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RICKSHA V. MOTOR.
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GOOD Sequel to Recent Smash.
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petitions will be conducted on The rainfall registered at the these lines. Anyhow, the Hong Botanic Gardens during April to
talled 2.34 inches. There were kong schools adopting this|
19 days on which no rain fell. system are showing that they
The case in which a driver of the Dragon Motor Car Company Captain J. Qodney, of the Hsia Messrs. Lammert Bros. was charged with reckless driv- Peking, is on leave. Captain E. out champion is a given contest. pounce that the sale of the steaming and causing a collision which Monkman, from reserve, has gone Maybe the day will eventually ship Kam Ma has been postponed resulted in injuries to a ricksha maater, Hsia Peking.
coolie and the fare, Mr. J. H. Mr. E. H. Histed, sup'y second Gelling, of the Daily Press, was officer, Wanbsten, has gone sup'y resumed before Mr. R. E. Lind-second officer, Luenyi. sell at the Police Court this Mr. C. E. R.Nyberg, from laa VE, morning.
has gone second officer, Lüsayi. Inspector Garrod, prosecuting. Captain G. D. S. Mills, of the said that he had been unable to Wanhsien, is on reserve. Captain Our Canton correspondant re-recurs the passenger in the car R. T. Olson has been appointed ports that the Financial Depart-as a witness, but there was master, Wanhsien. ment bas ordered the public to another witness forthcoming in Captain A. R. McEachran, of usa 50 und 20 cent notes as cut-the person of Mr. H. J. Timperley, the Ningpo, is on loave. Captain : of the China Mail, who was in D. T. James, from reserve," "has
another ricksha, travelling at a gone master, Ningpo. distance of 40 or 50 yards behind. Captain R. H. G. Ashby, from Mr. Timperley said that on the reserve, has gone muster, Skuasi. Captain R. F. Mitabell, of the the last of a string of three rick-Liangshow, has gone master. shas proceeding along the road at Tean. Captain W. McDonald, of
the Taan, is on TØSETTE. Wanobai în a westerly direction. A motor car overtook and passed the next thing he noticed was him at a fairly good speed; and
| baro an altogether admirable;
sense of proportionate values.
The Clash Begins.
TEDDY.
Kowloon.
Money and clothing of the Reports from the North state that Chang Tso-lia and Wu Pui-alue of $129 were stalen yester foo bava resily clashed this time day from the room of a houseboy 119th. March at 2 a.m. he was ini
Saifee Terrace, According to Due account, the at No. 5, encounter was only between ad-
guards:
other reports
By paying a sum of $30,000 to indicate fighting on considerable scale with a vigour unusast the Government, a syndicate in Canton has been given the in Chinese engagements." Icidentally the outbreak shows privilege for one year of taxing that it had pulled up with officer, Liangchow, is on reserva.
vance
how unreliable are the War advertisements of all kind. Lords' manifestoes; only the other
The first
on the left-hand side of the road
the road. At the time it pulled up his impression was that same- thing extraordinary had occurred. He imagined it might have been an accident.
Mr. A. A. Wilson, Mansger of
the Dragon Motor Car Company, asked with some sarcasm, if the
object of the driver in passing the witness's and then Mr. Franklin's
J
Captain G. F. McAdam, from reserve, has gone master, Liang.
Mr. A. H. Bathurst, chlof
chow.
Mr. J. Cameron, chief engineer, Fenghien, has gone chief engineer, Tatung.
Mr. J. Work, second engineer, Kwangee, is on reserve.
Mr. D. M. Stewart, acting second engineer, Luenyi, has gone second engineer, Kwangse.
MW.J. Belcher, from reserve,
has gone third engineer, Younas. Mr. H. M. Hall, chief engineer, Wenchow, bas gone chief engin eer, Saiyang.
Mr. A. H. Bolderson, from day Wu declared that ກ່ອ A Chinese living at No. 15ear the kerb. He could not say
precisely how far the ricksha was reserve, has gone chief officer, bad no aggressive intentions Seymour Road has reported to away from him, when it passed Liangchow.
Mr. A. G. McKinnon, second Perhaps the Yangtze Super-the police that bis house was his rickrhs, but his impression Tuchun's answer would be that entered by a burglar in the early was that there was plenty of officer, Cousan, is deceased.
Mr. D. Warden, chief engineer, Chang's preparations and move hours of this morning and a gold space to spare. The car was ment of troops to the Southwatch and a wallet containing somewhere about the middle of
Tatung, has gone chief engineer. prevented him from holding his 200 were stolen.
