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HONGKONG, 26th Sept., 1923.

MOTOR LICENCES.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1923.

Secretary for Transport, who stated that

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an endorsement on a licence can only result from a con- viction in a court of law, and it is for the court to decide whether the circum- stances justify the suspension of the licence or the disquali- fication of the driver from holding any further licence for, such time as the court thinks fit."

DAY BY DAY.

LET HIM WHO NEGLECTS TO RAISE THE FÄLLEN, FEAR LEST, WHEN HE FALLS, NO ONE WILL STRETCH OUT HIS HAND" TO LIFT }HIM UP.--Saudi.

One Chinese case of small-por was reported yesterday,

The Kowloon Dock Recreation Club is holding its fourth annual swimming gala at the Aberdeen Docks on Sunday, October 7th.

At to-morrow's meeting of the Legislative Council, two Bills come up for first reading, and five others will be read a second time.

That is an authoritativa state ment of the Home law on the subject, and it must be conceded that it is far more in accordance with fair play than the Hong- kang system. The point to be

Dr. Sun Yat-sen has appointed] stressed is that convictions, not General Ngai Bong-ping to visit reports,

and that the Japan in order to express his condolence with the Japanese magistrate, and not the police people in the recent disaster.

count,

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the Hongkong ** Telegraph."}

Motor Licences.

Traic Sub. Dept. Police Headquarters, Hongkong.

MANILA POLITICS.

BITTER CAMPAIGN IN PROGRESS

Manila, Sept. 24.

The Democrata leaders to-night

to the Governor

two

Sir-I desire it to be known submitted that I was not the writer of the General ten specific charges letter by "Cyclist" which appear against the Majority party of ed in last night's Telegraph, but irregularities in the disburse very possibly I am the local ments from the Independence motorist to whom Mr. Wolfe said fund, which the Majority party he had caused a letter to be writ-controls. These ten. At any rate, I have received!

alleged irregularities the following include payments 10 a warning in

American ax-Congress-men and terms --

one item of Ps. 14,000 to Seper Quezon for the banquet recently to the International Bar Associa- 20th September, 1923, tion Convention in Manila Sir.

The charges are part of a politi- I have been directed by the|cal campaign to elect one Senator Capt. Supt. of Police to inform for the fourth district in the hot- you that as you have been contest and most bitter campaign in victed twice for speeding, if the history of the Philippines, the you are reported again for that principal plank of which is the offence, steps will be taken to anti-Americanism of the Majority. cancel your driver's licence. party. Daily Bulletin,

Yours faithfully.

W. KENT, Traffic Inspector.

decides when and for what period a licence shall be can- Fire-cracker dealer in Fat- celled. We press for an amend-shan have gone on strike in their fellow- ment of the Hongkong law so as sympathy with

merchants in Canton. who are to bring it in line with the Home protesting against the proposed wish to draw special attention is

practice: and we are sure we tax on crackers. shall have the whole motoring community of the Colony with us in making that demand.

Local Relief Efforts.

Now, Sir, the point to which

the use of the word

JAPANESE SOCIALISTĖS.

DEATH.

GENDARMERIE OEFICER

GUILTY.

reported. It is not apparently to be's case The official rate of the dollar of conviction--all that is neces- for all payments fixed in sterling.sary is for some traffic sergeant which have to be made in Hong-to say he saw me speeding, and kong and on the Chins Station. I may get my licence taken

Tokyo, Sept. 25. during the month of October.away without being able to have

The gendarmerie officer Cap- 1923, will be 2s. 34d,

a fair hearing. That, in my opinion, Sir, is the utmost in-tain Amakusa has been found Hongkong is doing splendidly

guilty of compassing the death. A motor cycle driven by Yipljustice. towards the relief of the sufferers Chuen ran into and caused in-

At Home, the magistrates have of the Socialist Osugi Sakat and in the Japan disaster, as disclosed juries to a Chinese employee of the deciding voice in this matter, wo others, and has bean com-

the report of the local the Sui Yick Company yesterday- and although even some of these/mitted for trial. committee's meeting. All classes He was taken to the Govern-jare unduly prejudiced against of the population are doing meat Civil Hospital what they can to help the

in

WAS

good cause, and already there A Chinese stabbed by another has been a great deal of excellent who made his escape before the work in the way of sending arrival

of the police. supplies of all kinds, clothing, admitted into the Government and money. The local expendi-Civil Hospital from Hollywood ture has amounted to $118,000 to Road last night, suffering from date, and, of the balance of $241,000 serious wounds. every cent will no doubt be

The motive is officially ex-

great

motorists. I would much prefer plained by Amakusa's conviction to leave the decision to them than that Socialist activities äre de to the police. Here in Hongkong, trimental to the welfare of the it is an easy matter for a motorist State, particularly at the time of calamity.-Daily to fall foul of the traffic police the and become a “marked man.”

