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FRIDAY, July 19:-
THE CHINA MAIL
'NEWS OF THE DAY.
Exchango went up an eighth to-lay.
SECOND EDITION
Tomm's cricket matched in England Stop Press will includs South Africans v. Kent, and Australians v. Leicestershire.
The Government of India gives notice a new 34 per cent, ton of E0,000,000, the interest payable bild geurly, June 30 and December 31.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912.
THE MORPHINE CASE.
ha sometimes, used the name of. Whyte because he did not wait, his people to know until next year that he was inar
A Technical Foint. a. Đa the way to Hourhong he ngh
At the Magistracy this morning Mr. Newsbomtuin, who told him she had
not much money to get to Sila. India, Lowin, solicitor, made an application to wid that being pretty near broke sho Mr. Melbourne to re-hear the case in would have to cable for money. She said which » Chinese was ou Saturday fined she had engaged an assistant at Shang 8130, for being in unlawful possession of hai for her husband's business and paid | Ettees pounds of morphine, valued #35 for his fare. Afterwards the one about $3,000, » rected this to $25.. Ab her request be- Mr. Lewis based his application ngon. "end" cablegrammato Mg, Rubenstoji, and a technical point. The morphine w
replies came to them. When her reactainly in the custody of his client, bur mitesnes esma he went at her repiest to within the meaning of the Ordinanca he the bank and drew the pay, after-was not in possesici of it. HIM Worship waris returning to the Astor House appreciated the point that the morphine
ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT.
American Charged.
At the Magistracy this afternoon, bo tore Mr. Melbourne, Charles Fred Whyte Wäreiner, an American, answered to his bail and was charge on remand with the larmy of $318, the moneys of Mrs.
Imlian Government views favour. Esther Rubenste'n, of the Actor House Hotel. On the boat be had promised to } did ¡not belong to.. defaudant, but to
regiotel, of which he was the bailes. Mr.
ably a pomposal to raise a Eurasian ment. A small committee is sitting at Sints to discuss details,
Presklout Taft has consented to be enme Patron of the International Rubber Exposition in New York, and will go silly open the Exposition on September
Four unmarried ladies at Samastipo the other day challenged the novices of the local Polo Club é ganar. The men vere put on the defensive from the start, and the game ended two gola all. The ladies, needless to say, rode astride.
Russ, solicitor, presented defendant..
Inspector Murison and charge of the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Russ stated that defendant was in Manila when he heard of the proceedings and warrant, and he insediately cans back to the Colony.
Fether Rabenstein the complainant, said she was staying at the Astor House Hotel. On May 31st she left San Fran cisco and defendant joined the ship ab Honolulu. When she arrived in Hong
she had to wire to her husband" for age money and entrusted the send ing of the cablegram to defendant. As
y to book her to Sunda at theatrical another man who had handed it to him rates. When Mrs. Rubonateiu gave him to take somewhero. Mr. Lewis retorted - the money for the tickets he gave her a ús Worship to several decisione upon tho receipt, and then remained chatting- meaning of possession, and said sccording While they were sitting in the Hotet some to theso judgments the morphine was in soldiers passed, and remembering that he the possession not of defendant, but of had promised, to take his wife to the the person who exersised, sets of owner Amoriaan raception and the reception of ship over it Thers was no doubt the Governor he handed Mrs. Rubenstein possession was vory techuitem back her $318 intact, and than went back with a distinct technical "monaniur, and to the Grand Hotel. The same evening that when it was used in Statutes. It must saw Mrs. Rubenstein outside the be avstaned that it was used in; it beche Hotel, and in answer to his questions sien sonte. In certain acts, which he she said a gentleman whom he indicated quoted, Mr. Dewis pointed out that a had bought her tickets. Next morning bu definite distinction was made between again saw complainant and asked her for pensasion and custody and keeping, she did not receive a reply quickly she some money he had lent her while they Mr. Melbourne reserved his decision. sent a second and third cable and de- nere shopping as he was going to Manila There is still apparently A beary fendant also dispatched these. She did and weled the moneg. When he heard demand for rice in the Philipines. Saigop not gès a receipt for the first one, batin Manila that a warrant had been issued, apparently anable to cope with the she went with defendant to send the for his arrest the police there did not wish demand, as two-mort steamers have that second and third and so get one. She him to come back a there were some leit Hongkong for Manila, carrying rough-paid for the wires herself. She got a American citizens in Hongkong, whom the ly 4000 tons rice. These are additional roply from her husband to the first cable police would not extradite. Fle siid they steamers to the regular anos employed on stating Don't require assistant. To should not prevent him coming back the run..
