THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936.
SHARING TAXI-CAB
FARE A CRIME
Decision Of King's
Bench Court
GIRLS WHO DROVE
TO A DANCE
PARSON SMASHED
UP THE CABIN
SOME REMINISCENCES
OF SAILING SHIPS
When two or more people hire DISAPPOINTED FIANCE SETS FIRE
a taxi-cab and make an agree-
ment to share the fare, they may ibe prosecuted for 3 criminal
offence.
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TO VESSEL
(By DOUGLAS SLADEN)!
This was held by a King's Bench Divisional Court last month, when With the passing of the Herzogin Cecilie another of the few Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Jus- remaining full-rigged ships has gone to her grave . . and poet Ece. Mr. Justice du Paroq and Mr. and painter, seaman and landlubber mourn her as a friend.
P2O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND Justice Godard had before them EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
TAKING CARGO FOR
Straits. Java, Burma, Ceylon, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Australia; Red Sea, Egypt, Istanbut, Greece, Levantine Ports. Europe.
PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY
a case arising from a strict inter- pretation of the Road Traffic Act,
1930.
On an appeal by Traffic Com missioners, the Court decided that Miss Maudie Cross, of Ashmere grove. Ipswich had caused a taxi- cab to be used as an "express car riage" when it was hired to take. her and some women friends to a
DIRECT ROYAL · MAIL STEAMERS dance and they agreed to share the
UNDER CONTRACT WITH EM, GOVERNMENT
All vessels may call at any parts on or off the route-and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with of without notice. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS]
S.S."
+ SOUDAN
SRAWALPINDI SCORFU **BURDWAN
§RANCHI SNALDERA + SOMALI
KAISER-HIND SRAJPUTANA **BANGALORE
CHITRAL BANPURA **BHUTAN
RAWALPINDI
COEFU
RANCHI
CARTHAGE
* Canto only.
From
Tons Hong Kong
About
7,000 20th June Marseilles,
17,000 27th June 14,500 11th July 6.000 18th July
17,000 25th July 16,000 8th Aug. 6,000 15th Aug.
11,000 2nd Aug. 17,000
6,000 19th Sept
Destination..
Havre, London, Ham- burg, Botterdam, Antwerp & Full Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Exyre, London, Har
burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & Lozdon. Bombay, Marseißes & London Marseiles, Havre, London Ham
burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay Marseilles & London.
burg.
Marseilles & London.
Ham-
5th Sept. eilles, Havre, London,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull 15,000 19th Sept. Marseilles & London. 17,000 3rd Oct. Marseilles & London.
6,000
10th Oct. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-
berg. Eotterdam, Antwerp & Hull 17,000 17th Oct. Marseilles & London.
14.500 31th Oct. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 14th Oct. Marseilles & London. ..14,500 28th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
† Calls Casablanca, § Calls Tangier all vessels may cat at Malta
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Istanbul, Piraeus, Symrna and otherLevant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA ADCAR
SIRDHANA
SHIRALA
TILAWA
SANTHIA TALMA
8,000 20th June 8,000 4th July 10,000 18th July
8,000 10,000
1st Aug.
13th Aug.
fare.
The cab had not a roal service Hicence. which must be provided
for an "express carriage.”
Mr. Justice du Parcq: It would appear that if two barristers share a taxi-cab to go to a county court; and agree to share the fare they are guilty of a criminal offence if road service the vehicle has no licence?
Mr. Valentine Holmes, for the
But our pride in her beauty must not blind us to her limita tions. For instance, in commenting on the fact that this lovely ship, now a wreck on the Deron coast, once sailed from England to Australia in 79 days, many newspapers have stated that this is a record.
LUXURIES FOR SAILORS
Clydebank.-First-class pass- senger accommodation will be: provided for the crew of two New Zealand line refrigerating ships being built by John Brown and Co, Clydebank.
Each man will have a separate cabin hung with curtains match the silk bed spreads. Panelled in are hard wood, each room will contain an oak bed, book-case, writing bureau, divans and easy chairs, together with i wardrobe,
dressing table and wash-hand basin, in. restful colour scheme.
Traffic Commissioners: Yes; that OLD BAILEY SCENE
is the law.
"Then the sooner the public knows it the better." said Mr. Justice Goddard.
Man Carried Bodily From Dock
This is quite wrong. For-more than 80 years ago the little clip- per. Ballarat set up a 60 days' record for the distance. And, at about the same time, the tiny Heather Bell ran from Melbourne to the English Channel in 67 days.
