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after name and address of the writer, not for publication, unilega so desired. trimming myself, to my Office but as evidence of good faith-ED.] where I order my papers, and my ΠΟΜΟ · stenographer, prove well enough save that she be an aflic. tioun unto the eye. Then to a pre view of a picture called 'But the
not so ill neither, and I laugh
pretty heartily at Mr.
Robert
MIDGET TAXIS IN KOWLOON.
DAILY PRESS."]
Montgomery. After, I drink a glass of wine with Mr. Drummond Siu,-Since reading the ia- and bis lady, and later to Deep toresting letter in your edition of Water Bay where be as big 2 crowd the 14th ins, with regard to chea- waiting as ever I saw. But I to per Midget Taxis I have been, like my walk by the Horse Road, and many others ¿A 'expect,.
"Waiting aside to Lady Clementi's Ride to see" whether there would be any where the road falls into disrepair, response from some expurt source, and is dangerous but for all that with regard to the possibilities of a mighty pleasant walk with a the scheme.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1932.
DEATH ENQUIRY.
RECENT TRAGEDY AT
WEST POINT.
In giving evidence of identifica- tion, Dr. Begbie, who is in charge of the Victoria Mortuary, said: that an August. 30 at 11.30. p.m., he examined the body of a Chinese male, aged about fifteen, and identified it as that of Cheng Tak Hoi. The head was terribly crush-
Jeg was fractured. The body was covered with bruisos.
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The conditions found were com
good prospect. Thenee by the Gap, But waiting to seo" does not where I do meet a young man and get us anywhere. Kowloon, thoughed and the thigh bone in the right a maid also waiking and do recall a young residential centre is a my own youth-save that I never vigorous one, which is growing fast, had a bull-teric and so to the and there must be very many other Clubbe by the Motor Road and Residents who would welcome a Howen Road, which those days is cheaper rapid means of transport most marvellous deserted save for from door to door, with protection ene yapping cur which I doubt not from the weather.
be immediately fatal.
CHENG'S APPEAL.
APPLICATION TO PRIVY
COUNCIL.
CLAIMS AGAINST.
*.CHENG.
THREE ACTIONS ADJOURNED.
ON DRINK.
[BY TINDAL KING.]
the Downward
Many years ago now I saw Mr. R. C. H. Lim, one of the play at the Theatre Royal, Dover, Before Mr. W. Schofield and a Counsel for the defence of Cheng which went by the name di Man's special jury of three at the Central, Kwok Yau, ia busily engaged in Enemy: On. On Magistracy yesterday, the inquest preparing the necessary papers to Path. was begun into the death of Cheng be sent to the Privy Council in
It was a terribly sordid Tak Hoi, a fifteen-year-old student connection With Cheng's appeal.galore, daughters disowning their affair, I remember, with murdlers Flesh is Wenk' or some such name, [TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG SONG August 28 last, when, owing to the Privy Council will, within a week mothers to go to blazes, but ending, who was killed at West Point on If right to appeal is granted, the fathers and sons talling their! excessive rainfall at the time, or a fortnight afterwards, com hugo boulder broke loose and
as Victorian melodrama always mence the bearing of the case, crashed into the house in which he
Cheng was convicted of procuring living happily over afterwards, pro ended, in the here and heroine was living.
the murder of George Fung, and viously having "signed the pledge" was sentenced to death on Wednes-in front of a very unctuous stage. day.
parson to the deafening roars of an entirely convinced but utterly stupid gallery and pit! The moral, of course, was that all the trouble was due to the demon Drink, and I can't say I was not impressed, but one effect on my brother and myself was to set us off tracking drunks through the town, and being thril Before Mr. Justice Wood at the led to the core as we saw our patible with those following crush-Supreme Court, three claims of quarry roughly handied by the 81,000 each were brought by the police and finally safely deposited ing from a fall of rock or masonry, } Death was due to multiple injuries China Finance Corporation against at the Station. and shock. The head injuries would Cheng Kwok Yau, who was sen- would return to high tea and re Triumphant wa tenced to death on Wednesday for gale the old dane (bless her Tite case was then adjourned to procuring the murder of George memory!) who kept the school where
Fung.
