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HEAVY ITEMS FOR COUNCIL

OVER TWO AND A HALF

MILLIONS WANTED. .

1)

TO BE MET BY FUTURE LOAN,

At the Legislative Council meet. ing to-day, approval will be sought

for

MOTOR FATALITY

SEQUEL

FURTHER EVIDENCE AT INQUEST.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931.

HONG KONG STOCK GOOD-BYE AND BON

MARKET.

CROUCHER & CO.'S DAILY REPORT.

Interest was chiefly centred in INJURED LADY'S EVIDENCE. qements and Ewos which were the

medium' of a fairly good turnover

both for cash and forward delivery."

On opening, Dements were offer-

VOYAGE.

HAPPY GATHERING AT I.R.C.

PRESENTATION TO MRS. O. GULL.

LOCAL BREWERY.

TO START OPERATIONS NEXT MAY."

PLANT ARRİYING at end of THIS YEAR.

The Hong Kong Brewers and Distillars Co., Ltd., held a statutory meeting at their offices in the Rut Building, Duddell Street, yes terday afternoon.

Tho inquiry into the motor several big items of expendi-ovening of July 1, was resumed at tragedy in Stubbs Road, on the

The hall of the Indian Recreaton ture which will be met from the Central Magistracy yesterday.ing at $10 with eventual sales at tion Club was the scene of a happy future loan and will meanwhile be Mr. E. W. Wiliama sat as Coro 818.75, but later on the market im-gathering last evening when mem- Mr. Warren occupied the charged as advances from the nor assisted by a jury composed of proved slightly and business was bers of the Club assembled to bid chair and. the meeting was attended

Mesars. H. Ovory (foreman), J.M.

done at $19.10 for the settlement. G. Gull good-bye and bon Mayhew and J. Dick.

and 810.00 for September,

with voyage. sellors at 319.75 September.

"surplus balance of the Colony,

The voles are all in respect of the current year and are as fol low's

It will be recalled that a party of five Chinese (2 ladios and 3-mon) were returning from Repulse Bay when the car apparently skidded $350,000 on the Shing Mun and, in the course of the wild career, the occupants were thrown Valley Water Supply Scheme.

clear off the vehicle. One of the $685,000 on the Kai Tack Aero- passengers was killed while the drome slipway and hangar, driver committed suicide in dram

After taking the $750,000 on the Aberdeen Valley tic fashion.

passengers to the Government Water Scheme,

Civil, Hospital, he went to the $140,000 on the titers in con- Empress Hotel where he drank a

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Mrs. Gull was a member of the was showed no improvement on L.R.Q; Mixed: Doubles tennis team yesterday's rate but there were which won the "Dunlop Shield" many buyers as $14.50 for the aplast summer and again this year" proaching settlement and $14.00 for has figured prominently in the September." SN

league contests. She is leaving for Wharves and China Providents Home by the P.&O. Rawalpindi changed hands at $104.60 and $5.00 an Saturday and a token of Lands were easier at 801.80 and their esteem, members of the Club

nection with the Shing Mun large quantity of lysol. As soon

as this was discovered he was | phreys as $19. Valley Water Scheme.

rushed to hospital where he pass * $730,000 (Con th Vehicular ed away. Terry.

The votes will be asked for separately, the resolutions to be moved by the Colonial Secretary.

Court sex...

Othen business to come before the Council will include four re- solutions seeking approval of ar. ders made by the Chief Justice. Amongst these is one which will

The passenger killed was Lau Hung Lun, aged 25, while the driver's name was Wong Ka Chi (9).

41 Have Becided to Dls." Hau Lai Wan, one of the ladies involved in the accident, stated that she sat next to the driver, at the time of the accident She could not quito remember the place and more.y stated that the car sud- denly shot forward and hit the hillside. She did not speak to increase certain Court fees in Wong Ka Chi just before the ac bankruptcy by about 26 per cent.;cident. Sho suffered a fow bruises another which will increase by on the right leg and left eye and about the same percentage Court when she arrived at the Govern- mont Civil Hospita!, she met the fees payable in probate matters, although no increase is made in driver who said, "I cannot faco the fee payable for grants in the Lou (the passenger killed), and 1 case of estates sworn under $2,000 have decided to die." and another increasing by about 25 per cent. the Court feet payable ip actions and matters in theed to be a steady driver. Original and Summary Jurisdic- tions of the Supreme Court. In the Summary Jurisdiction, no in. crease is made in respect of claims not exceeding 8500, wherever it is conveniently possible to make a

distinction,

Other Businets.

