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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1931.
MR. PEPYS IN HỌNG THAT PEAK TRAM
KONG.
ADVERTISEMENT.
GOVERNMENT REQUESTS
REMOVAL.
Passengers travelling in the Peak Tramway yesterday were extremes ly interested to observe that the Trum advertisement,
about which there has been so much controvers recently, seemed to be in process of obliteration. The "Peak had already all but dis- appeared, and speculation as to the probable fate of the remainder was rife.
12th.This morning I walk be times to the office on the way fall to reflecting upon the strange lack of anyour I find in a Saturdhy Toronoon these hot days. And, as I tell Mr. Povy nt the Club Inter, I perceive, that I grow old. But ho and Creed do make themselves" Peak, mighty merry and tell me that I have a sluggishness and indisposi tion of the liver, and that I should call "in a chivargton" to let me blood. Sa on my way hack to the office. I call in upon. Polling, the Apothecary, who do ask me de many questions as my wife some times, of what strong watch
drink, and how often I take a posset, and I do believe him to be a tiraomo fellow who do put down well" nigh every human i to strong liquer. However; 1 do per- ceive a grain of sense in his advice' to exercise my body more, and make a vows to go to the nets ? for practicing of Criquette at least o onc in every wok!
13th. This day quietly at homes in my garden ronding of the news theota, when I discover my gar- dener planting out some seedlings; and upon enquiry I find he sowed some seeds of radish, which I gave him for broard sowing in a bed, in a pot, and there grew them to two inches high and now sets them out, one by one, in the groundi But I doubt that this is not the mander of it; yet, if I do get me a crop, I am minded to tell Mr. H. Greon of it. Good news that we do just beat Shanghai and Tientsin in the swimming matches, and I learn much of the credit do belong to Mr. R. Pereira, who swima Diost excellently. But strange it is to and Mr. E. da Roza but third in the 'diving, who
FOUR DEATHS “IN”
SMALL FIRE.
WOMAN AND 3 CHILDREN SUFFOCATED
-TRAPPED IN COCKLOFT.
Further details of the fro in Chinese Street which occurred on
Thursday night, a
and which was reported briefly in our issue of yes terday, have now come to hand.
The damage caused” toʻ property was comparatively slight, but as n result of their being overcome by fumes and sustaining severe burns, Accordingly, a representative of four people died after being rush the Daily Press Communicated fod to the Government Civil Hos with an officiul of the Peak Trampital. They were discovered by fire way Company, and was informed man, who found their inert bodies that in deference to the wishes of in a cockloft. They were
were:Tung the Government, the advertisement Ngon woman, age unknown was being erased,
Chan Bo He, aged nine; Chan
The news has inspired our tamo Leung Fo, aged thren; Chan Ho post chur
Mui, aged thres
"It was not fair to outward view
As many signs can be: Its loveliness I never kn It never smiled on me..
I only saw, in dirty white, The words Peak Trama ghastly
"sight!
The Brigade received the alarm, rnised by a passer-by about 11.15 p.m. and three appliances and threa ambulances were rushed to: the acedo, only a stone's throw from the
of Station Officer W. M. Smith. “ Tire Station, under the direction
A ladder, at the rear of the build-
But now the hillside, green, and ing led firemen to the cockloft where the bodies of the four inmates were. discovered.
cald;
Eas lost its hideous ad. Thank Heav'n I can again bohold Its beauty und am gladiu Its foggy gloom is fairce, far The vulgar adverts ever are. -
With abjcet apologies
to Coleridge.]
Subsequently ladders were run up to the floor from which four people wore brought down, while two boys, both of whom suffered slightly from burns to the hands, were also rescued.
Jumped from Verandah,
A man and a woman had carlier
always do win here an easily. It here are indolent in going to seems that: the thousands who do theatres no less than concerts, and travel to Southampton to see the that, though they would enjoy jumped from the first foor veran Schneider Cup are disappointed of thein when there, the trouble of dah in a panic, and were slightly their journey, for the weather be journeying to and fro bo too great. injured, necessitating their most favle and no flights made, 16th.-News still very bad from
maval to hospital.
and a curse seems to reat upon this homo and even Holland is drawn. Th fire itself, however, Cup, and it is good fortune the into the trouble. And passing business will be done with now:
WAS
strange it is that from Ireland quickly under control, and never 14th-This morning I hear to my alone have no evil tidings, come ru spread beyond the cockloft, which greatest possible joy that Mr.cently. News that my old friend Jenkin bo, made one of His Dr. Koch goes home soon, and it was burnt out, the personal belong- Majesty's Counsels, an honour 19 hard to believe it is well ings of the inmates being destroyed. which is most justly granted to his nigh twenty years gone he did. The cause of the fire has not been worth. In the University of Cali attend upon me in the Civil fornia, a not machine is made, to Hospital, where he was with Dr. ascertained, but it is believed that shoot at, and break down, heavy J. Bell. And I pray that his days it can be traced to ʼn lamp or jess atoma. Of which I enquire from may be long in the land of his stick left burning in the room, Sir R. Harpenden at the Club, retirement This day I read a what it may be; and he says it he letter in a nows-skeets of one whose which somehow set fire to an attempt to utiliza gangster neighbour hath bought a wireless rattan basketa." energy in a scientific method to Ret to his very greatest possible! release atomic energy. But how discontent, so that he appeals to thie shall be I know not, but an
the Post Master-General to pre in doubt whether he jeste or no.
