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removeable. Perhaps the worst thing that the high authorities in Peking
LOCAL AND COAST NEWS.
It is proposed to start a Penang-born-
2.80 p.m.-Auction of Valuable Fural could do at the present juncture would Chinase Volunteer Corps in Penung
fore, ., at Hotel Baltimore," Wyndham St.
General Memoranda. MONDAY, August 12:-
9.16 p.m.-Mecting of His Majesty's Justices of Posse at the Magistracy. Goods per Korea undelivered after noon
this date nobject to rent. Goods per Polynesien unclaimed after this date at Noon will be subject to rent
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and landing charges.
Goods per Glenturret not cleared on this
date subject to rent. WEDNESDAY, August 14-
2.30 p.t.-Austion of Household Furuí
be to resort to the old time methods of alaying the innocent with the guilty
It is however stated that, as sy medinis of stamping out robellion, the Government " extreme may have to resort to measures," which is understood to mean the indiscriminate slaughter of rebels and their clansmen, relatives near or remote sharing the fate of anyone adjudged guilty of robellion. It is, wo
show that 450 Chinoco died in a fortnight.
The mortality statistics of Bingapore
The transport Sicilia will leave for Hon on December 21 next with troops.' from this station.
Cornuation of Uis Majesty King Edward To-morrow is the anniversary of the
VII. A luto of 21 guns will be fired from the battery.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1907.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NAVAL PRACTICE.
Witnessed by Royalty.
A GHASTLY CRIME.
European Woman Murdered,
Body Found in a Box on a Steamer.
(Exclusive Rervice, supplied by Reuter,
One of the most ghastly and brutal crimes that has occurred within the liraits. vio Borsbay).
of the Colony of Hongkong was brought LONDON, August 7,
to light yesterday afternoon by thu dis Their Majestics the King and Queon,covery of the body of an European' woman accompanied by the Prince of Wales in a trunk on board the U. P. R. steamer
cumstances point to a most dastardly and foul deed having been committed-whe discovered by the carpenter on board the
tare, &o, at Me Gao, P. Lammert's hope, rendered impossible by the impact the cholera opidote is gaining strength and the Duke of Connaught, liaro had lontangle. The murder for all the cir
Sala Rooma,
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Ld, st Club Premisos. Goods per Arcadia not cleared at p.m.
on this date subject to rent THURSDAY, August 15-
11 a.Auction of One Marine Triple Expansion Engine, &c., at No. 1, Be "Goods por Forwarts andelivered after
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Noon-Meeting of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, at the City Hall,
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MONDAY, August 19:-
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According to the latest Bingapore papers
Singapore, notwithstanding the a een trip on H. M. S. Dreadnought, of the West and China's new relations strenuous efforts of the sanitary authori
Practice thooting with the twelve with foreign Powers for her to revert to ties to keep it in check.
inch guna was carried out, and, later the barbarous methods of the older and darker days. Should she do so the consequences thereof will probably be the more speedy and fatoful. In the neighbouring province of Kwangtung ere learn that the Acting viceroy is in consultation with the high Provincial
Noon- Blecting of Hongkong & Whem. Authorities regarding the means of raining half a million tes, to meet a special demand for improved cont defences. The money is to be forwarded. to Feking shortly. Yet the condition of the poor remains as it is without amelioration, and the causes which led HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1907. to the many uprisings carlier in the year continue in fores. The question what is to become of China, if the Govern ment poraisle is misgovorning, and no change of policy takes place, will be answered by events that sooner or later
CHINA'S DANGER.
Owing to the persistont bad weather on, the autimarines weat through a and the absence of summer trade, the great! drapers of Loudon, sro selling at heary series of annouvros, both above and losses. One firm has goods to the value of below water. £70,000 overstocked.
vesel.
Amanas Tarson-for that is the carpen ter's name-noticed a peculiar steun pro seeding from one of the boxes in the
baggage rooms of the steamer and or making a closer examination he saw that a dark fluid, resembling blood, was oozing -
At Saigon on July 21, a stoker named THE STANDARD OIL 00, from the box, and had in fact stained the
Dougall, on board the British steamer Kirkles, met with a terrible death. On
trying to get en boned again, after taking bath in the river, ho was caught between the vessel and a junk alongside and was crushed to death'
The N. Y. K. paasenger ateamers ATO now provided with new post cards and
menus of most ornate design. The menas are combined with two post cards benuti. fully designed to illustrafo Japan's folklore, and these should well serve the dual pur- pom of contributing to the picture post card craze and advertising the tirere,
The works for beautifying and in proving the city of Baigon, the outlay to be mot out of a special loan, havs just beca
CHINESE papers published in Hongkong are not illustrated-in this respect the will force a new departure in her taken in hand by the Government. Tho
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floor. He at once: sounded the alarm and the box was burst open..
