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SHATIN RAILWAY SMASH.

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MEETING DISFAVOURS

STABILISATION.

At a meeting of the Twenty-Four The Postmaster-General's report Trade Guilds Association hold yes: for 1930 is as follows:-

Mails.

The number of mail recepineles of Hong Kong origin dispatched dur- ing the year was 49,123 as compared with 43,723 in 1920-an increase of 4,309; the number received was 30,424 as compared with 48,570-an increase of 1,845

Beceptacles in transit, including those to and from British and For eign 'Men-of-War, anmbered 182,020

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P.W.D. ENGINEER'S EVIDENCE REGARDING

FLOODS.

EXPERIENCES.

terday evening, whien was presided | GUARD AND FIREMAN RELATE over by Mr. To Sze Tuen, a pro- minent Chinese merchant, it was decided to present the views of members of the association to the Government on the question of the Colony's currency. A sub-committee was appointed for the purpose of dawing up the association's views.

In the course of the meeting it was stated thint stabiliantion by Hong Kong before the adoption of

an against 180,370 in 1920-an inthe gold standard by Chinn would be very much against the interests crease of 1,451.

of trade in the Colony. The views expressed by those present at the

4,200 steamers carrying mails arrived and 6,027 left in 1930 as against 0,030 and 6,999 respectively in 1920.

Registered Articles and Parcels. The number of registered articles handled amounted to 812,878-as co pared with 648,133 in 1920-a de erense of 5,457.

The figures for insured letters were 18,887 and 19,050 respectively

decrease of 183.

The number of parcels handled during the year was 429,949 a against 411,105 in 1920-an increase of 17,084.

A decrease of 11,170 is shown in parcels changed with United Kingdom, United States of Ameri- [ca," "France and other Continents' Countries, Straits Settlements and Australia, whilst an increase of 26,803 is shown in pareeks exchang ed, with China, Indin, Indo-Chin», Dutch East Indies and Japan.

Revenue and Expenditure.

The total revenue from the Postal

meeting were generally againzt.

stabilisation.

RECREATION GROUNDS

COMMITTEE.

FOURTEEN CLUBS REPRESENTED.

1t in notified that the Recreation, Grounds Committee consiste of the tollowing:-

A special jury composed of Mr. J. P. Warren (foreman), Mr. J. D. Danby, and Captain A. N. David- on heard further evidence yester day at the Kowloon Magistracy on the recent railway dianater which occurred on the Kowloon-Canton Railway at a point between Shatin and Taipo. The Coroner is Mr. E. W. Hamilton.

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UNDER A LINCOLNSHIRE.

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DIVINERS RODS TWITCH.

OF CONTRACT.

DECISION OF SUMMARY COURT.

Judgatent was delivered by Mr. Justice Lindsell at the Summary Court yesterday in an action by | Katoh & Co., York Building, against Chau Yục Teng, China | Building, claiming 81,000 damages for breach of contract in respect of 300 bales of guany Imge.

Mr. R. M. Henderson, Engivecer-} the P.W.D., said that there was small intake dam in the Shing- mun Valley which was 50 feet long, DIGGING FOR GOLD. DAMAGES FOR BREACH and 10 feet deep. A gauge in the i dum showed that as a result of very heavy rainfall the water had risen 10 feet above the top of the dam's wall, and flooded over. This was a imprecedented, as in the big

OVER THE SPOT. storm of 1920, the water had only come 3 feet above the wall, The whole site of the mountain (above Billinghay, (Lines.),-If the dream' where the disaster occurred), show of Mr. Arthur Gresswell, of Gordon ed signs of abnormal rainfall. The House, Billinghay, should whole area was very precipitous, truc, this sleepy, tiny village, he

yond the ruined castle of Tatter- and he did not think that the water shall, whose marvellous fire-places would have been able to evaporate.the late Lord Curzon rescued for

