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MARRIAGE.
Dacre • GrovtIDGE—At St.
Peter's
Churelt, Hongkong, on April Suth, by the Rer. C. E. Ross, MARY GOODRIDER
to ROB.IT Daude, -——~~
MEMOS FOR TO-MORROW.
St. George's Day.
Nonn-Union Insurance 1eeting 12.30 p.m.hins Traders Meeting. -3.13 p.m. — H.K. Horticultural Society
Meeting
General Memoranda.
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At the Criminal Sossione bo-day, Long Pa was charged with disobeying as weder of banishment, and sons to prison for your
Te the Municipal Museum at Roch oster the Poyal Engineers have presented the existence of ships of larger tou-the whole of their geologies! and miner nage than 10,000 tons. The stutegic i collections
bted to hear that Mr Consul Wilder han grønly besoftze trip and is now in very much bettor Ho will proosed" fram
to moet fra Wilder and will afterwards return to Washington to report to the State Departu
BON
residente in the Calong baj reception. Consequently maxY
wort will be in Hongkong on that no
that he intinde to visit the latter place upon leaving tanten
A famwell concert in honour of Mrs Gordon to shom the whole Colony western lakton and Mac The holiv such a domy musint debt-will take place Volunteer Headquarters on May lat, and we foul sure it will attach a large niten- Dr. Suls is expected to arrive at Hong dance, as so many residents in Hongtong kong on the Shun. His stay will have expromed a wish to pay a tribute of only be brief. His visit will not be at
BY TELEGRAPH
FRAN
NESE
It has been
decided Franco-Japanesa, loan, under" the KG- cognition of the two Governm and Mr G. Boy the President of the Kogyo Ginko (Industrial Bank) left for
· Tha Registrar of Companies (Mr.H.A. [ esteem to Mrs Gordon are she leaves for ↑ Landed by much seremony for he desires Paris yesterday, to": arrange the detailre
Nesbit) announces the the name of the New 9 mamba Co., Ltd., bag benn angek
ment acema incredible, and had not the figures published in connection with the Titanic supplemented such in formation, we should have been in-off the register. clined to have scouted it altogether.
Nestly £400,0001 has been received in But facts are stubborn things. Theoluntary contributions for the building of Titanic, the latest triumph of marine an froncind for the Swedish navy at architecthre, puts to sea with 2,340 estimated cost of £800,000. [eople on board and can only providė Papers placed before the Franch Parlia, room in her bouts, in the event of anment show that between 1907 and 1911 accident, for 950! The more wo Morocco has to Franco £5,760,000 for reflect the more criminal appears the war-like and other operations. inadequacy of the protection thus disclosed.
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The annual general meeting of the China Association is to be held on Wednes
Home
Mr 4, C. Hunter, of Mesars Ballard and Hunter, has retired from Balmums "affor spending nearly forty years in the Tr East Coming out to Hongkong in 1974 for Russell and Co, be was traceferred to Shanghai in 1876 and remained with the Brm tall it liquidated in 1891... After that he became a silki merchant and later fock op insurance. He filled a prominent part in Shanghai busines, social and religions life."
FATAL MOTOR ACCIDENT.
Charge.
that his recepti in should be more or less of,
private description
It is probable that a Chinese with whip will be in rowdincm, at
fongkong to take him to Canton where he goes to help to or confidence in the new Government.
"BOATWOMEN'S OFFENCES”
For unlawfully carrying 17 passengers in excess of the number allowed by hey daolie boat Roemon on lab inst a boat.
women was to-day food, $100 at the
Marine Court.
- Luother woman was fined a like sam för
being Ecensed as such.
The failure of the buge vessel today, April 24, at the offers of the P. and Crown Withdraws Manslaughter using her bont as a pissingir bost without
0.8 N. Company, London. -
Our
keep afloat more than four hours after striking the ice-berg in also difficult to explain. We shall never know the extent of the damage which the mighty ship sustained when she butted into the ice. What really happened is a secret now held by the inviolate sea Did the submerged portion of the berg tear away the ship's side, ramming holes in her hall below the water-line in addition to crumpling up" her bows? At the very end we read that the indow of ice-
THURSDAY, April 25:-
Princess Victoria Alexandra's Birthday cold water into the boiler roome
(Princess Mary) (197).
caused an explosion which rent the vessel in twain, so the inference is that she did receive injuries in vital
4 pan-Special Meeting of H.E. Chain-
ber of Commerce,
Saturday, April 27 :—
A Tiberal Discount! 1. Hongkong Gymkhaus Club parts of the hull besides the damage
Givenfor Cash,
GUARANTEED FOR FIVE
YEARS
S. MOUTRIE & CO., LD.
Hagkons, April 6, 1907
Powell's
TELEPHONE 340.
