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LEARNING TO DRIVE.
Sikh Sues Local Garage
Mohan Singh wanted to learn to drive a motor car and went to the Star Garage to make the DOCERBATY Rrrangements to take lessons. The Sikh gavo Mr. L. 4. Silva, of the Garage, the sum of $100 in cash and an LO.U. for a further siro ilar sum.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
STOLEN BICYCLE
FOUND.
CARR WORKERS" DEMANDS
But Owner Can't Get It. Household Servants Decline
A bioyola which was stolen. to Join Movement. three weeks ago was found by the owner.
Chiness employees in the cafes Ganeroso Calva, in a shop made a series of demands on their youth named and bakeries of the Colony have Yaumati yesterday, extensively employees, including more wages, altered and disguised in certain fewer hours and Guild "dictation." parts, but it 9%8 The transaction had its sequel recognisable
readily We understand that some sixteen by the in the Summary Court, before Mr.
loffers cafes are affected, these including * Botelho Brothers," which Justice Wood, this morning, the had not been completely ob
Wiseman's" and the Alexandra. plaintiff being Hohan Singh and literated by a dab of paint. The made by a Guild named the Hip The demands have been jointly the defendants the Star Garage. man who owns the shop was Chun Kung Wai, an organisation Mr. H. C. Le appeared for questioned and he stated that be whose members include, besides plaintiff, and defendants were bought it from acother mad cafe employees, domestic ser represented by Mr. M. W. La. This latter was also traced and vants in the service of Europeans. The Indian's story was that questioned, and he also gave the as well as hotel servants. The on June 30th. he went to see asme explanation 13 Mr. Silva and the agreement they arst.
the household and hotel servants, Yet a third came to was that he should brought into the polica investias to their participation in the de- however, after being consulted pay $100 in advance, a fartbergation and be too $100 to be paid aubsequently when bought it from another person, to jain the movement, as they are said he mands, are sail to bave declined he obtained licence. Plaintiff an elder brother. The investiga-antisfied with their present rates paid up the $100 and gave antions were threatening to be proof pay. 1.O.U. for another $100 and Mr. longed further, until all the men demands of those members of the Balow we give the Silva gave him & receipt for the concerned in the sale were brought Guild who are in the move- casă. Tuition was refused, up at the Police Court this morn- plaintiff alleged. He spoke to Mr. Jing.
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Silva about the matter and the Mr. R. E. Lindsell, who tried the ask for an increase of 60 per cent: The earning less than $10 reply he received was that they case, found it a difficult matter, in men drawing from 10 6820, 30 had no time to teach him that view of the lack of direct evidence, per cent.: $1 to $30, 40 per cent.; month; there was a rush of work to fix the responsibility on any and upwards, 100 per cent. The and the drivers were on duty up to of the three accused. and minimum wage for young beginners
not be
A nino-hour dag, man employed
given to the workmen in lieu of That four days extra pay be olidays on Sunday. To fith day of the nitth moon. being the anniver sary of the founding of the Guild. all members should be given a day's
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11 o'clock and midnigh: every it turned out that the youth to be $2. night. Mr. Silva told plaintiff to Generoso in some degree bad call on the first of the nex only himself to blame for the loss at cafes not included. month. Mr. Silva, continued the of his property as be neglected to Indian, told him that they report the theft when it occurred.propriate empty dour and sugar That bakers be entitled to ap- cruld not teach him and On Inspector Willis asking bags, boxes, etc., in lieu of chak-tim he had better come on the if ап order could 15th. for his money. The Garage made for the return of the systems in cafes as regards the maney, or extra income. Existing had no time to give instruction bicycle without coas to the cour disposal of wooden cases, etc.. } and as plaintiff would not be able plainant, his Worship said he should not be altered. to understand the Chinese driver could not, as there was no con- very well, it would be better for viction and the property could him to learn from an Indian not revert. Of the first accused driver. On the 15th. Mr. Silvs his Worship then asked: "Are paid plaintiff $30 and promised to you willing to give the bicycle return the balsace $71 and the back to the complainant? I.O.U. on the 5rst of the following month. Plaintiff bad not received for it," was the reply. a singla leeson and he claimed the return of the 870, the 10.2 discharged and, addressing the the 3rd day of the first moon, but
All the three accused were twelfth moon every year and end on ¦¦ENGLISH MADE and the costs of the action. complainant bis Worship added:-if basiness exigencies requires the For th defence it was alleged"You lost your bicycle without sttendance of the workmen during that plaintiff got into trouble taking any steps to recover it this period the employers should with the police and was told except telling your friend, and give them double pay. "The Sume to leave
the Colony. had had two lessons from been lost. As it is, the first with regard to work during the He that was sometime after it bad applies to the cafe worker- except Chinese driver, after which he defendant bought the bicycle in New-Yeur vacation for which 82 came to the Garage and saw Mr. good faith. Therefore you must could be pail a day. Cafes which Silva. He said he wanted to go lose it."
