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regard to staircases" by laying it down that in all new tenement houses, and in all blocks of flats, too, for that matter, the stair- cases
DAY BY DAY,
THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTER OF TRUE LIBERTY 18, THAT (UNDER ITS should be of concrete, SHELTER MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF suitably enclosed in inflammable LIFE AND CHARACTER, AND OPINIONS material. "It would be useless, for AND BELIEF CAN DEVELOP · UN- MOLESTED AND UNOBSTRUCTED.—- example, to have concrete stairs Lecky. but wooden partitions: the whole thing should be fire-proof. If the Two Chinese cases of small-pox law were so amended, the Building were notified in the Colony yester Authority's position would be
day. absolutely clear: he would merely have to see that the plans were
The P. and Q, 3.8. Khyber, from
on the 5th instant.
STERN WARNING ON FIRE DANGER.
KEROSENE, CARGO ON BOAT
The Very Idea!
Things looked very busy at the.. IN WRONG. ANCHORAGE offices of Messrs. Solomons and A senman of a trading junk was Cohen. For three whole days the smartly fined at the Marine Court Partners had been poring over this morning. before the Hon. books and feverishly adding up Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., for columns of figures. Then, at the mooring his craft among others at end of it all, a wall of despair Shaukiwan with 99 tons of escaped the lips of Mr. Solomons. kerosene on board instead of nt the dangerous goods anchorage.
"Ach, Cohen," he cried, "voț ă vaste, vot a vaste! We have 'given. Admitting the offence, defen- the book-keeper a veck's holiday,
in accord with the Ordinance; if Singapore, is due here at 6 p.m. dant pleaded ignorance, saying and his books was right, after all
not, he would naturally reject them. There are ather necessities
at the
The Ben Line 6.8. Benmacdhui, also, beyond concrete staircases. from Home ports via Straits and One point was mentioned by the Manila, is due here on the 11th jury yesterday, namely, the instal-instant. lation of fire-extinguishers in joss-paper and fire-cracker shops.
The rainfall registered What is needed is for the Fire totalled 7.16 inches, this being Botanic Gardens during March Brigade. and P.WD. to get spread over eleven days. together, devise auch additional precautions as are necessary, and
Arriving from Calcutta and then get the law amended accord-Singapore, the a.s. Shirala reports ingly. There is no mystery about that a Chinese deck passenger died this businesi: all that is needed during the voyage of beri beri on is the application of a little ordinary common-sense. Let us
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1930.
FIRE ESCAPES.
be taken without further delay.
Dangers of the Praya.
March 30.
He was not aware that he was not allowed to moer his junk at Shaukiwan
In answer Inspector McWalter said the de- to his Worship, fendant's licence was taken out in December last year.
to know
E
"Have you Moore's poems.” inquired the young miss,
"Just a minute," said the clerk. in the bookstore. "By the way, there's a fine new story out called A Night of Love"
"I want Moore," she interrupted haughtily.
His Worship remarked that as the defendant took out his licence in Hongkong, it was his business other masters of junks had been the regulations. Many fined before for committing the putting." advises a golf prof68′′ ("Think of Euclid when you are same offence, but there did not sional), seem to be any sign of it coming to a stop. It appeared to him, continued his Worship, that the only way by which he could impress on them the seriousness of the offence was by imposing heavy fines.
Let Euclid occupy my mind. Whene'er to sport I feal inclined, For diligent inquirers find
It helps the golf beginner. The problems that pondered
o'er
No doubt will swell my cricket. And, thanks to geometric lore,
score,
I may become a winner.
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WŁA crowded.
It is expected that H.M.S. To moor his craft with a cargo Medway and
H.M. submarines of kerosine on board among the Oswald, Otus and Osiris will arrive large number of other boats in in Hongkong from the United King-Shaukiwan was a very serious dom during the month of July. offence indeed. If the junk had
caught fire it would not only mean The saleroom the loss of his own life and of Just before the sale began an old The fact that five people had by the Tenyo Maru to-day were the others on his junk, but also of lady, feeling the effects of the those other junks in the warm room, engaged in forty vicinity. If that occurred, itwinks, and was soon sound asleep. would not do for the defendant to say he did not know the regula tions.
Amongst the passengers who left
Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith, Col., Mrs. and the Misses Hayley Bell, Mr. G. F. Komor and Mr. and Mrs. W. Kentes.
The junk which collided with the s.s. Kwongsai on Monday night is partly submerged and is now lying 300 yards off Long Kau Tang. She. is considered to be a danger navigation. to consider
to
His Worship imposed a fine of $100 with the alternative of three monthe" hard labour.
COAL STOLEN FROM STEAMERS.
A charge of larceny of 1 quantity of clothing which had MAN AND WOMAN CHARGED been "fished" from a house in
WITH POSSESSION... Kowloon City, was brought against & Chinese who was sentenced to Whyte Smith at the Kowloon four months hard labour by Mr. Magistracy this morning.
