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No. 19,849 HONGKONG. SATURDAY, JULY 10. 1926.
NATHAN ROAD SHOT.
FIRING IN SMALL HOURS, THIS MORNING.
ROW WITH CYCLISTS.
MRS. HUNT'S LOSS.
THIEF TAKES JEWELLERY AND CLOTHES.
LOSS VALUED AT $160.
Mrs. Hunt, wife of Staff-Ser-
COUNCIL ELECTION.
CONTESTANTS RECORDS OF
SERVICE,
OFFICIAL NOTICE DELAY.
Considerable interest has been
A shot was red from a pistol about two o'clock this morning ingeant Hunt, the local gymnastic roused locally by the announce the vicinity of the Po Hing then-expert, has lost $160 as the result ment that the appointment for tre, in Nathan Road.
This spot is near that part of a thief entering her house and the three months' vacancy on the making off with jewellery and Legislative Council due to the Yaumati which is lighted up prac-
departure on holiday Sir some clothes.
of Sically from sunset to sunrise.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt live at.De.Henry Pollock would be conteat- At limes when most people are in rention Barrack, off Garden Roaded: Although the appointment bed, push-cyclists are still riding and just above Murray Barracks will be temporary, the period of In the report to the Police. Mrs. service will include the discussion Hunt says that the theft must of the Estimates and whoever is have occurred some time be elected by the unofficial, J. P.'s ween Wednesday evening and will have the opportunity of pressing for reforms in the policy yesterday morning.
for 1927.
about for fun.
From an eyewitness, the "Ching Mai learns that several Chinese a row. A were embroiled in bicycle, said to be a tandem, was involved. One side is alleged to have accused the other of causing a.collision.
Words may have led to bliss, or only threats. any rate, one of the party was! armed with a pistol or revolver, ja This he drew, ring a round inte the air.
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NEW BILL FOR LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
SIR SHOU-SON CHOW NOW ON “EXECUTIVE"
REPLACES SIR PAUL
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LAW TO BE AMENDED.
The jewellery is valued at } $100, (two articles) and the two items of clothing make up the
Geo. 5, c. 67. At
The Hon, Si Shou-son Chow has In the "Government Gazette" ip- [been appointed an unofficial mem-
pears the Draft of a "Bill, to amend ber of the Executive Council of Hongkong, in place of the late Sir the law relating to wireless tele Paul Chater, C.M.G., with effectgraphy. from yesterday..
The objects and reasons state- This is announced in the current 1. One of the principal objects| issue of the "Government Gazette." | of this bill is to make it necessary Sir Shotsson, as is well known, for receiving geta to be licensed. has been for a number of years the This is accomplished by amending senior Chinese (unoMcial) repre- the defnition of the term "ele sentative, on the Legislative Coun- graph" so as to include apparais
for receiving as well as apparatus: cil
If this is not the first occasion for sending.. This follows the on, which a Chinese resident has policy of the Wireless Telegraphy! It was expected that an official been appointed to the Executive Explanation) Act, 1925, 15 and 16 notice with regard to the election Council then it is the first for a
2. The other principal object of would be made in to-day's "Gov- good many years. ernment Gazette but certain three unofficial members on the the bill is to make it an offence difficulties, arose which led to the Executive Council, whose deliberato maintain, or possess, a wireless &telegraph station without a licence. postponement of the announce-tlons are in private and with
greater preponderative of officials The present Ordinance makes it on ment.
offence only to establish a station, Below will be found the records than in the Legislative Council.
Sir Shou-son was knighted last or work apparatus; of the two local gentlemen who
without a licence. It will be noticed that thei offer themselves for election and SVAT, A
term "wireless telegraph station" their photographs also appear in. this issue..
It is not known whether the shot had the desired effect of staring off would-be fight but a Shan- tention was ang policeman's drawn and he took he whole lot -Some of the station. along to the men were European clothes,
the remainder.
Inquiries are being made.
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DRUGS & COMMISSION,
A dandlock has set in, in the trade dispute involving "local drug merchants in Nan Pak Hong.
A circular has been issued by the importers of Chinese drugs. They atata that their goods are brought
laboriously over mountain and ocean for sale here. The "98 hongs" the larger firms who sell on 2 per cent commission, and there fore only pay 98 per cent-hance the name only get this small re- muneration of 2 per cent. for their Lrouble and for shouldering credit and storage expenses.
They acruse the Nam Pak Hong „bugers (who act for principale: of anriasonably demanding a further 2 per cent commission before they will purehase. The importers deem this unfair and are now prepared to withgo transactions. for fear that buyers, in other trades will follow suit, says the errealare
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It is reported that. Committee H.B.M. Consul-General at Canton, of three Generals and two ' Ad-Educated at Tonbridge School, he Egirals has been organised, and entered as a student of the Inner has been charged with the form-Temple in 1901 and was called to ing of a Cabinet, including the bar in 1904 practising for a
eivilians.Reuter.
Government's Fall.
time on the Western Circuit.
From 1907 to 1909, Mr. Alabas- ter was Secretary of the 'China Association in London and since
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CHOLERA.
