AIR MINISTER'S BIG FLIGHT.
ENGLAND-CAPETOWN THEN BACK VIA INDIA.
GREETED AT NAPLES.
Ither to
15th.
Air
The first air mail iner from
India will also carry Air Vice Marshal Sir Geoffty Salmond and Lord Chetwynd, Vice-Chairman of the Imperial Airways, and his daughter. British Wireless,
SINGAPORE'S NEW
STAMP LAW.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
UNIFORM DUTY IN CASE' OF SHARE TRANSFERS.
OTHER ALTERATIONS.
In
view of developments in Hongkong, it is Interesting to note that Singapore is amending the law relating to stamp duties,
contained in books,
Clause 13. was
BLACKBURN HOTEL FIRE.
GUEST'S 40FT. FALL FROM LADDER.
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1929.
ESCAPED CONVICT
CAUGHT.
BIG_MENINGITIS PROBLEM.
MAN WHO WAS SENTENCED MR. STANLEY DOLLAR URGES
FOR FORGERY.
Blackburn, Mer. 1. Two commercial travellers lont their lives in a fire which broke out FOUND IN THE F.M.S. at Mellor's Commercial Hotel, in the centre of Blackburn. Another traveller, who fell 40 feet, was taken to the Royal Infirmary suffer-gapore on the morning of March ing from injuries and burns. 28th that one of the 13' long-sen-
J
A message was received at Sin-
A CONFERENCE.
CONGESTION FEAR.
Washington, Mar. 28.
we are keeping them aboard ship, giving every possible medical at- tention and doing everything in our power to protect the public health of the Pacific Coast."
Fears Congestion.
London, Apl. 1. The Air Minister, Bir Samuel
A conference of federal, state and Hoare, accompanied by Air Vice-
municipal authorities at San Fran- Marshal Sir Vyoll Vyvyan and his
The two victims were Mr. Tom tence convicts who escaped from cisco to consider means of dealing privato decretary, who are travol- In introducing the amending Robinson, aged 85, whose home was Singapore Prison on Sunday has with the situation on the Pacific ling as far as Egypt by the new | Bill in the Straits Settlements at Crook, near Windermere, and been arrested at Seremban. (A Coast arialne from the quarantine England-to-India
Service, Legislative Council last work, the Mr. Charles Bolland, a representa-¡report of the actual escape appears was urged today by Mr. Stanley of numerous Filipino immigrants arrived on scheduled time at Attorney General said the object ester, and who lived at Tamworth. The message contains no infor- Dollar in a
tive of a publishing firm at Glonen another page).
message, to Senator Naples.
of the Bill was to repeal and re- Mr. Robinson; who leaves a widow mation beyond the bare fact of Shortridge. At Baslo, they transferred from cunct certain portions of the and three sons, was the oldest com- the capture and the Identity of the Mr. Dollar stated that several the huge Armstrong Siddeley air axisting Stamp Ordinance. In mercial traveller in the North-West convict. He is the man who was hundred Filipinos were quarantined
the might express, for some cases the duties had been of England. Genoa, where they embarked on a raised and in others reduced, but
serving a term of four years for in San Francisco and Seattle be A maidservant at the hotel found forgery.
cause of pneumonia and spinni British seaplane, reaching Naples in no case and they been raised the kitchen in flames. Her screns yesterday evening..
General De with a view to increasing the attracted Barlow, the boots, who rest of the 13 long-sentence con geon General Cummings will con- Police efforts to secure the ar-meningitis among steerage passen- gera Senator Shortridge and Bur Pinedo and other representatives rovenus of the Colony: The in- telephoned for the fire engines. It victs who escaped included the fer over the proposed health confer of the Italian Government greated tention had been to revise the is stated that his call was misun-search by laufiches on the coast ence them.
