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TUESDAY, JULY 12. 17.
THE LEUNG KWONG LESSON.
TUESDAY,
pots and the conditions to be found on another email river steamer, trading under the Chinese fing.
JULY 12, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE THAT WILL NOT SEE-Matthew Henry.
The P. and O. 8.8. Kashmir, from Hongkong, arrived at Marsoilles yesterday afternoon.
TRAFFIC CASES.
SIGNALLING LAMP AT
ARSENAL STREET.
The Very Idea!
Husband (furlously)-"Hero's my best meerschaum pipe broken! happen?" How in the name of sonae did it
The weather forecast up til noon to-morrow "is: "Light vari & Des Voeux Road Central, was The case in which Dr. S. C. Ho. ablo winds: fine."
summoned for falling to observa Wife "I don't know, except the signal of an Indian constable that when I got up this morning at Arsenal Street, before Major C. Willson at the the front doormat and your shoes..
Was again I found your meerschaum pipe on. Central Magistracy this morning, when his Worship expressed his
on the parlour mantelpiece.” opinion with regard to the signal-accidents will happen."
Husband (mildly)"Oh, well,
Dr. Ho was summoned last week, and expressed a wish that Major Willson should see
road and the lamp. The case was lamp, as he considered it too high for driver to watch both the adjourned for this purpose..
While giving every credit to a jury of such thoroughness, wo are of opinion that juries, ought not to go outside the actual facts of the particular caso under their consideration. We heartily agree with the jury's description of the life-saving appliances of the Leung Kwong as being "totally inade- quate," and would like to criticise the system which obtains of taking the fares of passengers after the steamer has left the wharfelde, be- cause it is only when the fares are north to-day by the s.s. Shiny
Among those leaving. for the taken that a reliable check in ob Maru were Mr. and Mrs. P. S. tained on
the number of pas-Cassidy and Dr. and Mrs. R. E Tottenham. sengers on board. If, when a boat has sailed, it is discovered by tak-
The s.a. Empress of Canada loft Yokohama yesterday afternoonling lamp. and is due here on Monday next, leaving next afternoon for Manila.
the
was
that the lights were not
very bright, especially the green one, which was of rather a sickly hue.
He imposed a fine of $6.
15
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He teed his golf ball up, real
nicu,
And took a healthy swing.
Although he didn't lose the
bull,
He missed the dog-gone
thing.
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The Personal
Column can
This morning Major Willson sald he had seen the lamp and in his opinion it was not too high sometimes serve as a Stool of The body of a Chinese painter and was quite basy to see: The Repentance: ing farea that there is an excess has been sent to the Kowloon Mor-only thing that struck him of passengers over the license mum-tuary. The man was working on
Will the girl in green who was selling flags near the Arcade in the s.s. Soochow yesterday when
Bond-street on Tuesday accept the ber, boats do not put back, neither he accidentally fell into the hold
sincere apologies of the man for can excess passengers be feltisoned. of the ship and was killed. Fares should either be taken beförn-
the gaucherie he committed. His hand or there should be an official
Mr. R. Parman, a musictan on
Forty Miles an Hour. only excuse is that he was carried check made of the number of pas-ported that someone stole from his complainant in a number of speed-
the s.a. President Grant has re- Traffic Sergeant Clarke was the way by a very charming persona
Hity. sengers before they are allowed to cabin, whilst the ship was lying ing cases, in one of which a pub-flag-days that they encourago the It is, perhaps, the defect. of alongside the wharf at the Kow-lie car was driven at 40 miles an spirit of benevolence, and the Finally, it does seem as though looh Godown. $130 in banknotes.
In this case the Chinese driver spirit of fraternity, and even spirit of benevolence is akin to the the time has come when Hongkong
A piece of cement falling off the was charged with speeding and sonority. May "gaucherie" in a should have a Harbour. Board to verandah of 85, Jervois
failing to produce his license. Street,
case like this be defined as not control" all matters arising in construck a Chinese pedestrian on the
Sergt. Clarke said he was letting the left hand know what nexion with shipping. The prehend and caused so severe a wound stationary in Des Voeux Road the right hand docth?
