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to leave room for podestrians and ]2 to drive with the utmost caution
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attention to obstacles in the way of an injured person obtaining fair compensation. First, there is the onus which the law throws on the injured person of proving negligence on the part of the driver, an onus particularly dif Jicult to discharge where the claim is made by the dependents of a person fatally Injured; and,
secondly, the cost of litigation, which many an injured person can ill afford, however, strong his case may be. Oue class of case which
DAY BY DAY
LET US GIVE NEW FORCE TO THE OLD LAWS, AND ENDEAVOUR TO RES-
TORE THIS NATION TO ITS FUNDA MENTAL AND VITAL LIBERTIES, THE PROPERTY OF OUR GOODS AND THE FREEDOM OF OUR PERSONS.-Ed- mund Waller.
notified to
A Chinese ease of diphtherin was the health nuthorities yesterday.
will appear to-morrow.
The Hunting Parson.
By ANDREW SOUTAR.
TT HAPPENED only a few too, have felt like that. I, too, days ago. The pack brake have pondered the difference be through the spinney, crossed the tween selfishness and altrufent, high road, tore through the nut and wondered if real sympathy is. plantation and loped across the beyond the -understanding of open field in pursuit of the fox. humans. The horses followed to the road- That hunting parson and his
unavoidably held over until to-nor old.
were
ajo
of the
To-day's instalment of our Serial way; the riders turned to left and grey mare would have knocked Story is unavoidably crowded out. It right, hoping for the elusive gate-the word, futility, out of the soul
way, for the nut trees
moat dejected. To my mesh they did not care to risk. mind, he was a challenge to all Owing to pressure on our space, the Not so the stalwart on the grey who declaim against the Church Volunteer Defence Corps Orders are mare. A parson! Neither young as being effefe and subservient to the capricious moods of Mammon. is said to involve undoubted hard-morrow.
I thought
There is nothing that aloud; "He is like muscular Christianity. Ifero inspires ship to pedestrians is that of
never been young and he will; A worker of a ten leaf shop nt 253,never be old: he will endure.”
was a man who believed in him. vehicles mounting the pavement. Queen's Road East fell from the roof His mare had come through the lieved in the Faith he sought to
Betr. I doubt not that ha of the premises yesterday whilst holding plough; her flanks were instil in others. From his lips bo- Ilore the law, under which An injured person must prove either something faulty in the vehicle or negligence in the driving of it,
is considered distinctly unfair to
to
her dilated nostrils gleamed Hike
drying some leaves and died after being rushed to hospital. The man pod like suds from her muzzle: would como no apology for the splashed with mud; saliva drip- Au Tseung, was 31 years of age,
Pleading guilty to possession of 0.5 lecle of enw epiunt in Wang Street yesterday, a woman, Yin Ying, was fined $195 or in default nix weeks ¦ imprisonment by Mfr. Hamilton, at the
Kowicon Magistracy this morning.
Was
to
mean
of his calling. rather the pink of coral; her big eyes would he extol its strength. were night with the joy of the Lefroy you kn
How many of know Dean chase: Neither ste nor the elder on her back would have turned to despise anything that was left or right if a
and meretricious. swamp bad
If ever a man dared them to come on.
ennobled the profession he fol- One of my
most cherished memories
is
Up, girl, and through] He bowed owed it was Dean Lefroy. Mr. M. Squarey, representative his head to the shelter of her in the Far East for the Cunard Steam glorious neck. They jumped the of an autumn afternoon when I Ship Company, Ltd. is at present in ditch and climbed the bank andwich. There was laughter in his sat with him in his study in Nor- Hongkong, and will probably make plunged into the plantation. I
his headquarters hers. The N.Y.K. drove the dull, unromantic car to eyes, rhythm in his deportment, are the General Passenger Agents for the Cunard Company.
the top of the rise in the read and youth and vigour in his voice. He loaked across the weald,
loved his profession; he loved the humble people.
***
·
As he rucalled his Dublin days young and impoverished cleric his whole body quivered with
the person on the pavement.
One reform which the Assocla- tlon is urging is that local authori ties be given power to make a byc law requiring motor vehicles pull up when passing stationary tramcars. Here in Hongkong, PRICE $800,
that is the rule laid down by re VEHICLES MAY BE INSPECTED qulation; it is surprising that it
In an attempt to commit suicide a AT OUR STUBBS ROAD GARAGE should not be in force in England,
muss named Leung Ho aged 36, of There he waa! The hunting | That there is need for such a body the Ko Shing Hinse shop in Queen's pink of the Whip showed like a THE HONGKONG HOTEL|as the Pedestrians' Association is Road West, Jumped off the Sham-poppy against the green, but
shuipo ferrybont Man Pat, yesterday could have picked out that grey the triumph of it all. He told me GARAGE.
shown by the statistics of people as the launch was on its way from mare from a myriad conflicting that he had little time for sleep killed and injured in road accidents Hongkong to Shumshaipo. The man colours. Hedge after hedge shein those early days. To nugment
was rescued and taken to the Govern- took with cusy
Д his pillange of a salary he wrote grace, and in Great Britalu. Since the war,ment Civil Hospital.
