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BIRTH.
FATAL MOTOR-CYCLE CONTEST.
Saturday's Meeting Marred.
TWO RIDERS DIE FROM
INJURIES..
EUROPEAN HOUSE BURGLED.
Trial at the Sessions.
Before the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees Davies) at the Supreme Court this morning Leung Chuon, was charged, at The silk which left herő by the
the Criminal Sessions, with Two very regrettable accidents and O. s. Devanha on the marred the motor trial contests larceny from a dwelling house, to 25th. Jaly was delivered in at Tein Wan on Saturday after residence of Mr. T. R. Parsons) of wit No. 2 Broadwood Road, the Marseilles on the 24th. August.
noon. In the bill-climbing event various articles of jewellery of
1
for heavy-weight motor-cycles,
The workers in the oil fao two riders met with fatal injuries, the total value of $550. tories in Canton have presented and the contest was abandoned The prisoner, who pleaded not demands to their employers for after the second accident. The guilty, was undefended. mora pay and better treatment. first to be hurt was Mr. H. J. Unless these are granted, thay Hooper, warder at Laichikok threaten to strike.
afternoon.
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the East, enter an environment)
The health return, for the pasti which is foreign to them in more
two days shows one Chinese case We are all of enteric fever. ways ⠀⠀`than-sone. more or less anobs, and the young man new to the Colony, if be be not of the stuff that acorns such pettiness, soon succumbs to this trait in himself and those with whom he comes into o on. tact He joine clubs and as. sociations that are of no use to bim, merely because it is "the
Following were the jury called: thing," and he drinks a great
goal, who died at 2.30 am. to-day Messrs. G. W. Sellers, C. F.de deal more than is wise,
without regaining consciousness; Carvalho, M. Nemazse, W. C. and
A three-year-old child was and the other was Mr. H. 8 Pillory, A. O. Smith, D. Bone, and spends a great deal more on killed yesterday whilst sitting in Burleigh, of Taikoo Dockyard, F. X. Gomes. plessure and fine raiment than is a cradle obair in Bullock Lane, who succumbed to his injuries on In opening the case for the in the least necessary, just be-A motor lorry ran into the chair Saturday night and was buried Crown, Mr. Dyer Bail said that cause he is trying to keep pace child instantaneously.
and overturned it, killing the yesterday
These the larceny occurred on the morn- two tragedies bave naturally casting of the 6tb. July. The prisoner with the others. In his eagerness
quite a gloom over all who were was caught by a Chinese Police to maintain the so-called respect A sanitary coolie was taken to connected with the contests and Sergeant at a pawnshop in others who were, present, and Queen's Road Central in the set of of his "associates for whatever the Government Civil Hospital it might be worth-ho overlooks yesterday suffering from wounds who witnessed the distressing pawning a gold bangles f
in the head caused by being mishaps.
search which the officer made of the cardinal principle that self-knocked down by a motor lorry It was shortly after 4.30 that his person, a gold bracelet was respect is nore precious than the in Queen's Road East.
the heavy weight class of motor-taken from one of his pockets and praise of flatterers and tondias..
oycles commenced the bill.climb, a wrist watch and band from his. In this way, be lives beyond his
During a baseball match be the fightweights having already wrist. He was taken to the tween the Japanese and the completed the test successfully. Central Police Station. menna. In some cases
A new- Hongkong Baseball | Club on Red Cross, men were stationed comer finds himself in a social Saturday at Happy Valley, the at the sharpest bend of all, which police in the meantime of the A report had been made to the collapsed under was about half way up the circle above that to which it had grandstand
loss of those three articles and undue weight of the spectators. It course, but their services were they were subsequently iden pleased Providence to call him, came down gently, and happily to be required elsewhere. Mrtified by Mrs. Parsone as and this turns his head. That is there were no casualties.
Hooper, one of the first to start having been stolen from her. often enough the beginning of
met with his mishap after the end of his allowance, this
Two armed robberies occurred covering only a few hundred dwelling house, No. 2 Broadwood early on Saturday morning. In yards. The accident was almost previous night. The value of Terrace, sometime during the end coming somewhere about one case, five robbers gagged and inexplicable, as it accurred on a those three articles was $145. JACK-At No. 1. Observatory the first week of the mouth. In bound the master and five fokis comparatively straight stretch Mrs. Parsons had placed on her Villas, Kowloon, on 26th August, To Mr. & Mrs. J. Mackenzie other cases, young men of un-of the Tai Loy Hing piece goods of on the evidence dressing table, when retiring to Jack, a daughter. (Still Born). doubted good social position are with about 860 worth of goods; swerved in'o the ditch on the articles and certain other articles shop in Yaumati and got away of onlookers, Le appears to have bed the night before, these three obliged to keep pace with their whilst in the other," a Chinese right hand side, etriking the
of jewellery, These ́ather associates of similar standing who woman riding in a ricksha. in bank heavily for more than articles were two finger ringe Mra, H. S. Burleigh and family, have been out bere for some two armed footpads who relieved about the head and face,
Whitfield Road was held up by twenty feet, and was badly hurt
and оде pendant of some of 6 Victoria View, Kowloon, de years and are thus able to pay her of $5 in cash and a pair of was
picked up unconscious, lot was stolen at the same time, considerable value. The whole airo to express their sincore their way; and the new arrivals gold ear rings.
