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THE STAR FERRY.
PLEA.
Unusual Court Incident.
Some Interesting Statistics.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
From the Star Ferry Com- Germany's new 10,000 mark! Ho So appeared before the Chiefpany we have obtained some note adorned with Durer's par- interesting figures of traffic across trait of his brother, recalls the fact Justice (Sir W. Rees-Davies) at the barbour. They are interest-that the Britannia on our own the Criminal Sessions this morn- ing, charged with, with others in two respects: they show the coinage possesses an historical growth of the Ferry service and original. When she appeared on they also show, to some extent, some of the coins of Charles 11, the growth of Kowloon.
the engraver. Philip Rotier, took
unknown, robling a travelling trader named Un Chai-tsan of a platinum watch, gold chain, other articles and $538 in cash.
Mr. H. K. Holmes" (Crown Solicitor) prosecuted and Mr. E. Zaitlyn finstructed by Messrs. D'Almada and Mason! appeared
for the defence.
The jury wera Messrs. G. E. Ellams (foreman), F. N. Young, A. J. Rodrigues (jon.),
yan and S. 3. Mayes
At the present time the Star as his model the beautiful Du- Ferry boats carry nearly a hundred chess of Richmond, and, what is thousand first-class passengers more, according to contemporary per month, not counting thosej chroniclers, produced a very ac who travel by monthly ticket.curate portrait of the lady. The approximate number of first- class passengers who took single
A London paper states:-The.. tickets in July this year was 99 House of Lords records found 200, while the number who travel in use as wrapping paper in Solomon, G. F. da Roz, Chu Po-n family tickets is estimated at cheesemonger's shop bave had
between 3,000 and 3,050.
mans companions in misfortune In January. 1911, the number among cur early parish registers. The story for the prosecution was that about half-past nine on of first-class single tickets issued Those of Christchurch in Hamp- was 34,900: in the same monthshire, for instance, were used to the morning of July 21st, comi-
the number increased make kettle holders by the wife of plainant, who was staying tem-1914.
There 42,550.
curates. alone of the
Another porarily at premises in Des Voeux to
lost its early registers Road West, was awakened by a decrease then, and in 1912 the parish
In and they were used by the parish man with a revolver. He said number was down to 39,500.
he had come to search for arms. January, 1920, the number sprang clerk to singe a geose. Plungar's The traveller noticed five other up to 66.100 and in Juls, 1922-in Leicestershire, were used by men, all armed with revolvers. only two and a half years later-the clerk to wrap up the groceries The men asked for the keys of the number had increased by city which he apparently took more the safe. These not being hard. per cent. This rapid increase is seriously than his parish duties. ed over, complainant and another largely due to the fact that more Cases are on record, too, of regis man were bound and thrust aside large steamers now moor alung-ters used as a bedspread, patterns: and the robbers coramenced to side the Kowloon wharf, a large for lace making, and tailor's mas-
of the passengers sures. try to break open the safe. In proportion this they failed. They found the being travellers passing through articles in question, however, and the Colony.
The barber's pole, which Burn- Ten years ago the number of later took their departure. Com- plainant managed to free bimself family tickets issued by the Starley Town Council proposes, to
211 **outside
sign.** of his bonds and the matter was Ferry Company was under 300 tax
from the days when reported to the police. Accused The number of monthly tickets dates
linked with issued at the present time is in hair cutting was was subsequently arrested.
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In the operation of The complainant. in his the neighbourhood of 650, an surgery. vilence. mentioned a pair of ficcrease of over a hundred per blood-letting, so greatly in favour spectacles, tound on prisoner. He cent. These figures have been with old-time physicians, and identified them as his property. arrived at by dividing the receipt generally performed by barbere. Mr. Zeitlyn asked a quarter of in dollars by nine. the average it was usual for the patient to grip an hour's adjournment zo consult price of a monthly ticket being 19. pole provided in order to make) prisoner on the matter, which it is estimated that the average the veins swell. As the pole soon Kowloon family consists of five became bloodstained it was paint- was granted.