the second cable she received a reply auswer a false charge, returned at his stating that $329 had been remitted to own expense and was asted on his ✅ According to Bagus talegram of June hier account at the Hongkong and Shang arrival. Mrs. Rubenstein told him her 2. Loudon market report states that hai, Bank. Defendant told witness he husband had complained of her expendi private company has been formed in Lon- bad bought the passage tickets for her,ture. don with a capital of a million rounds her two boys, and an assistant at Shang
In answer to Inspector Murison defen. terling apparently with the object of hal, and asked her for the $318, which dont said there was nobody present when obtaining oil copcassions in Djambi. As she gave him. He did not give her the he handed the $18 back to Mrs. Ruben.
for the loss of $20 gold and said he would return the receipt; he thought she was The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. the company is private no further parti tickets. On Tuls & defendant asked her. He did not think to ask her to
return it by 5 o'clock in the evening. an honest winum. He did not telt Mr. | tag-"David Gillies returned from the The Nederlandsche Handel-Maatsch-Defendant did not call as he had pro-Reichmann as he was leaving for the scene of the wreck of the s.s. "Quinta "—
NEW BARRISTER FOR HONGKONG.
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Mr F. C. Jenkin, barrister-at-law, arrived
from London yesterday, and will practice
in Hongkong. His formal introduction. will take place before the Chief Justice at
he Criminal Seminos to-morrow,
sufficient explanation of the curious attitude of a large section of the Liberal rank-and-file. The truth is that many Liberals, who cannot for- get that they are still Englishmen, resent the constant Bourish of Mr FEDMOND's big whip. There is, too,
On pigs 2 and 3 will be found an a good deal of quiet sympathy with account of Sir Hoary May's departure Ulster. The English Liberal is un-trom, and presentation at. Fiji. comfortable about handing over people of his own race and religion, to the tender mercies of a Nationalist Most refresting and pa atable.jority, and he feels that, if Home Rule is to come, here is clearly a case for special treatment. Sir EDWARD GREY and Mr CHURCHILL both ad- mitted as much. But when it comes to the point we find Mr BIRRELL (under whose gentle rule there have Brewed from the finest Jamaica Ginger, been eight hundred cases of shooting in Ireland during three years) declar- ing for the Bill and nothing but the Bill: The amendment has only been rejected by the force of Nationalist votes. Mr RepMOND's phalanx of eighty more than accounts for the majority of sixty-nine. Thus even in the House of Commons the British vote is decidedly adverse to the coercion of Ulster, and the House ofis Commons is at present the worst possible reflection of public opinion. Were an appeal to be made to the country we should find the whole 9p-Bandoni pers Co., Theatre shameful conspiracy blown into thin!
Royal
air. Whatever may result from the SATURDAY, July 50:---
Meeting of Creditors of Watkins Ltd. counting of heads in the division 9p.m-Bandaion Opera Co., Thenize
lubbies, Ulster still controls the Royal.
situation. The sturdy race which has kept its individuality for three cen- 9 pm-Budunan Opor Co., Theatre taries declines on any terms to be subject to a domination it abhors, and Lecture on Christian Science is City any attempt to coerce it must end in miserable failure. The Government's majority Ins declined beyond preced ent on the mere contemplation of the ugly possibilities involved. It will disappear altogether when it becomes clear that the authority of a Dublin
Since writing the abate we have phlain- parliament over Antrim, Armagh,
Some diBculty was experienced in
ed the following from a correspondent→→ Down, and Londonderry can only be the Magistracy this morning in the inter-defendant borrowed the $23 gold he said
The tug David Gilles" In command Captain Wataon returned yesterday froms enforced at a cost no British Govern-pretation of the evidence of a witness. he had to ship some goods across the ment would dare to face. Reuter has The man spoke Pekingge, and the Court harbour and it would save him a few
the rock of the ill-fated Quinta dollars on exchange..
Captain wore sign of strenuous interpreten Cantonese. The Magistrato. just telegraphed another pending bye-pat his questions in English to the Court
Mr. Russ: How much money had you His Worship: Defendant is a business struggle, and the fact that he did not
■noceed in bringing the when you left San Francisco --Aboutman. What about that receipt? to a successful conclusion cannot be laid election, and it will be interesting to interpreter; he repeated them in Can sixty or seventy dollars I think.