On a charge of theft of two bottles of wilk froan a bucket which had been left by a Dairy Farm delivery coolie in Saigon Road, a Chinese, who appeared before Mr. Whyte Smith" at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, was fined $10, or 14 days' hard
labour.
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The body
Chinese, aged about 35 years, was found lying in Connaught Road at about 7 a.m. to-day. Marks of by a rope were found on the neck, strangulation, apparently caused but it has not yet been definitely established how the man met his death.
of an unknown
narrow escape from drowning when the taxi in which they were riding plunged over the Praya inte the sea
serves as a further re- minder that the sea wall is entirely unprotected. The latest occur. rence is perhaps the most serious of a long list of similar mishaps and it would appear that the time has now arrived, in view of the rapid For more years than we care growth of traffic, to remember, usually following whether some form of protection serious outbreaks of fire in the on the sea front is not only desir- Colony, severe
able but necessary. The danger is strictures have
particularly grave at those points been periodically passed regarding where vehicles sweep the lack of adequate means of Praya from side streets.
on to the escape for people trapped in burn the accidents reported in recent Some of ing buildings. We are therefore, years have undoubtedly been due not surprised that the jury which to the carelessness of the drivers, investigated the recent tragic
but the fact remains that members occurrence at Smithfield should of the public are entitled to the fullest protection when travelling call attention to obvious necessi- in any public vehicle on the ties in this particular respect. Colony's roads. At the present The fact that, in this fire, lives time sudden and unavoidable skid, were lost solely because there was or a moment's carelessness on the no ready means of escape, is one part of a driver, may result in a which should result in a decided car going over the Praya wall with. strengthening of the present law far more serious consequences than in the accident which occurred yes- A glance through the Ordinances terday morning. A low, but sub- of the Colony is sufficient to show stantially built concrete wall, run- the utter inadequacy of existing ning along the whole length of the provisions. The Building Authori-Praya would serve to prevent mis- ty and the Fire Brigade do their haps of this kind. Similar protec- best in the circumstances, bu: tion has been afforded on various both are gravely handicapped by roads in the Colony where there has reason of the lack of compulsory been the danger of a motor
plunging down the hillside and there would seem to be no reason picking, Reading through the evidence why this practice should given at the enquiry into the Smithfield disaster, it becomes painfully clear that, even if all the means of escape shown on the but a concrete wall, low and yet been sentenced to three months. plans had been provided and sufficient to give protection, would properly maintained, the danger to undoubtedly give the public a safe- |hardly hinder this work and would human life would persist. Trapguard which has been definitely doors and ladders, with a solitary shown to be necessary. The cost of wooden staircase, are obviously protection on these lines would not far from satisfactory. It is true be considerable and necessary out that the Building Authority can lets could be provided to allow refuse to pass plans unless they storm water to flow into the har bour. When five people have had provide such means of escape as
a very narrow escape owing to the may be reasonably required, but
open nature of the seawall. It is we suggest that not only does this essential that steps should be taken leave the position in a somewhat to prevent a recurrence of such nebulous state, but, what is more, serious accidents. that it throws too much respon sibility and discretionary power on the Building Authority. The jury did well in the case under notice to urge the provision of concrete staircases in place of the custom- Paris
Brussels ary wooden structures. It would
Amsterdam
powers.
car
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Convicted of a charge of pocket-
a Chinese who had not be previous conviction for a similar offence was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour by Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. The defendant had
imprisonment In 1927.
adopted on the Praya. It is ap- preciated that junks and other craft discharge cargo on the Praya
'EXCHANGE HATES.
appear that there is a growing Berlin tendency to follow this course, Copenhagen. which is all to the good. But we Vienna, suggest that the time has come Helsingfors when it should not be left to
Lisbon Bucharest owners to decide the type of Shanghai material. The law at present is Yokohama allent on this point, the only re- New York ference to staircases being in
Geneva' Milan regard to the width of tread and Stockholm the rise of the stairs. These are Oslo important pointe, admittedly, but Prague Madrid they are quite subsidiary to that
of the material to be used.
Athens. Bombay.
The beat, and the only satisfac- Hongkong, tory, method of dealing with the Silver (spot) question is for the law to be Silver (forward) amplified. This can be done in
London A
A summons for assault taken
out by Mrs. L. Santos, of Chi Wo Tung Hing Road, was mentioned Street, against Mr. F. Britto, of before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. Mr. F. C. E. Rendall was for the defendant. The hearing was fixed for the afternoon of Thursday 10.
When the sale commenced the old lady slept on, her head con tinually nodding on her breast. The sale over, the noise of the departing people awoke her.