She had been driving with Wong

there are small buyers of Rum-presented her with a silver replica

Healties remain firm under sus tained buying at 914.88 and 818.10. Ropes are offering at 811.75 and Dairy Farms at $31.

Banks and Unions are wanted in small lots at $2,065 and $560, re- spectively.

"July 28; 8 p.m.

SCHOOL-MISTRESS" CHARGED.

STORY OF ALLEGED CONFESSION.

of the famous Taj Mahal The Peerless Tomb. Mr. Gull and the Masters Gull were also present.

Mr. B. D. Rumjahu, the tonnis

by the following:-Mosers, D. M. Blake, J.H. Ruttonjec; W. R. Haq- Kenzie, C. do 8. Robertson, Wong Kam Fuk, Jr., He Kom Tong, and Chan Lai Pan.........

Chairman's Speson.,

Mr. J./P/Warren laid?-hs you! will see from the statutory report, the Company has been fully sub- scribed. During the past six months negotiations have boon pro-l ceeding with Messrs. Skodaworks of Prague, Cocho-Slovakia, for the machinery and plant for the brewery,

and with York Shipley

Inc. for the ice-making plant.

Arrangements for the purchase and installation of all machinery

captain, was in the chair while others present included the Misses | Gecks, R. Rumjahn and Rahima Rumjahn and Messrs, A. Hore successfully concluded in May Madar (Hon,, Secretary), R. Mast and same will arrive in Hong Omar, M. R. Deb, S. A. R. Ismail, Kong in the following order- A. H. Rumjahn, M. P. Mador, F. brewing plant and subsidiary ma D. Perrira, M. R. Abbas, S. Achinery about December 30, 1931;

ice plant-January, 1990 Rumjahn, C. A. L. Rumjaha, J. S:

In addition to the above machin Abdul-Curroom and many others. *}

ery, your directors, after the most The Team's Mainstay."

careful consideration, have also After tea had been served, Mr. H. purchased from Mears. Skodaworks D. Ilumjahn said they were gather an omergency power plant. of 200 That the compisinant had obtained to wish good-bye and bon voyage ed a signed confession from the to a friend and very keen supporter kilo-watts to serve the brewery in defendant was the interesting con. of the Club. Mrs. Gull needed to the event of a possible break-down

to introduction

and in the supply of electricity from friends of the It-they all know what she was capable of on outside. This is a very neccssárý the tennis courte, and even off the safeguard, as nothing could com courts Mrs. Gull always had the interests of the Club at heart. She pensate the Company for the loss had time and again helped the Club of trade due to the spoiling of boor

were faced with the difficulty of just or a tight corner when they fermenting in the vata, hozice our how to raise a team; in fact she decision to be prepared to meet the may really be called the pioneer of emergency should it arise. mixed doubles in the I.R.0.

on several occasions and he seem-tention put forward by the prosecu tion at tho Kowloon Magistracy Dr. Edward Law, whose ehr was yesterday, when Chan Wai Man, behind the one involved, and who

a school-mistress, was charged be was the first to arrive at the scene

of the secident, said:"I was infors Mr. E. W. Hamilton with the my car coming back from Repuls Bay and when going down a hill larceny of a purso containing 2150, WOELW car No. 383. We were the property of Li Siu Wan, from

18, Jordan Road, on June 13. about 50 yards behind that car.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall conducted On going over the brow of the hill we lost sight of it and the next time we saw it, it was lying the prosecution, while Mr. F. man d'Almada (er), appeared for

I across the road.

BLW A

Driver Blamed.

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the

members

Continuing, Mr. Rumjaha snið

T

Up-to-Date Plant,

The remainder of the agenda in.

The brewing plant is of the latest elude the first reading of a Bill to amead the Supreme Court Ordi-

they were extremely sorry to lose

nance, 1873; second readings of the and a woman lying on the road- defendant.

such a fine supporter but he hoped and most up-to-date design and has in the very neng future, to hear a capacity of 10,000 to 12,000 of Mrs. Gull winning new laurels hectolitres of beer per year of 312 Bill to authorize the appropriation side, and there were also three of a supplementary sum of two people standing '(two men and s'

The case for the prosecution was, at the home of tennis-Wimble million four hundred and eighty-woman.)

briefly, that on June 13, the de- deaf Mr. Ruminhn then presented days six thousand vehulred

