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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

THEFT OF MONEY Peak Tramway

Intended to Buy Passage

To Shanghai

Dividend

May 30 1939.

GAMBLERS RAIDED Absence from Court Costs Offenders Their Bail

in

Tendering the excuse that he had

A dividend of six per cent,, on all | stolen the money to return to Shang-shares is to be declarest at the annual R..Edwards at the Central Magistracy Ball of $151 was confiscated by Mr. hai to settle some family affalea, Län Yuk-tak 21, cabin-boy, was bound neeting of the Peak Tramways Com- yesterday, when 17 persons arrested

Friday, for gambling failed to appear over in a sum of $100 to be of good any. Ltd., at 11 am, on

June 2, at The behaviour for one year, by Mr. E.

Hongkong Court. Hotel. Himsworth at the Kowloon Magic-

The rald was carried out at Room tracy yesterday for the theft of $400 the net profit for the year amounts day, Yee Nin, 35, and Yu Kel, 24, The Directors report states that No. 415, Mee Chow Hotel, on Satur- from the chief steward,

to $40,040.37, to which is added the charged with keeping n common Ling Kwan-ting, chief steward of balance of $22,800.47 brought for- Rambling house, were on ball of $50 the steamer Kwelyang, who dis-ward from the last account, making each, while the rest were on $3 ball covered the $400 missing from hlaja total of $62,086.84.

Dividenda each.

Chan Mui, 45, pawn broker, was cush-box on Sunday. suspected Lau absorb $30,000, and it is intended to ns he had left the boot the previous welto off $10,000 on the Permanent charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- night. Lau was subsequently ar- Way, carrying forward the sum of fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday with keeping a fiat in Woo rested in Des Voeux Rond West. He of $22,803.04. had $350 in his possession and a

Sune Street, as a common gaming house, and was fined $30, passage Ucket for the steamer Ming sang to Shanghai.

Defendant told the Court that his mother bad recently died in Shang- hui. He was ordered to pay $50 compensation to the complainant or to undergo six weeks hard labour.

EVADED BUS FARE Tailor Produces Ticket Which Had Been Used

Charged with evading payment o fare while travelling on bus No. 630) on Sunday. Yip Fong, tallor, was Aned $5 by Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at

Trafle receipts for the year were $147,505.38,

Five other pawn shop folds were charged with gambling

who were

Mr. D. L. Newbiggin was invited to join the Board of Directors in place of Mr. D. F. Landale, who resigned fined $3 each. One man did not ep- during the year. In accordance with pear in court, and had his ball of 55 the Articles of Association, the estreated. Table moncy of $14.50 following Directors retire and offer was donated to the Poor Box. themselve for Te-election: Sir Robert Ho Tung. Mr. J. Scott Hars- ton, Mr. L. Kadoorle, Mr. II. V; WII- kinson and Mr. D. L. Newbiggin.

Millionaire's

Sons To Wed

Mr. Eu Tong-sen's two sons,

the Central Magistracy yesterday. Mr. Bu Keng-loon and Mr.

It was stated that defendant board- W. K. Y. Eu will be married this! ed the bus near the Star Ferry afternoon. Wharf, and, when asked by the con- ductor for his fare, replied that he

Captain Botty-Smith, AD.C., will|

had already bought a ticket. Sub-represent H. E. the Governor at the sequently, on inspector of the Bus wedding reception. Company asked for the tlekel and he by the bridegrooms parents, will be The reception, which will be given produced an old one.

held at their home," "Euston," in Defendant denied the charge, saying Bonham Road. he had bought a lickel. He must have Mr. Eu Keng-loon will marry Miss lost it when he took a newspaper Nancy Kan whlist Mr. W. K. Y. Eu's from his pocket. He travelled on bride will be Maks May Shum. buses frequently and that was how he got the old ticket.

FINE ON MISTRESS Mui-tsai Refuses to Say

Who Beat Her

Admitting a charge of keeping an unregistered mui-fsai named Leungi Ngan, aged 10, Chau Yuk-ping, 20,

Children Over Three

To Pay On Bus

4

THE are limit for free bus travel by children has been reduced from five to luree years in the West Midland area, the Ministry of Transport told bus operators there recently. It is believed that the decision, which follows an ap- peal by the railways, may affect the whole country.

The railways age limit for frce travel is three years. Trollybuses and trameors are not concerned in the decision.

ESCALATOR FUSES

Electrical gear fused on the escalator to the Morden line at Monument Tube Station, EC., recently. The station was Alled with smoke, and a platform was closed for fifteen minutes.

Assuming his new dutles, Captain A. M. Pelers, the new Commodore relieving Conumodore E. B. C. Dicken. A holated his pennant this morning on H.M.S. Tamar,

married woman, of 40, Le LATE NEWS

Street, Wanchai, was ined $30 by Mr.

R. A. D. Forrest at the Central

Magistracy yesterday.

Mr. H. W. Fraser, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, said that the girl had been beat

with feather

duster, but she refused to say who did it. At Arat she said she was beaten by her former mistress who had gone to Canton, and later she} atated she had quarrelled with some children. Finally, she alleged de- fendant had beaten her but she re- fused to say so in her presence.

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SUMMER DANCES Nightly Entertainment In Lido Restaurant

Amenities at the Lido are augmented by its summer dances which will commence on Saturday. These

will be in the nature of dianer dances and will function nightly throughout the season, with the exception of Mondays, and Tues- days, in the comfortable Restaurant Extension, Patrons will have the opportunity of enjoying uninter- rupted evenings after bathing regard- less of weather conditions.

These dances, in exquisite environ- ments and on a perfect dance floor, will provide excellent means entertainment.

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KOREAN VOLUNTEERS

China Front First Batches Sent to The

Keljo, Korea, May 20,

A certain number of Korean volun- teers who have finished preliminary training in the Korean Army camps, were dispatched to an undisclosed front in China to participate in the milltary operations for the first time since the enforcement of the Korean Volunteer System April, 1938,

So far 800 Korean youths have been enlisted. The first and second groups coch numbered 200, After six months basic training, they are as- signed to various corps of the Korean Army to undergo regular exercises with recruits from Japan proper-! Domei.

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BIRD ATTACKS MAN large, strange bird with a white throat and grey body attacked Mr. P. Knibbs, of Cross Farma, Gam- lingay, Cambs, who captured it: after a struggle. He thinks it may have escaped from a zoo.

BISHOP SEES DRESS SHOW

Lady Ann Stuart-Wortley, twenty- year-old daughter of the Earl of Whorncliffe, was an amateur man- nequin at à charity dress parade, at Doncaster (Yorks) recently. Dr.

Burrows,

eighty-one-year-old Bishop of Sheffield, watched.

Motor-Cycle For A Drink

ONCE upon a time (not so long ngo) n man bought o motor-cycle for a drink, and another man bought a car for 30s.

The man with the motor-cycle, Arthur Leonard Morgan, of Donald Road, West Croydon, did not think It would go. "I was just trying it out when the police stopped me," he told the magistrate at Croydon recently.

Result: Fined £2 and disqualified for three years for driving without

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