WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 81.1929
HEAVY RAINFALL.
MUCH DAMAGE DONE TO ROADS.
DEATH BY DROWNING.
The main, which fell nt intervide throughout yesterday, come down in torrente soon after 8 p.m. und fell without cessation unit 9 o'clock this morning,
Mr. Henderson,
the Water Authority, seen by a China Ma representative this morning stated thit all the reservoirs were over! flowing in consequence of the heavy downfall which registered during the 24 houry ending at 6 ..: to-day-
15.9 in. at Pokfulam.
11.55 4 Taitam.
0.10 in. at Tsian-tuk.
15.80 in. at Wonc-rvi-clwrong.
11. in. t Kowloon,
BOXING.
KING'S TOURNAMENT ON
TO-NIGHT,
Owing to the rain last night, the second part of the progranime of the King's Farewell Boxing Tour- nanient had to be postponed. The bouts will take place, commencing
MURDER TRIAL.
UNUSUAL
THE CHINA MAIL.
DEVELOPMMNT.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mall
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Hearts are IT
-TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
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NOTICE.
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WHAT THE JURY THINK. There was an unusual develop- ment at the Criminal Sessions this morning in the case in which an
October 31-Coronet Theatre; Indian guard is charged with mur
1S HEREBY NOTIFIED that, der. The Crown case, which the Alice Terry in
owing to damage to the Bowen Holmes) presented, was that fol-
Theatre; 31.Star October Crown Solicitor (Mr. H. K. Trumps."
Road Conduit, the Water Supply for lowing a slight altercation the pris-Captain Fly-by-night." at 8 o'clock to-night. The semi-oner, for no adequate reason.
October, 31-World Theatre; the time being will be controlled "The Butterfly by bringing the Rider Mains into named Wong Cheung, A district Man."
operation in ALL districts, starting finals will be staged to-morrw fired his rifle pointblank at a coolls Low Cory 31
watchman brushed the weapon
October 31.-The Grand Theatre; from To-day. and the finals on Saturday.
aside as it was being fired and the "The Kentucky Derby" and J. C. bullet wounded a bystander, Wong Williams Variety Co., 9.15 p.m. Hin-fai, who died the next day.
The prisoner gave evidence that while on his beat he was at- tacked by four Chinese who tried to seize his carbine. He said he managed to load his weapon and fired at the deceased, who was one of the men, as the latter was running away.
THE CORONET.
HEARTS ARE TRUMPS.
The famous old meladmma, showing at the Coronet this week, The conduit at Bowen Road ha lends itself admirably to the re- again been damigel nes the Mili-quirements of the cinema. There fary Hospital, necessitating rever are several striking scenes two in sion to the rider mains for the water-particular, of the Royal Academy supply for the time being.
on opening day, and a view of an The Elliott ilter-beds have been avalanche, being fine examples of slightly damaged by a small land-stagecraft. slide. It will probably be some days before a normil supply of water will he available, inqanwhile every avail- able coolic is being put on repair work.
DAMAGE TO BOADS,
Mr. H. B. Goldsmith, Exerutisy| Engineer, gave the following details of danige to mouls :--
Stubbs Road has been blocked by
a landslide and is closed to traffic.
Seymour Raul has been badly seed, as a result of which water and gas mains are expared, noces sitating the road bring closed.
Barker and Finlay Itoads are ble impassable owing to falls of earth,
Above the quarters of Mr. Justier Lippertz, in Severn Road, the rush of water has opence a hut breach, which prevents vehicular traflic.
Alice Terry, of "Prisoner of Zenda" fame, has the leading role, and the direction is by the now well-known Rex Ingram.
collapsed and an Indian watchman Hiving in it was injured.
The Wanchai Police received a report of a slight collapse in Wan- chai Road, but this was not serious.
Some of the occupants of houses
in Cuine Road had an uncomfort able time in the latter part of the night, when the water was entering the back of the house and coming out through the front.
People coming into town along Robinson Road found that a land- slide had occurred near Govern ment Quarters, Park Road. above Breezy Point.
