KOWLOON BUS FARES.
NEW - SCALE OF CHARGES.
The Kowloon Motor Bus Co., Etd., the China Motor Bus Com pany and the Kai Tack Motor Bus Co. (1018), Ltd. have sent the fol lowing explanation of the new scale of fares which will come into opern
HUNDRED YEARS
OF LIFE.
ENGLISHMAN WITH A-
VARIED CAREER.
SERVED UNDER GARIBALDI,
London-An Englishman, who hunted slave runners o the West Coast of Africa, served under
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1 1931,
GOVERNMENT- HOUSE.
and
LAST WEEK'S ACTIVITIES. [-
MONDAY, Juno 8.
and Accompanied by the Hon. Mr. HT. Creany, D.PW. Mr. R, M. Henderson, A.D.P.W. His Excellency the Governor inspected the proposed site of the new service reservoir in the Botanial Gardens
tion on the routes' served by these Garibaldi, and was asked by David THURSDAY TURP) Mp3 9789190,
companios on July 1. Full details of the charges between the different sections appear in our advertise- . most columns,
THE NEW SCALE OF FARES.
Minimum Fares,
man
Livingstone to accompany him on his last expedition will celebrate his hundredth birthday this month, Also Fletcher is Durham's oldest This whitebearded old milor, who is still halo and hearty, has a vivid recollection of his many hairbreadth escapes freis death in
Atholl,
The minimum fare remains a strange Janda.. At present, namely, 5 cents second class and 10 cents first class: One section only, (or part of one sec tion) can be travelled for this fare. Longer Distances Second Class.
For any longer distance than one Acction for part thorecf) 10 canin will be charged. That is to say, the maximum second class fare will be 10 cents and this fare will require to be paid by any sccond elass passenger travelling a longer distance than one section or part of one sectica..
Longer Dlaisr.ces Pirst Class. For any longer distance than ono oction for part thereof) the fare will be 10 cents for the first section with an additional 5 cents. for each subsequent two sections (or part of two section).
Service men in uäiform and children will continue to be charg. ed second class fare when travelling in the first class.
I was born at Blair he said in an interview, "and at the end of this month I shall havo completed a hundred years of life. "My father was gamekooper for the Earl of Lauderd do and was murdered by a notorious poacher.
Joinod Navy!
"Having served my apprentico. ship as a tailer, I wont to work in Edinburgh, where, owing to shortage of twopenes in my wages
His Excellency the Governor presided at the meeting of the Executive Counci FRIDAY, June 19,
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. J. Strachan arrived at Covernment House, p
Lady Peel, accompanied by Mrs.
Strachan, attended the Girl Guide
Ray held by Mrs W. T. Southor
at the Colonial Secretary's houso,
The following dined at Govern 'ment House.
NEW TERRITORY TELEPHONES.
EXCHANGE AT TAIPO.
It is actified in the Gazette that the Governor-in-Council has ap proved an extended period, and ing June 30, 1032, for the pro- vision and equipment of the too- phone exchange at Taipo.
The
Governor-in-Couricil has
also approved of the following charge, being a charge, for other servicos of whatsoever nature or kind performed by the Company"
TWO MEXICAN BOYS SHOT.
PRESIDENT'S NEPHEW. KILLED IN OKLAHOMA.
ERROR OF DEPUTY': SHERIFFS.
Ardmoro, Oklahoma, June 8—A
group of deputy sheriffs patrolling state, Jugnways, last, oveninggahòt and killed two Mexican youths, one of whoni Interwas identified As as set forth in the Schedule to Don Emilio Rubio, nephew of Dr the Tolephone Amendmens Ordin-Pascal Ortiz Rubio, president of aneet 1030
the Mexican Public.
