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FACTS AND OPINION
Lady Driver Fined
Mrs H. B. Nelt residing at Bun- galow No. 4 Shek-O, was summon- ed before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday after- noon for driving car No.-2765 along Hennessy and Johnstone Roads at the speed of forty miles per hour, on April 9 last. Traffic officer Sargent stated that he followed the defendant from Ewo Street. where she was doing 26 miles per hour, into Hennessy Road, up Tin Lok Lane and into Johnstone Road where she was doing 40 miles per
hour.
LARCENY BY A TRICK
Skeleton Watch Pawned
A trick that almost deceived the eyes of ari expert, was detected by an assistant of a pawnshop and led to the arrest of Ho Chu-shek, 26. watchmaker, who, as a result, was charged with larceny by' i trick before Mr. E. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magistracy on Saturday.
ZOO ANIMALS GET CHURCH SHOULD STEENAGE
INDIGESTION
Improper Food Given By " Visitors
NOT COMPETE·· WITH CINEMA
Practice Condemned By Presbytery
Many animals in the London Zob must have awakened on a recent morning suffering from indiges- A suggestion that the Churen tion, or, at best, with an uncom had better adhere to her own func- fortable feeling in their Insides. It tion, and not compete with the is not their fault; the blame rests cinema and the dance "hail, was with human beings. More than
made in a report on the lapse of 80.000 people visited the Zoo dur-young people from the Church, which was read at a meeting of ing the holidays.
the Edinburgh Presbytery of the Free Church of Scotland recently.
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It was alleged thas defendant on the evening of April 30 went to the
The authorities make every Tai Wo pawnshop, No. 180, Lai-chi-
effort to ensure thut visitors give kok Road, and tendered a wrist
the animals suitable food; notices watch and asked for 85. The as-
"One of the most serious pro- sistant finally agreed to 83.50.
displayed prominently; the blems with which the Church Is oficial guide publishes a dietary, confronted to-day is the question: Defendant asked for the watch back, and after hesitation he decid-Nevertheless, although on
most of holding the interest and loyalty ed he would pawn the watch at the ordinary days the public follows of her young people," the report
the directions reasonably, on Bank stated. price suggested. This time he ten-
Holidays visitors seem to lose all. dered a watch that was of a simi-
"Never an easy task, the dimcut- sense of proportion.
They buy
ties have been greatly increased by: monkey nuts and
the modern passion for Uberty of sugar-lumps on the way here," a
thought and conduct, so that the keeper told a "Morning Post" re- period of adolescence was. never
"and Presentative.
them Rive
perhaps fraught with more danger every creature they. see.
than at present. Nuts should only be given to man- keys, squirrels, and parrots, yet they give them to the tigers, pen- gulas, and even the sea-lions. We stop all those we see, but of course we are more or less powerless when there are thousands. here." CIGARETTE-EATING
Under cross-examination he said that he thought the defendant was driving dangerously and it was Impossible for him to overtake her as 14 would be a danger to the pub- ile and also to himself. It wouldlar appearance but without any not be easy to blow the horn of a machinery, except a piece of metal metor-cycle which was travelling
to balance the weight. at a speed of forty miles per hour. DEFENDANT'S STORY Trame Inspector Saunders then gave evidence to the effect that he tested the speedometer of motor- cycle 493 and found it to be correct In every respect.
In the witness box defendant stated that she had eight years experience of driving and had been driving in the Colony since January this year. On the day in question she was particularly careful as she had a small boy as a passenger in her car, as on one previous occa sion he had got sick when she was driving him home from Shek-0, She also stated that she was very
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stopped her and said she was travelling at the rate of 40 miles per hour.
Cross examined by Trafic In- spector Saunders she said that her brakes were in perfect condition as they had recently been overhauled.
Miss Prosser, nurse to the child then gave evidence which corro- borated with that of Mrs. Nell's.
FINE IMPOSED
The accountant did not inspect the watch and handed it to his time assistant, and at the same
drew up the pawn ticket together with the money and gave them to defendant who walked away hur- riedly.
The trick was detected by the assistant accountant who opened the watch and found it was only a skeleton. They went after the de- fendant and caught him.
Defendant was seen at the time walking with a friend who was al milarly dressed and had run away on the approach of the shop fokis, It is suspected that defendant passed the ticket and money on to his confederate.
Defendant denied that, he even been to the pawnshop.
Detective-Sergt. Wallingford said that witnesses could be produced to prove that defendant had been attempting similar tricks on other pawnshops but had not succeeded.
