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Public Money.

From Other Pens.

Kind Thoughts From Ruskin

over

THURSDAY,

DISMISSED CASE RE-OPENED.

bo bluffed into swallowing a recipa wrapped up as a warning. They have impounded the stock of bricks in the city and rofórred the matter to the courts. It is difficult to im- agine the spirit of Bacchus exuding

(Central Police: Court). from a brick, or Instructions to the Under an amendment to the butler to chop six ounces off the Magistrates Ordinance of 1928, a Chablis o soak A pound

of case, which had been dismissed on Sauterne. In any case it is a little September 9,

was re-opened this and heard by hard to add to the existing dim-morning culties of the Prohibition officials. Schofield. Statistics just published for Penas sylvania and New Jersey show thnt these two 'States alone seized over two million gallons last year of various sorts of prohibited liquor. In the midst of this illicit flood a cartload or two of bricks seems but a small matter-Man chester Guardian.

News in Brief. Admitted to the Kwong Wah Hoapital yesterday suffering from injuries caused by accidentally falling down the staircase of 205, Laichikok Road, Kong Ning, (28). married woman, of 333 Tai Nam Street, died seven hours later.

Mr. E. Stule, Chief Oficer of the B. & S. ship Tean, lying at the Taikoo Dockyard, has reported that yesterday the ship's cook, Ho Tse- kwai, (57), accidentally fell into the harbour from a plank near the port cargo door, and was not seen

again.

The case in which two Chinese women and a man were charged with keeping an unregistered temple at 387, Hennessey Road and with conspiracy to defraud "client." ended before Mr. Williams at the Central Magistracy yester- day, when all accused were dis charged.

Simpson, M.C.,..M.A.

Personal Pars.

1

the

Mr. E. W, Duggan has taken over the charge of the local branch of the American Express Company, Limited.

Mr.

It concerned Leung Wing-yuan. agent for the owner of 348 Queen's Road Central, who had been sum- moned for carrying out work with out the approval of the Bullding Authority.

Mr. Whyte-Smith (Assistant Crown Solicitor) appeared for the prosecution, while defendant, was represented by Mr. Lo.

At the previous hearing of the cune Mr. Lo had submitted that it' was wrong to have summoned de- fendant as agent for the owner, as he was not liable for the owner on a criminal charge, Also there was no evidence that defendant had (K) giving signed the schedule permission for work to be com monced at the building in question. At the re-opening to-day Mr. White-Smith said be understood that his Worship was satisfied on the other points in the case, apart from the question of the giving notice of 28 days by the Building Authority.

His Worship remarked that the defence had further raised the point that the prosecution had falled to prove their case by not putting in the original certificate accompanying the plan.

OCTOBER 1, 1931.

never triod to impugn the validity of the summons.

Mr. Lo› pointed out that it had nothing to do with any persons."

Glving his decision, Mr., Scho- feld said that ho considered, that the prosecution could not put "in" schedula (K) as evidence at this.. stage, and so the case must fall to the ground. Defondant, would ac- cordingly, be discharged."

His Worship then went on to say. that there was the question of de- lay in approving or disapproving the plan at the Building Offices, and said he understood that that was due to pressure of work.

Counsel understood from Mr. J. H. Bottomley, of the P.W.D., that plans submitted were not dealt. with in strict rotation, but they would be dealt with quickly if the matter wore urgent.

'PENALTY £5.”

Some Communication

Cord Stories.

The other day a well-known actor, travelling by train to do a scene in a talkie, lost his hat from the carriage window. He promptly obeyed that impulse which many of us have had at some time or another, and pulled the communication cord.

Many other people have been unable to withstand the lure of the red chain, and for trivial reasons have brought trains to a standstill

ty.

and paid the penal-

Two undergraduates travelling back to London after a Devon holiday, took dinner on the train and were disappointed that the chef was unable to provide mint anuce with their roast lamb. As the train drew into Bath, one of the young men pulled the com- munication cord. To the guard who came hurrying up, he gave a polite request that some mint sauce should be brought from the station refreshment room the use of diners on the train! Flis sauce cost him £5,

for

On one occasion a gut pulled the cord as a train was passing a station because she wanted to wire to her bank stopping pay- ment of a certain cheque.