and groaning, and a cursory but only the three articles thanks to all friends for sympathy.
examination seemed to indicate found on the prisoner had been extended in their sad bereave- get into debt: possibly against
a fracture at the base of the ment, to those who attended the their own inclination. We can
skull. Skilled help was soon at charged with larceny of all the recovered. The prisoner was funeral and sent wreaths, and all eventually look back on our
band, and Dr. O. W. McKenny, jewellery, it being assumed that especially to those who rendered
Dr. W. J. Woodman, and Dr. Ho, he was also responsible for the kindly assistance immediately
'grißia" days, provided we have j
who were. competitors in other loss of those pieces of jewellery after the accident.
westhored the storm of dunning
events, attended to the injured not recovered. That could not be letters, with few regrets-pro- It looks as if Hongkong may man. Mr. D. Cayless, a brother proved directly and, as he (Mr. bably we enjoyed ourselves on be in for another blow. This warder, dashed off to Kowloon to Dyer Ball) said, was merely a The Telegraph.
the whole. Certainly, we can morning at 7.25 the No. 1 warn-summon an ambulance, salve our consciences with the was followed at 10.40 am. by the in a motor-car, and ultimately or not. When the prisoner was ing signal was hoisted, and this injured competitor was removed mattor of inference whether pri
soner took those missing articles thought that we followed the No. 5 signal, indicating that a conveyed to the Government HONGKONG, 27th August, 1923. universal custom and in our gale might to expected from the Civil Hospital, accompanied by charged formally by the police Dr. McKenny, where a fracture three articles," and when he and cautioned, he said "I stole A telegram received at noon at the base of the skull was was asked by the Magistrate would have been the same even from the Manila Observatory definitely diagnosed, there being after evidence had been given be YOUTHFUL FOLLIES.
had there been no chits to sign stated that the typhoon was practically no hope of recovery said: "I stole those articles pra- situated in about 116 degrees We deeply regret to learn that he duced in Court. 1 went up there Longitude E., 21 degrees Latitude succumbed to his injuries last and stole those articles and then N., its direction being unknown. night.
Our own Observatory, reporting|
I came down to the ground at 12.25 pm, states:-"The do-
Accident to Mr. Burleigh. waited until 10 a.m. and then 1 After the previous accident, and pawned those things,. When went to the Kee Sack pawnshop It is the cause of the deepest pression in the China Sea has courages the extravagance of possible regret to us that the first developed into a typhoon appar. several competitors dropped out, I handed the articles up to the youth. If the idea is to take motor cycle trials over held in be less than 100 miles east of carried on, and reached the end of
ently. At present it appears to but quite a number of others counter the constable seized me." the thoughtless young man by Hongkong should have been Waglan, moving North of N.W." the course without mishap. The
ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
- hoart of hearts we realise that it
One point brought forward by the people who oppose the chit|
at every turn.
eystem for liquor supplied at The Motor Accidents. hotels is that the practice on-
marred by two serious accidents
ANOTHER TYPHOON.
west.
No. 5 Signal Hoisted.
The forecast for the
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corners successfully, and appear contral district. A man came up ed to be doing the best time of all, to me and asked me to work for. To the horror of those who could him as a coolis, but instead of
In pleading not guilty the the hand and point out to him to competitors. As a newspaper-twenty-four hours is "Cyclonic Mr. Burleigh, who, took the worst employed as a coolie in the next last to get away in this contest was prisoner said; "I was simply the error of his ways, then we wo gave much publicity to the gales, overcast, rain." think the anti chit persons should proposal that a series of contests should be held locally, and the undertake to have the credit arrangements for these were in system slopped everywhere, in the hands of a committee. called upon to suffer heavy and see him going up the hill, includ-working for him as a coolie be
members all shops as well as the bare of nearly all the
of unexpected bereavement. which were practical motoring clubs, otherwise "put it to my men. Unhappily, the very first The Arms Bill. account" and "my book, boy," competitions resulted in theas two The Ordinanco which is to failed to clear the concrete rails will continue to be the passwords accidents. A dozen meetings strengthen the law in regard to at the outside. He bumped these. to the bankruptcy, bad debts, and might have been held without any the unauthoritised possession of for several feet, and then was seen ence,
untoward incident occurring-in arms follows, in its main provi-to somersault over the edge and
ing a party of pressmen, the rider gave me something to pawn. I miscalculated the curve about pawned three of them for him and three-quarters of the way up and I was given ose dollar.",
Mrs. Parsons then gave evid-
Accused was sentenced to five
BODY DISCOVERED.
