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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949.

BURNS NIGHT DINNER HELD BY LOCAL SCOTS

Scotsmon gathered at the Hong Kong Hotel "Roof "Gardon" last night to celebrate Burns Night.

St. John The occasion was accompanied by all the tradi

Ambulance

Heroes

No New Site

For Pedesta

The stone deathwhich formerly housed ? Queen "Victoria's status, at Statue Square, will not be ra-erected elsewhere, according to an i official statement yesterday.

The statement added that the explanation of care (with which "the""stones" ara“ being removed la that the stones

valuable and con?be10000: The buliding Arbienta.»y

GOV DRIVER

MAGISTRATE'S REMARKS ON HOUSEBREAKING

“I regard these burglary and housöbreaking chargos--

very seriously Indeed,” sold Mr. A. D. Scholos at Kowloon yesterday, before passing, son-: fences totalling three years, penal servitude: on Ng Yiu, aged 22, and Wong Ming, aged. 27, on two counts of housebreaking”and o of burglary, S

fional ceremonies. Mr. HC Watson piped the "party" "in" to dinner.” Mr. A. Stewar piped-in the haggis, and Mr. R. W: A Mac Kichan the barley bree." Supporting the Chieftain, example of his cloan to whom had A little more than seven | Dr. J. W: Anderson, at the been given a little more than or

Defendants were charged by years ago, 10 members of St. official tuble were Messrs. J. dinary facility with the pont***

That he could put his tongue

Detective" Sub-Inspector W. JE John Ambulance Brigade, des B. Griffin, De W. MacIntosh,

Wall with breaking into 8 pite heavy gunfire, carried on H. C. Watson, A. E. Lissaman, and pen at the service of his fol-

lows their humanitarian work in D. S. Robb, P: S. Cassidy,

in distress la unquestioned.

Parkes Street, third floor, on That his

January 15 and stealing cloth- bringing in the wounded in Gilmore, J. Finnie, stiited and pretentious none will prose could be affected,

LI Kam, 27-year- the fighting at Wongnelchung MacGregor, C. Blaker, W. Adoubt, but his poetry breathes his of a Government low value

ing and money, to the total of $2,748.50 from Gaping Winewigen Stewart, H. H. Mundy, A. S. many sided character, the lusty fined $150, with his licence to Thomas Soong; and clothing

Adamson, J. RJones, B. gusts of his wooings, the instant aptured the port, or attackers Mellor. Professor RK. M. sympathy for the inderdor and be endorsed, by Mr. A. D. Valued at $520 from Gary Tan. tenders, these 10 workers were pabertson

from the do Simpson and Professor

with Scholes dt Kowloon "yesterday The adcond count referred to a R. the fascinated

in on the charge of careless driv. housebreaking at 810 Canton "and are of the eiinty butore thu first aid roost, which was their

Kejad

than

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D.

Unaware Of Arms Rule

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the odd and a premakne - Road-second.AGON-AT- Tanumz 12 Lald“ Amoridad-Chinasamsvallat m

dress and rustic

women,

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feld headquarters, and nine were morto it. Das Anderson and the daisies and undid ulco her factor F. Roberts said that Proposing the toast of the Im-simple things he found around him;

defendant, whose vehicle was bar beheaded 100 B Robert Burns, whose sense of turned up with his plough, the hind, lorry-bus 5071 on the morn

The tenth man made a break humour was as koon, so friendly

follow a muments of ing of January 24, was unable to ron it by jumping down a ravinte, aid yet at times no merciless in his

mes and stop, his van when the bus stopped escaped, wid is today somewhere antire, must have smiled somewhat

ot. Chin Lung Tuus on the Castle antinely in his heavenly

Mickie

At the age of 37 Burns depart Peak! In China He te Foon Chungs

pick un passangers. as we had the other day, ed the turbulent life which he had

ron into t

the rear of and bounced book 12 that come 40,000 copies or lived, with auch verve and The nine who lost their lives works had released in Soviet He left this world and especially feet," damaging the rear of the in the cause of duty to humanity Rainsin."

his native Scotland the richer by bus and the front of the van. wern District Superintendent ChanIf only the statemen of that the warm feeling and yet blunt Damage sustained by the Govern Ping-kwong and privates Chan, unhappy country could absorb the honesty of his verdo... Whether one

ment vehicle is estimated at $250, Lafechuonix LiChile-wal, Leung Bums philosophy, how different reads them often or only on chance and that by the bus, at 380. Kwok-wah,

Defendant, adid-Inspector (Ro=" | Chon + Chung," "Yue would read the proceedings of the contact, his poems express some Yeo-chouls Lul-Shing, Ng Wing- United Nations/eald Dr. thing for every mood with the no berts is drawing a monthly cotary chiu and Leung Hwai-fang,

Anderson.