West when the defendant passed, sent Harbour Department with it, that the man had to be removed to driving public ear No. 222 at a the Government Civil Hospital for attention.
leave.
hendship centred in one man, is not adequate to offect the clong co- ordination of work that is desir
able in the interests of good ad ministration. There are innumer able questions arising almost every day in connexion with the Colony's shipping, and it is unreasonable to expect our Harbour Master-
The Naval and Military functions for the benefit of the Y.31 C.A. baye arranged three troops to be held this evening. | There will be concerts at the Cheer' Y.M.C.A. and at Sham- shuipe Camp, and a whilst drive at the Better 'Ole Y.M.C.A.
..
hour.
high speed. Witness started up and gave chase, his speedometer registering 40 m.p.b., but he was unable to catch the defendant as was lost to sight. he went round several corners and.
Some howlers":"
One result of the Black Death was the rising of the Pheasants.
Bannockburn fried the Scots from the yolk of England.
Péricles was the first reformer of Greece. He murdered his wife. A Conservative is a kind of glass-houac.
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Shoreditch debtor: There is
In handing up the defendant'a record, Sub-Inspector Alexander explained that the defendant had been driving in Hongkong for! When Charles Percival Germaine twelve years, and there were se- was charged at Liverpool with veral convictiong against him dur-failing to keep his taxi and fittings no matter how well equipped with beeted to he in wireless commun-offences.
The following boats were exing that time, but all for trivial in proper repair the magistrate in- knowledge he might be--to provide cation with Hongkong to-day :--
quired"Was there anything" all the solution. There should be Dessau, Ixion, Namsang, Haiting summonses.
The defendant admitted the right about this cab? Whatever clan might be the
On the first he was A Hackney Carriage Inspector- a Board with its various Depart Automedon, Dewey, President fined $15 and on the second $5.
"Both front wheels were loose 'on outcome x. the very dras-
Lincet, Shantung, ments, each in charge of some spe West Orowa, Steel Trader, Yuen- Tjikarang,
the axle; the ateering column, the finding returned by the facial phase of shipping activity and sang, Norviken,
Refuse Lorry's Speed.
exhaust pipe, and magneto which
Rakuyo Maru," The driver of refuse lorry No. were loase; the bonnet clips were sat to enquire
into each responsible for the due ful-Kibi Maru, Shiuyo Maru, Haruna 844 was stated to have travelled broken on one side; there were the circumstances surrounding thefilment of the Colony's laws govern
Maru, Sakjin Maro...
at the ate of 25 m.p.h. from general defects in the windscreen, death of the victims of the Lounging that shipping. . The polleing
Queen's Street' (Queen's Road Cen-doors, upholstery, and the springs Kwong collision with the launch of the harbour, the close supervi-ployed in the Royal Naval Dock Sergt. Clarke. He added that it
A Chinese, who had been em-trn) to Goss. Street steps, by in the back seat." Moonshine, He is certain that the ion of all arrivals and departures, yard for over two years, was this was raining heavily at the time; little to spare with food at 8d. Government will have to take some the "regulation of trafic, licensing, Lindsell of the theft of 35 pounds the defendant had had cause to morning convicted by Mr. R. E. the road being very slippery. If action to make better known the and many other aspects of our busy of zine plate and fined $15 or apply his brakes, he would have Court: Did you ask your husband
a pint..
Solicitor at Shoreditch County exact requirements of the laws of harbour life, occur readily to mind alternatively, three weeks hard been bound to skid. the Colony regarding the anti-
to see the plaintiff? The woman: as matters that would cure within labour, In passing sentence the piracy grilles. The jury expressed the purview of a departmentalised was foolish to throw away a per Lagistrate added that the man
Ask! I told him. the opinion that the Government Harbour Beard, having a personnel manent job for such Mariae Surveyor's department was sufficiently large to. exercise the
a paltry theft. "hopelessly under-staffed," and al-
constant supervision that is neces- though that might be an oversary, in a port like Hongkong, if the 5.9. Ixion's lifeboats, one day Discovered hiding in one of strong expression of opinion it does
Chinese we are going to lessen the risks of out from Singapore, a seem as though there was fauit such a terrible calamity as that Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- coolie appeared before Mr. W. somewhere in leaving on the s.s.which befel the 9.8., Leung Kwong, tracy this morning, on a charge. Leung Kwong grilles which were
of stowing away from the south- ern port to Hongkong. The de- fendant on pleading guilty, stat- ing that he desired to come to the Colony, was sentenced to one month's hard labour.