"cat"
the Press, was not less graceful. for
and many such
he bad Slightly forward his body leaned ensunities have totalled
Lo drop tho The body of a Chinese woman aged as she took off; he lowered his per
the middle of an nearly 11 million and half. 40 years was found washed up on the hands to give her freedom of article to go to the aid of a wo-
foreshore at Hailey's Shipyard at 10.15 u., yesterday and was removed movement-no hauling of a ship's in the slums whose drunken a husband was laying the Kowloon Morlunry where rope for him. He straightened bully of
wasic around him. Muscular considerable increase on the post-mortem examination was hekt slowly as she landed, and took Christianity was needful in those
her stride as though he and ske were
part of ench other. Dis days. tance could not rob me of the musical pant of her breath and For the theft of a mah Jongg set, the rhythmic pad of her hooves of which he was the bailee, Shing Tit could not dim the picture was sentenced to one month's impri- knew to be on his weather-beaten sonment by Mr. Hamilton, at the face-the Hving pieture Kowloon Magistracy this morning. triumph!
The Hongkong Shanghai Hotels, Lid. Incorporated in Hongkong. 26, Queen's Bari C. and Stubba Ronil.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
PRIDAY, MAY 29, 1931.
year, in
Last
The fael,
ቤቲ tual death-roll was 7,805, which to
18 H
figures for the previous twelve month. The Association is obviously doing a splended ser- vice, and it deserves every support in the work to which it has put its
THE RIGHTS OF THE | bands.
PEDESTRIAN,
of
Lower Deck's New Charter.
It was revealed that the deceased clied from drowning, it being suspected that she had committed suicide,
may never
of
time
less than two years ago, it finds upon the Report of a special com- the 1st, 2nd and and 7 p.m. on Istalking among the crowds with which these times are like to lay
1
3rd June.
4
to
趄
I'd like to ride, side by side, with that hunting parson, le gave me the impression that his whole heart was in the chase, yet he would have checked the grey mare and gone to the aid of any It appears that the defendant went to
one who had blundered at a fence. a shop in 160, Sai Yeung Chet Street, hunting parson.
see again that
Confound the fellow! The mode 1 shall never and borrowed the set for twenty forget the inspiration he
me eat many of the bitter things Much interest has been aroused on the same day he pawned vided. Easter was near at hand for him, you any, to be able to pro-I've said about the Church. Lucky Judging from the annual report in tocal naval circles by the an-
it for $3.
the year was begun again. Be-follow the hounds. That may be of the Pedestrians' Association. nouncement, made in the House of
Messrs. Anderson, Meyer & Com-hind me, in the cities, for aver so, but it was the thoughts he kindly forwarded to us by a lien re-Commons last week. that the title Conerat Fivetrie Refrigerators, as they were wrangling still
puny, Lad.. tole agents Гезд the the distant blue ridge of hills, inspired that helped me to dis- sident who is a member, excellent of Mate in the Royal Navy is to
over abuse my mind of many fallacies. nounce that, in order to accommodate the bones of winter. The bust-Two thousand years of work is being done by that body be dropped and that selected men the many people who were unable to lings were groaning beneath the tianity! The Church has wen- Chris- in unholding the rights of the walk-are to be promoted to the ranks view the first exhibition, they are feet of perforvid orators, the air thered many storms--there may
giving another demonstration of their was heavy with their ing public. Formed in London Lieutenant. The decision is based floor) between 5,
Acting Sub-Lieutenant and models at the Wing On Co. (ground The old arch-enemy, Self
acrimony.he many more ahead.
WAN "Under the hard conditions the arrogance of youth among the upon us." we may allow suspielon Itself faced with problems which mitter under Vice-Admiral Larkin,
thistle-heads. Altruism was alink and distrust to feed on fretted have been growing in gravity and commanding the Reserve
Chan Hok-ming was charged before ing away with ghostly face and nerves and failing courage, but Fleet, Mr. Hamilton. Al Kowloon this urteney since motoring frat
bewhich recommended a new churtermorning with having misappropriated or weighed down by a sense of ponder it well, and the Truth came really popular. As might be for the Lower Deck, Anvolving in-farmer, Lam Yat-chi, on April 30. 1 the Truth we had come after near
sum of $250 entrusted to him by a futility,
must be borne in កង you lose
· And I wondered how near to Faith and you have lost all.. expected, rarch of its activities portant changes in the methods of was alleged that the complainant gave last year lind to do with the new promotion to commissioned rank. the money to the defendant to obtainly two thousand years of Chris- Road Traffic Act, and it was alle This question of promotion is one defendant fraudulently converted the would te feel that we had as-
a passage for him France, and the tianity. If the Christus returned PHIPPS heralds to secure various amendments
toronely affecting the contentment, money to his own use.
