One reflects that Hongkong is to! be envied in several respects, a8 one reads of the case of the Chinese Dieyelist brought before the magistrate at the Kowloon Police Court last Saturday. The traffic sergeant in charge of the case described it as an exceedingly bad one. The defendant was caught on the wrong side of the road and, as he approached the policeman, "we read, that he "deliberately took both hands off the handle bars and proceeded to do tricks." The trafic sergeant informed the magistrate that the roads were infeated with lads of this kind on bicycles and that it was hard for the police to catch them. Whereupon, the magistrate inflicted a fine of $5 or seven days in gaol. One wishes the same sort of thing might be done in Shanghai where the cyclists are a menace all traffic, For the most part, their movements are quite incalculable and many of them deliberately "show off" to the danger of everyone else on the road. A few salutary examples might be made with advantage.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.