THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
1924.
"PARTED CURTAINS. ":
FATAL HARBOUR" MISHAP.
FIFTY YEAR OLD DISPUTE.
ABSORBING CORONET
PICTURE.
Human interest in the keynote of the Coronot Theatre's fouture
WCH
illustrated
SMALL BOAT SMASHED BY Vast Pile of Unpaid Bills.
STEAMER'S PROPELLER.
A fifty-year-old dispute bo- The danger of small boats, tween the Post Office and the attraction this evening human following ton closely behind South-Western Railway, which intorest with romance, humour, ocean-going ships when the latter includes accounts unpaid for half pathos and adventure skilfully are making a busy or thea contury, and an accumulation in of opinions by Law. Officers of Curtains admixad. * Parted
wharf .comas from the Warner Brothers tragic manner this morning.the Crown over the same porinil. studia and that fact alone, hos whon a small fishing boat, in camo up recently before Mr. peaks its quality. With the act which was a husband and wife, Justice Baithache, who revorved ing in the hands of a capable cast, was drawn into a ship's propeller judgmont.
The Attorney-General (Sir led by Henry H. Walthall and and completely smashed, with Mary Aldon, little further war- the result that the woman was Patrick Hastings, K.C.), said. it all turned on whether, under an ranty is required, except to killed. mention that the story is mast Just before nine o'clock this agreement dated 1876, the Post- engrossing. Indeed it might have morning; tho 8.8. Oostkark, master-General was entitled to delighted that supreme master O. Dutch leamer in from Manila, have telegraph stores carried free. Henry, for it has all the appeal was making the No. pior The railway said that right was Kowloon Wharf and limited the Posthiastor-General and glamour of real life. To tell of the
Company. A it in detail here would be to anti-Godown
num raid it was not. of small boats wore
For all these yours the Crown cipate the pleasure of hidrodsber who will so it during the next in the vicinity of the ship, had sent its telegraphic apparatus fow days, but mention may be one of them being close to the over the system, and the railway made that the central figure is a stern of the vessel. When the company had went in a claim, young man who has served soven propeller was suddenly set going which Crown had refused to pay. yours' gaol to shield a friend and fastern, the small boat was suck- It was thought that the time bad is now striving to start life anew.ed in towards it and before any arrived when it should be ascer Dramatic events follow his thing could be done had beconte tained who was right and whe attempt to hold up a wealthy inextricably
The was wrong. The sum involved a toy pistol after) man, artist with
apparently managed to was about £200 n your. to jump eloar, but the woman must: His Lordship: There appears hunger has reduced him desperation, and the romance have been struck by the pro- to be 50 years' arrears.
The Attorney-Genom: It may which then begins is one of love, pollor, for who was decapitatod treachery and saerifien, with hore and otherwiso hailly cut about. be so. There are also about 50 a dash of humour and there a Death must have been instan-years of opinions of law officers spice of excitement. Eventually laneous., Other small boats in the on the matter. Laughter.)
His Lordship: Can you give everything comes right, of course, neighbourhood went to the man's
મ selection of them-of and the spectator's enjoyment of assistance and he was rescued, mu
tho dnes which most was course, an absorbing story is thus noutly The womun's dod body
favour your argument? (Laugh- coppel. "l'arted Curtains" is a later recovered.
ter) picture that is bound to have a wide appeal, owing to its many sterling qualitios, -
MOTOR BUS ACCIDENTS.
involved.
A JUNK SENK.
AL about two o'clock this morning, whitsi at the Western Anchorage a cargo junk, was run down by a launch. The boat was very badly holed and sank, but not before all the sccupants had been taken off.
:
PRINCE.
The Attorney General: I could give you them all, and they are of almost historical interest because of the names they are associated with.
His Lordship: You might let me seo them. after. I have given after.. my judgment-1 say (Laughter.)
