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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933
HONG KONG SIXTY YEARS AGO.
The above picture taken in 1873 is of Kennedy Road as it used to be. The picture shows, a bend near the Garden Road end. The photo is published by courtesy of the German Club.
ECHOES OF 1858
35.-Attorney General's Charges Against Registrar General
August 3, 1558. We extract from the Government Gazette, the charges made against Mr. Caldwell, and the finding of the Committee appointed "to inves tigate the same. We can come to no other conclusion than that the committee exonerate him on the grounds of simplicity. Although we cannot conceal our amazement at the tenor of the finding, we re- serve our remarks upon it until more mature réfections shall en- able us
to realise its meaning, which we confess we are at present unable to do..
List of Charges. Preferred by the Attorney-General to the Government against the Registrar General.
With being unfit to be a Jus- tice of the Peace.
2. With having a scandalous con- nection with a Brothel licensed by ...himself, namely, Brothel No. 48.
3-With having passed a portion of his life with Chinese outlaws and pirates.
4.With an alliance with some o1 the worst Chinese in this Colony through his wife.
Ma Chow Wong: such bail being. a servant of his own (Mr. Cald well's) who had been but a month before in prison for debt.
10. With audaciously denying. that the books and papers of the Pirate's Hong contain any evidence of Ma Chow Wong's guilt. With having
deceived the Executive Council in the enquiry relative to Ma Chow Wong, and with being convicted of falsehood by Mr. May.
H.K. VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
(Orders by Colonel. L." G. Bird, D.S.O., O.B.E., Commandant, H.K.V.D.U.).
1.-Parade.
(a.)-Corps Band :—
Band Practices will take place on
the following dates at Headquarters at 6 p.m. abarp:-
Friday, August 4. Tuesday, August & Friday, August 11.
(b.) The Battery?—
There will be a lecture at Head- quarters on Thursday, August 10, at 5.30 p.m.
(c.)-Corps Signals:
Parades will be held at Corps Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tues- day, August 8 and Friday, August
11.
(d.)-Armoured Car Section:-:
There will be no parade on Mon. day, August 7...
(8.)Motor Machine Gun Section :-
There will be no parade on Mon- day, August 7.
(f.)-Scottish Company-N.CO.'s '
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Parade at Headquarters on Thurs- day, August 10, at 5.30 p.m. under C.S.M. Parkinson.
(g.)-Portuguese Company -
The next lecture will be held on August 8, Subject Duties of Commanders and Sentries of Quar. ter Guards and General Discussion aid Questions on Duties of N.C.O.'s generally,"
The remaining lectures of tho Summer Training Season will be sa follows:-
August 15-Characterisation of Weapons with which Infantry Soldiers are armed and the co- operation of other arms of the Service. August 2-Close Order Drill
An explanation of the uses of and necessity for drill and ex- planations of the various for- "mations and reasons for the orders controlling the move .ments. Officers, N.C.O.'s and men of the 11. With being partner with Ma Portuguese Company should nots Chow Wong in a lorcha and that that the Winter Training Season there were entries in Ma Chow
commences in September and every Wong's Books, and made by him,effort should be made to secure full of monies paid to Mr. Caldwell on attendance at all parades so that account of or out of the produce progressive training may be carried of plunder made at sea.
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12. With barbouring Ma Chow Wong's wife after his conviction,
13. With inducing the Attorney General at the beginning of 1887, to order the release of a great, num- ber of men, who Mr. May knows to have been pirates, and who Mr. Caldwell ought to have known at the same time were pirates.
once
17. With receiving the monthly rentals of houses, and in particu-j lar of a house standing on 11 Crown lots, down to the present month of May.
14With buying land in the Co- lony since December last, when he became Licenser of Brothels."
15. With having
owned 5.With being a speculator in three unlicensed Hong Kong Bro- Brothel licenses.
thels at the same time.
Chinese ain 6.-With being long and intimate-16-With having 15 connected with Ma Chow Wong ter-in-law by blood or usage, who (a Chinese pirate); and that that in 1856-7 was keeping Brothels connection is still subsisting; and that the principal link in that con- nection is the bond of affinity by adoption according to Chinese law. 7. With being in the habit, on Ma Chow Wong's unsupported in formation, of arresting and dis- charging persons, and of confiscat
10. With having informed Mr. ing and restoring property.
3.That the Chinese dare not nowMay that although he would not complain of the connivances and himself take bribes, he would not- procurements of Mr. Caldwell, the object to his wife doing so. patron of the outlaw, Ma Chow Wong
9. With having procured bail for
18-With having informed Mr. May that he, Mr. Caldwell, was a member of a Secret Society.
(The finding of the Commik sion will be reproduced in due course.)
MISSING GUNSTM
SANDHURST END-OF-TERM
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In the early hours of the morning a raid was made on eight brass cannon, captured from the French at Waterloo, at the
In the College Lake,
The three of them hauled the gun back inside the college gate near to the lodge. The orderly officer on duty found that other gube had been removed. There of them were found near the college lake, one
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Detailed Orders will be issued later.
