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March 20, 1939.
20-Year-Old Razor Alleged Clue QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
To Missing $100 Banknote
A NOVEL IDENTIFICATION parade took place at Shoungshui police station last month when Eu Yuk-sim, a 48-year-old widow, claimed to be able to recognise a $100 banknote which had been stolen from hor by armed robbers a few days before.
Japan
Leopards Escape In Tokyo
Tokyo, Mar. 19. Alarm and excitement gripped the centre of the Metropolis yesterday flerce when reports spread that animals were let loose in a circus fire near Koda, Tokyo's traffic centre.
The story was related at the Criminal Sessions this morning when Man Ying and Cheung Kuen stood their trial for the robbery before the Chief Justice,
Social Items
Sir Atholl MacGregor, and akong Group of the Peace Pledge jury.
The weekly meeting of the Hong- Union will be addressed next Wednesday by the Rev. W. G. B. Ream, his subject being "Pacifian and the Church". The meeting will be held as usual in the Challenge Bookshop at 5.30 p.m., and is open
Mr. J. B. Prentis, who conducted the Crown case, said that Eu's but at Sheungshui Wai was raided by Ave men in the early hours of January 29 and a quantity of money, jewellery to the pubile, and household goods stolen.
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John's Cathedral Women's Fellowship are holding a Bridge and Mahjong Drive on Thursday, March 23, cummencing at 3 p.m. Admis- Tables sion is $1, including tea.
The following morning Eu net out along the Un Long highway with a Chinese detective and pointed Man, whom the had not known be- fore, as one of the men involved,
On him was found a $100 Hongkong banknote and at his home a razor was need not be made up beforehand. Police and re-brigade squads as discovered. well as members of Young Men's After questioning Man was re- Miss Phyllis W. Brown has been
minutes later Associations were called out to preleased but Ave
the appointed Principal of Bellilos Public vent disturbances, and when the fire woman reported that the razor was School. was extinguished the animals were one of a pair which she owned, and all emptured.
did not know then was missing.
the Shibada Circus was giving a per- With about 700 people attending, formance in the central ward of the Metropolis Saturday afternoon, when fire suddenly broke out near the animals* cages,
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Mr. G. W. Sewell, of Messrs. A police party thereupon set out Robertson, Wilson & Co., Ltd., hog and brought inter, continued Mr. Petal, Causeway Bay, to the War
Man back.
been transferred from the French A few
pleked Eu
Mad oui
Memorial Hospital at the Peak, Prentis,
identification parade at at an
test Sheungshul police station and was mude whether she could identify
her.
the $100 note as the one stolen from
Two leopards, a camel, eight mon- keys, and ten dogs were understood to have escaped as the flames spread. The note was put with seven other Intercepting traffic in the affected similar $100 notes and handed to E. area, police and fire-fighting forces who, after few minutes, selected flung a cordon around the compound the one which she claimed had been and succeeded in driving the wild stolen from her. This was the ou animals into their cages,~~Domel.
LOCAL JUDGES Qualifications to Be
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The draft of a short Bill to amend the Supreme Court and Full Court Ordinances is gazetted.
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the death of Mr. L. J. Blackburn, at TWO MORE DAYS! TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
Two weddings took place before Mr. T. J. Gould. Deputy Registrar of Marriages, at the Registry on Satur- day. Mr.., Wong Yam-sal, fitter at Kowloon Docks, married Miss Shi king-hing, teacher, of 15 Matauwei load, Kowloon, the witnesses being Messra, Shi Ka-hock and Hui Kwok- sum: and Dr.