to Singapore but was a poor man and bad not the money for his passage. He wanted Mr. Silva to give back the fee and Mr. Silva returned $30.
His Honour and he had had a similar case on Z previous occasion and the difficulty was overcome by adjourning the action for the lessons to proceed.
"I cannot return it, as Ipaid holiday. The New Year vacation
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Colony and was perfectly willing rason of two pertorinannes at the New men should not be taken to learn to drive if defendant Stor Theatre this evening when on without the approval of both would teach him. He would also varied programme comprising the employer and the foreman. It pay back the 830, each side to pay classical opil oderu dances, akits, toan resigns to batter his pro- their own costs.
songs, burlesques, et, will be pre-specte bis successor must be fully Taking defendants" story as the seated. omni-acing at 916 p.m. qualities. true version, his Honourdescribed barp. What will in feed prove to Shops employing ten met are their offer of $30 as meau, con. [be a nuilty to Hongkong audiat liberty to enge an apprentice, sidering that plaintiff bad only cares will an exhibiixa of but the approval of the whole staff two lessons and owing to trouble the much-called himmy dance should be obtained nest.
The ter with the police had to go to in which, as well as in the hula-jof apprenticeship shall be there Bingapore.
bula, Haters, and Tarantula danes, ears. Mr. Lo asked for costs. The Miss I.. Vidal highly excel. Other A meeting of Guild officials and dispute was settled by his Honour dances, modern and classical, will employers was held yesterday. adjourning the Case sine die, be given by Miles Demag and but we understand that plaintiff to pay back the $30 and Blundy, two other charming young decision was reached. to pay $10 Towards defendants' ladies, whose versatility is marked costs, the parties to proceed within another direction in the reader- the course of training.
ing of popular seng-bits. possess extremely well modulsted Mr. A. L. Robinson, who has. | values. The material brought for deringthe last three years, carried the entertainment of Hongkong 1,500 aeroplane passengers-a audiences is further extended to world's record--has joined the turns contributed by the Company. Daimler Airway as pilot on their Music will be supplied by a jazz London-Paris air expresses. For band wait to be one of the best the past two years he has been 5. combinations that base come to touring Britain in a small aero- plane. bolding Bying weeks in the Far East.
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Returns to Port Because of Machinery Defects. We are informed by Mr. Allan and may be either booked at Cameron. Oriental Manager of the Hongkong side of the Star the Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ferry, where a free passage both Lid, that he has received cable way is included, or at the Stor advices that the Empress of Theatre. The Company can por- Australia" is returning to Van forts only two nights, as they are couver owing to machinery de- due to leave on Friday for a long fects., and that at present her sail engagement in the Dutch East ing to date the East is uncertain. Indies.
We are asked by the maDege ment of the Star Theatre to state that to-night and to-morrow, in LI'S EMISSARY TO SUN. view of the appearance of the President Li Youn-hung has International Varisty Company, at instructed General Ting Huai to the 9.10 p.m. soiree. Told in the go to Shanghai to welcome Dr. Hills, featuring a romance of the Boo Yat-sen to Peking, states Wild West of the old days, will telegram to the Eastern Times. be screened only at the 5.15 General Ting became known to watinees. foreigners in 1917, when he brought here the Presidenzial 'seals, which were placed in bis care by President; Li who had
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been forced to retire from office. In the New York State Sup- In Shanghai Gen. Ting was reme Court Justice O'Malley tracked by detectives, in the signed an order directing the north and after evading them, Farmers' Loan and Trust Com- with the seals in his possession, pany to hand over to Viscount for several weeks, he was finally Astor securities valued at £416,- shadowed to this Kalee hotel,000. These form the share of his where the seals were stolen from ve-year-old son, John Jacob, in the trout established by the late him and taken back to Peking. Lord Astor. -
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