1930-09-02 — Page 7

THE

STOWAWAYS FROM MONEY LOAN CASE

SINGAPORE.

GOOD CITIZENS RATHER THAN ROBBERS.

COULDN'T GET WORK.

Two Chinese, Lam Keng-ming and Ng Sai, were charged before Mr. Whyte Smith at Kowloon this morning with having stowed away on the Bs. Cremer from Singapore on August 2.

..

The second Officer, Mr. H. F. Steenburgen, said the defendants got on board the ship at Singapore discovered mingling among the `steerage passengers twelve hours after the vessel left.

and

were

Detective Sergeant Kellet sald no money was found on the defen- dants. They had boarded the ship, because they wore out of work in Singapore, probably owing to the state of affairs in the rubber plan-

tations there.

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IN COURT.

PUISNE JUDGE DISBELIEVES DEFENDANT.

PLAINTIFF WINS.

HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER

NOISY WOMAN

HAWKER.

MACAO'S LATEST

ACQUISITION. /

WATER BARGE LAUNCHING CEREMONY.

ACCUSES AN INSPECTOR OF HITTING HER.

NAVY YARD PRODUCT.| STORY DISBELIEVED.

Macao, Aug. 31.

The Naval Dockyard here was the scene of a pretty carmony on Thursday, when a water barge was launched by His Excellency Senhor Tamagini Barbosa.

Conflicting stories as to the efr-1 cumstances surrounding a loan of $50 were told in the Summary Court his morning before the Act ing Puisne Judge (Mr. P. Jacks) when Rasant Singh sued Chan Lo and Cheng Wah for the sum of $100 principal and $10 interest More than ordinary interest at- under a promissory note. The taches to the ceremony, for more parties conducted their own cases, than one reason. The barge has Plaintiff stated that he lent 850been built to provide water for to Chan Lo who was with another ships calling at Macao, making man. Defendant signed the note use of the port, and in particular and later paid two or three months the anchorage of the outer port Intercat.

The water will be taken into, the barge at Taipa Island, where there is water in abundance, of excellent vuality.

".

Second defendant, who said his name was Chan Foo and not Chan Lo, denied that his signature ap- peared on the note or that he bor-

1930.

HIGH SALARIED WOMEN.

FORTY-FOUR. WHO EARN £5,000 A YEAR.

ARRIVE IN LONDON.

A Chinese woman, when charged Forty-four American women, before Mr. Whyte Smith at Kow-each of whom eams at least loon this morning with a breach of £5,000 a year, have-arrived in Lon- her hawking licence, sald Sub den Inspector Evans hit her on the face:

They represent the National at the Police Station and threaten- Federation of Business and Profes- ed to lock her up,

[sional Women's Clubs of the United Sub-Inspector Evans stated that States, when the defendant was brought to Mrs. Geline Bowman, of Rich- the station, she began to light a mond, Virginia, the leader, is the cigarette and created a disturbance president and treasurer of the Ex- by throwing a bucket about. pert Letter Writing Corporation of foolish of you to have done this..

Mr. Whyte Smith:-It is very Richmond, Virginia, one of the largest direct mail advertising con- The defendant-They asked me ceros in the Southern States. for bail and when I said I could not And she is one of the most furnish it, the Inspector struck me charmingly feminine women

in on the face.

business and the mother of six- Mr. Whyte Smith:—I do not be-year-old twins. That which is more satisfactory,lieve that. Why did you light a however, is the fact that the barge cigarette and why did you throw view business men and

"I handle big, contracts, Inter- have an is the first work of any size pro- the bucket about? Do you want to executive oversight of all the de- duced in the dockyard since it was sell food instead of vegetables? partments of a large office,” Mra decided to re-establish this im- The defendant:—Yes,

Bowman told a reporter. He denied that he hid himself iities in the Colony. Under the better see Sergeant Barnicle, and been prejudice against a wOLIAN portant adjunct to the port faci- Mr, Whyte Smith: You had "In the South there has always Mr. Whyte Smith:-That does when he saw plaintlir and Mr. H.able charge of Commander Valen-remember, if you are arrested going into business. I began in a not entitle you to steal a passage. Millington (head bailiff) approach-ta de Almeida, the Naval Dock again, you are not to create a dia- voluntary capacity during the war.

First defendant:--We did noting to serve him with the writ.

yard has been completely changed turbance but must behave properly.when I sold War Savings stamps "want to atay behind and become

Mr. Millington was brought into and has been made to produce robbers and thieves there. We Court and confirmed the allega- good, work.

and Liberty Bonda. When I gave wanted to come back to our coun- tion, saying they were told that de-

up banking I had the highest salary try and become good citizens in-fendant was not in the house but of what can be done in the Dock-

ever offered a woman in a bank." The new barge is an example stead.

Mrs. Bowman does not specialise plaintiff went inside and brought yard. It is built entirely of steel, him out. He answered to the name of Chan Lo, and Mr. Milling-tons, and a capacity of about 160

with

by women. If a young under- a net displacement of 250

graduate of Richmond Universliyi ton identified defendant as the

gets a letter putting before him the tons of water. It is motor-driven

IN charms of certain and will be an invaluable adjunct

shoes or for the development of the part)

shirts the letter has probably come from Mrs, Bowman's firm, and may During times of water shortage in Macao, supplies will be brought over from Taipa and Colowan, and the boat will thus serve in two capacities.