termit the transmission for one or It seems that yesterday the British two evenings in a week. And meet airmen did out-do the past speeding the Post Master in the Club record, and I trust they will let it this evening I show it to him, who alone before more lives are lost or replies that one man's meet be an
Scene of Tragedy,
Chinose Street in a small laue be tween Pottinger Street and the Central Market, connecting Queen's Road and Des Voeux Road. The
utilised a cockloft as sleeping quarters for his wife and daughters, With two sons, and two employees, he himself slept in another part of the premises, to ones
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more of His Majesty's flying boots other man's poison, and would ad- building affected was one of three are destroyed. Throwing the dice vise the poor gentleman himself to with several gentlemen at the Club, keep roosters, of which there be storeys, the ground floor housing I had great good. fortune and much enough and to spare round about a salt merchant, while the two un- conversation, learning among other Prince Edward Road, or so he do per floors were used as tenements, matters that the Directors are hear. But he then, speaking out minded to remove the legend upon of a jeste, do tell me that in flats than Chuen, the proprietor of the Peak Tramway; which we are and undetached houses, and es- the ground floor business, occupied all agreed be very sensible of them. pecially where the party walls be the.. premises with his family and For it gave offence to many, and thin, this question of wireless setts! I doubt they would not be a ecat is a most parlous one, and that he the better of it. Mr. Ashby alone knows of no method of adjustment seemed to approve the scheme, for save that of neighbourly good feel. he said that it be a most manifesting, and unselfishness on both sides. Jacob's ladder whurely, all good 17th-The most grave news that Kowloonites might, ascend whenever I read comes from home this they die. And so home in some morning, of the unrest in the. When aroused by the famies the: disorder, and early to bed.
Atlantique Fleet; and thers has 15th-This morning talking with been no such action since the Proprietor's wife and the children my wife who did take it mighty Mutiny of the Nore. And I per attempted to leave their beds but ill I return home so lat, and Iceive that it is said to be due to
were overcome by the fumes. So Perceive it will be wiser to practer decisions of the former Govern- small and ill-ventilated were the mit my drinking of wins in the ment, and not of the National Club in the evening. But Lord Government which but carried out premises that the other inmates too where else (save maybe in Ito the routine laid down by their felt the suffocating effects of the House Street) shall a man hear predecessors. And to me, it doth
seem clear that the politicians did smoke, but they managed to escape find that still more speed attempts rely upon the loyalty of all His into the street little the worse for are made at Calshot, and I fear Majesty's forces to make them their experience. evil will come of it. In Canton, Swallow cats such as they dare not newspapers from Shanghai and lay upon the dole-hounds, and the Nanking are forbid as hostile. And trollops who will draw their dol so I suppose are Canton papers when they might saen high wages in the North, though of this I have as a domestique. And while such no aure tidings. But Lord! How shall have votes, things will never shall one know the truth when the be merry again in England. news from each side be given out 18th.---Reading
what is toward This morning I
in
CONCERT AT CLUB DE RECREIO.
MISS D'AQUINO TO GIVE SONG RECITAL
the News. for propaganda and as contrary as Sheet, it doth appear that the dis possible. Yet much I hope that turbance in the Fleet be much ex- peace may yet prevail. It seems aggerated and that perfect order Mrs Aimee MacPherson is ardo be maintained. Mutiny indeed riod again, to a teacher of music, it must be termed, but if needs the Club de Recreio on Monday at and I perseive that Melody hath there be mutiny, then is this o
A Song Recital will be given at
her heroes no less than War. And pattern of lawfulness. And it will 9.15 by Miss Edris d'Aquino, indeed Melody likewise hath her be well if the dele-hounds do take soprano, who is a pupil of Mind exponents, who do travel up and their cuts with such order, age, and Marin Gomes. down in the world, and come, it
the schoolmasters, too. For the
Shakespeare Schubert. Maiden's wish
1. Chopin. The Pipes of Pan Moncton. Violin Solo-Selected;
.Prof. Gonzales. Tosti.
may be to Hong Kong. And forth genuine unemployed sy little,
The programme will be as fol- with the cognoscenti do lecture us save in pity. For them, the dole, lowsing and say that this or that is the evil, is neccasury, But I do 1.-Who is Sylvia heaven-born musician. But I per style those as dole bounds who ceive that most folk in Hong Kong could work an they would, or in are of simple pleasures and do not very fact do work and draw the appreciato such art, and go not dele too. At which men my to the concerta. Whereat the
stomach turns as the most beastly muajeìads are angry at their fellows possible. And I will think - Vachella naughty ignorance and sloth, and stylo them Philistines. And so no more of them but turn my mind
to the futura Interportat Apriló anid to Mr. Creed; who --replied
Criquette, in which, thanks be" to 4.-Amgt men ....Buy.Coelho. mighty quick that he had read in God, we have yet one clean sport Outono the Holy Scriptures that the Philis- tines disliked the Jews, and so he left. For if any are doleful over Rétkinbl
matters of politique, let him to 6. Violin Bolo-Bolected. {-doomed-it-to be true-But-1-think-
#more likely that the residents the Cricket Ground and the kis
of the bat on the ball will charm 8Princesita. (Vontinued on near Ooluma.}^ him from his evil bumowyw
Ave Maria.
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