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TUESDAY, OCTOBER

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1920

TRAFFIC CASES.

A CHEERY TAXI-DRIVER.

Mr. T. F. O'Sullivan, of the So- preme Court was the complainint in a prosecution under the traile

RICKSHA INCIDENT.

MAGISTRATES DOUBT IN THEFT CASE.

Before Mr. R. B. Lindsell, at the

OUR POSSESSIONS ABE WHOLLY IN that they are the fruit of tho sYS- OUR PERFORMANCES. HE OWNE tạm it cân with more truth be asid | NOTHING TO WHICH THE WORLD OWES that they have permitted the gyn- NOTHING -Simms. teng On all mattera of local ad- The deaths of four Chinese deck regulations before Major C Will Central Magistracy this morning. ministration the people here drapssengers from beri-bert is reson at the Central Magistresy this in Fickana coolie was charged with morning, when a taxi driver was stealing or attempting to steal charged with using abusive langs $1.40 from the beraga of a private age to Mr, O'Sullivan, and refusing to complete the journey The ad admitted the second. fendant dented the first charge, and

Ported by the master of the Nor weriun ds. Saviken, which arrived in Harbour yesterday.

Wanchai yesterday, Mr. A. R. Cox, While riding a motor-cycle at of the Hongkong Electric Com pany, knocked down a Chinese wo man. She sustained a broken

dumb and largely withdht thought. wherebe if one Bars a visit to other places in the Far East, par ticularly to Shanghai, there is entirely different spirit noticeable, Thero, the local resident it alive and alert regarding the municipal problems being tackled by his rekla presentatives, and thord le com petitive enterprise among them pa how best to improve the place Shanghailanders are always con cerned with the Jprovement of Shanghai, trying to see how it can. be improved ing paéry way by benefit of residents. They are pot as are the majority of foreign re-

A prize of a sovereign, penknife and a piece of string was present of to T. C. Taylor, a Stamford Grammar School boy, for showing more common sense than any of his fellows during the year.

year

H. M. S. Magnolia, which was rammed by 8. Hozan Maru lit Swatow, but hot seriously damaged, is expected to ariva la Hongkong at The efrcumstances attending the collision are not yet reported.

said on the night of October, 3rd, Giving evidence, Mr. Q'Sullivan he engagell the taxi by the Post Office, and told the driver to pro ber of the taxi was 278. When ceed to Robinson Road. The sum they arrived at the junction of Robinson Road and the Peak Road, the taxi stopped and the driver to fused to go any further. Witness told him to proceed to the end of the journey, or he would not get his fare. He knew at the time that the road was blocked at the sure tion of Glenealy and Robinson Road; and he wanted the taxi to go tance of about another 100 yards.

in the BABU. Mr. W B. Hind defondsd

A Chinese detective sail that at ing, he was en patrol along Pedder about one b'eldel yesterday morn Street, when he noticed three or four men lattering In a suspicious lane between Jardine, Matheson's manner at the entrance into a vide building and Fedder Building. He entered the lane and at ulta inner end found a więksha with its hood up and its number and lights covered over with the front ap of the vehicle. A. military man was lying across the seat, whilst the puller was stomping over him, in the act of villing his pockets.

Witness seized the cobile, and view the Settlement is but a place

were at the entrance of the lane of their temporary sojourn from

rushed in as if to carry gut an DEBTED POLICE SWAN

Attack and provent him from which they hope some day to re-

The defendant got out of the arresting the coolie. He kept turn to their native land pecuniari-

taxi and blew his whistle, and two them off by threatening to shoot ly better off. They think in terms

Chinese constables who happened them with his revolver, whilst of Shanghai, whereas we hore

to be near came up. They ordered succeeding in keeping his hold on the driver to proceed on the jour-the coolie. think, in terms of Home, wherever

này. He refused, but they Assistance came at this moment that might be. And we blame the

eventually persuaded him to from Sennet Freres night watch He jumped in⠀⠀⠀ the taxman Witness searched the climate, or the native population, FISHER-On October 17th, at

and shouted "Come in" but some ground and found coing strewn Foochow to Mr. and Mrs. or the geographical configuration

children who were with Mr. round about and under the ricksha F. H. Fisher, a son..

of the island, or the width of the

O'Sullivan were frightened and These amounted to $140, which harbour or any other old thing The Fire Brigade was called, but would not get in the taxi. The now formed the substance of the

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Ordinances Mongkong. Alexandra Buildings, Dos Voeux Road Central,

BIRTH

The Telegraph.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19. 1926,

sidents hero, wholly content to the end of the week for 'repairs to that junction, which was a disas he did go the thres, men who

when we try to justify some of the more obvious defects of our urban equipment. We have just had a Budget all nicely framed for us and we needn't bother any more

When charged before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning, with stealing a chicken, a Chinese coolle plead ed that it had been abandoned and he found it wandering about the streets. Sentence of one month's hard labour was imposed.

A quantity of rubbish and chips caught fire in a carpenter's shop at Staunton Street this morning.

before its arrival, the fokis had succeeded in putting out the out: break by the application of buckets of water.