In the course of his address for the defence this morning Mr. Campbell Prosser, who was instructed by Mr A. el Arculli, said he had pleaded before in this Colony, and would con- tinue to plead, that a man arrested on a capital charge ought to be defended from the beginning at the Police Court.
The direction given by the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees Davies in his summing up to the jury was that if they believed the Crown case they must find the prisoner guilty of murder, unless they found that he did it in self defence.
The jury retired to consider their verdict at about five minutes past omne o'clock and returned about half an hour later to seek a direction
A two-hours' supply to each dis trict will be given daily and the! time table previously in force will be November 2--Navy League Balladhered to as lar as practicable. at City Hall, 9.30 p.m.
SOCIAL.
SPORT.
October 31-King's Farewell Boxing Tournament 8.30 p.m.
November 10-12. Hongkong Jockey Club's next Gymkhana,
November
Hotel 15.-Palace handicap billiards tournament com- monces.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS. November. 5.-Lammert Bros., the steam launch "Vancouver" at Sale Rooms, noan,
MEETINGS.
HAROLD T. CREASY,
Water Authority. Public Works Department,
Hoogkong, 3tat October, 1923.
THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that an INTERIM DIVIDEND has been declared in respect of the November 2. Meeting of financial year ending on the 31st Licensing Board in the Council December 1923 and will be payable Chamber, 12.15 p.m.
on the 19th NOVEMBER 1923 as to November 5.-Second ordinary SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS per Share! OLD" shares and as to annual meeting of shareholders in on the the Hongkong & Canton Ice Manu SIXTY CENTS per shere on the facturing Co., Ltd., at 2, Lower "NEW" shares (1922 Issue).
The Transfer Books of the Com Albert Road,- boon.
pany will be closed from the 12th to the 17th November 1923 both days'
OTHER MEETINGS,
....
THE GRAND.
TO-NIGHT'S OPENING.
COMPANY, LTD.,
WALTER J. HAWKER,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 31st October, 1923,
November 8.-Hongkong Horti- laclusive. from His Lordship on a point of cultural Society, annual meeting, For THE HONGKONG HOTEL law. Retiring again, they returned Stewart Bros. Office, 5.15 p.. shonly before 2 p.m. to say that they had come to A cettain decision on the facts and communicate it to wished to His Lordship in order to ascertain what the legal position was. We think," announced the foreman, "that the prisoner, having had some quarrel for some slight cause with Wong Cheung, was jostled by the crowd and, being a stranger, He lost his head, loaded his rifle to imagined himself attacked by them.
The new season at the Grand opens to-night with "The Ken- tucky Derby" and the Williams Variety Co.
Mount Kellet Road, near the
That part of Des Voeux Road homestead sites, is badly damaged two holes having been washed in it. Central, near the Central Market, There have been nicerous hand-was under water for several hours slides on Magazine Gimp Koad: ant, and some of the mud from the for a distancy of 200 værds half the upper levels was carried as far as intimidate them and when they proposed alteration are completed,!
width of the roul to a depth of 6 feet has been washed away.
Coombe Road. Tregunter Path Conduit Road and Bowen Road have also suffered severely. In Bowen Rod, 3 portion of the conduit has been carried away.
Robinson Rond is blocked by a hand-slido above the London Mission..
There live been landslides in the neighbourhood of Netherstle Hospital.
Stad from a land-slide at Glenealy was washed into Pedder Street and did considerable damage.
Near the 9th wile on Taijs Road there is a bad breach.
With the exception of Caine and Stabbs Ronds, it was expected that the drange would be repaired before nightfall.
DAMAGE IN TOWN.
In the city itself, rain and wan
Since did considerable dunge. carly morning gangs of P.W?D, and Sanitary Board coolies have been engaged in removing sand from the Kirects.
this locality, When the Fire Brigade engines were taken out for their daily clean-up, one passer- by said they were like ships as they were riding in several inches
of water.