Lok Ip, a fireman, stated that ire had served for two years on the South China Command railway. On April 20 he was fire Sports Board, Hong Kong Football

maa on the train which met with Argociation, Hong Kong Jockey disaster. The train. left Kowloon Club, Hong Keng Football Club, about midday, and later returned Hong Kong Cricket Club, Kowloon from Sumchun to come back to ricket Club, Hong Kong Hockey Hong Kong at 4.30 p.m. It was Club, Royal Hong Kong Golf Club, raining heavily when he left Sum- Hong Kong Polo Club, Club de chun. When the train arrived at Recreio, Hong Kong Chinese Re-Taipo it was still raining and con-

Chairman, the Director of Public Works, the Colonial Secretary, the Director of Education, representa: yes of the Royal Naval Recreation

Club,

Service in

1930. amounted to creation Club, Indian Recreation FD12,135.50; an increase on the Club. previous year of $120,180.91. The Expenditure for 1930 minted fo 8448,156.82 or $79,048.18 more than that of the previous year.

The balance of Revenue over Es- periditure amounted, te 9494,778.71

The Revenue from the enle of

was as follows:--

1921

1922

1023

1021

$549,370,02 8372,583.95 -$634,007.00 8701,015. 17

1025

£395,045.09

1090

1027

1028

1020 1930

$041,076.32 $733,106.13 $701,414.44 8780,151.28 8805,809.42 Money Orders;

8.023 insured letters were dealt with as against 7,735 in 1920. The tatal number of Chinese private boxes was 292, a decrease of us compared with 312 in 1020,

The licences of 27 Chinese Postal Hongs were renewed, the same nunt-. her as in 1929,

Wireless

'

The total paid traffic for the year in 201,03 messages and 9,336,152 words which represents an increase of 47 per cent, in the number of mesanges, and 50 per cent, in the number of words as compared to the figures for 1929.

Timed to do so until the accident

Knocked Unconscious.

He was looking along the line just before the accident. The train was traveling at its usund speed. Just after the engine had passed the bridge, the accident occurred, As far as he could see the line looked quite all right beyond the bridge. The engine dropped down to the right of the line, and witness | was knocked unconscious,

came

the nation, may have in its midat For three weeks Mr. Gresswell Lincolnshire Klondike. has been mining for gold under the lawn in his garden. He clans to have found it. It is not true, he said with emphasis, that opera Saf tions have been abandoned. ficient success has come his way, to warrant his carrying on with the

The defendants offered to sell to plaintiffs at a certain price 300 bales of gunny bags to be shipped to Hong Kong from Calcutta by the end of January, the plaintiffs mak- ing a counter-offer to buy on terms of" prompt shipment. The order was placed by defendants through the Anglo-Oriental Bag Co., of Calcutta, but it was not until February 14 that they learned that the Calcutta Arm hnd "failed and they had, therefore, to procure the gunny bags through other sources. In the meantime the plain- tiffs had sold the shipment to a "I have found gold in the 30.ft.Japanese firm in Dairen, thus suffer- shaft that has been already sunk, ing a loss. and I am planning to sink two

adventure.

I am a man," said Mr. Gress

who, when he sets, about well, doing a thing, believes in, going through with it.

more."

Clairvoyant's Tidings.

near a

It is over by a now untenanted pigeon loft and near a high wall that the initial discoveries have keen fade. There was a reason for selecting this spot. A clair. voyant at Skegness last year gave Mr. Gesswell the "so bracing" things that there was gold in his garden

bird-bouse and hard by wall." It confirmed the Asked by the Magistrate whether story of a Woodhall Spa fortune teller who, 20 years before, had told he had any special orders when the him, bis land was rich in minerals.

So it was here that Mr. Gresswell weather was bad, witness replied

Thres men have that his job was to look ahead and sank his shaft..

worked there for three weeks. see that the road was clear. He There was a great heap of blue had no special instructions. He lay in the garden; Д Man noticed that the water-fall was heavier than usual.

The Chinese guard, who was on dity on the train which was wreck

The combined total of the year's transactions on Money Orders andThe total number of unpaited, said that the train was composed

British Postal Orders shows a de crease of about £4,000 as compared with that of 1920, The shrinkage in Gold value of the Silver currency of China's transactions when con- verted into Sterling would partly account for the decrease as the average rate of the silver dollar in 1020 was 18./1ld. while that of 1030 it was only 1s./d.