Meeting,
SUNDAY, April 28 :---
9 s.m.-Excursion to Macao.
9 pan-Raymond—the Conjurer--at the done to the bows. But even so, in
City Hall.
the course of four hours was it not possible to have found out where those damages were and to take some alleviating precaution? The engines were stopped immediately from the bridge after the first jar so that hardly seeins to suggest that they were in
| Monday, April 20 ;-
Soon-Hongkong & Whampra Dock Co.
Extmordinary Meeting.
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3 p.m.-Sale of frown Lands at P.W.D. TUESDAY, Apr 30:-
The China Jinil
HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912.
3
THE TITANIC DISASTER.-
Our report of the Hongkong Volunteer
Retry Annual Dinner, held last fatur- day night at Volunteer Headquarters, is unavoidably bold over till tomorrow.
The finding of seven dead bodies during the week end, in various parts of the Colony has been reported to the police. Tü one instance death is attributed to small pos.
At Tolegraph Bay on Sunday, seven Chinese-two of whom were armed-broke into a house ard stole goods to the value of $3. They will be dealt with at the Ma go trasy,
A Chinese charged at the Magistracy to day with stealing from Stonecutter's Island, 64 Tha of metal. value 220 property of the War Department, was remanded till Thursday
The total output of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company's three mines for the week ending 6th April, 1912” amounted to 34,314.97 tone and the salce during the period, to 32.882.67 tous.
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The bathing season is about to com mance in Hongkong, and, in connection therewith military regulations, which have just been issued, state that the pastime will be permitted at specified places and times from to-moirow.
...
8188,338.78,
Abdul Rashed, chauffeur in the employ of the Dragon Cycle Co., was brought up
at the Criminal Sessions this mornings before Mr Justice Gompertz, on a charge of manslaughter of a Chinese on March 4th, through knocking him down with ■ motor car in Coonaught Road.
The following were sworn in as jurors :— dosars C. W. Olsen, 4. Henderson, G. W. Barton, B. E. Mehta, T. R. Ormiston,” W.-M. Johnson and A. 9. Hewitt..
Ta
Two other women were sach fined 85 fur
DIPLOMATIO
of the loan or £3
do nuta
CHANGES.
(Independent News Agency's Sorice
to the China Math) 1
Thero, April 20 Ambarascior Kato left yesterday for London and Minister juin departed for Peking
HUNGARIAN CABINET
REFORMING,
failing to carry two males between ti e ages of 13 and 60 whilst carrying passen (Reuter's Serpice to the China Mail) gets in their licensed "A" class passenger boat.
·A FORGER. SENTENCED.
Flys Years Hard Labour.
London April 200 The Hungarian Finance Minister, Herr Lukses, is forming a new Cabinet.
SPORTING.
Shooting
BLAKE ARIETE COMPETITOA
· The shoot, for the Blake Shield took
resulted in another place best Saturday and reso
is for the 10 pr. Suction Artallery Co. Scores were as follows ----
19 FL. SECTION,
500
At the Criminal Sessions, hefurs Me Justica Gompertz, this morning, Francis Mr. G. Clabaster, Acting Attorney Lucas Ficard was charged on five counts, General, mid-My Lord, I havo very: carefully considered the evidence given at with forgery. Mr G. C. Alalmater, Acting tha Poles Court and I have come to the Attorney General-printed on behalf of conclusion that that evidence would not the Crown, and Mr R. E. Belilios (in justify any jury in returning
rerdict adverse to the prisoner. Under the cir-structed by Mr Les DiAlunda) a fended. cumstances I do not intend to place any Prisoner pleaded guilty on all counts. - svidence before you at all, and so, subject Mr Alabaster stated ther the prisoner
Lordship's directions, your will be to give thin man his acquittal, hai pleaded guilty first of all to a charge
directed the jury
Our. to retard of forging su authority for the inde of C. S. M. Rodger 30 30
Bansford His Lordship dire
guilty, saying he entirely cheque book, secondly, to uttering that Terdict of not concurred with the conclusion come to by authority, thirdly to forging a cheque Gun Summers Bom, Anderson the Attorney General.
taken from the cheque book which was Gan. Eldridge
Gun, Young issued in consequence of that furgery, fourthly, with uttering that choque, and Bithlynn withi forging another choque. It seemed that the prisoner Cape, Amstrong
A verdict of Not Guilty" was thereupon returned, and prisoner was acquitted.
THE AYRIS CASE...