The entire plant should be ready and

fondant visited the complainant at Mrs. Guil with the miniature Taj seventy-seven dollars and two cents

Mahal:

to start operations in May 1939, The woman, who was standing her house at 18, Jordan Road, and Mrs, Gul! to defray the charges of the year

was loudly cheered when manufacturing will com 1930, Bill to amend the Sum up, was hopping on one foot, and borrowed a sum of $15. Shortly when she rose to say that the ap mence, and in this connection we mary Offences Ordinance, 1945; a was putting the blame on a man

after leaving the house in compreciated very sincerely the mem- have, through Messrs. Skodaworks, Bill to

Amend the Rating Ordi- named Wong for the cause of the

pany with the complainant, she re- here' kind thought of giving her s obtained the services of a first-class mance, 1901, a Bill to amend the accident. Sho said, "It was Wong turned alone, and was admitted by souvenir of the very many happy beer brewer from Pilson, and, Criminal Procedure Ordinance, who brought us into this trouble." the amah, to whom she gavo na hor days spent at Bookinpoo This despite the adverse exchange affect 1839; a Bill to amend further the In my cpinion Wong must have ranson for returning the excuse that present would be her most treasuring as it does the 'purchase of raw Public Health, and Buildings Ordi- heard that statement. One of the she had left a letter behind, and ed gift and she hoped the Indian materials, we hope to be able to.

was standing, the incorporation of the Hop Fat and whom I know by sight, call wished the amah to assist her in Recreation Club would always keep offer our beer to the public at n nance, 1903; a Bill to provide for injured men who

a search for it. During the search up their fine tradition of being true much more favourable rate than Tong Church of Christ in Hong my attention to his finger which the defendant was left alone in the sportsmen all! Mrs, Gull was also could be obtained for imported

was bleeding very freely. The

room on the wall of which the presented with a tin of tennis balls beor Kong and the third reading of à other man, whom I now think Bill to amend the law relating to

purse was left hanging, and after The Registration of Births and must have been Wong was saying her departure the loss was discover which were autographed by all The water supply, which is a very vital and important factor in that the brake was the cause of ed

present. Deaths.

Speeches were who made by brewing, is more than adequate, the trouble.

The following day the complain- Witness said he went to see the ant paid a visit to the defendant Mesars. A. H. Mader and 8. A. and according to tests which have other, two who were lying on the at her house at Lai Chi Kok, and mahe. Music followed and the been made, is quite suitable for the WOMEN REBUKED IN WILL. road, and found them to be seri-asked her to return to the house party broke up after singing "Auld purpose,

time-honoured ously injured. He immediately in Jordan Road with her, which Lang Syne" in went to the Stubbs Road Garage she did. She was then questioned fashion. and telephoned for the ambulance.

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CONDUCT DURING SON'S

ILLNESS.

Jause of Accident,

Export evidence as to the cause Two women members of a fami- of the accident was given by Sor. y were rebuked in a will left by goant Guild, who stated that the the late Taang Yak-ying alias Kee accident might have been caused Fook, alias Tsang Bam, whe cri- by the car, which was already go- tized them for their conduct during fast, suddenly atcpping and ing the illness preceding the dosth then necelerating again. By the of his son in 1920. The testatori skids on the road and the marks who made altogether three wills, on the ear, he presumed that the died at 12, Third Street, Saiyang car first struck the left bank of pun, en Feruary this year, leav-the hill lightly, turned to the ing local estate worth $21,900. right and then skidded again to

Probate of the wills has been the left. granted to Tsang Wai-kwong, son, At this slage the inquiry was living at the Baiyingpun address.

In the course of his third will adjourned. testator states:-These two. WO- mca, at the time when Siu Lun was dying, were malevolent and treated him very unkindly. Every day they set apart one bowl and one pair of chopsticks for Siu Lun. They dared not come near

SEQUEL TO RAID ON C.A.A.

IN COURT.

to look after him. If they hap- CHAIRMAN AND TREASURER pened to touch him or his bod Cover with their hands, they would inmodiately wash their hands with disinfectant,They only wanted money they did not want to 200 the dying man."

about the purse, but at first denied that she had stolen it. Later, how ever, she admitted the theft, and signed a written confession, which the complainant took the next day to the Police Station. Proceedings were then instituted.

Evidence of the complainant and amah was taken yesterday, after which the case was adjourned.

HIT-AND-RUN MOTOR DRIVER

EUROPEAN RIOKSHAW PAS- SENGERS INJURED.