The Dublin Outrage.
There will be widespread regret at the news of the assassination of Mr. Kevin O'Higgins, the Vice- President of the Dail, who Wats
A fine of $20 was imposed. " 359, and 814 were each fined $20, The drivers of public cara 429, for travelling at speed ranging from 27 m.p.h. to 35 m.p.h. in Des Voeux Road West, near the Macao to Whitty Street, respectively, Wharf, and from Wilmer Street
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SHIPMASTER WHO SAILED.
WARRANT ISSUED FOR
ARREST.
At the Marine Court this morn-
policeman; If I had seen you Nottinghamshire defendant to a coming I should have gone the other way, not towards you.
Barrister at Clerkenwell County Court: The witness has tried his best to tell the truth, but he has dore it hady.
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K
I cannot undertake to purify the language of East London. I should spoil East London partly if I did. Mr. J. A. R. Cairns.
A man with an artistic tempera- ment in the worst kind of business raan except a musical gentleman. -Mr. Justice Eve.
It is not necessary in the modern
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put out of use by the revision of the anti-piracy regulations as far back as 1924. It is a fact that there are a great many passenger boats plying out of this harbour which are equipped with grilles not brutally murdered by three gun-Tobacco Company, Nathan Road,against the master
Mr. Hendrickson, of the Orienting, the adjourned summons world that two-thirds of one's now required, and we think that a
of the s.s. existence should be taken up in men on Sunday morning, and has reported to the police that Hiram (Captain Eliassen) was getting a living--Miss Margaret fault has been committed in allow. nowhere will the regret be more whilst driving his car yesterday called before Lieut. Commar. J. B. Bondfield, M.P. ing those grilles to be retained. so happens that we had occasion to knocked down an Indian, who
marked than in Ireland itself. Itin Prince Edward Avenue, ho Newill, D.S.O., R.N. even though the majority of, mas-remark, immediately after the con- although suffering from abrasions the ship being at ses. No repre- Leeds schoolboy, has climbed a Thomas Kidney aged nice, a The defendant failed to appear, iers and owners know that they are
clusion of the Free State elections, refused to go to hospital. not to be used.
Mr. sentative responding, his Worship 158-feet chimney at Hunsiet Steel, on the comparative absence of crime Hendrickson stated further that heard evidence of the serving of Works, beating Miss Vera Tomlin- There is always and outrage in the country for he sounded his horn several times, the summons. the possibility of the grilles being fairly long period, and suggested but the Indian refused to move
son's record made earlier in the This was given by Sergt. Ryan, feet. He is in the fourth genera- week on another chimney by eight used for other than anti-piracy pur- future of the youngest Dominion from the centre of the road.
that this augured well for the
who stated that when informed by tion of a family of steeplejacks, poses, such 19 the convenient in the Empire. Following such a
the master of the Hiram that the segregation of the various classes long term of peuce; this outrage
Remarking that it was really ship would be at sea, witness told the spire of Albemarle Baptist and when five, climbed unnided of passengers, and, in the case of will be more of a shock than were more of a civil than a criminal the master that tour Church at Scarborough. the Leung Kwong, there was at times a few years ago.
similar assassinations in the hectic case Mr. R. E. Lindsell discharged necessitated a personal appear-
Yet we Chinese who was charged with ance. least one master who did not know cannot associate Sunday's murder obtaining $20 from a girl of the
His Worship adjourned the notorious highwayman, has, it is The ghost of Dick Turpin, the that the grilles were out of date with a return to anything like the unfortunate class by promising to hearing sine die, instructing the claimed, been seen by a number and must not be used. There has ruled in unhappy Erin. Rather for her to practise her profession. warrant would be made out for Buckinghamshire, where, accord former chaos and civil strife that obtain a licence from the S.C.A. officer in charge of the case that a of residents of Amoreham, been lack of publicity as to the real would we think that it is an isolated The girl gave evidence this morn- the arrest of Captain Eliassen.. responsibilities of masters and hatreds that do not hesitate to turn dant promised to entertain" the of tho port health regulations, in
instate of the survival of those ing, and spoke of how the defen- The charges relate to a breach wayman once operated.
