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PREFERRED SUICIDE TO A WIFE.
NO REASON GIVEN.
Chinese "Boy's" Aversion To
Matrimony.
TRAFFIC VAGARIES.
BIG HAT GETS CAUGHT IN A TRAM.
MOTOR CAR UNCLAIMED.
A novel incident, involving the rer of a big hatbot one of the latest model, but a. common Rather than obey his mother geolie-woman's headgear occur and marry, a local Chinese office redson Thursday on that part of battered testone Ring Praya East near the Kwong Sang
Lefused to give any venson for Hong factory. [his aversion to matrimony.
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He is a young man, irreproachable habits, and a very conscientious worker for his twenty odd dollars a month. He was employed by a European broker, whose offices are in Alex- andra Building, and lived in the servants quarters attached to each floor.
About six o'clock a few days ago, he is alleged to have closed the door, of his room after swallowing a dose of prepared opium. Then he took hold of a razor with which to make doubly sure that he would end his life.
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This woman was-loading a goods truck with some others. A street tram passed and her big, round hat got mixed up with the tram She was bowled over and her head was so injured that she had to be taken to hospital for treatment..........
Motor-car No. 1934 was report. ed to be lying wrecked, just off the Taipo Road, near "Goldring's House."?"
The driver of bus No. 1196 claims that when he was taking his machine from Kowloon City tę Hunghom on Thursday, motor lorry No. 996 collided with him, damaged his front wheel, and did not stop..
It so happened that a lady cousin (who earns her living as a' Knocked down by a push bicycle knitter) made a call at the time on the Causeway Bay Road on Outside the door, she heard what Friday, a Chinese fractured his she thought to be strange sounds. left arm. He was sent to hospital. On the alarm being raised, the In attempting to jump from a confirmed bachelor was found to moving tram in Des Voeux Road have cut himself and to be bleed-West, on the same day, a Chinese
woman injured her head.
ing.
In hospital, it was found that thewound (behind the ear) was not severe and he is recovering.. When questioned by the Police he is said to have stated that his mother wanted him to get mar- ried. If he did not obey, he would displease her. If he did.... but he refused to explain.'even when pressed. One answer that he is supposed to have given is that he tried to solve the dif ficulty and end his predicament by taking his lifel
CAR THIEVES?. MR. R. M. AUSTIN'S STRANGE
FIND.
WHISKY SALES VANISH,
Inquiries are being made by the Police with regard to a strange movement at the Peak in which a motor-car "went" some distance and was damaged.
DOG BITES.
SEVERAL CASES DURING HOLIDAYS,
TWO "MISS BETTYS."
COAL CRISIS?
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Landon, April 1 banking methods, a local gang of
Paris, April 1. The Minersive has Armed robbers went to great paina decided to Call National Dele- to bring off a coup but hick was The Court van jodgment gate Conference, of the Miners' against them, and they only took for defendants in. Mt. Darnerin's Federation in London on April 4 about $200 after having been put case on the ground that his dis- missal from the managership was to consider the written proposals to no little expense; of the mine owners, which were
justifiable and that he sent handed to the Executive this
the Bank insolent letters attack- ing the administration, morning. The two sides will meet again after the miners' dele gates have expressed their views on the proposals.
Prior to the National Delegates Conference, the Executive of the Federation will confer with the Industrial Committee of the Trades Union Congress.
c.
No. 22, Mercer Street (2nd floor) was the address of a firm by name of Hop. Tiek which had unpreten tious furniture and very little
room.
The Court pointed out that, in regard to exchange operations, M n three previous occasions, the Durnerin did not protest at the LaYuen Bank of No. 62, Wing Lok time and even partially executed Street had delivered to Messrs. Hep transactions Yick suma of about $200, an in-- stractions from a banking corres pendent at Macao.
It is alleged that these remit, tances were merely blinds to entice the Bank's shroffs to that shop so that they could be robbed.
Proposals Unacceptable? A member of the Miners Ex ecutive stated that the miners will give a reasoned reply to the On Thursday afternoon, the Lai owners' proposals, but he ex-Yuen Bank had to pay $188 to Hop phasised that they are not likely Yick. There were several entries to be acceptable, and there is in the receipt book but besides the every prospect of a serious crisis sum of $188, the shroffs only had arising.
with them $213.31 for payment to another arm. -
History of the Case. The following cables explain the case briefly :
Paris, March 20. M. Durnerin, till 1924 man- ager of the Hongkong branch of the Banque Industrielle de Chine, has brought an action in the Paris Court of Appeal against the Banque for wrongful dismissal, and says he was dismissed for re- fusing to carry out instructions which it was impossible to ex- Owners' Attitude.