we used to spend our holidays with The cases were adjourned in tales which lost nothing, you may die.
be sure, in the telling, and whose recital, moreover, made us heroes in the eyes of the other little boys and girls who had not had the good fortune to see what we had seen and do what we had done! But times have changed since those far-off bappy days, and for myself I own the early prejudice against drink which I then formed has through the years alowly (too slowly, I some- times think!) evaporated until to- day when superannuation is on the horizon I am almost tempted to. devote the brief span of leisure that oreryone hopes may be their lot to a care-free life among brewers and distillors, oven, perhaps, to end- not ingloriously-ne the trusted cellar-keeper of a man of taste in wines, a man of wealth liberally to indulge those tastes, and finally-
would not miss a bottle here or and this is important a man who
there! Such a man, in fact, as Shakespears might vory properly have had in mind when he wrote:-
will come to a mischief an it be The main point of interest is not controlled. And, at a turn, who however, at what fares such Mid-allow the Magistrate and jurora to should appear but Mr. Pitt, to my get taxis could be operated. Yours visit the scene of the tragedy, greatest possible surprise, and I pereive he begins to train for the faithfully.
chase of his growlies. Yet it did seem to me he did resent my pre-1 sonce upon what he did term his, own road, recking not that I had walked upon it these twenty years; passed. After my bath, to Kow loon where I eat a very good diy- ner with Mr. Sweeny and Mr. Limit, and afterwards at poker with Mr. Toast and Mr. Farthing joing in.. But no
great harm lone anywhere save that I do rate their cat as mighty unfriendly.
WANT TO SEE.
NEW K.C.C. CLUB HOUSE.
OFFICIAL OPENING
POSTPONED.
to
Owing the inclement weather, the official opening of - 11th, Lord's Day.-Lay late and
the new Club House of the Kow. after busy at my papers.
loon To bed very early:
Cricket Club by Mrs. Southern, which was due to fake place this afternoon, has been postponed till next Satur day.
11th-Up betimes, this being the ninth anniversary of the day upon which my wife, poor. wretch, do wed with me. And I doubt not that, if couples have done no worse work best with the least possible than we, thers be naught much ill results the next dawning. For arm with their felicity. This of the other two Jamaica Rum be evening to Deep Water Bay where somewhat strong and aideth not the I Lathe with a pretty lady, and digestioun, while Eau-de-vie though after, so chilly it be, we drink mighty comforting lies most heavy glass apiece of Eau de Vie with upon the hepatie region, or sa Mr. cherries flavour, and so, after a Rugby the apothecary tells me. shower and dry garments, to drink Others there be who do maintain ing a round or two with Sir R. the efficacy of what they term Harpenden, Mr. Harold, Mr. Tigre Dogge's Nose, Lring plain Hollands
TYPHOON PASSING TO SOUTH.
BUT "BLOW" STILL EXPECTED.
"The typhoon, in all probability, will pass to the South of Hong Kong."
Mr. Prentis, for the complain and be had written to his clients in Shanghai and was await ing further instructions. Mr. D. IL. Strellett appeared for defen
dant.
PLANE'S SECRET VISIT.
MACHINE OVER KOWLOON
BAY.
This was the statement issued by Mr. C. W. Jeffries, Director of the
A report from Kowloon City Royal Observatory to a Daily Press Polies Station indicates that an Been flying over representative at @ p.m. last night. aeroplane was
Mr Jeffries added that the owloon Bay at 11 p.m. on Thure typhoon, which began to form today. The mysterious plane, which was seen in bright moonlight, car ried a light and was last seen flying towards Repulse Bay.
the East of Imzon on the afternoon of September 12, moved in a north- westerly direction until 2 p.m. on tion to West-North-West and has the 15th. It, then changed direc since alowed up very considerably.
