BUZZ
MEANS STOP THEPA
TELEPHONE BOX ALARM ALL CAN HEAR
HELLO GIRL" DEFECTIVES.
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Schemes are now in the Generul Fost Offfo to put an end to coimbat crooks, who try to get money from public telephone
··kiosks."
If, next time you pass Riosk you suddenly hear an alarming ** buzzing
coming from it admost like a fire alarm then you can Assume that the person: inside has 'bian,
tampering with the coin mechanism and has, touched tha signal which calls the nearest, police
mar.
When a man was sentenced at the Old Bailey to eleven months hard labour for stealing from a tel phone cabinet recently, Mr. St.
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CABINET MINISTER DANGER OF DISEASE
ON THE SABBATH.
“NO DECISION ON DESECRATION OF:
LORD'S DAY T
LAW REVOKED AFTER
*310 YEARS.
After public meetings, protents by religious bodies, deputations to the council, sermons, debates, letters, and arguments, the Sunday gang controversy at Wealdstone and Kap ton is closed for the time being. Opponents of Bunday spinos have received a letter from, the Ministry of Health, confirming the new by law of Wealdstone Urban Council which permits Sunday games on recreation grounds controlled by the council.
SHORTAGE
WATER
FURTHER WARNING BY D.PW,
REGARDING WASTE..
MURDER TRIAL
ADDRESSES BY DEFENCE
TODAY
SUMMING UP TO MORROW
MORNING.
If the water shortages The trial of three men at the amuta there is a distinct possibility Criminal Sessions in connection that certain discaso may become with the Victoria Gap murder case newhas more prevalent than nor will be concluded. temorrow acord, mally, according to an ominent localing to indiostions - given by Mr. medical authority who was inter Justice. Wood as the close of yes vowed by our representative yesterday's hearing." terday afternoon.
The general standard of cleanli- loss is bound to redoks a low level song the Chinese, who are not at the best of times in favour of the external application of water while the condition of the stronts, jaalse bound to suffer.
Mr. Ein Shing Lo defending the nocused Cheung Man, informed his Lordship that he would require about two bears for his final ad- dress, while Mr, Somerset Fitzroy, defending the other two prisoners, said that be would need about half an hour in the case of each accused. His Lordship granted the morning, sitting to Mr Load said that at the close of Mr. Fitzroy's address in the afternoon the Court would
for the summing-up, i - to Health, adjourn until 8,30 m tomorrow
Defence · Submis. long, l
The practice of dating food that The Ministry, in approving the has remained uncovered in a public by-law, state that the Minister (Sir place will owing to the dusty con- E. Hilton Young) wishes to make tion of the streets, be more than John Hutchinson mentioned that a
plear that he is not giving any usually detrimental it distant alarm was given if the coin decision in favour of the decra- while there is considerable danger box was tampered with heation of the Lord's Day (quoting of the Odiness drinking water from robberies of this kind were becoming from the petition lodged against the nullahs, with resultant dysentery 30 general
council's proposal) or if favour of and typhoid." In this connection it granting by the council of facilities is interesting to note that the qualevidoneo in the morning, Mr. Somer for games on Sundays. The deity of Hong Kong's water is second ision of these questions does not fall to none in the world, the water within his province us, confirming authorities maintaining that it can authority for by-laws.
quito safely be drunk from the mains without boiling.
A reporter learned that this is by no means the only device which dunning G.P.O. brains have set in motion in order to stamg out
phone fraud odor and for all.
An official said:-
"Dirostly anyone begins to pam- For with a coin-box a buzzing ignot is set in motion which warna the operator at the exchange. In a
'The Criminal Law.
The letter then continues r
In that province he is concor
* Death Rate.