·
None of those prosent fras prepared for the sight that met their. oyes. There was the body of a woman, clad in nothing ex- cept a chomico and a night garment. She was dead and her body was partially decomposed. Round her throat was a piece of calioo tied tightly. There was Onlittle oxcept: the shape of the body to indicate that it was a human form, for
The stook of the Standard Company has not been affected in New York by the heavy fino imposed,
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decomposition had set in and had swollor the corps so much that identification was a matter of impossibility..
The band mound the neck was tightoned by an improvised tourniquet--a hair brush being used to triet the band tight.
Immediately upon finding what was in the box those on board the Monteagle communicated with the police, and Police Sergeant Watt, of Yaumati, was one of the fret to hoard the vessel. He had the body removed to the Yaumati jaortuary and then set to work to discover whatever he possibly could which might lead to the arrest of the perpetrator of the deed.
Au examination of the dead body reveal-
ed little. It was that of a woman about
five feet eight inches in height. Her hair
was anbers and there were no traces of grey to be found. It was impossible to evan guess at her age and as for photo. Braphing her it was useless. The woman's face was swollen and was completely disfigure, for death was due to LONDON, August 0. strangulation.. Word was at once sont Semi-official statements in Berlin and round to all the police stations in the St. Petersburg declare that the discussions Colony, but so far the police have been Unsuccessful gleaning anything that at Swinemeado covered alt questions of parties for the ponco of the world moment, and testified to the desire of both might assist them in their search for the This much, however, tus beun found They in towise modified existing out. The box was delivered on board the alliances, and recoguised that the Russo- Monteagle by an European man, whose" Pun Shui was a tailor and yesterday Japanese agreement, and the prospective appearance suggested, that in was an was walking along the street with a bundle Angle-Russian agreements, were most con- of clothes under his arm. He was accosted ducive to the maintenance of peñcu. ⠀ by a policeman who asked him where ho
American.. It has about 6.30 on the arching of August that a sumpan cate alongside the Monteagle, then lying off Wanchai, and the Emopenn brought the
from Shanghai-but the pictures of things which readers are made to see
We have received a long letter. from "in the mind's eye" aro fearsome and a correspondent who signs himself alarming. Such pictures of disorgani-Enquirer" in regard to the Observa
Lord Elgin announced in the House of sation, violence and anarchy heighten tory. The letter is too long to give in A lovelorn cobbler from Yaumati is Lords that a protocol modifying the Sugar the marvel of the nation's continued full, and our correspondent also makes something of a poct. To a married woman Convention had been drafted by the existence. That in China things have the mistake of presuming that the in-he inditad several of his effusions, and Brussels Commission and would be signed yesterday to called to see the effect of on the 1st September if accepted by the continned as they were and so far there vestigations in regard to the typhoon of them. He met with a cool rocoption, sud Powers,
last September have been concluded, despite the fact that he~the post-offered has been no overturning is one of thosWe believe that the matter has not yet to marry. "hor, the women would have phenomena that puzzle the onlooker.
been finally settled, and, in the circum. nothing to do with him. He porsisted The historian of the future, setting stances, we believe that there would be with his sit and was rewarded with a fev forth in their true perspective and impropriety in publishing much of what Then she called in bor brother-in-law and hearty blows from the female Amazon. proper relations the happenings of to our correspondent has written. How the pair gave the cobbler a trouncing. day, may see their inwardness and point ever, we cordially agree with him that The police interrupted the sport and the their moral. The contemporary obser-se reply to the letter published by three wore brought before the Magistrate rer finds the signs of the times point to Father Froe of the Sicawei Observatory. Encit was bound, gror in the sum this morning charged with disturbing the should be forthcoming. The reverend of $100 to keep the peace for twelve problems which are well-nigh insoluable
father say It is well known that months. and which indicate possible catastrophes Hongkong refusestoreceívoany warning which ho feara to contemplate. Peking
・・・ ・ ・ none was sent because we knew Our Aerated Waters hold is full of alarms. Chinese students, it that it would not have been received. the premier position for excel-is said, have returned from Japan as Our correspondent says:" Either this
members of sanguinary cabule, whose is true or it is pot tras. If it is not was going. "I'm going to the country," THE TROUBLE IN MOROCCO. lence in the Far East. Made
said Pun.Where did you get these object is to kill highly placed Manchus, true the public should be so informed clothes," said the policeman. "I got without delay. But if it is truo the thoas from my brother," said L'us. But with the greatest care and with
LONDON, August 6. including the Emperor's relatives.