Appeared On Deck Those were the days of ships- and sailors when every man was a man in the truest sense of the word, and most of them charac ters at that. For instance, there was the sleep-walking clergyman of the Sobraon, the largest sailing ship of wood and iron ever built. At midnight, regular as clockwork, the reverend gentleman, though fast asleep, would appear on deck, slowly walk straight up to the poop and peer into the compass. Then, after a few minutes' stroll on the (deck, he would go below to the small saloon in which he held his servious. There he preached his sermon and went through the whole service to an imaginary congrega- tion... and then retired for a well-
Lord Hewart said that the case There
was a violent scene in earned rest!
The officers spoke to him about} might seem a hard one, but that the dock at the Old Bailey recent- was no reason why the law shouldly when four warders carried a his sleepwalking, and one night. not be enforced. If grotesque re struggling man bodily down to the at his own request, he was locked in his cabin. But when the parson sults followed that might be
3 cells.
law.
reason for an amendment of the He was Victor Dennis Frewin.found that he couldn't get out, 28, who had been sentenced to 18 though still asleep, he worked hita months for
offence self into a fury and began smashing
heard the commotion they cautious- against a girl of 15 at Ashford, P the cabin. When the crew
an
Middlesex.
Miss Cross, Lord Hewart added,
committed had unwittingly offence and the appeal asking that the Ipswich magistrates should find that the offence was proved against her would be allowed.
"Express carriages" are defined abetting.
a serious
Winifred May Nobbs, 28, with whom he had been living, received a similar sentence for aiding and
opened the door, and after a great deal of coaxing he was per suaded to retire to his bed. After that no further attempt was made to prevent the parson's midnight |
in the Road Traffic Act, 1930, as The woman was assisted to the services! "motor vehicles carrying passeng cells in a state of collapse.
SAILINGS ers for hire or reward at separate
Singapore, Port. Swettenham,
· Penang, Rangoon & Calcuttą.
Now is the time to visit Australia & New Zealand
lands of Sunshine and Romance. "Down Under" you will feel a new being and even if you are tot inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you-including 25/- for your pound.
On the way down your life aboard will be as you wish, quiet or hectic for the E. & A. will humour your every whim.
And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and there is of course a Sun Deck Swimming pool, an Orchestra and a fine. Laundry.
& Surgeon and Stewardess are at your disposal and last but not least we had almost forgotten--the cuisine will set you listening eagerly for the gong!
Regular Monthly Sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union S.S. Co.'s Steamers to the United Kingdom vis New Zealand,
San Francisco, etc.
Vancouver, The P. 4. O. Royal Mail Steamers to London, and
The P.&O. Branch Service of Steamers to London via Sast The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for
London via Panama Canal.
Southamykup and
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
NANKIN
NELLORE
TANDA
7,000 3rd July 7,000 1st. Ant. 7,000 4th Sept.
Manila, Rabaul," Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne & Hobart
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
RANCHI
TILAWA
"SOMALI NELLORE NALDERA SANTHIA KAISER-I-HIND
TALMA TANDA.
BANGALORE
37,000 25th June Shanghai & Japan.
10,000 25th June Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. -
7th July Shanghai & Japan.
7th July Shanghai & Japan.
7,000
7,000 16,000 8,000
9th July Shanghai & Japan.
9th July Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
11,000 23rd July Shanghai & Japan.
10,000 23rd July Amoy. Shanghai & Japan.
·7,000 2nd Ang. Shanghai & Japan.
6,000 5th Ang. Shanghai & Japan.
ALL DATES are approximate and sub-
ject to alteration without notice. "All Cabina "All's well"
are fitted with. Electric Fans or Punka Louvre
ystems.
Steamers on
Aris London and
tralian Lines are fitted with, Laundries. Par cels measuring not more than 6 en. ́ft, will be received at the Company's Office up to Noon
on the day previous to sailing.
on the
PEO
For further information, Passage," Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply
to The Agent
MACKINNON MACKENZIE.CO
P&O BUILDING. CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG |
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fares (none of which is less than
Le for a single journey, or Such greater sum as may be prescribed), and for a journey Or journey's from one or more points specified; in advance, to one or more com- destinations so specified, and not stopping to take up or set down passengers other than those paying the appropriate fares for the journey or journeys in ques tion."
DANGEROUS DRUGS
-The Orient
Another fine sailing vessel of the Heather Bell's time was the Orient.
Her first job was as a troopship to
carry the Connaught" Bangers to
astern.
LINERS ares
PRESIDENT LUXURY LINER:
Fast and Smooth Riding
TO SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK,
TO SEATTLE. VICTORIA......