The Attorney General: And my SOUTH AFRICA AND THE 16arned friend. Sir John Simon K. C. (on the other side) entors the Court with a free conscienco. Ho has not advised, so far as I know,
FOUR DRIVERS CHARGED. The two bus drivers who were concerned in the fatal crash on Sunday at Pingshan have appear- ed-bofore the Magistrato, charged with manslaughter, ju gon-Nationalist Leader's Statement. sequence of the death of three of the victims. They were remand-
Boll.
Sir John Simon having argued, the case for the railway company, consider his decision.
lordship said he would
Mr. Justice Bailhuche later gave judgment in favour of the railway.
He refused is declaration asked for by the Postmaster-General.
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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY,
SUNDAY NEXT
·AT
THE CORONET
POOR MEN'S
Capetown, April 8. od for a wook by Mr. R. E. Lindalist lender Herzog said he hoped
In the Assembly, the Nation-his
the announcement of the post- Another bus-driver also game ponement of the Prince of Wales' before his Worship on a charge visit was not equivalent to saying of failing to report an accident in the Prince should not come at ali which his bus overturned whilst|(cbeors). He hoped he was vole rounding a corner at Tunwaning tho feelings of all sections . A second count we of stealing when he said if the Prince visited the bus takings, amounting to South Africa in the future ho $2.10.-
wand be greeted with respect
Dr. Mackail chose "Bentley's A motor car driver who is and warmth worthy of his high
in the City,"
'Milon" as the subject of his alleged to have been driving the position, and of the South African
Motors have not in all cases recent Warton lecture to the hue without permission prior to people. (Cheers.)
Academy, The Kreat the accident also. figured in the Gen. Smuts, replying, said the proved their superiority to horse British
scholar's adition of the great poet chargo of failing to report. A Prince was assured of a very transport. second charge preferred against royal welcome by every shade of The efforts being made by the is now nearly 200 years old, and this man was that of driving the opinion. It was only the pro- Shire Horse Society at Home to though it is probably now little vehiclo-without permission.of the pristies of the enso that induced show what the heavlar type of read, is likely to remain one of owners, As in the preceding the Government to advise him to horse can do is confirmed by the curiosities and aberrations of caxe, both men, were also remand-postpone, his trip during the elec-experts outside, who have to criticism. The idea underlying û paying it was plausible. Milton employed ed, Mr. Wadeson appearing for tion turmoil, and it was hoped make horse-power- the prosecution.
the invitation would be renewed proposition.
an amanitensis, and the amanu- whon the olections. wore over.
A Press representative was ensis made mistakos.Hance an un- Renter,
informed by the matagoniente of rivalled opportunity for so adept a some of London's biggest curroctor as the Master of Trinity, transport contractors that under who in the words, not of his GREEK KING'S PROTEST. present conditions of metro- Bishop biographer, but of Jobb, politan traffic the horse cannot was accustomed to treat manus only hold its own, but is a more cripts as if they were they Fellows | Rights and Duties of Royalty. businesslike investment.
of his college. But in his heart, One firm has 2,000 horses adds Jebb, when Bentley was Mr. CATS. Ruse appeared
Bucharest, April working in London, another firm correcting the text he knew before--Mr. E. W. Hatillon, at In an impassioned dospatch to aid, that they had as many he
was revising the author. the Police Court this morning, the Greek people, the exiled Kinghorses hauling for them as they Every one must more or luss in connection with certain George demands to be restored had years ago.
aware, without having seen Sanitary Department summonses to the Monarchy. le déclarés Horses aro
valuable to the Bentley's edition, how the con against his clients. He said that the violent suppression of the transport firms on what is called clusion of "Paradise Lost" was according to the Ordinance the principles on which tho State is inner vircle" of London freely rewritten by the English fession in Ontario, is collaborat Sanitary Department. liad no Founded impols him, to protost right to send the notices, as the against the iniquity committed that area which has so many Aristarch to suit his own notiousing with Mr. Godfrey to that end.
congosted points, and which of an appropriate opic cluso. mattor did not come within its against the nation and domand
Covors ♫ radius of about five .province..
the froe exercise of the rights
milos. Mr. Hamilton replied that Mr. and duties of royalty laid down Russ should not be too sure in in the Constitution. Reuter, his contention, as he himself had!
where néver discovered
tho Sanitary Department ended and whare the Building Authority began.