Mr. Russ said it was proof of his
at his door or that of his craw. tonase to a second interpreter who did not observe how the Government now
Did you wire to your husband for gent's honesty that he offered to give Paracels are known to give up little ne speak English, and he in turn put them
t› Capt.
ust. Watson, they jutend ta hold ther had to be reversed, of course, before the My humband told me to wire for would not do the best thing to hang him Quinta Sultage operations were
***Quinta money for my tickets to Caletta from He came back from Manila volun commenced as scan as the tug arrived
the Hongkong.
tarily.
whole of the cargo was discharged, the -Answering further questions. witness
Nr. Melbourne: To save being kept holds were washed clean to take away the
Szall said her husband had not complained of there fifteen days. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
pumps. of putrefying rice, Iwa & ineb the amount of money she had been spend..
Mr. Russ said it was unlikely that he board and no difficulty was GC- in ridding the ship of water. She Capt J. C. Gretton, 126 Baluchistaning. He always told her spend what she would have been extradited. Perhaps his was apparently perfectly tight above, the high Infantry, returned to Kowloon from the ended. She had two letters, at Shang Worship could any whether there were tank tops, but had wad ed herself so h New Territory on the 14th inst.
hal and Hongkong, from her husband and prisoners in Hongkong whom the police on the coral forward is to make it. in neither of them did the complain of refused to extradite to Manila?
possible for the diver to examine her. On the 25th inst, the date when the The amount she spent. She had a few
highest tide was expected, only bi foot was dollars left when she reached Hongkong.
found and although strenuous efforts were Defendant paid $14 of Iris own money
to tow her off the ship would aut for the first cable, but he afterwards got
hadge. She lies perfectly upright and is in casual glance might think she was lying- in dock. On finding that it we im pressible to move her Captain Wataca ordered the removal nt
pumps and gear.
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Honakoxa, Websenday, July 17, 1912.
HOME POLITICS.
Fculars are obtainable.
"ppij (Netherlands Trading Society), in teir general balance sheet and profit and accumb to 31st December, 1911, state test the net profits amount to j5,095,093.71 (£424,686), out of which, after providing for the statutory reserve to the extent of
to the Grand Hotel where defendant was
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Manila boat that he was going to Canton the South side of the North Reef of the
miser so. next morning witness sent over
and that he was a secret service agent. staying a rate asking him to send over Defendant's wife id she knew Mrs, her tickets. The manager of the hostel Rabenstein we worried, about money returned the letter, stating that Warriner matte and that her husband was helping was so there. She informed the manter. She met Mrs. Rubenstein one day 8,381 (£47,363), a dividend of 93 perwards the police. She did not get her she had got her money and tickets and ager of the Astor House Hotel and after outside the Astor-House Hotel and asked cear, has been declared.
tickets, nor did the assistant. She had not seen defendant since till now. When
the replied that she had.
Mr. Russ asked his Worship to dis believe complainant's statement. There was no doubt that she was extravagant and was constantly running short of
money...
Farxcole-at. 7 o'clock yesterday evening. having given op the project. All efforte to salve the rrasel bave failed.
The Captain of the tag found the ship. lying on the reef in three fest of water, her, but, as stated, without success. and at high tide made every effort to mire
·The
Tuoton recent snop divisions in the stand in the eyes of an important to the witness. This complicased process money before you left San Francisco?- bis resaipt. A man who was guilty what, they oncë ́s at ■ grizs, and accoħiling.
House of Commons need not be too much relied upon as indicating the, real trend of political events so far us the present Government's position is encerned-nor are the bye-elections | always a certain indication of the popularity or unpopularity of the Government of the time-stil it is! evident from more than one ease that the Liberals are now on the downward path. Commenting upon the Govern- ments dwindling majority
u Landon contemporary to hand expresses the opinion that the recent reduction of Blouses,
their majority on angst vitaLamend.. ment to the Home Rule Bill involves a Underwear, very considerable loss of prestige. It
Hosiery,
Millinery,
Skirts,
Dresses,
is significant, at least, of weakness and dissension in the wreckers' camp. Things have been going far from hap- pily for the Liberals ever since the
Manchester constituency.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASINA.
TION.
To-morrow's Trial
With reference to the trial to-morrow in phe Supreme Court, of La Hon Hung, We man who attempted to assassinnte Sir Henry May, an enquiring of a member of the legal profession, we were informed that the prisoner will not be defended-for two rossens, namely, because it is not a capital charge and also because he has plo.ded guilty.
answers were obtained! ·
for
Furlough to the United Kingdom, one year, from 1st August or date availing. is granted to Captain A. J. quchard, 8th Rajputs,
Leave of absence, on private affairs to the Voited Kingdom, is granted to end
Mr. Melbourne said he could not..
