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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1934.

ECHOES OF 1859

89- No Water At Scene Of Fire-

(28th December, 1859) A fire broke out last night in a. Chinese tenement, at the corner of Pottinger and Stanley Street, being the rear and Western corner house of that large block of buil- ding which fronts Queen's Road from opposite the Oriental Bank,

to the middle of the Centrai

Market..

stimulated them amazingly." They commenced pulling down the walls by carrying the anchor up them, throwing it into a window and then heaving on it until the bricks that held it give way. The pressure on the water pipes had been in creased to a splutter, which would last nearly a minute on a stretch some times. The fire waxed hot and furious-the sailors became Never W83 valuable property correspondingly daring and viva- in more imminent jeopardy clous-the expectorations from the before, and

never were the pipes became more frequent and apathy and mismanagement of prevented the adjoining houses those to whose protection it catching. The are crackers which Is entrusted more

miserably were in the shop at last ignited, demonstrated. The fire broke throwing the sailors into ecstacles, out about ten, there fortunately creating a blaze of sufficient heat not being a breath of wind. The to grill anything but a man of police station being only a few

war's man or a salamander. yards. of, an engine was of course immediately on the ground, but

"The Registrar General, and all there being neither water procur- the other local generals, with the able, nor any one in charge per-

Colonial Secretary at their head. ceptible, the Are smouldered and

were making complimentary and evinced great signs of constitutional post prandial addresses to each debility for upwards of half another at the Freemason's lodge. It hour,

is said that they would have come Meanwhile the Tam-achor engine with

to the fire, but the firing of these strong. company

crackers which made them suppose came on the ground, and the water it was out, and foss being chin- pipes were induced to give a few spasmodic sneezes.. There. neither hooks ropes nor ladders. Well, the sailors pulled down the and although a determination was walls, the engines played on the evinced that the devouring element ; adjoining houses, and the 'fire' ex- should be contended with no means pended itself on the tenement in | and appliances being available, Į which it originally burst out. still there seemed no prospect of Truly a most wonderful escape, the construction of such means for the heat was terrific at times. and appliances being seriously it was but a frali China tenement. entertained. until the Oriental not only adjoining others of the bank should get singed in its same nature at its side, but not some men-of-war's came with a from a second row on its rear. verandah. The fire got worse and separated by more than one yard

sinali kedge anchor. They were Had there been any wind last told that the burning house was a night, we certainly should now Brework shop, which intelligence | have to deplore a sad calamity.

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were

chinned for it.

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Collision between 2 Motor Lorries. 12.30 rx 22.1.34. Motor lorry No. 1858 was being driven along Connaught Road West near Queen's Street, follow- ed by motor lorry No. 3437. The driver of motor lorry. No. 1658 signalled he was going to stop. The driver of motor lorry No. 3437 failed to stop his vehicle in time and ran into the rear of motor lorry No. 1855, causing damage to the mudguard.

bus. No

Collision-Motor Bus v. Pablle Ricksha....14.30 hrs. 22.134.

driven along Queen's Road C. Motor bus No. 603 was being near King's Theatre from east to Ricksha, number unknown, caus- west and collided with a Public i ing slight damage to nearside rear mudguard of the damage to ricksha. Motor Bus v. Private Motor Car. 03.10 hrs. 23.1.34. Private motor car No. 4046 wd's being driver down Pedder Street, followed by motor bus No... 618. The private car had to stop sud- avoid a Chinese male denly to who was running across the road. Damaging the "rear lamp of the private car and crank handle of

the bus.

Private Motor Car v. Pedestrian. 17.00 hrs. 22.1.34. Private motor car No. 4151 was being driven along Shaukiwan Road from east to west by Mr. T.C. Barclay when near the Yacht Club he slowed down with the intention of stopping, but instead

the accelerator, and knocked down of applying the brake he trod on

Kung Cheung who was walking in the side channel. 'causing slight Injury to his left knee. Treated: at the Government Civil Hospital Not.detained.

Collision-Private Car Motor Lorry. Motor lorry No. 364 was being

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Lion, an unemployed coolie, was yesterday fined $50. or one Wong Fook Hong, a vegetable month's imprisonment, by Mr. dealer and the owner of the Sang | Hamilton, at the "Central Magis- Wan Lan shop at the junction of | tracy, for cutting pine trees and Waterloo and the Reclama- | trespassing on the Government tion St. was the first witness plantation No. 8A, above the new . called. He said that he was in catchwater at Aberdeen. Ng Sau, ihe habit of making payments another unemployed coole, was every week; this being done by fined $25 or three weeks for cutt cash,

the notes chopped being ing wild dead trees at the same with their peculiar mark This place. Chan Chuen, was, fined $5 was usually sent by one of the or seven days for trespassing. fokis who took it to the compra- dore department which in its Six weeks' imprisonment was tum sent it down to Canion by imposed by Mr. Halfour, at the of the river, boats. The Central Magistracy yesterday, on cmount sent varied from $1.000| Sai Chuk-1, unemployed, charged to $500 and sometimes to $1,300 a¦ with theft of a bag containing week. About a fortnight ago, the | $27 from the Tak Yuen shoe- owner of the shop sent Lok Tul; makers' shop in Wellington Street, Sung, a foki who had been in his The bag was the property of employ for 10 years, with some Wong King, a woman, who was $540 odd.. Wong Fook Hong saw looking over some shoes in the the entry made in the account shop. She left the bag on the book, and one of the three men counter, and defendant walked fï present handed over the money and ran away with it. He wa to the Foki. He himself went arrested by a constable- before he away after this. About 8.15 p.m. could get away. a fok came and made a report to him, thereupon he went to the police where he found his fokl. " Ho To Tung. from the Detective Department, then bore witness to the statement which he had made at 6 pm, on the 15th at the Yau- mati Police which the defendant bad signed and which read" I "I was sent to Macao. and I did not rob this man, I was walk wanted to go to Shanghai," plead- ing in the street, it was not I who ed i Tin-sau before Mt. Hamil- stole the money". Sub-Inspector ton, at the Central. Magistracy Dorling also gave evidence.

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Chol Sang, a casual labourer at the Talkoo Dockyard. was senten- ced to one month's imprisonment by Mr. Hamilton, in the Central Police Court for the theft of two tins of paint from the dockyard.”

Mr. Lowe, for the defence, thened from banishment. Defendant argued that as there were no ac- was banished on December 12-last tuel grains of pepper. found

year. He was arrested in Wan- the defendant it was reasonable chaL Mr. Hamilton imposed twel- to suppose that it need not have ve months' hard labour. been him who had thrown the pepper, but on the contrary he might have received the smell through the contact he had come with the complainant who had struggled with him

As the man" who handed over the money to Lok Tai Sung could not be procured that afternoon, the hearing. was adjourned till next Wednesday.

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