennedy Road district.
of his witnesses, saying that they had been the victims of a disastrous bomb attack. Continuing, he said that information had been received
The man was brought before Mr, that on Monday the two men went H. R. Butters yesterday on the
charge of theft of a biscuit bowl,
SIB,-Just a few lines in answer to your correspondent." Hard Fact." He says that "like many others, it seems Dr. Kotewall ex- pects the Hong Kong and Shanghai Federal Reserve Bank in the Colony when it is purely and simply an individual enterprise and, in that all the more cautiously in times of case, the manager is bound to act crises like 1925, for he is responsible
to Taifu "Village from Fatahan. to his shareholders and the Board'
interfered with, the Court agreed that conditions up-country" were certainly abnormal
of Directors. I do not think that
the property of Mrs. Keswell of About 8 o'clock that evening they the Hon. Dr. Kotewall and the Block, Married Quar-were sitting outside Wo's house many others" who share his view, tera, Kennedy Road. He was ar- when a bomb was thrown at them It is precisely the fact that the have misconceived the real position. Tested with the bowl-in his posses- sion while trying to raske good his and they were both severely injured. Bank in purely and simply an in- escape.
Soldiers were called but this had dividual enterprise." that they con- It was stated that a number of
no effect; another bomb was thrown sider the present system of note- pawn-tickets were found" on him.
wall has given in his reservation his: These related to other property and two of the soldiers were hurt. issue should be changed. Dr. Kote- stolen previously and included two As it had been shown that the reasons for suggesting the creation woollen blankets belonging to Miss witnesses for both sides have heen of the Currency Advisory Board, Hill of No. 7, "B Block stolen
and I am sure that all right-think on June 17, and also a clock and a
ing men agree with them. silver cigarette case, the property
No one can contravert what is of the same lady, which were taken
said in the concluding paragraph of away on July 7. These have all
"Hard Fact's letter concerning: been recovered from the pawnshope. Regarding the point raised by bankers and their clients, but it is Miss Hill stated that she also had Mr. Lo, that interference with his all beside the point, which is whe- ther the present system of note-issue a. sewing machine stolen from her witnesses was a legal ground for but this has not been traced yet. the discharge of the fugitives, the is to the best interests of the Other valuables were also recovered Magistrate held that in the absence Colony. The community is indebt- from the nawashops, but the owners of other convincing evidence throwed to Dr. Kotewall for having ex-
Aloubar the cherche ce puditory what to santo At there have not VEL COMIC Orthopedisjon such & chory long doelp corales to claim them.
Charged, alternatively, with being ples was not sufficient for granting for his recommendation in regard a receiver of the articles recovered the discharge. from the pawn brokers, the prisoner pleaded not guilty, but after evi dence by Det.-Sergt. Johnson, was taken, the accused was sentenced to six months hard labour.
yet come forward
The evidence of the defence, his Worship said, had not convincingly thrown- doubt on the story of the prosecution.
The case is proceeding
to stabilisation. Your correspon- dont "Hard Fact has indeed given hard facts from the Banks' point of view. Yours faithfully,
AVERITY Hong Kong, July 31.
PASSENGERS.
Arrivals.
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Mr. Wong Yuk Chung, Mrs. Ng, Dr. and Mrs. S. To Wong, Mr. J. Lyman Pury, Mrs. B. E. Teriguy, Mr. and Mrs William Gibb, Miss Mary McPike, Miss Lucy Woolery, Miss Edith Raco, Mr. E. L. Fien ainger, Mr and Mrs. Harry T Thomason, Mr. and Mrs. E. F Dickson, Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bailey, Mr. H. Plant, Miss E. Glass, Dr. E. D. Gaylord, Mrs. E. D. Glass, Miss E. Gaylord, Miss C. Gaylord, Miss M. E. Michael, Miss N. Kep- pell, Mr. and Mr. E. K, Lee, Mr.
The following passengers arrived yesterday by ss Kashmir :- Mr. M. A. Cooper, Major R. H. E. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. El ford and two children, Comdr. R. H. Lane, Mr. H. Langmead, Misses Langmead (2), Mr. and Mrs. T. W Airs, Master Airs, Miss Airs, Lt H. Marshall, Mr. Royal Bond, Mr. John B. Jordon, Mr. F. L. Comdr. D. Dowling, Mr. 6. Thorpe, Lee. Dr. S Rasanayagam, Miss Mr. F. Roberts, Mr. G. A. Leiper, Ruth Purnell, Miss B. Frick, Miss Helen Boughton, Miss HRIST Mr. L. V. Baker, Mr. G. A. Angus, Sparks, Mr. Ooi Phee Tuan, Mrs. Mr. C. G. Witchell, Mr. N. H. K. A. Pendleton, Mrs. H. Mayer, King Mr. B. S. Mattu, Mr. S. H. Mr. H. Adams, Mra. D. W. Kemp,,
Mr. G. Hartig, Mrs. A. Wallace, Williams, Mr. E. S. Davies, Mr. Mise Skeer, Mess G. Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Davies, Miss G. S.A. Wheeler, Mr. Vernon 1. Caton,.
Davies, Miss Trowell, Mr. Mr. and Mrs Fung. Kin Fi, Mr. Bayley, Mr. J. Law, Miss C. WE. Bornshein, Miss M. K. Loe Tam,
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Departures.
Misa Lucy Sen (Thing. Kan, Mr. Ho Pick Yuk, Mr. P. D. Raeburn, Miss J. Raeburn, Mr. Y. E. Wong, The following passengers left Mrs Mary S. Godwin, Miss Lucy Kanha, Mr. T. Egawa, Mr. H. yesterday by ss. Chichibu Maru: Itoh, Mr. Y. C. Chan, Lient, O. Mr. Quan Chew, Mr. Lee Toy, Mr. J. Martin, Miss Alida Shinn. Ma- Lei St, Mr. Toam Cheung Woon, DC Toomily G MacDonald, Miss W. Daw- Mrs. Yong Shee, Miss En Moy son, Mr. K. Yamamoto, Mr. P. T. Hin, Miss Hui Ying, Mr. Young Carey, Mr B. Bhoja, Mr. J. Fun Leung, Mr. Leung Kam Mayunling, Mr. T, A. Chen. Cheong, Mr. Chow, Mr. Y. C. Au Yang, Mr. H. Au Yang, Mrs. 8. S. Liang, Master S. T. Liang, Mr. Lai, Mr. Lee Sheung Shun, Mrs. Ng Wun Wah, Mrs. Lau Chun Ying, Mr. B. L. Pond, Mr. Chui Ngok Wai, Mr. Mak Chung Hang, 9.
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