TELLING LIES IN COURT.
MAGISTRATE REBUKES A
CHINESE WOMAN.
VEGETABLE SELLING.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MORE FIGHTING AT
FOUNTAINS.
CHINESE QUARREL OVER ́
POINT OF PRIORITY.
It did not matter whether a man was in the right or in the wrong, he was not to fight. This was the dictum of Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, when two nior were charged with disorderly conduct at a street fountain,
WATER TANK ON BEACH.
CLUB SECRETARY FINED
AT KOWLOON.
INDEPENDENT WAYS.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1929.
STEALING WATER FROM BARRACKS.
COMPLAINT OF FOUNTAIN CONGESTION.
Charges of larceny of water from Whitfield Barracks were brought against three Chinese who appeared before Mr. T. 3. Whyte at the Kowloon Magistracy
Mr. Ma Ying-po, Secretary of the Peninsula Bathing Club, which has a matshed erected on the Ko this morning. Pa Kang beach at Laichikok, ap- peared as the defendant before Mr..
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In one case, defendant said he
Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy this morning, expressed his strong objection to a person engaging a solicitor and then going into Court to tell a In reply to his Worship, Sub-TS: Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon was a cook but had no water. pack of lies. The case was one in aspector James said the fight was which a Chinese woman was sum- not a serious one, but the police Magletracy this morning, on a He had to have it or he would die. moned, at the instance of thend instructions to arrest people and by constructing an intake charge of trespassing on Crown Sanitary Department, for exposing immediately they showed any in-water tank and laying a pipe there-Worship that the case was similar Sergeant Daly informed his vegetables for sale at her house at clination to fight. No. 11, Keswick Street.
Sanitary Inspector A. T. W. White prosecuted and the defon- dant was represented by Mr. F. H. Loseby.
His Worship asked the defen- dants if they had been fighting over the question of whose turn it was to draw water.
His Worship said they could surely have been able to tell who had prior right to draw water by the positions of their respective buckets.
Defendant:
זן.
There
are
SWEEP TICKETS
DISPUTE.
CHINESE WOMAN'S CLAIM AT KUALA LUMPUR.
TOTAL OVER $34,000.
WAB
Kuala Lumpur, June 4, Before the Ohiof Justice, Mr. L H. Elphinstone, in the Supreme
Chinese woman living in Chow Kit Court to-day, the hearing begun of a suit brought by a Road against two clerks in the
them $34,380, being the first prize Chandu Monopoly office, Kuala Lumpur. Plaintiff claims from in one of the Selangor Turf Club's owcops during the last race meet- ing....
W, Hastings, appears
Mr. V. D. Knowlea, with Mr. G.) for the plaintiff and Mr. F. A. Briggs for the defendants.
hundreds and hundreds of buckets on the law, Mr. Knowles called the After opening at some length plaintiff, Lim Lian Wah.
A
on without a permit from the to that which was before the P.W.D.
Court yesterday. The "defendant pleaded guilty, and, in reply to his Worship, said His Worship told defendant that that he had sent an application for he must take his turn at the street Each defendunt, in reply, claim-permission to construct the tank, fed that he should have drawn wa- but had received no reply as yat., fountain..
ter before the other.
Mr. Chambers, who prosecuted, said he found the tanks on the beach on May 27. Water from the waiting. tap was being used. Mr. Ma later Lands and promised to have the into private property and steal Club, but bought tickets from the saw the superintendent of Crown
His Worship: You cannot go
The plaintiff stated that she was member of the Selangor Turf erection removed. The summons water. was accordingly held up, but.
second defendant, Lim Thean Hock promise had not been fulfilled. In reply to his Worship as to whom she had known for seven or water, the defendant could not use thorities, Sergeant Daly replied in the second defendant was buying With the present shortage of the property of the military au- was told by a woman friend that whether the water was definitely eight months. In March last sho the water for the purpose for which the affirmative, and said that it lottery tickets and wanted to he had constructed his tank,
Is Worship remarked that it of the officers' wash houses.
was being taken from behind one know whether sho would like any. WASHED CLOTHES IN seemed to him the defendant had
She agreed and gave $20 and later acted in a very independent sort RESERVOIR.
received four tickets from the of, way. A fine of $25 was imposed
second defendant. She put the and an order made that the tank
tickets in a drawer, be removed within three days,
In the witness-box, Inspr. White stated that a notice was served on the defendant on May 2 to cease selling vegetables at her promises, but it was inter found that the notice had not beeu complied with. Between 2.30 and 8 pm. on May 14, in the company of Sanitary Department Coolio No. In ordering both defendants to 20, Inapr. White went to No. 11, sign bonda for their good behavi Keswick Street and instructed the pur, his Worship remarked that coolie to enter the house by the they were not to fight, whether back door. The coolie according they were right or wrong, ly did so aid came out wih а quantity of vegetables which he had bought from defendant.
