GENERAL NEWS.
(Firemen's Threat.
AN AIRMAN'S DEATH,'
Mr. Slack Killed In a Motor Accident.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH – THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 191
FUTURE OF COVENT GARDEN.
Removal to Thames-side Suggested..
The future of Covent Garden
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The Chalford (Stroud) Fire Brigade have thenatened to strike
Mr. Robert Slack, the airman, was killed on December 21 whițat unless they are provided with a motoring at Radlett on the Wat- Market now forms one of the new engine. The grievance of ling-street between St. Albans and principal subjects of discussion the brigade, as stated by the London. He was driving a 'car arising out of the sale of the captain, Mr. William Smith, in belonging to Mr. W. A. Gilbey, estate by the Duke of Bedford to
and in the car with him were Mr. Mallaby Deeley. that the present engine has been, Jules Truelade and Da The question of the removal of at Chalford for over forty years. Sordier, and Mr. Geeffrey O, Gold, the market was raised in a letter bo accident occurred at a point to The Times from Mr. Percy Taxicab Driver Acquitted., of the Watling-street known as Harris, who after pointing out No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett. At the London Sessions Obarlos Highbridge-a narrow bridge that Covent Garden, situated as Church Mission Society Bunga-
which carrise the Watling-street it is, should be of far greater low) from 1st October, 1913, till To LET.-No. 2 Park Road, George Ellis, taxicab driver, sur- rendered to his bail and was over a small stream, The bridge value for commercial develop 30th May, 1914, partly furnished. Comfortable, Garden and Tennis Breezy Villa,”. Airy and
acquitted on a charge of having,
is at a very awkward curve in the ment than for its present pur- Cheap rent. by wilful misconduct and neglect, towards London, and when it had soumen of Mr Mallaby Deeley Peak, to let furnished for 1 year Hongkong, 13th Jan, 1914. [1139 road. The car was travelling poses, suggests the business 1 CAMERON VILLAS No, 60 Court-Apply to No. 4, Ripon 'caused bodily harm to be done to sched a point about 100ft, bey-should be quick to grasp the fact from 1st Mey. Charles Chinson, lenther-
No. 6 Cameron Villas, No: 59 dresser. A collision occurred and the bridge, where the road and induce him to part with his Peak to let furnished for one between a taxicab which the urns to the left, the driver was market rights for a reasonable year from lat May, 1914. defendant was driving near West- unable to negotiate the curve. eum. This, he says, would give minster Bridge-road and a barrel the car tuned over, and Mr. an opportunity for London to organ, with the result that one of lack was pioned beneath it. obtain statutory rights and create ly furnished. Mr. Chinson's ribs, was broken.. Truelade was also a captive a new market centrally situated The defence was that the accident beneath the car, but managed to and not in a position to interfere
esas pe, and the other two occup-with London traffic. was caused by a "side-slip."
An ideal ants of the car were thrown into site, he maintains, is to be found the ditch. MM. Truelade and on the south bank of the Thames Du Sordier, although injured, between Waterloo, and Charing- were able to proceed to London cross Bridges. after receiving medical attention,
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The Raid on a Gaming-house. Four men charged with being concerned together in keeping
While the need for more and conducting a gaming-house Mr. Sinck was one of the well; accommodation at Covent Garden at No. 5, George-street, Hanover known band of intrepid British has long been felt, there appears square, were before the magistrate nirmen, and the news of his unic-to be no disposition on the part Marlborough street Police ward end will be read with wide- of the salesmen to favour re. Court. A number of other persons spread regret. Born at Notting-moval to
another site; in were charged at a previous bearing hum in 1886, he was apprenticed fact, the leading members of as frequez tora of the premises and to motor engineering, and spent the
trade are
oppo ed 10 bound over. At the further hear some nice yours in the county it. While it is recognized that ing three of the defend- borough, anil alen in Glasgow. In Covent Garden, with all its ants were committed for trisi, bail being allowed; the fourth man haust "
was bound over not to gaming-houses in future.
Important Dock Proposal.
Liverpool Dock Board has deal with a proposal to widen the e- trance to the new Gladstone Deck
his career n an airmen be began work at the Bleriot School at Hendon early in 1911, but it was not until June of last year that be came into any prominence. He then started off from Hendon na n' Bleriot menoplane for a, 1,200
a
limitations, cannot ti excelled up central market for London, it
believed that much might ba done to remove the difficulties which now surround the market.
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Notices
N. LAZARUS,
Opposition to Removal. miles tour of England and Scot-raises a point that has been much Mr. Poroy Harris, in his letter, and, this being followed by a at an estimated cost of £118,000 trip of 700 miles round the sonth-cussed for some years. The The entrance lock will be increast of England. The machine frait, vegetable, and flower trade. ed from 870ft. to 1,079ft, and was afterwards presented to the of Covent Garden bas outgrown Robinson Road containing 17 TO LET.-9, Fedder's Hill,
War Office by the international the capacity of the market proper, the amount mentioned, ina-much last. Mr. Slack left Paris at 5 Blthough the cost is estimated at Correspondence Schools, and the shops in streats, which Drawing Room, Dining Room and comfortable. Apply to Leung formed convenient as the late enginear effected a
'clock in the moruing in a race
proaches to the central avenue estimate, the actual increase on the original estimate will be only tienden at 1 39 in the afternoon, ble shop is occupied by sales- This is particularly the osse on Eogene Gilbert, and arrived at
the north side, where every avail- about £50,000. In accordance
having had to fight a strong head with the standing orders, the re-wiad practically all the way. Just men. That there in ne ad for more Mr. Basil Johnson, director of commendation was to come up for about a month later be attempted accommodation is obvious to the music at Rugby School, has been adoption at the next meeting.