(h.)-Anzac Company:
1.-There will be parade on Mon- day, August 7.
and
-N.0.0.'s are reminded that there will be only three more N.C.O. Classes this month all those intending to take the ex- amination for promotion are quested to make an effort to attend theso parades.
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(1.) The Officers Commanding the undermentioned Units will issue their Orders to their Commands separately
Engineer Company.
Machine Gun Troop.. Machine Gun "Company, A.ALIA. Company.
2.-Promotion...
- No. 1821 Corporal W. L. E. Miller, Motor Machine Gun Section, is promoted to Lance-Sergeant, ng from August, 3, 1933.
3. Raversion.
No. 1086 Sergt. E. "L Groome, Motor Machine Gun Section, reverts to Lance-Corporal at his own re quest with effect from August 3, 1933,
4.-Transfor.
No. 1886 Pte. GJ. White, No. 13. Platoon, transferred to Machine Gun. Company with effect from August 4, 1833.
5.-Leave.
Lieut. J. V. V. Remedios has been granted five months leave, as from. August 1 to December 31, 1933.
No. 1760 Bdr. D. Marshall, The Battery, granted 20 days' leave, B5 from "August 16 to September 3, 1933,
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College, Sandhurstyal Military having been pushed into the water No. 3 Platoon, granted three weeks'
and practically submerged. It was The guns were parked in groups got olt, and, with the others of the of four on either side of the grand bank, and three found on a foot
field between the parade entrance to the old building the ball part of the college erected in 1812-ground and the lake, pulled back in which Nos. 4 and 3 Companies into position by the cadets of the gentlemen cadets. quartered..
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It was the close of the term, and the usual end of term dance took place in the gymnasium, about a quarter of a mile away from the parking place of the guns. The dance terminater between one and two, and the guns were then in position. I
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At 6.30 cadets in the adjoining building were ordered to parade in their Pyjamas. It is understood that there were no absentees. The raiding party must have bety of considerable size, as each gun would probably need at least six persons to maneuvre it
All the guns were eventually re stored to the proper position, and The first thing out of the ordin- everything was in order when the ary appears to have been noticed by half-yearly inspection took place by the Quarter master-General.
No. 2074 Pte. E. C. H. Tribbeck,
leave as from August 4 to August 25, 1933,
No. 1897 Tpr. J. B... Prentis Machine Gun Troop, granted ave months leave, as from August 4 to December 31, 1933.
6.--Struck 'Of the Strength, Fined and Dismissed by the Efficiency Board: No. 1488 Pte. S. MacNider, No. 7 Platoon, as from August 4, 1933.
Having left the Colony-No. 1905 Pie. A. W. Torrible, Armoured Car Section, as from July 6, 1933. T. H. B. GALLEJTLY, Lieutenant, Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Hong Kong, August 4, 1933,
NOTICE:
a railway porter, who was coming Gen. Sir Felix Ready. off duty at Blackwater Railway y Station Near to the college i Sandhurst's highest distinction,
Anual Aquatic Sports, grounds entrance, on the London the Sword of Honour, which car
The Annual Aquatic Sports will West of England main road at ries with it an Army scholarship of be held at the Victoria Recreation Camberley, he found a large brass 30 a year for five years, was pro- Club on Saturday, August 13, 1933, cannon on wheels in the roadway. sented to Senior Under Officer at 8 p.m... Realising the possibility of an se G. H. Lyons-Montgomery (Clifton), Admission tickets will be obtain cident to motor traffic, of which of No. 4 Company, which, as the able at Volunteer Headquarters there is a great deal during the company producing the winner of Officers Mess, Sergeants' Mese and night between London and South- the Sword of Honour, were present Canteen) and the Victoris Recrea- ampton, he telephoned to the po-ed with the French Arm officer's tion Club Admission $1 including lipe. Another man' who came along challenge cup. The Strophy, pre-tax what we a went to the York Terrace Lodge sented by the then Crown Prince in the Royal Military College of Japan in pa taken by the grounds and roused the gatekeeper. champion com
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writing accompanied by the neces on one of the above dates ht 6.30 sary fees to 0.8.M Padgett at pan. Thu handicap will be arrang Volunteer Headquarters not latered by the Official Handicapper of than & p.m. on Monday, August 7, the V.R.C.
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Permission has been obtained from the Committee of the Victoria Recreation Club for entrants in the above events to practice in the V.B.C. Swimming Bath during the tilin hours (12 noon top.m.).
There will be dancing for two hours after the conclusion of the Sportsh
Handicapping will take place at the V.R.C. Bath on Tuesday, Wed- Entrance fee 50 cents per man peruesday and Thursday the 8th 9th event, whether team or individual and 10th August, 1833. All entrants events. Entries are to be made in in bandicap ovents must be present
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Dance music will be by the Conductor Cheer - Dance Band, L/Corp. G. W. True
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Committee Meeting-The final Committee Meeting will be held at Volunteer Headquarters on Tues day, August 8, 1911
After Orders.
Engineer Company-P the Miniature Hange on August 7, 1933, at 5.30 p.m.