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CAIRN MEMORIAL

TO LATE LORD SNOWDEN

London, To-day.

A. memorial to the late Lord

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 28, 1988.

Rents Petition Presented To H.E. The Governor

"YOUR PETITIONERS THEREFORE HUMBLY PRAY THAT YOUR EXCELLENCY MAY BE PLEASED

(A) TO DIRECT THE PROMULGATION AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE OF SUCH EMERGENCY REGULATIONS WITH LEGISLATIVE FORCE AS WILL STOP THE FORCE- FUL EVICTION OF TENANTS;

(B) TO LIMIT RENTS OF DOMESTIC PREMISES DURING THE

PRESENT EMERGENCY; AND (C) TO CONCEDE SUCH OTHER AND URGENT RELIEF AS YOUR EXCELLENCY MAY BE ADVISED SHOULD BE GRANTED AND AS THE PREVAILING CONDITIONS REN- DER NECESSARY.

These are the concluding senten-,

ces of a petition sent to H. E. the

Governor on Friday by Mr. J. P.. SMALLPOX CASE

Braga with 1,344 signatures.

In a covering letter, Mr. Braga writes to the, Colonial Secretary:

URGENCY OF MATTER ·

IN MATSHED YESTERDAY

Tsun Mok-yuen, was removed yes-

Sir, I have the honour to en- close herewith a petition, in tripli- cate, on the housing problem in, Hong Kong, addressed by 1,344 re- sidents to His Excellency the Gov-terday to the Infectious Hospital ernor, praying for relief from the suffering from small pox. He was prevailing conditions which have found sleeping in a matshed at Re- been brought about by the contin-pulse Bay by the Rev. A. J. Martin uous influx

the of refugees into

Colony during the past few months. if

2. 1 shall esteem it a favor i CHOLERA IN HANOI

you will be so kind as to forward the petition to His Excellency at your early convenience.

Two Kowloon cases of smallpox

3. Had it not been for the fact were reported to the Medical De- that the urgency of the matter calls 'partment during the week-end. for an early submission of the pe-There were also two Victoria cases titioners' representations to His of diphtheria and two cases of Excellency, a much larger number typhoid.

of signatures might have been ob- The Far Eastern_health_bulletin tained. It was with a view to ob-'reveals a serious outbreak of cholera viating any delay that I and my in Hanoi, where 58 cases were re- co-signatories have deemed it ex-'corded last week.

pedient to forward the petition In Shanghai, 94 cases of typhus with the number of signatures'

occurred.. which it bears, all of which were obtained during the past three [days.

POSITION BECOMING

DESPERATE

The petitioner draws attention to

OCCASIONAL RAIN

the fact that during the past threel) The Royal Observatory reports months attention has been called to that the anticyclone is situated over the prevailing conditions in the the Pacific to the east of Japan and columns of the

eastward local newspapers, a depression is moving both English and Chinese; and on over South Japan. Pressure the 9th March, 1938, Your Excel- tribution-over-China-is--uncertain, lency appointed a Commission., but weak anticyclonic conditions which has since been known as the are indicated.

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dis-

"Rents Commission," to inquire Local forecast:-E. and S. E. into and report upon the situation.,winds, moderate; cloudy, occasional The Rents Commission in due rain, course presented its report; but its findings, in the humble opinion of your petitioners, did not provide a solution to the difficulties exper- ienced by tenants.

MURDER ON WARSHIP

"The position is rapidly becom- ing desperate. The law

ад it Edwin Moreland Dwyer, a seaman stands permits eviction of tenants. of H. M: S. Dorsetshire, again ap- There have been several cases in

peared before Mr. R. Edwards the Courts, and there are more to the Central Magistracy, charged come. Residents

of long standing with the murder of Leading Sex-

in the Colony are being compelled

at.

Aus-

Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones appeared for the defendant.

The case was adjourned for fur- ther week..

to quit their homes, and no alter men Robert Dickenson, on the ship

between Sydney and Cairns, native accommodation is available.

tralia. Your petitioners feel that Govern- ment should no longer delay the [adoption of adequate measures to control the situation before more serious injury is inflicted upon those residents of the Colony who have been, and others who are Lord Sankey spoke in praise of about to become, sufferers from the life and character of the former the consequences of excessive rents Labour leader and Chancellor of the land inescapable evictions." Exchequer British Wireless,'

lages who had climbed by devious ways to the lonely eminence.

GAMBLING RAID

At the Central Magistracy this morning, Chan Sing, ́ was fined

HOUSE-BREAKING $100, and Fok Chuk $50 for keep-

at

ing a gambling house at No. : 136; Sentence of five months' hard Wellington Street, where the game Snowden in the form of a cairn Tseng Mei, a married woman, was labour was this morning imposed on of Tse Tam was played. erected on Ickornshaw Moor near this morning fined $2,000 or six Chan Foo, for house breaking Of the sum of $42.95 table money his birthplace in Yorkshire was un- months at the Central Magistracy, [No 181 Gloucester Road, 1st floor. picked up, $2.95 was ordered to be veiled yesterday afternoon in the for possession of 2,000 heroin pills, Sergeant Bentley said defendant placed in the Poor Box and presence of more than 2,000 people found in her hand bag when she was attempted to break into the house balance credited to the General Re- from his own and neighbouring vil- arrested in Hillier Street.

with an iron bar.

venue of the Colony.

the