1934-07-11 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1934.

Project 30 Years Behind Times MR. HORACE LO'S Today's Short Story.

STUDENT'S JOYRIDE

ENDING.

Out On $1,000 Bail.

(Continued From Page 7).

Island to Kowloon or somewhere on the Mainland with the condition that the Colonial Government would re-provision the Military establish- Henry Wong, an

18-year old menta on the other side. This student, was brought before. Mr. scheme, excellent as it would have

LAST CASE?

The House On

Before Joining Staff Of Local Bank.

Big Faraway

By Norman Matson.

BISHI SOCIETY LOAN

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A submission that money"CURELY the old woman told per, city man with grey hair parted E. W. Hamilton at the Central been for all concerned if it had loan notes issued in connection you she was going toward neatly in the middle, a neat round Magistracy this morning, and been carried out, has been held Intion with an Indian bishi-society, the Partelo-farm, or had-passed face. On either side of his nose charged with driving car No. 293, abeyanço, and when it will material- which has now been suspended by three, something of that sort, was a red mark from the grip of belonging to Mr. T. M. Feng, with-ise one can only hazard a guess, as illegal, could not be accepted rather than that she was staying the glasses that usually rode there, out a driver's license on Island

Mr. Braga is doubtful as to any and that his Lordship had made there, Dr. Greerson said, gently slanted Road, near Deep Water Bay last substantial additional traffic that such a decision in a previous correcting his host.

forward, gleaming. Monday, and charged with driving may accrue from visitors

swung the glasses now at the end to the case. was put forward by Mr.) Bunny Brooks was positive. of their ribbon nervously, his fore- the car without the owner's per-Colony if the extension line were to P Jacks, the Puisne Judge. àt Staying was the word she used." head puckered "as' with some irritat- mission.

be carried out. For, in his opinion, the Supreme Court this morn. Dr. Greerson hesitated, seemed to ing thought, Yakoob Khan, an Indian driver, the small physical effort entailed, M. A. Silva before Mr. decide not to argue. He was a was also charged with driving the and the comparatively negligiblejing.

stout man with a brown beard. He same car without the owner's per-taxi charge to take a visitor, say, His Lordship said that he could turned toward Buday's sister. mission.

from the ferry pler or from the not recollect having made such What did you think of her, Traffic-Inspector Nicoll stuted Hong Kong Hotel to the present decision and gave an adjournment

Natalie?" that Wong told the Indian driver terminus would not be a deterrent until July 30 for Mr. Silva to pru- to drive him-for-three hours for to people visiting the Colony, and duce his authority. the sum of $10, and that while for whom the sight from the The submission arose 'out of s Wong was driving' the car heights of the Peak is an unique claim against Agit Singh Brothers Doctor's nephew, laughed in his

"Yip" asked him to buy the car,

and that he was trying it out.

The case was adjourned' until to-morrow noon,

Only her grey eyes moved, meet- ing his. I did not see her."

Young Kenneth Durham, the

"Doctor, where is thia Partelo farm?"

"Half a mile that way--it's on the Big Faraway Road, too."

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "Yes, H Sure Is Terrible," by Ellis Parker Butler.

big

"Who are they-the Partelos." "There aren't any Partelon." "Who lives there?" "Nobody lives there." Young Kenneth rolled half over from No. 7 Police Station to fexperience..

of No. 31F Wyndham Street torinose. He was sprawled out for six and looked at the reddening after- Shaukiwan, the, car overturned "Anyone who knows or has heard $700 on a promisory note dated feat

on the grass. The Doctor noon sky, laughed with his enusing damage to the extent of of the marvellous scenery when July 18, 1982, or alternatively as owned a farm fifteen miles away. mouth. He had known that was $173.

viewed from the Peak, will not money lent. The plaintiff in the They were, the four of them, on the coming. Wong said that a man named miss the trip to the Peak for the case is Udha Singh, former money-newly-cut lawn of Bunny's dia- small effort required to get to the lender and now watchman of the covery, an old farm house with a lower-level terminus," he said.

