EXCESSIVE LOAD.
LORRY CAUSES DANGER TO
PEDESTRIANS.
"It is a very serious case against the driver," remarked Sub-Inspec- tor Alexander to Major C. Willson, at the Central Police Court this morning, during the hearing of a case brought under the traffic re- gulations. Two Chinese were
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1926,
LIGHTNING STRIKE A
AT
TILBURY.
TWO THOUSAND DOCKERS OUT.
SILVER BELLS
MR. AND MRS. GEORGE
DUNCAN HONOURED.
Vory many hearty congratula tions were received yesterday, by Mr. and Mra.. George Duncan, of, Kowloon Dock, on the celebration of their Silver Wedding. It was just 26 years ago since they were mar- aried at Union Church, Hongkong, and their many friends, both old many more years of happy married and now, joined in wishing them
WORK AT STANDSTILL.
London, Oct. 4. Work has been brought to charged, one with driving an ex-standstill at Tilbury Docks, in con- cessively laden lorry, and the sequence of a lighting strike of other with allowing it to be driven, 2,200 dockers. as the owner.
Sergt. Hopkins said the maxi- mum load allowed was 7 tons, The weight of the lorry and load In question was 8 tons, 7 cwts., 2 quarters: The total length was 27 feet, sixteen feet of which was overhanging from the back, and the ends of the planks which were being carried were scraping along
the road,"
marking that it was a serious case, said the length was such that if a person was walking along the path, reading a newspaper. as many people did, and the lorry turned a corner, the end of the load was long enough to swing round and knock such a man down."'
Lo obey *Attwood's Appeals to resume work.
The principal ships in the dock are the Orient liner Osterley, and the Peninsular and Oriental boats, Kashmir, Cathay and China. Reuter.
lio.
Thirteen steamers including, No man is more popular at Kow|| food ships, are idle. The disputa loon Dock an is "Geerdie" Din is due to the Port of Londonean, this being very amply testified Authority refusing a permit to by the large gathering which took Mr. Attwood, a Trade Unionplace at the Dock Recreati in C-gb Branch Secretary, to enter the last evening, when Mr. 4rd Mrs. Resentment has bean Duncan were made the pleuts docks. smouldering since the ban imposed of a tommemorative prescut. Mr. genial personality after the general strike in May. Duncan's The Union has not asked the men and hia over-ready willing. Sub-Inspector Alexander, in re-to strike and men are unwillingness to assist all at all times repeated is too widely known and ne- kuowledged to need dating upon here, and it was with very gen- ine feeling, that his friends and the many friends of Mrs. Duncan extended the customary congratu Intions and good wishes. It will be remembered that Mr. Duncan's yeoman services in connection with the war-time The owner of the lorry said he
Later. "Heather Days" and the decorn- did not know what the load was,
The dockers' leader, Mr. Thomptions at the annual St. Andrew's as he had not seen it. The driver son, at the conclusion of an inter- Ball, led to his being chosen to aald the load was only just overview with the shipowners at Til-supervise the erection and equip- seven tons, and he did not know bury, declared he had received an ment of Hongkong's exhibit at the its nature. Also he was afraid if understanding that the Port of British Empirè Exhibition al he did not take it, he would not London Authority will call a meet- Wenibley. Contributing himself get paid for a previous load:
ing to discuss the grievance. in large measime by special ex- In the meantime he had recom-bibits made in Kowloon Dock. Mr. mended the men to return, but he Duncan earned for himself the was unable to guarantee that the high praise of all for the success- men would obey-Reuter.
ful manner in which Hongkong's exhibit was staged. In this year's New Year Honours, he was 10- warded with the M. B. E. decora- tion.
Remarking that he thought the driver was to blame, his Worship said it was obvious that the load ought not to have been taken. As the owner had not apparently seen it, he would be fined $10, and the driver $25.
DANGEROUS DRIVING.
In another case, a Chinese was charged with the dangerous driv ing of a Ford lorry. It was stated by Sergt. Baker that, he overtook another lorry at a dangerous cor- ner at a speed of over twenty miles an hour.
The defendant said he had been to Aberaven to pick up dead bodies, victims of the typhoon, and as he was in a hurry when coming back he accelerated.
He was fined $10.
PRAYED TOO LOUD.
RESULT OF NOISY JOSS- PIDGIN.
DOCKERS' LEADER MEDIATES.
ROBBED OF $900.
CASHIER'S UNFORTUNATE TRAM RIDE.
&
4
THE PRESENTATION,
Last evening's gathering in the Reading Room of the Dock Re- creation Club was a very happy More reports of thefts are toone, practically the whole of the hand to-day, in one instance a Dock staff attending. Chinese being robbed of, $900, the proceeds of a cheque which he had cashed..
Mr. K. R. Macaskill, the Chair- man, in the course of an intro- ductory speech, said that although there" had been many silver, wed- dings celebrated in the Dock, this
The victim in this case was Cheung Yun-sik, cashier of Messrs. W. Watt and Co., of 188, was a special one because the par Wing Lok Street: Apparently at ties had been married from the 1a.m. yesterday he .cashed a Dock, He hoped that. Mr. and cheque at the Chartered Bank for Mrs. Duncan would spend as $900, in payment of which he re- happy a 'Golden Wedding. ceived nine $100 notes. He re- The presentation of a canteen turned by tram, but on alighting of cutlery from the members of he discovered that the money was the Club was made to Mr. and missing."