Ing to the local legend," the high- owners, and we cannot hold the the weapon of anarchy against fel-S.C.A. people and make it easy for not flying the quarantine flag ner Amersham Hill district, is the Rectory-lane, leading to the Government itself as altogether low-countrymen, and stout-hearted her to get a licence, which, how going to the quarantine anchorage place where the apparition is said blameless. It is all very well to patriots at that. It is sad to think ever, she had not received. Mr. on arrival from Swatowy on July to have appeared, and a riderless
that private grievance, personal blame Capt. Wilson, but the Gov-spite, or murderous revenge should McCallum appeared in court, 7. ernment of this Colony' which in- survive, but it is a fact that cannot stating that he had just been in-
torn internally by political jeale could guarantee that the money BANISHEE RETURNS. be winked at, and in Ireland, atill structed for the defence, and said busies, least of all. The country is would be re-pald.
His Worship
ARRESTED AFTER SHORT
ABSENCE.
horse, believed to be Black Bess, has also been seen ascending the hi from the old town to the stution.
sisted on the grfiles at one time and then revised Its requirements,
John Orme, aged eighty of ought to have made sure that no yet young in its tasting of inde-decided that there had been no
Wickford, Essex, a man with' @ · essel was left plying for hire with pendence, and as an infant in the false pretences, and as the return Imperial chain of free states, has of the money had been guaranteed
long, flowing white beard, was obsolete and dangerous grilles still yet to find its feet. There are men, he would discharge the defendant.
fined ten shillings at Billericay fixed-rendy for use by all who did determined to see their country ob
Police Court for driving a motor- not happen to know that their use possible, who are prepared to jam and disastrous policies of in- to have returned to the Colony
tain the beat form of "government
"After being banished on March cycle and sidecar with an expired 26th, this year a Chinese was found licenco. was illegal.
shoulder the heaviest burdens, toternal plotting, acting as deterrents yesterday, and, when he was Whether the pilot of the Loung face the misgivings of fellow-coun-m the path of progress,
At the inaugural luncheon of Таене Kwong was guilty of gross negli- who do not understand the single-hands, day to day; but even if they
charged with returning trymen, and the calumnies of those men carry their lives in
from the Overson, Dominions, Crown their banishment before Major C. Will Colonies, Protectorates, and Man- gence or just an error of judgmentness of the purpose, and the self-fail to the assassin's bullet, that son at the Central Police Court dated Territories Section of the will doubtless be settled by a court sacrifice, that it may entail. Of will not deflect from the path those this morning, he explained his Forum Club recently, the Presi of criminal procedure, and, there-name will live in the records of the put it, are prepared to maintain the cided to go abroad and had to come for the benefit of British women, ench-was Kevin O'Higgins, His others who, as Mr. Cosgrave, has presence by saying that he had de dent of the Club, Princess Marie
Louise, Bald the new section is.. fore, that aspect of the finding is Irish home rule movement as a hero high tradition of devotion to the to Hongkong. sub judice. But we are free to and a martyr in his own way. His welfare and safety of the nation.
fate will not deter the many others Trelund his to work out her own the defendant had been previously providing a central meeting-place Sub-Inspector Vincent said that who are, or who have been, on oxpress the opinion that the jury who are labouring for the same salvation, but her friends need convicted in 1925 and in January when they are in the home coun- service or resident oyersen, by whose verdict wa are now consider-goal that he had set ahead of him never despair of final success so of this year for offences in opium try. She spoke from her personal ing went rather wide of the sub-prosperous, peaceful, and happy long as there are men of the stamp traffic. ject matter in hand, when it referroland, associated. with the rest of of murdered patriots like Michael The defendant was sont do white women who are helping to experience of the loneliness of and, now, Kovin prison for six months with hard build the Empire in distant cor-
Britain in the closest co-operative Collins,
ed to such things as passenger de-tics; and divorced from all extrem-'O'Higgins.
labour.
ners of the earth