Three Boat People Charged. The discovery of the dead body. was of an aged fisherman. in a pool
so forth, that cloud the vision of fact, during the past week many sions, the outline recently given fall about twenty yards down the year's hard labour. these good souls, who apparently trial runs had taken place over in the interview which we had ravine. A police sergeant was bave the welfare of Hongkong's the same road, whilst open to with the Hon. Colonial Secretary, one of the first to reach him and young men at heart. We are not coming to grief. As fate would excepting when the police make prompt in arriving. Under the general traffic, without anyone All cases are to go to the Sessions, bring him up, and medical aid was out of sympathy with the idea of have it, it was otherwise on Satura request for eummary trial, and supervision of Dr. Woodman and restraining extravagance, but we day. Regarding the route for the maximum sentence is ten Dr. Ho, the injured man was the Hill Climb, this was years hard isbour with flogging despatched by car to Kowloon, should prefer to see more practi-chosen in preference to another in addition. New powers of and then to the Government Civil cal methods; for we have been which was suggested, on the search are to be given to the police, Hospital.
Mr. Burleigh known what it was to have to provided ordinary care and judg the following terms It shall be picked up he WES consin Aberdeen Channel has led to ment were used. Experts still lawful for any officer of police to cious, and converged with charges of murder being preferred raiso the wind" before our assure us tha, given these condi- stop, and to search for arms-(a) those near Lim, and next allowance fell due. That tions, Tsin.Wan Hill is not unduly any porean whom he may find in together so plucky that everyone and the latter's daughter.
was al against a boatman, a boatwoman happened often enough, however, dangerous, and in support of that any street or other public place felt reassured and hoped he was in places where one bad to pay in
contention they cite the fact that between the bours of 9 p.m. and not badly hurt. His first words The prisoners were charged Saturday's tests - it was 6 am.; and (b) any person whom were: "That was bad luck. His before the Magistrate this mare- cash for most things. The chit negotiated in safety by several he may find in any street or other first thought was for Mrs. Burleighing and a formal remind was and credit system is peculiarly competitors at a speed averaging public place, at any hour of the and he added: "Don't tell my wife ordered,
very young ourselves, and bave grounds that it was safe, these being set out in the Billin
those who do not,
When
fully sixty miles 80 hour day or night, who acts in a suep! what has happened." This lady
an Eastern one, and we have Moreover, to negotiate it is child's clous manner, or whom he may was a witness of the accident heard it said that the idea is play compared to hille chosen suspect of having any arms in his from a neighbouring hillock, and was not a very experiencel besed on the expectation of a for Home.contests. Another possession." We welcome these had the sympathy of all present. porcentage of bad debts, with the point is that neither of the acoid-new provisions, because, short of She accompanied her husband, rider, but was familiar with the road up Tain Way hill, which prices charged being calculated ants occurred at bad bends on the a house to-house visitation, which who was found to have several he had frequently ta negotiate fo road. Thore is, of course, alwaya is quite impracticable, they de fractured ribs and a crushed on this expectation. So in the element of risk in contests in provide a means by which stray right leg, to hospital, and our and from Laichikok Mus. end, it seems, the customers who which mechanical means of pro- arma may be taken out of the sincere condolences go out to her empathy will be felt for his meet their bills help to pay for pulsion are employed; and, unhap possession of dangerous charac in her subsequent bereavement.sed, loss of her son at such an mother, who is at Home; in the. pily, even where the utmost care tera. Despite the somewhat dis- is taken to reduce this to a testeful experience, we do not that Mr. Burleigh was torribly of his career in the East.
In the hospital it was found early age, and at the beginning It may be that Hongkong is a minimum, accidents will happen: suppose innocent people, whather place full of youthful extravage was especially unfortunate the European of Chinese or thesis performed. To the great regret It that or will rail injured, and an operation was ances, but certainly not more so marked by a double calamity, powers, realising, as they must, of everybody he died from the than other places in the East We are deeply sorry that this that the public weal is being shock towards midnight. which we wot of. If nearer the should have been the case, and served. Grave situations demand The late Mr. Hooper who was friends. The deepest of sympathy we are speaking for the whole of drastic remedies. In that state- unmarried, joined the Police on his is extended to his widow and Equator the greater the thirst, the officials when we express our ment will be found the justifica arrival in the Colony about two young atop children, and other then in the consumption of liquer sincerest sympathy with those tion for this new interference years ago, a) was later trans-relativos, who reside at Victoria per capita Singapore, for one who, as a consequence, have boon with the liberty of the subject, ferred to the prison staff. HelView, Kowloon,
Mr. Burleigh" was a very popular member of the younger community in the Colony, and his death is felt keenly by many