་་་
Sentance of Five Years.
it
sad case. The prisoner, who που θ
Sum of upw
upwards of
+
'ed the position, as one of
Gun. Henderson 23 Sgt. Sorby 33
was formerly in the employ of Mr Lieut. Reas
&M Grey
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The third and final shoot of the sería
We learn from the tails Timer that the outward F. and O. Syris, which was in collision in the Mediterranean and was
At the Criminal Sessions, before Hr Vernon, of the Boa Vista Hotel, Macao, deispod at Malta for repairs, was due at
Corp. Bullock Colombe on 21st inst. She is dus in Hong-Justice Gompertz this morning, Edwin and that he left Mr Vernon's Ervis St. Wright
Berkeley Aysis was indicted with embeazlin January of February last. Be then 11 a.mxaordinary General Montjured at the commencement. Another
kang on May 4th,
ing of 8180, 2880 and 870.08, the went and stayed at a Japanese Hotel Ge. Chapin ing of the H.K. Coton, Spinning curious thing was the lightness of Weaving and Dyeing Co.
property of the South China Morning Post, in Hongkong and on the last day he Ga. Lowick the jar caused by the impact with
and Also with falsely omitting to enter was there, on the 19th of March, after SATURDAY. May 4:-
month's board and, lodging, he went to the
Capt Boas No-B.K. Electric Co., Ld's Mecting the ice. We can only suppose that
sums of 8604 and 200 in the Company's staying & month and incurring a bill for a hooks, this was due to the mere size of the
Mr G. 0. A'abaster (instructed by Mr Yokohama Specie Bank with a letter in the Ineat. Blade
Liaut: Stewart vessel and there is no doubt this
F. M. Hodgson) prosecuted on behalf of following terms Yokohamy Specie
Sgt. Sutherland the Crown; and prisoner was not defender Bank Sira, Plasse give bearer one more Set HD further prevented any sensation of
During December month the revenue In reply to the charges, prisoner pleaded jobeque book and oblige.Yours faithfully, Pra Murdoch iniminent danger arising in the from the local section of the Kowloon Alabaster mid-This is a very abis to say that that was a very clever
Mr Vernon." Well, Mr Vernon would be Pte. Bernard Mr
Pte: Mauz minds of those on board. To this Canton Railway was 811,540 95, while feeling of over-confidence, indeed, through trafic (from the resumption thereof trusted employee of the South China forgery of his own handwriting, and thet may be attributed most of the lamen-on the 14th to the end of the mouth) urning Fast from the year 1908 until he never authorised the prisoner to apply table tragedies which subsequently brought in 811,190.06. Since the railway September of last year, has pleaded guilty for a cheque book of Bity cheques. Proner
to Ave
-three embezzlement was Best opened the total takings have been recharges kanten of bende in went back to the hotel and paid his bill, al
and two occurred. But even so, this does not
voising altogether a sum exouerate those responsible for send-
thousand dollars. I should have been able exceptia dollar or so, with a port dated of Montily Bhooting Com
upi cheque dated March 21st He then went the shore Co. has been carrying cut, When the renewal of a beerhouse to prove, my Lord, that the prisoner of the out, leaving his luggage behind. Two days place on Sunday at King's Park Range THE full story of the disaster which ing the Titanic to sea so inadequate licence (The London) came up before the South China Morning Posh, ed accountant. Later the maunger of the hotel sent his The competition was for the bigkert ng befel the White Star liner Titanic in equipped in life-saving appliances Windsor magistrates, the Chief Constable it was his duty to receive the money anner to the Yokoham Specis Bank, and regite score of the two best of the three GRAND DISPLAY the North Atlantic may perhaps Ant that responsibility will be brought said that within 200 yards of the house collected by the shroffs, zoceipts vare
never be known, but sufficient is now home. Upon that point we may be there were eleven alehouse, five beer, signed in his name, he entered or should they refused the cheque. Prisoner was monthly shoots and the
hoses, fire general- licences, and two bare entered the amounts received in the absencently traced to a Japanese house course. The result followe
rough cashbook and paid the monies in town and while there he had already disclosed to give the reading public sure both the British and Americancances, and two licensed restauranta and received into the Baak. The fair cash draws another chaque for 853 which he more than a general idea of the mag-
Governments will see that the right railway ratrestment rooms.
boules nad lodgers were made up by other had left there, apparently intending hands from the rough cashbook. Ishonid it for payment of that amount, but nitude of the catastrophe and of the thing shall be done in order that
Our Wachew correspondent writes have been able to prove that on the 11th that cheque was never presented. heroism which it called forth similar disasters may, if bumanly that he is just heard from Fung Taun, of July a sum of $150, the amount fuvolved Mr Belillos enquired whether his friend
the m. drst charge was paid by Arabold, was
was going to call Mr Vernon.