Feagten. hand any longer. attack resulted in Chang's mea The marriage between Miss being driven bark: at other Bichard and Mr. C. Holland, of the Fengtien soldiery the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, points Mrs. E. H. Sharp and Famils, are credited with some success.postponed owing to Miss Bichard'
have illners, will take place at Holy Already the rivals desire to express their very emulated the West in the issue Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on sincere appreciation and thanks of bulletins, both sides claiming Thursday, May 4, at 4 p.m. for all the sympathy and beauti-the advantage. The places where ful tokens of friendship received fighting bas occurred are rather "Bare-fsted Gallagher," the ricksha safely, was not to run from so many in Memory of unfamiliar, but as the boom of attraction being shown at the dowa Mr. Gelling's ricksba. her husband. Great Bookham,guns has been distinctly heard in World Theatre, reveals William His Worship pointed out that, Surrey.
the Legation Quarter the conflict Desmond in a rollickice cowboy the attention of the witness was bas evidently been waged in the role. It is a most exciting picture, drawn to the incident only when eer. Sulyang, has gone second Mr. P. Bell, acting chief sngin- region of the capital, though not with much dramatic merit, and is the impression came to engineer, aame abip. in the immediate vicinity. Under being screened st
the matinee bim that something vousual,
Mr. A. Hamilton, chiaft on- the Boxer Protocol a radius of laud 9.15 sessions to-day.
had happened by the screech-gineer. Hangchow, has gone thirty miles is reserved, and the
ing of the brakes and the sud- chief engineer, Wenchow. Diplomatic Corps is stated to have Winter or summer. people will den pulling-up of the car. It was no apprehensions, except perhaps have their dancing. The Kow-not likely that he would be pay engineer, Faagtien, has gone Mr. J. W. Dianan, sup'y chiaf in regard to foreigners at out-loon Theatre therefore advertises ing much attention to what engineer, Hangchow. lying points. Wu appears to "negligree dance" for might have been happening to the have succeeded in inducing Tsao this everning. The word ricksbas in front before the Kwan to abandon neutrality, so "negligee" promises
nothing accident. that his Mightiness of Manchuria very scandalous; it merely invites In the witness-box the driver has something to contend with if people to come in their lightest said that be sounded his born on the clash resolves itself into a summer clothing.
seeing three or four rickshas Sport for sport's sake is evid-general engagement.
proceeding ahead of him. They ently becoming the fashion in local schools nowadays. A rear
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ago, the Diocesan Boys' School sports were marked by the institution of # system of
be medals for the scbool wincing the highest number of aggregate points.
This is a very happy idea, and
Original Jurisdiction.
Untoward
Mr. J. Baxter, from leave, has gone chief engineer, Chekisng.
Mr. R. H. Kingswood, third engineer. Shengking, is од
reserve.
Mr. J. Agnew, third engineer, Wenchow, bas
third
A plot of land. Kowloon Inland were not in a straight line engineer, Shengking gode
was resumed
Mr. R. Meldrum, third engineer, Tangetow, has gona acting second engineer, same ship.
Lat No. 1463, with an area of They were travelling same- Mr. J. L. Cruickshanks, from 3,190 square feet and situated on where about the centre of the reserve, has gone acting second tah Canton Road, was sold by roadway where his car also was. The first application under the auction at the offices of the Seeing that he had very little
engineer, Wenchow.
Mr. J. Reay, third engineer. Ordinance empowering solicitors Public Works Department yester-opportunity of passing them, he to act as barristers in certain day afternoon for $22,700, or $7.12 slowed down, and it was at this Wanchow, has gone third en-
ginaer, Foochow. points for winners, and this cases within the original jurisdic-a square foot. The upset price moment that the collision with Mr. H. Thomson, chief en- rear again no prizes were offered. tion of the Supreme Court was was $12.760, or 84 a equare foot the first of the rickshas took gineer, Chasan, is on reserve.
made yesterday in connection The purchaser was Mr. Fong place. The experiment. we notice, is with the big probate suit that is wai-ting, of the Bank of Asia.
MAJ. P. J. Maher, from re. Questioned by his Worship the being tried also at the forth-pending in reference to the estate
serve, bas gone chief engineer, witness said that he did to go Causan coming Inter-School Sports, at rf & Straits Chinese.
Τρε cage of a Shaukiwan right on the tram lines because
Mr. P. H. Tood, third engineer, which the only prizes offered will Tents have deprived the plain contractor who was charged with the rickshas were in a line and Kashing, is on reserve.
tiff of the services of both the stealing a topee from the Yee were in his way. barristers who have hitherto Sang Fat shop
Mr. A. Buchanan, chief en- Why did you not keep to the gineer, Liangchow, is on reserve. represented him, and, having before Mr. J. A. Fraser at the middle of the road then?-at regard to the present scarcity of Police Court this morning, when such short notice, I could bave gineer, Lisogobow, has gone Mr. R. E. Buras, second en- barristers, his solicitor, Mr. Hallr. W. B. Hind made the state- no time to go right to the middle acting chief engineer, same ship. Brutton, asked leave to conduct meat that the defendant was not of the road. we are glad to bear of its adopthe case himself. Leave was in full possession of his faculties,
Why did you not keep to the tion. Despite the absence of given, and the experiment, not so having on two occasions bedo tram lines?
entirely novel one in the Colony medically examined and advised The question had to be ex- prizes at the Diocesan Boys will be of interest in itself, and to be lodged in the Asylum. The plained, several times, by the School sports, we are informed also as affording some idea of man he followed into the shop interpreter before the informe- that the boys showed the greatest
bow the proposed amalgamation of
was his nephew, who had bought tion was received that at the the road. He admitted this much the two branches of the profession another topee. The matter was start the driver kept to the middle in his evidance. The fact that the enthusiasm fur their respective would work. His Excellency the left by the Magistrate to be of the road, but, seeing that the defendant imagined he bad reason "houses," being determined to Governor appointed a committee settled out of Court, an order of rickshas were in his way, he to believe the rickshas would get register as many points as they to investigate this question, but discharge being given.