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"The love of pleasure, which is so copiously catered for on every hand, does not make the work any easler, and the attempts of some of the denominations to hold their young people by competing with the cinema and dance hall y by MONKEYS
providing amusement in their own Even the monkeys, who can ab-halls for their own youth, are not sorb almost anything, from bana-likely to be successful. * nas to meal-worms, are frequent- ly offered cigarettes in the hope that they will smoke them. Not unnaturally, the tobacco is usually eaten, with unfortunate
"The sacred afid the secular do not harmonise readily, and the Church had better adhere to her own function, and retain her old conse- and tried methods of administer-
panzees, are also often fed, in spite
had quences. Their cousins, the chiming to the rising generation." It was suggested that special evange- of notices beseeching visitors to listic meetings should be held. refrain from doing so.
Defendant was convicted and fred. 815 or one month's impri- sonment.
His Worship then stated that HOUSEBREAKER SENT
this case was one of facts on one sald and opinions on the other, therefore he was inclined to tak the one of facts and imposed a finc of $4 on the defendant.
ROBBERY ON
A JUNK
Before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday: Yau Yuen, aged 46. a boat master and Chat Lam-choi. aged 37, a boatman, were charged with having taken part in an armed robbery o April 13, last.
TO PRISON
Chan Kwan, aged 33. appeared before Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy yesterday on a charge of breaking into a house in Queen's Road East at 3 p.m. last Saturday and, steaiing 11 pleces of clothing valued at $13, one Dia- mond rod for cutting glass valued at $8.00. and 45 cents in money.
The defendant had one previous conviction this year, and His Wor- ship said he would take a serious view of the case and sentenced de- I tendant to six months hard labour.
CORONATION DRESS OF QUEEN MARY
The facts were that on April 13. defendants and three others, not In custody, boarded a Class TV sali-, ing boat armed with "reveivers, Queen Mary's Coronation dress. held up the master Lam Hung-wait was stated will be a classic de- and his lokis, and after a thorough sigri by Reville, in pale, supple search, decamped with 76 fishing cloth of gold, hand-embroidered hets, sails and oars and other art!- with silver and fine diamante, in cles 'and belongings of the occu a cascading design of roses and pants of the vessel.
fuchsias.
Defendants were also charged with receiving 20 fishing nets and articles which were found in their possession.
Detective-Sergt. Brooks who was In charge of the case asked his Worship for a week's remind which was granted.
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Kwan Yick, 31, a seaman resid- ing at No. 4 Queen's Road West, ground floor, lalled to appear be- The conference of the National fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Association Schoolmasters, Magistracy yesterday on a charge Stoke-on-Trent recently passed a of keeping a common gaming house resolution demanding that junior at No. 96 Electric Road. ground } bay's schools be taught by.men and noor on April 25. His bail of $50 that in Junior mixed schools boys was estreated while six other de- should also under the predominat- fendants, who were also not pre-ing influence of masters. sent in Court, had their bail of. Mr. R. A. Anderson, Deptford. $3.00 each estreated. Ten other said that it was absolutely neces- defendants who were in Court were saty that these schools should be each. fined $2.00 or 4 days hard able to comply with the request of parents when they took their boys labour.
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to the teacher and said, “Make a man of him," or the comparable request for a girl, "Make a woman of her."
The menu permitted to eleph- ants offers a wide choice-bread.
buns, biscuits, fruit, potatoes, car-Ghost Follows
rots, turnips, and locust-beans—. yet they must have been offered several thousands of the Inevitable nuts. Treacle, which is relished by the block beurs, s allowed if is administered in
Pharaoh's Bone
To Scotland
the cardboard cartons provided by SIR A. SETON'S STORY the Zoo, out the bears got it more often than not in tins. which are liable to Injure them.
A small piece of bone in a glass
Visitors are particularly request-case, brought as a curlo from the Tomb of Gizeh last year by Lady ed to offer no food to the lärge:
Seton, and declared to be part of carnivora, such as the llons and
the skeleton of a Pharach, is to be small cats and tigers, nor to the
taken back to Egypt in all haste the otters. Yet on the floor of their cages, particularly those of shortly by Lady Seton, to be re- more accessible animals like the cheetahs, was a mixture of nuts,
sugar-jumps. bread and grapes. For
the most part the "food" was re-
garded with contempt, but some was eaten. to the detriment of their digestion.
DANCE GIRL'S DEATH FALL
placed in the tomb whence it came, because both Lady Seton and her
husband, Sir Alexander Seton, de-
clare that. It has brought misery and accidents to their home, Pre-
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A serious and persistent series of accidents has been suffered by the family, Sir Alexander Seton de- clared, since the bone has been in their possession.