Later, Inspr. White accosted the defendant and asked her if she sold vegetalles on her premises. This she denied, but admitted that she was the principal tenant of the, house.
Had a Market Stall.
"Do you know that this woman has a stall at a market?" asked Mr. Loseby of witness.
Witness:--Yes.
WOMAN LET OFF WITH A
CAUTION,
In the absence of the complain- ant a Chinese woman, who was arrested for washing clothes in part of the water-works at the Shek Li Piu Reservior, was dis- charged with a eaution by Mr. Do you know that she has been. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon summoned once for obstruction Magistracy this morning, because she kept her store in the market?-Yes.
Sergeant Jessop said the Indian guard who arrested the defendant was not present in Court, He
In consequence of which she kept her vegetables in her house?
---Yeg.
Don't you think you ought to have told this woman when you nccosted her that you sent a coolie insido her house te buy vegetables?—I don't think it was necessary.
Inspr. White, however, contend- ed that a notice was sarved on the defendant to cease selling a fori- night before he went to the house
on May 30,
fore, be cautioned.
Proceeding Sergeant Jessop sald he understood that people at the reservoir allowed persons to
Hin Worship asked if that was not a serious offence, as the water flawed into the reservoir,
Sergeant Jessop replied that by clothes being washed in the streams the water would be pol lated.
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TRADE MARK CASE AT KOWLOON.
CASE WITHDRAWN BY THE
COMPLAINANT.
A summons against a Chinese woman who was charged with hav ing singlets which bore an in- fringement of the trade mark of
ed.
The defendant, it was stated, had no right to have been in the Barracks at all. He did not pos sega a permit.
A fine of $7 was imposed fine were imposed in the case of the two man.
:
NIGHT IN CELLS FOR
TRICK CYCLIST.
ANOTHER GETS OPTION OF
EIGHT DAYS.
More trick cycliata were before
second
After some days tho to see the tickets to find out from defendant came again and wanted the Turf Club whether any of them had drawn a prize. At the timo da camo she was dressing her hair and when she took the tickets out of her drawer she noticed that one was stained with oll, That was the ticket that won the prize. The second defendant came backi and told her that the ticket No. 12031 had drawn the first prize and he took away the ticket say. ing that he would let her know when she could get the money,
asted that the defendant, there the Tung Hing Knitting Factory | Mr, T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kow- Sho asked him to write down the was withdrawn by Mr. E. 5. Cloon Magistracy this morning when Brooke, on behalf of the complain it was stated that in one case a number on a piece of paper and he ant, before Mr. T. S. Whyte at the youth collided with a pedestrian, did. She had since lost that piece Kowloon Magistracy this morning. while in another a young girl was of paper. The second defendant knocked down, in Shamshuipo, and came again later and told her that Mr. Brooks explained that after draw water from streams. which the seizure of a quantity of sin-removed to Hospital for treatment. he would got hur the money. feed the reservoir, but the defen-glets had been made, the defendantold Chinese
In the first case a twelve-year- "If you had warned her, she dant was utilising the stream for informed the complainant that the reckless riding. He was stated to before bought a Turf Club sweep Cross-examined by Mr. Briggs, was charged with witness stated that she had never could have brought evidence to washing clothes,
articles did net belong prove that she did not do so,"
to her, have been travelling round in cir-ticket through the second defen- but were the property remarked Mr. Loseby.
of two cles, occasionally taking his handa dant. women to whom she had let off the handle bars. His actions ber of the Turf Club she had not, Although she was a mem cubicle in her house. When the were described as a danger to the bought raid was carried out, said Mr. public especially to motor traffic.
these tickets herself Brooks, the polics saw these two
because she did not go to tho women, who had since disappear-arrested, sent to his father for came to get the money to buy a The Police, when the lad was races. When Lim Theam Hock| His client was unable to dis-forming the Police that one night but she sent the money to him by bail, but the parent refused, in-ticket witness did not meet him, prove the women's statement and in the cells would do his son good. her servant and saw the money the prosecution therefore anked for the case to be withdrawn. An defendant had been in gaol for one live the second defendant handed Sergeant Jessop said that as the being handed over. She was post- application for the confiscation night a caution would meet the her the tickets and took them back of the singlets was also made. case.
Ilis Worship discharged the de-i
again later saying that one ticket: fendant, and after hearing the
The defendant was accordingly had won the first prize and then evidence of the complainant and
cautioned.
wrote down the number of tho evidence of the raid; the singlets.
winning ticket on a plece of paper, were ordered to be confiscated.