&
At the close of Cheung Man's
set Fitzroy addressed his Lordship on the evidence addused by the Crown against the second and third prisoners. Counsel submitted that the Crown case against the second prisoner (Cheung Tize Chan) was ult ca may evidence and that he had no case to answer. Accord
fash she 'phones through to the persons who play games on Sunday number of victims owing to the ingly be asked for the discharge of
**
dearest, police station and officers will be on the scene.
"At the same moment loud alarm is given just outside the call Box which is being tampered with and any policeman or Post Office official who is near will be there in a moment.
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They Will Not Work.
in a public pleasure, ground be sub the criminal law ?? jected by by law to the penalties of
tho accused..
Diseases which may be expected the normal ed with one" question alone: Shaip to claim more than
water shortage are those affecting
His Lordship held that there was the intestinon. The death rate for various diseases for 1981 makes it to answer; end; at Mr. Fitz. roy's request, reserved the point teresting reading.
for Full Court consideration in the During that year 1,130, persona succumbed to enteritis, of whom avent of the prisoner being convict
ad: non-Chinose. Infantile en- The responsibility for the intro were duction of Sunday games, the op- eritis claimed 4,823 victims, while
Council have just repealed. was The by-law which the Weardawne
made 31 years ago.
*
It is the same; if any ill-adviset Ponents, claim, now raste with the that ever-present scourge, pulmon Fu), Mr. Fitzroy said that all that
person attempts to get bis call
birough without putting two peД-. nies, or whatever the charge is, in the box.
council.
Southend Decision
Southend Entertainmenus" and
ary tubercolosis, carried off 1,083 lives. The number of deaths from non-pulmonary tuberesiosis was 778 Other bronchial diseases account.
A Dollie Hill, NW, the Post Office have a special research de Parks Committee considered the ed for 6,000 deaths, while 20% casas partiment, which includes in Ito work question of permitting, the Coun- of dysentery, were fatal. The total the adaptation of devices for check-cil's bowling greens and tennis mating any attempted phone frauds.
number of deaths in Hong Kong
the third prisoner (Cheung Sau
Dealing with the evidence against ||
had been proved against this was with two others, one of whom was that he had been living in a room
Cheung Tu Wah, who had been tried and acquitted, ? There was evidence that the accused carried two letters to Shaukivan, but there was nothing to show that he w the contents of the letters. If the secused had committed any offence, person, but the Crown had utterly failed to prove that he was present un the scene of the murder. Coun sel submitted that there was case to go before the jury.
HONG KONG, STOCK MARKET.
YESTERDAYS OFFICIAL
· QUOTATIONS.
4. quietor tone prevailed at the opening session yesterday morning, and there was a lack of interest in market movements.
Hong Kong Banka $1,530/1,540, Hong Kong Realties: $11.35. Dairy Farms! #28:
Canton Insurances Dougingen
Benguet
な
31
Providenia: (Old); #4: 85, (h Hong Kong Lande Sval Shangħa) Tanda Tin, 3B.. Humphreys $15. Peak Trans (Old) $18. --Taumati Ferrien (Old) #81).
Yaumati Ferries (New) $30), Hong Kong Hectrics 973.65.- Cements (Combined) $18;201 Sincares: $17. Pod Constructions (Now) $1.70."- Government Ladans 24 per cent.
premium.
Sellers:
South China Motors: "B" #12. 8.0. Enterprises: $34"/
AFTERNOON SESSION, Markste displayed an easier tone during the day, with very little doing."
Salos.
Hong Kong Lands 377). Hong Kong Hectrica #73.85,
·Buyers
il
Hong Kong Banka: $1,520,-
1.
SHARE CONTRACTS.
DECREASE IN STAMP'
DUTIES
"RIALTO" REPERCUSSIONS,
courts to be used on Sundays. It from all causes in 1987 was 18,797 it was an attempt to kidnap some bably the reason why recently both:
No, it is quite impossible to de- I was resolved to take no action. caive us by putting sixpences into the shilling slot or using halfpenniest for shillings. Unless coin is a precise weight and size and shape .appropriate to its slub it will not
work the mechanism.
