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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930. ROUND THE COURTS. CAN A WOMAN OF 44 CORRESPONDENCE.

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UNMUZZLED DOGS.

For allowing two of her dogs to be abroad without a muzzle Mrs. J. S. Drummond, of 453 The Peak was fined 87 by Mr. A. W. G. H. Grant- ham yesterday. His Worship, in im- posing this penalty, pointed out that this was a reduction, as in the ordinary course a fine of $5 would have been imposed in respect of each animal.

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.

Mr. S. Koshinoto, of the N.Y.K., living at the Firs; Magazine Gap Road, was summoned before Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham yesterday for keeping three dogs which were creating a nuisance to the neigh bourhood by their constant harking and whining.

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PERPLEXING POINT "

ARISES IN COURT.

POSSIBLE, SAYS MAGISTRATE;

COUNSEL DISAGREES,

In connection with th alleged sale of a 19-year-old Chinese girl, the three Chinese, Chan Fo Tai, Ah Szo (a woman) and Yau Hec, again appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at "the Magistracy yesterday.

Kowloon

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG

DAILY PRES.

Sir,-Rethe statement by, an official of the Telephone Company giving an explanation regarding the faulty working of the new automatic system, my experiences with the telephones may be of in terest to your readers.

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SANITARY BOARD SUMMONSES.

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WATER CLOSETS ON THE PEAK.

EUROPEANS FINED.

Mr. C. Thwaites, the occupier of No. 3 Thorpe Manor, May Road, was summoned for not restoring the water closet of his premises to a sanitary condition after being actified by the Sanitary Board to do so.

On Monday last, in the premises of the Chinese Club, I made eight attempts to get in touch with a subscriber. There are two telephone

Mr. H. J. Armstrong, for the des Mr. H. R. Butters, of the Secret-instruments in the Club, and I used' ariat for Chinese Affairs, was for them both. In the case of the first fence, stated that the summons the prosecution. The first defen-

to get through resulted in the diall-

of improper service. His instruc- dant waa represented by Mr. A. R.ing tone continuing its merry trill Covey and the third defendant by after I had finished dialling in the tions were that the notice was hand- prescribed manner. The fourth tryed to the houseboy and submitted Mr. C. E, L. Grist

resulted in dead silence.

Mr. Covey submitted that the witnesses for the prosecution had told his Worship a fabricated story. as there was a vast difference be tween the evidence of the prosecu- tion and the defence. Li Sau Kiu, the sister of the girl, had said at a previous hearing that she did act know the first defendant, while It was stated that the complain-evidence had been given that she

An employee of the N... in- formed his Worship that Mr. Koshinoto was taking steps to abate the cuisance and further. that he would be leaving for Shanghai at the end of this month and would be taking his dogs with him,

ants in the case were Mr. Gilmore and Dr. Bridge, both of whem live at Thorpe Manor, which is above The Firs. The former, who was in Court, informed the Magistrate that the dogs kept up a fearful whining all night. They were enor- mous hounds and obviously needed a lot of exercise.

A Sne of 810 was imposed.

was actually in his house to discuss the sale of the girl, which, Mr. Covey said, had to be proceeded with owing to poverty. It had been mentioned several times during hearing of the ease that the girl was insufficiently clad, and it was apparent that the sister was not in a position to support the girl.

Continuing, Mr. Covey said he could not understand why the

as a witness. She might be 60 or

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Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of $10 and made an order requiring. the closet to be restored to a sanit ary condition in three days. ⠀ - One Summons Dismissed..

summons of the owners .No. 1 Peak Mansion in connection with a similar offence was dismissed on the ground that the owners named in the summons-the Rural Land Invest- ment Company-were no longer the owners. The Magistrate, in dis- missing the summons, suggested that a new summons be taken out against the present, owners, the.

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instrument, the ärst three attempts should be dismissed on the ground FRUIT PLANS

The second instrument also gave me, the dialling tone after I had änished spinning the dial around. The third try gave me the line engaged tone, while at the fourth attempt I heard the ringing tone, but before I could get an answer from the subscriber called some em- ployee of the Telephone Company chipped in and told me the line was

engaged."

that the proper procedure would have been to serve it on the owner or occupier. The houseboy in ques-

tion had kept the notice until the summons was received.

