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GENERAL

HONGKONG'S FLORA

AND FAUNA

Mr. V.H.C. Jarrett's Talk

At Rotary Tiffin

"For naturalists of our own generation, this Colony holds little new, for practically all the flora and faupa has been discovered and recorded by past generations of workers.

It is perhaps only in the realm of the insects, which by reason of their multitude and minuteness, still offer a field of research and discovery, that fresh work can be done; nevertheless there is room for a great deal of Atudy and tabulation even among the better known branches of our.. botany, and, soology," said Mr. V. IL C. Jarrett when he gave a "talk on some aspects of local natural history at the weekly tiffin of the Rotary Club at the Hongkong Hotel yesterday.

POSSESSION OF

PREMISES CASE Action Not Opposed

By Occupant

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBE $2,400 ROBBERY RECALLED

Fokis Charged At

Central Court

Committal proceedings were be- gun against Chan Yiu and Leung He when they appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Court yesterday on A charge of robbery.

It was alleged that the defèn- dants, folds of the Ying Me Ten Dealer shop, together with two others armed with knives, robbed Pak-shun, managing partner of the firm, of $2,400.

was in charge of prosecution,

Detective-Inspector L R. Whant

p.m. on the day in question, It was alleged that about 6.30 Leung left the shop and about an hour later two strangers came to

An order for the possession of No. 193. Wanchai Road was made by the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice R. E. Lind- sell, at the Supreme Court Jes- terday when Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Lid.appeared as plainting and Chan Man-po #ppeared as the defendant. Mr. Eldon Potter, K.O., instructed by Mr. H. J. Armstrong, represented the plaintif firm and stated that deigndant had secured a year's "One of the earliest records we

lease of the premises which ex- "Typhoons. again. which have pired on August 31, 1938. Plain have of a man with scientific such a tendency to stunt tree am had sold the premises and training visiting this island con- growth, usually blow from the had undertaken to have the place cerns Dr. Clarke Abel Smith, who north and north-east: though vacated. Defendant was notified accompanied Lord Amherst's miss their effect on our plants is not in July that the lease had expired sion to China in 1816, and who anywhere so great as that of the and that he would have to give look for Chan, the first defendant. came ashore from a ship anchored monsoons. It should be noted in Shekpalwan Bay-now known that with the afforestation which

up possession on August 31.

and were admitted by Chan him- as Aberdeen harbour-and clam- has been going.on for upwards of

Counsel stated that the defen-self. Shortly after Leung returned bered about the slopes opposite 50 years, these mensoonal effectsdant, living under the present cir-to the shop and together they that anchorage."-Bald the speaker. are not as marked as they were of the Evictions Prevention Ordi-

cumstances, could not claim benefit went up to the third floor, "His botanical observations. In the early days of Hongkong.

When on the third door, which narice. The rent of the premises though brief, are interesting,

SPECIES PRESERVED teing those of the first European

was $200 a month and defendant was also part of the office com- to have published anything about are often put by residents of the he paid and kept three private that the strangers gagged and tied "There are two queries which had a telephone and owned a car; pound of the shop, it was allered Hongkong's flora. He noted that Colony. First, why do the Chinese tutors, maintained four the island had a great number of burn the long dry grass on the and also supported his wife and the premises. Chan was sald to servants the few folds who remained on ferns, and enumerated a few shrubs which attracted his atten-twofold: the primary one is that sister-in-law, her three children

hillside in winter? The reason is three children besides his brother, have stood by and looked on tion, though he used names In some cases which subsequent bo-culent, green grass in the early

this results in a fine crop of suc- and four cousins. tanical research has changed spring for their cattle. while the however, they are easily identi-secondary one is that the ashes flable.

are washed down when the rains come and help in part to fertilise their crops. :

OBTAINED KEY

After having bound the fokis, OBSSESSED WITH IDEA

the strangers attacked Li, over- It was very generous of defen-powered him, and obtained the dant to accommodate his brother's key. to the safe. family and four cousins, sald Coun- sel, but the Ordinance only pro tected the tenant and his family "Agala, many wonder how it is AR Johnston. who Was Her a

so-called barren Island, liked therefore it was practically Impossible for defendant to say Majesty's Deputy Superintendent Hongkong was when the British that he could suffer exceptional

"For the next authoritative re- ference to local natural history we have to wait until the Colony had been founded. Early in 1843, Mr.