Choong Ka-khoy. medical practitioner, married Miss Corrobornting Mr. Prentis's out Slu Yim-ling, of 23 Bonham Road, line, Ey told the court that she iden- Hongkong. tifled her note as a small "V" had been worn in the noie where it had been folded' in the middle. She also recognised the Chinese character tlu written in running hand on the top of the note and the character chun Death of Former Colony
ini the written in orthodox style middle.
thic razor Eu also clamed that
The many friends he made while It is explained that the establish- found in Man's home was hers. ment of a Colonial Legal Service, the
"I have used that razor for 20 in Hongkong will regret to learn of members of which are able to
rs," she said, "Part of the edge transfer from one Colony to another, is bent and there is only one small makes it important that the pro part of the blade that is serviceable." visions of the law relating to the The Jury hearing the case com qualifications of Judges should be
prises
F. C. Mow Fung (foreman uniform throughout the Colonint
Ng Chau-wali J. A. Pereira, Omar Empire.
To promote such uniformity the Arculli, L. Goddi, Fung Tsun and
Chan Wel-yeuk. Secretary of State, by a clrculor despatch dated July 20, 1938, has requested that an early opportunity be taken to arrange for a provision in the local statute law requiring that no person shall be appointed to be Judge of the Supreme Court unless; (1) he is qualified to practise as an advocate in a
a Court in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or some dominions Majesty's other part of His having unlimited jurisdiction either In civil or criminal matters, and
(it) he has been qualified for not less than five years to practise as an advoente-or-solleitor in such a Court. The Bill is intended to make the necessary changes.
STANLEY GAOL HEAD Licut.-Cmdr. Harrison Takes up New Post
The appointment of Lieut.-Comdr. Wilfrid Hugh Lane Harrison, R.N. (Ret.) as Superintendent of Hong- kong Prison, Stanley, was notfied in the Government Gazette on Satur-
The hearing is proceeding.
He Wed The Queen's Niece
"Love in a coltage" does not make the idea marriage, according to Mr. Kenneth Harrington.
At the age of 20, he was a junior) assistant in the Diplomatie Service, had been-eyed-for four years to Miss Cecilla the Queen's niece. Bowes-Lyon,
the age of 57. News has been re- colved in the Colony that Mr. Black- burn passed away lust Saturday, in England. He is лurvived by two daughters, Mrs. J. A. . Selby, and Miss V. Blackburn of Jardine Mallic- son and Co., Ltd., and a son who is a member of the R.A.F. In England.
Mr. Blackburn, arrived in Hong- kong In 1905, and joined the long- kong and China Gas Company, being made manager in 1923, and holding this post until 1930 when he went into partnership with Mr. E. W. of Blackmore, forming the firm Messrs. Blackmore and Blackburn, Lid., local engineering and con- tractors establishment. He retired Mr. from netive business in 1930. Blackburn was also an enthusiastic Mason.
Members of the Kowloon Cricket Club will remember the late Mr. Blackburn as a keen sportsman. He joined the Club shortly after his arrival and was a member of the They broke off the engagement be- general committee in 1911, occupying cause they could not afford to marry this position continuously for 12 years. Owing to his invaluable ser- They waited for nearly two years.
He works in the City with the vice to the Club, he was made a life British Metal Corporation. "1 did member in 1925. He played cricket not think it fair to her to
for the Club from 1008 to 1924; and when I was in a junior position.
was also u tennis enthusiast and Now I'm glad we waited," he said.
figured prominently in certain see- To their friends the re-engagement tions of the Club's annual champion-
ship events. and marriage was no surprise.
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NEW COUNCIL MEMBER
at East Is Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. W. N.
The brides 27. She is the eldest day. Lieut.-Cmdr. Harrison arrived daughter of Lord Glamis, a brother in the Colony and assumed duty on of the Queen and heir to the Earl March 15.
of Strathmore, and lives Retiring from the Royal Navy in Grinstead, Sussex, 1932, Lieut.-Cmdr. Harrison spent The bridegroom is the youngest Thomas. Tam to be temporarily un two and a half years in the Prisons son of the late Judge Edward Har- Department England, and during rington, a county court judge. From the past four years had been uttached 1930 to 1932 he was hon, atlache to to the Prisons Department in Kenya the British Legation In Stockholm. Colony,
At the age of 11, she was brides- The Superintendent of Stanley maid at the wedding of the King and Prison in a new post recently created. Queen at Westminster Abbey.
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