Be that as it may, Sir. I con- sider that when I was last con victed and fined lon the flimsiest of evidence. I may say that

to

Bulletin.

THE "CHANGSHA."

miles from Sanda-

Une does not need to be a motorist to perceive the injustice urgently needed, as well as what- The Finance Department in should have been the end of the of the present regulations giving ever further sums be collected, Canton has drawn up a list of 27 matter. Why threaten me with the police unfettered power to especially during the coming public companies, whose register-cancellation of my licence if I am SALVED BY TAIKOO TUG.

winter. There are hundreds of cancel car or cycle licences with thousands of people who require $10,000,000, and has intimated to me very much like persecu

ed capital varies from $20,000 to reported again! It looks

We learn that the s.. Chang- out an order from the magistrate. all the assistance they can get the officials of these concerns tion. What would people say if sha, which went ashore on a

several thousand According to the statement by including

has been Buccessíally Mr. Wolfe which we published Chinese and some hundreds of that they must pay capital taxes. the police wrote a man who had reef 150

been convicted for stealing, and ka.

by the tug Taikoo, foreigners who are absolutely resterday, the Captain Super-destitute, in a land where they According to a Peking tel- had paid the fine. telling him that salved intendent of Police can, in the have no relatives or home ties egram to the Exily Bulletin the if some policeman merely charged belonging to the Taikoo Dockyard Both the Changsha and the tug case of amateur motorists, cancel With the majority, their loss is Italian Legation denies that an him with a further offence he and Engineering Company, Ltd.

are expected to reach Hongkong a licence if he considers the holder the most absolute possible, their indemnity has been demanded for would be severely punished? Yet

very means of livelihood being the death of Father Malotto, stat-that is exactly my case. is unfit to hold it, even although gone, perhaps forever. One has ing that the Roman Catholic consider that justice, Sir? I most on Friday afternoon.

never ask for a decidedly do not. such licence has only been once only to put oneself in place of Missions

Thanking you for inserting this realise the indemnity.

letter. endorsed. This, to our way of these refugees co

Yours etc. A Peking telegram to the Daily thinking, is investing the police magnitude of the disaster to them. -on the Friday happy. contented. with an autocratic power which perhaps moderately well-off, with Bulletin says the members of the they should not possess

and bright prospects; on the Saturday Chihli faction assert that the Hongkong, Sept. 26th, 1923. which is far too open to possible nervous wrecks, bereaved, des-election plans are progressing

titute, and facing a gloomy future. rapidly. They state abuse to warrant retention in the traffic laws of the Colony... The Captain Superintendent of Police would, in such cases, naturally be

not.

that the

Le: everyone who can help in preliminary meeting will be held any way do so in every way. In on Sept. 30, and that the election visualising the fate of the sufferers will be held before October 5. one can say: "There, but for the

grace of God, goes myself.”

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Do you

H. W. CHANEY.

Local Flora.

KOWLOON HOUSEBREAKER.

CAUGHT BY EUROPEAN LADY.

Sir. The mauve orchis des

Miss Marion Thomas, living at cribed by your correspondent No. 39 Haiphong Road, Kowloon, "Hiker" is most probably the charged 4. Chinese, without Arundinu chinensis, a Hongkong occupation and without fixed abode, with stealing a quantity species.

of jewellery and a sum of $80 kept in a box in her room

"Humane. In rebutting & named speaker's remarks, more weight is attached to a letter if it

The plants are grass-like in ap is signed by the writer and not written under a nom de plume. In pearance and can be found in the Peak and other districts of the

The evidence given by the com- any case, your alleged facts are but second-hand, and for that Colony. I have some blooming plainant showed that defendant reason it is not desirable that the in my garden at present, and the had entered the bedroom with fowers somewhat resemble those duplicate key and laid letter should be published.

of the Lealio. Cattleyst in shape his hands on the jewellery but are smaller.

when he was disturbed by the In..a

SANITARY BOARD.

&

A variety of Cypripedium, and Phuius, the common nun-orchid entry, of Miss Thomas.

panie he bolted into the bathroom are also known to exist in the and it was from underneath the Colony and the New Territory.

Yours etc. ORCHIDACAE Hongkong, Sept. 26th, 1923.

guided by his traffic officials, and we fear there is a distinct possibil-A Botanical Matter. ty in this connection of the It is pleasing to find such a ready response yesterday and to-day to latter marking down certain a query by a reader regarding local motorists with a view to punish-orchises found wild on the hill ment, whether they deserve it or slopes. It seems established now

that there is quite a number of species of these native terrestrial To-day, a local motorist writes orchids, of varying form and us to the effect that. following a colour, and to many persons in Hongkong it will mean added recent conviction, he has been zest to their trudges over our| warned by the Traffic Inspector forestry-paths and through our

YESTERDAY'S DISCUSSIONS, that if he is reported again--more accessible gorges. We met

The meeting of the Sanitary not "convicted," he it noted a man the other day who seemed

to think nothing grew wild in Board yesterday afternoon was Sir, -The buttercup yellow complainant had returned with an steps will be taken to cancel his Hongkong except grass and presided over by the Hon. Mr. H. orchid mentioned by Mr. Weston Indian constable.