Defendant was discharged.
the money from here. Sho paid $25 PIRACY NEAR NANNING AND splendid, "condition, and any one taking a
cables altogetlier. The $20 she lent de fendant was her last $20. She picked up the assistant at Shanghai and paid Jis
WUCHOW...
and returned to Hongkong. The one hop">
We spention this, as there seems to be Lieut. A. U. Collis-Browne, 1st Bn. fara $12.50 gold. She did not leave News has just come to hand of piracy the N, Monadon "Beta" fr***
me doubt on the subject in the minds.OY.L.I., froni 24th August to 24th of some people,
May, 1913.
aled.
NEWS OF THE DAY..
is that no trhoon" will when, as she will then be on the lee siife
water:
Our Washow Correspondent writes :' lot of debts at San Francisco, nor did having con committed at a place between hor she borow $120 from some friends there. Wechow and Nanning. She would swear that she didn't tell de It is reported that the Kwong Ning, auf the reef, there might be a chance of the Privilega leste, on private affairs to fendant who had done this and her hunter boxt which rana.between Wachobavy mess lifting her back into deeper" neighboring countries, is granted to Cap-hand would be cross if he knew. Defen- and Nanning, was attacked by a number of The waters of the West River have in J. S. Cobbo, HA... 24th (Hazara) and in the Astor House Hotel after the arcatened to take the Eves of those in SOCIALISM IN JAPAN'S ARMY.
dont-tiid he would help her all he could ii
piraten, who boarded the boat and Mountain Battery, from 3rd August to remittance had come she asked defendant.. 30th September.
to get the tickets for her. Defendant did charge of it. No one, however, appears. not suggest that witness should accom-to have been injured or killed; but the The leave of absence granted to Lient.pany him to the office.
pirates succeeded in decamping with goods- A. Flagg, 20th Punjabi, has been con
Before he went defendant said it was aand money to the value of several thousand verted into privilego- leave and will be business matter, and he had better give amended to read from 20th June to 8th her a receipt for the money. This was
an the day the new Governor arrived.in July, both dates inclusive.
the Colony and witness went with defen. dant and his wits to see the procession. Blad denied that defendant said he would
Shoes, etc. session began. The slackness or dis- According to the "Cablenews Ameri- content of the party has been notice-can" only, three isointed cases of bubonic able on more than one important plague have occurred in the Phillipines in
the last six years. occasion. For the second reading of | the Welsh Disestablishment Rill the
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Combined leave to the United Kingdon, for 8 months from Ist August, is granted
ti Lieut. C, N. Stoel, 25th-Punjabis, | see about the tickets in the afternoon 12:3 (Privilega legro from 1st August to 29th September: leave on private affairs, frim |3) September to 31st March, 1913.)
At this year's Bieley' which is now Whips failed, after most strenuous being held-July 8tli to 2,-com- efforts, to get a larger majority than perifers from the Struts Settlements and eighty one, and on the question | Chns were expected to participate. whether ister shall be excluded from the purview of the Home Rule I1⁄2l, the figures tell to sixty-nine. It was no question of a sump division on an Pandisportant question. The inclusion or exclusion of Ulster can hardly bo
Yet another local establishment is .cx- said to be a mere past of detal. Mr fending it scope for supplying the Resou certainly dies not regard Colony's friends the proprietors of the it as such, mor, for that inatter, does ranch in Kowloon on 20th furt
-French Store, Quuens Rond, ara öpening a month.,
any party or individual in the House It was obviously to the interest of the Govenuscht that in a trial of string in the curly stages of Committee the
that he returned the money to her When defendaut arrived in the evening she did not tell him that a Standard: O
*tsel..
CRIMINAL SESSIONS
The Calendar.
Arrest of Two Soldiers -
ba
A soldier named Eno, balanging Sakano. Telegraph Corps, attached to the First Division in Tokyo, was arrested few days agnat Kunsmolo on a charge of being a Srejalist. The man was brought to the capital, where he is now undergoing trial hy Court-martial
in the 22nd instant anot
nother private, named S.
attached to the Rails
30 Cabas arrested OD A
• CUITS Tappenes the two soldiers
CHATKO
alleged to hold Socnfiss
The July Criminal Bossiena will be opened to-morrow. The calendar is
is frienn, have feet m somewhat heary ons, there being eight munication
with each other. Tida YES.
* fow yours ago serrat of Kotoku,
with Somklism andö
Company's most had been with her to casos, reprosouling 13 prisoners, who who was found, galltyrf. complet)
plot against the Teiperial Court, and, with Mr. Henry Beswick, M.P., at the inbuy, her ticket. When she handed debe tried in two courts.