Vis Shanghai. Kebe, Yokohama | Via Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama
and Honolulu
Pres. Pierce Pres. Coolidge Pres. Lincoln Pres. Hoover
Pres. Cleveland
8 am July 1 Pren Grint
Midnight June 19
6 am July 12
Pres. Jefferson
July 3
6 am, July 29
Jres. Jackson
July 17
6 am. Ang. 8
July 31
Pres. McKinley
6 am, Aug.26] Pres. Grant
EUROPE, NEW YORK Vis Manila Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Boer, Port Said, Naples,
• Genos, and.. Marsellos
Pres Polk
Pres. Adama
Pres. Harrison Pres. Hayes Pres. Wilson
-- Aug. 14
TO MANILA THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE
NEXT SAILING
8 a.m., June 20❘ Pres. Palk
8.00 am., Jane 20 July 4 Pres. Pierce 6.00 pm, June 2 July 18 Pres. Jefferson 5.00 pm. Jme 2 Aug. 1 Pres. Coolidge 9.00 p.m. July Pres. Adams 8.00 ..., July
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the Crimes. A few years later theftember 12, 1872, left his tool-chest Doctor's Suspension
Orient was nearly destroyed by fire. behind him. Old John Willis, our Order Withdrawn While the crew fought the flames of the owners of both vessels, rush- the passengers provisioned and ed on board the Orient with his The Home
bas lowered the boats and trailed them frock coat flying open and his white Secretary
hat on the back of his head, and suspended until further or-
Dense smoke began to issue from said to the captain: "The carpenter der the operation of the the fo'c'sle.
It was decided to of my Lammermuir has left his June 21, 1930, batten down the fire, but the result tool chest and tools behind. Will withdrawing from John Joseph was startling. Smoke and fame you take them out to Adelaide and Mr. W. H. Cox, secretary of the Coglan, M.R.CS., LRCP, the au- burst through the deck, and all deliver them to him?* cab section of the Transport and thority granted by the regulations ight long the crew kept doggedly General Workers' Union, said:
notice,
dated
Telephone 28021-
NAZI PLOT CHARGE
Vienna.-The police announce the arrest of 24 people, including authors, playwright and com- posers, on charges of conspiracy. Among them is Herr Otto Grob, one of whose plays was recently produced at the National Theatre. They are accused of forming a cultural association... and ranging to hold musical evenings and Tectures
to promote · Nazi doctrines
Romance!
"No," replied Captain Mitchell, The matter will no doubt re-made under the Dangerous Drugs at the pumps and fire-engine. Next but I will take them and deliver ceive consideration by our union Act, 1920, to duly qualified medi-day the women passengers were all them before I reach the line," by:
cal practitioners to be in pos-transferred to a Dutch ship which which he meant the Equator, less in view of the Court decision.
"Cases have been heard in the session of and to supply raw stood by the burning Orient. At than half the voyage. The Orient Indian last the fire was overcome and-sailed on the 28th, sixteen days! past where taxi-drivers who offer opium, coca leaves and
breacays after the outbreak the after, and overhauled the Lammer ed to share the fare among, say, hemp, and other drugs."--
Orient arrived at the West Indies, muir before she was half-way to those far-off sailing-ship days. four people going to a football He has also suspended the where she was temporarily repaired Australia. Signals were exchanged There was romance too. match, have been summoned, but direction given at the same time, and then went on to Australia. and a boat put off with the car- this is the first time that I knew that it should not be lawful for
Sailing Feat
penter's chest on board, a grand passengers could be prosecuted, if Dr. Coglan to give prescriptions The Orient's finest fest of sailing feat of sailing which is recorded in The Duthie captain of a Duthie they made an agreement anong for the purposes of the regula-was when the carpenter of the Basil Lubbock's fine book "Colonial clipper, built and owned by his Adventure abounded in father, carried on board a lovely themselves."
Lammermuir, which sailed on Sep-Clippers."
girl named Christian Roland, who was going out to Sydney to be mar- ried. But on the long voyage she fell in love with the captain and married him as soon as the ship resched Sydney. When the dis appointed "lover learned the truth The crept down by night to where the ship was tied up to the quay and set her on fire. The ship was burned to the water's edge i
tions.
LIBYA
ETHIOPIA
The shaded portions of the map at the left show the Roman Empire in its heyday, when the Ciennes were riding high in the saddle. "In the map at the right the present "empire” of Inly is shown in black. Has II.Desce dreams of conquest which will restore the power and might of the Caesars? In the background of Ancient Rome in the mighty. Caemr, whose sword forged the empire. The steel-belmeted Mussolini, whose aim is to be the" prototype of the ancient heroes, is the shadow of the new Italy.
GIRL AWARDED DAMAGES
Carpet Inspection- A Duty
Having examined a carpet from the Kensington store of MessiK, John Barker Judge Hargreaves, at West London County Court last month, awarded Miss Bosina Kirby, of Commonside East Mitcham, £72.54 for personal injuries caus ed by their alleged negligence:
Judgment had been postponed so" that the judged could see the ear pet, in a join of which Miss Kirby ssid she tripped, well down four stairs in the store, and injured her knee.
↑ Judge Hargreaves said the carpet was untacked.. There was not a very high degree of negligence, bat
it was the duty of the firm to in- spect these carpets from time to
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