When the Court continued, persons and that gives as 1,465ed red, and, when not in use. dost as a Counsel said he could not refute persons in January. 1911, and in bung outside the
These sign, sometimes swathed roundt the evidence of the prosecutionJuly, this year. 3,235.
rough idea of the with a strip of linen, to signify a ENGLISH MADE without alleging perjury on the ägare give a
which Kowloon is bandage. In course of time it part of the prosecutor and the rate
occurred to some quick-witted police. He therefore asked par-growing. mmission to withdraw the plea of
not guilty.
on
The second-class passengers barber-surgeon to have a dummy the Ferry are gradually pole, painted red and white, fixed Prisoner said nothing when Mr. dwindling. In 1911, some 10.000 permanently above bis door, and
這 month Zitlyn's remarks were translated
were carried. This! to keep the rest pole inside. The
to him: Acting-on-instructions increased in 1914_to_arou: dummy has survived long after
From his solicitors, Counsel en-14,000 and in 1915 to between 1,500 the real article, and all it stood tered a plea of guilty, addressing and 1,6 # In 1920, the number for his passed away. the Cour: in mitigation of had dipped to 3,500 and to-day
sentence.
Accused was sentenced to six years' hard labour and to receive 13 strokes with the Cat."
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ASSIZES AS THEATRES OF PSYCHIC RESEARCH.
Minister's Warning.
1922
A warning against the danger for psychiatric] of turning every Assize court
research was uttered by Sir into a theatre Leslie Scott, K.C., the Solicitor-
General.
He was presiding at the an- Association for Mental Welfare.) beld at Caxton Hall. The co- nust conference of the Central
ference discussed problems con-
certain types of nected with the moral respon sibility of cimioals
not many more than 4500 a
A writer in the Manchester month are carried. Many former
passengers now hardin remarks: A passage second-class prefer to pay a little more and in "The Croker Papers" serves travel first-class, and this demand to show that it is not so very long comfort probably since political duels were as +X'ri
common in this country as ever explains the decrease.
The number of third-class they have been in France. When passengers, it is interesting to Lord Cardigan was tried by the note. is about the same now as : House of Lords in 1541 for:
To Return in N.Y.K. Boats, was ten years ago. In January wounding Lieutensat Tuckett in
was 238.253. a duel his counsel, Sir Willia
Wandering in the wilderness of 1911. the number
Siberia away from their native, By January, 1914. the number Follett asked Croker for any in- a leading article on the had increased to 371.800. Thenformation he could give respect- appointment of Mr. Chan Chik-sue there was a drop. In Januarying the practice of duelling in land, without parents. without **Civil Governor, the on 1911, the number was 233,394 and ingland. Croker sent him a few friends and even without supplies F¢ruz« #a5$;=
in July, this year, the total for memoranda, and added: "Within so many Polish orphans have bad This is the last hundred years six per to endure hardship and privation As the Governor is a man in the month was 249.928.
of the Great European War that close and intimate relations with attributed to the fact that the sons have fought duels who have for such a long time as a result the British in Hongkong and with fares on the Yaumati Ferry are agen Prime Ministers: Pulteney The Portuguese in Macao, these little lower and some of the poorerford Bath), Lord Shelburne, Mr. the Japan Red Cross Society has foreign neighbours will find no Chinese prefer to travel by that Pitt, Mr. Fox. Mr. Canning, the again stretched out its hands to difficulty in clearing away many means and so save the additional Duke of Wellington. I might alleviate their suffering. In fact,
almost add Peel, who twice the Japan Red Cross
take 370 Polish children outstanding misunderstandings cent.
challenged, and Castlereagh, who to and prejudices. His Excellency
as almost a Prime Minister. Or into its detached Institute in on his own part will undoubtedly
late rears the custom has cerTokyo for more than a year and -work in friendly co-operation
Sir Leslie said they had to tainly decreased, and the House to send them to America in 1918 with the foreigners to bring about
of Lords has not tow. I dare say, to be transferred to the Polish
in consider how far punishment stera of better basiness and more
above half a
should be inflicted on those whom dozen who have Relief Society established wholesome rsteam. Here is a
actualis fought,, and about as Seattle, Washington, USA.