This piece of paper she handed! A similar charge was brought over to K. T. Ganapathy Pillal, against an 18-year-old Chinese who was a great friend of hors and who who stated to have been it was now lost. travelling at a high speed and to have knocked down a pedestrian. The cycle he was riding was not equipped with brakes.
Ought to be Informed.
"I am of the opinion that if a person la charged with an offence, he or she ought to be informed," said Mr. Lonely to his Worship, who agreed with the statement.
Sanitary Department Coolle No. 20 was the next witness called by the prosecution and he corroborat- ed the evidence given by Inspr. White.
The defendant said she was the lleensee of a stall in. Whitfield Market which allowed her to sell vegetables, She informed the Court that she had been previous ly summoned for obstruction by kooping her vegetables in the market, as a result of which she brought all her stores home. In answer to a question, she denied selling vegetables in the house.
She did not see the coolie in hor house, she said, and certainly did not sell any vegetables to him, In fining defendant $25, with the alternative of one month's hard labour, his Worship said he strongly objected to any person engaging a solicitor and then telling a pack of lies in Court, If the defendant had been straight- forward, said his Worship, she might not have had to pay much, or the legal expenses,
WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.
D
RESCUED BY TWO FERRY PASSENGERS.
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For a short time yesterday, the Yamati ferry Man Yee was divert
FOOTPADS IN THE CITY.
FOKI ROBBED IN EARLY MORNING.
According to a report received by the police, what appears to have been a very daring robbery, car- ried out in the very heart of the city, occurred at an early hour this
morning.
London shops are to compete for Empire Marketing Board prizes for displayed foodstuffs..
Mr. A. L. Nicholson, the art
$5 or 8 Days.
Jergeant Jessop mentioned that another cyclist who was with the
ct, Spring Garden Lane, who made Yin Sh-chin, fokt of a shop at the report, states that shortly after four o'clock this morning, he left dealer, who sold to an American defendant had knocked down a the shop to do the day's marketing the disputed Romney portrait of young girl and seriously injured
at the Central Market.
When near the City Hall, three men swooped down upon him. He stated that one of these men hold a knife, while another had a ham- mer, and that, threatened with these weapons, he was forced to turn over to them a sum of $87, money which was given him to make the day's purchases.
The police are investigating the
case
ADULTERATED MILK.
A KOWLOON DAIRYMAN
|:
FINED,
A fine of $25 was imposed on the proprietor of a dairy at No. 48, Haiphong Road when the defen- dant was charged before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magletracy this morning, with; selling adulterated milk.
Mr. F. X. d'Almada, jnr., dofend-
ed from its courge while a searched and said that on the face of the was made for a woman who had summons he had advised his client been seen to throw herself into the to admit the charge. He explain- harbour. Through
ed to his Worship that the milk the prompt action of two passengers, who had concerned had been left over from jumped into the water after the the previous day and was placed woman, a timely rescue was offect in the ico-cheat over night. A cer- éd.
tain amount of water had thus formed on the outside and Inside
In the last stages of exhaustion, of the container. He mentioned the would-be- suleide was taken back on board, and when the ferry that the milk only contained &.per arrived at Yaumati, she was hand-cent, water, which was not very led over to the police, by whom she
tal,
much..
His Worship said it was rather
was seat to the Kwong Wah Hospi-hard on the defendant, but, on the other hand, the public had to be Domestic troubles are stated to protected.
have been the motive of the at- In reply to a question from tho tempt, the woman having suddenly | Bench, defendant said the con- left her home at 301, Shanghai | tainer referred to by his solicit Etreet, without informing anyone was a pafl of her intentions.
The defendant was fined $20
the Duchess of Sutherland, 18her. arranging to have the canvas ex- amined under X-rays.
The defendant was fined $5.or eight days' imprisonment,
"I can tell about how high to polish their nafla by the
amount of tonic they want on their hair,”
The hearing was adjourned.
THE SOUTHERN CROSS.
ALLEGATIONS OF A "PUBLICITY STUNT."
Sydney, June 5, At the Southern Cross Inquiry, the Government radio expert, Mr. | Crawford, gave evidence as to obeying the Commission's order to carry out tests fn Sydney with the Southern Cross wireless equip- ment. Brisbane and other towna up to 744 miles distant received his messages. Mr. Crawford as serted that the airmen could have done the same after their forced landing.
Mr. James Portus, assistant manager of the Shell Co, declared in evidence that several years ago Mr. Charles Ulm (Capt. Kingsdri Smith's companion in the South. ern Cross) suggested, as a "pub- licity stunt," that bo should fly to Central Australia and get lost,
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