AMERICAN DIES IN SINGAPORE.
.on
[From Our Own Correspondent.].
Singapore, Friday. Three cases of cholera have occurred
the steamer “Erinpura" from Bangoon.
An American passenger, Kiser, has died.
A British lady, passenger and an engineer on the ship are ill
Lisbon, July 9. The Da Costa Government has 1909 he has been a member of the Hongkong bar, "taking silk" been overthrown. Da Costa is a priin 1922, 1918 he was made an and Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1813 Soser in Belem Palace.
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defined in the bill as including any apparatus which have been in- stalled for the pärpose of being used for wireless telegraphy,
2. The opportunity has been taken to shorten and simplify the Arrangement of the present Ordin- ance. For example. the whole sub- Ject of the licensing authority and. the form and conditions of the! licences is relegated to regulations. to be made under the Ordinance. In the present Ordinance this mat- ter is scattered over four sections.
4. The defnition of the term "wireless telegraphy" in the pre- sent Ordinance, contains a proviso: to the effect that nothing in the Ordinance shall prevent any per- Memorials of re-entry by the son from making or using an elec Crown on Inland Lot No. 2489|trical apparatus for actuating ma- chinery or for any purpose other A new Cabinet has been formed officer of the Most Excellent Order have been registered according to than the transmission of messages. This proviso was inserted in tho with General Carmona as Premier of the British Empire for service law.
Wirelesa Telegraphy Act of 1904 Major Jond Bello as Minister forin connection with the censorship
of cables.
while the bill was in committee. the mover of the amendment urg ing that its addition was neceвBary to protect enterprise and scientific exploration from interference. The proviso was accepted without dia- | cussion, but it seems to have been of very doubtful necessity, and it has been omitted from this, bill
the
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6. For the extraterritorial effect
Public Service. Throughout his career in Colony and the New Territories. Hongkong Mr. Alabaster has been He has been a strong advocate closely identified with public and for the institution of a general municipal affairs and has already Board of Health and, speaking at served-five times on the Legista Sanitary Board meetings, has in- tive Council as Acting Attorney-dicated lines along which such a General in 1911 and 1912 (when Board might be conducted." he was also on the Executive
Rumour has it that the Gov. of the Ordinance in case of British Council) and as elected represen-crnment have under consideration ships registered in the Colony see tative of the Justices of the Peace certain changes in the medical the Wireless Telegraphy Order, in 1919, 1924 and 1925.-Ho-has-
service and it would be well worth 1908: Stat. R. and 6., 1908, p. 960,-) been elected three times a mem-their while to refer back to the
6. Clause 7 of the bit ber of the Sanitary Board, sery proposals which Dr. Koch made at existing ship station licences, ing thereon from 1917 until this that time. Dr. Koch's scheme is As the annual meeting of the year.
He has also been for many that the Board of Health should Peninsular and Oriental Banking years the elected representative be entirely dependent of the Corporation, Lord Inchcape anti- of the Justices on the Licensing Medical Department and should cipated that the result of the de-Board.. liberations of the Royal Commis- H.E. the Governor has been sion on Indian Currency would pleased to accept the resignation be to stabilise the rupee at 1/6. of 2nd Lieut. Alan Prismall of" He expressed the opinion that his commission in the Hongkong with settled conditions of labour, Volunteer Defence Corps, with they might be optimistic in re effect from June 4,
gard to the future.-Router.
On the other hand, the native drug importers' guild is now adver tising for drug, salesmen who can "push and dispose of their wares" in outports, Malaya and elsewhere. where the good have hitherto been shipped.
Dr. W. V. M. Koch.
Landon, July 9.
DR. KOCH....
ROACH
Whilst on patrol, along the be under a Commissioner of Pub-western praya last night, a Euro- lic Heaith whose position would pean police sergeant was inform rank as a special appointment.ed that a Chinese had jumped Connected with that department, into the harbour, from the Sai Dr. W. V. M. Koch has had Dr. Koch considers there should Kong, wharf, about long experience of Government be a laboratory for the investiga- Efforts were made but the man service and of civilian private tion of local diseases. practice.
Dr. Koch's first 'service abroad was at Trinidad, West Indies, under the Colonial Office and he remained there from 1889 to 1908. In the latter year he was transferred to the medical-de- partment and appointed. to Hong- kong.
When Dr. Koch retired on pen- sion he was not content to re- nounce the active life which had entitled him to a well-earned re- birement but, being physically sound and capable, he went in for general practice. with the well- known firm with which he is now associated.
Although his practice and his high reputation as a surgeon has meant for Dr Koch considerable work which would be considered by most as a "full day," he has devoted much of his spare time to work involving the public welfare. “As a Government nominated member of the Sanitary Board (he serving hid third term of office) he has shown a great in- terest in public questions especial- ly as regards the water supply as possible source of contamina- tion when there was a slight out- break of typhoid two years ago.
The Colony's Health. Dr,, Koch has also urged the Government on ruany, occasions to undertake anti-malarial measures in order to combat the exccrECTE prevalence of malaria in the
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