The defendant admitted that a licence. It is, of course, quite an weeds. We took him on a long. T. Creasy, D.P.W. The principal is common on most of the hills in easy matter to "report" a motor-long walk and he became con- business was consideration of an the Colony, and is, I think, a hat found on a chair in the bed- vered. Among local residents application by the Sun Company species of Phaius. It flowers after room, and a pair of slippers. ist. and we can quite understand there must be a fair number who for a modification of a section of the leaves have died away, and is placed underneath the the writer of to-day's letter. are appreciative students of the Public Health and Buildings usually found growing in sandy tub, were his, and his Worship under the particular circum- Nature's beautiful handiwork, Ordinance in respect to a sky-soil amidst fern and grass. It imposed sentence of six months'

whether in flora or fauna. light erected in their premises. can be very successfully cultivat-hard labour. stances. having the impression Perhaps some have belonged to The Medical Officer of Health, ed in pots. The white orchid is

that he is being unduly harass-natural history societies at Home. Dr. W. W. Pearse, mentioned that probably the 'pigeon

orchis,

ed. In any case, the system and have pleasant recollections a modification had been granted which is comparatively rare. It!

li wrong

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bath-tub that the articles were later recovered in course of a search. The defendant was de--- tained by two women until the

bath.

which permits the of the rambles through woodland the company previously as a tem occurs in the neighbourhood of cleared so far, but when they be and across moorland, and the porary measure until they moved Tytam reservoir and elsewhere, come better organized we should police to be prosecutors and interesting papers that were read into new premises. The number and is closely related to the 500 see the east end of this judges at one and the same time.at subsequent meetings or were of workers necessitated proper English slipper orchis.

Yours, etc., 'Transactions." ventilation of the premises, and We therefore urge the local published in the

If such there be, why do they not he moved that the Board decline, AMATEUR BOTANIST. Automobile Association to take "get together" and form a local any further modification of the Hongkong, Sept. 26th.. 1923. this matter up, with a view to society of similar type? We have Ordinance. Dr. Ozorio seconded. having the law so altered that advocated this previously, and do and the motion was carried.

not doubt that there are many only on a magistrate's order may residents suficiently interested was in

Dr. Ozorio queried whether it order to have public

a motorist's licence be taken in the subject to join such a latrines erected at Quarry Bay

|away.

Destruction of Trees.

island revert to its pristine bar- ren state of fifty years ago.

One might suggest, however, that conspicuous notices in Chi- nese-be posted instructing the woodcutters as to the beneit and increased expeditiousness of using saws instead of choppers, Sir-Regarding the Colony's also of the waste involved in society once it gets going. Ion private property belonging trees, can you, or any of your leaving stumps three or four foes, Recently, this question of the to summon up enough initiative The

probably only requires somebody to the Taikoo Sugar Refinery readers, explain the psychology high. If this latter is due to И. 0. FL. replied of a Department which, while stooping strain on their back. endorsement of licences was rais to set the ball rolling successfully that the application for erection planting thousands of trees, al-musclese, wooden stools might ed in the House of Commons,

of the latrines had been submit-lows, at the same time and in the be supplied free. These notices ted by the Refinery. The build-same locality, perfect liberty to might also embody instructions when it was urged that where a

OLD MASTERÉ STOLEN... ings would be under the control the people to cut down mature to the effect that the wholesale a licence was

trees faster than the new ones ringbarking of trees, to qualify endorsed mure

them for future attention, is not. Berlin-A number of valuable of the sanitary authorities. than a limited number of times, pictures have been stolen by

The chairman, referring to the are planted?

At present, certainly, these necessary, as there is no object- the offending motorist should be burglars from the Lenbach local water supply, said it was of disqualified from holding one in Gallery at Munich including good quality, vide the Govern-woodcutters are only working in tion to the felling of perfectly

Lucas Cranach's "Three Graces," ment Analyst's report, except for unorganised groups of four or live ones, the future. The proposal was Hal's Laughing Boys." & Holthe Shaukiwau supply. This five, and, of course, their progress however. approved by bein, two Teniers and a sketch by latter defect was being "attended is slow, only an aggregate of a

Ito.

faw, square miles or so being Hongkong, Sept, 25th, 1923, Colonel Ashley, Parliamentary Rubens.

TEL. 1741 (4 lines). - [{not:

Yours étc.

ARBOR.