Observatory officials should be brought the suspecting policeman did not believe After posting guards at the Consulates, the finest materials procurable; Those in the plots are believed to have to their bearings in short order. His him as there were some women's clothes in the French battleship Galilee boardca they supply a pleasing variety, fully counted the cost and hold their Excellency the Governor is our Court the bundle and accordingly Pun was the Moorish quarter (of Casablanca) and for all palates.
own fires as of no value when weighed of Final Appeal and I respectfully urga arched off to the station. On arriving its surroundings,
there the policeman found that three rob- against the purpose of their organisa-that he should call upon the Observatory baries had been reported and the clothes by the bombardment. tion, which is to exterminate remorao ufficiale if this surprising allegation of Pun had tallied with those reported as lessly those who are marked for the Sicawei Director ba true-to stolen. Mir H. H. J. Gompertz scnt Pun
explain why they jeopardise the lives to goal for six weeks, with sir hours in the ACCIDENT IN A DESTROYER, as the Monteagle was not to sail until
Wednesday next. destruction. One of the newspapers and property of the people of this stocks and recommended ho should be Our Lemonade, Orange adda, as illustrative of the fear inspirColony by refusing to exchange Champagne, Raspberryade, by these and other foes of the dynasty, predictions with men
whose soion- A Comet. a statement regarding favoured officialétiño attainments are certainly not.
Capt. E. Bednarz, of the Austrian | injured. Lemon Squash, etc., possess
steamer Vorwaerte, reports that on Tues- who were accustomed to use a small inferior.
To me the attitude the true flavour of the finest
day night he observed a comot, very likely steam launch on the ornamental water alleged to be taken up is ludicrously that soen by Swilt in 1894. Fresh Fruits and are perfectly enclosed in the Palace grounds. They childish. It is a sort of the won't play pure and wholesome.
have been warned that this form of in your yard business by a huffy infant Currency Inquiry. We would draw special atten-recreation is no longer safe, inasmuch-although the other yards are more local gentlemen to sit as a committee with tion to Our Lime Fruit Cham-as the launch may be blown up by means spacious and better ordered." Our the Colonial Treasurer to inquire into the pagne, which has the pleasant which Western science has rendered correspondent writes in an irresponsible surroney question. All have not yet characteristics of the finest Lime possible to those who are plotting there but there is a great deal in what signified their willingness, but a represen
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of the court party. That the stories told in the car and proclaimed from the housetops are mere tales does not tako from their paralysing effect on the many who fear the worst may happen at any moment and the revolutionaries succeed.
banished.
The Government is asking overal
It is believed that 150 Moors were killed.
box.on board.
**I wù a passenger," he said, "and I want this box put into the hold."
The box was taken chauge of and tho Europead left. But instead of placing the box in the hold it was put in the luggage
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Nothing further was heard of the alleged passenger and no adspicions wore excited,
· Londos, August 6.The vessel went over to the Docks and it
The oil fuel of H, M. S. Spiteful ignited, we while lying in Hunghom Bay that the and two stokers were killed and four carpenter noticed the stench and blood
that aroused his curiosity.
THE KING'S CUP AT COWES.
The garments on the woman gave no traco to her identity. They were discolour- ed with the blood that had escaped from Lospox, August 6, the body and though a faint lettering could The Motear won the King's Cup at bo soon it was not plain enough (owing to Cowes
the stains on the garments) to decipher. Accordingly the police had the garments sent to be washed and when they are ro terned it may be possible to read the ini finls thereon, As far as eno he at present. gathered the initial "I," " T,” or : " -
THE BANDMANNS.
Last night the Bandian Opera Con pany terminated a most successful; work's
cutertainment by giving "A Chinese may be the one on the chemies... the case from the point of view of the Lo Loi is a crolia employed in the Honeymoon" as a farewell perforigance, It would seem that the murderer sup Observatory officials. Until that it was toying with a revolver in his room, bright and pleasing as evor (perhaps inore covered until the Monteagle was well away Antay Ordnance Department, Teaterdag Needless to say the whole company was posed that his time would not be dis published it would be unwise and unfair which opens on to Fletcher Street, and in so, being the last night); the fum as usual from the Colony, for his particular request to pass judgment But it is evident order to see whether it was in werking contring round Mr. Harry Colo. Miss to have the box put in the held shows that that, in the interests of the public, the order ho put a cartridge in and pulled the Leit as Son Soo (the Emperor's Nito), ho cudeavoured to hide his tricks as migh matter should be cleared up without trigger, aiming at the closed dors. The Miss Primmer as Mre, Pineapple and Miss ng possible. Ones in the hold he would in
all filled their respective roles to the entire for doubtless he counted upon the stone ploughedits way through the door and barely missed polting a halo in a sergeant of the Miss O'Connor's singing of "I want to be that a decomposing body was in the hold, satisfaction of an appreciative audience, arising from the bilgo water hiding the fact Middlesex Reginiont who was passing by. Mr Brackenbury arrived in the Colory M: J. J. Bluko ndo invost gations onthusiastic encores, the young Indy being covering the criminal. He has had a clear
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Tho police have little chance of dis this morning to take up his dutice needed in iscovering Lo Lei, who was recalled for the third and fourth time, throu daya start and in all probability is fore Mr H. H. J. Comports with dischargmann Crow Wo wish them hon voyage la identified, or until bas sampan which Private Secretary to the Governor. Mdged at the Magistancy this morning be Many in Hongkong will miss the Banil well out of the Colony. Until the woman
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The police hare a description of the European who took the body no hand, the FOR A LAME BACK.
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