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The life of his household had been made raiserable by accidents that could not be coincidences, he
Man Heard Her Call stated.
His. Name
ILLNESS AND A GHOST From the moment the curio was placed in the lounge of the house an unprecedented series of happen- A terrified cry rang out inings "occurred in the household. Castlehill, Reading, Hearing it. Sudden Illnesses attacked the young man turned and saw the family and staff, two fires broke body of a girl whom he had just out, and visitors still complain of ä left after a dance hurtle down mysterious robed figure which wan- from a fourth-floor window to the ders through the house at night. ground a few yards from where he stood.
Glassware, put away in cabinets: is found, smashed to atoms, and in The girl, Lilian Muriel Beeston other parts of the room, in the aged 19, a Reading telephone op-
morning. On Saturday, when no erator, was still alive when the
one was near the lounge, the glass young man, Fred Carter, a ste-
case tell only two feet from the ward at Sonning Golf Club, and table and yet was pounded to splin- a policeman picked her up. Sheters, while the bone was un- died in the Royal Berkshire In- Brmary a few hours later with her boy friend still in dress clo. thes beside her.
Miss Beeston had spent the last evening of her life at a St. Patrick Night's dance in Reading with Mr. Carter and a party of friends.
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damaged.
Maids will not stay in the house, more than one night, and each has complained of seeing the spectral robed figure.
**This is the last straw," said Str Alexander yesterday. "My friends have laughed at the whole affair-
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Barbed Arrows For The King
An unusual ceremony is likely to be witnessed when their Majesties visit Edinburgh early in July the Royal Company of, Archers (the King's Bodyguard in Scotland). having offered to present a pair of barbed arrows to the King.
The last occasion on which such a presentation took place was in
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granted to the Royal Company of
'PHONE CALL ROMANCE
until they stayed here a night-1927, when King George V and The couple, who had become ac-
and though I have tried to have Queen Mary were in residence at
the Palace of Holyroodhouse, quainted through a telephone call an open mind, this is far more four months ago, walked back after than coincidence. It is perfectly
Under a provision of the charter the dance to a flat in which Mias astounding how we have been dog- Beeston lived alone.
ged by this shadow of, fil-luck ́ever "I stayed some minutes in the since that wretched bone was flat discussing the dance with her." brought into the house." said Mr. Carter. "Muriel was in He has received about 80 offers the happlest of spirits, and for the bone, but he is determined we arranged to meet again...
that no one else shall suffer the
front door and was about to walk (self.
Archers by Queen Anne in 1703, they are bound, to present two ar- rows, to the Sovereign each year at Whit-Sunday, but not unless asked to do so. In recent times, how ever, the practice has been limited
the "occasion of the King's visits to 'Ecotland, and it is not always that they have been asked" to implement the offer,
"Boys," said Mr. Anderson, "Te sent the domination of the woman teacher, and equally they expect and invite the dominance of the "I had just let myself out of the experiences of Lady Seton and him- to the company's offering the gift
man teacher."
Mr. J. H. Evans, London, declar-away, when I heard a cry of 'Fred!' That bone is going to be replac ed that patience was not a char- above me. I turned just in time ed in the tomb we took it from as acteristic
of women teachers. to see Muriel's body falling."** quickly as possible" he said,” “and "Patience, is frequently a mis-.
Miss Beeston's landlady said: Lady Seton is making the trip her- nomer," he said, "for sheer persist- "She apparently stood on a springs self to ensure that it gets there. ence, and this sheer persistency couch by the window after slipping This ghastly business has got to arises from an undefined sense of off her, frock, and possibly intended stop. and we are taking no fear of freedom in the minds of to wave good-bye to her friend.] chances.” ⠀ | our women teachers."
The conference agreed to a re- solution recommending the estab- llishment of special committees in each locality to", deal with road safety for children.
She had not a care in the world.". Bir Alexander once gave the bone
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In the special circumstances of
the forthcoming: Royal visit, how- `ever, it is expected that the offer will be accepted."
The girl's stepfather, Mr. H. Pye, to a surgeon, and that very night A policeman in a Midlands court of Kenilworth-avenue, Reading,the, surgeon's maid, broke a leg described a prisoner as half 2 said that she left home about six when running away in terror, as Ipater." The fellow naturally months ago, because she wanted to she said, from a robed figure. The retorted that half a loafer was live on her owni
Burgeori brought it. back next day. better than none..
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