Taikoo Sugar Refinery, and also stone chimney, small window.panes CLAIMS OF PIONEERS member of the suspended Rishi land clapboards black with weather. In conclusion the Hon. Mr. Braga Society.

It had been, unoccupied for years, Bail of $1,000 was granted which, he noticed, had not been plaintiff.

emphasized one essential Doint Mr. Horace Lo represented the standing blind and empty on its Wong, who was not represented by

It is noteworthy, that round hill Now that all its win- a solicitor this morning, while touched upon by any of the gentle-this is probably the final appear dowe looked again they saw a scene men whom the China Mail had in-ance of Mr. Lo sa a olleitor in that had greatly changed. The Khan was released on, $50 bail.

terviewed until then. He said, and view of his recent appointment as horizon was green woods. with very good reason, that there is manager of the Chinese Depart-

"There isn't any house. There's 'The only meadow left-it sloped far too great a tendency to over-ment of the Mercantile Bank of down to the glinting pond--was look the claims of the private India, Ltd.. after many years in covered with sumac and young

ney stones." pioneering enterprises in the the legal profession.

birch trees, its high stone walls lost

"And lilacs," Kenneth said. Colony the promoters of which were prepared to sink big money on fendants, represented by Mr. Kal- elderberry and poison ivy. And

Mr. M. A. Silva was for the de-under

"Haw, how." a tangle of grape vines,

Bunny tucked his glasses away. ventures which at the time of their want Singh, son of Mr. Bishan there was not in all the landscape He looked quite dashed. initiation promised very small re- Singh, à principal of the firm. one house visible, though thirty

Natalie said: "If you're making LOCAL COMMITTEE FORMED turn for capital invested.

Mr. Silva contended that the years before all this abandoned land it up. Bunny, do leave off now." Speaking from memory,

as his promisory note, which, was issued was farmed.

She was pretty in a frail way, The Victoria Lengue in London, memory takes him back over a as a substitute for another pro- mong its other activities, renders period of 50 years, when the Peak) misory note in respect of 'an ille.

Bunny was a small, rather dap-ostrils waky and her ears small.

Her hair was pale gold.

VICTORIA LEAGUE IN LONDON.

Assistance For British Subjects.

assistance to British subjects from Tramway Co. first started, Mr.gal bishi, was also tainted with UNMUZZLED DOGS ON England. more especially for pur-very little hope of its financial His Lordship did not acceptĮ SHEK-O BEACH,

Nuccess. Its early promoters were this submission and pointed out)

any part of the world who go to Braga said that there appeared illegality.

poses of education.

"The house is empty?"

nothing there but a heap of chim-

she said. "I was in the back of the

"No, I didn't see her, Doctor,"

house. When I heard Bunny's voice

I was frightened."

"At your brother's voice?"

Dr.

Geerson looked at her curiously.

fore Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen at the road, you know, it goes nowhere but "We've been alone here for three Mr. J. Walker was summoned be days. No one, comes by on the

The League in prepared to render regarded as optimists whose vision that while the bishi had no legal Two Europeans Charged assistance in the matter of finding of making the Peak the popular status, with the result that notes quarters, advising on educational residential district, as it in now, for and against the institution matters, as far as possible helping was destined never to be realised. could not be accepted in. Court, in regard to admission to the unl-In fact, Mr. Braga recalls the the society was not unlawfut. versities, giving facilities for visit formation of the Mount Austin His Lordship adjourned the ing places of interest, and generally Hotel Company which eventually hearing until July 30. in bringing students into contact came to an inglorious ending with with English social life.

the loss of the capital put into the The League has kindly consented venture by its promoters and their

to render such assistance to British supporters.

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PASSPORTS.