Groat interest is being manifested in the releven others, was expoutet in the early vitation of the Hongkong General Chamber fendant the $316 complainant said, she
Proto a book dealing Kumacioto, of Commerce, represented them at the had no money left, but afterwards abuse in which a Chinese is charged with art of last year. While in barracks, Hida
wont it to bai homa.
About two weeks ago another eighth Congress of Chambers of Commeres erected this statement and said before noting with intent to küll H. E. Sir wrot
Scialist, med Unr, descated from the of the British Empire, held in Londos Lab she sent the cables her husbanil went her Henry May,
150 by a friend.
The following are the names of prisoners, is
Nakano Telegraphic Corp Doval Edfund said he mes Mr. and their respective charges:
Kumamoto to zako up the tribution Pubenstein in India and just before Mrs.
Li Hun Hung, shooting with Intent to
copies of the book." The authorities are The first At Home" beld by Lady May Rubenstein arrived in Hongkong he re-
kuid to be busily engaged in tracing at. complices. In the June number of the Spiliero wAS. at Mountain Lodge was attended by a large colvid -letter from her husband enclo Fong Yuet, Lo Chun Tab and Fong
gathering of residents yesterday afternoon. ing a clieque for ber in rupees equal to Tsung, murder. The weather was perfect, and the function stant 897. When lie arrived at the Astor
pabisted, a photograph of the foot bail aim of E. company of tho K.O.X.L.I.,
Bo Chat and Lai Tak Tsói alla Lai Tai
Cha 5 wal, hobbery' with two or more. –
British"newspapers have presented to bira Barry E. Britain, wife of the if the conference, a charming
the form of a minisate of her
In commemoration of the Imperial; Prome Chfarogeo, which was described by very best proof should be given of
wlay for four years in succession were cup www most succesfal. Many of the guests House Hotel Mrs. Rubenstein had gong Toi, sitempted larceny...
Kwan Kwai and In Chỉ. (1) child stenta Covernment. Bles Book as the mont unity and conviction in the ranks of of the Company culver-sergeanta.
winners. "The photography was sent by one layed croquet and tennis, and the music with Warriner to send a cablegram to
played by the band of the Yorkshires was Mr. Hubenstein in India for more money. Ling, (2) forcible detention with intent to practical imperial gathering over hele, the its supporters. The Whips realised
enjoyed by all.
He gave her the cheque, und subsegmently sall cashed it for her.
Li Tri, child stealing. MAP and
All this and did their best, and their The - French mail steamer Armand Mr A. D. Cur, who was seriously injured representative of Messrs. Thoniús best is a majority which represents Babic, leaving the wharf at Kowloon on some weeks back by falling from the Cook und Sou said on July & defendunt Cheung Le, disobedience of order of GUIDE only some two-thirds of the nominal Monday evening at low tide, grounded verandah of his bungalow, in progressing booked at the rifles of his free to pas- Innishment
superiority of the Government in the aor the Star Ferry pior and remained fat splendidly, but it will be three or four sage to Manila in the names of H. A. Ho Wing and Chan Yau, robbery with division lobby. It is elcar that there tide the fosted and proceeded on her Nursing Home, says the Straits Timen."
for several hours. With the rise of theels before he will" be able to leave the Warriner and Mrs. Warriner, by the Aus- fond of maca.
tralian boat mailing on the Friday br
AN OPEN FEORET were wholesale abstentions on the voyage to Shanghai..
Saturday. S Mr Cex in well known in Hongkong and part of Ministerialiets who have
ANY ask the reason for the continued Inspector Murlam suld he would call and increasing demand for Chamber Stanghal as an Interport Tensile Champion, the proprietor of the Grand Hotel to sayin's Calle, Chuters and Diarrhoes Remedy.
· be booked - there, in the nõmme of Frud The secret is that it mover falta to give
one to locate the centr.
of a Typhoon,
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qualina on the Ulster question, and Brother' important step" "forward in would be glad to see a way out the social club life of Muila in the project, Some datisfaction has no doubt Abody asut ed, of a new reserale dub
building for the German club. The pri
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been caused by recent official appoint-party has already been sequ rod, being uenta, and particularly by yor two bezalifu, focus the corner of Callés : almost certain tu þa which cannot be defended on any Maroolid, frand Kansas, fortarly public ground. But this is not w Fned by Willam
when
relief. The middla syad man of to-day inft admitted this, and also that remember is as the remedy given them
left ho stated bawak garner then they were children and listen
Capiz mother crap colloant dysentery
MAN DERİLİTỪ out) fne, such all menta.
children. The paintings by
Branton, South Among artist settled in England.
thus
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