To-day's report of the Royal Observatory atates that although

"A BUDGET THOUGHT. about it, even though we do some-the anticyclone has weakened

times grumble about things. That seems to be the attitude of most which does them full credit. British residents, and it is not one

Naval Volunteers.

of the on foot

charge

defendant then drove the empty taxi to the g

? road, and returned

The complainant said he had been to Macao and returned about with n-tyre, pum hand. He brandished this umple- 7.15 in the evening, after which ment in front of Mr. O'Sullivan he had several drinks. The last and said I know you very well. time he remembered was ten min- You always take taxis and never utes past eleven, at the King Ed- lightly, strong monsoon may still pay for them. He then made use ward Hotel, and be did not remem be expected along the south-east of abasive phrases, ending with her anything more until he woke coast of China and over the North words meaning: "I will watch up in the morning, when he found Ching Sen. The local forecast up for you," which was in the nature ten cents in his pocket. He had till noon to-morrow is "North-east of a threat. Witness instructed about $10 on him after dinner, but winds, strong; finc."

one of the constables to take the he did not know how much, he had defendant to the Police Station with him at ten minutes past

eleven. Passengers arriving from Mau-} Mr. O'Sullivan added that the in by ss. President McKinley defendant refused to přodyce, a

His Worship said the charge of included Miss Winifred Scott, a smil book which was for the par- attempting to steal would have to newspaper woman of Honolulu on pose of being signed by a passen-be abandoned, as there was no vacation and Mr. J. J. Underwood, ger in the event of the tax being evidence of it. His Worship ask publicity agent of the Seattle unable to completo the journeyed for evidence of the searching Chamber of Commerce, making & This book, he said, was issued to of the defendant, but this was not survey of business conditions. In the taxi drivers.

forthcoming, as the searcher could not be found. the Orient. Mr. E. T.. Beyer,

The defendant said. -no such

Mr. Hind submitted that there' DAWGS no, Cr-36. The two Chinese constables were had not proved that any money The prosecution called, one of whom said the de- was stolen from the complainant. fendant had no pump, and the The latter did not know himself other one said he had.

if any of his moner had been The defendant said he was will stolon

One of the most thought-provok- ing aspects of the focal Budget which was presented to the Legia-. lative Council on Thursday is the manner in which the residents of the Colony are deprived of any In our comment on the Budget thing at all to say on what on Saturday last, we expressed shall or shall not be done. Every doubt whether the times are exact

ly propitious for initiating the thing is planned for us by officials scheme which aims at establishing and we have to take things when this Colony a Royal Naval ther we like them ar not; That Volunteer unit. Our query was system was all very well yeaza ang based, solely on the point of the formerly of the Admiral Oriental book was issued by the Company:|| cost involved a point on which Line at Iloilo, returning to the there is some doubt, although it. S. on account of ill health, was has been thought that at least a passenger by the same vessel. $40,000 will be required for the

years ago, but it is extraordinarily anomatous. to-day. Big schemes of public works are taken up and then dropped (after lots of money has been spent) without as much

force.

His Worship imposed a fine of $10 on the first charge, and $16 on the second..

DANGEROUS PRACTICE.

Mr. Lindsell said the point was whether there was sufficient cir cumstantial evidence.

first half-year when once the Re- One of the outstanding features serve is brought into being. As of the International Conference of to the value and utility of such a Christian Missions in Africa, now ing to proceed on the journey but he knew it was dangerous, and he as a "by your leave," our hospital unit, we have no doubts whatever, being held at Le Zoute, was a fees are increased, an important and it would certainly be mont fit-speech made on Sept. 18 by Sir Fre-asked the fare to walk few ting that Hongkong, as a naval derick Lugard. a former Govornor paces. He denied using abusive fiscal change is made, and every-station, should eventually come of Hongkong. The aim, he said, was language, and added that he mere Mr. Hind replied that the evi- thing is in the "cut and dried" into such a schemes The idea is not to substitute a European mind ly asked for his fare, but the com- dence did not go to ahow that the stage before the public gets to to secure on loan from the Ad- for an African mind, but to help to plainant did not understand him. defendant took anything from the

emiralty a gunboat of the "Insect" crents new Africa standards of Hic denied that he had a pump comp

complainant's pocket. know anything about it. There class such as the Moth and responsibility, Instead of the ser-

Sub-Inspector Alexander said The defendant, in the witness is one prominent local resident Mantis and for the Government vile habit of mind and the rule of the defendant had been previously box, and the complainant did not

fined for speeding.

pay his fare, and he ran after with who hasn't been here very long here to undertake the cost of up-

his rickahn to collect it. The com and to. whom democratic institut sonnel.