law. As a matter of convenience derstood by the exchange, and there! line from Pasir Panjong On reaching Egypt, Sir Samuel the now law permitted a cheque- was some delay. Barlow then, at Changl. The dicke and piers President Jackson quarantined at to Mr. Dollar telegraphed: "Our Hoare will fly along the projected adhesive stamp on
book to be stamped with one great risk, went from room to room j
the outalde, rousing the occupants, several of and all landing stages were watch- Seattle today. Two hundred and air route to Capetown, travelling instead of requiring every separate whom ran into the street in their, and the Johore Police wore on seven Fillipinos aboard. City gov 800 miles daily, returning to choque to be stamped. In future night clothes.
the lookbut In Singapore special ornment officials refused to allow Egypt to catch the air mall from the Commissioner might permit n
Mr. Ernest Simms, a London com- Patrols stopped passing Chinese them to land. We don't know what India to London in time for the similar procedure to be followed mercial traveller was carried down and examined then.
to do with them. In the meantime assembly of Parliament on April in the case of other Instruments ranged in an upper room, was try the police till 3.15 p.m.
a ladder. Mr. Bolland, who was The escape was not reported to If the Ing to escape by a ladder when he men seen crawling out of one of clause, Where a company had He died at the Royal Infirmary, at 8.30 a.m.
an important missed his footing and fell 40 feet. the outlet drains from the prison amalgamated or had been recon-Mr. Fred Stecks, of Loods, jumped convicts they had six hours' start. were the escaping structed it frequently happened from his bed-room into the area be- That is quite sufficient time for an that the necessary instrument of low, and was removed to hospital active man to reach Jurong, or ther that between 300 and 400 Mr. Dollar's telegram stated fur- transfer was charged an abnormal with severe injuries and burns. some other seaside village where passengers wero quarantined at When the brigade arrived nho could get a boat across to Angel Ieland, San Francisco. and search was made for Mr. Robinson, Johore.
between 500 and 600 at Puget who was found suffocated in his
It is possible that if the men Sound. The message declared that, room, the door and furniture of made full use of their atart they with steamers arriving from the which were scorched.
Among the guests at the hotel are now in, or on their way to. Orient every two weeks, several
some Dutch island.
hundred of Cossack Choir, who had given a were several members of the Don
theso passengers | For any of them to go to the will causo great concert in the Public Hall on the Malay States would be to invitation and a serious condition if they previous evening. One of the party traveller arriving in an F.M.S.
almost certain, capture, as every are not released. escaped by a window,
Assurance that the public health said that when he was
One of the commercial travellera lodging house is being closely service was working in close by Barlow he could not tell which
harmony with the local authorities way to seek escape, and it acemed
Drain Under Prison Wall, on the Pacific Coast to prevent the The two men seen by the mar-spread of pneumonla and that all of them must perish. Then ried. daughter of Mr. Tan Peng meningitis from steerage passen- directions, and most of them found Prisoners' Aid Society, crawling to Senator Shortridge, of Call- fireman's about was heard giving Guan, secretary of the Discharged gers from the Orient was given their way into the street in pyjamas, along the drain which led under fornia, to-day by Surgeon General
The frost was so severe that the the prison wall back to the grat-
Cummings, The netual re-water froze as it touched the building through which the men made He said that the length of venue from that source in 1928ing, and the roadway became coat their cape from the courtyard, detention of sick passengers num- was a little less than $14,000. Ited with ice.
bering about 800 would depend on was estimated by the officer in the
conditions. Meanwhile, care is being exercised at the parts of embarkation to prevent the sick or those suspected of illness from coming into the United States.
Clean Bill of Health,
Seattle, Mar. 28.
BATCH OF CASES AT MARINE COURT.
MASTER OF THE "ANJOU"
CONVICTED.
There having been no sitting of the Marine Court during the Easter holidays, the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, N., had a batch of casos to deal with this morning.
Capt. John Webster, the master of the 8.5. Anjou, was summoned for neglecting to make an entry in the official log book show ing a list of documents delivered to him as required by the law. Mr. G. W. Coysh, the deputy ship- ping master, proaccuted and Capt. Webster conducted his own case.