"For every junction call between The deputy sheriffs said they had arens served by New Territories beon trolling the motor car in which Exchanges( New Kowloch except Sonor, Rubio and his companions od) and Hong Kong and Kowloon were riding and suspected the boys
(Now Kowloon ineluded) or three
minutes or
duration 20 conts and for every
part of the
a three minutes
additional three minutes or part
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Southorn, the Hon Mr. Creasy, three minutes 20 cents, Mr. Breen, Lt. Col. and Mrs. Marsden, Commander Brooke, Mr. Stuart, Dr. and Mrs. Valentine, Mr. and Mrs. E. Stone.". SATURDAY, June 13.
The Hon. Mr and Mrs. J., Strachan left Government House.
AN EARTHQUAKE EVERY DAY 1
MAN'S TREAD
MAKES WORLD TREMBLE.
loft and joined the Navy I was posted on a Customs cuttor and blown from Orkney to Green- land, where, we succeeded ultimate. ly in repairing the ship and re- gaining Scottish waters, The pirate Gow was captured in the Orkneys during my spell of duty there..
"While stationed in the Mediter. who ranian British
un-
That was one of the facts learn were permitted to dei Garibaldi, with full payed in the basement of a villa at from England, separate pay from West Bromwich on May 3, whore 'Cari,' a handsono bonus and a reporter watched the antics of the assurance that the time would the earth's shell and saw how the count as service in the British world pulentes unceasingly." Navy.
..
sailors
-serve
Monthly Tickets. Monthly tickets will be increas ed from 87.08 to 89.00 for an 'adult- and from 83.00" to 84.00 for a
"I shot dead the traitor who studont. The restrictions at pre- sent attaching to students' tickets wounded Garibaldi In an attempt will, however, be greatly relaxed to assassinato the great loader, and students will be allowed to
use their monthly tickets on any day of the wook except Sundays between 8,00 m. and 0.00 p.m. Students' monthly tickets, however, will not be valid at any time of the day on Sundays.
LOCAL PROBATES,
EUROPEAN AND CHINESE ESTATES.
Not a day has passad in the last five years without an earthquake somewhere.
In the home of Mr. J. J. Shaw, the seismologist, known all over the world as the man who keeps an eye
on earthquakes.
باشم
Mr. Shaw is a fresh-complexion- "While hunting slave runners ofed middle-aged scientist who talks the West Coast of Africa, I sung enthusiastically of the hobby he has at a ball given by the Sultan of pursued for more than 23 years, Zanzibar, where I met David'
Do you know.. Livingstone, who wanted me to join him on his last oxpedition, Whori I told him I was going home to be married when, my service was up, fho repliod, in that ense, I would not dream of asking yon-to-break your promise to the lady.
PROCLAMATION IN SPAIN.
NEW ACCUSATION AGAINST
KING.
Earta-Shaking' Tread, Every time you take a step you make a "dent" in the earth that is felt 30ft. away and at least 15ft, doop fr
Heavy storms at sea make the whole earth shake as though it were being, beaten by a gigantio ham- mer 1.
When a man creeps upstairs to avoid waking his wife he makes such a commotion that the earth is
bending" under his_weight? ́ '. These are some of the startling, revelations of this cellar of myste ries
Estate in Hong Kong worth $10,000 wns eft buy Mr. Fredericle- William Carey, a retired official of the Chincha Martime Customs, who died in Shanghai on January 0, 1031, at the age of 56. He is
Madrid, June 4-The provisional survived by his wife, Mr. Gladys government has issued a pro- Not a day has passed during the Carey, who resides at the Astor clamation signed by all members last five years without an earth- House Hotel, Shenghai. Lottors of of the Cabinet announcing the con- quake, large or small, somewhere administraticu, have been granted | vacation" of the constituent Cortes in the world, to Mr. D. J. Gilmore an attorney on July 14. for the executor.
Chan Yiu, alías Tean Yiou, mer chant, who died in Annam in June lust, left Hong Kong estate worth 802,100, which he bequeathed in his will to his two younger brothers, Chan Chi and Chan Mo Sun, both
"Earthquakes..
"GHOST'S" AID TO A FORTUNE.