1930.

11

Money Orders issued... £40,770,10. 3 maid 75,065.13.11 Eritish Postal Orders

issued Eritish Postal Ordere

paid

"

3,637,11.0

2,072, 6. 2

£192,440. 7. 4

2,378. 1.

£106,382 3. Local Postal Notes show a de crease of $1,136.50 due to the closing

messages for the year is 32,055 which is 11 per cent, increase over the figures for 1920. The total number of unpaid words is 1,090,408 which is 41 per cent, increase 43 compared with the figures for last year,

The total increase amounts to 119,632 messages 917,510 words or 63 per cent. and 22 per cent. respectively.

New Servicen.

with a scilsorslike instrument was cutting up the clay into sinali pieces, and rubbing them through his fingers. Each time he "found anything that looked as though it of the engine, first, second and | might be mineral, he put it care third class coaches, then two more fully in a tin for closer examina third class coaches, and lastly the tion later. guards' vin. In the Arst-class

Over on the opposite side of the coach there was only the bar boy; garden was a staked out section, in the second class there were ten

of diuzing IR to be undertaken. (nearest to the engine) there were passengers; in the third class conch indienting that here the next spell Once ure there is n reason for 30 people (amongst whom were

the choice. many of the killed); in the next coach there were 20 passengers, and in the Inst conch and van only-wit- neas and the brakesman,

were

A Violent Jerk.

Three Diviners.

I have had three gold diviners here," Mr. Gresswell said, "They held a piece of gold in one hand,

After dealing with the farts of the case and law, on the point, hig Lordship said it was due not so much to the failure of the "Auglo- Oriental Company at Calcutta that the goods were not supplied in time as to the defendants taking no early stens to ascertain why their eabled order was not acknowledged. seemed a fair inference that, hav- ing had no acknowledgment, cle- spite further cables within night, they could have Laken steps to discover what was wrong and so put themselves in a position to fulfil their part within the contract time or, at any rate, to minimise the delay. Judgement would be for plaintiffs for $370.80.

fort."

Mr. F. H. Kwok was for plaintiffs and Mr. J. T. Prior defended.

USING PROFANE LANGUAGE.

SMART SENTENCE ON CHINESE YOUTH,

A young Chinese was, brought before Mr. E. W. Hamilton yester day on a charge of threatening to assault an elderly Chinese and using profane language towards four girls on the Shanshuipo Ferry.

Sergeant Baker told the Court that the defendant had been in the

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On

When the accident occurred ho a pices of silver in the other, and habit of using abusive language to felt a violent jerk. His van stopa divining twig us well. As they the girls who went to work daily During the year the following ned, and he got two brakesmen to walked over one piece of ground by the Shamshuipo Ferry. new direct services were opened: telephone to headquarters. He him- the swig became agitated in the Wednesday the elderly Chinese men- Bangkok, Saigon, Malabar (with self walked towards Taipo, carrying hand which held the gold, and in tioned in connection with the Bret with him detonators, one of which that which held the silver as well, charge. spoke to the defendant connections to Dutch East Indies, he put down an eighth of a mile indicating that both were below the about his language, but was in turn

Over, the other spot it abused and challenged to fight." Dutch Bornco, Australasia, Europe from the accident. He put down surface.

On registering a conviction, hie and America), and Taiboku. The altogether four detonators on the twitched for gold only, so that I

ae. He did this to prevent any know there is gold, but no silver Worship said the defendant must be services to Swatow and Amey were thing from behind coming on, and there."

very brave man and should join improved and reconditioned. The to avert further accident.

He has sent the specimens found one of the Chinese armies. 1020.