In pleading guilty, defendant aald he joined the ship to relieve Capt, S. Seaton who, it will be re- called, met with an accident at Wuchow and was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital. There was an understanding that au soon as Capt. Seaton was well enough he would again take over the com- mand of the ship, said Capt. Webster.
In reply to a question by his Worship, defendant stated that he took over the command of the as. Anjou at 1 pm, on March 21, which, Mr. Coyoh said, was eight days before the summone issued.
Was
Is Worship commented that do fendant should have made the entry by that time and imposed a fine of $25.
T
Too Many Passengers, Cheong Tung-mui, the misiross
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of a coolie boat, was charged with carrying 10 passengers in excess of the number allowed by her licence-52 instead of 42. On ad- mitting the charge, she was fined $60, with the alternative of six wecks imprisonment.
duty, and there had been no sub- stantial change in the ownership, In certain cases of that kind this clause gave relief. Certain other exemptions were made under that clause, and it was believed that it would be of considerable benefit to commercial enterprises."
Article 26 (b) was now. At present there were two rates for able accurities. The rate had the sale of any stock or market- now benz fixed at 25 cents. Pre- viously when a share transfer was presented for stamping, if proper- $100 was charged, but if it was ly filled-in, a fee of 10 cents per blank 30 charged. It was inconvenient to conta per $100 was
have two rates.
Ing.
roused examined.
WORKMEN STOP TRAINS RUNNING,
Leeds, Mar. 8.
were possibly accomplices of the criminals. This was at 8.30a.m.
The shorts worn by the men seen by the Chinese lady were so much like those worn by prisoners that her suspicions were immediately aroused. There is a path quite close to her house used by nativo
contributed more than 90 por Stamp Office that blank transfera RAIL TUNNEL DANGER. cent. of that revenue. However an actual record was being kept, and it would be passible to see, when the Bill was taken in com- mittee, what the actual propor- Quick action by workman at the warders going to, and from tha Two hundred and two Filipinos tions were, and a change could be famous Morley railway tunnei, Prison, and her warning was ap-who were quarantined at Diamond mndo if necessary.
near Leeds, early this morning,parently to a man elther returning Head for several weeks, because of The Bill passed the first read-probably averted a serious acc-after work or going on duty. He spinal meningitis aboard the ship
dont.
was in uniform. The mon she saw on which they arrived, wore given The men found that the tunnel were leaving the drain. They im- a clean bill of health yesterday by noar Morley was hulging and mediately made, their way towards state and federal health authori- sagging, and apparently was liable Tiong Bharu, to fall in with the least shaking, It la thought that the escape They were distributed among such as would have been caused may have been committed with the various Seattle rooming houses by the passage of a train,
outside aid and it is likely that and hotels despito the protests of Richard Turner, a bricklayer's the men either crept through the city health officials. A few hours labourer, ran to give warning at drain (which is fifty or sixty earlier the city officials announced Morley, and another workman ran yaris in length) and cut through that no ships carrying Orientals through the tunnel to Howley the iron bars, or that they hand-would be allowed to dock, nt Park and warned the man in the ed through some instrument for Seattle. signal-box, and traffic was stopped. the purpose.
NEW LUXURY TRAM FOR LONDON.
SEAT FOR DRIVER AND DIPPING HEADLIGHTS.
A new "luxury" type of tramcar has been built for London service, Metropolitan Electric Tramway Company's lines:
The car has a separate entranco
The sagging tunnel walls were supported by struts,, and gungs of
The drain, a concrete one, be-
men have been sent to the scene in to be covered from a point and exit, and the decoration is to repair the tunnel. It is be-about 30 feet before it emerges attractive. The lower paint work leved that the cause of the trou- from the Prison walls and is still in a bright red; the window sup-ble is pressure of water on the covered to within' very close of ports are picked out in cream. A walls, due to the thaw.
where
tles.
205 In Quarantine.
The Filipinos who were given the clean bill of health were
brought to Seattle to make room
at Diamond Head for 206 other Filipinos who arrived Monday
it empties itself into aboard the President Jackson.
