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FULL STORY OF TYPHOON.
MONDAY, AUGUST
OTHER ITEMS.
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
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During the height of the typhoon, branches of trees, broken flower a Chinese who was walking along pots, tables and chairs, bits of the Nathan Road near the junction of stage and the usual mud and silt. Waterloo Road, was blown against The public bathing beach auf-the iron rails of the nullah which fered comparatively little damage. This no doubt is due to the fact that the direction of the wind was such that the Hongkong Electric Company's building protected the matshed' and "bridge from the direct force of the wind. A little
box which stands at the entrance to the enclosure, used by the care- taker of the place, was overturned, On the whole, however, the dam- age is by no means extensive and the beach should not be out of commission for more than a week or ten days.
22 1927.
QUESTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
A SUMMARY COURT DECISION,
The question of partnership in a local firm was raised in a recent action in the Summary Court when runs along the latter road, Sani-Chan Ng-aze sued Tak Lang-lan tary Inspector Roylance, who, was and Tsang Ah-cheong, the man- passing at the time, managed to aging partner, for the recovery of Chinese. reach the man before he fell Into $0.16.50 being principal and in- borrowing notes which bore the the nullah and had him taken to terest secured by two the Kwong Wah Hospital. man was suffering from a. frac finger print of Tsang Ah-cheong turned thigh and a broken knee and the chop of the Lan. The acting Puisno Judge delivered writter judgment this morning, saying in part
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A military horse which had
When the case first came before strayed from one of the stables, the Court, Tsang Ah-cheong con- fell into the nullah in Waterloo sented to judgment which Roal and was washed down to the given against both, defendants. aca, where it was found and tied Subsequently an application was to the seawall by Sanitary Inspec-made on behalf of the Lan for a tor Roylance." The military au- rehearing of the case on the thorities were informed of the ac- ground that Tsang Ah-cheong was TAIKOO AND SHAUKIWAN. [cident and Capt. Thorp, together not a partner and had no authority with others, attempted to rescue to consent to judgment for the the horse but failed, the animal firm. The rehearing was granted, Cheng Cho and Cheng Sik-pul being joined as defendants.
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Wholesale Minor Damage But being drowned.
Few Injuries,
Enquiries by press re presentative at Taikoo indicate that there were no important inci- dents as a result of the "blow." A few workmen received miner injuries through falling down and a few windows were broken hero and there but fortunately nothing of a serious nature took place.
Considerable damage was done
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The military mule sheds in Tsang Ah-cheong in her evidence Middle Road suffered considerable said "I am the maaging partner of damage, the roofs being practi- the Tak Loong Lan. I have the chop, cally blown away. An adjacent the keys of the safe and the book."
with shed,
wooden roof She gave an outline of the history also lost its covering. Yesterday of the firm and its partners in morning a number of soldiers which she appeared well versed. were busily engaged in clearing She was the concubine of one of away the debris. At Whitfield the original partners and had no
for the firm doubt worked barracks, several matsheds had
many years.
the roofs torn away.'
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to the matsheds at Shaukiwan. The pavement bordering the At the end of the tram terminus afront of the Orient Tobacco Manu- number of matsheds erected by factory, Nathan Road, was blocked sampan people on the beach were yesterday morning. by "Battened down" by the wind and These were formerly inside the were in the course of being re-factory ground, close to the wall, erected esterday morning. A but the wind blew them over and number in the hillside. were also caused their foliage to hang over demolished, ome being completely the wall, thus blocking the pave carried away.
ment. Many big branches were broken off.
Several sampans were washed ashore by the high seas and not a few were damaged. Fortunately no dives were lost.
In Kam Wah Street, Shaukiwan, a new row of houses, standing near the house where two men were arrested in connexion with the murder of the late Mrs. Mackay, was affected. Apparently the back doors to the flats were not locked and the wind enter- ing the houses broke all the win dows, tearing some away from their hinges and carrying them into the street.
An Unusual Scene.
The Fung Kwong Rubber Com- pany, which is near the tram ter- minus, was badly damaged, the roof of the building being holed in many places.
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A Masterful Woman, She appeared a masterful kind' of woman and when once started her influence and energy would go a long way. She seems to have the manager, overshadowed Cheng Cheung, who appears to have let her do his job.
With regard to Cheng Sik-pui the plaintiff's counsel in cross examination of the witnesses for the defence elicited much which gives me the impression that he The dividing wall between Nos. was, for all practical purposes, a 180, and 182, Kowloon City Road, far more important person in the was reported to be in a dangerous firm that he alleges himself to have condition on Saturday and on ins-been. I cannot, however, bring pection by the Police and Mr. Bot-myself to rule that he was 1 tomley, of the F.W.D., the tenants partner, the more so as neither of were warned to vacate the pre-the agreements which have been mises, which they did.
put in as exhibits mention him.
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A rescue was carried out by the Water Police yesterday opposite the Central Market. Three men were hanging on to a capsized junk, which was drifting towards Green Island, when the Water Police launch drew alongside and took them off.
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Several of the sheds of the Kai Tak Molor Bus Company, which Tel. Address "PALACE."
has been removed from the Leather Factory to premises just off the Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station,
The Chinese Franciscan mis-Kowloon City Reclamation, were
· Entirely under English Management, Electric Light and Fans throughout.
Privato Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms.sion-house which is also near the badly damaged; in most cases the Every Room with
terminus was somewhat debris falling on to the vehicles. Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. tram. Terus moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. H. OXBERRY, Proprietress. shaken by the wind and the in- habitants received a shock when the roof of the servants' quarters I was carried away.