ecute, and which, moreover, were It is learned that Mr. Evan One of the shroffs had suspected calculated to lower the value of Williams, Chairman, of the Min-that all was not well. On previous the franc. He says on May 7, ing. Association, informed the occasions and on Thursday, he had 1924, he received a telegram from
that Miners' Executive
the paid away all other moneys before the Head Office ordering him to owners, for the sake of peace and cailing at Hop, Yick's. This time buy dollars or sterling on account a settlement, are prepared to nego he could not pay away the $200 or of the Banque de Paris et Pavs tiate an agreement on national so as there was nobody to receive Bas to the extent of £100,000 lines, but the industry must stand the money on behalf of the payee, daily. He refused to carry out on its own foundation and When the receipt book was Fro the order because it was calcul- economic basis, and could not be duced at the Hop Vick, six or seven ated to start s panic in Far East- continued by means of a Governmen pounced on the shroffs, prern markets. The Banque de
ducing between them a revolver and Paris et Pays Bas statement de ment subsidy.
The ruffians demanded clares that the orders mentioned The owners were emphatically of daggers. the opinion that an extension of to know where was the money for were placed on Government ac working hours, was an essential the other items in the book. After count to defend the franc. The condition to restoring the indus binding and gagging the two case may be politically important Several cases of persons being try. They emphasised the neces-shroffs, they stole the $213 for the as the Banque de Paris et Pays bitten by dogs were recorded dur-sity for an increased output, and other firm and decumped, locking Gas ir associated with the Social- ing the first part of the Easter proposed that each district should the door behind them.. Holidays, as follow:-
fingerrentage, victiced the floor, drenance may operations for the MINE ON 30-366, Theres, the National Board to settle the attention and were released from Government reported that a mongrel bit little Miss Betty Noll, of the mad question of a national minimum their bonde. dreas. The dog was taken to the over and above the district Presumably nobody has turned minima. The present national up to take charge of the shop which Kennedy Town home.
minimum of 33 1/3 per cent, was used as a blind. Mr. R. Festenj, of No. 8, Hum-would not necessarily be main Doubts exist as to the truth be kong, against the Banque Indus phreys Building, Kowloon,, states tained.. that his daughter. Miss Betty, was
The owners were opposed to hind another report, made yester-trielle de Chine, bitten in the thigh by a small krown compulsory amalgamation, but day, by a concubire of No. 22, The contention of the Bank deg which is alleged to have were prepared to consider volun-Wing Fung Street (second floor), Paris et Pays Bas-that-it was emerged from-No. 54. Nathan Road.tary amalgamation and reorgan Wanchai It is suspected that a acting for the Government-is The animal has not been traced. isation of the industry. They domestic quarrel was the cause of supported by a letter from M.
the trouble.
Robineau, Governor of the Bank When she was searched at the of France, to the Directors of the J. 3. V. Remedios, (of No. 2 "Fair were opposed to any change in View," Nathan Road, Kowloon) isregard to by-products, and were
Afirming the request of the Bank to be in possession of money reported to have hitten a girl, Miss agreed that nationalisation was station, complainant was found Bank de Paris et Pays Bas con
not practicable...
search of the flat led to the re-of France to various other Banks A Glassman, of No... Nathan Wage Reductions.
covery of the loot"
to furnish foreign currencies for Road. The dog has been sent to
The Miners Federation Execu. In her report, the woman says the purpose of increasing the re- Kennedy Town.
tive bas issued a statement on that two rufians entered with s serve which was being amassed the two days conferences with revolver and a dagger, and took to combat the speculation against the owners, saying that the latter her pair of gold earrings. From the franc refused to intimate the proposed the cubicles, which she said had
A brown mongrel, owned by Mr.
A Chinese boy states that he was bitten by a black mongrel owned by Mrs. Sin Chak, No. 9. Lyttleton Road. This dog has also been im-
pounded.
A Chinese was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital on Fri- day after being bitten by a dog owned by another Chinese at Taipo old market. The dog is under
observation.
A "Domestic Robbery?
- List-Radicals and for two years
Paris, March 26----- There has been a further de- velopment in the suit brought by M. Durmerin, formerly of Hong-
M. Robineau recalls that the pay on May 1 except to say that been ransacked, $76 worth of stuff Benk de Paris et Pays Bas sug there will be heavy reductions was lost." She timed the stay gested the Far Eastern market as The Executive describes the of the robbers as twenty minutes. being less susceptible to sadden owners' views on the Coal Com mission's report as indefinite. It considers that their refusal to ALLEGED DESERTER.sequently, suitable for such
Yesterday, Mr. R. Mein Austin (of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson &Co., Ltd.), who lives at No. 351, The Peak, reported that his car (No. 1679) was standing outside No. 217, the Peak
Somebody took it down the hill, toward Stubbs Road, to a spot about 600 yards below Gough Hill Police Station. There it had apparently collided with the hill side, and had been damaged.