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Thomas Southorn. K.B.E., C.M.G., reserve for certain residents in the at a standstill, with prices drifting dogs to wandered from Shek-o wouldn't open at first. The latch Beacon Hill, Kowloon Tong, with fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the

of Hong Kong, Sir William Hornell, special legislation. The growth of Control buying did not seem to be for one week. (Vice-Chairman).

Hon. Secretary for Chinese fairs. Mr. N. L. Smith,

the European mercantile comin evidence. Af-munity in Hong Kong and the oc- cupation of the Mount Austin Hotel

Central Magistracy this morning: here: beyond it is quite impassable. PIG FARM NUISANCE JAPANESE WITHOUT doga to be at large at Shero called out: 'Bunny, are you talk- Beach. The case was adjourned for ing to yourself?" Then I went out AT KOWLOON TONG. one week owing to the absence of into the front hall and Mr. Walker, who is at present in-had gone upstairs to get a coil of

"I'll tell it," her brother said." Owner Warned Eight subjects going to England from, It was some time before the

disposed.

wire I remembered having seen in

Times Then Fined. Hong Kong, a local committee hav-climatic advantages offered by the the Colton Loans. The Trade show- the Manufacturer's Life Insurance Anished room up there; the rest is For erecting and occupying a

Mr. E. J. R. Mitchell, Manager of the bedroom (there's only one

Two Japanese subjects, Ichizo ing been formed, consisting of heights of the Peak established the ed more disposition to fix prices.

Yasuda, 49 years, and Hanjire Hon. Colonial Secretary, Sir district as a specially salubrious

Company of No. 9 Shek-O Road, was "Silver: Trading was practically also summoned for allowing his two

attic, you know). The door wooden hut on Crown land at Wakamat, 61 years, were charged be-

(Chairman).

Colony, whose greater comfort and lower on cables from abroad and on Road to Bay Wave Bay without must have fallen. The Vice Chancellor, University well-being secured protection under limited

I had to shove out a permit from the P.W.D., Central Magistracy this morning, speculative liquidation. muzzles.

The case was adjourned hard to get. in. I picked up the Chau Kee, a 71-year-old unemploy for entering the Colony without a

wire-it was rusty and quite use-ed, and Chau King, a 48-year-old valid passport. leas I found out later-and started farmer, were fined $25, in default Detective-Sergeant Mottram stated Night Telegram

down again. Someone had closed one month's imprisonment, by Mr. that Wakami was in possession of The Director of Education, Mr. G. bullding as military barracks received from New York in the

The following telegram was rej

the door at the bottom of the stair-J. B. H. Lee at the Kowloon Magis a passport, two years ago, when he

tracy this morning. way." R. Saver.

went to Formosa where he pick- warded the enterprise of the early course of our night service:-

"I am sure. I didn't." Natalie put Mr. W. Routley, P.W.D. land fed up Yasuda and brought him to Honourable Mr. S. W. Tso, O.B.E.. promoters of the Peak Tramway "On the stock market to-day.")

Co.

in quietly. She had evidently said bailiff, told Mr. Lee that the de- Hong Kong to work as a cook in his there, were more suggestions of

this before as UNAPPRECIATED Effort -

it angered her fendants had been. warned eight Wanchai, restaurant. scarcity than of abundance of of-

brother. He spoke loudly, turning times to remove their small farm Sergeant Mottram said, that' That enterprise viewed perspec-ferings, but, in the absence of

Summoned for being in posses on her: "Very well. It was the from the hills, but they had refus account of arrangements made by Inspector of English Schools. Mr. tively, Mr. Braga is emphatic in A. R. Sutherland. Joint Honorary tion. If recognition is granted to

range of pricession of a revolver and a rifle with-cook

the local Japanese Consul with the saying, has long merited recognt-news, a narrow

we haven't got. It was led to do so. seems likely.

Jout a valid license on June 3. Lam ghost. What the devil difference

He also pointed out that even if Police, certificates were issued in- Secretary, (Hong Kong).