Mr. Lo, after mentioning points in the Interpretation Ordinance, and remarking that his Worship had decided to re-open the case on his own motion and not on the applica- tion of the prosecution, said the cial disclosure of how

Before a meeting of the Univer- defence urged that his Worship's $3,270,000 increase in

Association yesterday original decision for dismissal of expensity Arts

afternoon, at the University As the case was sound. Before his diture is to be met. For that dissembly Hall, Mr. C. E. R. Clarabutt, Worship there was no evidence to closure we must simply exercise B.A.. gave an intereating lecture show that Leung Wing-yuen was patience for a very short while, on Samuel Pepys. A large gather the agent or the man who signed hoping that the Estimates of re-ing was presided over by Mr. the certificate. Therefore, the venue will be such as not to neces-Cheung King-pak, whilst among case, he submitted, mast fall to the After all the talk about apply-sitate very serious increases in tau, Hon. Vice-President of

those present were Mr. Kwok Slu- ground.

Mr. Whyte-Smith said that it was ing the economic axe, retrenching rates and taxes and other im- Association, and Professor R.K.M. never argued that the service of in every conceivable direction,

the Building Authority's notice was posts.

never given. He submitted that it may surprise critics of the

his Worship was entitled to re-open In the North of England a Government to find that the cost

the case in any way. The evidence story is told of a train which of our public services for 1932

of the serving of schedule.(K) and was stopped in a very outlandish is estimated at $3,276,452 more

was accepted spot and a girl in riding breeches approval of plans than for the current year. True

verbally, and, Counsel submitted, jumped out and climbed the

is it that great losses on ex-

the evidence was quite valid. It fence on the railway siding. She would not mako any material ran across a field and was met change have been suffered dur-

difference to the case if the docu- by a man on horseback. The two then galloped away, to the ing the present year, and not

ment were put in now.

amazement of the people on the even the Government is able to forecast the course of the dollar

at Hankow by air yesterday after-trate would not order the case to train who had apparently wit "We are at first dull, and seek for noon.-Reuter.

be re-opened in order to perfect an nessed a carefully pre-arranged throughout the whole of 1982, wild and lonely places because we

imperfection on the part of the clopement! : Lee has prosecution. Schedule (K) was an

In Disguise. The Government, moreover, is have no heart for the garden; pre- Vice-Minister Frank

On the essential part of the evidence. committed to a due fulfilment of sently we recover our spirits, and been instructed to carry

Mr. Whyte-Smith would just buffd an assembly-room among the duties of the appointment from its policy in respect of Civil Ser-mountains, because he have no which Dr. C. T. Wang has been like to repeat and emphasise the vante' salaries. Under this reverence for the desert.",

fact that schedule (K) was proved, obliged to resign.

and I believe that evidence was heading it has no alternative "The peculiar levity with which

natural scenery fa regarded by a The forthcoming marriage is an-given by Mr. Best, with regard to but to take a long view of the large number of modern minds nounced of

Mario Francisco de notices being served. Your Wor- situation. Until we have before cannot be considered as entirely Pinna, of 21, Jordon Road, Kow-ship accepted that evidence. There nothing particularly saered us the Estimates in full and not characteristle of the age, Inasinuch loon, and Agnes Maria Barnes, ofis

GS it never the skeleton just compiled, it is

cán belang. to its 3. Ormsby Villas, Granville Road, about this particular document. had greatest intellecia."

My submission is that we naturally impossible to ascertain

"It is only the dull, the uneducat-

proved our case. We might have to what extent the economy axe ed, or the worldly whom it is pain- Mr. Brodle Clarke-known proved the case better if we had has already been or is intended fol to most on the hillsides; and familarly and affectionately as the put in this document.

levity, as a ruling character, cannot "Grand Old Man of Shangha!"--is to be applied in Government be ascribed to the whole nation, but dead. He was 78 years old, and had Departments. It may be assum-only to ita holiday-making appren- apent 65 years of his life in Shang- ed that their personnel has been tices and its House of Commons." hal-Reuter.

or will be reduced and that in

"Our modern society fn general goes to the mountains, not to fast, but to feast, and leaves their glaciers covered with chicken bones and egg shells.”

The above reflections of the happy highbrow were written

Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh spent the night at Wuhu, and arrived

Kowloon.

Mr. Lo argued that the Magis

.

