MOTOR TRUCK MISHAP. HOME FOOTBALL.
LAMP POST KNOCKED DOWN..
In a motor hccident which oc curred in Kennedy Road yesterday.
"ENGLISH LEAGUE RESULTS.
London, September 2: The matches played in the a lamp post was knocked clean English League to-day resulted as off its base by a motor truck, dur-follows:- ing the changing of gears by the driver.
Division I.
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1925.
LOCAL ANGLING.
RESERVIOR SEASON OPENS.
We have received the following notes froin Mr. W. Galloway, the acting Hon. Secretary and Trea- surer of the Hongkong Angling: Club:
The truck had safely negotiated Liverpool.2 Notts County.lowing to the present stato of
Man. Utd....3 Aston Villa
Garden Road, and was taking the gunderland Blackburn turn into Kennedy Road when, ac; cording to the driver, he hath West Brom....1 Everton
endeavoured to change into
Division II.
lower gear, but, failing to do Middlesbrough 3 Blickpool
the vehicle commenced
80,
to back. A lamp post
Was
Division III (South)...
in the way and after knocking Plymouth....6 Crystal P.: this over, the vehicle proceeded Southend 3 Brentford backwards for some yards before.it
Division II (North). -
was brought up short, with violent Accrington Hartlepools force, against the wall of the Durham.... .2 Barrow Botanical Gardens. Damage was N. Brighton, 2 Wrexham
caused to the wall and to the rear
portion of the truck.
The only
person injured was a woman brick- carrier, who was riding in the
She received 21 truck.
scratch over one eye.
slight
The driver's statement.in regard to the cause of the accident is be- ing investigated by the police.
PO HING FOXG DISASTER
ENQUIRY RESUMED.
It is a matter of regret that
affairs, the Sea-Fishing Competi tion arranged for some time ago has had to be abandoned. It is hopod to hold it, however, as HOON las conditions permit.
The senson for the reservoirs opened yesterday and, consider- ing the amount of rain we havo had, promises well. Kowloon is the best roservoir for bass. Thoy are more numerous thero and in .2 good condition. Possibly this is due to the presence of "knife fish" on which bass prey.
-Router.
SCHOOL HEALTH.
MEDICAL INSPECTION "
SCHEME.
At the meeting of the Board of Education yesterday afternoon the question of medical inspection in local schools was again brought up
Tytam Tuk holda some bass,) but they are fow and far between although they are believed to run much larger than those in Kow- loon. The conditions attached to the issue of licences ($5 for tho season) do not permit of the an- gler killing a bass under 12 inches in length or 1 ib. in weight. A large-mouthed black bass (for this! is the particular species horo) in good, condition and weighing a pound will not be as much as 12 inches in length.'
In connection with the in-i regarding the vestigationg
in the disenssion of the report by similarity of the "gan-yu," which Mrs. Minett, the medical officer inhabits ponds near Kiukiang. appointed-by-the-Education Depart and the knife fish" of the meat. It was pointed out that the Fanling stream and local r0- The hearing was resumed yes- terday of the enquiry into the Polan, which was approved, followed servoirs, two specimens were "Hing Fong collapse. Mr. S. B. B.the Home practice and it was recently submitted to, a loc 1 McElderry sitting as
decided to arrange that Mrs. Minelt authority and he decided that no Coronar at the Central Magistracy. The should be able to attend the Board's difference existed. The curious jury was as follows, Capt. P. Ar-meetings to supply any information thing is that while the gan-yu thuriforeman, Mr. Ho Kom-tong they might desire frem time to and Mr. J. Sheppard. Mr. FAC time.
Further discussion followed as to Jenkin was present in the inter- ost of the relatives of many of the the number of inspections each deceased..
child would undergo in a year, and Licut-Col. Russell Brown, R. the chairnian, Mr. E. Ralphs, replied
reaches 7 and 9 hs., the local "knife fish "jor "daçe" as he is! sometimes erroneously called everfo our knowledge at any rate grows to more than 9 or 10 ozs..in weight.