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His Worship disagreed with this contention and imposed a fine of

Another Case.

810.

Mr R. H. Wild, the occupier of

Peach, Apricot, Pear or Cherry.

A Sweet for Tea, Tiffin, Dinner or Picnic Party.

use his phone. Here again there. Peak Mansions, summoned for $1.00, $1.50, $2.00

I then made my way to the offices. of a friend, a professional man, to

sults were disappointing.

a similar offener, stated that he had To forestall the charge that 1 taken all the necessary steps in might not have used the, telephone correctly I will say that I used one cleaning up the water closets in his method oaly, the correct ene. And servants' quarters, going even to the it is also fair to say that during extent of dismissing his servant. the last three days I have had calls

Since April 22, he had been with put through properly, but this of course only shows that my dialling out a servant, so if it followed that. was in order, but that there must if the water closet had reversed to be something radically wrong with mother of the girl was not produced the phone system since I used the itr former insanitary condition, 60 years of age. Mr. Covey remark-sarne method of dialling through that that was due to other people. ed that she was an important wit- As regards the statement that the "No little inconvenience was caus-ness, as it was possible that the phone muddle was caused by the ed by a dumb hawker at Kowloon Firl's mother was not alive at all-Chinese element of the population Magistracy yesterday, who, al. The sister had given her age as

monkeying with the new phones, though he gave his name to the 30, but to Mr. Covey's mind sheMr. Sherry may be interested to Police when arrested, could not could not be anything under 35 learn that in Canton an automatic From this deduction, the mother, phone system has been ia opera- answer a single question, put to him. He was charged with hawking with-at the youngest, would b: 33 when tion for the past year without giv- the gave birth to the now 12 yearing the least bit of trouble, and old child. He said that such`an event was most unlikely.

A DUMB MAN WHO SPOKE.

out a licence.

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After a time, a woman who was in Court, said that she knew the man quite well and could, speak to him by signs. At the request of the magistrate, the woman received a plea of guilty from, the defendant, who was, cautioned after evidence

was taken.

ARE SHAVINGS RUBBISH I

When charged with dumping rub bish in the street, two women pro- duced a quantity of wood shavings before Mr. Whyte-Smith yesterday, and asked if he would call them rubbish.

I might," answered the Magis- trate. What do you call it??

"Wood" shavings," ፰ 15 the prompt reply.

The Magistrate then said that even wood shavings should not be scattered all over the streets.

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out. .

the installation was completed and put into use without any intima- Sister or Mother?

tion to the public on the operation The question now arose as to of the instruments apart from the whether the girl had a mother, and usual instructions contained in the whether it was not possible that directory. Here in Hong Kong for Li Sau Kiu, the alleged sister, was weeks past half-page displays have. The actual mother.Mr. Covey sub been appearing in the daily news- papers telling the public what to mitted that Li Say Kiu was trying to sell, the child, and. "If she could do and what not to do and so on. not succeed Hong Kong, there and still the thing does not work. might be a possibility of the trans-Perbapa Mr. Sherry will be kind outside the jurisdiction of Hong effect on the system there? Or if action being carried out somewhere enough to explain why it is that in Canton the monkeying ". had no Kong at a later date.

dismiss the first defendant and' to there, and learn from then how to Mr. Covey asked his Worship to he does not know, will he get in touch with our Chinese friends accept his story that he was "only Anding a home, through Pang Yeeperate an automatic telephone sys- (the female go-between in the sale)

tem properly and efficiently?— Yours, etc. for the girl. The first defendant

Y. S. CHEN. had voluntarily called at the Police Station to inquire about the cast

Hong Kong, May 7. before he was charged. Mr. Covey submitted that no person with i feeling of guilt would have commit- ted such an act

Live.

A CHARGE WITHDRAWN.

ASSAULT ALLEGATION NOT SUSTAINED.