YESTERDAY'S THUNDER-

STORM.

NO CASUALTIES REPORTED."

A sovere thunderstorm, accem. panied by a very heavy downpour of rain, beliavad to be the worst the Colony has experienced since that which caused the tragic train disasier at Shatin in April last, visited Hong Kong yesterday,

To those in a position to admira it the storm at its height presented A truly magnificent spectacle, the brilliant and frequent flashes of lightning dispelling the gloom of an otherwise phenomenally dark day, whilst the terrifis lap of thunder supplied a fitting crescendo for the accompaniment of Nature's thrilling manifestation,

The plans for the browery build- ings are now in the hands of Messrs. Leigh & Orange, architecta, and construction work will com. mence shortly.

LOCAL MODISTE SUED.

A CHINESE TAILOR'S WAGES.

A enim for 853.50 for wager was made by a Chinese odd-job tailor against Madame Chiffon before Mr. Justice Lindsel in the Sum- mary Court yesterday..

Plaintiff gave detailed items to the Court in which he set out the exact number of dresses and al- tarations which he had made for the defendant between June 15 June 30,

Defendant told bis Lordship that she had refused to pay the plain- tiff because he had spoiled one dress which had to be "replaced. She also claimed that she had ad- vaneed $20, to the plaintiff on June.

16.

Two Europeans woro injured when the rickshaws in which they were riding were struck by a hit and-run ear, early yesterday morn ing. The police are investigating the affair upon the complaint of The extremely heavy rain which Mr. T. B. Wilson, 94, Hennessy was experienced at about 1.30 p.m. Road, and other injured persons, however, proved a great nuisance It is stated that the rickshaws to many office workers, who were

The defondant said he had never were, hit from belund by a motor storm bound for quite an appre revived the money and as regards Mr. Mok Ying-kwai, 73, 8in car in Queen's Bond Last The ciable: time.

the dress which was alleged to have Hon Terrace, and Mr. Chong puller of Mr.. Wilson's rickshaw was Up to a late hour last night no been spoiled, he told the Court it Shing-chung, , Ying Wah Terrace, thrown foreward and received in-casualties had been reported to the was made for a lady and when it "Portuguese Oidcer's - Estate,

treasurer and chairman respective juries to his arms and legs. Mr. police, unless one would place the was ready it proved to be toc First Liout, Jose Maria Lopes,ly of the Chinese Athletic Associa Wilson was thrown out of the riek-temporary disablement of two Gov tight. He took it away in order engineer of the Portugess Navy, tion, appeared before Mr. Wilshaw and sustained injuries aboveernment telephone lines in this to actor it, It was not allowed by who died intestate at 8. Calcadaliams, at the Central Police Court, the chest. The Phe travelling just Į soutative: was ipformed by a rail work. He could have affected: tho category A Daily Press repro- Madaine Chiff to complete the do Paz, Macao, on June 0, 1929, yesterday, on a summons against Another rickshaw, Left Hong Kong catató which has the Association under the Gamingnhend of the one in which Mr. way official at the Kowloon Rai necessary; alteration if he had been been valued at 823,000. Lotters of Ordinance.

Wilson was riding was struck by way Station that everything was

allowed to carry on. administration have been granted The Association rooms were raid the shafts of the other rickshaw in order along the line, and that Evidenco was given by a witness to Mr. Carlos Augusto de Roza,

and Mrs. Lunny, the wife of Mr. ne reports of flooding or other up for the defence that two yards of exchango broker, of Alexander

J. Fanny, of the Hong Kong toward occurrences had been re-now material at $4. a yard had to Building.

Electric Company, who was the pas ceived.

DRE ANNE be purchased in order that a now senger, was thrown from her seat Enquiries, at the Royal Oliserva dress could be replaced. Also 88 and hon rickshaw puller was thrown tory elicited the information that had to be paid for workmanship.. forward, both receiving slight in the heaviest rainfall tock pinco In giving judgment for 817.60 between 120 and 2:30 pm zhen, for the plaintiff, His Lordship It was stated that the car, No 0.95 inches were registered the pointed out that he was deducting 1803, was driven by a Chiness and total rainfall for the day, that is the advanos of $20-and also the it is understood that, the traffic hotweon, the hours af 10,30 am 810 incurred through the plaintiff's authorities will take necessary, ac and 8.30 p.ra, was avion as 1223 mistake in making the dress un-

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