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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1928.

GREAT BRITAIN'S PARLIAMENT.

A CHANGE.

́SESSION TO BE PROROGUED'

NEXT FRIDAY..

FIFTH AND LAST.

RAILWAY STRIKES IN INDIA.

ALMOST ENDED.

STATEMENT BY AGENT. OF S. INDIAN RAILWAY.

DAMAGE TO SIGNALS.

Trichinopli, Yesterday.

HOME RAILWAY AGREEMENT.

CONGRATULATIONS.

THE "SOUND COMMON-SENSE” PRAISED BY PRESS.

NEW PRINCIPLE,

London, Yesterday.

London, Yesterday. The usual practice of Parlia- The agent of the South Indian All the parties to the railway ment rising for the Summer Railway states that the general agreement, which was reached as recess, by adjournment and re-strike may be considered terminated a result of direct negotiations suming session in Autumn, will be with the exception of the Indian between the Railway Company changed this year and on Friday drivers and firemen în the managers and the Railwaymen's next the Session will be brought

Trichinopoly-Madura service to an end by prorogation.

The new session, which is the row gauge section, where it is ex-lated by the Press for the sound fifth, will be the last of the pre-tending, but the service only oper- common-sense shown in accept- sent Parliament, and will be ates in the daytime, owing to ing the agreement which involves opened in November instead of damage to signals,

Traffic le practions in wages and salaries of all small temporary all-round reduc- February. There will be a short tically normal on the broad gauge grades of workers and railway

лаг-

-Reuter. recess at Christmas.

Unless Parliament is dissolved (A telegram from Madraa, dated

Unions on Friday, are congratu-

directors.

It is stated that there will be

at an earlier date the new session July 25, after pointing out that a la reduction of between two mil-i will be prorogued on August of message from Trichinopoli stated lion and three million pounds an- that the president of the Railway nually on the total wages bill of next year

If this change proves generally Strike Committee, Mr. Krishnas-one hundred million pounds. acceptable, it will be regularly wamy Pillai had been arrested, In the great Railway centres of followed in future.—British Wire-Jobserved that the situation was Crewe and Derby the settlement

much quieter and that a number of is generally welcomed. unskilled workers were reported to "The Observer" says the agree be resuming work in many places.]ment will take a distinctive place in the history of industrial nego- tiations and settlements. It is re-

less Service.

MONEY FOR EGGS,

CLAIM AGAINST THE CAFE PAVILION.

INSTALMENTS REFUSED,

ALLEGED MURDER CHARGE WITHDRAWN.

The

THAMES BLAZE.

GREATEST RIVER FIRE FOR YEARS.

ON THE HIGH SEAS. garded as establishing a new prin ciple that if workers are called on to accept an adverse modification of their conditions they are en titled to ask that every one en- case in which a young gaged in the enterprise shall come Judgment for a claim of $442 assistant cook, of the sa. "Perlak," within the scope of such conces- and costs was given for the Luen is charged with alleged murder on sions-British Wireless Service. Hing firm, egg dealers, No. 1 Wing the high seas, off, Manila, of the! Shing-street, against the Cafe ship's cook, was again before Mr. Pavillon, No. 96, Nathan-road, g

E. Lindsell at the Central Kowloon, in the Summary Court by Magistracy this morning. In ask- the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Ping for permission to withdraw the Jacks) this morning.

charge, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, Plaintiffs were represented by Assistant Attorney General, sald Mr. Horace Lo. Defendants were that the prosecution was faced with not present nor legally represent difficulty in that no autopsy was held after the affair and there was The statement of claim made out nothing to show that the man, who that eggs valued at $666 had been was taken ashore at Manila, wae supplied between April and May the person who died in hospital.

Defendants had replied to a Counsel explained request for payment, said Mr. Lothe time the cook enclosing $100 payment on account

ed.

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that from was tuken

"OVER-HEATED PEANUTS."

London, Saturday, Overheated peanuts are believ-

ed to have been the cause of the greatest river fire for years, at the century-old, six-storey wharf joccupied by Messrs. Chambers înj the waterways of the Thames. It and asking for settlement by in- ashore no one on the ship had seen is in the danger-zone of the him again either dead or alive Tooley-street Dock area, and was The Magistrate discharged the ac stocked with grain, peanuts, and

stalments. Plaintiffs refused the terms offered.

On his Lordship asking who were the partners, Mr. Lo aald that he did not know but Mr. J. Videro, he added, had acknowledged re- ceipt of the goods on behalf of the

firm.