"Silver: Prices are lower. Differ. Po-heung, of No. 184 Chen Sha does it make what it was?" Mr. Tso Tsun On, Joint Honorary day It can at best be regarded as a

they had applied for a permit, it stead of regular passports, as there Secretary. +

ences are. narrowing on scattered Wan Road, first floor, was fined $25 tardy appreciation of efforts spent liquidation and on spasmodic con- by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the reasonably. "It was the wind." them one as the position was not

"Oh, come," Dr. Geerson said would have been impossible to give were so many Japanese residenta In Any persons wishing

in the public interest. Facilities, trol support.

the Colony, and the Pollee could not to avail

Central Magistracy this morning. Kenneth winked at Natalie. themselves,of the assistance of the Mr. Braga claims, should be ac-

suitable for raising pigs as it was cope with the demand for passports. "Cotton: Demand is good, but is An order for the confiscation of League should apply to one of the corded not only to the Penk Tram-

not sufficient to absorb the consider- an unlicensed revolver, belonging was damned dark on that stairway, and

"Anyway," Bunny went on, "to near the Kowloon Tong houses, He said, however, that after June 1 Honorary Secretaries, with a viewway Co. as a matter of principle, able amount of selling which ap-to Lo Shun-wan, of No. 6 Bonkam 1 had to grope for the catch and 1 complaints from the Kowloon Tong Passport.

would have brought many all Japanese must have a regular to obtaining a letter to the Secretary but to similar undertakings that

Accused came to the Colony last very materially pears at the upper limits."-Reuter. Road, was made by Mr. Hamilton came out blinking against the residents,

Accused was Dot in

court this bright square of light from the Mr. Lee also ordered the farm to, Saturday by the 8.8. Dell Maru. A morning, and the case was ad-window in the front door. When be removed.

fine of $10 each was imposed. journed sine dio.

could see clearly I was looking at

LL.D.

Honourable Mr. T. N. Chau. Miss Alice Kwok.

of the League in London.

FINE RESCINDED.

Japanese Girl's Papers Found In Order.

have contributed

and substantially to the progresa and development of the Colony. It is the neglect of claims of the early pioneers which, Mr. Braga thinks, is almost unfair to them. They have led the way. They have helped to increase the Colony's prosperity and its revenues, and

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LOCAL DOLLAR STEADY.

Silver Prices Decline.

The local dollar remains stendy,

Rin Yoshida, the 18-year-old Ja- they have oftentimes heen turned opening on demand this morning panese girl who was fined $200, in down when considerations might be at 1/5%.

UNLICENSED ARMS.

Two Chinese Face Charges.

N.R.A. HEAD "WOULD LIKE.

TO GET AWAY?"

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"Who?" Kenneth asked:

"An old woman in a bonnet. Her face was close to the pane, her mouth alightly open. One tooth)

GIGANTIC FRAUD IN CANTON

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LOCAL NEWS

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here at the aide was gone, Shej One of the victima turned out A mess-boy, employed at No. 2 was screwing up her eyes to see in, to be a relative of a ranking gen- Palice Station was sent to the Gov- default three months Iroprisonment, extended if only as an act of grace Spot and forward silver prices Ey Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra ahading them with one hand. The eral who is probing the matter. ernment Civil Hospital yesterday, for entering the Colony without a for the benefits accrued to the have declined 3/16, closing prices erived fats rdinance, 1894. Re-hand had a black, fingeriese mitten The false deeds were traced to suffering from acalds after upsetting passport, and fined $25, in default Colony and its ratepayers.

yesterday being 14 days' imprisonment for falling to

on it. She was looking at the air Tien Po Company, where they are pot of boiling water. 209/16 and General Hugh Johnson has re in front of me. Her eyes lifted said to have been forged. Several "The Peak Tramway Co. is no 20 11/16, respectively.. register as an alien, on Monday by exception to the rule of public The London on New York cross-President

vealed that he has recommended to slowly. We stared at each other perpetrators of the fraud fled be. A fine of $100 was imposed on Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central utility undertakings that have at rate, which closed on Monday at N.R.A. be placed under a