Mr. L. M. Whyte (of Messrs. Donnelly and Whyte) has informa- Jed the Police that a coolie has disappeared with $73.60, the pro- ceeds of a sale of some whisky and cigarettes, On March 28, the coolie had, under instructions, de- livered the goods to the s.s. "Awa Maru," but he failed to return with the cash which he is alleged to have collected.
There has been another theft Members of the Government The Executive assumes that in and of the Hongkong General the absence of definite proposals from European craft in the har-Chamber of Commerce were in- for a minimum percentage, the bour. A yacht boy employed by vited to dinner last night at the owners position is the same as Mr. Witchell, states that on Chinese Merchants Club by the last July, and that the const Thursday sails and rope (valued Executive Committee of the Chin-quential wage reductions will at $31) were stolen from the boat, ese Chamber to meet the Hon. Mrvary from one shilling to five which was then lying in the Yau-P. H. Holyoak who was being en-shillings daily. mati fyphoon anchorage,
tertained by the Chinese Chamber The Executive has unanimous Yesterday, Lt Ashley of prior to his departure from the ly decided not to consent to the the abolition of the national further lowering of wages and Colony on leave.
minimum percentage
J
HMS. Tamar, reporters that a
HON. MR. HOLYOAK.
sum of $145 in cash was stolen Mr. Holyoak leaves on Wednes from an unlocked drawer on board
day his ship R
Mr G. Bird, head watchman of Taikoo Dock, reported yesterday. that some Manlia rope has been stolen from a dock mooring lighter.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dennithorne, Mr. R. G. Groundwater, Miss M Kirkwood, Mr. E C. Lobeustine Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Smith, Mr. M. W. Stevens and Mr. F. Townsend are passengers in the Empress of Buasta which left on Thursday.
consider the fixation of a national minimum percentage, and their Insistence on all wages being a district concern, constitute an almost insurmountable obstacle to an amicable settlement.
CHINESE BOAT LOSES TIS WEAPONS.
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fluctuations than the European and American markets; and, con-
operations, TM.
The suggestion was accepted, and the Bank de Paris et Pays- Bas with other Benks subsequent-
ly placed at the disposal of the
Bank of France a certain reserve
Alleged to have deserted with said to have run away with four which contributed to reduce revolvers, sono ammunition, and an speculation automatic pistol, a Chinese soldier by paying a tribute to the promp
M. Robineau's letter concluded has been arrested in the Colony.
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The Trafic office of the Police de coal owners' proposals on the Royal Commission report appartment notifies that motors going penda replies to the Commission's to the races at Happy Valley this recommendations ad seriatim.afternoon must proceed by way of The replies to a large extent ex Praya East, Wanchal Rond,
Fairbanks (Alaska), April)- IN THE "GAZETTE.”
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Lieut Wilking has sent a wires cence in the recommendations, in chong Road, as Fercival Street is
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Point Barrow, the most northerly "Gazetto" to-day are:
In Messrs, Carroll Bros. report in national as against district diss The Rev. Dr. W. Pearce, on the Singapore Rubber Marker, cussions, which they strongly ad. There has been admitted to the point of the United States. After depositing supplies he will return O.BE, LLD., the Ray AD. published in our laage of April 1vocated.
A Kowloon Hospital, a Chinese with here for more Stewart and Dr. 3. W. Teo; LL.D., It was stated that the Malakon Co. The owners are of opinion that injuries on his body, who accusera irbanks message.. March to the Board of Education for a had paid an interim dividend of the recommendation for a State Indian police constable, B157 of
According resent further two years each; and the 15 per cent. -- This should read final ownership of minerals le a Parlia|asaulting him when attempting to Bey. H. R. Wells to act during dividend,
indications the Wilk mentary questions arrest him on a charge of alle
dition will be delayed absence of the Rev. Dr. T. W. MEREKA
They recognise that the miners unlicensed ✪ hawking,at Pearce
We are indebted to Messrs will not entertain a proposal for | Cheung Street (Shamshufr Mr. W. D. Russell, A.C.A., to be | Carroll Bros, for the following — longer hours and they therefore Friday, an auditor (under Companies The Teluk Anson Robber Estate wish to discuss the recommenda Ordinancesy:
haye sold 2211⁄2 tons of Haw Rubber Lion that the definition of works Derfor delivery, April December "this ingtime be weekly," instead of
year at 991 cents per ton. This is daily and a treater flexibilit
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