The defendants then said they were very poor and that they could not afford to throw the shavings Replying to Mr. Covey, Mr. But. away. They made very good freters said that the mother of the wood.

child was not called as a witness. Sergeant Jessop then told Mr. as she was not living with the girl Permission for the withdrawal of Whyte-Smith that the defendants when the latter was kidnapped. A charge against a woman, of 34 had the wood shavings on the pave- With regard to the third defen-Laichikok Road, of assaulting a ment of Canton Road. These were dant, Mr. Butters intimated that mini-tsui was asked by M. H. R. continually being blown all over he had made a statement that he Butters, who appeared before Mr. the street, thus giving the sanitary bought the girl to serve his two Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magis coolies a lot of trouble with keep sons. Such an assertion could not, tracy. Mr. Butters explained that ing the place clean. The defen he argued, convey the aan that the the girl had now told a different dants had been warned about re-adoption of the girl wa hana file, story. moving the shavings, but, they per sisted in leaving them on the road-

way.

The Magistrate then remarked that it was a rather funny position, but the women had had previous warning from the Police He ac |cordingly fined them B1 each.

'TRESPASSERS WILL BE

Adoption as Daughter.

For the third accused, Mr. Grist said that his client had adopted the girl as a daughter. Except for his own statement, there was no evi- dence against him The girl had stated that she was well treated in his house and had done the same menial labour as she was subjected to in her sister's house..

The case for the defence "closed when the second defendant stated

had that she nothing further to add.

It was made known that the mother of the child was present in Court, Appearing before the Magistrate, she said she was 57 years of age and was-44 when the girl was born.

"PROSECUTED!" When charged with trespassing on Stonecutters Island, a Chinese informed Mr Whyte Smith yester. day that he went over to see a friend. The friend" confirmed this and stated that he had borrow

the pass of another employee so that the defendant might land with--Magistrate (te Mr. Covey); That out any difficulty,”

In imposing a fine of 85; Mr.is quite possible! Whyte-Smith remarked that the friend ought to pay the Eno..

MOSQUITO BREEDING

NUISANCE.

The case in which the owner of a building site in Shamshuipo was summoned for failing to clear away certain pools which were breeding, mosquitoes came before Mr. Whyte- Smith for hearing yesterday, when it was adjourned for a week.

Defendant pleaded not guilty, in- timating that the ground on which the pools had accumulated did not belong to him.

Sanitary Inspector Sinton men-

ing on his own lot, but that quantity of material was deposited

Mr. Covey: Most, improbable. You can ask doctors on the point. I don't say it is impossible, but it is improbable that a woman can give birth to a child at that age.

His Worship announeed that be wished to read through the whole of the evidence before he gave judg- ment; and the case was accordingly adjourned till Tuesday, May 13, at

2.15 p.m.

EARTHQUAKE IN CALIFORNIA. [UNITED PRESS-]

earthquake "jarred the houses here to-day.

Mr. O. E. C. Marton, for the defendant, complained of the action and gaid that if the S.C. A had been thorough in their investigation, the defendant would never have bere arrested He said the fact was that the girl bad previously fallen

On

some rocka, while the alleged assault had taken place two months before she had reportesi, the occur...

телее.

The Magistrate discharged the de- feadapt and remarked that the S.C. A could only proceed with such evidence as was given: to them, by. the girl."

MARINE COURT CASES.

assembled at the Marine Court-yes. Quite a number of boat people

terday, and when the names of five masters of cargo boats were called in respect of a charge of lying in shore during prohibited hours, they all pleaded guilty

Three of them had previous con- victions and were each fined $10, while the remaining two who had | | clean records had to pay an cach

Two masters of fishing boate thought they could use tight lights for fishing wherever they liked.. They were told their mistake and were asked to pay a fine of $10 ench

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“You have been fined before for committing the same offence," said ComdrNewill to the mistress of

up. a passenger boat who was

excess of Ole: diaber allowed her licence.

“Yel, the “wÖMIT answered meekly:

on "the land where the pools of No eruption from volcanic ter water were. If he had removed the ritory near here is at present in- materials, the pools could be clear-dicated although such manifcata Was the fine of 85 too little Well, the magistrate, ed, so that he was, in a way, respon- tions usually follow tremors in this then't sible for the nuisance,

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