"Has the sale started yet?" she inquired of a gentleman standing
by
"Started!" he said in surprizio. "Why, the auctioneer's knocked everything down to you!"
on
Donald Aye, yon was a power- ful discoorae -"Thrift". ye preached on Sabbath. able to profit by
Meanister Ah'm glad ye were
His suspicions aroused, Sergeant side the 8.8. Michael Jebsen and Fraser searched a sampan along-
Donald-Profit! Why, mon, I found a ton of coal on board the into the plate without a thocht, if would have sloshed ma saxpence craft. The occupants, a man and it hadna been for your providen- Kowloon Magistracy this morning pence there and then. a woman, were arrested and at the tial words--they saved me four- session was brought against them. a charge of being in unlawful pos
sion and sald that a captain of an The defendants admitted posses- unknown ship had given them the coal.
Detective Sergeant Humphreys said that Sergeant Fraser, was ap proaching the sampan in a Police. launch when he saw a small girl hide. The officer was suspicious run, on board another boat and and searched the sampan, finding
the ton of coal on board..
CORRESPONDENCE.
Cost of Living:
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.] Sir,-Perhaps some of those mathematicians who 'fill your cor It was stated that the Michael respondence columns with figures Jebsen had been loading coal that relating to salaries, bonuses and the loss of two tons. Although (If only for the sake of making morning and the Captain reported increases, would be good enough the defendants were not charged easier the practice of the Tenth with larceny it was thought that Commandment) to draw the atten- the coal had been stolen from the tion of one or other of the various steamer. Reports were also fre- financial commissions to the plight quently made by the N.Y.K. of the of those unfortunates in commer loss of coal in transportation, cial undertakings living on one- Each defendant was fined $10 half or one-third of the Balaries or fourteen days' hard labour in mentioned, and, since the indus default.
trial debacle, without increase or bonus of any sort, whatsoever.- Yours, etc.,
GREEN-EYED.
"SCHOOLBOYS" AND "STUDENTS."
MAGISTRATE EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENCE.
Mr. Whyte Smith commented at Kowloon Magistracy, this morning on the use of the word "student" in reference to a schoolboy. He remarked that a person who went. On Sunday, April 8th, the Rev, to school was a schoolboy, while a J. C. Knight Anstey hopes to student was one attending a uni- resume his ministry at the Wesle-versity. He had often heard a yan Church, Wanchai. Mr. Anstey schoolboy referred to in Court as n wishes to express his sincere student. thanks to the many friends who Inspector Marks intimated that munde kind enquiries during his the interpretation of the Chinese Unese, and especially to those who phrase was given by Mr. Dyer Ball have carried on his work during as a student. His Worship remark-- his enforced absence.
ed that possibly the Chinese character for schoolboy and student was the same.
The Court interpreter replied
124.276 .34.87.
Cruelty to four chickens by .12.12
carrying them in a crate which that that was so. .20.876 was too small for the purpose was ..18.17 alleged against a Chinese woman, 34.516 before Mr Whyte Smith at the 103 Kowloon Magistracy this morning. 108.30A fine of $5 was imposed. The 43.3/32 defendant, was stated to have 1/10% brought the chickens from Chinese .2/0.13/02 territory.
4:88 15/32 11
25.13 92.83
The weekly health return of the Medical Officer made up to -18,005
Saturday fast, contained five cases 18.17 1047%
of small-pox, four of typhold, and one of diphtheria. There were 38.06 four deaths from small-pox and ..375 one from typhold. Of non- 1/527/22 notifiable diseases there were 79
MEAN THEFT.
CRIPPLED COBBLER ROBBED
BY COOLIE..
A particularly mean theft was related to Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, when a Chinese was charged with stealing leather from a crippled cobbler.
Sub-Inspector Chester Woods in- formed his Worship that the defen- dant was engaged by the come 1/0 deaths from tuberculosis, ons plainant to carry his stall to and 19.7/10 from malaria and two from in- from his pitch each day.
10% fluenza. Yesterday's return con- His Worship sentenced the de tained five further cases of small fendant to one month's hard Ja pox.
British Wireless,
bour.
O WAS- EVERYMAN?
The old English morality play, "Everyman,”- of. author-- ship unknown, is an allegory of the human soul in the hour of death.
...: ' ,
There is dismay and terror in Everyman's "heart when. Death summons him to appear before the Almighty Father,
Must he go so soon, and alone? What of the dear com- panions of his earthly life? May they not accompany him. on his shadowy journey?
Let him ask them then, says Death!
But Cousin and Kindred re- treat in horror from the doomed man, and Worldly. Goods, with whom he has" squandered his -substance so often and so gen- emusly, is frankly con- temptuous. Beauty's refusal is gentler, but just as firm, and. even Wizdom may not accede to his request.
Yet there is one who will not desert him, one friend: upon) whom he has neglected to call, considering her of small ac
count.-
"I will go with thee and be thy guide
In thy most need to go by "thy side."
say his Good Deed, who will go with him and plead his cause even before the throne of God/