The first defendant said they wanted to get back to Swatow be cause everything was quiet at Singapore and they could not get work.

Each defendant was fined $50, or one month's imprisonment.

BABY BEETLES TO ORDER.

"GIRLS" OR "BOYS" AS

MAN WILLS.

owed the money. He explained that he had no other name, but he knew Cheng Wah had borrowed $50 from plaintiff.

man.

In his evidence, Cheng Wah ad- mitted that he signed the note and said, that second defendant signed us guarantor. He (Cheng Wah) received the money, and not, Chan Lo.

After further investigation, his Lordship said he was not satisfied By controlling their food sup- with defendant's version and gave plies, a young Australian scien-judgment for plaintiff. tist has been able to increase at will the proportion males or females among "baby "beetles.

Dr. F. G. Holdaway, in a. com- munication to Nature says the conclusion he has reached, as a re- sult of studies on the flour beetle, is that the nutritional state may affect the ultimate sex expression in insects. He is shortly publish- ing his evidenco at length

Under controlled conditions of temperature, humidity, light and nutrition of the parents, he says, this ratin of males to females has been altered by starvation.

With one day's starvation there is an increase in the preponder- ance of males while with two and three days' starvation the number of males decreases, and there is a preponderance of females.

War on Insects.

PERFECT BUTLER'S

DOWNFALL.

HAD BEEN EMPLOYED BY ROYALTY.

as

The barge has been named the Alviela, after the river from which the city of Lisbon receives its supplies of potable water.

Defendant was cautioned.

GENERAL CRITIC OF in advertising, articles bought only

GENERALS.

REMARKABLE ATTACK

AUSTRALIA.

A remarkable attack on officeraleven have been written by herself, commanding the British and Aus-

Time For Flay, tralian forces at the battle of In spite of her business activities Fleurbaix, near Armentieres, on Mrs. Bowman finds time to share the Rider Lys, in 1916, was made the playtime hours of her children,, in a lecture at the Parliament to supervise her home, and take her House, Canberra, by Major-Gene-part in the social life of her town. ral Senator H. E. Elliott, D.S.O. There are many amazing pers|

He declared that the officers sonalities among the rich and happy were inefficient and that the opera-44. One of them is Mrs. Gussie Several speeches were made onion was badly bungled.

Young, of Fort Worth, Texas, who, the occasion of the launching According to the lecturer, the widowed at the age of 47, had to

thy new boat, and His Ex-

blame was thrown on the Austra- take a job at £2 58. a week. In cellency the Governor congratulian, General McCay, who had only five years she was earning £20 a Inted Commander Valente de been a short time at the front, but week. She learned stenography, Almeida on the efficiency of Ma- another general formulated the typerwriting, and book-keeping at cho's dockyard, praising him for attack without full knowledge of the age of 56, became secretary of the excellent results secured since the work.

a big law rm, and at 61 she is the works had been committed to

The results of the battle were still going strong. his charge.-Our Own Corres-

of

Described by the police perfect butler" who had been inndent. the service of some of the greatest persons in the land, Arthur Minors, 41. pleaded guilty at West London Police Court to obtaining two bot- tles of whicky and an ox tongue by false pretences from Slaters, Ltd.

POULTRY FROM ABROAD.

BRITAIN.

Det. Perry said Minors was until recently in service at the Siamese £70,000 WORTH DAILY FOR Legation, and left after stealing £23 belonging to the brother of the Siamese Minister. Later he went to Slaters and obtained the goods in the name of the Legation.

Princess Mary,

Duke of Connaught. Ex-King Manoel,

Lord Kitchener.

To a News-Chronicle represen-He had been in the service of: tative Dr. Holdaway emphasised that this sex control was only possible in the larval stage of the insect, which could be likened in human beings to the pre-natal period.

At present. Dr. Holdaway is on holiday from the University of Toulouse

On two occasions he threw

up

his job because he was afraid that guests at the house would recognise him as a man two had been convict ed of theft while in the service of "It is all part of the war the Duke of Connaught. In other agalust insect pests, which Aus- cases he had been discharged for tralia is waging," he said. "The drunkenness. blow-fly is one of the most costly "Drunkenness," added the detec insert pests to the sheep farmers tive, is the only cause of his out there, and we are endeavouring | downfall." to find out what are the various Minors, asked by the magistrate conditions which encourage it to what he had to say, replied: "I am multiply so freely, and how best afraid it is all true. It is the we can keep its multiplication un- drink." der control."

£1,000 A YEAR BY HAIRDRESSING.

BUT JUDGE THINKS WIFE WORTHLESS.

He was sentenced to six months' bard labour.

WORLD'S CONGRESS.

cost.

of

tragically disproportionate to the Mrs. Pearl Warwick, of Cham- paign, Illinois, as director of the A major," who was the only women's department of the House- high staff officer on the fleld," told hold Finance Corporation him (Elliott) that he expected a Chicago, is in charge of the an holocaust and had tried to prevent counts of 250,000 women, helping the slaughter. This officer had them to budget their family finances apparently spoken to generals who and plan an intelligent system of regarded the men as mere cannon savings. fodder.