turned to the left.
out of his way did not, to bla its activities were suspended on
"What Consense are
mind, you Worship's
excuse bis possibly eculd. Congratulations account of the Chief Justice's
Miss Mary Miles Minter, who bringing out of his mouth action. are due to the masters of schools absence on leave. The question is now visiting the Orient, under now?" asked his Worship of the In reply to his worship Mr. who are leading this movement is one that has exercised the minds
Wilson said that as far as the for the elimination of prizes, not of legal and commercial people the name of Juliet Shelby, to "try interpreter.
The interpreter replied that he Company were concerned the to forget the horrors of the Taylor bere since early days. In refer.
& very good because the change cats down
ence to the temporary Ordinance, Case." plays the leading role in bad tried his very best to make defendant had
"A Cumberland Romance," this clear to the witness the question record of two years' service. expenses at these gatherings, it may be remarked that at Home
very much out but because it instile into the solicitors acting as pleaders (in evening's Coronet Theatre attrac-put by bis Worship. All that the He was
tion.
A story of the Tennessee witness would state was what had pocket at the present moment courts of inferior jurisdiction)
His Worship-How is that? youthful mind that there is
can wear advocates' attire in the Mountains, this happy Realart already been interpreted.
His Worship: I suppose what picture was made before the Los something higher to be aimed form of a cloak-a garment more Angeles murder mystery in which it amounts to is that he expected taken away, and he had lost $65 at than mere "pot-hunting," suggestive of an usher's costume shefigured prominently, and which the rickshas to get out of the way in wages.
Inspector Garrod said that the namely, the honour of one's than of a barrister's gown.
mode is practically obsolete, how badcaused the nervous breakdown at the last minute.
that made her present trip The defendant:-It was the police record showed that the school or class-and that he is
to the Far East essential for ricksha driver that did not get out defendant was concerned in the beat aparteman who goes all
health reasons. "A Cumberland) of the way. I tried my best to very slight accident in 1918, ont to win even though he knows
Romance" shows the charming avoid the accident.
His worship decided to impose that nothing tangible in the way The "Cup."
little screen star at her very best! Inspector Garrod asked if his a fine of $20.
Worship Was satisfied with Inspector Garrod then produced the position of the car a claim by the rickaha driver for 'cause of what he does. That is were engaged in the dual task of
after the accident. If not, in 881,32; this being the estimate of the right spirit to inculcate in fighting a Cup final and seeking
view of statements by the damage to the vehicle. promotion. They failed to land
Police Sergeant who came into Mr. Wilson:-We do not admit these lads. What is equally the Cup, but got into the First
the case, that the rickaba was damage to that extent. It is gratifying, too, is the fact that Division all right, which after all P, & 0). Arrangement With lying on the tram track, he could cheaper to buy a new ricksha. in the schools where this ex- Now they have placed the Cap more solid achievement.
French Line.
produce further evidence on this His Worship decided úpon $25 periment has been tried the to their credit. This is a fico
The P. & O. Directors advise point, Mr. Timperley would say as the extent of the damage, and students have entered so record for a young club. In other their Agents that arrangements where the ricksha was lying, as ordered that this sum, together enthusiastically into the new days their opponents of last have been made with the Message after the accident be immediately wit $5 as personal compensation, system. That is a good sign. Saturday were great Cup fighters ries Maritimes Company's Dir went to the spot and took the be paid to the rickshs colle
and League players
well, actors in Paris for their steamers injured man out, and dressed his Whether this expense were to be borne by the defendant or bis and they are to be commended
Proud Preston" is not much to leave Shanghai at alternate leg
Mr. Timperly, on being recalled, employers was a matter that for the sporting manner in which more than a tradition now, albeit intervals to the P. & O. Com.
the old club has had a good pany's mail steamers, thereby ea-said that the ricksha was lying could be arranged between them they have co-operated to make
season, which enhances the merit suring a regular weekly mail about two yards from the side selvas.
Mr. G. E. Lyson, replying to the movement a success.
of Huddersfield's win. Neverthe service to Europe leaving Shang-channel.
In giving his decision, the his Worship,said that Mr. Gelling It might be well if some of the less, the appearance of these two hai on Saturdays and Hongkong
teams in the final illustrates on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Magistrate remarked that Biswas not asking for payment of Colony's senior organisations again the uncertainty which The P. & O. mail steamer Isaves view was that the defendant was compensation in tins Court He..
every alternate driving at a fair apeed and not believed from what he heard that were to follow the admirable makee the "Cup" such a sporting Hongkong
Wednesday at 11 s.m..
keeping strictly to the middle of a compromise would be come to, lead given by those at the head event.
ever.
The
of reward is coming his way be- Two years ago Haddersfield-Carefree, joyous, radiant.
is a
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Mr. Wilson-His licence was