FARMER'S BULLET THAT BROUGHT DOWN ZEPPELIN,
''
of being highway robbers. They
the boys increased their speed. The challenged them to stop but instead
officers, then opened fire killing the nephew of the Mexican, president and the other occupant of the maching
As soon as the officers learned the identity of Sanor Rubió. bat
thoy tened to Ardmore and reported the incident to the district, attorney, who in turn telegraphed the Stats Dopartment in Washington what had happened.
A "ghost's" appearance, which led to the destruction of the first Murder Charge Probable.
The district attorney announood Zeppelin brought down in England, was described by Major C.C. that the two officers who firod Colley, Chief Experimental Offcor Messrs. William Guess and Cecil of the Munition Department of the Crosby, both deputy sheriffs, have War Office during the War, ata been arrested and will be held for meeting of the Survival League at examination. They probably will Caxton Hall, London, on May 14. be brought to trial on charges of
murder,"
During the war," be sinted, a
Friends of the slain youths said former New Zealand Farmer, John Pomeroy, invented an explosive the Mexican students were on their bullet. He sold his farm and came way to México City by motor car to England with his family. His after completing their winter invention was turned down by the studies-in-the-United States. All War Office. He went home, but re- the students were heavily armed as turned to England feeling that he would succeed.,
they feared they might encounter bandits on their long motor tour
western states or in northern neross the sparsely settled south-
Mexico.
Major Colley, "I saw a ghost-that "One day in my office," continued
of a man in a tweed jacket and white trousers. I told my secretary Senor Salvatore Rubio, a momber to look for such a man, and Mr. of the Mexican student party, blam Pomeroy was brought to me.g ed the American officers for the in
"Ho demonstrated his invention, Feident. He said the Maxican' party and some spiritual force told me to was proceeding at a comparatively have faith in him. low pace when their car was hailed by the American officers. The stu "I tried to get his ides accepted, dents thought the officers might be and then one night before a Zeppe-bandite and sped up in an effort to in raid. I persuaded : Captain | osoape. The police then opened ira
Senor Salvatore. Rubio was not Robbinson, V. C to take up some injured and informed the sheriffs of of these explosive bullets. He the identity of his two companions, brought down the first Zeppelin who were in the front seat of the destroyed in air attacks on London car and who were killed at the first by Mr. Pomeroy's hullets
volley from the peace officers.
"Mr. Pomeroy received £23,000, and but for that epirit message the value of his invention might never have been realised"
MR, BALDWIN'S ** ONE
PRAYER."
"ANOTHER SPRING IN THE COUNTRY BEFORE I DIE."
countryshe delights of the English countryside. He stated how, when he was in London, he sniffed the "}ímorning breeze for the smell of the
Mr. Baldwin, meaking on May a.occur,many times" 14 in London at a dinner of the The preamble to the proclamation a year that would raze the whole Worcestershire Association, refer stresses the short space of time of London to the ground if they which proved necessary to bridge took place beneath it," Mr. over the period between the re- said. volution and the assembling of the But there is no likelihood of constituent legislature.
like that taking place in this cpuntry.
The document further states that the present provisional government will resign as soon as the Cortes
Shock for Insurersi
Shaw
one
The office of the Governor of the stato in Oklahoma City was inform ed of the incident and immediately got in touch with Washington, offering to tender, an apology...to the." Mexican Government.
Tho
governor described the tragedy as a dreadful misunderstanding" He said the shooting might never have happened had the Mexican students not been heavily armed, landing the sheriffe to believe they were robbers.
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The office of the Governor also telegraphed regrets to the Pre- sidential palace in Mexico City.