The bottom of Hollywood Road, where it joins Queen's Road West, near the Civil Hospital), was a wonderful sight in the small hours of the morning. The force of the torrent was so great that it washed up against the houses on the side of Queen's Road and shot up about ten feet into the air Stones, small pieces of rock and other debris were all washed down to the bottom of the bill and fifty feet of the road was completely under water. A little further along, the junction of Curen's Street and Queen's Road could not be seen for the water. One inteprid ricsha coolie tried to wade through, but was washed back into Des Vaux Road with his vehicle.
AT HAPPY VALLEY.
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It is expected that when the
separated he fired at one of those the Grand will enjoy a goodly he thought to be his attackers in-, share of European patronage.
Certainly the popular price is an tending to disable him only."
with the good into the position and asked the films announced, the Grand should
His Lordship said he would go attraction, and jury to return to-morrow morning.
be successful in their venture.
TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
BOXING.
KING'S REGIMENT TOURNAMENT.
OWING
WING to the rain Tuesday's programme will take place TO-NIGHT at 8 o'clock. The Semi-Finals will take place TO-MORROW (Thursday) NIGHT at 8 o'clock, and the Finals will take place on SATURDAY NIGHT.
Novices Welter Weight (1st Round)
St. lbs, Coy.
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lbs. Coy. St.
9 Wilson 10 The downfall at Happy Valley (3) has done considerable damage. (4)
(73) Brown 10 Firemen have been busy with Though the retaining wall at the (6) L/Cpl Knowles jumps and hoses lifting the water top of the home-straight held, water found ingress from the from the basements at the Inter- cemetery through the main gate- national Bank, where the hook-room way. An imaginary line drawn and vaults were flooded; at the from the mile post, across the inside wine-vaults of Messrs. Donnelly & of the track to the tram-stop at White, at Messrs. Lane, Crawford Badwood Terrace, approximately (8) and at other places which suffered,
defines the flooded area. All Happy Valley trams up to 1 o'clock | * terminated the journey at Broad- wood Terrace..
DROWNING FATALITY.
Death from drowning in a Hong- kong flood would seem to be t- nual, when the island's contour is -considered, but this actually hap
Point when a pened at West Chinese woman and her son last their lives.
They lived at No. 47, Centre Street, which is a very stoop gradient Their house had been weakened by the main and a crack appeared.in the wadi. Teking panic in the early
GAPING HOLE.
10 Q B. L/Cpl. Brennan 11 (7) Pte. Cooper
Rowe 10 10
10 D v. Pte Gardner Regimental Light Weight (1st Round)
O'H.Q.Av. Ple. Price
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Note:-
The above-mentional Interim Incidend of 15 cents per share on the "Old" shares will be paid also to those perBONS who shall in accordance with. the Scheme for Amalgamation with The Shanghai Hotels, Limited, become Shareholder in this Company.
Note:-
It is intended, by reason of the difference one made between the "id" and the "New" alusres in the amount of Inlerim Dividend, to place the "Ok" and the "Nere" shares in the same footing as to future Dividends.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PARTICULARS and Conditions of hy Public Auction to be hold on MONDAY, the 5th day of November, 198, at 3 n.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor. of the Lot of UROWN LAND on Now Road from Bowen Road to Wangneichong Gap in the Colony of Hongkong, for a tera of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Itent to be fixed by the Burveyor of His Majesty bo King, for one farther torm of 73 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
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On New Boad from
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Regletry Nu
Locality.
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WHITE WOOL SOCKS.
$2.00, $2.50 & $2.75 FAIR.
WHITE WOOL HOSE.
$4.50, $5.50 & $8.50 PAIR.
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WHITE VITELLA SHORTS.
$8.75 PAIR.
FINEST SERGE TROUSERS, LONDON CUT AND TAILORED,
$20.00 PAIR
QUALITY WHITE
CREPE SOLED TENNIS
SHOES
$8.00.PA
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TWO POPULAR FOX TROTS
"BANANAS"
"PICKLES"
COLUMBIA RECORDS
AT
ANDERSON'S
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BOTTLES
GUARANTEED to keep Icy- · cold for 3 days or steaming hot for 24 hours.