He then wont. back to the scene so far to a smelting works to be His Worship complimented the rates on these 2 circuits were re Money Orders issued... £40,720, 2. 7

duced and standardised and the four detonators

of the accident, and also placed tested. He will await the report first complainant upon his action the Hong Kong before deciding what future ur- and described his 'dead, as an exa paid...... 0,421.12.11

ample which might well be emulated clumsy Receiver to Pay Systers side of the smash, Witness said rangements chall he, British Postal Orders

that he had only a small knowledge "I took a small pieco to a jewel-by the younger generation..

The 4,852.0.0 abolished."

The defendant was fined 850 on issued British Postal, Orders

Commercial wireless telegraph of first uid, but first aid appliances fer in Lincoln," he added.

carried in the guards" van. jeweller tested it, with acid and the first count and $100 on the second, the alternativo being threa paid

services offering the usual tels.

Brakesman's Evidence. told me there was gold in it. graphic facilities are now in opern-

"How the gold found its way months on the two charges. tion as follows:-Amoy: British Chang Yau, brakesman on the into my garden I cannot say. It North Borneo: Canton; Dutch East wrecked train, stated that after

was never buried there by men who Indies, with connections to Dutch leaving Taipo bo put the lights on

had to hide it, for it is not trea race, Australasia, American Con- the train. When the accident hap sure trove, not vesseis or part of tinent and Europe; French Indopened he had just got to the brake-

vassein.

It is just gold in ita China, direct to Hanoi, Saigon and van. Witness got out of the train. natural state, mixed, "of course, Kwongchowan, and with connec- He was not hurt, and went to tele-

with alloy." tions to all inland places; Formosa phone to headquarters from the nine mile crossing." He then Tailioku; Mavila, with connec tions to Philippines, American Cou- returned to the scene of the ac tinent, Europe and alternative concident and tent a hand with the in- nections to Dutch East Indies and jured. Barnco; Shaghai, with connections to inland points in China; Swatow; Siam; Yunnanfu, with connections Postal to other places in Yunnan Pro vinoo; China on Receiver to Pay" basis. The registered, articles delivered

Radio Licences. amounted to 236,600 of which 114,011

During the year, the Radio Office were from the United States of issued wifeless licences as follows:- Annerica and Canada,und-122;455Ship-Station of

Amateur Transmission" from China and other countries

Station* 12 showing a deerenso of 4,663 as com-

Broadcast Receiving 1,896 'Dealers' pared with 241,329 in 1029.

of the Weihaiwei Pust Office.

Chinese Dolivory Section. During the year this section handled 3,488,950 ordinary letters, 247,134 other articles and 5,693 postal Hong packets as against 3,325,100 ordinary letters, 298,031 other articles and 8,000 Hong packets in 1920,

Washed in by the Wanh

But Mr. Gresswell is not so fan- tastic in his hopes as this might seem to imply. He does not expect to find under his inwn the crown of the Magna Charta monarch. He will be satisfied with a few decent

them.

One theory that is being discuss.ugge if his spade should strike

Mrs. ed is that the sea washed it there.

Gresswell Cooked rather Shan Liu atated that he drove a For all Billinghay agrees that hun wistfully at her garden, inut she train which left Kowloon at 4.30 dreds of years ago the sea swept had no murmurings for the way p.m. on April 20. He did not notice and surged and willowed where its beauty was being, despoiled. anything wrong with the line at the Billinghay now stands. The Wash, There will be no tennis for the n the map-unkers call the water Gresswells while this sterner busi- place where the necident occurred.

forward. But we neither Ho noticed no jarring that would beside where the port of Boston rea

of us care very much for tennis," indicate to him that the line was stands, is now a full 20 miles away,

but there are those in the village she said quietly. giving way.

Chung Tim Sheung, guard on the who say their great-grandfathers 4.30 2.0 train which left Kowloon went a-cockling here in those old for Tais, corroborated the previon dass and that this was really the place where King John lost his witnesses' evidence.

jewels.

The hearing was adjourned until next Wednesday.

When asked how deep down, in her opinion, the men would havs to dig before they reached a really rich vein of gold, Ars. Cresswell replied, "Oh, about down to Aas

(Continued at foot of nézt column.)*tralia,"!