م الله
Several prosecutions have been, instituted lately and the Post Office will not havitate to proseguto ⚫ offenders. It is now possible to
detect any imprope:"call"
J
PLANS NOT SUBMITTED..
CHINESE FINED UNDER -BUILDING ORDINANCE.
At Central Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was charged with tasting to submit plans for the alteration. of a building which bad not been
cunmoructed to the satisfaction of the Building "Autbority.
Mr. J. C. Neville was complain ant in the case while Mr. Horace Lo appeared for the defence.
Mr. Lo sold the Coure that at the end of last year some alterations were made to 28 Hing Lung Street without the necessary plane having been submitted to the Public Works Department and as a result the agent for the owner was summoned before his Worship, and the was imposed M. Lo believed thau an order had been made that plans be submitted and that alterations be made without any undue delay. The plans were duly sent in his they were not approved and the architects were informed that pro- per plane should be, submitted.
Unfortunately, the owner want to the country for some time and
LYNCHING IN GLARE
OF HEADLIGHTS.
There were 18 suicides, 23 violent deaths, and 300 deaths resultant upon accidents of various Rinds.
Water Hoarding.
The ecosity of residents keeping. In strict watch on the activities of their servants as regarde waste of YOU ARE HANGING THE water and hoarding is emphasised
RIGHT MAN”
by the following notice issued yes terday by the Hon. Director of Public Works
A trembling evict was dragged from his call by a howling mob" of" 200 townspeople at St. Francia, Kansas, and hanged from a tree
near the town.
The man,, Richard Read, bad con- fessed to attacking an eight-year old girl, Dorothy Hunter.
..
The mob entered the town at mid night and overpowered the Sheriff, Mr. A. A. Baker.
The invaders then went to the prison where they broke in and He was dragged out seized Rend.. shouting for merey and one of his captors yelled. “We'll give you the sono merey you gave that little Sit
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Mapy houses standing on elevat ed ground failed to obtain a supply of water on Wednesday evening bo tween 5 and 6 p.m.
That stamp revenues from share contracts are much below the aver- jage at the present moment is pro the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Shagebrokers the authorities pointing out the re Association réceived a letter from
quirements of the law in regard to: the stamping of contracts.
His Lordship, after hearing Mr that there was a case to answer and a Hazlerigg Crown Solicitor, beld reserved the point for Full Court consideration as in the one of the second, accused.
Brutal Murder.
Mr. Landsell said that it was a In his final address to the jury. brutal and callous murder the like of which he thought had not been committed in Hong Kong during the past 20 years. He said that the This was found on investigation evidence brought by the Crown to be due to the thoughtless action tended to show that all the thres of sorvants-of houses at lower levels ads were members of a gang who were drawing off between working for murder. Their primary these hours, large quantities of object was to get the deceased into water för storage overnight in their clutches and kill him straight bath-tube- and other utensils, and away and try to obtain ransom in some instances ware even using cacy from his relatives or bold. water for gardening, although the him until such time as they obtain- regular garden supplies had beened the money or the deceased fell cut off.
Ein with their wishes. (
A leading broker, interviewed by stated that the letter was probably Daily Pre representative, the outcome of the decrease in stamp zevenue from Ice House Street this year Forward ton- tracts have been considerably fewer during the past five months than year. during any period of the past
One reason for the decline in the number of contracts is that fas ward business is now restricted,co. two months ahead only, while in former times there was no restriction
such that with a general depression. in Another reason ist
other lines of business, it has been extremely difficult to interest the public in shares.
Bystem Explained.