Large Assortment in Stock.
THE CHINA DISPENSARY,
82, QUEEN'S ROAD C. EAST of CENTRAL MARKET.
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(11) Pte. Hayter Lawler There is a gaping hole in Smith- | (12) _,. field, near the slaughter-houses and (13) L/Cpl. Baker the Rope Co.'s factory at Kennedy (14) Pte. Craig Town. The centre of the roadway 15) McCumasky 9
Stokes has fallen in, exposing the rullah (16) beneath and it is not possible for
|(17) wheeled traffic to use the road.
Not far from this is Belcher
- hours of the morning, the wom Street, where débris roughly
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"ERMLAND"
18 H.Q.B having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby notified that all goods are being landed at their risk, Into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the HONG- KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD., whence and/or from the Wharves, delivery can be obtained.
St. e. Cay Round)
St. Uba, Coy. rushed out of the building with her estimated to weigh 100 tons was son and daughter, only to slip into washed into the thoroughfare (18) Pte. (67) Owens 7 12 B
Hodgson the side-channel which carried blocking it almost entirely. It is (19) turret of water racing down to also stated that the embankment
Regimental Welter Weight (1st Round) Queen's Road West at the bottom wall of the Tai Pak Lau restaurant
St. Iba, Coy. As was only to be has been damaged, but no injurles of the hill.
10 BAT
L¡Cpl. Ofr (20) Cpl. Spoor expected, they
to] were reported. were unable
Regimental Bantam Weight (1st oxtricate themselves from the tor-
Private motor-cars, P. W. D and The mother and son were contractors lorries were finding mont. picked up dead, but the daughter their way about on the upper levels
this morning as their usual routes (21) Pte. Johnson cscaped.
were blocked. After exploring (22) L/Cpl. Hart some length uo one road they (23) Pto. McGuinness 9
Hayter would have to turn back as the rain (24) had made a cul-de-sac-at some junc- lon. They would then skirt another road only to And similar conditions.
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CROPS AND LIVE-STOCK. Considerable damage has been done to the paddy-fields in the outskirts of Kowloon Tong where crops and live-stock were under one to two feet of water.
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(25) Pte. Elmeby The big hole in the road at the bottom of Wyndham Street attract- In Lower Albert Road, outside ed many people on their way to the Dairy Farm's premises, the business this morning. It was first
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No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godown, and all goods remaining undelivered after 7th November, 1923, will be subject to rent.
All Claims must reach us by 14th November, 1923, or they will not be recognised.
All damaged packages will be examined by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas (Marine Surveyors) at 10 a.m. on 6th November, 1923.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading wil be counter. 'signed by
ARNHOLD & CO., LTD.
Agents. Hongkong, 31st October, 1923.
Suzuki & Co.
SAKURA
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Distillers
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Tel. Central Mo. 135.
White
side channels were blocked to such noticed at daybreak when passers (26) Pto. Sweetnam an extent that the water enteredy-stated that it had been caused
Dennis the company's buildings. In the by the water from the nullah under (28)
Moon early morning, a foot of water and the road-surface, bursting the road-
Burgerson 9 (80) raud was found in the basement of covering, to find an extra outlet for the increased volume pouring down the north wing, which is used as a cold-storage room. Apparently, it from the hillside. Some attribute (31) had gone in from the Lower Albert the hole to an action by P.W.D.(32) Opl. Holmes coolles' to get at the drain which (33) PEs. Carrabor Rand side.
Tuberfield 9 (34) Aniatshed in Mosque Street was choked.
BEER
Alexandra Buildings,
Tel Central 468 & 467.
"D.C.L."
MALT EXTRACT.
with
COD LIVER OIL
Is made from the finest selected Farley and malt- ed with the greatest care on the Company's own
premises by the most scientific methods of
manufacture.
THE DISTILLERS COMPANY, Ltd,
EDINBURGH
barn kot Pries per 118. Jar d
8 lb. Jardco.
SOLE AGENTS:
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