But unfortunately, this Society.punishment could not deter. in cbance for them to approach Admitted This Morning-any who have been seconds."
bas by this time declined to look order that the sight of punish- Kwangtung in a business-like
after soother group of the Polishment might deter others. manner, namely mutual bene-
Mr. Harold Cox said if we lat! Protests such as have lately children numbering 400 and forty fi, strict contractual relation- the Chief Justice, this morning.
at Home against the attendants now on the way to off a man from the consequences ship, courtesy, and honest and Mr. T. G. Bennett was admitted lawici dealings. Nothing is more to
solicitorale of honours" are at least Japan from Siberia. The Japan of crime, and did not prevent the practice as
Supreme two centuries old. In 1717 the Red Cross has so arranged, there-breeding of defectives, we should "devoutly to be desired than the and proctor of the ushering in of this happy phase Court of Hongkong. Mr. Bennet House of Lords took alarm at the fore, as to receive them at Osaks, crests & privileged class who of southern intercourse. It will was admitted as a solicitor of the rapid increase in their numbers when they arrive in Tsuruge from could commit any sort of crime bring prosperity to all and good Supreme Court of Judicature by Ministerial creations, and Vladivostock: and to sead them without punishment.
ia February of this year. fellowship all round.
passed a bill by a large majority back directly to Dantig on board He arrived in the Colony by for the limitation of the peerages, the ships Katori Maru sa Atsats the P. and Oeemer Kalyan the proposals being that future Mare, of the NYK, sailing from. yesterday to join the firm of Messrs.
Johnson, Stokes and peerages should be limited to Kabe on the 22nd. August and the two lives, and that new creations 5tb. September respectively. The
Armed robbers at Shanghail Master.
hould be made only in cases of Steamship Company in support extinction. When the measure of and in full sympathy with the bas discovered a fresh field for The Chinese came before the House of Com- humane project of the Red Cross their activities.
BOTTOMLEY'S HORSES FETCH 1,800 GUTSEAS.
Horatin Bottomley's stud of
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B
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ROBBING A TEMPLE.
Upper Dicker Farm, Sussex. br DANCING WITH GERMAN mon Walpole made these two Society, had made considerable press contained an account of an
Meests. Lanaland and Co. The
WOMEN.
New Order To Troops at
Cologne.
classes the maia object of attack. allowances on their passagee, attack on so ancestral temple in If the bill became law, be pointed beside making special provision village near to Shanghai by 17 lots realised a little over 1.805!
oot, there would be no arrival at of cabins for their accommoda-eight men carrying knives. The guineas. Top price was 650.
templa keeper after being bound, honour bat through the winding-tion.
It is said that H.M. the Empress, was stabbed in the hands and feet. guineas paid for Nareesh by Mr.
sheet of an old lord or the grave Levy, while Mantuanus fetched
of an extinct family. Had the bearing of these pitifal, belpless He braved the torture and luckily 400 guineas and was bought by
bill, he continued, originated Polish children, has been so deep escaped with his life, the robbers Mr. de Jong. The sensation of
A ban against British troops with some pear of distinguished ly moved that she has graciously departing disappointed at not the sale was the Manx Crag colt,
would not have given them supplies; and that finding the treasure reported to which has gone wrong in bis dancing with German women or ancestry it forelegs, and changed hands for girls has been issued by the com-surprised him, "for the desire to many Japanese have follow din be hidden in the temple. A few half &guines. Fort, a bay mander of the occupation force exclude others from a participa bar footsteps, offering help to household belongings constitated
tion of honours was no novelty the Japan Red Cross and extend their sale booty. stallion, was told for tan guineas. in Germany. Other prices were Wee Wifis British military police will be in that class," but it was sing their sympathy and kindness coll, Mr. Weston, 22 gs, Karsavius authorised to control public estabmatter of just surprise that it to those orphans in various
should have been promoted by practical ways. fily, Mr. Hare, 210 gs. and Mac-lishroents to enforce this ban.
It is one of the chief objects of * gentleman The Gazelle des lubergistes, of Lord Stanhope, Merry, Mr. Hare, 45 gs.
that the who was not long ago seated the League of Red Cross Societies Cologne, announces British occupation authorities among us, and who, having got to alleviate suffering of mankind. bave forbidden the military of all into the House of Pears, is now The Japan Red Cross, adhering ranks" from entering dancing desirous to shut the door after to the principles and spirit of the places." or participating in any him. That sharp arrow killed the League, Itas discharged on every. fete organised by German private bill. It was, thrown out by a occasion its duty ever since the
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