Roosevelt that the through the glass. I was frighten-fore the company was raided, but Lau Yick-cheuk, by Mr. E. W. Magistracy, was released this morn-one and the same time been a credit -U.S.$5.09%, closed yesterday at partisan commission on account of the door and I said: "How d'you do?' The trial is likely to uncover a this morning, for being in posses-

400-ed I'll admit, but I managed to open 12 were arrested.

Hamilton at the Central Magistracy ing and charges against her were and boon to the Colány," he con--U.S.$5.08%, while withdrawn before Mr. Hamilton at cluded.

the New the N.R.A. not being a one-toD York on London rate, which clos-job when it passes from the or-I don't know who you are. I occupying high positions will be without license.

"She said slowly in a whisper, big scandal in which persons sion of two shot guns and a revolver this morning's court session.

ed at U.S.$5.04 on Monday,ganisation to the Administration didn't say anything. For a moment affected. Detective-Sergeant Mottram said CORRESPONDENCE. closed at £U.S.$5.04% yesterday. era.

The proceedings will I wasn't sure myself who I was, be held in camera, but part of the Sentences of six months' and 12 He said he preferred not to be She whispered: I'm staying at the findings will be announced.

A months hard Jabour were imposed a member of such a commission. Partelo's. Then. If you see my regular judicial trial may be held on Li Sang, unemployed, by Mr. E.

"Don't get the idea that I am sister say I went to church."

W. Hamilton at the Central Magis getting out or anything like that," "Who was Her sister? Someone

tracy this morning, for the theft of the said

who had lived in this house before Tung Wab-sing, of No. 24 Front a quantity of jewellery from No. 32 He also recommended that the us? I didn't know. I realised I Row, reported to the Police last Des Voeux Road, West, yesterday, rendered particularly difficult in Kong, may, I express the amaze-

N.RA. should be continued in was rudely gaping at her, our first evening that he was bitten by a and for returning from banishment. The unionists have testified that practically Its present form. ?; Hong Kong's tropical weather. ment that I felt when I found that the shippers blacklisted and operat. Such continuation, he said, you?' but she shook her black bon-removal to the Government Civil Lam Kau a 26-year-old anem-

visitor. I said. Come in, won't white chow dog, necessitating his I am pleased to note that your the Lower Peak Tram Station was ed company unions. paper raised the question soon not really "low." but had been

necessitated Congressional action, net. I'll be hack, she whispered, Hospital for treatment. The dog ployed, was sentenced to six weeks A message from Portland, Ore and therefore, he would probably and that was all. She went away. has been sent to Kennedy Town for hard labour by Mr. J. B. H. Lee after the Peak Tram was started, placed half way up the Peak, gon, states that the strategy com- remain a last until Congress I watched her go along the road. observation. and that the matter is again being necessitating a most trying and mittee has asked the locals to take convenes in January.-United She had scarlet stockings on and brought

unpleasant climb up Garden Road, strike votes before the week-end. Press, per 9. E. Levy And Com-shiny black shoes,.. Newcomer Continued at foot of preceding col) United Trees, per S. E. Levy and pany.

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this morning, that when accused was arrested she told the Police that she had no passport and had not registered with the local authorities. He said that her papers are now found to be in order..

(Continued from Page 7)

"LOW" "TRAM STATION

[To the Editor, China Mail']." Sir-As a newcomer to Hong

"FRISCO STRIKE

(Continued from Page 11 STRIKE VOTES BEFORE

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San Francisco, Later.

Company.

later,

The P and O. s.s. Kidderpore

due here on Friday at adou.

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at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, for stealing Chow, Lunk. to Kee's bicycle, valued at $20, from

Tai Wan Beach on June 30.