Hovering to the South.
and is about 100 miles due. South "It is still hovering to the South
of us at present."
that the mysterious plane was flown It is thought in officiul circles,
by a joy-rider,
fought on water? And what of the Peninsular War had been (Continued from neat column.)
Why,
He wae a man, take him for
all in all,"
.
I shall not look upon his like
again!
world without Whisky'? Rum? And can anyone envisage Scotinand would simply cease to But I digress. Let us take the rank as a nation instead of being relative merits of drink and try
and their ladies. And so to dinner waters with a water added; but about 15 o'clock yesterday after, largely responsible for England and imagine a world in which water
At Pratas Reef a gale has been blowing since 10 o'clock on Thurs day night, but only a fresh breeze had been experienced locally since
noon, The wind reached its great est velocity at 7 o'clock yesterday evening when a 45 m.p.h. “blow ? was registered.
The baremeter, which has fallen steadily since the afternoon of the 14th, stood at 20.52 at 0 p.m. last
mid bridge, and I playing at Con- tract at which I am not very skill.to my mind this doth so inflame or ed but I perceive to be a very good encanadine, the end or tippe of the game, so be one realizes it is not nose that no lenest man should use bridge. home all very merry, and go to bed. of itself when cold. Or so say I..
Later, by motor couch of it, Hollands being good enough
13th. To my office betimes, and 15th.-This day awaken late and them very busy until Runcheon, when I find at the Clubbe Sir R. so lie musing and none so ill in Harpenden who tells me the Full body, though the fever remains. Court hath upheld the conviction 1 do pass much of this day in night in the Cheng case, which nowe it
“Rising winds and further rain seems goes to the Privy Council. sleeping and writing in my diary. Upon which Mr. Ashby desires to Later come Colonel George and Mr. will probably be encountered, dur- wager with me upon the result, Cane, with whom a glass of Sherrising the night, but the main hut will not do it until ho bathsack, and Mr. Allen' too. evened our former wager. To the nowes slicetes read, that No. 5
being the first-class Power she is in the only beverage. We have today! Honour, I say, where only to turn to the dictionary de- honour is duo, so let us be grateful finition of water to get some idoa to Bruce-or should it be his of the world I am, endeavouring to spider 1-and to William Wallace. at visualise. Water, says my lexicon Bannockburn. And finally there is with a fue abandon, in a state of Beer, which with roast-beef and purity, at ordinary temperatures, Yorkshire pudding, many people is a clear transparent liquid, per- maintain is still the backbone of old feetly neutral in its reaction and England. Beer, and its dark twin wonder then that the world has devoid of taste or smell! What Stout, there you have England in turned from water through the ages two words, and I think I may and decided long ago that the best fittingly conclude this protest In the of the typhoon should pass well to against water as a drink by giving place for it is the bathCompare Calverley's delightful tribute to known as Gin, against which the that other clear transparent liquid
Coffee is good, and so no doubt th such fury, and which Omar groot Lord Chesterfield inveigbed is cocon Tea did for Johnson and the some dve centuries previously-in Khayam himself had mentioned --- Chinturen; Cab the unforgettable quitrain;" Whon Dulce, eat desipero in
Joco"
force
offee inter where I do find it hard Police launch be rammed by a ferry the South of Gap Rock," said Mr. to concentrate upon my papers, so and sunk, but, thanks be to God, Jeffries.
go walking, but upon my return to no lives lost; and as yet no news the Clubbe I no sooner reach my of who was to blame. This day the chamber than I realize I am sunit-Japanese do recognize the Manchu teu of a rheum in the chest to my kuo, becoming as it were the Mayor- greatest possible annoyance; so of the Painca to the Merovingian to the drinking of much strongeroi faineant, Mr. Henry Pu‚Yi—||: waters honted together with sugar And whether the parallel shall con-
PICKPOCKET GETS TWO MONTHS.
and lemon and after copioua tinue I know not but do gravely CLAIMED TO BE A SCHOLAR drate to my bed.
suspect it. Yet is not the parallel complete as the Mayors were at any rate Franks, and not Lombards or Suabians."