Mr. Lo pointed out that either the Crown Counsel or himself must fail on the question of whether or not the notice Schedule (K) when served was signed by Leung Wing-

Lady May Cambridge, daughter yuen.

spite of this operation the cost seventy-five years ago by one John of the Earl of Athione and Princess Mr. Whyte-Smith remarked that

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The Brick Convivial.

Alice, Countess of Athlone, is to be married on October 16 to Capt. H. Abel Smith, of the Royal Horse Guards. Lady May is a hlece of the Queen.

CLOGGED WHEELS OF TRADE.

the Magistrate's notes were verbatim.

not

Mr. Lo That is the evidence we can go by, even in the Court of Appeal.

He

A man once stopped an early- morning "local," leaped out, and retrieved some small object from the permanent way. The guard found that the man had been looking out of the window when he sneezed violently and his false. teeth dropped out.

One of the queerest of these cases was when, in answer, to a frantic tugging of the chain, a train slowed up and a smartly- dressed young woman fell out on to the track. Her hat rolled off, and the guard saw that "she" was a man. He promptly made investigations and discovered. that the fellow was a card-sharp- er attempting to escape in dis- guise from some of his angry victims."

To-day's Thought.

It is generally the little mis- understandings that make the big differences.

Ten Years Ago.

From the "China: Mall" of

October 1, 1921.1

:

To-day's dollar is worth 2/11.

Facing Pedder Street conspicu ously, is a large board with large letters, saying to the motoring

get. community "Be sure you

Some wag has painted, out the Shell"

initial letter this week-end. If bla identity is discovered he will pro hably get something more

of running the Governmental | Ruskin. machinery is to cost $3,276,452 more next year.

With the tea-brick travellers In Out of a total of 38 heads in the remoter parts of the Far East

Continuing, Mr. Whyte-Smith the estimates of expenditure, have long been familiar. It has a

said that the document could not decreases, as compared with venerable history as a form of Tur-

be adhered to rigidly, because Mr. rency along the old caravan routes.

prove the Mr. Reginald F. Mason, chair- Lo might ask him to 1981, occur in only seven. of But it has remained. for twentieth-

man and managing director, signature of the defendant. those revealing increases, it may century America to evolve the wine- be taken for granted that a very brick, and to create, thereby some Frank Mason & Co., Ltd., at the was not there to bolster up the fourth annual general meeting of case. Was it feasible that Mr. Lo's critical examination of the de- thing of a legal problem. This re-the company hold on July 31 said, client had said that he was not the

markable commodity is a product tailed Estimates will be neces of the vine growers of the West, in the course of his address to man, who should have been sum- sary in respect of some of them who in these days, of Prohibition shareholders, thint it was beyond mozed 7-There was no suggestion At the moment little or nothing find it hard to dispose of their him to foretell whether trade of that.

Mr. Lo remarked that there was fruit They have therefore evolved would improve during the coming

a crushing no-question of the wrong man can be gained by anticipating a "grape concentrate," which when year. Taxation was either these detailed Estimates dissolved, in water is slated to for-item on all business, but that could being summoned, but he (Mr. Lo) or the Government spokesman ment in. five days, and to make the not be lessened until the machinery was only pointing out to Crown when introducing the Budget in bait stronger have attached to of world trade started moving counsel existing deficiencies in the

again. Over-production had

Саве. various sorts of brick the alluring clogged the wheels, and some vital

Remarking that it was a very the Legislative Council. "Needs names of various well-known vint-spark was needed to set the wheela technical defence, Mr.. Whyte must when the devil drives" is lages. The question that exercises in motion. Once one started, the Smith said that the defendant had applause. an axiom applicable to Govern- the courts is whether the new

would move. rest

Reparations, commodity Infringes the Prohibition disarmaments, the Hoover Plan, ments as well as to individuals in law. The manufacturers point budget balancing, all seemed a times of financial strain; even out that they are careful to advise long way removed from their own

off so, that other hoary-headed anw their customers not to let the bricks ile niches in the business, world, after that the beverage produced is factory adjustment of such big seep long enough to ferment, since but it was only from the satis liable, to become wine with á 13 per matters that business confidence and cant: alcoholic content. This bland hope in the future could come. It excusa seems to have been accepted needed such confidence and hope to agentisfactory in same of the launch out into big advertising Western States, but the New York themes, and that was where their Prohibition authorities are not to company came in,

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entirely.

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