Corp Frith Milionaires gladly gave up their possible, be avoided in the future. just below Wuchow, that some three but Edi berg and Co. to the collecting shroff of Mr Alsbaster - I was not. chance of life to allow poor women
sired soldiern have looted one of the villages. 1 the Smith China Morning Post and that anyone after x ples of guiltymarka Sgh Sorby Of course there was little or no resistance the shref paid it to the defendant, but Mr. Bellins My position in thie, my dom Mele that the defendnat did not enter the Lord that Mr Vernon is practically in Cart Scott so they asily secured everything of valise aniount in the roagh cashbook or account atracting dr D'Alnads for the defence, and Gan Sommers It is said that they also kidnapped twenty for the money in iny bey Similarly was under the impresion that he might Hour Anderson: 57
I should have been able to prove that
be able to pre paid by Mosers Kruse and Co. to the · Hin Lordship Thero shroff, that the abroff paid it to the his being ille dalandant, and the defendant, did net account for it in any way. Again on the leave the matter in your Lordship's hands in mitige 14th of September the manager of the and all that I bave to say will be Kowloon Book Stall paid a debt of $70.0f tion of the offences I Nike to pust awing to the Company and pail in in the out that on this facte the prisonix, is not by presence of the delenciant.
BDT HOLDE hardened criminal -- his was not accounted for fin aby way
His Lordship- We are told that the Jour
will notice.
in forgery was an excellent fory charged ith omitting to enter two
other
my Lord soms by the fourth and Afth counts. These that
your hand He did not I then obeque.
Thèse choques into led tacita com
OF
NEW MILLINERY
TRIMMED Hats
UNTRIMMED MUSLIN LINEN
etc., etc.,
ALSO A
CHARMING SELECTION CF FLOWERS,
Frices Moderate.
Inspection Invited.
Wm. Powell, Id.
and little children to sive theits
husbands helped their wives into
WEDDING AT ST. PETER'S.
A very pretty wudding wax solemnized at
400 round Gun Eldridge |
honts and then stood back; while, S. Piter's Church on Saturday morning, the or thirty women. Orders karo been the 15th of July another sum of 880 wần, chatacter of the to the Gun Bamford 25-S7
of
The bride looked rediently happy in a
„SUIILE" WERE
́erzber
book, but he did
when the end came, men went down entreting parties being Miss Mary Good for all the idlers to be disarmed. The to their death with words of good cheer of Standard Uil Cu's local office. The
ridge, and Mr Robait. Drude; an, employe | leader hua fied.
upon their lips. So once again poor Rev. C. F. Topson officiated in the Mesars Loyd Matheson, and Carritt's humanity, ring to its supreme height, presence of a large concourse of friends, Weekly Tes Report, date March 21st, sent forth bright gleane
Mr J. W. Bolles giving the bride away, sayı:~Chion Tears has been rather unselfish,
while Miss Halen Bolles acted ng brides more enquiry this week, but so far nut unconscious self-sacrifice an
and on that maid, sad Me A Long discharged-the-much actual business dono, A few percels sad night crented for all time halos of duties of groups. Mr. J. of good Keemuns and Kiutucks were placed 12 the three
ben, undying glory to encircle the memories is presided at the organ, and gave an at 90, at 1,, and some common Congatis excellent rendering of Llangrina Wed taken for the Contusat at about, bd, at of the brace departed. They died ding March.”****** like men: what finer verdict could be uttered. Of course we must not for tasteful gown of crepe de chine with The Association of Euginours
French hat trimmed with tulle and white | Shipbuilders held a very mincéesfal get that with
many this heroism was feathers and carria bouquet of white consert at the stitate on Saturday buoyed up with the confident belief lies, while the bridesmaid presented a ing, the Chais that the Titanic would surely keep rems of white serge, i
daingularly charming appearence in a simple prendent
yard afoat until help could arrive-ngarly A roception was subsequently hold at everyone
was convinced that the huge 3 Elliot Crecent during the c
pali tlie residence of Mz and Mirs J. Wi. Bol
that, the glory of their deaths is not the bride and diminished and their story goes down
Fermaxluding with ma
disposition and in the annals of the race as one of the of most herole to be told in coniection
Bijou Scenic Theatre, was unsinkable. Still for all of which Mr Vaillan proposed the
FLOWER STREIT.
1EEN EVERY EVENING 9.15 PM
1GAZETTE AND GRAPE10 ZWB OFTHE WORLD
with the horrors of the
But the most sério
the
There is no objection to WWE
Belillosam
Combat Zethodi ste rosy Pumilive and i
this Bank The result would be her the balar co was struck that the cash in band would
appear to be smaller than it really would enable him to pocket an
ock contra amenet of the cab in hand.
hould have been able to prova that there wadaficioney to that amount when the
were unites That the como Bave been able to prove t
There any other
no inta
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