The latter will be held In quaran-
broad white band runs round the A shuttle service of traine to drain near Outram Road. upper saloon, and the roof is points near the two ends of the A reward of $200 has been offerine as were those who have just painted groy. The interior is tunnel has been put into force, ed for the capture of any or all been released. decorated in silver-grey wood. and accelerated omnibus services of the men. An inquiry will pro-
bably be held.
The master of a fishing junk was brought before the Court on a The centre of gravity is low to have been improved.
charge of committing a branch of conditions of his licence by carry ing a
cargo of cement stono. Aaked what he had to any, de- fendant pleaded guilty and was fined $30, or one month.
No Permissiori.
Nine hawkers were charged with boarding the 8.8. Tilawa without the permission of the master or
enable steadiness and stability when, running even at a high rate of speed.
The driving cabins are 83 arranged that the driver, like the bus driver, may, if he wishes, sit down.
Special dipping headlights can be operated in foggy weather, and on automatically as the doors open. lights over the exit steps switch
The floors of the car are cover-
the officer on duty. Before the ed with cork carpet, and the upper caso began, defendants asked for caloon, contrary to the present a remand in order sollaltor,
to engage a practice, is as equally luxurious as but his Worship refused, on the ground that Es
the lower saloon. they were arrested on March 28, they had had ample time in which to engage a solicitor if they had. had any intention of doing so.
Sgt. Whitby gave evidence of finding the defondants hawking on the vessel when he boarded ther
Defendants were each fined $10,
or 10, days.
Making Faat.
The .s, Tilawa was concerned. in answer to a police flag holated in another case in which threa by the ship. Witness produced a steersmen and one mistress of letter from the master of the passenger bonte were charged with Tilawa to prove that the defen making fast to the vessel when dants had boarded her without ahe under way. All the defen- permission, and his evidence was dants, however, denied the charge corroborated by Sgt. Baker, who stating that they were carried was alco on duty on the same near the vessel by the strong current, and that they did." hot
police launch.
"
Defendants denied that a police make fast to her at all.
Finding that they could
not
flag was holated and further added that neither the master nor the produce any witness, his Worship ofeer on duty told them to clear aid that he could not believe them in the face of the evidenco
out.
4
Asked by his Worship whether given by two police officers, who, on oath, said that they made fast
they had permission to go on board, defondants answered in the
to the vessel by ropes. His Worship
negative, but stated that it was the imposed a fine of $10 on each de-
general custom to do so without permission,
4.
fendant.
For causing an-obstruction by
This drew forth the remark by anchoring In Tha: Southern Fair- Commar. Hole that although it way, two steeremen of trading junks were each fined $10, or 10 "daya" Imprisonment,
might have been the custom, was not allowed by law.
UPAT
"Well, maybe you can tell me where those birds carried
their taxi fare In those days."
It was reported to-day that; there are 32 cases of meningitis at Diamond Head and twelve at: Aberdeen.
The Seattle newspapera are cum. paigning to induce the federal government to halt the coming of immigrants from the Philippines. Many of the immigranta expect to work in the Alaskan salmon canneries or in the fruit districts of the Pacific Coast..
SENSATION IN THE PHILIPPINES.
UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO
ARREST OFFICIAL.“ ·
Manila, Mar, 27. The Insular Auditor Mr. Ben. F. Wright, created a sensation, to- day, when he asked the arrest of the Director of Insular Posts, Jose Topacio, while the latter was boarding the Dollar str. President Johnson en route to London where he will attend the World Postal Congress ne the delegate of the Philippines. Mr. Wright alleged the Director of Posts had failed to account for government pro- perty valued at G.$250,000.
The director appealed to the Acting Governor. General," Mr. Eugene Gilmore, who over-ruled the Insular auditor. The warrant for Mr. Topacio's arrest was ob tained hastily by Mr. Wright at midnight from a judge of the In- Bular Court. It wae ignored by the police after the Acting Gov-| ernor General's ruling on the grounds that it was defective and Mr. Topacio finally was able to sail on the President Johnson at 1 To'clock in the "morning-United
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