another flight across the Channel most casual observer, but accord-appointed musical insti actor at Presence of Mind, from the other side, but was ing to statements made to a repre- Eton College in succession to Dr. blown towards the Belgian coast entative of The Times, leading C. H. Lloyd, who will retire next The promptitude of an operator and whe furoor to hand at Breed sale mon hesitate to commit them Easter after twenty-one years' prevented what might have been ens owing to a deficiency of selves to the policy of the removal service. Cinema, Boe-atreet, Walthamstow, part of his machine caught in a firms of salesmen, in a conver- a serious panic at the Queen's petrol. As he was descending of the market to another site.
The head of one of the largest recently. Fire broke out about 7 wire fence and the seroplane over- o'clock in the operating chamber, turned. Mr. Slack was injured sation recently, condemned, in and the operator, Arthur Davies, on the head, but was able to rather derisive language, the promptly pulled down the steel return to England on the follow-uggested transfer of the market aiverside site between automatic fire curtain. Helpeling day. At the sixth London by his assistint, Robert, Fenton, aviation meeting at Hendon in Waterloo and Claring-cross Brid- Davies then endeavoured to ex- Auguet laat he won the altitude ges on the south side. To reach tinguish the fire. A message was contest on a 50 b.p. Morane- this point overees produce would sent to the Walthamstow Fire Saulvier monoplane, with which have to be transferred into barges Brigade, After their arrival the be reached 8,000ft Mr. Black in the lower reaches of the outbreak was soon suppressed. also took part in the "Aerial Thames, or, at all events, below Davies and Fenton received barns. Derby" race last September over London Bridge, and the cost of The house was cleared without a course of D1 miles round Lon- this process would probably be the slightest panic.
don for the prizes presented by greater than that of cartage from the Daily Mail.
"Plain" Cows for Sausage Trade. At Clerkenwell Police Court Herbert Geering, of Burgess-hill, Sussex, was summoned for per mitting to be carried, from Lewes
Motor-Omnibuses.
to Maiden lane Station, a cow with i The Watch Committee of the
to
the docks to Covent Garden. He also insisted that the cost of transit to and from the tormini of the northern railways would be inoreased without any correspond- ing advantage. The same a0= thority deolared that a new site, if it should be chosen, ought to
a malignant growth, contrary to Oxford City Council have recombe on the north side, in the Mary- Article 12 of the Animals (Arapoitmended that the three companies labone district for preference;. and General) Order. For the de- who had applied for licences to fence it was ataled that the cow to inn omnibuses should each be. was purobar od like others as granted five licences.
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plain cows, for the London
sausage trade, and that the com
was passed by the inspector 'at'
Fine for Shooting Hare.
the slaughter-house. Mr. Bros Under the Game Act of 1831, imposed a fine of 35, with five which, it was stated, expressly gainona costa, subject to the ques-declares it to be aplawful to kill tion of revenue which had been raised earlier,
game of any kind on Sunday or Christmas Day, George Barker was at Hedingham fiued 5s. for shooting a bare on a Sunday.
but be added, with emphasis:
Notice
Sun Toothache!
To those who have experienced it, the mere thought of the word brings feir and anxiety. The sormenting, lightning, like pains following the slightest touch of the decayed tooth, and the dull, agonie- ling pain which robs one of deep and: lessens the capacity for mental and physical
exertion are sufflesent to drive one is despair, The best remedy for the relief of toothacie as of all other pa'ns due to the nerves is;
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"Covent Garden, with all its limitations, cannot be excelled as 6 central market for London is self. If the new owner were magnanimous, he might do a great deal to remove some of the difficulties which now surround PRICE $0.50 PER TUBE. Covent Garden. He might, for the system of tenure." instance, introduce changes in
Other salesmen expressed them- selves as opposed to the transfer to another site, mainly on the ground that Covent Garden is central for Londen shopkeepers.
Brond Walk Entrances. The London Society offer as a prize the gold medal of the society and $15 for the best design for Woman Charged with Murder, the improvement of the North
At Liverpool, su joquest was and South entraces to the Broad he held touching the death of Walk of Kensington Gardens. Peter Dwyer, 38, a builder's la- The fullest liberty is offered to tourer, who died from burns
"Ira Descendants. competitors with regard to the which he received while in bad. alteration of existing conditions A woman named Lilian Upton, just died at Haverhill, Essex, in Mr. Thomas Basham, who hos and the nature of the architectural who lived in the esme house. na his ninetieth year, left 112 living and garden treatment to 15 pro- Dwyer, and who had been arrest posed. It is suggested that in ed on a charge of unlawfully any 0283 the scheme should in-wounding him, was present at clude bandsome gates, Emblem the inquist. It was stated that atical ideas might be embodied Lefore he died Dager "suggested
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