So

Ho. one of the fokis, managed to About 15 minutes later, Cheng

free himself and climbed down the water pipe into the street

where he raised the alarm. Police of Trade in Hongkong, contributed came here, should have pre: hardship if he was to give up the arrived on the scene and Cheung

served

many species of premises.

climbed back to the premises. trees, shrubs and herbs. The ex-

opened the door and let the police planation is simple: while the

Mr. Potter continued saying that burning of grass and brushwood some persons were obssessed with two defendants, had disappeared In. The robbers, including the left the more or less level hill the idea that alternative accom- slopes bare, the many ravines.modation had to be considered by ith $2.400 which was kept in the almost all of them fed by streams, the Court. This, however, had no safe. or brooks, se

Mr. d to preserve the bearing on the present case.

On the morning of November 7. nucleus of hundreds of species

Potter submitted that unless de- on board the gs. Tai Shan which which might otherwise have been fendant could prove exceptional was sailing for Macao, Chan was destroyed, and from these ravines titled to possession of the premises. was taken into custody later in hardship, the plaintiffs were "en-arrested by the police. Leung some of our most striking native fora has since been callected and

the day in the Lok Hat Boarding permitted, under

House. cur protective laws, to spread.

an article on the Colony to the London Geographical Journal,' in the course of which he stated:

INTERESTING-PHENOMENON "A course kind of grass is found on all the hills. but on those with northerly and north-easterly exposure it is generally choked by ferns and stunted brushwood: while on the face of the hills fronting the south it grows in clumps unchecked, except when burnt by the natives.'

This is a most interesting note 'on a phenomenon scen éven to -dos.com. Kama walk i

SEVERAL HOUSES INSPECTED

Mr. Potter said that plaintiffs had assisted defendant in Anding

The hearing was adjourned to Cris딓” tertunately..ibawah..that this afternoon. still burn the grass and scrub on years denuded the land of trees several houses were inspected but the hill slopes in many parts of and shrubs for fuel, they have al-were found unsuitable by the the Colony, but on Hongkong island it is noticeable that the ways spared the village and tem- defendant.

ple groves, for religious purposes. His Lordship asked defendant most profisely wooded areas face under the cult of fungahul, and why he was still in possession of South, which is explained by

also for aesthetic reasons. Thus the premises when he had received factora. several meteorological

severely practical people, by rea- notice to quit, and defendant's Chief of these is the blowing of

son of that spiritual side of their reply was that he had been unable the to find suitable accommodation. nature, have passed on to

the monsoons; the northem face of the hills have the dry, cold winds, and the southern slopes get modern world intact a great many He said that if the court gave! the warm. moisture-laden winds examples of the botanical wealth judgment against him, he would with which their country is bless-move. He had not come to Court to oppose the case but had come to ask to be permitted to stay on

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The Hon. Dr. LI Shu-fan took till the end of December.. the chair, and before introducing

Plaintiffs agreed to allow defen- the speaker, said that an unusual dant, to "stay on in the premises honour had been bestowed on the till December 15 free of rent, but Club by the presence of Dr. 1. M. asked for an order to be made for defendant to give up the house by. Henry of Canton,

Dr. Henry briefly told the that date with meane profits up to gathering that he had come down the end of November. His Lord- visit the Lingnan University ship made the order and awarded which had been transferred to costs of the action to plaintiffs." Hongkong. He was very glad to

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were rendering valuable assistance TWO-YEAR-OLD THEFT

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cently earned by Professor W. Lin March, 1938, was arrested by Gerrard. The National Govern- the police and was charged before ment of China had decorated. Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Ceri- Professor Gerrard with the Order tral Court yesterday with theft, of the Brilliant: Jade and he had Detective-Sergeant R. Macvey j also

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