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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
A CURIOUS CASE.
DIFFICULTY WITH FATHER OF KIDNAPPED BOY,
What was described as a very curlous casp came before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday when a man and a woman were charged with taking away, by fraud. the son of man from Hunan province with Intent to sell the child.'
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TUESDAYNJULY
1928
DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT. CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD,
GLASSES BETWEEN EYEBALL
ÄND EYELIDS.
CHINA' MUTUAL STEAME NAVIGATION CO., LTDẠN
Consignees por company's. Voss),
"ANTILOCHUSHANA From UNITED KINGDOM va
SINGAPORE, ars heroby notified" that, the cargo
Defectivo eyesight caused by refractional irregularities of the eyes can be corrected; in the ma- jority of instances, by the use of will be discharged into Holl's Whart eye-glasses enabling the persons Kowloon, where, it will lie at Con- suffering from it to regain normal signcos' risk and subject to terms and conditions of storago at Holts Wharf. visual power. They are, nevertheThe Cargo will be ready for delivery less, handicapped in many ways from Godown on and after 3rd July. Optional cargo will not be 'anded In asking for a remand. Inapocas compared with persons whose hero, unless notice has been given tor Fallon said that the complain-
prior to steamer's arrival, but carried. ant in the case had been warned to attend court but he could not
on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends.
Allir broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 t, and noon within the free storage period...
be found.
eyesight is naturally normal. These drawbacks are connected with the frames of the spectacles that have to be worn, with the It was altowether a curious case, light reflexes that arise at the continued Inspector Fallon. On Nov. 10 Dec. 1
Dec. 4 Dec. 8 Dec. 15. June 28 the first defendant was frontal surface of the glasses, and arrested by a district watchman in with the magnification or diminu- Dec. 15 Dec. 18 Dec. 20 Dec. 29
Temple Street on information, and tion in the size of the eye and the EMPRESS OF ASIA Jan. 10 Jan. 19 Jan, 22 Jan. 24 Feb, 2
he had the small boy with him. eyelids inseparable from the use (B/Asis & B/Russia call at Nakasaki the day after departure from Shangbai)
He was taken to Yaumat! Police of powerful lenses. Ladies and Station, where he stated that he stage artists are particularly in- had not the child from his father. convenienced by defects, such as these. Another disadvantage in A detective was sent to the the case of powerful lenses is that father's house, but on arrival there the accuracy of the sight is not was a stampede and the father uniform in all directions. The could not be found. Inspector Fallon himself went to the house, nearer the objects looked at are to but with the same result. Fivethe margin of the lenses, the less minutes later, the father appeared clearly can they be visualized a at the Police Station, but as there deficiency which is specially was nobody who could understand noticeable In the case of the older his dialect, he was instructed to types of lenses. Finally, it should" return the following day. On his bo mentioned that the glasses now return he was sent to the Scere- worn are found wanting in certain tariat for Chinese Affairs, and defects due to faulty refraction. from there he was taken to, the such as, for instance, advanced Po Leung Kuk, but on Sunday ho astigmatism due to irregularities was sent back to the S. C. A. again. In the curvature of the cornea, the result of which is that the ob- In the meantime instructions were received from the S. C. A.Jeets appear to be more or less
distorted or vague. detain and charge the two defen- dants and to ask for a remand for further enquirica.
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All Claims against the Steamer mast be presented to the undersigned on or before e 23rd July, or they will not be recognised.
No Firo Insurance will be effected.
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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS, and PHILIPPINES.
The Steamship,
"BENARTY" Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- formed that all Goods are being land- el at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous 'Godowns of All these disadvantages-which The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf The defendants in their state-are by no means negligible are and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or ments to the Police claimed that eliminated by a new method of cor- from the wharves delivery may bo the child was given to them-be-recting defective vision. It has obtained. cause the father had no money to been passible to invent lenses that the Goods have left the Gedowns, and No claims will be admitted after keep it.
are not worn outside and in frontal Goods remaining undelivered after of the eyes, but inside and actually the 5th July, 1928, will be subject to on the eyes. They are curved ac- rent.
The defendants were remanded |till Wednesday morning.
CHARGE FAILS...
́QUESTION OF HAVING FULL
CONTROL OF BICYCLE,
A charge of failing to have full control of a bicyelo" was brought against a Chinese before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis tracy, yesterday, but on hearing the facts of the case his Worship ruled
that no offence had been com-
fondant
It was stated that the defendant was riding a bicycle with a pos- senger standing on the footstep at tached to the rear whool of the machine.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined on the 4th July, 1928, at 10 a.m., by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
cording to individual requirements All claims against the steamer must. and are slipped in between the eye bo presented to the Undersigned on or and the eyelids. They are thus before the 19th July, 1928, or they perfectly invisible, no matter how will not be recognized.
the shortsighted or longsighted wearer may be. They are accurate. ly adapted to the curvature of the cornen and their optical density is very nearly the same as that of the
No Fire Insurance has been affect- latter, so that the combination of the two constitutes a uniform
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Hongkong, 29th July, 1928. cyclindrical lenses. Even the most pronounced cases of shortsighted- ness which it is impossible to rect-
ed.
Simple Movements.
mitted and discharged the deity by the ordinary kinds of lenses ary lenses are either quite uselesa
can be influenced in such a fashion or of little use only. that the visual power of the per son concerned becomes normal or
Most patients get rapidly accus- as near to that as possible. In like manner, these new glasses can be omed to wearing them. They can used to replace the heavy cataract be placed in position and removed lenses which cause much incon- gain by means of a few simple His Worship: This is the first ventence owing to the unusually mastered. The eyes do not suffer movements which can be easily time I have seen anybody pro-high degree of magnification, whilst the least damage through their the optical effect is the same. The "contact lenses", moreover, are the EC. So long as they are in close contact with the eyes, they are only means of correcting the serious defects caused by cerato practically unbreakable. Experi conus, an irregularity in which thence has shown that they remain- cornea projects in the shape of a serious injuries to parts of the ed completely intact in the case of truncated coné.
secuted for that.
Sergeant Hargreaves: The charge is that he did not have full control
of the machino.
His Worship: I don't quite see how he failed to have full control. The defendant was discharged, his Worship remarking that P chargo would be sustained if the passenzor wore riding on the cross bar, which would be impeding the control of the machine.
face in close vicinity to the eyes. Recent observations have shown They do not collect moisture when that surprising improvements of their wearer passes from a cold the visual power are even possible, room to a heated one. Finally, the by the use of special contact lenses, accuracy of visual power remains by the use of a semiopague condi-alike Irrespective of the direction. tion of the cornea. In all the in- of the eyes, because they move in atances just referred to the ordi- complete accord with the latter.
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