As regards any evasion of stamp duty, it was explained that the Householders in all districts, but After outlining the evidence Government receive their duty on more... particularly on the Middle against each of the prisoners, Mr. avery alp note and purchase note and Upper Levels and Peak, are Lindsell said that the Crown had when ach ale or purchase is earnestly requested to en-operate fa proved, beyond reasonable doubt made by people who are .not the conservation and equitable die that they were individually guilty brokers. In practically, all cases, tribution of the water supply by of the charge of murder and be a person wishing to sell shares properly supe vising their servants :
riicrefore asked the jury, to return a | approaches a broker and has toi Read was then half dragged, half not merely by instructing them not verdict of guilty, carried to a motorcar in which he to waste water, but by personally
The Court adjourned at this stage. Fra stamp duty, on his aslo con tract. Tho brokor affecting the was taken across the plains to assing that their instructions are.
salo either goes to another broker orwells it to another client. If he quiet spot where he was placed in carried out.
A detnohment of the mob had been told off to escort the sheriff four miles out into the country and he was then allowed to gà.
glare of the headlights why a satisfactory reduction in coir- noose was fastened round his neck. sumption has already resulted from Facing his captors Road said: the restrictions imposed on Wedrios-
day.
I am guilty You are hanging the right man. I was drunk whos
I took Dorothy, otherwise I ahould
Girl's Death in Wood.
it was due to that that no instruenot, have done such a thing." bions. could be given to the architect. The work, therefore, was, loft in abeyance Shortly after wards, the architects, wrote to the Public Works Department and is formed them they had not been able to receive instructions from the
owner.
A summons was taken out and a
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found in the woode near her home The body of the little girl was, yesterday after she had been miss ing for two days,...
The governor of the gaol where
prison to the mob, which then num
THEFT FROM " CHINA
TWO CHINESE GET SIX WEEKS EACH.
VILLAGE ROAD MURDER.
CASE TO BE CONTINUED TODAY.
Chong Kwok You, who is charged in connection with the recent Mr. D. C. Wilson, manager of the murder at Village Boad when George Fung was shot by an un-
sells to a chent, a day stamped. purchase, note is made out. If he sells to a broker (who in turn sells it to a client) thair the stamp duty is paid, not by the second broker who merely acts as an in termediary in the transaction, but by the ultimate purchaser who the rent buyer,
The letter received from the au thorities, thereford, is not causing any consternation in Ice House disposes of shares on his own Street. 1a broker acquires or account, it is obvious that he must pay stamp duty. If he taila
running.
few days ago the owner returned to Rent was held says that he at first [, China. Mail, appeared as complain known assailant, was brought be-todo ep. he knows the risk he is the Colony when he gave the in- refused to give up the kope of the ant in a caso at Contral Magistracy;fore the Magistrate yesterday with- |
yesterday when two Chinese were structions to the architect, with the result that plans had now been subbered only fifty, He finally suzren charged with the theft of two eledly concerned in his trial being out nayone other than those direct- mitted and Mr. Lo gathered from dered the keys when they began to trie fans
Detective Sergeant D. Fitches said pearance before the Magistrate. It brought up in the morning instead
aware that he was to make hiï'ap- poles,
that the second man was arrested will be remembered that on the of in the afternoon was because the while pawning one of the fans, for inst two occasions he brought Crown Prosecutor Mr. B. E. Lind 38He pointed out the first dep the Cours was go throwded that sells was still engaged in another fendent, and when, questioned both special police officers were detailed case at the Sessions, and as this admitted stealing two fans to cope with the rush
onde, hád not been concluded;fïther It was the tirate time? Quống,ap:“ | Crown were unable bór proceed with newsed wider
Mr. Neville, that they will meat batter in the walls with telegraph probably be acðupted,
Following some discussion, Mr. Noville told the Court that his in structions were to ask for a pan- alty, taking into consideration the frouble given and also for an or der that the revork be completed
➡ within 28 days
A fine of $25 was imposed and the order mentioned above was socord- Lingly" madon
1:10. CERTIFICATES.
They gained entrance to the officer ein the early hours of Wednesday hy ons standing on the other's brok and climbing through a fan-light The men were each given six weeks hard labour ench
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