Mrs. Duncan by Mr. R. Lapsley,
Mrs. Keown, of 11, Stanley one of the senior members of the Interrupted in the process of Terrace, reports that yesterday Staff, who said it was but a token saying her prayers, near the she was shopping on the first floor of the great respect in which Mr. Asylum, by an Indian constable. of Sincere's when she left her Duncan and his "Guid Wife" was who had been specially detailed to attache case there. This contain-held, by them all. Mr. Lapsley -prevent noises in that district; à ed various articles to the value of said he was grateful at being al- Chinese woman became disorderly, $24. So far it has not been re-lowed to make the presentation abused. the constable, and called covered... him a Molo Kwai. The sequel was heard before Mr. "G. W. Hamilton, at the Central "Magistracy this morning, when the woman charged with disorderly conduct, alleged that she was illtreated by the cons-
table.
Giving evidence, the constable said the defendant was making a noise by chanting her prayers at the junction of High Street and Eastern Street, near the Asylum. She was "jossing," and banging articles together. He asked her to stop making the noise, but she started to abuse him, so he arrest. ed her.
Between six and a quarter past eight o'clock last evening, some- one entered the bedroom of Miss C. Santos, proprietress of the Santos sisters' boarding house, 63 Nathan Road, Kowloon, and stole solitaira diamond ring worth $100.
because his wife was one of Mrs. Duncan's bridesmaids. Mr. Dun-
can, he continued, was a man wito his way to do extra work and to was always willing to go out of
help others.
knowledgments, saying that on Mr. Duncan 'made suitable ac-
looking round the gathering he saw many who were present when, Yesterday, Mrs. J. E. Lawrence, he received his wedding present 1, Armand Building, Kowloon, from the then staff. Ile objected discovered that a pair of trousers, to so much talk about himself and other small articles, had been when it should all have been said stolen from the servants' quarters. about his wife, of whom the
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The defendant said the witness
were given and there were later speeches made by Mesars. Scott, struck her on the arm and dragged her along by her sleeve, tearing it.
Rattay, Steel, Greig and Neilson. In the course of his remarks, Mr. She denied being disorderly in the
Sett said, that all of them were charge room, and called her daugh- ter as a witness. The daughter
aware, as he was, how excellent a. Oslo, Oct. 4. corroborated her mother's evi-
man their friend Mr. Duncan was, The trial has begun in the and I venture to say, to his face. dence. "
Supreme State Court of the what all of us think that no more Inspector Grant gave evidence septuagenarian ex-Premier, M steadfast friend, no cheerier chum as to the defendant's conduct in Berge and six of his ex-Cabinet exists amongst us although we the charge room, which he charac-Ministers, on, a charge of violat- have many kind friends and neigh- terised ns abusive and disorderly. ing the Constitution by support hours in our midst. Twenty-five His Worship imposed a fine of Ing the Norwegian Bank of Com years is a long spell, gentleman; $1, and expressed a wish to speak merce during 1923 and 1924 by ait exceeds, one-third of the gen- to Inspector Grant about the case deposit of 25 million kroner, fol-erally alloted span of our exis- afterwards. In Imposing the lowing the economic crisis due to once. For that space of time, * TYRE PRICES.
On Saturday next, a sale of fine, Mr. Hamilton remarked if de: the war. Parliament passed an however, our friends Mr. and Mrs.
work will be hold in St. Stephen's fendant did not call the Indian a Act providing for the publie Duncan have been united by the
London, Oct. 4.... | Girls' College in aid of the MIC.L.. Molo Kwai, she was about the administration of insolvent banks,
The leading British manu-Chinese poor schools and hospitals. only one who hadn't.
and early in 1923 the Bank "of most sacred tins by which we
There will be stalls of lacquer Commerce appealed, for
mortals can be bound. All those facturers have reduced price tyres secret Government help, hence the years they have stood as an ex-from 15 to 20 per centReuter. from Foochow, inlaid mother-of- pearl articles from Haiphong and Government deposit. The Bank ample of domestic felicity and we
To-day's report of the Royal Ob Hanoi, native work from Formosa was again in difficulties.in 1924, have watched with interest and and in response to a Government affection" the sons growing up to servatory states that a typhoon is and Borneo and all Ends of other suggestion, Parliament sanctioned manhood, the ornaments of this forming in the neighbourhood of stalls and attractions. Man sids a guarantoo of 15 million kroner truly domestic hearth. So, gentlo Guam and a depression has form shows and competitions will re- Messrs. Carroll Bros advise us of to the Bank of Norway against men, let us be merry; it is the ed over the lower Yangtze Valley.joice the hearts of small people the following sales of rubber shares lose in respect of support given to twenty-fifth anniversary of a The local forecast up till noon to and a new feature is a short to Singapore!
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