OVERLAPPING.
GOVERNMENT DEPART- MENT PUZZLE.
I
of
WIVES
The treatment is based on the conclusion that pyorrhea origin- atcs in the lining membrane the tooth socket and The cab and bus horse is not A marked phase of the London
is duo to unequal pressure yot a thing of the past, for the traffic problóm is the increased traille department of Scotland dislike of over-rapid and incon-of the tooth and that inflamma Yard has 400 horse vehicles siderate motorists. In the last tion procodes the disease. The NEW ITALIAN CHAMBER. consed to-day.
fow weeks, says tho Times, several treatment which is said to have cases have been brought before been successfully applied to a score of sufferers, corrects. the THE NEW MINISTRY. the Courts which have shown
a wanton dierogard of the public | uneven pressura of the tooth and Rome, April 8.
safety. For example; a man was promotes the growth of new bone A Rainy Day Story.
fined £15 at Marylebone for driv-whore old or disbased. now Italian Chambor
A pleasant little story, I am ing u motor-cur in the Outor Circle consists of a Government party told, is going round to show that at Regent's Park at a speed of 12 of 375 against 160 representing even Labour Ministers soon in- miles an hour. The magistrato eloven other partios.
tarost themselves in point of declined to Rocopt the plea that
Big Government 'Gain.
the
The
After further argument as to the legality of the summonses, his Worship' adjourned hoaring.
"TAI LEE" DISCOVERY,
DUPLICATE KEYS OF GRILL LOCKS..
The average number of vehicles
hours was, during last year,
The. Popular Party aro now official etiquette. The other day the car was under-perfect control;! passing Piccadilly-circus in twalvoj forty, and have lost sixty-six question arose which concerned Aspood of 60 miles, bo raid, was seats; the Democratic Socialists two departments. The Secretary dangerous in London, and any are now twenty-five, having lost of State for the junior depart on proved to have travelled at Afty-seven.Renter.
mont, a bluff sort of follow, sont such a rate would meet with no a note to his colleague the Socro-orcy. Some Londonors think tary of State for the senior defines are morey, and would have partment,
the offenders imprisoned without The latter called in his chlof option. ocrotary and said :-
SENTENCE ON DIAMOND MERCHANT.
H "Look bore X has asked me to some round and soo him. Ain't
the senior department ? ?' "Yes, sir.
You're sure?”. "Certainly." "Then we ought to sand for
1
Wo are informed by the au-| thorities that a completo set of
At the Contral Criminal Court; newly-made brass koye fitting all the grill locks of s.s. Tai 1 co were boforo Mr. Justice Shearman, discovered yesterday, on a foki in Samuel Henry Harris, 51, a
Mr. Forbes Godfroy, Ontario the employ of the compradore of diamond merchant, of Hatton-
Minister of Health, announces an that shin.
garden, who pleaded "Guilty "wo
Important discovery in the treat Owing to this froguent obanges on Friday to a charge of making
ment of pyorrhoea of the tooth of officer it is impossible to pro-falme statements in returns rolst
perfected by Dr. Harold Box, a secule, but this it is said, furnishes lng to incomo-tax, surrendero d receive judgment. Mr.
Toronto dentist and graduate of an illuminating examplo of the to uselessness of any form of control Justice Shearinan sentenced the him. What shall we do about it" the University of Toronto. Mr when such things are allowed to dofondant to mix months fm"Woll, sir, perliups this time it Godfrey states that the discovery
in comparable in the dontal field, prisonment in the second divison would be politie to go and happon; A
"Righto, you some too. Next to that of Insulin in medicine. The ship will not be allowed to, and a fine of £5,000, and ordered mail until all the looks have been him to pay, the costs of the time we'll send for him, and by-The discoveror, who desires to
prosecutio
we'll wait for a rainy day."- make the oure free to the pro- repladed.
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