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cent-on-the chlot in humour and, mis- of $180 to $184, depending on the HCG allowance for the month.

In anempty of fihair gallant ac tlon and devotion to duty, n Wreath

concreta" dug-out which was onre

was yesterday, "place}}'ngninst the

Confined To Taverns

In a review of Burns' life and

the dead men's first aid feld post his works, Dr. Andereon sald in The wreath-laying ceremony those days whisky was not yet was performed by Colonel Sir

and James Sleeman, Chief Commis quite respectable in the homo, sinner of St. John Brigade, who was confined as

rule

to taverns, was accompanied by Hong KonHome brewing was then the ralo,

masonle meatings Comendasione Mr. «A, fel'Arcul}],

alvisionti Surgeon Dr. Arthur and food was washed down with Woo, Corps Omeer Lam Wing good ale. On the

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anel the like.

Australia Day To Be Celebrated

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len, Divialonal Superintendent who could afford table of those The 161st anniversary of the first organised sottie-

Chan Oil, Mra, Holmes Brown, and

ಇd brandya

were nort

people of

day must.

Ladies Corns: Superintendent, and think, have been impressed by

Miss Lois Fearon..

Mother Of Five Gets Leniency

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propaganda about Macaso, being carried by water, and

Dri Anderson. There is, so far as amware, no hint in Burns' writ- ing and no evidence that during his life-time he or his friends par

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ment of Australia on January 26; 11788/WHI bo Commbitorated in "Hong Kong. today by the local Austrálión' community,

A réception to celebrate the occasion will be given at the Hong Kong Club annexe today by Mr. Rankine, Acting Australian Government Trade Look of water, an a. bevorage, nor dillk ofthe

Commissioner. More than 400 At the farm it

bard

work guesta have been invited. and long

relieved only by the

Among the miests will be the Governor, Sir Alexander Grant-

of ham, heads

Services, members of the Executive and consular

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Sabbath when the wormen

falle

carried their unaccustomed

A revision of the sentence on stockings and shoes to church, put

the

a woman, Kwok Yub-lan, for ting, thom. dn at some convenient Legislative councils, possession of arms and amuni- barn where could wash their tion was heard before Me foet beforehand could was

X. d'Almada e Castro at Cen- trai yesterday.

In making the application, Mr.

Holidays were few

but markets, fairs and trysts gava opportunity of meeting new faces and an oc casional celebration-...

Bliging, fiddling, dancing or F. D. Hammond said that Kwok, strathspeye and rects would ch was sentenced to 24 months Iven the evening hours as the imprisonment on January 15older folk are the women too, an She is the mother of Ave chil-joyed their smoke and snuff. dren, and was deprived of her two youngest

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Hanged For Stealing

officials, representatives of the

other Dominions, and leading

Chinese and European....business- men.

Although Captain Cook that Cook is gen erally kapwn as the discoverer of Australia in 1770, the Continent

greater portion of the coast line I was · not only, known but tha

had alrondy been fairly well | *** mapped: No previous, settlement however, had been attempted **World-Wide Célébration

When Mok B. Wing, 254ycar-

when defendants stale property, was about to leave New York- including mattress valued at for Hong Kong, he was given sos from Ng-Yip-lou

Defendants were further charged two 38 Colt revolvers and1 790 with burglary at 149 Tung Chal rounds of 08 ammunition to Street, third door, on January 2 bring back to Tol Shan for a Not» "knowning ?- the and stealing clothing and two friend.

old rings, valued at $195, from Hong Kong regulations govern- Au Kiu.

ing the possession of arms and DSI Wall said that on the after- ammunition, he obliged, noon of January 1 defendanta entered & Parkes Street. third floor, while the occupants were nut and stole money and clothing Detective Suspicious

That was the story he told Detectivo Sub-Inspoctor A Nicol, when he was questioned at tho Taimiteatsui Police Station on the morning of January. 23..