When charged with the theft of
a fountain pen, a defendant who
14th. This morning awake to find myself a sick man, eo, making such arrangements as shell order my offee until I return, and bidding 16th.-Up this day betimes after appeared before Mr. Wynne Jones them send to me the needful papers looping well-nigh sixty hours off such as I alone may sign, I to my and on these last few days, and 70sterday, claimed that the pen hed, where. sleep beneath the blan mighty glad to Gnd the fever gone, was his own and that he could net until comea the chyrurgeon; Reading in the newas sheets and
write.
The foundeth me upon the chest getting the morning typhuon plac. When handed a sheet of paper and upon the back until I am welling I do, perceive it should strike poraded that I am at the point Hong Kong, or mighty near and the pen, the defendant enquir of death, and then telleth me I have thoreto at about five of the clock od whether his Worship desired a slight chill and must lie abed a to-morrow forencon, which means that he write in English or Chinese, day or two, but that, so that II fear a most disturbed night, and
leave not my chamber. I may order much suspenie for the Saturday.
His Worship:-Both, if like.
you
my papers at my deal. And so he For there be two great functions, The defendant replied that he
VM me anost fowle concoction the Race Meeting, to which I am and goes his way, and I fall to hidden to nuncheon and the open could not write English, but would sleeping again till it be dark when ing of the new pavilion at the write his name in Chinese. comes Mr. Allen and we drink & Kowloon Krickett Ground. And
1 "glas or two of stronga walers, and what shall be done about it I know! His Worship then requested that later I drain a possett of maring not, but would fain enquris from the defendant write his defonce-- hot asquebagh, as the Scote term Mr. C. Jefferies why it comes about that he had been walking along the the stronge water I do prefer but these typhicons or heavy gales in
thors term it whisky or whis variably strike the Colony over a pavement and just taken the pen key." and then sleep like a log work and rather than, during office out of his own, pocket when ar though no log ever did sweat so baura. So far I hear of ne distur
much. And a strange thing it is bances over the recognition of the
rested his
that, while of these possette of hot Manchukuo by Japan and trust all The defendant replied that he trong waters there be three beshöll go smoothly. This day very could give that evidence verbally, Averages generally accounted bost, busy ordering my office against the bus could not write it.
to my mind in hot weather that of typhoon and later in my chamber. In rejecting the defendant's achiwer, sugar, and lemon do do its Writing in my diary and so to story, his Worship passed sentence
(Continued on next Columu.) bed..
of-two months hard fabour..
these national beverages:
Was written, real Falerzian
winged the pea.
When a rapt audience has en-
oored "Fra. Poco "
Or "Casta Diva," I have heard
that then
The Prima Donna, smiling her Myself out,
Recruite her fagging powers
with bottled stout.
.....
'Oh, Thou, who didst with Pit-
... fall and with Gin
Beset the Road I was to wander
io,
Thou wilt not with Predestina-
tion round
Enmesh me, and imputa my Fall
to Bint
and ask yourself if water could have inspired uols frenzy or pro
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinduced such exquisite plaintive
hes, Allsopp, Basal
pleading But to descend from Names that should be on every has been called Mothers' Ruit, and this high plane, it is true that Gin infant's tongue! Shall days and months and slandered as deriving from Geneva that it has even" been grossly yoars and centuries pass, And still your merita be un
(that Palace' of 'Peace" whore wo miny be sure nothing to levelling. reoked, unsung 11 Oh! I have gazed into my foam ever been sorved!); but it has so utterly humanising as gin han ing glass, for the And wished that lyre. could yet day plays such an increasing part Burvived these calumnies, and to- again bo strang
in the social amenities that. L.posi- Which once rang prophot-liko tively mudder for the future of through Greece, and taught civiliantion should a blight destroy Misguided sons that the "best from which this subtle soporific the Juniper, that evergreen shrub drink whe water?"! 12
her
....
springs Such a disaster might not be irretrievable, but it would be, Fameure; tonny of my friends
TARZAN and rendges will kusten to agree
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