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HEALTHY BLOOD
Resentment in Mexico. Mexico City, June 8-News that a sing Den Emilio. Rubio, nephew of the President of Mexico, and a friend,
had been killed by deputy sheriffs near Ardmore, Oklahoma, aroused
strong resentment here to-day
Bill Sower and got nothing but the whit of his asphalt; looked for .The President was informed of petalled blossoms on the ground the tragedy by telegraph from and found nothing but the heavy Oklahoma City and Washington but oil from the motor buses.
refused to issue a statement pend- residing in Hong Kong Testator
"que has to be born, to haveing full reporta. Officials of the was a native of Canton and former
The earthquake which terrorized lived in a country like Worcester- government, said an official report ahir to know what it is to have was expected from the Mexican ly carried on business in the meat This assembly will have to districts in and around Manchester spring clawing at one's vitals," Embassy in Washington to-morrow. Colony at 162, Wing Lok Street. frame, the new constitution' includ and Salford lately will cost in added Mr. Baldwin My one The United States Embassy here Probate of the will, has been granting the special status for Catalonia surance companies many thousands Prayer is that I may live to sos also was informed of the case and another spring in the bountry M. J. Reuben Clark, the Arobas- ed to testator's brothers."
and of such other provinces as may of pounds
**li belga 7 die doodsador, immediately visited the Fre4
"Huch of what played so large aldential Palace to express the re Another Chinese estate in the desire a similar measure of auto. Under a new type of comprehen Colony which has been admitted to nomy. The period of electoral cam sive insurance policy introduced art in the lives of most of us grets of the Washington Adminis
when we were young has gone and tration.qua probate amounted to 810,500. Testu paigning will start immediately about 18 months ago, property gon for ever. It is all so dif- Newspapers here seized on the
owners tor was Les Chan Shi, second con-
will be entitled to elnimi ferit, Then there was the Satur incident as typical of the attitude Scubine of Li Yuen: Wa, who pre-
compensation for damage to pro-day afternoon cricket in the coun- American peace officers adopt to
try There was nothing like it.wards Mexicans throughout the deceased her. She died last year
They don't know what cricket is at south-western United States The Perty by the earthquake,
Lodd's,"" (Laughter.)
editor of Excelsior told the
Prosecution of Kimg.
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It is further announced that the
at the age of of after oroonting & Cabinet : also considered the ques
will making bequests to two other surviving concubines.pr
tion of prosecuting King Alfonso
on the basis of an elaborate act of accusation prepared by the public prosecutor, and decided to bring in PORTRAITS STOLEN FROM this charge before the Cortes pince
PALACE.
it holds that the ordinary supreme court is not competent to
try the former sovereig
Santander, Spain,Thieves have
three portraits, valiloght For the sake of convenience the from the Royal Palace prosecution of generals and other herd. So quietly did the thieves officials of the dictatorial régime of General Primo de Rivers, who are that Civil-Guaids-on-
heard no suspicious to be prraigned; will also be remit
ted to the Cortes,
the
sounds.
".
HEAVIER FINE FOR -
BEGGING.
RAISED FROM 35 TO 12A,
-- "The country," he added, had United Press by telephone that al
never failed to get hold of English while he regretted the incident pole. He believed that the love from an international and personal "of the country was latent in teus viewpoint he believed it may, in the of thousands of our people who had long run, prove of benefit to the mgrated into the towns, and it Maxican people. It is well wated to be called out." (known, the editor said that Hr. John Galsworthy, who also county meace officers, throughout the The draft of a Bill to amend theRather than have our green boen wont to look on all fexicana
appko, said,
south-western United States havo Supimary Offences Ordinanco; 1845,
dewnlands defiled, let us defy, the a little better than bandits, I do is published.
The Office, who, would cover, them not any that is typical of the whole Section 10 is amended by the with aerodromes. Let us consign American people, but I do say that dotetich of the words "five dollars the nethermost regions, the it is a situation which must be cor and by the substitution therefor of powermakers, and the pylons with rested. It is time the officers of the words twenty ye dollars which they threaten us and put the Southwest learned that not all
the fine of five dollars for on The objects and reasche state:to the stocks all those persons Mexicans are sheep karders and holy "A" trail” of newspapera railway labourers The editor said dicancy in publle" highways mid banana skins over beauties this would be the editorial attitudo
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