When Mok was chargert bo- fore Mr. AD. Scholes at Kow- Ming was walking along loon yesterday, DSI Nicol said, Bowring. Street, soon after the that Mole" brought his luggage mbhery, when he was stopped by to the Kdwloon Canton Raliway Detective Wan Cheung who, being station at 8.40, 4m-on Sunday suspicious of his behaviour and to be searched by the Chinese the parcel he was carrying, do Customs officers breakfa cided to stop and search hap

Being unable

Ile was asked by CMC officer to give a sails

Lin Tse-hus whether he had he factory explanation of how come into possession of the thred anything to declare, and replied poirs of trousers and waistcoat the negative On His luggage contained in the packet, Woog being searched, the army and was taken back to Yaumati Police abin: trunk. He was thed hand-

ammunition 5 were found" in Station where DSI Wall found in

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the name. Tommy Soong" murked over to Revenue Omeer Lam ed on the trousers.

and brought to the pollon'sia-

Wone then told the police that on he was given the clothing... by QSI Nicol friend to brig to Telmisatrul, He

the

that

informed the

was sent out, with a delective in notify ships offers court

try and locate the friend, b

but failed to find the подлег

Later that same evening, Tan called at the station to report the

must

invariably passengers that they déclare any dutiable articles and arris and ammyni- on before the ship arrives at Hong Kong

Defendant was fined $800, and robbery and there recognised the clothing as those his friend, the arms and ammunitionier

******dered to bo confiscated; If the course of inquiries, N5 K Ylu was arrested early next morning as he was about to board the train for Canton at the Taim÷ tsatsui termimus: On, him --Was found US$23, which he admitted was part of the US$100, stolon from-Parkes Street...»

Property Recovered

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is to findinant Joan house at Shanhulpo, where all

Defendants then brought the police to three pawnshops, and to

Mr. H. Rankine, Asting

Australian Government Trade Commissioner, who is giving

a cocktail party, at the Hong Kong), Qlub annexe today to commemorata, Australia Day.

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the stolen properly with the ex-

were re-

|exption of HD yout

covered... Si

I was so

irritable

THE SLIGHTEST EXCIcise used to Exhaust me--as koon as I got.on

do feel, had I noted their ages/nono so loudly as by Burns himself. are congregated Australiap, Į tury,. Australia...was hails stole the property named in the my feet-1/wanted to rest — end-1---

the

been

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of its own of unry, while the occupants ware), it made all the differénce {****

ed to me, I feel that a fine of time? Or was he merely the clever known as New South Wales) and pace likidolence.

$1,000 and nine months'ns from January 15, would not be un duly hard. there was!

non-

"Giving his decision, Mr.

}. Keterring to the second count, DSI Wall sold that defendunts d'Almada Baid—"At, the pre- In the wider sphere, hanging for vious hearing, the fact that de-stealing was still

The day, January 28, 1788, is

went up to the premises, knocked in Vogue. fendant had five children was Women were whipped through the therefore, generally celebrated

at the door to make sure that the made-known to me, but-I-hadstreets for theft. -

Until the end of the 19th cen-occupants were out, broke in, and.... throughout Australia, and.in.parts Taxation was failed to, note their ages, and I beginning, to be, complained of by

of-the; world where ·

Australia's divided, each of the six, coloules charge sheathes, 640 either in writing or

National Day mentally, What was the secret of this

having acquired the status of worth, Including a pocket water, sentence would not have remarkable man7"

On that date, Captain Philip self-governing state and being was recovered. Anderson "Was he a pure genius

naked landed at Port Jackson (now concerned primarily with O severe

Between 3 and 6 a.m. on Jan-, "In view of the facts present-transcending all losser-clay of his known as Sydney in the state now velopment

of having a sleep, second accused, broke open kami the door of 149 Tung Chal Street, formally took ppssession, on her common half of the British Crown, of the gration, regulations, and a num-third Boor, had first defendant whole of the Eastern part of the ber of other matters, led oventy- entered the

premises and stole the Australian continent and Tasmania states to federaling of alt, the clothes and the gold rings,

into the Commonwealth of as far Westward as the 135 Australia in 1901,

They then carried the loot the roof where they picked out longitude. degree of longu

From Federation Day, Australis the valuable pieces and let the has advanced

remainder. Nothing was recovered, steadily in indust has now assumed its full respon- and cultural achievements, and

First defendant, said DSI Wall, regular bnd character" and world affairs asha

was convicted in March, 1840 for housebreaking. member of

and the "family; of

again

越 August, 1947, for possession The settlement was almost en-

constitute the British Empire.

turning from banishment. Com tirely dependent on supplies from Exports to Hong Kong •

in its early years, so that

mittal proceedings will be taken Oversees

Australia's export? Insanggainst this, accused on the charge when

ships were delayed through Kong alone last year amounted returning from, banishment, storms of other causes shortage to HK$5,103,955 in declared valleSecond accused was convicted of, cations was not uncommon.

A Good Night's Entertainment Ensured payment of the fine, defendant

serve 12 months as from January 15, and the original senience is reversed!

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When Lau Fong chung, aged

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He was brought before Mr. A.D Scholes at Kowloon yesterday charged with evading payment etstrain fare, and t using › abusive language. His companion; WAS charged on the first count only.

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