Major-General Elliott said that

it was almost incomprehensible how after this extraordinary ad- venture any concerned retained their active command. General

Sir Richard Haking, he asserted, the infantry, to hide his own tried to throw all the blame on faults,

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The Duke of York, opening the Fourth World's Poultry Congress at the Crystal Palace said that it

Sir Richard formulated the at- event, the Zimbalist recital, should was a happy occasion which had tack without full knowledge of the be well received by lovers of music tives of sixty countries to discuss brought together the representa- conditions.

in the Colony. It is expected that the further developments of antinued the lecturer, for General filled as to-night's recital will mark excuse, con- the, Theatre Royal will be well industry which was so universally McCay, who had only been a few Zimbalist's only appearance here practised and which had in recent days at the front, but there was no during the present tour. The well times become of such great econo- excuse

for Generala. Haking, arranged programme will include mic importance.

Munro and Butler, who. should Bach's Praeludium, Glazounow's which agriculture was suffering a senator for the State of Victoria number, this being the first per-

In the present depression from have known the facts,

Concerto with Achron's "Suite Major-General Elliott has been Bizarre" the most interesting all over the world, the poultry in- dustry had brought a measure of in the Commonwealth Senate since formance of the work in Hong- relief to many a hard-pressed far-1920. He became major-general kong. The full programme is as mer.

in 1917.

In England we possessed a system of agriculture and re-

A loss of £14,562 is reported onl search which had largely enabled the Salford, Manchester, Municipal us to double our production of transport undertakings.

The QUARREL IN COURT, eggs within the past few years. Tramways and Motor Omnibuses With the help of this system and Committee. attributes the loss to the opportunities for improving "having been obliged by competi- our methods of marketing under tion to concentrate on the bus BARRISTER AND JURYMAN IN the "National Mark" schemes, we services to the detriment of the

ARGUMENT,

could look forward to an even tramways.' There was a profit of greater expansion in the future. £4,226 on the 'bus services, and There was a heated passage be If international trade were to be a loss of £18,788 on the tramways. The money value of a wife was tween a barrister and a juryman successfully carried

The losses are not to become discussed in the Divorce Court in at an inquest at Onger, Essex. the undefended petition of Mr.

must be mutual trust and good-charge on the rates, but will be Mr. Herbert Malone complained will. Thomas Norman Steel, incorpora to the coroner that a juryman had

made up out of a reserve fund. ted accountant, of Halifax Old- told him he was trying to trip & road, Huddersfield, who asked for the dissolution of his marriage on witness. This Mr. Malone strong-

the ground of misconduct between ly denied.

on there

The Prince's Ranch.

his wife and Mr. E. W. Smith, "I have never known an inquisi-ary Secretary to the Ministry of

Counsel said the damages had been agreed, subject to the sanc

Earl de la Warr. Parliament-

tion like this in all my life," he ing at a luncheon given by the

Agriculture and Fisheries, speak declared, "and I shall take it to the Government to the delegates, said

King's Bench.”.

that Britain

If we

tion of the Court, at £2,000.

Later Mr. Malone

imported Mr. and Mrs. Steel were married

poul- told the try products to the extent of in 1920 and the wife continued to coroner

that the juryman had about £70,000 a day. carry on a hairdressing business spoken to a material witness, tell wanted to keep our countryside from which she made £1,000 aing him his opinion as to how the going, there must be a place for year. In 1924 they made the ac-accident into which they were in the poultry men. quaintance of Mr. Smith and (acquiring had occurred. cording to the case of Mr. Steel) The juryman, in his turn, com- during a visit to Biarritz in 1928 plained that Mr. Malone had been Mr. Smith admitted he was in lovepointing at him, and criticising with Mrs. Steel. Later he gave à him, ever since the inquiry com- written undertaking not to see menced. He had also said that the her, but did not keep it.

jury had made up their minds, and Mr. Justice Hill: The woman it was useless going on. has proved herself to be entirely Mr. Malone denied this, and pro- worthless by her conduct, but she tested against the juryman serving, may have had some worth before The Coroner said that he did not that. At any rate, Mr. Smith hd like to discharge a juryman in the pursued her with persistency and middle of a case. He had never on the evidence she had a com-done so.

differ from it.

The Duke toured the exhibition and paid a visit to the Congress Club, where the delegates from all the nations were presented to him. He was greatly interested in the large-scale model of the Prince of Wales's ranch in Alberta, The model shows in detail about 75. acces of the ranch, including the ranch house and tennis club, cat- tle barns, chicken houses, and sheep shelters. In the back. ground are the peaks of the Rocky

mercial value. The damages have Mr. Malone said that recently Mountains. been agreed at £2,000, so I will not High Court judges had made certain During the morning 24 papera observations on the conduct of were read in German, Dutch, Por- A decree pist was granted, the come inquests, and more would botuguese, Polish and other lan- damages to be paid within 14 days. heard of that.

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