THE LOUNGE-LISZT: A week's similated the magnitude of the: that measure in order to ensure the fand thus the efficiency, of the formal reaand was granted.
sacrifice He made? Would He safety of those who walk on the Navy, and if they have found
say of the people that suffering "My dear, what a remarkable sound solution to a dimeult pro-ecutive and professional capacie say of
had made them whole? Would | hat,"* roads. The Government, how-
the Church, "Well Utem, the Larkin Committee has ties does not arise as a rule until ever, refused to introduce tests earned the thanks, not only of the ratings have served for some timo
"I thought you'd like it, dar- done"?
ling. It's by Beethoven." for motor drivers or to give high-men affected, but of the Board of as Leading Seamen, by which time war has there arisen one
That is just two women discus- Out of the ashes of the world sing headgear in the near future. way authorities power to rest ici-the Admiralty. "The Mate
spark The revelation has recently speeds in populous districts,
they are inevitably older than Sub-that might have become a beacon been made that a Berkeley-street Scheme," the weak points of which Lieutenants. It is understood that if fanned by human understand-milliner composes her bats The most important results are, it is believed, now rectified, even this obstnele has been over-ing? I heard a man say out of music. Then she arranges which the Association were able was the direct outcome of pre-war come, and It will be of conidor the bitterness of his heart: "parade, and an each hat is dis- to serure whilst the Road Traffic agitation. Previous to, 1913,
itable interest to hear uxactly by suffered in the company of com-It is a beautiful idea.
was happier in those days, for I played she "plugs" the theme-song, Act was under consideration were Was possible to count on the what method.
fingers of one hand the insertion of clauses forbid-
the oflicers ding motor races and speed trials ranks corresponding to those who who had risen to commissioned on public highways and recoguis had started their navul careers on ing, although somewhat half-the Brittania
ur at Dartmouth. heartedly, an obligation upon Captain Lytes, who recently re- highway authorities to provide tired with Flag rank, was a not- footpaths by the sides of ronds.able example, but. he achieved In this latter connexion, it is in-spectacular promotion for an out- teresting to note that a general standing feat of seamanship · and assurance has been given by the resource on an accusion when his Government that grants from the lie turned her into a sailing ship torpedo boat loat her propellor. Roa Find will be made eandi-with deck-cloths and table-covers. tional on the provision of foot-The Mate Scheme, however, was paths along new ronds or along introduced to provide a ladder for old thoroughfarea when widened those who could hardly hope for or improved. On this point, it such a golden opportunity of prov may be recalled that the finaling their exceptional worth, and report of the Royal Commission on undoubtedly the Navy has obtain Truffle attached the greatest imed numbers of first-class officers portance to the provision of foot-them have commanded destroyers under the regulations. Many of paths and urged that the surface and submarings with distinction. of these should be kept in as goodAt the same time, it has a condition as that of the carriage-been a source of disappointment WAY. On the question of "the to these officers that their initial rule of the road" where there is promotion has taken place at a no pathway, there is considerable age considerably above that of divergence of opinion, but the As-b-lieutenants-the correspond- sociation takes the view thating rank to Mates-with the re there is no possible rute of safe alt that the age limit has in- walking along a road without a few excoptions, from rising high- tervened to prevent them,' with footpath, and that if the
er than Lieutenant-Commander. "Keep to the right" is prescribed How these diMculties are to be on such roads, it must be accom-surmounted, it is not yet quita panied by directions to motorists clear. Opportunity of testing ex-
rule
often
CHAH
ROMUAL
rades: now I
Buffer
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alone."
"But I'm due at Rotary in 10 minutes, to make an address on preparedness.
It is obviously only a matter of tempo before the contouriers adopt the principle of plucking the lyre first and their patrons afterwards. Then we shall get:
VERY CHIC. Straight from Covent Garden
(Opera) 20 guineas.
and possibly:
"Lady Overdraft was wearing an ensemble in B flat by Val Halla, the well-known Wagnerian house. For jowellery she wore 17 bars of the now fashionable Rhinegold."
But why stop with female fashions? There is no earthly reason why Music should not supply motifs for Savile-row, A llit Allegretto.
Wo might start, as the ladies have done, with hata. Somehow I belleve I could come to love a Trilby from Tannhauser, and, a Homburg by Strindberg would not coma amisa.
Then think of the unlimited scope in the realm of gont's wear generally. I must admit that I shovidn't like to hear my tailor's comments when I walked in and. ordered a double-breasted suite. (for strings), but I don't suppose they would be any more pictures- que than hia comments on state of my account.
In any caso, hia Bach would probably be worse than his bite. We beaux would have a grant time teasing one another in our clubs, too. I should go up to old. Willie ("Spide thought his shirt à Lowe-Pressure and tell him I
bit allegretto. He wouldn't like that a bit. He'd probably call mo In Lounge-Liszt or something.
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