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£49,000,000 worth of fruit was A party of British university fand college students are going to imported into the United Kingdom than three be farmers' boys in Canada-för during 1925-more the harvesting season only. The times the average annual value for English students leave Liverpool the five years ending 1913. Only for Quebec; the Scottish students a quarter of the imports came. gall from Glasgow.
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On the whole the houses in Shaukiwan fared badly although, so far as can be ascertained, no lives were lost. A roam through Shaukiwan revealed the fact that many stalls, wooden and canvas canopies, signboards, verandahs and roofs were broken, or torn down. The streets presented a strange appearance yesterday, be- ing almost bare of stalls and haw kers.
done at Little damage was. Saiwanho. The verandahs of houses on Main Street were par tially torn down and the roof of a soy factory was badly ripped open.
A Shaukiwan Story.
A policeman on duty at Shau- kiwan on Saturday night, was told by a frantic man who ran up to him, that a burglary had taken place. He accompanied the man, back to the house where the sup posed burglar had been.
It seems that the occupier had been away from the house during the blow and whilst absent, the wind played havoc with their furniture, tables and chairs. The man, on returning to his house, Jumped to the conclusion that it had been burgled and notified the police.
When in the presence of the policemen, made a rough examina- tion of his property, he was satis filed that nothing had been stolen and that he had only to thank the typhoon for his scare.
Scenes reminiscent of July last year were witnessed in the centre of the city during one part of the afternoon. Water poured down from the upper levels and at one time Des Voeux Read opposite the Post Office was several inches deep in, water. Only the hurried blocking of doorways anved some of the shops in Pedder street from flooding,
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I do feel that he was in such a position that had the business of the firm been a flourishing one he could and would have claimed partnership.
I find that Tsang Ah-cheong was Partner and that she had au- thority to borrow money; that Cheng Cho was a partner when the money claimed, was advanced; that Cheng Sik-pui was not; and that Cheng Sik-pui had knowledge of the loan by the plaintiff and ac- quiesced in it. I therefore give judgment for the plaintiffs with costs.
The wooden huts composing the LETTRES DE CACHET. Shamshuipo Camp suffered no ma- terial damage, although there were some minor breakages reported. Part of the roof of a store hut was blown away while other erections were slightly damaged.
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The telephone standards Chatham Road took on a distinet list, being partly torn away from their foundations. None of the poles came down, however, and on this particular roud: at least the
wires were intact
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The matsheds erected by the Kowloon Dock Company for the benefit of soldiers and sailors at the bathing beach were entirely wrecked. The pier at Taiwan and also the dressing sheds demolished.
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'CHINESE WRITING.
If Japan, as one of her Professors predicts, exchanges Chinese charac- ters for Roman letters, will her. gain be greater than her loss?....
The question will no doubt be disputed between the artist and the utilitarian. Even the un- instructed West can see the beauty of Chinese writing, and would be sorry to lose those columna of exo- tic symbole, which add we know not what of significance and distinc tion to a Japanese print or a Chinese painting, says the London Morning Post. And there must be some thing delightful in a system of writing which appeals directly to the eye, and not merely through the eye to the ear. The Chinese caligraphist puts down his. ideas directly, without the intermediary of sound: his brush paints the thing or the idea, and not merely the
A junk laden with tins of kero sene overturned in the typhoon shelter at Causeway Bay on Satur- day morning. The tins floated word. away and yesterday were being ful in themselves, but their com- Not only are the symbols beauti- picked up in many parts of the binations and associations are full harbour,
of ingenious surprises. To lay, for example, the symbol of a woman tenderness, or a heart between two alongside the symbol of a child for doors for sorrow, is not merely to represent but to evoke an emotion.
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The footballstand on the Murray Parade ground was completely des- troyed by the typhoon. The cricket score board and wooden screen on the Hongkong Cricket Club was also blown to pieces,
Thus Chinese poetry appeals to the eye as well as to the ear, and the Chinese poem is itself à picture to be painted on silk dr paper by The P.W.D. storehouse on Mid- die Road, Kowloon, was wrecked wall.
a masterbrush, and hung upon a On the point of difficulty together with stables and stores there might also be something to belonging to the military on the an The memory of the eye is waste ground adjoining.
substituted for the memory of the ear, but the number of the signs
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Kowloon CC. members. were signing chits all day yesterday, number of the words, so that to Their books had been damaged learn the writing is no more difficult owing to storm water coming then to lan the language. Indeed, through the roof...
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as the whole system is derived from In the mall-bag of a Government only about two hundred roots, the department a heavy parcel which task of memorising is by no means aroused suspicions was opened by Many trees in the Kowloon re- sidential district were torn down, so rent as is generally supposed. explosives experts in the presence There is.. in fact, a case for the of officials from Scotland Yard and and in one spot Carnarvon. Roadhinese system; but as the Far the Home Office. They found a was impassable owing to a large East seems bent on stripping itself brick with the words "Mind your tree falling right across the road. of beauty in the race for progress, own business" Inscribed on it.
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A live wire which was blown The additional matshed on the down on to the road at the junc-Children's Recreation ground on
Mr. Ormsby Gore, in reply to tion of Pablle Square Street and Chatham Road, Kowloon
Sir Robert Thomas, in the House Nathan Road, caused the instan blown down on Saturday after Miss Joan. MacDonald, second taneous death of a Chinese. He noon.
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The road to Fanling has closed as the result of the collapse of the bridge at Taipo
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