"keep, fuelling and the trained per-

The success of

A demonstration of fire fighting

plainant sat on the floor of the the fions still mean something who scheme, we are told, would depend with the automatic carbonic acid

ricksha, and defendant was lifting him on to the seat when a con can wax very eloquent on the sub-on the response for Volunteers, dry fire extinguisher "Total," will but we imagine that there need take place at the Kowloon Fire

stable came up and accused him jeet of the official control of overy-be o qualms on that score, for Brigade compound, (near the Star. thing and there is a tremendous service in such a unit would doubt Ferry Wharf this afternoon, at amount to be said for his asser-less ar ke a strong appeal to many 5.30 pm. This demonstration tion that, so far as the direction of young men here. A similar scheme will be highly interesting, as this is afoot in Malaya, and we notiep type of fire extinguisher is new to

Inspector Aris explained that at Mr. Lindsell said he was aure purely local municipal matters are that although its details have not the East and claims to be one of about quarter past six on the the defendant was guilty, but he concerned, Hongkong is years be been worked out, appHcations the most efficient and only univer- 13th inst., he was driving down did not know whether the law. hind the times. It is, of course, have been asked for. The result sal type of fire extinguisher on Stabbs Road in his "Austin 7" car. would allow him to record that

the market. fs, we read, quite up to expecta true that no large city like Hong tions and the committee appointed

There was another vehicle ap; } verdict having regard to the ovf-

kong is so dominated by officials to report on the matter is stated

Mr. Allan Cameron, Oriental proaching, and when they were dence. He would consider the or is composed of so powerless to have been favourably impressed Manager for the Canadian Pacific early abreast, the defendant aud case, and adjourn it until Thurs-

on this particular point. It is ro

Rallway Company and the Cana- denly came from behind with no day.

warning, To avoid a collision, population, policitally, In the. cognised in Malaya that a big ex-dian Pacific Steamships Company, Inspector Arla was compelled to early days of Hongkong the impense will be involved in connec will return to Hunglong by the apply both brakes, and pull right portance of Imperial questions tion with the scheme, when once RMS. Empress of Canada. Mr into the wall, Hind he been driv connected with the Colony far, ex-it is floated, and this aspect of Cameron has been away from ing a bigger ear, he added, a col- the question is at the moment re- Hongkong for the past few months. ceeded the importance of theceiving serious attention. The on a business trip to the head lision would have been inevitable.

local administration, but it cannot to-day be claimed that such pura ly domestic questions as water supply, gaol provision and hospital fees are of such a nature that they cannot be entrusted to the care of the inhabitants. There would be o desire on the part of anyone to interfere with the larger questions

of Imperial policy or those affect

Bri- ing the relations between the B

Government in Hongkong, is ap- parently anxious that the unit be started here, and, apart from the question of the outlay involved, we agree entirely with the project. Until the general prospects of the Colony in the near future are more clearly defined, however, we still doubt the wisdom of assuming such a heavy financial burden as the Reserve might turn out to be

office of the Company in Canada. During his absence Mr. P. A. Cox, assistant Oriental Manager, Shanghai, has been in charge, and he will now be returning to Shang-

hal.

In another case, in which Chief of going through the complainant's Inspector Aris prosecuted, a Chi- pockets. The complainant hand- nege was charged with negligented some money to the constable, driving. He admitted the charge, but this fell on the floor

The defendant was fined $20.......

EXCESSIVE LOAD.

The owner and driver of a lorry were summoned, the former for a lowing the lorry to be overloaded, and the latter with having in efficient brakes.

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New York, Oct. 18.

The liner Leviation, arrived this Marie of Rumania, Prince Nicho morning from Europo with Queen lis and Frincess Heans aboard..

Formerly owned by the Mar quess of Anglesey and used during Sergt. Hopkins said he saw the The Royal party was cordially the war as the flagship of the Com-lotry at 2:20 pm, on the 12th inat, welcomed by a Reception Com mander-in-Chief on the China in Garden Road proceeding to-mittee representing New York Station, the 1,800-ton steam yacht wards Robinson Road. He took City, And the party was, loudly- Alacrity (better known by her for the lorry to be weighed and found cheerod op it drove to the hotel. mer names of Margarita and Semi- the load was over two tons in ex- President and Mrs. Coolidge will The forthcoming wedding is a ramis) is being fitted out and pre cess of the maximum allowed. receive the party at the White tish and Chinese, but whether (by nounced of Mr. John Francia pared at Cowes for a crufce round: The owner and the lorry was House to-morrow, after which the way of Illustration) Hongkong Shirley, Chief Electrical Artlicor, the world. The present owner, hired out, and he did not know | Queen, will place a wreath on the shall, or shall not have a water of the H. M. S. Hermes, to Miss Mr. Montagu Grahame-White (bro what the load was The driver adgrave of the Unknown Soldier flushed sewage disposal scheme is Gertrude Ellen Davis, of The therof the aviator), has chartered mitted having inefficient bruker, Reuter

the yacht to Mrs. Moore, who Sub-Inspector Alexander, said mattor on which Hongkong rest. Mount, the Peak Mr. Carl Peder comes from New York, and who, the owner had bean before the dents, and not officials appo

appointed Nissen, merchant of Shameen, to with her party, has arranged to Court before, after which his Worless for him to any he did not

Mrs. Arli Kristiane Petronella embark in the Alacrity for this ship remarked that the owner was know. He must have knows from Home, ought to have the lastPoulsen (neo, Jensen), widow, of long cruise, which will occupy truating to those things without it Ho Oned the owner: 330 and

Copenhagen,

abont a year, early in December, any excuse at all, and it yas use the driver $10.

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