The "gran-yu" is a very sport-
E gave evidence and in reply to that it was a matter that could be ing fish and we wished to make the foreman he said having regard adjusted satisfactorily. He point experiments down here with their to the fact that the wall was 28 ed out' to a juestioner that there"Try" which, if successful, would years old he should have consid- would be proper medicul inspection probably have led us to propose ored rebuilding it before he pro- of Government and grant-fn-aid to the Government that "gan-yn" cerdad with the building of the school premises. Police station above. The drain- age of the area so far us,surface water was concerned, did not ap- pear to be sufficient.
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Technical Institute. The chairman announced that. with H. E, the Governor's sanction, the Technical Institute at Kowloon is to be extended rext month, with
In reply to the Coroner, witness said he thought that in 1896 when the wall was built the design and classes at the Central British School factor for safety then allowed for in the following subjects:-Chemis- would have allowed a sufficient try, Practical and Theoretion!;
be put in at least one of the re- servoirs forming the new. chain.! Until things quieten down all over China it is impossible to carry out these propused experiments.
MOROCCO WAR.
margin for safety for a few years: Physics, Mathematics, French| RIFF LEADER'S MOVEMENTS.
Book-keeping, Shorthand and
only. If the foundations have been throughly drained it would
No class would be probably have laated in a fairly Cookery. stable condition up to date. In his formed, however, in any subject
ment of 10 students. The fee for
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Paris, Sept. 2.
According to the Temps corres. opinion the margin safety allowed unless there was a minimum prapondent at Fez, Abd e Krim has for was always too sinall.·
Mr. R. Warren, engineer in the the term of four months would be carefully prepared his retreat from employ of Messrs. Armstrong and $10 for each subject. Experienced Adjir in the event of the Spaniards- Whitworth; was, then called. In and competent lecturers would be capturing the town. He has established his headquarters t reply to the foremmu he said. had engaged; for the practical subjects, he been building the No. 8 Police they had well-equipped laboratories, Bourda, a key position, at the head of the valley leading to the heart Station he would have gone into was remarked that it only of the Riff mountains and has |
Bourda, which is connected with Adjir by telephone-Reuter.
the question of strengthening the remained for Kowloon" residents to already massed reserves. north of numbar, one wall at the bottom give the scheme adequate support. before he would have considered rebuilding it. He said the drain- are of the wall should have been attended to before the wall was built. The usual practice was to pul a trench behind the founda- tions. He did not know if this was tono. in the present case. 'The spring behind ought to have besn diverted.
At this point the enquiry was adjourned until Friday when the Coroner will sum up and the jury return thoir verdict,
WOMAN KIDNAPPER.
H.
'MADE AN EXAMPLE OF. The elderly Chinese woman of Yaumali district, who was charg- ed on romand before Mr. E. W. -Hamilton in the Kowloon
WU HON-MIN'S BROTHER.
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who was recently sent from Hong-hoat there will leave the Colony kong to Macau, is now contemplat- Mr. E. F. L. Sturdee, the General! ing a trip up North. A Hongkong Passenger Agent for the Orient merchant who has just returned of the Canadian Pacific Steam- from Macco informs us that Waships, Ltd. For over a year and is going north, having booked a half, Mr. Sturdqo Has been passage to Shanghai by the Em-attached to the Hongkong office press of Canada, which is due.. to of the C. P. S., in the capacity named, and he has made a sail to-day.
large circle of friends, who will greatly regret his departure. Mr. Sturdee has, during his stay here, proved himself 'most capable and energtic shipping man, and
Magistracy, yesterday afternoon. To-day's Royal Observatory with illegally harbouring two report states "A wealé anti-by his geniality of disposition he small girls who had been kidnapped, was sentenced to six cyclone is contral over 5. Man has gained much popularity. He churia, and the China Sea de-now goes to the general office of months imprisonment or each pression has filled up, The ty- the Company in Montreal, where chargo, the Magistrato remarking that he would make an example pheon of the Pacific is approa- his numerous friends will wish ching the Loochoos on a N.W. him every happiness and pro- track."
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sperity.
Mr. Sturdee's sucessor as Gon- eral Passenger Agent for the Orient will be Mr. E. Stone, who has just arrived in the Colony
of her.
Tho woman's detection was in cost is:-E. winds, moderate; terestingly related by the mother fine generally.
of one of the children. Having
"heard of accused's practice of
'kidnapping, and her little girl
having disappeared, the mother
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