Other than the $100, another $114 had been repaid, leaving a balance of $442-the amount of the claim.

Defendants had been legally re- presented at an earlier stage of the proceedinga.

RICE PUDDING.

ALARMING EFFECTS UPON

cused,

MISSING LAUNCH. ANXIETY FELT AS TO THE

"PING PO."

MUCH OVERDUE.

dessicated coconut,

The fire started yesterday even- ing. the flames leaping 100 feet,

Two hundred firemen from vari-

ous parts of London battled all night long and thousands of sight- seera thronged the London Bridge and Tower Bridge on both Įsides of the river.

shot water at the rate of 1,500 The new monitor "Beta Third" gallons per minute.

The fire was not controlled until

"ITALIA'S" CREW.

Leung Wing-chi, owner of the steam launch "Ping Po," report Jed to the Water Police yesterday that on July 24 the launch was eight o'clock in the morning. hired by the Kung On Company of Reuter. Bonham-strand to tow two rice, junka (Nos. T-4127-H and T-2423-H) to the Taishan Cus- Atoms House. The launch left on the voyage at 4 p.m. on the 24th and has not returned. As the TAKEN TO HOSPITAL, journey to and from Taishan takes only two days, Leung is an- A mysterious case occurred xious about its absence. yesterday afternoon when a

When it left Hong Kong the woman named Lum Ah-kin, living launch had a crew of 10 men on at No. 8, Lai On-lane, 1st floor,

board.

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Stockholm, Saturday. The "Italin's"

crew and Swedish Rescue Expedition arriv- ed at the railway junction near here.

Saiyingpun, and her two daugh- The value of the launch is and continued its journey. ters and one son were showed placed at $10,000.

signs of poisoning after partak-

ing of rice pudding.

According to a Chinese report, WITHOUT A LICENCE.

the woman cooked the pudding

with sugar and other ingredients PLUCKING TAIPO-ROAD TREES but, after eating it, she and her children all felt dizzy.

They

FOR HERBS.

vomited unceasingly and were un-dant plucked the leaves off trees "It appears as though the defen- able to speak.

The former's car was uncoupled

The latter arrived in Stockholm and were very warmly welcomed at the station by the Minister of

Defence, while a large crowd fined the street and heartily cheered,— Reuter.

TEX RICKARD'S LOSS..

New York, Saturday. G.$150,000 is the official estimate

police and the victims were imjmarked Mr. W. Schoßeld at the of the loss on the big fight.

The case was reported to the planted along the Taipo-road" re- mediately removed to the Govern- Kowloon Magistracy this morning. ment Civil Hospital, where they improved considerably.

A FATALITY,

EARLY MORNING MOTOR COLLISION.

Mr. Tex Rickard blames broad- The question arose in a case in which a Chinese was charged with casting and says that never more (a) unlawfully obtaining without will he sponsor a bout which is permission, a quantity of leaves broadcast.Reuter's American Ser- and herba, and (b) hawking the vice.

same without a licence.

Defendant stated that he had ob- tained the herbs from villages near in celebration of the twenty-first London, Yesterday. Yesterday, Talpo. He did not know the names anniversary of the first Boy Scout of the villages. A motor accident occurred, 'at Yesterday the defendant was ar- last week of July and the first week Camp, which was held, during the 2.80 yesterday morning In Con-rested in Wahu-street, Hunghom, of August, 1907, Sir Robert Baden- naught-road West near the by an Indian constable, who stated Powell, Chief Scout, entertained all Taihing wharf, when public motor that he saw defendant make a sale the available members of the first car. No. 368 knocked down a 70- of eight bundles of herbs for which Boy Scout troop-British Wireless year-old boatman who was crossing he received 8 cents. Asked by the! the road in front of the car. In constable if he had a licence ne- swerving to avoid colliding with cused answered in the negative and the boatman, the car collided with was arrested. taxi No. 465, going in the opposite Sub-Inspector James, who was in the Wesleyan Pastoral Session has direction, both vehicles being dam-charge of the case, said that the yielded the requisite 75 per cent. nged. The boatman, who was defendant was searched in the majority in favour of Methodist seriously Infured, was removed to charge room, but not a cent was union-Reuter

Service.

London, Saturday-The vote of

the Government Civil Hospital, found fri his possession, but 8 cents where he died at 4 o'clock the same were found in one of defendant's Bukharest, Saturday.—The Cham- morning. The driver of the public baskets among the herbs.

ber and the Senate has approved of car, Au Yuí, is now detained by the Defendant was fined $5 or 7 the Government's financial men- polles,

days.

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